Hacker News Reader

xai3luGion High quality GIF with FFmpeg

Seems unlikely that the security team would be happy having both ffmpeg and libav in Debian, so a GR would be needed to override them.

xai3luGion Maven Version Manager

there is also https://github.com/themnd/mvnenv

xai3luGion Sexism in Tech: Don’t Ask Me Unless You’re Ready to Call Someone a Whistleblower

I agree with bootload, how about publishing all the penalties directly under the post?

xai3luGion Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier

Could you explain what you mean by "unprofessional" here? Personally Google's business model seems to be the unprofessional thing in this conversation.

xai3luGion Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania

You should come to the Debian conference in Cape Town next year :)

https://jonathancarter.org/2015/02/13/debconf-2016-to-be-hos...

xai3luGion Show HN: Advertising-Free Search-Engine

Interesting but there is approximately zero technical information about how it works on their website. Minimal code release. Not a distributed network of independently run nodes (like Yacy or Tor).

xai3luGion Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard

Cory Doctorow has a great talk about computers and owners vs users. I can't find the link any more though, anyone have a link?

xai3luGion Show HN: Advertising-Free Search-Engine

Have you considered joining the YaCy community? It is another open source search engine.

http://www.yacy.net/

xai3luGion Stages of learning Go, with code examples

Unfortunately that is what I've experienced.

I direct your attention to sort: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/sort/sort.go#... This defines sort on []int and []float64. If you want to sort a []int32, you have to manually define Int32Slice and copy paste lines 232-237. Copy paste the same lines again for any other slice of built-ins you wish to sort, e.g. uint32, uint64, int64, float32, etc.

They removed the entire set of vector containers now, but for the canonical way to implement IntVector, see https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/container... -- and compare that to stringvector.go in the same directory. It's almost entirely copy/paste with string substitution to replace int with string.

xai3luGion The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle

At this point, we might as well just go back to landlines and fax machines.

xai3luGion Is two to the power of infinity more than infinity?

the density is more, yes.

xai3luGion Three Tiers of Package Managers

say there is a fourth, and u write a transparent pooch parth script for ur dogs on the 4th, and dad thinks he got away...

xai3luGion Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition

An alternative source of data that you can contribute to:

http://www.voxforge.org/

xai3luGion Samsung's smart TVs are inserting unwanted ads into users' own movies

http://www.samygo.tv/

xai3luGion Moreutils

Considered putting these in Debian?

xai3luGion Moreutils

> And I'd really like to see numutils packaged.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/num-utils

xai3luGion I’m an Anti-Braker

classic vindictive "well then why dont everybody"republican lowest common denominator derivative calculator math at best... seen it a thousand times...

xai3luGion A man who studies everyday evil

I think it is even worse than that; becoming a surgeon destroys empathy.

xai3luGion Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends

Provided it is not open-source, it can repeat the fate of Opera Presto one day...

xai3luGion Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds

Debian appears to be doing some work on that too:

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls

xai3luGion Coder's Rights Project – Reverse Engineering FAQ

> allow breaking DRM for any non infringing purpose

Why not just make building DRM into a consumer product illegal?

xai3luGion Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

DebConf is always pretty fun. http://debconf15.debconf.org/

xai3luGion Why Deleting Sensitive Information from GitHub Doesn't Save You

You could set your author email address to an empty string before committing.

xai3luGion Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]

Which FLOSS operating system are you running on the baseband?