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> I would guess that a significant percentage of State Department emails to and from the Secretary of State are at least confidential

Probably, so? The fact that it's a mixed environment means that it's a code switching situation, which means that the indicators that a particular context is in play are critical. There's a reason that classified documents have banners (and though it's not the purpose of portion marking email subject lines to serve as a "this document is classified" flag, it probably in practice schedule at least as useful as a code switching trigger as proper banners.

> Again, we won't agree on this until after the election when Clinton supporters like yourself are able to undertake an honest assessment of their new President

We won't agree on this question even then. I mean, my position on the emails in general or this particular point hasn't changed since I was a vociferous opponent of Clinton in the primary, I don't see why it would even if I became entirely disenchanted with her performance in office.

I suspect you're projecting from the fact that your reaction is based on your prefered electoral outcome to assume the same must be true of anyone who disagrees with you as well.
I agree with you, to a point. Gore's case was uniquely bad, and I'm not convinced it wasn't fraud, personally. But he made the challenge after there was evidence of fraud; he didn't lead up to the election hinting that any potential loss is due to a rigged vote.
The only way to get high variance research is to offer very long (10 to 15 years), well paid fellowships with no reporting or progress requirements to young and promising scientists. Make these as hard to get as you like, but once awarded leave them alone to get on with research. Anything less than this will just generate iterative research.
That is indeed a very good idea.

I have been blind in the past for months due to an accident when I was a kid. Fortunately I was lucky enough that a brilliant professor was able to restore partial eye sight. Enough for me to be independent and to be a software developer by profession and traveling the world whenever I get a chance.

One of the things I found out was that it is very hard to explain to people to tell them what it is like to not see. One of the popular questions was "So what could you see?" Don't get that question often these day, but I generally asked them to think at how much they can see with their hands.

When you can't even imagine how it is like, going that one step further on imagining how blind people are able to navigate your application/web site is a step beyond even that.
Right now you only have things like web accessibility standards and tests for that. It helps, but it is not the same as "navigating the app like a blind person".

If there's an easy way to test and experience your app/website then it will also be easier to get a requirement like that past a C-level exec.

Sorry that I don't have much to add at this stage as I'm in the middle of starting up a new product myself, but you are always welcome to contact me (contact info is in the profile)
No, not in Sierra, because Karabiner classic does not work in Sierra. Karabiner-Elements, which is Sierra-only, can only do basic key remapping. None of the fancy stuff.
Consider General David Petraeus. He was investigated by the FBI, similarly to Clinton, and charged by the DOJ at their recommendation. He pled guilty and got a pretty big punishment (2 year probation and $100k fine.) As far as the actual laws go, I don't think that proceeded much differently than it could have with Clinton, so I'm not sure your distinction between civilian/military is significant here. I could be wrong though, as I am not sure whether he was "officially in the military" (under their jurisdiction) at the time of the crime, and retired generals and such might be a special case anyway.

There are differences in the specifics of the cases, such that the different outcomes are justifiable enough in my mind, but I think there is a fair amount of unofficially cutting the bumbling civilian some slack and/or holding the foolish general more accountable, when the applicable laws and court process are probably the same. I think they could have held her to a similar standard, if they wanted to.
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So they found effectively nothing, which is all they'll find here.
Agreed; the old way is much easier to skim IMHO (have not tried to skim large lists of the new style).
You don't need Karabiner-Elements for this. Esc remapping is supported in 10.12.1 natively.
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you are also better off selling your old car yourself instead of taking the dealer's trade-in offer. That doesn't stop a lot of people from doing things the easy way and potentially missing out on hundreds/thousands of dollars.
How many apps from the 90s do you know that still work on macOS?
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>We were all aware there would be short term pain for long term gain

I'm curious as to what you consider "short term" though. I think it will be at least a decade before the UK is likely to see any positive effects of Brexit, if then.
> As an AI developer you have access to the AI code and memory.. How could you not replay the encryption process used by the AI since you know the state of what it "knows" constantly?

This brings up a different "scary" subject: Could this someday be possible to perform on humans?

If you knew the "code" and understood the workings of the brain and how it stores memory, could we simulate and "replay" a "copy" of a person and see everything they would do in response to different inputs?

Would that lay to rest the debate between Free Will and Determinism?
I'd love to see some real competition with macbooks but I haven't seen anything close yet... Alternatives do exist but they are still very expensive... I mean really, they are bloody expensive. When I'm thinking about putting this kind of money on the table, I just go to apple store, no?

Why on earth there's no startup which just puts together linux laptops? I'm sure you can grab Chinese/Taiwanese/Korean whitelabelish product customised with linux friendly peripherals or just put the box together yourself with engraved penguins here and there. Half of devs would love it, another half would hate it - but that should be enough to survive, no?
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Discrimination does not only apply to race. So even if they didn't exclude users by race, but, say, by profession, then it would still be discrimination. In fact, most of what "big data applied to personal data" does amounts to discrimination.
The dawn of 3D games (2007)
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Sub-millisecond GC pauses in Go 1.8
>a developer who needs a Unix-based OS.

Windows 10 includes binary compatibility. bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows. all of Ubuntu user space.

a full copy of ubuntu built in. Windows not working as a unix-like os for developers isnt reality anymore.
Panama is a bit of a special case as it's considered to be a fiscal paradise by most countries. I have a card from Malaysia (which is a developing nation albeit relatively rich compared to its neighbours) and I can use it pretty much anywhere.

The only issue I really sometimes have is that my bank will sometimes block transactions which they find suspicious and call me to confirm that it was me who did the transaction. That card does support 3d secure though so usually if the merchant supports 3d secure then the card works perfectly and has no issues.
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When I was interviewing I just wouldn't even bother applying if the company had iCIMS or Taleo - I figured it was a bad sign of how poorly they were run internally.
> Ethically, there is nothing wrong with this system if the exclusion can be applied equally to any ethnic group.

That is only shifting the responsibility to the person clicking (or not clicking) the checkbox.
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> Blockchains are not yet ubiquitous, but when they are (in every device and underlying many services we use), every person will have the infrastructure to create and maintain complex agreements for near-zero costs. (Financial agreements and otherwise.) This will be pretty transformative.

Sorry, but this is wishful thinking. The simple question about how you can enforce agreements running in blockchains can't be answered. In the real world you have the military or police force while in the blockchain itself you are pretty limited. On the other hand external oracles are the weakest part of the blockchain system. If they are hacked you hacked the agreements.

I think the blockchain/cryptocurrency/smart-contracts/app-coin scene is really exciting but the connection with the real world is problematic, more when the financial institutions are enforcing AML/KYC/etc
I am very disappointed with the new lineup: no more magsafe, no more 12 hrs battery, much higher price, and no 16GB Ram for the MBA to fall back to. And a touch thingy I didn't ask for to replace my trusty function- and escape keys.

I will probably still be buying a Mac PRO, but it's different now: this time I feel Apple knows I've got nowhere to go, and they're strong arming me into buying the new machine.

This is a very different feeling from being really enthusiastic about my machine, telling everybody they'll have to pry it out of my sing hands.

This time I feel like I'm being treated like a consumer instead of a customer.
Are you talking about userspace memory mapping (via pagetables) to physical address space, getting confused about what Address Space Layout Randomization does, or thinking of the very latest CPUs (announced) which offer to encrypt the content of memory pages (Secure Memory Encryption and Secure Encrypted Virtualization)?

In any event, the kernel can know what's behind the curtain and that is the context in which the suggestion and news item exist.
Very nice, thanks for the link!

I'll definitely be seeing if I can replace my system with that; reducing the overhead to a single transaction would be a big win.
* Code review and care.
* Always leave code in a better state than you arrived.

This project is big, it's definitely not your average webapp express node.js you see these days.

From my experience in projects this big with a big team, there's absolutely no better solution than reviewing code carefully and caring about quality.

I was in the same situation as a consultant a few years back and the rule to leave code better than you arrived at it is a real trigger to most people that respect what they do.

I'd say that the VP ENG should be involved in the process and set some rules for what is acceptable quality and what isn't.

One more thing

Everyone knows a smell, every single member of your team has some piece of code he/she saw that doesn't make sense.
Keep a document with all of these and just make sure you scratch them off EVERY single day.

Stuff like:
* User Creation is using LOCK on table_x and it shouldn't
* Form submit code is too complex, need to be better
* Extract component X into a microservice

etc...

If you go through a list like this and fix things one by one, you'll be better off in a short amount of time.

Don't try and take it all at once, create manageable consumable pieces that your team can relate to, understand and get behind.

Good luck
https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/gmail-end-to-end-encryptio...

https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/

I haven't seen them in a room together but they each have something available. Making it Chrome/Gmail extension, Firefox plugin, and Thunderbird Enigmail interoperable may go a long way. Still UI issues and apathy that will hurt uptake. To start with.
You are mis-quoting me. I didn't say Bluetooth. I said wireless. That includes the stupid dongle-antennas.
It looks like 80-85% of emails to/from Google are encrypted in transit, according to this page: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/

Encryption at rest is still a difficult UX/UI issue, but encryption during transit seems like something that most mail providers can get behind.
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8 and 9 deal with manufactures, but could be used to stop non-manufacture open source. Its been a long time since Bell and I worry security will be used as an excuse to remove some competition.
I have Windows 10 on my desktop machine, so I'll try it out. However, all that means (assuming it works perfectly, as you seem to suggest) is that Windows is usable to me. That's not enough of a reason for me to get a Surface Book.

I'm less than thrilled with Windows right now because just the other day the built-in Mail app started crashing within a few seconds of opening; it's now unable to connect to my Exchange account. After spending 10+ hours trying to diagnose and fix the problem, I've accepted that nothing short of a complete wipe of the machine will fix the problem.
As always, I'm creeped out by the fact that Microsoft is tracking how often everyone uses touch input. Are they tracking what app the user was interacting with? Exactly where/how they touched? What was under the touch? I'm just not comfortable sharing that information with anyone. If they were to provide a complete opt-out of all information sharing I'd definitely consider it, but until then I'm out.

This is in response to the giant quote box they have in the article on the actual blog post.

"97% of people that have a Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book use on-screen touch input regularly."
Keyboards after the x220 are chiclet, which is sacrilege to most ThinkPad users (me included). x240 really messed up the mouse buttons that you'd use with the TrackPoint: they're touch instead of click and poorly executed. x250 and x260 fix that problem more or less, and the keyboard on the x260 is appreciably better than the x240, but it's still chiclet.

The main draw of the ThinkPad is that it's an unparalleled input system (TrackPoint means never leaving the home row, keyboards are second to none), they're very tough, have great battery life, very serviceable, and you can get amazing deals on eBay or through outlet/refurbishing. If you go with the X series, they're also the only < 13" machines that have replaceable batteries, a full complement of ports, reasonable specs, etc. In other words, they're the perfect dev machine. The cons are pretty bad screens, thickness, and relatively poor trackpads.
It's first and foremost a bad DPI independence API design, largely due to a terrible backwards compatibility of an even more terrible legacy stack. It is fixed somewhat in their modern stacks, such as WPF and UWP, but the vast majority of Windows software is not written with these frameworks.

While it is understandable why the legacy baggage is there and cannot be removed, the end result is a big mess, still to this day. Most (but still not all) first party software is OK to good. Third party software (not apps from the store) is a mess, usually either blurry, tiny or downright broken. Windows ecosystem being Windows ecosystem, there are many alternative to almost everything, and some software is improving. But it is still a big mess.

Apple's transition was a lot smoother due to vertical integration, a much smaller software library, more dedicated software developer base (or rather, much more willing to be early adopters of new APIs) and most importantly, a much better designed API without a 20-30 year old baggage.

It should be interesting to see people's reaction to the software, after jumping ship for macOS to Windows on these fantastic displays. I couldn't stand the mess after a week with Windows 10 on my MBP. (But I do use Windows 10 regularly on my desktop, on a "normal" display.)
the T460s is the slim model, the flagship standard T460 still has a removable battery. They should make the S as thin as possible, so they can keep the standard model without compromise.

The s series is the compromised T460 for slimness, cant have it both ways.
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The quality control concerns in the comments mirror my experiences. I would not buy one. I would still rather get the new MBP with function keys vs. the Dell XPS Developer Edition.
I think there's hardly any "anti" anything here.

Team member: "boss man, we screwed up. let's enable some of our customers to get a quick fix!"

Boss: "Hmm, ok, sure patch looks good QA team will have them ship shape in 7 weeks once we redo WHQL testing"

Team member: "boss this only benefits our linux customers so we don't need to do WHQL"

Boss: "hmm we don't have a linux test suite so QA says that there was no regression with this new release. Good job! Just don't let any of our windows customers use this release. You can tell g3ntoo04 that he can have this BIOS update but don't put it on the support website."
In what way is what I said presumptive?
I would prefer that neither of them win. Certainly we can do better than this.
Windows 10 still has two different control panels. Last year, a Microsoft PM tweeted he hadn't had to use the old control panel "in months": https://twitter.com/brandonleblanc/status/650519136196366338.... Microsoft had been shipping two control panels for three years at that point. People would be apoplectic if Apple did something like that.
a huge number of technical types use vim and other CLI/Terminal type tools daily. There are many tools and apps that assume the Escape key exists.
Thanks yeah, that helps. It's going to be a little shaky on mobile right now, but we'll be making the experience better in future builds.
I can't speak to AlphaGo specifically, but these parameters (depth and width) are typically chosen through trial and error. People joke about "graduate student descent" but it's true. There are empirical rules of thumb that arise from knowing what has worked in the past. Empirically, more depth is better and nets should not be very wide at all.
Just for the record, my comment made more sense prior to erikb editing their, at the time, ~30 plus minute old comment.
If you take a close look at windows, you'll see that WSL is already doing a pretty good job of giving you that UNIX environment (really Linux) on windows. Things like proper apt-get and not having to deal with Homebrew are nice.

It is early days, but things keep getting better. The 'I need Unix' crowd will soon find that Windows is a much better Unix than macOS ever was.
Some people here are complaining about the trade in value, but Microsoft's quote for my 2011 Macbook Pro was pretty close to what I could get for it on eBay.

However, I would not expect the resale value on any Surface product to be very good at all.

One of the nice things about owning Apple products is that you only pay full price for the first one -- when you replace it, you can trade in or sell the one you have for a lot more money than any non-Apple product of a similar age.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboardlayou...
I think it's a shame that QBasic isn't bundled with Windows anymore. That was how I got started, on some old 486s in my chemistry/programming teacher's classroom, and it was really a fantastic integrated programming experience, very simple, but with room to do some really cool things. I remember that by the end of a year, a friend and I made a really terrible, but mostly working, version of Slime Volleyball, with graphics and even some basic MIDI sound effects.
Can't you just charge $99 as a one time download license fee? Get people to buy bigger licenses if they use within the organizations? Have an anonymous whistleblower incentive fee program to combat people who would abuse the convenience factor (with heavy penalties in the EULA)?

You could make the $99 renewing if you want to offer updates, and perhaps an option to buy the source code for, say, $495?

Maybe you could make the software more expensive. Approximately 2.3% [1] of adults, non-institutionalized, male or female, all ages, with all education levels in the United States, are blind. If you could also provide the benefit of increasing sales, perhaps you could build a calculator (marketing tool; to estimate what percent of their customer base is blind and the money they're missing out on) and quantify that, that would help. You could especially capture some of that value if you bundle on consultancy services to perform the usability improvements.

How many hours would it take to get someone to get this working in a docker container? How long would it take to put together a decent installation guide?

https://nfb.org/blindness-statistics
Hi, I'm the speaker.

The presentations motivation and conclusions are indeed very high level. The body of the presentation presented several different applications, including Zcash and several applications of Proof-Carrying Data (the extensions of SNARKs), to exemplify this. Unfortunately not could be described in detail, but they all have corresponding technical detailed papers (see http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/publications.html).

Regarding the conclusion, patcon's interpretation is accurate, and more generally: There are numerous situation where parties cannot cooperate due to mistrust, and modern cryptography, SNARK included, allows them to use digital cryptographic schemes instread of certifications, accountants etc.

About the hash functions: collision resistance is discussed in the paper, but note that such algebraic/combinatoric/geometric hash functions are a totally different animal from SHA etc. The latter are much more efficient, but completely heuristic, whereas the former often have security proofs that relate them to well-established computational hardness assumptions.
It's not going to work. All the main problems must be overcome in theory and practice before it gets deployed. Here's a summary of them from Collin Robbins:

https://cybermatters.info/2012/08/13/why-has-encrypted-email...

Note: He was one of LDAP's inventors. His company Nexor deploys both encrypted mail and high-security guards regularly. That's his credentials.
Good.

But there are a lot of developers whose work could be done on a remote machine, and I wonder if those people still prefer to work locally, and if so... why?

It's entirely possible that the complaints/calls for beast-machines don't come from any of those people at all.
To add, and perhaps this is a terrible idea due to naivete on my part, but if there are different voices/speakers on a page, make a special tunable stream where you can "listen" to all convos but tune in to the interesting ones, kind of like we do when at a gathering and overhear lots of convos but walk up to the ones which pique us and listen and even pipe in...

The tunable part should be made easy to do from a user perspective via some kind of "dial" "mechanism"
Yes, backwards compatibility is great. But it does not come without a cost.
They wanted to give me US$100 for my 2008 alu MacBook. I bet they're going to flip them on fleabay!
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That has to be one thing Apple has going for then, security. They don't often talk about it on stage but the thought and work that goes into protecting users looks pretty strong.

The touch ID in the new Macbook pro actually uses an apple watch chip with security enclave on it, and the web cam is routes through there too so the CPU doesn't have direct access, making it harder to hack.

I'm not sure I've heard Microsoft talk about protecting users or avoiding exploiting their data...