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Maybe I'm just a crazy millennial, but I absolutely loathe the idea of FB / Insta stories. Snapchat going under wouldn't convince me to move over -- I'd just stop using the service and move on to communicating some other way. And Stories aren't the only appeal of SNAP, though I suppose they are a large producer of revenue.

HN just loves to hate SNAP, and I can't really fathom why. I can get being skeptical but every comment here seems like they /want/ to see the company fail.
Almost certainly. BTC-e always describes any and all issues as "maintenance".
In addition to this. Many of the new Web features came from people going "Flash does it". Plugins allow capability that can be used by people now. Those instances can then be shown to people who say one of my most hated phrases, "What's the use case?"
Bitten by a denominator once again!
Given the kind of feedback happening (and my initial reaction admittedly was similar), maybe a different name would help with perception (I'm already not a big fan of "WebSockets", but "WebTCP" would have been worse), promoting the goals over the implementation detail of UDP?
> You can't compare WebSockets with WebRTC because the first one has a much larger implementation base across browsers than the later.

This is exactly what I pointed out: WebSocket has much larger implementation base across browsers and back-end due it's simplicity.

> There is also a list of various transparent fallbacks that can be implemented like long polling which WebRTC doesn't have.

Those fallbacks were temporary solutions during adoption of WebSockets which today are obsolete as WebSockets are well adopted and pure WebSockets implementation is fairly simple.

This is what we want from WebUDP for server-client cases, which we can fallback to WebSockets if WebUDP is not supported.
rust-cpython will most likely stay abandoned; I rarely have the time (or interest) to work on it. The commit today was me just finally finishing up a change I started in February...

What happened with the fork: in May @fafhrd91 contacted me about joining the project. When I had time to consider his request (on the following weekend), he had already forked the project and deleted all his original pull requests. He even deleted his bug report about that segfault he keeps mentioning when comparing PyO3 to rust-cpython.

On the technical side, the API changes in PyO3 are interesting. It's kind of a return to my original design (with `&'a PyObject<'p>`), but he makes it work with just a single lifetime by using a "release pool" that temporarily holds ownership over the python references. This does make the API significantly nicer to use, at the cost of leaking any Python objects until the GIL is released / until the extension module returns to the interpreter. For the typical extension module usecase, this doesn't hurt much. But a long-running loop that allocates a temporary Python object each iteration might run out of memory due to this design.
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Flash has emulators too. I think you just made my point.
Dop not worry. The SWF files will be preserved and long playable after 2020, using Flash Projector, Swiff Player or iSwiff. Just no longer in web browsers.
It just seems like most real-life usages of WebRTC are either media-centric where TCP does more harm than good, or multiplayer scenarios where it's a wash since TCP's ordering is a pro while TCP's overhead is a con.
They take on debt instead of drawing down their cash pile because they'd be paying much higher taxes on foreign cash than interest on their loans. The low rate they receive on loans is tied to the existence of their massive cash piles
Did you mean 2018 subarus? I have a 2017 outback and I don't have any of these...
>> This will put a big burden on businesses requiring old flash apps.

And also consumers who may have devices like webcams that require flash to view the video feeds from a browser.
Each plasma out come is shown to a researcher as a Tinder profile, if they select the ones they want by swiping right :-)
There sure are many situations where buying trumps renting. The point in general is that buying is often overvalued and renting is undervalued.

One thing this calculator also cannot take into account is risk: if you lose your job, or get hit by an economic crisis like the one on 2008, you have an added catastrophe. But even discarding that, there are always situations where its better to buy.
The numbers are too big, and nature is hiding stuff from us.

So we can't simulate it because we don't know enough to simulate it. And even if we did know there's not enough computing power to do so.
That's an interesting idea. Seems like it would be hard to get a representative sample though if the trackers themselves affect the user experience.
Why does Broadcom insist on proprietary drivers?

How could it possibly be detrimental for Broadcom to have free software drivers?

This article is a poignant example that it is detrimental for them to continue to keep their drivers proprietary.
> and only in very small quantities in most of that space

It depends on how you define quantity. Total biomass may be low in proportion to crust, sure. But fully one fifth of the atmosphere is being maintained in a clearly unstable state (free oxygen!) by something. There's no way an alien would look at a spectrograph of our atmosphere and think anything but "it's alive".
> This was a couple a years ago tho
It's always hard to make these decisions, but one comment deserves clarification.

"a CS degree could perhaps give me even better experience than other 2 years of "burned out" industry."

To me that doesn't resonate (it seems 'untrue'), unless you do it very specifically.

I think you should consider going back to get a degree because you have the capital, want to take a time out, and it sounds enjoyable to learn something.

I would NOT go back to get a degree and stay in this field.

If I did consider it, it would HAVE TO BE A TOP TEN PROGRAM (which doesn't really leave much options in Europe)....
AND IT WOULD HAVE TO BE SPECIALIZED...Learning AI or ML for example.

There are way too many CS grads that can't get jobs and many developers with 5+ years experience (no degree) that would get very limited increase in economics due to completing a degree.
Same, SnapChat is the only "social" app I use. I don't even use stories. Very few of my friends publish stories. I think mostly marketers use them.
If there is alternative transport protocol to enable low-latency delivery as efficient as UDP, then it is worth exploring.

UDP - is something been used by many industries for long time and is well known protocol to make a foundation from.
Meaning the automation starts as soon as Trump leaves.
Polycystic ovarian syndrome, which contributes to obesity in women, seems to have adaptive advantages in famine of the type speculated upthread (and also including increased fertility then, though decreased fertility in abundant food situations.)

It's not too much of a stretch to consider that there may be metabolic conditions in men linked to obesity risk that have the same kind of advantages in reduced-food-supply situations.
The drivers are probably pretty complicated and thus valuable IP.
I've always liked chiming clocks, so I made a pseudo grandfather clock with an RPi Zero W, a $1 I2C servo controller, and a $3 mini digital servo that strikes a long chime tube scavenged from an old doorbell[1] - ntpd means it's a lot more accurate than a pendulum clock, and cron keeps it from ringing in the middle of the night.

1: https://youtu.be/mfOEBCp74UU
Have any links for all this? Would love to read more.
> Because at a pretty young age I had acquired a set of skills that put me in places and situations that I was not culturally prepared to enter.

He talks about his thug background to get to this conclusion. His past life interactions didn't "prepare" him to not make office people uncomfortable with him being just him. And of course, this is not his fault, but the people treating him badly. And guess what? This is what stops a lot of black people in tech.
FB makes $1.60/mo per user _on average_.

The fact that you want/can pay $5/mo probably means FB earns a lot more than the avg on you.

Advertisers pay more to reach people with higher disposable incomes.
Maybe we are talking about different things, but I use CloudFormation to autoscale ec2 instances based on avg CPU load over a period of time

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuid...
Calling Facebook a religion is a bit much
Thanks for bringing this to the community's attention @coderanger. I feel like this is fine as long as they give me an easy way to opt-out if I don't want data collected or am using chef tools in a environment that doesn't allow for such collection.
The block diagram shows a PCIE connection to the application processor, which enables DMA. Most modern systems have a MMU to prevent the peripheral from DMAing to memory areas not specifically reserved for it, but given (certainly Android) systems run oldschool kernels hacked together by the last kind of crowd you want working on them it's probably not enabled or setup correctly.

The other more obvious privilege escalation is that there is still a kernel driver on the application processor talking to the chipset. There is per se no reason to distrust data coming from the chipset, so these often aren't written as defensive as they should be and could contain trivially exploitable assumptions on what the chipset will send and do.
$1,000,000 per job seems like a staggering subsidy.
No, it means it starts on day one. As with Carrier, Trump wants things he can announce, but once he's gotten an announcement out of it his interest is done.
MHTML is standalone and natively supported by IE/Chrome/Opera. There are extensions for Firefox and Safari too.
If that is the case, then they will deploy robots, use few human supervisors to oversee the work. Don't expect it will bring their giant manufacturers pipeline here. It is not going to be profitable for them. Why, because Chinese people are cheaper, and for manufacturing, meaning assembling, your output is directly associated with your working time, where in China they can force workers to work 12 hours, here no chance they could do that.
Like don't understand a comment at all, even say because it's "barely English" - but then say someone else is correctly summarizing it? If you're not even making the slightest attempt to understand, then you not understanding isn't even a data point. Reread until you do or have an actual question or criticism.
I assume you didn't realize you can install the Android Auto app directly on any Android phone running 5.0 or higher?

You don't need a built-in system, and in fact I find my phone [$130 Moto E4] coupled with a magnetic dash mount works far better.
The top ministers in charge of this scandal are impeached by the opposition. Our prime minister Stefan Löven is having a press conference tomorrow at 10am (+1gmt) and possibly the entire party will resign to hand over power to the Moderates (right wing) because of this.
Thanks!

Yeah, right now, state that shouldn't be saved (like computed properties) can be added as regular object properties (i.e. not a part of the initialState), and updated by listening for action events.

I've been thinking of ways to make that a little easier, possibly by having "reactions" that execute in response to actions. But I haven't had the need in my own projects yet, and like to err on the side of a smaller API footprint :)
What protections do investors have? Stock trading apps in US are part of FINRA and SIPC. Anything similar with Piggy?
Ability to connect to raw TCP or UDP from a browser is a major security hole.

Due to that, WebSockets were created were handshake is handled by browser transparently from developer ensuring port scanning is not possible.
As well as to preserver origin-based security model of HTTP. Which we want for WebUDP as well.
Yes, that out of touch.

I use it every day and so does virtually everyone I know.

I started college a few years late in life, and it launched when I was in school.

No major complaints about it.
Another crazy millennial here. I don't have an Instagram either, and frankly I don't want one.

As for why HN hates Snap, I'm not exactly sure. Is it because the average user on HN is older and isn't targeted by Snap? Maybe it's seen as a frivolous plaything? No matter what the reason, there's definitely a lot of hate for Snap on this site.
The issue there is part marketing part economies of scale. A small shop won't be able to compete with IKEA on price. You basically have to do what Tesla, Craft Breweries and other relatively small fish do and start out on the high end where cost is less of a concern and scale doesn't matter as much. Unfortunately that's a tall order in and of itself as it takes a lot of time, talent and money to produce a truly top-shelf product and, as we're discussing here, you're probably better off financially being some sort of broker for current goods than producing new/innovative goods yourself.

That said, if you're capable of producing high quality furniture with expensive materials, with the right marketing I imagine you could make quite a bit. People pay boatloads of money for reclaimed/exotic wood desks with attractive aesthetics.
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> unless you care enough about your voting privacy to take one ballot of each choice

And then you have just singled yourself out as someone with something to hide and in small towns that is usually a problem.
Of course there are many: Flash Projector, Swiff Player, iSwiffy, Eltima SWF Player, Gnash...
Counting temporary construction jobs as permanent seems a little misleading.
Seems like it'd be cheaper to just give it away as UBI, no? Especially considering a million dollars for a transient job versus paying someone a million dollars over their lifetime.

This whole late stage capitalism transition is going to be painful.
I recently started doing this because I got a new fitbit that alerts me if I have taken 250 steps in the hour. Originally I was using this as an exercise mechanism but now I am using to help my thought process. Often times it buzzes my wrist while I am just sitting there thinking. I get up, walk around the office park, have an insight or breakthrough and return to my desk more productive. I do this about 3-6 times a day. I highly suggest everyone give this a trail run to see if it helps.
Deciding whether to have kids is not a spreadsheet problem. Using hard numbers you'll never see a profit. It's always negative. But there are so many more benefits to parenting that you can't put into numbers. You either want them or not. If you want to pass on your wealth then you should have them.

Some people just don't want them. They are hard to raise and there is always the risk of heart breaking pain even if everything is great. Are you one of the ones that don't want them? Take a hard look and decide.

If you are one of the ones that want them and look at the future and feel bad that you never had any then START.

If you do have them then make sure you're a loving parent. Having parents that love you is worth anything and everything.
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You are assuming I don't want to profit on them being evil.
Well, the "techies" often have better insights about the technical parts of a product and tend to prefer code over business-politics.

Code is pure, while business tends to get nasty and diabolical at times. Also, "code" self-proves its value, "business" simply doesn't.

Let's not forget the people who started this whole personal-computer revolution were hippies, geeks, techies, and nerds who cared about the "code" and how this could make "peoples' lives" better.
Walmart has a national minimum of $10 an hour the federal minimum is $7.25. I consider a roughly 25% premium to be a significant increase when talking about salaries. My comment is in regards to these jobs paying minimum wage and the evidence leads me to believe that it is virtually certain that these jobs will pay a significant percentage more than that. (not to mention all the managerial and skilled labor jobs that will pay many times more that will come with them)
"Kind of similar" is very different from "arranged by the same people following the same processes with many packages being identical". We're talking about comparing transmissions from the same manufacturers with a lot of shared parts.
The biggest issue is what the rules are and how that affects the user interface.

Using email, the rule is that if someone sends you something, you own it; they could ask you to do delete it, but you can refuse. Facebook and other social networks let you edit and delete posts. Snapchat became big because you can send pictures that are automatically deleted after you view them.

Sure, you can reimplement basic message exchange in a decentralized way, but figuring out how to enforce the same rules in a decentralized system is nontrivial.
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Can magit do this for code outside of github?
I think all your points are probably right (and insightful). But I think in this case the (immediate) goal isn't really popular adoption of this solution by existing C (or maybe even C++) programmers.

In part, it is simply a practical, relatively low cost solution to address the problem of invalid memory access in existing C/C++ code (and thus, for example, remote code execution vulnerabilities in internet facing code). Clearly we've still not reached the point where critical internet infrastructure vulnerabilities are perceived as costly enough to justify actually solving the problem (as you say in point 5). And collectively, we've not yet concluded that cheaper mitigation techniques aren't a "good enough" solution. At least for now.

But the costs (of critical vulnerabilities) are still going up, and there may come a time when some conclude that they have no choice but to properly address the issue. And some may opt for the least expensive option (i.e. something like SaferCPlusPlus rather than a full rewrite in another memory-safe language).

Of course, more appealing solutions might emerge before that time comes.

But there is also a longer term goal. I see a safe dialect of C++ (like SaferCPlusPlus) perhaps relevant in a future where code is liberated from the "language silo" it's trapped in, via auto-translators. For example, I don't expect C programmers to switch to SaferCPlusPlus en masse (although I'll probably continue to encourage it :). The idea is that legacy C code would be auto-translated to SaferCPlusPlus (with or without the support/consent of the original author). Kind of like how the tor guys used to build their ("safer") version of firefox with the sanitizers enabled[1], and didn't need the permission of the firefox developers to do it.

But it doesn't have to be restricted to just legacy C/C++ code. Modern C++ is so powerful that lots of languages could be translated to (a safe dialect of) it. I think. Presumably C++ would be a more appealing language if it had easy access to, say, all the existing Java code via auto-translation. This of course would apply to any language, but I think its power and performance makes C++ a good target for auto-translation. I'm sure other languages would make good targets too.

Basically, in the future I expect auto-translation quality to be a bigger factor wrt language relevance than marketing or mind-share.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-55a4-hardened-r...
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Spin/Axis/Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson. The first one (Spin) has fantastic ideas, fast pace, and lovable characters. I found Axis fairly boring. Just started with Vortex.
I find the wording of this odd? they have had a bounty program for ages?

the list of active bounties is here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn425036
> Most modern systems have a MMU to prevent the peripheral from DMAing to memory areas not specifically reserved for it, but given (certainly Android) systems run oldschool kernels hacked together by the last kind of crowd you want working on them it's probably not enabled or setup correctly.

I'm not sure it's fair to assume iOS IOMMU isn't set up properly just because that's the case on many (most?) android phones. According to the author, most android phones don't even have KASLR which iOS had since iOS6. I would assume IOMMU exists and is working properly unless someone has evidence otherwise (quick google shows very little information on iOS + IOMMU). If a DMA attack is indeed successful on iOS devices, I think that would be substantial enough to write about.

> The other more obvious privilege escalation is that there is still a kernel driver on the application processor talking to the chipset.

I would consider that a separate exploit--but even then you still need a KASLR bypass (another exploit?) at the very least to gain control.

> so these often aren't written as defensive as they should be

On the contrary, the market rate for a iOS jailbreak chain is upwards $1 million USD so I'd be surprised if a single exploit gives you full system control.
As far as we can tell intelligent life is extremely rare. The not too distant universe could be well-populated with simple unicellular life (or just individual self-replicating molecules). It may be that self-replicating molecules form relatively easily but the jump to more complex life forms is exponentially more rare; but that would be more a question about the power of Darwinian selection than England's theory.

Also, England's theory never says "life is an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics," Jeremy England said that. There's a big difference. As it stands the theory says nothing about self-replication, it merely predicts chemicals forming seemingly-rare (with respect to the full chemical space) ordered structures. And his theory does have predictive potential and the simulated results in his PNAS paper support his predictions. It's certainly experimentally falsifiable: put a bunch of chemicals together that can form bonds, if you have an approximate understanding of the chemical space, you test apply an appropriate energy source, and see if the resulting chemicals occupy a surprisingly rare part of that space as predicted.

But I do agree that your question "Why do [we] exist here instead of somewhere else?" is one of the more interesting questions.
Cloud9 might be worth a look. It can be self hosted but I'm not sure if it will do everything you need
Turn off your wifi
I've actually bought a few cool products based on FB ads where I never clicked on ads in my previous couple of decades online. Unfortunately I can't remember what I bought or explain what was different about the product or FB ad experience that caused me to click.
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-The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968, by Edward Baring.
The extent of her brain damage was too severe. She passed away Monday night after being taken off life support. Thank you for mentioning this, it might help someone in the future.