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What we need is for Canonical to release their own laptops where they support the entire hardware+software combo. Canonical Nexus, please?

Any other company with their own Linux distro and hardware would also work, I guess. I really like Unity, though.
As someone without too much OCaml experience, how do you disambiguate this?
That's very true, although I am proud that the language is the top result when googling for "go". Kind of shows all other professions their place.
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This blog post is a complete joke.

SSL and Full Disk Encryption are not secure, but gmail is because gmail is a leader in email encryption. What does gmail use to encrypt emails between its server you ask?

SSL/NSS the cryptographically standard... Which the blog post already said was insecure. It reeks of corporate cargo-cult mentality. Google said this is secure, therefore it is secure.

The truth about security is you are never secure. If somebody wants to hack you, they will given enough time. All you can do is force them to spend more time. There will always be the first time an academic attack vector is used in the wild.

It maybe used on you.

:.:.:

One positive note. The blog post didn't use, "Freeze the ram with liquid nitrogen" Paper to talk about Full Disk Encryption being broken.
Is that a wind-up?
They updated the Wikipedia quite swiftly branding the actual swift as a "scripting language".
Props to IGN for having an article from 14 years ago still viewable in a reasonable format.
> It is not undoubtedly true that much medicine is based on religious superstition and racism (nor does the article linked here either make or justify that claim).

That's literally what the entire article is about...

"How did our modern binary between ‘illicit drug’ and ‘valuable medicine’ come into being?

Drugs have had a bad reputation since at least the time of Shakespeare, whose sleazy, potion-dispensing apothecary in Romeo and Juliet enables that play’s tragic finale. Shakespeare tended to associate drugs with things such as witches (‘mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected’) or Catholic assassins (‘drug-damn’d Italy’). But in the 17th century, drugs acquired associations with the non-European world: the fever-ridden islands of the Caribbean, tropical Africa, or the exoticised ‘East Indies’."

"For Christian Europe, the medicinal virtues of foreign drugs such as coffee, tea, opium and cinchona (source of quinine) were counterbalanced by their origins in the lands of heathens."

"The King of England himself joined a public chorus of voices attacking ‘Indies drugs’ as unhealthy and un-Christian. [...] James regarded smoking as a demonic custom from the shamanic cultures of the New World, evoking the ‘horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse’."

"James wasn’t alone in demonising drugs. Inquisitors in Mexico City portrayed indigenous users of peyote as sorcerers, and Jesuit priests deep in the Amazon jungle sent back anxious reports about a plant called ayahuasca that allowed shamans to gather knowledge from evil spirits. Even the humble coffee bean provoked outraged diatribes about a ‘foreign liquor’ that had ‘bewitched’ consumers, causing enfeeblement, impotence, and worse.

Psychoactive drugs thus stood at the centre of debates about imperialism, religion, and globalisation, as well as science. They still do."

"Since at least the 1970s, practitioners of Western medicine have begun to pay greater heed to the flip side of their empirical tradition. Scientists have conducted experimental trials of tropical botanicals that colonial-era doctors dismissed as tools of witchcraft and 20th-century drug companies regarded as quackery."
And yet they're surrounded by the last king of men (aragorn), a low level god (gandalf), a prince of elves (legolas), a prince of dwarves (gimli), and next in line to rule the biggest kingdom of men (boromir).

Even after that, I'd argue that Frodo is only made interested through his posession of the one ring, not anything about himself. Sam is probably the only really interesting 'normal guy' in the story, and its only because he gets to tag along with the godly guys.
I've spent a lot of time in the US recently and it's normalised my accent a lot. It's become undefinable. People back home tell me I don't sound like them when I speak, but that I don't sound quite American either.

Americans make fun of how I pronounce certain words (which actually helps a lot in normalising my accent), but they can't place the accent either. Nobody guesses that I'm slavic, a lot of people ask if I'm Brazilian or from some random European country.

A large part of the confusion probably stems from the fact I use colloquialisms and even colloquial speech patterns, like, correctly.

With prolonged stays in the US my accent is going to normalise further, but I think that getting completely rid of it would require some sort of accent coach. So far the only motivation for doing so is that being told "Wow your English is so good!" is getting annoying. I was proud when people told me that ten years ago, but it feels silly now.

But a big benefit of maintaining my foreigner status is the freedom it affords me. I can use British slang, Aussie slang, East coast slang, West coast slang, even Canadian slang and nobody minds or finds it odd. Whereas if I sounded like somebody who grew up in California and used a British turn of phrase, it would sound hella weird.

And, obviously, I feel a certain level of smugness when I use British words that Americans don't understand because then I get to call them plebes and mock them with my larger vocabulary. (Americans get really upset when a foreigner is better at something than they are, it's funny)
In this case the driver is executing two writes which a legitimate chip would ignore, but which the counterfeit responds to and actions. Those writes just happen to be the position in the counterfeit's EPROM where the USB PID is stored, and just before where the checksum is stored.
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Street view is a ton of data and uses custom hardware, and seems to be done in a fairly systematic way in order to cover most of an area.

So they've got their work cut out for them. That said, at one point I wasn't that optimistic about open street map either, and all of a sudden it seems like they now have very good data - at least where I live.
Much like how high enough oil prices mean processing oil shale and digging deeper/sideways start to make economic sense, which then prevents further price rise.
I didn't edit the beginning of the post, if that's what you mean?
Misleading title.

openstreetmap.org doesn't have a Street View function. Mapillary has been integrated into the default _editor_ (the wonderful iD) as an aid to mapping. It's not exposed to non-editing users.
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My dad has setup email forwarding for the whole family as firstname@lastname.org. The .org is easy to explain and I think it suits a personal email well.
You've elucidated the reason I just bought OmniFocus. I need a system outside of all other systems to keep track of it all. I have 4 separate email systems to keep track of. Google's tool won't help me with 2 of them (or a ticketing system, or whatever). I used a web-based TODO manager for years, but I finally spent the money to get a native application. The integration of highlighting something -- in any app, or an email, or a web page -- and then hitting a keystroke to capture it, and give it a to-do, has proven pretty effective to me. THAT'S my inbox, and THAT'S the one place I check when I need to find something to do.
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he made that claim himself in an interview.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/an-inte...
I know this is not the proper way to register a bug, but there's a problem when installing 14.04 on a UEFI motherboard that does not have Secure Boot. The installer just assumes there's Secure Boot on and the bootloader gets misconfigured.
It wasn't overblown. You should see some of the systems large businesses use. Marriott still uses green screen terminals, for example, others use mainframes. ATMs often run archaic versions of Windows CE. If all air carriers shutdown because their archaic systems couldn't have handled the change over, then it would have been a disaster. It wasn't because it made news and everyone knew about it and remedied the systems. Clueless people sitting in front of modern mac books running modern OSes have no clue.
You're only looking at Washington, what do you expect. Here is the entire country.

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
I learned a few languages in school: French, Afrikaans, Xhosa, South Sotho. Been learning Mandarin on my own over the past year (using Pimsleur).

The main difference is the tonal system, reading it it sounds easy, but training your ear to pick it up takes time. It's hard to follow an audio when you're not picking up the nuances of the tones in context.

The language structure is kinda logical, so far. I haven't reached tenses or multiple clauses yet.

I found some pronunciation similar to French, for me ren (Zh: people) is similar sounding to rien (Fr: nothing)
This looks too obvious to me, but I have to admin that most of the code I read looks ugly
I use 1password on Windows and OSX and it works pretty well for both (using Dropbox sync).
Actually did the math on the trends here, and naively extrapolating it seems that the year of Linux on the desktop is around 2050. In the meantime we have Steam, AAA games and 1.16% market share now, according to Steam Hardware Survey. That's a third of what OSX does!
This may immediately remind you of the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_6th_Day
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The tool (Ruby) does the hard work: foo.methods. Writing some code, running the tests, rinse, repeat. That describes the REPL way of doing things. Also, the way I prefer to code. Do something, examine the results, do something else.
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the mostly-American HN will upvote an article with such a blatant anti-Chinese bias. From the first sentence this article paints China as the "bad guy". China is not the only country that has used economic pressure to protect its interests.
For minerals and energy, it's usually not done by restricting ownership of the land itself, but by retaining at least some mineral rights in state hands (or at least managed under a different legal regime). For example, the Norwegian state owns Norway's oil and gas reserves (originally outright, now via the partially privatized company Statoil). Anyone can buy land in Norway, but it doesn't come with ownership of oil/gas reserves.

Separating ownership of surface rights and mineral rights is fairly common in the U.S. as well, it's just that it's usually another private company that retains the mineral rights, not a publicly owned company. For example, the house I grew up in in Indiana did not come with ownership of mineral rights. The company that developed the subdivision sold us surface rights to the 1/4-acre lot our house was on, but retained the mineral rights underlying the entire subdivision (presumably just in case there turned out to be something there).
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So what are the actual products that are getting bricked? Curious about the end result of all this.
Compared with the crimes of the entity actually mounting the prosecution, everything he was alleged to have done is at worst a misdemeanor.

But you will never get a sociopathic state worshiping authoritarian to admit they don't have the moral high ground. Letalone that their treasured institutions are practically identical to the terrorist organisations that they say they exist to protect the innocent from.
An indictment is handed down by a grand jury of ordinary people based on the presentation of facts. It's not just an accusation lobbed on the internet. Court systems should presume innocent until guilt is proven, but bystanders on the internet are totally allowed to speculate based on their gut feelings.
Note that Mapillary has some downsides. In addition to the CC-BY-SA license, the Mapillary T&C (http://www.mapillary.com/terms.html 1.3) give them the specific right to reuse user content as they wish, without attribution. (This is different from OSM, which uses the ODbL.)

Also, even though the license is CC-BY-SA, section 1.2 of the T&C prohibits commercial use. Further, I see no data dumps provided (or statement of intent to provide some eventually), unlike OSM, StackExchange, Wikimedia projects.

Last, the smartphone app seems to be closed-source. (If it is open-source, I couldn't find the source.)

It is great news that people are trying to develop a Google Street View replacement, but OSM's will to let people use this data to improve OSM (like they do for Bing satellite imagery) doesn't imply that this project is as free as OSM.
I agree that you are never fully secure.

I also agree that not even Gmail is "fully secure". But for the average person, it poses _less_ of a risk to their privacy than the realistic alternatives.
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Someone submitted a (parody) patch to do just that!

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/23/129
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I tried it with Frotz when Apple added speech recognition to iOS. It was really fun.
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Currency system is based on trust. Unfortunately as more cons figured out how to "hack" the system, regular folks won't trust it less and less.
Either it's CC-BY-SA or it isn't. Maybe someone from Mapillary could comment.
Sorry, that is totally right. It's about the iD editor, nothing else.
We know, apple knows, everybody knows. Marketing.

This feature gives them some great marketing, and it works.
"If you're using KVM, ensure that you're using sVirt (either selinux or apparmor backed) in order to restrict qemu's privileges."

What's wrong with qemu's support for AppArmor as available in Ubuntu? What does sVirt do that this doesn't do?
I'm not sure that claim itself makes it likely or unlikely. Could be the truth, could be an obfuscation tactic. No way of knowing at this point.
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Good point! We've heard this a lot and will be modifying that.
Peter Leeson wrote a paper on the economics of pirates, possibly of interest:

[PDF warning]
http://www.peterleeson.com/an-arrgh-chy.pdf
PostgreSQL is more popular than MySQL
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Umm Pork Bellies would be nearly impossible to invest in for an average investor even before they stopped being exchange traded commodities. The margin requirements alone are on the order of real estate investments, not to mention the contract prices.
Amazing article. A must read for anyone in the programming industry.
Show HN: Create a full Ubuntu mirror
The man who bought dogs into the military
"Inbox functions very much more like a ToDo list than it does an email client."

This is very important. I've started using Evernote, and thought, "I really want to keep track of what gets done and who is doing what via email, without adding any complexity or forcing others into a system." I hope Inbox does this for me.
1) Ignore indentation (I intentionally wrote it to deceive, but similar examples could easily appear in real code). 2) `match` cases always bind to the innermost `match` statement. 3) Statement separators (`;`) are tricky.

The correct indentation of the above code is:

if a > 0 then
print_endline "a > 0" ;
match a with
| 0 -> print_endline "impossible"
| 2 ->
match b with
| 0 -> print_endline "2, 0"
| _ -> print_endline "2, not 0"
| 3 -> print_endline "3, something"
| _ -> print_endline "something, something"
;
print_endline "done"

To have the same meaning as the indentation implies, you would need to add `(...)` or `begin ... end` at the appropriate places.
I don't know if a war party or a pirate crew are good options. Startups are attempting to create wealth. War parties and pirate crews aren't engaged in wealth creation, they are involved in wealth destruction. This is an important distinction that often gets lost in comparisons of business and warfare.
There is a massive difference between stopping all companies trading by enforcing national ownership of a resource and stopping foreigners trading resources that are legally on the market.

The question posed was not:

"Why are we selling something considered a national resource?"

It was:

"Why are we selling something considered a national resource to foreign owners?"

edit - also, I fully support mixed market economies with nationalised infrastructure, I think they seem to get more benevolent outcomes, but not with protectionist markets on the bits that are privately owned.
Yes. The first thing I wanted to know was whether this was a "classic" paper published a few years ago (e.g., Gul Agha's MIT AI-TR 844) or whether it was current. That question is instantly answered in the abstract. Instead, I went to look at the references to see when they were published, where I caught this amusing line:

AMD AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual October 12, 3011

From the future! :-)
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Maybe the relevant section is left over from the previous license, which was CC-BY-NC (http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/03/17/mapillary-goes-c...). Alternatively, IANAL but I imagine that the individual photos could still be CC-BY-SA (if, e.g., someone else redistributes them) but that the service itself cannot be used for commercial purposes. As bulk exports are prohibited (2.1) and dumps are not provided, however, this would mean that the data is CC-BY-SA in theory but hard to reuse commercially except for individual pictures.
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I'm personally very happy with golang. We are a python shop with some bit of Java on the backend and we decided to try golang to get past a few python performance hurdles. So I wrote a smallish API/data importer as a first application. The results have been fantastic. Nearly as productive as python, better in my opinion support for a functional paradigm, much faster, and of course really easy and great concurrency support. Sure python and django have a good bit more tooling and third party libs but go is gaining ground. One major hurtle I faced was the lack of a good visual debugging IDE. I'm using the go plugin for Intellij but it's not really that good. If go keeps gaining popularity and Intellij releases first class support, like they have with python ruby and node, it will really help the language ecosystem.
I love it too. Certainly prettier than ios 7/8.
At the risk of going really philosophical, in the end words are just words, and your program is what it is. Given the vast, vast, vast space of possible programs it should come as no surprise that little tiny English words are hardly up to the task of completely rigidly classifying them. Especially programs, which are quite literally the most perverse mathematical constructs known to man, courtesy of the Church-Turing thesis.
I have used Google Inbox, but if I read the comments here, the overarching thing seem to be to make a zero inbox. Why cannot you do this with your existing email client? What are the features of Google Inbox that helps you do this? And why do you need to make your inbox zero? Is it like you want the email client to show up the high priority ones that you need to attend to at the top? How does a Google Inbox automatically know what is high priority for you ? Sorry if my understanding is not aligned to what is offered by Google Inbox.
The images are indeed CC-BY-SA. Mapillary has an API / Apps etc which could be restricted under the terms they have published. The use of the services can be seen as being different from the image data.

e.g. Business plans: http://www.mapillary.com/business.html
"The commercial plans only regulate the use of the APIs, the photos are still under Creative Commons."
“So… Yahoo bought my website.”
“I don’t think I can counteroffer that.”

That put a smile on my face. Thank you for sharing!
Sorry, Typo - read as 'I have not used Google Inbox'
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Pixelmator for iPad is now available
Oh, seems someone is still excited about this 5yrs old movie http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1034032/

:/
The Nexus model chooses a manufacturer and then works with them to create the current year's creation. I'm not sure Canonical has enough resource or leverage to do that.

That said, I'd love to see an Apple-esque model where I could point to 3 laptops each year and say "large, medium, and small" and know that they would work completely with zero fussing.

Maybe Canonical could start down this road by refitting their devs with new laptops on an annual cycle and saying, "these are the laptops we will be using this year."

I'm a NetBSD-to-Apple switcher (circa 2003) who has a fair bit of ambient familiarity with Ubuntu as his auxiliary OS. I don't run any proprietary system beyond what comes bundled with OS X nowadays. I could switch to Ubuntu for day-to-day work and be perfectly content.

I can say that the SOLE factor of why I haven't has everything to do with not finding a rival to my MacBook Air 11". Part of that may be there simply isn't a comparable machine. But part of that may be that the hassle of searching for alternatives is simply too great.
It says I'm unknown!
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1. He stopped showing up for exams. Impossible to get a passing grade unless they made a lot of shady concessions.
2. Most likely, which is what I pointed out in my original comment.
It still is if your mailbox is over 10GB.
I wish the author the best in navigating this quagmire. Economics always struck me as political wonks arguing policy using calculus instead of rhetoric.

That said, this looks like a reply to Slate's recent article: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/...

What I immediately thought on reading the headline, without realizing we were diving into "robots are taking our jobs!" was this: how about people sitting at home driving our cars for us? If the packet was dropped or latency got high, the car would slow/stop/switch-to-auto-cruise. Badda boom, badda bing, you have the best of both worlds.

And it gets better. Since you're using real humans to drive, you can take the sensor input and match it up with the real-world driving patterns to try to tease out some edge case behaviors. It'd be like Uber with your own car.
I'm sorry, I must have inserted something mentally then. Please ignore my comment. Thanks.
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Packer currently doesn't snapshot the build at each step, so you don't get a history that you can checkout or push from. It's a feature that's on the way, but it's a pretty big one that some teams need.

We use packer for a lot of other things though and it's great.
>Google has a best-in-class (top 5?) product in pretty much every category of software. In 10 years a Googler could work on Drive, Android, G+, Gmail, Fiber, and Maps.

I would say they have the top 2, Maps and Gmail. G+ is laughable and I still dont know anyone who uses it that wasn't force to sign up. Drive is a dime a dozen and not really very compelling since we have Dropbox, Sugar Sync, SpiderOak, OneDrive, iCloud. The only compelling things MSFT and Google have going is more space. Android is another argument but since I'm currently switching back to iPhone, thats what I favor. Everything else you said is probably true.

Google is the top at Search, Mail, and probably Maps.
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this is just plain theft.