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Which change are you referring to? Excluding outright bugs, there were no undocumented features that changed in 3.82.

There were several outright bugs; without a patch (that most distros apply), it would SIGABRT during the Android build, perhaps this is what a few people are referring to (I am unaware if this was the only problem with building Android on 3.82)

The most significant backwards-incompatible change was changing how pattern rules are selected if there are multiple matches, but this is documented.

Perhaps you are thinking of wildcard expansion, which has the undocumented feature of returning a sorted list? That wasn't actually changed, it was marked as a "Future backward incompatibility" that would be changed in the next release.
Chromium for testing, etc.
Thanks!

I've run down my battery a few times while not suspended (just me being neglectful with plugging in) and haven't run into this issue. Is this just because the hardware kills power to the processor before the battery actually hits zero?
There's a fair amount of money sloshing around the South African school system, being wasted, I am pretty sure that the issue, whatever it is, isn't i486 computers.
Awesome. How's the HSPA/LTE network in the city? Can you do a quick speedtest and post results?
Nah, it was something between a lucky hunch and laziness. The backup plan was to test it an hour later when leaving the office for lunch but the restart worked. I actually realized it had to do with significant location changes early on since it was the new thing we added.

By the way, in general this isn't a reboot specific bug, the most secure setting is actually not the "allow after unlock" one but the one that gives no access to keychain if your phone is locked at any time. I noticed that keychain starts refusing access 15 seconds after you lock the phone but most apps keep their credentials in memory after they're read and the problem appears at reboots only.
I read it a little differently.

Just doing something isn't going to improve your skill; doing it mindfully and being aware of what you're doing, why, and how you could do it better will improve your skill.

To use his analogy -- walking every day won't help you be a better walker. But being aware of how you walk and how you respond to obstacles and improving your reactions will.
What is the worst thing about working at Microsoft?
I don't know much about this stuff but presumably Foxconn has competitors - Samsung and Qualcomm maybe? I'm not sure Foxconn would even fail the audits at this point, they copped a lot of flack for their appalling work conditions and suicide rates in 2010 which I believe contributed to Apple's stance on work conditions since it reflected terribly on them too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
>Huh? How does that follow?

Evolution isn't guaranteed to arrive at optimal outcomes at any given point in time. Obviously "algernon's law" isn't a, you know, law, because if that were the case humans wouldn't exist because any increase in intelligence would be accompanied by a corresponding drop in chimpanzee fitness.

Why are modern humans the point where this stops being true? The whole thing smells like sour grapes.

Why do people on MDMA have so much fun? Because life isn't fair. All the people who lived before MDMA will never have that much fun. Evolution just didn't hit the lucky path where humans are constantly tripping balls. Life isn't fair.

>It's not a fully general counterargument because it predicts a lot of things.

So what doesn't it predict?

>Claiming that's a fully general counterargument is like saying the Halting problem is a fully general counterargument. It isn't.

Well, the specific counterexample that indicates the halting problem is never generally solvable is not a fully general counterargument, yes. But I don't see how this is related.

Is there some reason why you think that using drug therapies to drastically increase human general intelligence is an impossibility akin to water flowing uphill? This is the logical step that the article failed to convey adequately to me.
But that's not Foxconn, is it? From what I can see outside of Chinese labor cost inflation it's been pretty smooth sailing for Foxconn in recent years.
thanks Ian. learnt a lot from your article.
No offence, but it's clear you have no idea about the domains in which server-side Java is typically used. Very large enterprises have all kinds of weirdness and the Java ecosystem has a bunch of libraries found in no other language ecosystem that make things manageable. Java-the-language is sadly verbose and tedious but that's not why people choose it.

So server-side Java lives in a niche and I would never suggest it for, say, anything client-side or basic web apps.
Even better: Emacs has cwarn-mode, which by default highlights = (assignment-equal) in tests in BRIGHT RED. I'm sure Vim has something similar; maybe the customized version of uEmacs/PK 4.0.15 Linus uses does not.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CWarnMode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS

http://web.archive.org/web/20061124122032/http://www.stifflo...
Would you elaborate on the weaknesses of LINQ you mentioned?
LG to mass-produce flexible batteries
re: market. I've been waiting for this "fair phone" with baited breath. it's supposed in ship pre-orders in December now!

http://buy-a-phone-start-a-movement.fairphone.com/en/fairpho...

but can anyone tell me if this is compatible with U.S. carriers such as T-Mobile? It is very focused on Europe!

It's not perfect, but it's emphasis is on sourcing materials fairly, which is a problem on par with that of coercive labor problem. they also claim to be improving labor conditions.
SSA is a federal agency. He paid into them and now he wants his money back, according to the law. So he can file a lawsuit and tell a Fed judge: touch me, I'm alive.

A lot of state court actions can be appealed to federal courts as violations of Bill of Rights. Surely being called dead when you are not violates a few of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
Providing enormous incentives for doing evil cannot be excused simply because enormous non-liable government-created fictional organizations naturally take advantage of said incentives.
That's a pretty good trick, but it might inspire some serious complaining.
The idea of a ticket that grants you entrance based on the order in which you preorder.
As an IT professional that has lived in RSA and several other countries in the region, I have to say this is absolutely common place.

Local industry giants with preferred partner/solution provider status with <INSERT GIANT CORP HERE> will lobby and get F/OSS solutions knocked out of the running especially where public tenders are involved. They will of course then use the corrupt officials co-opted into this process to milk the budget for absurdly expensive solutions to non-existent problems.

A long time ago, in a country I won't name, I was contracted to provide local support for the installations of PCs in rural schools. Upon turning up at the regional center, I had access to a warehouse with a gigantic stack of PCs to be delivered. I merrily went about installing them at every school locally. I've never had more fun or a better challenge, every installation was unique. One site needed a full solar installation because of proximity to a township where power theft was rampant meant electricity on the schools side was virtually never available. At another site, I teamed up with a local carpenter to build 30 simple desks and benches, leaving the hardware sitting on bare concrete floors seemed absurd. For seven months this went on, I never saw another contractor doing the same as I did, yet the pile of PCs diminished so I assumed there must be several others. I queried to find out who they were so we could coordinate, I didn't want to spend hours driving to a site only to find they'd already been. That never happened and I never did get a response.

The problems begun when it came to more remote areas. Firstly there was significantly more hardware per student allocated for the rural areas, than urban areas, which was puzzling. Secondly I was not permitted to go and install them, I was told my fuel expenses wouldn't be covered. When I offered to waive those, I was told there was no point, because they would require upgrades shortly. The vendor advised we leave them another two months and they would have the service packs rolled out in the central storage site, then the hardware could be delivered. Their stated intention was to save the local govt money. How very noble. Over the course of the next month, that pile of undeliverable hardware diminished significantly as the various people from the purchasing process cashed in by selling it to local vendors on the cheap, some of it was probably re-exported. Who knows. Nobody cares, there was no investigation, that was over a decade ago - the entire process has probably repeated several times since then.

It's absurd. It's arrogant. It's corrupt. It's ultimately detrimental to everybody involved and robs the most desperate of a resource that just might have lifted them out of poverty. It's Africa. Sorry for the ramble, I never can just explain how much I love and hate that place.

Edit: spellin'
To explain why you are being downvoted:

It doesn't take care of the problem, it mitigates it. It tries to find the most POSIX-like shell. You still don't know which shell that will be. And then, even if you did, you are still relying on external programs, which may all work differently than the ones on your box. Writing portable shell scripts is hard.
It's common on less wrong to be very pro-IQ. I think this is a mix of contrarianism and desperately wanting to be superior at something, since most people on less wrong don't seem to be terribly well-off in other respects.

That said, it does seem like IQ correlates well with various other measures of success, unless all of the articles Gwern cites are wrong in some way (which is fairly probable), so you'd expect something to be there.
While we can't be completely sure of the future, I'm relatively confident that the w3c decision won't directly, and most likely indirectly effect whether or not Hollywood uses DRM.
I actually experimented with a kvm image of gentoo where I replaced openrc with daemontools (plus some sh scripts I wrote to manage dependencies). I boot to a login with DHCP and NIS in under 5 seconds.
Unity is probably the biggest commercial use of Mono: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine)
Excessive typing isn't the issue. The problem with verbose code is that code gets read way more than it gets written. In Java you're often reading 15 lines of code for something that could be 2-3 in other languages.
Do note that T-Mobile USA paid $225 million in "Interest expense to affiliates." The affiliate, in this case, is Deutsche Telekom, which owns T-Mobile.

If this had been structured as preferred equity rather than debt, then it would turn into dividends and move "below the line" on the income statement. T-Mobile USA would then magically be making a profit.

And of course, you're just looking at one quarter: Q2 2013. Q1 2013 was profitable. Q1 + Q2 was also profitable.

T-Mobile USA is not out of the woods yet. But they're in better shape than they were in 2011.
I was in Norway as well and I did not get any reception on my T-Mobile phone until I contacted the account holder on our family plan (they were still in the US) and had them add international roaming to our post-paid plan. Immediately afterwards my phone was able to connect to a network, so I think roaming with T-Mobile is opt-in.
Jersey is a true joy. It's really a nice way to write restful apps.

I never liked Spring. And large enterprise apps' source code makes my eyes hurt. However, none of this is a reflection on Java or the JVM itself. I think we'll have another 40 years of people predicting the end of Java until we realize it's interwoven into every aspect of computing and can't be tossed out any more easily than C or C++ can be. The JVM will probably be healthy for a very long time, and as long as the JVM is around, Java will probably be chosen for new projects (and maintenance on Java apps will probably be a nice retirement income for many of us now).
Parody or not, there are sedevacantists in the world:

> Sedevacantism is the position, held by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics,^[1]^[2] that the present occupant of the papal see is not truly pope and that, for lack of a valid pope, the see has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. A tiny number of these claim the vacancy actually goes back to the death of Pope Pius X in 1914.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism

The belief the Pope is a Jew is a new one on me, but the general tenor of "There is no valid Pope; the current one is a pretender." is no new idea.
> and don't get me started on Objective-C..

itsNotTheLanguagesFaultPerSe:butIfTheFunctions:andTheirParameters:werentNamedLikeThis:itWouldBeBearable
doesnt matter,the jvm takes a lot of resources which is problematic is some situations.raw speed is nothing without the memory footprint or AAA games would be written in java.they are not for a good reason:lack of direct memoy management.
Watch this: Marketing videos going viral now
Aussie govt knew of PRISM ahead of Snowden leaks
To clarify: it was the SQL, not LINQ, language syntax (field selection prior to relation selection) that I was referring to as a potential weakness (but only once considered in the light of developer tools).
Quasicrystalline structure
I agree that it is nice of google to offer to reward defensive reinforcement of some of the open source software they rely on. But I contend that this effort is unlikely to produce meaningful results that stand any chance at all of countering the R&D happening on the red teams.
Hopefully this will have some impact or otherwise everyone stops bothering.
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Interesting, I missed that. Good catch, thanks for the context!
This is probably a dumb question, but why is your text in gray?
Critical WhatsApp crypto flaw threatens user privacy, researchers warn
This is pretty sweet. Remote is Bluetooth Low Energy?

Would be amazing to control with the Myo. :D

(https://www.thalmic.com/en/myo/)
love the simple idea, very fun.

I got more correct than I would like to admit.
Thank you for the post. It is always helpful and inspiring to hear a another's success story.
This would yield even worse results.
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Yes, I'm saying that this is different than that sort of thing. Its not a thing that can be made in to a "shocking video exposing the truth". Its where the supermajority already accepts it as so much the truth that they don't even bother talking about it.

Its the difference between "the pope is secretly a Jew!" and "the wall is there to keep the jealous westerners out of our communist worker's paradise".
To really tell it straight would be:

Hi Bob,
It's Jim at CompanyX. Hiring is complicated and needs many people to agree on a particular candidate. Often, we don't. Unfortunately, we couldn't all come to agree on hiring you. It's no reflection on you as a candidate and maybe only a reflection on our skills as interviewers and recruiters. We thank you for your time and wish you all the best. Certainly feel free to apply again, and many of us here, including me, may have been bad hires who will be fired soon.

Cheers,
Jim
I may just be cynical but I think there are still shenanigans going on. Like the link posted above

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6525582

You can't be everywhere all the time and you have to actively do audits to make sure you're satisfied with your factory conditions.....
Auto Makers: 1. Patent Troll: 0 (excluding $1.6M attorney's fees)
I think it's less of an explicit class warfare type thing and more of an implicit one, but it's not just unpaid internships:

- Afterschool classes and clubs require parents who are free after 3.30pm to drive you there and back.

- That spring break trip to Rwanda to help underprivileged youths would look great on your college application! Too bad it costs $500 to join the mission.

- You're not taking 4 AP classes and volunteering on weekends? You must be lazy, and its certainly not that you have to work 20 hours/wk after school to help put food on the table.

- etc. etc.

(I say this as a very privileged person who was fortunate enough to have two full-time parents -- but also as someone who knew people who weren't.)
This is incredible what you can do with CSS now a days. Thank you for sharing. Will use this on living room HDTV ^_^ Also, never knew of LiveWave website bookmarked.
The more time that goes by, the more I agree with RMS (and the less crazy he seems)...
Sounds about right. For every such thing that the media gets hold of (till we get the state information protection thing, anyway), I often wonder how many more (of lesser and greater magnitude) go undetected.
How do you listen to him after gems like this: "Free Software supports education, proprietary software forbids education"?
You know what? I got my education without software free or proprietary. I also saw many getting education and knowledge using proprietary software. Does Internet Explorer ban you from going to wikipedia or coursera? Heck, I even educated myself about free and open source software using Windows.
Model of the world where FOSS is at the center of the universe and rms is the brightest star in it is hardly correct.
Send some emails to blog authors. I would never go for rentacode.com like websites, because freelancer is not the type of relationship the author is looking for.
Foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities
I assume all major-ish choices have decent speed, security, etc. The main things are activity, books, resources, people to hire, libraries, support, etc.
I find the descriptive nature of method signatures to be quite delightful. Unlike other languages like C++, I don't always have to go looking for the function definition to see the types of the parameters it takes, and what exactly was the order again? Combined with Xcode's autocomplete, it saves a lot of time.

I shed a small tear every time I have to call a C API with and endless parade of (NULL, NULL, 0, NULL).
Exactly. To me it's a little alone time, time to think. Think about life, relationships, personal projects... a bit of day-dreaming.

I do use public transportation.
Do you think Sony execs had a say in this or were even aware of it?
This usually seems to be due to bad code, or bad GUI libraries (which Java seems to be the king of)
Ooh, anecdote time! As an experiment, many years ago I memorized the first book of paradise lost:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/inde...

...at the start, two or four lines a day. At the end? Two or four lines a day. Nothing improved. But I did memorize the whole goddamned thing.
So what happens to planets who orbit a star that dies? It seems like they would be come orphans. That was my first thought. I know next to nothing about the Universe.
This is why I always urge people to consider private charity whenever possible, and always ask for accountability.... Of course, government also decides who's allowed to operate tax-free charities, so the market smells.

The government will always do whatever they can for the appropriate campaign favours, a politician or official gives absolutely no care as to how the programs continue after their term, since it doesn't matter; this works especially well when you can tack expenses onto a debt rather than stealing more immediately.
I don't know, is it? I thought Kickstarter was supposed to be for funding a project either currently in or soon to be in development, not making a group buy.
>I want you to let go of the notion of a "copy", this seems to be the major psychological hurdle here. Think of it as a fork, or rapidly diverging instances.

I think the main psychological hurdle here is your belief that the notion of self is a mere personal issue to be overcome by changing one's ideas about "copies".

In essense, you claim victory not by solving a very real issue (the fact that we identify with the notion of our self and its continuity) but by declaring it a "non problem".

It's not about "letting go"; can you solve the ACTUAL problem of our identification with our continuity of self?

A gradual process of replacement of our body/brain ("ship of Theseus" style) could be a valid answer to this.

Your "just accept that copies of you are just as you as you are" is not. For one, I could not give a flying fuck for my copies -- I'd only care for them as a means to save my memories externally, e.g like a more evolved hard disk.
It wasn't Foxconn, but I think after Foxconn got dragged through the spotlight in 2010 they had to clean their act up significantly - but I don't know if this is just the groups that work with Apple or their entire operation. The link I posted above did have a pretty drastic drop in suicides after 2010.
Typically media will directly reject stories which reflect poorly on government, and especially regarding programs which are big PR for the current regime.
Ask HN: What is your favorite blog?
Looking to see what hackers read other than HN.
Stopped reading the article when he referred to Scala as a scripting language. Clearly the author has no idea what he is talking about. Sure, you can use Scala for scripting (I never do) but its main value is in software design, whereas scripting usually is not about design, but about a quick solution.
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Actually commuting with the bicycle makes me more happy. Because it combines several of his positive points (exercise, be outside etc.) and avoids the stress of driving a car in heavy traffic.
True, but you can't spruik that and then tell us in the next breath about the wonderful developer tools and Intellisense, etc., because most of that doesn't exist outside Windows. With Java it's not just the JVM that is cross platform - the whole developer ecosystem and culture is from the ground up. Every IDE, every compiler, every tool, all runs on every platform. It has it's holes, but largely Java actually achieves this, which when you need it, is a huge win.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_pascal

Apparently it's been around REALLY long! And it was the official language for SA secondary schools till 2002.
This hacky code most certainly isn't required.
The thing that's always confused me about the "story" approach to memorising is what happens the next time you do it. Isn't the previous story still there in your memory, contradicting and interfering with any new one?
Developer likely said:
- Oh crap, its test data, I used the current candidates with past elections data just to make sure it was working.
Result in the news after some levels of PR handling people:
- No problem, its just past elections data.
While I agree with you I really don't understand what this has to do with Apple. Apple didn't even get mentioned by the author of article.

What is that people try to mention Apple in every situation?
Brain-scan heatmaps are such pseudoscientific rubbish in this context. Am I supposed to be happier with an active brain like the one pictured after exercise? or with a quiet brain like that one pictured after meditation?
How about "People who answer legitimate questions with two non-answers"?
Your inventory is synced to the browser's local storage when you open the register, and sales get recorded locally until you're back online. It works fine without continual internet access.
Hey, whatever keeps the grant money flowing is A-ok in my book.
Unless the charity actually operates their own direct distribution outlet in the target country, let me bust your bubble: all that donated gear? It gets sold.

Go to any township market in any Southern African nation you like, those clothes being sold? Go ask them to buy the tarpaulins they were bound in, I guarantee you three things: they'll be blue, the logo will feature a laurel wreathe encircling a globe, and the first two letters will be U and N. You'll probably have noticed them already because many stalls in the market will be using them for roofing.
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