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Things aren't priced based on what they cost to make, they're priced based on what people will pay.

To me it feels like being nickel & dimed and honestly I'm sick of everything being a subscription (I've written on this elsewhere). At least with Spotify I still own my computer and headphones if I decide to cancel -- Drop/Nestcams are essentially $200 bricks if the internet goes down or you decide not to pay. My Nest thermostat still works without an internet connection.

Cell phones are a good example, you can either pay $0 up front and a larger subscription fee in a contract, or buy the phone up front and pay a smaller, no-contract subscription. Dropcams are the worst of both worlds.

(side note: I saw no mention of subscriptions on any of Nestcam's top level pages on their site.)

Obviously plenty of others think it's a fine deal, so I'm just the dissenting minority opinion :)
What? Of course his action is based on your choice.

If a has the car and b and c have goats, and you pick b, he opens c. And if you pick c, he opens b...
For all we know, it was because the device was owned by San Bernadino government (despite the FBI screwing that up) that allowed them to access it.

This is all smoke and no fire.
India is richer than Italy because it has 25 times more people/food? That's absolute nonsense.

If you take actual quantity and calculate using dollar terms, this is what you get: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PP...
This isn't a response to UberPOOL, it's a response to UberCOMMUTE:

http://www.uberpartnerschicago.com/ubercommute/
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Javascript doesn't really have integers, at all, so...
Which is something I really don't get, at all. This all looks and sounds way much nerd-ier just because they try so desperately to look cool.
If all their properties are randomized then I don't see how they can be said to "travel". That would be indistinguishable from electrons spontaneously appearing and unrelated electrons spontaneously disappearing.
Cool idea, I have used Uber before, but I had never heard of using it as a carpool
That was my first thought too. But I'm guessing this happened in an urban area, and most Walmarts are in suburban and small town locations.
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What I heard was that they took advantage of every function that could technically be "implemented" by setting errno appropriately and returning an error value, rendering the subsystem useless while still allowing the box to be checked off.
"The bash shell is coming to Windows"

Whoa.
The generic-term exclusion would apply if and only if the word canvas was the generic -- as in the literal dictionary definition -- of the product.

That's why you can't register a trademark for "electric car" or "autonomous vehicle" or "html web page" for an electric car, autonomous vehicle or html web page business.

If you could, other manufacturers would not be able to describe their goods without infringing your mark. Since the product in question is metaphorically like a canvas, but is neither 1) a heavy-duty, plain-weave fabric; nor 2) the <canvas> html tag, another company could create a competing product and market it without using the word canvas, no problem. Hence, the generic exclusion would not apply.

(IANAL. However, was married to a trademark attorney for over ten years, picked up some things. Also, wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_distinctiveness#Gene...)
I agree that reusing the same name with different capitalization is bad, but I have seen this from several developers across many different teams and several languages. These same people often have Foo(x){junk; Foo(x,y,z); more junk;} sure if it's a pass though that's fine but if you have 10 foo('s) that all have internal logic then please come up with some actual names.

Amway IMO, SortNames() and Internal/Do/LowLevel/SortNames() are almost as bad because just looking at the names it's not obvious what's going on. Yes, visually they look different which helps and consistency can make things even more readable. But, even just SortNamesHappyPath() gives some idea of what's going on.
FYI - when I tried Google Domains, I ran into a lot of issues with their naked domain forwarding (i.e. if someone goes to example.com/123, it would not forward to www.example.com/123). I don't know if that has since been fixed, but their customer service wasn't that helpful.

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/78481/forward-...
Sure. But self-hosting pacman makes it literally impossible to do correctly. Updating cygwin itself should be done by an outside-of-cygwin solution to invoke setup.exe, just write a little powershell provisioning script or something.
DRM must not be allowed into a W3C Recommendation. The W3C has already lost staff over the issue, and stand to lose more if they ignore the thousands of people who object to this. I really hope that the protests and press from the FSF and EFF have helped steer the W3C into doing the right thing.
Now the question is how well will it work.
You've responded in the worst way, with more insults. Please don't do that again. If a comment is egregious, flag it; if you reply, please do so civilly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn't expect there were a lot of people who knew well about PowerShell here. I like PowerShell.
And see a bit of discussion in a slightly earlier posted item pointing to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388542
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That's a nice a perspective for writing APIs. Upvote.
>No. The whole point is that these "risky behaviors" are quite capable of inflicting damages (such as the permanent contamination of water tables in certain areas) that can't possibly be compensated by the any conceivable "insurance payout"

Those are the extreme exception, not the rule. That might be true of nuclear operations, but everything else can be fixed at some cost, with maybe ~$1 trillion for tail end risks, easily coverable by reinsurance networks.

Environmental damage is bad, but it's not infinitely bad. If the costs were anything like you suggest, that would justify vigorous bans of most industrial operations, not some mere regulatory enforcement as could be accomplished even with jail time.
For physical sports, it's easy to robotically build a machine to play and train some computer vision models to follow the ball/puck.

For Go, the competition is on a different level that you couldn't just build a machine to play.
Batman's been on film for 70 years. Why does no one seem to know this?

There was a 15-part Batman serial back in the 40s. There may have been others as well.
huhu

Whatever the DRM technique you have can always put in a low noise chamber a cam/microphone to make a close to the original reproduction by analogic means you can re-publish.

People used to enjoy watching videos in 1024x768x16bpp and hearing is satisfied with 46KHz

More than what can be achieved in AAD, or ADD chains.

DRM is a chimera. It costs money and IP laws are flawed at the contractual level.

Since Louis XIV when _lettre de Patentes_ where invented the deal was exclusivity granted to invest in new content versus free public domain when exclusivity disappears.

Disney/Sony music are recycling public domain in so called original works (Grimm tales, 1900 pop songs converted in Rap melodies ...) hence breaking the deal. And exclusivity is getting WAY overboard. As if chosen authors where the new nobility of culture, while street art is being stolen by galleries and real artists lives in misery.

Plus, except Gutenberg close to none public domain contents are cheaper than new one, while paying the artists are said to be the greatest expense.

Try to find the integral of Shakespeare, Molière, The 1001 night tales for a decent price.
> That hurts the government's ability to advance their own technological capabilities and understanding.

I take it that nobody in The White House uses an iPhone, or at least I hope not. Institutionalized ignorance to the degree of shooting oneself in the foot is concerning - far more concerning than the existence of this specific vulnerability.
Very cool. Love the ability to create a simple map, and have so many different basemaps it works with. Will definitely be keeping an eye on it.
I don't think that's true. You can achieve a lot with just react, css, node and the electron APIs. With enough effort and attention to detail you can make an app look and feel native with css (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIRXVGVPzn8), V8 is not /that/ slow, and you have the advantage of using multiple node processes inside electron to offload work. And it's cross platform.
Yes, the built apps might end up being big, but that's a trade off I'm willing to take in favor of developing cross platforms apps with a modern and familiar web stack.
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So the whitelisting is at the domain level, not IP?

(I couldn't access the article)
Microsoft is adding the Linux command line to Windows 10
oh wow - that's pretty much how I imagined it!
I use the audio captcha.

Works every time.

The ones that are impossible for my are the street signs, and after that all of the cultural ones (I see US captchas and when asked to select a sandwich or a recreational vehicle I'm doomed to not complete them).

An interesting side effect of failing a captcha is that to Google this looks like proof the captcha is working, that you're likely to be a bot, and that they should definitely give you the hard captchas.

As such, if you cannot complete a captcha the chances increase that you must now complete multiple difficult captchas.

The audio captcha is delightfully simpler though it does take a moment longer to complete.
This was an article about climate change and you have suggested that it's bad management of resources that has caused this crisis. California has been under a drought for a few years and there seems to be evidence suggesting fracking has polluted ground water in many parts of the U.S., so there is mismanagement of critical resources everywhere.Identifying the core problem which in this case seems to be climate change is critical and not throwing insults at other cultures.
There are a lot of devs on here with little to no real world experience or not enough to make sound judgements as far as I can tell anyway. I'm not sure if it's better to enlighten them or to ignore them since they are the sort of people that are willing to post their baseless opinions for the world to see.
That's a really interesting viewpoint. Thanks for sharing it.

In my opinion the government should be obliged to share the vulnerability for the purposes of the keeping the rest of the users safe from the same exploit, whether executed by the government or executed by somebody else.

In summary, I disagree with you but I'm glad I took the time to ask you about your view since I learned something new.
I would like to see huffpo/buzzfeed/clickbait sites put on a "banlist" where their ranking is penalized heavily for being clickbait
But AlphaGo didn't prove that we're any closer to general intelligence! In fact, the fact that we have an AI that can beat one of the best human Go player, yet we do not have an AI that is as intelligent as, say, a cat, shows that we may actually be digging in the wrong direction.

Cats don't play Go. Elephants don't play chess. And even what we think of as the most intelligent species, humans, aren't particularly good at either chess or Go.
"Which commands from XYZ package require credentials?" hardly seems unfair.

Your suggestion solutions illustrate the point well - you have to memorize some convention of where utils are located, how they display usage info, then cross your fingers and hope developers have followed it. And it's not even complete, since I'm guessing there is no solid convention for parsing a manpage to find which args represent credentials.

In powershell, cmdlets and their args are typed, so you just ask for all cmdlets that have an arg with the credential type. Everything above is tab-completable, too, and thus discoverable at least to some level.
while true javascripts missing a "real" standard library - I don't see how, even if one was created, it would be able to keep up with the pace of the community...
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I didn't see that discussion previously, but it sounds like a potential example of "Death by Lethal Reputation" as detailed by the Ask the Headhunter guy: http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/halethalrep.htm

And it really sucks; while I didn't go to it for CS, I attended one of the best 4 schools in the world for that, and while interviewing as I've done in times past, would never dream of assuming a fellow alum who got a CS degree was definitely competent, nor that someone like you couldn't prove to me you were.
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> S.C.: What’s the biggest challenge currently facing Linux?

> L.T.: The kernel is actually doing very well. People continue to worry about things getting too complicated for people to understand and fix bugs. It’s certainly an understandable worry. But at the same time, we have a lot of smart people involved.

I never thought Torvalds and Trump would say similar things.
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> Innovation of bitcoin is proof of work, not a chain of blocks.

Proof of work was invented in the late 90s by Adam Back. The consensus algorithm using proof of work and a blockchain is what Bitcoin brought to the world.
TBH there have been so many security holes in the iOS software... this software did not "get less secure", it has been there all along. If you're an iPhone user, you notice the CONSTANT iOS security updates... most of them are because someone found a hole and patched it up! I just hope that the FBI lets Apple know of this hole once the case is over (but I doubt that will happen), or Apple figures out how they did it. If Apple can't find out, it won't be very easy for others to get into iPhones either... but it's still possible.
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How bad is the Windows command line really?
The FBI brought this to court and demanded, quite vehemently in their last brief [1], what they wanted. They chose to bypass the option of further discussing the issue with Apple outside of a court room. Whether you feel Apple or the FBI was being stubborn, that is not good communication.

In my opinion, the government needs to make some deposits into its emotional bank account with technologists to make up for the damage it has done.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160310/18161233865/we-re...
You're very welcome. I found the whole experience pretty mind-blowing, the way a few minutes of talking to this guy could alter my whole perception of my life, past and present. I highly recommend giving it a go, even if you're not feeling depressed or anxious (although I was).
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Glad that I'm not the only one who dislikes the new style. They do have one advantage - they seem to be solvable 100% of the time (at least for now). In every other aspect though I find them to be way more annoying than the old ones. They're slower to load, take longer to solve, require much more concentration, and have extremely variable difficulty. The worst are the ones which replace each image you click with a new one, requiring another 5-10 seconds for loading.
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Open tickets, assign a priority and party, and burn them down. I'm always surprised that people keep thinking that putting a prettier UI on top of this is somehow the next billion dollar efficiency.
They have been saying that for over two years.
Hilarious. Apple wouldn't give the FBI access but now the FBI should give Apple access to their information?

This conversation has jumped the shark.
Indeed, low acceptance rates are a failure metric. It indicates that the institution cannot meet demand and is leaving many in the community behind.
I am a big fan of Powershell, yet...and there had to be a "yet", now didn't there?...the Bash based criticism is well grounded even if not always perfectly articulated.

I see it this way, the great thing about Powershell commands is that I get back an object. The great thing about Bash commands is that I get back text. The object is great because I don't have to parse it. The text is great because I can parse it.

The downside of Powershell is that if I don't have technical expertise in regard to the object a command returns, I have to go read deep into a manual to figure how I can do something simple. The downside of Bash is that if I have deep technical expertise about the text that is returned, I still have to parse it as text to do something simple.

The high level abstractions of Powershell are better suited for dealing with known processes and contexts where I care about the semantics of the returned value. The low level abstraction of text is better for dealing with unknown processes and contexts where I don't really care about the semantics of the value.
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By providing data and arguments? The idea of a lobbyist is that you hire someone to go to Washington and suggest the politicians do what you think is the right thing.
How secure something is doesn't only depends on itself but also on its environment. There's a vulnerability known by some which isn't going to be fixed. The moment this vulnerability was disclosed to the FBI, the iPhone became effectively less secure.

More generally, any given version of a piece of software if becoming less and less secure with time, because vulnerabilities are found, although it's the same piece of software.
Good job! Check out what I'm working on:

http://mapme.com/

http://mapme.com/stories

If you ever want to chat maps, ben@mapme.com :)
Awesome, I can import a GPX file. Going to have a good play with this tonight.
Indistinguishable as far as the user is concerned. I'm guessing most users won't ascribe any battery or CPU degradation to a new app, unless they spend half their day on it.
http://scoop.sh/ has been a nice-to-have tool, similar to homebrew on osx
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I'm a daily user as well, and the performance really irks me, especially their mobile app. One of the most important things for an app like this is easy input for later triage. I almost always end up swearing whenever I try to input something in their mobile app.
more likely it's an intermediary thing. it's smooth for me.
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let me guess (the keyboard is the give away) when you say unix, you mean osx. Yeah, that terminal induces rage, and the bash is like 40 years stale.
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I've been told that Harvard Law is pass/fail, so you can be a crappy student (as long as you can get in) and still get a degree. Thus, firms that focus on top-tire schools get lots of bad lawyers who went to the right schools.

I sort of see top-tire schools like I see fake doctors wearing lab coats, if you want a lazy signal go for it, but it shouldn't be more than an ok and move on.
Tons do. Watch the Congressional hearing [1]. Some representatives hold theirs up when they begin talking.

[1] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw
Maybe California isn't under a drought anymore: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/03/drought-buster-hits-ca...
Java 8 (or Guava for older versions) supports "Optional".

It is good practice for methods to return an Optional instead of null if you can't guarantee a non null value.
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It's nice that this isn't Google, and it's a good product, but it's still a non-Free product.

I'm still looking for a FaiF version of something like this - does anybody know of one? Seems like a slap in the face to all of the OSM developers to use an entirely Free stack with a proprietary veneer on it.
>They come off looking like complete fools at best, since their huge public spectacle was based on "only Apple can do this," and now that it turns out they could have done it themselves, it just looks like they're incompetent.

No one ever doubted that there was some vulnerability that exists that could be used without Apple's help. There is almost always a vulnerability. The hard part is discovering it. As soon as a third-party told them about it, they paused the case against Apple. The new information changed the facts of the case and made compelling Apple unnecessary. For the FBI to do anything else would have been perjury of the highest order.
Is it possible for Apple to sue this company under some statue to get the exploit from them?
If one of the doors is shown to not have the prize, the odds are now 1/2 when the choice of reveal door is made randomly. That's because 1/3 of the time, you're not even offered the chance to switch, since it's pointless.

I'll run the trials here. Assume the first two doors have the goat, and the third door has the car.

Pick Reveal Switch? Outcome
---- ------ ------- -------
1 2 Y 3 Car
2 1 Y 3 Car
3 1 N 3 Car
3 2 N 3 Car

1 2 N 1 Goat
2 1 N 2 Goat
3 1 Y 2 Goat
3 2 Y 1 Goat

1 3 - No chance to switch
1 3 - No chance to switch
2 3 - No chance to switch
2 3 - No chance to switch

Meaning, given that you've made it to the point that an offer to switch doors is presented, there is no advantage to do so (or not do so).
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Then try again with Spacemacs. It's basically just a distribution of Emacs that comes preconfigured. I didn't even want to learn the Emacs bindings after using Vim, but this is a non-problem in Spacemacs. Just add the plugins you need to your config file, and voilà. I'm sure you could like it.
Mark Shuttleworth marked that bug as resolved a couple of years ago, which I think was a mistake. I recently reproduced this bug in that I went to a local PC store and attempted to buy a machine without any proprietary software. They said that they didn't have any such machines available (never mind a majority of their machines, as suggested by the original bug text).
I don't know why I still haven't seen this here, but there are plenty of videos on youtube on how to bypass the 10 wrong pass code limit. I don't understand, it looks so easy and still people are talking about encryption modules etc ...
Am I missing something ?
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I think the problem with using offheap for something like this is that it requires you to specify the exact size of the data you want to put in each "cell" of the hash table. Take a look at the NewHashFileBacked function in https://github.com/glycerine/offheap/blob/master/offheap.go. If you wanted to cache a variety of json data this could lead to a lot of unused space if most of the items are smaller than the cell size. So, their large byte array plus offsets solution seems preferable.

I do agree with you that perhaps Golang was not the right choice for this project since they spent much of the time working around features of the language.
In Win10 there is finally line-based copy/paste built-in. You can still get block-based by holding Alt.
It's true of Yale Law as well.
It's great for tracking high-level objectives, for personal to-dos, and for collaborating with business users.

My biggest complaint (aside from the half dozen ways the UI breaks in Safari), especially when using it as a ticketing system, is that it doesn't have persistent item IDs that are short enough for a human to remember and refer to easily.

Oh, and repeating to-dos that skip weekends would be nice.