akoster

Unfortunately this is not a uniquely Israeli problem. Likely a similar effect can be achieved in the states with something like LLC "shell" companies.

I don't think there is a government that has ever existed that has not made a mistake. As an American, I can proudly criticize specific actions of my government I may disagree with, but I still feel, despite its flaws, generally does relative good for a majority of its people and the world. I feel similar about the Israeli government. Yes, they too, like the American government, and <insert other government here>, have made decisions not so well-received in the past, and likely in the future. But overall, I feel the Israeli government, like the American government, does much more good for its people and in the world than otherwise. Despite how you feel about the Israeli government, I cannot think of another government that takes in wounded people, who may be willing to risk their lives to destroy your very government, and provides medical aid without question.

I definitely believe this makes an impact. From a biased American perspective, if I was a non-Israeli Jew living in a country that was outside of the US, Canada or Western Europe, and I am young and seeking more opportunity, moving to Israel would look like a very attractive option. Israel is very happy to woo young, and educated minds to their country which brings in fresh perspectives, which I would assume is great for startups, especially he many that target global markets.

I have not looked deep into this, but you might try Arch Linux ARM [1], which might have newer versions of packages (if it is anything like its x86 variant). It used to be offered on the official Rpi distro page [2] but I think it has since been removed, though I am unsure if that indicates that less effort is going into maintaining it. Regardless, I too would be very interested in scrutinizing these Raspbian security patches to see how quickly they are built and distributed compared with their release date, and if an alternative build of Raspbian that focuses on this was to be released, I would be very interested.

[1] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

I appreciate distros that continue to offer 32-bit options. They have given old computers new leases on life and distros like arch allow these users to run the latest and greatest software on such hardware. I feel the days of being able to run a popular Linux distro on "any" hardware (old or new) are unfortunately numbered with many major distributions dropping 32-bit support.

Perhaps MySQL too as it would be one more major database product under their control.

According to some fine folks over at StackOverflow.com :

For C: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/562303/the-definitive-c-b...

Also for C++: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-b...

My mother purchased a special all-in-one unit (brother MFC-8910DW) for the purpose of printing very large PDF files with mixed legal and letter pages. On windows, Adobe Reader + the printer driver handle selecting which paper tray to pull from depending on the page dimensions in the PDF. But on MacOS and Linux, I had no such luck (using both the built in PDF viewers and Adobe Reader). I am unsure if this is a cups feature that is missing from the driver, or some other limitation. Otherwise, the unit's basic functionality worked fine(though I have the scanner set up so it emails a PDF file using the printer's built in SMTP client). I was really hoping to get my parents on Linux but between this issue and a program that my dad uses that doesn't run on wine, I (for the time being) left them on Windows 7. (I had both of them go out and buy new laptops in the last year or two since both prefer 17" screen sizes, which seem to be going by the wayside and Windows 7, which was getting harder to find computers with win7 oem licenses.)

I like that one. My domains for this purpose are: http://i.net/ and http://ip4.me/ (or http://ip6.me, if you know you have IPv6 connectivity)

I too have been quite pleased with Facebook calling over a 3G connection from the Middle East to North America, though I still find that FaceTime voice calls sound better (pending both parties own apple devices)

I formerly worked for an American subsidiary of a French company. When I told my friends that they gave every employee a minimum of 20 days off, their jaws dropped.

I would venture a guess that many people are back to work after the Christmas/new year holidays and hence, have less time to spend on HN.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!

Good catch! Thank you for noticing (2nd time posting and I initially thought "Ask HN:" might be automatically appended). I left a tab open with this post, but when I went to click the "edit" link, the tab refreshed with the "edit" link removed. Would you happen to know if there is some other way I can edit this post? (Or does a moderator have to step in to do that?)

Quite interesting! Any thoughts for an XMPP or IRC bridge (similar to what Slack provides)?

Carl Hiassen's books regularly cause me to laugh so hard I have trouble breathing.

For those interested in using RHEL-based distros for a desktop use-case, this blog post may be helpful: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/centos-7-perfect-desktop....

A relative gifted me an old PowerMac 8600/200, which originally came with a pre-G3 PowerPC 604e CPU, but had been upgraded to a G4 by swapping out the ZIF CPU card. It definitely gave a circa 1997 machine (original OS was either MacOS 7.6 or 8.0) a new lease on life and the ability to run OSX 10.2 Jaguar, (albeit slowly and after a serious RAM and HDD upgrade).

I don't own a MacPro for that reason. I ended up building a desktop PC and using it as a hackintosh (though I gave up a couple years ago and now use a 15" rMBP more often).

My family is is on AT&T Uverse, and pays $52/month for 24Mbps down/5Mbps up and $134/month for 2 HDTVs, 1 non HDTV, a DVR and their lower-mid tier 300 channel package (mainly because mom likes to watch HGTV, DIY and the Food network channels). Those numbers are from our last bill and include AT&T fees (including their HDTV receiver fees in 2016), government taxes, etc. We got an HDTV quite early (circa 2004) and at the time went from Dish Network to DirecTV. And for internet, we separately paid for AT&T DSL, which might have been at 3Mbps for a mid-tier package at the time. Around 2009/2010 an AT&T salesman came to our door to talk about this new Uverse offering in our neighborhood. They talked about it being fiber, just like Fios from Verizon (though I suspected it wasn't really the same since our streets never were dug up- which is in line with it being fiber to the main node outside of our housing tract.) They enticed my parents to get out of their expensive contract with DirecTV and pay less for the same TV package with an included DVR accessible to the entire home, and a faster internet speed without any contract, or equipment rental fees. The offer was hard to pass up and was a better deal than signing up for a contract with TWC, paying a lower price for year 1 and then getting ripped off for your second year of the contract. I vaguely remember it was something like $100 or $120 when we signed up for the TV and internet service. The internet speeds were always lower than advertised and occasionally the TV would drop out but it became more reliable over time. At some point were offered a lower rate to sign up for a 2 year contract, and though we did, I think it has since expired and may be back on a month-to-month device. The problem with their service has always been some box dying after a year or so, and calling their support number (which redirects to a call center in the Philippines typically) to have them dispatch a technician but other than that, the technicians are usually very well trained and get the problem fixed right the first time, and allow us to call them back for 30 days after the service call for help without contacting their main support line.

My parents have heard horror stories from TWC customers who have been overcharged, service that has been poor, and squabbles with home internet data caps (of which ATT has none- at least as shown on our bill). We could go with something like a DSLExtreme or Sonic.net, but then our TV bill would go up. I definitely wish for any bit more competition in our area, but it's doubtful to happen anytime soon.

I definitely agree with you! The first computer I could call my own was a hand-me-down eMachines eTower 733i Mini-tower desktop with a 733MHz Celeron, upgraded to 256MB of RAM, and a 20GB HDD I was gifted around 2004. I installed a copy of Windows 2000 on it and used it daily for another 2-3 years. I miss the minimal, no-frills UI that caused little-to-no performance hiccups. And I definately feel similar about the Classic MacOS "Platinum" interface (Mac OS 8 thru 9). Despite both sharing what many percieve as a "boring" gray color scheme, the 3D look of the buttons and UI elements made things easy to see and understand their function. I currently work at a company where I find myself often using monitors connected to KVM switches, often with improperly adjusted contrast and brightness. Modern flat web application GUIs in this setting are barely usable, forcing the user to struggle to determine where a button or text area's boundaries are. Though I have to hope this environment is not the norm for 90% of users, I wish modern interface design encouraged such "GUI robustness" and functional minimalism whereby the UI remains functional despite the display's configuration. A similar poor-contrast situation could arise when viewing a display from an improper angle or in a very bright environment.

I believe Tcl is still used to script some major EDA tools, or at least in the well-antiquated versions of the tools my university was using.

I was impressed by reading this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074096

Original support request: 2016-03-31

Subject: Credit expiring soon- your assistance is appreciated

Hello there! I have $100 of credit with you. I just found out on an email that it will be expiring in a month due to a new policy. Is there any way to prevent this credit from expiring?

Thanks for your help and consideration!

   Reply from (Support Team) Yesterday at 7:09 PM 

Thanks for reaching out! We certainly understand your concern here, as we're just beginning to enforce the expiration of unused credit after making the change last year. We see that you haven't used DigitalOcean or the account credit just yet; while we're not able to change the expiration date for credits, or allow credit to expire more than a year in the future, we'll be glad to add another $10.00 credit to your account as a one-time courtesy to help you get started. Moving forward, however, please note that any unused balance from promo credits (including this one) will expire 12 months after being redeemed.

Let us know if you have any other questions and we'll be happy to help!

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I just had a discussion about the spelling difference with a coworker yesterday, and couldn't believe I didn't notice this today. Good catch!

Definitely in the same boat, but instead of pocket I use Pinboard (https://pinboard.in)

Since the article doesn't quote Martin Hellman here's sons of his words on cryptography (from an interview after receiving a different award): http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/march/inventor-prize-hell...

I wish I had known about this sooner. Installing IRAF was always a pain (though less so after they released just one big tarball for Linux/x86)

At first glance, me too!

This looks awesome! Just got back from a camping trip and just saw your post. Might there be any spare codes left?

EDIT: if you are better by email, feel free to reach me at akoster (at) ieee.org Thanks in advance and looking forward to trying out and recommending this awesome-looking app.