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No matter how far you go to make people comfortable, you're always going to have some grumpy old curmudgeon who refuses to confess their heresy and doesn't understand what they're accused of. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnS49c9KZw8
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Do any good competitors to the ESP32 exist at this point? E.x. something small with WiFi and Bluetooth that's usable by hobbyists?

Also, anyone know how to pay more to get one of these ASAP? Or is anyone who has one willing to sell theirs?
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> You say "some speakers" and "a number of speakers". I read the article by Mx Kas Perch. Is there anyone else?

"Some speakers" was from http://nodevember.org/statement.html and I used "a number of speakers" as being equivalent to that unknown but small number. I wouldn't say "many speakers" though (British English).

I am also curious about the actual number - and also the number of supporters or allies not directly involved. It is quite different actual threats, experiences and imagined thoughts and emotions. And then (passive or active, online and offline) supporters to anothers emotions or experiences. I would argue that all these types of response can be addressed in a positive way.

Emotions can be addressed in kind - and perhaps reducing the number of concerns is similar to increasing the level of comfort. For example, I might say "well my friend is concerned that the venue is far away from public transport stops and it's at night" but a good response from the organizers may say "don't worry, we have security on the venue, it's well lighted, there will be good taxi service, we're working with the venue and local police etc". This may well reduce my hypothetical concern, and increase my comfort. I couldn't speak for my friend though - but I'd imagine my, as an ally, reassurance would help.
"the Wright Brothers were secretive. They were trying to perfect the Flyer to get a military contract and didn't want to publicize the advances they were making"

This alone makes one wonder if they deserve the recognition they get. Many people made great personal sacrifices to publicly make a point related to flight or something else. Whereas the Wright brothers played their secret mission game, Traian Vuia carried his plane all over the Europe from Lugoj to Paris (using the transport infrastructure of that time, mind you) only to publicly show and test it. That obviously happened long after the incremental development of the plane itself, considering the repeated postpones due to financial constraints (as all the required expenses were pretty much his own).
Ah, okay, thanks!
> prevent speakers from leaving en masse

"Leaving en masse"? The unsubstantiated claims get ever more outrageous and ridiculous with each new telling. Fortunately they didn't actually say anything at all, so that facts cannot be checked and fantasy can run its course unhindered.

Read this reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/51e2jb/nodevemb...

Two people, none of which provided any evidence.
Safari / Chrome don't layerize SVG content but Firefox does so you do get hardware-composited async animations when animation the transform property of SVG content in Firefox.

I'd be surprised if any browser is drawing off-screen SVG elements but perhaps some do.
If I was a snarky lawyer, I would offer to represent them against themselves, pro bono.
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When you really think about it, Haskell's mathematically inspired type classes are more or less the equivalent of Java's “`GenericConverter`s, `AbstractDTO`s and `BaseEntity`s”. The main difference is that their meaning is given by algebraic laws, rather than informally specified design patterns or fuzzy human intuitions about how “objects” interact with each other.
Having an idea or theory is one thing, but putting it into practice is something completely different.

It's not hard to imagine going to Mars and live there, or even have a bunch of theories on how this would be possible in practice. Doing it however, takes a lot more than that.

I can't imagine current media completely ignoring this when it would actually take place, which basically did happen with the Wright brothers.

Ideas and theories only prove their worth when something practical is done with them.
Who are these sensitive speakers and how important are they to justify removing someone as significant as Crockford for their sake?
Having someone other than the typical speaker on stage actually has enormous value. It's not true that there is an objective way to judge the value, even the technical value, of a presentation, particularly before it is given. So while saying "we want the best technical talks" sounds good, refusing to consider other factors actually works against minorities who -- no matter how blind and merit-based _your_ approval process may be -- often face innumerable other disadvantages in getting to where they are, including an overwhelming lack of role models in places like technical conferences.
I never suggested that anyone should be attacked, my comment never even implied as much.
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Oh damn, I meant "ad business". My mind is getting old. Too late for edits of the original comment.
nginx reverse proxy would be relatively simple.

There's even some docs straight from the asp.net site[0].

It's a bit of a paradigm shift from the "old" way but it's quite a normal thing to do with Node.js for example.

[0] - https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/publishing/linuxproduction.ht...
Have another look at your numbers, you have assumed that there are only 100 repair shops in the word. I would imagine this number is much higher (a google search for 'iphone micro soldering repair shop' gives 473k results)
> It's (speculated to be) flexing PCBs under BGA chips again.

Also, operational heat (from SoC, battery, whatevs...) can repetitively flex boards ever so slightly as it heats up and cools down, and on the long term will cause BGA chips to lose contact over time. That's what famously happened on the Xbox 360, but it more silently happened on numerous other devices too.

BGA is a necessity nowadays due to pin density, but it's a tech that's incredibly easy to ruin at the slightest design or manufacturing mistake.
This appears to be an extraordinarily misleading reframing of a story AP ran last week:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7d57f576e3f74b6ca4cd3436fbebf...

In particular: Comey was lamenting (albeit weakly) that the conversation had "dipped below public consciousness", and his plans where to return it there.

Heavily editorialized pieces can be fine when they do their own reporting. But "The Dash Times" doesn't seem to have done that; rather, they seem to be refocusing other pieces --- and not entirely honestly --- in order to generate rageviews.

(I am, of course, foursquare against key escrow).
Just goes to show that no thought enters their flagging.
The age of consumer pay once software is dead and has been for awhile - aside from non mobile games. Which software companies are actually still making real money from consumers? I can only think of one - Microsoft - and even they have moved to a subscription model. I'm a developer and if I didn't have an MSDN license, I could probably get away with only free tools that MS provides and open source software.

Adobe is still doing well, but they are also doing subscriptions and mostly prosumers who are running businesses.
I hate it when pricing is not a prominent link on a site's homepage and has to be found through a web search. It always look quite shady, like the enterprise software/services market where "call for pricing" is more common and always seems like an extortion is about to take place.

For consumer/small business related apps/services, if I don't see pricing linked or mentioned on the home page, I assume that it is quite expensive and that the developer/company believes the same too, thinking that people will balk on seeing the price and that they can somehow be convinced to sign up first (so they can be marketed to) and then pay what's demanded after reading the long list of features or other fluff they put up.
Young people can walk and drive longer distances, and so normally have less reason to remain lonely, I would guess.

Do lonely young people continue to be lonely mainly because they don't know how to initiate social interaction? Or because they don't realize that companionship is what they need?
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There are a Windbond flash onboard, pic is here: https://statics3.seeedstudio.com/product/2016-09/7.png

Some description above the pic:

• The size of ESP-3212 Wifi module is 16mm x 24mm x 3m.

• The ESP-3212 deploys 4MB SPI Flash with WSOP－8 package. It also uses 3DBi PCB antenna on board.

ESP3212 is an module, ESP32 is the chip.
What's the difference in how Safari handles this? I use Chrome, and it looks OK. But just loading the page on Safari slows everything else on my machine down.
Yes! And I want to ride bikes with friends and share audio!
So Lisp is not a functional language...
1) The vast majority of braking power comes from braking the front wheel. Applying backwards pressure to the pedals does nothing, which means a fixie's braking power is considerably limited.

2) Additionally, the braking is much smoother and more easily regulated with real brakes.

3) Stiction is stronger than dynamic friction. If you brake the rear wheel just below the point at which the wheel skids on the ground, you're disapating more power than if you skid the rear wheel i.e. you'll stop faster not skidding than skidding.

These reasons are why in many places (e.g. the UK) a front brake is legally mandatory.

Edit: spelling
Depends on whether your bunker location is known, and/or if it's considered to be high-value. Conventional weapons like the GBU-28 that can penetrate 30 meters of earth or 6 meters of reinforced concrete make any bunkers that aren't very deeply buried obsolete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-28

It's also possible that with today's precision guided bombs that successive impacts of "ordinary" 2000-lb bombs on the same exact spot could destroy a bunker.
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Sure. If you work out how to run with three users nicely, you can maybe extend to many by making a network topology like a tree that forks off two branches per level; that gets you to 8 users with only 4x the delay of 2 users.
i wish he wouldn't comment about his inane proclivities and i couldn't read his comments either...
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Their real lives are most definitely a mess ..
Even under your hypotheses, I'd say 100,000 faulty devices is already a very significant amount. In terms of retail price, we're looking at more than 60 million USD, and 100,000 customers who were sold a (possibly) flawed device.
I'm not sure what perspective should be taken into account, but I'm pretty sure we should not be simply looking at whether the rate of failures is above or below 1% given the volumes involved.
On xubuntu the default for git is nano, or it was for me at least.
What I was imagining is a 'toy' use case that might allow developers to begin to learn the tool. Just enough information to let someone get started.

Good luck.
I don't think blocking rapid re-keying on the CA side is going to do much good to prevent this kind of thing. It would help with the pattern described in RansomPKP, but that's not the only option available to attackers. The web server does not need direct access to the (maliciously added) private key - a separate service under the attacker's control that holds the private key and signs stuff for the web server would be sufficient (this is basically what CloudFlare does with Keyless SSL[1]).

I see some potential for CAA to help prevent these attacks. Limiting issuance to a small number of CAs would help, especially if those CAs are ones you have a business relationship with and have agreed to some sort of out-of-band confirmation process for all certificate requests (I believe this is fairly common for high-risk domains). There's been some discussion about account key pinning via CAA in the ACME WG. Account keys could be kept separate from the web server (possibly even in a HSM), so this could also help mitigate this problem.

That being said, none of that is going to do any good while checking CAA records is optional for CAs, not to mention that just about no one knows it even exists (even in the infosec community, as you have demonstrated). Hopefully we'll see some movement on that front in light of recent mis-issuance reports.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/keyless-ssl-the-nitty-gritty-tec...
i do need this, i've a collection of 100+ calls and i would like to import it without the need of rewriting everything
It is actually not ARM based, but rather based on the Cadence Xtenza family of CPUs.
They should probably add a whitelist to their bot
With the combination of the built in content blocking support that iOS has and the new Web View Controller that respects content blockers, ads are basically dead for web pages on iOS. Apps on the other hand are another story.
> Let's be pessimistic and say that only 20% of people who have this problem get it repaired

20% of people taking their phone to a third-party repair shop sounds very high. I'd say a vast majority would take their phone to Apple, who say it can't be fixed and to buy a new phone.
Thanks that you've tried to understand my post - and said it in better words and with more effort instead of downvoting the post like 10 others.
The parent used that quote as an example of something that is often repeated but seems difficult to actually justify. In other words, they were not agreeing with the quote they were disagreeing with it.
> As a consequence, functional programming is also programming with (immutable) values

I'll go even further: Values don't exist in time (when did the number 2 suddenly come into existence?), so it doesn't even make sense to ask whether they're “mutable” or “immutable”, which is intrinsically about how objects evolve in time. Values exist in the semantics of the programming language in question (a timeless mathematical object!), and a structural operational semantics makes this very clear: a value is a term that a variable can be substituted with. Ergo:

(0) In a call-by-value language, a value is the result of a successful computation.

(1) In a call-by-name language, a value is a snapshot of a potentially unfinished computation.

(2) In a call-by-need language, a value is the identity of a potentially unfinished computation.

(3) In an object-oriented language, the only values are object identities, and the few lucky primitives that escaped being treated as objects.

> (i.e. persistent data-structures, etc).

You can have ephemeral data structures in a purely functional program too, provided the language has substructural types.
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It could be prominently mentioned as free on the homepage instead and avoid making users navigate pages to find information.

Not like "download free for <platform>" (as it is now on this site), but as "free to use, download for <platform>" or something similar.
> It seems like most comments here (and in previous times this has been discussed) are avoiding the actual reason why Crockford was disinvited

Au contraire, from what I can tell that's all everyone is talking about; everyone is trying to work out what the actual reason could be.

We've looked at the official reasons given and seen that they are vague, disingenuous and unsupported.

We've looked at the contextual reasons and surmised that it's likely nothing more than a petty personal vendetta.

We've scoured around for historical reasons and found some incredibly unremarkable attempts at programmer humor which would barely raise an eyebrow.

There's plenty of things in this world that make us uncomfortable at conferences. Some people sneeze and cough unhygienically. Extroverts can occasionally make introverts feel awkward or unwelcome. Speakers make terrible dad jokes. Bad coffee is very discomforting. And most of us are able to accept a bit of discomfort and get on with life. That's the solution: a modicum of tolerance.
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Just curious: What did you mean by you "did a show of hands?" Do you mean that's the number of people that had heard of or understood CAA?
This is going to sound glib, but here goes:

1. The fact that HPKP can create this kind of gigantic foot-gun is a pretty good sign that it actually works. So much of security technology turns out to be cosmetic. The stuff that isn't often is hazardous.

2. Don't HPKP your blog. Don't HPKP your cat-sharing starting. Key pinning is a good thing, but it doesn't need to be universally deployed.

3. In order to hijack your site with HPKP, an attacker needs to take control of your server; they probably need RCE. In other words: if you can't safely HPKP your secure messaging system (cough), you probably aren't yet qualified to be running it: something worse happened to your users than HPKP misconfiguration.

If there's a capability we're missing right now, it's probably the ability for sites with low security requirements to opt out of HPKP. Remember, the threat model for HPKP isn't fraudsters or trolls; it's state-level adversaries.
Most things in Lisp have an object identity that can be directly manipulated by programmers, so it is indeed not a functional language.
I seen an issue on github[0] which mentions that a lot of development time is still spent on version 3, which is slowing down progress on version 4. I suppose future versions might take longer to roll out if they're supporting the previous version at the same time.

0: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20631
You are thinking of the rhythm method, that has nothing to do with fertility awareness, which is finding out for sure when ovulation is occurring, not guessing based on dates.
So R isn't a functional language...

To be fair the vast majority of people would say that it isn't BUT hidden inside is a very Scheme inspired system that can make pretty functional programs.

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-40447-4...
You can't split the board, it's the solder joints on the surface that are the problem. So far as I know there is no flexible soldering technology, and creating one would be pretty extreme materials science.

(To see the problem, place a coin on a credit card and bend the card - note that the coin no longer touches across its whole surface)

The normal solution is to make the PCB stiffer (thicker, or invent something better than FR4), or to make the overall casing stiffer. Either by changing materials or changing the aspect ratio. Fundamentally a long flat thin object is going to be bendy or brittle. The older iPhones that were smaller with glass front and back were an extremely good design from this point of view.
You jest, but google "can a company sue itself". You'll see a list of articles about banks suing themselves over foreclosures.
Right. He was underestimating to demonstrate that even a very small number of shops and iPhones/week would yield a large amount.

But also we should take into context how many iPhone 6 and 6+s have been sold. The first article on a Google search comes up with Wired who is discussing numbers from Oct-Dec of last year and in that time Apple sold 75 MILLION iPhones.

And I think the iPhone 6 model has only been out for a year or two, right? So even if we quadrupled the defect number per year, we'd still fall quite short of even the recent Samsung recall.

Please keep in mind I'm not saying it's not a problem, just trying to help put numbers into perspective.

Link to article: http://www.wired.com/2016/01/apple-sold-a-record-number-of-i...
That's more or less what Perspectives (https://perspectives-project.org/) set out to do: a bunch of notaries would crawl websites, note their TLS cert and distribute them to whoever would want to visit the site, to have a point of comparison.

It didn't take off, mostly because of potential privacy problems and because there were not enough volunteers to make it scale properly. But the idea was sound.
If you have anything particular in mind, please create an issue and I will get to them eventually.
> If they behave like a jerk, walk away.

Exactly. Furthermore, the law does not delineate what is right and what is wrong; that is a moral issue. It is a "best effort." The absence of legal ramifications does not mean that something is morally acceptable.

Many people agree that revenge porn is wrong, which is why the law (as the lowest common denominator) now reflects that sentiment.
I've very recently moved from the city to the suburbs and I've probably spent more time making small talk with my neighbors in the past 10 days than I've spent making small talk with my neighbors in the 10 preceding years, despite the fact that then number of people who could be considered my 'neighbors' has dropped by an order of magnitude.

I am really not too sure how I feel about this.
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If there's one thing they needed to work on it was documentation and they failed at it.
That article seemed so suspect that I came and checked the comments.
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PCI compliance sales is often much worse than SEO. The economics of selling SEO services revolve around spending money to make things better.

Conversely every unsolicited interaction with a PCI auditing firm I've had has been a thinly veiled threat of how many times over we'd be personally bankrupted if an application were flawed.

"Look at these people. People like you. They had a nice app and then their app accidentally leaked the names of some child users and now they're in prison on Mars. It'd be a real shame if somebody were to test your application and find a flaw like that and you hadn't hired us. A real shame."
This is like when your carrier pays for the phone, lets say you pay 10 EUR per month for a mid class phone and 20 EUR per month for a premium phone. Looks like a small difference
(+ a "price" for the phone)

If you buy both without a carrier, you might pay 400 EUR for the mid class phone and 800 EUR for the premium phone. The price difference no looks huge.

(The difference in acucmulated prices is the "buying" price of the phone)
> Fundamentally a long flat thin object is going to be bendy or brittle

I think GPs idea was to make the PCB no longer long, but have two smaller PCBs with flat flex between them. Then when the phone bends, the PCBs wont bend but let the flat flex take the stress instead.

> (To see the problem, place a coin on a credit card and bend the card - note that the coin no longer touches across its whole surface)

Now cut the card in half and connect it with half a cm of tape and bend it - the two halves will be flat and you'll get a V shape instead. Put the coin on one side and no problem.

I guess it depends on how much open space is in the phone or if the whole PCB is completely flush with the bent casing.
If they agree to EU funding they are subject to the rules imposed by it. At least that's what I hope will happen.
except with the RROD Microsoft admitted the issue and provided a replacement or repair service. Apple are just ignoring the issue and leaving the customer suck up the cost and hassle.