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Yes; that reason being that we don't have the same strict limits on number of characters in an external name, and we simply have too many API's to remember to be able to give six character mnemonics to them.

Short names are not left behind in core languages. For instance, a function that gives the length of a list, string or other sequence is often called length or len, and not length_of_sequence or whatever.

Arc, in which HN is programmed, has reduced "lambda" to "fn". "fn" is the same sort of shortening as using "pbrk" for "pointer to break".

Ruby has shortened "print" to "p".

For the basic core of a language, shortening names is good. When you're reading code, the short names by their very brevity tell you "I'm a thing in the core language, and not some external API to some add-on lib", which also has connotations of "I might be useful in many contexts; it may be worth it to learn about me and remember me".
I'm not American either but I can understand not wanting excessive traffic in streets that were meant for feeding the suburbs. It's not that there shouldn't be cars on those streets but they're meant to connect homes not as an extension of the highway. As such, they are being somewhat misused. It's not unlike city zoning - for example, you wouldn't want to have an industrial plant in the middle of a residential zone, so why would you want commercial traffic going through the back streets of a residential neighborhood?

One part of the issue is being addressed by restricting traffic (e.g. forbidding left or right turns, etc.) but it also inconveniences the locals. I think a part of a better solution would be if the streets and roads were graded with more nuance in the maps Google/Waze/others use. As it is now, there is little distinction between a proper street or a small back street that's really just a single lane split for both directions, or something that's basically a glorified driveway.
You could do it like baseball does arbitration. Each side presents a figure they think is fair, and a judge picks one of the two (she can't pick somewhere in the middle, she has to pick one or the other). That way, each side is encouraged to present a reasonable amount, otherwise the other sides value will be chosen.
Is it me, or did the power just go off?
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In the UK, the only person i've heard use it was an American.
If their only claim is being outside US jurisdiction, then "we are DMCA-compliant" is a misleading and false claim to make.

They may not be subject to DMCA, but then they're "not DMCA compliant, for good reason".
And more interesting when the air bag controller is dumped by a neutral third party. That's not under Tesla's control; it's a Takata unit, self-contained, with no network connection. When the air bags fire, the controller saves the last 8 seconds of vehicle speed, brake light switch, engine speed, throttle position, acceleration, and seat belt use. It's basic data for crash analysis.

There are companies which do this and analyze the info, such as Failure Analysis Associates and Crash Forensics. Bosch makes a readout tool for this.[1] If the vehicle isn't too badly damaged, the data can be retrieved by plugging into the OBD port. Worst case, you have to get the airbag controller out of the vehicle (it's a tough device, designed to survive a crash) and connect it to the readout tool.

[1] http://www.crashdatagroup.com/
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The destructive and destabilizing force of an abusive, possibly sexually, actor in a community, especially in an authority position has historically proven to be far more harmful to communities than whatever objective work they contribute. Bad actors engender the long term viability of a movement.
If you want to be able to fly around like this at low altitude, why not just get a powered paraglider? Cheaper, safer, longer flight time and you can buy one today?
The site that published the extension was coordinating an harassment campaign.
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I think what is particularly frustrating about this model is that the locking applies to content even when you've already paid for access. I am an American expat living in Russia currently, and one of my larger regrets is that I cannot watch the content I legally have access to under Amazon Prime because of geo-locking. Prime's original content is not geo-locked in the slightest, but for any other show, movie, music, or book which I have already paid for access to, I am unable to view it simply because I'm in the wrong IP block.

edit: strangely though, as I just noticed on my FireHD, content I downloaded to the device using PrimeVideo in the US is viewable; it's simply streaming Prime content which is forbidden. The technical difference between a copy sitting in a browser cache that was downloaded in Russia and a copy sitting in the temp storage for the FireHD video player that was downloaded in the US is so insignificant it's baffling that one is allowed and the other isn't. Ultimately, both methods (would) accomplish the same goal; watching a licensed show from Prime in the Russian Federation.

I understand, to a degree, that the reason is a complex web of licensing and distributor agreements. But I feel like these agreements have a very tenuous relationship to streaming content as it differs significantly from the purpose of the original agreements, which was to allow local distributors to profit on the licensed content with localized versions; but that was for an entirely different medium. It's an incredibly weird scenario to me because an agreement over physical media from probably a decade or two ago is preventing me from viewing digital media which wasn't even an option at the time of the original agreements.

There's no extra cost to Amazon to let me watch my stupid shows in St. Petersburg, and as I'm not interested in DVDs/Bluray anyways, it's not as if access to said streams is costing any distributors anything; the "potential sale" was already missed the moment that I got access to the streaming service in the US, both for US distributors and for any foreign distributor.

Individual game companies seem to be able to handle regional distribution even when the economies vary enough to encourage regional pricing; I'm not sure why non-interactive media thinks it cannot do this, or that it would somehow be bad. But it's particularly frustrating that these services, once purchased, work in some places on the planet, but not others, and the only reason is a bunch of agreements made well before the services even existed.
If I set up a website called MurderBay consisting of listings of people available to er... perform tasks, I'd expect law enforcement to try to take down my site as well as the people actually using it to procure assassins. Especially if the vast majority of links listed on my website were to assassins' contact information and my site was well known for the blog articles I'd published telling parties requesting I remove assassins' contact information to "go sodomize yourself with retractable batons."
> Whilst we haven’t looked in detail at this, you may recall from a hack of some BMW vehicles which suggested that the OBD port could be used to code new keys for the car.

AFAIK, at least officially licensed BMW dealerships can do this, and the VW software (VAG COM) for car shops has leaked countless times.

As soon as you have access to the OBD port, all you need is either cracked dealer software or some low-paid dude with an interest in earning side money and keys to the dealership. Or, if you want to avoid people calling the cops on you, buy/steal a tow truck with a lift. No one will call the cops if they hear a thief alarm and a tow truck with flashing yellow lights - people will assume either the legit owner has a breakdown or, to up the game if you have another (stolen) car with blue lights, the cops are towing the vehicle.
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>Just like headshops, TPB skirts prosecution by being an agnostic tracker despite everyone knowing what it's all about.

No. Founders of TPB have gone to jail, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial.
This is the first reasonable thing I've read in this post. I can't believe that upthread someone actually proposed limiting variable names to four characters to keep the 80 char limit!
Programming is all about finding and exploiting ways to cheat.

I remember overhearing a conversation in the Sun cafeteria about how the Aviator flight simulator only had one-half of a 3d model of the airplane, and it just reflected it to get the other half. They complained that was cheating, but that's just how it is!
France is much more than Paris, and even in Paris you cannot see the dog shit that has been cleaned up.
This has a terrible environmental impact. For 1000€ you could have bought a car in any European country (but you'd have to learn how to drive a manual, hard for a 'merican)
Please don't comment about getting downvoted. There's more than one HN guideline about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

In this case I imagine the downvotes were because "I for one am not surprised" sounds glib and dismissive (and kind of braggy) without adding information. The question that follows it is fine, although to make it seem like less of an insinuation you could have added some (neutral) context for why you were asking.
You do realize that rules around this already exist, right? For example, in california: https://www.serve-now.com/resources/process-serving-laws/cal...
Google host entire books that are still known to be in copyright without getting the author's permission; that doesn't according to the courts count as copyright infringement. But we're expected to think that hosting content metadata is [contributory] copyright infringement?

Gun manufacturers are murderers in such a world.
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Don't talk to me in legalese. I'm not a judge nor a lawyer. I'm not a policeman or a law enforcement agent of any type.

We all know what TPB is for.
If you visit the UK and watch in a hotel then the hotel paid for it. If you're watching on iPlayer then you'll have clicked-through a warning saying you need a licence to watch.
How do you think other countries got paid vacation ? Mostly by electing nice politicians and going out in the street.

But American people prefer Clinton and Trump, lol.
It's all about intent, and your intent sounds innocent. This plug in was intended to do harm (how much harm is debatable).

After all, if you just pick up your gun tomorrow and shoot your neighbor you'll be guilty of murder. But put on a uniform and shoot someone because your boss tells you to and you're probably a hero. More prosaically, accidentally killing someone is punished less severely than deliberately doing so.

FWIW I am glad google tok this action, but at the same time I am troubled by it, and by my support for it. They are a private company and are welcome to do what they would like, however they are also a kind of public utility, and by taking this step encourage themselves to be pressured by various governments to censor other results. And does this implicitly waive their CDA section 230 immunity in the USA?
Framing a technical blog post as "lol girlfriends amirite" is not humorous and is never a good idea, and does the presented scripts a disservice.
Your comparison is ludicrous.

How would you like if someone found your address and posted detailed instructions about how to get to your house, what hours of the day you're not there, and what type of security (if any at all) is installed? Maybe along with other "metadata", such as information about your neighbours, your job, your family members, etc. Enough to enable someone to perform social engineering on your neighbour or relatives to get them to open the door for them when you're not there.
Well it is an nice editorial. I would be the first to admit that the A380 has not sold as well as it could have but this is over the top. The reason the A380neo is not a priority right now is the change in oil price. That changed the re-engining for the A380 from a priority to a nice to have.

The 777-9X is a much smaller plane, big, but still 30% smaller. More routes can sustain it and it can carry more cargo. However, the writer does not like the A380 but is painting the picture bleaker than it is. The 777-9X is not selling that well either, the 777-300er and 747-8 competition from Boeing are selling even worse both with slowdowns in production. The 747-8 with major write-offs in the last years and a bleak accounting picture. A380 is finally adding money for airbus so would be an insane moment to stop selling them. With 18 sold in the last few months it is finally doing ok for a change. Emirates has cancelled large aircraft orders before and 777-9X is more exposed to their changing minds than any other design. When ordering for 5-10 years in advance predictions can be over optimistic and they can cancel with few risks for themselves if
Boeing makes any mistakes.
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> thankfully an optical reader vs a punch card reader

Hey, with punched cards you had: a) free confetti, b) gunfire soundtrack.

You were deprived and are in the Nile.
Some of those look pretty good, but aren't you somewhat dependent on the wind?

The jet pack gives you VTOL, 100 miles per hour, and probably the wind is less of an issue (albeit not a non-issue).
Thanks for this! This is really helpful. To expand further, I can't tell you how many times I've written something as simple as a promised version of fs exists, and if you do copy and paste something like that into your project you have to bring it's deps (tracking them down in package.json) in and tests (for full coverage into your new project. Alternatively you make it a one-off npm module. It just seems like both those options are cumbersome and inefficient for one function. I'm very much against the MVC setup (I'm working with mainly API's), and as well as OOP in general, and write a ton of very small functions, some that expand on tools like lodash, and that I use a lot. This is where it gets harder and harder to maintain them.
No. Because if the group cared enough they could make their own add-on to do just that. And it wouldn't need to go through Google to be installed for "members".

"Is a member of a nazi-esque group" is not exclusive from "is tech literate enough to write browser add-ons".

If you let others control your actions, even indirectly, you show them that they have power and control over you. Many tools that are beneficial are also "double-edged" and could be used for nefarious purposes. In most cases, they're better off existing than not.
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I see people spamming their Uber referral codes all the time on Facebook. Usually comes as a post saying "Uber is offering free rides for this event, here's a first-time coupon code!" with their own referral...

Lately I've been seeing people actually handing out Lyft business cards with codes outside conventions, was wondering if those were actual employees or just really motivated referrers.
Of course it is necessarily about tribalism. If it were not we could just install an access gate that limits the throughput of the road to X cars per hour (without regard to whether you live on it or not) and consider the problem resolved. But a homeowner would oppose having an equal share with any other citizen for a road on which they live.

Or, to see this the other way: consider a driver shrouded in a veil of ignorance, with the knowledge of what road he lives on and its traffic situation temporarily hidden from him. He sees a shortcut through a neighborhood that may be his, but it's statistically unlikely to be in his large city. He takes it.
As a long time QuickBooks online user it should be noted that about 2 years ago QuickBooks did one of the best online reboots I've ever seen. The new website is way simpler to use and understand.
Replace "USA" with "Germany" and "EU" with "Netherlands" if that makes your nickpick gremlin happy -_-
Python added type hints in version 3.5. It's a good checklist for dynamically typed languages with optional static typing I'd say.
Europe's startup lobby AlliedForStartups supports the demand to end geoblocking.

It is in fact the business practice of geoblocking and the legal framework of 28 different copyright territories & laws that:

* Most serves the big players distributing the most popular content, who are able to cut 28 licensing deals. For non-blockbuster productions, it mostly results in turning away customers/audiences.

* Keeps European VoD startups small. What's the only VoD service available in all EU countries? Netflix. Only 5% of VoD services you can subscribe to in the UK are from other EU countries -- 95% are either national (= forever small) or from overseas. We are artificially making it harder for EU startups to compete internationally.

Plus: It is the EU's stated mission to remove barriers to a common market and to eliminate discrimination of Europeans in Europe by country of origin. Curtailing geoblocking advances both.

Action on geoblocking is not arbitrary burdensome regulation. It's exactly fulfilling the purpose of the EU, it would be popular among the public -- and it would enable/help startups.
Because said tyrant wishes to avoid a coup by the armed forces/defections to the rebels/etc?
Unfortunately I don't really use IRC because all my friends/family use more user-friendly services like WhatsApp or Slack.
Less than half of the people listed at https://www.rust-lang.org/team.html are Mozilla employees, and the rust-lang/rust repo has over 1,400 contributors. I wouldn't worry too much about all of Mozilla getting hit by a bus. :)
>I do not like coming to a complete stop every two blocks, I'll take 5mph continuous over that.

Not only that, but coming to a complete stop frequently is bad for fuel economy. I'd rather be able to configure the app to maximize fuel economy (within reason, I also want to use highways where available even though I get better economy cruising at 50 than at 70). Saving 10 seconds just isn't worth the trouble.

The other problem with this kind of overly-aggressive routing is that it's frequently just plain wrong. You can get routed onto some single-lane country road where you can't pass; if there's no one else on the road, then great, you can go fast around the curves and make decent time. But you're also likely to get stuck behind some slow-ass, and that means you'll end up taking more time than if you had taken a more mainstream route on a 2-lane road. I use Google Maps (in combination with my built-in nav based on HERE) and even though it's not as aggressive, it does this to me a lot and it's annoying.
Fascinating, thanks!
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That argument simply isn't made in good faith, and it's a nice example of how the law doesn't work.
They figured out how to delay vertical sync to get true 480i. With modern de-interlacing LCD monitors, you basically just get double the vertical resolution.

Some discussion here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/137596-real-interlaced-grap...
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>The Pirate Bay doesn't infringe per the letter of the law

This is your opinion. So far I haven't seen any US precedent for this, and it's by no means obvious that it's not infringing.
some? That "some" portion is 99.999% of users.

If you were honest, you would say "I don't care that 1% might be using it for legitimate torrents"
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Please don't post unsubstantive dismissals. If you want to make a point like this, the way to do so is to make it thoughtfully and include actual information to help readers evaluate the truth for themselves.
The problem is that for physical goods, if a shoe companies decides to only sell in America and not Europe, someone else could buy it America and ship it over to Europe to resell it, if there is demand for it. For intellectual propriety this option would likely be illegal.
Though I agree with you fundamentally; this is not always grey. A simple example:

When 99/100 scientists agree that climate change is a thing and random politicians, business leaders and religious leaders are the dissenters; fact is very clearly on one side and bias the other.
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I use free software, so none. :D
Former Tor Project Executive Director Andrew Lewman's perspective might be interesting on this topic, but the DailyDot story was the only one for which I've seen him quoted (https://www.dailydot.com/politics/jacob-appelbaum-tor-projec...).

Notably, Lewman volunteers at Transition House (http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/01/technology-used-as-wea...), founded IPVTech (Intimate Partner Violence tech), and appears to work/volunteer with other organizations associated with victims of domestic and/or sexual abuse (http://wiki.lewman.is/CV#work-with-trauma-victims-including-...).

Perhaps Lewman was unaware (this seems unlikely given the DailyDot article's reporting of "mishandling" or "botching" the situation), but it would surprise me if someone with that orientation turned a blind eye to the alleged behavior.