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It's not really obvious if all this was just about convenience or something else.
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MSIE was never the "best" browser. It may have been better than Netscape, but there were numerous alternatives -- Opera, Galeon, Konqueror, and more.

Eventually Mozilla / Phoenix / Firefox picked up the mantel. Then (somewhat) Chrome, though it's getting really effing annoying these days.
Unicode is not "forced" unto the world either. It's just a good way to do the thing it does, but it doesn't happen without contribution from those who are impacted.
It so is. A plain old Diffie Hellman key exchange will give you encryption without authentication.

All you need for encryption is to be able to share a secret - this in no way requires authentication.
> And you still have to pay property tax, based on the assessed value of your property circa pre-collapse.

Most jurisdictions have regular reassessment schedules, and while some have formulas that delay or limit the effect of market value increases, most don't for decreases which take full effect immediately.
That's because it is a symptom of "deeply flawed urban planning", but we work with work we've got in SF...
Hello friend.

I would highly recommend taking a look at www.ghost.org

I use it for my online presence to essentially talk about the same thing that you are. It is very simple to use and made for a great, clean reading experience. I am just using the default theme provided because I like the simplicity and elegance of it. Feel free to browse to my website to get a feel for it.

P.S. It requires a dedicated capable of running node.js apps, I recommend Digital Ocean for this. You can get just what you need to start at $5 a month.

Hope this helps! :D

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The parameters change according to the `timing-function` you set for the animation or transition.
Banks are the ones taking those losses, and it comes out of the CC fees paid by merchants. Yes, this probably results in price increases, which is like buying insurance - I will pay 2% more for pretty much every good I buy, and in return I will never be defrauded out of my entire life's savings at once.

Seems like a good deal to me?
I'll be staying in BC for a while this year. It's the first time I've seriously looked at Bitcoin to transfer money from Australia. The problem I have is the fees are from both sides - the Australian bank and the Canadian one.

Has anyone tried TransferWise?
I agree, but I'm starting to get sick of every Hacker News discussion talking about this rather than the actual content of the page.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of the transaction fee either.

My bank allows me to set up personal payees, though I have to go into a branch to do it. It acts just like a bill payment, which I get for free. The downside is that it takes a day (if the recipient is at the same bank) or more (if they're not at the same bank).

The plus side on the email transfer is that it is virtually instant (~5 minutes usually).
the seats look sparse ..how are they going to get by with so few seats and still be competitive on price ?
Great idea and I hope it gains widespread adoption.

That being said, I've had two landlords who insist on being paid in cash so that there's no paper trail. Its not a convenience factor that they're looking for.
Did you read past the first sentence? The second one says "in the settings is the option". The screenshot shows a toggle switch. It won't cost you a dime.
How in the world do you keep from falling on that thing when it comes to a stop? I'm a big fan of always sitting at the back of the bus. Whenever I am nearing my stop on a traditional city bus I really need to use all the hand holds to get to the front or side door to keep from falling down. This thing looks like it has none of those.
I'll be getting a new laptop soon and am interested in the XPS 13.

1. Is the only difference in the Developer edition that Ubuntu is install by default, and drivers are made to work with it? Otherwise the build is exactly the same? (The New XPS has a matte screen which I would like.)

2. I don't particularly trust an operating system that ships with a computer. I assume if I wipe it and install Ubuntu from scratch it'll still work the same as intended?

3. Will the price be lower due to no Windows license?

4. Do you have a ballpark figure of when it'll be out?

Thanks.
> But it is a language that will possibly give Mozilla the world's most secure web browser by a significant margin if they succeed in writing the most bug prone components in Rust.

A memory safe language alone isn't enough. Look at Java. Isn't that supposed to be a memory safe language? And yet it's constantly got security issues.
If you read carefully, I didn't - I only pointed out that lobbies overrode the scientific body of evidence, as it does here.

Of course, if you don't find that peer reviewed evidence accepted by leading experts in appropriate fields is the most reliable source of policy, then I'm curious what differentiates you from human-generated climate change deniers.
PayPal didn't start as an anti-fraud system? It was a payment system that developed a pretty novel anti-fraud system and which was the foundation for a different company that does a ton of anti-fraud.
Those are all really nice designs. The only criticism I have is with the final one.

Some bagged tea (Celestial Seasonings, etc.) is already available in superior packaging. They use a single unwaxed carboard box for all bags. None of the bags have string or paper, making them completely compostable.
I run various distros on my first-gen X1 Carbon and it's awesome. Everything just works. You don't even have to go driver hunting as you do with Windows. The most I had to do was add a kernel parameter to the bootloader to get the brightness keys to work with more granularity. I would highly recommend going native if your workflow allows it.
why are you so eager to defend cars and car-culture?

cars are the single most dangerous thing in the daily lives of most Americans. they are rolling manslaughter engines. they are destroying the environment, leading us inexplorably down a path of global climate destruction and natural resource exhaustion. they have been undermining good public transportation infrastructure investment for decades. they are destructive of communities, encouraging sprawl and long distance commuting.
Does this work in the rain? I'm watching the TED talk now but I can't tell.
A better analogy is that it's like dismissing the alternatives to email that popped up in the later 90s and dismissing them because even though they were obviously better than email (but not as much so as email over snail mail), no one you knew used them.
I've never understood how the hell Square does it. It's an awesome experience though.
I honestly wasn't trying to make a strong statement, but given the reactions and the downvotes, it does seem like I didn't come across as intended, my apologies for that.

And thank you for the reference, I will make sure to read through it as soon as I get more time.
It's always worth complaining about this sort of crap, even if it doesn't have any impact on the ardent followers of web design fashion....
I'm not an anthropological linguist, so I can't say with any authority. I only listed two figures there, but there are many more disputed figures.[1] There are a lot of difficulties classifying languages in India because the line between language and dialect can be tricky to pin down.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India#Inventories
Christ on a stick. I don't usually flag posts for how utterly broken the sites are, but this is beyond utterly fucking broken.

I saw the comments about iOS, it's no better on Chrome.
Does it really matter? Do they need a browser at all? Browsers are all pretty much interoperable now. What strategic advantage is there in developing and maintaining their own browser? Nobody pays for browsers. They might pay for content or apps delivered in the browsers. That's what Microsoft should worry about. They've lost their browser monopoly, move on.
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Baseline + peak load grids is a much more complex problem. But that said, it doesn't mean wind isn't helpful or useful - it just means some grid design change.

Consider this - any energy captured from wind can be stored, at some known percentage of loss due to thermal and other inefficiencies. Heck, wind a spring with it! This is going to be less efficient, but not orders of magnitude so - and it still keeps us on clean and relatively inexpensive wind, as opposed to dirty and increasingly expensive fossil fuels.
Was the attack actually sophisticated? Usually, when megacorporations get pwned, the attack is not sophisticated at all, but they pretend it is (for PR reasons). This page doesn't tell us much about the nature of the attack, which is understandable. And as for what was compromised... almost everything of value?

Given that this is an insurance company, I imagine the attackers were either criminals (who wanted to steal this information for identity theft), or state-sponsored attackers (who would want this information for HUMINT reasons, such as verifying identities or determining good targets).
Go unanswered as of yet. Every week there's some new feature of Windows 10 being talked about. It almost seems like it hasn't been officially released yet, and they're still actively working on it...

Hard to criticize a company for not including features in software they haven't put out yet.
Chrome on Desktop is no better.
OpenSSL changes for Thursday's embargoed update apparently pushed to GitHub
I've found that email transfers take about 5 minutes, it's not terribly slow at all. The expense bothers me though.
I wish it worked on other versions of Windows as well (just like Firefox and Chrome do) but a .NET version would likely be vastly inferior to a C/C++ browser in performance.

.NET is great but this isn't really what it's meant for.
Well for one: privatized bus services generate more revenue as ridership increases as opposed to subsidized buses which have to stretch the same amount of resources further.
Or if motor skills are lacking, future iCracked customer, Disclosure: I work for iCracked (YCW12).
Google Bus as a service. This would be a great way for a startup to offer that benefit without the huge costs. I like it.
if you keep unsafe code contained enough that it is only used in cases where there is no other choice, it's still practical.

A simple pointer arithmetic loop over a string in C could lead to very nasty bugs if said string isn't null-terminated (for whatever reason), in rust you wouldn't think of using unsafe code to do that.

How much unsafe code does Servo use ? It seems most of the unsafe code blocks I see have a "TODO" block with some explanation of why it's unsafe, and with the express intent of removing the unsafe block eventually.
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> A memory safe language alone isn't enough. Look at Java. Isn't that supposed to be a memory safe language? And yet it's constantly got security issues.

Sure. Nobody is claiming (or should claim) that memory safety is a solution to all security problems. That's independent of the claim that memory safety is an effective defense against common vulnerabilities in C and C++ programs.
Not knowing the technical, or legal arrangements of SWIFT doesn't prevent one from making a traditional international wire-transfer.
... Seriously?

I get that they should have used SSL, it'd have been a good move. But you can't seriously use that argument.
The kind where they want the keyboard to be centered on the machine. I hate number pads on laptops because then the keyboard is off center. I can't really think of anything that would actually make it a feature worth the shift.

Different strokes, I guess.
The latter is undeniably true, even if the former is debatable. I've had to maintain code where PHP variables were assigned from a database then echoed directly into javascript functions and broke more than once because of encoding issues or a lack of necessary escaping -- being able to do crazy things like that is very flexible and fast, but it can also lead to some horrible messes if you don't know what you're doing.
> What we should do, from time to time is ask who is making these flashy climate change movies that the neuron rubbing guy watches. Who is funding those? Do people ever ask themselves that?

We do ask that. All the time. The information is publicly available.

Two neurons guy saw the movie, "Dynamic Earth" which was produced by the following:

Dynamic Earth is the result of a two-year long collaboration
between Spitz Creative Media, the Advanced Visualization
Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) at the University of Illinois, NASA’s Scientific
Visualization Studio, and Thomas Lucas Productions, Inc.
Produced in association with the Denver Museum of Nature
& Science and NASA Earth Science.

From here: http://www.dynamicearth.spitzcreativemedia.com/

Spitz Creative is a company that makes planetarium films, so the documentary was pretty much made NASA and the NCSA -- the two organizations that conduct the vast majority of climate modeling and research in the world. Literally world expert climate scientists.

I challenge you to do the same for anti-AGW documentaries..
Localize thousands-separator, too, if feasible.
Except that Netscape was open sourced years before it became Firefox.

That happened January 1998, which was 17 years ago, and 4 years before Firefox was released, which itself was over 12 years ago.
It is actually Windows 8/8.1/10

Windows 8.1 is better than plain 8, I run it and it still needs work and I use the Classic Start program to get the Start Menu back, but 8.1 works better than 8.

I suspect there will also be a 10.1 to replace 10.
You can also create automata with video by treating it as a three dimensional world. I did a bit of messing around with this a few months ago[1] and created some examples. The only one I can still find that is interesting is probably this one: http://gfycat.com/SelfreliantUnequaledAmericanindianhorse (Forgive the source material.)

Of course it's hard to look at all of a video at once, so you only see slices of the actual world...

[1] https://github.com/Wollw/Video-Automata
> What I know for sure is it's possible to buy a Thinkpad with MS-DOS (which is cheaper) and then install Linux or whatever OS you want.

I've heard they offer FreeDOS, but only for corporate customers.

> I can ask for you if they do something like that

Please ask if you can.
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Interesting... DDoS for hire comes to real life.
EROEI of wind turbines is about 20:1. That is, you recover 20x the energy that goes into constructing and maintaining the turbines over their lifespan.

The argument that some of the materials used in turbine manufacture presently rely on fossil fuels (e.g., coal used for coking steel) doesn't mean that other options for such processes aren't possible. Though shortages of fuelwood were among the key reasons for switching from fuelwood to coal in the first place in the 1600s-1700s.
Yes, Spartan is a fork where they cut out old cruft.
Just a quick comment to add: In many ways, what we're doing would probably not have been possible ten years ago. The markets were different, and so was the technology that enables us to implement changes to support and training. In addition, technologies that are facilitating rapid prototyping in other industries are just as essential to cutting down development time and costs for medical devices.
Not necessarily disagreeing with your broader point but I just want to point out that the examples are only obscure and antiquared in English. æ is common in modern Danish and unambiguously a separate letter, as is þ in Icelandic.
The Nvidia GPU is a strange fit. Is it really that common to run 3D workloads on a Linux laptop?

That binary blob is going to hold you back on software upgrades, sooner or later...
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An app for blind dates. Combines Tinder, Yelp, Uber, and Airbnb, with a pretty workflow over the top. Call it 'Dial-a-date'.
... then you still wouldn't make much money because the margins are so low.
Because the heavily subsidized public bus service in San Francisco, Muni, operates abysmally.

Buses are usually filthy, massively overcrowded during rush hour, often very late, and make frequent stops. In many cases, taking the bus is only slightly faster than walking. Compounding the problem is the lack of buses on many popular commute routes, such as the Lombard-downtown route that Leap follows.

They will either avoid these pitfalls or go out of business, because nobody will pay 3x more for a private bus service that is just as bad as the 1x public bus.
Fair enough. Just pointing out there are three options:

- Let people do whatever they want with it (BSD).

- Let people use it as a library, but force them to release changes to the library itself (LGPL).

- Let people use the software, but force them to release all modifications (GPL).

Neither is good or bad, but depends on the intention of the developer. Also, as a matter of etiquette, contributing changes back even for BSD code should be the norm, whenever there is no reason not to do so. But (L)GPL puts some enforcement power behind that rule of etiquette (and arguably created the norm).
It's pretty common for Internet communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_%28Internet_culture%...
You maintain your own browser so that you can influence the development of the web. For example, Apple used Safari's influence to push touch events, Microsoft tried to use its influence to standardise pointer events, Google's been pushing NaCL, Dart etc.

In order to consistently have weight with changing CSS, HTML rendering etc you basically need your own browser - and most of the changes we've seen in the last few years have come out of Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple.
It's not that it's easy, it's the barrier to entry. One person can build a potential SnapChat clone (or next big thing that ends up being hip), and have access to the same potential user/customer base.

I can sell home made soup on my front lawn, but i sure as hell can't scale to Campbells size overnight.

This is why Campbells is the safe investment.
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well i guess it's a question of how you make the game easier... either you make it easier in the virtual world (i.e. in a boxing game the punches come slower than a real life boxer would face), or you make it easier in the real world where your actions are enhanced somehow (force of the punch would be an obvious example)

yeah force feedback would be really cool but it's unclear how you manufacture those, it's like 4d cinema,, hasn't really caught on right... developers seem to talk a lot about trying to avoid breaking immersion, and maybe that mean no 'force feedback' is better than bad force feedback. but i don't know. makes me think that it might be an all or nothing problem.
> except that keyboard layouts and input (esp. on mobile devices) is an even bigger mess and even more fragmented than character encoding.

Encoding was in a similar place 10-15 years ago. Almost every publisher in Bengali had their own encoding, font, and keyboard layout - the bigger ones built their own in-house systems, while the smaller ones used systems that were built or maintained by very small operators. To make things even more complicated, these systems needed a very specific combination of operating system and page layout software to work. Now the situation is quite better with most publishers switching to Unicode, at least for public facing content.

With input methods, I expect to see at least some consolidation - I don't necessarily think we need standards here, but there will clear leaders that emerge. Yes, keyboard layouts are influenced by Unicode code-points, but only in a specific context. Usually when people who already have experience with computers start to type in Bengali (or any other Indic language), they use a phonetic keyboard, which is influenced mostly by the QWERTY layout. Then, if they write a significant amount, they find that the phonetic input is not very efficient (typing kha everytime to get খ is painful), and they switch to a system where there's a one-to-one mapping between commonly used characters and keys. This does tend to have a relationship between defined codepoints and keys, but that's probably because the defined codepoints cover the basic characters in the script (so in your case, ্য would need to have a separate key, which I think is fine). There will still be awkward gestures, but that's again, a part of adjusting to the new medium. No one bats an eyelid when hitting "enter" to get a newline - but when we learn to write on paper, we never encounter the concept of a carriage-return.

> I have literally never once heard the jophola referred to as a viram and a য

Interesting - I guess we have somewhat different mental models. For me, I did think of jophola as a "hoshonto + jo", possibly because of the "jo" connection, and this was true even before I started to mess around with computers or Unicode. I always thought about jophola as a "yuktakshar", and if it's a "yuktakshar", I always mentally broke it down to its constituents.

> [...] especially when looking at some incredibly obscure and/or antiquated modifiers that are given their own characters

I think those exist because of backwards compatibility reasons. For Bengali I think Unicode made the right choice to start with the minimum number of code points (based on what ISCII had at that time). As others have pointed out elsewhere in the thread - it is an evolving standard, and additions are possible. Khanda-ta did get accepted, and contrary to what many think, non-consortium members can provide their input (for example, I am acknowledged in the khanda-ta document I linked to earlier, and all I did was participate in the mailing list and provide my suggestions and some evidence).

> Out of curiosity, where in Bengal are you from?

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They are super-imposed over the arrow keys. Fn+Up = PgUp, Fn+Left = End, etc...

I have the previous year's model and it did take some getting used to.
I don't think Java proves your point. The major impacting bugs in Java itself tend to surround the idea of running arbitrary code with a complicated sandbox. The embedded CLR-in-the-browser also suffered many (in fact, out of all the severe MS CVEs that aren't memory related, most were sandbox escapes). So that's probably more of an indication not to build complicated sandboxes that rely on fine-grained classloading permissions systems.

The other Java bugs are ones that'd plague any language: SQL injection, rules-engines-gone-wild, etc.
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It competes by doing things like not complying with existing regulation, laws, or unions. It's an "app" and thus except from all regulation. So they don't pay a driver $70,000/yr and give him or her a pension. They can pick stops based on profitability, not access. They carry the bare minimum of liability insurance because if anything happens they can just close up shop. They don't have to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. They don't have to pay for any kind of additional safety or environmental inspections that public transit must comply with. They don't answer to the residents.
Awesome app, I use it more than Yelp now.
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I used to wonder, years ago when I lived in SF, why does a supposedly green city have such lousy public transportation? If this is successful, expect MUNI to use legal means to get rid of it.