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> Obviously systemd is just one small layer and security is not a yes/no thing. But why then talk specifically about systemd? The article seems to suggest that it's better to not use these abilities.

The claim is not that it's better not to use these capabilities (which in any case do not require systemd; there are any number of ways to achieve the same thing). The claim is simply that systemd does not offer a substantial enhancement to system security, and that perhaps the increased attack surface offered by systemd itself outweighs any security benefit it provides to the services running under it.
uMatrix is default-deny by default, except 1st-party scripts. It also comes with an extensive lists of hosts files enabled (representing 10s of thousands hostnames and their subdomains) by default for which scripts won't be allowed at all, even as 1st-party.

NoScript is default-deny by default, except for its preset list of whitelisted hostnames for which scripts are allowed to execute.

In both cases, with a few clicks one can reconfigure to their liking, to further restrict or relax existing rules.

Here is my thinking on this: between blocking everything and allowing everything, there is a point I consider optimal, which is what I picked for uMatrix. Not blocking enough out of the box will defeat the primary purpose of the tool. Blocking too much out of the box will discourage many users from using the tool at all -- they will uninstall.

My goal is for as many people to protect themselves, and this won't be accomplished if I set uMatrix's default to cause too much work out of the box that they uninstall it out of tediousness.

Blocking everything 3rd-party by default except images/css is what I personally identified as the optimal -- this would correspond to "medium mode" on the graph at that page: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

Again regarding the tediousness factor, another important aspect of a tool such as uMatrix is how easy it is to set rules to block/allow things, including on a per-site basis: one can easily change default settings after install, but how easy/difficult it is to set/remove rules is something which can't be changed. To dismiss the ease to create rules and other core features in uMatrix because one personally disagree with its (easily changed) default settings out of the box does not make much sense to me.

If the end result is that the aggregate number of stuff blocked by all users of uMatrix with default settings is higher than the aggregate number of stuff blocked by all users of uMatrix with hardcore settings, then i reached my goal.

In any case, as said, the defaults can be changed easily with a few clicks, there is no "hidden" settings, what is blocked or not is up front and visible right after install by just looking at the popup panel matrix.

One thing I would like people to keep in mind: uMatrix is not NoScript or RequestPolicy, it is its own thing.
Since it carries the Pixel name I assume it's gonna be overpriced.
Well...They are that many platforms because the dominant ones are so obviously powerful and lucrative.
Oslo, Norway has realtime data available for all stops as well :)

http://reisapi.ruter.no/Help/Api/GET-StopVisit-GetDepartures...

>Returns a List of StopVisits (departures) from a Stop. If no time parameter is supplied, departures in realtime will be returned.
There are many older games that still have an avid fanbase (which can imply potential for a shitstorm).
In the US, most companies aren't hiring janitors, they outsource it to a facilities management firm or it's handled by building management.

I'm also not sure how that's relevant.
vouchers don't work over the long haul. look at education prices have skyrockets. health care skyrockets. I think you need "normalized pricing" were the government pays X% based on income. So, that hospitals cost 3 times as much as doctors visits but if your really poor maybe its $9 instead of $3 or something.
Your argument boils down to "public service is awful". The article simply states that privatizing is simply making things worse.

Privatizing is not the solution. You said yourself: "We pay far too little for services like water". Well, yeah. Stop paying so damn little for your infrastructure then.

Your critique of public service is that it is unable to function with so little ressource. I don't see that as a failure from the public service itself, but from the society that should be making it work.

And I mean society, not government. It's too easy to fault the big bad government for being unable to do it. That's the taxpayers that are in the end voting for populists that will pledge to reduce spending and taxes to unrealistic levels, breaking public services, preparing the terrain for privatization and selling to their friends.

Anyway.
In cases like Medicare, which has lower overhead than private insurance, it's a tricky question.
It's unfortunate you're being downvoted here. The market for railways is not railroads and trains, it's transportation. People and goods will find the most efficient way to move around regardless of government involvement.
Most apps are crud at the end of the day. Making them scale is the hard part.
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I have a OP2, and the screen size irks me a bit. I was on a Moto G 4G before that. Perfect screen size.

This being said, I recently discovered the "one-handed keyboard feature" on my OP2 and absolutely love it. I can finally answer messages while swiping with a single hand.

Screenshot: https://ibin.co/2xCShGbpGdGt.png
Actually it actually wrong to assume somebody could solve a trivial problem in a weekend, however some companies still have way too many people working at it.
Consider twitter with their 3860 people. they could probably do it with half of them. especially the technical people are 40% of the company... way too much. i don't think that they need no people but well...
>I can provide much more links;

Please do.

>BLM wants separate government, budget, no police intervention

I can't find any official BLM source that makes this statement or anything similar.

>I think we all get it.

You "get" what you went in search of in the first place.
No, but I'm saying that they wouldn't if it wasn't reciprocal.
If you write a file to disk, then wait fifteen minutes before deleting it, chances are the OS will have flushed it to disk sometime in the meantime. It won't have to re-read it if there's still free memory, but it's extra load on disk io.

If you write a lot of them, then even if you have the memory, you may overrun the size limit of the write buffer and cause application stalls.

Writing to a ramdisk (e.g. tmpfs) is always an option, though.
But when you privatize a public utility you have many customers and a single provider - the exact opposite. Hence higher prices and/or worse service.
Good article, overtime is rarely the solution! Bad company management leads to overtime.
The comment is [dead] not [flagged]. I guess that some automatic system killed it. The previous comment of the same user is also [dead] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12625432 , and some of the previous comments have many downvotes. My guess is that one of the previous comments triggered some filter that autokill all the newer comments.

For this kind of questions it's better to ask the mods hn@ycombinator.com , they usually answers very soon by email, and the threads sometimes are unnoticed.

Meanwhile, I vouched the latest comment, and now it's undead. But for a permanent solution contact the mods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
or as in your pickle example the government doesn't contract with 1 pickle company and you only get that pickle choice.
I have a Nexus 6P, and the fingerprint scanner on the back of the phone is brilliant.

It is very easy to find without looking, and you can unlock the phone one handed. I actually can't imagine why one would want the fingerprint scanner on the front of the phone.
Reminds me of this great article about the 'this shit is easy' syndrome: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.ar/2009/04/have-you-ever-leg...
Well Pixel and Pixel XL may come with Daydream (VR headset). Maybe it'll support running apps fullscreen "in VR".

(Although, yes, that will work well for Netflix and badly for coding. The question in my mind is what about everything in between)
you've created an awfully scary world for yourself
Yes, agreed. Unbelievable functionality but very boring.

I miss the old days when all kinds of mobile phones were being innovated in a mobile phone primordial soup.

Of course, granted, they were far less useful!
> The point is that there was no private access to the SD card.

Sure there was! Simply generate a random key, store it in the (small) private storage area, and use it to encrypt whatever you want to write. Instant private area!
Yes, Amdahl's law.

I'd probably just use the 10 most productive engineers, and tell the others to prepare for testing :)
Is your 2013 Moto X broken? If not, why replace it? Is it more up-to-date software you want? If so, go for one of the alternative Android distributions (eg. Cyanogenmod: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Ghost_Info). Is the battery bad? That can be replaced. Is it not fast enough? It might be with an alternative Android distribution on it. That phone is only 3 years old so it does not sound like it is in dire need of replacement (if it isn't broken to begin with, of course). I still use a 2011 Motorola Defy, others use devices of similar age. If it still works fine why replace it?
Yeah, but asking readers to resize windows, resize the font, and tweak the CSS to get decent line heights is a bit of cheek when it's trivially easy to implement at least minimally pleasant-to-read typography and layout.

It's a bit shortsighted of a writer to completely ignore the realities of readability. The current layout may conform to some vague idea of purity or minimalism, but that puts form over function in a big way.
It's much weaker. Only reason for a password manager to use it is laziness or ignorance.
Suppose you make delicious fruit pies which you could sell for $5. Along comes a company that will buy your pies and sell them for $40. Would you:

A) Tell the company; "I'll split the profit with you."

B) Tell the company; "I'm an honest days work for an honest days pay kinda guy. You keep all that extra value."
You should ask Cliff Stoll[1] about those!

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAsICMPwGPY
People are thinking of ways to break the open web too. Witness what just happened in India and was narrowly avoided because of hubris.

To add: there's still more attempts to break NN in India.

The civil groups which are being formed don't have the same environment or support that the first world has developed after years of civil liberties battles.

So yes, people are always thinking of something. It's just that the time to defend the commons is here.
I don't like writing long posts on HN but there are a ton of reasons why it is very dangerous to walk around Indian cities at night due to risk of being hit by vehicles.
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(IMHO) Absolutely everything in that response is completely wrong:

1. Railways are a real and concrete example of wrongheaded privatisation.

2. More congested roads are not an alternative to efficient rail services.

3. The greatest technological innovations of our time from cancer drugs to satellites to the internet are spin-offs from government funded research. I could bore on all day about this...

4. A good education system is an externality in that society as a whole benefits from highly trained doctors, engineers and even in my view artists and poets. It is a profoundly social enterprise that we all have a stake in.

5. Public education maybe messed up in the US (I don't know it well) but it's doing just fine through much of Europe and the UK - or even in profoundly free market economies like Singapore. Indeed the UK in particular where the tensions in education exist over school placement and better/worse schools within the public system illustrate that educational variation is usually down to social status and economics - not public ownership.
You can ask for a waiver, not sure how complex it is, but that's what a lot of hockey (and other sport) players do
It's interesting to think about energy vs finance costs. I will run some numbers for my own house.
> I'm not just talking about "strange" outlier OSes like FreeBSD, NetBSD or Alpine Linux or whatever. Just trying to build for Fedora 24 (which doesn't have published packages) fails. This is because the Fedora 23 packages are linked against library-versions which are no longer in Fedora 24.

This sounds like more of an issue with Fedora than anything else. If Fedora 24 can't run programs for Fedora 23 (not ancient programs that happened to work on Fedora 23, but programs that were specifically built for Fedora 23), that's pretty ridiculous.
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Hawkins' memory-prediction concept is quite more specific than general CTM, and not borne out by evidence.
A few month ago in a similar situation I emailed the mods to remind them about the whoishiring post, so you are not the first one.
Has it ever really been interesting beyond the initial iPhone showing the full web can exist on a phone and pushing carriers out of bundling their crapware?
Some lighting computations are easier to do in a voxel representation of a scene, e.g. realtime global illumination (see: http://leifnode.com/2015/05/voxel-cone-traced-global-illumin...)
Then ask a German, or a Swede. The answer might be different.
It's way superior to use git aliases instead of shell aliases. In this way autocompletion and autocorrection will work.
That's not what he says at all. In fact the points he makes are quite good. Maybe actually read the comment you reply to first?
I don't want to sound bad, but again you couldn't do it.

Say you have 2k engineers for next two days. Where do you begin?
Buses are often assigned to a route and then leave that route unexpectedly in the middle of the day to service another route (accident, other bus broke down, traffic, subway shutdown etc) , often not starting at the beginning of that route.
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I think he means: "Apps should be more modular and use other apps' capabilities more." Which is true.
Otherwise, indeed, it's a basic evaluation error, as described as long ago as in the The Mythical Man-Month; it just seems that nowadays, the multiplier is not 9, but even bigger.

https://archive.org/details/mythicalmanmonth00fred
Figure 1.1, page 5

To go from a program to a programming system (interfaces, system integration), you need to multiply the effort by 3.

To go from a program to a programming product (generalization, testing, documentation, maintainance), you need to multiply the effort by 3.

So to get a programming system product, you need to multiply the effort from the program step, by 9.

Nowadays, we need to compose indeed multipliers for distribution, reliability, availability, localization, targetting multiple UI platforms, etc.

And the original multipliers are also probably too small, when you see the effort required just to integrate testing and CI on some projects.
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Half of your points assume that current transportation companies don't have any digital data about bus stops and reroutes.

The question is what is more work: Using the existing data that is stored in some obscure format for which you first have to write an importer/converter or just recreating the data. Add the fact that the existing data might need some cleanup/additions (e.g. times on timetable are only stored with minute precision and you want second precision for more accuracy).
I have lived in the Seattle area for the past 3.5 years, and only just moved back to Atlanta. While I was in Seattle, my transit use was approximately:

- 65% bus
- 25% bike
- 10% car

No car needed if you're located near a regular bus route and don't work anywhere requiring multiple bridge crossings.
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> "dumbed down" only improves the user experience of new users. It hurts power users and is rarely useful to anyone other than newbs.

That's only true if the power users perform a completely different group of tasks from the new users, or if the "new user" interface is made wholly incompatible with the "power user" interface.

If the power users still needs to perform the same basic tasks, the simplified and easier interface will likely make those tasks more efficient for the power user as well.
That's certainly the party line, but is there any evidence that it's actually true? I've seen little to support it, especially when you disregard "efficiency" gains that come from cutting what a municipal agency would have called "services."

The problem, as many others are also pointing out, is that government entities and private businesses typically have (and often should have different motivations). So when a private business takes over and makes things more efficient, this often comes at the expense of things that we want our government to value, not economize on.
I don't know what world you're living in but I have a side business selling on eBay and my fiance runs an Etsy store and the Post Office's service is head-and-shoulders above that of private carriers. I suspect you don't have any experience in this area and based on your other posting you seem ideologically motivated.

In practical terms, USPS package shipping rates are typically 1/2 to 1/3 of those of an equivalent service from a private carrier. It's often cheaper to send something via USPS 2-day than via UPS/Fedex ground service. Their bulk rates are even cheaper - Media Mail is usually the only cost-effective way to ship textbooks for example. And Fedex/UPS simply have no service that competes with first-class or second-class mail.

In fact USPS's service is so effective that UPS and Fedex actually piggyback on their service to save money. Fedex and UPS will get the mailpiece to the local post office and the post office will handle the last-mile delivery. This is called SmartPost service and I can tell you from experience that the private carrier's involvement significantly worsens the quality of service. It often spends multiple weeks in the hands of the private carrier and I've noticed significantly more damage to mailpieces with it. They also provide subpar customer support on these packages, you cannot refuse delivery or do other basic postal operations with these packages. The opinion of the private carriers essentially seems to be that the blame will fall on the postal service so quality of service is irrelevant.

Nobody is perfect, and all carriers are subject to variation in the quality of the last-mile delivery. If your USPS or UPS or FedEx guy is particularly terrible then you will get damaged packages.
True. :)

I suppose that's why I'm not!
The announcing the next stop could be achieved with a dual radio setup, one high powered and low powered. The high powered could be used to detect an upcoming stop and the low powered could be used to detect proximity to the stop.

(Lets ignore the security issues that have been shown with amplifying the low powered radio in cars for a second) It's a method used in keyless entry in cars. A higher powered radio is used for button press on the cars key so you can unlock the car/open the boot/sound the horn to locate the car at a distance but keyless unlock should only work at a much closer distance.

Not saying its the correct way to do it (my local bus network doesn't do this) but stop proximity can be worked into their idea.
While things have been a bit buggy since the anniversary update, Microsoft have been improving Windows a lot in the last 4-5 years.

Sure, there have been some "1 step forward 2 steps back" moments, but in total the general reaction from actual users have been quite positive.
I have a pretty wacky config (xorg for me), but I'd never thought about shift-reversing. This is brilliant; I'm grateful for the tip!
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Shouldn't someone get more if they work harder or invent a better mouse trap or are we all just ants in a giant social machine meant to extract as much out of us until we die. The problem is too much and you have enough power to effect the rules.
Thank you Rafael, Tim, Marcin #1 & Marcin #2! Great team and great project!
Apparently the WIP warning was also removed from the site lately[1]. Can we infer that the format is being finalized?

[1] https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF-hub.github.io/commit/2b9c81...
I've seen this too. I find myself frequently highlighting comments to read them. Usually they are not trolls, which is a signal something is going wrong.

My guess is that the hivemind is becoming too strong, strong and filled with sensitive animals. Any hint of disagreement or negativity attracts censure and this has the potential to kill the forum. There has to be a middle ground for any sort of constructive debate.

My sincere belief is that geeks aren't likely to be like this, I suspect we typically have a higher pain threshold and it is another cohort that are responsible for a more touchy-feely atmosphere.

Perhaps there should be some kind of fizz-buzz test? Like a capcha for emotion!
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It is massively unfair to make comparisons to the 1950's. Basically, the USA was the only developed country with infrastructure that had not been bombed to rubble in WWII. In addition, China and India were undeveloped and just recovering from foreign occupation / colonialism. There was basically no competition for American manufacturing.

Also, if you look at inequality, you have to differentiate domestic vs global inequality. The domestic inequality is higher now, but global inequality was much higher in the 1950s.
I don't know, it seems like you've implemented some kind of macOS-wide Spacemacs :)
"Various excuses have been used from "I don't want to see an episode in the theater" to "I don't want to give Fox money"

I heard similar from some of my friends. I kept trying to explain to them that Fox wouldn't make any money from the movie, which was released by Universal. (Fox had long since passed on continuing the show/property in any form. Fans should have been supporting Universal for picking up what it believed Fox didn't handle well, and for attempting to give the series a new lease on life. In fact, Uni had intended to make a trilogy.)
Really glad to hear I'm not the only one holding on to this phone. Absolutely perfect form factor, for me.
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same functionality, my alias is "rush"

$ git rush
HyperV and VirtualBox (or VMWare) cannot co-exist on the same machine.

So basically, if you want to do windows development you have to give up the alternatives
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> If I'm running 50 containers I don't want to have 50 copies of all my shared libraries in memory. That's why we invented dynamic linking!

BTW there's a cool feature called Kernel Samepage Merging [1] that was created for the sake of conserving memory consumed in virtualization or container use cases like this.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt