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Regardless of whether or not paid time off is an incentive to vote, it seems crazy to not be part of the law. In my opinion paid time off to vote, regardless of which day you go (early voting, elections day, etc.) should be allowed. Period.

I 100% agree on the cultural shift. I suppose Hollywood has been trying more recently to get people out to vote (at least I’ve noticed it more this past election).
The ISA isn’t the biggest problem. The memory model (do I need to use memory fences here? How many different kinds of those are there?) can introduce hard to reproduce bugs.

Also, relative strengths of the OS (if thread creation is relatively slow, it may not be worthwhile to multi-thread a short code fragment; one OS might have three kinds of spin locks, another only two; if there are many registers, you may need larger stacks per thread, and may want to limit the number of threads in memory-constrained devices) are bigger ones.
All built into https://www.ubuntu.com/core
False positive rate seems pretty key, or the test could be testing for brunettes where 70% of the population is brunette.
Why would a pharmacy care? They typically make a margin on each drug they fill. The more expensive the drug, the more money they make.
Can you list the utilities you're talking about, publicly or privately?
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Bit of a difference porting well documented APIs with multiple open source implementations compared to a compete clean-room reverse engineering of a closed system, quirks and all.
Is this something the distribution maintainers are supposed to track? Let's say package x is available on Debian and decisions is available on the raspberry pi. The package maintainers on Debian side are the people who compile and ship the binaries for raspberry pi, no? Are the authors involved in this at all? Or is it that the package maintainers take a more handsfree approach and only build on platforms that the authors have said the software works on?
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Of course it is! What is this question? No, man, not yet. Everyone has a thing just for the closed ones. Instead of asking "Is it time...?" you just do it when it's time! Damn those click baits. Although, open as in OpenSSL made a bad name for open source, because without critical audits there is even less security in open, because then it might be wide open instead! In open source, when a thing is made and it works for the most, nobody freakin cares anymore!
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I guess you mean Elixir in action - its manning and not pragprog.
This can be seen very clearly in videogame monetization.

We love to hate microtransactions, timers and loot boxes, but the fact is that those techniques won the war long ago. Some games have tried to be the 'White Knights' of monetization, but those who have succeed are far and wide.

The only reason why there has been significant backslash recently is because producers noticed that they could get away with it and kept pushing the boundaries until it became so outrageous that it elicited a response. Personally I stay cynical; it remains to be seen if there will be a change in trends in the industry in response to player's backslash.
Drug prices is an increasing problem everywhere.

Now I’m European so bare with me and my “Stalinist” ways, but I don’t see why something so essential to society is in the hands of corporations rather than the public.

Research? You could buy a lot of research for the amount of money we’re currently spending on medicine in healthcare and right now we’re really just paying a corporate tax to save lives so that some 1%’et can get even richer.
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Whilst the wireless gold-rush to a new standard that can be patented for royalties will always prevail for a while. Bluetooth for many work fine.

For me wireless headphones are great, but I prefer models that also offer the option to also plug in a cable (3.5mm), anything else is always accomodated connection wise via and adapter fromthat standard.

Real crux issue with wireless headphones for me is battery life and not just how long they last from a full charge, but more so the lifetime of that battery, that degrades over time with the headphones outliving the battery and as such adds a premature end of life to the headphones.
> You mean Britain.

At the moment.
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Well, that's been fixed with Wayland, right?
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somebody did change yours.
The definition of gaming in that study was pretty shoddy, if i remember correctly. It wasn't the type of gaming that would also get people into buying high end pcs and vr headsets.
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I use this one as a way to differentiate Big Enterprises from small companies.

My thing costs $10/month. But we have a $300/month Enterprise plan that gives the same thing plus PDF Invoices, Purchase Orders, and a few other things that only large organizations with Accounting and Purchasing Departments need.

Those organizations tend to be fairly price insensitive, so the two numbers I listed above both round to zero as far as they care.

Problem solved for everybody.
I'm not sure what you mean by the flatpak comment. "flatpak update" is the (built-in) command update all your installed flatpaks.

What is not built in is a daemon that regularly runs this, because the idea is to integrate that with the UI. So, the application installation ui you use (gnome-software or kde discover) will regularly call this update for you, however you configure it.
Self-reply for anybody interested: basically the same sucky experience as before.
Sets a very useful precedent too, opening the door for bringing back Roman Catholic bans.
I think there is "Smart", and there is "Wise". I have been thinking "Smart", as intellectually, is little over rated.

Wise, I dont quite know how to describe it yet, but is a combination of many many things.
Could do (and have in the past). But it is a workaround, and takes extra effort.

A couple of our suppliers do have the separate-email-for-invoices-only thing, and it really is super convenient to know that any changes they make to their invoice emails (subject lines etc) won't break our forwarding rules.

Also the forwarding rules don't survive email migrations (which I admit is a super infrequent thing to do). When we migrated from Google Apps to Office 365 we lost the rules we'd previously set up for this type of thing.
almost every crypto ICO had a huffpo logo on their site. just silly ( that would not work in couple of days). and then there are the ones putting logos of bbc and the like but linking general storyes about crypto, in the hopes that the visitor would not notice that the story is not about them.

as somebody that likes crypto i hate this.
What's the USP of a startup?
> further fragmentation of cpu architectures

"Fragmentation"??

We have a huge monoculture of Intel x86/x64 on the desktop, driven by Intel's fab advantage that smothered all alternative (and often superior) architectures. And recently, a second one has sprung up with ARM on mobile.

And it hasn't really been good for the industry.

Fortunately, the Windows monoculture in OSes has been broken, so much that MS wasn't able to extend it to mobile and has been driven to give away their OS updates.

In terms of porting, CPU architecture is far less of a problem than you might think. Tiny NeXT managed to make its OS available for four CPU architectures: 68K, i386, SPARC and HP-PA, with apparently PPC and MC88K available in-house. Write Once, Run Anywhere™, all with native binaries, no intermediate layer needed.

And these were processors with different endian-ness, RISC, CISC, sliding register windows, sparse register sets etc.
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Do we really know that AMD is immune to Meltdown aside from trusting them?

I mean, I reasonably trust AMD here. I don't see any reason why they'd lie about it. Plus, everyone in AMD seems super-confident that they're immune to the Meltdown issue due to how they implement speculative cache loads.

But such analysis is purely within AMD's circle of engineers. None of us outside of AMD can verify their claims.
From other sources (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/891491) I was able to find they had a specificity of >99%, with a sensitivity averaging 70% but was as low as 20% on certain cancers (esophageal cancer).

With such an excellent specificity this sounds promising as a cheap screening tool, although the sensitivity is too low in some cancer types to be used as a means to rule out cancer.
Slack is packaged as flatpak on flathub:
https://flathub.org/apps.html

Various versions of firefox as flatpak are here: https://firefox-flatpak.mojefedora.cz/

Getting some of those on flathub is a work in progress.
Any company can fire you without any reason in the US. The laws are not really on the employees side there.
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Then use plain text and desktop client.
I am sorry if this is silly question, and no offence intended.

Is Webpack beyond fixable? Tech has always been about reinventing the wheels, but the JS community seems to dial this up to a whole new level.

Isn't Webpack 4 heading towards Zero Configuration?

Isn't Webpack 4 making many performance improvements?

This isn't to say i dislike Parcel. I mean God I wish Rails could have picked up on it as default.
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I was under the impression that for process nodes you would reasonably use for small smart appliances the fab cost is too high, and certainly not high enough that nobody would pick up the tab if the gadget makers would start to require open IP for their IoT / smart appliance offerings.

There are, and have been a few CPU/MCU upstarts that have actually done shorter runs of silicon, and while they are usually quite well funded, the numbers doesn't seem to be prohibitive at all.

If the need was there for it NOW, fabbing something with existing open ip is quite likely to be 'free money' (or free market share), as the semiconductor industry appears to be entrenched with ip licensing so much that I sincerely doubt that they would be quick to follow suit. If only because any open offering from them would be seen as detrimental to market dominance, and lower the value of ip cross licensing deals.

Unfortunately I don't think the market need is there, and won't be for quite some time. I would love to be wrong though.
Not where it is now, and its a long way off but this will eventually lead to methods of interrogation where you simply plug someone into a machine and search their memories - not that it's necessarily a bad thing; imagine being released because your memories proved your alibi when all other proof was against you.
I quote: "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."

It is my understanding that I made a tutorial explaining a smart contract, a lottery, with available source code that anyone can tinker with.
This is what I don't understand. I'm now being threatened with being banned while adamsea is getting a slap on the wrist. If you're only allowed to discuss one side of this topic without getting kicked off HN, why even allow the threads in the first place?

I was responding to the question:

> Could you elaborate on the form of the attacks on white people and men you're seeing in SV companies?

What could I have done to answer that without posting some evidence?
What exactly is better, then? Certainly, the idea that "more powerful and cheaper" is better has its basis in a particular use case as much as "open" does. If you read the article instead of soapboxing based on the headline you'll find no argument for that open is somehow better, and acknowledges some of the glaring challenges, including cost and that it's not somehow as simple as building software.
Sure. Just heads up, I won't comment on the Peter principal, as I view both the definition of leadership and the complexities surrounding it far too complex to sum up in a simple parable, though I'm sure anyone with real world experience thinks it has some legs.

Paragraph 2, about the person being promoted until failure, I can't gleam any explanatory content from, myself. Then there's this sentence:

"If P and Q are qualities correlated with leadership, if P and Q are independently randomly distributed, then a leader with higher P is expected to have a lower Q."

This is false. You don't have variables that are simultaneously independent and let you say something about one based on the other. Its like saying "there is and is not a relationship between P and Q". Leaving aside the additional gymnastics and problems of having both correlate with leadership...

I could go into a discussion about expected values, averages, etc, but I can't tell what farmer banana P's and Q's have to do with the price of fish or peter's principal, so I don't think the language in the original is well specified enough for there to be much benefit to doing so...
> Anyone remember how he promised to close Guantanamo?

A European here, I was under the impression he sincerely tried to close Guantanamo but failed because of GOP controlled house and senate. Could he have done more?
> You can do the NHS way and forbid paying for unwarranted procedures for life extension.

Please cite which of these procedures are forbidden.

> NHS adopts this measures in the so called death panels

The US has these too, in the form of insurance companies.

I think if you're going to have them it's better to ahve them be publically owned not for profit organisations under intense government regulation, rather than profit making companies.
> Or if you go onto a retro gaming site like GOG you'll see that many of the "extras" are from pirated sources.

Can you give one or two examples of this?
It's almost certainly not true that "A couple of comedians and satire magazines have been hit" if you're implying that legal content was required to be removed.

In effect, the state is saying: we'll exempt you from the normal responsibilities you have when you say something, as long as you're just forwarding a message. The change is now that there's a caveat: you must now (sometimes) make reasonable efforts to avoid forwarding illegal content.

Frankly: as long as facebook (e.g.) is more than a dumb pipe this isn't merely a question of getting the laws right; it's intrinsic. You cant exercise editorial control (which they do, even if it's sometimes algorithmic) without being responsible for what you decide to publish.

So we get to choose: either platforms need to really be dumb pipes (i.e. facebook's entire model is essentially completely illegal), or they need to take responsibility for what they say, even if its forwarded content.

I think we'd have much more constructive speech online if platforms were forced to make such a choice: to the extent that they filter, they're responsible for what they let through.
What further fragmentation?

Do you have any experience how it was to target the home market before PCs and Windows took over it?
Just looking on Bungie LinkedIn, they employ 800 employees. Industry standard burn rate per month is 10k. So around 96m a year minimum. They will have tonnes of outsourcing expenses, testing etc etc.

So Destiny 2 on 3 year cycle at minimum 300m on dev costs alone, most likely higher.
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> So I usually have to copy files for them to interact with into the VM, open cmd.exe to run the utility on the files, interact with the utility GUI, then copy the files back out.

Most VMs provide the ability to share folders between the host OS and guest OS.
Most phone plans are 3 part tariffs, at least in Spain. You pay a fixed amount that includes some minutes of talk and some GB of data. If you go beyond the limits, you pay for each additional call or each additional 100MB block or whatever.

I'd say most utilities work in a similar way, maybe with a 2part (fixed costs + metered consumption).
Swift? I know Apple says they intend it to be usable for OS development, but I would want to see some real OS work (either from them or from others) before being convinced it is a real contender (or is there, and did I miss it?)
I agree. It looks to me that this is just the case of the CIA operating completely out of control. USA is not to blame, the president is not to blame, and the citizens are not to blame.
Actually I liked the 80's and early 90's.

Computers were sold with hardware and software designed to work together and provide a full stack experience.

Not a puzzle of bits-and-pieces.
> What is toxic tech culture? Toxic tech cultures are those that demean and devalue you as holistic, multifaceted human beings. Toxic tech cultures are those that prioritize profits and growth over human and societal well being. Toxic tech cultures are those that treat you as replaceable cogs within a system of constant churn and burnout.

Isn't that the whole point of a for profit organisation in a capitalist system? (minus the churn)

The workplace is a place you go to get work done and get paid for it. If she thinks differently, she is free to create her own company where they hire you based on "holistic, multifaceted human beings" instead of skill.

These people have the opportunity to prove their worldview, yet they never do, they just complain about it online.
> In particular, greater scrutiny of specifications and microcode ought to lead to better quality outcomes.

Which given the CVE entries per day isn't necessarily true, in spite of pull requests being reviewed.
There was a black mirror episode about exactly this.
Any source for "high average IQ"?
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I completely agree. I like having choice too. But for mass adoption you need a polished solution that works out of the box, not a bunch of Lego. The answers to users complaining shouldn't be "have you tried alternative software X?"
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ISA fragmentation isn't much a worry for people who only run open source software. Debian is especially good at maintaining ports of tens of thousands of packages for 10 ISAs [1].

[1] https://www.debian.org/ports/
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Here's a free startup idea: the "mirror cafe". Two cafes, one in SF, one in NYC, with exactly the same layout inside (down to the positions of the tables). VR links the two spaces together. Once you put on the headset, you can see and talk to people in both places. You'd be able to "grab a coffee" with someone across the country (though you'd have to drink it with a straw to keep the coffee cup from colliding with the HMD)!
I'm responding on topic to the threads though. Here we have a blog post calling the industry I work in toxic, why can't I comment on it?
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On national news they mentioned 1% came back positive for people who were believed to be entirely healthy.
Unfortunately it was anonymous so they could not get back in touch with the false positive patients.
The spokesperson made it very clear its early days and they are looking to refine it further; they anticipate it to be a cheap and accessible 'first-call' test in regular cancer screening, not a definitive diagnosis.
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Other point of view, would be to consider that the language runtime is the OS being implemented.
Under the Common Law the general age of majority has been 21 since the 13th century. Specific age limits varied much more widely according to context, but 21 was the point where you were unequivocally accountable for yourself.

Only in the past 50 years has 1) 18 become the general age of majority which 2) applies almost universally. It's ahistorical. If only our legislators listened to their elders....
They did not gloss over it. It's right there in the abstract: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/01/17/scien...

Please realise that, just because a detail is omitted in a news report, it does not mean that the team who did the research didn't think of it, or tried to hide it. This is just the usual shoddy reporting by the BBC.
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What is your source for this? As far as I know, there is no official designation for "software engineer" in the US. Nor any official certifications or accredited programs. Computer science is the degree programs most take.

As far as visas are concerned, what would the criteria be to verify a software engineer instead of a programmer.
It could add a much needed impetus for the semiconductor industry to consider security perspectives in a much wider sense.

Today we can't know or analyse the security properties of the silicon that essentially runs the entire world. We simply have to trust the producers, and they have been proven to be unreliable at best. They compete on performance and features, and the result is not that different from when there were no safety regulations (and testing) for cars, except that so far bad processor security haven't killed as many people as far as we know.

Open IP is one way to help making sure the above stays true. There are certainly other avenues, but for security it seems to be the case that it's best handled in the open.
There are just so many issues with this it's almost laughable to be honest.

Firstly, let's assume you basically need a big company to opensource their existing IP because opensource is no where near where Intel is today. So let's look at the obvious choice: Intel has traditionally perceived itself to be a manufacturing company. It tries to produce as many chip widgets as possible and producing CPUs or SSDs or network chips is just their way of finding ways to sell their widgets. The core of their business is fabrication.

Now, the only companies they let use their foundries to produce other chips are almost exclusively companies that they end up buying (I'm looking at you Altera).

By open sourcing their CPU designs they are practically guaranteeing that some of the chips they produce today would be produced by Samsung and TSMC. Try explaining to their share holders that you're giving away the crown jewels, damaging the core of the business and hoping for what....?

Secondly, taping out a chip is hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even if you did opensource everything, the only people who could actually produce the chip would be huge corporations, and the process of taping out isn't "Let's save it to a floppy and send it off". All of the tape out process requires proprietary tools from the fab, which are only available to the serious customers. So your source might be open but no one outside the company would be able to actually read them. And this is non-trivial, TSMC consider their tools to be a core part of the IP that differentiates them, they'll never release them under anything but a very strict contract to a client.

Finally, one of the key benefits to opensource is that you can fix something yourself, you can contribute and change things. Well not in hardware. The best you can manage is to fix the problem in the next $X00k production run.

Laying all that aside: No one has actually described what benefits Open Source software has over closed source that we're trying to map to hardware? To me a key benefit of Open Source is that we don't depend on corporations as gatekeepers to fix things, well that isn't solved in hardware open source.
Except today we have open source that can be recompiled without the author's explicit approval and we have a large collection of software that runs in some VM or other. There is also a variety of services as a software substitute that run on some cloud.