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> The fact is ~99% of Mac switchers like me previously owned Windows boxes and ran mostly proprietary Windows software

And now it's mostly proprietary macOS software. As you mention, the hard hitters in Apple's lineup are proprietary (Time Machine, Photos, iTunes, etc.) and the average user doesn't care that they can use BSD utilities on the command line. It's not dissimilar to the PS4, Switch etc. not being OSS consoles despite running a BSD kernel. Just because they use some FOSS parts for their OS, a FOSS ecosystem doesn't automatically appear.

I also think there's very little to no real community around Apple's FOSS, at least for their homegrown projects, not counting e.g. CUPS or KHTML/WebKit where they got the community for free when they took over or adopted the project. Note that even that didn't go without problems (e.g. with the KDE project) and Apple first had to learn how to behave as a good FOSS citizen.

Other community bits weren't as successful. OpenDarwin for example has shut down and PureDarwin needs a release still. Swift might be an exception and maybe we'll see more of that. I may also be very wrong here, I don't follow their projects too closely.

To even develop on macOS "officially", you need Xcode, thus an Apple ID, thus there is forced registration. You're transmitting your personal details to a US company and you agree to their terms and conditions, which can already be a problem. Are Iranian developers excluded? Cuban ones? Oh, it depends on the whims of the current US administration, you say? The GPL for example does not tolerate such limitations.

I don't know, but I think the atmosphere on macOS today is more like FOSS is present, but not really encouraged by the platform owner, and that's important. It's not like it was when macOS was still OS X and everyone was all "ooo, look, Ruby comes preinstalled!". Now that they managed to attract some critical mass of developers for macOS to be viable, they don't seem to care that much about FOSS anymore.
How would Google Docs update a graph in a document from an external graphics file?

All my graphs and tables are generated in some programming environment, and updated frequently. In Word, I would have to right-click every single graph, select new source file, adapt graph size... Could Google Docs do this?
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Hybrid graphics likely depends on a proprietary driver to work so that's probably where the problem lies. As for the RAM, you might just need to expand your swap partition so its the same size in order for hibernation to work.

And really, this has nothing to do with free software; there are even more horror stories like this about Windows and macOS and those are both proprietary systems.
I found a report someone else had already made. And apparently it has been fixed with this release! Thanks!
Does eye lens focus UV an IR? Or is the amount that goes through the hole of the size of iris enough to do the damage unfocused?
it may be harsh but I feel it's accurate. the same lone hero sentiments that causes the "not invented here syndrome" led this guy to toil hundreds of hours when he could have stashed that ego and contributed to the island's efforts of renewable energy.
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Well, the third pentester was a shadow, which is a wildcard in terms of value and probably wasn't an influence during the initial sales negotiations.

Ballpark $40,000; maybe more because there were three consultants, not two.

In this case it was a cryptographic review, so it's probably closer to $80k. I forgot to take that into account in my other comment. $40k would be a pretty standard price point for a regular pentest. NCC also incurs additional risk to their reputation when organizations publish documents like this, so another $20k might've been necessary to get them to this point. I'm not positive it works that way, but I know that publishing a document like this is generally more significant than the usual "here's a secret document" deliverable. There have only been 17 public reports in total, for example: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/?research=Public+... So it's a bigger deal on both sides of the table.

I think your $100k figure is pretty on-point. Or at least not unrealistic to be closing in on that.
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Or I can buy a machine which is not only supported, but actually works, with basic features and quality testing baked in. But that's not the point.

The point is that free software devs asking for a thank-you is like a dog owner asking for a thank-you when you don't step in their dog poop on the sidewalk. They weren't walking the dog for my benefit, and I'm not going to thank them for getting to walk around their crap.
Also, he implies that LaTeX documents are always typeset in Computer Modern and the plain article template (which is ugly!). XeTeX can use all the same TTF/OTF fonts Word uses.

Oh, and let's not forget that Word's math renderer is gross.
> How did the error pass QA? It would seem like something d be spotted

Tight schedule, limited budget. This wasn't a huge-production project like today's AAA titles.

Obviously they noticed it was framedropping, maybe they figured they couldn't do anything about that in the time they had, and missed that they were actually dropping one frame too many.
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There was a 1998 "Haskell Report" which formally defined Haskell-the-language. This version of Haskell is called Haskell 98 (sort of like C++98). There is also an updated version released in 2010, which defines an expanded language called Haskell 2010.

https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/

https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/

The purpose of these documents is to specify what an implementation of Haskell 98 or 2010, respectively, should support. Just like the analogous standards published for the C and C++ languages, the Haskell reports make no reference to any specific implementation.

The most popular implementation of Haskell is the GHC compiler. (In fact, in reality it's the only compiler anyone uses, with very few exceptions. For better or worse, Haskell is a one-implementation language at present.) GHC accepts a greatly expanded language compared to what the reports specify, including a large number of language extensions that can be turned on with flags. (sort of like how Clang or modern GCC accept C++11/14). There are minor changes from one version to another, so the language accepted by GHC today is often called GHC Haskell for disambiguation.

What GP is pointing out is that almost everyone using Haskell today writes in the language that GHC accepts today instead of sticking to some official standard.

If you want to learn Haskell, you don't need to worry about this at all. All reference materials and books teach modern GHC Haskell, which is also what is used by practically all Haskell users. As noted before, very few people use non-GHC compilers (usually it's just the people implementing or testing them) and you're very unlikely to encounter these implementations.
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OTOH domain registration is a walled garden - I can't go to ICANN and get myself a domain. Part of the deal of these service providers is they should not be imposing their ideology on string/number mappings. Where does it end?
Buying any PPE from Amazon is probably a bad idea. Counterfeit or not, the barrier to entry is just too low.

eg, there are specialized climbing harnesses on Amazon which confuse the CE EN standard and the concept of notified bodies. (Which certify conformity.) Leads to hilarity like a climbing harness claiming conformity with the standards for intubation tubes.

Or, climbing equipment which is mislabeled as to its country of origin, with basic specs like dimensions being inaccurate.

The sellers just don't care, and Amazon doesn't care enough to stop them. It's barely one step above ebay for a lot of items.
The problem lies in commercial companies not making free software. But since they don't, what you're left with is non-commercial free software, which in practice is worse than the alternative. Free software is broken, and you can fix it. Commercial software works, but you can't fix it.
You seem to be backing up what I was saying. The VC's LPs want huge returns. The VCs also want huge returns. The Twitter board chose the path it did to create those returns.
Though whether that's an active bump depends on whether the price hikes beat out inflation over the long term.
The class was also full of not so bright people

Welcome to the wonderful world of manufacturing. Remember, half the population has an IQ under 100. Manufacturing employs these people.
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> Or I can buy a machine which is not only supported, but actually works

lol
Actually, I meant to link to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eYb53GvnSdQ which in a similar presentation covers a few more of the diagrams in a faster pace.
So, the question is, do you trust me? :)

No way. And don't think for a second we buy that "We're so Googley and honest because we use fun colors in our logo" persona either.
if you want a more general way to create anonymous functions in Perl 6, it's not that many more keystrokes away:

sub ($a, $b) { $a + $b, [1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6] }

Or even

sub { $^a + $^b, [1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6] }

So yes, the whatever-star isn't the most powerful thing imaginable, but it's good enough for very simple cases, and more powerful mechanism are available too.
>This kind of "glitch" was formative for a lot of slow motion in films.

I like that, that's a fantastic idea. Are you referring to something in particular?

I remember this effect from childhood gaming, back when you could not really distinguish bug from feature. And I'm sure developers let that distinction slide as well. The slowdown is such a natural fit in an adrenaline filled state.
Are they actually liable? If so, we should have seen class acts by now no?
I'd recommend Jekyll for that. It's stable and established for such web sites. I used it for a product Web site years ago and it worked fine. If I remember correctly, there's even a tutorial in their official docs.
Careful because most game companies are willing to throw accessibility in the trash in their fight against cheating/botting. Use of any such tool may earn a ban!

Of course there are plenty of single player and/or offline games where cheating doesn't affect the community so much, and there isn't any banning going on.

If there are any companies and/or online multi-player games that specifically encourage those with accessibility issues to participate with the help of assistive technologies, I would be happy to hear about them. I'm a fan of quadriplegic Twitch streamer NoHandsKen, who unfortunately hasn't been streaming lately but I'm sure is enjoying the latest Path of Exile update, along with most of the Blizzard games. He has trouble with things that require a key press, like jumping in World of Warcraft. According to Ken, Blizzard has specifically rejected requests to make this specific action accessible.

PS. If you've got Amazon Prime and haven't given this month's associated "free" Twitch subscription to anyone, I recommend NoHandsKen!
I second that! Book or blog posts would be great :)
A slippery slope.
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Curious if this commingling applies to third party seller (Amazon seller accounts) only or if it also includes items marked as "ships and sold by Amazon" at time of purchase.

I could see Amazon having enough volume of the items they sell directly that they have less need to do this commingling, and of course they have some incentive to preserve their own image.
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> Zuck was about to be fired as well. The board realized they could not fire him

Your statement contradicts itself. He was not about to be fired, his legal standing guaranteed that could not occur. The investors and board fully understood the context the entire time, they invested knowing that it was Zuckerberg's kingdom. Besides, he was the board legally.
Ask HN: How does a tech founder recruit an end-to-end designer?
I'm the founder of Noctacam (noctacam.com) and we have one engineer (two soon), other than me. I'm looking to hire a designer part-time, a day a week. This person will be:

+ Designing the UX (the overall flow)

+ Designing the UI (what each screen looks like, do you have a button or a checkbox)

+ Visual design (theming the app, designing an app icon, making a marketing video)

In addition to UX design, he'll be doing product design:

+ Understanding user needs

+ Making sure we're spending time aligned with that, rather than a lot of time on low-value features

+ We're not doing things that are done (better or as well) by existing apps

I'm already doing all the above, but his job will be to fill my blind spots, look at things with a different approach, etc.

How do I evaluate a person's skill when I meet them? What qualifications should I look for?
Here's a link to the item:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N9T9CZL

The seller that sold me the glasses is no longer listed. The only remaining seller is the actual manufacturer.
That's a bit dramatic, but censoring any speech can be a slippery slope. I believe that the courts may eventually test if the 1st Amendment can apply to large publicly traded companies like Facebook, but that too can become a slippery slope... I guess we'll just have to see what happens.
>How did the error pass QA? It would seem like something d be spotted...

I don't think the devs were happy with the final product either. They released Metal Slug X soon after which is just a tweaked version of MS2 with much less slowdown, more enemies, more weapons and some small changes to the art and music.

It's also a bit more difficult while being more "fair" overall IMO.
This is correct. Visual inspection can't verify glasses, but it can identify clearly fake ones. Being able to see a house light through these glasses is a bad sign IMO.
And their physical product starts at $195 as a point of reference, however apples-to-oranges the comparison may be.
Sure you can. https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/
It amuses me that the author seems to think offering a flash/mod service for people who don't want to or can't modify their carts is abhorrent and yet still knowingly acquires, owns, and modifies an illegally distributed and/or resold cartridge.
This has been a problem for millennia, not just a problem for today. There are so many examples in the last 150 years of knowledge lost because of a change in how we do things. AI's won't be the trouble here. It will be people who no longer care about skills that were once taught.

As far as driving is concerned, there are many today who do not or cannot drive due to where they live. Self-driving vehicles will just mean a different form of transport is now available for use.

AI's will never be able to answer all questions we need or want. Less so than today. Even with the current computer systems we have, there are so many questions that cannot be answered, we don't know the answers and in many cases we don't even know the questions.

It takes a great deal of skill to manufacture anything and though we have machines that can do the duplication, there are many instances where humans have to check that the machines (the robotic systems) have done the correct job. It takes a human judgement to see if everything in acceptable limits. No machine system, as yet, has been given free reign to do an entire process from start to finish without human intervention, as there is far too much that can go wrong.

We have such a lack of appreciation of our past that we happily go into the future based on the current or next fad that comes along.

As a programmer getting up to the four decades, I see so many things coming along that are touted as the Next Big Thing that are duplicates of previously rejected ideas that failed the test from years and decades ago. We don't learn from the past so we make the same mistakes.

We already form guilds and have done so for millennia, not so that we protect the information we have accumulated but to censor and hide that information from those who are not guild members.

Being open and sharing our knowledge will do more to preserve it than forming guilds. Actually documenting what we do is extremely important but we tend to get throw out old manuals and documents and source and drawings/blueprints, etc. History is just repeating itself. As humans, we do not value what we can learn form days pasts and often we consider ourself to be more technologically, socially and morally more advanced than those who have lived before us.
They've created the courses? Seems to me like it's the professors teaching them that created them. What value is Coursera adding?
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One passage made me a bit mad:

"[...], but for now it is enough to observe that people who don’t know how to use a particular tool very well are being told to throw that tool away and learn to use an entirely new one on the grounds that it will enable them to do things that they could have done at least as well with the old one – which is (when you think about it) a little peculiar if the aim is really to help people with their writing, and not (heaven forbid!) simply to evangelise for a community’s preferred way of doing things."

I'm sorry, but this is a bad argument and the worst life advice in the article.
It's the same students in school tell all the time, when they question why they should learn math, though they are set to become an artist or editor or anything that seemingly does not involve math. You particularly go to college or university to learn NEW things. Even if they are things you probably won't need in the future and are seemingly obsolete.

While he does have a point that (La)TeX Users fetishize their tool of use, most of his arguments can be used on Word or any WISIWYG tool, too. The example he gives in point 4 is so arbitrarily chosen and his minimal example he thinks is better is just as ambigious and confusing as the LaTeX one. Most comments already mention what the author's real problem: Preference of tool.
The real downside to LaTeX/TeX is when there's a hard page limit and you have to keep hacking your document and recompiling it.

Also, writing in LaTeX you're more likely to make grammar, usage and spelling errors since those tools are not coupled as well if at all to your editor---no green and red squiggles telling you that you need basic English remediation. Yeah yeah, there are things that are close, like flyspell mode, but they're generally inferior in terms of the precision/accuracy of the types of suggestions they give you.

All that said, 'markup iz hard' is not a compelling reason not to use it.
It's a huge generational gift, and people should now be concerned about how to sustain the free software movement. There is clearly an ongoing shift from a generation of 'starry eyed' ideologues to hired open source developers.

Some may argue that's moving forward but it's diminished in many ways by losing its core essence and 'motivation' to exist.

Companies can contribute by open source by supporting developers and projects without seeking influence by hiring or acquiring them. But then many don't even bother doing that.

We need to find a way to develop a ecosystem that has sustenance from businesses and especially individuals and yet leaves the developers and projects 'independent'. Leaving it to sort itself out has already led to a sort of centralization and will eventually lead to loss of control and accountability.
For 2 people, maybe; but even then you're doing the equivalent of emailing your entire repo (in a doc) back and forth. Which is how you end up with

report.latest.2017_0713.new.with_additions.current.adamssversion.ready.lastchange.docx

being emailed...

And if you have 3 people collaborating, sooner or later someone makes edits to something besides HEAD and then there's a giant mess to sort out.
Like sibling I'm keeping up to date via the Danish National Radios (think BBC) news site.

Here's the latest development: Sub was sailing around without lights on in heavily trafficked water, causing a near collision [1]

[1] http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/fragtskib-kolliderede-naest...
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> That only works if the spoofer is very close by.
One microsecond is 1000 feet. (Recall the "Grace Hopper nanosecond" as a start.) So, if the spoofing signal rebroadcast originates 5 miles away, that's 26 microseconds of delay right there.

I made a mistake in ambiguously referring to two things: processing delay at the spoofer, and speed-of-light based time difference between spoof signal and direct broadcast at the receiver.

However, I'm not aware of any crystal based clocks that are suitable for high dynamic range G environments that would be easy to use as an independent reference for any reasonable amount of time. They all suffer in shock/vibration conditions, and need external conditioning to maintain longer term stability. Maybe the military has 'em, but I guarantee they cost a lot more than a GPS rec.eiver
GoDaddy is canceling their hosting, not their domain registration.

Edit: the above is what the first article I read said, but other articles say the reverse, and that GoDaddy doesn't host the site at all.
> It seems quite weird to see praise being heaped upon GoDaddy. People sure do have short memories nowadays.

What, they did other things in the past, so this thing they did is also wrong? Weird logic.

(Former GoDaddy employee)
I'll be in Oregon for the eclipse! I'm pretty excited. I haven't done much preparation yet, but I was imagining that it would be quite helpful to have the glasses for the minutes leading up to totality.
That's a better analogy, thanks.
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Awesome, thanks for the tip. I'll try Lowe's tomorrow.
I've never heard of Daily Stormer before now. I have no idea who they are, what their beliefs are (although I can fathom a guess), or anything else about them. As someone who supports "online rights", however, I certainly believe that this web site should have equal access to publish content online. To believe otherwise -- regardless of the content -- is censorship and I am 100% against that. It is a very slippery slope.

For anyone looking for a host, you might consider NearlyFreeSpeech.NET [0]. Their Terms and Conditions of Service ("TACOS") [1] are pretty basic and straightforward.

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[1]: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/terms
>ads themselves could be the “copyrighted content” in question

Ok. We do not want to copy your add. We just want to get rid of those by putting them in a filter. How on earth this can come under DMCA?
I am not backing up what you are saying. VCs want huge returns in a compressed timeline.

This comes at the cost of what is good for the company. Using Facebook as an example, you would sell Facebook when Viacom wanted to buy it for 75MM. Great huge return for investors for such a young company. Can turn around and show your fund had a huge exit. Especially great for a seed fund but terrible for the founder and the employees. Luckily, Zuckerberg had control and could thwart investors desire for a quick sale. [1]

I am totally not against VCs making a return but what I am against is VCs forcing premature exits. We may never know what Twitter could have been if the ecosystem stayed in-tact and they figured out how to monetize the whole thing and kept the user growth trajectory in place.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-companies-that-ever-t...
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Happy coding!
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Why wait 24 hours?