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I want to like Gnome 3. Every now and then I give it a spin, but ultimately end up back with Xfce. It just doesn't really give me anything extra, (apart from better font rendering in Firefox for some reason, and touch pad clicking! ) Their browser (web) doesn't work for me. It also kept freezing my keyboard for some reason or another, so it isn't much use.

The biggest irritant other than the above is that a couple of the taskbar widgets were missing. What I take away from that is that one little feature can influence us quite heavily. And it's pretty much the same story for Opera. I totally relied on the fit-to-width button and I love their spatial navigation - but have found myself using Firefox - just because I can make it more readable with a couple of easy modifications (though I still have issues with that.)

Give me a one line or paragraph summary of what Gnome 3 is, and why you'd want to use it over Gnome 2! Then try the same with Opera vs Chrome.
Yes. It mus be a new feature!
France has its own PRISM-like surveillance program, report suggests
You can also sign up without facebook! :)
I've been using Trello for a few weeks now. Is there a resource out there that can show me how power users are using it so I can really max it out?
It's no big deal. We all suspected it.

It's so unsurprising that the US forced a foreign president to touch down and have his plane searched in a foreign country to try and catch the whistleblower.
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I really fail to see how having a privacy policy is any protection against prism or data collections abuse. especially considering 95% of them have clauses that state in effect, "we and our partners can do anything we want with your data".
>For the EU taxation there is no tax if the customer is outside EU, this can be resolved by CC address.

Yeah, what I'm saying is that their payment processor must then understand three different categories of customers (Swedish, EU, non-EU). You'd be surprised how many small operations struggle to just put in place a decent payment/accounting platform ("It's just a few sums, I'll code it in an afternoon, no need to buy $expensiveButComprehensiveAccountingSoftware !"...). And of course, currency conversion between Kroner and €, £, $...

You'd also be surprised by how many regulations we have in Europe covering money transfers -- internal credit cards, external credit cards (yes, often they're different things), debit cards, prepaid cards, all regulated by laws that vary State by State, and all handled by banks through byzantine merchant contracts. I'm not 100% familiar with the Swedish system, but I do see the difficulties in handling foreign payments.
If you die of starvation or thirst more 10 times, you learn to survive twice as long without food and water respectively.

Now, someone tell me how to rid the village of thieves.
Merci, merci... now in English please? Can someone summarize it instead of having to try to read Google Translate's gibberish?
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> If you think the core idea behind Cryptocat is crap, then fine, make a technical argument.

People keep making these technical arguments. They are ignored. It is frustrating to have to keep pushing warnings and to have those warnings ignored.

> (1) the technical internals of Cryptocat from (2) the core idea behind Cryptocat and, especially, (3) Nadim himself, personally?

That sounds reasonable, except it's hard to do.

The internals of Cryptocat are closely tied to the core idea. People point out the flaws in the core ideas, and cryptocat team just say "point out an actual attack". So then people are forced to find bugs in the internals. And when they do CryptoCat patch, and say "See! Nothing to worry about!" Except that the core idea is still flawed.

People get exasperated playing this game of Whack-a-mole.

I get that Nadim is proud of his product, but his choices of promotion have caused friction, and his reaction to some of the criticism has made it worse.

Some people have mentioned that the crypto community is toxic. They're right, but there's also a high barrier to entry. When someone releases a product as secure, but has made very many obvious flaws that ruin the security of that product, they're going to attract a lot of flak. Don't forget that many people are not sincerely trying to learn about crypto and make it accessible. Many people are bodging together terrible software and selling it. There's a long history of debunking snake-oil.

It's unfortunate that Nadim has been subject to attack, but he should have known it was coming and presented the product differently.

> making Cryptocat better

It can never be made "good enough". That's the fundamental point.
How much less secure exactly? Certificate pinning certainly helps in some cases (unless the pinning itself is attacked, which may be possible).

You just seem to be confirming my point, that in the name of "more security" they're shunning everything that's not their idea of "perfect security" (which may be faulty). Result: less people using encryption.

It's one thing to use a fragile encryption key like the Cryptocat failure, another to exclude RSA in favour of ECC (except if you're dealing with leaking government secrets of course)
Every programmer should be forced to implement a non-trivial algorithm that involves lots of bit twiddling in a few languages that don't have integers ("all you need are double-precision IEEE 754 floats...and love!"), don't have unsigned integers, have undefined or implementation-specific integer sizes, and/or don't have a "convenient" string type.
I thought they actually had given up a custom cryptosystem and went with OTR (for person to person chats)? Although only after a year or two of crying about how the community was meaning mean to CryptoCat, etc. and viewing every bug report as a personal attack.

The problem is there is no "mpOTR" for them to switch to for multiperson. I'd argue for SSL protected IRC (like, SILC) and some kind of transparent/tamper-evident server on an .onion as an interim measure, instead of a roll-your-own alternative.
I'm guessing, nobody will react. We already have the most impopular president of the last 50 years, one of the highest tax rates of modern country, highest unemployment rate, high abstention rate in elections, high immigration rates, high debt ratios, and the extremist political parties are on the verge of gaining massive support in the next european elections.

That, plus the fact that we've had numerous previous experiences of terrorists bombing our country, makes me think that we really have far bigger issues than the secret service spying everyone at the moment.
You haven't explained anything about how crypto software is developed. You have told us how other software is developed and then told us that it isn't okay for crypto software.
Exactly, this is what I've been pointing out: Every government with the means to monitor domestic and foreign communications does so and invariably stretches the law in order to achieve it.

That's why I've felt the focus on the NSA and GCHQ (i.e. the US and and UK) was misplaced. The focus should be on better privacy protections and rolling back state surveillance in all countries, not just the two whose programs are the best-known. In fact the understanding of how widespread this is may reignite the push for better client-side privacy and anonymity protection tools.
It is difficult, to say the least, to conceive of some Platonic ideal of "the content" of a written work without being influenced, positively or negatively, by the style of the writing. Your profession does not make you immune to this.
Also comes in Maseratti flavor. Courtesy of the same guy, 4 years prior. Collected some prize from Maseratti too.

http://www.slashgear.com/maserati-granturismo-shares-living-...
>Sure, if you slice and dice your definitions enough to "toolkit supported by default if I don't run the headless install of distros which coldtea defines as 'major'" then you might come away with GTK+ as a standard toolkit.

That _I_ "define as major"? You do know that Linux distributions follow a popularity power law distribution, right? With a few, like Ubuntu, RedHat, etc at the top. This has nothing to do with "subjective opinion".

Don't see why you brought up the "headless install" in the play either -- since just before you said about QT being a native GUI toolkit. QT is not native in a "headless install" either, so those are beside the point.

>Apparently everything else is "Marginal" in your book?

My book again? For one, Linux desktop use is marginal in itself, registering as just a 1% blip. Second, of that, there are popular and marginal distributions. If you don't like marginal, I doubt you'd like Wikipedia's term, which is "fringe".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#Popular_dist...

It was a discussion about GUI toolkits, and you made it into a BS ad hominem attack -- as if usage statistics is something unknown that I pulled out of my ass. In short, your argument is bad, and you should feel bad.
I don't understand this post or why it is upvoted. Where's the trick? What does the trick do? It feels like half of the post is missing.
Why do I need a privacy policy for a personal website using basic Google analytics? (That's what your minisite suggests.) I don't have customers, only visitors, there is no contract.
At this point I think Snowden was forced to reveal his identity and details of his existence to add credibility to his claims and documents. With these things verified further sysadmins would be capable of leaking documents and data anonymously without it being overlooked as fake.

He made a sacrifice to people looking to do leaks and hopefully good will come of it in the long run.
16 years... come on, don't let us feel THAT old yet.
First Edward Snowden and the whole PRISM thing and now this. What the hell is happening to the US government? I gotta say it doesn't look very bright from overseas
Right, but web of trusts/PGP are inconvenient in a way that "look for the padlock icon" isn't. Which is likely why they are not in widespread use by the general populous.
Yes, you're right, I checked around that same time and it wasn't there.
Users of Zynga products deserve a wake up call.
FYI: The Steam version of the game still has a phone-home, always-online DRM which requires you to maintain connectivity in order to play. This is not the standard Steam DRM.
Shades of Ferris Beuller. Hopefully he doesn't have a son.
> You appear to be ignoring PGP / GPG; SSL, etc, which are used by many people.

PGP / GPG is a joke in terms of usability - no average Joe uses it. Even my techy friends find it too complicated to use. I myself prefer signing messages with bitcoin addresses instead of GPG, jsut because it is so much simpler.

SSL works, that's true.
Calling BS based on the fact that the VAST majority of people doing work with Python use Numpy and similar tools, and not GPUs based for their work.

And it's not the "oil and gas industry" or finance, which might have been your expertise and might use GPUs, but are nowhere near being even a large minority of Python use.

It's scientific computing. This is Python's largest niche that needs to parallel compute problems.
I was a Boxee Box early adopter and got it as soon as it came out. I think what crippled it is that what you got with the Box wasn't anything like Boxee was before, it was an entirely new Beta UI, and then right around the same time they killed the standalone version. So in one fell swoop I went from an awesome media center to the buggy Boxee Box.

Unfortunately the thing just barely worked. They patched over the next few months and eventually it became okayish but at that point it was just too much of a hassle and I returned it. It never met the user experience of the downloaded version + a standalone computer; which is weird because I bought the box to skip the hassles of a normal PC, updates, noise, OS issues, etc.

The remote is brilliant though, I bought a standalone version of the remote that I still use today.

I mostly use Roku's now, and while the older ones were sluggish the new Roku 3 has a nice fast UI that lets me watch what I want. It's nice to have a system level search that looks for content on both Netflix and Amazon at the same time.

But the Boxee had this awesome feature where it put the content first, the TV show was the top level item. So you would find the show you want, and then it would present you the sources. On the Roku I have to remember if the show I was watching was on Netflix or Amazon. I can't imagine content providers would be happy with this though, it basically backshelves their brand.

For local content Plex with a Roku is a pretty nice setup.
The Moriarty MOOC
Lovely. And I love how he has basically centered his entire (living room?) around the one car and has a little ramp to edge it out into the world and everything. Especially because, I think, you don't want to turn the engine on, fill the place up with smoke and then drive off.

One thing though, how does he get the car back in?
I still use Boxee software I downloaded in 2010 on my living room HTPC I built myself. It's ability to organize show and play all downloaded content is unparalleled still. And I love controlling it all with a remote as an app in my iPhone.

I would gladly pay $10/month to use the software, but I would never buy that stupid box with all it's limitations. Yet Boxee did everything to alienate users like me to try to sell those boxes. They discontinued the software, updated the iPhone app to NOT work with the software without the box, etc. Those things generated an outcry from all software users, but Boxee ignored it, because if these are not paying users, then who cares? And no one still bought those boxes anyway.

Lesson is: listen to your most passionate users. You will find a way to turn them into paying users, it's much better strategy than to ignore them and try to co quer new unknown markets.
So the government is NOT trying to prevent terrorism but instead has setup these elaborate systems just to prevent activism and whistle blowing. You sure that aliens aren't involved somewhere in there ?

The FACTS are this. The head of the NSA has testified in front of congress that over 50 potential terrorist acts were thwarted because of PRISM since 9/11 including bombing of the NY subways and stock exchange. And there is no evidence that the infrastructure the NSA has is available to every single cop in every town in order to fight crime.
I used Opera for years but now i really don't see the point. They simply won't be able to innovate enough in UI to justify using it vs Safari or Chrome.
I doubt the EU is going to dismantle their surveillance capabilities while knowing that the US and other nations are still doing it. That's less power for the EU and more power for everyone else.
This PC version was actually released over a decade ago; it's pretty ghetto and old. That said, it Wine-wraps decently.

The same treatment was given to FFVIII, as well, so it likely won't be long before it joins its predecessor on the Steam store (its appearance leaked in the registry moons ago).
The whole 'privacy policy' thing is a an fantasy that simply doesn't exist in international law. Its two words that provide the illusion of following some process of decency without any obligations whatsoever.
Just to understand what's going on in this article. The people at Phusion Passenger are comparing Puma and their offer, only to come to the conclusion that if you've got money you should go for their paying offer and if you don't then it's a tie?

Not that they're not to be trusted and can't be unbiased in their judgment, but I'd put more trust in a more independent study,
This could be a problem for all the custom rom guys installing Gapps/play store apk's. Many Chinese manufacturers dont get access to official google apk either
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The Xbox 360 media player will play stuff of USB storage.
The NSA already knows anyway.
Very familiar. As other suggested create some real software, use tools, apply what you've learned and go beyond.

About the "..I see here people that just don't care about the courses. ..", try to get people involved, that is the biggest hurdle throughout life I think whether it's the uni or in your later career -- get people involved in a project to see it your way and why your way is better, more importantly if you're wrong, admit it.
And? Perhaps one does in this case. If you're technically competent, you should be able to evaluate the claims in the article regardless.
Notes were still synced with Opera link so there never was any privacy. Still using Evernote to save little snippets is like using my 4WD to visit the neighborhood shop when my bicycle would do.
That is not the conclusion. As you can see in the comparison, the pros and cons between Phusion Passenger open source and Puma are different. Depending on your needs, either Puma is better, or Phusion Passenger open source is better. That is not the same as a tie.

But we are claiming that the Enterprise version is better than the both of them, with that one exception as documented on the page.

However this should not be interpreted as us abandoning the open source version in favor of the Enterprise version. We are continuously developing the open source version as well. Since the launch of Phusion Passenger Enterprise, the open source version has gained quite some improvements as well.

EDIT: after re-reading the conclusion, I see that it is kind of useless. Other than promoting Enterprise, it didn't say anything substantial. I've reworded the conclusion so that it's hopefully more useful for those who are not interested in Enterprise.
Cryptocat have rejected the advice from experienced crypto experts.

Cryptocat have been given a lot of advice and they argue against it; they tell experienced crypto experts that they are wrong and that the flaws are not really flaws.
I believe that's the same thing I just said.
Hey, yeah there are two things regarding Google Analytics,

First it's in Google's terms, have a quick look here there's an interesting write up regarding this topic that covers it better than I could here in this short amount of time: http://searchengineland.com/how-many-google-privacy-policies...

Secondly GA collects personal data from your users which in most legislations means that you need to inform users about that fact (most notoriously Europe).
it's ridiculous what kind of pseudo journalism makes it into forbes these days.
You needed proof to know the US government was spying ? It isn't some giant secret you know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency
Spend 10x the resources on verification as on implementation. Spend 10x the resources on design as on implementation.

Nobody does this with normal software.
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The US generally hasn't violated the physical sovereignty of embassies or of warships on the high seas. Those are from the Congress of Vienna or even before, not de novo from the UN.
When it comes to filling up the gap, I am surprised that Xbox was not mentioned particularly given how much Microsoft has tried to portray it as a complete living room entertainment package as opposed to just a gaming console.
Well, I don't mean both at the same time. What I'm saying is, it's more difficult socially and in terms of community if you are not a sports fan (at all, of any type) than it is to be an atheist. Most people are smart enough to avoid religion and politics so that leaves sports for the small talk.
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That's exactly what we try to avoid, because not only "doing anything we want with users data" is wrong, but also because it's not legal in most countries.
Forcing website owners to inform their users precisely, other than being a legal duty, is how you use transparency to to ensure that users' rights are respected. The moment we forget about informing users and pretending to be informed is the same we start forgetting about privacy rights, and that subtly and slowly leads to huge privacy violations like the whole PRISM shame.

I know that we're still selling stuff, but our hope is to do something good along the way, and a world with more privacy information is surely a better one :)
From experience, it is quite common to have internal code-names for Facebook games for the purposes of preventing leaks from development canvas apps and the like. These are usually related to the general gist of the game. To coin a made-up example, 'SimAir' might be called 'flying' internally.
There is one of those, or in fact, multiple. Fan-made, yes, but MMO's nevertheless.

One could arguably state that all of the pokemon games are MMORPG's already, seeing that you can connect to other players and exchange creatures, combat, etc.
That's not an argument, it's a request.
On a slightly different tangent, why do people put the dollar sign in front of the numer?
"Worth seeing" is a better translation, thank you.
That's odd. I posted the same story 8 hours ago...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5989238
This is simply not true. From John Carmack's Twitter: "Stock Quake 3 bots don't use neural networks, folks" (https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/352192259418103809)
this is why I usually use spaces to separate thousands, so that I don't confuse people expecting either notation.

The standard where I'm from is also a period for thousands, and a comma for the decimal fraction, but reading as much English scientific and computing literature, I am well aware that the period for decimal fraction is almost a de facto standard. So I tend to use spaces for the thousands and a period for the decimal fraction, so that anyone who sees the spaces can infer what the other symbol means.

Fortunately I am not aware of any notation system that uses a space to separate the decimal fraction :)
I think that he meant the deployment section in his post was naive, not yours :).

I appreciate the compare and contrast.
Thanks for your reply, it's interesting. I'll read up and act on it, maybe using your new service :)
Even if it's not true, in some sense it doesn't matter. It makes for a lovely modern-day parable, and also a round-the-campfire sci-fi story.
From John Carmack himself: the stock bots don't use neural nets [1]. It would be interesting to see what sort of emergent behaviour arises from bots that can adapt though.

[1] : https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/352192259418103809
Good god is that stupid. This originated on _4chan_ and has been thorougly debunked, because Quake 3 bots don't work like that. Fucking ridiculous.
Hey,

sorry for the late reply. We are using kickofflabs solution for landing page because we are focused on product. Twitter button is predefined in their theme, probably that is the best practice :)
I know, that's I meant too. :) I meant to ask, what was naive about his deployment section?

Perhaps he meant putting Puma directly on port 80. Although I usually wouldn't do that, I am not entirely sure whether one shouldn't do that. For example Unicorn is multi-proces single-threaded so it should never be used without a buffering web server, but Puma is different. We'll need the Puma author to make a statement about this.

I'm glad the comparison was useful to you. :)
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Ow c'mon Steam, you were on your way to support Linux so well -- windows only :(
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