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>The Gimp developers knew better and made the UI strongly favor saving as .xcf, which makes sense in some use-cases, but not mine.

Well, remember, GTK originally stood for GIMP ToolKit. The GNOME DNA is strong within GIMP.

And make no mistake, that's a very GNOMEy thing to do.
I liked the new behaviour personally
The sheer banality of the "sabotage" found in the emails is honestly pretty good proof to me that there isn't anything truly horrible to be found- if there was, Sanders' folks would be trumpeting it, not "Sanders doesn't understand Democratic politics".
See also Briar (https://briarproject.org/) which has the added benefit of being open source
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FPGA and CPU together is nothing new. AMD started offering Fiji + HBM in 2015 and recently nVidia joined with their Pascal + HBM2. Intel is lagging in general due to lack of competition.
No, I wasn't prompted to update without any warning. I downloaded v3 from the Paw website, but there was nothing there listing the version requirement, so I assumed it had not changed since the last version which I had.

Any ETA on being able to use integer values from JSON request?
Accurate or not, foreign influence is something to worry about. Let's be honest here. Governments don't release intelligence on foreign leaders in some sort of magnanimous and innocent gesture to help inform the foreign populace. No. They do it for influence. They choose what to release and when.

For the sake of argument, let's say that your had evidence that a major candidate for office in a strategically important foreign country was engaged in, or had recently engaged in some tawdry or perhaps illicit affair. What do you do with it? Realpolitik dictates that all that matters is that if it's more advantageous for the candidate to lose or not. If you want the candidate to lose, but he's winning, you release it. If not, you don't. Sure, it's transparency, but it's outside influence, for your gain, not the foreign country's.
Performance and size. You can't get better performance or smaller size than a manual written js solution. wasm is supposed to give you both( better performance and smaller payload size). I'm wondering how many people will see value in JS once wasm and compiled to wasm languages are first class citizens. I doubt there will be many(excluding the js developers who may be biases)
I agree.

One benefit I've seen a lot is typing external services. A lot of code (both the frontend and the backend in say Node.js) tends to deal with calling external APIs, which would be dynamic in JavaScript and end up being quite loosely documented in the code.

With TypeScript, however, you can type in the JSON responses, which makes reading any code dealing with external services so much quicker. And these days with literal types you can even document that a particular property is either "magic_string_1" or "magic_string_2".
Yep, I stayed in Bangalore for 3 months. For one or two months there we had daily 3+ hour power outages. I lived in the outskirts and when taking a bus to Bangalore Proper, it can take 3 hours standing in a packed and overheated bus. There are animals roaming around and garbage everywhere. I had giardia (a kind of intestinal parasite) from unfiltered water resulting in diarrhea 5+ times a day for half my time there. The landlord didn't rent by contract and the terms and payments kept changing. No one wanted to sell a foreigner a sim card so I had no sim the entire time.

For its reputation as a garden and tech city, I'm not impressed.
I totally see that it makes sense for some work flows, including the ones Gimp is probably most meant for. It was frustrating that for the people whose workflows were messed up, the developers were totally opposed to doing anything about it though. Kudos to the plugin author for rolling up her sleeves and providing a way out. Also kudos to the gimp developers for providing a plugin architecture that made such a customization an option.
That's exactly the point. Preferences are preferences and we don't know better than the user. The user's computer works in a certain way. They're used to it. Don't screw with the user.
GIMP is a handy tool: I use it for a lot of my image editing needs, for when very basic tools won't do. I rarely need the power of PS, and can't afford it anyway (although I do miss that magnetic lasso: GIMP's magic scissors don't quite have a good enough algorithm). All of this talk about the future is exciting.

However, yes, GIMP is quite rarely an acceptable replacement for PS, and I find this unlikely to change any time soon.

Also, GAP is really, REALLY, REALLY awkward and unwieldy to use. I would reccomend Synfig Studio for animation instead.
What client/OS are you seeing that on? It's the Apple logo's unicode character code I suppose.
Firefox mobile with ublock origin and ghostery does a good job of ad blocking. No popover here.
> Then the community has an obligation to take action both against the robber and the person who's house was broken into.

No. This is exactly what's wrong with parallel construction and why any evidence like this should always be treated like it simply does not exist.

The only times when you should be able to break that rule is if there is overwhelming social advantage to breaking it. And I'm not sure the case posted here is one of those.
What's your point? I ask, because we were talking about a competitive two person race, where the non-establishment candidate won several contests, and had a major role in shaping the party platform and changing the narrative of the election. Are you saying that was all a grand charade?
I may be completely wrong on this one but isn't social-democracy a sort of compromise between socialism and capitalism? So I wouldn't call it entirely unrelated.
Do it while swimming. I found it works pretty well. And Don't stress about not doing it every day for exactly 20 mins.
HBM != FPGA
Since the 5k iMacs went in my local stores, I always fiddle with them and be amazed at the oh-so-sharp and huge real estate to play with. I just replaced my ruined mba to a 13" rmbp and the difference is so worth it, but still, as you said, i need to use the scaling feature. I think there is a way to use the retina display on it's native res, but the text will be so unbearably small.

Yeah. The cost is still prohibitively expensive to have a desktop-sized display. I mean, FHD took years to be the standard (although i prefer 16:10). We'll have 8k computer displays released before 5k becomes the standard.
Because it is Bruce Schneier who tends to have a technical rather than an outright political angle.
More details on the water allocation from a human rights group:

http://www.btselem.org/water/discrimination_in_water_supply

And from the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-11101797

> Palestinians say they are prevented from using their own water resources by a belligerent military power, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to buy water from their occupiers at inflated prices.

> Israel allocates to its citizens, including those living in settlements in the West Bank deemed illegal under international law, between three and five times more water than the Palestinians.
You're referencing bugs bunny, yes, but it's not FUNNY to just splice in the punchline if nobody ASKED. It just leaves everybody confused.
I sort-of agree with you about user convenience, that's what I meant by discoverability issues, but I'm a bit more optimistic that it could be overcome. Absolutely, when people go and have fun coding 70% of FB until the software is able to federate with itself, that's not going to work. But if they would consider it mandatory that their project can talk to other federated projects, that's what I would see as a potential turning point.

The second component that's necessary in my opinion to achieve some kind of real momentum is early adopters that are not from the same techo geek background as we are. There are a lot of these groups that have an acute interest in circumventing silo restrictions, but they're usually not the kind of people I like to associate with - yet if there was one such community with a sufficiently non-deplorable ideology interested in this, it could eventually propel the idea into the mainstream.
The same thing kinda happened with a few developers when we started to use TypeScript, but that 2 years ago.
He said using JS won't get you to the top of HN.
The comparison doesn't hold up when rates of voluntary job separation and involuntary laid offs are being discussed.
None of these are an argument against HSTS. They are ways you can attack DESPITE it, IF you put in the extra effort or have specific favorable circumstances.

The only way your proposed solution (secure-only protocol) avoids your identified design flaw (non-secure connections are sometimes possible) is if everyone immediately switches it and retires HTTP. That's not going to happen.

Considering a number of your attacks rely on the user not looking at the site security level (or in some cases, even at the domain name spelling), I find it curious that you think another visual indicator will make a difference.
I like that idea too, but my point's that this isn't a technical problem. It's a social problem. It's the problem of convincing a critical mass of influential people to simultaneously put their reputation on the line for a new e-journal that nobody's ever heard of.
3 & 4 in your list are so key. I was very skeptical of it until I started using it and realized that javascript is always valid typescript. So it never gets in your way. It only helps, and only if you want it to.
Ah, right; I was thinking about the detection mechanism (which probably doesn't use Chrome), not the redirection.
TS was developed to avoid replacement of JS(i.e by something like Dart) so I doubt better JS training could help it.
Thank GOD. Hello wasn't a bad idea, but nobody used it, and it sure as heck didn't belong in firefox's default distribution.
I wonder if the effect is a causal relationship, or just correlated. If you are the type of person that can be disciplined to work out every week, then you may just be able to train your self confidence. It's not that working out gives you it.
Typescript doesn't really transpile, kinda sorta...its output is idiomatic JS. It's syntax is basically just javascript. It's really just a natural way to annotate the types that you pass to javascript functions so that the compiler can check them. Not trying to be "that guy", just saying that it isn't like learning a whole new language. It's just adding a few things to the JS that you already know.
Well - not here.
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Most of today's renewable technologies have decent energy buy-back times - this is in part due to improvements in materials, and in part due to manufacturing infrastructure energy investment being paid off - and of course the increasing use of renewable energy for the manufacture of renewable energy production goods.

That all said, a lot of what is currently installed will probably never see energy buy-back. Rather, we have to look upon a lot of existing renewable investment as just that - investment - for this has paved the way for actually energy positive renewable energy technology, which we now have, and seem poised to squander.
Do they, care to cite some research on sleep or meditation?
It seems that they will make Hello an add-on instead.
Note that you are answering a different question. I approached this issue framed as "what should society do?". My answers were about whether criminal proceedings should occur. How should the rest of us react when we see something like this?

Your question is of a moral nature: what should I do if I break in your house and find out that you are abusing your kids?

This is why they write fiction :) Not so easy to figure out, and it could easily vary by individual and circumstance.

As to advocating for people to become robbers, would I advocate for another Snowden to appear? I think that's impossible for me to answer without answering your moral question, without knowing what sorts of things would be revealed by the crime. Whether I advocated or not, though, it'd still be a crime. Not sure if my advocacy is a crime. If so, then I'm a criminal and the law is an ass.
You are correct, but I'd like to clarify that property rights on land is one of libertarianism's big things mostly because rich folk own a lot of land.

They'll defend having a "big government" that'll commit violence to protect rich people's land and they'll pay for that with taxes that they would otherwise decry as theft at gunpoint.

Contrast this with their general approach to industry dumping carbon or other pollution into the air and suggestions to price in those externalities.
There's another side benefit to desalination that nobody seems to have mentioned here yet, which is solar ponds, as you can use the resultant "waste" brine to make the required halocline. Solar ponds are a means of generating usable energy from the storage of solar energy within a body of brine. Israel actually made headway with this tech in the 80's, but shelved it as there was no real urgent need for it - but there's new interest in it as a renewable energy source.

Anyway, wikipedia gives a bit more background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_pond
That's much more reasonable.
That does sound awesome. Does it mean that if you have:

function second(y: number) {
return y + 3;
}

And you call second(x) from myFunction, the compiler complains if you haven't put the if() ensuring that null cannot pass to second()?
I wonder how much the popularity of Angular had to do with the recent adoption of TypeScript?
Silicon Chip

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Sketch use case is different though, its more layout oriented whereas illustrator is mainly a vector editing powerhouse. Layout is a pain in illustrator because it was never meant as a layout program. I use sketch, illustrator and indesign regulary and all have their relative strenghts and weaknesses even though theres a lot of feature overlap.
I don't think so. In my response, if somebody used parallel construction? They'd be guilty of a crime. This is what we want, right?
Well, yes, there is that. Great article, by the way. But the awful boilerplate had a lot to do with me dropping it. If I build an android app, it will be either PhoneGap/Cordova, React Native, or some other tooling.
Yeah. My favorite of the truther conspiracies is that the DNC somehow called MSNBC up on the phone and had them kill a live segment. "Pull" means "get a copy" in this context.

It's as bad calling a cisco wifi repeaters a "white noise device".
That's the part I do not really get. It already is an addon, kind of. They introduced the concept of system addons, that are addons code wise, but can't be managed via the addon interface, and that is what Hello was already. This bugreport however seems to be about removing that system addon.

Maybe they want to transform it into a regular addon. But the bugreport does not mention it, and I saw no additional explication elsewhere.
doesn't copy on write + "immutable" solve the copying problem?
Next on the list: Pocket, closed-source EME, Flash.
Software engineers are an interesting bunch... Reading all the bashing comments about Paw not being free, I can't help but feel a vibe, that some people expect to be paid thousands of dollars and not pay a single cent themselves. Where does this entitlement come from?

Good job guys! You made a fantastic product. I will always favor native apps over Electron hacks. I can't count how many times I've CMD+Tabbed to Chrome and hit CMD+W to close a tab, only to see Postman disappear. It disrupts my flow.

One thing though. I'm a developer, I know what I'm doing. Please make JSON Text the default option. Formatted JSON doesn't hurt or threaten me :) I expect to see my responses exactly as they are.

Edit:
Unfortunately I have to edit this comment to give additional feedback about Paw. I'm using the 30 day trial, i.e. I am evaluating the product. Paw is running in the background, I'm not interacting with it in any way, but it jumps to foreground, just to show me a pop-up window informing me, that I have 29 days left of trial and should upgrade. No, thank you, I installed the app just an hour ago. I'm aware of the 30 day trial. No need to nag about it every 20 minutes, that will not prompt me to upgrade any sooner. If anything, it does quite the opposite.
That seems like a really weird thing to read into k_bx's post. I think you might want to try re-calibrating your "is this post meant personally"-meter :).

FWIW, I didn't see any condescension there. I got more of a "Oh, you ain't seen nothin' yet!" vibe from it. Obviously, YMMV.

EDIT: Words
I don't think it's had much of an effect to be honest. Angular 2 (which has TypeScript going on) isn't even stable yet and seems to have lost a lot of mindset compared to React (which doesn't have TypeScript going on).
I wonder what point of view libertarians have on issues like this one. How can we regulate this without government intervention? what can we do to counter-balance the marketing power of those corporations?
Visual basic for applications (VBA) was really useful for making very basic stuff, like putting code into spreadsheets. Unfortunately you couldn't write a standalone program from it that has an independent ui. But as a high school student, it was good enough as a tool to by pass the security put on the school labs,e.g, you can launch programs on a CD ROM. I remember the fun times where bunch of friends were able to play age of empires LAN games, even though the computers were locked down.
>It's stunning to me that we live in a world where the technological infrastructure for a federated web is better than it has ever been,

In my opinion, this type of "technical" thinking contributes to misdiagnosing why the majority do not use decentralized services.

Likewise, thinking in terms of technology & software like the "fathers of Internet"[1] have done to try and "solve" the adoption of decentralized ecosystem is misguided. Instead of thinking in terms of the "software stack", think about the economics. Yes, luminaries like Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee are smart but they don't seem to ever address the economics of why a billion people won't choose to run a decentralized stack from home computers. Not just economics of bandwidth and harddrives but also economics of diffused trust, security updates, etc.

My theory on why they don't put economics at the forefront of their pleas for a decentralized internet: their formative years of the internet happened when the entire Internet was sponsored by the government and universities. So to them, it just seems like today's problem can be solved with "technology".

>If tomorrow a couple of HN users got together and formed a loosely-affiliated working group for decentralization, there is a decent chance the current momentum could be meaningfully changed.

I respectfully disagree. I think creating a "decentralized-Facebook" such as Diaspora to be adopted by a billion people is extremely difficult ... because it's a very hard economics puzzle. I'm dismayed that 99% of blog posts advocating for decentralization never deconstructs this factor. It's handicapping our ability to analyze the situation.

[1]http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/telecom/intern...
My comment wasn't so much a direct response to the points you raised, and I wasn't disagreeing, the things I discussed were ideas which were inspired by your comment.

I hadn't considered whether I would advocate for another Snowden, but assuming being 'another Snowden' implies exposing corruption I would have to say that I would. I personally think that corruption in any form is one of the things holding us back as a species. See Africa for a wealth of examples.
Your idea is something which has been studied pretty intensively for decades; it's that there are huge and distinct regions of antimatter with vanishing baryon number B = 0 and that these have existed since at least the start of early structure formation, thus hoping to avoid (highly redshifted) signals in the cosmic diffuse gamma background.

That the anisotropies in the CMB are small puts sufficient limits on structure formation in the earlier universe that our observations (even at COBE scale, let alone from recent observatories) preclude your idea. AMS 02 results to date essentially preclude the wiggle-room of very large antimatter structures at large comoving distances which have "always" been spacelike separated from very large matter structures. BAO observations also put strong limits on the existence of large antimatter structures; it is very very hard to think of ways that gravitational collapse of antimatter can avoid leaving obvious traces on the Lyman-\alpha forest, without entirely overthrowing the Copernican principle.

As far as we can tell -- and there are thirty years of observations probing exactly this question -- there are zero antimatter AGNs and zero early superluminous antimatter supernovae in our sky; if they exist at all they are outside our Hubble volume, or there is a strongly Earth-focused conspiracy about the directions in which AGN relativistic jets point and the alignments on which they are filamented, which is also in tension with the Copernican principle, and that still does not explain the absorption lines on early SN emissions.

This does not preclude other Hubble volumes filled with antimatter or with annihilation products; most models of inflation lead to many many Hubble volumes. However the observations to date effectively preclude much antimatter, and essentially all large structures of antimatter, in our own Hubble volume.

There are some further arguments and an overview of many years worth of the large-antimatter-filled-regions-in-our-universe arguments in astro-ph/9707087 (Glashow et al., 1998)

It was never a stupid argument, but it received a lot of attention in the past couple of decades, and is now essentially resolved.

(There's an overview and citations of more recent discussion in part II of https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4186v2 although the paper also discusses other ideas about "why isn't there more antimatter in our Hubble volume" and advances a pretty speculative idea of the authors' own.)
I don't know. From the microsoft docs I understand that it has some limitations so most likely it won't work without some patching. Why would you use a linux subsystem instead of "native" linux anyway? It seems designed for sys admins who don't like windows (quite funny)
Have there been any updates on Mochizuki's proposed proof of the abc conjecture?
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Where is the political bias on Schneier's part here? Perhaps you simply just disagree with his position?
I have tried DNS ad blocking based on one of the popular lists out there. Sadly it was overly aggressive. It cut off my access to sites like mint.com and the Google Analytics dashboard (need it for $WORK). It also made sites like Hulu not work because of their ads. Debugging why this was happening was a huge pain because for example Mint uses Intuit domain names that are like right levels deep CNAMES.

I am going to try this out, but here I would have even less control since I can't edit the zone file.

Edit: Just turned it on and cleared all relevant caches. Still seeing ads all over Google, CNN, BBC, Imgur and a few others. Don't think this works terribly well.

Edit 2: oh but now the Comedy Central app on my phone won't launch. Turning this off.
Well, only a shoddy craftsman blames his tools, but if you work in a design or ad agency everyone uses the Adobe monoculture because no one wants to deal with potential asset pipeline hickups when under tight deadlines. I'm sure there's freelancers who prefer gimp, but in the industry it's far from accepted, most designers will only know it exists but won't bother trying because they've been cosy with PS for over a decade.
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