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I've been keeping track of DFly BSD for a while now, and I really like where it is headed. The network stack alone is polished enough that if I were to, say, start a local ISP, I would probably be using it as the primary backend.

Dillon's decision to support only x86-x64 I think was a good choice because it helped reduced the workload associated with his multiprocessing/threading system, which is another awesome set of features that I have a feeling will end up forcing Linux and Mach to re-evaluate how they do some things.

For me, I think it may be time to move it out of a VM and onto a semi-regular use machine bare metal.

Once Hammer2 is prod ready I have a feeling I may like it better than ZFS or BTRFS, but only time will tell I suppose.
Good point – unfortunately, it doesn't look like htat's what the plugin here does:

https://github.com/Khan/tota11y/blob/952427485a49bde0f498e9d...

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tool...

Definitely a good feature request
I just signed up for a Fi invite (anyone know if it's pronounced 'fee' or 'f-eye'?).

I was also sceptical about the size of the Nexus 6, but when Google dropped the price a few weeks ago I decided to give it a try (if you buy from Motorola or Google, you can try it out for two weeks to see if it works for you and return it if not).

I absolutely love it. I even sold my 7" tablet, as the extra screen size of the Nexus 6 is great for reading and web browsing, on which I spend several hours per day. However, I have always used phones with two hands, so if you're someone who likes to use one hand then you probably won't like it.

Coming from the Moto X, I do miss the excellent Motorola software, gestures and IR sensors, but the extra screen size, better speakers, better camera, wireless charging and most importantly for me, the rapid android updates make the Nexus 6 worthwhile.
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I've been working on this exact idea on and off for almost a year now. Very cool to see someone else working on it, they've some nice solutions for hard problems too.

I don't really like the choice for RoundCube, but without decent funding or a couple of expert web developers they'll be hard pressed to build something better.

Also nice to hear they're also from Europe, it goes to show the U.S. surveillance worries are very much alive here.
Good thing he had copied it wholesale from Xerox PARCs first. Saved them both some time.
People have tried to challenge cab monopolies for decades without any success.
Yeah we get the short end of the stick for things in "Beta."

Still don't have package tracking inside Google Wallet.. but they did finally start showing up in Google Now! Exciting.
Again, how do you actually know the author hasn't thought about it? I'm not praising the attitude your referring to, I'm criticizing your prejudices against the author, the baseless assumption that (s)he fits the label of "oblivious privileged SV tech nerd" you've decided to attribute.
The author is in the field of graphic design. It's not unreasonable that they wouldn't have much exposure to that.
Faster computers do not equate to magically better programs and/or programmer capabilities. The computers from Feynmans days could do finite element analysis and structural simulation on grids fine enough for just about all engineering work. It's the execution details that get you (such as an O-ring...). And nobody simulates the execution in a meaningful way simply because there isn't enough data to start your simulations with. These are human failures first, process failures second.
In these cases the phrases are being used as proper nouns for preexisting events on the timeline. For example, I wouldn't say that I went for a walk "five minutes before the noon," I'd say "five minutes before noon." They're speaking in a jargon that treats these events the same way that you or I would talk about Monday or midnight and which also gives them precise meanings. If the main engine shut down on its own at an unexpected time then you could say "shortly before the main engine shut down." This lets you say things like "The main engine lost power 30 seconds before main engine shutdown" and be only slightly confusing rather than nonsensical.
The 60s washing machine likely uses 4x the water and energy of the 2010 washing machine though. While it may not outweigh the total cost to create a new washing machine every 5-7 years, it's a direct improvement for the consumer.

Top google result:

http://www.landtechnik-alt.uni-bonn.de/ifl_research/ht_7/huw...
This is so true, BSD's in general are very underrated.
Getting the error "conection à la base de donnée impossible" which is misspelled. Connection should be written "connexion".
I agree with you, I am not going to outsource management of sensitive data to a third party just because they say that they are "100% confidential".

You can't trust anyone until they actually show you proof that they are:

- Trustworthy
- Safe.

Both conditions require complete transparency on their infrastructure, protocols and first and foremost data retention policy.
No, it's not a deal breaker, but it's something small that makes the customer feel valued/appreciated and not like a walking dollar sign whose presence is an annoyance to the flight crew.

And in an industry characterized by extremely low margins a $0.50 bag of peanuts per person is definitely significant money out of their pocket.
Have you ever read a book? Seen a movie? Bought a comic book?

It's a big market.
I have honestly no skin in this game. I just pointed to a project I'd heard of which seems relevant to this discussion.

It would be nice if lawmakers used some tools from code - eg. some kind of version control for laws which are being batted between different houses and have amendments added and removed. And perhaps the language could be a little more formalized.

Take a look at this "diff" from a real law that the UK govt is trying to pass now:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2015-20...
"No information about him whatsoever"

Please use factual information if you're going to converse.
You have more information on an Uber driver than a taxi driver. Picture, licence number, accessible GPS location and drivers rating.
Maybe it depends on airport. I've definitely never seen a "blue sleeve". And I've definitely heard veteran pre-board called out at Love Field.

Either way, like I said, I probably wouldn't change it. It has no real impact on where I sit. It's just the whole making a slow, inconvenient, annoying process just that much slower, more annoying.
SC4 is in-browser encryption that works with your current email account:

https://github.com/Spark-Innovations/SC4

It's open-source and audited. Based on TweetNaCl. Feedback very much appreciated.
> What I am suggesting is that we model them in a way that highlight and distinguish the laws that are poorly crafted from those which are clearly interpreted.

There are as many elements in the set of laws that are clearly interpreted as there are programs with zero bugs. This is not an analogy. These are direct expressions of the same root cause.
The reason for SMTP servers being better off in a proper data-center is not really due to port 25 being blocked at home, it's the entire infrastructure that assures reliability, so if your power goes out or your home router decides to die or your ISP is having issues, etc, you would start losing emails right away.

EDIT: I understand SMTPs are resilient but it also depends on the type of error they get back, even then it can't be expected that all servers keep retrying for long periods of time or even handle triple bounces.
So you 'could' start losing emails right away, is a better way of saying it.
Hmm... perhaps, but that seems pretty 'intuitive' to me.
Very cool! Did you specifically choose RMagick over MiniMagick?
And that's exactly why I like Get Taxi and Uber: they are most trustworthy. In a usual system, taxi parks have too little power and influence, each of them individually, to make these guarantees, and government has the power, but doesn't really have an incentive to do a really good job. Uber/Lyft/Gett, on the other hand, are big enough to have the power of control, but at the same time they still have competition which creates a motive to implement these guarantees.
Frugality and a iPhone, I don't see how that hangs together.
As a bonus, you can actually get 24/7 support!
You forgot to structure and organize it.
Fluid dynamics is still very hard to simulate, and that's where rockets go wrong.
The context seems to be people with specialised skills who are approached by start ups for specific items of work (graphic design projects), with an expectation of free our cheap labour.

What's the potential benefit to the contractor, to do free work for a startup? Is it an actual thing to ask service providers or solo practitioners to work for no cash and no equity?
Science has yet to discover the ultimate physical laws that govern the universe so 100% simulation is still impossible even in theory. In practice high fidelity simulation is still hard. Here's a video about the state of the art in combustion chamber simulation and what it's current state is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txk-VO1hzBY
As addressed in the post - there are no mitigating factors in the scenario of accidental exposure. The lowest hanging fruit would be a dumb hashing function which uses some master password.

If you've been hit with an OS compromise you're pretty much SOL, but it shouldn't be so easy to grab highly sensitive data from accidentally exposed profiles.
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Airtel India connection redirects www.google.com to demo.opera-mini.net/public
Can I somewhere find a good Rum/Datascript ClojureScript application that is easy to understand? Maybe something with a blog post that goes into how to set up such a project.

With ClojureScript I always have probelems to get running, and how to devlop effectivly. All the information are old and outdated.

I love the idea of DataScipt/React but I have not really done to much until now.

Edit: I know of the creaters blog, but I would like more.
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The good thing about governments conspiring to create a shortage is that taxi drivers make a reasonable income.

This is an aspect that Silcon-Valley-style technology platforms have no apparent interest in supporting. For example, as time progresses Adsense might sign up more and more publisher capacity, yet that pushes down the income and discourages respectable publishers from using the service.

You go from a fairly well respected public service, to something that's got a nice brand and run by virtual slaves.
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I'm in the process of overhauling a free web tool that also displays user generated content. I never incorporated ads in the old site and am considering putting them in the new site on pages that publicly display user's content. I'll probably build a freemium model in the future (ad-free, more features, etc.)

Is this the right time for me to start incorporating ads?
> burn enough cars and blockade an airport and you will get what you want

I was under impression that that's how French government, as a lot of other European governments work anyway.
The NSA has a GitHub account
The radar technique is possible because of the trivially-parallizable finite-difference time domain method, which most certainly does not simulate every photon (this may have been a rhetorical flourish on the part of wherever you learned this; FDTD curiously has zero error term). Nor would it simulate a wave hitting from every direction; each of those would be a separate run of the simulation.
We are doing it with couchDB and big couch. it works well.
I agree. The link/extrapolation here to general consumerism is tenuous at best.
I recall John Carmack mentioning that they tried fluid dynamic simulation with their rocket motors. It got them a general idea of how the motor would perform, but in real life the performance of the motor was significantly affected by small changes in e.g. the quality of the welds in the combustion chamber.
This is a little off topic, but if you use Chrome on Android you can disable site's ability to disable zoom.

- Open Chrome (or Chrome Beta) on Android.

- Settings -> Accessibility

- Force enable zoom (check).

Sites may need to be reloaded after applying this setting.
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My interpretation was that SQL Server would be more or less forking an R process and passing it the script as an argument. It seems hard to believe that would be forbidden by the GPL.
I spoke too fast, but this is not field information. How much pressure and constraints does he have to be a Uber driver beside the ratings ? It's not his main job, can't he quit any time he wants? how much hours does he have ? When a company hire someone they're at risk, it's a natural force to ensure both of them are able to service a client.
Yes, I can only see this being used with an SMTP relay, which seems to kind of defeat the purpose of self hosting
But financial companies make sure to handle mail retention/archival, as well.

As I already said last time this product came up: this is not email. As far as encryption is concerned, it's a proprietary messenger, and it deprives not only the user (who opted in), but all of his recipients of virtually every advantage, standard email has got.
Can Dragon 1 have parachutes?
Leap seconds are announced months in advance and can only occur in 2 possible positions in an entire year. It's pretty standardized, especially compared to the mess that is daylight savings time, where changes can be announced only a few days in advanced (e.g., Egypt) and possibly even retroactively.

The problem with leap seconds is that time is often represented internally as seconds from the Unix epoch, and this simple integer counter assumes leap seconds don't exist. In effect, there is no way to actually represent a leap second in many computer systems, so the question of what you do is basically a choice of the least painful lie. Handling leap seconds in the situations where people care about them requires a lot of complexity for an event that happens only once every few years.

There's a movement to abolish leap seconds, which I am very much in favor of.
"Key escrow". The FBI/NSA were pushing for it way back in the mid 90s.
Unless you have Charter. Charter business support is open 9-5 facepalm

EDIT: (this was a few years ago, don't have charter business at the moment)
Very interesting stuff. I wasn't expecting so much detail here. I'll definitely read over it more later.
If it wasn't in dragon, how was it going to get to the ISS?
I've never met him but have read some of his stuff over the years and talked to a few people who have (met him).

He strikes me a clearly very smart, just not as smart as he thinks he is (not uncommon, but more rare at his level of talent I think). An aside: For what it's worth, I find the "genius" label problematic in general, not just for him. I think it's a concept that probably has useful application, but to < 1% of the people to whom it's applied.

His abilities as a technical writer are middling, unfortunately, and at some point being able to communicate your ideas is almost as important as the ideas.

I too wonder how much further Mathematica could have got if he hadn't pushed away a number of clearly talented people.
The issue is that rocket physics (essentially Newton's laws of motion) are for the most part first- and second- order, linear, ordinary differential equations with exact solutions. The plumbing, on the other hand, is governed by fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and the like. These are systems of complicated partial differential equations without exact solutions, requiring numeric methods.
I'm unsure what point you're trying to make, would you mind expanding?
The snippet of code you used was written by Joshua Bloch (author of Effective Java and a then employee of Sun). When Joshua was working for Google he implemented the rangeCheck method for Android from scratch, but since he was the original author for the Sun Java implementation he naturally did it the same way.
Isn't SMTP actually pretty resilient to outages? Typically sending mail servers will retry for hours (or even days) before giving up when a recipient server is down.
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I thought about this a while back. I'd imagine it would be better to not use DMs and just have them create an account on your site so as to not tie them together. I had thoughts about twitter eventually banning the account, so you'd probably need an account creation script (possibly use the handle of the account being mentioned plus _w added to the end). It would also be a good idea to add language filtering and check the tweet against a database of abusive words so as to really slow down the abuse. I thought about this as an employee feedback tool at first, but everyone could use a little anonymous constructive feedback. Keep at it, many of the problems can be solved with a little creativity. Good luck :D
Glad to see I am the only one that seems to think there is a lot of hype about Docker. Sure I can see it being useful in a few cases, but we have had virtualenv in Python for ages, and virtual machines as well. What can Docker do that I can't in these two?
What do you want to see in next iPhone 6S release?
> I imagine with proper simulation this should have been catchable.

We don't know in this specific instance, but generally this is just fundamentally not true. You're way over-estimating the abilities of computers and way under-estimating the complexity of these systems.

I haven't been down voting your comments, but if I had to guess as to why other people are, it's because comments like this are typical of a certain kind of arrogance. I think we've all had that moment where we think "what, that sounds easy!" about someone else's problems, only to realise when we try to solve it ourselves we're suddenly confronted with that problem's true complexity. These are very smart people working on these problems, and your comments come across as if you're suggesting they've been negligent–while that could be true, it wouldn't be my first guess. Rocket science is hard, and things go wrong, and no amount of computing can change that.
Maybe Uber staged those protests, so that nobody would think about stepping in against them. ;-)
A lot of simulation already happens but simulating every imaginable scenario is impossible.
"absence of state is true for anything involving wide area networking"
I agree, but I think we are talking about different things.

Regarding money, you can be paid a thousand dollars every day for writing FOSS and putting it on github. Still there is no money within the FOSS community because everyone in the community gets it for free. And the person writing it contributes it according to their ability.

Also, if Redhat sells their software to companies under a different license, again it has nothing to do with money within the community. It has to do with the larger capitalist society within which they exist.
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Seconded on the book choice.

Although, I thought the business parts of the book were excellent, but the mountain climbing anecdotes were absolutely gut wrenching. I actually at times found some of those passages about people freezing to death difficult to read. Others may have found it a bit more entertaining than I did though, and the life lessons about preparation and calculations are applicable to business.
This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that legitimate sending mail servers will retry delivery if the destination server is unavailable. Outbound mail from a home connection may very well have issues being marked as spam due to ip blacklists though.
I'm in the US, but I find it quite disturbing that something that is purely a national event gets pushed down the world's throat.

These companies are highly hypocritical, they claim to be "global" when it comes to tax purposes, but don't hesitate to react to US internal politics.

Did the same thing happen when Spain legalized same-sex marriage? Or when France did it?
Right, I resist calling it a bathroom in places where it won't actually have a bath. Guess I should start asking at restaurants where the water closet is?
I'm not sure about that, to me an ODS has a schema applied to it to make the data fit into a relational database structure.

A data lake should be storing the data in it's original form, without transformation.
I'm also wondering how the P2P backup works exactly?

As an example, if it comes with 16GB storage and my mailbox is 10GB, does that mean other people's boxes would contain the full 10GB dump or just pieces/blocks a la bittorrent?
To be fair the whole FAQ would need some work. I'm always surprised people spent days or months putting together this kind of project, but wouldn't take an hour or two for proper copywriting. The project being open source, I'm sure they could even find someone to do it for free.
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No it doesn't. You can literally do the same thing you did with PHP in 2007 if you want to (have a controller that outputs xml to be transformed into jquery commands if an ajax call or renders html if not ajax). You could also do something less silly like share your templates (maybe via hiccup and its many cljs implementations or via enlive/enforce/kioo (or via Soy, or anything else really)). If you want to get really fancy, you can actually just render your js server side via nashhorn and then rebind whatever modern rendering library you choose (React, Ember, etc) onto the rendered html at runtime. This is all ignoring the fact that nothing prevents you from serving html from server-side templates and keeping your cljs codebase completely separately ala most web apps (then progressively enhancing with whatever you normally would).
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I've come to appreciate some of the new ES6 features (anonymous functions, lets) much more after using their equivalents in ClojureScript.

Also, The interactive REPL based workflow that a lot of the LISP languages utilize is extremely appealing. I've been thinking a lot about how to bring this back into the JS world. I have yet to find any good literature on it, but I will be exploring this area more.

For those curious, here are some blogs that convinced me to finally give Clojure a spin:

- http://rigsomelight.com/2014/05/01/interactive-programming-f... (seems like this is the stereotypical "you should try ClojureScript because... " post)

- http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/06/04/clojure-workflow-r... (a bit code-heavy, but an admirable workflow)

- http://swannodette.github.io/2013/11/07/clojurescript-101/ (dealing with asynchronous code)

I'm curious HN, anyone out there making strides in interactive JS development, akin to the 2nd blog post I referenced above?
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I also feel that Om is very complex. I'm sure I've spent over 20 hours trying to wrap my head around it but didn't manage to do anything.

From the people that know it well, they all love it. But I don't seem to have the required knowledge to understand it. I feel somehow dumb by that. The docs aren't good also.

After that, I've tried reagent for 30 minutes and ended up with a lot of progress and I'm currently writing my first cljs small app. Everything seems to work and it's like clojure.

You have an atom and just have to write views in a hiccup style, everything magically works.

Maybe I will try Om later and get it, but it's not simple. I've been able to wrap my head around a lot of concepts with easy in my life, but Om felt too much.