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I'm in the UK and I haven't experienced those sorts of issues. Maybe I've just been lucky with what I've signed up for, but I think it would be unfortunate to paint a really good product (IMHO) as bad unnecessarily.

The only issue I have is that, in the UK, you can't preload Amazon movies via the web for watching later, but that's an Amazon thing AIUI not Roku.
AFAIR, when the iPhone hit the markets, they were coupled with pricy contracts, totalling easily north of 2k EUR in fixed costs.
Indeed, but those that spent 2-3 years gaining the knowledge[0] and then paying for their cab, and licence are then being usurped by a Uber driver with a GPS and a cheap car.
Even with the 'star' system the service levels will drop.
[0]https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...
We have an SSN equivalent in the UK called NIN (national insurance number).

I've never been asked for it as an authenticator though.
As far as I understand the android fork on those phones is awful.

According to this review: https://www.androidcentral.com/vertu-constellation it's pretty close to stock android these days with a slightly customized launcher and a few minor tweaks like "Where a typical phone might offer only a few options for title — Mister, Miss, Doctor — Vertu Accounts offer a laundry list of titles, ranging from King and Queen to Sheikh and Lord and His Excellency"

Also the hardware is always a generation behind.

Hey they're improving. They used to be at least three generations behind.
> as they can plug in one of the existing engines

As someone who attempted this for Lynx back in the [~late 90s~] early 00s with the Mozilla JS engine of the time, no, they can't.

Lynx has no DOM. It parses and renders the HTML to a fixed textual pane without any intermediate format - even `document.write()` is nigh-on impossible to implement because it required keeping a copy of the HTML around, jiggering it with the output, reparsing, and going through the layout again. And that only covers the most trivial uses of `document.write()`.

To add Javascript to Lynx would require rewriting the entire internals of Lynx - not going to happen.

[Edited to correct the time period]
"What a awful awful thing it is to leave them in the stone ages, and all the horrific things that happen in tribes, just for our entertainment."

Contact usually hasn't been good for the health of many of these people.
> the browser became better and made the additional tech obsolete.

And almost every time, a separate browser codebase died and a vendor switched to WebKit. Because with all this cruft, maintaining a browser codebase has become a nightmare only few can afford.
Roku's are great, my elderly mum loves hers as it just works.

Best birthday present I ever gave her (according to her).
Yep, i sold an iPhone 6 plus 16gb for $550 yesterday. I couldn't believe it. It was just the asking price to start the haggle. Try get more than $50 for a 3 year old samsung.
>I remember reading somewhere the human race would be way more advanced had the hellenistic period continued.

I find those claims unconvincing. You can't just look at all the ups and downs in human social and technological development, pick and arbitrary upswing way back in the past, then project a continuous upward slope from that and pretend it was a realistic possibility.

Individual technological achievements that long ago were a fine thing, but as you say yourself a lot of different factors and technologies and situational chances have to come together to reach the industrial age. Maybe a few extra nudges in the right direction here and there in history might have helped things along a bit, but realistically it was still going to take a very long time for all the different pieces to come together.
It makes a lot of sense, it costs a lot of money to hire and fire.

Hire less by automating.
Fire less by retraining staff.
For a bit of perspective. The Chromecast used to be an absolute pain to get working. When they launched, they specifically locked it down to be US only, by forcing it to Google's DNS and do a check against that

Enterprising hackers quickly found that you could simply blackhole Google DNS and it'd use your local one, which would remove the baked in "hardware geoblocking" as it was termed
>Web Assembly will make syntax irrelevant for web scripting and JavaScript entirely optional

That's what many think, but that's not what WASM is for though. It's still a foreign world to the DOM, and not a first class citizen like JS.

It's more about driving canvas games or offloading some expensive computations than actually writing your app in WASM as opposed to JS.
Thinking you are awesome because you know the answer to a question you have prepared for and asked many times, is one of my minor irritant
REST allows you to change the structure of the data as well, for instance using linked-data specs, like schema.org. However, in practice it's very difficult and also REST makes it very difficult to evolve different parts of the API, asyncronously.

Here we propose Introspected REST which gives you much more flexibility and solves such issues through introspectable content provided by various MicroTypes the API uses.
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Asking out of pure desperation! Despite having previously worked in SF for a few years, I know no Facebook employers :(

I am desperately trying to get good friends Facebook account re-enabled which was disabled due to her having an unusual name. 4 weeks of submitting support tickets (including providing ID) and no response whatsoever.

She had her account for over a decade, connecting with friends from around the world, and was using Messenger as per primary text communication platform (less learned).

My email is in my profile if anyone wants to get in touch privately.
Sure if you run manual tests once they might be faster than test implementation, but having an automated test suite protects against regression. Having to do a full manual test for every change is going to consume a lot of time.
Interesting article about OpenCL and Vulkan... https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Follow-Neil-Tre...
You don't really need even that.

You just need a set of magic register values, like how CPUID [0] instruction already works.

[0]: http://www.sandpile.org/x86/cpuid.htm
Windows has a lot of minor issues that really get in the way

Not to mention that since it's more popular every device manufacturer wants to "customize" your experience with some BS app, the amount of bad practices in app development is abundant (remember when Windows 2000/XP came out how long did it take developers to make their products run without being Administrator? And then with Vista?)

MS helps developers, shames them sometimes (IIRC Vista had a "Windows is not shutting down because of this app ) and sometimes "virtualizes" things so developers can still not clean up after themselves, but it gets old.
Meteor is a little that way although it doesn't DOM diff on the server. It kind of diffs the Mongo database on the server and then updates mini Mongos in the clients where appropriate. Js in the clients then update the DOMs.
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Keep the car in the lowest gear and let it roll. It's not that hard.
> If you're willing to go the centralized route, then a minimalist ID card would just be a QR code that anyone can open and compare the official photo to you.

"Just a qrcode" would be a weird and inconvenient format.

Other countries (Estonia, Spain, Belgium) have smartcard IDs. You can add a qrcode to that, but the primary data store can be secured (and accessed and updated) in much the same way a regular smartcard is, you can access it from your home with a regular card reader and the relevant access application. And of course the size is completely standard. And you can add contactless support to it if desirable.

Plus the US already has experience with these types of IDs: DoD has issued 17 million Common Access Cards.
> Instead of a credit reporting agency existing at all, new credit applications could ask for your account numbers at existing creditors and then the new creditor can get your credit history directly from them.

How would this even be remotely viable? Why would you expect people to be honest about their credit histories in cases where they had late payments or some sort of default?
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It's mostly due to custom duty on electronics and gadgets, which can be upwards of 25%
> most security threats these days seem to be external to the device you are using.

It depends. From the top of my head, the smartphone is the most common second factor, so an attacker that's on your smartphone may be able to log onto most services that have 2FA. Or alternatively, they can DoS your own attempts to log into these services by deleting SMS, or just sending the phone into a reboot loop. (Of course, "targeted DoS" is not in everyone's threat model. But still, I have more peace of mind using a dedicated TAN generator device instead of my phone.)
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Banks do need it when applying for some accounts in the UK, in particular ISAs because of the tax implications. I've also had it requested by a share broker. A list of places that use it is here:
https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance/your-national-insuranc... Note the pages says: "To prevent identity fraud, keep your National Insurance number safe. Don’t share it with anyone who doesn’t need it." !
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The original iPhone which I bought 10 years ago is still in daily use (by a person who only needs voice & sms).
If you install a more recent version of Android (such as 4.4) on the Defy (it shipped with Android 2.3 or so), it will be too slow for use (for my taste,anyway).
I tried it with a faster Defy+.

Even with Android 4.4 it will be a very insecure phone. With Android 2.3 it will be laughably insecure. Visit one wrong webpage and your phone is owned. No thanks.
I've never had this problem. Perhaps I am more careful with my phone in general.
Seaside from Smalltalk. To some extent the original ASP. There is also a PHP framework that does that, but I forgot it's name.
Performing as intended.
Or they seed rumors to test the waters of what people will accept. Based on this thread, it looks like $999 is acceptable.
Design suggestion: increase the padding of the GitHub logo. It looks quite crowded.
Not exactly the same but you might want to check out Ur/Web, Eliom and the standard Racket web server lib.
Yes. This Elixir library aims to have a virtual DOM on the server and send minimal diffs to the client: https://github.com/grych/drab

It can already do this for some kinds of diffs, but it doesn't have a full VDOM yet. It basically allows you to build interactive pages without writing any javascript.
> DOM diff-ing on the server and have the thin client only transfer the changes. This would hopefully make the initial payload extremely small and the changes being transferred minimal as well.

To achieve similar results, you could granularly partition the build so that scripts are lazy loaded as needed. This would be like sending diffs, except only once since the client can reuse them.

Having a server manage the DOM state of every client, and maintaining sockets between them, seems like a complex apparatus.
All those things should and hopefully would have been caught when the PR was made, not after the commits made it into master.
My OnePlus One has Android 7.1.2 and August security patch (thanks to Paranoid Android)
For desktop.

Not mobile.

(I had, at one point, some 2,000 or so personally modified wepage CSS files under Stylish for just this sort of crap.)
Yes - they try to address that in the paper, but it's hard.
I'm not really qualified to answer this, but I suspect the instruction decoder(s?) would be decoupled from register state as much as possible (unless x86 is even weirder than I thought).

Given this, I suspect wiring in a path all the way from the relevant versions of the relevant registers might be quite expensive. Plus part of the decode logic now needs to block on a register value - so a timing based attack might find these.

More qualified comments welcome...
Outside the US the latest top of the line iPhones have been over $1k for a while now. I guess Apple figured if other people are willing to pay that much then why wouldn't people in the US?
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They look at people who switch into entrepreneurship, and then consider the whole sample, so I don't think survivorship bias is a big issue.

I agree it would be good to go more fine grained in the categories though.
Also sounds a bit like Thompson's Lamp.

EDIT: Whoops, that's pretty much the same thing as Zeno's paradox.
I find it extremely hard to find qualified people. The problem is that a big part of the population is not qualified enough to work and will not be in the future.

The 3.7% unemployment rate in Germany is considering something doing a part-time job for less than €400 per month as employed and the long term unemployed people are not part of the stats, the youths are also not in, etc. They are very good at removing many from the stats.

If you look at the industrial core of Germany, the Rhein/Ruhr region, you see cities after cities cut in two, one side with 35% of population living from social support and the other side with just 5%. When you "start" your life in the wrong side, you are out of the employment stats right from the start.

Note: I am French, living in Gelsenkirchen (such a typical city) and here, we have really hard time finding good engineers even with very good compensation and at the same time we have parts of the city where Doctors without Borders opened a station because the situation is catastrophic.
Even simpler, a modern state can protect itself (to a certain extent) from other modern states. Being able to protect yourself from the apex predator is a wonderful thing ;)
FYI, the "original" ribbons are at

https://github.com/blog/273-github-ribbons

They use PNG images which are around 8kb. The SVG from this project (which lacks the text) is 1kb.
It's that and Photoshop (understandbly) chewing RAM like an absolute demon - 8GB isn't really enough for Photoshopping large images with multiple layers. I would use my 24GB Windows 10 machine but ... that's even worse due to Windows 10.
https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/2867 - "Tree shaking completely broken?"

It turns out that it basically supported "skip loading of unnecessary ES6 modules", so kind of like a "warn: unused import", but turned into a silence and no-op.

Now with Uglify getting the "pure" annotation, and libraries sprinkling that onto their code, it'll help a bit.
Build vertical.

I'm not saying there are no limits but land shortage is only an issue in city cores.
> The iPhone 7 which released last year is more powerful than the Galaxy S8.

And yet, the Galaxy S8, Xperia XZ Premium, etc, can play Gamecube games at full speed via Dolphin. No iPhone can do this.
That's al well and good. Quite right. But that's a legal principle to be applied in a court of law, and also a principle applied and honoured int eh Brazilian courts. Nobody has been found guilty of anything yet. Everyone involved in this incident, if it even happened, is still a free person with protections under the law.

However there is prima fascia evidence a crime may have been committed and that is being reported and investigated.

What exactly, specifically about any of that is being objected to? I really can't tell. All I can see in criticism of the article is demagogic posturing.
Took a little reading to find that the substance harder than diamonds is... nanocrystalline diamond balls.

So a clearer way to put it might be - new form of diamond found that is harder than regular diamonds.

Quite a lot harder:

>Whereas a diamond crystal will begin to give way at pressures of up to 120 Giga Pascals (GPa), the new material, however, can withstand at least 460 GPa. It can even survive when pressed together to generate pressures of up to 1,000 GPa.
Pretty much every 1st world country has laws on the books regarding inhabitable places.
By saying no need of an iPhone you mean to say no need of a phone altogether since the watch will already have LTE or you mean to say consumers will be free to buy any other phone?

Because just relying on the watch (for modes of communication, consumption etc) might have other constraints like battery life, reading, other forms of ease etc.
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Historically something like this, with our without transactions involving SSN, was pretty common. Forget the PIN associated with your frequent flyer account? The airline would send you a new PIN in the mail that would arrive in about a week or so.

There are obvious latency issues with this though and it would mostly be considered less than optimal today.
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On my screen I can see color difference between the Octocat and the background (on your demo website).
Planned obsolescence is my biggest gripe with Apple and other brands that do this.

My 2012 iOS device is now stuck on iOS9. I wouldn't mind except they bundle web browser updates with the OS. This is wrong.

The web browser on iOS9 does not support javascript ES6 features such as the "Let" statement. Any web sites that use let statements will fail on iOS 9. I discovered this recently when browsing on my iPad3, 2012 model. Apple doesn't care, they just want people throwing their old hardware in the trash and buying latest product.

I understand why I can't have iOS10 on an iPad3, but the web browser should be given updates separately.
I have yet to see a non-trivial simulation model that doesn't need sorting at some point in its operations. But I do think you're right that sorting isn't something that would be bottleneck in today's mainstream applications of GPU's - games, compression/decompression (video, mostly) and graphics operations.
I seriously doubt this is going to damage vicious speed freaks driving 8mph, pretty much no matter what it's made of.
Another way to look at it:

$1000 for two years.
After two years, sell the phone for $300-$400.

That's $25-$29 per month. Around $1 per day.
Interesting. I'm unfamiliar with that position, but as you say, I'm certainly not an expert in the area. A bit of googling didn't turn up evidence one way or the other; do you happen to have a reference?
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First of all, Apple don't need to sell many of these models: We're all doing an incredible job for Apple discussing the price tag of an unannounced phone. That alone is worth millions and millions for Apple PR.

Nonetheless I believe they will sell lots and lots of these models: It will be a status item.

Moreover, in a lot of countries, most people don't but smartphones fully upfront to own them, but pay monthly with their phone bill. So, its not $1k or $1.5k, but perhaps $50 more upfront compared to other high end smartphones and another $15 monthly surcharge on the phone bill. Doesn't seem sooo incredible that way, isn't it?
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Here's another minimalistic approach:

<a href="https://github.com/yourname">Fork me on GitHub</a>

You can now use the <a> tag anywhere in your code.
No, it has nothing to do with first aid training or security, that is simply a misrepresentation of the situation. In London, Uber operates under a regulatory framework that requires these things, and it works very well and has for years. In Denmark, while they did abolish the medallion system (specifically, polical control over the supply of permits), politicians refused to create a similar framework, so the system remains one heavily favouring incumbent taxis.

Crucially, exactly none of requirements in the delta between the new Danish rules and eg. the London minicab rules has anything to do with protecting customers.
That's the point, yes. A real machine has finite memory, while a proper Turing machine can always advance the tape to get more memory. You can solve the former in ridiculous but non-infinite time, but not the latter.
Probably the majority of US citizens do not want a federal ID card. A number of states refuse to comply with the RealID requirements on their drivers licenses and others are dragging their feet. As a result the drivers licenses of some states won't be suitable for federal identification soon.

At one level it's a bit silly as many have passports and drivers licenses are (almost) a form of universal ID. On the other hand, I sympathize with the push against mandatory federal ID.
Like an X Server for the DOM? While interesting, that means that every communication would need to be tranfered to the server and there'd be no instant one-frame actions. That fits a limited set of UIs. And would lag with substantial network latency
The general halting problem takes a potentially unbounded input.

That's why it's impossible to solve.

If it were finite (bounded), then you could do an enumeration of the possible programs of that bounded size, and you could make a program that simply looks up that list. (Sure, maybe the making of the list would be a bit problematic, because it'd take ... multiple eons, lesser gods would die, rise and die again during that time, but it's still finite.)
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maybe, but if you trust your friend and he says the recruitment process sucked are you really going to want to go through it?
He said that there was no pretence at due process. That could just as easily mean a trial without due process (i.e. another sham trial).
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> I wish the people in the article had sold their medallions to corporations in 2014 when they were still worth a mint. Failing to do so was a tragic miscalculation.

Some of the people mentioned in the articles were running corporations. They wouldn't by 2+ medallions for themselves.
Most might be ineffective. But it only takes one effective one.
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Could you expand on what non-computability means for a field?

Is it sort of like the n-body problem of classic chaotic behavior?
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> You get used to them

No you don't! You get used to limiting your exposure to the nature, which is hardly desirable. Considering that people actually get to enjoy nature in less wet / more sunny regions.

Ditch black flies too, surely.
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Not really. The bytecode format (.dex) is different, but it's straightforward to convert dex files back to jar files, and then decompile the jar and get readable Java source.
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Right. So this mail 2FA is clearly not good enough for general use, but you really only need to use it once. Just like the airline just mailed the PIN for the next auth, so would a reasonable digital ID work too.

Make a national digital ID app. Applicants fill in a web form saying they want to have it. They enter their personal ID number (SSN or equivalent). The one time key for the digital ID is then sent to the mail address.
The user installs the digital ID app on their smartphone/computer and enters the key from the mail.

Now they can use that app to 2FA anything: fill in their tax returns online, buy things online, send money to anyone else, login to their internet bank or any other website (by open API), manage social security and other systems, apply for schools etc. This must sound like science fiction in the US but it's been a reality for 5-10 years where I live.
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