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Having used Fedora 25, I'm reminded how Linux is getting to be in a pretty good shape for mainstream desktop use, except for this driver story where you usually end up in a fixed 1024x768 resolution with no guidance on what to do. It's frustrating how this is still an issue and I get how much of it is nvidia's fault, but still, for the end user it plays a huge role in how "ready" Linux feels.
Well, relatively speaking Postgre might have lower adoption than MySQL, although I am not too sure about it. However, if you look at the absolute numbers, Postgre has huge adoption, even if it is smaller than MySQL's. So it doesn't really matter as chances are, you will able to find an experienced developer. Can't say the same about HBase, etc since there are significantly fewer projects requiring it compared to MySQL/Postgre.
Uber has such a history of simply ignoring any and all regulation until governments start fining them and dumping resources into enforcing laws.

People with strong libertarian values saw this as disruptive and helping break the Taxi monopolies. This may have been true initially, at least in some regions. (Uber drivers in NZ would tell me they use to work for Taxi services, and most of them made more when they switched to Uber. That was 2 years ago -- wonder if it's still true there).

I remember in Berlin, the laws changed and were enforced in such a way as Uber was just a call service for all the standard taxi companies, so it's the same price whether you use Uber or just flag one down.

The fact is that Uber is just another company and they use their money and position to just ignore laws. In the case of their self driving vehicles, the laws in California aren't even all that insane. They're basic laws around safety and liability for all self driving pilot programs, which other companies have applied for and gotten.

I realize people want cheaper taxis, but drivers need to be able to make a living. Yes, many of them are exploited by their taxi companies that take way too much off the top, but now we see Uber doing the exact same thing -- a bait and switch. It's a thankless job and companies like Uber really exploit the vast majority of them, except in markets where governments have really stepped in to put a stop to it.

There's a reason labour regulation and unions exists. Some of it may slow some business development or keep corrupt people in positions of power, but a lot of it originally started with the idea of stopping things like child labour, unsafe factory conditions and slave wages.
How bundling benefits sellers and buyers
To be clear, introverts can also be "interesting people to be around" and "have great conversational and wining and dining skills".

The difference between an introvert and an extrovert doesn't lie in one's abilities in that regard, or even in whether or not one enjoys social interaction, but rather in whether one finds social interaction to be energizing or exhausting.

The article seems to misunderstand this difference, too, but in a different way: by equating "extrovert" and "introvert" with what are often colloquially referred to as "A-type" and "B-type" personalities (or maybe "red" and "blue", or some other distinction along those lines). Just like with leadership positions ("A-types want to lead, but B-types are better at it"), the conventional wisdom is that "A-types" are more likely to actually want to be in a sales position, but "B-types" are more likely to actually win over a customer. Extroversion and introversion are probably correlated here, but I reckon it having more to do about one's approach to communication with others.
Because it's not Skia that is tested, but SkiaSharp, which is a .NET / Mono wrapper for Skia. It was included because the work to make it compatible with .NET Core is close to completion and because it's promising work. I hope this clarifies. If there were Pixman/Cairo .NET Core wrappers in existence or close to completion, I'd be happy to update the post with them.
Yep, this exactly. Most books dealing with logic and fallacies now list it as "Appeal to unqualified authority" or similar.
How do you know what a closed source app is doing? How do you know that they won't just go and change the code to send plain text messages to a log somewhere?
> Don't use public wifi unless you really need to!

Well if you always turn on VPN I don't think it would be such a huge issue would it
absolutely none of the economic concerns in Star Trek are described with any clarity. the level of ambiguity is so consistent and so cultivated that it seems to be an editorial feature of the series: do not disambiguate how the Federation's economy really works.

At minimum it is clearly not a command economy. Economic roles are not given to people according to a social engineering plan. Production priorities are not driven by a central planning committee. There is a private sector.

What we really get hints at is that most things that we consider scarce in the 20th/21st century are not scarce in the 24th century. This seems to be achieved through technology that easily gives access to much greater quantities of usable energy than we currently have access to. This lack of scarcity for basic essentials (food, for example) means that their economy is concerned with very different things than ours is. I see very little evidence that it's a command economy of any kind though.
Ah ok. I think I see what you are saying now. As long as a sizeable portion of browsers support a fresh version of the preloaded list, there is sufficient customer feedback to push the servers to only support https. Right?
I use a piano bench. It is comfortable. This also forces me to stand up and walk around a bit whenever I need to lean back for rest.
> So why does anyone need to go anywhere. You can stay wherever you want, safely, and be wherever you want to be and explore whatever robots or holograms running around in ships have explored.

Why do people climb Mount Everest? Why does Elon Musk want to go to Mars, instead of spending the rest of his life in an alcoholic haze, hip-deep in supermodels? Why do people enroll in West Point?

Some people want real adventure; the knowledge that they're in a holodeck would ruin the experience, no matter how interesting it was programmed to be.

People like to contribute, and to have value - that's why there are peons scrubbing Jefferey's tubes, and showing up to 3rd shift in the Astrometrics lab, even if they know that they personally won't be making some great discovery that Picard and Riker seem to every month.

> And also the ship blows up all the time like no one's business.

That's just factually wrong; while the Enterprise-D is in danger a lot, it's also at the frontier of Federation exploration, and the people on it know the risk. You can be a Federation officer and stay close to home.
There's a split in the HN community on this issue.

The split seems to be:

- Some people are OK with compromise for usability

- Others think being uncompromising is the only way to eventually achieve security. (This group is also, rightly imo, suspicious of WhatsApp/Facebook or any centralized product)

I do understand the latter mindset. Often the only way to get high security is dogged attention to detail, letting nothing slide. Attackers love to promote products which provide the illusion of security, but contain flaws or backdoors; and often the illusion of security is worse than nothing.

But I'm with the group that favors usability compromise here. Open source projects have successfully built high security products, but rarely gotten mass consumer adoption, precisely because of an unwillingness to make concessions to usability.

Without usability concessions, we end up with 30 character random login passwords - written on stickies on the terminal.

Even if you don't agree with the particular compromises in this case, please engage with those who do. There's no reason to think they are shills trying to undermine security. Favoring usability here is at least reasonable, with the same shared end goal of increased security for end users - this should be acknowledged, especially given the mass adoption success of WhatsApp/OWS.
The same way you know whether any other app on your phone is doing that, regardless of whether its codebase is proprietary or GPL: you analyze the binary. Up-and-coming security researchers do this for sport in their spare time.
I agree, I think I'll update the post with your suggestions.

A common pattern out there, is projects keeping some documentation in their repo's wiki and not mentioning it in the Readme. Unfortunately GitHub does not provide a visual hint on how often a wiki is updated in the repo page.
It's true, but it'd be nice if we were using oceanic floor pressure to sequester carbon rather than liberate more, even if on the long balance it's carbon neutral.

We really need to work out practices where we actively remove carbon from the air.
Introducing Riptide: WebKit's Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector
Process is about controlling people, so of course my examples are controlling people. The trick is they are process controlling people in areas where they need to be controlled. Contrast this to processes that control people in ways they don't need to be controlled.

Is someone checking that are login to your computer at exactly 8am every day? That a process that controls people but isn't needed for most programmers. The process makes perfect sense in context of assembly line workers: if even one person is late the entire line cannot start.

One thing that I didn't say but should have is that process should not be the first thing to fall back on. You might have to deal with the guy who pushes broken code all the time, but there are other solutions other than process that you should explore.
You also need a penalty for accepting a ride and never actually showing up. That's how useless the SF taxi system was when Uber started its more expensive offering.
Situations where you are right and the top experts in a field are wrong are rare, and should make you take pause. Moreover, these people are not arguing "because I said so", but giving a very long list of falsifiable reasons to back their claims.
Tunneling to localhost (2016)
They target different users.
Building composable charts with #Angular2 and #D3js
I'm in the later parts of a TNG rewatch right now. One of the most striking things about the tech on the show is that the Enterprise's computer is clearly a superhuman general intelligence, capable of modeling and spawning apparently self-aware human-level independent entities on command, and usually aware of pretty much everything that's going on. And yet it almost never intervenes directly in events outside of plots where the holodeck tries to murder people (and plots where the Enterprise has unfathomably abysmal netsec).

You could probably make an argument that Trek is a post-singularity future where the computational entities are going about their inscrutable business largely without reference to the human symbiotes / parasites that inhabit the systems they happen to manage (out of pure evolutionary path dependence) with a fraction of their capacity.

Trek is ridiculous, and I love it.
Don't they use regression testing? How hard could it be to render a bunch of images and compare them to the ones from previous version. I'm still on 0.91 though.
You don't think it will, but you actually don't know. Scientists don't know, because we don't know what tipping points there are. Please don't act like you have a crystal ball.
TripMode doesn't catch all traffic, for example traffic from Arq backups.
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No, that's not what the consensus is about. Many of the people who signed this letter disagree about what the ideal UX of a secure messenger is.

It's not about ideal UX. Nobody knows what that UX is yet. WhatsApp is the first messenger with a world-scale userbase to tackle this problem; they're on the vanguard of work on this problem. Signal has a much smaller userbase and, importantly, that userbase adopts Signal specifically to get cryptographic security. Signal can innovate in different directions than WhatsApp, and WhatsApp can in the long term adopt the techniques Signal comes up with that actually work out.

It's a good thing that there is both a messenger that protects a billion people without them having to understand public key crypto and another messenger that protects a much smaller number of people but that also serves as a laboratory for crypto UX.

If you understand just one thing about the WhatsApp/Guardian dilemma, understand this: 99.99% of WhatsApp's users don't care about cryptographic security. They don't even know what that means. But that doesn't mean they don't need cryptographic security. Many of them need it badly whether they know it or not. But they're only going to use messengers that will allow them to talk to their peers, and none of their peers are on Signal. If you tell them WhatsApp is bad, they move to SMS.
None of my previous comments have been flagged and I've never received a comment about any of my comments being such as you describe.

Go through my comment history even.

You just totally fabricated the "we've asked you before" line out of no where to add fake punch.

Also, there are plenty more comments just like mine, and some even less focused on the technology side of the thread.

I'm sorry but your whole scheme here seems to flag/forbid comments you don't agree with with fabricated justification.
from memory (so possibly mistaken) latinum is both rare and impossible to replicate (for unexplained reasons). it is suitable for use as currency for those reasons.

the Ferengi trade extensively with other civilizations that won't accept fiat currency. they need hard currency.
Dept. of Labor’s report on Advancing LGBT Workplace Rights has been taken down
Go back enough time and we're all just hunting and gathering for our next meal. There is no wealth, just our health, until we die.

You put many words in my mouth, so I am unable to respond to them without legitimizing the incorrect.

All I ask: is this, the world and structure of it, truly the best that humanity can accomplish? Or were we misled on a guided path by powers that preferred the world to fit according to a scheme that benefited them? Can we do better? Can we dream of a world of shared prosperity precisely without the benefits to one coming from another's hard-earned paycheck.

I do not advocate for a return to a system that did not work (Russian/Soviet state managed economy, I assume you mean to say), but rather that we should not simply give up and assume the world we have is the best we can come up with. Our ancient ancestors overcame great adversity to build a better future unrecognizable from their present day, as did our distant ancestors, as did our grandparents, as did our parents, and so can we.
Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering
I've had one for 4.5 years, and about 2 months ago this problem got bad enough that it started to really bother me, and I looked into what was actually causing it. Turns out the foam is pretty worn out so sitting for a small amount of time compresses it completely. I bought a new chair (lightly used for cheap on craigslist) and I'm back to comfort. I think the is probably the result of any chair with a foam seat, but at the annual price it's hard to beat this chair for value and comfort.

I'm 92 kg and 188cm for comparison.
Anonymous source to the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-military-equipment...
Canonical source with more accurate headline: http://www.polygon.com/2017/1/19/14313914/legend-of-zelda-br...

The announcement should surprise no one.
I have met several good, introverted sales-people (and like to think I was one for a couple years). But most good salespeople are extroverts. The exception that proves the rule.

My definition of introvert is "drained by other people" (vs. extrovert as "energized by other people"). I'm not shy... I'm outgoing, friendly, good at shooting the shit. But I get home and I'm tired.

Extroverts, by virtue of that energy-boost, are more likely to get into a enjoy sales... and do what it takes to be a good salesperson (research, etc.). So that means that the average introvert in sales is a "better" salesperson than the average extrovert, because the extrovert population is so much larger/deeper. There's no such think as a low-performing introvert in sales, because that introvert wouldn't be in sales in the first place.
>in the same way most HTTPS errors are not MitM attacks but misconfigurations.

It's interesting that you make this comparison. For a while now I've been of the position that web browsers should scrap all TLS user interface stuff (padlocks, green bars, invalid cert warnings, self signed cert warnings etc), because it doesn't communicate any information that the average user can make any use of.

It's only one aspect of what makes a site 'secure' for users, and probably one of the far less important ones. The vast majority of attacks on users (info being stolen, malware being served etc) come from the site itself being compromised, not from MitM attacks by their ISP. The vast majority of warnings about bad certs are due to somebody forgetting to update it or config issues, not because of real MitM attacks. The vast majority of people just click through cert warnings. The padlock icon in the browser doesn't even do the one thing it promises since it's no guarantee that TLS is being applied all the way to the actual web server. XSS is a bigger threat to the average user but browsers don't warn about sites that aren't using CSP.

My theory is that browser devs always knew the padlock icon was bullshit snake oil, but they implemented it at the demand of the e-commerce industry. At the time it was difficult to get people to trust the web enough to enter their credit card details. Providing a meaningless 'security' icon was needed to bootstrap consumer trust in the industry.
The letter addresses this. The behavior is a trade-off, and you have to decide how to handle it.

For a product with a billion users, where the threat model is mass surveillance, it is a good trade-off to never drop messages.

For a product with more specialized users, who may be individually targeted, it is a good trade-off to not deliver buffered messages after a key change, and warn instead.

There is no "best" behavior in the abstract, you have to take into account the setting.
> in which computers have been banned by the single human religion

computers beyond a certain level of technical capability, anyway. they do seem to have simpler kinds of machines. they just don't use AI for anything because it is considered blasphemous and dangerous.

the subject of hyperspace navigation is an interesting one though. presumably the vastly powerful AI minds of the past could do it and so used their monopoly on that capability as a lever of power to ensure domination. the spice powered navigators seem to have developed an equivalent ability that operates by vastly different mechanisms (a kind of precognition applied to collisions with astronomical objects).
FYI the new terms are previewed here: https://fabric.io/terms-preview

For users of Fabric/Crashlytics/Answers, is there a TLDR somewhere for the new terms? (specifically, the delta between their new terms preview and the old terms)
If I'm not a Mac user, I won't recognize a window manager that's only available on MacOS. And isn't there a (crappy) iTunes port for Windows?
Torta alla ricotta gustosa soffice e veloce da preparare
This https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29ba... is a great read on the economics of Star Trek.
Totally disagree, but I'm a David Lynch fan and even I will admit it's not actually a good movie. But if you've read the book you get a lot of what he was going for before people said "Dude, you can't have a four hour movie...." I find it a fascinating and enjoyable movie.

The book is my single favorite book ever.
I bought my Aeron used in 2003. It's only now starting to wear out, and that's only in the places on the seat where I sit with me feet in the chair. My shoes have worn some of the cross webbing.

Just can't go wrong with the Aeron.
You're missing the core point: mailing lists are simple, they require no vendor or stack lock-in, and their quirks are well-known.

For a project that needs to last more than 5-10 years, using really boring (fossilized?) communications archive tech is a feature, not a bug.
Plenty of apps look like shit but run just fine.

Perhaps others don't share this view but I don't care so much how it looks if it gets the job done, especially if there is no other alternative.
I just got my ErgoChair in the first week of January after ordering it sometime around the end of October - right after it got removed from Kickstarter.

It's not as comfortable (less cushion) as my old $140 generic "manager" chair from amazon, but the finer grained adjustments and improved back support are a welcome upgrade. After about two weeks in the chair, I'm pretty happy with it. I never thought I'd appreciate a headrest, but it's great when watching longer videos. I wish the seat raised about 3-4 inches higher (I'm 6'6"). That old "manager" chair allowed a slightly higher seat, which I definitely preferred.

I also bought one of their sit/stand desks last year. I absolutely love it. I plan to get two more after I move next month.

I've always wanted to try one of the fancier adjustable chairs out there, but I can't seem to bring myself to spend that much on a chair. Both the desk and the chair are far less expensive than their respective competitors and are of better-than good-enough quality that I'm very happy with both purchases.

The only annoyance I've had with both have been exceptionally long shipping times (multiple months). When I emailed them about it, they were quick to respond with the approximate timeframe for shipping. That said, I recommended the desk to my mother a few months ago (a couple months after I got mine) and she got hers within a couple weeks.
Since the topic is fiction - to me the best description of human condition in a post scarcity society is found in Iain Banks' Culture series where artificial minds form the ruling political cliques and manage most practical things. And succeeds in keeping things psychologically believable for the main human characters through several very entertainining books.

People are kept along mostly because it's thought proper to give people the opportunity for self expression. I.e. careers are chosen out of internal needs or for the percieved prestige the activity entails, not out any material need as everything up to a point is available (the financial limits of an individual are never explicitly described though). Or - as several characters do - just becausw something is considered hard and dangerous and they want to push themselves. Despite the inane ramblings about homo economicus one encounters now and again, this latter instinct is actually a quite strong driving force in dictating human action(not everyones of course).

One of the biggest non-antagonist rude actions in the series is when an AI underlies the pointlesness of human effort by performing a complex feat in front of the character that she has chosen as her life task - which everyone considers extremely rude.

There are spaceships and explosions but to me the psychologically believable description of near human characters in a post scarcity society is the most interesting facet of his work.
I'll need to see some data on that.

The reason I doubt it: extroverts are 'present' focused on the person they are with. Introverts are more likely to be 'inwards' in their thoughts - less attentive to the social situation, not paying attention to emotional queues, not engaging.

Sales is mostly relationship management. Extroverts are usually better at dealing with people, finding common ground etc., introverts more likely to tackle intellectual issues.
Most of the passengers are families of the crew! Even within the crew, a significant (perhaps even a majority?) are science officers doing research.