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This year I read:

1. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer - A steampunk graphic novel about Ada Lovelace and Charlie Babbage. Fun story with loads of research to back it up. Got even better when I got to go the UK and explore the places they worked at in their livetimes

2. The Hardware Hacker - A compilation of storis by bunnie focused on the hardware/maker(ish) ecosystem. Also discusses the Chinese manufacturing ecosystem and answers questions that most people have about it.

3. Technically Wrong - A book about how tech can sometimes leave lots of people behind for one reason or another and how we can fix them. A very quick read.

4. The Masters of Doom - The story of id Software, the company which spawned an entire genre with games like Doom and Wolfenstwein in its early days.

5. Blood, Sweat and Pixels - The book looks into how video games are made and the many challenges along the way. Focuses on ten games from solo all the way to AAA titles. Really good if you want to know why video games turn out the way they do. After reading this, you'll double take whenever you hear of a delayed game, cancelled project, E3 demos and buggy releases. It also has some uplifting moments.

6. My textbooks :).

Hopefully I can also read The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Deep Work and CODE.
Didn't say he's in private circles -- only that you might recognize the author if you were.
I think the final legacy of Flash will be the knowledge that this was the first major piece of software locked out of a platform and we lost a lot of the history of the internet with its demise. As much as Flash was a pain, I'm not sure I like the idea that it is acceptable for Apple or anyone else to keep that software off their platform. I wonder if someone comes up with the next step after the web will it even be allowed to run?
It would be cheaper too with something like mechanical turks, i guess.
It would be interesting to see how Tesseract holds up against this.
So a decentralized system is now centralized?
I used to think the same way about 3rd party, but now I'm beginning to view the 2 party system including the primary as just a 2 round playoff. If you really have enough support to contend as a third party, you can easily win the primary of one of the major parties.

Your most important vote is in the primaries (especially in areas dominated by a single party), and I think the country as a whole is beginning to realize it.
Corporations are entities created by the state. They are not people, or citizens. They are made up of people who can lie on their behalf and as such corporations get the culpability whenever officers of that company lie.
The whole point is because its from the military (which I hope the BBC verified), then it's supposed to rule out 1 or 2.

It's basically a filler story that the BBC news would put on at the end of the news along the lines of "little boy saves hamster".
> Presumably if I bought WhatsApp, I would legally be allowed to query some database for someone's phone number if I so chose because I now own the database.

It's not your data.

It's your users' data.

So no, you may own the database, but you do not own the data.
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The pilot is witnessing it too
In what fashion can it be used as a form of censorship?
Again, I think these PHEVs on a grand scale, will be a huge benefit and are more practical than a jump to EVs.

The amount of investment needed to facilitate EVs on a grand scale involves orders of magnitude more money and manufacturing (which generates pollution itself) than PHEVs.

PHEVs will be able to reduce a huge portion of the conditions that we burn gas which create the most pollution.

The problem with calling a PHEV with 50 miles of range a plain "hybrid" is the public has a clear idea of what a hybrid is, EV range measured in feet instead of miles.

High range PHEVs are EVs that become hybrids when the battery dies. I don't have a problem with calling them electric cars as long as we also have the BEV designation when it comes down to specifications, because the net benefit of PHEVs become mainstream will be massive, and only serves to open the way for BEVs.
Yeah #3 is certainly the most likely and is what I always assumed. But over time I've come to think that they are here. So probably the next most likely is #1. Maybe they just know more science than we do. Look how far we've come in the last 200 years. What if they have a few millennia on us?
So then what does UsCoin get you over USD?
I have a 2nd Generation Volt, which I chose as I did not like the compromises of the BMW iREX solution, namely being a highly restrictive fuel amount to meet CARB requirements.

One advantage of the i3 I did not account for was a recent trade in by a coworker on their new X3. While they were upside down because the trade in dropped a lot the BMW dealers were quietly accepting at some predefined value as trades regardless. Your mileage may vary.

I love the REX concept and think its the best solution until batteries become faster to charge and a weigh a lot less. Seriously, who can think a thousand pounds or close to it is a good solution for a car
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The consideration thing is considered an exotic common law curiosity in continental law countries :-) Generally, an offer and an acceptance creates a binding contract inmost of Europe.
NASA will take images of its quiet supersonic jet's shockwaves
I've been wanting to play with code for awhile to see how effective a "huddle" algorithm might be. The idea being that people with similar interests tend to huddle together into areas of a large city or regions of the state they feel match their lifestyle.

I'm not sure exactly how it would work but I imagine some kind of flood fill where you start with a population center and grow outward from it. Those should fill up quickly and by the end you should have large rural districts to finish off the state.
I hate to defend the credit agencies, but I believe you are referring to Equifax who had the enormous leak of "customer" data earlier this year, not Experian.
Go grab "Learn Python the Hard Way" [1]

[1]: https://learnpythonthehardway.org/
Ok, so you're at 25/mo + 5/mo + 10/mo = $40/mo for self hosted. That's almost exactly "halfway between 12 and 70/mo". Plus, S3/Glacier and a backed up hard drive (even with raid) are nowhere near the same product.
The biggest issue is reboots. They interrupt workflow. They stop the user using the computer for several minutes: the updates are applied after the reboot instead of being applied and then switching to the new binaries, the user has to save all their work manually, the user has to restart their applications manually, and the reboots often make new updates available requiring further reboots... Reboots are a DOS attack. Don't DOS attack your users.

The same goes for "feature" updates that break the existing workflow.
So what's preventing them from shipping directly from the store?
This seems to be usable as a database only for analytics purposes because of privacy-preserving features such as "low-count filter: any response is silently suppressed if fewer than some small number of distinct users have that value."
You can beat all of the general OCR solutions by training a model for a specific use case.
What is it about the migratory nature of capital that undermines the argument?
I think this is the best explanation for complex numbers I've ever seen:

https://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide-to-imaginary-numbers/
"When did the EU try to crush the UK?"

Loss of sovereignty as it pertains to 'migrant quotas'. A country should be able to say - 'no, we have decided to not receive these migrants. These people need to go from where they came'.

Someone will have to provide links on whether migrant quotas were part of the original agreement in the formation of the EU. So if Britain decides its more important to retain their ability to make this decision vs. remaining in the EU, that's a decision Britain can make. And they did.

The African Union/OPEC (probably the only actual authority with any economic leverage in the ME) should designate areas where refuges can be returned.

Morality aside, might/power defines reality in this world. The reality is that the US stirred the pot in the ME, and the EU suffers because of it. In the absence of war crime charges/damages brought before the ITC, this is the only recourse that is within Britain's best interest, based on the election they held.
For 7 years i have been searching for the perfect phone but everytime the phones grow bigger and more touchy. Maybe a gameboy styled modular phone could do the needful,but the touch phone era has dashed all my dreams of having a compact phone with tactile keys.
Hopefully the the next year will be better
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Whattaboutism doesn’t argue against the fact that the Chinese plan includes social measures, like your expressed political thought. They are both alarming- this one more so.
Links to credible sources or GTFO.

That was rude, I know, but remember that the evidence required is proportional to the claim.

Extraterrestrial machines literally flying within our atmosphere is an extraordinary claim and requires more evidence than a huge number of circumstantial reports.

I imagine the claim like a hole in the ground that needs to be filled with nice clear evidence in order for people to swim in it comfortably. These circumstantial reports are like a bunch of 12oz cups and the hole you're trying to fill is more akin to a lake than a puddle.
We have very different recollections of the history. If your website had the Shockwave badge, I was excited. If your website has the RealPlayer badge, I likely went somewhere else. You also can’t underestimate the influence of the ‘new media’ web aesthetic, that was dominated by Shockwave (e.g. Praystation), on current web design principles and tools.
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I’ll be here for the next 2 hours and then again at around noon for another 2 hours. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!
PPP adjusting makes sense when you compare countries in similar stages of development. As an example, Switzerland (in which I used to live) has a GDP per capita of $79,292 according to IMF. The US (where I live) has $57,436. Do people in Switzerland really live that much better than Americans? Not really - and certainly not the almost %40 better those numbers imply. Everyday stuff costs almost double in Switzerland than the US. As a PPP adjusted GDP, $59,561 for Switzerland looks about right to me.
Ok.

If it’s an extraterrestrial, how did it get here?

There’s no evidence that FTL is possible and even if it were it would probably require huge amounts of power. We’d notice it being used.

We may as well be saying that these are angels from heaven, I guess is my point. There are tons of reports of ‘divine’ stuff happening as well, but jumping to God existing being a likelihood is not something an objective observer would do.

What I really want to know is what the alien technology is that makes all of these videos grainy and impossible to make out details in, and how did Bigfoot acquire it?
Why do lifts have mirrors?
I'm talking about the Volt, it's faster on it's ICE from 0-60, but going by my gut it's slower from 0-30 then faster from 30-60 because of the throttle response (and definitely faster from 80-101, the ICE and battery both kick in at full power)
This sounds like a good idea at first, but I'm sure you would run into issues of large disparity in the importance of each vote. Not that it doesn't happen right now, but this would exacerbate the problem by introducing a force granularity level (beside the state level).
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I worked as a developer in the promotion and giveaway industry.

Consideration was always in interesting discussion by our company's general counsel when going through training.

On thing that stuck out to me was the company would always review entry criteria if it may any requirement beyond what would be commonly available to the lowest ranking member of society. This was typically considered to be a computer with internet access as it was likely to be available at a public library.

While mail has become a more accepted means of non-consideration entry, I believe there was a time where it was considered consideration. Counsel argued that mail-in entries required the submitter to own or purchase a stamp, a postcard, a writing device, and potentially an envelope for the postcard.

An "app only" contest was given extra scrutiny because it required the user to own some sort of smartphone or mobile digital device.

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While, that was contests and promotions (in which case, they needed to avoid running an illegal lottery), I imagine a similar argument could be made for WhatsApp. WhatsApp is only available if you own a smartphone capable of downloading the app.
Why silicon and not something like graphene
Seeing as the site lists 11k reviews that were removed from the page, yes.
It's fraud in any case, it's just a matter of whether a human or a non-human entity is culpable. By shifting the liability to the corporation, it shifts the cost of wrong doing (ostensibly) from the person who commits it on behalf of the company to the company's shareholders.

Goldman Sachs used to be a partnership, not a corporation wih publicly traded shares. They most definitely took fewer risks when the partners were personally liable for wrong doing than once they became a corporation.
https://hbr.org/2013/10/culture-not-leverage-made-wall-stree...
True story: because the ISPs are continuing the tactic of data caps. You go over your data cap b/c of Netflix, the ISP will "forgive" that overage _if_ you purchase a cable package so you don't risk going over your cap.
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Yeah, the NYT article was a thrilling read and quite unusual to see on the landing page (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-prog...).

Unfortunately, the sources in the story DO NOT inspire credibility...

>"...said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program [Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]...

This guy has also been involved in "paranormal investigations" and "zero-point energy research" according to wikipedia. Nice fodder for the X-files, but not reality. It is a pity that the NYT reporter didn't take more skeptical view.
> A car manufactured to burn gas sometimes is not an electric car. The patents on the car have gasoline engines.

Right, that's why they are called PHEVs (Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles).

What matters is how they are used. If PHEVs are used in their plugin-electric mode most of the time (why would someone pay a premium for one if that weren't the case?), then they are operating essentially as electric vehicles.

> The people who make it are investing in and building gas engines. The people buying the cars are assisting in development of gas engines.

Unless one takes an oath not to ever be ferried in an ICE powered vehicle, I don't know how you can avoid indirectly financing the development of ICEs. Also, it's not like ICE technology itself is 'bad' anyways, just that its time powering mass market vehicles is coming to an end with the rise of battery electric propulsion.

ICEs aren't going to disappear as a technology, but will likely be focused on specific niches where they have utility, rather than in mass market vehicles.
Any idea how to find a good labeled dataset for this usecase ?
Though most of the transatlantic crossings are cruises with multiple stops. e.g. Norwegian Cruise Lines goes from Florida to France by way of the Azores.

AFAIK (although I'm by no means an expert), the Queen Mary 2 is the only ship that's specifically an ocean liner. The various cruise lines also apparently reposition boats between seasons though and there are non-stop crossings to accommodate that need.
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Enough that the people who aren't are a probably a rounding error. What ISPs don't also sell cable?
Didn't WhatsApp used to charge $1 per year to people in the early days?
Exactly, it all goes back to the movie Independence Day, he doesn't know everything so he has "plausible deniability!"
For anyone that's interested in this, I'd like to recommend an awesome documentary called Vigilante Vigilante. It's about anti-graffiti vigilantes that take it a little too far.
Umm, if you're gonna parrot vague evo-psych-anthropological arguments, they need to be more solid that this.
That seems to be an earlier case of Facebook being caught doing the wrong thing. This [0] seems to be the CNIL announcement.

[0] https://www.cnil.fr/en/data-transfer-whatsapp-facebook-cnil-...
Ask HN: What password managers do you use?
Hi,

I have been using LastPass for about the last 3 years. It has never really been stellar. But it was the best option as of a couple years ago.

I'm kind of getting a bit sick of it though. There are tons of little bugs in the web extension. The Android app crashes left and right. And performs mediocre at best. On top of that, they just took away copy paste functionality from the Firefox extension.

So I'm in the market for a new password manager. Right now I am checking out Enpass. Any other suggestions?

Tldr: LastPass getting too buggy, looking for a new password manager.
There's a lot of politics in this particular scene regarding game and network services cracking.
Followed by deadpan "yes sir, no sir" all the way to the media. No admission that it's a prank, making it an ultimate prank.
> Also, it's not much used anymore (at least in my country).

In Germany, at least, they are still very popular.
Working at an ambulant palliative service, one of my colleagues checks the local newspapers each morning, over the years it's happened quite a few times that we found out about one of our patients passing away from the obituary in the newspaper before we got a notice from the family or the acting physician.

> FB is based on advertisement and on social information commercial exploitation.

So are pretty much the majority of newspapers at this point, just because Facebook is better at the social information exploitation angle doesn't turn them into an entirely different beast, as I'm pretty sure newspapers are equally busy trying to categorize their customers for better ad impressions, their databases just ain't remotely as big and detailed as those of Facebook.

From a practical perspective, I'd still prefer a free obituary to a paid one anytime. Sure, it might not be completely free, as you are paying with personal information, it's at least more free than "Pay for the obituary, pay for the newspaper and then still look at advertisements".

The best solution would probably something like Facebook that doesn't finance itself through the commercialization of its user's data. I wonder how viable an approach like the original WhatsApp one (subscription services with very small fees) would work for a social media platform at the scale of Facebook?
Linguistically it suggests it might be identified or identifiable, which belies the whole first word, unidentified, of the acronym. It's not just silly, it's an oxymoron.
yeah. defining the problem as hard does not even begin to describe it.

I believe that an AI that plays perfectly while seeing everything (i.e. oppponent hand + both libraryies, so no hidden state) would still be an impressive accomplishment and could be used to fine tune the deck-building process.
This is traditionally called a histogram in video. It allows you to see brightness by region, though it's typically stacked vertically.
When doing business in the EU, Whatsapp and whatnot will have to abide by EU legislation, including EU data protection rules, EU consumer legislation and national rules on entering into and interpreting terms and conditions and other contracts.

Data may be used only for the purpose it was collected and transfer to other legal entities require consent. In May 2018, the data orotection regulation ebters into force and the mandatory rules will be even tougher.

Maybe one day one or more of those companies will even have to pay a bit of tax in the EU.
So why doesn't Adobe just open source flash?
The sequel to Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, titled What Do You Care What Other People Think? is also really good, and includes his account of investigating the Challenger disaster which is worth the read just for that chapter.
Welcome to the Modern Web. Not sure if you noticed, but most web developers don't give a flying fuck about usability (despite what their company blogs say). A broken navigation is something you encounter daily on the Internet. CTRL+F still kinda works - it can scroll you to the more-less right area of the screen, but quite often the text you search for isn't highlighted anymore. Right-click is routinely broken (most recently with stupid-ass "social sharing" context menus). Copy-paste is routinely broken with stupid inventions that alter the contents of your clipboard in hope you don't notice the extra URL in there. Modern websites turn your computer into a frying pan with the shit ton of JS they execute, most of which is not only unnecessary, but also actively hostile. And/or mine cryptocoins, because it's almost 2018, so we need more dumb inventions.

It's a long topic, but basically boils down to companies being greedy and not giving a fuck about their users, and web developers being too busy chasing shiny to stop and care about actually providing value to users.

> you'll find that your users have things set up in ways you'd never considered...

Web companies don't care. They aim for the majority, which is users with popular browsers on default settings, without ad blockers and any plugins.
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PPP should be use wisely and proper context, just like COLA does when comparing life in a particular country (say, CA vs TX in US). Its not end all and be all, but adds another dimension to understanding "value" proposition.
Not much they can do against tech behemoths based in the US though. They can stop them from gathering EU citizen data, or at least approve laws that try to stop them but who knows what is really happening behind the scenes.
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> Check out Kubeadm. It's by far the best way to do k8s on Bare metal right now in terms of ease of use.

I tried kubeadm a little while back, and the farthest I could get was just setting up the container network. The fact that it's still marked as alpha/beta in a lot of features[1] isn't reassuring.

I will check out kubespray though; thanks for the recommendation!

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-...
What about all the people who work well with pomodoro and not so good without? Doesn't that contradict your point, completely?
Isn't it much more likely that an Alien society developed an artificial intelligence capable of exploring the universe AND self replicating.

A satellite program like this could easily monitor distant parts of the galaxy without travelling faster than light, or require a generational ship.
Get people to use Signal as a text messaging replacement app (the default Android one isn't that great anyway).

Then, when they send you a message from it, the message will be E2E because you have Signal installed, too.
Yes, that bothered me too. They called that option “HTML5”, but they meant something more like native JavaScript & HTML.