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> CR just rushed to report bad battery life but it kinda wasn't our fault and it wasn't the battery.

I'm an Apple user, but I'm sad to say this is absolutely on par with the company's past behavior. It brings up memories of the iPhone antenna story where the phone would lose connectivity if you held it "wrong". Apple clearly and emphatically stated that users were at fault for putting their fingers on the enclosure and the phone was supposedly working as intended.

It's the same with the MacBook Pro now. The battery isn't too small, you're just using the laptop "wrong" by making it do more work than Apple intended. This is corroborated by the article where CR implicitly admitted fault for not browsing content that was already in the device's cache during the test.

This sounds absolutely ridiculous, and it is, but this pricey downgrade of a laptop is still selling like hotcakes.

Personally, as an Apple user, I'm not in a rush to buy "new" hardware from them anytime soon.
Seems like a reasonable solution for the whole world to adopt. What could go wrong?
Recently I had the priviledge to hear a high quality LP (Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms) on high-end equipment (100k speakers, 40k amp, 35k Player) and switch back and forth to a FLAC that came from another expensive looking box directly into the same amp.

There was a definite difference in quality between the LP and the FLAC file, especially when switching from good (LP) to bad(file).

I can only assume but not guarantee that the FLAC file was produced correctly; otherwise the technical environment seemed to be close to perfection. The quality however dropped of considerably with all the other LPs we've tried for many reasons. Quality seems to depend on the recording, mixing and actual physical quality of the LP a lot.

This experience changed my view on the issue for now :)
I don't really get the obsession with high end graphics.

Hyper Light Drifter is one of the most beautiful games I played to.

For me the Switch looks powerful enough to run beautiful games. A good art direction trumps raw power in almost all cases.
Paul predicted the end the world to arrive in his lifetime. He was wrong. See: 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
Off topic, but I like how their URL spells nccgroup trust us
GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas too.

And you can use a Bluetooth controller.
Learn C.

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Yeah, how shameful. Aus/Can/NZ routinely top quality-of-life measures along with the nordic countries.

Libertarianism is codified selfishness, and it's not conducive to healthy societies.
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Without being open-source, who can assure that there isn't always encryption with a second backdoor key ?

I can't easily even see a hash of my key, how do I know it has or hasn't changed? It's pretty easy to have a feature that only shows some of the keys changes and not all of them.
Did you actually read the article or just these comments?
Interesting findings! I've had trouble with DNS providers and it is always with the root or "@" domain. As a Bind administrator it drives me mad how they make things complex unnecessarily to save me from myself, often resulting in failed switch-overs, and a 2x wait on DNS updates.
What you say makes blocking Signal pointless.

If they blocked Signal just because it was less of a trouble to block compared to WhatsApp, then all the people that were on Signal will easily switch to WhatsApp...
What you have at this point, is a government paying the price of blocking a less popular messaging app they cannot control, while the people they are after can just switch to a MASSIVELY used messaging app the gov can also not control and additionally, is too expensive to block.

If this was the case,it would actually work against the gov. Do not underestimate gov authorities, they are not THAT naive. If they had not blocked Signal at all, they could at least track Signal users and at least have that information: that this small group of people (Signal users), contains the group of people they are after. They could have their honey pot there. Mixing the "dangerous" Signal userbase with the chaotic massive userbase of WhatsApp makes no sense, unless you really have WhatsApp on your side.

I hope you understand what I am trying to say.

edit: rephrasing
>"Indeed - this is especially true of synthwave/vaporwave and other genres that are themselves nostalgic for the days of synth-heavy music sold on cassette."

Yeah, I wouldn't mind a TRONICBOX cassette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV1N95xZ4es

>"Just as some games put fake film grain on screen, some synthwave videos add a "badly tracked VHS" effect."

Kung Fury is probably a good example of that style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg
if you need to hard reset remotely, and you've still got a shell:

# echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
Phase 4 recalls are relatively rare thanks to the extra testing in Phase 3. If you removed Phase 3 then the number of recalls would dramatically increase as would the number of deaths.
"Being poor" isn't directly expressed in genes. Skin colour and body shape is.

Sad thing about humanity - we love to politicize facts and deny reality because it doesn't match some ideology.
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Too much hype, too little proof. Until then, this is pure shit, nothing more.

SV BS spreading from software to Biotech/Pharma.
Multiple factors from my understanding, mostly because the DNS vendor expects a particular configuration and didn't complain when it accepted "bad" data for their systems.
I don't want a system that "anticipates" what I may need. I want a system that allows me to update and upgrade easily based on what my needs are, and how they may change. In that way, the cheese-grater Mac Pro was ideal. Apple needs to get back to that mode for the desktop Power user.
Since the initial reveal, I have been utterly underwhelmed by this product. I fail to see a viable market or a satisfactory use case for such an oddly designed and artificially limited gaming device, and am confident that it will be yet another failure in a long line of Nintendo failures.

No touch screen? Not a single camera for AR content and/or social communication? The controllers look miniscule in the actor's tiny hands. The dock HAD to cover the screen of the device? I foresee the controller sliding and locking mechanism wearing down over time, leading to sloppy interconnection between the controllers and the device.

I could go on with the horrible design choices, but I cannot think of a single redeeming quality. It looks like the market is 6-12 year olds.
Could you elaborate on what you consider to be Nintendo's Blue Ocean strategy? I mean, I get that they've often tried to be first movers with e.g. motion control, is that what you're referring to?
I agree with your point but the Xbox One S and PS4 Pro are nothing alike. The equivalent of the Xbox One S is the PS4 Slim. It's mainly just a shrunken Xbox One. The slight GPU frequency increase is nothing to write home about and certainly not in the same league as the PS4 Pro.
There's a cost/benefit tradeoff to blocking each service and different governments have different thresholds.

It is more likely that the cost of blocking Signal was negligible in contrast to the benefit, while blocking WhatsApp would likely have huge cost - especially in a country that has only recently experienced a number of citizen-driven coupés.

It is also possible that they're specifically targeting a group (Muslim Brotherhood, or Jund al Islam and other Sinai insurgency groups) that utilize Signal.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369962
According to this link he knows how to 404 a Vice article.
Correct link: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-does-rudy-giuliani-act...
I don't know if they gave up on it, or if it's simply not ready for primetime and/or the market isn't currently open to the idea of battery sharing.

Once marketshare increases, car sharing increases, etc., and people become more accustomed to sharing property (and charging becomes the norm for everyone), the convenience of a 3 minute battery swap will likely win over - and Tesla will be ready to roll out their tech.
>As long as they manage the public keys for their users, they will be vulnerable

On the other hand, as long as users are required to manage their public keys, there won't be end-to-end encryption for the masses (which WhatsApp had declared as their goal and to some degree achieved).

At least until key management and other security basics will be taught at elementary school, by the time multiplication table is taught.
Title is very misleading. Only one hash function is presented. Afaict the presented hashing function is not even named. Is it SHA1? No motivation is given, just (pseudo)code.
A lot of people like the vinyl "sound".

What do you mean by your usage of "quality"?

What was the "expensive looking box"?

How was it connected to the amp?

Where did the DA-conversion happen?

What was the source for the FLAC?

I'm sorry, but this is barely even anecdata.
Perhaps they can be persuaded if enough people report it as abuse. There's an option to do that when you remove extensions.
A lot of good advice here. Whenever I was laid off, I tried to send out a minimum of ten new contact emails a day. (Longest layoff, two months. Shortest was 14 days.)

Make sure that you sign up for unemployment compensation immediately--sign up before you need it. If you're in the US, there's (often?) a waiting-week period you won't be compensated for; if you sign up immediately, you can get that out of the way first thing. Good luck!
Cory Doctorow made a similar connection between science and alchemy a while ago:

"FLOSS .. is better for the same reason that science is better than alchemy. Back before we had science we had alchemy, a lot like science except alchemists never told anyone else what they thought they'd learned and so they were prey to the most common human frailty which is self deception, which is how how alchemists discovered in the hardest way possible that you shouldn't drink mercury, and when alchemists started telling each other what they thought they'd learned, and subjecting themselves to adversarial peer review, and they started publishing their source they turned something base into something noble, they turned superstition into science and created the enlightenment, and FLOSS is everywhere because it continues the enlightenment tradition."

Source: [1:40 to 2:20] http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx/public/content...
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Penicillin was discovered by accident in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. The first cure by penicillin was in 1930, but it wasn't until well into 1942 that volume production and wide use began.
Since you were laid off and didn't quit or were fired, you should head down to the unemployment office so you can start collecting. You don't know how long it will be before you find a new job, and the bills will keep coming in. You may have savings, but there is no need to blow through it when you've been paying into the safety net.
I often give Signal another chance, but it's UI is horrible. Some messages are not delivered, some are delivered only to Signal Desktop but not to my cell phone so I'm only notified days after the message was sent...
>They do.
>All hash functions have collisions.

This is wrong. There is something called a perfect hash function:

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

>a perfect hash function for a set S is a hash function that maps distinct elements in S to a set of integers, with no collisions. In mathematical terms, it is a total injective function.

They are very handy for hash tables with constant worst-case lookup time.
this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13390564
I wish there were more settings and personalisations available in both Maps apps. I’d like to activate an option that always shows me all public transport stations, regardless of zoom level.
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Of course it is only speculation, but this is my argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13390564
I don't have a lot of skin in the game, but I am genuinely curious as to what you mean. How else other than "lump[ing] them in together", would you comprehensively criticize it?

I mean, two things good about Signal is that it let's you chat with friends and family in a secure manner.

There are these following issues though: I doesn't federate, it relies on Google Push, it doesn't support SMS. Also, I don't like how Signal does [...]"

Is that already an invalid way to make an argument ?
But what I'm saying is that both paid labour and unpaid labour (or "domestic labour") are both going down in number of hours. People working in daycares and kindergartens are already counted in the paid labour hours. What technology does is make domestic labour time-effective enough so that keeping house is no longer a full-time occupation, which permits for the expansion of other kinds of work.
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I lived through the 80s then, and am sometimes nostalgic for old stuff. I listen to a lot of synthwave now, and do appreciate the variable speed distortion on some tracks. But I also exclusively listen to digital music, where I get a (basically) 1:1 representation of what the artist produced.

Getting further distortions from the medium isn't something I want or need.
It was my main (only?) station. I had some 30 songs on it, pretty good sampling of my tastes (pretty typical pop/rock/etc. music... Daughtry, Train, etc.). It gave me great recommendations which for a while completely blew my mind over and over (when my friend told me about the human classification part, I was like, I KNEW there was no way a machine could've done this so well), but it eventually outright failed and just gave me that message. So I gave up on it too. I guess that's better than Spotify which just plays my own songs over and over again at my "radio" stations...
I have the same exact problem, most of my teammates that review my code either obsess about variable names or code that wasn't done the same way they would have written it. It's like my code is being skimmed to bikeshed about it and not really read through to find behavioral, logic, or architectural issues. As I am the dev w/ the least amount of experience on the team I feel at a loss and I end up re-writing code all the time for issues that many times aren't actual logic errors. The most frustrating thing is a lot of the "different" ways I've written code is inspired by code I've been reading from some of the open source frameworks I use, and I've picked up on some patterns that might not be mainstream Clean Coder appropriate but effectively solve problems.

I've realized that I personally value code that works properly a lot more than any style/standard issues. I've tried to be very thorough in my own code reviews, reading it in its entirety and pointing out areas that look like actual causes for concern in terms of how the code behaves in hopes they'll do the same for me.
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Then why does nearly every business use Google Maps and it's API for map features? You have to pay for maps access on a commercial basis, so they'd be stupid to ignore a free (and according to you superior) solution.

My guess is you're a FOSS zealot who can't admit that a commercial rendition of a particular idea is superior, because it would crush your ideologies and beliefs.. (and I say that as someone who has no problem with using good FOSS like VLC or Transmission)
> it seems incontrovertibly clear that some actor did do this

Thanks for clarifying.

It seems, though, that if "actor" only means "someone", then the claim become so broad that it's tautological (and irrelevant).
I am currently trying out tox with a small number of friends (ok, one friend). I am curious as to what your criticism of tox is. While it seems it's still a bit new, it seems it does all that it claims to do.
Did the internal re-org involve only you getting terminated? If not it sounds like it's a time to celebrate. You were going to resign later the same day and now you get the same result along with a month of pay. Re-orgs happen and some good staff are let go (Sony even called the staff they let go yesterday 'high caliber' http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-01-12-guerrila-ca...).

That said, I like the question, I have never been laid off or terminated, I've resigned from all 4 jobs I've had (employed at the 5th) and so I'm reading other answers to see if there are real issues to be aware of should it happen to me.
No it is a backdoor. Becuase the app fucks you on purpose, even if you go to great lenghts to verify the keys.

Also the vulnerabilty matches perfectly one scenario - when a person is in custody, the LEO cannot open its phone, but they can create account on new device with his sim card and continue "trusted" chats.
Doesn't matter that much. This move was to deter the mainstream downloaders who have TPB saved as a bookmark and don't know how, or can't be bothered to learn how to access it other ways.

Blocking the "click to download this new release movie" users probably did prevent a few downloads.
Your government can't close down illegal websites in other countries, that's why they're blocking them.
Just an FYI, it is a touch screen, according to the presentation at the 41m50s mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuC4YLLkqME&feature=youtu.be...
It adds to the excitement of logging into an application. Instead of "login", you get to "login!".
In the CIO summary they mention every service uses KeyCZAR.

First line on KeyCZAR repo:

"Important note: KeyCzar has some known security issues which may influence your decision to use it."

https://github.com/google/keyczar#known-security-issues
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Yeah, I've seen this behaviour with Signal. It's UI is somewhat confusing thou, it took me a while to understand that I needed to re-generate keys so what I could "fix" my conversation. There was no redelivery of the messages that couldn't be decrypted thou.
I agree, it's definitely not a "comprehensive" guide. If it was comprehensive, it would include different algorithms, trade offs, talk about things like perfect hashing, hashes that preserve ordering, etc.
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Dolphin is a very good emulator that can absolutely handle F-Zero. No need to hold the game in your heart, just play it on your PC!
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And in a modern ironic twist, it turns out that the elements are connected to the stars.

Other than hydrogen, some helium, and a very small amount of lithium, all other elements were born of stars, through either normal fusion (helium, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, ...), supernovae (heavier atoms: nickle, iron, ...), and for the heaviest including gold, neutron-star collisions.

No, the models assumed by alchemists weren't right, but the central nugget was pointing in the right direction. And studying the metals does provide insight into the dynamics of stars.

(And yes: on Earth, helium and several other elements are found not formed by stars directly, but through the radioactive decay of heavier elements, though those are of stellar origins.)
Good points. And btw, Thanks for those links to your works in Go.
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So it's not a backdoor because theoretically they can already intercept the messages?

In other words, this is not a crack because the glass is already broken.

I'm so relieved.
There's a reason why it is not being done - you wouldn't be satisfied with the speed. Try some old-fashioned GIS application, that queries and displays exactly what you have selected and compare that with Google Maps.

These map apps with cached tiles (whether raster or vector, doesn't matter) gain speed precisely because they limit what the user can choose and then cache that. The normal GIS apps cannot do that, but conversely, their users are complaining that Google Maps is much faster...
There is a special case: dbx discs needing a special, rare decoder seem to sound particularly good: https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=fPSbhZz2OYU
Look there's no defense against the company WhatsApp itself. They are managing the public key infrastructure AND the message forwarding infrastructure.

The clients are not verifying the keys independent of WhatsApp. If WhatsApp have to (pushed by governments) or want to (FB advertising enrichment) they can always MITM conversations.

The question is whether others can read the data in transit - and the answer is still no.
Personally, I love Systemd for Web development as it makes the job of managing Node.js projects a breeze. I simply pack a Systemd unit file into a project's repository as part of its multi-environment configuration and construct deployment tasks to copy, enable, then start the unit file.

1. Copy <unit.service> to the sever, which looks like:

[Unit]
Description=<name> Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Restart=always
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=node-<name>
User=<user>
Group=<group>
WorkingDirectory=/srv/node/<name>/current/
Environment="NODE_ENV=production"
Environment="PORT=2580"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node server.js

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

2. Enable the unit file in place:

sudo systemctl enable /srv/node/<name>/config/<unit.service>

3. Start the unit file:

sudo systemctl start <unit.service>

And, of course, destroying that deployment is just as easy.
If the title of the article is the conclusion, I really don't see how they arrive there based on the post.

If I read the post and came up with the thesis sentence myself, it would be "WhatsApp is vulnerable to MITM attacks because it tries to automate key changes by default"
The source publication is a better read: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apples-culture-of-secrecy...
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"Swii-motes"?
Another user of the iOS development community has just reported this happened to him aswell.