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As an analogy, the road design here is similar to a highway built to Interstate standards... with a 25mph speed limit. That speed limit is not going to be honored.
You can install Photoshop's keyboard shortcuts into Gimp, takes like five minutes. And Photoshop doesn't have an intuitive UI either, no way for a newcomer to start using it on the spot, takes time to learn it. So, no, UI is not the problem, Gimp is roughly on the same level as Photoshop when it comes to UI. And spreading this silly myth doesn't help anyone.

Gimp's biggest problem is performance. Then features.
That’s all well and good, but if GIMP is targeting devs first who are also artists, Linux remains an OS without an image editor targeted at artists first. IMO that’s an important hole in the software library that prevents wider adoption.
GIMP was the first advanced image editor I have used. I grew quite fond of it and its tools. Nowadays I have moved away from it because it does not play well with macOS, but still return to it when I am on a Linux box.

For me, GIMP has always excelled in making simple actions simple. Even today I am quite surprised that other software has not taken some of the ideas for interface that gimp has.

Mainly:

- The selection tool is just miles ahead any of the software I have used. It makes the crop tool obsolete and every time I have to switch modes just to resize my previous rectangular selection I long for it.

- Resizing and clipping layers is dead simple. Other programs I have used have no "clip to selection" on layers and I have never understood why.

- Color to transparency is a single button

- Masks are actually simple to use as one can draw on them using all tools, not just some arbitrary subset

It has its dose of quirks and the interface is in dire need of a rework, however I must say that despite what many people say I find GIMP quite intuitive to use. I suppose that it is a force of habit.

Edit: formatting
I know that, you know that, but is that something the average person is aware of or do they think it works like Venmo?

If I go to a bar should I have to cycle currency between addresses to pay for a drink and avoid the bar man knowing my complete financial history? That sounds like a terrible UX.

I shouldn’t have to think about it. This is why I like the concept of privacy coins.
Genuine question: what are the conditions to make a particular piece of pavement a legal crosswalk in California?
You wouldn't consider it AI because it's good at it's job. We only consider things to be AI while they suck at making decisions.
> This makes sense: presumably there's no good way to talk to the built-in system; having a second system running that can't coordinate with the self-driving system would likely make the combined system less safe. Even if communication between the two were possible, I'd still imagine that just having a single system operating the care would be much more desirable.

That's the exact argument I make for never buying a car with that technology because I'm driving it and I have no way to communicate with it...

I'd be super happy to be driven around in an autonomous car, but have zero interest in auto-lane-keeping-pilot-collision avoidance-parking etc
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What about zcash? As I understand it has much stronger privacy, but almost nobody understands it so people are skeptical. I'm surprised it doesn't get more attention.
The "G" in GTK+ stands for "Gimp". If Gimp is using GTK+ ver 2 who are we to say different? Perhaps ver 2 is the version and the rest are just pointless forks...

This is a serious question in general. There will always be s steady stream of significant upgrades/changes of any popular open source project as later developers add in things they consider important. At some point the decision has to be made to stop following those changes. This decision is usually made by default when it turns out that no one can be bothered to follow the changes of a project from another project.
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Another point of view is that the traffic department realized that this was perhaps an unreasonably dangerous place for pedestrians to cross and posted a sign to that effect, in hopes of protecting pedestrians who might incorrectly judge/perceive the danger.
I think he/she means something like boost or Qt.

On Windows, Microsoft is investing on vcpkg as package manager.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg
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We recently saw trending post on HN related to fake whatsapp app on play store: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626819 and now its turn for Aadhar (kind of SSN of India).
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What do you recommend for a simple home network with a few computers and mobile devices?
Brexit is relevant, because like the election of Trump, it appears nefarious actors (likely Russians in both cases) used Facebook to drive votes in a particular direction (pro-Trump, pro-Brexit).
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Actually, those systems are designed as backup. They are designed as backup, when the driver does not react. That is the reason why they warn first and initiate an emergency brake only, and only if an accident becomes unavoidable.

So that would, if the automated tech from Uber would have detected in time, it would have reacted like a human driver and the pre-installed system would may have not noticed it. But in case, it would have reacted as a backup.
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It's the other way around: GTK was created by Gimp -- it was originally the "Gimp Tool Kit". Obviously, the project went separate ways since.
My partner was born in Germany and most of her family still lives there so she keeps up with German news. She is under the impression that the scandal is getting more publicity and generating more outrage in Germany than it is here in Canada.
As has been said elsewhere false positives of stopping suddenly are bad, but are better than false negatives of not stopping when there is something there.

Also the collision-detection systems should be getting tested so that they improve too. You want your fall back systems to be more reliable than the regular system. So if you turn off the collision-detection systems never fix the false positives and false negatives then you'll always have these problems.
This was a well-known design choice where the user could balance between transaction size and privacy--people who preferred faster/cheaper transactions chose to sacrifice untraceability. Nowadays, the default option enforces higher untraceability.

Also, some of the authors of the research paper mentioned in the article are part of the competitor Zcash group who sensationalise common knowledge to undermine Monero. Zcash is a US-based company that has a trusted setup which was possibly backdoored [1], one of their scientists and inventor of Zerocoin protocol publicly supported backdoors [2], and their CEO and cofounder suggested backdoors as well [3].

I would read more about Monero before dismissing it, as it's one of the very few legitimate groups in the space besides Bitcoin.

[1] https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/793584540891643906

[2] https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/bitcoi...

[3] https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856
how else are you going to include pacman's ghosts as using AI?
> gtk was chosen due to licensing considerations since ironically qt was “too free” ie pure gpl which limited its use in closed source software without licensing

This is wrong. GNOME was already well underway when Qt switched to GPL. Before that it used QPL and before that yet another license.
Sounds like I got it quite wrong:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16687097

Chris Cox and Mike Schroepfer are going, which is a very reasonable set: both are very knowledgeable, articulate speakers. I’m not sure how much of a scalping MPs will want it to be. I’m afraid that British politicians don’t appreciate Mark’s stance that his lieutenants understand the situation better.

As I wrote: Chris is a magician, so we’ll see.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16687574
With package managers I worry more about how I distribute my dependencies then anything else. Golang's vendor/ directory concept support was a revelation for me - just ship you dependencies alongside your code.

Meanwhile, I've heard people spend ages complaining that this is totally wrong...while overseeing setting up local artifactory instances and wrangling proxying to do the exact same damn thing.
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I'm on the Monero Research Lab team. This article, like most media coverage of academic research, ignores much of the subtlety behind the research. The likelihood that a particular output is positively identified depends heavily on its age relative to our regular protocol upgrades. And it's not like we aren't actively working on ways to improve anonymity. We're in the process of updating the way we choose our fake outputs and discussing best practices for handling very old outputs. I always appreciate research into ways to improve Monero, but I don't think this article does the research justice.
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Thanks, I see the hotels now - they're also the first thing on the discover page (binoculars icon).

I wonder if OSMand could make use of maps.me code to speed up their rendering - or perhaps it's not possible without cutting out information/features.
No I understand how derivatives work. Why bother with options at all if you are so confident it is going back up? Why not pay the spot price if you are that confident it is currently undervalued?
So how come not everyone can be a prophet? The Bible tells us why people who wouldn’t listen to the Pharisees listened to Jesus: “He spoke as one who had confidence”. You become a prophet by saying things that you would have to either be a prophet or the most pompous windbag in the Universe to say, then looking a little too wild-eyed for anyone to be comfortable calling you the most pompous windbag in the universe. You say the old cliches with such power and gravity that it wouldn’t even make sense for someone who wasn’t a prophet to say them that way.

“He, uh, told us that we should do good, and not do evil, and now he’s looking at us like we should fall to our knees.”

“Weird. Must be a prophet. Better kneel.”
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I think GNU Taler[1] solves the untracabilty problem in a way that most people should be happy with. Consumers have all of their transactions private from everyone (the seller cannot tell how much money they have, what other transactions they've made, or where the money comes from; a government cannot tell what transactions a person has made). But seller transactions can be audited for tax reasons, to avoid tax fraud.

And best of all, it's not yet another cryptocurrency. It's a payment system that works over any currency (traditional VISA, or crypto-currencies). Of course, this means that Taler "tokens" cannot be used as a store of value, other than as a proxy for the underlying store of value. So you would only hold Taler tokens like you would cash in your wallet.

They even have really nice easy integrations into browsers and backend processing.

(I don't work on GNU Taler, I've just been saddened that such an interesting project has gotten so little press outside of GNU circles.)

[1]: https://taler.net/
Well, you'll need an independent channel to do this, which also needs to be resistant to MITM. (In-person works, even though it's bothersome - but you only need to establish this once)

As long as it's a 1:1 chat, there's not much else to it - of course, great complexity comes to multi-user chats.
Or Heidegger, 'being-in-the-world-with-others' & all that.
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If there was a standard IDE for using js, HTML and CSS to build desktop apps and games that shipped with major OSs I bet it would get used a ton. Click icon, start new template project. Any more steps required to get started and it will be ignored.
IIRC it notifies the gun was fake BEFORE it gets to the random search part.
Newsqueak, Alef, Limbo and Plan 9 C's failed spectacularly in the market, nothing to brag about as proven technologies.

In fact, as nice as Go might be, if it had the AT&T Research Labs stamp instead of Google's, it would been just as successful.
The issue with inferences is that you could use relatively unprotected data, such as location data, to derive, for example, medical data. The example of going into an abortion clinic and having had an abortion is an obvious one. In that case, does the law consider you to be handling medical data? Can you sell it to a third party simply classed as location data analysis?
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My problem isn't that the UI isn't "intuitive", it's that it's bad - eg. the annoying "layer boundary" thing and the tendency for shortcuts to do different things depending on where you focused last.

I don't know if UX people have a name for it, but I get particularly infuriated by the feeling that I'm being punished for learning shortcuts. Youtube is the other thing that continually annoys me like this.

Edit: In the interest of balance, GIMP's UI has got much better in recent years (single window mode being a particularly massive improvement).

Edit2: I note that fixing the layer boundary issue is on their roadmap so, although it continues to be annoying for now, they can't be reasonably be accused of being dogmatic or intransigent about it.
Wonderful example of Machine Learning being used to harm, the banality of evil:

> Affiliates once had to guess what kind of person might fall for their unsophisticated cons, targeting ads by age, geography, or interests. Now Facebook does that work for them. The social network tracks who clicks on the ad and who buys the pills, then starts targeting others whom its algorithm thinks are likely to buy. Affiliates describe watching their ad campaigns lose money for a few days as Facebook gathers data through trial and error, then seeing the sales take off exponentially. “They go out and find the morons for me,”
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The Dollop podcast had an excellent episode detailing the history of Action Park (infused with their normal humor/horror reparte) - http://thedollop.net/wp/episode-87-dollop/
True, I forgot about Ada. While ugly, Ada2012 is a very modern language with a lot of benefits compared to C, especially for embedded control systems programming.

Ada got a bad rap in the past and didn't spread very wide outside US military circles. But it is a very good language. For adoption today it would need some big backing though.
Windows is pretty much already free if you are not a business. Just download Windows10 ISO from MS and install it on your home PC.

You will not be prompt to activate it and it will not ever lock itself. Only thing you cannot do is change your "Personalisation Settings" e.g. remove stupid "recomendations" on your Start, change desktop background etc.. Also you will have small overlay on bottom left corner saying "Windows is not activated" or smth.
That's a non-sequitur.
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Indeed. I've had more failures than I can tolerate with Belkin, Linksys, D-Link, Zyxel, TP-Link, Asus, ZTE, Huawei. They all tire up eventually - even if they work initially, the equipment runs hot and fails in a few months.

Some of them obey the Law of Plastic Box: a device in a plastic box does one thing but not more than that. A Huawei router is OK if I just do routing, no WLAN, and put a TP-Link box as a WLAN beside it. Etc.

The only exceptions I have had in consumer-priced equipment is Ubiquity, which is great, and a small Finnish company called Telewell (which make cheap plastic things in China but strangely has never failed for me). The UI with Telewell is still the typical consumer-grade Web UI.
What do you feel when popular GitHub project is not translated to English?
When I check GitHub trending repositories [0] I often see popular projects that are not translated in English. More often they are in Chinese.

I'd like to learn what are these projects about and how can I use or support them - but I can't.

What do you feel about it?
Should we encourage developers to translate?

[0] https://github.com/trending
Many (not the majority but still many) people scroll straight to the bottom to see what happens to be there after reading the top comments and also quick-read the comments in the middle (as there actually are many valuable comments on HN).

Anyway, hesitating to say something is not always the best idea, maybe it ought to be said aloud while everybody hesitates.
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Transparent OLEDs (TOLEDs), Transparent Quantum Dot LEDs (QD-LEDs), Transparent Inorganic LEDs, have all been around for a long time now:

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I'm confuzzled by the 'news', although the AC drive, vice DC is interesting I suppose.
I've noticed this in teams, too. Sometimes there is something which is clear to everybody, but which needs the right person to say it, in order for it to have the necessary gravitas to be followed.

I think a lot of people need authority figures to function.
> His medallion, once worth $1.1 million

Wow. Why not sell the medallion immediately and retire to some place with low cost of living instead of working 12 hour night shifts and never seeing your spouse because she works the day shift?
Facebook will analyse this to get a better psychological profile of you and serve you more tech-related and privacy-centered ads. /s
I should have chosen a better name, it didnt hit me at first :/

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So really not that much different than US Congress where he's still potentially going to appear?
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I was mostly agreeing with the article until this part:

"His medallion, once worth $1.1 million, had plummeted in value to $180,000. The dramatic drop in the value of the medallion, which he had hoped to lease for $3,000 a month or sell to finance his retirement, wiped out his economic security. He faced financial ruin and poverty. And he was not alone."

The medalions are stupid and shouldn't exist. Relying on their "value" for retirement is crazy. And like another commenter has said - if it was worth 1.1 million, why not sell it and retire, perhaps doing a less stressful job than driving a taxi for 12 hours in turns with your wife? It sounds like he gambled - that he could keep working, keep the medallion, and retire while leasing the medallion for $3000/month(!!!!!!!!!!) - and like all gambles, this one had a possibility of failing - and it did.
This is actually the correct response. A better way of saying it is: Facebook is not free. You pay by surrendering data about yourself and your friends.
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You call it sarcasm however it is true. Nobody forces anyone to visit that ad invested shit hole. Even less without adblock.
There has been similar research into tracing Zcash transactions between their transparent and shielded pool.
Great, and neither does their hair color, their # of kids, their name, their birthplace, or any of the other 100 details we normally include. Would you prefer all news articles were:

> Someone was walking and a car hit and killed them.

And that is the end of the story?
Wouldn't it have been more sensible to do the launch from somewhere nearer the edge of the earth?
Not sure how true the contents of the article are, however Modi was rather pally with Mark Zuckerberg during his time in India. Read into that what you will!
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Anonymity is not something you either have or don't have. It's always relative to an anonymity set. Mathematically, a ring signature provides a guarantee of anonymity within the ring.
I regret using the word "bullying" in my comment now. I do think that it is a correct word, but it's not what I wanted to argue about, and it completely derailed the conversation to a realm of value judgements.

Can we talk about it without value judgements whatsoever, please? I don't think that we'll come to terms about who's a victim, who needs protection, and so on - but most of all, I think that these questions are inconsequential and boring.

What I'm interested are the objective things that we can agree on regardless our political stances. So, I want to ask my question again: do you think that your comments help your political cause in any way?
I actually don't get the data-hogging of Microsoft, their ad revenue is only ~7% (compared to ~88% at Google).

Would be much better if they would follow Apple model and ditch advertising altogether and focus on products and privacy.
Wouldn’t a rigid, curved glass surface be less prone to breakage than a flat piece of glass, since the full force of an impact is more likely to be deflected?
Because the medallion was a capital asset he was working to produce income, in the same manner as some people own trucks of about that value?
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Huh, are you really this dense? Yes, they're criminals, because sex work is currently illegal (in the US at least). If it were not illegal, they would no longer be criminals. So how about we legalize it, then they won't be "sex criminals", and then you can stop crying about how your ideal authoritarian "Society" is crumbling because people are free to engage in consensual sex.