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I agree completely, it's not that hard at all. Slackware was my proper introduction to the world of GNU/Linux back in the late 90s, and I always end up going back to it. Before the days of sbopkg, I always installed via ./configure -> make -> make install on the source anyway.

Another bonus of going back to Slack would be avoiding the looming systemd switch in Jessie. I'm still on the fence about it; I'm not a conspiracy nut who thinks it's trying to destroy GNU/Linux, but I don't care for how big it's getting either. So far Pat has been good about staying with a traditional "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach, which I find comforting. Let the other guys deal with bleeding edge! :)
I got my first Dremel tool in 1982 and have always had one since. I love those things more than I can express.

This is awesome. It may not really have anything to do with their "moto-tool", but it just warms my heart to see their name on it.
I think what grandparent means is: did you verify the SSL cert properly, verify the digest of the source code you downloaded to ensure it's authentic, etc…
If we (emacs users) can have an emacs that has a "modern" backend & language but is bug-compatible with the extant elisp code, I think that would be grand.

Particularly nice would be thread support.

I'm pragmatically indifferent as to whether the backend is scheme or common lisp (I'd personally prefer Common Lisp, but whatevs).
Practical answer: having to support one more country flag, one more ISO country code and maybe one more english flavour locale or a currency :).
Ah, thanks for this. I've had Jazz Jackrabbit 3's ImpulseTrackers for ages, but never knew/bothered to find out who the composer was. I had no idea he'd worked up an official album for it.
Why There’s Nothing Smart About the Apple Watch
The Ubuntu advisory says "source packages" for some reason. I think it's a typo but it doesn't change the analysis - most people don't use 'apt-get download' to install packages.
I don't want to be tracked.
Seriously, this is what gives Hacker News a bad name.
I would vote for a third option along the lines of "I allow ads but block flash or don't have it installed." I used to have an adblocker installed, but switched to blocking Flash as soon as I discovered the ability for Chrome to disable flash components until I click on them. This lets the good sites with unobtrusive ads still get their impressions and hides all of the really bad things like ads with video or sound. It also doesn't hurt the browsing experience as badly as completely uninstalling flash.
Yes, we did not yet manage to change the language. Sorry for that, we're working on it!

Thanks for the hint!

EDIT: Now the newsletter registration is in English
PC games are perhaps too complicated, but from what I have seen of my son's gaming tastes, they have simply moved to the tablet and mobile devices.
If you're developing a fairly complex library for things such as image processing, machine learning, numerics, linear algebra, etc., then I think that C/C++ is the way to go. Most languages have some sort of FFI to interact with C, many are even designed explicitly to work with C (such as Cython). C++ is in a similar situation (though compiler support on esoteric processors such as DSPs is still not quite there yet), and it's fairly easy to get a C-compatible API.

If you write your library in Perl, guess what, only people writing Perl will use it. If you write it in Java, well, maybe the Scala folk will wrap it up, or the Jython folk, but you won't get any people writing in Ruby to use it. If you write it in C++, you can provide efficient bindings to any of those languages.

For an example, look at FFmpeg or ImageMagick. They are libraries that just _won't die_, no matter how hard people have tried. My god, ImageMagick was written in 1987, and it now has Haskell bindings[0]! The only way to get that sort of longevity (and old code is good code, after all [1]) is to write in language that will outlast the ups and downs of the language or framework du jour, and C and C++ have proven to have that staying power. Yeah, they're terrible; I hate them. But there is a reason to use them.

[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/imagemagick

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
The history behind AppleScript involved being able to write it in any language, not just English. But that was a terrible idea and Apple knows that.

English (more specifically, JavaScript) is the Lingua Franca for the majority of programming, and we've all come to accept that, for better or worse, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health.
Not likely. The OpenSSH team is very conservative, and RedHat isn't likely to make such an invasive change into a core utility.

PSC has been maintaining these patches for a long time. I'm pretty sure I was using this nearly 10 years ago. If you have a need for this, it's not hard to build it yourself.

Ah, found the initial release date: July 7, 2004; yeah 10 years.
People are willing to pay for HTML5 games?!
Good point. But it's not unheard of to write a transpiler from Language X to Lua. See the VimL compiler in NeoVim[1].

[1]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/FAQ#lua-and-vimscript-...
You know academics is a bit fucked when someone being anointed a MacArthur fellow was a "lecturer" at UNH from 1999 until being promoted to "professor" in January of 2014! The plus side being someone like Mr. Zhang gets to stay working on interesting academic problems.

I know several people getting their PhD, lecturing, and assistent professors.. but I only know one person on a tenure "track" and they want desperately to quit. We as a society have got to figure out how to incept public research institutions.
All of my personal browsers have an adblocker installed. I whitelist sites like Ars or Reddit.

I do not use an adblocker at work (web dev), I need to see the real-deal all the time.

Try using weather.com with and without an ad blocker.
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I put 'no' but my brain seems to be a pretty good ad-blocker so I haven't found a need for another one.
He needs ghost web designers.
Yes, but how to you know it's actually the software author and that the software has not been modified?

If you're not manually checking the PGP-signed SHASUMs of the software you're downloading for slackware, you're not getting any more security the defective apt software we've been running on debian.

Edit: As pointed out by elosius, verifying SSL certs when you download packages would give you some degree of security (and that's what I often end up having to do on Windows), but unless you have access to signed digests from the package author, you won't get any better security than the broken debian apt system.
I can't read text on screens that have animations on them.

Well, I can, but it requires a noticeably higher level of focus not to be distracted by movement in my peripheral vision - noticeable enough to be unpleasant.

I just tried disabled my adblocker temporarily; Ars Technica itself has exactly the kind of animated ads that I can't stand.

It's not just ads, though. It's all animations. I use image.animation_mode=once in Firefox to disable looping gif animations, use Flashblock, and generally disable anything that auto-starts whenever possible. The only thing I want animated on my screen is the cursor.
The only ad blocking I use or need is disabling Flash, and iOS comes with that out of the box.
as someone who just has finished writing a book, I think skimming the TOC and index are an important part to get an idea of the book's content. If I decide I want to delve into the book, I actually still like paper, since you can easy back and forth, and especially diagrams and code often are much more clear in print.
The location of the package isn't what makes it safe (i.e. cross-site vulnerabilities and such) but that the package signature matches the published signature from the author. Then it doesn't matter where you download the package. Does slackware do this verification for you?
Google may not be the best example... the founders went to Standford as well haha. I think the question comes down to, does the school give the unfair advantage or does the school attract smart people that are more likely to accomplish something great. I think its already accepted that there is a correlation.
IMHO they have no other choice, the community has suffered enough from the 2/3 split as is. They don't want to risk fragmenting the user base again.
The lack of a Swype-style keyboard was for me the most difficult part of the transition from Android to iOS. After a few weeks I became comfortable with the iOS keyboard, but never really fluent.
Except there's absolutely no way I'm going to base my products (which could last twenty years or more) around a SaaS website. I can still open designs made in MS-DOS Protel (and have), while your company might be gone tomorrow. I hate having to hack gerber files because I don't have the source and it really limits changes.
It is funny that you mention this book. I've read Masters of Doom and just received this one. I'm excited to read it.
You are aware though that without RMS we wouldn't have Emacs?
Alibaba just boosted its planned IPO price but still has room to “pop”
Some people run their dev environments on remote linux machines (VPSs), it makes them OS agnostic, you just need a ssh client, while tramp is awesome, imo not using it gives you a faster and more streamline workflow.
I guess learning to utilize all the available cores is more important.
no, don't be parasite
Have you considered if this would fit with C++'s grammar?
No - but I do use a HOSTS file
Isn't this something almost everyone who got past the "wrote my first elisp macro" stage has done with emacs since the 90s?
I was never into FreeBSD (I hoped to dive into it more in the past, but never done so sadly), but heard that 1st ed was really good, so the revised version quite likely shouldn't be any worse (hopefully even better). I would order it, but there are still many technical books on my shelf waiting for my attention, thus adding another one will not help in that matter.

One thing is sure, even if you're not into FreeBSD, broadening your perspective is never wrong. So I may eventually order it in the future.
Did you file something with Apple? That is a genuine gripe.
6 Essential Concepts New Technical Managers Miss
I allow ads but block flash (or don't have Flash installed).
Yes. Even if I didn't it's pretty easy to spot which things are ads and would never click on them.

People say it's bad to use ad blockers because the site isn't making money off of you, but you could also say now the advertiser isn't losing money on you.
You can buy citizenship of Dominica, which is a Commonwealth country, for $100,000 [1].

[1] http://www.dominica.gov.dm/services/how-do-i-apply-for-econo...
If you were born before 1985 you can claim UK citizenship through your Scottish grandfather.
Well, the thing is, I can do all that by getting the source myself directly from the author. Trusting the apt package maintainer to do that places trust in a third party, and beyond that, it's now obvious that apt for who knows how long, was not trustworthy.

Again, I fail to see how getting the source directly from the author and verifying the integrity of the source package is less secure than getting it from third-parties in binary form?
No kidding about the lost opportunity. It was frustrating enough from inside Atari (both the Warner and Tramiel companies).

- Warner was all about politics, and marketing had taken over major engineering decisions. It was one big balled-up rollerskating disaster as marketroids failed to grasp things on the level of: Adding a HELP key to a computer keyboard does not mean that you automatically get help in every application, especially not game cartridges with very limited space.

- Tramiel was all about not spending money. Vendors who were in the know (like DEC, who serviced our Vaxes until the Tramiels stopped paying for maintenance) demanded payment up front, with cashiers checks or other guaranteed instruments.

Both of these organizations were really tough to do good, high visibility products in. Lots of good stuff got canned (by people with political agendas to push), or couldn't be developed because of the lack of good people.

Sometimes I daydream about how things worked out in an alternate universe ... :-)
Minor point of contention: Are you actually supporting the sites if you aren't clicking on the ads?
You and I use our computers in a similar manner, right down to the bunch of emacsclient -c's. Throw a deluge and a vlc in there...

I have never quite got emacs integrated into my window manager satisfactorily.

Here are some things I've tried:

* stumpwm without integration

* i3wm with https://github.com/vava/i3-emacs

* Various incarnations of http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OneOnOneEmacs with i3wm, awesomewm

Things I have considered trying:

* talking to clfswm via an inferior lisp process

The next thing I'm going to try:

* xmonad (via hackage)

Let's face it, the end goal here is for ALL keys to go through emacs, and then have emacs tell the WM what to do, yeah?

Once that is done, regardless of which wm it gets done to, a bunch of people are going to flock to it, AMIRITE? :)
I use different mechanisms for different reasons.

I used to have Flash on click-to-play, but then YouTube feeds me flash videos, so now I've had Flash turned off for a while. I don't really miss it. The reason is that Flash drains my battery and HTML videos can be watched in a resource-saving way with VLC (or just in-browser).

I use ABP because it blocks other animated content that drains my battery. I wouldn't mind text ads. In addition, most news sites I visit regularly are unblocked because I want to support them. Interestingly, without flash there are hardly any ads left.

I block all 3rd-party cookies (have for 15 years), on my Desktop and Android Firefox, because I can, because I've never encountered anything that didn't work, and because where I surf is no 3rd party site's business. If you want statistics on me visiting YOUR SITE, just use your web server, why not?

I use Ghostery because it further blocks attempts to track me.
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Honestly, I wonder how many people here are going to worry about apt file signature verification while simultaneously running "bundle install" with a gemfile containing 50 sources including random github HEADs.
If he's only charging $20-30, he's only replacing the glass. The Genius Bar is probably replacing the screen and glass since that's an easier procedure for them than just the glass.
Let’s talk about phone numbers on mobile sites
Voted 'yes,' but much less so than your average ad-blocker. I blacklist rather than whitelist, which is probably the opposite behavior of most people with blockers.

I want to support sites that I consume content from, so by default I only block tracking beacons, not ads. I turn on content-blocking (or disable plug-ins/javascript) for specific sites when their ads make the site unusable. For example, nfl.com text articles used to not load for ages while video content loaded (it got better), and currently having the SF Chronicle open in one tab will make youtube stutter in other tabs.
When I read the description of how EGA worked, you can't help feeling that the engineers that created it had planned for exactly the use-case Carmack put it to. In particular, providing for a buffer that was larger than the screen, the ability to move the offset inside the buffer for the screen's origin, and wrapping of the buffer is exactly the feature set that you need to implement scrolling. I don't think it was blind luck that these features were all available on the card.

This is often cited as the first example of Carmack's genius when it came to computer graphics, and he certainly deserves credit for being one of the first/astest third-party developers to realise the potential of the EGA card. But if I was one of the engineers that had designed EGA, I would be rather miffed to see how much Carmack is praised for this when it seems relatively clear that he was just using the hardware as it was intended to be used.
code with mock usermapp
http://pastebin.com/w1HHtwKT
Loading ads and not clicking or accidentally clicking on ads you have no intention of pursuing would also be parasitic behavior by that logic. The hurt party is just the advertisers instead of the webmasters.
I use uBlock mainly for performance reasons and not that I don't like ads, I will usually whitelist sites that are not crazy with ads and that I want to support.
RMS is fine with an FFI as long as you cannot use it to inject non-free code. This is usually done by requiring an exported symbol saying that the code is GPL compatible. GCC does it this way:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Plugin-API.html
I wonder what the current performance difference is to OpenSSH6.1+? I think those graphs they have might be very old, and there's been a lot of improvements in the core OpenSSH code since then.
32GB model?

The 8GB really bogs down and the 16GB has noticeable lag.
Yes. I use Ghostery, though, rather than AdBlock.

It seems more configurable and makes it easier to allow stuff like Google Analytics while still removing most of the obnoxious ads that 1) Plague my vision and 2) cause websites to load slow on my sub-par connection.
I came here to suggest this one as well, lots of control (including setting user agent) as well as solid pop up and adblock extensions.
There's a guy who does that with gEDA. If you read the mailing list, you'll find his posts. (Sorry, don't remember his name). Also, the file formats are ASCII so you easily can.
Even without knowing the specifics of the deal, or your site/app traffic, I'd have a hard time accepting the deal based on the exclusivity and cash flow issues in dealing with the bank.

If this bank wants exclusivity, I'd ask for a multiple of their offer. If they don't want to pay it, you can easily shop this around as a white-label tool to apply to multiple verticals: banks and lenders, restaurants, travel, education, etc.

And don't forget that you will likely not see a check from any corporate customer for at least 120 days assuming 30 day for contract and 90 day terms.

I'd also look at alternative lending tools like SMB loans, gov grants, and SMB funding focused startups.
The Invention of Professor Dr. Anthony Nobles
3d printing is a way to extend a product's life. But I think it will prove useful for a repair guy/technician rather than for a hobbyist. Making small series of spares for a unsupported product is profitable vs used spares market. One example are vintage synthesizers. There is such demand for some spares that synths are being dismantled rather than repaired. Sometimes the upper C key (which is unique on a keyboard) can be sold for 50 bucks or more.
Not specifically, but noScript + flashblock ends up blocking many adverts.
Ad blockers are easily fingerprintable, which is why I block ad trackers from my /etc/hosts file, using this wonderful list: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

You can also set up a cron job to periodically fetch and overwrite with an updated copy, such as once a week or so.
Every time I try and go back to not using one, I last less than a day. The number of really annoying animated ads is astounding.
This ad is the poster (pardon the pun) for YC sexism, it still appears in women in tech blog posts all the time. Hard to imagine being a Stanford student in 2006 who has never heard of "Y Combinator" and sees this ad. May get a laugh from a guy like Evan Spiegel, but is just plain creepy to a woman.
Some ads are creative and I enjoy them, but majority are very annoying.
I use Chrome/Firefox and Safari, each for specific purposes. I use ad-blockers on Chrome. So I still get to see some ads but not all the time.
>It is arguable whether this is a downside or not.

No it isn't. Software developers have been saying for 30-40 years "the code is readable as is", yet we keep coming up with easier to read languages, and comments are still in the spec of all these languages.

Comments are important, it's not worth arguing if the code is readable or not. It's a waste of time that could be spent better documenting what ever you consider readable. Because your co-workers, or co-contributors may have a different definition of what readable is.
This looks a bit like it has been inspired by Sonic :)

(but in a good way that is...)
I use adblock on every site which doesn't require me not to, like on the pages where you create google ads and things like that, github also. In those cases I allow ads. Why make life complicated?
I get can over new UIs, even sub-optimal UIs but the slowness and constant need to refresh the page are the biggest problems I have with the new google maps.
It's possible that the 4" model will continue to be updated as a lower-end version. So the iPhone 6c will be an A8 while the 6S/6S+ will have an A9.
Ask HN: Why has Bitcoin's price been in a slow decline over the past few months?
Over the past 3 months, it has declined from ~$600/coin to ~$455/coin

https://coinbase.com/charts
We use Marionette at work (and at my previous job as well), and I've got to say, I really like it. I've been a fan of Backbone for a long time, and Marionette just added a few more components to make it a lot more powerful. The app event system is easy to use, regions make view rendering and event delegation super easy, and the built-in support for collection views is great.
Reading your post literally, you're asking how what amounts to mirror operators ensure their mirror is clean, and that's a long story, especially WRT proxies like approx the apt specific proxy not just "real mirrors".

If you're asking more about verifying the files on your install, assuming you trust debsums and its data not to be powned then you'd run debsums -c or whatever. Of course a real attacker would have their highest priority to mess with debsums and its data, hmm. Also debsums is quite slow and resource intensive, so pausing for 10 minutes doesn't mean its crashed or infinite looped, it just means its doing its thing. Finally if you run vanilla and never compile and overwrite your own copy of "whatever" then debsums will work, but if for example you installed debian's apache and then compiled your own apache and overwrote the debian apache binaries (why?), all debsums is going to know is your apache isn't standard debian apache so that doesn't necessarily prove your powned or un powned, it just proves you're not running Debian's apache binary.

Google debsums, and this link will probably help

https://packages.debian.org/sid/debsums

Whatever you do, don't run "debsums -e" and freak out. At least not without reading the manpage and thinking about it a bit. OK debsums, thanks for letting me know someone modified /etc/ntp.conf, but I think that was me seeing as we have three GPS clocks on the LAN I feel no need to panic. It is an interesting command to use to see how modified a machine's install is. Oh I see you're running stock /etc/detault/ssh and no modifications at all to /etc/sysctl.conf, how interesting.
There is some truths about humanity in these comments. The downvoters haven't thought this through.
The Metro design philosophy is the defunct Zune team's true legacy. Their work on the PMP went to waste mostly due to timing, but their design work has lived on in everything else Microsoft has done since. Virtually all the core tenants of Windows Phone and Windows 8's design, from typography as hierarchy to live tiles and colorful flat design, were first seen in the Zune desktop software and Zune HD's UI.
download links:
ios
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speedypups/id887341247?mt=8

android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotcos.Sp...
Apple's Biggest Announcement yet Isn't About Phones or Watches
Right.

It looks like this only tests whether MocDB.DbGetOne() returns true, which it always does, and which is not testing the program, but the test.

You have to test the tests, to be sure they'll correctly test the program. Of course, then you also need to test the tests that tests the tests, and so on...