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C++ probably isn't 'weakly typed', whatever that means.
Mercurial was created around the same time as Git was (April 2005), and both projects were announced in the Linux kernel mailing list.

You're probably referring to Bitkeeper, which did exist (and was available commercially) before these new VCS's.
Any inspiration taken from Her?
My brother is a conventional architect and urban designer, whereas I do software. When we discuss complex areas together, he frequently comments in awe of the quality of my doodling... he says they do it all the time in architecture (being a traditionally paper-heavy industry), but rarely do people exploring abstract notions on paper present them straight-from-brain in a structured and logically coherent manner.

My method is simply to establish a scope or primary area of concern and to explore it. Usually major points of inquiry come first, responses second, and then I change colors (eg. black to red pen) and enhance those initial points with annotations, questions/concerns and relationships. If scope changes, I start a new page, often based upon a subset of the previous page that becomes a new scope of inquiry. Sometimes relationships are explored more than a QA structure. Rarely, if a mode of inquiry or visual approach is discovered to be flawed, then the page gets redrawn with the new thinking integrated. This works well for me, and the intended audience is usually only the self.

When I travel, sometimes for months on end and from a single small backpack, along with the laptop my notebook and an array of pens makes the cut. I view it as a sort of organic memory device, as well as a muse.
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I actually got in a discussion about it wherein I was saying "downvotes are for low value comments" and was heavily corrected by a site regular. IIRC they quoted pg at me and unfortunately since then I've felt HN's ethos is "downvote disagreement".

Ah, found it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446824 [you're in that thread DanBC!].

I thought how I asked the question indicated I disproved, but this should make it clear.
Quis meta-arbitrat ipsos meta-arbitri?
I don't care about issues or wikis. I don't use either feature in the projects that originate from me (people send me issues but I don't use them to organize development). The code is the important part. Any discussion is already backed up in my email. And even if I did care about issues I could download them through the api, as was pointed out elsewhere.
What, to pay for advice to the question of "oh no, what should I say?!" Its unusual, but I wouldn't find it offensive.
... and if people disagree with someone's well made snarky comments do you think that the site should try and make those comments hard to read?
Ah that clarifies it thx!
This covers all issues surrounding reproducability pretty well. It is astounding that scientists want to hide behind their expertises when their results and conclusions are being tested. Biologists who are under a similar cloud tried the same tactics too. They have some secret sauce that make their lab and experiment special and unique, beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. Of course, as publically funded scientists they have a moral if not legal obligation to disclose their "secret sauce" if that is very important. Why publish a paper but leave the public in dark about the most important factor? At best it is an oversight, at worst it is dishonst.

Experiment and reason underpin the modern science. Common sense says inreproducible experiments call their colusions into question. Scientific experise is no escape from reason. A fancy degree from a "top" university does not make infallible anyone. Well controlled experiments are the final arbitrator.
Well, if you were to reverse the app or run it in an emulator you still would hit the 10 MCZ/day sync limit. So if you were to manipulate and emulate the accelerometer sensor you would still have a max of 10 coinz on top of your existing sum and the rest would be cut off. The app uses the phone's accelerometer sensor.
The app is intended for use by people who want to get into cryptocurrencies, but don't want the hassle of setting up and maintaining a miner or don't have the knowledge to do so.
Hope this clears some things up. What are your thoughts about MangoCoinz now?
There should be an "is solar cheap yet" website. That would be a lot more useful and interesting than "is Ruby fast yet" or other sites of that ilk. Not that I don't get a chuckle out of the other sites, mind, but I'd love to have someone send me a text message when it makes financial sense to put solar panels up.
I used to be purely a freelancer, but recently got hired by an agency. I've moved between text editors over the years, from Eclipse to Komodo to Sublime Text 2 to ST3 and finally to Atom (with the most time spent on Sublime Text). Atom isn't quite as smooth as ST3, but it's worth the tradeoff because it's open-source and I can make it do _whatever_ I want.

While developing static websites I use a compiler/toolset called [roots](http://roots.cx) which I find immensely useful and even contribute to the development of. When developing non-static sites I use Virtualbox, running Ubuntu Server, and provisioned with a SaltStack config that I use to ensure my dev and production environments are identical. Then I just use port-forwarding for http & ssh to communicate with the VM and mount the VM via SFTP. I could actually just do the same thing with a spare VPS, but I use a VM running on my machine because it's cheaper and faster.

For my OS, I use Ubuntu and a VM running OSX so I can use Sketch 3 (which is fantastic for editing vectors).

I use git and GitHub for source-code management, with a GitLab server that I move old private repos onto so I don't go over the limit of private repos I can put on GitHub before upgrading to the next tier. I'm pretty sure I could use Bitbucket for the same thing that I use GitLab for, but GitLab is OSS so I prefer it over Bitbucket.

For hosting I use DigitalOcean for any site that isn't static, and S3 or Divshot for static sites.

My machines are:
- A cheap (800USD) but ridiculously overpowered gaming desktop that I got for running networks of VMs. I do most of my work on this one and keep it at the office with a few 20-something inch monitors hooked up to it. It's nice to work on because it's very fast, but obviously not portable at all so I need to make sure I commit & push anything I might need to access remotely, before leaving the office.
- A fairly heavy 17 inch laptop that I generally keep at home. It has pretty good performance and used to be my primary computer before I got my desktop.
- A really nice Macbook Pro that my company gave me. It doesn't run as fast as my desktop but it's light and has great battery life, so I use it whenever I'm not at my desk or at home. I don't particularly like OSX and can't bear doing serious work on it, so I'll probably end up installing Linux or at least dual-booting, but the hardware is very nice.
Technically speaking, what he did does not carry a criminal penalty, because the United States does not have a secrets act. Reality, of course, is a different matter.
I think Wall-E was the pinnacle, and was apparently the last of the original ideas they brainstormed up in the beginning. After that was Cars 2 and Brave, which I think were perceived as ok, but not at the level of their previous films.
This is awesome. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Ask HN: Is it reasonable to cover your webCam?
I am not a programer, but my impression from various journalists and so forth is that webCams are relatively vulnerable to hijacking. My impression is that once an adversary has access to a webcam, they probably has access to basically everything else. Is this true?

The reason I ask is because I 3D printed a pretty good cover which I am attempting to sell , but I can't convince anyone that its worth using. Maybe they're right. Let me know.

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While the outage was upsetting, the response from DO was reassuring. Not only did they jump right on the problem, they maintained communication during the affected period. Then, they refunded me $160 (a month of service).

Every host has an occasional problem. It's how they handle the problem that is important to me. This is a night and day contrast compared to the service I received with other hosts with which I've dealt.
It did collapse, but not before their probe measured something. Then they repeated a million times and averaged the results.
And if your recipient uses the app as well, the two of you can talk to each other while not talking to each other! :)
Not a fan of Cyrano de Bergerac, I take it?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingCyrano
No, to be the person on the receiving end of such a manufactured or deceiving message. Although, now that you mention it, spending good money on something so pathetic is kind of distasteful, too.

If somebody truly can't think of what to say next to me (or anybody else) in a conversation, then ending the conversation or admitting to not knowing what to say is much more sensible and preferable than spending money on getting some third-party to create a response.
Sorry that wasn't clear. What she means is the amount given to each person. We are still and always will be committed to giving away the total 95B stellars.
I just edited her post to clarify what we were trying to say.
Thank you for the information :).
nmjohn's point is valid. Disagree with pg in a comments thread here and watch the downvotes fly, even if your argument is rational and your tone polite.
You probably aren't "qualified to make that statement", if you don't know what weak typing is and are too lazy to google it.
> I don't like windows being behind other windows.

Same here, except I switched to Ubuntu-GNOME and used [ShellScape](https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/294/shellshape/) to automate window resizing & moving into new workspaces so they don't overlap. Sadly, that broke when I updated GNOME, and now I'm just looking for a nice tiling WM to be a more permanent replacement... Basically I'm looking for something like con10uum (from 10/GUI) - but real.
Why is it always necessary to demonstrate the obvious in a selfish way for gain? And how is that 'heroic'?
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Google play store doesn't have that problem.
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I guess here you're the only MIT student and you been over qualified.

That might be the reason why no one contacted you.
The patches are applied in the factory, toward the end of the production line, and they fix critical bugs. If the units don’t have these fixes, the Newt won’t work very well.

The patches live in the battery protected low-power RAM of the Newton, and they’re theoretically immortal as long as power holds out. This is why the battery compartment has a wacky mechanical locking system meant to discourage people from simultaneously removing both the main and the backup batteries.

Am I the only one who thinks this is an overly fragile way of doing it? It's almost like planned obolescence. (Apple isn't the only one doing this; a lot of very expensive test equipment back then also had things like calibration constants stored in battery-backed RAM.)
Not storing data in a database and not having a inside comment system is not what I call saving in the long run.

The data is in a hierarchical versioned database called a git repository. As for comments, fair enough. I don't happen to use them; if I did, I might choose a different option.

Why use Dotclear or Wordpress then? If you can do what you said you do with Pelican and cronjobs/pulls on the github to automate the task. You should be able to code the blog yourself.

I thought dynamic engines were supposed to save time? Setting up Pelican was a matter of a couple of hours, if that, and running a command that periodically does git pull and calls the rebuild command takes 5 minutes.

It's really not that hard to automate backups.

Oh, they're automated. But you still have to test the regularly. Having blind faith in a backup procedure is the surest way to lose data when you need it.
http://www.taobackup.com/testing_info.html

You're relying on github for backups where I rely on my server for backups.

Well, no. Git is distributed, so I have a copy on my laptop (which then gets backed up along with all my disk), one on my tablet, etc. Every device where I edit posts is another backup.

The more I think about it the more I feel like it's complicating things for no upsides at all.

As I said, the advantage are mostly not having to worry about security and backups. Since you consider writing your own blog engine a less complicated solution than installing a Python package and writing a simple cronjob, I think we won't reach a consensus.
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The movie Her predicted this would be a market someday.
A lot of people cannot be trained to program at all
Chrome 64bit for Mac
In June Chrome announced 64bit for Windows but no date for Mac. Just opened Canary on Mac and the about page lists: "Version 38.0.2111.0 canary (64-bit)". Did I miss this announcement or did they sneak it in? Imagine this means the latest version of Java will finally work with Chrome.
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How would you feel if I signed up to write for your 'uber for conversations' and build AI to write on my behalf? I'm not being glib, I would actually do that, and I want to know if you'd be cool with it.
This would be great for computer work.

Many people have vision problems where the eye can't easily focus on a variety of distances. So if you have glasses, they're set up to make focusing on one distance easy, but things closer or farther (if that distance is not "infinity") is more difficult. I have progressive bifocals to get some amount of varying correction with distance, but this is thrown off for computers since they take up more of your field of vision than a book. (I also find looking at my phone through the bottom of my glasses to be pretty awkward, even though I've had bifocals since elementary school.)

One solution is an extra pair of glasses for computer work, but this is annoying because you can't get up and go to the bathroom without changing glasses. If the computer monitor were set to add the extra correction between my normal prescription and the intermediate distance prescription, my life would be much better. (Same for my phone.)

Right now, I can pretty much focus without using anything more than my distance prescription, but as I get older, this will become more and more difficult. So I'm pretty excited about this; less eyestrain is always good.

Also, the ability to tweak the correction in software is great. Where I have my monitor isn't quite what the optometrist was expecting when I had my computer glasses made, so I have to change positions to use them. With control in software, I could just adjust some config file somewhere when I rearrange my desk.
I fold a namecard in half and sit it on top.

My former corp physically removed all webcams from laptops.

I know a lot paranoid about them. Mic too.
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The classes of problems that one encounters in Ada, Haskell, OCaml, Rust, D or Go are vastly different than in languages w/o memory safety.

Writing secure network code in an non-safe language is something that shouldn't be taken lightly. Given the nature of the commits it is hard to comprehend that this product will ever achieve its stated aims.

It is secure by side effect, not proof.
According to the article, what they measured doesn't really sound like a 'real' quantum system: it's a superconducting circuit with two discrete states with an infinite number of previously immeasurable superposition states in between. They call this an 'artificial atom'. Unless I'm mistaken, it's an emulation of sorts.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1923
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I saw a product like this once on Shark Tank.
This is like the ending of SLC Punk when he sells out. So sad.
The only hope to make Tox less insecure would be to run it under emscripten or http://zerovm.org/
Maybe they're fine using a sticker, a sticky note (or Post-its), or even just with unplugging it if they're using an external webcam.
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Indirectly they are requiring mobile numbers because they require a verified Facebook account which means giving your phone number to Facebook for verification (at least for me, could be different for other countries).
Lets make kickstarter/Indigogo project with me
It's about how to induce Out-of-body experience.I know how to do it in the clever way(no need meditation for a year, electric simulation, etc etc) We will use your credit card/Paypal And uses books for perks, I cant do it because I'm in asia. I want to make it become common knowledge and accept by scientist(its no longer pseudoscience).

Please tweet to @b_sadino to discuss.thanks
I never seriously considered it until I saw the IT guy covering his at my last job. I still don't, though, which may be irrational or just lazy.
Why would i buy a cover when I have all this electrical tape just sitting around?
I just did an analysis of the people involved in this project. Tox even more than cryptocat, is a very dangerous product to use. Even Tor has flaws while having many very capable cryptographers behind it. Tox appears to be swiss cheese both in code and protocol.

Rather than ricers with -Ofast kernels and overclocked CPUs it would be nice if a mature team focused on security and correctness first.
Yes. But your product might be less convenient than a post-it note/strip of black electrical tape.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam...

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1z33wx/uk_spy_age...
Perfect H2G2 quote for the situation
Also see http://www.wingflirt.com which also attempts this
Couldn't they use this method to communicate over vast distances? I mean shit you could build a computer that uses something like this to measure the shift in a superimposed particle; this would allow communication to anywhere on earth without physical or wireless connection. All that's need is superimposed particles.
Relevant: the recently shut down Starpilot.
http://xorph.com/starpilot

An explanation:
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/digital-projection/C...
Yes, if an hijacker got as far as the webcam, it's safe to assume they have access to everything else in your computer. But most webcams have a light to tell you if its being used, other dangers are keyloggers, and how they can be used to steal credit card information/bank loggin info.
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So do I, but Tox isn't it.

They should have made the protocol, vetted the protocol and made a PoC implementation in a safe language.

Cryptographers and secure protocol designers can't help out if they are noodling along banging out the implementation while designing it.
This may be a "get off my lawn" comment, but my understanding is that pediatric psychiatrists and psychologists will treat patients up to 25 years old. The boundary between childhood and adulthood is labile and varies from person to person. From my own experience, re-reading books like "100 years of solitude" or "the unbearable lightness of being" at ten year intervals shows me how much I have changed
Finally, a positive example of states rights that rational people can argue for.
Thank you for posting this. I'm a huge Sins of a Solar empire fan, I really encourage anyone who's a fan of real time 4x's to give this game a try its honestly one of the best on the market.

Sad to hear their isn't any sequel news. The overall lore was going in a very interesting direction with the latest release.

:.:.:

Also on a side note SoSE has a huge user base, most their DLC for the game actually ads a decent amount of content, and is regularly dirt cheap <$5. With the games massive install/user base its not surprising paid DLC is one of their biggest profit bases.
> Even if your device is turned off, even if your device is offline, it is possible for hackers to take your images.

Really? Fear-mongering at it's finest.

I don't bother with it personally, although I've seen many people that do put a sticker/bit of tape over it.

One more thing, your landing page isn't really the best. I like the animation of the product in action, but the Instagram-esque filter doesn't look professional at all. Your first paragraph is a full anchor link, and your other paragraphs are broken at random lines which really kills the reading experience. The photo, which I presume is a webcam shot with the product blocker on, isn't actually described at all.
This segfaults too, so it's "just" a problem of too many dereferences.

python -c 'print ("int main(){" + "*" * (10**6) + "}")' | gcc -x c -
I think it sounds like it has potential. As you can see from some of the comments here, some folks (the HN crowd) say "why do I need your thing when I have a piece of tape that works fine?". Well, these same people have cool stickers on their Macbook Pro, I'll bet. No functional value, but the stickers make a statement - it's fashion. So, if you can make your cam cover something that looks cool or interesting, or maybe something that makes a "statement", then maybe that's how you market it. Make it a conversation piece.

Remember those stickers from the 90s, "Big Brother Inside" with the intel look-alike logo? Think along those lines.
I think you're confusing a crash in the generated program with a crash in the compiler itself. The latter is what's happening here.
The FBI (and most likely other actors) have the ability to activate a PC or Mac webcam without activating the light.

http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/12/how-to-disable-webcam-ligh...
I've observed this with fandom crossovers.
Not a crazy opinion, just curious, since I think by number of people pardoned that is the bulk of them (though I could certainly be mistaken).
But most webcams have a light to tell you if its being used...

Lights are frequently software controlled, as implied by the sibling comment to this one.
I don't really have an opinion on your question, but I'd point out that the relevant question to your business isn't whether it's reasonable for people to cover their camera, but whether you can convince people it's worth purchasing something to use to do so.

I could see that being an uphill battle since a Post-It would work, is free, and is less likely to make most feel like they might be judged as a paranoiac ... or conspicuously like they have something sufficiently unusual to hide that they need to purchase something that most people don't. (Not saying that makes logical sense, just that it makes "marketing sense".)
We've pardoned many people before and since, but in terms of number of people pardoned I think that still dominates.
It's actually possible to disable the light in a lot of cases, either by patching out the driver code or even reprogramming the camera firmware (in really extreme cases). Lots of info on practical examples from google: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=disable+webcam+light
This is why Yelp should kill two birds with one stone and just open source both their filtering algorithm and their rating algorithm. This would cause more engineers to want to work at Yelp and stop this PR fiasco where people think Yelp is gaming the system.

With the algo's out in the open we all can finally move on from this "extortion" rumor.
I have a webcam on top of my monitor, but since it blends into the bezel and is mostly outside my field of view, I never think about it and don't care.

If I sit in front of a laptop with a black camera against a grey/metal bezel, though, I think about it constantly.

Humans. Weird.
I toggle executable permissions for the iSight-related drivers