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A multi-national corporation should not have the technical capability to know who is and isn't in my house. Period.

Same goes for foreign and domestic governments.
I am, but only because the non-member registration fee at a conference at which I was presenting was more than the membership + member registration.
Prison for life is a far cry from the burning at the stake.
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Yes, PPC is also switchable, as is MIPS (my R4000 SGI boxes are big endian, while my R4000 Jazz box (Olivetti M700-10) is little endian).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Bi-endianness lists ARM >= v3, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC V9, MIPS, PA-RISC, SuperH SH-4 and IA-64 as bi-endian (can be configured as wither). MIPS is still used a lot in routers. I don't know if the MIPS-compatible PIC32 is also bi-endian - there's maybe no reason it should be.

About ARM, I don't think I have run into any BE-mode ARM systems in a while, but I do recall using big-endian gcc versions for something in the past. And apparently some folks are running Cubieboards in big endian mode (if that's common or not for Cubieboards/Cubietrucks I don't know).

Yeah, network protocols will keep BE alive if nothing else - and yet, the Power 7 systems I'm coding for at the moment are big endian and IBM won't change that in the reasonably long term.
Go with a trial model with online license activation. This works really well.

More specifically - allow to use the program without a license for X days and the cripple it in some annoying way until the installation is licensed. Activation should pass some machine details to the licensing server, which will then pass back them hashed and signed. The program should have the public part of the licensing key embedded, so on launch it would read the license, verify the sig and check that the license still matches the machine.

Also, for this to work well you will want to have some basic protection against reversing in place. It should not be possible to NOP the IF in the license check, replace the signing pub key or to side-load DLLs. This is a large subject of its own, but there are off-the-shelf solutions for this (called exe protectors)... though the con here is the perpetual hassle with false positive detection from anti-viruses and such.

PS.

I should add that "pay what you want" model doesn't work at all. It absolutely doesn't work for enterprise software and it doesn't even work with home users. It basically makes the software look not valued enough even by its own creator.

Ditto for the donation model unless the active audience size is in 100s of thousands. Donation model is not really a model to begin with, it lacks predictability.

Differntiating pricing tiers just by the user type - personal/home vs. business/commercial - works very poorly as well. People cheat. The only thing that really works as a price differentiator are the features. Pay more - get more. Also, charging for Windows Server installs 10x the normal price is a perfectly acceptable practice that works well.

If you have any questions - ask, I'd be happy to answer what I can.
I am because my employer pays for it. I like it, but ACM probably is better. ACM often organize webinars that I really find insightful. For instance, the next one is "Succeeding with Large Scale Software Development Measurement Programs". Often these webinars are hosted by both academic and practitioners.
Prison for life to a journalist based on charges centered around releasing true/undisputed documents? That is pretty close to burning at the stake in 21st century standards imho.
I don't think it's fair that you're getting down votes here without replies. I didn't down vote, but I'll explain why I disagree.

It is most likely true that governments have killed more people than individuals with guns acting alone, although I don't think it's as lopsided as you suggest. As an example, the United States death toll in all of World War II was about 400,000. Currently there are over 30,000 gun deaths in the US every year.

The more significant issue though, is the claim that a prevalence of guns would prevent government tyranny to the extent that it outweighs the damage they cause. Speaking of the US specifically, that would first require that the US would have a government at some point that was intent on killing hundreds of thousands of its own people. But not only that, it would require an armed insurrection against that government to actually be successful in stopping it. I'm no fan of the current US government's policies or effectiveness, but both of those events seem astronomically unlikely anytime in the foreseeable future. It is incredibly unlikely that the US government would morph into a murderously tyrannical regime. And if that somehow did happen, it is also unlikely that individual citizens with guns could do much to stop it. On the other hand, it's a fact that access to guns causes tens of thousands of deaths in the US every year.

I just can't see any reasonable argument that the likelihood of the emergence and defeat of a tyrannical government is so great that it is remotely likely to outweigh the existing annual gun death toll. Not to mention that I'm not even suggesting preventing gun ownership, just sensible restrictions. In order to drive a car you need to prove that you know the rules of the road and that your vision is sufficient (or that you will wear corrective lenses). Your car must be registered and in good working order. I'm in favor of a similar licensing process for guns: a thorough, standardized test to prove that you are of sound mind and are aware of proper safe use and storage. Registration so that law enforcement can be aware of potential threats, and can track weapons used in crimes. Restrictions on how guns can be legally stored and transported, and where they can be taken. I'm not an expert, and I could certainly be convinced I'm off on the specifics, but opposing any restrictions on ownership whatsoever seems an untenable position to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Y-dpZ4Diw
Military healthcare is specialised for a young and healthy population of disciplined people who report problems early and do what they’re told in treatment. I’m not sure the results scale to civilians.
On the other hand, from my limited experience in F# (but I guess OCaml would be similar) I found that, when you let the type inference algorithm do its thing, it can help you realize that your function is more general than you thought. For instance, you write a function for lists of strings and in the end it can actually work on any list.

Maybe it's trivial, but I found it helped me thinking about refactoring/reusing my code in contexts I didn't expect.
Science by it's nature isn't kept secret, results are shared and verified.

What a second LHC does is allow you to verify results independently. With one LHC you have to be extra careful about assumptions you made and what data might be being thrown off by local peculiarities.

Being at the forefront of particle/energy research is it's own reward. The results are only part of the prize. Learning how to build a LHC is probably just as valuable.
CERN is a international cooperation of many countries on neutral (Swiss) territory. While maybe not emphasized in recent years one real danger of high energy particle physics is the discovery of an effect that can be weaponized. Right now that seems highly unlikely, but it was a motivation for setting the CERN up in the way it is.

Then there is the obvious problem of technology transfer. A lot of detector technology can also be used for high resolution surveillance and missile guidance, I’ve met at least one person who did his doctorate in physics at our institute, worked for Raytheon and now owns a company in the defense sector that contributes parts to the successor of the Hubble telescope.

In case you didn’t know there exist 7 nearly identical copies of the Hubble space telescope with different sensors (he worked on those), https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/nasa-gets-two-unneed.... The same will be true for the next generation version of the telescope and is also one of the reasons for the “cost overruns”.
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It'll not be quick enough for phase cancellation, but presumably you could diff the output with the input, phase-invert it, and get the signal you want that way.
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Found this in the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Now you are simply posting incorrect or misleading information. There is no existing implementation of Grover's algorithm on quantum hardware that demonstrated any speedup over classical computers. In fact the largest implementation of Grover's algorithm to date, on ibmqx5, has an unusable error rate.

> Literally the only difference between the state of the art and quantum supremacy is scale.

This is simply incorrect. At the moment it's unclear that quantum supremacy can be achieved at any scale whatsoever, and it's certainly possible that it's unachievable even in principle.
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> trying to parse and cleanse that

But why would you? If you need to send something to the address you can just print the exact user input on the shipping label.
> when discoveries are made with the LHC are they made public

Yes. CERN is a publicly funded, shared facility; its users are universities. What it does has no direct commercial value.

> will another country investing in another one (or even a bigger one) discover anything that the European one hasn't?

Possibly. The proposed machine would allow more precise measurements of the Higgs boson's properties than the LHC. The best case scenario is that those measurements would turn up deviations from the Standard Model, which would point the way to something new.

To actually "discover" that hypothetical new thing, in the sense of directly detecting a new particle, would probably require yet another accelerator to be built (possibly in the same tunnel).
Having politicians say on media that you should get drone killed or get the death penalty for being a journalist do get personal, as does it when the candidate is implicated as interfering with a police investigation (US diplomats in Sweden was documented to have visited the prosecutor in the case of Sweden vs Assange and put diplomatic pressure on it). Plenty of commenters during the 2016 election concluded that Assange had a personal vendetta against Hillary Clinton.

But it doesn't matter much as any leaked document always get studied and verified as much as it is possible. If the leak information is a source code for a state written virus, NSA documents, or banking information, in the end it is journalists at news papers that dig further, verify and follows up on the leaked information.
Should a European citizen visit Singapore, would this be GDPR compliant?

Yes, the GDPR doesn't apply based on citizenship, it applies to people in the Union (even if they're foreign).
Do you still find playing the old games enjoyable?
I enjoy this sort of humour as much as the next nerd, but just so y'all know, someone close to me who has been through psychosis linked to that particular delusion could have any one of a number of responses to that sentence - from getting a little freaked out through to anxiety attack or in the worst case full-on relapse into psychosis.

I wouldn't remove it from the list, as this sort of thing adds a bit of character, fun and a sense of shared values to programming; what's life for if you can't have a laugh? But if you're ever making jokes of that ilk and someone in the room goes a bit ... quiet ... do gently check up on them.
The algorithm is a complex interplay of various sub procedures like creating matching fonts, balanced color schemes, finding keywords, creating unique shapes, etc. There are some hard coded boundaries and there's a lot of randomization. The trick is to allow enough variation while still adhering to established design principles.
If we're considering Antifa as the norm for the left we might as well consider neonazis as such for the right.
You always have more data -background knowledge- unless you've only existed in those last 10 minutes.

And if something has really never happened before, like my alien invasion example, what have we learned by applying the rule of three?

Honestly- perform the experiment yourself. Wait for X time, then calculate 3/X. Do you now have an upper bound on the probability that an alien invasion will happen?
Am European citizen, I don’t care for Singapore and I won’t plan to visit it any time soon because 1) they’re too expensive for what they’re offering as a tourist destination and 2) they’re a police State. At the same time one of my closest friends has included it as part of his “potential places to emigrate as an IT professional”, so it looks like some people plain don’t care about the type of stuff described in this article.
There's also a great tool to scrub bad symbols from your data: https://www.polydesmida.info/cookbook/gremlins.html
If you want to make any meaningful money, you need to give people a good reason to pay. Asking for donations is not going to result in a lot of money. I've never heard from anyone making more than 500$ a year from donations for an app.

So you will need to add some kind of restriction to make people pay for your app.

The restriction depends on the usage type of your app.

- If it is something that lots of people use everyday (like a text editor), you might get away with a nag dialog. Annoy a large number of people just a bit every day, and some of them will buy a license.

- If it is something that people use just once (eg. a file conversion app) you absolutely have to require payment before people can do what they want, or they will never come back.

- If is something that companies will want to customise, and you want to distribute source code, you probably need to charge a lot of money for it. Only few companies can afford to hire someone to write custom software, so you need to make sure you charge them enough that it is sustainable.
When the President of the United States is denying you the presumption of innocence and publicly declaring you guilty of a crime before a trial, it doesn't matter what branch of government they are in: you are not going to receive a fair trial.
Unmentioned assumption of normal distributed errors is pretty evil.

This is exactly this approach is worthless for rare events which by definition have very skewed distributions. In that case, probably is overestimated a lot.

On the other hand, I'd the is a rare but systematic error, the error probably will likely be grossly underestimated.

Thought experiment: suppose you're writing a long string of digits that consists of 1 followed by a large number of zeroes (say 99 for simplicity) followed by (say 10000) uniformly distributed digits.

Your writing system has an issue that changes half of 5 digits into 6. What probability of error will be estimated by this dumb method after 100th digit?

Correct bayesian approach updates the prior based on input variability keeping the error estimates high when input has low variability etc. (This can be with variance or another method.)
The even better method tries to estimate the shape of input distribution.

In other words, your result would be a difference of likelihood ratio of both input and output prior distributions (estimated to date - since no errors the ratio would be 1) minus likelihood ratio of posterior distributions.
Oh the irony :)
>Technically free to leave the embassy,

Indeed.

>But would definitely be arrested and extradited

Who has ever denied that he'd be arrested? To say that he'd definitely be extradited is speculation.

It's still not at all clear that he will be prosecuted by the US, so I can't see anything particularly silly about someone predicting in 2013 -- before the Russian links were widely known -- that Assange would not be prosecuted by the US.

The New American does not appear to be a serious publication. No doubt you can find people on the internet who've said silly things on all kinds of topics.
Indeed. Most people just want to live in a safe country and have a stable income. There is a reason why politicians care about crime statistics.
Hope they haven’t banned coffee, also.
What would one do at such an event? Maybe something like that already exists, just without "hack" in the name.
Worth noting that you can still successfully communicate while flouting one or more of the maxims. Sarcasm and irony show that tone and context play largely into understanding as well.
The LHC hosts multiple detector complexes. They are operated independently by different collaborations which compete with each other:

https://home.cern/science/experiments

They just happen to feed off the same particle beams.

The proposed Chinese collider would not be a second LHC; it would be a Higgs factory for precision studies rather than a discovery machine like the LHC.
I briefly was a member back in 2000. Basically, at the time they had an extremely complex process and I didn't get what I wanted, which was blanket access to their online publications. So I cancelled. Honestly, I thought it was a bit of a scam. Here I was trying to do the right thing and basically couldn't get access to anything. Already then, Google was very helpful in tracking down pdfs.

My impression is that membership is entirely optional these days but probably recommended if you frequently attend their conferences and other events and depend on networking with people in IEEE professionally. I'm no longer in the academic world so haven't looked at them recently.

But if I would, my membership would probably be conditional on open access. I'd consider paying but not for access to their publications. A condition of my membership would be full open access to every letter of everything ever published under their name. It would be the single most beneficial thing they could do to further the community they represent. I'm pretty sure they have gone most of the way there already, But just making the point here that access to published materials should not be a reason to join.
No, this wasn't with regard to merger approval, as far as I recall. This was a separate negotiation: State level tax breaks and other concessions, in return for the commitment to deploy "universal" high-speed Internet access throughout Illinois via their network, where "universal" was something in excess of 95% of the population with exclusions only for exceptional circumstances, e.g. extreme isolation. I seem to recall a percentage deployment they agreed to reach, over 95%, with discussion if not language about what might constitute the demographics of that bit that they would be allowed to fail to cover. "High-speed" was some not-too-aggressive throughput level commensurate with speeds in those days.

"Money for nothing" was my quip, regarding the company's apparent attitude. The company agreed to it all, then started lobbying to get out of their commitments under the deal -- while not giving up the tax breaks and other concessions they'd gained by making said commitments. The agreement bound them to do these things; they turned around and lobbied the Illinois legislature to "unbind" them, while leaving the rest in place.

Anecdotally, even in Chicagoland, they continued to drag their feet until the cable TV companies starting deploying wholesale. Depending on location, this often was some years later. Then, suddenly. the now-AT&T would get serious about their own deployment. Well, kind of serious: Technically, it often still sucked, by comparison.

This is, in my view, analogous to the failures of big ISP's, in various states, until they face competition, for instance by communities finally just rolling their own municipal and/or cooperative broadband. Then, these big ISP's go to the legislature of whatever state and cry (i.e. lobby), "Unfair competition!"

One has to keep telling these stories, so that maybe voters will pay enough attention to their state politics to vote out their elected officials who participate in these giveaways, that someone at sometime conveniently nicknamed "corporate welfare".

Maybe even vote in and support a state attorney general willing to initiate investigations and, where evidence of corruption can be found, send a few of those officials to jail.
My FHD screen is just a touch too small to be comfortable at native resolution, while 1.5x makes things too big. Also, I find Firefox's built-in scaling to be much better quality than scaling using Gnome. It could be better exposed; the `layout.css.devPixelsPerPx` property in about:config is what you need to tweak.

So I keep Gnome at 1.0x, and Firefox at 1.25x, which as an extra bonus means that "80%" scaling takes Firefox back to native scale again.
this is a good question, see rester's comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18466194

DKIM DomainKey Identified Mail, obviously diplomatic communications must prevent spoofing (!), so those mails are signed anyway, ensuring provenance of the emails
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what usage of "it" are you referring to?
I don't understand, isn't a BBQ a device you put in your garden? How can it differ per state?

(not sarcastic, I'm just a clueless foreigner)
Almost everything they are doing could be lifted and shifted to generic VPS hosts, but no... everything has to be "cloud based", meaning they have to be rearchitected to accomodate the fragility and inherent flaws of that paradigm; namely that you have no control over your physical comms or who is accessing your hosts.
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Everything about CERN is in the public domain.
By the way, while CERN is a European institution, research conducted at CERN isn't anymore that European: dozens of different nationalities work together in harmony with the common goal of sharing humanity's knowledge.
He was responding to them, saying that they, in turn, were responding to textbook whataboutism, ie my comment.
Another article with an unnamed source. I don't believe those anymore, there's too much of them and most turn out to be false later.
Personal attacks and name-calling are against the site guidelines and not ok here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this to HN again.

It's hard at best to maintain discussion quality about divisive issues, but quite impossible when commenters stoop to lower levels like this.
I use QCAD occasionally which falls into this category

https://www.qcad.org/

The author provides downloadable versions for Windows, Mac and Linux and the source is available on Github if you want to build it yourself or provide bugfixes or extra features. He provides some features as extensions in a trial mode which ends after 15mins or so or you can disable them. Its pretty neat and to be honest the price for the full version does not seem to be that much though the community edition has always been sufficient for my needs and has enabled me to contribute with bugs/fixes/features.
Not really. If they want to build something in their own country and run it how they choose then that's up to them. Why is it a problem? Even if they refuse the share any science with the rest of the world we're no worse off than we were before.
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>A lot of people don't realize wikileaks had tons of dumps on Russia and conservative US politicians and refuse to accept the information in the progressive leaks due to supposed Russian or conservative involvement.

Why have zero of these dumps been released with an accompanying note calling out Wikileaks?

How do you know what people leak to WL? do you work for WL?
Also check fishcooking: http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests which is how Stockfish became the indisputably strongest chess engine: Everyone can commit patches which are then tested in thousands of games, and if they make Stockfish stronger, they are accepted.
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