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> Lawyers will never become obsolete until we no longer live in a society that obeys the rule of law.

I think the core problem is that this misinterpets the phrase "rule of law", which Google defines as "the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws."

If your lawyer's arguments, preparation, and skill matter, or if it matters whether you have a lawyer or not, then you are being subject to "arbitrary interpretation" of the legal landscape, rather than to well-defined and established (and understood) law.

Your /lawyer's/ actions affect the judgment, rather than just your actions.
Demoralizing - why? That seems like an attitude problem on the part of “Charlie”, not “Bob”. If “Charlie” is going to slink off with his tail between his legs every time he makes a mistake, he’ll have a tough time of it - it’s not like everyone can’t SEE that he broke it through version control anyway!

I just don’t really get it. Even when I was a junior, if I overheard “this thing is broken,” I was the first to pop up and say “oh, I bet that was me, let me have a look.”
Okay, you claim that companies will use cash to hire new employees. Well, let's look at a real case. The recent bolus of cash from the tax bill: how much of that went for new hiring, vs paybacks to stock holders or bonuses/raises for CEOs? I'm not an economist but my understanding is that it is a mixed report, many of the companies have NOT helped their workers, though a few have. Relative to the long-term debt-busting nature of the recent bill, it seems this is not a fair recompense for the pain that will come in the 5-year time frame, when middle-class tax cuts evaporate and we're left with just the tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, yet no budget balancing.
> Therefore, it's hypocritical to warn against smart homes unless you also don't have a smartphone.

It's not hypocrisy to warn of dangers, regardless of being exposed in other ways. Also, your comment here equates 'smart speakers' with 'smart homes', which are not the same thing (yet).

This conversation can only progress when you consider the actual threat models (like security folks talk about). It seem strange to me to rant about the risks of smartphones vs smart home devices, when the data from both of those is potentially ending up with the same small set of companies.
A vegetarian diet has never included fish. You’re thinking of pescatarianism.
Feels like they should have titled it "One Pachyderm a Day"
> All WINE has to do is capture the [Windows] API calls

So... you're saying it needs to implement the Windows API? If APIs are copyrightable, then that's a violation of Microsoft's copyright. You've included a copy of Windows' API in WINE.
Genuine question: how do you know that? Just assuming based on their practices, or do you have an other way to find out?
Kubernetes 1.10 released
The three-byte codebook version (the mazinger demo) can't even afford the increment, and just does a sty $d020, which takes 2 cycles less, hence the colorbars look a bit different on that one. But the audio sounds better.
Hello there ! Please continue your work because im telling you, there is NO WAY I setup a corp cloud based voice listener.
Your's is the only way i'm doing it. Might use a small snips gear as next xmas gift(s) :)
Partially off-topic, but one of the things I find as a native English-speaking American is that British female accents (probably more specifically accents that are close to a "BBC accent") sound better to me. That's definitely true with Polly. I don't know if it's because flaws aren't quite as obvious to me or just that I like the accent better in general so I'm more willing to overlook them.
I had moments of deep mental resistance, anything is a damn burden. I believe lots of people feel the same and have a few very high psychological barriers.
The"correct" answer there is probably to make the network limits explicit, by explicitly requiring a proxy server or organization CA installed in the client. QUIC should still work with middleware that actually terminates the connection instead of meddling from outside.
The problem is that if a protocol has visible parts, middleboxes will try to do stuff with those and not handle them correctly in corner cases, or when the protocol changes (e.g. TLS had issues with middleboxes attempting to verify details of the handshake and breaking or downgrading a connection when it saw options it didn't know, e.g. because a newer TLS version was used. MPTCP extended TCP and had lots of problems with things that expected specific behavior of TCP flags and parameters, where MPTCP would have liked to use them differently. With HTTP there have been issues with proxies not understanding new headers, or things like websockets. ...)

QUIC tries to prevent this by making as little as possible visible outside the encryption: it should look to a middlebox as much as possible like an opaque data stream, and not reveal any details about what's going on inside. Now there is a proposal to add something that is explicitly visible to the network, and people are worried that will come back to bite them in some way if they make an exception now.
"Well it's not like they made a booboo, and some bugs caused some inconvenience to a few or many people. Someone died."

Fascinating how narratives and bias work.

The police reported that the pedestrian, wearing black, entered the roadway randomly and unexpectedly, directly in front of a moving vehicle, and concluded that a human driver would not have reacted in time either. The police reported the accident as "unavoidable", and showed that there was a crosswalk very close AND that there was signs advising pedestrians not to cross out of crosswalks right there too. "It's very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway"

If you had the proper context, you would have said "a human killed themselves" I think because no matter who or what is driving, when you jump in front of a moving car, you choose death.

People jump in front of trains all the time, and it sucks but it doesn't mean trains are bad or their conductors are murderers or anything.

Now having said that:

- I think their super-human system should be capable of reacting to what humans cannot, and should have reacted here

- I think Uber is not a good technology company and has zero chance of making a successful self-driving car themselves and all of this is a waste of money driven by the vanity of their former CEO who fancied himself Musk
What I've learned at Arkency and why I am leaving
In this post, I summarize last 3 years of my work (out of almost 20) as a senior full stack web developer.
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How ICIJ used Linkurious to reveal the secrets hidden in the Swiss Leaks data
really well designed!
kdamken nails it. I'm responding to the author's hyperbolic use of the word serfdom, which carries with it an actual historical set of facts. Do I agree with the current distribution of income/wealth in the economy? No, in another thread I'm speaking about the low chances of companies using cash to hire new people, vs. paying off CEOs or stockholders. Yet, to compare Uber or Lyft workers to serfs is not historically valid.
Sorry, I must be missing something. Is this is a page full of gradient fills on egg shaped circles, infused with ads, with completely random names?
Simple and elegant invoicing solution
It's "wary". The word "weary" means tired.

Edit: Just curious: are people downvoting because they disagree with my proposed spelling, or because they don't like the correction? Please let me know so I can integrate this knowledge into future comments.
You need people to develop and maintain this code, and it touches many aspects of architecture. Keeping it contained to a small team and avoiding any leaks doesn't seem trivial to me. What if some dev not in the know notices the issue and submits a fix or a bug report, what happens then? You introduce a pretty big management liability in your management if you need to protect yourself against your own employees. And what if the employee(s) you chose to throw under the bus in case the trick gets noticed decides to rat you out anyway, for fame, money or to avoid repercussions? How do you even find engineers willing to do something so unethical without raising suspicions in the others?

And again, all that for what? Keep profiles on the small minority of users who bother to scrub their profiles, even though these same users are probably not very good targets for ads in the first place? I don't think it would be very rational for Facebook to try something like that unless they're trying to be evil for the sake of being evil.
NOTE: You may want to stay far away from this project.

The author is trying to do an end-run around Open Source licensing, as can be seen in the last section of this weird and rambling rant: https://web.archive.org/web/20180130105751/https://wonderuni...

There have been several issues and PRs raised trying to add a license to the project. These were never acknowledged by the author, and silently closed after a while.
This seems like a classic case of applying the Five Whys [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys] methodology for root cause analysis.
No, we're descriptivists in this thread and plenty of people that are vegetarians eat fish and eggs.
My grandmother is 86, lives in Florida, and the state renews her license annually with no qualms.
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Pretty awesome. Will the medical industry prevent this from getting on US broadcast TV, as one of the largest sponsors of advertising?
What about videos on how to install bump stocks? Would you support allowing those to remain up on YT?
Gender pay gap data from GOV.UK
Most companies and business tasks don't need software tooling sadly. You'll save the company money and they'll just go "thanks! I'll call you when I need you again! (never)"
Lest you think this is an exaggeration, graduate students and postdocs make peanuts, who would be doing the cancer research, make peanuts.

Starting salary for a postdoc is a bit less than $50k, and this is after 5+ years of grad school, during which you make even less (often $20-30k) One can expect to be a postdoc for 3-5+ years before becoming remotely competitive for an independent (faculty) position, and another 5 years before the job is relatively secure. The competition for these jobs—and the remaining industrial ones—is savage and unpredictable.

This is bad for so many reasons: frantic people don’t do careful experiments or do good science, very smart people opt out all together and figure out how to make you click on ads instead, and a lot of time, money, and effort gets wasted in the churn.

If you want more cancer research and less ad optimization, nag your reps to improve how we fund research!
Cuckoo filter is used in the upcoming Cache Digest HTTP Standard:

> HTTP/2 frame type to allow clients to inform the server of their cache’s contents. Servers can then use this to inform their choices of what to push to clients.

http://httpwg.org/http-extensions/draft-ietf-httpbis-cache-d...

https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/pull/413
Single-winner voting systems such as FPTP are what causes a party to dominate at a local level, and also what creates a century-old two party system.
This is extremely naive, have you ever worked in organizations?

I'm not being facetious, but a little top-down pressure can go a long way. This isn't about a grand conspiracy as much as it is about simple human nature, and the act to please those above you, keep your job, and move up yourself.
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So absolute freedom of speech, even promotion of very dangerous products and practices, should be enforced onto private company's products?
How exactly does coinhive qualify as malware?
Facebook Reveals New Security Settings Amid Privacy Concerns
WhoAmIMailBot – A Service to Mask Your Email
Uber Stops AV Testing “indefinitely” in California, Pennsylvania, and Toronto
Fines of up to 4% of worldwide revenue or €20 million, whichever is larger. Proving that the data is actually deleted is another matter, but the potential upper bounds of the fines alone place a pretty big incentive on treating all data as if it's tainted.
That's one sweet rig. What do you make with it?
How do you prepare for an AWS S3 outage?
On iOS, I just have any NYT site to default to reader view.
Unfair and ignorant comment.

They are descriptive function names, that's all.

"derived state from props" 4 words.

"snapshot before update" 3 words.

If you get an allergic reaction from that it's just you.
Is this really surprising to anyone but the laymen? I mean, of course they store everything the user does, why wouldn't they?
What is a sound decentralized app that was curated by IcoDrops where the app depended on blockchain-based tokens and could potentially scale up to millions of users based on that same blockchain?

Or that isn't possible, what's a decentralized app that is still valuable technology which doesn't need to scale up like that?
How to Calculate Your Startup’s Total Addressable Market
We were located on Brazil, moving some applications to RHEL servers located on EUA.
My junior-sysadmin, logged as root, accidentally removed some /lib libraries ( don´t remember which exactly ) and we would be locked out of the servers if we closed the ssh shell already opened.
No scp, no ftp, no kind of file transfer was possible ( due the lack of the libraries on the destination server ). and we would have to call the admins on the remote site to clean the mess, but i decided to try something:
I base64-hexdump'ed the proper binaries on a local server ( same distro ) and copy/paste via the terminal to the remote server.
Luckly i had busybox compiled statically on the remote server, so the base64 tooling was available... and then we had our server accepting connections again, and the other admins never knew it ever happened.
This was a great post. We are cut off at my university in a licensing fight with Adobe. I'm not certain how absent that product we are running a digital media and design curriculum...unless the students are required to purchase themselves.
Those tick boxes can only be mandatory if the data is actually needed to provide the service - the user can't be forced to allow his data to be used for marketing purposes, for example. Also, if it's obvious for what purpose the data will be used (e.g. filling in your address for delivering a package), you don't need a tick box.

So there should be little need for mandatory boxes.
The fault is with Uber because their software should have been able to use LIDAR to detect the person walking in the road.
You are going to get different answers depending on where in Canada you are interested in.

Personally, I live in New Brunswick and am very happy. There is a decent tech sector (nothing compared to Toronto/SV/etc obviously). Housing costs are relatively low, I purchased a two story 4 bedroom home in a nice neighborhood for <200K.

I make more money where I live than I would in Toronto at an equivalent job when you factor in cost of living. There is absolutely no way I would have the standard of living I do now in a big city.

My healthcare costs are low as I have good insurance through my employer.

I do not have children so I can't really comment on that but I did grow up in the area and had an excellent childhood in my opinion. I will be raising my own kids here someday.

Public transit where I live is not very good. Bike lanes are also limited.

Most places outside of major cities in Canada will require that you own a vehicle.

I can probably help answer any other questions if you are interested in anything more specific.
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You should definitely check Affinity! They have amazing products, such as Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo; I remember paying about 30 GBP for each license. It's way faster to work on, compared to Photoshop or Gimp; Load time etc.
Also, for video editing, you have this other company called HitFilm, you can use it to Edit or VFX (Yup! Motion graphics) super cheap or you use the Free version. Also, there's Blender for the past 20 years, for everything motion, and you can also edit video, and so much more.

Maybe you should criticize the fact that small companies don't have as much money for marketing, in comparison to Adobe; But a good start is to start use Firefox and an alternative search engine than Google. You'd be surprised at what you're capable finding!
> I don't understand how this is never brought up with regard to API copyright. API's are software, software has been deemed copyright-able, thus, API's are copyright-able.

This is, essentially, the fallacy of division.

Interfaces to software have been rules non-copyrightable despite being an element of software and thr software itself being copyrightable; this is particularly the case for user interfaces (Lotus v. Borland is the landmark case here.)

There have been many comments from the legal community, including, IIRC, judges that sit on the 9th Circuit, that the Federal Circuit (which heard this case on appeal because of the patent claims in it) has misapplied binding Ninth Circuit precedent (which is supposed to control on coypright issues in this case because this came up from a district court under the 9th Circuit, and copyright law is not one of the areas where the Federal Circuit has exclusive subject matter jurisdiction.)
It's my pleasure to do that. This feels great for me to finally launch something of my own and get so much great feedback from the community. I'm currently at work, but can't wait to get home hack a bit more on the app!
I can't load the page https://wonderunit.com/confirm linked from the email.
This was my first thought as well. It appears the elephant isn't sucking as much as chewing.
Snap’s quest to breakeven by Q4
I really doubt if you dug into the flying statistics that all those miles are created equal. Apparently only 16% of air crashes happen during the cruise portion of a flight[1]. You probably need to consider the chance of crashing on a per-flight rather than per-mile basis (as 84% of accidents happen in the takeoff and landing phases, which are approximately the same length for all flights). A long haul flight (which 2600 miles would be) would therefore appear to be more dangerous than it actually is.

[1]: https://www.statisticbrain.com/airplane-crash-statistics/

The same page gives the odds of dying in a single airplane flight as 1 in 29.4 million. The odds of dying per mile driven are approximately 1 in 174 million. On that basis, your 10 mile journey has a risk of death of approximately 1 in 17.4 million - death is 1.7x more likely.

There's probably a bunch of other ways to interpret the statistics - car miles aren't created equally either, there's a difference between long haul and short haul flight fatality statistics, there's a big difference based on where the airline operates. It's (like all things in life) not very clear cut.
Yes I read that above. Cats require a diet consisting almost entirely of animal protein and their livers cannot process the toxins in plant foods. This is still abusive behavior. Sorry if it feels bad to realize you have supported this, but you should stop... the science is clear.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure deleting doesn't really take the data from Facebook. Really all you can do is stop the flow of new data to them.
Yeah, but not really. In the days before mobile phones, street hails were a huge majority of a taxi's fares. Your only other choices were to call from home, find a pay phone, or find a cab rank (or does a cab rank still count as a street hail?)

Apps like Uber let people effectively "street hail" while sidestepping the legalities, which were written before mobile phones became available.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180130105751/https://wonderuni... reads like the output of a text generator trained on two newsgroups: One focussing on conspiracy theories, the other on Open Source licensing.

You are obviously trying to underhandedly gain adoption to then turn commercial.

It's perfectly fine to give out free versions with restrictions on redistribution and commercial use. Publishing the source code in such an arrangement is even laudable.

But it is not Open Source. Those words have meaning, and I have no doubts that you know as much. E

ven if not: I assure you that 90%+ of your contributors are under the impression that they are contributing to a FOSS project as it is commonly understood.

If you are using the free Github plan, you're also breaking their terms.

This is not ok.
Something like a Godiva device (pulsed nuclear reactor)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godiva_device

They have a risk of creating a small nuclear explosion though.
Hi, can you roughly say how you guys plan to make money and how one can help you out? You guys tick a lot of boxes for me (rust, open source and privacy focused ML, europe...) so I want to help:)
> At least with liquid fuels, the job of a fireman can be as simple as extinguishing the existing flame and cooling down anything that is hot.

As a firefighter, I think you and I likely have different ideas of what "simple" looks like in this case...

EVs definitely pose unique hazards, but there is nothing "simple" about a car fire.
North korea is evil, millions of lives ruined due to 1 guy
Man, this is a complicated story. The strategy of protesting Krebs' writing by donating to an German anti-cancer website (Krebs = cancer in German) is definitely interesting.

At the surface level, it's an attack on Krebs, but there's a secondary thing going on here.

Krebs' main investigation was on Coinhive, a group which embeds Monero mining scripts in pages which run on page visitors' machines. But in his criticism of Coinhive and its association with Pr0gramm, it seems he may have cast too wide a net, doxxing and accusing Pr0gramm users who may not have anything to do with Coinhive. Instead of apologizing for this, he doubled down on it, typifying Pr0gramm users as basement dwellers who anonymously post nastygrams and threaten journalists with death.

Donating to cancer research is a direct response to that: it shows that Pr0gramm users are at least not only bad--they also do things generally considered altruistic, like donating to cancer research.

Both sides have definitely dirtied their hands: at least some Pr0gramm users are mining cryptocurrency on other people's machines through Coinhive, and Krebs has definitely made the false insinuation that Monero's anonymity is only useful for criminal activity. The open question is whether this behavior is typical of Pr0gramm or Krebs has actually accused Pr0gramm users who weren't involved in Coinhive.

I don't know who is in the right here--I simply don't have enough information to know. What information I do have comes from sources which are clearly biased. But it's interesting to see how even at this level, security cases are being tried in the court of public opinion.
I'd say no, but I have no desire for a home assistant. Aside from the security concerns, the thought of talking to my devices just makes me reflexively gag. I mean, the main thing I like about them is that _I don't have to talk to them_.