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> snake oil prophets

Can I get more details on the "snake oil" and other shenanigans? The article mostly describes a civic phenomenon without really describing the organization's views or behavior, neither inside nor outside the context of Nigeria. Some background on the theology of the group also interests me.
> Institutions everywhere increasingly seem to want to just make everything bland and safe.

Can you really blame them when the alternative is college campuses burning because they invited a speaker who was committing wrongthing and wrongspeak?

This is something that has been demanded by a growing percentage of the student body over the last two decades. The schools are giving the students what they want.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are calls to return to the 'in loco parentis' days where schools had much more control over the discipline of their students - all in the name of safety, of course.
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I don't know about you, but I most certainly can use my iPhone as a USB disk.
Having a public/private key system doesn't solve the key problems of identity, namely, a link between your public key and you, and ensuring that it's not easy to create new alternate identities.

Having a digital signature by a private key is a decent way to ensure that you are linked to the public key, if the recipient knows the identity of the public key, and the private key is hard to copy (i.e. not memorizable, not something you type in to a bunch of potentially compromised computers). One way to do this is like Estonia's e-ID, which includes such a private key in the gov't issued photo ID; but having such an ID in the first place seems anathema in US.
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Well, how many super wealthy people's stories are described by "I worked really hard for 45 years and got every promotion and now I have a pension and SS check"?
SLC has terrible pollution that is directly correlated with population within the valley. Adding 50K more to the mix in a short amount of time is not a helpful addition
I would make them more walking and bike friendly.

Schools, I would like full control be at the parent level or city level and not at the state of federal level.

I would like to see more of the mundane jobs at the city level automated so property taxes could be lowered. In the state I live some property taxes approach 5 percent of the assessed value. High property taxes make it prohibitive for elderly people to retire in the place they grew up in. You lose some of the community.
It's also likely that these sorts of places will move off campus if there is truly a need for them. There are plenty of well-off alumni of Senior House, and erecting a building and maintaining the culture of Senior House off campus is something they could do if it is really that important to them.
Which isn't the same as monitoring if you actually use it. Seen more than enough LE sites where someone configured server reloading wrongly (and in at least one case, a package update overrode their config), which means they have a valid LE cert (and thus no LE notification) but clients get the expired one.
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For what it's worth, the Roku is available in Australia, along with localized services.

It's been rebranded and only available through the dominant telco, but it's certainly available (and better for grannies in my experience): https://www.telstra.com.au/tv-movies-music/telstra-tv
Or Ireland.

People ask "what is wrong with the Church running social institutions", and the answer is the lack of proper accountability. In the worst case you end up with a mass grave of babies.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/mass-grave-of-...
I used to live just south of Swindon and use to go across the Magic Roundabout regularly. It is completely nuts. My technique was just to put my foot down, go straight across and just pray - somehow I survived it. Even been across it multiple times in a Luton Van - at least cars give you a wide berth...
> Whilst I am in favour of the optimisation of resources (and use these sources) we are willingly moving the "View Source" model to for profit entities like github.

That ship sailed when we 1) made JS too capable (ability to initiate requests, ability to handle requests instead of the browser, access to too many user actions) and 2) didn't improve the standard input and UI elements enough (sortable, searchable table should be built-in, for example)
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The biggest site has generated content. It is more like a places database, based on third-party APIs.

The other sites I wrote the content. It is not a good content, but most part is original.
The parents are paying the bills.
Yes, but maybe not in a good way -- this is basically just a tabbed electron wrapper around various chat webapps.
They weren't "dumping stock". They sold a small percentage of their holdings. They have much larger stakes in Equifax than what was sold.
Colleges have become an echo chamber centered around profits and "the experience". A library card is a better investment; one that comes with more freedom.
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Twins most likely have been born in the same city, unless the birth happened e.g. on a high speed train and they decided to file different birth places depending on the closest station.
Everyone is leaving IL, why would Amazon be the lone exception?
I'm pretty sure this one brings all of their various Electron and web app versions under one app and shares the Chromium runtime among them, while Pidgin and libpurple would be based on accessing their APIs directly
I find it ironic that you're in the security industry, yet have no interest in getting security updates as quickly as possible.

We're not talking about major updates here, we're talking about updates that take about 30 seconds to apply plus a reboot, once a week and you know you're always running the latest and greatest from a security standpoint. Most change nothing from a user perspective.

Of course, you're free to treat these updates as you like, I typically only patch about once a month or when there's a major remote vulnerability.
The mobile version is the homepage of my desktop browser :)

http://www.ard-text.de/mobil/100
My experience might differ, but I always use wired networking for anything which is supposed to handle media-streaming. That includes the chromecast.

My patience is way past relying on wireless for such tasks.
Ah, seems like an open and shut case. Some drunk braggarts combined with some loose talk around town. I'm convinced!
Not to be rude, but it'd likely be prudent for you to learn to be more careful.
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Is that as amazing as I think it is? The Electron killer, the Holy Grail of UI frameworks, the El Dorado of cross-compatibility, the One Library to rule them all?
For most apps (and especially for apps which have a lot of text like Slack), Native is overkill and suboptimal though some people claim otherwise. You lose standard functionality like Copy, Partial Text Selection, Web Search (Selection), Share (text selection) with Whatsapp, Messenger, Copy Link etc. All of which come free with a Browser view.

Even in a shopping app (where Native isn't so disadvantaged), a Browser View lets you do a quick google search on the product or company. Once browsers become faster, I'm hoping native will get relegated to games. If OS vendors are listening, a way to install web apps beyond (a) "Click the three dots and Add to Homescreen" or (b) the PWA thing.

Maybe just let web apps into the app store. It's not like the Appstore has a high bar on quality these days, anyway.
The point is that in most of the world various government assigned IDs are just that: IDs and are usually used as such and when they are used as authenticators it is only for low-risk purposes and as an additional authentication check. On the other hand in US knowledge of SSN and few other bits of information is often all that you need to impersonate someone for pretty high-risk transactions.
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There's lots of stuff online.

Check out hackerrank.com for example. There are other sites like that out there.

Its becoming a real cottage industry, this whole IT interview prep thing.
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How can you spend $150+ in cases?
"Overseer" is an alternate translation of "elder" or "bishop" (from the Greek: episkopos), which are recognized offices in most Western Christian churches. "Daddy Go" also sounds strange to my ears, but I'm not Nigerian.
Better is mostly subjective. Even with mechanical keyboards, people like different types of switches so some will say their brown keys are better than blue keys or their white keys are better than red keys. Most of it is feeling. Different key types require different amounts of force and give different amounts of feedback.

Your $10 keyboard was better for you because you were more comfortable on it. My tenkeyless blue switch keyboard at home is nice, but I don't think it has much of an effect compared the Apple keyboard that I use at work.

Disclaimer: In the world of mechanical keyboards there are certainly keyboards that are better than others. That can't be said when comparing switch types, but within a certain switch type there are switches that are manufactured better than others. Here's a blog post with gifs that show the different switches: http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/12/an-introduc...
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Places that extend credit often take into account incomplete data - my girlfriend was denied for an apartment lease because she didn't have __enough__ credit history.
Basically says "the book is out"

https://amzn.com/dp/B06XDHKV94/ $17.99 e-book

> Publication Date: March 15, 2017

--

The Hardware Hacker: Bunnie Huang's Tour-De-force | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284784 (40 comments, Dec 2016)

> zcarter: Prominently featured in a recent documentary on manufacturing in Shenzhen. Recommended: http://www.wired.co.uk/video/shenzhen-full-documentary

> endgame: It's published by nostarch, so if you get it from them directly you can get a DRM-free ebook: https://www.nostarch.com/hardwarehacker

> billpollock (founder, no starch press): It's based on bunnie's blog but one of our editors poured her heart and soul into this. She's a EE with incredible passion.
why not pay more ?

1) A CAN$100 phone gives you 75% of the experience, a CAN$250 gives your 95% of the experience

2) Android doesn't lock you to use a single app depot

3) Android doesn't require 2 or 3 login / password (iCloud + iTunes)

4) Android accounts work worldwide, it doesn't fail to log you in if you change countries (I had to re-create an AppleID when I moved to Canada because the US one no longer worked)

5) You don't have to use an extra step when migrating, just log-in et voila ! (ie. not iTunes shenanigans)

6) generally poor software full of UI glitches

7) No pressure sensitive touch-ID which fails to work with aging users (try to explain the concept to a +80 yo).

8) I can still use my $2 earplugs without an adapter

9) Android does not care what OS you use on your main desktop

10) MULTIPLE SIM ! Dual SIM phone is pretty much getting standard. I wish there was triple or quadruple SIM phones

11) External storage

12) Removable batteries

etc.
If you bought your phone with a credit card, check to see if it offers any kind of purchase protection. I dropped my phone about a month after I had, called the credit card company and they refunded me almost instantly. No forms to fill out, nothing to mail in.
Consider Mi A1 - it's Google's android and more than decent hardware for 200 eur.

http://www.mi.com/in/mi-a1/android-one/
New Apple headquarters, anyone?
Is anyone planning on getting the phone at 1k?
We have something like this in Belgium with our eID cards. AFAIK the chip has a public/private key. I use a PIN code to unlock the private key and I can create signatures with it to prove my identity.

Websites can actually use this for proper citizen authentication (and non-repudiation). The integration has UX bugs, but at the end of the day, I am very happy that we have something much more secure than a US SSN.
There are people willing to riot in the streets and burn down major cities because you dare suggest they have an ID card to vote. Can you imagine the uproar and unrest suggesting people carry a national ID card to do anything would be?
>Very few parents say: "I hope my child can get a shipping center job stacking bins, day after day, and hold that job for 40 years."

For a lot of parents, the possibility of their children having a secure full-time job is a lofty aspiration. Millions of Americans are trapped in cycles of unemployment or in low-wage jobs with no security and no benefits. Vast swathes of the US are blighted by long-term unemployment, crumbling infrastructure and a lack of inward investment.

Amazon aren't buying these robots out of some altruistic desire to lighten the burden of their workers. Their treatment of warehouse staff is notoriously dreadful. If Bezos could fire every single worker in his warehouses, I have absolutely no doubt that he would.

Better jobs would be great, but at the moment we just need jobs.

http://articles.mcall.com/2011-09-18/news/mc-allentown-amazo...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/amazon-devas...
Your experience differs from mine. Having deployed around 15 production apps for various clients and my own companies, there's just one thing you're leaving out: Apple is not the only maker of smartphones that exists. The choices for Hybrid were made for this reason, and very few ill side effects have been encountered.
Offering 100k (or more) would also attract more people from abroad. We (I'm German too) have to compete with other regions in the world where the pay is much higher. Higher does not mean better of course (cost of living), but people seem to prefer higher numbers on the paycheck.
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Holy shit Boing Boing.
This seems to be something of a trend in the software library and tool world:

A problem emerges. Some early, sharp thinkers create tools which attack the problem in a high level, abstract, powerful way... but also with the rough edges that come with being early. These tools get a few adopters, but not that many because it is difficult to see the value versus the obvious rough edges.

Then other sharp thinkers, put off by those rough edges, create N new waves of tools which attack the problem less effectively, but more accessibly.

Then eventually, some years later, common practice of the waves of tools will circle back around and start doing the things that that early rave started.

It's easy to criticize the "daily new JavaScript framework" phenomenon along these lines, but I don't think it is specific to JavaScript, nor specific to 2017, and not even specific to software development. It's just part of how we humans work.
There's no way I'd buy a used Android phone, unless it was from Google and was less than two years old. Android phone makers are terrible about security updates.
To be honest, hope you don't mind the criticism, but I think using custom controls was the wrong choice.

I dislike Slack/etc because they are non-native which means they are slow, and behave incorrectly. Eul will address the speed, but without the native controls it's unlikely to behave correctly.

Behaviour I'd be looking for to match system controls: text field editing, including shortcut keys, accessibility of controls using system accessibility attributes (which can be used for screenreaders, productivity apps and OS scripting), pervasive drag and drop support, proxy icons, copy/paste (with rich-text formatting where necessary).

There's a lot to do, much of which comes "for free" or at least "discounted" when using system controls. I really hope you prove me wrong and I wish you all the best with this. I may well end up using Eul anyway because of the speed, but I thought I'd try and provide my motivation for why using system controls is such a key part of my dislike for Electron apps.
> the user being able to install their own firmware is not a security vulnerability.

That's actually a feature. I consider this a fundamental right I demand on most equipment I buy.

I have no issues with UEFI secureboot as long as it can be disabled and/or put under the users control.

If not, that's strictly a vendor issue and best solved by not buying stuff from that vendor.
Are you sure you want more laws? I don't.

We already have laws on the books for vandalization and sabotage. We also have that horrific law that criminalizes EULAs and "Authorized Access". Why aren't they being used against these companies that make easy to remote-pwn gear? Its readily evident that it's not the end-user's actions that cause these forms of vandalization and digital assault.

Id much prefer enforcing laws, rather than make new ones we hardware creators have to parse and understand.

(Like, how does this affect open source hardware? Some of my side projects are put online. I know a few implementations in the wild already.)
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I'm a Mac user as well, but I can't say I like macOS. Just like every OS it accumulates brokenness and it has lots of quirks.

My reminder alerts are being triggered at arbitrary times. I followed every advice on the support forums. Nothing works. Now the recommendation is to reinstall macOS.

I have replaced the magic mouse with a wired Logitech mouse because bluetooth keeps draining the mouse battery too quickly. I wanted to buy a wired Apple keyboard for the same reason, but they no longer sell one without a number pad (which makes the keyboard far too wide)

After waking from sleep my Mac takes awfully long to become responsive. I just keep hitting those keys until they show up. Then I delete all the buffered keystrokes and start entering my password. Stupid, I know.

Don't get me started on Apple Mail...

Time capsule doesn't make much sense as a backup solution if its in the same physical place as the Mac itself. You're just one burglary or fire away from losing all your data. I use spideroak which works on any OS.

I like Swift, but Xcode is by far the worst IDE I have ever used. It keeps crashing. The much-vaunted "playgrounds" are a useless, annoying toy. It is slower than you think possible, always indexing something. It can't rename Swift functions and classes (This "advanced" feature is coming this month I think). It doesn't even have a built-in shortcut (or a mappable command) to delete the current line.

I haven't used Windows in many years and I have no idea if its any better. I guess I will try once my mac mini expires, because I'm certainly not going to hand over thousands to Apple for a MacBook or buy a "new" mini that has almost exactly the same specs as the one I bought 5 years ago.

What I like about macOS is that it rarely has driver issues (I did have one wi-fi issue a while ago though). That's what keeps me away from Linux.
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In the EU, maybe not.

This may be a signal that the internet has become way too centralized.

The irony of the centralization of a decentralized platform is suddenly enforcement of regulations like these become feasible. The nuclear-war proof internet is suddenly vulnerable to people sitting behind desks or whatever the hell they do in Europe.
The San people of southern Africa are claimed to be the living human group with the most ancient divergence from the rest of humanity, around 200,000 years ago. That they are so similar to the rest of humanity has always made me wonder if the commonly accepted divergence date ranges should be pushed back.

From the Wiki:

"A DNA study of fully sequenced genomes, published in September 2016, showed that the ancestors of today's San hunter-gatherers began to diverge from other human populations in Africa about 200,000 years ago and were fully isolated by 100,000 years ago, well before the first archaeological evidence of modern behaviour in humans."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people?wprov=sfla1
I'd suggest HelenOS - see http://helenos.org they have hardware support for sound and USB filesystems etc that I think is lacking in Minix 3 but I don't think they have a web browser at this point. The main reason there isn't a microkernel OS is that nobody has invested the time into making one work, especially considering the popularity of Linux for free software advocates and Windows/MacOS for everyone else.
The Church in Ireland still runs a lot of schools (at least nominally; they're generally mostly or entirely _paid_ for by the state and have to adhere to the national curriculum and so on). Not other social services these days, though, and certainly not social housing.
> I will _gladly_ pay the cost of 1 week of a senior engineer's salary to have you accept my pull request if you are prepared to either:
> 1) do the quality control work yourself

I too would gladly pay one dollar for a hundred dollars bill.
I took this as meaning that it was 10~15% cheaper than surrounding countries/territories due to no sales tax, hence being used to fuel black market all around SEA: a 5% margin on an iphone obtained in HK would still be cheaper for the final Japanese buyer than a "home-bought" iPhone (8% VAT).
Not necessarily, happiness (in a meaning of long lasting sense of personal satisfaction) is mainly about meeting the expectations (yours, of your family, peers, etc.). IMHO it primarily depends on to whom you choose to compare yourself. People in isolated environments have less peer competition and much lower expectations as everyone they know about is living the same way. If you and everyone you know expect to die at age 40, then it's merely a fact of life, like dying at 80s is for us. You don't think of it as injustice as you;re not aware of any other way. If you are poor your whole life, just like everyone around you, you still can feel extremely accomplished and successful in life, if you manage to get just a few chickens or a goat or more children or whatever more than your neighbors. It's one of the evils of the Internet that now we all compare ourself with the richest and the most successful people world-wide, and not just from within our local communities as before. I know it makes me unhappy quite often. People who never been in civilization are probably more content with their lives, as what else could they wish for, other then what they already have? Of course, just statistically speaking of the whole population, each individual has it's own ups and downs and unique ways, jealousies and envies and everything...
Seismic exploration data needs to be sorted into various domains; for example, by offset, by receiver, or by shot. It is one of the faster operations but you can still end up CPU bound rather than I/O bound, especially if you're doing work on the fly in a GUI.

http://wiki.seg.org/wiki/CMP_sorting
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Speed cameras, they earn themselves back easily. If they add warnings that there will be a speed camera it'll have the same slowing effect as speed bumps. Doesn't need to be a real camera even.
Crickets? No discussion? No arguments about how having children is the reason (probably because it clearly shouldn't be a factor at entry level positions)