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> What's wrong with something looking "old-fashioned"?

I think people tend to assume that software that looks old-fashioned is likely to be unmaintained or buggy.
Did you need it for delivery of something? Was that made very clear to the user? I can't believe so many people, wanting to receive something through the post, would wilfully screw up their address - maybe there's more to your use-case than meets the eye?
It was my impression that Switzerland had a name for being crypto and privacy friendly. It sounds odd to me that the US making a law would automatically mean that every other country with strong ties to the US would follow it as well.
I'm wondering how munificent feels about Squirrel[1]. It seems like Wren is looking to fill the same niche that Squirrel fits. So I guess my question is, how are they different, or, how is Wren better?

[1] - http://squirrel-lang.org/
>in Linux you have ‘root’ and everything else

Well, you do have:

- capabilities (which are so coarse-grained as to be practically useless)

- 8 types of namespaces

- seccomp-bpf

- LSM (AppArmor, SELinux, TOMOYO, etc)
That's strange. I'd recommend filing an issue. Any details on how I can reproduce the error will be helpful, even if I have to temporarily rent one of those things. I'm on a mission to make binaries portable.
> The point of Bitcoin now is not really payments. But it is a store of value.

Let's stop calling it crypto "currency" then since the point of any currency is to act as a medium of exchange.

> In that case, 30$ is not much for ability to send it anywhere in the world within minutes and store it for free as long as you want. Compare that with gold, or any other asset.

You can trade assets much more easily on highly sophisticated futures markets, much faster, cheaper and with higher liquidity. Too complex? You can buy an ETF that tracks a single asset like gold or a mix of assets like bonds, equities etc. There is nothing that bitcoin claims to be that isn't done better by existing financial instruments, except "decentralization".
Bill hasn't called Linux cancer, that was Steve. And he was talking about GPL which admittedly is kind of like cancer - if your code touches it, it has to be GPL'ed as well
You can actually for example get drivers for APFS for Windows from third party vendors.
Agreed, the truth usually lies somewhere in between and my point was we can't absolve the tools/ecosystems and put it on squarely on the devs. That definitely doesn't absolve teams and they need to do their homework before jumping on the bandwagon. K8s is great if you know what you're signing up for.
"Of all the information that U.S. public transit agencies track, none is more important to them than ridership — the number of people boarding its buses, trains and subway cars. Agency executives monitor their ridership data as closely as a CEO watching her company’s stock price. 'We’ve always used ridership as our main metric,' says M.J. Maynard, CEO of RTC Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. 'We’re constantly drawing comparisons with each other and bragging when our numbers are bigger.”

Dollars are at stake in addition to pride; ridership partly determines the amount of federal funding allocated to each system. The national transit industry scrutinizes passenger numbers too, celebrating a national uptick and bemoaning a downturn.

But the coronavirus pandemic has shown that ridership is an imperfect measure of transit’s importance. With offices shuttered and agencies themselves advising passengers to avoid all but essential trips, passenger counts collapsed by as much as 90% on rail service in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. Ridership on buses has slumped as well. And these numbers are unlikely to snap back quickly to pre-Covid levels, as work-from-home habits forged during the pandemic stand to leave lasting marks on commuting patterns in major cities."
All true. As I mentioned, camera lenses would be the biggest improvement. Likely universal within a year or two.
I grew up in the absolute middle of nowhere in Africa (bus ride to school took 50 minutes one way), so I have some experience here.

1. Most things can be taken care of to a point where a lengthy journey to help is possible. In an extreme case you can get a helicopter in on the radio. Of course the US makes this challenging, because you have to pay for healthcare. That's a hurdle for sure.

2. People that live isolated lives choose it because it's isolated. I ended up in London but am still happiest on my own. Until I met my girlfriend my most meaningful relationship was with my dog. No guile there.

3. That's the point though, isn't it? Sustaining yourself and yours becomes your work.

4. Again not so hard. The people drawn to this life like the solitude. Sure they will find their way to a store or post office every now and then where they'll see enough people to remind them why they're out there and isolated.
JS analytics gives away too much.

Web site owners can analyze their web server's log, which has at least client's IP address, user agent, timestamp and the URL. Already too much if you ask me.
Could you please translate what they're saying? I can never understand what people say on radio communications.
We can have a totally different attitude towards commercial property, I agree.
Sneakers as a Service ;)
Not really. In law you can do as you please with your own property, so you have the "right to repair" by default.

A problem is that this may not be feasible in practice, which is fair game in general.

Another problem, which I think is more serious and unfair, is that manufacturers might actively prevent you from repairing by, e.g, requiring software to be reset by them only when you change parts.
>M has been the accepted prefix for 1,000,000 since the 19th century

Except when it, of course, isn't. $10M is certainly not ten megadollars.

Even science isn't that consistent about it. The SI base unit for mass is the kilogram. Yet we don't have megakilograms. We have megagrams, but nobody uses them. Instead we use tons. Somehow kilotons and megatons are used though.

If we're willing to accept the above then why couldn't we have stuck with the powers of 2? Digital information at some level is going to become base 2.
1. You didn't. They knew. Ask for help/guidance.
2. Yes. Code review is your friend.
3. Not all. Learn from them. Ask for help.
That is so cool! Thank you for sharing.
It's not about finding anything of interest in the server. It's the negative impact this server and many others like it have on others when they're leveraged in an attack.
I've never read Ready Player One, and there's a reason for that: people compare it to Snow Crash and I found Snow Crash to be entirely insufferable. I cannot stand that book. The worst part is that the main character is named Hiro Protagonist. The book just tries to be too cool.

Maybe the problem is that it was written in 1992 and so much has been inspired by it that now the book seems tired and cliche. But if you're recommending it to a 14 year old, they're already going to be familiar with some of the works that have been inspired by Snow Crash, and they will likely find it as insufferable as well.

And isn't Ready Player One heavy into the 80's pop culture? A 14 year old was born in 2001... they don't know what the 80's means.
The golog author has a great presentation on using prolog in production.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_eYTctGZw8
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Do you have to invest individually, or as a whole?
May be I sounded arrogant? I'm really tired of the community here meet/attended so many people doing "Introduction to .." talks.
Discovered later the real one's never attend / participate the "community events" they just code and speak less.
Thats right. Just like people download linux and run it without knowing anything about its internals. Isn't open source great? :)
Yes. I don't know lisp. But then that can change in the future right? :)

Also, there are other people who know already and can contribute
See HN discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913102 --- 2 hours ago, as linked to in the article.
I think that regrettably, you might be right. It's obviously not just checking for a bytecode match (see my var foo example), but it's doing something hinky. I did a simple pow-and-modulo test with the same assumptions and it didn't optimize it away.
Since our prior conversations, I've softened on my stance and at this point I think it's mostly just a UX issue. I don't think you or any other expert is wrong in being as... "hyper" about the problems in current software. I just think "your" (as the stand-in for crypto experts everywhere) solutions are, while strong, not the best UX, and I consider UX to be a critical part of security -- if people won't use it, then it's not good.

All I'm saying here is that there's a disconnect between security and usability that needs to be bridged, and sometimes one side forgets about the difficulty of correctly implementing the other.
Find someone in the company to mentor you. Shoot for someone two or three levels above you with whom you share some outside interest or other personal connection.

Senior people in companies need to act as mentors to advance their careers as well so this will form a symbiotic relationship. Don't underestimate the need to "feel the pain" some of the time. In other words, don't ask to be or allow yourself to be spoonfed. Put in the effort, but escalate quickly. If you get stuck on something for more than 15 minutes, take a break and come back to it. If it happens again, escalate to your mentor, but not more than once or twice per day.

It is a difficult series of steps but it sounds necessary. If you can't accomplish these steps because there is noone with whom you can connect, you should leave. I'd say try for three months and try two or three different people.
What particular sorcery do you use that prevents your site from serving Firefox browsers?
Might this work for you?
http://goryachev.com/products/secure-archive

Also, what was wrong with Tarsnap?
This is a great site, but one thing bothers me - your policy when it comes to DMCA takedown requests.

If this becomes well-known, you'll get so many DMCAs that there'll be nothing worth downloading. Is that just there to keep the movie/music industries happy, or will you actually be responding to every takedown request?
> If we continuously make it increasingly harder for NSA, MOSAD, GCHQ and the rest of them to spy on us, we can achieve good enough privacy

Right now everyone's digital communications are being collected by those agencies, via fiber optic cable taps [1]. This could be called bulk surveillance. Different people & groups have access to these databases of communications. Some are government employees, some are contractors. Now, what if an activist or a Senator starts speaking out against bulk surveillance? Would those with access to the databases be tempted to run a few queries?

'SELECT * FROM `sms` WHERE `person_id`="$senator_id"'

Note: Most analysts would never run that query. But it just takes one.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/interviews...
Phishing emails would be a good start. I have the same setup as well. It makes more sense to have it forwarded and labeled coming in rather than give away your real email. This way if someone sends you fake mail to your daily use email but its not labeled from one of the secondary accounts you use to actually run your personal stuff, you know it's balony.
This is a full textbook and not "just" a paper. The book has a website at https://mlstory.org/
Which stupid wrote this piece?
> In other words, if einstein assumed “the earth doesn’t accelerate upward, the apple accelerates downward! The science is settled!”,

But, insofar as there was a broadly accepted pre-GR scientific explanation, it was not “The earth doesn’t accelerate upward, the apple accelerates downardThe second half, yes, but not the first.
It’s reasonable to expect the lifestyle you are constantly surrounded by.

No, it's not. Should you be able to afford a home in Beverley Hills? Should you be able to afford a home in San Francisco itself? 40 years ago that was the norm.
I try to let my code be self-documenting (self-explonatory function/variable names etc) with little to no commenting as possible. I don't always achieve what I set out to accomplish though. I can revisit my code after a few months and my initial thought can be 'What?'. That's a big hint that I failed and it's time to add some comments.
In short, yes. There was a massive drop in elderly people developing COVID-19 symptoms but an increase in younger people.

The vaccination rate at younger individuals is far lower than elder ones, also the vaccine created a false sense of safety for everyone.
Ek herhaal jou

Ek herhaal jou
sonder begin of einde
herhaal ek jou liggaam
Die dag het ’n smal skadu
en die nag geel kruise
die landskap is sonder aansien
en die mense ’n ry kerse
terwyl ek jou herhaal
met my borste
wat die holtes van jou hand namaak

- Ingrid Jonker

The poem is in Afrikaans and the poet is South African.

For those who are interested, an English language Dutch film about her was made a few years ago called Black Butterflies.

I can however not say that I have seen any translations that do justice to the original.
Actually I mean if I were maintaining this I'd probably not include such an interface at all, and let users of the library decide it entirely.
"Placenta encapsulation" is still very much a thing among hippie moms.
Not sure about horses specifically, but humans are uniquely adapted to long distance travel among large land animals and used it for hunting by out-performing most other species:

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

Edit: it's one of two things I know of that we really excel at besides thinking. The other being accurate throwing, which perhaps explains baseball's enduring appeal:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/44/
The problem is it doesn't end with relevant ads. It doesn't even end with Cambridge Analytica. The business model of Facebook is absolutely clear. You are the product and the currency is you. If they can convert that to real $ they'll do it by any means without thinking about the implications. FB has proven again and again that they are incapable of considering or do not want to consider the wider implications of their actions. It's absolutely toxic and your actions today will define the future your children will be living in tomorrow. I personally think that it would be great if that future wasn't 1984 on steroids.
Russia has the power to take a portion of territory and they did. The means through which they did it is considered wrong, but it doesn't change the reality of who controls the area. Maps of political borders are maps of influence, not maps of ideals.

I'll also note that thoughts and prayers are not terribly useful in these situations. Force responds to force, nothing else. I expect Russia to continue doing these sorts of things while the world frets.
I mean I guess but that's more b/c they haven't got use to the concept of a computer beating them yet. Give it a few years and people will adjust.
for me in germany it just shows no country at all
I control the box doing the decryption, so it is still my system. I can tell Squid which ciphers are appropriate and whether or not I want to validate the chain or accept anything. All of those controls still exist. But yes, I would be concerned as you are if I were using a proprietary proxy like Bluecoat or Websense.
I know the title sounds extremely click-baity but it is a direct quote from TFA

Deezer has now tweaked its language to directly accuse similar tools of "maliciously" obtaining its private encryption keys and publishing them on Github, in order to defeat its "effective technical measures."
Looks nice! Maybe you could add some words to you site to emphasize that the video isn't actually uploaded to a remote server.
There is literally no way that we the people can't win.

Either google gets slapped and stops being a parasite that lives in the cracks of copyright law, or newscorp dies.

This is the definition of a win win situation.
You're only the second commenter on this thread to notice this.

The benchmark compares fibers to threads and has little to do with Rust. You will see the same numbers for a fibers implementation in any natively compiled language like C or Java.

The title is completely misleading, especially for most people who are not aware of this important distinction.
I made this letter that is open to be edited, translated, &c

http://jimktrains.github.io/free-software-letter-city/letter...

My hope is that others would use it and try to get their governments to switch to F/OSS.
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Cheap debt with enough financial engineering to minimize EPS dilution.

TSLA is an ideal stock for convert debt because it's highly volatile (compared to some other companies) which makes the pricing more attractive and opens it up for a certain class of buyers.

Source - I used to price these for a living.
I was so excited to see Book I before it came out and I remember distinctly that (to me, obvious) speech pattern being the first real, big disappointment. Of many, sadly.
You can use similar methods for interfacing C as well, if this is a better way for you to interface fortran.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Lenovo. They have large worldwide market share and, unlike Xiaomi, sell well internationally with Motorola.
As people have already pointed out, Fred Wilson is mostly talking about an abstraction layer so most users think about applications, which provide an interface layer to files they use.

I think that devices with a relatively small amount of SSD storage contribute to cloud and web service providers getting more control of people's data. Selective sync in services like OneCloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox allow users to just keep local copies of files they need in the near future. At least I do this.
Alternative moral of the story: Mutation complicates things.
Blame Microsoft - They went for exclusive Windows support and were pretty nasty in screwing with standards to force people there.

If they kept with cross-platform support (they dropped Mac IE as of version 5.2...) and played a bit nicer with standards (non MS standards were against their lock-in strategy), I'm sure the market would not have been as fed-up with them .

Not talking techies here, just users, if things just worked for most of em then they would have been happy. But as MS excluded IE tech on non MS phones, Apples and other computing devices that access the internet they started excluding themselves as well.
Here is a link to an article with links to the agreement, the order unsealing it, etc.

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-righthavens-secret-contra...

Upon a quick read, I notice that the Defendants' brief argues, on page 9, section III, that "it appears indisputable that Righthaven's assignment of the cause of action is unvalid under Silvers, rendering Righthaven's claim objectively unreasonable," thus opening the door Righthaven having to pay attorneys fees.

EDIT: Here is a quote from the order, regarding Righthaven's arguments:

The use of phrases, in the Motion to Strike, such as “underhanded,” “a ruse,” “blatantly ignored,” “brazen attempt,” “fumbling attempt,” “purposefully muddle,” and “Defendants’ complaint reeks of hypocrisy,” is a very unprofessional attempt to attack counsel rather than address the issues. There is an old adage in the law that, if the facts are on your side, you pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, you pound on the law. If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, you pound on the table. It appears there is a lot of table pounding going on here.
#9 is perhaps the best tip (start thinking about your most important task before you goto sleep). Particularly in combination with #3 (do a specific task first thing when you wake up and start at the computer).

I find that 'working momentum' is highest beginning as soon as the computer turns on in the morning. For this reason, each day I will typically schedule 3 hours of focus on one specific task/project/vision; before doing anything else. Trust me, anything you focus on for a solid 3 hours a day will eventually get done... probably sooner than you expect.
I've always found:

http://playground.html5rocks.com/#semantic_markup

A good resource too.
With no new features, this is Apple keeping the buzz alive.
I ported an iOS app to Android. I've sold three (!!) copies while in that same period, the iOS version has sold about 300. I dropped the price from $5 down to $2 over easter and still didn't sell a single copy during the sale.

The two apps have the same content and the sales funnel is exactly the same. (The only difference is the iOS app has lots of 5-star reviews.) It seems clear to me that Android users can't or won't pay for certain kinds of apps.
"Our failure to work together prevents us from enjoying better, more widespread Internet access."

I almost didn't manage to read further. The same can be said about so many things (if everyone just took or borrowed what he needed in a responsible manner, we wouldn't need money at all... to name the most utopian example), yet this kind of reasoning simply doesn't work, as has been shown both practically and theoretically (from game theory to "selfish gene").

It makes me always kind of sad to see smart and enthusiastic people not to grasp this simple fact.