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If your pinky issue comes back, try Xah Lee's ctrl-palming method[0]. It's even less strain than Caps Lock IMO.

[0]: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_pinky.html
Because he's tacky.
Unfortunately this seems to be just a wrapper around their web app. Meaning there is zero chance for a significant native linux skype client update.
That is noteworthy and repulsive. To think, the safety of the flying public was sacrificed because of the military's glacial pace.
To be fair, I plan on getting the base $999 model and putting a geforce 1080 in the breakout box supporting a 5k monitor, or 5 1400p monitors in portrait mode. I don't really leave the desktop often unless I'm using the laptop in bed.
Wow, totally wrong article and I didn't even realize until now; I don't work for Tech Crunch, my bad. This is my article: https://medium.com/@fpresencia/the-usb-type-c-revolution-66d...
What Happened When I Dressed Up to Work from Home for a Week
The Tibetan Empire used to control large parts of Xinjiang and western China, but you don't see the Dalai Lama making any claims :).

There are very valid reasons for China wanting that territory in their country (security, resources, etc...) and its not like the west + Russia were playing a "Great Game" there just a century ago. China gets the territory because they took it and were able to hold it, plain and simple, it doesn't need a flaky moralistic reason.
The article is taking a rather lack stance against manufacturers with words like "ability" and "interest":

> The IoT is expanding faster than device makers’ interest in cybersecurity

This is just pure bullshit. It has nothing to do with 'expanding' or 'interest' or 'ability'. This type of security has nothing to do with the scale at which it has it deing deployed or growing.

The fact of the matter is that manufacturers are too cheap to provide decent security. This is a profit problem. And dancing around the issue by the media is just weak-ass journalism.

The solution is simple: The government holds them accountable for creating shoddy products. The companies creating these products pay for the damages done. It's really this simple.

Unfortunately, the U.S seems to have this completely unhealthy obsession with keeping the government impotent and companies powerful at the expense of the people. And not just the american people, but the entire world.

Baiscally the only hope we have at this point is the European Union.
The USB Type-C Revolution
Bugs are only made public when developers find out about them then fix them. Many exploits simply die to code churn rather than developers actually fixing what they understand to be a vulnerability.

I have no horse in this race, but I don't think you should assume you have all the information.
I really wish that they'd narrow their ambition and just ship a really great desktop environment that could be installable in stock Ubuntu. I guess that's harder to monetize.
Yes that's what I eventually did, just skipped forward to the end. But still the general dismissiveness of the article is off putting.
You can install any email client available on ubuntu, e.g. thunderbird. No need to use Elementary's stock apps.
No, that's not exactly what he is saying. He's saying we write logic in pure functions, but then save the data in a mutable database. But he's saying we don't have to -- with event sourcing, even the data we store is immutable, so more of the system can be purely functional.
Family sues Amazon after hoverboard fire destroys $1M house
It's legit. Informational website about ransomware and what to do in case your device is affected. Apparently sponsored/endorsed/whatever by Europol, the Dutch Police, Kaspersky, Intel, AWS and Barracuda.
Did Tesla lose 200M miles of data?
Everything about the state of the Mac
Good to have these things. See also https://github.com/Russell91/pythonpy and https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk
Looks like decryption for badly constructed ransom ware
Likewise, if you're just interested in learning the material, check out alternatives at the big expensive art schools themselves. For example, RISD offers 2-year certificate programs for about $10k. They're composed of community education classes, but they're taught by RISD instructors in RISD classrooms, and as far as I can tell are equivalent to the corresponding courses taught during the day. The catch, of course, is that you don't have access to the full range of courses, and that you don't get to say "BFA" or "MFA" on your resume at the end -- although you can still say "RISD". :)

http://ce.risd.edu/pages/certificate-programs-for-adults
afaik they mainly use clevo
A documentary I saw on TV (can't remember the name) explained it in terms of land ownership. South America was run essentially by feudal lords. There was little opportunity for regular people to acquire land and operate it.

But in North America, settlers were offered land that they could own if they worked it. This produced an environment of many, many small businesses (farmers), forming the basis of a free market and the resulting dynamism.
Both GTM and Hangouts work well over web applications they offer.
Likely the big reason there is that hardware manufacturers test for Windows and write drivers for Windows.

Damn it, there is at least one documented case of a motherboard giving a junk ACPI return if the OS identified itself as anything other than Windows.
It's easier to find fooling perturbations of one image, but not of the whole dataset. I assumed the question was can we use the universal perturbations for robust training? The answer to that is still "no", I think.
I came away from it thinking the author places far too much value on self-esteem, and on self generally. How you feel about yourself is really important only to yourself, and often overvalued in that case. The view that you are not all that important in the vast scheme of things is the best antidote to this.
If I'm not mistaken, houseboats in the Seattle area also have property tax tied to them as well. Instead of just a slip rental/lease.

It been a few years since I heard that though, it may be incorrect or outdated.
This seems like a good direction for our keyboards, but I don't understand why they don't let all keys be changed. Specifically, caps lock. Caps lock functionality is completely useless to me, and I suspect most people.
Some time ago I tried writing a terminal environment that would fit better for people familiar with JS and Python. I failed miserably, but I still think it would be a good idea.

http://xon.sh/ is something related, but my idea was to make more interesting use of pipes, like passing structured data.
If that's the case, then China still isn't unified. The emperor was a strong central government, but, which is true even today, often "tian gao, haungdi yuan."

Warring state periods did occur during history, but stable and strong political unions were the norm in most of the dynasties.
See also "software archeology" in the sci fi book _A Fire Upon the Deep_. God I love that book.
You mean your particular sect of christianity.

Christian Gnosticism and Catharism are just two historical christian sects who denied the reality of sense-perception, and who were purged for that. Not to mention christian mysticism, specially that of Meister Eckhart, or Spinozism, or any Neoplantonist interpretation of christian tradition. Christianity isn't a single theological or even metaphysical tradition, but a multitude of ones pinned to a more or less single oral tradition embodied in the bible. Specially, christianism doesn't entail physicalism.

Furthermore, I don't see what's exceptional about "the world" being "real". Even the Eleatics and the Neoplatonists would've agreed to that, granted that "the world" be their "One", even though they asserted that sense-perception is illusory. If these words are taken in their most general sense, then this proposition becomes a platitude. You might as well say that "whatever is, is". And no one has ever seriously argued that nothing exists (Gorgias of Leontini did only in jest).
The AppCenter is the hottest development area, so there are new features and fixes landing every day. But in the not very distant future you're going to see the result of a lot of work: https://houston.elementary.io/

There is a problem with Epiphany, namely that the webkit version that ships with Ubuntu is long outdated, hopefully that's going to get fixed: https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-secu...
Lots of tools (one example is Webpack) are significantly slower under Windows.
The speculation doesn't even make sense because Apple is structured as a functional organization, not around product lines. Schiller and Federighi aren't in charge of Macs so they don't have to fight Cook for resources. When Marco claims (without any evidence) that Schiller or Federighi are the champions for the Mac internally, he's projecting his values on to them because he's created some narrative in his head about various executives.
Harp, the static web server with built-in preprocessing
I take a lot of notes during lectures - just very simply on A4 lined paper that I file at the end of the class. For personal notes I use a small notebook, but I don't have any special system for it. When it's full it's full...
The truth is though - there is no replacement for Lightroom. Digikam has the file management capabilities but the editor experience is clunky (pop out editor, edit modules require opening, no apparent easy sync of settings across images, poor noise control) and it's not the fastest app I've used. Digikam 5 is a big improvement is some ways but the editor is still very clunky to use.

ASP is just buggy. I tried it on Debian Jessie and Ubuntu 16.04 and on both it lasted a few days before simply refusing to open, even after install. It's also slow, even though they claim it's faster. And it does annoying stuff like paint its own window borders to look like a Windows app.

Darktable is the best RAW editor I've used, but it's got essentially zero file management. Batch output requires a new mental abstraction with the 'queue'. For volume work (hundreds of images at a time) it seems ill equipped as you have to create a style or copy the history stack (which doesn't seem to have an easy keyboard shortcut). I'm still working on this one as it has so much power and control it could be fantastic, but more work needs to be done on the process of the edit or you can get stuck in the editors rabbit hole of fine detail.

RAWtherapee - that's the next one to test for me. My initial feature check showed it suffers some of the complaints of Darktable like no file management (as far as I can see) and an involved edit process.

If you pair any of the above applications with gThumb you can get some of the file management back in the most LR style I have found, but (infuriatingly) gThumb doesn't seem to display images in subfolders for whatever reason.

My conclusions so far (as a former pro photographer) is that there is potential in the linux world to equal and even do better that LR but it's definitely not there yet and definitely not in one programme.

And let's not start talking about Photoshop/GIMP - which of course ISN'T photoshop, as they keep telling us.
As a current macOS user and a former Ubuntu user, I actually feel that my experience with Ubuntu was better than macOS, not worse. Among the features I liked: a decent window manager built in into Unity and free file-system snapshots using btrfs. And I was using a ThinkPad, which was less expensive, more rugged, and would not try to impersonate a leafblower every time you ran a nontrivial computation on it.
> powered 24/7

Is it? When you turn on "airplane mode" on a phone, is there a reason for the SIM to still be receiving power at that point?
If you ever feel like giving it a try again do it with a computer that is known to work well. While Linux will run on lots of random PC hardware, its support is not consistent across all hardware. The easiest way to do this is to buy from a company who sells Linux based systems.

One of the biggest problems in the Linux ecosystem is the lack of any good source on hardware compatibility tracking.
Using Blockchain to Fight the Fake Diploma Nightmare
Vine to be discontinued by Twitter
I'd like an answer too.

I'm a Linux guy and Win7 is the last I will ever use personally for my own machines (unless I really need it for work, which case I'll VM it anyway). But my reasons are different, I really don't think they ruined it that much for power users, but it's other details that annoy the hell out of me. Like default online accounts, way too much telemetry data being sent and it still feels like it was designed for a tablet (even Enterprise versions). It is pushing too much for the always-online, always-connected computing experience, which feels like turning PCs back into terminals.

@aweb
I dunno, it seems they just moved services and startup from msconfig to the task manager. The Linux subsystem is nice, very nice, actually, the one thing I really liked.
> popular syntactic sugar without clear semantics and real world connection

Uhh... the point of them is that its as close to the semantics of synchronous code as possible. That's the 'real world connection' - your single threaded code can become asynchonous with just a few keyword changes. Rather than "sendRequest()" you do "await sendRequest()".
Yes but it's been steadily declining. I guess I should have added an asterisk and said "Amongst power users/developers" since those are almost exclusively Mac now (from my observation, YMMV)
Did you try using `:set ttyfast` ?
With a ThinkPad, sleep-on-closing-the-lid has never been an issue, I actually wasn't even aware it was a problem that people faced. Presumably it depends almost entirely on the laptop.
It says Apple SIM works in over 100 countries:

http://www.apple.com/ipad/apple-sim/
Maybe the answer isn't so much free market as a lack of alternatives. Note that the US did not industrialize equally - notably, consider the part where slavery-based agriculture was profitable, and the resulting civil war.

In a similar vein, I was quite surprised to learn how industrial early 19th century Peru was, until they decided to screw development and just exploit the land.

(Though I think the internal comparison of different parts of the US is more relevant, since they operated under the same political and economic frameworks, yet developed quite differently. Maybe a relatively free market is a necessary condition for industrial revolution, but it sure as hell isn't sufficient.)
As a slight aside. Can anyone point me to any recent work being done to get working Linux drivers for the various Mac hardware bits that have been problematic in the past? I'm only finding old howtos for Linux on Mac which usually end up with some hardware or other not working. I'm specifically interested in Linux on MacBook Air. Thanks.
Anytime you're in a similar dilemma just disable JavaScript. There are even plugins that allow you to do that with one click.
Funny how everyone here in comments and author is saying "I really like Elementary OS" but nobody really wants/is ready to use it.
Oh my! It's literally prune juice! I never would have guessed.
It's hard to study the 30 years war in such a way as to conclude that the movers and shakers of Europe were all angels
Ask HN: How to make secure email convenient?
In every org I've worked for Email has been an issue, from requiring people to have two phones, to clumsy apps that sandbox corp email. The fall out is that users will simply go around these (supposedly) more secure hurdles. How is this not a solved problem?
Yeah, now this is a nice continuation to the conversation :)

I too have been mildly obsessed with the kind of thinking you're developing in your post - very nice article!

I've been very attracted to event-sourcing since I realized that now that React and redux have mostly solved the UI problem what remains to be solved is the problem of how to store our beautiful event-driven data.

EDIT: re-read your comment, felt the need to say that your "current view" is exactly mine too
That has always been a core tenet of journalism, as taught, but the ability to get information from the Internet has put massive pressure on that.

The simplest explanation is that "scoops" (being the first with a story) is more valuable than being second, so there is tremendous pressure to publish first. As your competitors (who are often lay journalists on the Internet) may have a lower standard of proof than you do, you risk being scooped if you are to stingy with your fact checking.

But the Internet is perhaps a much bigger problem in this regard. It is perceived as journalism while it may be either opinion, commercial speech, or simply hate speech. My Dad will tell me something is true and refer to a half dozen blogs that he reads which all say something is true (my favorite was that half the population of LA was illegal aliens). That is a statement which can be generally challenged on its face but it can also be challenged analytically by looking at the tax base for LA county, not to mention Census records vs available housing. The challenge though was that "every source he checked" said it was true, and they all got their bogus information from probably the same original source what ever that was.

As a result, while I think it is drilled into the heads of journalism students and reporters, it is not the standard operating mode of many more bloggers and vloggers, and as a result we get pounded by falsehoods if we aren't critical in our information sources.
Actually using asyncio tools is quite easy and straighforward. However, writting an asyncio lib, or god saves you, an asyncio framework, is really, really hard.
I started on py3.5 - but haven't been able to use the new syntax as I'm using aiozmq so had to use @coroutine.function.

The whole experience has been mega confusing as there are so many similar yet slightly incompatible concepts.
Not interested in Elementary OS at all, but I do keep an eye on Solus https://solus-project.com

(Well, there's also http://papyros.io, but I'm not confident that it will amount to anything)

BTW, that practice of making keywords (which often repeat throughout the text) into links (often to your own damn blog) is abhorrent.
> When [you are infected with ransomware], you can’t get to the data unless you pay a ransom. However this is not guaranteed and you should never pay!

What bothers me about their advice is that it is only correct macroeconomically. For your particular case it could be the best solution to just pay - as even police departments have done before.

It also ignores that it is in cybercriminals' best interest to let you decrypt after you paid: They need their victims to trust them, and they have nothing to gain from keeping the files encrypted after payment.
> It's legit. Informational website about ransomware and what to do in case your device is affected.

That's good to know, but the ransomware criminals probably have the skills, and they definitely have the incentive, to pwn that site.
Stylus for main input ≠ Drawing stylus.

One is overshadowed by multi-touch while the other is needed by professionals among others.
Yeah, and as a developer it really behooves me to be able to run Xcode and the iOS simulator. Plus every team seems to use Macs nowadays, and it certainly helps to be on the same platform as everybody else.

Finally, I already have a couple apps in the App Store that I'd have to abandon if I switched to something else. So I'm kinda stuck.
Exactly! For example, Skylake support is not mature enough in Linux atm.
Brazil was recovering from being colonized by Portugal, no? Arguably the whole of South America still is, along with all of the interference of communists and the CIA.

I suspect tropical disease may also have been important.
I bought an SE rather than a 7. Size is a better fit for me and I still use the audio jack. A lot. So Apple had an upgrade path for me.

But with the new MacBook Pro, they cut out USB-A. If they'd kept it on the entry level model, that'd be my upgrade path. Instead, I'll eek out maybe a couple more years on my current MBP.

BTW, I'm not sure at all why they ditched MagSafe. They did all this and kept the RCA port. Now that's a head scratcher.

On the plus side, I'm a big fan of the T1 Secure Enclave processor.
This is well explained, thank you!

I'd think the logic is harder to tease out than the statistical correlation; isn't the latter more-or-less intended for situations where you can't determine (let alone measure) all the variables?
"Triumph of the West" by Roberts describes it as the western view is that the rules that govern the world are discoverable and applicable, i.e. one can conduct experiments with models and apply results elsewhere. The eastern view is that everything has its own rules, and so experiments could not uncover general principles.

(I read TotW decades ago, I might misremember it.)
Do you see sandboxing at odds with performance? I know it causes a hit to RAM, but I have no sense for impact on CPU usage or user responsiveness metrics.

Once sandboxing is implemented, will there be a push to implement the privileged process in Rust?
Imagine their code looping over the latest version of Unicode. :)
> Should there not be a software solution that lets you select which network/s the phone should connect to?

Apple have begun a limited initiative towards just that: http://www.apple.com/ipad/apple-sim/

Telephone and internet connectivity should really be like electric supply and other utilities. We should be able to connect wherever we are and pay as-we-go through our device.

As an interesting aside, here's look at just how complex SIMs are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12674846

They are practically equal to the computers we were using 30 years ago!
Exactly. Just like SystemD. It's caused me to walk away from Linux and on to BSD. Lock-in can happen even in non-proprietary, non-vendor scenarios. The moral of the story is you always need to be prepared to move on.
> the terminal emits a desktop notification whenever it detects that a long-running process has finished.

Does anyone know how this is implemented?

Edit: pretty simple: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-apps/pantheon-termin...
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-apps/pantheon-termin...
There are plenty of posts for DE's and I think there's filters in the sidebar for whatever you might be looking for.
> Isn't Apple using the latest & greatest Intel mobile CPUs?

Surely Apple is not using latest Intel mobile CPUs, not the Kaby Lake.

> Do your memory requirements take disk IO speed into consideration? When you can read from disk at 3GB/sec I'm not sure the old assumptions about memory capacity hold true anymore.

Why should I use SSD instead of RAM? I use SDD for the persistent storage. Why in general you should look for a trade-off when other laptops manufacturers do ship a decent laptops.

> USB-C is great for this. You can connect all your accessories to a hub and only need to plugin one cable for power, external display, storage, input devices, etc.

Yeh, a hub ... which you will have to take with you every time.

> USB-C card readers cost about ...

Yeh, a USB-C card reader ... which you will have to take with you every time.
> Is it?

Easy to test: add a SIM pin, turn on airplane mode and reboot your phone.
The difference is that journalists are supposed to be professionals who discern the reality of a situation and report it to those of us who can't be there or don't have time to sift through all of the details.

The reason we don't get that as much in the US is that a lot of journalism is modeled on the wire service piece, which is meant as generic copy that almost any newspaper can reprint. It's what journalism prof Jay Rosen calls "The View From Nowhere".

One important distinction, also mostly lost on American journalism, is that viewpoint is different than bias. It's easier to see in the foreign press, though. The Economist, for example, has a very clear viewpoint, but they visibly work hard not to be biased.