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Please switch to TOR browser. You have clearly indicated that you will treat all future words from Mozilla as lies, so I will make no effort to explain why you should.
Is this still the case with Swift 4? Swift had lots of issues as of the 2016 wwdc (language changes breaking third party libraries, barely working tools) however swift 4 seems to be not nearly as bad. I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts.
>The actual recommendations will be generated locally without sending data to Cliqz

If this is true, that's great news. They should mention it in the post IMHO.
I can validate this claim, having been in some of those discussions at work.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Blowing_...
"For ILock, the lock is not mutually exclusive under split brain. However it can still be useful as an advisory lock."

Why use a lock that isn't safe when there are other alternatives?
Disqus provides options for single-sign-on. So it's possible that some of the accounts breached didn't have a password associated with them, only OAuth tokens.
So there's no obvious practical application (right now).

Also, the proton is not 4% smaller. Protons are obviously whatever size they are.

The discrepancy comes from the fact there are two techniques to measure the proton size. Both experiments do their thing and then there's a way to interpret the results that would tell you the size of the proton (look up proton form factors).

However, when you do the interpretations, which depend on some theoretical calculations, you get different results. The general thinking around this result, because nobody has found any issue with the experimental results, is that there are some additional interactions that are stronger than expected that need to be accounted for (there are some unknown quantities that allow this).

One of the interactions would only affect the muonic hydrogen measurement - basically there are some different interactions between muons and protons than between electrons and protons because of the muon's mass and those might be different than originally thought.

The other is a type of interaction that could affect both normal and muonic hydrogen. This new measurement shows that the interactions that affect both has to play an important role in understanding this discrepancy. There are other measurements trying to measure this effect independently (not using hydrogen at all).
The Real Danger of Misanthropy? Motive
Movie theaters must accommodate deaf-blind patrons
I suspect it would make little difference. Either users are okay with server-side data collection (with differential privacy etc), or they are hostile to all data collection full stop. The in-between nuance of “results generated locally” does nothing to salve the anguish of this post’s comments. I wish it would.
You hit the point accurately. But misses why the discrimination is both warranted and needed.

We do not trust those either.

With the recent progress in Firefox they had a really good position to win users back. A key driver would be getting away from Google (Chrome) who wants your data.

That driver has now been reduced. They have taken the lower road.

Neither do I trust YCombinator with this data. Or anyone else...

So why trust company X? The point being: I do not.

Thank you for your software but please do not use it as leverage for getting my data.
It's a little sad that nobody at Uber spent 10 seconds reading past the first sentence in this post:

"At Uber, we’ve got lots of people helping to get our hundreds of our self-driving cars out on the road. "
Wow - just when it looked like Mozilla might be on the right path again, after years of incredibly bad ideas, they remind us all why we moved to Chrome.
The parent comment is saying "used to be", and that was actually very true before the IBM PS/2 and the AT clones --- IBM published the schematics and BIOS source code for the PC, XT, and AT in the PC Technical Reference books.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmpcat618ferenceMar86...

Even in the "AT clone" era (better known as "IBM PC Compatible"), the standards were relatively more open and there wasn't much in the way of DRM at all.
Actually the first one, is a perfect (and possibly one of the few) examples of a rifle based rocket propelled grenade. Though you wouldn't consider it a launcher as its just afixed to directly to the barrel.

The author (or more likely their copyeditor) possibly succumbed to buzzword bingo, when simply saying "an under barrel mount" would have been sufficed.

But the message of the article I feel has its merits, and hopefully that isn't lost because of poor choice of a single sentence.
Mattermost is a pale, pale shadow of Slack. It's nowhere close to competitive and I doubt it ever will be.
Swift is a good language. Especially if you are new to Apple ecosystem. Objc looks ugly and scary. But after 5 years of objc, I actually like the bad things about it lol

What I don’t like about Swift is that it evolves every year. I already need to maintain new OS updates and new devices. I don’t want to have another thing that I need to maintain... especially the language itself.
If you moved to Chrome to have your complete browser history harvested without any effort to protect your privacy from the advertising company that makes Chrome, then you chose correctly.
I don't understand how your first cite says what you say it says. Neither the word "efficiency" nor the notion of [voter] efficiency appear in your link. Do you just mean that SCOTUS has in some cases striven for mathematical precision and this leads you to extrapolate that they will think any non-zero efficiency gap disqualifies a map?
you don't need to think that way, no, but i was pretty sure that rust optionals were modeled after the maybe monad. perhaps not.
aah, Tay.
The table shows that

(! boolExp1) || (! boolExp2)

is equivalent to the simplified version:

! (boolExp1 && boolExp2)

I read the first one as, "Either of these bools are false." and the second as, "Not (true) that both of these bools are true." Thus in a conditional I more quickly comprehend the first.
You seem to think recalling passwords is a good idea--it's not. The desire to recall passwords leads to selecting very few passwords (if not just one) for many identities, which is very insecure.

We should be encouraging people to select passwords that they can't rememeber so that they are then encouraged to generate them with a tool (my favorite being KeePass).
If I said "algebra is geometry", you could make the same criticism; it's wrong, because that's not what most people mean by those terms.

But then you see that almost all of the most important mathematical developments in human history make that exact conflation, and that it is all driven by the need to describe human experience in symbolic language... and it does look very deep.

Nobody cares what 'most people' mean. Most people are idiots. Sure, you wouldn't talk like that when you're writing a dictionary, but dictionary writers are not known for making intellectual breakthroughs. That's the difference between description thinking and proscriptive. One allows for creativity.
A pox on people that make me add closed source binaries to my apps! Adtech companies are the worst for this.
oh ok i misread your original, you were only referring to type inference. i thought you were saying none of the languages mentioned had monads.
And that is false, sorry to say. Plainly false. The weaknesses unique to MD5 (in 2012) and SHA1 (in 2016) don't matter for password hash constructions. The weaknesses shared by salted MD5, SHA1, SHA2, and SHA3 --- each a distinct construction from the underlying hash --- matter hugely for password storage.

The problem is that MD5, SHA1, SHA2, and SHA3 are not password hashes. The password hash constructions in common use are PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt, and Argon2. Some of them use SHA2 as a primitive, some of them don't, but none of them work by simply concatenating a salt with a password and hashing.
> Remember that we’ve argued for thousands of hours over multiple years about this stuff internally.

Yeah, and then they summarize it as "We want to provide recommendations from new and diverse places, make space for innovation in discovery and navigation, and above all build experiences our users love." If there are all these deep thoughts and reasons, where are they? "You had to be there" is all we get? Because until the fruit of those thousands of hours of discussion are shared, mentioning that it took all these people all this time doesn't exactly make it better. I'm sure there are also people who discussed thousands of hours over the artistic merits of "Basic Instinct", but I'm still going with Bill Hicks' take on it.

Just accept that Mozilla lost something in the eyes of many today it will not get back. I'll still use Firefox, even like I might still buy things I need at a shop after the shopkeeper I genuinely respected dropped a racist slur or something. Get in, grab things, pay, get out. No attachment, no relationship.

> absolutely and wholeheartedly in service of improving the experience of all users.

Intended to be in service, maybe. In service of all users, no. I've know Firefox since 2000 and use it as main browser since Opera went to crap. For all intents and purposes, I am a user. Wholeheartedly on your behalf doesn't fit with how much it is in actual service of actual me.

If you ask random FF users what top 5 things they would like to see in FF, how often do suggestions in the address bar come up? Why not use the search bar for that? Have you ever worked in customer service? An address bar not being a pure address bar is one of the major Verschlimmbesserungen (a supposed improvement that just makes things worse) I can think of. (Though in CS it was never was bad when trying to help my mother before we started using Teamviewer. But man, the pain that caused. And I can't think of one moment of joy it caused to make up for that.)

You know why cars don't just have four lights indicating standstill, moving slowly, moving fast and moving too fast? Because we take that stuff seriously. As opposed to browsers and operating systems and other things that are regressing. And while plenty of car accidents happen, any random fool and their brother can use a car like virtuoso in comparison to how many people still just stumble through the web, on a machine where they stumble through icons and windows. There are reasons for that, and the time will come when just turning the back on all of it, making a CPU with some tape and boogers and writing applications for that will be more efficient (not to mention fun) than a lifetime in the coming artificial womb keeping people in stasis. Sorry for getting all dark on you there, but saying I spent thousands of hours thinking about this would be selling myself short.
Wow they are on Github, awesome
Pcc – Portable C Compiler
Same here. I simply set up a catchall alias so <anything>@somedomain forwards to foo@regulardomain; very convenient. The fact that FastMail supports multiple custom domains, at least with standard accounts, is also nice -- even more so since you can (optionally) use their own nameservers and set up whatever DNS records you want (I use that for some personal websites), while they make sure SPF/DKIM records are always correct.

(Having a separate domain is not really necessary, but I registered it through nearlyfreespeech.net and use their WHOIS privacy service; at least J. Random can't easily figure out my identity based on the email address alone).
Ask toolbar lives again, this time in Firefox.
"I’m not sure that Jeff would make a great president, but he might."

So let me tell you about my experience with Amazon Fulfilment. I was gonna pay Amazon, who has this huge expertise in packing and shipping stuff, to fulfil my Kickstarter. I'd made a large, delicate art book. Amazon, in their infinite wisdom, stuffed them in bubble wrap envelopes and dropped them in the mail. They were getting bent, the envelopes were getting ripped up, it was a mess.

I spent a month in customer service hell e-mailing someone who was following a script that said I would have to turn on something they called "prep", which would ask them to look at it and package it better. Three times I checked that this was set, and three times I sent myself a test book that came in a bubble mailer.

Finally I got clued in that there is a high-level support team that you access by sending a complaint directly to Bezos. This person, after some back and forth, ultimately informed me that due to their internal systems, it is completely impossible for them to put a book in anything but this level of shitty packaging; "prep" is just not a process that can ever happen to a book.

They covered shipping my books out to someone actually capable of finding sensible boxes and shipping them. And they intimated that someone maybe lost a job over this. But changing this, they said, might take on the order of years.

I'm not sure I want a man who presides over a system like this running the country.

Especially given that O'Reilly points out that the "rogue algorithms" of the title are corporations, and the only reason Amazon is headquartered in WA is that the tax was lowest there...
Two-Dimensional Palindromes and Their Properties [pdf]
> when the curtain rolls back we see that those superpowers have consequences: Those algorithms have bias built in.

> That’s absolutely right. But I’m optimistic because we’re having a conversation about biased algorithms. We had plenty of bias before but we couldn’t see it.

I must say I am really happy to see that bias in tech is being recognized and accounted for (for the most part).

Please forgive the politics (I'll try really hard not to bash Trump ;-) ), but if there is a silver lining to the 2016 US presidential election I think it is that it has really caused many of us to introspect and realize how thick our echo chamber walls have really gotten over the last few years. The chamber was constructed so quickly, I barely realized it was happening. We're becoming so polarized that we're actually moving to different communities to be with more people "like us." Simple awareness of the problem is a huge step forward in being able to resolve it.
Actually, I said that.
I just want a fucking office. I don't want to listen to my coworker with volume control issues. I don't want to hear every last word wrung out on a video chat. I don't want to hear every loud presentation. I want four goddamn walls and a door and a minute alone with my thoughts.
I'm begging; no, PLEADING for it. I promise, you can have as much of my labor and productivity as you want if you just give me some fucking peace and quiet.
Firstly: debating the specifics of the impact of climate change, and the efficacy of proposed solutions is not a "far-right" position. The presentations given to the public on climate change are obviously intended to be more motivating (by being alarming) than accurate. The predictions are rarely born out by the observations, the crises are constantly averted through no human action.

The main point of this article is that there is no clear correlation between global mean temperature and the severity of hurricanes. If that's a far-right position, then where do the centrist positions start? Licking Al Gore's boot?

http://reason.com/archives/2017/09/13/thr-climate-alarmists-...
God, that link and the comic strip for the Land of Lisp are both so great! I might have to try Lisp again.

>Writing in C is like building a mosaic out of lentils using a tweezer and glue.

I cannot describe the memories and associated feelings this evokes....
No matter, because the argument made by a non-fool to a non-fool that there are fools who think X makes sense is void regardless of the amount of fools.
Makes you think about the nature of learning and education a bit, and that modern schools aren't designed to teach people anything. Reminds me of PG's essay about why nerds hate school: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
The same is true of many other animals, but I wouldn’t say a cat is particularly good at explaining how to hunt.
oh man, such memories of trading disks at school and downloading them at 1200 baud all night (once having to go into hiding having rung up an obscene long distance bill).

i think one thing that the author missed is the fact that there was a distinct brand of low-brow humor that permeated all sierra games. in the early days, they weren't professionals, they were a bunch of weirdos hanging out in the foothills of the sierra nevadas making weird stuff with computers. all the jokes were lame in all of their titles, everything was corny, but people loved it because there was a sense of camaraderie in the weirdness of having and playing pc adventure games. you bought that damn soundblaster, it's gonna play that cheesy midi music and you're gonna love it because you're into this weird computer stuff made by other weird computer people and this corny faux-hollywood-wannabe thing validates your weird hobby. (and all that money you spent on video cards and modems and all that other stuff and all that time you spent chatting with weirdo sysops)

so yeah, objectively it's crap... but the same thing could be said of star wars. i never saw it until 2001 and i never understood it, i guess you just had to be there.
Such a great article. I absolutely loved all the original Sierra games. There was something magical about them and this is the best explanation of this that I've ever seen. I was 8-9 when I started playing the first Police Quest, such a great game. I went back and bought the remake on Gog a few years back and it just didn't have the same play ability and uniqueness. I remember I always loved knocking over all the motorcycles outside the bar.
Some back of the envelope calculations...

[A GTX 1080 can do ~8.5 billion hashes/second][1].

An 8-character, truly random password with mixed case, numbers, and symbols has (26 * 2+10+32)^8 possible combinations.

That means an attacker with a single GTX 1080 could crack such a password ((26 * 2+10+32)^8/2) / (8538.1 * 10^6)) seconds ([approximately 4 days][2]) on average. And most user's passwords are most certainly not truly random (i.e. they're significantly weaker than that).

[1]: https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27...

[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=((26*2%2B10%2B32)%5E8%...
No, the radius of the proton being smaller than previously thought does not directly lead to any technological developments. However...

It does raise curious questions, namely what is it that we missed that lead us to believe the previous results. If the proton is indeed so much smaller, what is it that was skewing the results of the previous experiments? Perhaps this signals new physics and strange new effects.

And that may eventually lead to cold fusion and jetpacs :)
Especially since not “telephone” and “computer” implied non-portability at the time. A pretty prescient statement even so.
Those drivers will provide value add services. Which is more valuable: a coffee shop or a coffee shop with a person in it? Why would you think a mobile coffee shop would be any different?
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Take it like that if you will. There is a distinction between considering something dishonest and flat out lies.

You do however not indicate any interest in discussing the finer points.

This is already too far into the realm of flame wars. I apologize to those who had to endure. I got caught up: Someone on the Internet was wrong!

Have a nice weekend!
try it for a bit. you'll never look back, pinky wear.
> if more people understand one design than another, then the one that more people understand is the right one.

Something something Henry Ford and faster horses. It's still bad design even if 50%+ε understand save as 'upload to some server' and not the old meaning that predates Windows 95 which is to save it to local storage. You shouldn't be taking liberties whenever you are about to upload any bit of information from your users, instead you should obtain informed consent from all users and not just from better informed ones that can parse the meaning from the cloud icon. The UI is wrong until only a moron in a hurry[1] would be mistaken about what your software is about to perform. Otherwise how are you any better than that other company that starts with a G and ends with oogle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry
That's the general idea of a salt, yes. I'd argue that a salt which isn't unique per-user isn't really a salt at all.
> Ken Mitchell

I'm not sure who that is, but I'm sure you could contact Kyle Mitchell[0] instead.

[0]: https://kemitchell.com/
Bandler and Grinder were charlatans. Maybe Satir was serious, back in the day, but Bandler and Grinder didn't believe their own teachings in the end. Steer clear of NLP.
So, This is way more then a background "check", it's an investigation. The government will collect information that you provide, and then it will attempt to validate it with multiple independent sources that they seek out. When you give them names to interview, one of the first things they ask those people are for another list of people to talk to. That's why it takes so long.

Once they issue a clearance it's good for around five years before you are re-up for another investigation.

Because of that investment of time/money/resources, generally speaking once you are issued a clearance, even if you leave government, the sponsoring agency can continue to hold it as inactive for a period of time (it varies from months to years). It's much simpler and faster to activate a clearer then to revive a new one.
Yell at Google? Google is dead to me, I'm at the part where people who tolerate it die to me. It's quieter than yelling but way more final.
Executive compensation often comes in the form of equity, but are there cases where execs are obligated to hold the equity over a long time horizon? Say 10-20 years? That seems it would align incentives better for everyone, no?
What's broken is fucking Google and Apple who think their engineers are such hot shit they deserve a platform monopoly. Die in a fire. Web Forever. #federatedcloudhosting2020
I don't think Outlook.com supports catchall/wildcard aliases though, which makes using unique addresses for everything a bit annoying, which makes address reuse more likely.
i did. i started with the title.
I hear ya. I'm not worried. People tend to underestimate how intelligent humans are and drastically overestimate how "smart" pre-programmed cars are going to be. The reality is, like "free money" it's also a control system, and most of us already know it. Consider the near total rejection of camera tickets when it's put to a vote. There's billions of $ in hype. I'll happily bet against it.

Something that concerns me slightly more is when we start growing 'subservient' neurons to drive us around. They will be smart enough to make it work, but the closed and connected 'trusted' silicon surrounding them would be a problem.

A short term problem is new drivers might become dependent and not learn the necessary skills... like pilots forgetting how to land.... but I doubt it. Gen Z is turning out just fine.

Note I live in one of the most freedom appreciating places on Earth, if you are in one of the nanny states that has already hooked the population on public transportation then all bets are off and ya, you should worry.
This article starts off real nice, but the solutions presented are far from what I would consider "re-thinkinking" the dial pad. Touch screens do not have physical mechanisms, but rather are flat. So they need to rely more on gestures. Re-thinking would require a new paradigm, just as how Swype make typing on smartphones more efficient.
I don't get what you mean here. I think statically typed languages are much less dominant now than in 2008. Python, Ruby, JavaScript have all found huge niches since then.
Yes, but I fixed the rom, installed a real ssd in it and put Ubuntu on it. It's great and I love it.
It would suffer a temporary drop then inevitably climb back up again. Bitcoin is global at this point. No one jurisdiction is going to shut it down.