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Would you much rather it load 500 different web fonts on page load and take 50 years to load?
The bigger issues with co-ops right now in the USA are the regulatory barriers in the way of forming one without everyone involved becoming liable for anything bad that happens.
How we got to the point where utility-style regulation is seen as the key to ensuring a free and open internet is a true puzzle.

Utility-style regulation gives regulators plenary authority over the internet - meaning full and complete. Their power to do this or to forbid that is highly discretionary and essentially boundless.

This in turn gives a gatekeeper role to the regulators: you play by their rules or you don't play. And that means they have final say over what happens across the internet, at least within U.S. jurisdiction.

So today they say net neutrality rules.

Tomorrow maybe it is price controls in the name of consumer fairness. Or maybe it is mandated compliance with government snooping orders in the name of national security. Or who knows what not?

Why not? With a utility-style regulatory framework, you essentially have a form of administrative law run wild, legally speaking. Standards are exceedingly vague, power is wildly broad, and (in the end) he who has the most power and pull to control the regulators winds up having the final say over what the law is or is not as it affects the internet.

This is the exact antithesis of the largely hands-off idea of what the government could do with respect to the internet over the past several decades.

Of course law tends to conform in the short term to what people want and, today, most people truly do want a free and open internet. Therefore, the risk of any existential threat to internet freedom is either minimal or non-existent in the short term.

But if your idea of preserving maximum internet freedom is in effect to place a loaded gun to its head and then declare it is not a problem because it is the good guys who control it and who therefore will use it only for good purposes, then you have what you want with utility-style regulation of the internet.

It might just work great as long as the good guys are in control. But what happens when it changes some day? And, if you think it cannot, then you have far, far more faith in human nature than I can possibly summon.

Welcome to the brave new world.
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If it's good for the ISP, then Netflix shouldn't have to pay for it, which would make it okay, right?
Where do you live? That really does sound like a beurocratic nightmare.
white male 20-something here, I find it funny.
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Figure out what you want to learn. Find a good training course that will teach you that. Ask your boss to send you to it. Explain why doing so will make you better at your job. That way you get real training without you paying for it, and your company gets a more valuable employee.

Your company may decide not to send you. But it's the first thing to try.
But all of the package recipes are just Bash scripts, which I think is just terrible, btw. Using a real programming language would have been a much better choice.
I think they looked at how 'well' third parties developed Mac OS X drivers for OpenGL, and figured that wouldn't get better.

Assuming they knew about Vulkan in time (Vulkan was announced at SigGraph 2014, about a year before Metal's _release_, so that may have been tight), I guess they assumed things wouldn't get better if they replaced OpenGL with another open technology.

Also, from what I read, Vulkan doesn't do anything implicitly, OpenGL does lots of things implicitly. They may have thought that the optimum API lies between the two.
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Because we have got a serious issue with finding long-term storage solutions for nuclear waste. And past commission(s) on solving this issue have often ended in a rather public and politically bad fiasco.
imo mcdonald's coca-cola taste is the best because they're the only ones that clean their fountainheads regularly.
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Bought a MBP in May of 2015. AMD GPU means no CUDA. Two months ago, the screen went black. Lost a few days. Same thing happened to a friend with same model. Still have a MBP Retina from 2012. That model has a Nvidia chip, so probably as fast or faster for ML. Also, there is a recall on the 2015 display that flickers. Have put off requesting a fix on mine. Am hoping that after the new MBP comes out with a (rumored) Nvidia chip, that Apple will replaced my flawed AMD version. If Apple comes out with another AMD GPU, then will abandon Apple for something better.
It must suck to have to write these emails. But please, the last thing you should do is bury the bad news behind a bunch of gobbledygook about ARR, SMB, "reseting relationships with key stakeholders" and whatnot.

Better to cut to the chase with the blood and gore -- being careful to take the time to acknowledge that this decision is painful for others, not just "painful to make" -- and then rebound with the potential upside.
The difference between conventional war and unconventional war is the overall objective. Conventional war is the destruction of another state's ability to wage war. Once that has been accomplished, if war continues, it's unconventional, because it has to be waged by non-state actors.

States hold war materiel and personnel on military bases, these weapons have long supply chains and generally cannot be hidden. Once you've blown these things up, then the state cannot make war any longer.

With aircraft, missiles, satellites, AWACS, advanced intelligence capabilities, the expected speed of conflicts has gone from days to hours in the last few decades. The US enjoys complete dominance over the rest of the world's militaries. There is no state, no imaginable alliance of states that could withstand a full-scale US military attack. We'd destroy their air forces, naval forces, and any ground forces they could muster within hours.

So long as we refuse to fight an unconventional war, then our troops could just go home. It's because our leaders get cocky and idealistic that we get dragged into ongoing guerrilla conflicts.
It kind of seems like you're grinding an axe that has nothing to do with my comment. But FWIW, I agree, but I also respect that Haskell is not designed to be a "successful" industry language. I'd love better tooling for it, but I also don't think it's a do-or-die kind of situation. Haskell has a fairly stable critical mass and a slow and steady upwards trajectory.
> I am pretty sure the cheeseburger, apple slices, and chocolate milk are not much worse, and probably better, than the typical fare on a slapped together kids meal.

Wow. It saddens me to see that statement. I thought it was commonly knowledge that McDonalds isn't actually "food" in the nutrition and health sense of the word any more than cotton candy and pure salt are.
You can usually add a pretty significant premium to an audit if it includes a public statement, like this one apparently did. But since Mozilla funded it as part of a block grant, the rate might be significantly lower.
Yes. The way it works is that two smart hackers go into the office each day and spend eight hours trying to think of as many creative ways of tapping on the target application as possible. Nothing is off-limits except what is agreed up front, but you're obviously expected not to interfere with production operations. The client is generally expected to set up a testing environment substantially similar to production, but usually consultants just have to muddle through with whatever the clients give, which may not (and usually isn't) populated with production data. As long as consultants are given the ability to enter in data themselves, i.e. admin accounts, this is fine, because data entry is their job. Hacking is basically large-scale data entry, and it's as boring as it sounds: very tedious, interspersed with excitement when you see an XSS popup window or figure out a clever way to get a reverse shell.

If after two weeks of this you found no medium-or-higher security vulnerabilities, you were generally considered to not be doing a very good job.

The secret of the industry is that at the end of this process, you are deemed secure. That's the point of the security audit. But if it's not a repeating process, it doesn't work. It may work for that particular version of the application, and it may substantially improve the security in that old vulnerabilities are found and fixed. Let me abandon this train of thought and put it another way:

This post is a press release saying that phpMyAdmin is secure. But that's not how this works. High-severity vulnerabilities are often found near the end of an audit. This is because the consultants have had time to become intimately familiar with the application. But the late stages of an audit are exactly when the consultant's time is mostly spent writing reports for the existing findings, and not doing pentesting. This means that two weeks is often just long enough to start finding serious vulns, since week one can be devoted to pentesting and week two is mostly reporting from Tuesday onward. But that "mostly reporting" process gets the consultant thinking about the application as they're doing the writeups, which -- you guessed it -- leads to realizing that there's something clever they could try. And when they try that clever thing, sometimes it yields a high-severity vuln. It's the opposite of a mechanical, thoughtless process.

That means your results will vary depending on who, specifically, is doing the auditing. If you run your application through the consulting process twice -- same version, same staging data, same everything -- it's likely that you'll get wildly different results, because the pentesters are different people.

It has to be an on-going process in order to be effective. And it can be highly effective. It just costs so much that only the most massive companies can afford this.

That's not to say this audit wasn't effective. It's possible that whoever did the audit found substantially everything. But it was interesting to discover how often this was not the case, in a "How'd they miss this last time?" sort of way.
I have a question: Does every party has to supply a seperate piece of paper and the voter then chooses which piece of paper to put into the ballot box? What do voters do with the non-chosen ballots, i.e. how is the secrecy of the vote protected?

The system I know from Germany is that there is one ballot per election and the voter puts a mark which party/candidate they choose with a pen on that.
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Yes exactly!!!!
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> not to mention you're giving a _depressant_ to a depressed person

That's about as terrible as giving _ham_ to a hamster.
What are some large IT companies that hire freelancers?
I'm interested to know whether there are any big corporations (in the leagues of Microsoft, Google, etc.) who hire freelancers?

I've heard somewhere that Mozilla does, but don't know whether its true. Personally, I've never worked for a large client yet. Please share your experiences.
Sad to see you downvoted for expressing a great American freedom, voting with your dollars.
People like to bash McDonalds, I love it.

I'm a very health-conscious person. I'm 5'10", 155 pounds, 53 years old, and have a nicely defined body (you can see my abs!)

It's easy to count calories in McDonald. An Egg McMuffin is 310 calories. A regular hamburger is 240, a Big Mac is 563.

I can have an Egg McMuffin and black coffee for breakfast (310 calories), two regular hamburgers for lunch (480) calories, and a Big Mac for Dinner (563) and be at 1353 calories, which leaves me with 650 calories for healthy snacks (fruit, vegetables, yogurt) and be at 2,000 calories/day.

It can be an excellent way for people on a budget to get some meat several times a weak. (Buy the hamburgers, w/o buns, and eat them with rice and broccoli!)
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SimAnt is the only game I can get to work on my Amiga1200, as it was installed on the HD - all the 3.5" disks I had otherwise have [obviously] rotted over the intervening 20+ years.

A great wee game - I always hoped they'd revisit the idea with an updated version. One day, perhaps!
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Yeah, seventeen Amphibious Assault Ships, because they're cheaper.

But with only Helicopters and V/STOL aircraft... the Supercarrier is actually a better system. Helicopters don't provide the straight immunity or take advantage of modern asymetric warfare: Helicopters can be shot down by enemy rockets.

V/STOL aircraft like the Harrier Jet or F35B are expensive (either in lives: due to the high number of accidents on the Harrier, or costly in specs. IIRC, the F35B doesn't have the same specs as the other fighters). The Supercarrier filled with F18s might be cheaper than an Amphibious Assault Ship filled with V/STOL aircraft.

So from an overall cost perspective, Supercarriers with standard aircraft still remain the best bang for their buck.
Looks great in Chrome, completely broken in Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/XRMgcHp.png.
Thanks for trying to explain. So many times when I visit these websites advertising developer-oriented tools I just click around trying to find an actual explanation of what the thing does and how it works, only to close the tab a couple of minutes later with no clear idea.
I suspect they're being downvoted for comparing LGBT folks to "weirdos or spiky-haired freaks" moreso than having a contrary choice in fast food restaurant.
Anybody have more info regarding the control board?
This game should be called wat3words.
Apple is really very determined to Privacy and security_!!!
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> How can we 10x the number of dollars and scientists engaged in medical research, and then 10x that?

Have you considered multiplying by 100? Note that the preceding sentence also has the advantage of having a real actual verb in it.

Though I suppose it's pointless to rail against insufferable tech buzzword-speak, or typical valley-style nonsensical 10x statements at this point. Oh well.
It sounds like you had a great childhood. My parents weren't really active with my academics, so that carried over with until it was time for college. Luckily I'll be a first generation college graduate in December.
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I submit that Microsoft is staffed and led, in part, by talented software developers, many of whom are invested themselves in open source philosophy. When ideas make it into the light of day that reflect this internal culture, I think it is a cause for happiness. Let's use care when claiming to understand the actual decision making process in any complex organization, particularly one formed from many intelligent, autonomous agents. Certainly skepticism is healthy in general, but in this case it doesn't seem to serve a positive purpose.
The long term storage of CO2 in the atmosphere isn't a problem?
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It's not particularly healthy food, but saying "it's not food" is anti-scientific gibberish.
That's fair.

It was surprising to me that a few local Chic-Fil-A restaurants served food Sunday to those donating blood in Orlando. Maybe it was PR, maybe it wasn't sanctioned by corporate, but I didn't see it coming.
In some parts of Europe, McDonald's is actually a somewhat upmarket option, and fulfills a purpose similar to Starbucks in the US.

Some downtown ones are in historic buildings with elegant furniture. This is a bit atypical, but here's a nice one in Budapest: https://mic.com/articles/85625/this-is-the-world-s-fanciest-...
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Is that behaviour not the point here? The script tries the first command,then the second if that fails,etc.
Get a couple double cheeseburgers with no bun (meat and cheese only). An extremely affordable way to get a quick bite to eat while on a ketogenic diet.
If it's common knowledge, please link to some info about how a cheeseburger, apple slices and chocolate milk aren't food.
To be fair to the original commenter...
a "kid's meal" isn't typically "food" either in the nutritional sense. A lot of "food" made for "kids" is actually devoid of nutritional content in the best cases... and actually harmful in the worst cases.
Yeah, good call, I'm a little torn on whether to discount or raise the estimated rate based on the public report. In the end I figured it might be lower due to the possibility of further work down the pipeline.
> "You can trust any disk whose blocks you can decrypt with key X, to have been only written to by someone with key X."

No you can not. That is your sentence not from Secure Boot People.

Also I assume that APFS will support encrypted and unencrypted logical FS in the same space sharing FS instance. So the separate OS partition is just a logical FS which is unencrypted. - Which I meant in my original post.

GELI and the AES-GCM are authenticated. Not sure if GCM has equivalent properties to the GELI HMAC feature but probably good enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois/Counter_Mode
The problem here is not renewable energy sources, it's buffering their output. Improvements to battery technology and short-term energy storage are key to cracking this problem.

If energy is free or even profitable to consume you'd make money pumping water uphill during the day and using that potential energy later to produce power through conventional hydro-electric means. This is completely insane if you have to pay for power at conventional rates, but we're entering a new era where time of day costs might go all over the place without arbitrage like this to even things out.
I think you're ignoring the very real problems with the Internet infrastructure while you raise alarms about prospective problems. The reason utility-style regulation is a good thing is because the Internet is a utility. And like most other utilities, natural monopolies arise and the free market is distorted. There is already a gun to the head of the Internet, but instead of being putatively controlled by the populous at large it is controlled by entrenched rent-seeking oligopolists who are beholden only to shareholders that do not care about the function of the market.

Yes, there is a risk that the regulators will declare any number of rules for any number of reasons. Yes, regulatory capture of regulators is a real problem. The solution to these two problems is not to cede control to multinational corporations. Your lack of faith in human nature should extend to all humans, not just ones who are the apparatus of the state.
I find Wendy's to be the best option. Chili instead of fries is nice in the winter. If you want the fast food is going to instantly give you a heart attack experience (admit it, sometimes you just want some horrible for you food), there is always Hardees, they get some good specialty burgers from time to time.

I had only been to a Chic-Fil-A a few times before refusing to go there after their stance, and I really do not see what is so special so I'm not feeling like I'm losing out on anything.

I'm laughing, well more smirking really, about the cleanliness of McDonalds in the thread. I stopped eating there after I got sick after getting a drink at two different ones. This was after their McCafe upgrades so it's not like it was a 50 year old restaurant.
> Now I do think that adverts like that are irritating, and deceptive, but should the website that happens to be using an ad-network, that allowed an advertiser to upload an image that says "download", be blocked so that users cannot access it from Chrome and firefox? Of course not.

Why not? At least that would get websites to look at the ads their ad networks are serving up a little more than "not at all". Ultimately these ads would impact the site's brand even if browsers didn't block it, the damage would just be more subtle and easier to ignore.

Until somebody in the ad delivery chain accepts responsibility for ad quality nothing is going to change. Publishers and websites have the most to lose here and should be demanding better from their ad networks.
Here's why I'm interested.

Most modern engines are fighting the fight of how to deal with multiple cores--how to create microtasks that can be scheduled across worker cores, how to handle task stealing, how to implement lots of independent actors without bugs, how to do hot-upgrading of code, how to handle networking, and how to do all of this with a user staring at any frame-to-frame inconsistency.

Erlang/OTP and Elixir have those problems decently well solved. It makes sense to cordon off the graphics into just enough C/Rust to get OpenGL up with a scene graph or whatever, and then leave the rest of the game logic in a better language.

The idea of being able to just use thirty years of language research on a pragmatic and simple platform (the Erlang/Elxiir BEAM) is very intriguing.

My next big project in Elixir is probably going to be a proof-of-concept for a physics engine. With that done, everything else is pretty obvious.

If anything can realistically break the death-grip of C/C++ on the industry, this might be it.
>the majority of drugs prescribed against depression also happen to be depressants

Can you give a source for that, and some examples? I couldn't find anything (googling "antidepressant depressant" is about as helpful as you'd think).

I'd still argue that the effects of depressants (the inhibition of neurotransmission) are in and of themselves not helpful for people depression.

I agree my phrasing was a bit confusing, I tend to value poignancy over explicitness :)
Before you finish that thought, let me point out that PRINCE was on the front page of HN

So Price overdosing = okay.

100 people being shot = not okay.

Trump on the front page of HN = okay.

100 people being shot = not okay.

I still cannot figure out why.
Finally decommissioned that old SharePoint server?
What bums me out is the seemingly arbitrary dropping of support for older hardware.

I have an older MBP that I've upgraded with SSD and mem. It works great other than being bulky for my use case (email, surfing) It relies on a iGPU so there's really no reason for support to be dropped other than Apple wanting me to upgrade.
Hey there, Robotical developer here!

What would you like to know in particular?

Edit:

To add more generic info, as it is shown in the video we have quite a few prototypes and we are now working on the final design of each piece of hardware (including the control board).
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They used npm install in their example code? Well that was a poor choice. Having dealt with npm and node apps in my own build system, I have not found a good solution for deterministically building node apps. Does nix have a solution for this? Thankfully the prepackaged software with reasonable source build systems don't do craziness like this. See the redis package for example:

https://app.habitat.sh/#/pkgs/adam/redis/3.0.7/2016061320525...
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this is an update i didn't know i wanted. so many great little UX improvements to my workflow.

an interesting aside, they now have the ability to toggle the background (and font color). the presets are (black on white, white on black) interestingly, one of the presets is black on yellow. i didn't realize this was such a a popular of a text/bg combination.
Oh, don't worry. Looks amazing in Chrome

http://i.imgur.com/FZtjj1U.png
According to Google/Android fanboys circle jerk, yes.