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100μs of jitter is enough to cause major problems if you're bit-banging or doing high-speed closed-loop control. Something like the Bus Pirate is almost trivial to implement on bare metal, but a complete nightmare if there's an OS involved.

RTOSes can be extremely useful, but they're not a perfect substitute for bare metal.

http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate
Sounds like 1984 coming closer and closer each day.

I wonder however about the negative consequences to the tech industry, why would a company purchase a service they can not trust anymore due to weak encryption?

They government probably also will miss their target completely as criminals/ terrorists etc will simply choose other products and services.
> PR fluff piece.

That's what I thought when I saw the bloomberg cover. I wonder if he paid the article or bloomberg really cares if SA does this or that.
How often do you get to complain directly to an author of a technology you consider to be highly disruptive in your local environment?
Though we all know by know that there is no such thing as 'free'?
Oddly enough, quite a few people in the runC community (including myself) are working on implementing the ability to start containers without root. If we can get this to work, it will be brought to Docker and you'll be able to start containers without even needing a daemon running as root (although you'd lose some functionality due to deficiencies in some of the kernel interactions with user namespaces -- but it should be more secure than it is now). It does bother me that the Linux kernel community entirely ignored other container implementations.
PCs are still used more than mobile. It's just that the average person had bought a Pentium 4 PC running XP a decade ago and is not going to upgrade it until it breaks.

PCs are now a mature technology, just like cars, and have the resulting long lifecycle.

Smartphones are also getting into this stage.
>But why on earth would you live hundreds of miles away from where you work?

I work remotely, but occasionally it's nice to get face time with the team.

I moved for my wife, who got a job (in an industry where there's not a lot of jobs) in the area.
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Thanks, this same announcement says though that Opera now has Support for adding a personal ad blocker list. I don't think they would add this feature to just circumvent later, imho it would do more harm than good for their business.

If they don't want to push me using their other services putting their hands on and selling my data, while working on secure and anonymous browser that would be really nice. Sadly I don't see there is money in a product/service like that.
There's a lot of comments in this thread throwing up their hands about this. That's the attitude that will let this sort of thing happen.

Bills are published like this well ahead of them even being debated so that interested parties can comment.

There's a major faction within the Conservative party that is pro privacy (e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7450627.stm), and it's also pro business. This is anti privacy and anti business. It's a winnable fight, but not if you give up at the first suggestion of a thing you don't like.

Write to MPs, say "As CEO of awesome corp I would seriously consider relocating to Berlin". That sort of thing will get attention.
In which case we should all buy shares in Broadcom and learn to program Raspberry Pis.

Or possibly more likely - the next transition which will be much messier, with no single winner.

The mainframe -> mini -> desktop -> laptop -> mobile -> SBC path was about miniaturisation. The devices all provide general computing facilities, but they get smaller and faster and use less power, while the UI becomes more accessible to non-expert users.

I'm not seeing how that translates into wearables, because IoT and wearables aren't general purpose computing devices. They're more like embedded hardware and/or thin network clients.

So I don't think that's where the disruption will happen. It's maybe more likely the disruption will happen in consumer AI, where the UI gets simpler still through speech recognition and NLP, and the screen/mouse/keyboard start to disappear.

My guess is traditional processors will become front-ends and glue for hardware AI systems, and the companies to bet on are the ones producing the subsystems. The hardware will follow the same path as general purpose processors, but they'll move from "mainframe" to "SBC" much more quickly.
The traffic is encrypted between you and the server. They control that server, where it gets decrypted to be sent out over the public internet (where it may be encrypted or not depending on the site). You've introduced a man in the middle. You must trust that man (but that man also already controls the source code for your browser, which can also see all your traffic).
Yes, well... I was in college 40 years, I was back to get a more useful credential 20 years ago, and I saw plenty of students write down stuff that wasn't so, and which they should have known wasn't. My college French teacher ca. 1975 complained that her students seemed to keep their knowledge in walled off compartments, and from what I can see that happens still among many of the cohort.
What does this bring to the discussion, other than your apparent delight in anti-Welsh bigotry?
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Exactly. As long as you share a common language in your team, and with your client, it doesn't really matter.

If someone says "I need a wireframe/mockup/prototype" then clarify exactly what they are looking for - functionality? layout? content?
Stealing a car isn't 'minor property crime' it's a serious felony, but I agree that I don't want car thieves locked up for decades as this is unreasonable. The real problem is often drug abuse or mental health issues and those don't get fixed in prison.

I had my car stolen a few years before I got seated on that jury and while it was unpleasant, I got my car back a couple weeks later in perfect condition. The most annoying thing was that the police had it towed to an impound lot and didn't tell me for several days, and I had to pay for the tow and daily impound fees! I explained this during the jury polling and was really surprised to still be seated.

It was a different police force handling my stolen car and I remember thinking that they were total clowns compared to the ones I saw years later as a juror.
No. The skillset for being a presenter is a subset of other skills used in business. They have to remain competitive other wise people won't work for them - there is a price floor.
SA has the highest profit margin of any oil exporter.
It's interesting that these two companies are so competitive that they can't even work together in trying to win over regulators. Doing so would likely be mutually beneficial by increasing the size of the pie. Evidently it will require an even bigger threat, such as the one DraftKings and FanDuel face, to bring them together in common cause. I just feel like this rivalry has become overly personal.
> drive for 1h to the first gas station in Poland.

Not for long

http://www.gazetawroclawska.pl/polska-i-swiat/a/koniec-anoni...
iTunes isn't an option for those on Linux, or who don't use proprietary software.

I tend to control volume using the system's volume slider, the media keys on my keyboard and the hardware knob on my speakers. If I want per-application volume control, I can do that for all applications with pulseaudio. Clementine's volume control UI is very low in my application-choosing decision tree.
>And do you think Bill Gates would approve killing whole species ?

Yes, and in fact he's done the research, written about it and ultimately it may have been his investments that led to this conclusion.

Or we can just let hundreds of thousands continue to die because they might magically contain the cure to cancer in the future.
Does anybody know what packages are going to be bundled as Snaps, and what packages will still be debs? Firefox? Libreoffice?
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In fact it still isn't that big.

>An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.

That's an insignificant number compared to the global population and all the harm the BS cat/mouse game with mafia and police has caused.
Absolutely. The fact that it's a crackbrained idea won't stop law makers. To quote a sentence I once heard: “It's the law, reason doesn't enter into it”.
You had better not get caught using the wrong browser in the U.K.!
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That seems like a bit of a generalization considering Europe contains about 50 different countries.
Do you realize, after the first sentence, you're basically saying the same thing which I've pointed out as an interesting fact?
>People just didn't make such a "fuss" of addiction

So why should we make a fuss out of it today?

>and especially in the case of poorer people, nobody really cared.

Whereas now they do?
Thanks for the information. I didn't know that there is so much surveillance from our government. Snooping on journalists isn't on at all. Now I know my text messages aren't safe.
SV has Stanford, which seems to be a unique factory of technical talent.

NYC has Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale to draw from, and the associated financial support from the world's finance hub.

Seattle has UW and the wealth blast radius of Microsoft.

Seattle is just weird. Not really fair to describe as flailing. It probably shouldn't exist as a major tech center. Amazon and Microsoft growth occurred because of disastrous miscalculations by established businesses. There isn't any magic chemical in the rain water that creates our tech industry. It's the gravitational influence of the growth in a very few companies. Also, it seems like most of the dividends of that growth are going into the creation of a skyline in Bellevue, rather than VC funds. Maybe if we had SF's inability to build, investors would bet bigger on startups.
So do the other three biggest browser vendors - Microsoft, Apple and Google. So I'm not sure what that shows.
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"a native, unlimited and free VPN client, right inside your browser!"

Serious question:
Money wise, how are they able to afford this?
It's not released under a free software license. What a shame.
What I dislike about it is as more sites require sms verification, your sms number becomes a 'real id'. Given that your mobile subscriber likely sells your demographic information, it's pretty shit for privacy. A lot of services reject voip numbers for verification.
They didn’t exactly get a standing ovation the last time¹ they were mentioned on here though (for good reason… if they’re offering a service to help protect people’s privacy, it seems a bit odd that they’d opt to compromise said people’s privacy by having multiple trackers on their website).

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¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10700792
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Mateusz Warcholinski mentioned Balsamiq[1] as an example of his definition for a "wireframe" tool.

Therefore, instead of trying to parse his description of "wireframe", it may be better to just look at Balsamiq's capabilities: https://balsamiq.com/

To me, it looks like his idea of wireframe is something "clickable" ... such that it launches another fake page, but not functional. A Balsamiq/wireframe tool is something non-programmers like designers and business leads could use to communicate a UX/UI.

[1]Mateusz Warcholinski wrote: "My favourite tool to do it: Balsamiq"
This is a blame game. It's tried on individuals. When they reject accusations, there's the "you are biased even if you don't realize" and then the "you are a tool in the hands of an oppressing society". If you can't convince, at least seed the doubt.

Have you seen what happens when there are no employers? Open source projects, I mean. It's qualified then as a "toxic culture" with "ambient pressure", "terrified women" and so on.

There is a handful of nonsense viruses that survive and flourish in the interwebs, concepts that are instantly rejected as absurd but have enough followers to keep then alive for years. Either you detect them early or you will be pushed by peer pressure (until the fad goes away).

Unfortunately the clear feeling that something is totally wrong and backwards (like EU defending Samsumg right to push its crap instead of Google apps) fades very quickly to propaganda.
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"And here is yet another article pointing out that all the fun I'm having in my career now is something that should make me feel ashamed or guilty"

The article does not state anything like that. Unless you have kids and are actively stopping your daughter from using a computer.

'But describing the abundance of nerds in the field as "what can we do about it?", as if that was a problem? Give me a break.'

If there is a societal bias from stopping people trying things they might be actually good at based on their sex organs I see that as a problem.

It's not about categorizing being a nerd as 'good' or 'bad'. It's being aware and negating filters based on obsolete stereotypes.
What is snap? I can't find mention of it anywhere on the release notes page.
Typically secrets imply some per-container state that has to be transferred to the host in any case. Secretes can be transferred as a part of that container-specific state setup.
Yes, but there's also a difference between UX expertise and simple poor taste. And the "A slice of orange as a slider" the grandparent comment refers to should not require UX designers to avoid.
Societies pass from peaceable to terrifying all the time, and it generally happens pretty quickly. Nobody ever seems to see it coming, although it's always obvious in hindsight to armchair analysts.

It hasn't happened in one of the big powers in awhile, but 71 years isn't that long. It wouldn't be paradise the day before an election and hell the day after, but you never know what event will be pivotal. Until armchair time.
Doesn't this just move trust from your ISP to whomever runs the VPN?
Early on, Microsoft missed the internet revolution but were big enough and good enough to survive that early misstep.

This has become popular myth, but I don't think it's true. Sure, Microsoft wasn't far ahead of the curve on the internet, or they wouldn't have been developing proprietary online services designed to compete with AOL and CompuServe.

But the Bill Gates "Tidal Wave" internet memo was sent in May of 1995! Netscape's IPO was still months in the future, Amazon had maybe a few million $ worth of revenue, and essentially every other web-based company still in business today hadn't been founded yet.

IMHO, billg's memo should be seen as an example of great prescience, rather than a belated corrective maneuver.
Flutter is a very very very long way from being a replacement for the native UI kit though.

It is stuck in an uncanny valley where the effects sorta looks like those of the platform, but are different enough to make the discrepencies very visible.

A simple list skips a lot of frames on my Nexus 6P, I can't imagine what I will look like on the regular user's phone.

None of the samples do anything interesting, they are just very tiny fragments of UI and even then there are many things missing.

Bringing Flutter up to speed with the native UI toolkit would demand a titanic amount of work
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Well, only the criminals that put some effort. Somewhat effective at tracking down the lazy criminals. Also, in places like Singapore, you can only own 5 Data SIMs before they start asking tougher questions. I wasn't aware there were countries that you could purchase data SIMs in without having to hand over passport/government ID, I'd just assumed that was a ubiquitous practice.
> I really don't like that I can't play music directly from the library and have to make a playlist: it feels very cluttering.

> If I could change one thing about Clementine, it would be to allow playing of music directly from the library.

I've always used Clementine (and Amarok before it) with the whole library selected and shuffle enabled. To browse, I can use the search bar; to force a song to play, I can double-click it; but mostly I'd right-click -> add to queue. I've never had to add items to a playlist.

Maybe the whole library view is buried under a "dynamic playlist" menu or something, but once it's been selected it'll appear by default whenever the player is opened.
I really want to like Opera, but I won't be using it until its open source, full stop.
Is it unimaginable that this might be uncomfortable?

Is is unimaginable that this might not? Maybe because it was made respectfully and in a friendly manner? Could the fact that the person telling it didn't mention any rejection mean that this was the case? Why are we talking in questions all the time?
I think all of the ancestors where saying that you couldn't use containers to "reduce the entropy" (which probably is meant to be "cause CSPRNG state to be known") won't happen because /dev/random blocking is done by some arbitrary statistic that has dubious reasons for existing. True, you can cause /deb/random to block, but that doesn't result in anything bad happening. Unless you have bad software that does bad things when reads block.
Prior to clicking the link I really thought this would be about concussions in the NFL Baltimore Ravens. I chalk that up to a working "raise awareness" campaign.
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Presumably all european nations will harmonize in the next year or two and it will be a requirement to provide government identification prior to purchasing a data SIM.
> Almost all investors are reliant on non-local agents for due diligence and investment lead generation.

Is this for deals happening outside the Gulf (i.e. buying London or NYC property), or for all kinds of transactions, even within the Gulf?
your browser timezone isn't going to change just coz you're using a VPN
Pretending that there is this one axis of "free vs. non-free" and that Norway represents best how people behave free of constraint is ridiculous. You are doing the mental gymnastics you accuse your opponents of, in service a thinly veiled promotion of the "men work, women care" theory.
This will not kill US tech companies. Maybe their UK market.

I'd love to see those companies just leave UK ale let them have what they asked for.
Agreed. Need to exist enough voices to keep the balance.
>"Marijuana" isn't one thing. Dutch coffeeshops are fairly unique in their offering a tasting menu of dozens of varieties of marijuana.

Hardly unique and recently greatly outshone by the offerings in states in the US where it's legal.
I still haven't found a suitable MusicBee [0] alternative for Linux. It's the only thing preventing me from switching.
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IMHO the world does not need another Shell language. Please not... it's even sometimes complicated with ZSH & FISH today. A shell which behaves totally different will get me totally different problems than nowadays... no thanks. I know my "enemy and friend" Bash and it's a good thing I get it nearly everywhere.
Good one. A question on TF: How TF scores over other DL tools in terms of functionality... I know it is designed for distributed run and has easy python APIs..but I am not able to find advantages of TF on functionality part.. what I can do on TF that I would not be able to do on Torch etc...
I don't think there's enough that needs fixing in the current shells/terminals that require a new paradigm at the moment. These things seem to come and go without much adoption.

Sorry, bit negative of me - it's awesome that people are trying.
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>Stealing a car isn't 'minor property crime' it's a serious felony

"Felony" is a legal term -- and the "seriousness" is related to the laws passed and the culture around them. Heck, it might not even reflect society's opinion of the offense.

Back in the day stealing a car for a ride (equally a "felony" as stealing it permanently) was something "delinquent youth" did routinely, without much harm to anyone -- the practice, common in many countries, is called a "joyride" (nowadays electronic locks make it more difficult -- it was much more prevalent back in the day).
> My 2 cents about why women are underrepresented in software industry is that not too many of them are interested in the beginning.

Women were once the majority of programmers.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmin...

edit: my 65 year old mother is the only reason why I'm a programmer today. Well, that and William Gibson.
I agree with you in many ways, and have been critical of military means that were marketed as "bringing democracy". Irak, Libya, and Syria come to mind as terrifying recent examples. Incidentally the House of Saud supported the military actions in all three cases.

But yhere is a world of difference between a journalist asking critical questions, and bombing a country.

It's a journalist's task to ask autocratic rulers critical questions. The Bloomberg piece does not do this, instead raving "how comfortable meeting him was".

The target audience of this piece is the US population. The house of Saud invests a great deal of money in misleading the US population, so as to ensure that the US continues its support of the status quo, which is highly convenient for the House of Saud, but a disaster for just about anybody else. See e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/20/...

The question how to engineer a peaceful transition away from the House of Saud to a meaningful democracy (or even a more enlightened dictatorship such as Dubai), is a deep and complex one, and I don't purport to have an answer. But it's good to understand how autocratic rulers such as the House of Saud manipulate public opinion.
How innovative. How inspiring.
I've been on 16.04 for a few days now, and while I did have to work through some bugs (such as sddm and lightdm fighting each other) I've been impressed so far with the improvements.

Inused to hate on Ubuntu, but on my 2014 Macbook Pro, it was the one distro that "just worked", and since I mostly run debian servers, I figure Sticking to the similar ecosystem reduces mental load of switching.

I still have my issues with Shuttleworth and Canonical, but hey, it's linux, so I can remove the crap I dont like (unlike some things, staring at you windows 10).
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Amusingly, a variant of this is present in Beyond Zork toward the end of the game.
Yes. There are probably internal discussions about the future of the platform, but we have no official information.

This 'android port of swift' only allows to target the NDK, not to build an Android app from A to Z.
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Aramco represents more than half of Saudi Arabia's GDP, and at best they should be able to net $0.5T by selling 5%.

How do they find another $1.5T? $700M is 0.05% of that.
I'd rather use eChronos or seL4. They're provable and free software.

Intel call their thing an RTOS; it's bullshit. They lack proof of hard realtime.
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Pity, no support for Google Music.
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So it's prior restraint?
Another vote for lollypop.
I'm not keen on the last update (moving the great album view in a hover menu) but other than that it does nearly everything I need from a media player. The only thing missing for me would be an integrated tag editor.