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A lot of the 'difficult' reputation lingers from the pre-2.5 days when the UI was quite different from anything most users had ever seen before. The 2.5, and now 2.8, UI reworking has gone a long way to remove this barrier for many users.
"I would even argue, as a separate point, that he wasn't an occupier at all, much like Donald Trump is not an occupier of Native American lands."

Alexanders policies against Poles were direct result of the January Uprising. Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainina and Belarusian languages were banned, and many people were sent to Siberia. You're comparing this to current situation of Native Americans? That's a joke right?

I know what your trying to say, but to my point - do we have any military insurrection of Native Americans going on right now? And I know you hate speculations but if in 200 years Native Americans regain their independence, do you think they will not think about every American president as an occupier?
No, locking people up in prison does not make them better when they’re released, and often results in them coming out worse than when they went in.

Also, putting someone with mental health problems in prison costs more than a real treatment facility, where at least there’s the possibly for them to get better.

Here’s a clearer way to describe it:

If putting people with mental health problems in prison is better than having them on the street, why are they being let out again? You’ve already decided that they’re not going to receive any treatment or assistance, so they’re going to hit the streets, commit some crime (violent or otherwise) and then go back to jail.

So why let them out? Prison sentences are intended to be “long enough to correct or discourage future criminal acts”, with life sentences for people we don’t believe can be released safely. Given that we know that people with mental health problem but no treatment or support will reoffend, that seems (by your assessment) like a prime candidate for permanent incarceration.
A better analogy would be someone with a knife asking Palantir to draw up a list of people that can be stabbed with impunity.
It's definitely a good development that ISPs have started to deploy routers and modems with randomized passwords. However, please do keep in mind the deployment of consumer equipment and enterprise hardware is different. Or at least it should be, in theory.

Enterprise equipment is usually not supposed to be just dropped into place, without oversight. It usually needs proper configuration/management, by qualified people.

Whether this also happens in practice can be a different story altogether. Still, the security of enterprise equipment usually involves more policy and procedure than it does with consumer equipment. With the latter, security has to come more or less by default, because the people handling the devices usually have little expert knowledge.
The Big Sick: Vomit culture keeps repeating on us
Teslas are selling like hotcakes. If the problem is that customers of the established manufacturers choose combustion over electric, it must be a deeper structural issue. Such as e.g. dealerships downselling EV models due to lower maintenance requirements, and hence future profits. Or some other reason, e.g. (just spitballing here) that most of their EV vehicles suck. Maybe because of an unwillingness to cannibalize their ICE lineup, inability to build a good enough EV at a profit and at scale, or something else.
I was just thinking "what does dementia have to do with written orders".

You say it's a trend but most episodes of Kitchen Nightmares I've watched they've at least had bongs (written notes) handed to the kitchen staff and posted somewhere.

The real challenge would be a restaurant with dyslectic waiters.
The comment on randomly opening windows is fair (I don't see what caused it either), but this was a build VM, not a workstation - there is no reason to upgrade the browser. A more pertinent question is why are MS still shipping IE by default.
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/153/high-stakes-pl-omaha/...

There are a bunch of such threads over the years where through statistical analysis, users have identified groups of dozens of bots.

While years ago many of the pros could theoretically beat these bots, it may not have been by enough of a factor to overcome the rake. Of course if the bots are practicing any game selection they can take money out of the economy even if they can't beat pros.

Anti-bot measures is an arms race and the sites aren't always ahead of the game.
every day on my laptop and my desktop pc. all runing without disabling the telemetry. laptop has 5hrs of battery daily, pc is runing fine. Except when i open chrome... chrome eats my ram
Defending American liberties often result in uncomfortable situations. For instance, defending free speech. To defend free speech, we often find ourselves having to seemingly defend truly awful things (depending on your personal ethics), because the principle of free speech overrides our feelings on a particular bit of speech; hate speech aside.

It’s not like the people against mass surveillance all want their kids to live in unsafe neighborhoods, or be blind to terrorist plots. But everything must be balanced within our set of liberties — and the American way of due process, etc, is purposefully skewed to protect individual rights and liberties.

This is why gun rights is such a hot button issue — some would like to see stricter regulations, because they feel unsafe sending their kids to school in a world of mass shootings. Others feel those restrictions place an undue burden on individual liberties afforded by the constitution.

When it comes to law enforcement, there is a lot of abuse of Power present in the system, which disproportionately affects people of color. Thus, there’s a very valid argument to be made that some of this tech is too dangerous in the hands of law enforcement, despite how much people of all political stripes want their families to be safe.

My aim here is to illuminate the differences in the arguments. I’m not trying to force my (admittedly liberal) point of view on the conversation, because HN isn’t really for politics. My goal here is to show how, despite politics, people can all desire safety for their family, and personal liberties, but have honest disagreements about the best way to achieve that.
Technology takes civilisation backwards? It's certainly a widely held idea, also held by extremists like Green Anarchists for example (and the Unabomber). If you look at it from a small enough lense there is truth there but if you widen your view you can see that someone's delusions also have truths. The reality is more messy than we like to think about.
This is the "expected" outcome of most big tech organizations. I doubt there was malice or stupidity from the actual people coding this (but the malice still exist, it is just a few layers up)

You have two kind of elite at the top: a bunch of very smart people, completely disconnected from daily work, setting up automated code checks and style rules. Let's call those architects/Engineering VPs. Then you also have a bunch of short term revenue people in a completely different side of the company who owns all the money and set the targets. Let's call those Product VPs

The daily work will be full of agile-cargo-cult (that is, all the meetings agile impose, without any the actual communication), with people in the teams reporting to different chains. Engineers having to abide by the crazy ineffective coding style (usually because nobody cared to provide the tools to help achieve the code quality required), and product/managers abiding by the short term revenue churn.

And since the Product org is the one who decides if target goals were met for bonuses and promotions you see why the actual coders might do that bullshit (e.g. which one ever got you a promotion: "I contributed to hugely announced feature X" vs "I followed all the best practices set up by the architects i have never met and prevented a security report two years in the future from dragging the company in the mud"?)

Most companies denounce the problems of having silos, but silos actually make the smaller org/teams responsible for the entire stack and tools. It is hated by investors because it is more expensive, but in the end, it is the real cost. A very vertical big corp will be cheaper but the reason it is cheaper is because less work is being done and always end up like this for ignoring the human nature of the people that it is made of.
Someone needs to go tell classpass that they didn't do that for me. Fuck classpass.

Click on unsubscribe button.

You're not unsubscribed yet! Want to do a $15 dollar plan so you avoid a reactivation fee? ...no, hit button

You're almost unsubscribed! Can you tell us why?
"Cuz I'm not using it, do it."

Now you're in a chat queue to talk to a chat representative before we let you go.

You're number 8 in line.

WTF?
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Thank you. It was a bit of a surprise to me that Sendy had no viable open source alternatives. phpList is okay, but is quite dated and has a number performance issues.
Ghosting. hmmm.

I can see an Streisand effect coming on here...
Yup, save money by cutting down services, knowing that people always vote for increased prison spending.

It costs more to keep someone in prison than in a mental health facility, and the latter has the chance of assisting recovery, but yay prisons!
The tool tracks where you have been, your bank account, etc. So while it may not tell what guns were purchased, it can tell if they have visted a shooting range.
As the response notes, this should be a headless Windows installation. Installing and running a GUI and IE are the results of choices made by the Tweeter.
Server editions have IE/edge in locked down mode by default and all the crap removed so he should just stop running builds on client versions of Windows?
The law is blind. The more we bend this the more our society breaks. Especially in the eyes of our children.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Justice
The latest development that I'm aware of is the package registry they are launching: https://github.com/features/package-registry
Hi voska. Ben from 1Password here. I'm sorry some folks feel neglected. That certainly isn't our intent. I'd encourage anyone who feels that way to reach out to us at support@1password.com. We'd like to understand where those feelings come from and help in any way we can.

To address the concerns about 1Password X...

- We have desktop integration in beta which can help with point #1: https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/101231/introduc...

- Our security model has never relied on the sync service that you choose: https://support.1password.com/1password-security/

- Last time I looked into the Cmd+\ issue the primary difficulty was that not all browsers (Chrome, notably) supported \ as a keyboard shortcut for extensions. The reason we are able to get around this with the "traditional" extension is that 1Password for Mac is actually what listens for the shortcut, not the extension. The same functionality is still possible with 1Password X, just not with that specific shortcut.

- 1Password for Mac can be used with the subscription offering. It isn't necessary to use 1Password X. 1Password X is a great alternative for those who cannot install desktop software, particularly those on ChromeOS or Linux.

I'm sorry to hear you're no longer using or recommending 1Password but I hope that helps address some of your questions/concerns.
Or some of us just don't have race at the center of our thoughts constantly.

And to head it off, I'm not white, but much like I don't consider religion that important, I don't consider race that important either.

I'm actually more interested in the new release of .net core than I am in a persons race or religion. Which means I don't ingest news/information sources where these are high up on the list of things talked about. I consider them personal things, much like I don't want to hear about my coworker's sex life.

but hey, maybe my not actively looking for constant negativity in my life makes me a horrible human being? I'm guessing you're going to tell me it does...
You seem to have ignored the key points.

(1) A program that meets that vast majority of your requirements exists and exhibits terrible adverse selection issues, so you propose... expanding it? In the hopes it gets... better? Any thoughts on why that would happen?

(2) The $200K salary line is "magical" but does represent middle-class in 100% of communities in the United States. IMO it should have been indexed to inflation ($3-4M in annual income inflation adjusted), bringing it quite a bit higher. You can also qualify on the basis of $1M in assets excluding your principal residence. This provides adequate buffer in the event your investments fail outright, which the vast majority of early stage investments do. It's the same reason a 20.9 year old can't buy beer. You draw the line somewhere, for better or for worse.

(3) To the best of my knowledge there are no legal repercussions for you for investing as a non-accredited investor, though there may be for the company for failing to follow proper procedure.

(4) These laws weren't brought in because too many poor were getting rich too fast and there wasn't enough room for all the yachts in Boston Harbor. It was due to large-scale speculation literally causing the great depression [1].

(5) Remind me who pays for the welfare programs when people who aren't in a place to take financial risks, the most desperate usually, are pushed into insolvency? Taxpayers. That's why taxpayers also get a say in who can invest.

(6) Your argument reads a lot like the people who want to kill off the EPA because the rivers haven't caught fire in a while. There's a reason they don't catch fire.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nonaccreditedinvestor.a...
In San Francisco some groups use the term visible homeless as well. I think it is a good start in categorization because there is so much cognitive dissonance between seeing a thing, not understanding what is already being done about a thing, and conflating a dozen other issues as one thing.
I see what you're saying, but the flip side is that in absolute terms rather than "revenue per unique user," over $30M a year is, well, over $30M a year. In 2016, Time Inc's net profit was under $20M a quarter -- that's not Time Magazine, that's the whole company. If you're in that position, bringing in another $7.5M a year for letting somebody put crappy ads at the bottom of your articles could be awfully tempting.
Thanks!. Im looking for sites for daily/ weekly reading lists
Right? Is it so hard to change the default homepage / new tab page to do nothing?

The default settings for IE are for the masses - they want to see a search bar / news site as soon as they open the web browser. If the browser did nothing, a lot of non-technical people would think their internet / device isn't working.

Technical users probably don't want to see msn.com, and are OK with opening a blank window. So just change the settings! It's on the first tab!
It bends over backwards to be discoverable for new users, but it's still a powerful 3d program with many features... an understanding of those concepts are needed to make any 3d tool to work.
There's already a ton of 2.8 video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+2.8+tut...
This is the correct answer. Even Ubuntu's famous bug #1 (Microsoft has a majority marketshare) was closed many years ago [1] as PC operating systems have declined in importance. Steve Jobs's comment about PCs being "trucks" has also come true. Almost all leisure computing has moved either to mobile devices (phones and tablets) and/or to the web (which overlaps mobile devices), making the OS less and less important. Gaming is about the only leisure activity left where desktop OS matters, but that's a relatively small marketshare comparatively.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834
Nobody can communicate proficiently with the Danes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
By the way, the 3B+ is armv7 by default, but also works fine as aarch64. That's how I use mine under nixos.
You can actually make it work and still maintain pseudonymity. A primary key could register a backup key by generating a site-specific keypair, encrypting the site private key using the backup base public key, and then using the encrypted site private key as the key handle. The primary key would need to know the backup key's base public key, but not it's base private key, and each site would still get a unique public key and key handle.
I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices.

Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card)

Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to mention the charging port location. I actually replaced it with a logitech because it's pretty much unusable for any precision work.

Heck, I bought an eGPU enclosure recently because I had a set of nvidia cards lying around.. I can only use it in bootcamp though, because of course macs only support AMD cards...

Microsoft may be an abusive ex, but apple is pretty much the same melody with different lyrics.
I've also been a Sendy user for a long time for non-critical applications, and I don't like the fact they hide their code so a tool like this is long overdue and much needed.
Wow. That sounds like a nightmare. I don't personally have a solution to this problem but I think treating it like it isn't one is not the solution.

What's it like in Seattle? Same issues?
Some of these items seem like they need more analysis, and that the report was rushed. We agree as a community that hard coded default passwords are bad when unchanged, but that implies that the device doesn't require them to be changed on first boot. Basic setup processes often require these credentials to change after the first provision.

I would expect a report which produces claims about such comprehensive backdooring and negligence to at least demonstrate how that behavior would play out in the real world. It seems much more like they did static analysis of the binaries, identified any strings with default passwords, and then reported on them. That's okay to do, but you can't conclude that's a problem until you confirm shoddy behavior after provisioning and deployment in practice.
So are most big corps methinks. Here about Nokia death caused by internal tension between depts ? Sony sub-units more or less completely independent (selling cd and cd-burners).
PokerStars offered to make him - and him alone - whole through sponsorship dollars. Haxton used to be their lead pro and is widely considered one of the very best players in the world.
A lot of enterprise software from Oracle still requires Java 6 and a J2SE plug-in, which only run in IE for whatever reason.
Appreciate the plain-English title for the project.
Most defense contracts require 40-hour work weeks. A company can't ask you to work more than 40 hours typically or be in breach of contract (being unfair to the competition who bid on the contract). So yes, when I worked on DoD contracts I was in at 7am, out at 3:45pm.
> just a more convenient user interface

This. A difference between a rock in a sling and a nuclear bomb can, hyperbolically, viewed as a better UI for rather similar goal.

Does it explain the things? Do you see how quantitative differences become qualitative?
Ben from 1Password here. Firefox may, but last I checked Chrome did not. We get around that with the traditional extension by having 1Password for Mac listen for the shortcut instead of the extension itself.
Agile is not the manifesto, I has really never been. Agile does not have a real definition.
One way to explore that question would be to make a game to expose people to these ethical questions. I am thinking like "Papers Please" but recasted as ICE gathering up illegals and their families.
Where did I say you were a racist?

I said that you were wrong that no one else cares for the points that DonHopkins is raising.

I pointed out that you were being unfair to the other poster. Yes, there are interpretations of what Raymond has written which are not racist. Just like there are statements by anti-vaxxers which are not anti-vaccination.

However, given the context of what Raymond writes, your non-racist interpretation does not seem to be valid.
At least they aren't trying to straight-up murder you while you're passing by on the sidewalk.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/man-arrested-for-trying-to-...

Oops, I meant, straight-up "attempted assault" you.
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We're getting the worst of both worlds by blaming mentally ill, poor or otherwise unwanted citizens for any problems caused while doing nothing to improve the situation.

It's the oldest ruling-class distraction in the book, blame the crazy person. But it misses the point, which is figuring out what's pushing people over the edge and building a society that takes better care of everyone.
I went to college with him, and I genuinely had no idea that it was him until several years afterwards. I definitely wish I had realized back when I had the chance to pick his brain about this sort of thing!
They don't have to be literate. They only need to understand it for themselves, long enough to enter it into the computer.

The only time I get annoyed when my order is wrong is when they didn't attempt to take notes of some sort. They can make food doodles on the back of a napkin for all I care.
> makes me a horrible human being?

Do you really not have any idea what "bullets slathered in pork fat" refers to?
Personally, I don't have any kids to worry about, and I never drop my laptop; maybe I'm just careful with it.

My phone, however, gets dropped somewhat frequently, since by the nature of its use, it's exposed to much rougher handling than my laptop (which generally stays at home, or in my padded laptop backpack if I'm traveling). So I have an Otterbox Defender on that, which I'm sure has saved those phones many times. I would never go caseless on a phone; that just seems like signaling "I'm so rich, I can afford to be reckless with a $1000 phone".
> This trend will continue until Linux Desktop people stop underestimating what users actually do with computers.

Nothing. They use apps on their Linux phones, or happily use any OS that runs a browser since everything is web based today. Oh and for gaming there is consoles of course, which crushes the PC gaming market in pretty much any discipline.

The only people remaining dependent on desktops (or laptops) will be office workers, and I'm pretty sure they don't care about DirectX so much, so replacing those with Linux seems very doable, it's just the question if companies care enough. Last I checked, even office 365 worked on Linux.
Looks great! Do you have any plans to support third-party sending APIs (e.g. SES)? I see the reference to SMTP.

I've been looking for a good solution for ad-hoc email campaigns (w/ templates) and for sending "systems" emails to an audience of customers.

I currently look after lists on both MailChimp and EmailOctopus and get frustrated by the flat pricing for the size of the list and not how you engage with the list (e.g. I'd love to see: store your list for $X/mo, or pay $X + (list size * $Y) in the months when you email the list).
Yes it is.. I guess that's the end of our discussion.
Did I miss something here, did we invent cures for mental illnesses recently? There's no other way of dealing with it other than "shuffling them somewhere", be it a prison or a mental institution (which is also a prison of sorts)