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Star Wars villains in the first series use such accents.

A) The Imperial Navy is a euphimism for the British Navy / Empire.

B) It was filmed in the UK with almost all UK actors.

The new Star Wars - none of the accents are posh really.

Just English accents, again actors, filming etc. - although - I think there was some attempt by JJ to keep it UK-ish in that manner, though I'm not sure.
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I mean it from the founders perspective as well, as a founder myself.
I've seen these questions asked the couple times now so here is one last question that I think needs to be addressed –

Do you think that you will always need to look at the TouchBar in order to use it?

I am of the opinion that you will not. Especially for large dynamic control such as sliders.
Sadly the longer lifespan for phones is being sabotaged by epoxied in batteries My 2 year old note 4 will be fine (quad core, 3 GB ram, 96GB storage) for many more years... only because I can replace the battery (which I've already done once).

Finding a replacement for my note 4 with a replaceable battery has been tough. Hopefully in the next few years someone will offer it.
The jury is still out on whether this interpreter gets to be called a reference spec, or even a spec. It may be a reference interpreter that is offered as a companion to the official English text. It all depends on what others feel comfortable with.

But I'd rather that this OCaml program was _the_ spec. I found it enjoyable to read the other day when I was trying to figure out WebAssembly verification semantics. Much better than reading an English description of a verification algorithm.
There are numerous studies showing distributed rooftop solar and the net metering that goes along with it is a benefit to utilities. Utilities simply don't want to see their profit dry up.
Solar, surprisingly enough, has a higher death per kilowatt rate than nuclear, primarily because roofing work is so dangerous.

Nowhere close to mining coal of course.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...
Great answer to a common question. I've always liked the distinction between windows and processes in macOS, but many Windows users find it (understandably) odd — Windows power users sometimes feel that the mechanic robs them of control, in that clicking what they believe to be the "close application" button does not typically do what they expect.

I agree that neither approach is objectively right nor wrong.
It often happens that the cost of building solar panels, transporting them to the location, disposing them before their estimated time-to-live and getting rid of all their chemicals emit more carbon than we save by using electricity from the solar panels.

You think this happens with modern panels? Even low estimates put the EROI at something more like 4, with other people figuring 15-20 (of course it depends on where they are installed. EROI is better in Phoenix than Seattle).
No one is accusing Thiel of being racist in this article.
Very interesting that whoever posts the link first gets to frame the narrative of the news story. Even more interesting are new accounts/users on Hacker News that just post political posts steering the conversation in one direction.

Is this how Correct The Record works? Curious
Slate is pretty darn heavy too
The article says Chrome 56 will distrust WoSign and StartCom. According to the release schedule I found, that will be January 31, 2017 http://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar
WebPay Service Closing FAQ
Let's pretend that this is HN 8 years ago. You guys absolutely HAVE to meet up and become friends and start a startup together that aims to solve the problem of people from different political ideologies misunderstanding one another! Do it!
These classes / libraries are not built inside a Flash Player. They are part of the SWF file after compilation.

SWF specification is here http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/swf/p...
It is definitely shorter and simpler, than e.g. PDF file format.
I'm not sure an all-day sun facing roof (here in Australia it's North-ish :-) is as important as you might think. My house is very narrow running North-South so I have two sets of panels facing East and West instead.

Does that mean I get a perfect peak output during the middle of the day? No. But my generation comes on earlier and off later than friends with perfectly aligned systems - which without a powerwall (sadly don't have one yet) that is a benefit expanding the amount of time that I am generating usable power and saving A$0.25c/kWh instead of earning $0.06/kWh for exporting it at peak generation. (fair that in this context we're looking at potentially having a power wall too, but never the less - you lose round-trip efficiency on batteries - about 10% - it's likely to end up fully charged anyway depending on your daytime usage and thus extending your generation time might still be good).

I have 3.5kW of panels (3kW inverter, the max I can get on a single phase supply) and hit about 2.75kW peak generation . I wouldn't mind adding another panel or two per string (on my particular inverter and due to having two parallel strings, it works out fine for the voltages.. but this can vary a lot depending on your system specifications)

</end of not totally scientific ranting>

But also - seriously, the aesthetics. My suburb (Baldivis, Western Australia) has one of the top solar penetrations in the entire country at 57% of all houses (you can see here, it's 5th on the list: http://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-top-solar-states-and-s...) -- and while they're not exactly drop dead UGLY - it sure would be prettier with roofs like this everywhere. Particularly here we have a lot of smaller houses in orientations which mean often they end up being street facing instead of not. So yeah. Not sure how much of a greenhouse effect your roof is going to end up with though, that will be interesting. (here, we have predominantly tile or tin roofing - this shingle like stuff is much less common here than other parts of the world from what I've gathered)
Compatibility isn't what it used to be; all Google software runs on x86, Power, and probably ARM. There are probably a dozen ARM server processors being designed right now, so either there's a huge bubble or the market is big enough.
I think you misread the article. The article headline is paraphrasing Theil saying that Silicon Valley's majority support for Clinton is out of touch. Basically things are going well here, so they aren't aware of how ready the rest of the country is for change that will allow them similar economic prosperity. I personally disagree with Thiel, but I at least bothered to understand what the article was about.
The s390 is not a midrange platform: it evolved into what we call zSeries these days and is pretty much the highest end of IBM's portfolio.

5250s were terminals used with the System/34 family, which was succeeded by the AS/400 series which is now called iSeries and moved to POWER many years ago.
All these advances in medicine are great; It's so wonderful to know that rich and powerful people like Obama and Hillary Clinton will live to be 150 - I'm so happy for them - With all the stress I'm under, I'd be surprised if I make it to 50. Maybe the elites can harvest my organs when I'm gone; it's nice to give back to this wonderful society that the elites have created for us.

Yes, social media is great; I have lots of friends on Facebook! Except that in real life I can't even see them because I had to move to a different country to escape the high property prices and high cost of living... And I'm actually one of the lucky ones - Most people don't have the option to work remotely and are stuck paying half their income in rent.

I can't even buy a house because some reserve bank somewhere will mess with the interest rates and cause another housing crash (at the most inconvenient time possible) and I'll have to declare bankruptcy and watch the big banks reprocess my home.

Regarding global warming - I don't care about it at all! With the way things are going, AI will probably destroy us before global warming ever becomes a problem (and by 'us', I mean 'those who are not elites').
Bac0n that smells...
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What they mean is that in Windows 10 a process can opt-in to some security features which mitigate this attack.

Firefox/others will still be affected if they don't opt-in.

Just in case anybody wonders, this mitigation is opt-in because what it does is it disables all win32k.sys calls (GDI, ...).
Flying takes 2 hours minimum, to pad for security delays, and have time before boarding.

There's also getting yourself to the airport. They tend to be far on the outskirts of town (This also involves paying an arm and a leg if you opt to park.)

If you need a rental car on the other end, you can also look forward to 30 minutes for shuttling, waiting in line, paperwork...

Combined with the cost (Especially for multiple passengers), and the largely unpleasant experience of flying, and I will happily drive 300 miles from Vancouver to Portland, over taking a plane. 400 is probably my limit.

If all the driving you're doing is in the city, yes, an electric car is a great option. They are not a great option for a longer road trip. (Also, fuel economy/effective range goes down quite a bit when you are going above 60 MPH - and most cars are traveling at 75 MPH on an interstate. Gas cars will spend only a little more time at a gas station, but doing the same in an electric will cost you a lot of time.)
Zcash: The Crazy Launch Obfuscates an Interesting Technology
I remember when my coworker showed me next step ui on his color cube.. and then proceeded to rewire an apps button on the fly... I was super impressed. Next step really was.
Slate, HP, here
It depends on the journal and not all journals are equal, e.g. every Nature paper has been widely read.
No, just sceptical of their claim to be protecting users by disclosing early.
> the constant churn of scientific progress.

That is a relatively silly remark. Science and technology never go back, by definition. Not even after world wars. Economies can go back, or cultures.
> And who do you think these U.S. advisors were helping, really? The Syrian army?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Democratic_Forces

Your four links show zero cases of the US supporting Al Nusra. One's talking about how in the chaos the lines between groups get blurred, one's random op-ed spitballing from a newspaper owned by a Russian oligarch, one's talking about a rebel group negotiating for safe passage (six pickup trucks and some ammo - having to include that really helps make my point), and the last is claiming that the US supporting UAE/Saudis means the US is supporting Al Nusra.
Less direct connection to the political duopoly?

Also, less exposure to American news as it hits the American public?

I'd bet that a great number of people in Australia (for example) might talk trash about Trump, but vote for him had he emerged here, from their favoured party, taking a hard line on immigration, etc. We do have a political system that allows more effective voting for minor parties, but I still think he'd pick up primary votes. I know of a lot of who I would consider smart people who have very strong, negative feelings on Muslim immigration for example.
Dongles are fine, but I wish they gave the iPhone and Macbook two ports each. Charging the iPhone while listening to music and charging Macbook while connected to iPhone are very common scenarios.
Completely off-topic, but does Latin have genders? Is "Atlas" feminine there? "Atlas obscura" sounds very wrong to me, I imagine it should be "Atlas obscurus".
Anyone happen to know the cause of death? 52 is quite young.
There were giants in the earth in those days.
Sounds like "acquihire in 2 years for $25M"
> If the voting machine vendor executives faced actual personal serious jail time for botched counts, I might be more inclined to trust it.

Even with a threat like that, they'd probably still walk free by just using the DMCA to silence the security researcher
(I work at Stripe, and helped with a lot of our early Consul rollout)

We did consider Synapse (and Nerve[1], which they used to call SmartStack when used together) when we were building out our service discovery, and went with an alternative strategy for a couple of reasons.

Even though it's not directly in the line of fire, we weren't super excited about having to run a reliable ZooKeeper deployment; and we weren't excited about using ZooKeeper clients from Ruby, since it seems like the Java clients are far and away the most battle hardened. (IIRC Synapse only supported ZooKeeper-based discovery when it was initially released)

We wanted a more dynamic service registration system than Synapse seems to be designed for. Changing the list of services with Synapse seems to require pushing out a config file change to all of your instances, which we wanted to avoid.

Our configuration also looked less like SmartStack when we first rolled it out - we were primarily focused on direct service-to-service communication without going through a load balancer, and we expected to be querying the Consul API directly. The shape of Consul felt like it better fit what we were trying to do. We've ended up diverging from that over time as we learned more about how Consul and our software interacted in production, and what we have now ended up looking more similar to SmartStack than what we started with.

There aren't a _ton_ of different ways to think about service discovery (and more broadly, service-to-service communication). One of my coworkers wrote[2] about this some in the context of Envoy[3], which also looks a lot like SmartStack. It's not terribly surprising to me that a lot of them converge over time - e.g. the insight of trading consistency for availability is key.

[1] https://github.com/airbnb/nerve
[2] http://lethain.com/envoy-design/
[3] https://lyft.github.io/envoy/
I think Red Hat's problem with OpenShift is getting out from under the brand-masking power of tech they chose. Too many engineers want to roll their own Docker+Kubernetes platform and underestimate the difficulty of doing so.

The thing is, everyone has a different don't-reinvent list. And they want to be not reinvented in different ways. Then they discover all the things that they didn't realise they'll need to reinvent.

> The real issue that I feel no-one really answered is who's this for.

I see PaaSes as serving three constituencies.

Operators, who wish to christ that Developers would stop making their lives hell by breaking stuff.

Developers, who wish to christ that Operators would stop making their lives hell by blocking stuff.

Business, who wonder why everything takes so long, costs so much and breaks so often.
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There has been recent advantages in multi-column E-beam that might fix some of the throughput issues. I mostly see it used on the quality control side for SEM imaging faster, but in a decade or too it might make its way into production.

http://spie.org/newsroom/4609-multiple-electron-beam-direct-...
Most technology follows that curve. In the last century, coal power plants have gotten only a factor of two more efficient. Almost all the progress in the field happened from 1880 to 1940. Physics is a harsh mistress.
The readme talks about dragonfly BSD's codebase; almost two minutes for cloc, just over one second for loc. That's a noticeable difference.
The only people that understand the banking software are programmers and whole world runs on it every second of every day and you're worried about using software to count votes?

Anyway, acting like paper voting stop fraud is just... blind. If you think people as well connected and funded (and motivated!) as our politicians can't move the right pieces of paper to the right places with the right people, you're insane.

The only people that understand crypto are mathematicians but I'll stick to encrypting my electronic messages.

Also, I really like this:
"Anyone can count along with a ballot box. Anyone can stand there all day and watch the box to ensure there is no tampering, they can count, recount, and recount again. Anyone can do this. Plumbers, programmers, doctors, the unemployed, the elderly, and even the illiterate. It can be counted by one person, or 100."

No voter left behind lol, if not everyone can do it, we can't trust it.
I was extremely lucky to be able to work side by side with Keith at Montage Studio. I am grateful for all Keith has taught me and all he has shown the world. I will always remember the late nights we spent together. My condolences to the Ohlfs family. Rest in peace Keith.
As someone with a better grasp on this, care to comment on a wasm-based future and the idea of a browser essentially turning into a network-driven hypervisor?

I realize the initial wasm spec doesn't seem to be aiming at that level of complexity, but I'm curious if/why repeated extensions of it won't move us in that direction.
Glyphosate usage has also increased in normal crops since seed treating technology was introduced which enables seeds to sprout in soil treated with herbicide regardless of GMOs (this actually predates GMOs by about 2 decades).

The use of Glyphosate has been steadily increasing even before the introduction of EPSPS crops.
Oops, got my build numbers mixed up. Thanks. Now to find a device that has that sensor!
I don't think this is a first release announcement, it's been around for several years. This is the announcement that they are releasing the code under GPLv3. Previously it was closed source.
A computer built from parts running an unsupported OS is most definitely not top-of-the-line.

If you are spending on memory and CPU you don't need, you are spending your money (ou your client's money) foolishly. Spend it on things that'll make you more productive.
My question is why? Why is everyone so eager to replace paper ballots? What problem does electronic voting solve?

Paper votes work, and they work well. Besides the obvious downside of needing to wait for them to be counted, they are safe, open, they don't break down, they can't be hacked, anyone can verify them, and they are 100% anonymous.

At worst, you'd need many people to collude to stuff a single ballot box in a single district, and even that can be thwarted by a single person watching the ballot box all day.

So what's the gain with electronic?
Ha and how'd that work for them? According to the Wikipedia entry, "within a year HP had written off $8.8 billion of the value."

Thanks for helping me make my point.
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GPL doesn't force anything back into the community. It only requires freedom for users, not code for upstream.
Yeah but PDFs? Text files? Software? Entire Movies? MP3 Albums?

It's all just data in USB mode!
Twitter has yanked names on behalf of celebrities in the past.
I'm one of those who values end-to-end connectivity, but I can remember when it was the rule instead of the exception.

There was a time -- before the rise of NAT -- when one could directly establish connections to others across the Internet without having to jump through hoops or implement other tools (port forwarding, UPNP, a third-party(!), etc.) to do it.

In general, as a network engineer, I dislike anything (especially NAT) that breaks end-to-end connectivity, simply because of the inherent problems that arise as a result.

In addition, some of the DDoS attacks we've seen recently would be a lot easier to prevent if NAT wasn't a thing (e.g., as an ISP, I could easily shut off a specific device; I can't just shut off a customer's entire access).
What if the voting machines printed out a paper copy listing who you voted for that you could compare with a copy online listing who you voted for? It doesn't solve the problem of hacking electronic voting; that can only be solved by using paper votes. Sadly, until there's a mass voter fraud scandal, the majority of the public won't know or care about how vulnerable electronic voting is.
538 isn't really any less biased a source than Rasmussen or RealClearPolitics or the LA Times poll. They have a pretty clear agenda, and appear to be drafting on the tailwinds of past successes. They've been dismally wrong throughout the primary season.
Both of those earlier incidents were after Microsoft passed the 90 day (3 months!) deadline.
As a resident of the eastern side of my street, why wouldn't forming an identity and political system based on east-dweller supremacy be in my interest?

I guess because the rivalry would have no meaning and no real benefits, and could lead to needless aggression. And because having conflicts with faraway people I'll never meet is bad enough; having conflicts with my neighbors is an unsettling proposition.
I think they just have a weak pool of ads to serve. I routinely mark Twitter ads as of no interest to me, and still get virtually nothing I would ever have interest in.
It should be pointed out that most vulnerabilities are, in fact, being exploited before they are patched. Citation in this article: https://medium.com/@xParXnoiAx/irresponsible-disclosure-52d0...
>"government is just the word for the things we choose to do together"

Definitely contentious. A more correct formulation is "government is just the word for the things we are forced to do together"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...

http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/05/01/in...

http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/working-paper-domesti...

https://www.amazon.com/When-Good-Jobs-Globalization--unioniz...

http://www.ledevoir.com/documents/pdf/CIBC-eqi_20150305.pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/twec.12238/full

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/cesptp/halshs-01301803.html

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/515926/how-technology-is-...

https://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/econrev/pdf/13q1tuzem...

https://www.princeton.edu/ceps/workingpapers/172farber.pdf
Well spotted. Latin has three genders, and Atlas is listed as masculine in all of the online dictionaries listed here: http://www.lexilogos.com/english/latin_dictionary.htm so it should indeed be Atlas obscurus.
Yet another article denigrating detractors as "nerds". I switched right off when I got to that part.
SO EXCITED!! Cant wait to get a block scoped language in the browser!!
What in the fucking hell are you talking about?

A system that is seemingly half blind (repeatedly crashes into vehicles that only partially obstruct the lane), decapitates a guy, crashes another one into a fucking post

It didn't work too well.

It pretended to work too well and gotten people killed. There is a reason MobileEye walked away from Tesla

They are being rather cavalier with their attitude to safety, apparently. (Apparently the falcon wing doors can go nom nom on you if you are not careful too - sure the guys are laughing their asses off, but it's not a good design)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdPPp3hoGQ8

EDIT: OR, EVEN BETTER: http://jalopnik.com/did-tesla-quietly-remove-a-safety-featur...
> There's no mention of other browsers (so how could this be an ad for Chrome? Is Edge vulnerable? Is Firefox?)

If this wasn't an ad and was merely a security disclosure, I'd have expected appropriate research into which configurations mitigate the risk, not just a single configuration which happens to favor the browser maker.

Add on top of that the trivialization of "Windows 10" as the noun in a second-order preposition of place as well as the reference to Chrome as the primary subject of the sentence, and even basic analysis of the sentence in question shows a bias.