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Well, GOG also gives you an executable which is rare these days.

You can click and drag it onto your friends' computers for a quick LAN party or to let your girlfriend play alongside you on a airplane.

I never hated Steam more than the time I was on a 18 hour bus ride only to find out Steam wouldn't even launch if it decided it needed to check for updates and you had no internet connection. And there was no way then to play the games you paid for.

If a game you want is available on both GOG and Steam, it's almost irresponsible to get the Steam version.

Oh yeah, on that same bus ride, I found out that .azw-formatted ebooks are locked to a single Kindle. I'm ready for GOG Books.
I wish it was more in-depth on e.g. repoline seemed to be a 5 second thing mentioned at the start. Does it go into a deep dive if you listen to the whole thing?
Parts and maintenance are negotiated as part of the purchase.

For an airline not to do so would be economic suicide.

Also has the side benefit of locking in gradual prices increases for the manufacturer.
Another point for conferences, IMHO, is that you might learn something you were not expecting to.

Here's a scenario that I've seen repeated quite often in conferences: You have two talks you are interested in with some free time in the middle, so you pick some other talk to go, if only to fill in the time, and end up discovering an aspect that you didn't even knew would be useful.
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I'm surprised and a little disappointed that Ford hasn't done more. They have the EV version of the Focus but AFAIK it's only sold in California.

Edit: 2018MY Focus Electric is a limited production model sold in select states (CA/CT/MA/MD/ME/NJ/NY/OR/RI/VT) at Ford EV Certified Dealers

https://www.ford.com/cars/focus/models/focus-electric/?intcm...
It's a scary situation. Cape Town is a very popular tourist destination and one wonders if that industry as a whole is managing to comply with the restrictions (thus adversely affecting business)
Java gave us an environment where it was easy to create complex applications quickly as well.

The web will fade away just like Java did.
As someone who attends a huge number of events as a speaker, an attendee, and as media, a few comments:

1. In terms of attending sessions, IF a conference does a good job of recording video of all sessions (which costs a LOT of money), physically attending the conference still serves as something of a forcing function. Virtually attending events and watching sessions on YouTube etc. definitely still play a role but it's often hard just to set the time aside.

2. The hallway track is huge. This is probably the main reason I attend events. Discussions about ideas, meeting people (including those at my own company who I otherwise never see).

3. Beyond informal hallway tracks, bigger conferences are just a good opportunity to schedule a lot of F2F meetings when a lot of people are in one place.

4. Yes, they're something of a perk (for most people).
However, the press release starts with:

> Over the past several days, Intel has made further progress to address the exploits known as “Spectre” and “Meltdown.”

Then it goes on to say:

> Generally speaking, the workloads that incorporate a larger number of user/kernel privilege changes and spend a significant amount of time in privileged mode will be more adversely impacted.

All of this implies that they're testing a fixed kernel.
Belts and vests. Search "inflatable pfd".
That's one use-case for Headless browsers. Most people actually use Headless browsers to test their website, i.e. for functionality / performance / rendering.
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I’m hoping that, along the lines of the article, not only are conferences fading in relevance and popularity but business travel itself will start to become obsolete.

Business travel is incredibly expensive and inefficient, it’s polluting, and it has a negative impact on people’s health, well-being, and family life.
Am about to read the article, but knowing myself I'll forget doing the following if I don't do it now: I want to thank you for what will undoubtedly be another enlightening article!

If you don't mind an unsolicited AMA then I'd love to know how you learn about the topics you write about, what kind of experience you have in your field, at what point do you allow yourself to authoritatively say "yes, what I'm talking about is more or less correct" and publish a post to the wider world (this is something I struggle with), and what are some of the resources you recommend keeping up with or being aware of if someone else wishes to gain more knowledge in topics similar to those you post.
If there's malicious code on the page you could use this to block headless browsers (which might be security scanners) from trying to load / run the malicious code, such as CoinHive.
I have a few questions for you

Who gets to decide what is "Good" and "Ethical" behavior ?

What exactly would be the "incentive" "Good" and "Ethical" behavior. ?
You say that capitalism can be dismantled in favor of another form cooperation that directly incentivizes helping your fellow human survive. Is this not in direct contradiction the base animal instinct of self survival. The incentive would have to be huge in order to override this base instinct.

You suggest Golden Rule as sufficient way to define "good behavior". But Golden Rule itself has shortcomings and criticism
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule#Criticism). Do you have any sufficient argument against these criticism.
Safari 11.0.2: 4.7mb/s
Chrome: 1.2mb/s

This is on MacOS 10.13.2. I'd love to run Firefox but the battery savings and reduced heat from using Safari makes it too hard to pass up in this regard.
there's plenty of evidence that globalism has not worked out for substantial parts of the population in most developed countries.
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Nice article – gives a bit more background on Smith's ideas and why it's wrong to flag him as an absolute free market advocate.

TL;DR – The invisible hand doesn't symbolise the problem of state intervention, but of state capture (i.e. merchant elites lobbying governments to protect their monopolies). On the other hand, merchant elites are a "necessary evil" and the art of good governance is balancing over- and under-regulating them.
I bought my purism laptop back in mid October and it still hasn’t been shipped yet. I can’t imagine the timeline for something that doesn’t have a processor picked out yet.
My suggestion is a difficult one: go on a silent retreat. No internet, cell phone, electronics. At least 3 days is my recommendation. 5 days is ideal. I don't know about other religions, but any Trappist or Benedictine monastery will let you into their guest house-- and feed you-- for free regardless of your religious affiliations. (You generally have to book ahead of time, and they do appreciate donations at the end of your stay.)

While there, spend time in meditation. Maybe start with 5 minutes at a time, and try to increase it over the course of the retreat. Go on long walks. Read some books and do some journaling, but limit your reading/journaling time.

I think 3 days is the bare minimum, because I find that it takes me 2 days to get my head out of my day-to-day life.

The downside (?) is that when you return to the real world, you will realize just how noisy and stressful it is. Just turning my cell phone back on activated a stress response in me the last time i retreated.

Once you return to the real world, continue to spend time in daily solitude (alone, silent, and still).

I've found this practice makes a big difference in my level of self control.

Other things that have helped me: creating a daily task list for myself, each task being short and clear and relatively easy to do. Break big tasks down into smaller, bite-sized ones. Try to do the most important ones first. If there are particularly egregious tasks, assign a reward to each and do them early. (The reward might be, "If I finish this task, I'll go out for a walk / get a nice porter at the pub / read Hacker News.")
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In my 10+ year career I've been to exactly one conference: JavaOne in 2016. That's one of the biggest tech conferences (put on by Oracle) I'm aware of and it covered such a broad array of topics at only a surface level that I really didn't get much out of the lectures (my favorite sessions were the small-group lectures on niche topics (alternative JVM languages, etc.) - Java in general is extremely uninteresting to me).

Now, it was the one time I've actually been to San Francisco, so I was able to do some sight-seeing, and the concert Oracle put on was nice - only time I've seen Sting live.

Personally, I think I'd much prefer smaller, more focused conferences. Problem is, employers in my industry (Defense) almost never send employees to conferences (I once asked an employer if I could attend a small local conference on a topic directly relevant to the project we were working on - it would have been something like $150 plus two days of overhead for my time. Nope). The only reason I went to JavaOne is someone managed to sneak a 'conference budget' into a contract, so the customer paid for it (Weird things happen when you actually involve engineers in the contracting process).
"For no good reason"? I thought you just explained that for the hub model to work, airports need to grow in places where there's no space for them (near major cities). That sounds like a pretty good reason.

That said, Dutch governments seem determined to make Schiphol (Amsterdam airport) a hub, and from what I understand, they've succeeded in becoming a hub for not just Netherland, but also the UK, because Heathrow is unable to become a hub due to space constraints. Schiphol, on the other hand, has seen major expansion (a fifth take-off lane in the 1990s), and the Dutch government is considering turning a small airport in the vicinity (Lelystad) into an extension of Schiphol. Most people don't like that idea.

Frankfurt is also a major hub. There are plenty of hubs, but there isn't always space for them (like in London), and other concerns are often deemed more important than sacrificing all space to an airport.
In case tptacek doesn’t respond, I’d like to give a (hopefully helpful) answer in the aggregate sense: many members of the information security industry refuse to work with the public sector (read: military and intelligence agencies) for reasons of personal ethics. They typically dislike the privacy-antagonistic ends to which they consider their skills, software or inventions would be used. This is particularly the case with many cryptographers, who could walk onto jobs or lucrative contracts with the NSA, but who would never even consider it.

I haven’t spoken to tptacek about this directly, so I want to make it clear I can’t elucidate his specific concerns. But the broad strokes of his principles are very common in the industry, and typically stem from a disagreement in how the government approaches security (philosophically speaking).
It's just an offer and you see, those words 'budding' imply amateur work which might not be worth much. It gets me sore to see innocent things picked to pieces. I agree on BS internships that use people. But this doesn't appear malicious.
There are so many things like Fuze for iOS. I've tested a number of them on my kids over the years, and I'd suggest:

Codea is great. Lua, not basic. Great asset management for games.
Pythonista is pretty good. Python, not basic.
Swift Playgrounds is pretty great. Swift, not basic. You can do pretty much anything, including 3D and AR.
Origin does it as well but only with EA games. Ubisoft does it for their abomination as well.
HN does not incentivizes "good" behavior, it incentivizes "populist" behavior.
To my knowledge, licenses aren't limited anymore and it's fairly easy to get an interstate license.

State licensing varies but generally, it's easy as well.
A graph with absolute scale might have been more interesting to see how many people kept watching after the warning!
Huh? Houston hosts multiple conferences that size every year (the Offshore Technology Conference and International Quilt Fair are just two I can think of off the top of my head). Orlando, Dallas, and Denver can all do it as well (though I am not familiar with specific examples there).
This article seems to be based on observations about Apple-centric conferences, is it true for the broader industry, though?

I work in DevOps and, if anything, DevOps conferences seem to be popping around like mushrooms. Maybe it's related more to the popularity of an specific topic, than that of conferences themselves.
I'm excited to see how this goes. I've been lamenting to friends of late how I don't feel there is anyone out there innovating on hardware/software to compete with the likes of Apple/MS/Google, but I see a ray of hope in puri.sm.
If you have money you can afford something above "budding".
Of course they are. Have you seen that video that idiot of a chairman put out? It looks like something College Humor would do expect he made it seriously.
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It's very expensive for me to go to a conference, because there are very few in our region, so most of the cost is travel and forgone revenue due to time off work. Luckily, we have a thriving meetup community, with different companies hosting these every other week or so. Obviously, these are not conference quality gatherings, but you still get all the networking and in-person lectures, all at a cost of a bus fare.

For conference talks, I just watch YouTube recordings. The good thing there is that you can skip irrelevant parts, rewatch interesting bits and, last but not least, multitask. I watch most conference talks while working out.
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I don’t disagree with your comment, but wish to add one important note:

Once cars are pure electric (not hybrid), then that maintenance network becomes fairly worthless.

I think Tesla has shown how little maintenance an electric car needs, and how much smaller the related infrastructure becomes.
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didn't Airbus took recently a stake in Bombardier for their latest twin-engine plane? So maybe they've came to the same conclusion too.
The article gives a good description of a major facet of Neoliberalism: "[a] movement that seeks (as Thatcher hoped) to ‘roll back the frontiers of the state". If you have heard someone whining about the nefarious "Big Government" and the need for deregulation, then you've met a Neoliberal.

The point of the article is summarized by the author in a paragraph:

"""
The message that Smith conveys cuts across party and ideological lines, and applies to both Left and Right. It is about a pathological attitude that politicians of all stripes are prone to. If not kept in check, this can be the source not just of disruption and inefficiency but of cruelty and suffering, when those who find themselves on the wrong side of the plan’s consequences are forced by the powerful to suffer them regardless. Smith in turn urges us to recognise that real-world politics will always be too complex for any prepackaged ideology to cope with. What we need in our politicians is careful judgment and moral maturity, something that no ideology, nor any position on the political spectrum, holds a monopoly on.
"""

The dogma of today's right-wing "mercantile" politicians is a perversion of Adam Smith. These politicians state that the invisible hand requires complete government deregulation in order to function. They ignore Smith's point that the invisible hand requires both free markets and government regulation of monopoly to function. The article states that "According to Smith, the most pressing dangers came not from the state acting alone, but the state when captured by merchant elites." If you've followed US politics at all over the last year you could see how the article's point is extremely convincing.
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Not entirely sure I like how vulnerabilities are almost marketed these days.
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The first conference I ever attended was Defcon. I went for several years running and had a great time. Then I went to GDC (for work) and good lord, was it boring. I think I viewed the conference as more of a way to party with people who had similar interests than to actually learn. Defcon 101 even tells you not to go to too many talks.
> If you want someone who is underperforming, why does that underperforming person need to identify as an underperforming intersectional group?

Because you found a way to identify groups of people who are probably a lot more skilled than your ability to measure qualifications indicates. So you can trust in your measurements, or you can accept that our ability to measure nebulous concepts is weak. Think of it like arbitrage.
> “Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

-- C.S. Lewis
Great point.

I’d love to see GM create their own app, and offers drivers who use their app discounted pricing or financing on their cars.

Could create a whole new world of competition for Uber.
I like to view this another way - too much concentration of power is a bad thing and we should strive for decentralizing it. So if merchants, in collusion with the state hold too much power, then the state needs to be cut down. Conversely if private players accumulate too much power, that too needs to be cut down, increasing the role of state if necessary.

There is no universal approach that will always be true. Depending on the circumstances, either a hands off approach to markets or more intervention from the state is required.
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Life quality is about more than housing prices.
1. can work, especially in the context of an organization that runs a bunch of events. There are also examples of long-running free events and essentially all events are dependent on sponsorships to a greater or lesser degree.

Generally these days, when there are Open Spaces (unconference) there's a mix of curated talks and attendee-led sessions.

I'm personally not a fan of weekend events although I understand the reasoning that a lot of people can't get time off work to attend conferences. And I'm totally with you on location. If I'm traveling to an event, I prefer an interesting city center--which admittedly even many urban conference locations aren't. I'm not attending to be kept prisoner.
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This is lame.

Security research is a wonderful thing. This is not that. If and when a vulnerability is ready for public disclosure, then fine: make a webpage with a cute logo and name, informal details of the issue and links to formal papers or bug reports. At that point you’ve earned whatever fame you get.

Ever since Heartbleed and Shellshock, I’ve basically given up on my vendetta on the use of logos and marketing names for serious vulnerabilities. I accept the practice is good for driving awareness and encouraging updates. But I’m putting my foot down here: this is nonsense. What exactly can we learn from this website? Some undisclosed party has an undisclosed vulnerability that is implied to be as serious as Meltdown and Spectre? Seriously?

This really should not be encouraged in the security industry, which already has to fight against controversies surrounding disclosure guidelines and stunt hacking. Now we have a page that is attempting to bring awareness to a vulnerability that, for empirical purposes, does not exist yet. The only logical conclusion I can see for why a researcher would do this is to try to proactively claim a plot of land they can use to stake a vulnerability on later (so to speak). This seems to be especially the case since so many parties independently discovered the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.

This is not how research works, and I consider it a breach of ethics for a security researcher to attempt a public marketing campaign before the vulnerability can be investigated by peers. You don’t get to proactively claim credit before you publish something, that’s antithetical to research in general. The only justification is fame seeking. What if the media runs with this on basically no information, and it later turns out to be nothing at all? Who is responsible in that scenario? What if that impacts Intel’s stock price, or causes another panic without any discernible details?

It’s irresponsible and denies others of the right to investigate veracity. If you want press, put out promotional materials when you put out technical details so your work can be examined from an academic standpoint instead of just a media-frenzied one.
It is really hard for even professional historians to gain a good understanding of old technical works. There is just too much unavailable context. In the end, you get to ascribe whatever motivations you want by picking and choosing your quotes. So if Neoliberals want to use The Wealth of Nations as some sort of theological text, then more power to them. They just can't use it as some sort of appeal to authority as that particular world no longer exists. That applies to this article as well.
There is also substantial evidence that it has. The poor in America are richer and have higher living standards than the poor of less-globalized places. Absolute poverty in developed countries is far lower than at any possible by in history. In fact the same could be said for absolute poverty globally. And that, is a direct result of globalization.
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It sounds like your leadership is morons, but you blamed JavaScript?
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I believe it’s intentional. As to drive awareness of large issues and increase adoption of updates.

https://hbr.org/2014/04/heartbleed-the-branding-of-a-bug-and...
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I and a few friends have an idea for an e-business that we want to work on. All of us are in the age-group of 18 - 20 and we are from a small tier-III town. I am the only technical guy, so I will be the one who have to set up everything. What I want to know is about the technical and legal sides of a startup like when and how to incorporate, how to register the brand, etc. The startupindia.gov.in site mostly refers to business that are already functioning, I couldn't find anything on starting one from scratch. I don't know anyone in real life who is knowledgeable about this topic and most information that I find online are mostly US specific.
Is there a program out there that will expose a Unix socket as a named pipe or something that can be read to and written from like a file? That way you could take care of this with SSH tunneling.

edit: I meant "port", not "socket"! But apparently this is basically what netcat does by default.
Was a bit annoying to install with the rust toolchain from the Ubuntu/Elementary Freya repositories because the outdated compiler would fail on the bitflags package.
With the toolchain installed through rustup it works well.
Now I only need to become accustomed to these kinds of passwords.
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