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Indeed, or to summarize as a soundbite: tests can only prove existential properties but types can prove universal properties.
If you release your tools under GPL it is less likely anyone will get paid to improve them. If you release under MIT, commercial users will try to upstream their changes so they can continue to benefit from trunk development as well as avoid the maintenance burden.
What part of Mozilla's manifesto supports revolutionary socialism?
A free market is a “market in which trade is unregulated by government; an economic system free from government intervention.”[1] Copyright is a monopoly enforced by the government on the use and distribution of an original work.[2]

The tool we use for academic publications is copyright, not the free market. The free market outcome is Sci-Hub. The monopoly-enforced-by-the-government outcome is Elsevier, the RIAA, the MPAA, rent-seeking by the aforementioned organizations, proprietary software, and DRM.

The fundamental problem is indeed that we use the wrong tool to solve the problem of academic publication. We should use the free market, instead of government-enforced regulation.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/free_market

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_right
> I just got lucky cause I liked computers, was nerdy, and did decently on exams.

Exactly. Not only that I had a benefit of having a computer in high school when almost nobody else I knew had one.

I can act like what coding is magical or special or I was "smart" to be born at the exact right to and get into programming at the exact right time, but a lot of it is just dumb luck.

OP is going overboard with his cynicism and bitterness.

There are plenty of smart people who go into literature, philosophy, theater, etc. And frankly, I personally have just as much respect for that as an engineer/programmer/etc and I think they are as needed and important.

There is this myth that programmers are "smart". We really aren't smarter than engineers, english major, teachers, etc. We just were asocial enough to sit in front of our computers for hours and have the luxury of owning a computer at a relatively young age.
I guess we have nothing to worry about with all these data breaches then, right? Might as well tell equifax that it’s no big deal too.

These criminals trade data because it makes them money, otherwise there wouldn’t be much of a makrket.
Reading the NY penal code (not sure for other states), I'm not sure. It wouldn't be rape or a criminal sexual act since there's no intercourse. And for sexual abuse it states the offender must "touch" the victim or "insert" a foreign object. In this case the criminal isn't actually touching the victim, and the victim inserted the object themselves... I imagine this isn't something lawmakers thought of at the time. Hopefully this remains theoretical for the time being.
COBOL is just a programming language. Many companies used it to develop good sofware for internal use. Of course a lot of pretty bad software was developed with it also, mostly by big consultancies. But the goodness or badness of software doesn't have much to do with what language was used.
Whatever the fine-print legalities, if you didn't notice, I don't think it can count as opting in.
I'm not sure who you're quoting, but I never even used the word "architecture". I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
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To be fair, when you've got a big class of students, learning is very rarely the top priority...so it's not that surprising it's hard to implement in such an environment.
Normal human interaction is not conducted mostly by post.
Why isn’t Equifax offering free credit monitoring and identity protection for all their customers? I had to go and put a fraud alert on mine but I feel this should have happened the moment they knew about the hack. Even now there is no talk of that. Of course I wouldn’t have confidence in what they do but am hoping the other two are not totally incompetent.
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So I understand that you (aka Aaron Schoen Aaltweacher) are now working on AARDVARK in Alaverdi, Armenia.
Not an answer to your particular question, but semantics seems to be the only difference between insurance and gambling.

If a bookmaker offers you a $500 bet that your house won't catch on fire this year, what is the difference in both intent and outcome?

The law is a fickle beast.
>Evaluating a company to equal good or evil and then judging all statements from them based on that rule leads to a lot of faulty thinking

I am not evaluating a company. I am evaluating Oracle.

>It leads people to fail to recognize that corporations act in self-interest as a whole, as they have one real mission: Profit

and I already address why this is different for Oracle
> IT for US Embassies must be incredibly challenging from a security perspective.

The pay is below market, but the benefits are fantastic.
The reality is there's simply no way to calculate this accurately.
And, ultimately, that person is the CEO himself.
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It lets them identify clicks specifically from the post link as opposed to links in the HN discussion thread.
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Having personally seen the sausage factory on one of the "scanner" companies, I would be very careful and do due diligence on any such thing I contemplated buying.

Compliance & Security "in the enterprise" is a smoke-and-mirrors game full of weird terminology divorced from the nuts-and-bolts issues with people who don't know what they're selling engaging with people who don't know what to buy, playing the industry-form and trade-show and junket and relationship game (probably no different from the DB market, the network market, the ERP market).

The DKs that fail at technology and don't really know it move on to these segments of the security market, to everyone's detriment.
Stripe elements is awesome. The one thing I miss from stripe is help collecting sales tax across states.
> For now, my sentiment is that Singapore's society, government and people, on balance, cares about each other.

Singaporeans happily balance rights with responsibilities. It's a more collective outlook.

> In the United States, that basic, human empathy is in question.

I find it is the opposite. There is far too much "empathy" in the US.

This means that it's impossible to take the middle ground that the average joe can actually support. Each path becomes all or nothing.

For example it's politically impossible in the US to have free healthcare only for non-smoking healthy weight individuals.

But I don't want to pay for an obese persons knee surgery.

And I know people don't want to pay for the brain damage I might get from doing boxing.
No, sorry I wasn't clear, just the bank(s) that your parent has accounts in.
The Absurdity of the Academy Awards in the Arts.

Blah, blah, blah, I disagree with some perceived unfairness so it's all crap.

End of the day nothing is perfect, but encouraging people in awards like these push forwards the areas.

You want to push forward Science the Nobel Prize is amazing to encourage people.

You want your own new age everyone gets a prize award, create one.
Not only that, but the O(log n) sparse table has multiple branch points that are more predictable, so the branch predictor works better. It can be faster overall than a single highly unpredictable branch point.
I am very curious to how exactly they made these animations!
Surely they didn't hand type all of the transforms.

I see a lot more of similar animations appearing on the internet.

Are there tools that people use to help with the animations?
> Yes, Yes and yes

And if my compass differs, is it also wrong to tell me what I can't do to protect the body of a foetus?

> Whose country is it then?

Everyone's, as administered by a democratic government. Try running a business without paying taxes, or abiding by business regulations.
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Mozilla certainly do lots of things to support capitalism, too.
Why should someone being a smoker deprioritze lung cancer research? They’re people who engage in a legal activity and pay heavy taxes to do so.

We rarely discount medicine for the myriad other medical problems that occur from many other activities like eating bad foods (way worse than smoking), avoidable stress (not addictive) and the various substance abuse from pharmaceuticals et al.
VSCode's vim plugin is pretty awful performance wise (I should know, I use it every day).
Looks like they are modifying the site to fix some of the complaints here. It doesn't seem to have two scrolling areas and standard keyboard navigation seems to work.

The colors and typography are still hideous, though.
I thought this was perceptive:

"False Narrative: Government should attempt to emulate the fast-paced innovation of Silicon Valley. [...] The USG is not a technology vendor nor is it a start-up. Under no circumstance should the USG attempt to become a technology vendor. The USG can never develop, support or secure products economically or at scale. Government developed products are not subject to the extensive testing in the commercial market. Instead, the Government should attempt to emulate the best-practices of large private-sector Fortune 50 customers, which have competed, evaluated, procured and secured commercial technology successfully."
> Of course, they could hijack the login procedure and harvest passwords in real-time until they're detected.

Facebook makes it really hard for people to log off. Unless one is using a shared computer, I doubt she types her password more than a couple times a year.
I am assuming shards are much smaller than 1/3rd of all the data.
> Socialism redistributes _limited_ wealth to those whose labor actually produces it, since the capital which owns the means of production is not motivated to distribute things evenly.

I don't believe HN is the place for this discussion. Yes, we do talk politics here, but mostly what is related to case in hand.

Also your post is a textbook example of Gish Galloping[1].

1. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop
about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled

Some sites are buggy with this preference. Hopefully you will not lay that at Mozilla's feet.
Oracle is a company. And your sole statement of why "Oracle is different" is because in your personal opinion, Oracle has never been on the right side of an issue, which is a very subjective view. (Not to mention the fact that it's near impossible for you to know of or evaluate every view ever expressed on any topic by Oracle as a company or any representative of Oracle.)
While the hammer is only $3k, the corresponding 5 year maintenance contract for said hammer nets $100k!
The asset concept is interesting. If you introduce taxes into the mix then you will also need to value your asset. If you sell your asset then you need to record a fair value price for which you bought it and when... that way you can record a short or long term capital gain. The problem with digital assets is that you can easily copy them. So what does it mean to sell an asset which you actually still own/have a copy of. Its a bit tough to conceptualize - but I think there's something there... requires a bit more brainstorming.
I would venture to say that it is not "customer support", but compatibility that makes proprietary software popular.

Specifically, compatibility with other proprietary software.
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I have the AirThings one. I like it. The biggest drawback is that there is no easy way to automatically record readings, so I do it manually.

I move it from room to room every few days. I was surprised that the upstairs bedroom read as high as the basement (but none are high).

Also, as every website points out, the readings vary quite a bit through the day, and from day to day.

I also noticed that the readings increase when it rains (my current theory is that the low pressure that precedes rain pulls more radon from the ground).

Opening windows helps a lot.
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The legitimate ones happened years ago and have survived, they wouldn't be called ico's anymore.

Invested in one that raised just over $1m, it was considered a huge amount at the time, they had a solid team, serious whitepaper and a rough alpha open sourced product that you could load up and use. A small team that struggled with limited funds and still going strong long down the track.

Today whitepapers have little scientific merit and are more brochures. These companies are raising 100's of millions with no product whatsoever.

Only time can tell legitimacy, and unless you have both the technical and economic ability to properly assess these offerings the best advice is to stay far away until a viable alpha product is created.

Anecdotal experience is that >95% of ico investors haven't even tried the product they have invested in. Seen people who spend hours a day on the forums spruiking yet can't even point to the binary download page when asked.
That's only if linking from https to an http page which is not the case here.
I've misplaced > 1.7%.

E.g. I say one million but it turns out to be 1.05 million.
Unless, of course, the company declares bankruptcy, sells off assets, then most of the team is hired immediately with retention bonuses going to them instead of towards the purchase of stock. That scenario is far from unheard of.
I'm not being snarky, but do you think they would tell us if they did? We have to assume they are prime targets. They might have slightly better personnel, but is that enough to out do the nefarious and the determined? And can we discount a rouge employee?
From my experience, it's still hot as balls at night. The only deliberate activity I did outside in SG at any time of day was to go find air conditioning inside. Of course I'm American, not Singaporean.
> Don't explicitly manipulate your data structures. Sharing will take care of keeping the overheads low.

Immutability is one of the strong points of Piece Tables.

Don't forget that this is the most simple implementation of a Piece Table. If you are in any way concerned about performance, you can quite easily implement caching, sharing, etc.
Is source evaluation not part of critical thinking these days?

It certainly was in all my research courses when I was in school.

Or do you just mean I should have to click to do the source evaluation?
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Satellite internet sucks because it's in Geosyncranis orbit at ~26,200 miles and you need to make the trip 4 times. LEO satellites would add ~250 miles worth of ping x4 which is a massive difference. Still not low enough for pro gamer doing FPS games, but just about anything else should be fine.

The problem is need a lot more satellites and your receivers need to be able to track satellites.
The Keybase folks should seriously consider getting in on this. There are not many groups I'd trust to design something cryptographically sound and friendly enough to be useable (both for citizens and the government - you need at least two tiers so WHEN the inevitable private key leak happens on the government's part, it isn't the master key kept in cold storage).
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, etc etc.
The problem is that we don't have any laws forcing vendors to keep their products (smartphones, TVs, embedded (networking) devices up to date. It's high time to change that.
No one important will go to jail. If someone important is prosecuted and convicted they will be let off very very lightly.

No companies will learn any lessons from this, as companies are already doing everything they can within skillset limits of their employees and budgets, or they are not and don't give a shit.

No one really cares about the consumer in all of this, they will do the minimum not to look bad or face further legal issues but in the end people will invest lots of hours dealing with any problems that might arise. Who will pay for those hours? lol im just kidding, once again they dont give a shit really, good luck to us.

Nothing will change in the industry for companies like Equifax, this is a very small nitch market and we cant seriously hope for any government mandated reforms in today's political climate.

This will blow over soon and no one will remember it after the next breach or mass shooting or a war that Trump will start.

Sorry to say all this but sometimes people need to say the truth.
The church did not call Galileo's position unfounded. It called it absurd and heretical. To justify the latter it quoted the literal interpretation of the Bible.
Hmm, is there react-native support?
Golden promoted comment from article.

"I'm pretty sure letting the public control your sex toy is an entire category of fetish I don't know the name of.

This isn't a bug. This is a feature."
What chiefly drives this sort of political corruption today is capitalism's structure. For many capitalist enterprises, competitive and other pressures exist to increase profits, growth rates, and/or market share. Their boards and top managers seek to find cheaper produced inputs and cheaper labor power, to extract more output from their workers, to sell their outputs at the highest possible prices and to find more profitable technologies. The structure provides them with every incentive of financial gain and/or career security and advancement to behave in those ways. Thus, boards and top managers seek the maximum obtainable assistance of government officials in all these areas and also try to pay the least possible portion of their net revenues as taxes. Boards of directors tap their corporations' profits to corrupt mostly the top echelons of the government bureaucracy, those needed to make advantageous official decisions.
1, 2 and 4 are much more consumer focused. That's honestly a better way to go in terms of user/product alignment. Ads or Affiliate offers are things customers don't want, and they make it more likely people will pick a different app.

Whatever you do, you'll have an easier time getting people to pay small amounts if you compare the amounts to something people buy everyday, like a vending machine candy bar, a 6 pack of soda, or a large pizza. People won't give you 20 bucks normally, but if they feel like they are paying for a pizza, they are much more likely to do so.

Do the Donate button now and then consider a paid PRO version. Keep track of who donated so you can give them a free key to the pro version.

If you do do donations, offer access to a special donation mailing list with voting for features, and prioritize them for bug reporting.
THIS:

> "who is responsible for patching applications with no development team anymore?"

Struts 2.2.3 (oldest vulnerable version) was released on May 7, 2011. Personally I find it easy to imagine an app depending on that, going into prod, and just chugging away, forgotten for 6 years on some obscure corner of an enterprise's public (or internal) web assets.
Not really an expert in these matters, I'm just somewhat familiar with the theory presented in the linked article. I don't feel capable of responding to your specific questions with anything more than speculations, so I apologize for not replying more fully.
If this falls on one employee's head, well, the CEO might not be stoked to when he realizes who is actually responsible.
I do wonder if we will ever be able to refine the detection and use it to infer information about distant objects which we can't otherwise observe. If my understanding is correct, the waves should be subtly altered as they pass celestial objects.
Alternatively, can you send image compression bombs? (I don't know if image loads can be sent in a compressed format.)
And they are a (mostly) homogenous society. Racist, structurally rigid, and dying (birth rate below replacement).
In the publish interface, we warn that huge images will be marked as NSFS. We also render a static version that we can serve as a backup or when we pass some number of ads.
Wow... you must have to exercise the patience of a saint!
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Besides the reasons mentioned already, moving villages had another problem: no one did it unless they'd somehow ruined their reputation in their home village, or they'd been expelled.

So a stranger turning up in a village would have been viewed with extreme suspicion.
Setting up a little Express server that deals with the backend stuff is not too difficult. [0][1] Looking forward to update the article for using Stripe Elements. Great job Stripe team!

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Yet another high impact vulnerabilities report related to C implementation. History repeats. Software engineering still didn't come to the point to make engineering of safe and secure software easy.
Lone employee, meet bus.

Talk about a failure to take responsibility. Maybe it's the CEO's error to allow a single employee to oversee a catastrophic security breach.
Ok even if you accept that it fell on one person that caused the error why did disclosure take two Months ? Why were incentives or policies not in place to correct the mistake ?
I wouldn't scrutinize it too much as the benchmarking approach is wildly inaccurate, but I'm curious about that too. I might investigate it later. (I am the author of the post.) This was also run on a pretty ancient AMD machine, which isn't terribly representative of modern branch prediction hardware.
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Can you explain how, given that an administrator who has access through the web site can access all the information in the database, and given that an exploit on the front end gets administrator access, how in the world encryption does anything to prevent this? If at any point the web server has access to the data, the game is over. Encryption does nothing.
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>The company sent out an internal email requesting that its technical staff fix the software, but “an individual did not ensure communication got to the right person to manually patch the application,” Mr. Smith told the subcommittee.

Why.. why did you just not send this person the email instead of having someone send the email to this person? This sounds like BS.

(as an aside, managers are now going to start constantly asking "did you get that email, bob?" to cover their asses)
Can't find your email, but I'm on mobile so maybe it's me. What statically typed language are you using?
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