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On 3: I suspect that it's hard to get too precise on the A+++ to B grading scale. It's an imperfect measure and there's already plenty of disagreement between 4, let alone going to 10. You can fix some of the bias by using other measures that may correlate to the grade, but also provide some other guidance. Years of experience is one of them. You'll see that grade has a much higher impact than years of experience, so it's just modifying the total on the margin.

I haven't worked at a company with total transparency, at least not at the worker bee level. I have worked at partnerships where all the partners knew what each other made, and it was generally heavily weighted towards seniority. The system seemed to work better than I would have expected. My experience in "secret" systems is any time two people compare salary, one gets very pissed off. This is why I keep my comp private.
Sure, but for what purpose? The mission was done, nothing to see here anymore.

So the ESA would have traded the (very small, but not zero) risk of radioactive contamination from a launch failure for not enough additional research gain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...

A good start.
It's crazy how much motivation and passion you can get when information is so scarce, and you just want to play games :D I don't regret what I had to go through either.
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As a full-time Apple user for the last 7 years or so (not counting my //e days as a kid), I completely agree with this sentiment.

When you have a captive audience and no competition, it is easy to become complacent.

If Linux had a compelling desktop UI alternative and a compelling seamless device integration, I'd be very happy to switch.

I realize there is a lot of subjectivity to what is pretty, but Apple has opened the door for competitors to come out with a more self-consistent UX and address the shortcomings that Apple has introduced in their UX. Such as reduced discoverability, the loss of at-a-glance comprehension.
Double-plus good!
Visual Studio is still 32-bit.
I do the same. I wrote up a wiki on how I use it:

http://ronnie.me/store-encrypted-passwords-in-an-encrypted-f...

The issue I had with 'pass' was that it leaked info via the file names, but I found a nice way around that.
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I wonder what percent of those 85 are used just a dumbphone.
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The entire site hosting this is hilarious - it appears to be an April Fools parody of an academic tech conference and it's very well executed.
"Submissions are double blind and author names must be removed. On the published copy, authors must be ordered by descending number of vowels."
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ESA is an intergovernmental organization, visas and any country laws don't affect them. Also it doesn't belong to EU, even Canada is part of ESA.
I can concur with the OP. I recently interviewed at Bay Area companies which included late stage startups and big companies. Have about 5 years of experience.
Total liquid compensation was in the range of $200k to $300k annualized.
I saw a documentary a few years ago about Pimlico Plumbers, a large plumbing firm near where I live in London, who went transparent and revealed all the employees' salaries to their colleagues. It was interesting because salary transparency was not part of the company culture all along; it was an experiment in changing the status quo of an already-large workforce.

It did not go entirely smoothly: there was significant anger and resentment in the workforce at first, but eventually things smoothed over and (as I recall) everyone ended up more-or-less happy.

I dug out a review of the doc, if you're interested: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9393303/Show-M...
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Agreed, and it's still here; you can only get DX12 with Win10.

That hasn't kicked up as many waves yet because the tech has been slow to adopt.
Give the person a small reward for pointing out the vulnerability and offer another small reward for suggesting how to fix it.
It's a very long term thing. It'll probably happen because new APIs will be on UWP and not on Win32. I think VR might be the "next thing" that'll only get in-OS support in UWP.
He meant that the political/public reaction to anything nuclear (or also anything "genetic") is almost always (=quasi-religious) in shunning it.
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Because anyone who has watched Motorola after their acquisition from Lenovo knows they will stop updating phones very quickly. In under a year in some cases.
Valve are consistently fair and honest. That can't be said of most software platforms and it certainly can't be said of Microsoft.
Is that a troll? Linux has tons of native applications in just about every category. It is absolutely packed with alternatives. I don't use Linux daily anymore, but I almost never had an issue finding programs for what ever task I wanted to accomplish. More often then not the problem was a glut of choices.
Science didn't give us Mengele. If at all, Mengele gave us science [1], although of course that science is tainted with the blood and pain of his subjects.

[1] The fine print: I don't know if there are actual preserved recordings from his research that bore any scientific value.
I hope that color is just a prank. It hurts my eyes just looking at it. Can car makers stop making "quirky" EV designs? Nobody is asking for them.

> That’s in part due to its max range of 200 kilometres (about 124 miles).

If that's NEDC, then it's more like 85 miles EPA.
Tesla states that Model 3 will achieve 215 miles of range. I think that the manufacturing section of Elon Musk's recently published master plan was partly intended to prepare investors for not turning a profit in the next few years. Quote:

> A first principles physics analysis of automotive production suggests that somewhere between a 5 to 10 fold improvement is achievable by version 3 on a roughly 2 year iteration cycle. The first Model 3 factory machine should be thought of as version 0.5, with version 1.0 probably in 2018.
Can't you just ask them how did they do it and patch it?
You're right about that. The threat model is equal when using Dropbox. It's still different when you use a local LAN share or a USB stick though.
Re-install the server

On new re-installed server:

1. Change SSH service port to non-default one.
2. Do not allow root user to remotely connect (change sshd config)
3. Create new user which you will be using for administration to login as root.
4. If possible restrict which IP addresses are allowed to connect via SSH using firewall.
I think Samsung tried a few times in various form like Tizen or competitor of Google play services. Besides huge cost sink and already precarious situation of their premium smartphones they are hardly in position to challenge Google in consumer software.

The only thing that can pose challenge now is Geopolitical entities like China or Europe etc start putting increasing restrictions on Google/Android etc

It is nice to see though Oracle with all their money and ambition and Java ownership could not make an Android competitor / compatible system. I think meagre relief from courts of law has dampened their enthusiasm about anything beyond enterprise market.
No true hippy?
Trucks seem to be the perfect candidate for electric propulsion. The high torque of electric motors just make sense for urban acceleration/deceleration. As a pedestrian, one of the things I hate the most is the the dense, black smoke from heavy trucks.
Non the less. The formatting makes it very hard to read. the information architecture isn't in any way better and the order of navigation (next, up, and so on) buttons is slightly strange.

For me the usability and readability suffered greatly and I really had a hard time grasping the basic concepts from the introductory chapters.

So I am still lost even while thinking, that there might be something more behind this concept.
And ask him how he did it. Reward accordingly.
That pattern is typical of disguised prototypes, as it makes it a lot harder to make out details from photos.
But on the other hand Microsoft is quite a large company. The one development side is pulling heavily toward open source and freedom, but some of the other angles such as the store seem to be constricting.

I imagine it all depends which side (internally) will come out on top.
The Malthusian argument is threadbare and false.

Humanity has always been on the brink of demise. We've always been barely able to feed our people. This took us from hunter-gatherers to the development of agriculture, on to irrigation, fertilization, terraced farming, crop rotation, selective breeding, genetic manipulation.

In terms of energy, as we depleted the forests of wood for burning, we've gone through similar transformations, learning to harness other means of light and heat like wax, whale oil, and so on.

It turns out that the greatest resource we have is not vegetable or mineral, it's the human mind. Intentionally shutting off the creation of new minds - the engines that are going to find the means of solving all the other problems - is counterproductive.
Apparently everything is allowed as long as it isn't Microsoft.
Yes, they will never drop Win32 for enterprise for that reason.

But I think they could limit Win32 it for the Windows 10 consumer editions without the common user being affected much, if they port IE and Office to UWP and can also convince major game publishers to release their next AAA games as UWP applications in the windows store.
Either I am vastly underpaid or the numbers are very high for newer developers. Even with 0 experience and 0 skill, it quotes $86k.
This is either brilliant, or excellent satire. Which one it is depends on how you define the terms. There is good advice here, but if you take it literally, and don't pay attention to context, and use common sense, you'll end up with some really bad advice.
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Microsoft has over 100 kiloemployees in a myriad of different business divisions. Not all of them do things the same way. I'm not sure there is any corporation of that size that act completely coherent to the outside.
Not entirely, since you download the encryption code way more often (for example, when you open the "Lastpass Vault", which is just a website like any other). Parts of Lastpass are simply a website, not part of the browser extension, and as an avid Lastpass user in all honesty I don't know which parts.

This matters because even if it's client-side encryption, the encryption code just got downloaded when you opened the site so if the server or the network was compromised, you got compromised. [0]

With Keepass, the only time you run that risk is when you download Keepass.

[0] As far as I can tell, this is the core argument of tptacek's "javascript crypto considered harmful" rant (https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...). I'm not sure, because it's written worse than his most drunken HN comment, but I believe it is.
I'll never understand comparing code to art. Not the first time I'm seeing it but for me it couldn't be further apart.

There is no best way to make a drawing.
There is no best way to make a movie.
There is no best way to tell a story.
There is no best way to make a painting.
There is no best way to create a song.
...
There is (almost?) always a best way to do a piece of code. Code has nothing to do with emotions. I'm not trolling I truly don't get it, like at all.
Equity is shares in the company.

Profit Sharing is a portion of the company profits.

Profit sharing at my company would not be worth very much. But Equity in 5-10 years could be worth a small fortune.

At a company that isn't a small startup profit sharing could be huge.
Almost all of it. We used to make it with little regard for the environment - now China does.

If you want to fix that problem, institute a carbon tax, and import tarrifs on countries that don't have carbon taxes.

Practically, with things like the TPP, that's not the way the world is going.
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It's actually done to make it harder to see anything:

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2012/04/spy-photo-camera-...

It makes it harder to see any details when the company wants to stay secretive about their new car.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=dazzle+camouflage

I think it is kind of hilarious to try to camo a truck, like I can't quite tell what it is... is it a sports car? is it a SUV? The SUV wars are heating up!

Also kinda funny that a truck would be differentiated based on sheet metal styling.
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That's a special coating they put on to keep people from being able to see the car's design before it's being officially presented. Plenty of test cars driving around on my city's streets with these coatings on.
I think their plan has it costing less than 10k. 1 kwh of cells is ~$100 USD. They will likely use a 60 Kwh pack to hit the 200 mile minimum, or possibly a little bit larger with a 220 mile range.
As far as I'm aware flying generates fewer greenhouse gas emissions than any either trains, cars or buses over long distances. (At least in the US, where our rail infrastructure is freight-centric and diesel powered.) The argument against flying is that the greenhouse gas emissions end up high up, which could contribute to the greenhouse gas effect. However, long distance passenger trains in the US reduce the freight capacity of railroads, and the railroad is vastly more efficient than tractor-trailers when it comes to freight transport. This holds true even if the freight is transported in the relatively-un-aerodynamic intermodal container.
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I'm confused, what does Microsoft's office and development products have to do with this discussion about Steam and third-party software?
The trouble is that seeking medical attention will rarely do any good.

Physical therapy would be a good idea except for the fact that you will want to do it for months and you can't possibly afford to see a physical therapist for that long.
I've connected both of my Optimus-running ASUS laptops to projectors multiple times with no issues. But, as the article says, YMMV.
Clickbaity headline: The combined centre of mass is just above the surface of the sun, so the focus of Jupiter's orbit is outside the sun.

Yawn.
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"Project Centennial: Bringing Existing Desktop Applications to the Universal Windows Platform"

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B829
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It might not need a renegotiation as such, just a direct payment of the same amount as previously went via the EU account.
>The fine print: I don't know if there are actual preserved recordings from his research that bore any scientific value.

Sure, but that's either during to his clumsiness in experiments, or because of our refusal to accept such horrendous material for further use (even if they are scientifically valid otherwise).

That is, not due to some inherent logical or methodological impossibility of combining science with cruelty. If anything, not caring about the consequences (to people, animals, the environment, etc) can even accelerate scientific study.

That's why I brought it as an example.

To main it the point that we need to draw some lines through external normative systems (religion, morals, ethical concerns etc), because science itself is just a method of inquiry, nothing inherent in it about being humane or responsible.
If the UWP-only APIs are "too interesting", a way will be found around this. For example, you could funnel API calls from a Win32 app into a UWP-app receiver via a local TCP connection.
The only thing I recall when I see IFLS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtyYlAH0f_M
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Just because it's perceived as good for A doesn't mean it's automatically good for B.
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The point is, that if it isn't anthropomorphic, then there is (at least in some peoples' minds) nothing to do about it and we can safely ignore it. We can keep doing our stuff without second thoughts.

So "finger pointing" to humanity isn't that bad of a tactic to get things done.
There exists no obvious monopoly for app stores on Windows. Windows is a somewhat open platform not locked down like phones, and making it one means we've lost something. There's the "official" Microsoft app store, but hardly anyone uses it. There's several ones that aren't run by Microsoft, and they seem OK, and the big ones stand on their own merits.

Not to mention that ~20 years ago, Microsoft got in trouble with the government[0], and was almost forced to break up for forcing their own software on PC manufacturers, and on top of Windows.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Unfortunately the range is becoming a problem on big electric trucks. The batteries cannot store as much energy per weight unit as the chemical fuel. This can be circumvented by using electric wiring overhead.

Sweden is prototyping an electric highway for trucks. It'll make transport cheaper and less damaging to the environment.
The main way banks make money is by lending money, which also creates matching bank deposits.

Yes. But this only works if the banking system, on average, holds onto the deposits it creates. This way of doing things would break down if everybody withdrew their deposits into cash every time they got a loan and everybody only transacted in cash. The same thing would happen if borrowers immediately withdrew their deposits into CBCoin.
There are interop tools to/from Git to pretty much all the popular version control tools, including Mercurial. They might not work out of the box with Git submodules, but you should be able to set up a mirror of the original repo in Git.

Not ideal, but not a deal breaker either.
really great story telling.

Changing font color mid way was a mistake, it's breaking too many discreet conventions, sfart with the grey and it will be much easier for the user.
How do you know the downvotes weren't due to factors other than being correct?

For example, I can make a correct comment which has nothing to do with the thread. Irrelevant comments are infrequently downvoted. Eg, HN:ers downvote for reddit-style jokes. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=reddit%20joke%20downvote&sort=... . Even if there's nothing false in the joke.

People also downvote for tone: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=tone%20downvote&sort=byDate&pr... .

Since there are many factors which may cause someone to downvote, I don't think you can assume it was due to being correct.

Quoting from the HN Guidelines: "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

P.S. And how do you know 1928321931 prefers to be referred to as "he"?
Use display port instead? OSX is not great with multi-monitor, but it has come a long way. I have 2 monitors hooked up to my 2014 mbp using display port and they work fine.
Do you assume anyone who doesn't like the look of any Windows device must be an apple fan?
Agreed, particularly in an urban setting. In NYC the streets are quite literally with small to medium trucks, which are all almost certainly in violation of noise and pollution requirements. A fleet-type electric medium duty truck with swappable batteries would be awesome and I think governments should be bending over backwards to incentivize them.
> where would be a good place to source security experts?

There's no universal good answer for this.

I spend a lot of time on ##crypto (irc.freenode.net), and a lot of smart folks hang out there. Some are very well connected to other security experts in their own isolated communities.

However, there are undoubtedly silos of security expertise that remain untapped if you rely on just IRC.

You could also find folks who talk about security here on HN and follow their Twitter accounts (if public).

You could try "[development stack] security expert" in a Google search, as a last resort. (My company's currently at the bottom of the first page for PHP, although that's likely only true because of our filter bubble.)

A diverse approach is probably most likely to succeed here.
If you don't like manually obfuscating things, just keep your passwords in a txt file.
Does someone understand the snippet?

var fixedURL = URL.match(/^(.*:\/\/[^\/]+\/.*)@/);

fixedURL && (url = url.substring(0, fixedURL[1].length) + url.substring(fixedURL[1].length).replace(/@/g, "%40"));

It looks like:

* fidexURL is whatever is after :// and up until the very last @ (greediness)

* the second line fixedURL && is going to complete if fixedURL is not undefined

* url = this fixedURL, then the rest of it where @ was replaced by %40

so basically, entering http://avlidienbrunn.se/@twitter.com/@hehe.php will give

url = avlidienbrunn.se/@twitter.com/%40hehe.php

if I understand correctly. What happens after?

EDIT: it must be that the last [^/.]* before @ is taken as the domain name. But why splitting the URL before a @ sign? I'm confused
> That’s exactly what they did to their previous competitors in other areas.

Are we to take this to mean that Tim Sweeney is admitting that Steam uses undocumented Windows APIs? Because that's the only way Windows patches have broken existing software before.
Google technically does not have an app-store monopoly on Android. A sizable chunk of apps on my phone are from F-Droid.

Google just makes sure that most Androids have the Play Store, and then it's just the network effect: bigger audience -> more attractive to developers -> more apps -> more users.
Is it virtual casino in your mind first? My first thought is virtual porn.
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What was stopping you from listening to music and printing at the same time? Never seen that one (USB mono laser printer/bog standard mp3 tracks to play).
>> so I can download game mods from some unknown source that have full access to everything on my PC

I think that's more on you than the OS.
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Well, 99% of PC laptops sold don't have one either.

It's a niche field, and it concerns all of a few million (if that). When it becomes actually mainstream, it would be catered by mainstream oriented companies.

Heck, Apple doesn't even care about gaming, and that's quite a larger niche compared to VR, but still not people who appreciate the kind of details Apple focuses on (lightweight, thin, power efficient, etc). Gamers would rather build a custom rig. Plus, they're a demographic that fades off quickly after 25 or so.
If you are a developer worth your salt and not even registering on that scale, then I'm going to go with "Underpaid". Unless you live in like Bumstump, TX where you can buy a 4 bedroom 3 bath home on 2 acres of land for 60k.
This isn't the most insightful or actionable comment, but it is the correct solution for both the short term problem and many long term problems.
Well apparently the farmer that hosted Woodstock was genuinely appreciative for everyone coming out there, and came out and thanked everyone on the last day of the festival.

I agree with your sentiments overall though.
I would also add to this to block any password authentication and use SSH keys.
From TFA: Note: This issue has been already been resolved and pushed to the Lastpass users.

The open questions are a) how long the flaw existed prior to being fixed and b) whether attackers were able to exploit the flaw.
More likely, we will cover the borders with barbed wire, and machineguns.