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>> I'm not sure how a Google search for a series of loosely related graphs addresses either of my arguments.

Your argument was that my argument was a strawman. Those graphs all show projections that have not panned out. To be definitive, either of us would need to locate the original claims from a reliable source.
I believe he's referring to the fact that a lot of email communication is still plaintext: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/

Of the communication that's nominally protected by TLS, a lot of it can probably be trivially broken by an active MITM attack that either (1) prevents a connection from being upgraded to TLS, in which case it typically remains plaintext (see STARTTLS), or (2) establishes the connection under a self-signed certificate, which will suffice since many email systems do not perform certificate path validation.
When I bought my Thinkpad, they gave me a significant ($150) discount when I said I didn't want Windows. It still came with Windows, apparently doing the actual refund process is more difficult than just giving a discount code...
It depends on a lot of things. Some banks charge to withdraw from other banks' accounts. Some banks join "networks" and don't charge for others in the same network. Some ATMs are set up inside stores, and they charge money that goes to the store instead of a bank.
It's worth noting that HTTP(S) has broadened outside of the web, in the sense of web browsers. Most native mobile apps, and lots of APIs used by desktop apps, etc., all use HTTP to get their job done. Definitely doesn't cover everything, but I think it's fair to say that HTTP is basically the protocol of our lives right now.
Cause or consequence...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
The cognitive load is expensive. I had never heard of venmo until this thread although I've heard of the 20 or so competitors.

A confuseopoly depends on an uninformed public. I'm sure there's some special reason for each of the 20 or so payment services, although I don't have the time and motivation to research. Confuseopolies are designed to screw the end user. So I'm inherently scared away from "payment services". Especially when simple cash is to fast, easy, incredibly cheap, and convenient.

Where we're at right now with payment services is roughly 80s BBS or 90s walled garden legacy services. "Wow, if the whole world were on this BBS or on compuserv then the whole world could talk together... but no there's fifty BBSes in my LATA alone"
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> What time frame are we talking about?

Try now. Mac OS X is based off BSD and contributes little back (and what it contributes is patent-encumbered enough to be unusable). And that's only a high-profile example which is obvious: there are tons of examples we'll never hear about because we'll never see the code.
In case anyone is interested, this is normally what I send to my users so they properly document issues for me:

https://github.com/backticks/issue-documentation

Feel free to fork and stylize as you want.
> just enter bank issued debit card for fee-free transactions.

IIRC, Square is only able to do this by abusing the "refund" feature of debit cards to credit money to those accounts. I read an article a while back that claimed the banks were not happy about this, and considering shutting it down (or rate-limiting it) in the future.
>Facebook has over 1.1 billion users

People really need to stop repeating this. As someone with over 30+ Facebook accounts (for games) and knows lots of other Facebook gaming friends with 10+ accounts as well as non-gamers who keep 2+ accounts (primary, parents/relatives, cosplay/hobby, work, etc...). I'd discount whatever number Facebook reports by at least 20%.
really? i got downvoted because i find it hard to imagine that people don't know that their systems will get more requests for the area that is day-time?

or i guess the sun is not predictable? sigh...
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The issue is that, in this example, both the colonials and the British think the two 'g' characters are different letters, just as people nowadays think 'g' and 'G' are different characters (historically, that is at least up for debate: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#History). Americans will want to see a different character when quoting Shakespeare inside American-English text (globalization starts with a different letter than globalisation)

because Unicode has only one character, writing that text in a text editor or storing it in a text column in a database becomes impossible.

Yes, there are workarounds such as using escape characters or html, but those are a nuisance that could be avoided by including both variants in Unicode.

The unicode consortium is entitled to think differently, but they cannot expect everybody to be happy with their choice.
Biometrics sound like the next frontier for milking licensing revenue. Pretty soon they will offer a discounted license for office, but only for one biometricly identified user. Multiple users, such as library users, will require the special license, even though they are all using the same computer.
> The Glossy monitor is incredibly reflective. I wish there was a matte option.

What the hell. This is a subject I have a strong opinion on. A "developer"-oriented laptop must have a matte finish. I want no specular reflections distracting me from my low-contrast text. This simple issue makes it a dealbreaker for me.

That said, maybe it can be mitigated. Quick googling tells me there exist anti-glare screen covers, maybe some exist that fit the M3800.
Almost no one outside of my techie friends know about Bitcoin. Even fewer understand how it works, so that's a no go.
It's the critical mass of friend's that key though. Hell, Paypal is just as effortless once that critical mass is hit, and that's has been around since 1998.
The best alternative I've heard so far is actually a patch: We keep the CAs, but they publish signed, append-only lists containing every cert they've issued.

No cert is trusted if it isn't in such a list, and the lists are mirrored (and cross-signed) by a bunch of trustworthy authorities, hashes written into the blockchain, and so on.

Then any CA who issues a cert for www.google.com will also have to publish irrevocable proof that they done fucked up; and when their CA status is revoked it's possible to grandfather in certs they've already issued to avoid breaking lots of sites.

Of course, it won't solve the problem of CAs unjustifiably charging $$$ for certain types of cert - or the problem of the dubious authentication done for affordable domain-validated certs.
hungarian "a" is also a separate letter from hungarian "á" but shares the same glyph with english "a" (edit: all vowels are actually considered different letters in their accented form in hungarian, while obviously they are the same letter with a modifier in some latin languages).
I wish I read this years ago when I left a company. Being young and stupid however, I doubt either of these things would've been afforded to me.
that don't exist anywhere, and is exactly what rent-control tries to solve.

rent is either 1 or 2yr contracts and then month-by-month. everywhere in the world. you can try to renegotiate a new 1yr or 2yr each time with a discount (or lower increase) but that is the same as negotiating all over again.
I'm privileged to be working with Jessica on a contract right now. She's not only the smartest person I've ever worked with, but she manages to elevate people to a level of ability they don't even realize they're capable of.

Her ability to process information and distill critical data is unparalleled: she'll find out everything she needs in 2-3 questions tops. I've seen her do this in front of both highly technical audiences and less technical ones: she perfectly tailors her speech to exactly the level that her audience needs. She sets a great example for how to communicate in a work context.

I think this is what makes her such a fantastic engineering leader: she uses her unique skillset to help remove as many barriers as possible. This enables everyone who works with her to be a better version of themselves, which pays huge dividends.
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While we're at it: Can i please use my Microsoft Account to Remote Desktop into any currently available Device that is registered to my account, without having to jump through the hoops of doing all the port and network configuration beforehand?
The difference between traditional and simplified Chinese characters is more than simply different fonts. Part of the difficulty is that some simplified characters map to multiple traditional characters, which means that converting from one to the other may be lossy. There's also the Japanese equivalent of simplified characters (shinjitai), many of which differ from their Chinese counterparts, as well as characters that were invented in Japan and may or may not have Chinese equivalents (kokuji).
Someone mentioned here in Hacker News a few weeks ago that he managed to buy a Thinkpad without OS and with a Windows' refund.
What would be really interesting is if Nintendo created a Gameboy/3ds/Whatever-branded phone.

I loved the sony experia play, except for the lack of sticks, and I really loved the form factor of the psp go.
I would love to see nintendo attempt it, with their great first party titles, or even just ports.

I think it would be funny too since nintendo has been taking a page from apple lately.
I've been using a Dell XPS 15 with the UHD touchscreen display since November and I love it! I also reduced to 1080p resolution, for the same annoying reasons (applications are just too hit/miss).

For the touchpad, I tweaked the initial settings a bit using the following articles:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
http://askubuntu.com/questions/483707/14-04-touchpad-is-too-...

I had a 2014 Retina Macbook Pro prior to this, and the touchpad, after these tweaks, is on par with that experience (although it is a bit more clicky but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Hope this helps!
A block chain like structure could probably act as a record of trust for SSL by using SSL cert/IP address pairs in place of transaction data.

https://namecoin.info/ is trying to solve a similar problem but by rebuilding the entire DNS system.
This is why when you meet someone at a networking event:

0) Have brought a pen or cell phone.

1) Always get their business card or contact info.

2) When you get someone's business card, always write down where you met them and what you want to ask or show them. Otherwise, you end up with a pile of cards and no memory of who they were from.

2.1) If you actually had them type their email into your phone, sketch out the email, but don't send it.

3) follow up within 3 days or you'll forget.
Convergence and DNSChain are two interesting proposals to replace the CA system.

IMO, it's more important to emphasize the idea of secure origins, and HTTPS hits that note. TLS could be swapped out, the CA system could be changed, but what matters is the expectation that connections across the web are expected to be secure by default.
The only reason this "problem" remains to be solved is that the US banking industry can't get their act together. Most of the rest of the industrialized world has had near-instantaneous bank-to-bank transfers for more than a decade. Here's a good story contrasting the UK system with the US: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-...

Expect all of these virtual wallet payment systems to die a swift death once Visa/Mastercard/Citi/Bank Of America/Chase finally pulls their finger out.
Instacart raised $210M [1] at a valuation of $2B+ [2,3]. Also see the WSJ's Billion Dollar Club [4]

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579091/0001579091140...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/instacart-2b-kleiner/

[3] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/instacart-a-grocery...

[4] http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/
I know that here in California, there is a non-profit named California Lawyers for the Arts[1] that will help artists get connected with lawyers who know copyright. It might be worth contacting them or a similar organization near the author for more info.

[1]http://www.calawyersforthearts.org

(Disclosure: I have known a few people who worked for CLA.)
Now if they can only get on the right page about GMO labeling and ditch their quasi-association with Monsanto and they'll be back in my good graces.
As it stands, git is apparently the only barrier to GitHub being used widely as a backup, file transfer, and website hosting service.
Oh interesting, this is the M3800 which is Dell's beefy 15" Linux laptop. Glad to see it getting some light.

If you're looking for something more portable, the New XPS 13 is in development and is supposed to launch soon. I follow the project lead's blog here: http://bartongeorge.net/

My hats off to the Dell team; they're very open about what they're doing, making better drivers etc. before launching the product.

For now I'm trying out a 2015 Chromebook Pixel with Debian GNU/Linux install..ing. Still working on it. It has a lot of the same problems mentioned here:
- Suuuper glossy screen (basically a mirror with a dark background)
- Limited keyboard: no pageup/pagedown.. even more limited than the Dell, it doesn't have a DEL key, just Power in its place... much key remapping will be required to make this usable.
- No physical trackpad buttons, and that's a huuuge problem, because even Google's touchpad driver fails some basic tests of operation as compared to a Mac (e.g. cursor stutters its motion if you click while moving the cursor). The lack of touchpad buttons across most laptops now is shocking.
- Keys are a bit shallow
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>the right to reverse-engineer the product

Doesn't sound like a restriction to me.
>doesn't happen without this conversation, because he's just some minority outside your social circle.

What? Maybe I live in some bizarre social bubble or something, but in this imagined scenario, are the barista and the customer otherwise not going to talk to one another because they're different races?
Instead, let's be dumbfucks[0] and use Facebook to send money!

[0]http://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zuc...
I have an older xps 13, which has the same keyboard layout as the m3800. I actually really like stacking page up/down, home, and end on the arrow keys. I use keyboard shortcuts as much as possible and can hit these very quickly. The function key right next to the left control key in conjunction with these works very well for me. It took a few days to get used to, but I love it now. Certainly much better than some of the other more funky positioning of dedicated keys on some keyboards.
Square Cash has pretty much no friction, even without other people actively using it, because recipients don't need to create an account.
Without a root of trust, anyone could say "I'm example.gov, this is my certificate", and present "proof" of that.

Most SSL certs in the wild are legitimate and trust has already been established. So if you hit FooCo's corporate website and get one certificate, and some other guy hits the same website and they get another, it's likely something fishy is happening. Replace this model of two people with a few million, and you have a pretty decent verification system happening.

Really, what we have now isn't okay. We're training users to click past SSL warnings which, 99.999% of the time, are due to misconfiguration or BS reasons (i.e. expiration).
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This is misleading (your link is broken, btw -- needs a slash between org and wiki). Before the listing it says:

"These scientists have said that it is not possible to project global climate accurately enough to justify the ranges projected for temperature and sea-level rise over the next century. They may not conclude specifically that the current IPCC projections are either too high or too low, but that the projections are likely to be inaccurate due to inadequacies of current global climate modeling."

So we don't know that they disagree with global warming, just that they think the projections are too inaccurate.
I'm surprised they don't seem to be using any kind of wallet. From the description, transactions are only bank-to-bank, with a typical 2-3 day ACH delay. So if I pay my friend Joe $20 today, and he pays me $20 tomorrow, it still takes days to settle up. And the only record of the transaction is embedded in the chat? A wallet would have it settled up instantly.
Isn't this just a marketing stunt? The article contains no engineering facts, just the branding thing. I mean: I expect the "new IE" to inherit code and practices from the "old IE". Unless I'm proven otherwise.
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Dell has achieved feature parity with the Retina MacBook Pro, and has made huge improvements on their last 'MBP competitor', the XPS 15.

However, looking at it objectively, the article pretty much sums it up:

Thunderbolt port doesn't really work in Ubuntu
Application-level 4k scaling issues are pretty much all over the place
If all you're after is Linux on a laptop, you can do it for cheaper than the M3800's starting price
I kind of hoped the Dell logo on the back would light up, but sadly it doesn't
Battery life with the Nvidia GPU enabled is far too short for a day's worth of working

Not quite a MacBook, but if you absolutely must have Linux instead of OS X, and don't want to fiddle with installing and tweaking it, it's very serviceable. But if you don't need the NVIDIA GPU there are cheaper options.
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the FBI seems to disagree with you.

my point stands. both farts/kick me stickers can lead the person to jail if authorities want to. you can argee about reforming the laws that allow that retarded situation, but that is the situation we are in now.

both actions waranty a criminal response with the law as it is. while most people would not call the FBI, one did, so it is the same scenario as two criminals shooting each other.
While channels are awesome, and are a good pattern, what's important about Rust is that it lets you do channels, but if you need to share mutable memory for some reason, Rust still has your back in that use-case. We can guarantee no data races, even with shared mutable memory, at compile time. It's pretty huge.

That said, channels in Rust are also nice to use, and you shouldn't not choose channels. Rust just enables other use-cases too.
Actually, I can't. I can decipher quite a bit with lots of effort, but I wouldn't call that "reading".

And there are very few people around who can read all those (especially Textura) without problems.

On your other example: when I was in Russia, I found those "unknown" letters difficult, but fun. But the letters they share with Latin? I didn't see a difference.

And to your phone example: of course, I'd be annoyed. But that's exactly the point: you have to set up your local system correctly, to your expectations and standards.

I'd be much more annoyed if some web page showed an English text in some Chinese transliteration, just because the author (writing English!) was Chinese. But that's basically what you propose!

Sorry, I truly think you've run up an argumentative dead end.
I actually tried getting a screen cover but I totally failed trying to put it on. Still though, I was able to tell it didn't really help the glare at all. I just threw it in the trash :(
You're being downvoted because it's irrelevant to the thread, which was asking why a cell phone isn't sufficient. The NSA can already turn on cell phones remotely so there's still no huge difference. If you wanted to make a useful comment, perhaps point out how LE might be able to get around getting a warrant by abusing Hertz or something (if, say, Hertz adds to it's agreement that it can record and analyze video with any 3rd parties for any reason).
IPSEC and HTTPS work at different levels. With IPSEC, your computer can be sure it's talking to the computer at 198.51.100.1 and not to any other computer. With HTTPS, your browser can be sure it's talking to www.example.gov and not to any other web server. Both work equally well against passive eavesdroppers, but they authenticate different things and so will work differently against active attackers.
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> I think the idea is that syntax will support both options, as seen with the analogous introduction of the value parameter syntax for traits, but the underlying implementation will be abstract members.

Right; my problem here is that type inference handles type parameters fine and often doesn't handle type members without an explicit type. If the implementation is always type members that means we're always in the unpleasant case.

> Do you know why abstract members were chosen as the underlying implementation? Are they more general?

Yeah they are - there are some things you can't express as type parameters that you can express as type members. But there's value in making the simple case simple.
I mean no disrespect, so I will say this to the general reader, and not to you directly.

This comment and its parent are incredibly disheartening, given that I assume the people writing them are of above average intelligence and likely have a very creative bent - people on the top end of "ideally educated" in some of the categories the article lists.

I would forward this: If you find yourself both agreeing with the comments, but often marginalized or ostracized in ways you do not enjoy, (and only you can know this for sure, but we've all been there) it isn't 'other people' that have the issues, it is you. You are lacking in the skills mentioned in #4, #5 and possibly #7. You may think this doesn't matter, but I'd put forward that you are missing a large part of a fulfilling life experience without them.

There is a fine line between sharing every possible interest with every possible person and completely shutting yourself off to new viewpoints, ideas and experiences simply because they aren't your preferred topics. You will learn from unexpected sources, because you yourself are changing, each and everyday. I would encourage everyone to take some of their precious time and converse with people that aren't simply mirrors to your own innate desires.

It won't matter a lick to me, but it most certainly will help you grow and learn.
Doubtful. From what a quick scan on Crunchbase says, Bolt did not make any investments in FiftyThree (the makers of Pencil) nor do they share investors.

Bolt has however made a number of investments in hardware companies that gained traction through crowdfunding. This is the audience.

Not all of these companies were founded by people with backgrounds in this space, so the model they resort to when looking for "nice" is to emulate Apple. FiftyThree is a former Microsoft industrial design team so they had knowledge of how to make any kind of packaging. They serve as a great goal post for Bolt to point to as an alternative example of "nice" that's not one of their own investments. The implication here is that they are not self-promoting.
For me personally I like the R&D option, however in smaller teams with timelines it always leads to being scrapped because project X needs to be delivered by Y.

A note to employers around this, let the developer choose the project - even if it has to be relate-able to the company in some way. If it's a big company I'd love to go to other areas of the company, meet people in other areas of work and ask them about their work flow, problems they encounter day-to-day and if it's interesting and tech-solvable - build a solution!

Or if your devs aren't as "go-get-em" as I appear to be, offer a few examples that you've researched and offer them the opportunity to do the above.
You know what, I think this will still be less awkward than that singing at Coldstone Creamery.
Or, maybe, perhaps:

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