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tvonon Neovim public release 0.1.0

I went through this on Friday after a spontaneous update of neovim. The help docs are well maintained, see `:help nvim`, or read online here https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim.html

tvonon Apple doesn’t allow Chaos Computer Club tvOS application

The specific reasons for rejection:

    > The following content was criticized by Apple in its review:
    > 
    > Hardware attacks: hacking chips on the (very) cheap (https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2015-6711-hardware_attacks_hacking_chips_on_the_very_cheap)
    > Bluetooth Hacking – The State of The Art (https://media.ccc.de/v/22C3-536-en-bluetooth_hacking)
    > Hacking Medical Devices (https://media.ccc.de/v/MRMCD2013_-_5209_-_de_-_gate_104_-_201309081123_-_hacking_medical_devices_-_flo)
    > Gamehacking & Reverse Engineering (https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn15-6940-gamehacking_reverse_engineering)
    > Crypto-Hacking Export restrictions (https://media.ccc.de/v/1114)
    > Jailbreak: eine Einführung (https://media.ccc.de/v/hackover14_-_6494_-_en_-_raum_1_7_-_201410251615_-_jailbreak_eine_einfuhrung_-_erik_e)
    > Social Engineering und Industriespionage (https://media.ccc.de/v/MRMCD15-7034-social_engineering_und_industriespionage)
    > $kernel->infect(): Creating a cryptovirus for Symfony2 apps (https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2014_-_1436_-_en_-_hs6_php_-_201408231115_-_kernel-_infect_creating_a_cryptovirus_for_symfony2_apps_-_raul_fraile)

tvonon ESPN suspends publication of Grantland

On one hand this makes complete sense. ESPN wants to appeal to the largest possible audience, which means lowest common denominator coverage (basically shallow analysis and gossip, IMO).

On the other hand, ESPN is large enough that if they gave a crap about providing anything a bit "smarter" for snobs like me they could easily keep Grantland afloat.

Very disappointing and not the least bit surprising.

tvonon Apple TV is a rethinking of users’ relationship with hardware and games

Please expand on that.

tvonon Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account

This is the NY Post.

Also, what is a NY Post story doing here?

tvonon Inside the lab: Why Apple still sweats the details on iMac

I mean, that's kind of the point. It's a tiny detail that nobody else would focus on, according to the narrative.

Not that I think it matters myself.

tvonon Staffpad: a new class of notation app

FYI, the preview that shows up when shared to Facebook is broken (just shows some CSS).

tvonon El Capitan and Homebrew

It's in /opt, so it's just:

    PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:$PATH

I considered a ~/ directory but wanted it available for the rare occasion when there is someone ssh'd into my machine (though I didn't go so far as to update the system-wide shell configs to use it.

tvonon El Capitan and Homebrew

Homebrew can be installed anywhere, and after ~2 years of having it outside of /usr/local I have not run into any problems. There is a disclaimer somewhere that states some "packages" may not work well with this setup, but that seems like an upstream bug to me. Things should not require things to live in a specific path or prefix.

tvonon El Capitan and Homebrew

Homebrew is great, but using /usr/local as the default install location just a bad idea.

tvonon Apple Unveils the iPad Pro

It is not clear what question you are asking.

tvonon Show HN: Continuo, a simple activity tracker for iPhone

Sure thing

tvonon Show HN: Continuo, a simple activity tracker for iPhone

Consistently crashes shortly after tapping 'Add an activity'. iPhone 6+, iOS 8.4.1.

tvonon Taking the 'D' Out of CRUD with Soft Updates

This seems to be the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgni5q0YM8

tvonon The Time Zone Rebels of the World

I think that is over-complication of informercial proportions.

edit: Though the days of the week point I don't have an answer for. Religious holidays are easy, they would follow the old calendar, but I'm not sure how the days would work otherwise.

tvonon See Android Go

iOS has a surprising number of realistic language choices, where by "realistic" I mean a savvy end-user would never know you didn't use Objective-C (so, PhoneGap & co are not counted).

tvonon OpenWrt switches to musl by default, replacing uClibc

For the uninitiated, these are libc libraries for embedded systems (alternatives to glibc).

http://www.musl-libc.org/intro.html

http://www.uclibc.org/about.html

tvonon Universal asks Google to take down 127.0.0.1 for piracy

Total nitpick on my part, but the line is from an urban legend, which "When a Stranger Calls" (among others) is based upon.

A few references:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCallsAreComing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babysitter_and_the_Man_Ups...

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/babysitter.asp

tvonon How Big is Space?

That could make for a cool park. I imagine you'd have clear line of sight between the planets (either by having a clear path between or by raising them up on monuments), and telescopes setup at each planet in such a way that visitors could look at the other planets without people getting in the way.

The Sun would be 1.5 meters across, the Earth would be 1.2 centimeters across, and the whole thing would be 4.5 km from the Sun to Pluto.

tvonon Reddit Chief Engineer Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job

Not that I disagree, but it's worth mentioning (for anyone who doesn't frequent reddit) that firing Victoria was apparently Alexis Ohanian's decision, and not Pao's[1][2], which suggests that the pressure is coming from the board and not an endeavor specific to Pao.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3d6asv/former_r...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0t...

tvonon Ask HN: I have ssh, they have ssh, how can we chat?

There are existing (old) *nix commands for this. E.g., the `talk` command which I believe needs the talkd daemon running (ntalkd on OS X). There are also `wall` and `write`.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talkd_and_the_talk_comm...

tvonon Apple Acquires Coherent Navigation, a GPS Startup

Uber uses Google maps on iOS.

tvonon Drug perks up old muscles and aging brains

I am not aware of anything that has been made illegal to the general public because it was used to gain an advantage in professional sports.

tvonon Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste (2010)

I think leni536 is just addressing the kind of interesting problem of what it takes to shoot anything into the Sun.

tvonon Elementary OS 0.3 “Freya” is released

Last I tried it didn't work very well in Arch, but that may have changed over the past month or so.

tvonon “Sierra… well, it was the poor victim of a hostile takeover by criminals”

IIRC in Kings Quest III (or, the one where you start in a shack at the top of a mountain) I got down the mountain (after falling to my death a hundred times) and across some body of water only to discover I had missed picking something up in the shack that was required to continue. Of course there was no way to go back...

Those games were brutal.

tvonon Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests

From a Washington Post[1] article:

> Clinton was not the first secretary of state to use a private account. The State Department said Clinton’s successor as top diplomat, John F. Kerry, is the first secretary to use a standard government e-mail address ending in “state.gov.”

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-used-...

tvonon My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

Yeah, FWIW I had to google the terms and found this:

https://gist.github.com/cspray/1689430

tvonon Play Breakout while you pull to refresh

I get the impression this is "just for fun" and not seriously meant to be implemented out of need.

tvonon With no trademark, Sriracha name is showing up everywhere

If he wanted to stop it, perhaps.