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This is positive news. It seems like the more liberal approach taken when protocols were written is being challenged more by young users who grew up under more stable rules that accepted terms of service as very strong.

When I was growing up you went by what the protocol allowed. If an http response came back you have access, if it prompted for credentials, then you didn’t have access.

The mere idea that a web server gives you info and then you have to check a TOS that you might not even know exists is foreign to me. But when I talked with a young programmer they kind of agreed with Oracle saying “otherwise you could just request everything from every possible address.” They were unfamiliar with war drivers or even how early web crawlers started.
This is fantastic news, and a great step toward a more "sane" set of internet laws.

I just hope that this trend can continue and can sufficiently bury the idea that accessing public (as in without any kind of authentication method) information on the internet should not ever be a violation of any laws when done without malicious intent (a DoS attack should still obviously be illegal).
I was a consultant who flew every week for 3 years. All consultants fly out on Thursday late afternoons and early evenings. If you want to attract those travelers, you need to fly out on Thursdays.
> And note that outside of C, C++, .NET, and java, making a desktop means using a library built in another language with documentation in another language. (C has GTK and C++ has QT.)

Not necessarily. D has dlangui and dwt, tcl (and also python?) has tk. Vala is also available for gtk. I think VB also lets you write GUIs although not sure I never used it. Objective-c has cocoa (gnustep outside of macosx).
I take a bit of offense at casually pairing not finishing secondary school with status as a "loser". I don't want to derail the disscussion, I just want to express support for my fellow dropouts. Many of us are quite successful. That said, if you're a dropout and reading this, go get a GED and follow it up with an associates degree. It's definitely worth your time and effort, and it's pretty inexpensive.
Same for CNBC, Coindesk, and Coinspeaker. Just mentioned once in the context of Jamie Foxx's tweet about Cobinhood. He is the headline in all the articles:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/celebrities-who-have-endorse...

https://www.coindesk.com/actor-jamie-foxx-promotes-cryptocur...

https://www.coinspeaker.com/2017/09/19/jamie-foxx-promotes-i...

Reuters was just a paid, 3-bullet brief: https://www.reuters.com/article/brief-cobinhood-launches-ann...
Ironically, power grids are failing due to the same market structure many people want to impose on Internet infrastructure. Power grids by and large are not built with public money. Instead, local power companies (sometimes private, sometimes municipally owned) are granted monopolies to build transmission infrastructure, and various governing agencies set rates to allow them to recoup their investment and operating costs at “acceptable” rates of return. The idea is that transmission infrastructure (as distinguished from generation infrastructure) is a “natural monopoly” that warrants government rate regulation. Of course, there is tremendous political pressure to keep electric rates low, which leads to underinvestment and predictable results. The same basic problem plagues water and sewer utilities too.

Of course this problem seems to be unique to our implementation rather than inherent. Other countries use the same structure, but don’t chronically under invest (and their electric, water, and sewer rates reflect that!).
> Doesn't the fact that there has been a push to get all the presidents kicked out mean there's something really wrong?

Not especially, given that the “push” in the activist base hasn't procedurally gone very far in most cases. You'd find very few democracies where some members of the opposition (especially in the electorate) don't claim that any given leader’s behavior is unacceptable and should result in removal.

I mean, I think something did go wrong—Ford’s pardon of Nixon which
was essentially justified by the argument that prosecuting a President would be too much for the nation to deal with—which has encouraged subsequent President's to view violating legal and Constitutional constraints on the power of the Presidency as safe because they are, in a sense, “too big to fail”.

But I while I think that has manifested in an increase in Presidential limit-pushing at least from Reagan on, I don't think that impeachment discussions are particularly a system if a deep political dysfunction.
I was in your position a year back. Now I'm in love with VSCode. Do give it a try.
>Would this entire Meltdown/Spectre thing count as the biggest mess-up of computing history? When yesterday the PoC repo was posted here, the spy.mp4 demo video gave me some chills.

It must be up there amongst the greats, probably with the "halt and catch fire" op code. Normally they just patch this stuff with microcode and never really tell anybody, this time that won't work.

I'm not entirely convinced it was a mistake at all (dons tin foil hat), Intel have been making suspicious design decisions to their chips for a well now (think this, Intel Me, hidden instructions, etc). It seems clear to me that this security by obscurity approach is quite frankly crap.

>And now I can't update my OS before making an installation USB because Canonical can't just follow Linus' releases. Thanks.

Linus' releases need some sort of buffering before they can be considered stable, often distributions will apply their own patches on top. Also consider the scenario where Linus releases a bad kernel and no testing has been performed before rolling out to all Linux users.
Similar idea to the hut network that the NZ Department of Conservation maintains:

http://www.doc.govt.nz/huts

The sad thing is they're looking to reduce them because some of them are quite old and the cost of maintenance is high and 1,000 odd buildings which are in very remote locations are no doubt a PITA to manage.

But people are constantly getting caught in the wilderness by a sudden change of weather and the hut network saves lives.
Subsidies help pay installation costs, making people more likely to install systems.

Inflating water prices would also disproportionally affect renters, who are often lower-income, because they don't have the ability to make changes like that for their homes.
Not just designed.

IIRC, C64 games often ran slower on the European variant. This because the CPU clock had to be synced with the video output.
When content is not recent, it helps to clarify things.

It's neither a criticism nor a value judgment about the contents.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/2/16840400/apple-iphone-batt...
> Please state the fact: programmers are not trained, nor have the time to go far enough asking the questions.

The technical skills an engineer is trained in are much less than half of the actual skills you need in order to be a good engineer. Arguably communication is one of the most important. You're there to solve problems. Solving problems without creating more problems involves solving the right problems. Finding the right problem requires asking the right questions.
> Neo-Nazis (and historical Nazis before them) use jokes to cover their actual, earnest beliefs,

Did they? Can you provide any evidence that the Nazi party used "jokes" to hide their beliefs? I can't quite see that, somehow. To the contrary, they were quite open about their beliefs.
Microsoft has a ton of experience with misbehaving third party developers. Distrust of code written by others is by now a second nature to them. I am sure that they would have gotten this right even without Atom falling into the "open internals" trap first.
Every system deserves critique and improvements.

Mining and staking algorithms have so far been measurably distributed disproportionately to a tiny minority of users. PoS is ironically manipulative in its own way, where an exchange or early adopter who controls a large sum will simply exponentially accumulate the newly minted coins.

For a algorithmic solution in software to persist beyond a fad like beanie babies or baseball cards, it necessitates a model which puts all users on equal footing for access, work, and production.
Yes, I've found that for me 'wilderness' was initially a tricky term to use in the UK.

As an explanation for anyone else reading: conservation in NZ and the UK are very different. In many areas of the UK, conservation consists partly of maintaining farming practices in the manner they've been practised in these places for hundreds (sometimes tens of hundreds) of years. Which, for a New Zealander, is totally bizarre. In New Zealand, there are gigantic swathes of somewhat-pristine forest (missing mostly birds, and some insects) we can look to as a model for conservation. Farmland and conservation are pretty much mutually exclusive.

So, in the UK you might use the term wilderness for a large, very lightly farmed, very lightly populated area. Where in NZ you mightn't use the term wilderness until you'd walked for half a day from civilisation.
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Do you care to elaborate? That doesn't make any sense to me, as the advice given above is exactly what you should do in a company, if I understood it correctly.

(Higher risk on a simple project, because that's the only opportunity to learn new stuff, as in the worst case you can start over. Lower risk for a complex project, because there's already enough risk in the project itself.)
Everyone knows the doctor developers rarely show up, and the nurse developers end up doing all the work.

Doctor is a long-running process that requires a callback from nurse.
This is a completely an excuse - advertisers would have looked to anything to disable and ignore DNT - "oh, not enough users use it for us to justify enabling it" etc.

The end result of DNT was never going to be "advertisers were going to less ruthlessly track you" - that's a fantasy.
I watched that spy demo. How does it know what memory location contains the password being typed?
When did Google tie anonymous browsing data to your real identity?
I'd love a service like this if it came up to pdx. Quite a few lax-pdx flights every day so there should be demand too. Probably only a fraction of sfo-lax but if you add in seattle there's quite a bunch I'd imagine.
I just counted the number of one way flights this Friday between SFO-LAX. There are 57 non stop flights on that day. And this doesn't even include OAK, SJC as well as BUR, LGB, and Orange County in So Cal. Fares start at $49. This will be a hard market to compete.
Ironically I dress the same every day.
There's no dress code here. You can dress as "comfortable" as you want.
Fluid dynamicist here. If a simulation is too symmetric, one can insert random noise into the initial conditions. I've done this in the past, and it's fine, even physically justified as reality is rarely so perfect. There are measures of the noise that one can match.
Well it was primarily designed as an educational tool, and thus a direct inspiration to the RPi.

After all, David Braben, creator of Elite (that originated on a BBC Micro), is also co-founder of the RPi foundation.
Wouldn't that physical analogy be caused by factors unknown to this algorithm though? Air flux, non-homogeneous air, air impurity etc.

Would flames not be symmetrical if all of the above plus everything imaginable like quantum physics, solar activity, dark matter, wtv, are all controlled for?
Smart TVs need to support VP9 for YouTube 4k. Netflix works with VP9 too, so HEVC doesn't seem necessary.
I've seen a few from US-based sellers on eBay, but most are in the UK. Pretty much everyone I've met in the USA with Acorn hardware grew up in the UK and moved here.

I use an RGB-to-HDMI converter (this one -- https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2553/acor... ) and connect my BBC and Electron up to a normal HDMI monitor. The native video format is 1-bit RGB with TTL levels, with a 50Hz refresh rate (possibly interlaced -- I forget).
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Couple of people mentioning the Robinson R22 (a 2-seater small helicopter that costs about $280k.) I didn't see any mentions of the Yo-Yo 222 though, which seems very interesting and only costs €135k. The SureFly is substantially slower and has a lower payload compared to both.

It's worth noting, though, that any small aircraft will have very similar payloads (300-400 lbs max.) This will almost certainly not get better in the near future, even with battery improvements (you'll note that all current light aircraft, including this one, are gasoline powered.) Speed is also difficult to increase for VTOL aircraft like this one.

I build custom VTOL (and sometimes horizontal) aircraft, typically electric, usually smaller than this one. If anyone else here builds VTOL aircraft/large drones, send me an email! I'd be curious to talk to other HNers doing the same thing. (And if you're just curious about the subject in general, feel free to send me an email also - it's in my profile.)
Wasn't aware of the major v16 rewrite (I'm not working on a react front-end at the moment). But seeing overviews like: https://dzone.com/articles/react-16-release-whats-new

(also: https://reactjs.org/blog/2017/12/15/improving-the-repository...)

makes me much more positive towards react - feels like there's some people taking the stuff quite seriously. Still not sure about the whole js idea, portable code that's unsigned etc - but things like this feels a little less... Cowboys and cool-aid than I'm used to from the js side of things.

Some discussion here that I missed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15339983
I actually put the blame on Agile.

A few years ago there was a noticeable increase in the frequency of point updates at the expense of quality. In agile, testing either (a) relies heavily on automation or (b) only tests that particular story. In highly complex systems that's often not sufficient and rarely do security teams for example involve themselves on a per story basis.

Personally I think the industry as a whole needs to sit back and realise that Agile wasn't the panacea it was made out to be.
Which is a bit curious as it sounds like a GA terminal, which generally just have a guard who keeps random people from walking around on the tarmac.

But i'm guessing they are trying to be in the grey area between being a charter and being a full blown commercial airline service with a regular schedule, requiring them to use the normal passenger terminals (and lease/buy gate space/etc).
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Robinsons in general have this problem (among others, such as their tendency to disassemble their own rotor systems in flight, and their incredibly awkward t-bar cyclic controls), but I'd still rather take my chances with a Robinson autorotation than rely on a ballistic parachute system.

That said, I would never willingly fly this thing or a Robinson, so I guess I'll never have to deal with either situation.
Note that the decision says that violations are not criminal acts, but that doesn't mean that license violations can't result in civil lawsuits and encumbent financial damages.
What would happen if you were speaking to a real person? Imagine the most useful real person on the other end. That's the goal of these things.
I use vim, which launches almost immediately. I launch a new instance for every file I open, each in a new screen. It seems to work fine. Yet I wouldn't be able to do that under atom... (ignoring the issue of it doesn't work with tty).
CES = Consumer Electronics Show

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show
My ultimate goal is to get rid of the need for language specific ports -- one front-end to rule them all! :)

The whole thing is currently powered by plain ol' json. The next step on my list is (optionally) shipping an executable that any language can feed the appropriate JSON to in order to get their GUI side for 'free'.
I am sure we have both spent time in Agile projects. Let me ask you. When stories end up in the QA column do they just test the story or everything the story could possibly touch ? Be honest.

Because that right there is the problem when you are dealing with systems with lots of interconnected components. There just isn't enough time for the "randomly try to break anything" phase.
Yey! 2.4 finalized another crucial feature that didn't make it into the changelog or release notes - the --insecure-no-tls flag for operating behind a proxy with SSL termination (such as with a load balancer in AWS)
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I think IP ownership does = stewardship of all domains using that IP from a DV certificate perspective. The moral of the story is don't point a domain you value at a sketchy host's IP. The list of the things that need to happen to work around poorly managed hosting providers in this scenario is overblown. No one should host anything they think is important on shared hosting. Full stop. That is about as much of a reality as the above statements around SNI, but it is something individuals can actually act upon.
Are you saying that exhibitors are having to pay their own power Cost?
I wonder why it is that articles written from way back when very often seem to have a way higher average quality than the stuff written today. I'm not sure the sole reason is that the only thing that survives is the high quality stuff, or because anyone can publish anything on the web, thus lowering the bar. It feels like even the peak of what we find today is rarely as good as the average found back then.
For the longest time they were still on 0.10. (deprecated 11/16, fully removed 4/17)
I would pay _good money_ for my paid privately-provided services to be as reliable as my utilities, but despite the hallowed "powers of markets" I don't even have this option. (>90% of my last 10 years of housing has had no option outside of Comcast, at laughably low speeds) On top of this:

I can't remember the last time I had to call my water/gas/electric providers threatening to cancel service unless they undid a stealth rate raise.

I can't remember the last time I had a major utility outage that lasted multiple months while the provider tried to justify that it wasn't their fault, leaving me without the service I was paying for.

I can't remember the last time I found out a utility provider was throttling/filtering/negatively impacting my service in unexpected fashion. (Parallel to p2p throttling, throughput caps, ad injection, sudden limitations to tethering on my phone)

While there are many fair arguments to be made against imposing municipal ownership, comparing it to our current state of internet infrastructure is laughable.

As you say, other countries seem to manage much better than we do at utilities. So why not address these issues rather than demonizing what may still be an incremental improvement to the even worse situation present in our communication providers? (for the record, I see the same very vague meta-problem of misaligned incentives and low accountability as the root to both utility degradation and ISP misbehavior)
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> a truly "hackable" editor a la Emacs, built on a web stack like Electron, would make me giddy with excitement.

Why? I would much rather a truely "hackable" editor a la emacs, built on a native stack. Like emacs. (And I say this as a vim user).
Hmm, I'll check this out, thanks.

I was mainly speaking to previous experiences trying to set up Conversations on one device, Pidgin on another, there not being any good way to use a consistent key for my user on both, and trying to walk non-technical family members through that fiasco. This was about 2 years ago, maybe the situation has improved!
The coolest part about decelerating with such a system is that when you encounter the solar wind and deflect it at high speeds, you're going to generate EM radiation by accelerating the ions in the wind. So, under the right circumstances, the inhabitants of the solar system you're braking into will see an enormous glowing bubble in space as you arrive.
The advertisers chosen to ignore DNT. It don't matter if they decided to do so because they disliked the concept of DNT or if they did so because the OS manufactorers decided to change the opt-in to opt-out. The decision was made solely by the advertisers, and there the blame resides.

If Microsoft had not made this choice then the advertisers could still have made the same decision. We will never know, and it doesn't really matter. Its a "what if" situation, and like many such "what if"s we are simply speculating about motives while not looking at the billions of dollar worth of obvious reasons why the advertisers wanted to ignore DNT.
If you use the website in a way that they would normally ask money for, like circumventing a paywall, is that something they could claim damages as in missed revenue for? I wonder if this ruling makes it legal to scrape for data processing.
but also who engineered the railroad to have a 35 mph safe curve immediately after an 80 mph stretch?
(Oops, I've linked to the German version; English overview here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303)
I think you underestimate how much money is made selling software to firms who still use IE8.
YouTube mirror for mobile users anyone?
I believe that refers to the median of all analyzed pages, not the median page on that domain.

I pointed the tool at a Tumblr blog, and I see: "PSI estimates this page requires 6 additional round trips to load render blocking resources and 1.3 MB to fully render. The median page requires 4 round trips and 2.7 MB. Fewer round trips and bytes results in faster pages."
It's not that young people grew up with stable rules. It's that young people grew up under the influence of industrial information warfare tactics and propaganda. As someone that was prevented from distributing Linux at high school because the administrators thought that any copying was piracy (thanks to the Software Publishers Association and the friendly local Microsoft rep), this conditioning to get kids (and less intelligent adults, sadly) to believe in the supremacy of illegitimate authority has been going on for a while now. Now those kids are starting to become adults. So, of course, you're starting to see bullshit like the CFAA1986 (and it's downright laughably broad definition of a 'protected computer') and the DMCA (likewise) starting to be abused like they are. The "don't copy that floppy" music video was the thin edge of a wedge that continues being driven into the heads of kids and adults alike, even today.
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