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font rendering is just config. first thing i do with opensuse is install the mstttfonts and enable anti-aliasing (weak hints). [edit] the patent issues have long since died away - http://www.freetype.org/patents.html

i'm pretty sure (no numbers) package selection isn't less on opensuse, it's just distributed over more repos. use http://software.opensuse.org/search

you have more encryption options with opensuse - the yast installer (partition manager) is more flexible than the ubuntu one (i couldn't duplicate my opensuse install with ubuntu and had to go with something simpler). and home directory encryption is an option in yast under "details" for add new user.

i have used both. ubuntu is the nicer "out of the box" (it feels more apple-ish). but opensuse allows you to fiddle more - as a developer i prefer opensuse because it's easier to poke around and change things. yast is a huge help when you want it and stays out of the way when you don't - for me it makes opensuse the sweet spot between ubuntu and distros like debian.
I have read "The panda's Thumb" and don't know what you are referring to. Could you elaborate?
Maybe you've fallen in the 1% error rate ?
Agreed, I have a Sony Bravia and I love the Netflix button, plus the ability to easily watch youtube and movies that I have on my computer through the menu. Sure, I could get the same thing other ways (Roku, Wii, etc), but having it built into the TV is pretty handy.
> Hey, lawn mowers can't dodge about in 3 dimensions at insane speeds. Hard to weaponize a lawnmower.

Actually...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJnXZsrMjU
That's the UK law if you have a faulty product.
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It's not my country, you assumptive douche. The author was rejected from entering the USA on arguably questionable, but still legal terms.

Based on his account, I'm forced to believe he acted appropriately, and therefore I feel bad for him, but he doesn't have a given right to enter a foreign country.

My advice remains. Custom officials in airports are much better equipped to handle foreigners. So, to hedge your safest bets for next time you go to the US, make the airport your first port of entry.
Discussions around the merits of a 120 hour work week aside, this video was a pretty cool thing.

Though I do notice that the author spends most of his time looking up and left. As someone with neck troubles, I suggest rearranging the layout so that most time is spent looking straight ahead, with head mostly level - before you develop the same kinds of troubles.
Some devs would prefer that to be the case, but it really isn't, especially for a blog.
Now who can suggest the best software to install on the home router to block the connections based on the URLs? Ideally it would be a transparent solution -- the client computers shouldn't need any additional configuration. I have an OpenWrt based router.

Another question is how to handle https requests?
Were they "the US"? ;)
Also, for those who would like to know how you can implement a language guesser (sources + link to paper):

http://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/TextCat/

Python version:

http://thomas.mangin.com/data/source/ngram.py

It's something that is fun to implement and doesn't take more than a few hours at most.
Apparently traveling in a lot of countries is grounds for suspicion in the US.

Well if you have multiple citizenship you can always just choose which passport you're going to use so how useful is that really?
> claim that your contact has Google's cooperation

Which is easy enough. Compromise the target's Google account, and you suddenly have Google's cooperation.
Change the "w" variable to > 9000 and it completely kills Safari, can't even close the tab or the browser. Sweet demo though, I remember being amazed seeing this sort of thing the first time.
> I am a hard line atheist [...]. Idealists lie to themselves and others, because they mix up their self image with their opinions -- or they are just propagandists (since they know they are correct, the target is "winning", not learning.)

Right. No contradiction there.
Norway would make a great asylum option for Snowden if he could have this granted. Great country to live and fairly independent. Also sharing a border with Russia can't hurt as he could get to Norway directly.
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Make it opt in, present it as an option when user sets up TV, and avoid all the negative publicity.
Musk personally rubs some people the wrong way, and he puts himself out there as the only public face of Tesla. Part of it is a perception of arrogance, part of it is how he comes out guns blazing for any perceived slight of his company.
I'll ask plainly what others are hinting at : Is this actually your own built service, or are you a proxy for something like Google Translate API[1]?

If it's your own built service, it's critical how you explain the hows and whys of your forecast availability and scalability numbers for your chosen architecture, given who you are competing with.

[1]https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#detect...
Yes, but in the IM context it is creating confusion, and Google's IM team must surely be aware of this, so it stands to reason that this is intentional confusion.
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> software to install on the home router to block the connections based on the URLs?

tinyproxy does what you want.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doku.php?id=oldwiki:proxy.tinyproxy
how does this compare in accuracy to chromium's Compact Language Detector?

https://code.google.com/p/chromium-compact-language-detector...

https://github.com/mzsanford/cld
That's not what it means. A 10% Required Reserve Ratio means the bank can lend $9 for every $10 it has on deposit. Eg, it must keep $1 (10%) in reserves.

However, when that effect is multiplied throughout the entire banking system [1], the system as a whole amplifies the base amount of money in the system. A 10% Required Reserve Ratio equates to a maximum potential money multiplier of 10, meaning the system as a whole can turn a $10 deposit into up to $100 in circulation.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking#Exam...
Every time I see Dropbox on the front page of HN I think about this[1] all over again…

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
It'll do too, but I think it's nice to abstract the http-layer completely away from the view.

In case you want to replicate, I believe the relevant part is simply adding this to the base class:

extend ActiveModel::Naming
include ActiveModel::AttributeMethods
def to_key
[]
end

And then add `attr_reader` for each field.
This is part of the ongoing downfall of Google. They held it together for so long but we seem to have reached the tipping point where monetisation is replacing user experience.

My verdict: This is bad and too intrusive.
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I think the main conclusion of this experiment is not to be workaholic, but rather coding for fun and forgetting about deadlines.

When I am coding and my mind do a context change to think about my unpaid bills or an approaching deadline, it severely decreases my focus.
Ask HN: Python or R?
What's your preference, and why?

More specifically, comparing R to Python library.
That thread is hilarious, especially the first reply.
"The only problem is that you have to install something."
Except you're comparing apples to oranges. Microsoft is dominating the console market.
>Voting choices in the US are much like religion choices and football team choices

This is only true because people fail to vote (or even pay attention) in the primaries.

By the time you get to the general election you get two terrible choices produced by the establishment. The result is that there is no difference between the two party candidates. Sure they're made to sound different, but policy and execution is the same.
You can still walk in the rain, it can be quite nice regardless of level of downpour.

It'd probably be a lot cheaper and certainly a lot less time consuming to ship that item.

It'd be a lot less expensive over the course of a year for many people to take the occasional taxi than own a car.

Imagine how pleasant cities are without heavy loud cars full of desensitized drivers. Lucca is a nice example.
From YaST's own language ...
>I do not expect my TV to be spying on me in any form.

The spying is done by the people working at LG. The TV is only the technical method used to spy on you and your family.
Is this a repost? I could have sworn I've seen this before. I'm not sure if it was on HN or r/truereddit.
Hey, you almost got the self irony... here is half a cookie. :-)

More seriously: There is a serious position to have -- identify with the process of getting your opinions _less_ wrong, not with a particular set of opinions. In fact, there is no contradiction.

Anyway, this is not the subject of the discussion.
That will be interesting to see a manufacturer warranty stuck in the middle of normal insurance disputes. Like what if someone is at fault and hits a Tesla and causes a fire, would that be covered under the Tesla warranty, or the other party's insurance?
Realistically colorized historical photos make the past seem incredibly real
"He was obviously travelling all around the world sight-seeing"

This is not so obvious. This is one of the possible points of view, of course.

"He had tons of proof of that"

For example? I'm not sure other countries stamp a reason for entry like the US, it's usually an entry stamp for anything and that's it.

I'm also sympathetic to the author, but he was extremely naive. The border control doesn't want to hear about nice food or nice wildlife or other blah blah blah. Direct and cooled down answers will do. "On Vacation" is fine.

It's clear his answers (and passport stamps) rang a ton of bells.
Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell (2009)
Hint: You can enter any email address you want.you don't have to validate it.(well, at least for now)
> font rendering is just config.

Not just config, but patents! There are patents which covers font rendering (thanks a lot apple), so freetype in most distributions is crippled. Ubuntu ships with those patches.

I think on OpenSuse I could install patched freetype (or Infinality which think uses different algorithm).

> but opensuse allows you to fiddle more

I mostly do Debian, so creating a few symlinks is simple. I used Suse a lot 10 years ago.
Well, North Korea (and many other dictatorships) are technically "democratic republics"... Doesn't mean that they are.
Such a service (even the one you describe, not the ads) would be a breach of privacy if merely opt-out. Anything like this must be opt-in.
"Very concerning"? For you, maybe. To me, this smacks of concern trolling. You are aware that all modern cars have a lot of software and microcontrollers embedded in their designs, right?

BTW, there is no evidence, at least none you have cited or even referred to, that the Tesla computer is "becoming increasingly complex". All we see in this article is that they are changing one variable in their existing system. That's not increased complexity.
Pelosi is insane.
I've done a fair amount of back-and-forth between the US and China. On my most recent entry (to the US), the phase 1 guy flagged me to have my carryon manually inspected because I took the trouble to answer his questions honestly (bizarrely, the search did not involve a search of my person, or my checked luggage, so I can't imagine what it was supposed to accomplish). That forced my mother to wait an extra hour to pick me up, so roughly midnight instead of 11:00. Lesson learned, I guess. Never be honest with customs.

For reference - white US-born citizen (well, from a california perspective); never been in trouble.
>"Ok you go can"

Yoda is always the coolest security guard!
It would be far easier to set that Pi up as an XMBC instance with RaspBMC and treat the TV as a dumb output device.
I don't think it's fair to paint all of this as somehow originating with the US. This country doesn't exist in a vacuum and it is shaped by the political and economic forces that surround it. I think people forget that this nation is constantly under some form of "attack" by groups (nation-state and otherwise) who hope to destabilize it or mitigate the power it can wield.

I'm an American and I'm fiercely proud of this country. We screw up all the time, but we've been able to manage a peaceful transition of power and somehow manage to find our way in a difficult and challenging world.

I think it's lost on MANY people who are not citizens or residents that the USA is HUGE, politically diverse, and nearly as varied in customs, socioeconomics, and population as Europe. You can even stretch that to language in some parts of the USA. Try and get around South Miami without at least a smattering of Spanish language ability.

Our legal system has it's flaws. You can definitely find examples of miscarriages of justice without too much trouble. Our bureaucracy is sometimes incomprehensible. Our tax systems are strange and often counterproductive.

What is often missing is that all of these things are the result of a vigorous political experiment in self-government. Below the federal government, there are a whole slew of state, regional, city, town, village, and county governments that have wide latitude to set their own laws and practices. In certain counties in the USA, it's still illegal to buy alcohol. In other counties, you can buy alcohol at a DRIVE THRU.

All of these variations are a result of people determining for themselves which laws they'll live under. It's closer to say that the USA is filled with many many cooperating democracies.

Just remember that in this country, you can still go from dirt-floor poor (not an exaggeration) to billionaire in the span of a single lifetime.

We're far from perfect, but it's the recognition that we're trying to perfect this country that makes us unique and special.
"Dropbox tallied $116 million in sales last year, more than doubling its $46 million in revenue in 2011. The year before, it nearly quadrupled sales from $12 million."

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...
i thought i was careful too... fyi, when it fails you likely won't notice and the battery will run down. at that point it will appear completely dead. the way to test (obvious in retrospect) is to wiggle the plug and hold it at various angles - at some angle it will work. then, at least here in chile, a support centre can fix it.
Yes, you can't buy yourself "good genes".
I guess I just trust hardware far more than software in general.
If you travel to Yemen or the surrounding area you will get the 9th degree. See http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_6046.html
Very "refreshing"!
IFrames, A TARDIS, and the Multiverse
"Much praised product actually has a flaw" is a classic basis for articles in the press. You see it in every industry.
Obviously that's not sustainable... but even the 60 hour version sounds pretty rough to me. Without a wife and kids, maybe. But I think if I tried this I wouldn't have to worry about a wife and kids anymore.

Am I the only one who works better and more efficiently when I have a little bit of a break in between?
There is no doubt that the U.S. immigration system is broken and needs fixing, this is a complicated political issue that is currently being debated in Congress. Conditional on this unfortunate reality, which we can't immediately change, my advice is not to over-react.
You guys might want to handle GET requests for /try URL(https://getlang.io/try) as well.currently it's returning "Server Error (500)" for GET requests.
From my experience, the CLD works pretty well in the most cases. But you need to take care for encoding detection...
This is interesting - do you know of any examples out there of the structure you're talking about?
Not sure why it's been 7 years since the Magsafe debuted on the MacBook Pro and every laptop doesn't use a similar power cord by now. So many laptops are broken (but fixable) by DC jacks breaking.
They're not really directly comparable. Python is an general purpose programming language, R is a statistical processing tool.

You could compare R to Matlab, or R to python library with similar scope (numpy or pandas).
It's also a financial and practical issue. Being refused entry at the border can mean significant costs in non-refundable bookings and re-booking of flights. Not to mention the fact that you just wasted some very valuable vacation days (which to many people are worth more than the money they represent).

I know I don't want to waste my vacation days playing bureaucratic Russian roulette when I could spend them in any one of the dozens countries that will happily let me visit with a minimum of fuss.
I'm sure the people (read: individuals) who thought up this ad and executed it had their hearts in the right place. Just enjoy it for what it is. Not everything has to be viewed with such cynicism.
>> font rendering is just config

Linux is just config

>> ubuntu is the nicer "out of the box"

Very true - I used to stick with Fedora and then tweak it to make it more Ubuntu-ish but then I just gave up and gave in to Ubuntu.
I did not lose my money, in fact it was a small transaction that triggered their fraud sensor, and they never processed the withdrawal from my bank. Since you've already triggered it with a large transaction (and it sounds like they have your money, too), maybe this option is no longer available to you. When my transaction was cancelled, it was one that would indeed have been more profitable to me.

However, I contacted the support department, asked them to explain themselves politely, offered to place a reserve amount in my account, and they immediately offered to "white list" me and promised this would never happen to one of my transactions with them, ever again.

I passed the "human, DBAA" test (breaking bad reference), I guess. If people like me go around telling about this policy, I would expect it to be less effective (or stop altogether) but as soon as this exchange was over, I was glad it had occurred. After reading the article though, it sounds like they are basically transparent about it, and my experience was not at all unique.

What does coinbase have disjoint against other Bitcoin Exchange services? Well for one thing, there are no bid-ask spreads, you are trading with coinbase.com alone. They should be able to reject your transaction at any time, full stop. Two, they don't carry USD deposits (except in your case? I have a feeling you've been too patient with them!) which means what exactly, I don't know, I am not a lawyer, but my question to you would be... have you done any further business with them? Did you take any steps past e-mailing?

I would have a certified, registered, return-receipt requested letter from my lawyer at their office two weeks ago already, if I were you. Maybe you really did trigger their fraud detection, and they are just waiting for the legitimate owner of "your account" to come and claim his USD or bitcoins.

In your case especially, I would say they now owe you 10 bitcoins at the market price four weeks ago, and a sincere letter of apology.
Apache Tika (http://tika.apache.org/) also has language detector, although it maybe not so good as CLD...
If I were to implement this I'd rather use google's prediction api. At least with that you get a bit of control over what goes into the training data.
Be careful, this is a great way to get a burnout !
"Aggressively"? How is writing a calm, well-reasoned blog post aggressive?

It's not, is the answer. Not at all aggressive.
And it looks like that they are using the following library: http://code.google.com/p/language-detection/ - at least the number & list of languages is very similar :-)
Two wrongs make a right.
Ooh - handy, I hadn't seen that thanks. I'll try it out.
Yeah, a lot of those arguments, while true, are not very representative; he's comparing statistics of the 19.000 brand new cars built within the last year with the millions of road cars currently out there.

I do think the Tesla's fires have been blown way out of proportion by the media. And it's odd too; gasoline fires are much more impressive and descriptions of burning children and suchlike will create much more impressive headlines than "electrical car on fire". It's a desensitisation thing though, I think; dozens of cars (rough guess based on nothing) go up in flames every day, which is maybe noted in a local newspaper. Rare high-tech car has a fire and it's world news.
500 billion YouTube views are unseen by marketers
I wonder how the people who replied to that thread feel now?
IMHO, there is nothing ballsy about an ad; at the end of the day it is profit vs you. There are selling, you are getting emotional and consuming, exactly what they want. :)
Well, some people tend to interpret in whatever way it suits them, but I don't think I meant evil when I said multi-national. If you get it, I was just referring to the scale of the company.
Where do I claim Google is doing it intentionally to help government intrusion? The paragraph about law enforcement is only meant as an example of how signing can be used against you. The point there is that it doesn't even need to be Google's intention and requires no direct assistance from them.

I'm sure Google has a valid legitimate use of this data somewhere, but why it ends up in end-user XMPP clients is a mystery to me. If Google's aim is to avoid enterprise networks messing with the message, then Google should document somewhere how to verify the signature.
That was hardly challenging, look at the number of changes.
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially...."

That's my other favourite gem.

But in all seriousness, I wish I could use Dropbox, but sadly where I live and work my ADSL upstream speed is 448kbit/s rendering it useless for anything other than very small files.
The author never said "government intrusion" he said "blackmail".
"zOMG. You guys are going head on against the giants? Wow. So cool."

They are probably looking at that reaction from the people who don't know the rough timeline when Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft's own service and Box started.
I really like this tool! Thanks!

Some small requests thou:

- I would like to be able to select multiple old snaps and delete them.

- Some kind of Quit-protection would be nice, I closed Snappy by mistake when I tried to close a snap with Cmd+Q.
Maybe we need to think more carefully about how we archive historical data online. After all, suppose someone "discovers" an old manifesto that reveals something controversial: without proof that the content hasn't been altered since it was captured, the content has no validity whatsoever.

And taking this to its natural conclusion, a malicious opponent could fake archive data in order to gain an advantage.
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Walking Corpse Syndrome
You expect every border patrol agent to know this?
"I understand why other people would hate them and want to ad block them."

Its not hate so much as being an unactionable distraction that interferes with buy the perry the platypus wooden action figure it does nothing... oh wait see how annoying that interruption was and how little it added to the conversation?

Personally I prefer paid promotional product placement. So I was working on a S-100 circuit board in my basement "lab" last night using my Hakko model 937 digital temperature soldering iron with 1/16th inch tip (or whatever millimeters it is) and my Kester no-kleen #235 flux 0.02 dia solder (well you get the idea) Like how most hollywood computers happen to be Apples.
In this sense, every country in the world is made entirely (not "almost entirely") from immigrants. Plenty of American families have been there as long as anyone alive can remember; the fact that the history beyond living memory is shorter than usual isn't particularly relevant.
Eh. I don't use Dropbox, in part because of exactly that. I passed over Spotify for the same reason. Given feature parity, I will choose a browser-based solution over one that requires me to install some random binary blob every time.