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I still miss the hardware page turn buttons that were present on the Kindle 4. I got the Voyage, which has the kinda-buttonish thingies with vibration feedback, and these are nowhere as nice and reliable as physical buttons were.

Sadly, it seems I am the minority. Most people prefer no buttons (but ooh look how beautiful the device is as I take it out of the box the first time). Even worse, most people seem to prefer tedious manual scrolling over page turns (slide the text up with your finger, carefully watching as not to scroll too far, and then try to find your place in the text again).

I think these fads will pass, though, and we will eventually regain our collective sanity.
> since it is related to 10 fingers

If your parent comment is correct. 10 finger thing will merely be an afterthought.
Had a chance to interview Sam last week, he's as bright as you'd assume: https://theamphour.com/390-an-interview-with-sam-zeloof/
You’re suggesting these people won’t drive anywhere. There’s no way to support that growth given the limitations in our roadways. Traffic is already terrible, imagine 4 or 5 hours to get from oakland to San Francisco.
There may even have been incentives to turn other crimes into drug charges. DEA grants to local law enforcement tied drug convictions.
None of your responses acknowledge or challenge the very real problem that automated systems and expected behavior of GET reqeusts impact your desired behavior of click-to-unsubscribe.

In the spectrum of "buttholedesign", using proper web standards to make sure an action is being taken deliberately is far lower than "intentionally low-contrast skip buttons" and "call to cancel subscription".
Going from Pakistan to Russia seems like the wrong way around Cape Horn. Today you've got 30 kt winds gusting up to 50 kts. Who wants to beat into that?

https://www.windy.com/-57.136/-71.191?-37.370,-80.244,3,m:3V...
It’s confusing because the latitude line 66° south looks like a straight line on a globe. But to sail in a “straight line”, which means keep your steering centered forever, you will travel in a great circle.

All great circles lie on a plane that intersects the sphere (earth) through the center of the sphere. You can see that the only latitude line that’s on a plane intersecting the center of the earth is the equator, and that 66° south doesn’t. This also means that all straight line paths on earth touch the equator at 2 opposing points. Or said another way, you can start with the equator, pick any one point on the equator and rotate it around that point to get a new great circle.

So in order to stay sailing along 66° south, you’d have to have your steering turned constantly just a little bit south.
Sort of related:

For a while now I’ve been thinking that a product that helps you monitor your competitor’s job postings could be pretty interesting. Anyone here find value in that concept? It wouldn’t be for finding a job necessarily, but instead to keep a pulse on the potential health/direction of those in your niche.
The iPhone 6 was a flasgship device when it was launched. I meant find a comparable Android flagship device.
I'm not sure the ownership is disputed? perhaps the original owner has had an accident or suffering a mental or other illness. Github/Freenode could attempt to reach out to the current account holder to verify he/she is still alive as a first step I guess
There's a massive difference to printing 10 distances from your result set, and calculating 10 million. I'm not sure why you had to exaggerate "millennia".

How does a computer know that searching "Wawa" means you want the store and not the town? You haven't even considered that. It's a search term.

And a really good system would clearly takes a load of things you're not considering into account, relevance, rank, personal relevance, historical relevance age, etc. A really good system might even helpfully try to include traffic density, how busy a store was, etc. What if all the stores near him have 1 star google reviews? What if some of those Wawas are paying for adverts and some aren't? What if some of them have opening times set up, and some don't?

As I say, their ranking system might be working great for other things, but something like this it spits out crap.
I was talking with someone recently, and they told me that all new Kaiser doctors are contractors. I was shocked. I don't know if it is true. If it is, I hope this decision reverses that trend. Can you imagine coming out of medical school, passing the boards, doing your time as a slave as some hospital, to get an offer as a contractor? And all that, with an amazing amount of debt, that you assumed you could pay off easily, but now you're not so sure? Wow.
What most companies have is access controlled by an organizational superuser team.

At large companies, this means that each team has full or near-full control over their "jurisdiction." IT has full control over LDAP accounts, and since they're a team, one person going AWOL won't affect the org as a whole. There are also infra teams that control domain routing and hosting providers.
For starters having more than one person with admin / owner level of access. At least three is better but even two people reduces these risks and significantly lowers bus factor.
https://clovers.network
https://thehackernews.com/2018/03/android-botnet-malware.htm...

This malware was installed on vanilla phones including those from Samsung, out of the factory.

Regarding LastPass, it used the accessibility option, which as far as I know basically let's it watch your screen - aka it's a full on screen logger.

On top of this most Android devices are way out of date (Samsung in particular is terrible about updating their phones), and vulnerable to security exploits, malware, adware, who knows what.

Good luck to anyone that owns an Android phone. It's like the Windows 95 of mobile devices.
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https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

The above link contains a sample Excel template with details of the various information a record of processing should contain. If you are only processing employee data this should be straightforward. It's a link to the ICO, the UK's data protection authority, but it should be useful regardless of where you are (assuming GDPR applies to you of course!).
I think there is valid confusion to be had in interpreting this statement.

Usually, when a statement of "choose either x or y" is made, then the only valid options are exclusively x or exclusively y (None and Both are not valid).

Though, when the statement of "if either x or y then do action" is made, then the action is done with any of three valid options: x, y, or x and y (only None is not valid).

To change the second statement to mean the first, you could say "if only x or only y then do action." The "only" cancel Both as being an option.
I agree, and my phrasing was imprecise; we do need to assume that roads will be used to some degree, but we also need to allow for types of living that don't use freeways, or even perhaps allow living without a car.

Right now local regulations require large amounts of parking, which means large amounts of the most valuable space devoted just to cars, and forcing people to pay for the car. If you're forced to pay an additional 10% in rent to cover the space used for parking, then you're probably going to get a car.

If people were allowed to make the decision to not have cars and reap the financial benefits, we'd see a bigger shift.

As it is, car use is regulated into the way that we build things.
Thanks, it's from a few months ago and we dug it up after your suggestions :)
Just quoting the last paragraph. This is the kind of honesty people need.

> Intellectual honesty requires taking numbers seriously. Either we prioritize making the Bay Area affordable for all of us or we don’t. The less housing we build, the more wealth will be trapped in high housing prices. Unless we decide to grow our housing stock to accommodate our economy, we are continuing to choose the interests of those who are rich or who already own their homes over the interests of the struggling middle and working classes.
It is actually 45 days and in our subscription terms, Section 5.2: "If Customer terminates this Agreement pursuant to Section 6.2 within 45 calendar days from receipt of the initial invoice for the Licensed Materials, GitLab will refund all Fees paid hereunder."
> what is github/freenode supposed to do in this case, allow a takeover?

Of course. The group has a reasonable case to ownership of the project, and no one else (specifically the awol user) is contesting the handover.

[edit]: I did not even realize this would be a contentious point to make. I see lot of what-aboutisms (and downvoting): but let's take this concrete example for the story we're reading:

(1) Does anyone want to contest that the parent posters are not owners of the project (with commit access, and regarded by the project's community as it's leaders).

(2) We're not talking transferring away a govt. provided identity here. It's the github/irc project handle so it's owners can use it given the prior owner is awol.

(3) I agree there may be scenarios where this may not be as cut and dried, which is why i specifically mentioned ownership of a project, and no contention.
Except they do in Europe under the 'right to be forgotten'.
The GDPR might actually create an “attention economy”
If I click a link to claims to unsubscribe me, then that's exactly what it should do. I have no problem with a page to manage account preferences, but don't label the UI element that leads there as unsubscribe.
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Perhaps timelock[1] variants could be implemented if a usable option comes up. The idea being that if access or activity is dormant for a period of time t, then at t+1 secondary keys can be used. This presumes that organizations wishes to maintain a "single focal point" and not simply share the access amongst several individuals.

Timelocked secondary keys/credentials could be used as a fail safe. If one wants to really design safety into the system, ensure each admin-level key is revokable, and then wait for t duration.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Timelock
It will work with any phone or PC with a USB C port as long as the OS supports USB audio devices. As far as I know, all the major OS's support those. Even iOS if you have a lightning -> USB adapter.

Technically it draws power but it's not going to use more power than an internal headphone jack does. They are both just a DAC and a small headphone amp. The only difference is that one is inside the device and one is outside the device.

In a few years, once the idea of having a device without a USB C port seems strange, headphones and AUX cables will probably just come with a DAC/amp built in to them and nobody except audio enthusiasts will care about not having a 3.5mm port on their device. That is, if Apple decides to embrace USB C on iOS devices which I think they will.
I'm not sure you understand that putting something on an http server is publication. It is legally no different than standing on a street corner handing out flyers.

You are suggesting that the author of a flyer should be able to demand that everyone who took one burn it immediately, and have the force of law to ensure it happens.

That is not how copyright works. Copyright is intended to encourage the creation of new works, by granting for a limited time the exclusive right for an author to reproduce and copy their own works. Once those copies exist, and pass out of the author's possession, copyright does not grant any further control of them, other than to forbid those copies to be used to produce additional copies.

This, of course, raises the question of whether serving a digital document on an http archive server is violating the author's copyrights. A library may keep a copy of a pamphlet and allow patrons to view it without violating copyright. But web servers work by stamping out a perfect copy of the document and sending it out over the network. There is no physical embodiment of the document. If the archive were to display the document on a monitor, and then serve a video from a camera, pointed at that monitor, that would be analogous to viewing the physical copy of the pamphlet, but then that pointless fiction could be dispensed with by removing the monitor and camera and transmitting the digital rendering. So we have to fall back on the intent of the copyright act.

Clearly, the copyright act is intended to expand the amount of available works, by granting a temporarily profitable monopoly. Does the prevention of archiving further this purpose? Hell no. Archiving is essential for those works to eventually enter the public domain. When the original creator of a work has abandoned their attempt to monetize their efforts, to the point where they are now trying to destroy their work, it should escheat to the public domain immediately. If you didn't want it out there, the only remedy would have been to never publish it. You cannot erase prior publications by abusing copyrights. The law should not protect book-burners.
Last time I talked to somebody at USDS two years ago maybe, they where already helping. I think the biggest task was trying to figure out getting off tape and moving normal hard drive storage. Apparently this is hard because the really old programs are the OS and file system. Without the details it sounds to me this is what broke or something around that.
I don't understand your point. "securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right" means others cannot print copies of your books.
More like incentivizing people to accept responsibility for their actions.
I think it's doable, you just have to keep going a bit.

Is Tyler Cowen right, then? “Basically SF is ed?” No. San Francisco could be just fine. The thing about San Francisco is that while greenfields have been exhausted in the city, the San Francisco Bay Area is largely undeveloped. We are always arguing over San Francisco, or Palo Alto (ick). Outside of the 47 square miles of San Francisco proper are almost 3200 square miles in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties. (I’ll leave out the hoity-toity North Bay counties — Marin, Sonoma, Napa — but if it’s Latin-America-style land reform you want, the vines there are ripe for revolution!) Nobody wants new suburban sprawl, thank goodness. But dense development is not sprawl, even when it is greenfield development.

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6487.html
I agree, the hardware buttons were perfect and then touch screen ruined the whole experience for me. They recognised this as a luxury people would pay for by reintroducing them to the awful looking Oasis.
In COBOL, you will have EBCDIC, not ASCII.
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After Russia, Telegram Banned in Iran Too
Alternatively, they can just tell the Wayback Machine to delete the articles or forbid it from archiving them, right?
Where's the who's hiring thread?
Isn't this usually posted at the start of the month?
indeed it is quite possible i am hugely out of the loop..

for those of us less 'in the know', i think there is a tendency to look at mariadb and oracle, and kind of overlook percona - this is what I was getting at.
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He said the freeways can support 50% growth over 20 years. That’s lunacy. Look at the history of our freeway system. Ok, if you want to insist that flying cars will come in the next 10 years maybe. But to say congestion pricing is to say, roads for rich people, everyone else stays in their cubicle like happy inmates. Just unreal to see putatively intelligent people engage in such a discussion.
> hating syntactic abstraction (macros) makes as much sense to me as hating procedural abstraction (functions).

This is a bit pedantic, but...

Many people's experiences with macros are through C. C macros are not syntactic abstraction, but some sort of lexical expansion that introduced syntactic confusion.

I get this is not the case in many languages now but for most popular languages macros are "throw appended strings into eval/C preprocessors"
Cool and awesome does not pay. The top companies may be using cool stuff to accomplish things, but the things being done are ultimately pedestrian. Google sells ads, Amazon runs an online marketplace, Apple makes personal communicators and Facebook is a place for chatting with friends. None of them are doing anything like "searching for the origins of the universe."
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This is a totally a product announcement, and to declare interest I work for Weaveworks. As it's Kubecon EU starting tomorrow there should be a lot of interesting news about K8s. Already wandering around there are more vendors and a bigger range of interests represented. Hope the talks will be as good!
Non stop circumnavigations have already been done.

For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Erdmann
MM I just though isn't this going to kill Hollywood as the entertainment biz is run off "contractors"

I think A & B would catch most film tv and theater professionals the gaffer gets told what lighting effect to go for also everyone on a show gets told when and where to show up on the call sheet.
Lift heavy weights. Not for strength or physique (though that's nice too), but because it increases independence and mobility into old age, decreases likelihood of falls, and increases bone density. Basically it prevents you from sitting in a recliner slowly dying for 10 years at the end of your life. Instead you get to live those years doing things. It also improves cognition and mental health in old age.

Edit: Do squats, deadlifts, bench press, and pullups.

There are a million programs to choose from on /r/fitness, but basically just start with something you can do and try to increase weight or reps every session/week/whatever.
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Sharing the power is also really important. I founded the project PhpWiki back in 1999, and eventually saw the need to grant admin access to other developers. I haven't done any development on the project in about fifteen years but it's still going.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/
Code that debugs itself: Fixing a deadlock with a watchdog
You might also like Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine [1] written in 1989 by Daniel Hillis.

[1] http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
damn, retro scifiesque
Yet interestingly both were Cecil B DeMille productions..
kind of like the 50's one was a 'talkie remake' of this one..

interesting.
Google Analytics drops the last octet IIRC. Hashing isn't anonymizing because the hash can later be used to re-identify a user. (See https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...)
Removing the last 3 digits would often uniquely identify a larger company or a city and if you only have 1 user from that city/company, those records would be easy to connect.

Maybe Google is hoping the EU will accept that balance of concerns, but it doesn't sound like it realises the spirit of the law.
Acids tends to pull moisture from the air (hydroscopic) and dilute rather than lose water and concentrate.
Is this the famous three is two, two is one and one is none?
Henry George would shed a tear.

I do believe that the thing that would change the housing stock situation for SF is to remove sales taxes and add land value taxes. Just that change alone will make workers and renters richer overnight, and would change the anti-development mindset of owners quite a bit, considering that low-dense units will pay the highest amount.
Patients face expensive ER bills even when they don’t receive treatment
Video and voice calling are peer-to-peer. The only cost is the signalling server. I have a similar service, and it scales pretty well.
I haven't seen a black cab for years in London that didn't have a card reader - its actually a safty advantage as cabbies no longer may have large amounts of cash.

This is a serious point as only a few years ago one of the local minicab drivers for the company I use got killed for his takings.
Good call. I've been there. Got attacked by fish. Would not recommend.
I think the "antagonistic" is the lack of visual "affordances" - indications of what an action will do. Like door handles that give no indication of whether to "pull" or "push".

I'd say at most that it is not "new user friendly", rather than antagonistic to all users.

I'm only an occasional Kindle user, but I rarely make a wrong action using the hardware interface, and when I do, it's an unintentional long tap, and I have to cancel an unintended highlight.
Incidentally, that’s precisely the set of hardware buttons on the Remarkable e-ink tablet.
Perhaps core infrastructure passwords for a project could be placed in a dead-man's-switch escrow service, where they will only be released to a larger core team if NONE of the (potentially multiple) project leaders with those passwords check in for a certain period. Current blockchains/crypto don't permit this without a trusted third party escrow service, though, AFAIK.
Strange. My 2012 iMac and MBA are humming along just fine. And they're refurbs. My "bought as new" stuff has been just fine as well. I still have an iPhone 5s that, save for the old battery, works normally.

I haven't encountered a bricked phone via an updated iOS, but I have had android folks who weren't running flagships try to get the latest OS, and brick their phones.

Lastly, when I do have an issue, the apple customer service has just been too good to me over the years. My friend dropped my phone recently, and unluckily for me, it landed on a metal rail, damaging the sleep button. But Apple replaced the phone for free. As well as a wireless keyboard my coworker had me bring in. I had no receipt for that one, but it took too long for them to locate a buyable replacement of that particular model, so the CSR just gave me a newer model, for free. YMMV of course, but they seem empowered to do far more than typical companies.

But this is all pointless; we can go round and round with anecdotes all day.
The housing situation is a California wide problem. The bigger government is the first one messing up housing.
I don't think this actually happens.
Yep. Trying to hold onto my SE as long as I can and I'm really stumped at where to go next...
If density increases the people who will benefit the most are current landowners. If you have single family home on a big lot, its value will go up many times if you can suddenly build an apartment building on it.
No, we don't: https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/californi...

We know that artificially restricting the supply of housing increases prices.
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Not these days, I'm constantly getting emails offering £45-50k for East Midlands jobs, up from £40-45k the year or two before. 4 years ago I got offered 3 jobs in the East Midlands at or close enough to £40k, with one having bonuses too.

You can go check on any job site, indeed, cwjobs, whatever. CWJobs claim the average is up to £62k for London now, and that's of all dev jobs, not just senior ones:

https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-csharp-devel...