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A large segment of the population is bad at math (and it's way more than 30%). You're labeling those people as some kind of moral failure since you didn't like the kids at school who were poor students and are sure all people who are bad at math are just like those classmates.

There is a small group of people who recognize that many people are bad at math and deliberately exploit this fact to suck their victim's wealth dry until they're bankrupted or put out of business. You are absolving these people of any moral culpability.

Very strange.
Agreed completely! And improving our mental health system would have the added bonus of giving more options to people who see a child/parent/spouse/friend clearly losing touch with reality and becoming dangerous, beyond our current "48 hour medical hold" or "Wait until they do something that can get them jailed".
Basically every website in the world except basic static sites use cookies. So the EU wants every website in the world to have a warning message about the dangers of cookies. That will show up every single time you visit every single website. Unless you accept the cookie that allows the site to see the fact that you saw a warning about cookies. So, websites have to use cookies to display a warning about cookies and if you don't accept the cookie, you get a warning about it on every single subsequent visit.

It screams laws written by politicians for special interest groups none of whom have the first clue about technology or how it works.

You could just have the web browser show an alert when a site wants to set a cookie and the user can click that alert or always allow it. Which is what we used to have in every web browser. Until users got sick of seeing the stupid warning because every single website uses cookies. And they got blind to the warning and paid no attention to it. Which made any other warning a browser shows more likely to just be clicked through.

So browsers removed the warning because we all realized it was stupid and pointless and ineffective and served no purpose any longer. But politicians with no idea how the technology works and no understanding of the fact that we already went through all this decide that everyone should see the dumb, stupid, ineffective warning on every single website and have it show up every single time for the people who understand how to manage their cookies and only show up once for the people who have no idea how to use their cookies. Just brilliant. It serves no purpose and everyone just clicks it away just like any other popup ad.
Surface book looks very interesting.
If you can build a good, working service without using anything from a third party then you can build the same service quicker, better, and cheaper using third parties and concentrating on just the innovative part. There is no sensible business reason to build everything yourself.
Well, can you back up your claims with something of substance? Believing Bernanke is naive, but believing a random person on the internet, who provides no argumentation whatsoever is prudent?
Yeah, the high-end Windows laptops these days are all mostly Apple knock-offs. No wonder everyone who's serious wants the real thing instead. So Microsoft made a hero laptop that isn't a MacBook knock-off. Now the Windows OEMs will start knocking it off instead.
At this point, it definitely works, but it depends on the distro and how much tweaking you're willing to do. I've got hybrid graphics working on a Dell XPS 15 with no real problems. Bumblebee works like a charm when set up correctly. The battery life isn't perfect, but it's still much better than just running the nvidia chip.
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I was a summer student at SNO circa 2006 and Art McDonald was always the nicest and most patient person you could imagine. Congratulations to him and the whole team that worked on this for many years.
This only applies if you have EU users submitting data to EU servers and then you want to move that data to another jurisdiction, namely the US.

If your user is submitting their own personal information to servers outside the EU, that's their lookout. That's what seems to apply to you. Carry on. Nothing to see here.

But if they're submitting to one of your nodes within the EU, they can consider that the data will continue to benefit from the protections being in the EU affords it. Moving it to the US without their permission does not abide the EU protections.
You ought to obey EU data protection law for EU registered people.

This would perhaps include deleting data that customers ask you to delete, not storing personal data without direct permission, nor when you no longer need it to provide your service, etc.
My thoughts exactly. To me, OS/X's quality has been slipping, but I haven't found any non-Apple hardware that's comparable. If they get the trackpad and keyboard right on it, this will open a lot of interesting doors.
So essentially this is a really convoluted way of concatenating username, password, and domain then running scrypt() on it, and sending that to the server as the password instead of the raw password itself?

I actually read the Github page for this, and glanced over the C#. There's no realistic example of how this would work in practice, and I have unanswered questions. This would legitimately solve some phishing scenarios and MIGHT slightly mitigate password reuse scenarios (since they know username + domain, they now need to spend time cracking scrypt() on the password). The arguments that it helps user privacy (NSA something something) are tin foil hat wearing jibberish.

Overall: Meh. If they're serious about this, they need more than a vague proposal.

PS - And a password manager solves all of the named issues with less complexity in my opinion.
What you describe about Escobar is pretty much exactly the period of history covered by Amazon's original series "Narcos".
What value does this add, other than perhaps supporting a proprietary build & deploy system already paid for built around Perforce??? (is the latter a feature, or a bug?)

Every commercial revision control system I have ever used (ClearCase; SourceSafe; MKS Source Integrity; Serena VM aka PVCS) has always been much more of a PITA than CVS / SVN / Git. So, yeah, I'm very skeptical.
> become less like a gentleman's race and more like a cage fight. The primary mode of interaction has shifted from collaboration to competition.

Man does this resonate...for the last several years now I have recurring encounters of people in programming having no interest in doing or discovering what's Right, but rather only concerned about Winning petty arguments, pushing their agenda/tool/framework. The culture of programming to me feels largely corrupt. Or maybe I'm just in a bad mood for the last few years.
We are dealing with the consequences of not taking this very seriously for the last decade. It's not good enough to just hope that the Internet will remain free in the face of legitimate concerns.

Yes, it's a concern that the Internet won't be global anymore, but it never really was. Up until thing like Firesheep and Snowden, and still to some extent, a lot of Internet traffic was only safe based on not passing any bad actors.
Here. Extremely enjoyable to code in and easy to integrate with C which makes integrating with arbitrary libraries and syscalls simple. The language rules are strict, but there are few of them, and they allow for surprising customizability (read: DSL). In a nutshell (for me), as competent as any language, and more enjoyable than most.

This describes explicit use, outside of cases where you may be using it directly or indirectly and not realize, like Expect, or in your network routers like your F5 iRules, etc.

My work is currently specifically Tcl-focused, at ActiveState, but see my other comments for years of enthusiastic Tcl experience from "general" development and operations gigs. I use it where I can, and I can use it in a lot of places.
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Well there are different ways to raise children, and while the theological arguments are fine, I was really wondering about the parents. I suspect, but can't prove, that every child at some time or another lies, cheats, steals, and generally tries to circumvent what is perceived to be "ridiculous" constraints on their behavior. And while a church might provide "rules" for behavior, I firmly believe it is up to the family to provide "why" for behavior. I spent many hours explaining the why of rules to my kids. And yes, some of that why came from teachings like "love thy neighbor as thyself" but most of it was common sense about making everyone's lives as enjoyable as possible rather than one person's life that enjoyable.

I'm sad these guys didn't learn that.
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Next year there will be a Surface Pro 5 (5"), Pro 8 (8") and Pro 12 (12") all with pens. 12 will be the successor to current Surface Pro 4.
Right before he said that I noticed the vents in the top of the screen and thought "huh, that's a weird place to put ventilation" but it didn't click in my mind until I saw it in the video.
The surface book looks nice. I like the idea of tablet/laptop hybrid, but not a fan of kick stands and keyboard covers. I liked the idea of Asus's transformers but I don't recall seeing one with really good specs. They were either Android(don't need a laptop there) or the Windows ones I remembers seeing were Atom powered.
So really you just don't like cssnext/css-modules, since there are lots of postcss plugins that try to emulate features from preprocessors. If all you're doing is transforming css, I don't see the need to abandon preprocessors though...
Funny how both fruity and glassy company "inspire" each other - first fruit's version of surface, now glass' version of a "book" :-D
You could scrypt on the client.
I run Linux on a VM inside my Surface Pro 2. Best of both worlds. All the touch and pen gestures are handled by Windows and carry over through VirtualBox.

Would love to get a Surface Book as soon as possible.
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This privacy activist has just won an enormous victory against U.S. surveillance
My reaction is one of those "I'm not sure if I should feel stupid or not" moments, but: rightly-built applications already don't expose passwords to employees in that they aren't (or at least, shouldn't be) generally persisted. Usually the plaintext passwords live in volatile memory briefly while the server computes a hash of some kind for comparing with what is stored. I suppose an admin could run a web application under some sort of memory profiler, or take a dump at exactly the right moment, and capture a plaintext password, but that seems pretty far-fetched.

CBCrypt seems to me to introduce a lot more complexity into the entire application space with very little real gain. I'm certainly open to being convinced (especially because I'm waffling on whether or not this is a dumb reaction).
Maybe I'm confused, but it seems like he won the prize for completely unrelated work. Does the prize committee award it for the full lifetime work and simply pick one nominal project to credit, or has Arthur McDonald simply done two Nobel-worthy projects in his lifetime?
Whatever happened to challenge-response schemes in the vein of CRAM-MD5?
That reveal was pretty great.
Depends.

If it's the Chinese or the Russians then it's bad. And you never hear about them being in the business of preventing major crimes or terrorist attacks.

If it's the NSA then it's either hype, speculations without any real evidence, right up until there is, and then it's "not surprising".
Given that it has had a better multithreading model compared to Cpython, JavaScript, has been and is a breeze to extend and embed, comes with lambda and coroutines too..
So why not. Very few other languages give a comparable sense of playfulness
Wouldn't the current and future production be factored into the price, though? I'd have to guess that 5.3 billion is a low estimate for actual losses if you owned one of these in 2011 and still hold it.
I do not see where you have a problem. You do not mention him accosting you, all you describe is having to listen to him rag on others. Perhaps the problem is you being too tuned into his unpleasantness. In which case moving on will not help, because us capable geek jerks are everywhere.

Remember, he is not your partner or your friend, he is just there. You do not have to let him under your skin. Turn down the gain on your butthead antenna. Visualize a force field around you off which his assininity just bounces. That is how most people (including my best friends) deal with me: they just do not listen to me.

This is an incredible growth opportunity for you. Seize it! You will tolerate us idiots more effectively for the rest of your life.
Seriously, there is this thing called Google...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%2Fs

;)
> ..lifting a Dragon 60m into the air to integrate it back onto its launcher.

Why would you need to do that? Why not land the Falcon (Edit: Actually, it might be a Raptor) with the Dragon already on top of it?
It may not to be the same extent, but doesn't the US have the same kind of thing with "Foakleys", "Folex", etc?
I've been reading and posting to Slashdot for about 15 years and I haven't noticed any obvious change in the quality of discussions in that time. You say "it succumbed to the LCD" but that's pretty subjective. My own experience suggests it's pretty similar to how it always was.

The biggest drops in Slashdot quality have been due to botched rollouts of badly implemented features not changes in the commenters.
When you email a token, you're back to square 1 and will need 2 factor auth.

In addition the reset password is not possible when the data is encrypted on the client side. This is how TrueCrypt works - if you forget the password, all your data is lost.
I'd never thought about a favorite piece of Apollo tech, but you make a strong case: the LM is pretty amazing.

The MAV will have to do all that and a lot more besides, and in a much bigger gravity well, and with an atmosphere, and for a multi-year period in an incredibly hostile, dusty environment.

EDIT: Actually, I had a favorite - the F1 engine. I find the idea of needing an auxiliary gas generator rocket engine inside just to turn a fuel pump pretty amazing. Likely I'm a bit more impressed by raw power than you :)
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The difference here though, is that the private key is not being sent verbatim to the server.
This is simply amazing. I always thought choosing a 2 in 1 device would always be some compromise with a wobbly top-heavy screen with an inferior keyboard compared to a traditional laptop. This seems to solve all those problems.
> ... and the rules changed.

That is, the unwritten rules about what was politically possible. The regulations didn't change in that time. But after Lehman, there was the political cover to save AIG. Before Lehman, there wasn't the political cover to save Lehman.
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Yes. An ncurses-based appliance configuration UI and a seccomp-sandboxed DSL environment.

libtcl is really easy to sandbox with seccomp, I recommend it over [interp create -safe]. Run the interpreter in a seccomp-enabled child and have the parent do all privileged operations. Set resource limits on the child. Have them communicate over a socketpair. Have the parent spawn sandboxed children whenever the rlimits run out. For what we're using it for, it works really nice.
> He said they were doing fantastically and growing fast, users wanted that kind of stuff.

So he said, and maybe even believes, yet the magazine will remain nameless, and from looking at the website even a knowledgeable person wasn't able to tell it's all sponsored content.
I can't believe how few laptops get the trackpad right. It's the first and primary interaction anyone has with the laptop, how are all of them so terrible! I'd love to get a non-macbook, but the list of laptops with powerful hardware that plays nice with a Unix based OS and has a trackpad that isn't unbearable is shockingly short.
> but I haven't found any non-Apple hardware that's comparable

Thinkpad Ts series? Dell's XPS/Latitude 7000 lines?
How about the Band 2?

Unaware of this event, yesterday morning I ordered the first MS Band for a little more than 1/2 the list price of the Band 2. I'd been shopping for fitness trackers for a long time, and settled on the Band as the only tracker meeting my needs that can also act as an Android trusted bluetooth device & keep my phone unlocked.

From what I can tell, the Band 2 adds:
- softer, more flexible strap (soft shell vs hard shell)
- barometer for elevation
- gorilla glass
- better touch sensitivity

Is that it? If so, given the nearly 2x price difference, I think I'm just going to keep the old band and use it.
Seconded.

Actually, as a bank, you only need to be slightly more secure than your competitors.

Moreover, you will never need to be unbreachable; many times I have seen banks not fixing vulnerabilities, simply because these vulnerabilities were not profitable enough for attackers to exploit.
Yes. It's used a lot in the EDA world. It's really a neat little language with some cool metaprogramming facilities.
Why can't we use PGP tu login to websites?

That way the server only has your public key (and everyone can have it anyway).
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How do they prevent the Surface Book from toppling over, given that all internals must be in the screen part?

It seems this would either double the system weight (due to counterweights) or require an extra stand in the back.
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I'd be happy if they made the store name, date and total more prominent, it's amazing how often that is hard to find despite it being the most important information to the customer.
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This is a very good question. As a Lutheran, we don't receive the Bible and make of it what we will as interpretation of the Bible is done by the church and involves a lot of tradition - we have vast libraries filled with the writings of the early church and other doctors of the church.

My own woefully incomplete study materials occupies 12 cubits of shelf space - That's 5.4 meters for you modern types. :)

The body of knowledge is so vast for example that at one point economics was considered a small subset of theology.
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Surface Book promo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVfOe5mFbAE

Worth watching.
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You're crazy if you think the paraphrasing was less offensive than the actual quote.

I actually support Linus' (and the entire kernel team's) decision to be the way they are. You're discrediting his wit by saying the OPs paraphrase was more insulting.
If they're in the Five Eyes then no, they aren't any better.
> Unless you’re hoping to get picked up by Pixar, you can probably steer clear of animation easing like “Bounce” or “Ease-in-Out”.

Bounce, sure, bounce is terrible, but...

> Avoid Linear animation easing.

Okay then, what would you use when you are moving a thing from point A to point B, both of which are on-screen? Ease in and
ease out will look jumpy.
You're still passing the output to the server, which can be repeated. Certainly better than just a password, but not as good as public key crypto.

In the end, I'd probably prefer something like SRP
I only had time to skim, but is the first myth really false?

When I was a kid in the 70s - 80s, I had never met another child with autistic like behavior. Yet, of my son's friends, two of them are clearly autistic (and diagnosed), and several of them seem on the spectrum (including my son). I also have several friends with autistic children. How could it be that it was just under diagnosed previously?

On the other hand, my parents recall me having 'autistic like' behavior until I was 5 or so. In fact, I didn't speak until I was 3. I asked my mom about this, and she said she wasn't worried because she figured that I'd speak eventually. Such a strange attitude to me as a modern parent.
Not all the internals, apparently the GPU is in the keyboard (there's an Intel GPU on the CPU die that's used in tablet mod).
I've always wondered why don't they allow the testing of those rockets in stable ground? We've done crazier tests, like nuclear testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
If I can put Archlinux on that (and keep Windows for tablet mode), I think I've found my next laptop
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In closed state, the surface book has a giant gap between screen and keyboard (https://goo.gl/n5B7Te). I think, it can easily happen that things in your backpack slip between screen and keyboard and damage the screen. That is why the old Thinkpads used to have a "click" mechanism.
The first one is uncomfortable to wear, which makes the Band 2 worth the price. No way I'd purchase something for daily use that isn't comfortable.
If Netflix had sold, I doubt that today the service would be nearly as good. There would probably be a better competing service.
It works on a per-program basis if you set it up nicely, but (afaik) it's not possible to get the docking station work nicely. The problem is that to drive external displays, you need the discrete GPU (esp. for UHD displays). Therefore whenever you dock it in, it should start driving the external display with dGPU, etc.

I've not seen a single successful attempt on getting this working (this = hybrid graphics + docking).
Hybrids have a very different audience compared to regular laptops (ultrabooks), as they're structurally very different (that is, they are a compromise by definition), so I wouldn't compare them directly.

Don't get me wrong, I have one instead of a regular laptop, but I can see how people used to the latter would feel uncomfortable with them, unless they have a strong motivation to move to the hybrid form factor.
Even funnier is how Apple used to be mostly for creators, now most of its profits come from iPhone and iPad - devices mostly for consuming. And Microsoft markets their Surfaces quite aggressively to creators.
Absolutely. Lovely to see some innovation from Microsoft that's made it out of labs (the hinge alone looks fantastic). I'd be concerned about duplication of components between the screen and the keyboard though? I can't quite figure out from their website, but it looks like the keyboard part has the dedicated graphics and battery, and the rest (and more battery) is in the screen?

I completely understand why Apple doesn't put touch-sensitive screens in their laptops, but it's such a shame. I'd love to be able to use a pen with a MacBook like this. The iPad Pro would be ideal except it lacks a proper Unix terminal, so that's pretty much out of the question for me (ssh doesn't count).
If it's anything like other convertibles I've used that stand upright, the hinge is usually stiff enough to keep everything standing.
The examples in this article kind of are a 1% phenomenon. They are an active choice made by the commuters to spend a lot on airfare and (presumably pricey) accommodations, rather than just relocating their family to similarly luxurious accommodations closer to their workplace.

In your example, you're talking about people for whom the choice of living closer never presents itself, due to unaffordability.

The former is a luxury choice, the latter is a forced circumstance.
The idea is that you're implicitly trusting the company (or website), as well as anyone who has (whether legit or not) access, to only keep that password in memory, and it's preferable to authenticate without requiring that trust.
It's also likely a DevOps/IT team member trying to protect his or her own skin...
It's used for the test suites of SQLite and Redis.