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I'm familiar that some monarchs technically still have some ability to influence government. But they use it very rarely, because they know if they overuse it, it will be taken away. You mention Australia, but Australia did try to leave the commonwealth in 1999, perhaps in response to that. The only reason they didn't is because the vote was split on exactly what system of government to replace it with.

I've heard the argument that royalty is a net gain in taxes. My point was that they aren't universally popular and there are movements to remove them. Anyway the fact they own lots of land is silly, since it was inherited from centuries ago, when it was originally taken by force. There is nothing stopping the government from cutting them off and continuing to use their land.
This is in a certain sense a typical checkpoint finding. It's probably a good finding and it's good that they point out the problematic andorid ecosystem.
But their announcement is then filled with some nonsense and marketing bullshit that's more likely to confuse users than help.

In their blog post they say [1]:

* "Use known, trusted Wi-Fi networks or while traveling use only those that you can verify are provided by a trustworthy source."
What's that supposed to mean? Is a Wifi trustworthy if it's named Starbucks, because I just bought a coffee there?

* "End users and enterprises should consider using mobile security solutions designed to detect suspicious behavior on a device, including malware that could be obfuscated within installed apps."
I call bullshit.

* And then further on [2]:
"ZoneAlarm® Mobile Security for Android™ keeps your mobile devices fully protected from malicious apps and Wi-Fi attacks."
Oh really? Can they explain how they overcame the theoretical limits (halting problem) that prevent something like this from being possible?

A lot of it reminds me to the Misfortune Cookie vuln a while ago. Also a good find from Check Point in DSL routers, yet they claimed Zone Alarm can protect you, which was outright nonsense.

[1] http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/08/07/quadrooter/

[2] https://www.checkpoint.com/resources/quadrooter-vulnerabilit...
We need to live in harmony with Nature. This kind of awareness (hard metrics) has to be fed back into our decision making to do it. I believe we can support current population density with ecological enrichment through "applied ecology", e.g. Permaculture, etc. but only if we are aware of the need and priority.

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For example see David Blume's concept for small-scale organic alcohol fuel production integrated with Permaculture food production. http://permaculture.com/node/518

Not to give away (part of) the punchline, but the on-site extraction and distillation of the fuel retains all the trace elements, minerals, etc. The molecules in the fuel have come from the air and water, their energy-holding arrangement has been paid for by the Sun. The farm exports sunlight in fluid form.

As part of an integrated agriculturally-productive ecosystem alcohol fuel production just makes sense. The economics are totally different from large-scale ethanol, for instance.
>I notice they don't mention how far down the patches have gotten, or how many users are still vulnerable today.

There were a handful of "Critical" Qualcomm specific bugs fixed in the July [0] and August [1] Android security updates.

I can tell you that my Nexus 5X, which is on the July patch level, is still vulnerable to 2 of the bugs according the checkpoint security scanner. One is listed as being fixed in the August update, the other isn't.

[0] https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html

[1] https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
I'm sick to the back teeth of getting news from web pages, because there's about 1 kilobyte of text I want to read and megabyte upon megabyte of other crap from logos to tracking cookies to ads that I don't give a shit about. IT's not so uncommon to tap on a news story on my phone and find it takes longer to load than it did to read.

It's ridiculously inefficient from the point of the news consumer, which is logical since the news consumer is basically the product in a transaction between content delivery firms and advertisers. New news has always been supported by advertising, but it's gone past the point of absurdity into being economically unsustainable. The western social order is clearly on the verge of a breakdown, not least because public trust of the media is at a nadir and so large segments of the population have abandoned truth-seeking as a component of their media experience and drifted more and more towards validation. This is going to end badly.
If your mu4e is backed by a maildir on disk then it's pretty much assured to be slower than gmail or fastmail. One disk seek is very very expensive, and for many people a round trip to gmail's frontends is going to be faster. Gmail's speed will remain constant no matter how busy your local disk is. If you're compiling firefox on the same single disk that stores your mail, mu4e is going to take multiple seconds just to go to the next thread.

On the other hand if you have a good SSD then a local MUA running from local storage can look competitive.
interesting. Do you have an alternative in mind?
Is that something you can share? Edit: To clarify, I am not asking you to share the algo, but a more accurate example perhaps?
The URL that's supposed to redirect to HTTPS is still vulnerable to MitM. It can be modified in transit to serve up the same data as the HTTPS URL, but in plaintext, and potentially with a different form action attribute, etc. There are different things that can help with that, but none of them universally protect privacy.
what is it with this article...

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789
What would happen if it really cost zero to hire a new employee? Or if hiring cost less than zero?

Let's postulate an annual corporate tax deduction of $16015 for each employee working 30 or more hours per week. This would be compensated by increasing corporate tax rates until all changes are revenue-neutral.

This probably means that every last person able to work could get a job warming chairs at $7.25/hr for 30 hr/wk. What unforeseen consequences could that have on the labor market?
After a year of Donald Trump, I find Stephen Wolfram's competent and scientific self-fondness quite refreshing.
The AST? What AST is that? You don't get access to an AST.
For many people, personalization is not a wanted feature because it implies that information about you is being gathered and stored. This storage may not be problematic right now, but it can potentially be used to cause you problems in the future. Some people simply do not care or believe that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, while others do not mind the small inconvenience of non-personalized offerings if it means they might avoid a large inconvenience in the future.
> I just don't understand where the difficulty some people have in mind comes from so I'm trying to understand it better.

It's a pain in the ass from time to time, especially if you don't administer Linux boxes for a living. I've been running my own MTA for well over a decade, and have dealt with every one of the issues cited by the other people responding to you in this thread, as well as most cited by other people discussing this article in general, and a few (such as the advent of deliverability/spam-fighting tools like DKIM and DMARC) which I haven't seen anyone else mention. I haven't kept close track, but I'd say it's cost me altogether somewhere between one and two weeks of time over the years - and that doesn't count initial setup, because I did that back before you could just pick any of a dozen HOWTOs that'd take you through the whole process end-to-end.

For me, and apparently also for you, that tradeoff is worthwhile. (For me, not least because the amount of effort required has gone nearly to zero in the past few years. If that weren't true, I'm not sure I'd feel the same way.) For a lot of people, that tradeoff makes less sense than spending about the same, or a bit more, money, in order to have their mail infrastructure looked after by professionals who do it for a living. Granted, they have to deal with risks that we don't, like Google's habit of surprising its users with rather stupid UI changes, only some of which fail to last. But we have to deal with risks that they don't, too. We prefer control to convenience and are willing to spend time and effort to get the result we want, and that's okay. Others prefer convenience to control and would rather spend money to get the result they want, and that's okay, too. Different people have different needs.

If that's still confusing, I don't really know what to tell you. Sorry.
That was Linus, and also ESR before he went batshit insane
> Long meeting times with the wrong people in the meeting? That's a managerial issue and has nothing to do with scrum.

Even with two-week sprints the majority of your last day is entirely meetings between the review and retrospective. In my experience one-month sprints are more common, especially in large enterprises and government, and you will literally have 7 hours of meetings on that final day if you follow the Scrum handbook.

Long meetings are built into Scrum.
Google, Facebook and Amazon own plenty of copyrights and patents. I don't see them campaigning to eliminate IP law.

Even though the corporations release a lot of open source, they probably prefer the current status quo of explicit licenses placed on code they choose to release, rather than an alternative world of all code being in public domain.

I don't see how it would be to Google's advantage if source code had no IP status at all: an ex-employee could keep a copy of the Google source tree and legally put it on Github.
Wow, the map for my area is seriously outdated. My town looks about like it did when I was a kid in the 1980s. It's easy to tell because my town has consistently grown since then from around 20k population to 150k population, and a lot of things that were built up in the late 80s aren't yet on that map.

It's quite fascinating to get a refresher of what it looked like in the past.

It's a nice concept. I like being able to see this stuff.
Take a look at "Turn the Ship Around!" for a real world example of delegation that worked.

As for me, it's about finding people who hold themselves accountable, then giving them a clear goal but with broad discretion in how to achieve it.

The problem is when you have people who fail to hold themselves accountable. Then they usually blame the process or the org or such. This usually requires transitioning those people out of the organization or into roles in which they have a micromanager to keep them responsible.
Be careful what you wish for, this type of legislation may unintentionally prevent consumer level device modifications like rooting and custom roms which allow security researchers the ability to find these issues and basically restrict this to an NSA level of funding. If I were qualcomm that'd be my first response in order to minimize effort on my part.

Ideally Google would just produce a version that was more directly update-able.
Nice idea! I'm not a vim user (Emacs) but I could imagine something similar being useful for highlighting specific shortcuts when you press a modifier or possible subsequent presses in the middle of a key sequence.

The new Das Keyboard they marketed by being on Kickstarter is trying to find some productivity improvements from RGB backlighting too. Not sure I'm convinced by their use cases so far but I'm sure some good ideas will come out of that.
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China operates a number of armed drones, whether they've been used in any actions is unknown.

Nigeria operates armed CH-4 drones from China.

South Africa has armed versions of its Seeker 400 drone, though it's not clear if those acquired by Defence Intelligence are armed yet.

Iran's Shahed-129 drone is armed with the Sadid-1 air-to-surface missile and is in active service.

Israel has armed drones, even though present policy prevents them from being used in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

The UK and Italy both have armed Reapers.

Saudi Arabia has also acquired armed drones from China.

In short, nearly 25 countries either have or are actively developing armed drones. I expect that number to go up dramatically in the next ten years, as armed drones become as common exports as unarmed drones.
I guess it solves both problems, so it's probably a smart move.
Yes, the username and all other fields besides the password are not kept in that history.
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NSIS has ages of history. It was written while many HNers were still in elementary school. Projects with that much built-up documentation and massive amounts of deep links don't just move on a whim.
The major supermarket in my area did this several years ago. One of the reasons they cited was speed. Customers were slow going through self-checkout lines and there were so many of them that at busy hours they had trouble getting people out quickly. Speed noticeably improved when they went back to people.
What's happened in the US at least since the recession is that almost all job gains have gone to those over age 40. The real agenda of this article is to discourage hiring workers over 40 in favor of younger workers. As to why employers favor older workers, it's because they are more experienced and also willing to keep working because they don't have enough savings to retire. This is an attempt to force employers to train younger workers even though already-trained older workers are willing to work the same jobs. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing depends mostly on your age and politics.
Your team ships an arbitrarily 10 points per sprint by doing what they think is right. The same team could ship an arbitrarily 20 points per week. 10 is the _true_ cost of building a healthy system. There is not a lot more to do for good team, honestly, at that point. Management can't say anything

This sort of thing is only useful for managers who don't understand what is going on. Since they are unable to look at code and understand it, 'points' give them a semi-opaque substitute.

If management trusts the team, it is not necessary.
As a layperson, I read the report that the exploit could apply broadly (since it's the baseband), but the patches were potentially difficult to roll out because of the layers of fragmentation in approving and pushing out the patches to the baseband firmware and the various mechanisms which might or might not be in pace to do so.
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Those are such trivial details! These are the things that matter in day one of using the language, and make no difference for anyone who has made the slightest effort to get familiar with the language. Breaking compatibility for such a silly style reason would be the height of stupidity!
To be fair, I thought that its was all crap when I first saw the MacBook air. Then I acquired one through work for a couple of years. Its was nice going somewhere with hand luggage and being able to fit it in the top of my bag relatively easy compared to my other laptop (though the thinness didn't make a huge amount of difference).
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As long as it's not your suffering....
Your probably right. But if they do that, I'm out. I simply won't buy a laptop that ships without a working keyboard.
I think relativity is a red herring in this discussion because it was so famously hard to prove. That a theory which took on the order of a generation to satisfactorily prove required a generation for mass acceptance isn't in my opinion evidence for Kuhn's hypothesis, or particularly noteworthy. If you look at the different (though also foundational) example of Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA you won't see skepticism from the old guard but rather excitement. This is because the discovery, though revolutionary, was easily proved -- every cell has DNA, as can be verified by anyone once they are told how to look for it.

More broadly I think you will find that for every relativity-like-theory that was slow on the uptake (which is to say difficult to prove), there are also 10-100 promising theories which were discarded... and that the very real risk that a theory could be wrong is the principal reason for the eventually-winning-theories' slow uptake among scientists.

(Incidentally while double checking this critique and my DNA example, I found out it's one of the more common critiques of Khun's work. See http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/#6.1)

With that out of the way, let's take a closer look at your claim that technological progress isn't a counterexample. Your point that the expansion of new people into tech should count as a new generations is well received, and I think a good and interesting one... but you also admit you yourself have changed paradigms in your lifetime. Does that not count as you putting yourself forward as a counterexample, and agreeing with respect to tech more generally?

I do agree that as I've gotten older I grumble a bit more when I have to learn a new way of thinking about something I'm already familiar with... but when it can be shown concretely that the new way is better (for example the results from deep learning) I do spend the time to relearn. This reticence seems more than enough to account of the data Kuhn is using, so don't see why a fancier hypothesis involving me (and more broadly everyone) secretly refusing to give up on lesser ideas is needed.
The place to start for Netflix would be some real account recovery. If your account is compromised and the email address changed, they set you up with a new one instead of recovering the existing one. They also don't credit you for any time remaining on your previous subscription.
Only refactor things in sections of code that you're changing anyway. That way QA already needs to test those sections of code, and gets no extra work.
It was a flag (before iOS10) which the developers were obliged to honour if they were doing more things than just frequency counting for example.
Most of them probably didn't, and that's why Apple decided to take this step..
If you have a management team that is very weak when it comes to planning agile does help a lot allowing the world of actual work estimates to enter the equation, or in the sprint structure you can broach the question 'what gets bumped to do this?' If a management team has an endless leash they just stack a thousand different arbitrary pieces in a pile, call it a release and set a deadline. Using agile enforces a workflow for short term planning where one didn't exist.
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I bought a 2013 Moto X in early 2014. A significant factor in my decision was "owned by Google" and a "promise" of "timely updates".

It was significantly less than two years before I was left on a vulnerable version of 5 with no further updates. Well before my two year "phone agreement" or whatever term ('it's not a "contract"') Verizon was then using, was up.

Because of a special deal, I'm on a Nexus 5x right now. (That Verizon does not officially support -- whatever...) But it may well be my last Android phone. I've no confidence left in the Andriod ecosystem.

I cringe more than a bit at Apple's "walled garden". But, at least they keep it up-to-date. And increasingly, I view the cell phone as a quasi-public medium. If I want true privacy for some aspect of communication, I simply have to take it out-of-band.

For the time being, I may also trust the likes of Signal (Whisper Systems). But most other parties I communicate with have no clue and no desire to get one.

Fortunately, three letter agencies and scammers don't seem to be too interested in my semi-disfunctional relationships. And I don't do banking, shopping, etc. on the thing nor use email accounts tied to same.

P.S. Just found this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12249195

http://www.androidcentral.com/quadrooter-5-things-know-about...

on this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12248824

The cited article having a bit more perspective -- albeit one essentially wrapped in speculation as opposed to confirmed fact.

And yeah, save your upvotes for the user who actually posted it.
For me, it was the ultimate example of environmentalists shooting themselves in the foot. Always opposed to nuclear (scary!), wind (birds!), natural gas (fracking! CO2!), and as a result we keep burning coal, the worst of them all.
I found this tutorial was a good overview for both the Metropolis algorithm and for Metropolis Light Transport:

https://facweb.cs.byu.edu/graphics/publications/metropolisTu...
Thanks, this is interesting.

So, ProtonMail [0] and Tutanota [1] appear to be better choices.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtonMail

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutanota
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I'm not sure what this means. What doesn't help?
>> I'm done with nasty people with nasty attitudes. They can keep their murder mitten.

Sounds like you're the one with the nasty attitude. Currently live in metro detroit. Have had the opposite experience as you.
Out of touch is right! Even in Manhattan you can easily live fine on $40k with savings left over, at least if you have no dependents or health financing problems (eg expensive health condition coupled with bad insurance). In most of the USA, a $20/hr job with benefits counts as a good job.
This isn't backpressure, this is forcing synchronicity by using a queue depth of 1. For low throughput applications this is fine, but the latency will kill you on the long run and vastly underutilize available resources.

Backpressure should be proportional to the amount of work you want to prevent. And that backpressure should propagate up the event stream to limit the whole capacity of the subgraph. The slowest chain governs the speed of the whole system so that it can retain functionality instead of falling over. Which relates to other properties of the system

* work stealing, processes handle their own dynamic capacity
* prioritization, we can automatically guage what to NOT do
* feedback
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I work from home, so am able to set my own schedule, and tend to do something more like 10-20 blocks of 1-3 hours each, over the course of a week. They are not evenly spread out... I work when I am energetic and alert enough to be the most productive, balanced with the responsiveness required to meet the needs of the business.
This reminds me of that AI-written screenplay earlier this year [1]... it's interesting, it may be progress, but it's partly carried by its presentation and production value and the promo value of "who" it was authored by. (This is also true, to a lesser degree, of human works.) Fingers crossed for progress.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-th...
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