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I always thought OS X was really clunky compared to Windows where everything is fairly uniform and well labeled. Also, in OS X you can't have simple features like "changing the color of the mouse cursor" in OS X because Apple.

Look at any thread about OS X desktop setups and you'll see people recommending tools that add features from Windows like changing the way Alt-Tab works or adding tiling commands.

However there are many features that you simply can't have (besides the cursor color that I mentioned above.) You can't have a proper taskbar even though many people want one because Apple doesn't let you use a certain API that the Dock uses to change `NSScreen.visibleFrame`.

In Windows there is a simple uniform way of controlling the entire OS with the keyboard whereas in OS X, you have to remember a million secret handshakes. Windows also has a vastly more robust file browser compared to the ailing Finder that everybody hates. It's no wonder that there is hardly any software for extending Finder in OS X like TortoiseGit. Most people just recommend to replace it with a better app like XtraFinder, TotalFinder or PathFinder.

The only reason anyone uses it around here is because it's got Unix and it's not from Microsoft. If it wasn't Unix, most people would be making fun of the klunky interface just like they made fun of the Mac interface back in the 90's.
SpaceX is COTS welfare for LEO launches to the soon to be retired ISS. It is not on track for Mars colonization. Its utility is vastly exaggerated by the types of people who read HN and reddit. While it is impressive, it is just cheaper launches for certain edge cases. Colonization and terraforming other worlds is pure fiction right now and going on TV and yelling about dropping nukes to make Mars human safe looks absolutely crazy to even educated people.

The article paints Musk fairly, as an out of touch dreamer with crazy ideas. He steps over homeless people to rush to television producers to spout off the same canned futurism we've been hearing for decades. His version is slightly more plausible, but it, of course, ignores all social issues; issues that will only follow us into space. The same way futurists predicted a moon landing but never imagine women would get to vote, for example.

Criticizing Musk for putting the cart before the horse is valid. Futurist talk is cheap and historically wrong. Men like Musk are the face of tech and its a little embarrassing to see stuff like this. Not to mention his hysterical tirades about how AI will enslave humanity.

Lastly, whats my incentive to migrate to a new colony if its just going to have the same problems we have here on Earth?
Thank you. I was reprimanded once for essentially "only" being at the office for the defined time we agreed I would be there. I spent some time racking my brain until I decided I wasn't being unreasonable.
Follow the laws? How quaint.

Why not just delibrately break them until you have enough money/influence to have them rewritten? Looking at you Uber
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> It's certainly not a secular view.

I don't see why not. I don't know that secular people are any less prone to ignorant ideas than people who are religious.
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> Given that VW tried to cheat emissions to improve performance and mileage, it's exactly something that a person like me actually wants (not the cheating the system, but the driver benefits).

No. They cheated to pass the exam on the cheap, instead of investing in the required R&D to create a motor that gives out the same amount of power while reducing emissions.

Given that they already had their engine for the EU, they didn't want to research a new one that conforms to the more drastic emissions of USA for Diesel. That's just a shitty workaround that was there for too long. That it has been in there since 2008 just shows how careless they were.

I'm wondering what the investigation in the chain of decision will unveil. You can't hide this for so long without some pretty intense omerta everywhere.
I wonder if we're going to see other car companies try to quietly issue software updates to existing vehicles to cover up their own emissions-test-defeating code.
As a general rule password fields should accept paste. 99% of them are not on locked devices.

When you said "they" I thought you were talking about password fields as a whole, not this single field.

And even then, any OS could be run in a VM, so why not accept paste, it won't hurt anyone.
Angular is the answer to another question than the question that I usually face. So, the usability guy and the graphical designers have produced HTML/CSS page designs that work well and look good. The purpose of the javascript that I will be adding, is to make sure the user interface functions. Faced with these requirements, I have never been in a situation in which I felt that something like Angular would be able to contribute anything useful. If you drag Angular into the fray, it will be the most important kid in the room that you will need to constantly babysit. Forget about what you want to achieve. Think of Angular first. Everything else is unimportant ...
Problem is they've got the money and the market, CEO can't resign and get away with it, they should pay back all plus a hefty fine. This is much too common nowadays, big corps have no face and are too big to fail, no one is directly accountable and geopolitics are at stake. Hit them hard in the monies, would say, but the risk is fear and a market bubble.
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I'm not sure if this is great idea. Use of reverse proxies has lots of benefits. You can manage load balancing, SSL Termination, serving static content (much faster), caching, compression, centralized logging, and using different applications on the same ur space (foo.com/app1, foo.com/app2). They also have the added benefit of another layer of security (look for and prevent various HTTP exploits and prevent them from getting to the web server). I'm not saying you can't do this in node but nginx/apache are really good at what they do.

EDIT:

I've read through your comments and you seem like a pretty experienced developer. I don't think any of the information in my comment should be news to you so I'm curious to hear more about why you feel this way.
The EPA has already stated that all diesel passenger cars will be retested. I think all cars should go through the same complete testing process and by more than one organizations.

The EPA didn't find this issue, a university testing team did
Yeah. Vendors like Altera have a whole library of peripherals like serial, GPIO, etc for their own softcore processors and graphical tools for hooking them up; I don't think there's anything like that for RISC-V yet.
Here's a back-of-the-envelope calculation that the cheating caused 100,000 deaths due to health problems from increased pollution:

https://twitter.com/Dymaxion/status/646489476651462657
I don't think I'm caught on the euphemism treadmill; I have no problem describing some systems and some people as socialist. (And, for the avoidance of doubt, I don't regard it as an insult to do so.) I just don't think it applies accurately to Scandinavian-style social democracy.
Is there any difference when Google/Apple/MS do it?
I'm expecting a snarky press release from Tesla any moment now...
They need to realize that eventually the market will drive their users elsewhere. Content is king and there is more content elsewhere.

If you provide a worse user experience with the same content as another, then income will dwindle altogether.

Innovate, move forward.
It really isn't the same. If you have a habit you're trying to break, abstention is the most obvious tool and everybody goes for it (and everybody faults themselves or each other when it doesn't work). If you've ever heard the term "white knuckling", that concept can often describe this sort of situation. "I'll just suck it Up and stop"

But many self improvement advisors across a host of problems from overeating to addiction agree that the way to kick a habit is to crowd it out of your life. You don't have time to eat a cheesecake because you're going for a run or to a volunteer event or to the park with your kids.
Ah, I stand corrected.
Very fascinating, but I also feel left out. I get sick just by riding a Ferris wheel.
There appears to be secular reasons behind this view in some cultures as well:

> In some areas, in order to preserve cleanliness where sanitation was an issue, the right hand, as the dominant hand of most individuals, was used for eating, handling food, and social interactions. The left hand would then be used for personal hygiene, specifically after urination and defecation. These rules were imposed on all, no matter their dominant hand. Through these practices, the left hand became known as the "unclean" hand. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl...
I think your situation is different; you're not subscribing them to a newsletter. Your communication is reasonable for a typical business relationship. (and is protected under CAN-SPAM)
The post ends with "We look forward to your feedback as you try out nginScript [...]" but it doesn't mention where we can test it out. Does anybody know more about that?
Come visit beautiful San Francisco! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system

I think the wires would get in each other's way if you had pods in the same volume.
I've been working with full motion simulators for the past two years (I even rode that simulator last week at MPI) and I must say that this is plain wrong. This is actually a great fit for VR simulation (see below):

> Actual linear acceleration is of limited value in simulation because...

Linear acceleration is immensely useful for sudden accelerations. Image a sudden linear acceleration (e.g. a racing car accelerating). You cannot recreate this acceleration by suddenly rotating. The angular accelerations would ruin the experience. Rather, you make a linear movement, and THEN you rotate the simulator (if you need to sustain the acceleration).

> you run out of room and have to apply an opposite acceleration, which can conflict with the simulation needs.

wrong again. If you move the simulator at slow speed, you can actually come back to the optimal position and the subject does not notice it (washout filter [1])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_simulator#Implementatio...
And if all of that wasn't bad enough to make you dislike VW, they've now hired BP oil spill lawyers to defend them:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/23/volkswagen-h...
Interestingly, my iPhone 6 on Verizon's LTE in the US is running on IPV6. Fascinating that my campus computer is behind the times, relative to my cell phone.
Two things that are surprising to me about this story:

1) The secret was kept for so long. How many programmers were involved with the relevant code? How many project managers signed off on it? Surely VW does its own emissions testing internally so some of them must have known. How high up in management did this go? It seems like it must have been quite a few. Amazing that none of them got mad and told someone outside the company.

2) I would never have guessed that emissions from a car engine could vary so widely. 20%? Sure. 50%? Sure. But news outlets are reporting that these cars are emitting at least 10x and possibly as much as 40x NOx as they should. This is clearly because of my ignorance of the details of the engineering here, but I was shocked that such a difference could happen.
"Some unicorns, like Honest Company, have terms that require minimum I.P.O. prices for the V.C. investors that they just won’t be able to meet anytime soon. According to Fenwick & West, 19 percent of the unicorns in their survey had such minimum price protection."

As a total outsider, this is the first I've heard of this clause. Is this also a significant contributor to the much, much later IPOs? (I mean, in reality, not in theory. The theory is obvious: "yes", but the theory doesn't prove a particular significance.)
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I wouldn't call them "backwards". They're opposite of the US, but that's because they're optimizing for reducing a different pollutant. Smog is certainly undesirable (as an asthmatic, I know that from experience), but CO2 may well have more dire long-term costs.

Of course, the optimal situation would be to tightly regulate both pollutants.
Nitrous oxide is about 300x more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2[1]. It also depletes the ozone layer. So yes, this could be a major issue for climate change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide
Speaking of spam, the wedding industry is the worst offender I've ever seen; worse than porn websites. I've had my email address web spider-able for many years, but never seen as much spam as I have while planning a wedding. These venues and vendors take your information and sell it 2 seconds later to anyone and everyone. One venue, for example, I emailed to set up a visit and meeting. This wasn't some web form, it was me emailing them directly. Suddenly I'm subscribed to their newsletter. That was quite novel; they now rot in my spam folder.

Beyond that, after all this contact with venues, vendors, and bridal shows I'm now being bombarded with email spam, text spam, and worst of all phone calls from scam artists. The last one in particular is disturbing and makes it clear that these wedding related companies are selling information like there's no tomorrow. Disgusting.
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In July, France 2 (the #1 public national television channel in France) released a documentary [0] that showed to which extent the French auto manufacturer PSA lied about NO2 emissions.

At 1h19s [1], Pierre Macaudière, head of emission control systems at PSA, admits that the model tested emits 1700 ppm of NO2, after measuring 200 ppm (the legal limit) with their own machines.

At 1h17m11s [2], the researchers commissioned by the EU shows the journalist that not one manufacturer respects the legal limits of 200 ppm. He's frightened to tell the journalist that it's all just a widespread fraud.

* [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFprj6v37Q

* [1] https://youtu.be/5JFprj6v37Q?t=1h19s

* [2] https://youtu.be/5JFprj6v37Q?t=1h17m11s
Gmail is also the biggest source of the spam in my inbox. I'm curious if Gmail directs Gmail-to-Gmail traffic through their excellent spam filter.
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This brings up a number of problems with the current approaches to gathering signal from the noise of DNA, but it's making the deeper argument that DNA may not contain much useful information. I don't think it met the burden of proof for that argument. It's a popular argument: we want to believe that our attributes aren't predetermined, that we have free will, so we want to believe anything that downplays the role of nature in the nature vs. nurture debate. But really this is still a big unknown. I very much doubt that the difficulties we currently have with gathering useful information from DNA are unsolvable.
I guess you're right. But I also think you're missing the point. The point is to focus on the work itself, not the surrounding information.
Your comment is completely baseless FUD, I wonder if you actually believe it.

P.S. Stallman is a FS advocate, not an OSS advocate.
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I follow. In this case though, I was thinking of the customer's monitoring tools. Their first action would be to try a diagnose themselves.

But good to know! Thanks!
It sounds like it's sending a list of what applications you have installed and which ones you use. I'm not really in favor of this, but don't iOS, Android, and Windows 10 all do this as a core part of their design?

Obviously it enables all sorts of malicious behavior by the companies and governments they are subject to, but Lenovo seems like they're pretty tame by comparison to the OS vendors.
It's sad to see lua get slowly replaced by javascript.
It's been known since at least 2014 that real-world emissions from many diesel cars were much higher than lab-measured emissions. There was speculation about defeat devices as well. EU regulators had recently made moves towards requiring real-world testing though unsurprisingly automakers were fiercely opposed.

For instance here's an article from February 2015 that mentions: "Campaigners say that car makers also use tricks such as programming vehicles to go into a low emissions mode when their front wheels are spinning and their back wheels are stationary, as happens in such lab experiments." (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/03/car-maker...)
Definitely not something unique to them, I just don't like that practice - also, you usually have the regular car brand and the upper-market version, e.g. Lexus/Toyota, not N degrees of "luxury" e.g. Audi/VW/Seat&Skoda. I like what BMW are doing, they have 3 branches based on different applications/philosophies.
Thank you. At the very least this helps put things in perspective ;)
> ..I make a point of putting things in his left hand. It's a lifestyle choice.

Could you expound on that?
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Aha! Here I thought this was an anomaly - normally stuff from BoingBoing is stuff I read on HN the day before. I thought maybe this time it was the other way around - we're discussing a BB article. But no, just a more extended circle.
Can someone update the link? Pebble's official blog post has gone live now: https://blog.getpebble.com/tag/pebble-time-round/
GM killed more than 100 people with a known defective ignition switch. Volkswagen killed ... the air.

Guess which company will get the greater penalty from the US government?

BTW, GM spends significantly more on lobbying and campaign contributions to political candidates.

Source: OpenSecrets <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000042113&a... and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000155&a...
You don't understand the logic that - as the default desktop shipped by Fedora, the Gnome desktop version has things that the others don't?

I've been using Linux since the 90's. Generally, if you don't go with the default desktop you lose things. Important things like the entire UI for your package manager. So, to me it's like putting a dingleberry on top of a really nice cone of ice cream.
Or the Americorps.

They get around the FTC can-spam rules by saying the emails are "relevant" to you, so they don't include the unsubscribe.
I'm really happy with openresty and curious to put them side by side. betting on lua here.
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It is. But JavaScript is the new assembly language, all you need is a Lua to JS compiler or a whatever to JS compiler.
I've done a similar thing in Scheme to learn Intel assembly (it only supports a small subset of it, and produces standard .as output files instead of byte code, and I have not used it for anything in production so far):

https://github.com/pflanze/hasm

I implemented a number of higher level features for structured programming. Example input file: https://github.com/pflanze/hasm/blob/master/examples/fact.sc...

It doesn't use Scheme macros but expands assembly macros using custom code (because the bottom layer isn't Scheme anyway, just S-expressions, and so that I could let the macro expanders access their context).

Of course the difficult part would be to grow the higher level features in a way that they are safe, and I'm not sure how useful they really are when allocating registers manually. Once you build in a register allocator, you'd probably call it a compiler.
This is a welcome improvement to me. I've spent many an hour trying to figure out how to put some logic in nginx but it was never very intuitive to me. I think a reverse proxy + ssl termination + web cache should be considered part of a normal web stack and developers should be proficient to use the full stack when they develop and implement sites. Rather than trying to do everything on the app server, once I started utilizing nginx my app design changed somewhat and of course the response times dropped and the app server load was reduced. I'm hoping nginscript just makes it all easier to do.
The article makes it sound like a liquidation preference is some new phenomenon that explains the recent surge of ostensible $1B valuations. In fact this has been a standard deal term since the 90s.
It's interesting that the findings in this article are an unintended benefit of a study on smell. Makes you wonder if any other studies have important data like this where data was simply discarded because it wasn't relevant to the initial hypothesis.
> Here in Ireland motor tax is based on CO2 emissions

The amount of CO₂ produced comes directly from the amount of gas that you burn. There is nothing you can do anything about that. Except drive economically and thus spend less gas.

The present scandal is not not about CO₂, but pollutants that make the local air quality worse.
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Top talent wants a low valuation so that stock options can provide a big payout.
The only answer I can come up off the top of my head (not the GG paranoia nonsense) is that someone is doing it for kicks to tick off users of other boards on 8ch. Basically, denying access to whatever was being posted is enough to send some folks over the edge just to see them act like fools in IRC seems to be entertainment for some folks. Basically, trolls. shrugs

I just find it weird that it's flaring up now is all. There were a couple DDoS attacks I think around December last year (ircc).
Other than border disputes, when has measurement been a political football before? The nerd in me is happy about this, but the rest of me is kinda ... sad.

It's also interesting that there appears to be a tradeoff between NOx and CO2 here.

IMO, VW sort of ... prematurely fell on the grenade in a PR way of thinking about it. Actually proving it as fraud would have taken some doing. Admitting it up front does not have clear advantages that I see. If we use the GM keyswitch debacle as a yardstick, there's evidence than being a cheeseball is rewarded. GM managed to constrain the damage to $99M .

Not saying anyone did the right thing here, but the adversarial approach has consequences.
It's strict by default with optional laziness.
Ya you're right as soon as they left Europe, they stopped doing all the stupid stuff and became enlightened.

http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/lspeak2.html#educators
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=49703
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Having read the article, I'm sure that iOS has similar spyware. The App Store is spyware by this definition. I would be pleasantly surprised if Apple didn't collect this information on OS X as well. (Although obviously it applies to the app store there as well.)
From what I've read so far, this has to do with heat necessary for the catalytic converter to absorb NOx -- without enough heat, NOx isn't absorbed, so in emissions test mode, they're just running the engine in such a way that more heat is generated to make sure the cat works properly.
More info on this GM matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_General_Motors_recall
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They're also easier to stop/start, esp on long downhill stretches.