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The whole CA system should be abolished. The only thing needed is certificates for domain control, as LE does. We need one or two non-profit organizations for that who do that work transparently. Remove the market from where should be none.
Someone already answered about the price, regarding the success rate, there is a much bigger difference than this:

Space X has had 29 launches, 2 failures and 1 partial failure (F9-004) so a success rate of 89.6%.

Ariane on the other hand hasn't had a single failure or partial failure since 2002 so if you compare since Space X started its services it has a success rate of 100%. If you take the whole history of Ariane it has indeed a success rate of 95.2% or 95.4% for the Ariane 5 version but the fact that Ariane has flown 72 consecutive missions without failure (2002 - Present) compared to 14 for Space X (2012 - 2015) says a lot about their reliability.
This. Name natters. IME 90% of people I know who want to quickly look through a PowerPoint on Linux will install OpenOffice. Even when they hear that libre is the better version 80% of them would stay with oo as it is the "real" oo.
Maze Algorithms (with step by step visualization)
Maybe Libre Office could take over the branding, making "0pen Libre Office" (OLO for short, not to be confused with LOL). That way even ppl searching for Open Office would find a good free Office suite.
Yeah, badly done translations are a big turnoff.

In Czech version they call their "Premium" plan button as "Insurance".

This is good point for monetising side projects: if you are going to create international version, spent 20 USD on people who actually speak that language or keep it in English.
You should take everything you read about VC performance with a grain of salt
Has he tried Ubuntu MATE to get back the "old GNOME" style interface?
OpenID registration is the solution to this problem.
> and a fairly resentful one for a few more years --- he still misses the old GNOME user interface and loathes Unity

Why doesn't he use Mate? Ubuntu Mate is readily available on the Ubuntu website. Is he aware that it's a continuation of the old Gnome (Gnome 2)? And well-maintained to boot.
Fortunately most routers have a random default password now, rather than admin or changeme or whatever. At least that's what I've found; I guess it might be regional.
Tasmanian devils are developing resistance to the devil facial tumour disease
You can't entirely blame the providers for only caring about money; the consumers that choose the budget hosting options for critical applications must surely share some of it.

Server grade hardware is certainly available to cloud/VPS providers, but it turns out people are unwilling to pay $2 for a VM if there's one going elsewhere for $1.50.
> I look forward to someone trying to get things like that tested in court. Tough it'd be tricky, given that the Crown Prosecution Service would presumably not want to push a case like that and end up looking like idiots, and while the UK allows for private prosecutions I'm not sure if there'd be a viable avenue to use this act for that (trying to find a way of giving you standing to e.g. sue a florist sounds like inviting contempt of court).

Of course, he's pointing out the absurdity of the law.

> This is a big problem - the law is so broad that it'll be incredibly easy to abuse if government wants to charge someone, or add additional charges.

This highlights a more sinister side to government—rather than incompetence. One could deny this until it happens. I'm sure state apologists will (& continue once it does happen).
Workmode: a new podcast series about being a pro
Publishers hate Brave though: they destroy much of the value those impressions have and then take a cut.

Or at least they hate the idea of Brave, I doubt they take it seriously enough to really hate it. Brave will probably be resigned to the software scrap heap after this funding round runs out.
Technical merits of iOS vs. Android aside, one reason I like buying Apple products is their after-sales support (if you need it) is fantastic.
> Something that's worth trying is to tell the reader in that first email how many emails you're going to send

Somehow I just picture the scene from A Christmas Carol where Jacob Marley is telling Scrooge that he will be visited by 3 ghosts over the course of the night.

> "Over the course of the next week, you will be visited by FIVE marketing emails"
Given that competition continues to drive prices down, would 'secure ram' be viable? would you pay more for it?

It's funny you mention this, since the problem only affects newer DDR3 and DDR4 modules and older RAM (EDO modules are apparently still in limited production and being sold) does tend to be significantly more expensive. Unfortunately the rest of the hardware needs to be compatible.

This also means all the older hardware that gets scrapped in massive quantities daily is likely to contain RAM immune to this problem, which is somewhat ironic... maybe it's just a (sad) continuation of the "newer is more volatile" trend that can be traced back to thousand-year-old stone tablets which remain readable today.
Also agreeing with the follow up emails. Good god, please don't do this. The personal crap is icky. But the worst thing is the "if they haven't used it, send them an email asking if they have had a chance to try it" part.

Screw that. If I haven't flagged you as spam already, I will now. You're either incompetent because you actually don't know if I've logged in or not, or you are intentionally misrepresenting what you know. Either way, you've lost me.

As far as the "it works--percentages" stuff, I hate to break it to you, man, but I think you've got a serious case of correlation/causation confusion.

There are a couple of questions you need to ask yourself when you send an email:

1. Is your business spam?
2. Are you literally engaging in fraud?

If the answer to both of those is no, email is probably not the droid you are looking for. There are some exceptions, but not many--and fewer by the day as people figure this out.
Sadly, it's only theoretically solved.

Browser vendors have refused to touch that for years, so everything PKI-related has a cryptic UI hidden beneath 3+ clicks deep in the most obscure settings dialog areas. And some pieces are completely missing, like session state management (it's just like with HTTP auth - there are hacks to implement it, but they're hacks).

Another issue is, with current implementations not really fancying the idea of CA-less self-signed client certificates, so you'll most probably need a certificate-per-site approach. And with a ton of certificates (even if they all for the same public key), you'll need to automatically sync them to another devices somehow.

(The usual reasoning for not doing anything I saw was "no one uses this". Sure thing, given it's barely usable.)
How e-Commerce Portals manage to offer great Discounts?
The question, however, is how these companies are able to manage such awesome offers, that too as a norm and not as an exception. Let&#039;s have a look on the How part.
Sounds good to me! What we really need is school teachers that would nag their students to use it at least once a day, maybe then we as a society hopefully get rid of the pesky MS Office someday.
Indeed, it should be 307 instead, just to keep the decision revertible.
> "modular" really comes down to "repairable" which means extra engineering would have to go in to the fact that you couldn't just glue most pieces together.

I think those are quite different: a phone that screws/clips together where you can replace a damaged screen is a very different prospect from one made of pluggable blocks.
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Actions – Automate repetitive tasks on your iOS Device
>The only thing needed is certificates for domain control, as LE does

EV certs are quite useful for special sites like banking though.
They all say that so that people overstock useful items, so when nuclear zombie virus apocalypse hits and normals all die, there's lot of supplies stockpiled and easily accessible for the survivors.

s/
Lenovo anuncia smartphone com bateira de 45 horas na IFA 2016
Migrations are a pain in the arse. But not as much as trying to maintain a "schemaless" app.
But libre mean "free" in French whereas there is no such word in English. Why would it not be more easier for us French speaking peoples?
Can someone elaborate on where the Brave wallet is stored? Is it stored on the clients device or on Brave's servers somewhere?
I'm happy it works for you, but for me that never really panned out.

Perhaps it would work if I didn't have access to the internet and/or lived in a more nature-like area. Or perhaps it would work if my lifestyle was already different. I don't know. But as it is, if I smoke I become either couch-locked or jittery and paranoid.

I think individual differences matter a great deal, and you're right in pointing that out.

That said, the vast majority of regular pot smokers I know are more similar to me than they are to you, so based on that I think the negative bias is at least somewhat justified. I'd never tell someone not to smoke, I wouldn't judge chronic smokers no matter their lifestyle. But I've warned every one of my siblings and those curious about it to keep an eye out for how they respond to the stuff. It's nowhere near as potentially dangerous as alcohol, I think, but it's also not quite like picking up a coffee habit.

(I do have to confirm that I would occasionally get a burst of 'creativity' in particular when coding on purely-fun side-projects! Doing so was enjoyable and funny albeit not always very productive. I miss that sometimes.)
Just a small note: Thanks.

Having joined a mega-corp in 2010, around 250,000 people, there was a big migration of 1000s of disparate systems to 'Single Signon', a slogan displayed under a login button. It was an ongoing process, and when that little slogan appeared under the login for nth intranet app, it was a small sigh of relief.

So thank you.

And an interesting description of how simple it seems to do given the other system plays nice. What do you do with things like SharePoint where users at any levels can add fields to profiles, and these fields can be changing all the time? Just have a massive profile template constantly adding fields?
> Any "decent set of rules" would include a stricture against potentially creating a dangerous AI.

Assuming there are no bad people in the world, of course...
Dan Callahan, former developer on Persona, is currently leading development on Portier which will hopefully be a successor.

https://github.com/portier
Chat-service project announcement and overview
Wow that sucks!

I moved to mailgun yesterday. I run an alert system for Google Analytics, so I can't afford delays of more than a minute, and even then...

So far so good with mailgun!

Thanks for the info on Sparkpost, definitely not tempted to move there ;)
What we have is DANE and 0 nonprofits. Instead you add RRs in the domain (which you control, right?).
For me it was 2 to 3 weeks of battery. Smartphone batteries are just miserable, and I'd happily take a heavier & thicker phone to get better battery life.
Here's the thread: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2016-09/msg00000...
> How would _you_ explain to your mom the difference between installing Pinterest's new authentication certificate

Actually, even with current terrible UIs, there's a reasonably big difference between installing client certificate (there even used to be a <keygen> HTML tag for those - although it's unsurprisingly marked as "deprecated" now) and trusted CAs.
You might be interested in my impressions as somebody who hardly ever uses office software, but an open source enthusiast and keeps up with some tech news.

I was aware of the OpenOffice/LibreOffice split of course. I knew this would mean some confusion until the dust settles. My vague impression was that LibreOffice might be a better choice for supporting openness versus corporate ownership (and so I'd plumbed for that myself) but at the same time I worried that OpenOffice might end up being better managed and maintained than LibreOffice. I was not aware until I read this, that the dust was settling so comprehensively on the side of LibreOffice. More than just OS idealists buying into it, it's actually being maintained a lot better.

This is good news. The situation seems a lot clearer than previously, but yes the message needs to get out. Hopefully apache will shut down, redirect and facilitate re-merging the brand names.
Navigator.share in Android Chrome's Dev Channel
I'll never trust anything that is owned/managed by a chinese company. I'll most certainly switch all my corpo certs to another CA

(Let’s Encrypt has no plans to issue EV or OV certificates at this time. ...) Where should i go ?
Neat. So, uh, why does this work?
Now that's doubly confusing -- it implies that Libreoffice is a separate project which is proprietary, as well as being redundant.
MATE is really a better GNOME2, some ppl don't want to believe it. There is somehow a parallel to OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Many non techy ppl don't know what forking is (for them it sounds as fornication). It adds to the confusion and we end up with a lot of users hesitating to try a better software.
I have an unrelated question :-)

I read a presentation titled "Powering Heap" by Dan Robinson, Lead Engineer at Heap, which contains interesting info about how you use PostgreSQL. [1]

At Heap, do you try to keep rows belonging to the same customer_id contiguous on disk, in order to minimize disk seeks?

If yes, how do you it? Do you use something like pg_repack?

If no, don't you suffer from reading heap pages that contain only one or a few rows belonging to the requested customer_id?

[1] http://info.citusdata.com/rs/235-CNE-301/images/Powering_Hea...
Bitcoin is inherently not a privacy minded technology, being able to track every transaction ever is a feature, not something to discard. It's also a feature no 'privacy tool for the internet' (eg. tor) can easily change.

I'm so not part of 'you guys', btw d:)
I don't think Google's perks are anywhere close to a differentiator in the market these days.
The Mathematics of Machine Learning
Remember that Tor anonymizes the origin of your traffic, and it encrypts everything inside the Tor network, but it can't encrypt your traffic between the Tor network and its final destination. If you are communicating sensitive information, you should use as much care as you would on the normal scary Internet — use HTTPS or other end-to-end encryption and authentication.

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
> Making the screen completely modular would be one way to achieve this, since you can just replace the screen with a new one if the old one breaks in a drop

iPhone 4/4S did this just fine, undo two screws and the glass comes right off ready to be replaced for like $10.

iPhone 5> they started fusing the glass to the sensor IIRC so this became far more expensive/cumbersome
As far as I'm aware, google doesn't load the image unless you open the email. That said, these numbers are from 3 years ago prior to that change.

It is the last information I have from my job with Humankind before I left for a corporate gig.
Yet, StartCom's free certificates were the reason my sites have had SSL certificates for years.
If you need EV or code signing, or anything that Let's Encrypt doesn't provide, DigiCert is wonderful.
Accused of Tax Dodging, Apple Says It's the World's Largest Taxpayer
But often you don't even have the option for a thicker model... So how can anyone even claim that?
Probably because people expect better from one of the most established tech companies on the face of the planet?

It's as sad as Facebook's rampant feature theft from Snapchat. Sure, not illegal, not surprising, but also not impressive.
I suspect you're right about the extent to which we probably agree. I also don't think it's so much that you implied I was victim blaming, as that I'm a bit more raw on this topic than I had suspected, and that made it easy for me to find cause for indignation where none in fact exists. I'll keep an eye on that in future; thanks for taking it so equably.

> I never said I saw nothing wrong with it

You said you have nothing against it. If there's a substantive difference between the two, I fail to see it. And while I can only consider it honorable, if admittedly also incomprehensible on a personal level, to choose to submit to a beating rather than betray a personal conviction on the subject of pacifism, it still seems at odds with such a conviction to advocate action which is well known often to result in the infliction of serious harm upon those who are its maleficiaries. I suppose it's possible there is a way to reconcile those, but if so, that's something else I currently fail to see.

On the other hand, it's clear that your perspective on at least some of the people we're discussing is vastly better informed than mine, and intellectual honesty would require that I respect that fact even were I otherwise disinclined to do so. The impression I've gathered in general is that most people who work for Facebook genuinely believe they're improving the world by doing so. Would it be accurate to say that that's especially true for the VP-level people you describe? And in general, it would be interesting to hear whatever else you'd like to describe about Facebook's internal culture and the effect it has on people who partake of it.

> I'm suggesting that they are being negligent in their use of automation

Another point on which we agree. I don't know that it merits the kind of punishment you seem willing to countenance. But I gather also that you're angry about this, in a way that I'm not, and that can easily produce a certain clarity of perspective.
Wow it's 2016 and Last.fm still isn't on HTTPS for anything other then login. And the "new frontend" is in beta for around a year IIRC...
Build System Rules and Algorithms (2009) [pdf]
Mindfulness in Software Companies AMA
I've been tinkering with Rust over the past few days

My main gripe (which probably falls into the 'learning curve' element) is it's very dense in syntax, and remembering all the borrowing/ownership and lifetime rules is quite tricky.

Usually when I try and learn a langauge I like to implement a few simple data structures, like a Binary Tree, but I've constantly been hitting hurdles with Rust on this one :(
UV light sensor which for some reason needed location data to measure correctly. I've never understood why this is required as it should be able to read raw data based on incoming light.
> domain (which you control, right?)

You never control a domain - ICANN, your TLD registry and your immediate domain registrar do. So, technically, it's just replacing one trust vector with another.

However, given that we don't have a proper crypto in DNS (not even DNSSEC which many don't like and urge to abolish), it would be terrible. Anyone who can feed you spoofed DNS responses (i.e. starting from a cafe hotspot) would be able to impersonate just anything.
Likely software to support ads that they didn't want to write code for.
I strongly suggest reading The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, (https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Most-Businesses-Dont-About/dp/08...) or perhaps it's updated The E-Myth Revisited... (https://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Abo...).

Besides being fairly short, and having a lot of general good advice, such as, to use my own wording, making sure every essential hat is worn by someone, e.g. you probably won't start out with a CFO, but make sure one of the founders or earliest employees wears it, it goes into a thesis that you should write up a manual of how your business runs as if you were going to franchise it.

Plenty of good justification for writing this up at some level of detail can be found in the other comments in this topic, although I'll admit the book is not oriented toward high tech businesses.

But they're still businesses, and for that focus I highly recommend, probably after one or more books on customer development, which refine many of the ideas in it, Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise (https://www.amazon.com/Walking-High-Tech-High-Wire-Entrepren...). It's a story about a company that made and sold novel at the time discrete semiconductor devices, how they did their customer development, how they realized doing custom work for various customers was a loser, etc. It'll help reify what you'll read in good customer development books.
Engineering books?
MSO is closed, proprietary, whatever, but it's actually a fine piece of software especially compared to OO and LO. Word, PowerPoint and Excel are so good that people end up overusing them for stuff they're not intended to. Others like OneNote or Visio are extremely useful, too. They might not be the best on each category, but together it's a very powerful suite.

Plus, MSO is multiplatoform on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. I'm unaware of mobile versions of OO or LO.

Everyone I know, including myself, that uses OO or LO is because it's free (as in freedom for some, as in beer for others) and can read/write MSO files to an extent.
Not completely; person-hours involved in building satellites, which are ultimately unique things, add a whole lot of experience to people involved in the building and handling, as well as for the organization. Sure it's not as much as a successful launch, but not totally wasted.
Why do you think so?

It's not clear that they could have known this would not be sustainable at the time, and I don't see how the hot potato staying with Oracle would have been a better option.