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The intellectual climate at Arcosanti waxes and wanes quite considerably. It has gone through numerous ups and downs since my time there. I visited for a couple of days last summer and found it to be mid-swing -- couldn't tell if it was on the way up or on the way down -- but when it's up, it can be very diverse and lively, with many seemingly polarised subgroups. Depending on who you talk to, you can come away from Arcosanti thinking that it's a bunch of Žižek-spouting primitivists, Kurzweil-spouting extropians, mildly paranoid right-wing survivalists, or reasonably dispassionate architecture graduates with a somewhat environmental bent who were just looking for a stimulating internship.

One of Arcosanti's strengths is that it can accommodate all of these types simultaneously. But tour guides are given/take quite broad latitude in terms of how they present the project, so depending on who shows you around, you can come away with an impression that it's only one of the above subgroups, when in fact it's all of them. From what I could see, that tradition continues today, although not quite as vibrant as during my mid-90s tenure.

Although Arcosanti accommodates many different modes of thought, paradoxically it's been relatively hostile to people who want to push on the boundaries of urban planning and design. When I came there, I was quite enamoured of Soleri's "arcology" theory (and today I still am) -- but ultimately, I disagreed with him that cities could be designed as fixed objects; I argued with him that cities were processes, not objects, and that what we really needed to be studying was what kind of processes would lead to arcological outcomes. Soleri, however, was quite defensive and dogmatic about his theory, so I had to leave to pursue that particular thread. Ideas which don't particularly impinge upon the built form are far more welcome there. This has been a shortcoming of the place for decades. I'm hopeful that it will be able to reinvent itself, post-Soleri, to overcome this limitation.
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There is definitely a bias in the media to write the most interesting story, even if it is less plausible.

Having a car in the works is more interesting than needing better batteries for existing/announced product lines. Much better batteries would be a strong advantage for apple watch, for example.
I know, I hate MS...

But windows 8 was SOOOOO bad, and destroyed any credibility MS has to make any competent usability decision and showed a complete lack of understanding of the user...

Do they have any choice but to do UI changes in-beta for Win10?
I'm on record around here about being angry with Yosemite sending requests off-machine, and it's the first thing I turn off. Lenovo enables anyone, anywhere, to MitM your bank.

Difference in kind. Massive, massive difference in kind.
It does, but I believe CrashPlan does not
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No, not really. It's the wild west. SSL certs don't do anything to prevent SQL injection. That's done at the application layer, not the transport layer. You seem to be out of your depth.

This is equivalent to "checking to see if the door is unlocked when it should be locked" not "trying to pick the lock after hours"
It does come with its own certificate by default, with instructions for generating your own, but it doesn't trust that certificate for external connections; it uses a separate database of trusted roots which doesn't include the MITM certificate.

Has anyone confirmed the certificate validation behaviour in Superfish? I have a feeling it will be "none at all", which would be really bad...
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That's assuming that Search Ad Services by Google will have--or will be allowed to have--clients other than Google. And that, of course, is the entire point: to split a company up into what are technically smaller companies that, in effect, are just part of the head company.
I would add that an Airstream-like space is a lot closer to a good idea here than 'minivan.' In fact, you don't have to go too far back to see how much a few Apple people like that shape http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/null-n09...
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It's probably more accurate to say that Google has joined Microsoft as being a fast follower more than an innovator. Just look at Google+ attempting to follow FB's lead, and now GCE being a very obvious attempt to emulate AWS and EC2, similar to what Microsoft is trying to do with Azure. Then we have MS OneDrive and Google fast following Dropbox.
> Mozzarella arrests made after counterfeit cheese found in Italy http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-mozzarella-arres...

still it appears that counterfeiting DOP products is a profitable business.
It's also important to understand that in a case like this, upper management likely _wants_ the money from installing this on laptops (or their bosses do, or their boss's bosses do, and so on), so while they may act in good faith in translating the technical impacts of software like this to their management, they likely translate with a slight, unbeknownst to them bias.
Debugging proxies like Fiddler (Windows) or Charles (Mac) generate a certificate if you want to inspect HTTPS.
I don't know about the Mac version, but on Windows there are a bunch of default exceptions and you can edit the list and remove them.
Repeating this from the other thread: people should file complaints with their state consumer protection division. There are probably at least one or two attorneys general in the country who would love to make an example out of Lenovo ("big bad foreign company", etc.).

Here's the complaint form for Massachusetts: http://www.eform.ago.state.ma.us/ago_eforms/forms/piac_ecomp...

Some state AGs are active on Twitter too, which might get more direct visibility.
I love all of his books, but for me Seeing Voices has been a life changer in how it shifted my perspective of the world and of how we should treat each other.

Not that I would consider myself a terrible person before reading it, but it made me aware of wrong ideas I had because I never gave them much thought because I did not need to think about them.

Basically the hearing equivalent of white or male privilege. Which kind of opened up the thoughts about other privileges I might have been unaware of.
Because I like getting paid?

If I'm learning a language for my own enjoyment, I'll learn whatever I want. If I'm learning a language to try to develop my career, I'll learn something that people want to pay for.
regarding the terminal, ATM I just use terminology [0] on one machine and yakuake [1] on the other one I usually use.

[0] https://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology
[1] https://yakuake.kde.org/
Free from Lenovo's MITM anyway.
Search-wise? You're ending up at Lucene either way.

Scaling-wise? Distributed Elasticsearch doesn't have a Zookeeper dependency, which is nice. But Solr has more sharding flexibility and partition tolerance.

Like everything else, depends on your needs.
So is it pronounced date-uh? I think I've pronounced it both ways. English language is fairly ambiguous so this kind of thing is absolutely excusable (even if the pronunciation is decidedly wrong).

The boss, on the other hand should look into acquiring appropriate drugs to help him control his emotional outbursts in a professional environment.
It was only installed on consumer laptops so you probably wouldn't have it anyway....
The password to the key must be in the binary - either in clear or encoded form and at some point it needs to be in memory in decoded form. Otherwise the binary could not decode the key itself. You could drop the passphrase immediately after decoding the key to make it harder for the attacker, but fundamentally all info to decode the key must be somewhere on the machine itself.

Trying all strings from the binary if any of them matches is a cheap and easy operation, so try it first, if it doesn't work use a more elaborate approach.
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A desktop/laptop is a computer. A smartphone is a computer. Why the different reaction?

They're still two different classes. Smartphones (at least the mainstream Android, iOS and Windows platforms) aren't even self-hosting yet, so they're definitely in their infancy and unlikely to displace the microcomputers we have until said shift occurs, regardless of widespread commentary to the contrary.

By the way, "trusted computing" was backed by a ton of other companies besides Microsoft (I don't even think Microsoft were remotely the first), and it is most certainly not dead in the slightest.
A big part of this is convenience, I guess. People were flipping out about Microsoft's trusted computing because it was seen as a big company locking things down. Apple and Android managed to wrap it in a cool UX (and arguably good value proposition of curated content - which is still not as good as one would like given how much crap you can find on the app store) - and general population started using it before techies got around to shouting. It's too late now.

Another, maybe smaller part, is trust. I for one sign into Chrome with my Google ID and enable all location services, etc. on my Android phone because I still trust Google and the Don't Be Evil mantra. I haven't been convinced yet that they're a bad actor (OTOH I can't say that about Apple). I admit it's probably very subjective.
I cant wait for more like this, i've learnt so much, thanks!
Thanks! Of course you're right -- I just mentioned several hours worth of non self-reported tests (performed by a psychologist by referral from an MD that has perhaps already taken history and self-reported stuff) because that is at least better than what the vast majority of people with suspected adhd get. Obviously nothing beats an ongoing patient-theurapist relationship where therapist can continuously refine or modify her hypothesis based on totality of data to date. Same thing about meds as tools -- absolutely right and typically misunderstood ☺

Cheers!
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Can anyone explain why OSX apps don't have a maximize button? The full screen button is just terrible.
Not sure why they chose to prefix this with "DevOps", because this seems like a great list of general engineering team principles and not DevOps-specific principles. Still, it's a great list.

I'm actually looking for some resources for my DevOps guy, and I was looking for a checklist but maybe something more practical. Something like:

[ ] Check X server config

[ ] Check Y DNS route

[ ] Check Z...

and so on for making sure he doesn't forget to do certain tasks when deploying major features.

I was hoping this was that, but it's not. Still, it's a good list and I enjoyed reading it.
I'm very interested in the studies on how people interact with their workspace. Thank you.

But you admit, the data can only inform our intuition. Perhaps with more datapoints, and a rigorous platform for testing, we could use stair data to improve the workplace. But just giving us stair data doesn't make us any smarter. I'd say it makes us dumber. It creates a distraction. It makes us think we know more than we really do. It tempts us to see the problem in terms of stairs, when maybe the problem lies elsewhere (or maybe the stair steps are meaningless).
> Project Volta focused on Battery Life

According to Google. According to independent benchmarks, battery life got worse on a whole slew of devices.

> They changed the entire runtime to ART for performance

But did it actually get faster? Not by much.

> Material design was a much needed solution to coherent UI across Google's properties

Are the UIs coherent across Google's properties? Half a year on the answer is still no: Implementation is spotty across the first-party apps, many of which directly violate the guidelines given to developers.
TBH, I'd be okay with that if the prices were reasonable and the base room fee was adjusted accordingly.

Hotel Wi-Fi is annoying, slow, AND expensive.
+1 i3 is pretty darn good. Would be great if it was a little more user friendly though :-)
dotNET is an MS only platform.

Is dotNET better than the collective JVM language ecosystem from a feature standpoint? Probably not. Sure you want to limit the debate to Java, which is basically a legacy language.

The JVM software ecosystem is still much better than dotNET, which took forever to get Hibernate and other framework ports over to it, and the typical developer still takes all microsoft-dictated "best practices" as canon from the holy see.

So sure, it's better than C++.
yes, Google is new ms. but ms could be either new Google or new Palm. I wish ms the best, since Apple is not fun anymore.
This is a neat idea! One thing I'd like to see is maybe rate some games you've already played to get it started in the right direction, or something? My first attempt at using it, I was thinking, "I can't tell if this is something I'd play or not from what I'm seeing. Can I pass on this one?" But there's no pass - just boring or cool.
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"1. Start tracking and improving performance based on relevant metrics

I'm talking about bounce rates, conversion rates, click rates, followers, value per visit, return on investment on ads, customer satisfaction, and so on.

Granted, some of those are vanity metrics, but we'll touch on that another day."

"based on relevant metrics"; "some of those are vanity metrics"; rage quit.

Aside from that, the point he's making is superficial. There are certain, very important, things that are extremely difficult to track back to a simple metric. This argument comes up all the time in code refactoring. You can't tie a refactor back to a trackable metric like what he's pointed out. However, refactoring code can lead to many performance boosts, such as decreased bugs and faster development of future features. But this is very difficult to attach a number to. You can't say "for every X lines of code we refactor we diminish future feature development by 10% and reduce bugs by 50%". It's just not possible.

Also noting that things like "customer satisfaction" or "number of bugs reported" weren't on this guys list of "relevant metrics".

Neither were items like "employee happiness" or "pride in your work".

Look, I'm a big fan of data-based decisions, but that can't be the end-all-be-all of your decision making process. Honestly, just the first point of this article makes it sound like working for this guy would be like working in a development sweat shop.

So, nope, not even reading your other 2 points because your first one is just that bad.
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The demonstration of harm is what would be key in this case. Showing that things have the potential to cause harm often isn't enough.
Did you do anything for trackpad gestures? My last attempt using Linux on a MBP (~3 years ago) was abandoned because I couldn't get over not being able to do three-finger swipes, etc.
It enhances the users experience when being MITM'd.

But yeah, the removal instructions mention that the certificate won't be removed, which is quite dangerous.

EDIT: And users removing the cert would be unable to load https pages, which is a tricky situation.
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I have met a number of Nobel Prize winners in physics, and while it's dangerous to generalize, as a whole they seemed to me to actually be more interested in broader issues of physics and society. I can't say whether this changed after the prize thrust them into the limelight, but from my experience with Physics winners, your single-function hypothesis does not hold true. In fact, the Nobel laureate on my PhD reading committee is involved with a number of start ups and technologies and books all far afield of his Nobel research.
Google does not fulfill quarterly numbers and now they are doomed? They have $100 billion in cash and are in a position to expand into so many other markets and spends 15% of their top line revenue on R&D. Meanwhile Apple is attempting to build a car from scratch?
It wouldn't delay the page load time, so it doesn't seem like it would be slow or very noticeable. As a user, at most you'd notice ads popping up a few seconds after the page loaded. But users without adblock are used to such things. And as long as the adware reserves a blank space on the page to display ads, the ads won't mess with the layout of the page when they load.

EDIT: Why has this been downvoted twice? It's absolutely correct.

It's a strange day when you post something unambiguously true to HN and it gets summarily downvoted.

The only part that isn't unambiguously true is that "most users without adblock are used to such behavior already." But I stand by that phrase, because "most users" are people who understand almost nothing about about computers.

Remember, downvotes are reserved for trolls and people you disagree with, not something which you think is "maybe untrue but I don't know whether it's true." I've complained in the past about having to write epic edits because people don't follow this so I have to explain myself further.

Maybe you want more explanation about how precisely the above MITM would work? Here's how: The page loads. This completes normally, and the user doesn't see anything differently. In the meantime, Superfish reads the network traffic that has loaded. It also has injected some javascript in order to reserve a spot on the page to display ads. This would be a big blank space where the ads go after they load.

Now the network traffic is sent off to China or wherever. It's analyzed on a server, then the server sends back commands to Superfish about what to do, like "Display ad 91234128 at X,Y spot on the webpage."

The total roundtrip time would be no more than a few seconds. China isn't the moon. Half the speed of light is fast.
Fedora's another solid option; it's much more bleeding edge than the Ubuntu LTS releases, but it upgrades cleanly and tends to be very developer-friendly.
> I don't know of a single Google product that I use that has a reasonable alternative.

I moved to duckduckgo for searches, and let me tell you I'm not going back soon.

I think google's search engine is overrated.

https://duckduckgo.com/
I would imagine that any company imaging their hardware has their own custom image to coincide with their windows licensing agreement and not on whatever was on the first box.
Hold 'alt' when you click the green full-screen button and it'll maximize.
I'm always amazed to see other Sask folks here!

There's also the year-to-year smaller operating loans. Things like $90,000 worth of chemicals, etc. I know that some folks even go so far as to put those expenses on a MasterCard, in order to collect the airmiles.
Press alt while clicking the green button.

In general I don't like the window management of OS X - it's a great OS that is (in my mind) mostly let down by bloat ( system apps that take all your CPU or memory) and window management.
"Wouldn't it be great if I was presented with offers to buy things based on context clues in the web pages I'm browsing?"

Sounds a lot like Google ;-)
It certainly wasn't my intention to alienate or offend anyone by posting this link. I do not share his intimate feelings on programming languages but I found it amusing that someone would compare a programming language to an on/off-relationship.
If you try to break into a building under the cover of darkness, you're going to get hit with more than a trespass charge.
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GFiber roll-out is largely gated on the local municipalities. It takes years to cut through the bureaucratic red-tape of getting a right-of-way to run fiber to the home, and in many cases, the utility poles they use are owned by their competitors. The reason they started with Kansas City was because it features an integrated city, county, and utility government, and so they could negotiate with one entity and get all the permits necessary without having to go between dozens of competing interests. Same reason it will never come to San Francisco; CEQA means that any single property-owner along the fiber route can block the whole project, and there are a number of homeowners in San Francisco who don't exactly like Google.

My fiancee's taking a land-development course, detailing all of the things you have to go through to bring water, electricity, sewage, Internet to a new area, all the utilities we take for granted. The professor is a guy who spent pretty much his entire career, 16 years, doing one deal (from which he personally netted tens of millions in profit). That should give you an idea of the timescale that public utilities operate on.
The "after hours" part doesn't help draw any real parallels either and only clouds things further. When is "after hours" for a website? All access is logged, at any time of day.

We are going to have to agree to disagree. You seem to think that performing SQL injection, even just to see if it is possible and with no intent to steal information or in furtherance of any crime, should be criminally prosecuted.

I think that SQL injection is such a basic attack that they should teach everyone how to perform it in introductory CS courses or earlier, as only through awareness of these basic forms can we all stamp out the threat of our own global systemic ignorance of those kind of forms.

It's not a kind of magic. Nobody is born with the knowledge that "SELECT * FROM Table WHERE #{userdata}" is completely and perfectly wrong approach to taking input from users in any production system. You have to learn it somehow, and the law practically forbids you from learning it through application in the wild. So I suppose only criminals will get to have guns, then.

> You can feel assured that only people who are paid to tug on the levers or people who are breaking the law are the only people tugging the levers at every company you conduct business with.

I understood that already, and it didn't make me feel warm and fuzzy. I don't really think there's a ghost's chance that I'm in the majority here, either, and I do find that to be a shame. Even many otherwise smart people are just totally ignorant of computers.
I'm running Linux Mint 17 XFCE with newer kernel and can confirm that everything works well. Switching to a >3.16.x kernel provides the Thunderbolt support I needed for my Cinema display ... everything else just works[1].

[1] With usual caveat that pulseaudio is horrible. With wired headphones it only crashes about once a week ... with bluetooth headphones it's at least once a day. It doesn't appear to like the device "coming and going".
I think what you are doing is great, but you really, really, really need to get a better audio set up. Think about how you'll have these episodes for the rest of your life improving your audio quality is paramount.
Possibly the same reason why the market share of old versions of Internet Explorer is higher on workdays: slower uptake on corporate environments when compared to residential customers.
If you are interested in a Bootstrap based theme, do check out Bootswatch Paper [1]. MUI is definitely a much lighter option though.

[1]: http://bootswatch.com/paper/
I don't know Dutch law but I'm interested you say "tort judge" - unauthorised access to computing systems is made a crime in EU. It should be a criminal prosecution.
I'd maybe start with Django, a web framework for Python.

Here's some screencasts, and it's easy to google for more, or search youtube: http://neckbeardrepublic.com/screencasts/

You will also find the Django tutorial very nice, and djangobook:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/
http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/index.html

Note that the djangobook is somewhat outdated, though most of it still applies. You just might need to look up new syntax once in a while, all the ideas are pretty much the same.
Vala predates all these, and it's been a de facto GNOME standard for a while now.
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