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HTTPS is one way, which makes it easier for users. The UX for the user is (relatively) easy, even if it still has issues: check the URL bar.

On the other hand, the server administrators have to contract with a CA, get certificates, configure everything correctly, consider browser compatibility, etc.

Email must be two way. Suddenly _every user_ has to do what HTTPS server administrators do. And then they have to convey the intent of a signature or the availability of an encryption key to their correspondents.

I think this is what inherently makes email cryptography much more complicated from a UX perspective.
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I was pretty surprised it wasn't there as well, though the COL has gone up significantly compared to what it was, it's still relatively cheap compared to some of the major hubs. Though judging by the plates around here, people have already figured out the cost difference.
I would not drop out of school, unless I strongly felt I have nothing more to learn and the new business is going to grow into something big and I am happy to be working on it for the next 10 years. Education done right is an asset for life, and it may be very hard to come back after you drop out.
There's still the drag of having to remember to recharge it every night, even if you're taking it off.

I experience this now that I've gone from the XBox 360 to the PS4. The XBox 360 battery lasted what seemed like forever. I would go a week or two without even thinking of plugging it in to charge. The PS4 controller battery life is so bad you have to plug it back in every time you're done playing.

I've had many people say "what's the big deal, just plug it in, are you lazy or what", but it is noticeably irritating.
Exactly, a tick/tock product cycle. Apple does the flip of this - using the same case for two models, with different internals. Though they start with the high-end model. Are there as many examples of working your way upmarket?

I think it may also be due to costs. The color e-paper screen obviously costs more, and perhaps a full Steel model would teeter within range of the fashion smart watches (including Apple Watch Sport), where the comparison would be less flattering.
I agree. Voice control in the Apple/Android paradigm is... weird. Talking to the phone, requiring Internet connection, unusable on a busy street. Take out the phone, unlock it, move it in front of your face (now I can't see a thing and start bumping into people), "ok Google", say it again, wait for the S4 to react, say something, see it's interpreted wrong...

I very much prefer to type, it's faster even on a touch screen.

So here I am, waiting for a subvocal recognition system and the comeback of off-line speech processing.
But women are capable in ways that men are not. They communicate better. I think they are better judges of character, and have superior discernment. They are far less likely to win Darwin awards. Find 100 painfully stupid stunts on Youtube, and at least 85 of them will be men.
My family prints out pictures. We of course have hundreds of gigs of digital, but the pleasure of having physical books of curated sets of our most loved photos, e.g. of our vacations and kids, is way more powerful than staring at them on our TV or laptops. (&FWIW I'm right at the cusp of gens X and Y.)
Every time I consider using something like this I immediately snap back into my reality which, as a web developer, means I can't use browsers like this unless I want to use Chrome/FF for dev and a different browser for personal/browsing. At least for me these two overlap too much to do this.
Yeah, and what developers here are going to have $500k cash to drop on a 3/2 in Crestview.
Why can't you just ... issue voice commands to your phone?
"As an academic exercise I've begun to pour over Privacy Policies for web new services"

This is something I've been thinking of doing. I don't suppose you've shared these anywhere online by any chance? I always thought that would make a good site - somewhere where you can look up certain services' privacy policies in layman's terms. I suspect a good one already exists.
Then the next day there's be someone in the employ of the owner living in the house to avoid the tax, and that would undoubtedly not be someone who "needs it", for whatever measure of need.
Wow! They're using escolar (the ex-lax fish) in place of albacore (white) tuna!

http://www.thekitchn.com/use-caution-when-eating-escola-6660...

It really seems like the FDA or FTC should be able to regulate that a little bit.
Deal velocity. An "all cash" offer at 1% less than asking is more attractive to the seller's agent (not necessarily the seller) than a loan-process-backed offer, because the agent wants to close quickly and move onto the next deal. The loan process adds days and weeks to the deal, while the "cash" offer can literally close tomorrow.

I'm scare quoting "cash" because what is really happening most of the time is the cash represents investor pools of already-fronted, already-loaned-out sums; it's only the minority of "all cash" offers that are actually an individual investor writing out unencumbered checks (and even then, that check is still somewhat encumbered by future flip profit expectations). Really what is happening is you are seeing competition between de facto loans already-made and turned into ready cash, and loan promises.
> Three hours north of NYC, a house costs 60-80% less, and you have the essentially the same access to NYC cool stuff without the hassle of NYC.

You really don't need to go that far. In fact, you shouldn't. You'll hit Lake George and the prices will start to go back up.

An hour or two out and you'll be closer and the houses are just as cheap. You can also go West into NJ and you'll experience the same price drop.

The problem is that you'll be 30 min away driving from a decent grocery store. In fact, you'll be 30 min away driving from pretty much everything.
I was interested to see that Flynn is using tup[0] for their build system. I always thought it seemed interesting, but hadn't really noticed any high-profile projects using it.

[0] http://gittup.org/tup/
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I was waiting to see what Apple had in store but...oh, what the hell, I'll pull the trigger. Fact is, I'm pretty satisfied with my original KS-backer edition Pebble. Apple is going to have to have a pretty convincing story for me to charge a watch every single day. I spend enough time away from 5VDC power sources that such short battery life could become occasionally annoying.

The original Pebble does what I want it to do. In fact, it does more than it promised pre-shipping (counts steps, as one example). I'm hardly one to be brand-loyal to a watch, but ignoring late shipping to KS backers, Pebble has exceeded expectations, so I'll give them another whirl. Apple, OTOH, is going to have to do a hell of a job to convince me to spend almost twice as much on a new platform that needs daily charging. And I say this as one with a house full of Apple gear, much of it pre-ordered on the day of announcement.
Well, I would start by telling my customers that I have this great course and it's going to cost X dollars. I would also say what this paid course entails, what the chapters are, what I am going to learn etc. Instead, he is offering a "free email course" and only at the very bottom of the page, in gray font, he does say that there will be an option to buy a paid version at the end. No price, no details, absolutely nothing. That's something that I wouldn't do.
As someone still young (32), I am hesitant to accept an obligation I was unwilling to negotiate or choose myself.

If we can provide food, shelter, and energy to the elderly in an automated fashion, how can there be no retirement?
It's always good to see a team that is clearly very passionate about their mission.

It's nice to see how Flynn evolved overtime within the HC community starting with the original crowdfunding. For a while some people didn't understand what Flynn does, and the updated website makes it very clear to me today.
How can you tell if you're using HTTP2?
> for some reasons it is illegal to buy textbook from India in US

It's legal. Publishers don't like it, but it went to the Supreme Court and they decided in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc in 2013 that the First Sale Doctrine applies.

AbeBooks.com and Biblio.com are good sites for shopping for such books. They generally both have listings from both sellers in India and China and other countries where the publishers sell their inexpensive international editions, and from US booksellers who have imported the international editions.

Buying direct from an Indian seller is usually cheaper for the book, but much more for the shipping. The USA sellers are more expensive for the book, less for the shipping. It usually ends up about the same total either way.

I replaced my 30 year old, falling apart, copy of Apostol's "Calculus", which goes for around $200 per volume for the US edition, for around $25 per volume (including shipping) by getting the international edition, which is identical except it is paperback instead of hardback. It's kind of funny, because that is pretty close to what I originally paid for the books in 1977. (The content is the same as in 1977, too. Apostol wrote the books, got feedback for a few years, made a second edition in 1967, and stopped. The books are still used in a few top STEM schools, and students using them in 2015 get the exact same text I had in 1977).
They also have a cross country ski lock-up area at one of the train stations here in Edmonton. I'd like to see this freezeway just so I could bike on the ice with my studded tires away from the car traffic.
Please explain this line of reasoning. As is it reads as "I still use Firefox because I like that 1 tab can bring down the the whole browser"
When I first tried Authy, I was amused by bluetooth sync for OTPs. Then, when I tried hardware TSV like yubikeys, I realized that Authy was only a marginal improvement in technology, while it would take a complete rethinking of the system - e.g. Yubikey - to scale to dozens of accounts, multiple devices, and corporate adoption.
Really? I live like half a mile from a light rail station and I'm right next to a bus stop and I'm super happy with our public transportation. In addition my walk score is through the roof. Also our roads are fantastic even if 25 can be a bit of a bear. I think it's all about perspective. I'm from Chicago originally where it was an hour + commute.
From people that actually own a home? Or just from people that want someone else's?
There's an old mathematical wive's tale about the professor who, on the beginning of the first day of an abstract algebra course, writes the following definition down on the board:

Definition: A group is a category with a single object, all of whose morphisms are both epic[1] and monic[2].

In particular, if you drop the epic and monic requirements, a category that has only one object can be viewed as a monoid[3] under morphism composition.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimorphism

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomorphism

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid
> we decided to build our infrastructure on top of the telecom infrastructure because it was ubiquitous.

I am not very familiar with Authy, but I have built pin-code 2FA solutions using Twilio. Based on your comments, I am not sure the point of Authy if it is easy to build 2FA except TOTP using yesterday's Twilio.
True.
However,CS Lewis once said that if you want to be a good writer you have to be interested in more than just writing. I think the same hold true for development and or hacking. If you want to be a good developer than you should have more interests than just programming. Posts like these are a reflection of that.
No one is giving you free recipes saying that they will make you a successful and rich chef. He is giving a free course saying it will make you a good freelancer...but if the free course achieves that, what more can a paid version teach you?
Aha:

> I'd assume the majority of it does go to pay out goods and services in the future, probably nearer to the end of life

Most of those expenses involve healthcare, which is probably not a sector of the economy that needs to see more money right now. You typically want to encourage diverse spending to avoid concentrating money in just one segment of the economy (the ol "dont put all your eggs in one basket" rule).

> that money doesn't just go into the ground with them when they die.

No, it doesn't need to - much of it can go onto next of kin, though, which encourages generational wealth that you typically dont want to encourage too much (which to our benefit, we do somewhat through things like estate taxes).

Additionally, and I have absolutely no reasoning behind this one at all, but spending in such a way lends itself to be extremely susceptible to age demographics: if you have a glut of older people (like we do now with baby boomers) then your economy might do fantastic if everyone spends money at the end of their life.

Conversely, when a low-population generation reaches old age, you're sorta doomed to suffer at that point.
>All thanks in part to the those that trudged on during the rough times just for the love of the sport.

I.e. men.

Like IT: There was no money in it, just a load of guys doing it for the love of it. 20 years later there's huge money in it, those guys who were there at the start are at the top of the pile and the women who never previously showed an interest in it are on the sidelines screaming "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WOMYN??!?!".

This whole equality war in IT is becoming incredibly tiring. Endless attacks from a transparent supremacy movement whose members were calling people in IT "nerds" 10 years ago.
I don't recommend doing something like this. Most often, this will turn away a lot of people and will not be worth (if the question is too hard).
3 million dollars and they can't hire an industrial designer to make it look like something other than a preschool toy? They feel like a bunch of developers competing against Apple. No offense intended, I'm a developer myself. I think they'll have more and better features, since that is how developers think, but you need to look good to really capture all the consumers.
*Only those with an I-140 approved (already in the green card process) or other conditions. That's still a good step.
Does anyone know how you are going to go about charing this device? MicroUSB?
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Basically the only things I use voice commands for is "set a timer for..." while cooking or "remind me at noon to..." when I need a time alert.

Oh, and saying "What's my name" and having Siri respond "Your name is <name>, but since we're friends I get to call you Captain James T Kirk". But that's just personal amusement.
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This is right. There is a big step in business when you go from doing everything yourself to getting other people involved.
Consider looking at the Glance app. I enjoyed my Pebble to start with, but it became far more useful with Glance. I can now reply to text messages from a list of options I created on my phone. I filled the list with the messages I send the most: "ok", "yes", "no", "on my way".

I really like deciding if messages are worth my time without having to dig out my phone and I really like being able to send quick messages without fiddling about with unlocking and on-screen keyboards.
Yeah it's at 3+ million in about an hour, this will undoubtedly set some kickstarter records.
> Bitcoin code, protocol and marshaling formats are a mess.

Which is why people are working on e.g. Libconsensus.

There are dozens of functional Bitcoin clients based on entirely different codebases, which indicates that it's entirely possible to start from scratch.

>payments with a single token.

While the Bitcoin transaction format is a bit inflexible, you're wrong about the assumptions it makes. Even from the beginning, there has been in-protocol support for more advanced transaction types, like escrow transactions. You can even use a lot of these transaction types right now! There are still some transaction script opcodes that haven't been fully enabled yet, but that's just a matter of tweaking the consensus rules once we're sure that the opcode was implemented correctly and won't have any bad side effects. This has happened several times already with no major problems.
Figure out your schedule. Tons of students have full time jobs. Prioritize your time.
Since we're talking hypothetical here; we're never going to convince each other. We can just skip this debate and make College/University free for everyone.
"And generalists aren't supposed to make such money."

If generalist don't make much money, and the best you've done isn't to your liking (because more is always better)... Why would you keep labeling yourself a generalist?

Your best month isn't that great. And if you've been at it for over 10 years, you probably have a lot of experience to share. Ever thought about re-assessing yourself, giving yourself the credit you deserve and creating a better pitch for your services?
I would agree with you if it weren't for the fact that those people are dead.

Obviously accusations such as these are not very nice for the families of those gentlemen but not really the same as doxing.
Good to see they fixed this security bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095859

A proxy could inject cookies on a 407 response and even bypass the authentication prompt - could have been used for session fixation attacks.
Yes, the original Pebble works with any standard 22m band.
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> not necessarily the seller

Usually the seller too.

A quick tip for those in the market. If you're trying to beat out cash offers, there's a sweet spot in every market where after a certain price point, the cash buyers drop off.
Whatever about the product, their timing is spot on. Not that it will really make much of a dent in the Apple Watch sales, I'm sure there are a lot of people who'll get this now instead. Major differences, battery life & price do make this a tempting product.
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I'd love to know what you do for a living.... As a web developer I've had more FF crashes than I can count. Chrome has extensions as well and I have WAY fewer crashes with Chrome, if "having extensions" im FF means that you can't complain about crashes then FF is useless as extensions are a MAJOR selling point.
I agree with mikeash, and wanted to just add my own personal experience.

Most people I know, and what I also do personally, is buy a used car for less than $10k, and pay it off within 3 years. Then you live with it until it no longer becomes economically viable to keep it.

So my wife and I own our cars at this point, which frees $400+ a month we can put towards something else with the understanding in 2-3 years we will need to budget for cars again.

The basic cycle is 3 years of car debt, 3 years without.

(I don't live in an area which has public transportation)
I'm semi-carfree in Seattle. Most actual cities can support a carfree lifestyle, but I guess that's a bit of a tautology.
Oh come on Swizec ;). You have to give them credit, they're apparently the only smartwatch brand that doesn't suck. I like that there is at least one company that, as opposed to Apple, seems to care about providing a useful tool instead of a fashion piece.
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Rate limiting alone would still leave open many categories of abuse.
Agreed.

The other data I'd like to see is distribution of non-salaried incomes -- bonuses and equity. I have the feeling that SF and SV are the only places where you have a realistic shot of working for a company for 4-6 years and coming away a millionaire.

In other places, it'd be base salary, maybe a bonus, and that's it. For life. And if you ever have ambitions to start your own startup, would you want to be in Atlanta?
Which is probably why they're de-emphasizing apps (which I agree with from a UX standpoint) and emphasizing ease of developing from the web. If you hone your use cases, developing for Pebble doesn't have to be as complicated as apps. It amounts to rich push notifications, or perhaps Twitter Cards.
I guess those people exist, but they're an awfully small part of it. I mean women have a much higher attrition rate than men once they get into the industry, so it's not just a case of starting at the top.
My original KS Pebble uses a regular band that I got off Amazon for $12. I'm not much of one for swapping bands regularly, but putting on a band of my choosing is not a great feature, it's just what I expect out of a watch. It's like telling time is a "killer feature". I'm more disappointed when other wearables (including the Pebble Steel) don't have this.
FF's built-in developer tools are still pretty sad, but nothing quite compares to full-blown Firebug on Firefox. The only place anyone else's tools outdo it, IMO, is Chrome's profiling (Firebug's is nearly useless.)