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> If the government collaborated with industry to launch a “trustable” federated identity (TFI) service

Lost me there. You know that's not possible, right? (the trustable part)

> We want it to be as hard to break into our computers as it is to break into a bank vault.

Except that from everything the government is saying today they absolutely do not want computers to be "as hard to break into as possible" (think of the children!). Their solution seems to be "getting deep access into everything and...identifying who the attacker is after the fact (at best)".

And of course the main reason they want that is because it gives them even broader spying powers than they have now where they have to be very careful about who and what they access so as to not get caught.
It may not be immediately obvious how to navigate the presentation. I've added a hint on the title slide that appears after three seconds of inactivity, with some details on how to move forward.
Looks great. If one could add a image background also, then it would be the perfect tool!
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Sorry, are you really calling $24K / year "very low wages"?
It's bemusing that we are to assume this is the USA presidential candidate - neither of the strings 'usa' or 'america' appear on the page. Other countires that have presidents presumably need to identify themselves so as to not confuse (other) people.
As a fourtysomething man the reason is one of intent. I have no desire to kill myself, but I do know that if I chose suicide I would die.
It's very common for LCDs to buffer, and if you're strobing then buffering at least one frame is required to prevent artifacts (although one frame at 144Hz is much less serious than one frame at 60Hz). However, there's nothing inherent in the technology that requires frame buffering and I've seen many benchmarks of LCDs with less than one frame of latency. If you look at high speed camera footage of LCDs you usually see them update with a CRT style raster scan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCHgmCxGEzY
The actual, non-outdated link is here: https://www.eiffel.com/values/design-by-contract/introductio...
At what point would you acknowledge that maybe the large number of people who think they prefer full justification... actually prefer full justification?
Holacracy seems to be taking some good ideas and packaging them with strange ideas, like saying that people should not talk about personal topics at work.

What about the Brazilian engineering firm Semco? Follows a non-hierarchical, self-organizing structure. Thousands of employees, very successful. Described in two books by CEO Ricardo Semler: The Seven-Day Weekend and Maverick.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Seven-Day-Weekend-Changing-Works/d...
Easy. It could be shown with a black border instead of a white one. Or any of innumerable other ways.
That's why Reddit doesn't click with me.
It'd be nice if the actual height of characters was taken into acount. Try:

MY NAME

är tårta
"Constraining the environment" is a perfectly valid approach, IMO. At least it is if your question is 'how do I automate a hotel.'

The idea of human-like robots performing tasks in human-like ways is (again, IMO) an analogy that makes it easy for people in the 1950s to imagine the 2050s. How will check in work? Robots working the front desk. Cleaning? Robot maids. It's a placeholder for technology that doesn't exist yet but is ultimately expected to to some job.

To update the analogy now that we're closer to achieving the reality, lets imagine a hotel that is a machine Instead of a hotel staffed by machines. In that context, specialized beds, sheets, buildings, and other adaptions to the practicalities of machine abilities are fine. After all, our regular hotels were built specifically to be convenient for human workers changing sheets or delivering room service.

I think that's ultimately how a lot of technology will progress, as part of a complex of people and machines. Self driving cars need to work on "human roads" because these are the roads that exist. But, I think adaption will go all ways if the tech succeeds. Roads will be built or updated to be more suitable for self driving cars. Humans will adapt too.
So how do you explain the difference between male and female? Women has lower expectations of life or they hit their expectations better than men in general?
FYI: you can just copy-paste torrent and magnet links into popcorn time to play them.
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Couldn't it be hormonal? doesn't testosterone drop as we age?
Tell people about it. Write something on (say) Medium explaining what it is, why it would be awesome if it existed, and asking people to get in touch with you if they agree.

Also, what is it?
Blizzard games also do this, you usually only have to download about 25% to start playing
Nice, but not useable for me right now. ÅÄÖ collides with the above line.
It's a piece of software for large offices. Working in IT for an office of 170+ users over two floors has given me the idea. Our hard-coded (Names, user profile pictures) visio-based floor-plans are constantly out of date as users leave, move desks, join etc.

I was thinking this piece of software would scrape the Active Directory for names, feed it into an SQL database and then through SharePoint (I only say SharePoint because that's what our Intranet is based on), you could host static Visio-based floor plans of just the desk-spaces.

You could then link the SQL database to the live Visio floorplans and then move the users around as needed on the page, making them up to date for the whole office as soon as one person updates it, rather than having to email the whole office with the updated document, wasting time and effort, as as soon as any personnel changes are made, the document has to be manually re-edited with names and whatnot from scratch.
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You need to have code to show, create something and then show it, if you have nothing to show people won't be interested.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar gives an excellent overview of open source development, pay attention to release early and release often section.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-baza...
Completely agreed.
The worse argument is the one about the backlight not being red... If you care about that kind of thing you already have a bedside luminotherapy lamp. Which means you will use it to read (which is way more comfortable).
The backlight's primary function is to counter the effect of the sun in daytime park / balcony / beach / etc... reading. You need a lot of luminosity, and certainly not weak ass red lighting.
Yep! I really wanted this, but it's a bit more work. HTML5 canvas has a `measureText` method but it only returns width, so there's a few cases where the text will escape the box. The logic is really simple for now, but I'll hope to improve it in future.

Would you mind submitting an issue with a screenshot of your text not rendering correctly? https://github.com/geelen/typeslab/issues
Something about the simplicity of this experiment and its additional meaning adoption makes it sublime
hasnt facebook already done this with the like button?
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It´s password protected, why is that? anybody got the password? I would like to read the article.
That's true, but that's where you have the door sign says 'DND', at least the hotels that I have stayed so far have this 'feature'.
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I think you're right.

I see it as how in my first startup, I did phone sales despite being a tech guy, because we had to figure out how to sell our services and wouldn't have known what to tell someone about how to sell them if we didn't. And how all of us took tech support calls because we needed to understand what problems our users had (I learned to troubleshoot Trumpet Winsock setups over the phone "blind" without even once having run the program that way, as we didn't have any Windows machines...) before we could automate things and before we could write better instructions to try to eliminate the problems.

It wasn't that anything we did couldn't be scaled - we eventually outsourced our consumer sales, and wrote detailed installation instructions and automated parts of our setup with scripts - but the easiest way of learning how to do that was to do things in ways that couldn't scale first.

It also helps you recognise potentials for scaling things that potential competitors may take a long time to realise can be scaled, and that they thus may decide to stay away from because of that belief.

I'm deeply asocial, and hates phone calls, but doing phone sales and taking support calls have provided most of the best lessons about customer needs and opportunities I've ever gotten.
He was deemed a hypocrite not because he volunteered to join the SS (as a teenager), but because he didn't disclose it for decades - while playing the role of a public "voice of conscience" for most of that time.

And even though he came clean so much later on, some parts of his confession are still very difficult to believe - for instance, he says he volunteered for submarines first. Submarines! Worst mortality rate in the entire army, and in late 1944? Suicidal, even worse than the Eastern Front (where nobody volunteered to go... and yes, even back then it was common knowledge).
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You could switch "open source" with "zero-revenue business model" (not quite as catchy).

This is something unique to startups, who can raise huge sums of money (with insane valuations), yet have no revenue model. Having no revenue stream can (and has worked) for many startups, but it is incredibly risky. How long you can keep going until the money/ luck runs out is massive uncertainty (there's enough uncertainty as it is).
Isn't Spain subject to the European Convention on Human Rights?
It all sounds very interesting, however, the tone of the web site comes across like some crappy download accelerator. When you follow the "nerdy details" link you don't get anything meaningful, just bland assurances and pretty animations, i.e. entirely non-nerdy. Nowhere do I see basic technical info like "It's a new IP transport protocol used in place of TCP", or "It's compatible with existing networks because...", or "It's (better than|different to) (HTTP/2.0|QUIC|SPDY) because...".

The discussion here, while short, has been much more informative than the site itself. I don't see any good reason to dumb-down the site like that - you're selling a protocol layer, so you're not going to have any non-nerdy customers!

Why are resumable downloads done in that layer? I have no trouble with downloads resuming across network switches when handled by higher-level protocols like chunked HTTP or even FTP.

Similarly, why would you even think about bundling multiple resources in one transfer at that level? Surely that's a higher level thing (like HTTP/2.0), and thus independent of transport? There appears to be a lot of layer-leakage going on - not that it's necessarily bad, but the reasons for it need to be clearer.
Women also take anti-depressants at a higher rate than men, likely preventing some percentage of suicides. Men often seem to regard anti-depressant use as coming with a stigma or being an admission of weakness.
It's paperwhite that has no physical buttons. Voyage has them again, but apparently they don't act quite like the old buttons.
> in sync with the stupid content tracker

In his own words, he keeps naming things after himself.

(Although that's not entirely accurate. Linux was named by the guy who uploaded it to the ftp site; Linus' original name for it was Freax. (A 'Free' 'Unix'; the 'x' at the end being de rigueur for a Unix variant.) Hooray for opinionated people who just wantonly change names with no regard for the creator's desire, I suppose.)

https://lwn.net/Articles/325056/
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Honest question: Why don't you leave?

If you leave the US, you can bail on your student loans, and you can start a new life with a similar/better standard of living.
thebutton.dispatchEvent( new MouseEvent('click', {clientX:(r.left+r.right)/2, clientY:(r.top+r.bottom)/2}));

Or something along those lines!! :)
Fantastic work and props for open sourcing the site.

I will be reading the code to this one!

Thanks
This might be sexist, but some people claim that women never blame themselves for any life problems and find a way of justifying themselves no matter what.
Yeah its a web view in a window with a dialog to enter a url.

This is the project everyone makes when they discover the web view control.....
Testosterone usually peaks close to 40 (plus or minus five years), and falls roughly 10% every decade thereafter.
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The Voyage has buttons that you can't push. It uses a strange touch sensitive mechanism that works badly enough that you can't rely on it.
This is awesome - this will definitely helps spread great words with nice design :)

Would love to have PDF download as well, and probably more font pairing (like 3 fonts, third font use !!), but in any case, this is already quite awesome!

Thanks Glen Maddern!
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As a generalisation, women are more likely to reach out for emotional or psychiatric help than men are.
The problem is a human is multi-faceted.

He could be a hypocrite in doing that about his past, and still much less of a hypocrite than those that accused him in tons of other issues.

>Submarines! Worst mortality rate in the entire army, and in late 1944? Suicidal, even worse than the Eastern Front (where nobody volunteered to go... and yes, even back then it was common knowledge).

Errr, don't know about him and wether he knew that or not, but in any case there were very passionate for the "cause" men in Germany, who very much volunteered to go to the worst places...

And believing in Hitler during the war wasn't that exceptional, neither meant you were evil in your mind. It was pretty much what everybody did...
So why does a fortysomething man have more intent?
A luxury product created by gratuitous cruelty? Seems a bit harsh.
> Are you trying to tell me that countries from the former Soviet block are corruption free?

I don't see him saying that. I see him saying that countries of the former Soviet block have poorer population than Greece [0] but are subsidizing it.

Also as nations they are poorer, though their GDP has climbed to the same level. They soon will be richer than Greece. In 1990, they were still much poorer, as they were still under Soviet occupation and influence, while Greece had been a member of EEC/EC for ten years. Greece is lagging behind due to its sclerotic economy and clientelism of previous power parties, and Syriza seems to revert to the same.

[0] http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=BLI
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> Test post, please ignore.﻿

If, on the Internet, there is a forum with two posts, one titled "WARNING: READ THIS IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE, PROPERTY, AND THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF YOUR SPECIES. ALSO, IMPORTANT TAX INFORMATION." and the other titled "Test post, please ignore", the first would have a few views, and maybe a couple posts.

The second would be a veritable Times Square.

Torvalds got precisely what was coming to him.

The next version will be code named "Warning: Do Not Click".
Programmer productivity starts with requirements, not tools
Wanted: HTML/Front end programmer for a small project/task
I need someone to code the following:

* Given a collection of "nodes" which contain text, and

* given a collection of pairs of nodes indicating arrows,

* draw the network with dynamic layout, such that

* the user can

* * drag nodes around,

* * pin nodes in place, and

* * the network adapts its layout.

I have a specific use in mind and would describe the objective. The programmer/designer would have a free hand to meet the agreed objective.

So:

* How long "should" such a thing take?

* What tools would you use?

* How much would you charge?

* How formal would you want the spec to be?

* How formal would you want the paperwork to be?

Feel free to email me, web site in my profile, email address available through the web site. I'd be interested in seeing the discussion as to why people might think this is a completely ridiculous task specification.

Thanks!
Sounds like the premise of the latest episode of Silicon Valley (season 2)
The raised more than they they needed, sold for less. Founders got nothing. Literally the same :)
Ohh right, so your plan would be to essentially check for third-party javascript things running on the same page?

This would be a really easy "security" measure to circumvent, though - I could literally just delete your monkey patch, for a start!
This is great. Wonder if the robots will be as efficient as humans at work.
Notice how increasingly nowadays, if your laptop/desktop/mobile breaks, you just buy a new one. Maybe that could be the future of houses eventually. Ah, the circuit breaker keeps tripping out for some reason, time to call the 3D printers and have a new house built here
Though this might be possible, I've not seen it in practice and I very much doubt that this is what the hotel is planning to do.
They don't as such, but when they set out to die they manage to so. This is not a good outcome.
Testosterone actually peaks around age 20 and gradually declines after that, accelerating around age 30. By 40, it's been falling for a long time.
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So under what circumstances are the human maids better? If you miss them because you're at the conference, then you don't care whether they're human, robot, or some sort of arsenic-based life-form as long as the room is cleaned. If it's casual smalltalk you want, a hotel maid isn't a very efficient way to deliver that.
Whose fault is it that he was greedy and opted to go for "Zuckerberg status", and then picked the wrong people for the journey?
This is so very true, I earn more than a lot of my friends and save more but I'm one of the only ones that doesn't own a house as I never came into a lump sum.

I guess you just need to work with what you've got!
Several times I've seen VCs force the shutdown of consulting businesses in companies to make them "focus" on the product.

This is an example of where VC's interests and the companies are not aligned and VCs are pursuing short term goals.

Specifically, they often "request" this be done well before a term sheet. If the company complies then they start running out of cash, making them more dependent on the VC money and less able to negotiate terms.

Further, it's a mistake. These companies were using the income from other companies they were consulting for to build out the product. It's like free development. You get your engineer time paid for, and make a profit on it, and much of the work goes into the product side of things. All you need is to take some of those profits and build up a separate team that is focused on productizing the core product.

IF you do it right, you can bootstrap and never need to take VC funding. Either way, a successful consulting business extends your runway.

The claim about lacking focus is BS. Because the consulting- if being done right-- is in the exact area where the product is being built.

You know what takes focus away? Running the senior management team all over the country or the valley talking to VCs who are mostly going to waste their time because they don't have the balls to say "no"... looking for the 1 in 100 that will invest in the company.

I've seen this many times.

If you're able to secure consulting for your company and it's in the core area of what you want the company to do long term, do it.
Did you try reading something less boring? ;)
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Or women get kids and the whole protection instinct comes forward, which doesn't happen to the same degree for men...
My objective was to develop an application that allowed me to check only the most relevant information of the Formula 1 championship in a simple and fast way.

This is my first Android application. It is free and it does not contain any ads.

Any feedback is appreciated.
Instead of having VCs who don’t respect hackers and work hard to rip them off on behalf of their LPs, you’d have VCs who don’t respect hackers and also don’t understand technology, which sounds like a great way for their LPs to lose all their money.

I wanted to say “this is how pets.com got funded” but actually it turns out pets.com was started by the CEO who led Berkeley Systems, the flying toaster people, into an acquisition where she got laid off; and she was funded by Hummer Winblad and Amazon. And so while Julie Wainwright may not have exactly been Brin and Page getting funded by Andy Bechtolsheim, she certainly had experience managing technology companies, and her VCs certainly knew what they were getting into. And other ridiculous stories from the same time, like FireDrop/Zaplet (business plan: send DHTML by email) had similarly impeccable pedigrees (funded: US$90M by Kleiner, Joe Kraus, Bill Joy, Esther Dyson, et al.)

So, how much worse would it get, really? Hundreds of billions of dollars a year of investment capital desperately chasing any Ivy League graduate who knows how to tie a tie and promises to hire an army of monkey programmers just as soon as they get funded?
Most suicide attempts fail. Men just happen to "fail" less often than women.

This is not a good outcome. Every failed suicide attempt is really a good outcome.