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Yes, that's a very good point. I could see it being more useful if it where a much larger area. So that not so many interactions require coordinating the keyboard, the touch bar and the trackpad simultaneously.

I don't think the demos are making a good job at making it look "easy" to interact with the Touch Bar. It feels very cumbersome: eyes on screen, one hand on track pad another hand on the touchbar, so eyes on touchbar too, and from time to time one hand on the traditional keys (e.g.: for the demos with Messages and Mail).

Perhaps it's just me, but I find it overwhelming.

I thought the reason it was generally accepted that the 8-bit lookup table is optimal is because it can fit in the L1 cache.

The documentation on how to render images in iTerm 2 (version 3) that this example relies on can be found here:

https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

Well, I think I understand the point you're trying to make. And I agree that drawing a line on what is and what is not acceptable embellishment to promote a product is probably impossible to do in a way that is absolute.

But I believe that it should be possible to come up with a set of mandatory guidelines that would ultimately help consumers make more informed decisions when selecting a product. And I think this is a pretty reasonable thing to say, since so many governments enforce already some form of legislation to fight against deceptive advertising [0]. Actually, advertising of the very industry being discussed in this thread (gambling) is already being regulated by many countries [1], so I would be interested in hearing more about why you think this shouldn't be the case.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_advertising

I think such an argument is reasonable. It does seem that putting restrictions on advertising cigarettes has contributed greatly to reduce the perception that smoking is badass.

Could you provide a reference for this "age of amnesia" ? I've heard many people claim that it's not possible to remember things before age 6. But I personally have lots of memories from ages 2 to 4 (these memories are very easy for me to accurately date, because I lived in different countries during these years). And I would definitely categorize those memories as "long term": I remember places, visits of relatives, toys I had, play dates and birthday celebrations, bike rides, etc...

Why do browsers not require explicit user permission before allowing a site to perform clipboard manipulations? In a similar tashion to how the HTML5 geo-location API is opt-in?

Everything you say is absolutely right.

What I meant to say however (and I apologize for the way I phrased it) is that this is makes it even easier for indie developers to reach a wide audience.

Not only do I expect that it will be fairly easy to port Android Tablet games to the Fire TV, I also think that the strategy of offering a TV box that has a Games marketplace as a bonus feature is a strategy that will allow Fire TVs to sell a lot more than Ouyas.

What I find most exciting is that this finally opens the doors for indie game developers to write games for the big screen.

It is true that Steam was already doing that, but I think the audience of people with a PC plugged to a TV screen in the living room or that owns a Steam box is not as big as what the Fire TV owners might end up being

I was just pointing out what my understanding of a trademark is and how I think it wouldn't apply for the Dell vs Macbook example.

In any case, I don't think I'm qualified to have an opinion in the case being discussed here. Both because my understanding of trademark law is just a very general sense of what it is supposed to stand for and because I have absolutely no notion of what are the multimeter brands out there and what their designs look like.

For what it's worth, all the multimeters I recall using at school were either all yellow or all black and I have the feeling they were always the same brand although I don't remember what that was (I studied in Europe)

I'm not a lawyer, but I remember being told during an introductory class to business law in school that the definition of what makes a trademark can be whatever is considered to be so tied to the brand identity that people would immediately assume that the product belongs to the brand.

In the case of the Macbooks vs Dell XPS ultrabooks you could argue that what makes people recognize a Macbook is as much the glowing white apple logo as the aluminum case so people are not being fooled when they see a Dell XPS into thinking it's a Macbook.

Similarly, people don't immediately assume that a sport car painted red is a Ferrari. But if they were to see a car with a Ferrari logo (regardless of its color) they would most certainly assume that it's a Ferrari.

In short, it's my understanding that trademarks are by definition somewhat subjective. However I believe that the intention is a good one, as it protects as much customers than brands.

I would really like to see people starting to build small scale models from this design. It could become the new version of building a rocket in your backyard.

Just gave it a try... This is so much better than the previous DuckDuckGo app. Focusing on stories and leveraging the search capabilities of ddg is genious (at the bottom of every news there's a "suggested searches" menu with very useful suggestions).

Cherry on the cake ? HN is one of the available sources for stories!

> [...] except in certain niches like Lua as an embedded scripting engine, when you really need something that can be trivially sandboxed.

Isn't that exactly the reason JavaScript exists in the first place (i.e.: an embedded scripting engine for browsers) ?

This is very cool, the only way I can see this could be improved upon is by adding unit tests somehow (so that you can catch behavior changes when upgrading to a newer version of lua).

Thanks for clarifying !

I don't think there's a need for this: "For some insane reason " it doesn't sound very professional.

I often find myself having to spend more time than necessary to track down how to add these libraries to the dependencies of my leiningen projects.

I think this post would be a lot more useful if it included a link to clojars for each one of these libraries.

> Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. (In technical terms, they are hashed and salted.

Were the attackers ables to access the salt ?

I am as disappointed as you are. I found this note on wikiquote as I was looking for the original reference.

I would understand phones tending to get bigger if the iPad had been a flop and tablets had not been able to prove they are relevant for consumers. With tablets being superior on all aspects except for making calls and taking pictures, what I want is a minimalistic phone. Big enough that I can text, take pictures and make calls. And that I can plug to a tablet anytime to provide it with 3G connectivity.

And when I say "plug to a tablet" I mean that in the most meta sense you can imagine, what I want is somehow to be able to use my tablet using the same data plan as my phone, and that all my data can sync seamlessly from my phone to the tablet.

Apparently, according to wikiquote it's misattributed to him:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#Misattributed

I've found there is an interesting corollary to this: a good default configuration is more likely to make your product* successful than a poor default configuration with a lot of customization options.

I'm not saying that products shouldn't strive to be as customizable as possible, just that providing the product with a set of sensible defaults will go a long way in adoption.

* I use product loosely: anything from text-editors, phones, cars, subway sandwiches.

shouldn't public DNS servers ignore packets from IP addresses that shouldn't appear in the public internet ?

I was somewhat surprised that they were able to get my profile picture from facebook, as all my settings on facebook were set to be very restrictive (at least last time I checked).

Anyone has the link to the article jericho promised to write ?

I've often thought that all multiplayer games should allow to register users as bots that will compete with each other. I believe it would be greatly beneficial for AI research.

But would you welcome living in fear of being killed at any moment ?

When clicking on a file to preview it, you should append the name of the file to the bread crumbs, to show that you can go back to the listing by clicking back on the repo name. It took me a while to figure that out.