theGimp

Does money not exist in Europe?

Cheap shot, but I'll take it.

All 14 days of 2018? :)

How does this tie into post-scarcity?

This is amazing. I thought I was efficient at using my browser, but I clearly have ground to cover. Thank you!

The Cuban regime is despicable, but I don't see what they have to gain by targeting diplomats -- particularly US diplomats.

I'm inclined to believe the theory that the damage is inadvertent.

I stand corrected!

It's probably in a Facebook iframe, which is a different story.

If you don't mind wearing a big fitness tracker, the Fitbit Blaze has been great in my experience. It's a bit old now, and the new bigger fitbits are the Surge and the Charge 2, but I still love my Blaze.

What is the purpose of the parent comment? To score a point? To show us all the commenter is smarter than the vulgus?

It passes the "gratuitous negativity" test to me. The same point could have been made without the condescension.

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. The biggest reason I watch AvE is for his hilarious delivery.

You and I can disagree of course. I'm not finding issue with your opinion -- just offering mine.

I should also mention I'm Canadian and pretty much nobody talks the way AvE does. His accent and vocabulary are purposely exaggerated.

State laws and regulations still apply, no matter who's president. Also, the federal government has faced resistance from citizens and states and lost legal battles. The current political climate is extraordinary, but to say that standards are not being held is a stretch.

Hah. Yeah, it's quite the spectacle.

I've gotten used to AvE's unboxing by now and in fact look forward to it, but I remember it being jarring the first few times.

AvE also did a teardown. It's 40 minutes long, and evidently I watched the whole thing according to YouTube. https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ

Good observation. If you're wrong, you suffer a brief moment of embarrassment. If you're right, you might prevent a disaster.

Speaking up is a no-brainer.

You can ask and claim whatever you want. That was never in question. What I do question is whether you're serious or just trying to bait a response.

As for the moral premise you're presuming I hold, please spare me your intellectual gymnastics.

Explain to me how Afghan society would be changed by allowing a small group of girls into the United States for a few days -- so they can participate in a robotics competition.

This veneer of non-interventionism and pragmatism is no more than a facade you hide behind.

What an ugly thought. I don't know where to begin addressing you.

First, why must we help the oppressed when their local oppressors aren't concerned? Is this what you're asking? You can't possibly be serious.

Second, just because a majority of Afghani men believe something doesn't mean they all do. Those girls presumably had some support in pursuing robotics. It's more than likely the men in their family are supportive.

If there's one thing I would expect everyone to agree on, it's that helping those girls is a noble goal. They are competing on an international level despite living in an environment that stifles their creativity and freedom.

The contempt for users. I know what I do when a user files a real bug: respond to them, acknowledge it's a problem, tell them when it's fixed.

The fact that Intel does not do that with a bug of this magnitude shows how much respect they have for their users.

  The issue was being investigated by the OCaml community since
  2017-01-06, with reports of malfunctions going at least as far back as
  Q2 2016.  It was narrowed down to Skylake with hyper-threading, which is
  a strong indicative of a processor defect.  Intel was contacted about
  it, but did not provide further feedback as far as we know.
 
  Fast-forward a few months, and Mark Shinwell noticed the mention of a
  possible fix for a microcode defect with unknown hit-ratio in the
  intel-microcode package changelog.  He matched it to the issues the
  OCaml community were observing, verified that the microcode fix indeed
  solved the OCaml issue, and contacted the Debian maintainer about it.
 
  Apparently, Intel had indeed found the issue, *documented it* (see
  below) and *fixed it*.  There was no direct feedback to the OCaml
  people, so they only found about it later.

1. This is not mutilation. Skin is naturally shed and replaced. It is clear the author took care to protect his body.

2. Yes, they will probably be unique but it is not likely that someone's natural prints look like your sanded prints. Also, since prints regenerate, it would be more difficult to track you through your fingerprints if the authorities have the sanded ones on file.

That said, good luck hiding from Uncle Sam :)

That last bit of your comment was completely unnecessary.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach for measuring competence. Different companies and different teams have different dynamics.

What makes sense for your team and the things you work on can be very different from mine.

The tools and process my team settles on can achieve better results despite looking more primitive on your measuring stick. Complexity is not the end goal.

This is the sourced post http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/05/23/hacked-in-translation/

The ingenuity that goes into RCE exploits never ceases to amaze (and terrify) me. Can't wait for more details to be released.

That's a disingenuous claim.

Planes have big engines and can generate a great deal of lift. That means their fuel can be housed inside safe tanks of metal.

An airship needs to have thin lining around its lifting gas in order to fly. One can make the argument that recent progress in materials engineering makes it possible to have material that is thin but strong -- and I know next to nothing about the state of materials engineering -- but that does not change the fact that for the past few decades, a hydrogen airship would have introduced a great deal of risk for no good reason.

The real problem is that you're trusting binaries you find on disparate websites.

If you want to avoid these sorts of compromises, use a package manager or check the hash of the downloaded file against one that you trust.

Google Drive is only free for three years? That's news to me. I'm quite certain I've been a user for 4+ years (since its release).

I don't own a Chromebook though. Maybe that would change things.

Can't say I disagree with the sentiment, but you can communicate the same thing while maintaining civility.

The license in the LICENSE file looks like BSD 2.0. The proprietary license you mention is only in the Windows installer (according a quick grep) ... but it's still legally murky in my uneducated opinion.

Anyway, license notwithstanding, they do not publish the latest source. The download page has version 1.8, whose source is not available for download. There is also no repository and so no public history of changes on a per-commit basis. It might technically be open source, but certainly not in spirit.

Google traffic and AWS are commodities to an extent since they're replaceable. So Heroku and RetailMeNot don't qualify in my book.

More importantly though, the trend is that most companies relying on someone else's platform for survival are cannibalized. A few examples to the contrary don't make it a good idea.

I use mine all the time to read books / articles... and to kill time.