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While this may be true for lightning cables, apple power bricks are definitely worth their price. Yes they are expensive, but after I tried 3 different 3rd party bricks in the span of a year, it's apparent a high quality alternative can't be made for much cheaper.
Hi, I'm one of the contributors of the project and we started this because of the need to deal with clients sending us information through insecure channels. We have been using it for a while at Whitesmith and it entered our team's workflow smoothly.

Please feel free to ask any question and I will try to answer the best I can.

Note: The project is open-source so you can self-host it. Contributions are welcome.

Edit: to fix typo
An article that contains a bunch of anedotes to refute another article that contains a bunch of anecdotes. Hmm...

I want to see the data of where they go and determine from that.
Well it would make sense if that were the case.

You have some system that tried to balance bias, variance, and utility. Sometimes that best way to do that is to have some bias. The classic example of this is you may jump when you see something that looks like a predator, but then turns out not to be. The cost of being wrong (see nothing when predator, see predator when nothing) means it's optimal to sometimes see danger that isn't there.
Well probably it was through pressure from another state actor, just no fancy hacking involved.

But yeah, just get that dude a mobile internet usb-stick. I would think twice before sharing my wifi with Assange, too.
> why people would buy even cheap cables that are branded Apple when you can get quality, very high-reviewed cables from vendors like Anker.

same reason you would buy almost any apple product i imagine.

it's not the outdated, overpriced hardware; its the experience and the fit and finish.
They are almost all placebo response. The real effect is so small it's probably not useful clinically. They also cause suicidal ideation and sexual dysfunction is a large minority of patients.
The manufacturers should add in the cost of recycling and also process recycling themselves as part of the product lifecycle. Not an easy thing to implement.
What if you:

- require an ID to vote

- issue ID's for free

- if someone shows up to vote and doesn't have an ID, take their photo

At least with the third option, you don't require that people spend TWO days (one to get the ID, one to vote) but only ONE day (show up to vote, get picture taken), and it would eliminate the "voter fraud" that may or may not exist
They float this stuff all the time and it often gets beaten down quickly, frankly its a distraction compared to the other stuff they already do.
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If you're worried about harm it might cause to children (whatever that might be), you've already answered your own question: you control their access. Children cannot (or should not) set up internet access themselves.
The ARM world is rapidly moving towards UEFI, partly thanks to Microsoft insisting there be something like it for them to build on.

Even better, u-boot implements enough of it to boot a UEFI operating system. So on some new devices you'll get UEFI firmware, on everything else you can flash u-boot with UEFI support... and it's now part of their default configs.

Pretty cool. :-)
Here's a good teardown of an Apple charger which shows where the cost is in the design.

http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surpr...

What I don't get is how come the cable part is such lousy quality compared to the sophistication in the PSU part.
Intel GPUs require neither a blob nor reverse engineering, so ironically the Minnowboard (http://wiki.minnowboard.org/MinnowBoard_Wiki_Home; current revision is "Minnowboard Turbot") is very open (also the UEFI implementation (TianaCore) is open source; just a small FSP (Firmware Support Package) by Intel containing binary data has to be compiled in - as far as I know it contains no suspicious data; start at https://firmware.intel.com/projects/minnowboard-max if you want to read about the details). I am rather sure this processor/board has no support for the dreaded Intel AMT.

If you want an ARM board: The "Sabre Lite - i.MX6 Quad Core" board is the nearest to this ideal that I know of. Traditionally Freescale has been very open with the specifications (though after NXP bought them this changed to worse). The GPU (Vivante™ GC2000) is not strictly in the category "No binary blobs, no reverse engineering", but I have read that this is among the GPUs found on ARM boards by far the most easy one to reverse engineer, thus there seems to exist a decent reverse-engineered driver:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_and_open-sou...

(EDIT: For the situation for open Vivante drivers also see https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Etnaviv-... (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12743550)).
I feel like the semicolon-period thing of Erlang is only really frustrating for the first day you're using it. After that, I actually found it to be a fairly natural syntax, and had little trouble switching between it and JS.
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Beyond Apple accessories, Amazon is getting more and more unusable. With electronics and fashion, it's due to wading through fakes. But in virtually any category, the problem is wading through tens of thousands of results.

The reviews can't be trusted. I've seen so many products with a seemingly five-star rating, but the top three up-voted reviews are 1-star. Yesterday I was searching for bedsheets. The term "bed sheet set" returns over 600,000 results.

I just want the top 5 or 10. I don't want to wade through this many. Problem is, if I can't trust the reviews, how do I sort the shit from what I actually want?

With some products, of course, this isn't a problem—books, for instance—but that's only because I know what title I'm looking for or my search is so niche that I'm only going to get a tiny handful of results.

There's big money in someone taking Costco's model of picking the handful of products in a category that will work for most people and applying it to Amazon. Either search needs to get a hell of a lot better or someone needs to bring in curation.

(I used to be skeptical of business models like Casper but now I get it—a lack of options can be a luxury)
I agree, that was bad wording on my side.
My point is they have no reason to want to waste their dollars getting Assange and ClintonLeaks more press at all, and if they're fighting that dirty, every reason to want Pence - who isn't the subject of any major allegations - to get some bad press. Or for the public to continue to lap up the latest Trump mishaps and not pay as much attention to the Podesta emails as Wikileaks would like.

But we're supposed to believe they have instead chosen to focus their efforts in keeping Assange in the press through the most obviously implausible setup possible, in a way which might cast doubt on two already very well-publicised and widely-believed allegations about Assange. And use their setup vehicle to issue press releases on the subject of obscure rulings by UN-affiliated bodies regarding Assange's detention and blog about "state-level interference", because obviously these are subjects that are the day-to-day obsession of Hillary Clinton, and not Assange and his supporters. Well, if Wikileaks says it was the Clinton campaign, it must be true.
In my state I can renew my drivers license online, no hassle required.
> I don't want hackers in our election machines or running smear campaigns targeted on one candidate.

Those two things are not comparable. Hacking election machines to actually change the vote is not what is happening. People are finding information and releasing it. So in your view the Billy Bush tape should have been suppressed? Should all negative campaign ads be stopped? Should MSNBC and FOX news be taken off the air for a period before the election?

It's a slippery slope we head down when talking about not having information released.
It's doesn't matter above/beyond all issues, otherwise I'd be writing in Cruz, who I agree with on 3% of the issues.

If Trump had 10 or more extra IQ points, he would be an easier sell to me. I do feel his ridiculous energy levels might compensate for this and then some, not sure though.
>A lot of the comments here are saying they don't understand what the product is for, but I think it should be obvious to people (like myself) who have used breadboards before in the past.

Please enlighten us then. What does this board do?
What are the difficulties you are talking about?

I live 75km from the biggest city. After every 4 years I need to fill a form I want a new ID. Wait. Then go and pick up new ID. Spending time the government building, as we all know bureaucracy is slow. I don't have a driving licence and don't drive. My friend helps me or I take a bus. This allows me to vote and do other necessary things where I have to identify myself and travel.

How is the system different in America? What are the problems? How many years does it take for the ID to expire?
It certainly doesn't change a thing and they are prepared and decentralized enough to avoid many attacks, but in general single persons can be very important to organizations and wikileaks is not that big.
Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there?
I'm not going to get into parsing the video you watched, but the source raises monumental red flags when it comes to any sort of journalistic integrity. Project Veritas is the same folks who did the widely discredited hack-editing to swat at Planned Parenthood and ACORN. They are partisan hacks well-understood to be either the pot or the kettle.

To your point on American, entrenched parties controlling and applying many of the levers of power, that is mostly a forgone conclusion. The only way out is for one party to splinter cleanly and then the other could as well. The parties seed, raise, and harvest grist for the mills to feed the party itself.

I would suggest massive voter fraud is not feasible. There are many quality checks that limit the potential. There are disconnects in how many Americans think about the registration and voting process which, when played out, inspire suspicions or contempt. Busing voters, encouraging political engagement from the religious pulpit, etc. We have or can get the data. Between census, voter roles, etc. Fraud can be detected and surfaced - but it rarely is.

Also, all sober reviews of voting has supported the argument that the ID issue follows the narrative that one tribe is trying to apply ID laws to disenfranchise to their benefit and the other is trying to enfranchise to their benefit. Nobody stakes a purer claim to virtue on the matter. But, in a democracy enfranchisement > disenfranchisement, so in this case, Democrats are in closer alignment with the spirit of democracy.

In terms of how and why voter ID is being used in recent US cycles, review North Carolina where they collected and applied data on voter access to certain types of valid ID (there are multiple) and then applied that data for max political effect. It's a turf war. You won't find Republicans arguing to hand out voter ID's or making it trivial to get them. Just picking certain forms of ID to make it more cumbersome for certain people to vote.
I've seen a game engine built on shared_ptr that had trouble getting a 2D game performing well on the PS3.

Its not that C++ will bloat your program, its that many programmers don't understand the tradeoffs of the primitives they're using, or don't have the experience or vision to see what they become at scale.
I've heard this, but Indiana's voter ID law went to the Supreme Court [0]. The plaintiffs were unable to find a single case of someone who was unable to obtain an ID as a result of the law. Further, it was possible to vote early (up to 30 days before the election) by filling out a ballot at city hall -- so you didn't even need to go on the official election day.

It seems that if the ID is provided free of charge, then it does not burden the individual any more than normal voting does.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v._Marion_County_Elec...
I had an intern for the first time last summer! I tried my best to focus on being as encouraging as I could and helping him whenever he ran into trouble. He clearly was working very hard and doing his best, so I focused on being as supportive as possible and praising the work he did (which was very good!). If I'm being honest though, we was a really terrific intern and we never ran into a situation like I did, so I wouldn't say it was much of a test :)
Any text that defines piecewise functions is going to use syntax similar to Knuth. It's much older than him or his text. Piecewise functions are not common in the normal math track though, because they're not continuous and differentiable, so they make the path to calculus more complex.

In my experience, it is we programmers who care about syntax the most. Math folks seem to be happy if you can get the gist of something.

Still, you're right, the semicolon/period thing is troubling for Erlang beginners, but that part of the syntax really does come from Prolog.
IMHO if three sources of leaks are fixed, it is a giant step forward. Not event trying to fixe anything doesn't seem like a better alternative at all.
Good read. Will credit Apple for beginning to move away from this trend. Take the Apple Music app in the iOS10 release...thick, chunky, bold headers, much better contrast.
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Marriott is headquartered in a DC suburb and they have explicitly said they need to move to a more urban location to attract millennials.
That would be a simple, workable system, which of course is why it won't get implemented.
> TDD is just a placebo

This is my experience. I've watched teams do TDD, only to come up against their first refactor and have to change 80% or more of the tests. Just the other day, they were griping about a code review that they had to do which involved changes to 2,000 lines of test code over a code change with minimal functionality change.

TDD has the effect of making you think differently about how you code. Thinking about how you write code is a good thing, but you don't need TDD to make you think differently about your code. You just need to think.
Not to mention the science fiction short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vlOgN_3QQ
We need some strong AI to strip away the ads, and extract only the main text, then format that text using the reader's preferences.

OCR 2.0, if you will.

Caveat: it may kill the advertisement industry.
I wonder if you can find a single person who holds the position that you're arguing against.
You are over stating the case for what stimulants can do in ADHD. They probably do make kids more docile. They do not improve grades over a meaningful time span. They do not improve broad and important outcomes like graduation rate (there is some evidence that ADHD kids on stimulants have lower graduation rates than ADHD KIDS that aren't medicated), increase earnings, or decrease chance of going to prison.
Yes, I agree that reviews cannot be trusted. When I was shopping for a probiotic, the 5 stars products were mostly filled with paid reviews where the reviewer gets the product at a discount for their "honest" review.
> You knew that 3 hours earlier, when I wrote this

First, no. You asserted it repeatedly without a compelling reference. Ptaipale provided a verifiable claim about the UN Security Council affirming that this had become international law. You linked to an article that happened to make a similar claim but had no reference to the UN Security Council decision (nor does the citation it references so far as I can see).

Second, I admitted a gap in my knowledge and your response was to come in and assert that you told me the same earlier (which you actually didn't). If the point of your arguing was to educate, this is a really poor technique. Don't respond to someone acknowledging a mistake/misunderstanding/knowlege gap by trying to make it about how "right" you are. It comes off as petty.
Interesting argument presented in the paper, though I wouldn't frame it as "we've evolved to be inaccurate": it's really that the world can be so suddenly unpredictable that setting up strong, working paradigms of decision making in the short term can be worse in the long run than just winging it.

It's worth considering, especially in light of the authors' suggestion that we use computer/human decision-making systems to improve performance, as the world is still unpredictable, and can still break our paradigms. The biggest danger of setting up a good system to improve knowledge is that you'll think you've got a perfect one--we could improve our rationality and decision-making with computers for a long time, before an unexpected case cracks the system, and we're left floundering.
Not yet. I haven't even bothered as the current gen powerwall is pretty much not for sale... not many people actually got them. And also they are announcing PowerWall 2.0 this month. So we'll see what new features it'll bring and when I'd be able to actually buy buy.

Solar Panels are pretty much a no go for me because I have a flat roof top patio across almost the entirety of my roof. Which is dedicated to a kitchen, seating, hot tub and a putting green ;)

Also, realistically, electricity is so cheap here, the difference wouldn't make up for it, although I'd get it because it's "cool" haha. I think the flat rate 24 month contract, you can get $0.75/kWh now. Pretty crazy.
You can pretty much draw a line from English veneration of countryside manors to modern suburbs in the anglophone world and clearly they are quite popular in the US. Calling French banlieues "suburbs" probably obscures more than it clarifies.
I am now very wary of buying some products from Amazon due to counterfeiting. I seem impossible to buy genuine razor blades as one example.

I bought my wife a Nutribullet from Amazon (marketplace seller) only to find it was counterfeit. It even cost more than my local store. Amazon weren't consistently helpful either. After being really supportive speaking with them, they just didn't follow through. They then asked me to return the item to the seller, but I refused as the seller would only list it again. If it wasn't a safety risk to others, I wouldn't have cared as much. I did get my refund after a lot of effort.

When it comes to power adapters I don't risk cheap third party makes.
It’s true that many designers tend to look at text more like a texture. Instead of making it large and distinct they will make it small and light colored when it's in fact the only valuable thing on the screen.

It's an unfortunate consequence of so much design today going minimal and more typographic, which makes it's hard to differentiate elements any other way than to start evening out the contrast. If everything that is text was just black you would loose the hierarchy.

There er of course plenty of ways to get around it and most experienced designers know how to deal with it. I don't think it's going to be a lasting problem though.

Also important to notice that retina screens make a big difference between what is readable and not. You can get away with much more finesse when you design for retina screens. And I think a lot of designers unfortunately use only that when they design.

If you look at print typography you will find a lot of small text sizes because print is crisp enough to be readable. So technology will take care of most of it IMO.
I have a hard time with Privacy on more than a few vendors. This is usually because their system doesn't account for the authorization and charge being from two different company names. In NYC, for example, all cabs and related cab apps will charge like this.
This is too true. While I think that ID should be free and required for voting, I am concerned that either of the two parties will exploit it for their own advantage.

(I support ID in theory because another form of disenfranchisement is dilution of voting power; if someone is able to vote twice, that reduces the power of people who vote once. Not sure I support it in practice).
Heh, I love how so many tech and design things are "manifestos" or "rebellions".
I expected a technical article about the news aggregator. It would probably hold my interest longer.
If you take a look at the actual documents which are required for an I-9, they are a lot more flexible than what are required by most of the voter ID laws the courts are throwing out left and right. The proof of citizenship can be a birth certificate or a social security card, while the proof of identity can be a school ID, a local government ID card or a military ID. If you started your job before 1986 you never needed to provide the information, nor would you if you were a retiree or on disability.
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As I've commented before, the US primary system is surprisingly similar to this kind of voting, apart from requiring the voters to partition themselves by party first. The US system is the opposite of Instant Runoff Voting, effectively "agonisingly slow runoff voting" (how long is it between the primaries and the election?)
One argument that may appeal to management is that your open source codebase becomes a powerful recruiting tool.

Many companies open source non-core code, like UI components designed for their domain or server widgets that can be pulled out into a standalone library. It's unlikely that your company will want to deal with the overhead of many outside contributors, unless it's an open source business model which it seems like it isn't. However, a couple of contributors here or there, or even better, someone who forks the codebase but doesn't cause extra work for you by submitting PRs, is a very strong signal that they'd make a good hire. They're interested, know some of the code already, like what you're working on, etc.

Since hiring is very expensive (costs 10k - 50k to make a single hire), this has real business value and you can use it to sway management.
AFAICT, the one who brought up the Project Veritas was a European who is not very likely to fall cleanly into one "side" or another of our politics.

It seemed to me to be a legitimate question for an outsider to ask: these videos seem to be showing evidence of voter fraud, so how do American liberals defend their opposition to voter ID? Whether this is a credible source or not is one thing, but the guy who brought them up seemed to be making a good-faith attempt at fact-based reasoning and understanding. In any case, he clearly is not in any way representative of the side you seem to be referring to (American conservatives).

I mostly consider myself a liberal, but this cycle I see BOTH sides almost entirely divesting themselves of facts. For Trumpites, this takes the form of making up random shit, and for liberals, this takes the form of screaming racist/homophobic/xenophobic/Islamophobic at the slightest provocation, even when there's no necessary logical connection to make that claim. For instance, the idea that anyone who wants proper borders and citizenship procedures to be followed must be a racist. Not only is it illogical, that kind of name-calling directly contributes to Trump's success by making "normal" people in "flyover country" feel like they have nowhere else to go.

In short, it is not really constructive or true to pretend like all the facts are on one side and all the problems are on the other.