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Ask HN: Which Hacker News Android application do you recommend?
Hi,
I currently am using the "Hacker News" android application by Manuel Maly. I like it very much as far as browsing and reading the first page goes but it does not have features for seeing other categories or commenting.

Is there any application that you use and recommend and what features does it have (or lack)?
You're really, really into Ron Paul.
Started termcasting – joeyh (2010)
ETA for Apple Watch
Right, but there's no expectation of privacy in those cases.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy
I'm not really into front-end but man...that page was beautifully executed.
American Supercar Takes Title of ‘World’s Fastest’ from Bugatti
This is cluebat level of ignorance. I want to apply the "don't ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by ignorance" maxim, but I'm having trouble with the "adequately" here. Either they managed to live under a rock and completely ignore everything related to the Snowden revelations, or they're willfully dismissing it.

Such a pity, I was looking forward to getting an X1...
Thanks! Mistyped, should have been '4'.

Still, there are 4000+ square meters to an acre. That remains two orders of magnitude larger than a mature forest should have.
Extending example #1: Buyer anonymity enables customers to circumvent pesky geolocation restrictions on digital goods. As a personal example I've finally found an online shop that sells audiobooks without DRM, only to realize later that most of their catalog is exclusively available in the US. With bitcoin I could have just used a proxy and be done with it.
"With all new flavors like banana, fizzbitch, and GUN!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk
Russia Wants to Block Tor, but It Probably Can't
Yep! Booked an international flight last summer and had a hell of a time paying with a credit card. It seems like BTC will really shine on these non-domestic payments.
What you said is 100% correct, which is why companies accepting bitcoin need to give the entire ~2-3% discount to customers. Very few credit cards will match 2-3% rewards, and from the sellers perspective bitcoin is better than credit cards payments.

To name a few benefits:

- There are no chargebacks

- Funds are available immediately (though transferring from BTC to USD may take a day)

- You can accept payment from anyone anywhere in the world (harder with CC atm)

- Fraud detection isn't as important w/out chargebacks. Granted this is a concern for consumers, which is why they need solid security for their wallets. I think of it like cash transactions. You don't have to worry about someone coming into a store and claiming that someone spent their $5 bill with serial code 123-xyz after stealing it.
Why would using AGPL imply not valuing open source?
Hi all. Just thought I'd throw out a link to what we've got planned with the Apple Watch. Happy to answer any questions!
On that note, I wonder if their compromising of these systems affords the target any sort of immunization from attacks by other actors.

It would make sense that NSA/GHCQ wouldn't want their foreign competitors to share in the prize, and it would also be congruent with their interests to not afford competing actors access to such a prize.

Then again, this notion is likely far too romantic. The reality is probably closer to one where foreign actors have compromised everything just the same.
All complex software has bugs, and Android has become enormous (I tried to update AOSP earlier this month and gave up after about 40GB of repo deltas. This enormous activity, itself, completely invalidates the garbage linked post).

This post and a large percentage of the comments, and the moderation, is essentially a "shit on Google" post, somehow trying to make Microsoft look better in some relative sense. It is terrible fanboy noise.

And the gent I responded to just picked up someone else's grievances. I would wager good money they have no Android device "ruined" by Lollipop. They just want to legitimize their walls of anti-Google screeds.

EDIT: I've really riled up some astorturfers. Any post I make is almost immediately attacked.
It's really sad that it has come to this. I hang out on a forum where the guys are thrilled when they get a Net 30 check within 45 days.

I have a customer (my only semi-regular customer, sadly) that pays like clockwork. Seriously, I've learned that I can go to the mailbox 32 days after I sent an invoice and their check will be there. I hope it lasts!
i think they mean that loci should have the same performance as c or c++.
Sorry, didn't realize you guys were using a 13.3" PC for real work. Yikes!

I guess spoiled here to have separate PCs for work (two 21" displays), home (24" display plus TV as second display), and a laptop for portable use. Using a small display laptop as my main box would be to limiting for me.

When I am running a VM or logged on to another PC remotely, I like to view it on a second display instead of switching back and forth...
Splay tree – binary search tree with faster repeated access
surprised all of the vendors didn't get behind rocket and abandon Docker https://coreos.com/blog/rocket/
The risk is worth it!
Unless I'm buying from my own family or something I'm not forfeiting the right to reverse a transaction if I do not get the goods I paid for just to earn a small discount.
Okay. Those are the technical differences.

Now, what are the price differences? Also, the XPS 13" dev edition is 1080p, does the equivalent MBA?

The Dell can come with Ubuntu pre-installed and certified, and while they are both Unix there is the fact that Ubuntu is more-or-less FOSS whereas MacOSX is proprietary to some (most?) extents.

What I'm trying to say is that in listing the differences, you didn't list all the differences.

1) The touchpad sensitivity can be tweaked, and the config saved.

2) I have no data on the wifi range differences.

3) Agreed

4) Is this true? I think Linux does do HiDPI?

5) Really?
Actually, moving from SPDY to HTTP/2 isn't any easier than going from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2. Google's mod_spdy was nice, but required lots of core code changes, so it was more a proof of concept. And with SPDY changing so much, wasting time on development makes little sense and, considering that SPDY (having served its purpose) is now dead, some would say that it was wise not jumping on the bandwagon quickly.

But Apache is hardly alone is having a "wait and see" attitude towards HTTP/2; both HAproxy and Varnish see HTTP/2 as a solution for the wrong problem.
Alot of those crashes were device drivers for graphics cards. Windows 8 (I know... 8.1 isn't bad) actually moved the display drivers out of kernel space

The NT kernel was worked on the by guy who did the VAX kernel. The thing is pretty rock solid so long as you don't do certain things -- like put display drivers in kernel space. There were people selling monstrous RAID arrays run by the NT kernel. You can't get much more stringent than that for stability requirements.
So I may have missed the details. I thought we knew they hacked Belgacom, but no one mentioned going through employee's personal email and social networks (though in light of this, we can assume they did). If they did mention it and I missed it, sure, nothing new. But the same entire thing then just applies to that instance too.
You can't tap a cell phone call remotely either - you have to be pretty close to the cell phone.

So it's not that different, a bit easier, yes. But you still have to physically go there.
Would you do it for a percentage greater than your CC rewards if you trusted the seller?

For example, Amazon has never screwed me on a single purchase. If I have an issue they fix it, which is a large part of why I often pay 5-10% more for products on Amazon.com instead of XYZ.com. Would you use BTC for a 2% discount with sellers like this?
I found splay trees because Wikipedia mentioned them as being particularly useful for discrete-event simulations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_event_simulation

> The pending event set is typically organized as a priority queue, sorted by event time. That is, regardless of the order in which events are added to the event set, they are removed in strictly chronological order. Several general-purpose priority queue algorithms have proven effective for discrete-event simulation, most notably, the splay tree. More recent alternatives include skip lists, calendar queues, and ladder queues.
I could never get used to the weird placement of the fn button, to the far left of the keyboard. Many other laptops also have this, it's a dealbreaker for me. All shortcuts I know fall out, and even with long use I can't really get used to it. And a lack of proper arrow keys is annoying for some gaming. It's weird, but it's those little things that count.

I'm glad other vendors are getting better with build quality, so there is more options available for people with my preferences.
The fact that you're being downvoted suggests most people strongly disagree that this is a "serious issue".
When I re-read the parent's post I thought to myself "of course he is being sarcastic!"

But then I saw your post and it made me think. And I believe you are onto something here.

I mean, sure, probably tapping one phone is much easier physically, just connect the wires and you're done. However the point you bring is game-changer.

In ye' olden days spooks were interested in certain persons only, but now it seems that we are all fair game, and so the "easy" way of wiretapping becomes incredibly hard when you want to spy on everyone.

It's basically an scalability problem then. Never saw it that way.
what about GNU/Linux compatibility? Are they going to release a version with GNU/Linux preinstalled?
I'm not sure how you can say that with a straight face. The next MBA is going to basically be a netbook, the MBP is already thin enough / light enough / small enough to qualify as an ultrabook in my view.
Awesome! I've starred the project on Github. I'm in startup mode and juggling way too many things these days, but maybe I can find a free evening :)
I didn't downvote you, so please don't think I'm the one trying to bury you.

I'm calling it GUN because it is powerful and therefore a dangerous tool to wield. Because I'm going with a fully decentralized/distributed system, it has also generated some controversy with people.

Fact is, centralized/master-slave consensus based databases are incredibly popular right now. Things like Riak, Cassandra's CRDTs are not getting enough traction as they should - but probably because they can be difficult to set up. I'm trying to blow this all out of the water and make distributed database systems easy for developers.

So I'm admittedly going for an edgy name. I'm not wanting to kill anybody, just centralized software.
The version on pypi seems to be out of date (v0.0.8), and doesn't work:

$ gist help
$
After you have applied 100GB: "If you're an Office 365 subscriber, you can be one of the first to get unlimited OneDrive storage"
Comcast: Data caps are “mandated by law”
Perhaps a sane default would be to pause Windows Indexing by default when on battery? Defaults matter.
The easiest way to find similar images, ever!
The fact that they've gone from minor user-unfriendly features to major violations of trust doesn't speak well to their learning ability or consumer care, however.
You pretty much nailed it. I store data in a bastardized octree, more or less. I break the world into chunks to facilitate culling. I check the bounding box of each chunk against the view frustum. There are generally under 100 chunks in view at any one time, so the culling doesn't have to get fancy. And yes, the GPU handles back face culling automatically these days. :) I do use Bresenham's for raycasting.
Since you mention cars, there is a lot of regulations and laws regarding the production, selling and importing of cars. As such, producing unsafe car is likely a criminal offense, and it would likely be NHTSA who would go after GM.

But in this case, there is good precedence for claim of damages. People has used time it have taken a engineer to investigate, clean, and fix a computer system after a computer intrusion. Even a few hours work will result in several thousands, much more than the laptop itself is worth.
> While working to assess the extent of the infection at Belgacom, the team of investigators realized that the damage was far more extensive than they first thought. The [ed: NSA] malware had not only compromised Belgacom’s email servers, it had infected more than 120 computer systems operated by the company, including up to 70 personal computers.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-...
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We are running out of great humans in Hawaii that can contribute to either environment and are sending out a pull request for great humans and/or aliens, preferably partial alien that is looking to join a group of cyborg like creatures in a subhuman environment taking on the world one keyboard at a time.

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Are Canon cameras subpar? Probably not. Is the one that is displayed on ad an inferior choice for you? Most likely yes.
So while individuals have been charged with numerous hacking charges and potentially decades in jail time for mundane things, such as obtaining plain text info and port scans.

Lenovo which actually facilitated breaking ssl security on all of their customer computers is going to get away scot-free?
They both fluctuate, but not that much. If you saw that much fluctuation in CAD to USD conversion, no US based company would sell goods in Canada. Just look at what happened due to the ruble value fluctuations last month.
Uh oh. I might be in trouble for finding out the entire list of people in the local jail by looking up Mr. %
git-annex website says[1] it is not supposed to be a backup solution:

> git-annex is not a backup system. It may be a useful component of an archival system, or a way to deliver files to a backup system

With this in mind, can we treat it as a backup tool? Assuming backing up the git repository itself as you mentioned.

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/not/
I've got a 2014 Dell XPS Dev. Edition, and for me the TouchPad sensitivity is fine and the Wifi range is good (even using 5Ghz networks).

I can get about 7 hours out of the battery so long as I'm only browsing the web or editing text - probably still not as good as a MacBook Air, but I'm never more than a few hours from a socket.

Ubuntu still isn't great at HDIP displays, although things are getting better.

Balance seems fine for me, but I can't compare to a mba.

I'm very happy with the XPS 13 (2014), and the 2015 version seems like a big upgrade, however I'd still recommend the 1080p display for Linux.
Thanks, yes :)
Microsoft is not the new Google. Microsoft is the new IBM. They lost their dominant position and now they are unbundling like crazy, having realised that they need to be where the users are, not the other way around.

I get some of the criticism he has for Google when it comes to their OS strategy and Google+. But on the other hand, Google is making real progress in some of the core AI areas, and they are applying it so well to the tons of data they have.

I've been travelling a lot recently, and I found that Google Maps is towering head and shoulders above its competitors. Not only does it have a lot more high quality information (about public transport for instance), it is also much better at guessing what I mean when I search for something, which is even more important when you're not sitting behind your desk.

Google Maps feels like it is getting fanatical attention from the people behind it. They don't seem to be distracted by any moonshots at all. And if anything, the driverless car has to be an additional boost to their motivation. I feel that all kinds of projects that apply AI to tons of data are converging really really well at Google right now.
Your username intrigues me (in the context of a discussion about sex determination). Are you by any chance a monotreme?
The saying is full of crock - it presents a false dichotomy. You might pay and still be a product. You pay for cable TV but they sell you to advertisers.
I do. There is a reason for the success of Ruby and Python, and why Elixir is dragging Erlang in to the present. It turns out you don't just have to write your language in the shape of the machine/vm but it can be a tool conformed to the mind of the programmer. "princ" is not easy to remember, read or associate to other things one already knows. The point of a project like this should not be to save old school programmers (who won't use it anyway) a few keystrokes, it is to throw away the cruft of decades of "a very good reason" decisions for something simpler and better thought out.

I really like the direction of this project, but I agree with the parent comment, it doesn't go far enough.
Probably not without some clever engineering, fast wood isn't very sturdy.
How to run CoreOS on Azure
Learned a lot, hopefully Martin's curiosity leads him to follow through with the same codebase refactored in a functional style.
Splay trees are much easier to code than red-black trees, but have the very annoying property of being mutable even in pure read workloads.
Nice. I wish ThinkPads had that. I'm ok with the way Ubuntu works on my old X200s, but I'm uncertain about the device support for latest ThinkPad models.

Do you know of similar official support for Ubuntu in other decent laptops?

EDIT: Oh wow, ThinkPad X240s and X250, along with many other models, are certified. http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/models/?query=&c... I wonder how am I supposed to use fingerprint scanner on my laptop?
It looks like you intended to remove identifying information, but your images still show your friend's last name and email address. It is faint but readable.
To be honest, I don't see that as too much of a problem; Ardour, for example, is free-as-in-speech and technically free-as-in-beer (since you don't have to buy Ardour to get the source code and compile it yourself, and it is indeed available as a package for most distros), but still only provides binary downloads via the website to users who pay for them. There are also plenty of distros - like RHEL and SUSE - that are only officially available in their paid-for versions (though both of those have corresponding free-as-in-beer development/testing versions - Fedora and openSUSE, respectively - and CentOS also exists as a theoretically-drop-in RHEL replacement).

Software has to be monetized somehow. SUSE and RHEL and Oracle Linux are monetized by subscriptions to support contracts. Slackware is monetized by sales of double-sided DVDs. Ubuntu is monetized by a mix of support contracts and begging for donations on the download page. OpenBSD is monetized by a a mix of donations and merchandise sales (including install CD packs and t-shirts and such). I'm not one to believe that ElementaryOS is any more or less sinful than any of those examples.
Is no one here aware of WesternUnion? It's the oldest and largest money transfer company around.
Lenovo CTO: How about time in front of a court?
Current 13.3" Macbook Pro weighs 3.46 pounds. The Dell XPS 13 weighs 2.6 pounds. The MBP thus weighs 32% more (0.8 pounds) than the Dell. That's a big difference to me, and to lots of people.
If you have a Pro or Enterprise edition of Windows, you can configure this:

1) Launch mmc (Win+R, "mmc")

2) File -> Add/Remove Snap-In

3) Group Policy Object Editor -> Add -> Local Computer -> Ok

4) Expand Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Search

5) Find "Prevent indexing when running on battery power to conserve energy"

6) Enable -> OK -> Close

If you're on Home Edition then make a new *.reg file with the following content:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search]
"PreventIndexOnBattery"=dword:00000001

And run it.
You're right - they don't generally offer them jobs, because jobs implies paying them an actual salary. We know that the FBI does this, though, because we've found out after the fact about some of the members of Anonymous who've taken this offer and co-opted other Anonymous members in hacking foreign governments on behalf of the FBI. In particular, I recall that Sabu did this quite a lot.
I'm a single dev; I can't compete with Navicat on features. But I can try to make an app that does a limited set of things really well.

For example, I'm really proud of the table view in Postico. It's really easy to filter rows by keywords. You can edit multiple rows at once in the sidebar. You can rearrange columns, filters and sort order are remembered automatically...

If you have a workflow where you don't often use the table view, you might not get a lot of value out of Postico. But fortunately there are a few people out there who do like the stuff Postico does!
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Preface: this is not a defense.

It's worth remembering that some tools are only useful with lots of data about innocent people. Some forms of network analysis fall into this category, I believe.
The single thing that prevents me from switching from a Macbook to a Dell XPS is the Apple trackpad. Think about it.
I use a Dell XPS 13 (2014 edition) as my main dev machine with an i7, 512GB SSD and 8GB RAM.

It supports DisplayPort 1.2, which means I can Daisychain monitors. I plug in one DisplayPort cable and it connects to my 27" 1440p monitor and my 24" 1080p portrait monitor, giving me 3 separate displays to use.
This was an eloquent and beautiful article that helped me to consider my own mortality. Thanks for sharing.
> sometimes I wonder if there is a version of intellectual ADD

The xkcd comic describes it as nerd sniping. http://xkcd.com/356/
Personally, my biggest takeaway is that anything centralized is compromised, period.

Any centralized system is such a juicy target that the NSA will compromise it. The only way to avoid dragnet issues is to decentralize and force the NSA to expend resources at the edges.

This doesn't means that you can make an individual target secure. The NSA can always outspend you. But you can prevent the NSA from easily just vacuuming up everybody cheaply.
Sometimes denying data to others is as good as advertising that someone else got there first. So you might want to leave the treasure trove in place so that nobody else figures out you have it.

Intelligence is wheels within wheels within wheels...
But that argument means either that these companies do not have a security team (we know they do), that the security team signed off on this (we know they wouldn't), or the security team raised the risk and management chose to ignore it. There's absolutely no option that says "no one ever thought of this risk", at least not in the world we live in. I've worked in enterprise security and I still work in the security industry. There is just no way that this software got approved to be put in a default install and had no review from the security department.

That's what I meant by invoking the opposite of Hanlon's razor. Sure, never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance. But my point is, you can't explain this one with ignorance. There is just no way that Lenovo has hired a security team that would do a review of this and say it looks fine, and no way a company the size and stature of Lenovo would not have a competent security team. The only logical answer is that this was raised as a risk and management chose to accept the risk.

I'm not saying they're evil (I used that word to describe Charles Manson), nor that their end goal was for users to be compromised. Merely that they had to know this was a bad idea, and they chose to do it anyway.
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