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By default in Ubuntu (and I know of no way to change this) the global menu bar in Unity is just an empty gray slate until you hover over it and "File", "Edit", "View", etc. appear. This means you have no idea where your mouse should be going until you've reached the top of the screen and have to move left/right until you get to the desired menu.
Just some quick feedback. When clicking on the link in medium to translate the spanish text, it went to the readlang library page and I could click around on the words to get translation.

This wasn't immediately obvious to me because I accidently clicked a phrase first and it told me I had to sign up. I considered leaving at that moment, but pushed through and got the one word translation so I understood what it did. I liked that a lot. But reading through the comments, I realized I missed out on the core product. That it is a browser extension and I could do this anywhere on the web.

Without HN comments, I would've never gotten that from the example because I thought it was a bit cool, but didn't see the use case and thus didn't visit the splash page.

I'm not your target market, but now that I know what it does I will probably tell people I know who would be interested. My recommendation would be to make it super easy to understand what is going on in any of your demo's. Especially if you plan on going that route in the future.

Best of luck!
And does it come with any indemnity for error, or does it make it completely legal for the company to wire your money to the Bahamas and run off with it?
By what measure? I assume you refer to mass whereas gp talked about the effect on satiety.
What you say may be true, but there's a difference between 16-bit photorealism and the photorealism possible today, and the difference is that it's possible to find rendered images that are hard to distinguish from real life today. In the 16-bit era? Not so much.

To give some examples, take a look at these images created in Blender:

http://www.blenderguru.com/articles/24-photorealistic-blende...
Thanks for sharing. There are some good arguments here,* particularly re: servers holding your registration info and some of the downsides of requiring servers for xmpp (though it also has some advantages—it's nice to be able to message someone not online).

*though I'm always a little anti-"pgp can't be used by normal users." If the situation requires the security that PGP provides, users can frequently be made to learn. (That being said, Glenn Greenwald couldn't be bothered to set up PGP to talk to Snowden until someone got him up to speed. [0])

[0]: https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secret...
Says former Fed governor Fisher:
"We frontloaded a tremendous market rally to create a wealth effect ... The Federal Reserve is a giant weapon that has no ammunition left."

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/01/former-da...
>>reread.io is a service which sends you an email containing your forgotten Pocket links (with many config options).

And those emails will either be conveniently ignored or will land in spam folders after a while.

If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.
We both contribute equally, and we live in Madrid where cost of living is relatively low. Two people living together can live on £9K / year here no problem (that's about 1000 euros / month each). That said, I do have savings that I've been eating into.

I've never felt the need for lots of money to be happy. What I really value is being able to do interesting work that I'm proud of. So I'm very motivated to make money to the extent that it provides freedom to work on interesting things. And perhaps even to contract people to help out. I guess that's a philosophy shared by many of the people here.
I thought the Indian stock market was relatively transparent
> I think that System Integrity Protection augurs an iOS-like walled-garden future for OSX

I believe they are going down that road too, eventually. They are also going to dump Intel at some point not too far off, which may not matter to many Mac users but it will be significant to the hackintosh crowd.
Install it, and then build something.

A few things you will want to look at that are different:

1. data types are much richer and more useful than in mysql

2. transactional DDL means migrations are atomic.

3. schemas are what mysql refers to as databases. Remember to set `search_path`.

4. roles and grants are somewhat more expressive and work differently than in mysql, but not that differently for the simpler use cases

5. database functions ( aka stored procedures ) are awesome as are extension languages.
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Imagine you're working in a place with a rather large sales/marketing department. Now, sales is a pretty cutthroat job, and some people will do any cheat possible to get ahead of their co-workers. In a typical sales database, someone who manages to borrow a bit of sql from a techie friend could potentially go in and get sales leads from co-workers, poaching their deals. With row level security, the sleezier co-worker isn't allowed to look at those rows to be able to poach.
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I am sure you have thought about it, but how about pricing it per language? It might be a good idea to price it at $50 per language.

Also the on-boarding is a bit difficult, I should be able to see a few words / phrases before I install a plugin. FYI I have never installed a plugin other than an Adblocker
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maybe they solved the Segway storage problem buy just having this thing trail you all day until you need it next. Just don't use stairs.
I hear that Win10 is the last "version" of windows. They'll just continually patch it instead.
When you're telling other people what they should do, you're already lost.

I also don't feel academia is obliged to any particular promise of delivery, but that's kind of independent.
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> Consider that the OS that powers all kinds of devices from satellites to embedded devices is Linux, an open-source project where payment isn't a top-priority for developers, but merit is!

I get that and I don't want to denigrate contributors. I've contributed to FOSS of one stripe or another over the years myself.

However I'd probably do a much better job at it if I was paid a decent salary and allowed to work on it full time. And the software would be better for it if I had a team of similar developers, user experience and design people, etc.

Being all things to all people is a great way to be nothing particularly amazing at one thing... something a desktop experience needs.

> All endeavors are like that, not just software projects. More the user participation, better the product focus and development.

It's tough! I think that's the primary reason for porting games to Linux. It'd be great if there was more to the gaming world than Windows. However for small studios there's no incentive to develop for Linux: there's just not a market big enough to sustain a business.

How do you break out of that? I dunno. A black swan maybe.

> Can you cite a single widely used software that doesn't have a FOSS alternative which works on Linux.

Wacom drivers. There aren't any shipped by Wacom for Linux. The open source ones are a stop-gap and better than nothing but aren't as good. Ergo Gimp is a marvelous piece of software but not comparable to Photoshop for professional uses.

I'd add that any alternative that wants to gain traction must provide some benefit over its contemporaries. Software freedom just doesn't cut it for more pedestrian uses of computers.

I can think of several applications provided by the Omni group which have no real analog in FOSS that I'm aware of.
I'm not so worried about duplication by academics -- that does not happen often -- but rather about academic research that's just wrong: makes bad assumptions, uses a flawed methodology, fails to address the general case.
This is true to SOME extent, but the amount of interference in china is on a whole other order of magnitude. For instance, read this July piece from the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/16/why-chinas-stoc...
The site is a giant appeal to authority. On the 'Atkins Facts' page I didn't manage to find a single fact about why Atkins is bad, only a bunch of quotes saying that it is.
There are likely more skills that you have beyond language which you have developed in Avionics SW. There are high verification/validation SW work environments which you probably have developed skills (e.g. medical or automotive). There are likely 'complex systems' or architecture areas of software where you might have developed transferable skills - esp. if you've done things such as Avionics integration. (perhaps cloud/big data/web backend) Then there is general embedded work (pickup C/C++).

I'd definitively look into some side projects or select some open source projects to contribute to just to demonstrate that picking up new environments isn't difficult. The certificate does that too - but personally side-projects/open source speak to me a little more. It's largely a matter of what you're interested in, but I'd lose the thought that because the language & dev environment is new, you'd come in at an entry level. With 9 years of experience in SW, you're a mid to senior dev and you should take confidence in the value of that experience.
It really doesn't.

The attacker can pull credentials that any user uses on any webpage or other TLS-based connection. It's not the domain admin password or the database password, it's both, and the other ones too. Like the one the accountants type into the company's banking website.

TLS MITM is essentially the holy grail because there are so many overlapping ways to break into everything. If there is some password nobody has ever typed into a web admin portal then get their email credentials and do a password reset. Or use one of the apps that uses TLS to authenticate updates to push out a key logger. Or wait for a new attack to be published and block delivery of the patch. Or take advantage of being able to display anything you want on the company's internal website and start social engineering. On and on.

TLS under non-self-compromise circumstances provides reasonable security and is allowed through corporate firewalls, which means that everything uses it one way or another. Which means if you can compromise TLS then you can essentially compromise everything.
Love the idea. I wish I could use it (I'm Canadian).
Fair point, but a small glass of soda isn't exactly the typical serving size. Go to any gas station and that small glass of soda option got turned into 3 or 4 as your default option. As for the claim of drinking as much as you want as long as you exercise, I could see that easily getting out of hand with those types of conversion ratios.
Next headline: Bloomberg Tops Business Insider in Making Up Meaningless Ranking.
Perfection Salad explains a lot about the attitudes of my parents and grandparents about food and how it seems so contrary to more modern "knowledge" about nutrition. How Crisco ever came into existence and was once popularly used finally makes sense to me.

Also the actual Perfection Salad, basically a salad encased in a jello mold, looks pretty disgusting.
That narrative worked 50 years ago but not anymore.
Of course they knew what was going on. A seller "made a mistake" in listing the tickets, thus the tickets didn't actually exist in StubHub's eyes and they were forced to cancel the transaction.

It is impossible to know if the seller is telling the truth in this situation or not. Everybody makes mistakes, this seller just claims to have made a more costly one than usual.

StubHub is a marketplace, they can't investigate every time somebody claims to have made a mistake in listing their tickets.

IF the seller re-listed the exact same seats for a higher price once the original order was cancelled, I could see how StubHub could easily call out the fraudster and ban them from using their site... but even then the seller could just sign up using another credit card and a friend's address.
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Certainly! Hence transparency is the issue not the collection itself in most cases.
> You can verify that something is set, but this guarantees nothing about the things you haven't set.

This is a serious problem, but it's a problem whether you're using a CM tool, packaging, using shell scripts, or doing nothing at all. If users are jumping in as root on random boxen, setting tunables, adding firewall rules, etc., and not capturing those changes elsewhere, it's going to bite you.
Great answer, thanks! I consider learning that new skillset as a pro, not a con, and I really enjoy team management.

Regarding your advice, that is exactly what my long-term plan was: getting a stable job for a few years, then become an entrepreneur. But that is everybody's plan, right? Everybody wants to eventually become his own boss, but the reality is that once people get a comfortable life, it is very unlikely that they will leave that comfort zone. I don't know if that would be my case, but I think it is definitely something to consider.
Oh wow! This is something I always wanted, but I never knew it existed!
Median P/E for Chinese stocks is ~58. This is ~3x higher than every other major exchange. This is just part of a much larger correction.

http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iIS_j8I_fYlI/v2/-1x-1.jpg
Source: Bloomberg
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This must be for those people who cannot manage their email, operate a calendar, or create a spreadsheet.

I hope the HN audience hasn't degraded to the point of being incapable of handling their personal finances without needing the help of a cutesy avatar painted over a faceless algorithm owned by people who are excited at the prospect of exploiting your financial data to the fullest.
And when your room is so dirty that there are bugs in the walls, termites eating the wood, the thermostat is leaking mercury, the ceiling is dropping lead paint + asbestos, and the foundation is cracked and pulling the house apart ...

you burn your house down, and start over.

As technology people, I agree that we lean far too heavily towards the "rewrite it" option than we should. But that doesn't mean it's never the right option.
Is it really a privacy concern if its anonymous usage statistics?

The word for it is telemetry and every medium sized app or bigger has been doing it for a really long time.

What's the big deal?
People can share YouTube videos with sync'd transcriptions which are great for this. Check out this selection for German:

http://readlang.com/shelf/5649d1fe60a4e5ef42f258ad

Songs tend to be popular, here are a couple of good ones:

http://readlang.com/library/551261a4573e272265223327 - Je Veux, by Zaz - French

http://readlang.com/library/55da3bacfe102b520f05d9ba - Lento, by Julieta Venegas - Spanish
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From a resolution passed last year by Goshen, Indiana, disavowing its past as a sundown town.

A RESOLUTION ACKNOWLEDGING THE RACIALLY EXCLUSIONARY PAST OF GOSHEN, INDIANA, AS A 'SUNDOWN TOWN'

WHEREAS the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America and the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag establish liberty and justice for all in this nation;

WHEREAS the U.S. Census reported that the “Negro” population of Goshen in 1890 was 21, but by 1910 it was 2;

WHEREAS historical studies by multiple independent researchers confirm that Goshen was a “sundown town” for approximately the first two-thirds of the 20th century;

WHEREAS such towns excluded—often by social and cultural means, including police profiling—members of non-white racial and ethnic groups, particularly African Americans, from living in said jurisdictions or even being inside the city limits after sundown;

WHEREAS the Goshen City Utility, the Goshen Mayor’s Office, and the Goshen Chamber of Commerce put the City’s exclusionary reputation in writing in a number of publications from the mid-1930s to the late 1970s;

WHEREAS some real-estate developers and residents of Goshen subdivisions used and reinforced restrictive language in property deeds and covenants that kept African Americans from purchasing property and living in those subdivisions for several decades in the 20th century;

WHEREAS there is written, oral, and pictorial documentation that some Goshen residents did not support Goshen’s exclusionary attitudes and practices, but there also is written, oral, and pictorial documentation that a pro-white mentality prevailed among some of Goshen’s citizenry and leadership for many decades in the 20th century;

WHEREAS the Goshen Ministerial Association (GMA) in 1964 issued a public statement expressing dismay regarding residents’ fears of “Negroes” moving to Goshen—and called for open and fair housing;

WHEREAS healthy individuals and healthy communities are able to recognize past mistakes (“sundown town” activities in Goshen were and remain unacceptable and contrary to our U.S. Constitution), admit when they have been wrong, and resolve to make improvements in the future;

WHEREAS Goshen already has made significant progress in promoting racial equality—as symbolized by establishing in 1996 an annual Diversity Day and the Human Relations
Commission (which had been part of the GMA), approving in 2000 the placement at Goshen’s
City limits of welcoming signage that said “We Promote Tolerance” and “Embracing Diversity,” and instituting in 2004 the Community Relations Commission as part of City government;

WHEREAS the City of Goshen, Goshen Chamber of Commerce, Goshen Community Schools,
Goshen College and others are working together to tell the compelling stories (past and present) of our increasingly diverse community—all for the good of Goshen;

AND WHEREAS Goshen residents are justifiably proud of how we seek to work toward the common good of everyone in the community—and in pursuing that goal the City of Goshen would be uncommonly great in acknowledging our community’s “sundown town” past.

http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/GoshenRes.doc
Some genres have forums or sites dedicated to them (for example spacesimcentral.com)

And there is a subreddit called gamingsuggestions that has great people over there to suggest stuff!
I would love to know the values at a city resolution.
Exactly - he should have demanded the seller's contact details so he could file a lawsuit. Per the Stubhub's TOS: "When placing an order, you are entering into a binding contract with the Seller to purchase those tickets...When a Buyer accepts your offer by purchasing your ticket through our Site or Services, you are contractually bound to deliver that exact ticket for the specified price and within the required delivery timeframe."

Given the way Stubhub handled the situation, you could probably include StubHub on a count of tortious interference with a contract. (They proactively cancelled the order.) That would get their attention.
>>I hope the HN audience hasn't degraded to the point of being incapable of handling their personal finances without needing the help of a cutesy avatar painted over a faceless algorithm owned by people who are excited at the prospect of exploiting your financial data to the fullest.

Maybe not, but it definitely has degraded to the point where people like you spitefully shit on other people's hard work.
That is a possible failure mode, but if it's standard practice in the systems you're touching you've had some bad luck?
I'll agree with most of those but the re: the last point I'll throw out a half-hearted nay-say and reply with "sort of". The guys at keybase.io is trying real hard to let "Johnny have crypto" + https://www.mailpile.is/ makes it pretty easy for a Mac user to enable GPG and Gmail. My concern is primarily user-adoption - i.e., Johnny doesn't know why he needs crypto, even after Snowden. The NSA et al are counting on that apathetic attitude to make their jobs easier. Out of the box Mailpile is a easy stop-gap solution while more appropriate ones come out.

You're totally right re: DHT and cryptohashes for identification being a fairly ideal solution. PeerJS/WebRTC (part of HTML5 -- supported by Chrome and Firefox) support NAT-busting and are fairly secure. I'm slowly piecing together a comm-project addressing the larger issue because I'm tired of being complacent, with the intention of funding it eventually off of Exchange add-ins dual-licensed as open as I can while ensuring organizations above the size of 250 employees have to pay licensing fees.

That being said, what protocol isn't over-complex which has worked out well? Either you have things like SMTP which are just spec'd out by one or two dudes and submitted as an RFC where tons of stones were left unturned (leaving such a mess w/r/t maildir vs mbox not to mention the whole end-user problem of authentication, if you remember the sysadmin hell of trying to configure pop-before-smtp and a bunch of other problems during the late 90s, my god, it was horrid) -- or you have an over-spec Java2EE situation where everything is over-specified to an insane degree that implementations take teams and teams to get full compliance.

I ask this sincerely, with no snark - what protocol should one build crypto into?
More and more researchers are also blogging. I think we're seeing a move in this direction.
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That comic doesn't explain "what entrapment actually is" but rather it explains how a few trite but common misconceptions about the law as it pertains to those circumstances are not precisely entrapment. I don't think his reasoning is very good. ie: "It's amazing that this myth has stuck around so long when tons of undercover arrests prove it wrong every day" I'm not sure how an arrest can prove that since an arrest is not a finding of fact. IMO lawcomic is rather biased toward a prosecutor's definition of what s/he thinks the law ought to be.

Maybe it's my own cognitive dissonance about the difference in what the law is and what I think it ought to be, but I don't have a favorable opinion of lawcomic. Now you've posted it here in defense of the prosecution of a mentally retarded man/child for an offence which he is probably incapable of committing without a non-trivial degree of assistance, and most likely would not have committed if he'd simply been left alone. Even though this case the prosecution may prevail in court, IMO it does not serve any useful purpose for the gov't to aggressively ferret out easily manipulable people by manipulating them until they sufficiently incriminate themselves.
Shame it has gone subscription only :( I hate ongoing charges for that sort of thing.
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