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  1. Heat alarm on car seats on Waze's New Safety Feature Reminds Drivers Not To Forget Their Child In the Car (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see a high-heat alarm that's armed when the car sit buckles are fastened. Bonus if it can connect to the car's alarm.

    Yes, yes it shouldn't be needed. It it may be help save a few lives if parents care to use it.

  2. Trump Quote on H1Bs on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump: “I was not at all critical of him. I was not at all. In fact, frankly, he’s complaining about the fact that we’re losing some of the most talented people. They go to Harvard. They go to Yale. They go to Princeton. They come from another country, and they’re immediately sent out. I am all in favor of keeping these talented people here so they can go to work in Silicon Valley.”


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-flip-flops-then-flips-and-flops-more-on-h-1b-visas/

  3. Obamacare proof? on US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Any proof/citations that "Obamacare would destroy the quality (not access, but quality) of medical care"?

  4. Very few people understand this on US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Also a lot of blacks and hispanics are actually quite conservative. The only reason they are not republicans is that they don't feel particularly welcome in a party

    Very few political commentators understand this salient point. They believe minorities are mostly liberal, or just vote for the person that offers the most free stuff. If that were true Bernie would have dominated that demographic, yet the direct opposite happened.

  5. So your argument is that our society treats races no differently? Same expectations? Same justice? Same opportunities, right?

  6. Trump: “I was not at all critical of him. I was not at all. In fact, frankly, he’s complaining about the fact that we’re losing some of the most talented people. They go to Harvard. They go to Yale. They go to Princeton. They come from another country, and they’re immediately sent out. I am all in favor of keeping these talented people here so they can go to work in Silicon Valley.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-flip-flops-then-flips-and-flops-more-on-h-1b-visas/

  7. I still think anything other than the Nomad is lame.

  8. Hibernate on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Final Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Will my laptop support hibernate/resume as Windows 98 did?

  9. If you need installments to pay for your phone... on Apple Announces New Trade Up With Installments Program (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...then strongly consider purchasing a cheaper phone. Maybe go refurb or buy last years model for instance. But don't get sucked into the constant upgrade cycle that marketing leads us to believe is inevitable.

  10. Well, for example you can use builtwith.com. E.g. http://builtwith.com/adafruit.com

  11. Systemd "Spec" or RFC? on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If this is going to be the case, then we need a Systemd specification or RFC maintained by a widely respected committee and multiple implementations should be available.

  12. Re:Eclipse and Power of Java on Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 2

    First, you do realize .Net is also garbage collected right? Secondly Elipse and Netbeans are excellent and mature IDEs that support dozens of languages and platforms.

    The whole 'Java is slow' meme is at least a 15 years passe, try something new.

  13. Ever heard of Java HFT? on Python Is On the Rise, While PHP Falls (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Java has been doing realtime for over a decade now. In fact the very first JSR was JSR 1: Real-time Specification for Java which began in 1998.

    Saying Java is not suitable for realtime due to "unpredictable GC" shows you haven't read much on the topic. Many Java open-source projects guarantee millions of operations per second on the right hardware. Java has a huge HFT community footprint.

    Take a look at what http://chronicle.software/ and OpenHFT is doing for instance.

  14. Why not port the Java Virtual Machine, then using the MS widget set/chrome? E.g. RoboVM uses this to run Android Apps on IOS.

  15. Aerosolve on Microsoft Open Sources Its Machine Learning Toolkit (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    AirBnB also released Aerosolve on Github.

  16. Not a Java, or even a library vulnerability on Vulnerability In Java Commons Library Leads To Hundreds of Insecure Applications (foxglovesecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    We were corrected by Mr. Frohoff that said the vulnerability is in how developers treat user-supplied serialized data, and not the library itself.

    http://news.softpedia.com/news/the-vulnerability-that-will-rock-the-entire-java-world-495840.shtml

    This is an issue with how some users use a 3rd party library Apache Commons Collections. Java doesn't have to be fixed. And Apache Commons-Collection doesn't have to be fixed, except maybe stating the obvious...

    Do not deserialize objects with executable code from the internet.

  17. Re:How much of it do I have to trust? on Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance (lkml.org) · · Score: 2

    dude, you missed like 8 choices

  18. Brain-dead security hole on Wordpress Brute Force Attacks Using Multiple Passwords Per Login Via XML-RPC (sucuri.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Starting with Wordpress 3.5 XML-RPC was turned on by default, and the ability to turn off XML-RPC was removed. They didn't even leave the ability to filter the remote calls by IP address. E.g. allow localhost by default, have a button that 'allows current IP' or something like that.

    I think this was one of the most brain-dead security decisions in a major piece of software in recent memory. And this decision simply has to be reversed to fix this.

  19. Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic on The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time · · Score: 1

    And isn't the business community part of "programming trends"? And hence should be included?

    java usage has increased at GitHub, but this more likely reflects greater adoption of GitHub by the business community.

    I can't understand the resistance to give Java credit here. It's one of the most successful modern programming languages and entirely open-sourced.

  20. Ubuntu does not support hibernate on SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Considering the push for the "Year of the Linux Desktop" it's strange Ubuntu does not support hibernate and hasn't for years now. Hibernate is important, because unlike suspend it does not require power.

    It's annoying to have the computer shutdown when it runs out of power instead of simply hibernating.

  21. Credit "Snatch" on French Killers Inspired By Breaking Bad TV Show · · Score: 1

    https://youtu.be/u3qy4Zv4snI?t=1m1s "Never trust a man with a pig farm..."

  22. MVNOs did it on Verizon Ends Smartphone Subsidies · · Score: 1

    T-mobile was the first to respond most likely because they are the smallest. Typically, smaller competitors react to market changes faster than the more entrenched. But the change to post-paid has been coming for years, as all providers were losing lots of customers to MVNOs. It has been obvious ( looking at the market in the rest of the world ) that this is where the industry was going.

  23. 9% of CS grads not good enough for you? on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    But last year, 4.5% of all new recipients of bachelor's degrees in computer science or computer engineering from prestigious research universities were African American, and 6.5% were Hispanic, according to data from the Computing Research Association

    Source...
    Tech jobs: Minorities have degrees, but don't get hired

  24. Re:Irony on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    Blacks and Hispanics make up over 9% of CS grads. Source.. Tech jobs: Minorities have degrees, but don't get hired