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I'm not very invested in finding flaws in your workflow, but I am happy it works for you. It does sound interesting and I'd honestly like to know more about how you have it setup.

I stopped using desktop Linux a long time ago and now use a Mac for my desktop work. I take things a bit further and don't let anything write to my $HOME/Desktop -- it's read-only. I don't recommend that as a default for anyone either!

But as far as Flatpak, a few of the "featured" apps are things like Inkscape, Gimp, VLC, or LibreOffice. Not apps that you'd really want to sandbox isolate like you described. (And as you mentioned -- you wouldn't want to do that anyway).

Now a few of the others were Spotify and Slack. Things that you could (should?) definitely sandbox.

I guess I don't see the point in having applications (that is intended for a general purpose user) that (a) need access to your home directory to read/write files and (b) should only have access to a sandboxed pseudo-home directory. Either sandbox it so it doesn't have $HOME access at all, or don't. I'm not sure I see the benefit to this middle ground. Especially for the use-case of general user desktop applications. For server applications, I could potentially see the benefit (although, containers have probably already filled this scenario). What is the use-case you're thinking of?

I appreciate your point of view that no one should be able to decided for you how to sandbox software, but no one is forcing you to use Flatpak packaged programs[1]. Perhaps there should be some way to re-build a Manifest that limits access, or make it so that you can more easily switch granted privileges -- that would probably be a good thing. But someone has to set defaults. If a Flatpak packaged program has too liberal defaults, then maybe that's best treated like a bug and hopefully there is a mechanism to send a patch.

[1] yet... but it might be coming. I think the only way you'd see commercial applications like Photoshop for desktop Linux would be wrapped in something like Flatpak. I still think that most open-source applications will still be packaged by the main distro repositories, regardless of how well Flatpak does.
I'm interested to see what the future of the Research Scientist role is. It's basically a place for people who didn't do a post-doc and aren't bad-ass enough to not need one. And, one could argue, people who just don't want to play the faculty game. I hope we see that space grow in academia. I think we will.
Hmm... it's almost like maybe applications shouldn't spew their files all over in the first place, then you wouldn't have to worry about putting them in the wrong places...
Google's adapters can work on most phones, but Google's phones can't work with most adapters :-(
Ugh. This trade off again. Linux package management means you update a library once, and fix that security problem everywhere for all the apps that use that library .. except for Firefox, Libreoffice, Chrome and others which insist on packaging their own versions of libjpeg, libpng and everything under the sun for stability.

A docker container contains all its own dependencies too. You gain stability .. but you could have a bedbug nest of security problems down there.

I don't get the move to Flatpack and Snap for desktop apps. Desktop apps need to interact with the base OS, the display system (X11 or Wayland) the shared toolkit libraries (GTK/QT). I've screenshots of native vs Flatpack vs Snap and they tend to have different window borders, some get the GTK themes matched up while others don't.

Not to mention the wasted space when every single application has its own version of everything. What, did you think electron apps each packaging their own 80MB web browser was a good idea too?

This just seems like the wrong direction to move in for Linux. We're not MacOS! We don't have hacked together shit like Android apks. We need to be better than that!
If we talk subsidies, we also need to talk taxes on fossil fuels as well.
I don't think we should worry about the total quantity of energy consumed. The wonderful thing about the market is that it finds its own level: once externalities are properly Incorporated into prices, the quantity produced and consumed (which must be idential at equilibrium) will settle at a level that priorities competing concerns appropriately. Who's to say that this equilibrium level is somehow wrong?

And what's wrong with miners using cheap electricity? The argument seems to go something like "that subsidy is meant for productive activity and Bitcoin mining isn't productive". Who's to say it isn't productive? The market things it is. What is the market getting wrong? What externality is it not incorporating?
This is really just trying way too hard to make the best of a shit situation. I know what you're saying, but consider the implications that this argument has for women in the bay area. So as a straight man, fierce competition presumably "forces you to develop a personality" (I think this is actually a pretty dangerous thought in that it suggests that single guys are lacking something in their personality which would net them a girlfriend).

So after all this self improvement, it's so that you can meet women who don't have the same driving forces, and actually have quite the opposite -- they can just choose not to date you because you have a funny haircut or they aren't sure and don't feel like following up. That mismatch of effort is a great way to drive resentment on both sides.

I'm not trying to place blame here. All I'm saying is: if you're a single straight male in the bay area, it's probably just the gender ratio of your social circle and social habits. Don't turn blame inwards towards perceived personality defects. In a different city or different friend group you might get drastically different results
Can it completely satisfy our current energy requirements?

Last I heard, nuclear was the only non-fossil fuel way of doing that. Is that still the case?
Only clueless business owners care about BBB. Not only is BBB a scam itself, but no one cares what they think anyway.
I also work in the customer tech department for the MBTA. We use Elixir and all of our web interfaces use Phoenix on top of that. We don’t require anyone to have experience with elixir or erlang; most of our developers have learned on the job. We look for solid general programming skills and a willingness to learn. We’ve had a lot of success with that strategy so far!
> Here's a separate complaint - if you want to charge an iPhone while you have headphones plugged in, there are at least splitter/dongle accessories for that. USB-C Android phone? Good luck.

I've got a USB-C Note 8 (and the same would be true of the newer S9/Note 9 generation) and it's got no problem charging while using headphones, since Samsung—the leading Android handset maker—hasn’t dropped the 3.5mm jack and, indeed, doubled down on it by including premium AKG wired earbuds after other smartphone manufacturers started axing the jack.
Please quote me where I claimed to be a white hat.
Alternatively, head to the DC area if you want to live in a city of class presidents.
Is this something unique to the bay area?
Does this reflect the overall gender ratios in the area?
On of the developers of SymbiFlow gave a high level update at OrConf 2018 (https://orconf.org) recently. I believe it was recorded but haven't seen any info of when they will be published. You can find the slides at https://j.mp/orconf-symbiflow but it is a little cryptic without narration.

The guy working on the ECP5 stuff also gave an in-depth dive into how that part works but I can't find a link to his slides.
secured as well as google+ ?
They haven't really been challenged. For much of the past 20 years tech was seen as the one part of the American economy that was working. Nobody wanted to tip over the apple cart with "excessive regulation". The true test of any company is how the behave in bad times. And lets be honest even the measly bad press they now receive is a fraction of what other industries put up with. They are handling it poorly in comparison.

For comparison the banking sector managed to take down the entire economy and came out of it virtually unscathed by Washington. That is successful PR and lobbying.
Sounds like a rat race, albeit a different flavor than what you'd see somewhere like DC.
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Anecdotally, I was the early user of Picassa that was shut down and all my photos have been automatically migrated to Google Photos, so I would still give Google a benefit of the doubt. But recent stunts from them make it more and more difficult to trust them.
Methane has a relatively short half-life in the atmosphere, only 8.6 years, which means that over the long term it's not that potent a GHG versus long-lived CO2 (about 100 years, but it's complicated). The radiative forcing alone doesn't tell the whole story.
What are migratory birds worth? Are endangered birds worth a bonus?

Wind-turbine-related bird deaths approach 57 million per year. https://abcbirds.org/wind-energy-threatens-birds/
NYC, DC, Vancouver are all places where there are more females than males. If you are a guy it's way better
odds. If you are in the Bay area, maybe find a company with a balance as well (hard to do).
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Some of this debate might on the semantics of what it means to say you feel like doing something. If someone actually does something, sure, arguably there was at some level a process by which the ideation happened and passed through a gauntlet of potential inhibitors motivated by some set of judgments that doing it had some value. So you could say they "felt like it." But that doesn't cover the ways in which they didn't feel like it.

What most people mean when they say "you can do something even if you don't feel like it" is "you can do something even if some other task sounds more appealing, even if inaction provides a refuge from the tension of engaging the task, even if you've been experiencing anhedonia for days/weeks."
> It's about 2% of global emissions

If we can cut 98% of emissions we'll be fine. 2% is not worth worrying about. While it may be a sexier engineering problem reality is ground transportation isn't close to being solved.

Gas cars still have huge momentum and infrastructure advatanges. No electric cars is being targeted for the mass low end demographic. We need the Honda civic of electrics.
Easy for Terence McKenna to say when he isn’t the one living the life of a nomad, or any other culture where those in it want to transition to a modern lifestyle. “The sorts of people who want to turn the entire planet into an international airport arrival concourse” are largely the entire planet.
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> I've complained about this to Google's security folks, and basically the answer I got there was that they don't believe in password managers as a solution and would rather have FIDO/U2F become a thing.

They have a point. We've had the technology for improving authentication for literally decades - that's effectively what a SIM does. We've had these secure modules in our smartphones forever. The technology is dirt cheap, ubiquitous, and with the advent of these wireless transports the user interface problem is solved. The infuriating thing for me is we still don't use it.

Google has succeeded in forcing the planet to move to https, so I guess they imagine they can do the same thing for authentication. If they succeed they will kill phishing. I wish them luck.

If it were possible to have a NFC WebAuthn implanted in the back of my hand and I could invisibly control the userHandle it handed out by invisibly twitching a muscle or something, I'd be falling over myself to get the surgery done.
Nuclear is a better economic option already.
I do turn inward when I think of things like "why I'm single": personality, my social circle is almost entirely co-workers, I spend a most of my time working or playing video games, I work out a little but not enough, etc. The reality is that I can change these habits if I really want to change the outcome. It feels bad sometimes, but it's the reality whether its "right" or "wrong".
By establishing property rights you make a stronger case for the right to fly a drone on your property. Certainly the FAA will have a safety say, but property rights will also be important. In the end, much of this may be decided by the courts.
SF also had a skewed gender ratio during the 1849 gold rush. History repeats itself.
Vulnerabilities and weaponized implants are very different things.
We've reverted it to the original from “MongoDB acquires a database Hosting company”.
Not without major improvements in battery tech or many massive public works projects like damns with pumps.
You didn't, but the context was:

> This claim seems like a big dilemma for US white-hat security researchers

It seems like the two are mutually exclusive.
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What are some valuable job skills you would learn that doesn't involve coding?
Hey everyone,

I'm curious to find out valuable tech job skills you would learn that doesn't involve coding? One example is a QA Analayst, or even an QA Automation Engineer. Other examples are Scrum Masters and Business Analysts.

Are they're other examples you can think of? Tech job skills that doesn't involve coding?

Thanks. :):)
I've had great success with a pomodoro timer that forces set breaks, and an actionable todo list for the day.
Yes but is it damn right that they should start in their own backyards.
Someone else pointed out the screen doesn't even go all the way to the bottom, making the notch look entirely superfluous. At least the iPhone actually uses all the space on the front, even if the notch looks absurd.
I publish my daily route to Google map’s timeline feature. It can show where I have been to in high accuracy. It’s a pretty damn boring route
I like diluted rose water , like a refreshing punch to the gut lol
Also a city of classless presidents.
"Bigger turbines will create more wind power, and the intermittency of both sources can be optimized with large-scale battery backup facilities."
Can anybody weigh in on why Boulder is so skewed? I was expecting San Francisco to have the most imbalance because of the tech-dominated economy, but it looks like it's relatively more balanced than any of these other cities.

That this doesn't line up with my expectations makes me question the data. I kinda doubt these ratios are actually representative of the overall population of these cities.

A quick google search turned up this page which claims to be using Census data and shows a fairly even gender ratio (scroll down to view the Population Pyramid): http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/san-francisco-pop...

Maybe the point of the OP's data is to show men that subscription fees may be a poor value if relatively few women are using the platform in their cities.
The SymbiFlow project seems to have an "ideas" repository at https://github.com/SymbiFlow/ideas/issues

@mithro on twitter (https://twitter.com/mithro) sometimes posts requests for help like https://twitter.com/mithro/status/1018270467545706496 || https://twitter.com/mithro/status/1012113316385132545 || https://twitter.com/mithro/status/1010702164790874113

Maybe someone needs to help them do a better website!
Well, if the same team was involved in its design it is likely to forget that I'm a person...
I'd recommend just using plain JavaScript. There's a great blog article by Githubs engineering team about how they removed Jquery from their front-end and now rely just on vanilla JavaScript: https://githubengineering.com/removing-jquery-from-github-fr...

Also, don't be afraid of embracing multi page app versus going for a single page app (they're largely overrated).

For front end CSS design framework, I'd recommend something like Bulma. Very easy, modern and CSS-only. You can learn it all in less than an hour.
I think the issue is that they're a serious news organization about some subjects, and a dumpster fire for others. It's hard for the general public to recall which subjects they are authoritative on and which not.
We are preparing to move to Google. Our app is CPU intensive and a killer feature was the ability to spec nodes with a lot of cores and little RAM. We save a lot of money by not paying for RAM we dont need. Google also had a location in LA and we are in LA. 5ms to our cloud is nice.
>Maybe write some weapons systems or work with people that do and you would have a different perspective.

Given that that's not really reasonable, maybe you want to give us some perspective? You can't go around accusing others of low effort comments and then not provide any insight yourself.
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To people used to far-left echo chambers, any place that isn't a far-left echo chamber is a "bastion of toxicity".
My perception is that few millennials and younger even bother with dating sites anymore. Dating apps, yes, but not legacy dating sites like Match.com.

I haven't bothered with dating for a few years, but my brief experience with Match.com is that you're basically paying them to provide you with a bunch of fake profiles that superficially look higher quality than one might find on OkCupid or Tinder. Even when it came to OkCupid, there was virtually nobody on it, and I was living in a metropolitan area.

My guess would be the gender ratios wouldn't look that different for other sites and apps, though Match.com clearly skews a little older because it's people 25 or older who are going to remember that it even exists.
I’m fascinated that you think this. HN has been the only community I’ve ever been a part of that consistently smacks down uncivil commentary—sometimes my own, usually rightly.

Where are you finding a less “toxic” community? I’d love to check it out.
The writer tries to blame Flatpak for app maintainers mistakes. That isn't fair.

If an app doesn't get an security fix whoever maintains that package should be the one to blame.

Disclaimer: I don't like flatpak either, I'm just trying to be fair here...
The link seems to be linking to a comparison of several major cities, not bay area cities. The correct link appears to be: https://public.tableau.com/profile/eddie.hernandez#!/vizhome...

(And to compare, with where the current link is taking me: https://public.tableau.com/profile/eddie.hernandez#!/vizhome...)

Looks like the term Man Jose is valid to some degree within these data.
It's hard to come to terms with the sheer lack of imagination and variety in the smartphone market. A few examples:

1. It's now all but impossible to find a phone with flagship specifications in anything smaller than a 5" form factor. You would think some company somewhere would be trying to capture the market for smaller phones but no. Sony has done this for a while but hasn't released a compact version of their latest offering.

2. In the space of less than a year the questionable design choice of adding a notch to the top of the screen has become ubiquitous. This follows a larger trend of just about every phone maker trying to make their product look as much like an iPhone as possible rather than trying to create a distinct aesthetic.

3. Headphone jacks have mostly disappeared for little discernible reason despite the overwhelming consumer preference for them. Why aren't there any smartphone manufacturers trying to differentiate by keeping the jack?

The list goes on. It boggles the mind how a market that has existed for like 10 years became so homogeneous and creatively bankrupt.
I was a proud Android user since the g1 days but now will be switching to iPhone due to Google's terrible privacy practices.
Awesome. I hope SFMTA can learn from this. They are taking proposals to replace Nextbus currently [1]. When I last measured Nextbus reliability, the first prediction for a bus was weakly correlated with arrival, and the second and third predictions were totally free of information. One of the main problems around here seems to be buses with the route and destination sign set to the wrong thing (e.g. the bus says it is headed to downtown, it's actually going the other way) which apparently throws a huge wrench in Nextbus.

1: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Muni-looks-to-re...
while more women are graduating from college, vastly more are graduating with social sciences and polysci degrees. If you would like a well-paying stable job with a degree in one of those two, government is an awfully nice choice.
This was interesting, thanks.
What's Boulder's deal?
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> Still even if cheap, that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it, etc..

I am among the laziest people I know and even I'm raising an eyebrow at this statement.
I tend to make quick phone calls, but Skype/Zoom/etc on my computer calls tend to be of the 30 min - 2 hour variety, so that's where I see the most battery use :-)
Few things make people as uncomfortable as telling them "hey, maybe your victim mentality isn't helping you and you actually do have a shot at this, you just need to work harder than others". Life's not fair, I guess? If you don't want it that bad, then plenty of other, much more motivated men, will work for it.

It's a little like entrepreneurship and complaining that your parents aren't millionaires and can't seed fund your first venture, so why even bother.
I have procrastination problems. I have a theory that I haven't heard other people that seems to work for me - its that my brain works too quickly for coding and gets frustrated then moves onto "more interesting distractions". I find I am most productive when I get tired at night, or I'm not feeling well, or I have a few beers.

I love coding and getting in flow state but it just seems much coding is too boring a process.

Could this be true? Or maybe I'm just a classic procrastinator on HN again.
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At the last census the Bay Area was 50.4% female and SF in particular was 49.3% female, so no this does not reflect overall gender ratios.
> It is not in an individual's best interest to have personal, private or even possibly harmful information warehoused at different advertising entities.

Largely depends on who you are, I think. I’m not opposed to sharing any of my information with other ad companies
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Those are RJ45 plugs. An RJ45 jack is the female portion that's typically soldered onto a PCB.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/amphenol-commercia...
Yeah, I should have verified the link. Thanks.

Original source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/9mqx2l/online_dati...
> Start the day right, work on something simple

I always start/restart my job after a break by doing some trivial refactoring or writing comments at various parts of the code. This is a great way to "reload" the big picture into your memory. Eventually your brain will be active enough to tackle a more tricky part. I'd recommend this to anyone who feels down in morning.
I really enjoyed reading what you wrote. I've been dancing around the edge of the ham radio community and your post felt like a warm invitation into the realm.
It will take 4 years, in under 2 years, one of the FPGA vendors will support it directly.
Of course, fossil fuels receive considerable direct and indirect subsidies

This is the received wisdom of the clean energy movement, but every report I’ve read says otherwise. Oil and gas receive little if no operational subsidies in most countries and in fact are heavily taxed at every stage of exploitation. Even government investments in oil and gas typically return far better than the risk-free rate, which is remarkable for government.

Of course there are some terrible externalities that we don’t price in...
Obviously it looks like a notch, but I don't know why it's not viewed as 2 extra tabs of screen that would otherwise be bezel.