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> As a programmer I've made my peace with the nebulousness of terms involving humans.

But that implies you're fine with my identity as a human being getting nebulified, which constitutes a "snoosnoo crime" and violence against me.

Nevermind that a "snoosnoo crime" doesn't mean anything, because it means whatever I want it to mean and that's good enough for me.

All that matters with regard to you and your hateful snoosnoo crime is that it's a serious affront to my humanity, and you need to be locked up for committing it.

You, Sir, are a hateful, violent criminal! I demand justice!
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I feel like the ease in which developers can make applications for a new system plays a pretty vital role in that system's success.

For example, the Sega Saturn (from my understanding) was ridiculously hard to program for, and consequently a lot of the games for it were objectively worse than their PlayStation counterparts (with some exceptions).

My point here is that if Ubuntu wants to compete, I think it's incredibly smart to make it approachable for devs to just jump right in; I know the entire experience isn't polished right now as evidenced by this article, but it doesn't look insurmountable, and I'm optimistic.
TVs were considered cool maybe like, 50 years ago?
It's considered rude in polite text conversation to attribute using quotes words that another person didn't say.
>> Why is that? We do not really know!

So ask... You have a few thousand users who bailed. Drop a survey on a reasonable-sized random segment and find out why they left
> Yeah it lost signal when held wrong but was still superior to other phones.

My definition of 'superior' doesn't involve having to hold a phone a particular way for it to make a call.
I've recently gotten in the habit of writing passwords (or at least a part of them) down in a notebook. There are just too many passwords to remember, some of which I use very very rarely. I don't trust any password managers running on a networked computer or (gasp) phone, so paper is good for me. Plus it's more reliable.
>Surprisingly, Google Analytics reported only 28.818 visits by users who were redirected from Facebook during this timeframe – i.e. 8,81 percent less. From these users, 3.786 registered on Stackfield. //

Hypothesis: Could that be pre-emptive caching - some browsers IIRC will fetch a page ready for display. GA could be showing displayed pages whilst FB are showing followed links?

On the general situation, what's the rate of false clicks on Facebook - like how many people accidentally click an ad?
I see a "Try it free" link on the bottom of the page.
Richard Pearse was the first person to fly a plane, was before the Wright Brothers.

Which is a good related issue to the original point. Publicity, branding and PR is more important than being a good inventor.
"Facebook might be the wrong audience for a B2B tool" sounds most likely.
> From what little I know, this seems like an incident where a hasty decision was made, without much of a process.

Interestingly, the vast majority of the time this happens at conferences, it happens "the other way" - some minority member is entirely ignored because people don't really understand that shitty things happen to people and/or don't believe an incident was as bad as it sounds, without having witnessed it. (Mostly because nothing that bad has ever happened to them at a conference, failing to realise that different people have different experiences.)

Codes of conduct along with a reasonable review process before doing anything, as have been implemented at various conferences, hacker camps, and other tech-related public spaces, and by large community projects, mostly ensure this sort of issue - lack of review - doesn't happen so often, in both directions.
I disagree. I've been studying advanced math on my own for years with some success. I didn't have any rigorous undergrad experience, I don't even have a degree. But I also don't learn the same way most would, classrooms were never my forte, and I've found the way that advanced math is taught even just in textbooks lacks creativity.

Humans are capable of great things, don't discourage someone from trying.
> Regarding your first point: no, they can't. See what happens if they try to exploit the DNS to get a Google certificate. (Notice the last several years of Google punishing CAs).

What? Article about it on HN? They won't punish CAs for that, because that won't be CA fault that USG modified DNS zone.

> It is very important to DNSSEC advocates to convince people that our security can't be any better than the security of the .COM zone, which is controlled by the US Government through Verisign. But nobody accepts that level of security today. Arguments that we can escrow all our security with Verisign are DOA, post Snowden. Move on.

Because it can't be better with DNS, which is by design hierarchical. You would have to create own domains as TLD in root zone. Oops, you now have to trust root zone owners! So you can create blockchain based domain system. But, it won't be DNS. And you will argue that implementing blockchain name system is even more expensive to implement than DNSSEC, because it is slow and requires big storage space.

> Regarding the rest: you can't persuasively rebut arguments by conceding they're correct.

Last mile problems aren't covered with DNSSEC, there is other RFC for that.
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To be fair, if you catch me on a bad day I will be a jerk to you if you ask me what I think is a stupid question.

Everyone has bad days, everyone can be an arsehole to others due to the emotions swirling around in their heads. It doesn't mean they are a jerk. It may just mean you asked your question when they were going through a difficult time. If you asked the same question on a different day you got a pleasant answer.

I think this kind of bias is often overlooked
EV certificates help.
In their official description it is said:

We take stored data security to a whole new level! Nobody will ever know what data you are keeping, because your files are not linked to your personal information on our servers. That means total anonymity. All data is encrypted using a 2048-bit key a technology similar to the one used for bank transactions but even better. It all happens on your computer, and even if someone lays hand on your data, they won’t be able to decipher it without a SmartFlash itself. You can use an additional pin-code that is impossible to track if you use a mouse to enter it. Losing your Flashsafe is like losing your bank card: the device is blocked while you get a new one and continue to use it. A "trusted computer" function lets you use your SmartFlash only on your devices.
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So productive, versus using a graphical design tool with real time feedback.
Why is it called badvpn?
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>They are one of the first things experienced car thieves look for

If they are only effective against inexperienced car thieves, they still have value. It's like minor security measures that keep out script kiddies.
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What's clickbaitish about the title? If the article is aligned with title, then the title is fine.
You didn't have to hold it a particular way - you had to avoid holding it a particular way. I had one for 2 years and didn't experience dropped calls beyond expected norms.
Apple is Apple because they put design ahead of engineering. Always have. Its why they sell well. Nothing new here.
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Not the previous commenter but I'm not comfortable around a bunch of amateurs carrying and messing around with weapons.

Professionals make enough mistakes with firearms, gunshows are a bad spot to be.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gunshow+accident
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> it's reasonable to assume that all the other repair shops are seeing similar numbers.

I don't know, it depends on how many the author actually spoke to and how he came by them. If he found them because he saw them all talking about this problem, that's not a statistically reliable means of sampling repair shops. His selection was biased and driven by the issue.

> It's definitely not reasonable to assume that the only iPhones that are failing are the ones served by that handful of repair shops.

I didn't. Read my comment again.
> That chart is data.

No chart is ever data. A chart, like the result of an SQL query, is a projection via analysis. The analysis may be trivial, or it may not. You can hide a lot in non-trivial analysis if you want to. I don't say that the NYT did so here (and I don't say that it didn't), but it's hard to have any kind of productive discussion when something this basic is overlooked.
> that such individuals have a tendency to play the victim a lot and get quite a bit of the media to rally around them every time someone calls them out

Of course, they know how things work, they'll accuse you of racism, sexism, misogyny, transphobia and ruin your career that's what they do.They know they need no proof and let the internet "be judge", that's what dangerous with these people. If you dare call them out your career is finished, they have a real power of nuisance, wrapped in "virtue" with leitmotives such as "inclusivity" and "diversity". Newspeech at its finest. It's just a power grab game, and they are eliminating the competition with politics since their skills are mediocre.
The point he makes is valid... but the action item here should be "Make SSL better" not "Stop using SSL".
Perhaps they could improve their offer, ads, funnel, landing page, image, or a variety of other things..
Where does that definition come from?

I feel the term is often used more broadly.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MathematicianDefinition

In any case, the point stands - The need for persons who can construct mathematical proofs, versus those who simply need to derive the correct numerical result, is very different.

As such, most classes that teach calculus are for practical, applied purposes - who don't need to "prove what they know" beyond demonstration procedural competence.
> Mandatory warranty

> the manufacturer has to prove

Just nitpicking: the mandatory warranty ("Gewährleistung") is supplied by the seller, not the manufacturer. As a consumer you don't need to deal with the latter no matter what the former is trying to tell you. In the same line, the burden of proof after six month is on the seller not the manufacturer.

A manufacturer often has an additional voluntary warranty ("Garantie") distinct from that.

That is the case (including the role of the seller) across the whole EU by Directive 1999/44/EC (although member states can go beyond that and often do by e.g. extending the time).
good luck getting the computer power to do a 51% on Bitcoin or Ethereum. The hashpower used in Bitcoin is mind-boggling.
I didn't lump them together, I gave two examples. Irrelevant why I find gun shows uncomfortable. I've been to a few.
> Even these users churned after a short time. Why is that? We do not really know!

You need to know this, and knowing it is as easy as asking.

I e-mail every single person that cancels their subscription, and ask why they cancelled today and what we could have done to better serve them. I don't measure the response rate, but I write every mail personally and read every response, so I can tell you it's well over 50%.

The responses to these e-mails are invaluable. They're how you learn why people signed up, what pain points they experienced using your product, what problems they have that your product didn't solve well, and what competitors they're coming from or leaving to.

If there's some glaring issue with your ad campaign ("I thought I was signing up for a free antivirus program because your ad said it made my files secure" or "No hablo ingles") you'd probably have learned it well before spending €20K through those exit emails.
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How cold have the mobile market been won ?

When answering take into account that Intel's fab services division couldn't really compete with TSMC (at least on price) .
SQLite is a toy (apparently)
>>being poor in a developed country has rarely been bad and its hard for many to realize that is true

Have you ever been poor? I understand that absolute poverty in an undeveloped country is worse, but to make a statement like you have shows that you apparently have very little understanding of the reality of poverty in a developed country.
> Since you're posting from a throwaway account (149 days old with no prior comments)

I just didn't find it necessary to comment on anything until I saw your comment yesterday. And, honestly, I don't see any reason why I should disclose my identity to you.

I don't know how long you've been at Google, and I don't know what culture you're drinking from. At my Google we tried to listen carefully and respect opinions and arguments without regard to who issued the opinion. Doubting a person's background just because they are presenting conflicting arguments wasn't part of the Google I worked at.

It's ok to be proud of one's company, but it's dangerous to bask on reflected glory and put oneself above others based on that. Ego is a reason killer.
I think you're rather short-selling incremental improvements. Very few of the things that makes our lives so much better than those of our ancestors, are nearly infinitely long strings of incremental improvements.

A present-day smartphone is obviously very, very different from Bell's first telephone, but on the other hand, there wasn't really a clear disruptive discontinuity anywhere along the string.
There's no data in that article, but people have been deriding fast food and retail workers long before the millennial generation came of age.
You've missed my point. The reason you can't DNS spoof to obtain a Google certificate is that the certificate is pinned, and CAs are monitored (through both pins and through CT).

The rest of this comment continues to concede the arguments I made previously, but pretend that those concessions are rebuttals. It's really only in DNSSEC threads that I notice this peculiar rhetorical strategy deployed.
Happened to mine.

I got a free swap to a 6S+.
At the very least it seems like a great solution until we can do it the "right way", whatever that might be.
The 51% attack is a big flaw with blockchains, but it goes away when the network becomes sufficiently large, with enough hash power distributed to different actors. If you can trust that it would be near impossible for a single actor (or group) to gain 51%, then there is no need to trust any individual actor.

The issue, as demonstrated by this event, is that it is difficult for a new coin to get enough momentum going at the beginning. There is a lot of research going into figuring out the best way to bootstrap new blockchains. Personally, I think this problem will be solved sooner or later.
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Have you been to them? They are pretty scary with all the Nazi, and not so subtle racism. I have only been to them in the Northeast but they kind of feel like a Trump rally.
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Which is why the Wright Brothers are credited with 'controlled flight' which Pearse never achieved.
"It will now likely rest on other parties to understand these reprehensible actions and to take action to attempt to prevent this from happening again."

Indeed.
This makes me glad that I've moved on to Angular Material
Perhaps you should chip in some time or dollars to help maintain a release version. The great thing about open source is that if you care enough, you can help yourself (either directly through code maintenance or indirectly via funding someone else).

The only unprofessional thing is the entitlement to someone else's time.
Honestly, if academics still choose to pay the established journals thousands to host single pdfs, they're paying for the brand. If schools still choose to subscribe to those journals when all of the papers in them are available for free, they're paying for the brand. The publishers legitimately own the brand.

The goal is for all public scientific research to be available to the public for free, not to smash middle-men. If your goal is to smash middle-men, you'll be smashing all day and all night for the rest of your life, and middle-men are generally better at smashing than you are.

Also, if you look at your job, you may be a middle-man yourself. Most upper middle-class people are.
By letting go of the x86 instruction set. But that's something I figure Intel will do in 2300 or so.
I can help you with these requirements. We have an offshore team in India who can help, the costing will also be very less.

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> As reward for this, migrating over to Core would gain me roughly $0 in business value.

So why would you do it in the first place? Because "It's the Future"?
> Why should we accept publishers to decide on what this limit should be? Currently it can be as high as $5000. For hosting a PDF. This is a total waste of (mostly public) money.

I'm not sure there's a good way of limiting how much companies are allowed to charge for a service.

What the funding bodies can do, however, is limit the amount of money in a grant that can be spent on publishing costs. That's far easier.

> No because as long as we permit to those publishers to exists and exercise their copyrights on prestigious journal title, their is a big inertia that incentivize researchers to publish with the publishers that hold the prestigious journal.

There is a big inertia, but currently the system makes big journals just as financially attractive as small journals or free places to publish because there's no upfront cost. If big journals cost a lot of money and small/free journals don't, then there's actually a force pushing towards cheaper options. It changes the customer to one that has more control (the funding body).

There are interesting initiatives like the Wellcome Trust's project: http://wellcomeopenresearch.org/

I'm also not sure what you're suggesting with "exercise their copyrights on prestigious journal title".

> Bibliometrics is the game of the publishers, and coincidentally, the biggest bibliometrics tools are made and sold by… publishers.

I think this comes from the fact that the metadata around publications is unfortunately often not available in a decent form, and the people who actually have the data that's necessary for analysing these kinds of things is publishers, so anyone who wants to do certain types of analysis will benefit from either being in or partnering with a publisher.

[disclaimer, working with article and grant data is what I do at Digital Science]
I think so too. FB seems more appropriate for B2C products, particular ones that are commodity.
That doesn't really seem likely, since it's also a problem with every single other automated search engine in the world.

Names are important; names are famously hard[1].

When I was young, I was a member of a band named Fuck You Asshole. Was that a problem with conversation, not with the band name?

[1]: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096
Yes, but America is not a reference to a continent. That would be North America or South America. (I suppose you could call the super continent just "America" but most call it "The Americas" instead.)

Clearly the term "America" either disambiguates to a continent or a country, and most assume the country.

"Europe," on the other hand, really is a continent, so the term has a completely different meaning than the EU, although it would be reasonable for the two to be synonymous eventually, they clearly are not currently.

Anyway, it seems reasonable to use the term America as shorthand, instead of U.S.A., as it's pretty obvious what you mean.
Have there been any iPhone without "design defect"? Does any one think "design defect" is not made by accident since Apple fights everyone who tried to fix their iPhone on their own?
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90% of the people on this forum will never start a startup or possibly even work at a startup.
> First: no, not only is it not true that we must trust the DNS, but not having to trust the DNS is literally part of the thesis statement of SSL/TLS.

Uh. Certificates are issued by checking DNS entries, and you are saying that we don't have to trust it.
That makes it sound like something from physics. Get enough of these atoms together, add water, and BANG: a chain reaction that irrevocably leads to instant Hitler.

My own experience is that a tiny number of people (usually sporting neck tattoos) support fascism. Young white males have all sorts of opinions. Find any working men's club anywhere in the West and drop in for a spot of anthropology.

> So I'd say that if a movement truly only caters to the young white single male while he remains in that state, rather than planning and providing for his future,

This is all very high brow and most rightists don't think like this at all. 'Movement'? That is a leftist thing. Rightists don't go around protesting, almost never. The association ought to prepare a path or plot a future? Propositions straight from the mothership. Hardly anybody right wing thinks like this. Most will drop in and out of different organizations depending on whether we're obsessed with this time.

The nearest collection of young white males and a copy of Mein Kamph is the public library.

It is worth considering the possibility that each century has different political ideologies. In the 20th century we got an earful of communism and fascism. The 21st century could contain something different, just as the 19th century didn't have much of a parallel to the 20th.

Personally I hope for an intersection between extreme rightism and ecology by way of the Hunger Games. Something new! But different!
So while a Christian University is willing to be accommodating to a tech conference without regards to anyones religious views the reverse of that is not true. This is in a tweet about inclusivity?
I believe in voluntary contracts, not contracts forced under threat of violence

I am neither an anarchist nor an archist, but am squarely down the nonarchic middle of the road."
Don't let sharedWorkers die
One reason could be that they are using average household income - which is also affected by marriage rates.
If you think sharedWorkers are for a better web experience it's time to cast your vote and say no to the deprecation of this feature. Follow the url and add a thumbs up :)
I've had to do a similar thing with OpenBSD's softraid. In an unfortunate incident with a problematic hard drive that mostly works but sometimes gets stuck reading / clicking for a while. That while once took too long and resulted in a timeout, softraid flagged the disk as being offline. I started a rebuild, but later on got a bit paranoid and ran smart checks on both of the mirrored disks. Well, the other disk didn't respond well to smart and got itself flagged offline. Now my softraid mirror was down with one disk halfway through a rebuild and the other disk just fine but flagged bad.

Recovery was a matter of finding the right metadata bit on the disk that tells softraid about the disk's status. That was the hardest part (and not that hard, but it certainly felt like reverse-engineering the system). I flipped a byte with dd and my brought the raid up again.
ROHS/lead free solder is a huge part of the problem too.
Heavens only knows what would happen if they invite Crockford back. If he was feeling mean-spirited he could switch his talk to the correct use of semicolons in JavaScript code.
This is not a real concern once the hashing power of the network reaches a sufficiently high level.

> Maybe people will realize that this is not a foolproof solution and that it can "easily" (you only need computing power, a.k.a money) be beaten.

This same argument can be leveled against just about any form of cryptography. With enough computing power you can decrypt anything. No cryptography is perfect, it can only be strong.