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> Anyone who doesn't like the Touch Bar is ipso facto deluded and/or irrational. Fantastic.

You're putting words in my mouth. The root issue is just a lack of information; there's nothing wrong with the people themselves as you're trying to claim.

> My main means of input to my computers is touch-typing on a keyboard. I never look at it (I already have a peripheral for looking at: a screen!).

I agree, partially. When you're using the keyboard you're not looking at it, and for the most part that's also true for the Touch Bar. When you're doing something with the function keys or escape, you don't have to look down, since those are always in the right place. Even some with dialogs fit into this category. You do, however, look down when you're trying to perform some annoying operation that the Touch Bar surfaces easily.

> Furthermore the application I use for 50-70% of that time is IntelliJ Idea, with tweaked default keybindings. I probably hit F keys hundreds of times a day. I would need to either do some substantial keybinding remapping, or start using part of my keyboard as a mini-screen.

I'd make the argument that using the function keys as shortcuts is not the idiomatic way to use macOS, which relies heavily on the modifiers at the bottom of the keyboard, but I get that this is a weak argument since it requires you to change your behavior. Ideally Idea would just ship with nice shortcuts…

> I don't either like or dislike the Touch Bar.

My comment may have come off as a resounding plaudit for the Touch Bar; it is nothing but. I'm also not completely sold on it; I really think it needs to be improved so that it's more useful. However, I do think it's an interesting direction to go in, and as it currently stands, I'm slightly in favor of having it instead of function keys.
A usual CPC (cost per click) that an advertiser is willing to pay is somewhere between 50 to 150 cents. Let's say it is 100, and you clicked on 10 ads in a month. So, Facebook earned $10 off you. Now, you should be willing to pay more than that for Facebook to prefer the model you are suggesting.

My math above is highly simplistic. For e.g., you'd say you aggressively use an ad blocker and never click on ads. Fair enough, but what about non - tech people unlike us? For e.g., when my dad starting using Facebook at an age of 50+ couple of years, he just tried an unknown plumber through a Facebook ad. Moreover, you'd be willing to pay a monthly subscription, but would all of your friends?

So, what I am getting at is that at Facebook scale they'll earn more though ads than through a subscription model.
While we're eon the subject: since I switched to a high-fiber diet, my toilet paper needs (and throne time) have decreased dramatically. Particularly blended kale, including the stalks, leads to quick, efficient bowel movements. It goes by so fast I don't have time to do anything on my phone. I am way faster than those around me, and my wipes have almost no material, because the poop itself is more cohesive.
> How so?

Run sudo mokutil --disable-validation

> Adding such an ability removes the security right?

No, because the mechanism used for this requires proof that you have access to the console - a remote attacker can't do it. A local attacker could, but there's support for passwording it to prevent this (it's equivalent to passwording the firmware setup)

> I acknowledge I may be misunderstanding this

You are, but there's a huge amount of misinformation about this stuff out there that makes it hard to find the actual information, so it's not surprising :)
How are you sure you don't have a so-called "boot kit" on your machine?
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You're assuming the status quo of input and then suggesting that it is a given, and thus any technology will in the end by identical to the status quo.

Let's consider chess for a minute. When a strong player looks at a chess position they see something very different than what a casual player sees and, in fact, they actually use different parts of their brain. They will be able to see ideas and concepts in a fraction of a second that a casual player could spend hours searching for, and failing to find. Yet paradoxically, show these ideas to the weaker player and they'll understand them easily - it's not magical.

I find chess a good example since most people are not very good, but do know how to play so they can understand the analog from the amateur side easily. But you can also see things from the side of the 'master' in language. Look at your post. It's made up of 1,499 characters and hundreds of different combinations of these characters. Yet I'm able to parse it very little time and you wrote it with no significant effort. Think about the immense amount of processing that's going on there, without ever really realizing it.

So I see no reason to believe that this sort of invisible processing need be limited. Is there any reason I can't consume the entirety of e.g. Wikipedia or the entire catalog of astrophyics journals? Even going full Neo, the difference between a master jiujitsu practitioner and somebody who's never done it at all is almost entirely in the brain. Why can't that information be consumed in direct fashion? It doesn't really seem all that much more spectacular than consuming the entirety of dictionaries and the countless nuanced exceptions and rules of construction between those words, or somehow being able to instantaneously grasp, to at least a very good degree, a practically infinite variety of chess positions.

I also remain cynical on the neural lace, but because I think it's reach far exceeds its grasp. I think to really make progress you would effectively need to begin breaking down the man-machine interface in ways beyond clever signal correlation, and we haven't even scratched the surface there. By analog it'd be like trying to become a fluent speaker, without accent, in Ancient Egyptian by studying hieroglyphics.
Damn, there goes my favorite RSSGUIDCoin miner.
All Arabs and Muslim countries use water to clean too, and that toilet too is used by 90% in Arabs homes and in public toilet is considered must have since it's easy to clean.
Can you explain why you think that a player should be able to opt out of in-game telemetry(in a way other than not accepting the terms of service and not connecting the game to the master servers)? I'm genuinely curious what your opinion is.
sure, I'm not saying it wouldn't be great. but my point is that you still need an interface, and my understanding is that we're pretty far away from building an interface that feels like it's just your memory. I mean, it'd be great, sure, if you could do it... but that's an interface that needs to be designed, and it's an interface that we, as humans have no idea how to design.

How would you record a memory? how would you replay that memory? how would you index the memory?

I mean, sure, the idea is to emulate how the brain works now... but how does the brain work now? I don't think we really have a very clear idea on that level.
I like this notion that a new baby isn't a 16+ hour a day exhausting job in itself.
Facebook has likes, Reddit has upvotes and downvotes, I don't know the name on HN or Stackoverflow.

Just calling it something different seems to be enough.
Let's entertain the question with our best answer:

If Facebook works because we spend the most valuable asset we have to offer which is our finite human life, then what does that have to do with bitcoin? We spend our life and we spend our money, so if one platform is based on ad revenue from our attention and the other platform is based on revenue from our trading of goods, then there may be a parallel where everything has a value even if it is not as tangible as heavy, cold, dirty gold.

Whether a "social" network or a "store of value" network, both of these examples exist because we are obsessed with being connected to one another. One could say that a big difference is that Bitcoin nodes don't usually share baby pics and Facebook posts don't usually parody wire transfers, but really both could easily do both.

At their guts, Facebook and Bitcoin are based on normal computers that have the knowledge and power to create streams of data from me to you. So, do we need a third party or can we handle it ourselves?

Disclaimer: I have some of my ETH in cryptokitties https://www.cryptokitties.co/ which is a crypto platform for trading kitten pics on the Ethereum network with an exact fiat currency equivalent. I can wire transfer you my kitten within minutes, value and all, but I won't. She's too cute.
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The rightmost num is coerced. And the hole is finished on par.
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The definition of an internet troll has been tainted badly. Everyone thinks it means going on twitter or facebook or reddit and being an ass hole. That is what used to be called "flaming" in old internet jargon, but now a days it should be ushered under the umbrella term of "shitposting". Instead, it has been related to trolling, I feel like because primarily many people don't understand what a true internet troll is.

A troll is simply someone who infiltrates a social group by ingratiating themselves into the group by some manner, and then works to decisively split the group in two with inner political turmoil before "disappearing". This entire scheme is much easier to perform online with relative anonymity where none of the other cues that humans might use to sniff out a troll in their group are present, such as reading body language or by hearing antagonistic speech patterns. A clever and witty actor with a strong grasp of the target language can manipulate peer groups and break a social group apart rather effectively. This is more difficult in real life although there is precedent for real human social trolls: the Khans of Mongolia used them to great affect in towns and villages they planned to raid. Sometimes the Mongols didn't even need to fight when they got to the town.

Anyways, I don't really have any objection to the article per say, but its a pet peeve of mine. Know your internet jargon m8s!
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>I thought so too but the Pebble Time had snappy, colorful animations[1] that looked really good, and changed my perception completely on what is possible with e-ink.

Except they didn't use e-ink. Pebble used transreflective LCD's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
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Depends on the line. Most big names do.
Because there are only 2 ways of that happening:

1. I run a malware as root which modifies my image. I don't run anything as root except apt. So this is impossible.

2. Someone steals my computer and modifies the disk. Again, if they have physical access, I have already failed in my security. So this scenario is irrelevant.

Am I missing anything?
Having to "touch" a completely different surface to press escape sounds absolutely awful. Unless there's a way to swap escape for a real key that you don't need I would consider that machine defective.
If you did this warnings, you would want to be on the safe side. So, there would be a lot of false positives. But, as a result, your customers would get accustomed to it and don't treat them seriously.

There's no easy fixes here.
Ask HN: How would you automate fake news detection?
Given any technology of your choice at disposal (deep learning, graph mining, NLP, what not) how would you approach fake news detection? Most solution out there are half baked or works only for specific data.
I forsee this as a step in many online guides on "how do I [x] on linux"

Edit:
Having thought about this some more, I think perhaps we can model this workaround after SELinux. Sure, there were trivial cases (my wine game mmaps 0x0 and now doesn't work, after wunderbar emporium), but more often it was something like "My apache can't read my directory" "Just run setenforce 0 and try again" which then, rather than being followed up with audit2allow, usually results in the search "How to disable SELinux permanently".

The fundamental problem is that, and you've covered this ground plenty of times, Secure boot is not secure by default. We're not really affording much more security for the most vulnerable systems which is run by small time system administrators rather than large tech corporates.

Sure it would be great if we could educate people to protect their chain of trust (and arguably the best solution), but instead what we have is something which hampers usability, and opens the door to people who plan to come around and barricade the door after you.

So by tying in this security by default measure, we could arguably afford and even greater illusion of protection, which runs counter to the intent of extending the protection of secure boot. Anyone willing enough to protect their chain of trust explicitly is also going to be able to research the issue.

The flip side is that SELinux was adopted anyway. If there aren't actually that many server use cases which require this work around, then: Protection, awesome. But unlike SELinux policy, Lockdown policy is baked into the kernel (right?). If there are any issues, there is only one solution: disable Kernel Lockdown, which might be achieved by disabling secure boot validation.
I don't think it's carelessness, rather that 1000x more accurate navigation gives you a lot more things to care about. That 19th century captain measured the angle between the pole star and the local horizon with a sextant; the cartographers did it the same way, because that was the only thing you could do.

Today, we work with atomic clocks, and our instruments fabricate an angle between the z-axis and a 100th order spherical harmonic series that models the shape of the ocean surface. Every few years, we update the model to keep up with plate tectonics. (Not exactly, but you get the idea.) There are a lot more things to go wrong, and not everyone programs in sanity checks to prevent small corrections from causing large errors.
I like Chinese toilets as well, but I think they're a hard sell here. They're more hygienic (no touching), better for health (in terms of poop position) and simpler to clean (just mop the whole floor and you're done).
You're the one who sounds privileged. OP sounds like they know what it's like to live within their means, and grow up with a strong character. You just want to make entitled leeches.
Ask HN: Does GDPR kill consumer genetic testing in Europe?
Quick question for the masses: My understanding was that the consumer genetic testing business model is based on a loss-leader on the testing and analysis based on later sale of data (please correct me on this if I'm wrong). But GDPR will allow Europeans to withdraw their consent for use of their data once they've had the testing done. Will this undermine genetic testing services in Europe?
"I want to help them, but the answer isn't more subsidies. I want to see her get that better job, even if it means losing the assistance. I want to see Dad stay in the home because that's so critical for developing emotional control in young adults. I want their son to grow up scrappy and industrious, with a good sense of how to get by even things are tough because tough times happen for everyone."

In other words, you want to help the person in a way that doesn't require you to pay anything or spend any of your time.
There are a few passenger services from $1000 or so. I'm not sure it was ever really cheap https://thecruisepeople.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/atlantic-co...
Not to throw you flowers, but I frankly wish more people reasoned like this. Well said.
YouTube doesn't take kindly to anyone questioning their completely arbitrary exercise of power on the platform, especially not content providers that make their business possible.
That led me to an interesting story about how Andras Tantos recovered a working OS image from the raw high-res magnetic disc image:

http://www.modularcircuits.com/blog/articles/the-cray-files/...
Don't worry, the mean time between Linus saying something like that and then merging anyway is about ten minutes.
That is not the location of the accident. The accident happened at the HOV left exit from 101 to 85.

Streetview:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4112791,-122.076645,3a,75y,9...
I imagine both steeper and flatter. The flatter curve seems to be easier to handle within my naive mental model of how utilities work.
What’s really interesting about this is the sort of horror film aspect to these situations where everyone gets a bad feeling of impending doom but they push forward anyway.

People should trust that instinct. Takes a lot of effort to pull away from the brink, but you should do it. 100% of the time.
I can already see the news reports about racist toilets.
That's a problem earn.com could have solved, but unfortunately only ICO promoters ended up using the platform, I think
The same is true for startups :)
Nice, my dad was quite prescient as well and bought me and my sister Vic-20s with little black and white matching TVs. I have great memories of hacking the random sentence generator in BASIC and loading/saving programs to cassette tape over many minutes.

A teacher so far ahead of his time at school had a TRS-80 that we would have lessons on. It would be at least 5 years later that I would touch another computer, a PC XT running DOS.
Why even replace it? Pseudo chronological single wall views are simply not a modern way to consume information anymore.

Not to mention, which crazy brain even proposed to fix it?
Easier to wash too, and to lose your smartphone into
To be fair, Apple's F keys aren't even touch-typist friendly because there's no grouping.

I'm listening to music all day. Changing the volume and skipping tracks without looking is great to keep the flow going.
If you had the intelligence to do that calculation, you would have the intelligence to not be in such a desperate situation in the first place.
Sep. '17 crash was at 92/880

March '18 was at 101/85
In UK nappies are ultra cheap. My Wife uses Lidl's nappies but Aldi's are equally good (if not the same!). They cost around 5-7 pence each. Can't really exactly remember because they are so cheap.
Pampers are more expensive but by much.
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A Chinese hospital is betting big on artificial intelligence to treat patients
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The $3000 laptop runs the VMs that execute the software that's being built and configured using vi.
Thanks for your kind words :)

Tried to try Joustme, but I couldn't get past "searching for opponent" :( Let's hope HN gives it a boost!
I apologize if it sounded like that - a baby is definitely 16+ hours of work a day if not more, that's why I said that no other job is possible, but I was saying that maybe the person can squeeze in a couple of hours to wash the diapers while the baby is asleep.
I don't think that's the correct answer. Flight autopilots have lowered accident rates tenfold, but every time there is a crash while on autopilot Boeing/Airbus will ground every single plane of that type and won't allow them to fly until the problem is found and fixed. If I know that my car's autopilot is statistically less likely to kill me than I am to kill myself, I would still much much rather drive myself.
The Cuckoo's Egg is such a good read, at the time it came out there was a television program in the UK about it and I have been rereading the book every couple of years since watching that.

The only negative is the biscuit recipe isn't very good.
You seem to think first world means everyone is happy, content, and without struggle. No country such as that has ever existed.

The common concept of first world is so misconstrued by people who live in it that those from second and third world countries would ridicule you for your comment.

Perspective, don't forget it.
Well, due to a bug in a specific version of vi, holding the space-bar for a few seconds causes the laptop to overheat.
I bought an external thermometer that connects via USB, and I have a daemon that monitors it to notice the overheating and send the ESC key to the application.
*by not much. Sorry, 17,5 flight is taking it's toll.
Usually when I creep these people out by confronting them with personal details of their life (which I simply snapped of public Facebook data) they actually are creeped out.

So while yours is a interesting thought I highly doubt a lot of people Actually understand the full issue.
> running for over a century

Continuing to work after a century.
No, because it’s already mapped to control. And that is Important, as its primary muscle memory. Escape shortcuts are less important. They still trip me up, but less often.
“Events API: Until today, people could grant an app permission to get information about events they host or attend, including private events. This made it easy to add Facebook Events to calendar, ticketing or other apps. But Facebook Events have information about other people’s attendance as well as posts on the event wall, so it’s important that we ensure apps use their access appropriately. Starting today, apps using the API will no longer be able to access the guest list or posts on the event wall. And in the future, only apps we approve that agree to strict requirements will be allowed to use the Events API.”

Does this mean we won’t be able to show FB events and rsvps in our app?

https://qbix.com/calendar
> Charge $0.001 to deliver an email. Maybe in crypto or some kind of PoW. Legitimate senders won't care about $0.001.

So your solution to crypto people poisoning the well is something that will be incredibly inconvenient for everyone but crypto people?
Why is a two key combination silly? Only normal typing characters need to have a dedicated key. For everything else there are control keys. Some of those control keys I use far more frequently than copy and paste, believe it or not.
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Neither societal structure or quality of life affect the drying time of cloth diapers in humid places.

Edit - and having lived in both, you're much better off drying things in a hot humid place than in colder ones.
From the top: the goal of the lockdown mode is to prevent someone who has UID=0 ("root") in the kernel from being able to modify or tamper with it (ring0 / CPL0 access). This can be done through /dev/mem, kexec, or even by asking a PCI card or FireWire device to DMA into physical system memory. Basically, there are a lot of hooks to tamper with the kernel, and "lockdown" mode turns them off.

Now, this only really makes sense if you are in some sort of trusted untampered environment already: if not, someone with root can stomp a new kernel in /boot/ which gives them a backdoor. So, lockdown without a trusted boot environment is security theater, since you can just take the long road anyway.

Additionally, in a trusted boot environment, the lockdown flag is wanted. If not, "trusted boot" really isn't such: someone that booted through a signed kernel can simply tamper with the kernel anyway after booting up through an init hook. The dangerous part: once they have the ability to tamper with the kernel, they can chainload another operating system and functional as a poisonous bootloader. The danger here is that if an attack like this is seen in the wild, and the attacker used, say, Fedora's kernel signing keys to do the attack, it has the possibility to get Fedora's keys blacklisted by OEMs. Linux would do best not to be used by an attacker as a "malware bootloader".

That means it's reasonable for, by default, lockdown to be informed by the presence of a trusted boot environment.
My son is 4 months old. For the first few months, 12 changes a day was definitely not an outlier. However, we were very quick to change his diaper once we noticed it was wet.

$1000/yr for diapers is definitely possible. You and I may have the luxury of purchasing diapers in bulk, but for many people (such as the young woman in the article), 32 diapers for 10 bucks is reality.