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Awesome, I've been looking for mini ubuntu iso. Ubuntu server is good but still bloated. It should be called Ubuntu Mini or Mini-Linux. Now all we need is for DigitalOcean to add this and we can use it for development :)
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You're funny as well :)

RT, BBC, Al Jazeera are official state propaganda machines, but that doesn't mean ALL they say is propaganda. As a matter of personal opinion on many subjects (not directly connected with the Russian government) RT is more honest than the big international media outlets (that cant afford to alienate the western governments, big advertisers or powerful interest groups).
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Actually fixing problems requires having and understanding relationships, and setting around and talking about boring things. Maybe that is why the adults I know having the most fun are the least political, because fixing problems is a slog and they want to have fun.
Sorry Red Hat killed Red Hat for end users (in favor of maintaining Red Hat for enterprise users)...
And only in recent years admitted it was an error.

So you did chose bad your example.
Cent OS was an answer to that, providing a Red Hat binary distribution without any support, for free.
"Diversity is our strength". Fits right in.

https://www.peaceproject.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/...
Your comment and mine are right there for people to see. I stand by what I just said.
This is all framing. If you had first asked if the police should be able to catch the bad guys, and then if the crypto should prevent bad guys from being caught, you'd get a different answer.

Kids are kinda nuts anyway, I definitely wouldn't let one run my life. :-)
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Unlike donuts, art is incredibly difficult to value, so much so that there's a whole profession dedicated to that problem. Must the FBI engage one of those professionals before deciding to arrest someone who steals a painting?
Meanwhile the NYT hosts a tiny AP story on the new Reporters Without Borders report, under the "Europe" section [1]. Russia is rated much lower than the US, but we are not free from embarrassment. See Glenn Greenwald's commentary [2].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/02/12/world/europe/ap-e...

[2] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/12/u-s-drops-49th...
We have implemented public - private key encryption without adding friction. It is behind the scenes. Our goal with glitchi is to make sure your information stays between you and your loved ones. The system is designed such that no body else has access to it.
Russia is a small country (as population and industry) compared to US and EU. It cant afford to reinvent the way a modern society, government, media, etc. works. The state propaganda machine is a direct copy of what the US and especially the UK governments have built.
Fair criticism :) The reason I mostly focused on various Bloom filters was because I actually encountered a problem at work recently that required them to deduplicate messages in a distributed messaging system. Mostly was journaling my research.

It would be fun to look at stochastic ways to approximate k-NN and other sketches.
To explain further, for the downvoters, Apple is trying to position itself as "the company that safeguards your privacy (for those that can afford it)" because its their key point of differentiation with Google.

Its very unlikely that Tim Cook would make a statement like this unless it is in line with their marketing message.
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A quick scan didn't reveal to me whether he's time aligning the signals during the subtraction. I've played with listening to the wav-mp3 signal before, and I seem to recall that the mp3 encoder would introduce a little delay.

I added a transient pulse in front of the music so that I could (visually) time align the signals before subtracting them.
I went through a Russian watch phase. a strela, a pojolt and a Sturmanskie. shame they didn't hold up. My $100 Seiko automatic has proven much more durable. I'm afraid the Russian watch companies aren't making tool watches, and instead have been turning out tourist grade copies for export cause out of those three I bought two stopped working and the other only seems to want to wind a couple days out of a week. I am pretty rough on watches, but the failure rate was unacceptable. nice to look at though.
The statement on that page that I find most bothersome:

If we want to see the world of open source software grow, we should encourage users to pay for its development; otherwise it’ll be underfunded or developers will have to resort to backdoor deals and advertising. And nobody wants that future.

There really are distros that have a business model which isn't shady. It's a lot of work to do something like have a free version and an enterprise version, you have to do boring things like sell and market and support, but those sorts of things don't represent some kind of Open Source apocalypse.

There are even distros that have a business model of asking for donations without being all passive-aggressive about it...
That's how the company behind Duke Nukem 3D drove itself out. I can't recall the number, but I think they did like 5 rewrites of the sequel. Every time they got something running, there was a new shiny engine that would unleash there deepest fantasies so they started from scratch since they could afford it. 17 years later, no sequel, no company.
Also check this by the author of "The Book of PF": http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/spamd.setup.html

- isn't SpamAssassin too big, too old and too ugly considering it, according to the author, only stands for 5% of the anti-spam?

- can ClamAV really catch modern malware or are we just talking legacy viruses from the 90s and 2000s?
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It would be nice if the updates came from a source that wasn't directly under the thumb of the US government as all commercial businesses are, and wasn't amoral and beholden to profit motive. Not having to worry about intentional subterfuge would free up my time to worry about implementation flaws.
The headline sounds very interesting but I was actually quite disappointed by the article itself. It doesn't offer any concrete examples or any attempt to actually validate what this guy is saying. It also doesn't even attempt to compare this to what the media landscape looks like in other countries.

If all that happened was that a "prominent news anchor reviewed the coming events as if they were part of a film script, musing on how best to entertain the audience and questioning who that week’s enemy should be" then this doesn't sound too different from what probably happens in some US news rooms as well.

I have no trouble believing that Russian TV is a propaganda machine and projects like the World Press Freedom Index [1] tend to agree. But this seems like a very weak article to make this point.

[1] http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php
Probably distracting while you try to work. But good to have this just as World Cup starts.
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Hey, I'm trying to use this guide, do you know why you enable ssh in pf.conf?

Edit: oh dear, now I'm downloading the source for every program including ports.
So you're saying "Don't talk US, because Russia"?
Furthermore, people should be concerned with their own country's criminality, not hypocritically pointing the finger at official enemies like Russia.

It's only hypocritical if you don't also point the finger at your own flaws. Which people in this forum do. A lot.

Besides, not everyone agrees anymore with the notion that they must "have a country". What's my country? I have double nationality, and I live in an union of 28 countries. Lots of us work and live moving from country to country. And I feel more at home with some people here than with the average citizen of my city.

I still hold a soft spot for the place I grew up in, but I don't consider myself tied to it. It's not mine, nor do I belong to it.

EDIT: My ignorance was showing. Thanks, Atropos.
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One reason you may find text munging to be faster in Nim is that we have an different algorithm than they do that's better in the worst case but slower in many small cases. Plus, Rust's are UTF-8 aware by default, and Nim's are not.

(This doesn't mean that it's still not the same from a user's perspective, just explaining a bit about why, and that this might change in the future.)
My erase_if proposal was accepted for the Library Fundamentals v2 Technical Specification and is therefore likely to get into C++17.
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."
Yeah, so true. Its not like all of our news is being piped through top-level editorial departments of major corporate conglomerations or anything, or this video of dozens of news anchors reading a shared script is real.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStpvviPgxk
Ask HN: How can visually impaired kids learn to code?
I run a program teaching kids to code, and we use a lot of tools that preclude visually impaired students from learning (such as MIT Scratch, etc).

I've been recently if there are tools or programs that visually impaired students can use to learn to code.

A google search reveals professional programmers can use tools such as described in this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-program-if-youre-blind

Unfortunately, nothing much comes up for kids learning to code.

I'm wondering if there are any projects out there that can help younger, visually impaired students learn to code?
Not sure why you're being downvoted; that's exactly what it is.
Link for the article?
Public indoctrination through control of the media is easily the most pressing problem of our days. Far more important than that of the global warming, for example, simply because it blocks meaningful discussion on the subjects that really matter.

While the public opinion is manipulated both in the US and in Russia, the methods and outcomes are vastly different. For a diligent study of the US media manipulation I highly recommend Chomsky's book "Understanding Power" [2]. You may disagree with his opinions, but they are still worthy of consideration because Chomsky backs up each observation with a verifiable reference, to the point where all of the references combined make an entire separate book of equal volume. If you don't like Chomsky's answers, you will at least appreciate the questions he's trying to tackle.

I haven't read the headline book yet [1], but it has the potential to shed some light on how things are done over in Russia. Between the two works, I hope, one can gain actual knowledge of the methods of the public opinion manipulation. The kind of knowledge to replace both the blind faith in the media and it's twin brother - the entirely counterproductive nihilistic disregard of all news.

[1] "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible", Peter Pomerantsev http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Is-True-Everything-Possible/dp...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Power-Indispensible-Chom...
It sounds like tin foil hat craziness because it has been wholly discredited by tin foil hatters.
Now that .net is going cross platform, I see a great future of f# (another variant of ML family). Its got multi processors support too.
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Hi Placebo how's it going? I saw those pictures you posted on Facebook recently (omg that plate of food you were eating looked so delish!), they sure brightened up my day. They also reminded me it's been awhile since we've spoken and I miss catching up with you. We should plan to see each other in some future non-specific event, let me know when you think it's a good time and I'll send you my public Google calendar so you can check if I'm busy that day. I also want you to know how special your friendship is to me and that you should feel free to reach out to me with a direct message on Twitter at any time. Well placebo, I'm glad we had this talk, have a great day!
Ask HN: What are some good open-source language/textual analysis tools?
I'm looking to do linguistic/textual analysis on a large amount of text I've scraped for a research project, finding stats like: frequently used words, associated topic clusters, gender estimations.

I wrote the scraper myself, but the language analysis is something it seems it'd be easier to find OS and use out of the box or slightly modified.

Anyone have any ideas/leads? Preference is for a script or process I can run from the CL to output the vitals.
Better than opening a website every 20mins :P
I've overcome this.

TLDR: the Seinfeld "don't break the chain" approach, as described here:

http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...

much more detail, from my blog:

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/11/time-management-two...

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2012/08/my-gamified-life.ht...

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/02/calendar-win-rapid-...

good luck.
We are eliminating all possibilities of remote hacking. Including social engineering, which was how the celebrity hack happened.
This right here should be voted right to the top.
This is very similar to the functionality provided by tlsdate (https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate). They appear to have eschewed tlsdate's default approach of using the timestamp from the handshake in favor of using the `Date:` field, which tlsdate also supports. It would be interesting to see whether the randomization of TLS timestamps in modern implementations of TLS might mean that tlsdate's default mode is no longer useful. Either way, it's really cool to see this sort of functionality being included in ntpd by default!
Working as a team is not externalizing inadequacies.
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Whoops, you're right, console.log was supposed to be at the very bottom of the script. By default most browser consoles scroll you to the bottom of the output, so I just read the first half scrolling up and never noticed. No matter, amarraja's version is much better.
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This is great! For anyone wondering, use this one.
This happens when people confuse estimates with deadlines.

I've had clients trying to negotiate my estimate downwards. So stupid. Why would you want to underestimate the actual needed time? You want to go over budget?
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I find it amusing that an article that's supposed to criticize a controlled media system is itself a thinly veiled advertisement. I guess mass media has issues everywhere you look :)
Extensive discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9045507
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In the US, I find it interesting that the major headlines of the day, no matter how insignificant are picked up by all the major news players. The same "stories" are repeated on all every mainstream news outlet. I remember the day that all the new stories had to report how the man was arrested for "eating and driving" as a DUI. Certainly a worthy new story is such a bland world devoid of any actual events that might affect ones life. But that DUI story was parroted on several news sites. Who picks those stories I wonder?
Perhaps it tells you something about how strongly the employee feels about the company's work that he is willing to say something like this in public. For such a big problem, firing the employee won't make it go away.
Gentoo embedded project is worth looking at. A previous employer had this at the heart of their product. It was a pleasure to work with.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/
RT is pure propaganda. We have now a German program by RT. Website: http://www.rtdeutsch.com

Straight from Putin's mouth...
New York times regularly publishes book reviews. They even have that thing they call "NYT Bestsellers" [1]. I'm not sure why that seems problematic to you?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/
Be fair, I started using Gmail all those years ago because it was awesome. And although it's stagnated and they're about to fuck up the desktop UI by "Materializing" it, it's still pretty good.
I think it could be this one: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-...
Exactly, only so many developers can work on OS X.
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I'd like to use Rocket personally (I currently use Docker--while I think CoreOS's "containers everywhere" concept is a little misguided, I don't believe there's a good reason to have a permanent daemon, and if I need one I have Mesos) but make things I do easily available to Docker users.

(Docker's beefs here feel more like a company defending their turf than an open-source project, and that troubles me.)
It is certainly an exaggeration. A more accurate number could be 7-9 years.

Israel uses 1016 million m^3 of water [1] or about 800,000 acre feet on agriculture per year. While studies have shown that California as a whole could save 5.6-6.6 million acre feet per year while maintaining productivity and the same acreage farmed [2]. It is a bit more difficult to restrict the number to the central valley, but the central valley accounts for more than half of California's total agriculture [3], so we can just use the statewide number.

The entire state's annual agricultural water usage is less than 45 million acre feet [2]. Even if Israel had all of this water they would max out at under 60 years.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
2. http://www.nrdc.org/water/files/ca-water-supply-solutions-ag..., p.2
3. http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publ... p.22-38
I recently got out of this rut (somewhat. do you ever escape completely?) by starting a side project with some (light) responsibility. It's a reasonably complex mobile app, for a company I like, with guaranteed users and a time-table for delivery.

It has been wonderful. I'm a lot more focused in my research, because I'm hitting problems I haven't hit yet at work. I'm learning stuff that comes in handy elsewhere, and learning it quite a bit better than "read it somewhere" because I've had to use it non-trivially.

--

Not that I'm suggesting you start contracting. That's unrelated. But having some kind of social responsibility can help a lot - talk about it, blog about the progress, and try to do something on it every day or so. Finishing things can be almost as addictive as wanting to start things, and it's way more useful.

edit: I'm seeing lots of "don't break the chain" mentions. In isolation, that hasn't worked for me :| Having some kind of external expectation that you don't break it / continue to make progress anyway is what pushed me over the edge.
I have to say it is very entertaining to see all these innovations in the field coming in at this rapid pace. Its also great that most papers are there for everyone to read on arxiv.
Do you think that the VC-backed model is good for open-source as an ecosystem, even if not a business? Because, watching the growth of Docker and CoreOS, I'm starting to wonder if it isn't just a tire fire for us at every level.
What would you suggest as alternatives for viruses and spam detection?
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I find it rather interesting how he manages to backtrack to how he was right all along _right after apologizing_:

> ... want to thank all the people that privately encouraged and thanked me for the information I provided. It affirms my belief that although elementary OS has great goals...
Hey everyone check out this documentary film!!

https://vimeo.com/67739294

Experienced investigative journalist John Pilger looks at and questions (among other things) the British medias role as a dumb mouthpiece for the government leading up to and during the invasion of Iraq.

EDIT: link has been fixed
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Mostly what others said but put in a different way.

One of the most important thing I learnt in my 5 years of development experience is to think learning as a marathon and not a sprint.
In my personal projects, I would keep experimenting with different languages, frameworks , libraries, patterns etc. and they would all end as an unfinised github project waiting to be deleted.
Whereas in projects done at workplace or as freelancer, the technology stack is fixed and you limit yourself experimenting with too many libraries. At the end of the project there is learning and a finised product to be proud of. Not impliying here that personal projects should not be done, but too much experimenting increases the chances that the project wont go to production. Therefore along with speed, have a direction to reach the goal.

Tip: Unsubscribe from forms on technologies you do not use to avoid distraction.
I would be happy to avoid flying if I felt it would make a difference. At the moment though, I will inconvenience myself, while our politicians decide to build another airport. My inconvenience will have had zero effect.
> What if it's somebody's pet?

Exactly a situation where you want the black-and-white AI solution. If it's a 1% chance the human dies and 100% chance the pet dies, the pet has to go every time.

> This isn't possible on all roads.

It doesn't have to be all roads to be transformational. Tag major city roads + self-driving cars + uber = Johnny Cab. Tag major transit routes + self-driving trucks = no sleepy truckers, no paying sleeping truckers, no rest breaks, on-demand cross-country trucking in 48 hours or less.

This, of course, ignores human desires for control and "freedom of the road" (at least in the US). Who knows how the technology would actually catch on, especially when Johnny Cab DOES run over Fluffy.
My debugging experience with Counterclockwise wasn't very positive. But admittedly the last time I tried was a very long time ago and things may have changed significantly.
You are not alone mate..
Out of curiosity, what userspace `libc` do you provide?
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I favor "ping 2130706433" ;)
They're on to something, but they don't know the whole picture. Which is that in a world where mass media is under the control of one superpower or another, you are only going to hear painful criticism of your own government from the opposing superpower's media arm. What I find just as painful as you about your countrymen's opinion of RT, is that people in my country will criticize RT as propaganda and then comically think the media in our own country isn't propaganda at us, and against Russia.
Wow, 373 times faster than the reference implementation.

Here is the blog post:

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1213
I find it funny how you're trying to defend RT and Russia (which is fine), but managed to make the most damning criticism of the whole thread :)

Poor Russia, the first country to put a man in space, now reduced to copying propaganda machines!
This is so misleading, clearly they are not prewritten.
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Is there somewhere one can follow the Mac and Linux ports? I'm stoked about F#/OCaml too.
This is a great project but unfortunately it seems to be dead - no commits since August last year https://github.com/topazproject/topaz.
> the state is a technology. It was developed by our ancestors to solve certain problems.

More like a compromise between thugs. It solves problems only for those with the leverage to negotiate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
These so called icons are not even images.
What's the point if you cant save them do your hard disk ????