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This came up when RedHat stopped breaking out their patches against the Linux kernel: https://lwn.net/Articles/432012/

Relevant parts quoted:

> While there can certainly be arguments about what "preferred form" means for source code distributions, Red Hat's actions here don't seem very close to the line. The basic idea is that the code be released in digital form, along with any build scripts, so that downstream developers can reproduce the GPL-covered binary that is being shipped. It is partly meant to prevent recalcitrant vendors from releasing the source on paper—or stamped into clay tablets in cuneiform. One could argue that those methods do provide the source code, but it certainly isn't in a form preferred by anyone—nor does it adhere to the "medium customarily used for software interchange" requirement.

> Obfuscated source code, where all the variables and function names get turned into unintelligible gibberish, or the source is deliberately split up in ways that are harder to work with, are a bit more of a gray area—but not much. Those kinds of actions should be seen as clear attempts to circumvent the GPL requirements. But that's not at all what Red Hat is doing.

> The tarball that Red Hat is releasing may not be the preferred form for the Red Hat kernel developers to use, but that is not part of the requirement. Tarball releases of GPL code are a longstanding tradition in the free software world. Many projects still do it that way and the FSF itself has made releases that way in the past. While it is nice to get some visibility into the version control system of a project, it certainly isn't required for GPL compliance. No one complained that Red Hat didn't provide access to its Git repositories back when it was still providing the broken-out patches, for example. A Git repository is definitely the preferred form for Red Hat developers to use, but there are lots of reasons that the company might want to keep its repositories to itself—something that is obviously within its rights.
This is the biggest wtf. We've now seen at least three videos of similar trivial mistakes by autopilot only this week with one fatal crash and it is still not disabled.

When aircrafts crash all planes of that model are grounded until the root cause is found. Self driving cars need similar processes.
It's one of the most recognizable tech companies by far (in par with Microsoft and Facebook).
If Google doesn't comply with EU's privacy protection laws for Europeans I don't see a reason why it or its parent company can't be fined there. In a way that compensates the EU citizens for all their private information gathered, analyzed and sold.
1. People who use violence to obtain power are fascists. All fascists suck, whether left or right. The only person saying right wing fascists aren't real fascists is you, while making a very poor straw man argument.

2. Civil rights activists aren't primarily known for violence. Anarchists are.

3. Saying their actions have nothing to do with the principles of fascism is like staring at a wall of human skulls in Cambodia and saying this has nothing to do with the principles of socialism: you're missing the point.
A-Frame's just a general ECS-based JS/VR framework on top of three.js with access to any Web API. It's extensible and modular so P2P networking (or Websockets or Firebase) have been done as community components. The community is active, and it mirrors web development (versus like trying to do a Unity in the browser).

3D "hyperlinks" have been done, they can take whatever shape or interaction you want (e.g., portals https://supermedium.com/blog/oasis), just have some event trigger a window.location change.
I didn't think so either but this is what I was replying to:

> However, there is a reason why people hate CSS with a passion

So it seems some people do. Going through some of the talks about CSS in JS it seems Facebook and Airbnb are making good cases for the problems they're hitting with CSS especially around asynchronous loading of CSS files.

But having spent lots of time seeing what a mess developers come up with using style tags on individual elements before switching to using CSS I'm interested to see what happens when there's tons of React components with hard coded styles. It seems like a solution that's ripe for creating more problems than it solves.
The US, maybe? It remains very common (over 50%). Or some country in Africa / Middle East / Southeast Asia where it’s done for religious reasons. If you go back a few decades it was also quite common in other places like Australia and Canada.
I predict this will be used for interrogating uncooperative subjects.
And Maxtor.
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> This seems like a young persons fallacy

Yes, and I think there's a lot of value in naiveté especially when pursuing immensely challenging opportunities. I just don't see how you can get out of bed otherwise because most important things are really hard to do.
That doesn’t explain the often weird spelling and things like “covfefe” which must have been typed?
Macros across boundaries
Definitely multi-user tooling is still early, and the blog post was meant as a simple demo, but rapidly improving. At least "bunch of people in a world" is extremely feasible (syncing heads/hands). The community is still growing too. But I think there'll be more unique multiuser experiences coming from the Web versus Second Life recreations owned by companies.

The actual world creation part isn't too bad. We built hundreds of generated interlinked worlds and dropped in multiuser in a week (https://supermedium.com/blog/oasis). But still improving.

Are you an active user in those applications? What's your favorite part about them?
In fact it's very accurate. This is what distinguishes a true senior/10x engineer from a "ninja" or a "rockstar"; they are force mulitpliers and they make everybody around them 10x more productive.

This also suggests what C-levels are supposed to be doing: providing the vision and culture that actually fosters this kind of mutual web of support.
I'm 52 and completely and utterly lost. None of my early goals (wife, kids, close friends, personal company) have been reached. I have no hangout buddies, no really close friends, no SO. Sometimes in the last 10 years my interests dried up. Since my teens I wanted to have a company in a certain industry and that industry changed and holds almost no interest now. I've no idea how to get my groove back. I still mostly enjoy programming but I hate feeling like life is happening while I stare at a screen even though I keep staring.

People tell me to get out and I do, tried surfing for example, didn't really appeal to me. Tried dancing, same. Did lots of traveling but it's not so fun alone for a 50 yr old guy.

I mostly feel now it's partly about luck as well. Meeting the right people, having the right support groups is invaluable. Pretty much everyone I meet that I might work with though is just looking for cheap labor as "I have this idea, you're an engineer, how about you do all the work for free and I'll take all the money if we make any" or at least that's how it feels.

As for as whether or not 52 is old sure it's not as old as 70 or 90 but ... society in general labels me as old. Various forms require an age listed and 45+ or 50+ is the last group. HN tells me I'd have trouble being hired. Not yet my experience but certainly on my mind. Going to almost any bar, club, meetup, hackathon and I'm the oldest one there.

I don't feel I've lost my ambition. If I had then maybe I'd be content. Rather I just lost direction and belonging.
Thank you. Yes reading about it is so incredibly tempting and 99% of the time a terrible idea, not only because so many of the stories are the worst-case scenarios, but also because as you say it's better not to think of it. For me now sleep is the main problem...

But every word of encouragement that it is possible to adapt to it is super helpful. Thank you.
https://www.gillware.com/blog/articles/hdd-burial-sea-davy-j...
Listen also http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v07pb
No email data is used for any ad targeting

I know they claim that, but why do all clickable links in Gmail have google.com wrappers that are forwarding links to the desired destination?
the controls were not easy or simple, but certainly not unusable. lean out showed up in other games, lie down as well. but it's a shame no other FPS games tried the "mouse aim without mouse look" approach.
But Backpage isn't being taken down because of porn. Backpage is being taken down because it knowingly facilitated in the trafficing of children for sex.
Facebook's recent U.S.P.T.O. patent applications
Is that a Crucial M4? I had mine replaced 3 times due to sector corruption as well, and then trashed it. It also had a bug where it would break after ~5200 hours of use.

OTOH, I never had an issue with my Intel or Samsung SSDs, even with heavier use.

I agree with you that reliability is key, and it bugs me that reviews still mostly look at speed and price.
Also, outbound traffic needs to be expensive, not free like it is now.

There simply shouldn't exist the scenario where a household is unaware that their hijacked toasters has been saturating their upload for months.

It seems unfair, but these are solutions that actually work. Waiting for things to fix themselves clearly isn't. We're quickly entering a reality where everyone will be using Cloudflare instead of just most of us.

It's pretty incredible how far naive decentralization got us, though. Soon we're going to be looking back in awe.
New variant of the #Mirai #Botnet targets the financial industry
Seems like you're preaching nihilism and that kind of emptiness doesn't seem like any way to live life for me.
Because we've been sold the idea that there is someplace else to be, and that we should work as hard as we can to get there.
Backpage admit that trafficing ads appeared in their paper. They claim that the law means they bear no responsibility for that.

Please do read the report I've linked. It's very clear that Backpage knew that ads for children that had been trafficed were being placed, and that Backpage was helping those ads to be placed.
I'd say that Kalman filters are perfect for this-- they optimally blend estimates from multiple sources, including a model of the system dynamics (where you think you're going to be next based on where you were before, i.e. "I'm not going to suddenly jump 100 miles away"), and all the various sensor inputs ("GPS says I'm here, cameras say I'm here, wheel distance says I'm here").

On top of that, Kalman innately tracks the uncertainty of its combined estimate. So you can simply look at the Kalman uncertainty covariance and decide if it is too much for the speed you are going.

I really wonder if Tesla is doing that...
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The WES51 as a solid soldering iron. You can get ones with a display readout but it's less useful than you might think. Most of the time you just set the temp and then switch tips if you need more or less heat transfer. Need to solder something large or stubborn? Using a phat chisel tip is better than upping the temp. Too hot and the rosin quickly oxidizes and turns to varnish, which prevents the solder from wetting.

Also tips, get a hooked tip, about 80% of the time it'll do the job.
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Those thoughts mirror mine in the role of culture in poverty and income/wealth disparity. Like you, I think it's pretty straightforward to conclude that your outcome in life is influenced by your culture and attitudes. And that the influence can be inter-generational. I just don't hear much talk of trying to improve economic equality via cultural and attitude changes. Probably because you'll be accused of "blaming the victim" as though you were stating this was the only or primary factor. It's easy to become dismissive of positions that make you uncomfortable by whittling away the subtleties until all you're left with is an enraging straw man whom attacking brings you back a degree of comfort. I also feel like consensus around diagnoses and remedies of social ailments suffer from snowballing effects. That is, a heard mentality. For instance, if rational assessments gave Cause A 60% probability of being the true cause, and Cause B a 40% probability, then over time, even with no additional insights, the population will not fall into this same proportion. Probably something like 90% will passionately believe Cause A to be the one true cause, with the other 10% equally convinced it's Cause B, especially if it is more comforting to them and their beliefs/self narrative. Apologies, this became a steam of thought.
Hackers compromise AOL advertising platform to mine cryptocurrency
> Should we give Trump the right for his bankruptcies to be forgotten?

Those records are all available in a publicly accessible registry maintained by the goverment.

> Do we give child molesters the right for their crimes to be forgotten?

You have the sexual offender registry for those things.

> Why should people have the right to have things they don't like wiped from the historical record?

No, it's about people's mind not being immutable. I used to believe in Santa ~25 years ago, if I would have made a viral tweet about it back then, should I be barred from joining a scientific community today?

Even Eric Schmidt said that young people should get a reset button once they become of age.

My rule of thumb is that: the authorities and law enforcement should have monopoly over maintaining information that should stick with you forever, not some private company that is even more unaccountable than the government.
BTW this is called a Rainbow Table :)
Carbonated water typically have a pH around 4, adding lime juice may reduce it slightly further, but not by a huge margin.

Acidity of most beverages on its own is usually not problematic as saliva (buffered at 6.5 pH) rapidly restores normal pH. It does become an issue if the salivary glands are damaged (as in the case of meth users) or stomach acid comes into contact with teeth.(severe acid reflux or bulimia) However these cannot be considered normal.

The number one cause of dental cavities is always sugar.
> I would make the opposite argument that if you can get great results from a cheap-o soldering iron, your confidence and ability will soar thereafter.

I tend to disagree, when you're learning is not the time to be fighting your tools.
Is there a way to block PushCrew notifications?
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Ask HN: How to self-learn to build real things (ie: dishwasher)?
I don't understand why. I see constraints doing the same job as objects to in programming: they keep the data and the rules for manipulating that data together, ensuring that the invariants are always respected.

If "you can't have a price <= 0" is a business rule then it should be enforced in all layers: in the UI because you want to warn the user they're trying to do something incorrect without sending obviously invalid data to the server, in the back-end because you don't want to write incorrect data to the database, and in the database because you don't know that someone else will not write "just a quick app" that will bypass your back-end and mess up the data.
In PostgreSQL varchar uses actual characters (as specified by the database character encoding), not bytes, IIRC. The same thing should be true for (at least recent versions of) MySQL.
Microsoft will ban users for sharing screenshots from pornographic game
T-Mobile Austria stores passwords in plain text
Your USPS question has now been deleted by the way. Wow.
> These are the allegations.

You should read what Backpage themselves were saying. They claimed that the Communications Decency Act means they had no responsibility for that ads that appear. This was tested several times in court, and the courts often agreed with Backpage.

So, after those court cases Backpage knew that ads were appearing because that was a finding of the court.

Please read pages 7 and 8 which give details of some of the cases against Backpage.

EG

> Although the court concluded that the plaintiffs “ha[d] made a persuasive case” that “Backpage has tailored its website to make sex trafficking easier,” it nevertheless upheld the dismissal of the suit under Section 230 on the ground that the site’s features did not render Backpage a content-creator. The court noted that “[i]f the evils that the appellants have identified are deemed to outweigh the First Amendment values that drive the CDA, the remedy is through legislation, not through litigation
T-Mobile Austria stores password in plaintext and takes criticism personal
Because they are ultimately in charge.
I bring you the built-in dictionary entry that pops up when you force-press the word "remora" on a Mac:

remora | ˈremərə, riˈmôrə |

noun

a slender marine fish which attaches itself to large fish by means of a sucker on top of the head. It generally feeds on the host's external parasites.
> A VPN solves exactly nothing.

Maybe, maybe not. US ISPs operate as virtual monopolies in many markets - even if an ISP was tracking and monetizing online activity most customers don't have any recourse.

In contrast, the VPN market is extremely competitive; there are dozens, maybe hundreds of providers. Privacy is one of the differentiating factors between them. It would be extremely risky for a VPN provider to claim "no logs" but actually store logs - a single data breach, rogue employee, or whistleblower could end their business.

I'm not claiming VPNs are a desirable solution. The desirable solution is that ISPs don't track or otherwise monetize their customers' online activity.
Not a t-mobile customer nor in the US so can’t say I have much experience with their process to know if it’s “secure” or not. But the command to request a support code could trigger a code to be generated, salt and hash it (yeah I know hashing a 4 digit pin is pointless if their validity was longer than say 30 mins as you would have to breach and call up right away), stored an a DB along with the salt and not be displayed to the CS agent. When you call they then ask for the pin, enter it into their system and their system could then validate the pin entered by the CS agent by adding the salt and hashing and comparing what’s in the DB.

After a valid pin has been entered or X invalid tries by the customer service agent the customer needs to request another support pin.

Now this doesn’t doesn’t mean that the transmission of SMS is 100% secure but as they operate the network they could be in a much better place to validate that a request came from and was delivered to a phone and sim on their network (if the customer is on network and not roaming, but would be a bit of a shit customer support experience if you could only get support on network).

Just saying that the one time, limited lifespan support code system can be done securely so let’s not throw them under the bus just yet.

Edit: Using support pins delivered to the phone should only be treated as proof of being in possession of the sim and not proof of being the account holder.
Please be less ad hominem and speak to the merits of the conversation. Does it matter if the OP has skin in the game if the merits of the argument have real value?
Their blog has more information about how it works: https://medium.com/filenation

Currently the "About" link goes to Github, which I found odd...
> People who use violence to obtain power are fascists.

So, the American Revolutionaries were fascists?

Fascists, even in the lose sense theat doesn't refer tons particular historical Italian political group, are a much narrower label.

> All fascists suck, whether left or right.

There are left wing tyrants (tyrants, while broader than fascists, are still narrower than you have attempted to paint fascists), but they aren't fascists.

But anarchists aren't that, either (some of the subelements of the antifa movement, particularly the Maoist ones, might be inclined in theat direction, but Maoists and anarchists, even anarchocommunists, aren't the same thing.)

> Civil rights activists aren't primarily known for violence. Anarchists are.

During the period of major activity, most anti-estsblishment groups are tarred with the violence of their most extreme subcomponents (which may actually be provocateurs) or even the most extreme groups with similar objections, even if they are outside the main group. This was absolutely the case with the civil rights movement.

> Saying their actions have nothing to do with the principles of fascism

They have nothing to do with the defining characteristics of fascism, either. The only association is that fascism is broadly accepted as a negative label and you wish to brand anarchists negatively.
BDR is available in the open (aka for free :D) only up to PostgreSQL 9.4 though, and that's really the only somewhat-equivalent solution to MySQL multimaster IIRC.
Unfortunately he sounds like about half the Node developers I work with. Nobody wants to make concrete assertions. To decide anything. Usually this count field contains a number, but sometimes...

It’s a miracle our stuff works as well as it does. A more patient man could probably create a good deal of programming literature trying to unpack that paradox. Instead I’m hunting for something where people are a little less concerned about job security and a little more open to mentoring, robustness, and low drama development processes.
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -Isaac Asimov
You might want to look at [1]; you can send a message to a queue and process that independently. It breaks transactional boundaries though (if you abort the transaction the message is still in the queue). Using transactional queues will probably not help because then the transaction has to wait for the message to be processed so you're back to square one.

[1] http://www.madeiradata.com/service-broker-asynchronous-trigg...
> Previously I stated that you could get automatically banned even if you didn't share the screenshots publicly, but it's unclear whether or not that is the case as I've been given conflicting reports.

Regardless, Microsoft seems to be going the way of increased censorship. Recent laws passed in congress implicate websites which have illegal user-submitted content. As a result, we've seen the depreciation of Craigslist personals and certain YouTube gun videos. Such legislation may pave the way for tighter control within the gaming industry.
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> You can't deny that the advent of social media has brought about a MUCH bigger problem of people getting fired, judged, or their lives ruined by stupid mistakes, posts online of a single comment they made, etc.

I only heard about this anecdotally. Do you have any data on such a huge increase in firings etc.? That would be quite interesting.
I would actualy argue that the "MINI" TS100 is a name brand. Build Quality is Great. Preformance is on par with Hakko and Weller.

Also they have other great products.

The MINI Nano DSO203 is a great 4 Channel Digital Oscilloscope for around 100 USD... Also the Mini ES 121 is a piece of art screw driver :)

So yehh... I say it is a name brand ! And the Brand is "Mini"
The rationality would depend on what you need, wouldn't it?

If you have a nice, stable place to work, you can optimize for that. Big high-resolution monitors, nice sound system, great keyboard, several pointing devices to switch between: these go well with desktops.

If you move around frequently, or don't have much space, that constrains your choices.
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*Deprecation, and you meant "shutdown" in any case.