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This was thought provoking. Questions that arise after reading:

- How do you verify proof-of-death of developers who may be working from an environment where they can't easily separately verify their identities (e.g. house arrest, or people who are working in secret due to legal or cultural barriers to their being OSS engineers)?

- What happens to people whose death is faked, e.g. by a government wishing to take control of a project in order to introduce vulnerabilities or be an obstacle to further development?

- What happens when someone dies and people impersonate their family/inheritors in order to take control of their projects for unethical reasons? Given that a lot of the value here is political ("lead maintainer"-type titles) as opposed to physical (data on servers somewhere), are there any laws that affect this behavior? This is a regrettably common phenomenon with non-software inheritances; can developer communities do better?

- What happens when someone dies who didn't leave instructions for the event of their death, and the legally- or traditionally-entitled inheritors harm their project or otherwise act unethically with it? Is the answer just "fork it" with all of the FUD that entails? Or can something else be done?
The US is a corrupt country, the laws are written figuratively or sometimes literally by corporations with the intent on profiting from them.

Given that, it is unsurprising that the laws do not represent the interests of the common person.
Just wait until the stock market crashes again and investors need to exit and park their wealth somewhere for awhile. I bet Bitcoin will be one of those places that wealth will go.
I'd go with dramatisation.
Ask HN: How does your team handle knowledge documentation?
We are currently going through a rethink of our documentation (not for customers, just our internal processes, tools, etc.). Currently we have a docs directory in the root of our project repository which holds a bunch of markdown files, but we are beginning to grow out of this. Keeping links accurate and update to date isn't too much of a challenge, it's the barrier to entry. Filing a PR to make a minor documentation change is just too much. We could have the documentation in a separate repository, but if we are going to be making this leap, we want to be sure we are using the right tools for the jobs.

The way we see it, we are going to end up requiring at least 2 different types of documentation. The first is our deep documentation of our tools. This explains exactly what it is, how it works, etc. and is designed for people who want to work on these sorts of tools, not with them. The second is a quick fire Q&A. "I'm having issue X, how do I fix it?" Think StackOverflow.

So, what does your team do for these challenges? How effective is your solution? What do you think would be better?
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If you can find the relevant documentation, sure. Modern hardware is made from black boxes on top of black boxes.
> From a USA point of view: it's highly regulated at the state level. State gaming commissions hire third-party labs to audit the mathematics and software to make sure everything matches what the manufacturer says it does.

Can you point me to more info on this "auditing" process? For all the recent coverage of "algorithmic fairness" (an area where I do some research) I'm not aware of any other usecases where mandatory software audits are common, so this is interesting. Who are these labs?
You don’t have to accuse someone to investigate their activity. Hell, the person doesn’t even need to know they were investigated.

If a company really wants to fire you they will find a way with or without surveillance.
The old die and the young grow up, and if they're lucky, they get to eventually become old themselves.

That is the natural order of things, even for the internet. That said, I miss them too ;)
Totally new frontier.

You see, before, you had things doing 'local' and 'central' computing by interfacing with 'equipment', and this is, you see, 'edge' computing talking to 'smart devices' and 'the cloud'.

Completely different!
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If it's hard to think of examples, I'm skeptical that PWA means anything.
Apple doesn't allow NFC pairing on their devices. That's why Airpods feel so "magical" if you use an iPhone
I am going to have to disagree there - I think putting autocomplete control in the standard was an error, just as a webdev shouldn't be able to not accept copy and paste. That is inherently a user choice.
Google really needs to have a human contact that can be reachable for channels with a large amount of subscribers. Advertisers do provide Google with nearly all of their revenue, but then again so do content providers as Google provides next to no content of their own. The fact that we have large channels being arbitrarily taken down with no warning shows how obtuse Google is.
It's still possible. Visit China. Both sides need to learn from each other to move forward.

Blind faith in either fully open or fully controlled networks is the sign of unimaginative robotic mindsets that waste everyone's time.
The only search engine that is resistant to SEO is one that doesn't have enough traffic for any SEO to matter. If it's popular, it will be gamed.
Are they able to take payments at the moment, or is their entire system down?
I posted this in another comment, but this is exactly why I built a project I call Piglet:

https://projectpiglet.com/

Google is really good for general information, but really bad for domain specific information. Piglet (in contrast) is really good at domain specific, but can be poor in the general case (although I haven't seen that yet). We track discussions around the articles, as opposed to linked pages. This typically provides more information. You can read about it on our about page.

For instance, this article appears right at the top of the search results: https://imgur.com/a/AkUTb

I recommend reaching out to me if you're interested - we are currently doing a private beta. Spcifically, the application is for investing (we are building an AI financial advisor), but I personally use it as a search engine as well.
Seriously you think that a company like that can't handle a traffic spike from HN?
> Is it even possible to do this kind of debugging on modern hardware? Or is this a lost art?

EE's still have to diagnose hardware problems.
Keysight will be happy to sell you diagnostic equipment for investigating problems with your 100Gbps ethernet devices. Your bank probably won't care to fund the necessary loans, though.
So you want to be the angry guy in the corner holding a grudge, that's cool. The Microsoft of yore was really yucky, and I'm happy I'll probably never have to consider whether SQLServer is the right DB for a job and that "a real webbrowser" has caught on as an accepted casual term for any browser that isn't IE.

But this isn't that, and the rest of us here kinda just want to get on with it and build cool stuff and this helps us do that.
https://weblegit.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15459349) does something like this.
Some people don't believe me when I tell them I've owned a home computer, with peripherals, that cost more than a new car of the same model year. Not just one, either.

When you started adding storage, a modem, daughter boards, etc., it got expensive.
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Thank you for pointing this out! This drives my spouse nuts. I don't have an account myself, but she's flagged things before, and the options are different every time. When they even have the correct option, the result is always exactly as you say - Facebook says it meets community standards no matter how blatantly it's breaking their TOS. It's absolutely insane some of the threatening stuff she's seen that's considered OK. (Luckily none of it directed at her.)
so, like, it's like a WAP portal site?

hmm..
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My theory on why Apple prefers AMD over nVidia:

AMD hardware at a specific price point is more powerful than nVidia hardware at the same price point. However, nVidia has superior drivers that eliminates the difference.

And since Apple prefers to use their own drivers, nVidia loses their main point of differentiation.

But of course the "Apple" drivers for video cards are basically vendor drivers with Apple doing QA & release management. But the driver is nVidia's secret sauce, they're not going to show it to Apple, since Apple is now a very competitive GPU manufacturer. At some point Apple will probably put their own GPU's inside Macs, so nVidia doesn't want to give them a head start.

AMD cares less about giving Apple a head start because they care more about the short term than the long and competing against nVidia.
Does google care since there are no alternatives?
The 'Magic' of 'Airpods' is the design, marketing, branding, distribution, eco-system advantages.

The exact same product under another brand ... well, we may not have ever heard of them.

Apple is still a 'highly functional incumbent' - and since it's always a bad idea to go up against incumbents even when they are dumb and lazy (usually they are, this is what incumbency does) it's a doubly bad idea to step in front of the Apple Mack Truck.

Apple is still doing the 'evolve iPhone' thing and they can only do that for so long. The 'let's build a big fancy building' step is often sign of peak-ego, we'll see how long they go from here.

Oracle, SAP etc. - look how long they can remain relevant just by doing small iterations in their software - they can hold business clients to the bone.

I wonder if a consumer company can do the same. Their brand has a lot of built up value, and I don't see either Google or Samsung stepping up to the plate ... but cycles are fast in consumer land and consumers are fickle ... and unlike Nike where the 'tech' really is just for show ...

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Don't have experience with hangout and zoom - but other systems that I've used setting the individual mic sensitivity was needed to fix audio issues like that.
Stop being so dramatic. Valuing users over developers is not malice, it's common sense.
I bought the dead tree edition. The FAQ page says that I should send author an email with the receipt to get the pdf and mobi version; however, I can't find the author's email address anywhere. Any clues?
If philanthropic, there are a handful of projects already attempting this. It's not taking off but $PINK is coming closest. Traders aren't charitable.
Was it breaking password managers? Because from what I understand, that isn't the case, and the bug linked earlier is specifically titled "autocomplete=off is ignored on non-login INPUT elements"

Also:
"For most modern browsers (including Firefox 38+, Google Chrome 34+, IE 11+) setting the autocomplete attribute will not prevent a browser's password manager from asking the user if they want to store login fields (username and password), if the user permits the storage the browser will autofill the login the next time the user visits the page. See The autocomplete attribute and login fields."

(From: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Fo...)
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Browser sniffing falls in the same category as time, crypto, and string encoding for me. If you think it's easy, you haven't spent enough time thinking about it.
I agree 100% with you. We each have our own "central finite curve", and we bend it by working with novelty.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9171514
he's saying it's like the original thing, only not as good but more shiny sounding.
You might have a good point for the home market - I couldn't say either way. I do know for the corporate market, businesses want as low a number of SKUs to support as possible, and so they will often only buy Intel (and only specific CPU models at that). This is particularly true in the datacenter / cloud world.
> the box-shaped selection tool that allows speakers to select a portion of the slide for public display is hidden from the audience

What tool is this? I am unfamiliar
Unless I missed it in skimming The Fine Article (I have a couple minutes between standup and another meeting, so time constraints), they're overlooking an, IMO, obvious tell.

For months now, whenever I've clicked on one of the "trending" stories in the right sidebar, I've seen a wall (not intended) of public posts that are verbatim, to the terrible grammar and obvious non-native English speaker phrasing, copies of one another.

If you have a bunch of accounts posting the same string of text, attached to the same link (or even just links that are grouped together topically), maybe those should be subject to further scrutiny as possibly being "fake"?
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>The right thing to do is to bring the issue up with whoever is running the website

What? No. Clearly it should never have been in the spec, and a browser should be the extension of the users desires.
Overeating also kills.
Lack of exercise kills and so on.

Opiods are different, IMO, because they are generally issued by doctors, and they can kill you pretty quickly. Alcohol and tobacco, while dangerous, do give quite a bit of time to change and be saved.

Obviously the govt should do anti-smoking campaigns, but opiods are different.
I still haven't moved on from Freescale :(
I listened in online to the intelligence and judicial committees. Kennedy and Cruz were pretty excited to bash Facebook's head with their oversights. And are probably hoping to get Facebook and Google both back in front of them. A bunch of other members spent time trying to get all three to say/agree to needing to be regulated.

They are already in the middle of a very expensive and shackleing threat. It's just playing games to come out less behind (even if that's just going to be increased lobbying).
I would guess that Apple/Intel have a multi-year contract in place. Apple probably has a legal obligation to keep using Intel for the next couple years. There are many benefits that to both sides that can be put into a contract - different for each case.
I'm more wondering about when would one need any rebuttal to start with. Most online comments are probably trolls, and if not, it's not worth your time anyway. Is it common to have friends or relatives with such a feeble grasp of reality?
What about the percentage of users vs deaths? The numbers speak of something, but it would be unwise to use the numbers as a metric to say that opioids are safer than tobacco and alcohol.
well, one thing is for sure, it "never shows the downasour", and has 'silky smooth' animations and 'no janky scrolling'

probably drinks obnoxiously obscure 'craft' beers and enjoys farm-to-table heirloom tomatoes too.
> I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways.

They won't have to. Politics are human ways. But, who knows? When they reach super-intelligence, maybe they're going to become competitive, jealous, envious, greedy, etc. as well.
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Do you have any references to instances where this strategy was successful?
...I just gave an example?
Unless your objective is to target ads, I'm really not sure why you'd think that Facebook's collection of people's holiday and wedding snaps and memes is a superior training set to say, the entire world's surface photographed at regular intervals, or millions of more-selectively-uploaded tagged images in Flickr, or image sets especially designed for training like OpenImages
Clinton to me is just par for the course politician, the difference being she failed to defend herself from an absurd volume of rhetoric from the Republicans.

So I would restate your sentence - "Republicans turned everybody that Clinton touched into shit."

Spend ten years tearing into any politician (they're still demonizing Clinton!) and I guarantee you'd find them in the same boat she is now.
>> Aren't good Graphics IP cores availble to licence from imagination or ARM ?

Yes they are. But general availability at a price is not the same thing as free. I suppose ARM had made their CPUs nearly a commodity, but it's still not the same as open source designs available for free. Graphics and RF seem to be the last holdouts with more vendors offering graphics IP as far as I can tell - or at least having IP even if they don't license it. For RF you don't have much choice.
Perhaps a precursor reaction could be used to generate the necessary ingredients "just in time", like how a fission type of explosion is a precursor to a fusion explosion.
Likely the corporate website availability is not related in any way to the API availability (different servers)
is up for me
I'm noticing other sites suddenly nonperformant or offline as well (Fitbit, Facebook for two). I wonder if there's some broadband thing going on.
Nicely done! There are other tools that do the same thing but the usability is far better in this one.
If Chrome shipped with opt-out UI option to disable janky scrolling, would it be any better?

Web is not a static target. Being afraid to break things gets you a decade of Flash websites. Things that are important will be maintained, and things that aren’t… well good riddance.

Personally, I think we are way past due HTML6. A sort of Vulkan-like platform for Web[1]. HTML5 should be build on top of this next-gen low level platform. That’s the way forward if Web wants to remain competitive. Otherwise in 5 years we’ll all be writing Android Instant apps.

[1] https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto
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Looked at some of the challenges, they seem fun! Hopefully I'll get around to tackling one/some of these.
If you need to log in to your dashboard, the following is still working for me:

https://dashboard.stripe.com
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I am getting 502 today. It was working Saturday.
Thanks for the clarification. I agree with what you're saying; paywalls need to go away especially for valuable scientific research/findings.
I'm trying to figure out who it is you're responding to exactly. My comment was more a general discussion of first principles in an attempt to answer my parent comments' query. You seem focused on a specific implementation detail, choosing to focus on the tree, not the forest.
I'll be honest, the only time I try to tweak my VIM setup to be close to an IDE is when I have no other options (developing on a remote box). It's always a pretty frustrating experience IMO.
Google can break the Web because they own the Web. It's their platform. Maybe handing it to them wasn't such a good idea.
Google Places API returning a 502
We're getting a 502 from Google Places API. The only mention I can so far find on the internet is this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=places%20api%20502&src=typd

Anyone else experiencing this?
It's possible, but harder. A modern Ethernet card would probably be doing this step entirely on one chip. A quick search shows the Microchip ENC28J60 as a pretty typical part. The result is that you'd be able to probe the input to the chip and the output, and see the failure at the output, and replace the chip. Effectively the same as what was done here, just with more components built into the chip. Louis Rossmann[1] does macbook component-level logic board repairs, though 99% of the time he doesn't need to break out the oscilloscope to find the problem. It's almost always a power supply or liquid damage problem, or something similar that can be found with nothing more than a multimeter.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkVbIsAWN2lsHdY7ldAAg...
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The issue is also one of false-positives. Even if you could spot fake accounts 100% of the time if you also flagged 1% of legitimate accounts as fake by that approach then it's non-viable. Remember that at Facebooks scale a 1% false-positive rate means 20 MILLION accounts. That's too much to even try sending for manual review.
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They may have but I don't use it.
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You can make it opt-in without breaking other people stuff. If a website doesn't opt in their users will migrate to another one that offers the same content with a better user experience. It just won't happen tomorrow (<- common sense, of the real kind).

What really bothers me is that people like you can't figure out that there is a trend behind this and it's not good one.
Their config seems top-notch, they send all intermediary certs:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=medium.com

What is your browser/OS?
> Alcohol and tobacco, while dangerous, do give quite a bit of time to change and be saved.

The typical tobacco death is someone in their 70s, whereas the typical alcohol death is someone in their 30s. (The majority of alcohol-related deaths are from suicide, car crashes, and slip-and-fall type injuries.) I doubt the types of deaths we're seeing from heroin are that much different than with alcohol.
We're seeing that too.
depends on what perspective you are viewing it from.. this is great news for SA since they now have direct to USA & much more direct to asia..

(admittedly i'm not in the loop on what was there already)
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