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Hey HN. This is our newest release (étude) of Lanes - a task management app - which was first posted here two (yikes) years ago. It's been rebuilt with Vue.js and redesigned to focus on measuring productivity as well as getting things done. And it's faster, too.
Valve has been making serious amounts of contributions to Linux graphics in the past few years.

Vulkan, RadeonSi and VR to name a few.
They deserve all the recognition they can get for it.
I have several friends from russia that wanted to build their startups in a global way, at least not in russia (receive and send money across borders is a nightmare - basically everyone in the country doing it illegally). And they decided to became e-residents. What's now? All their funds are blocked and accounts are closed in one day without notice.
So does Visual Studio Code
I wonder how he got the root password. I see he found it but not a description of how. Does anyone know how can this be done?
Can't think of any good examples since people usually get away with it,

Well, that's the thing. I can think of a good few respected tech sites that run "sponsored" articles that are disclosed in the smallest text possible and basically look like normal content. Not that I'm going to start industry beef by pointing them out :-D
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happy to answer any questions.

I'm working on some open source hardware, and I'm considering embedding the SSL keys into a cheap hardware crypto element[1]. The element I'm considering [2] only offers ECDH and ECDSA with the NIST P256 curve.

However, this article says "Don’t do ECDH with the NIST curves" and "really, especially avoid conventional DSA and ECDSA".

How bad is it really? I mean, the article's pretty unequivocal, it sounds like using that crypto element isn't a very good idea?

[1] Motivation: Users can completely reprogram application processor without wiping (or being able to extract) the private key.
[2] https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATECC508A
You and they are probably right. Investing in Vulcan and the attractiveness of non-Windows platforms in general is the most important thing they can do. The many games that are now available for Linux are what makes Linux a good gaming OS, not the steam machines that were never sold.

Still, it is a bit sad. Steam machines could have worked, but they were severely flawed. Buying a steam machine did not guarantee that one would get a machine actually capable of playing current games, they were very different and often underpowered. Linux-compatibility alone is then not enough.

I think they could be great if they had been more controlled: Define a form factor, define the minimum cpu and gpu power needed, buy those in big quantities to be able to give a discount compared to buying a PC manually. Release it at the start of a gpu-release cycle, so it does not need to be updated that soon. Pre-install SteamOS on a machine like this and add a starter game (Portal) and one would actually have an upgradeable gaming console developers could target games for.
It's lovely to see everyone to blame [insert department here], but nobody willing to accept the fact that it's everyone's fault and everyone's problem the same time.
Yep PR release, help keep shareholders happy.

However I would argue hiring a 'suit' who was CTO for a reputable knowledge based AI company 8 years ago, and since been in a strategic position during Googles recent progress is more valuable to Apple at this time than a well published researcher.
Slashdot, 2004:

https://slashdot.org/story/04/08/23/1141217/transparent-alum...

tl;dr: Transparent alumin_a_, not transparent alumin_um_.
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What makes you think it isn't case by case? Your point about what is or isn't public interest isn't particularly relevant, since in this case it's Google who makes the decision.
Write an email to the author and ask for a PDF, plus what the sibling comments say.
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I have just installed the Mac client and it allows to create new secret chat but it does not show the secret chats created before on your phone. At least that is what happened to me.
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That's funny to see the whole range of opinion about management on HN. It varies from this one, the very bottom, the leech living of his team of engineers, to Elon Musk, the engineering genius whose team(s) is acknowledged at best as an afterthought.
>And he makes it very clear that it's a paid interlude, not part of the actual content.

I have to say that with the content creators I follow, that is the norm rather than the exception. There is always a clear delineation between advertisement and the content, even if the advertisement is embedded in the content (i.e native advertising).
Usually personal sites and social media accounts for such people are quickly taken offline, so reliably that I've wondered how it is that there's always someone with the authority and access around to quickly pull the plug. Not in this case, so strange to see this site still online and open to all.
> I think the more interesting question is: Will my comments on HN be deletable on archive.org under the GDPR law?

And what happens if someone quotes my comment?
Just skimmed it, but is that not close to method #2 the same Alliance used: http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?16311-Taking-th...
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> In Europe, if there's a webpage with information about you that you don't like — because it's either inaccurate or just too personal — you can make Google hide it from search results.

This isn't true. You fill out a form and Google then decides whether they'll hide the information or not. It's not automatic and there's plenty of results that don't get hidden.
Big companies are morality load balancers. Technically a CEO is morally responsible for what their company does, but this does not truly feel right either. The example scenario goes like this:

The shareholders decide that more money must be made
The CEO decides that more money will be made by obtaining more wood. The hows and whys are kept vague at this stage. Nothing concrete will be put on paper. Upper management decides that resource acquisition will be guided by a study on the various pros and cons of chopping what wood where.
The study confirms that we the best place to get wood is the amazon rain forest. Middle management receives the plans and guidelines from on high. Slowly the moral responsibility is distributed through the ranks. Until, years later, when some pollution case comes to light the question is asked: who to blame? The workers? The results of an objective study? The incentives set by shareholders and a cutthroat market for wood?

Very convenient.
I care a lot about speed, but correctness is my foremost concern. I agree that I only look to optimize bottlenecks, so compiler technology would still optimize some of the less bottlenecky code from yesteryear.
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If you're referring to the table at the bottom I believe they just want to sway people into buying Business Edition with that.

When you compare actual XEPs needed [0] for good mobile and desktop multi device service then Community supports them too! (except one: roster versioning but that matters if you have hundreds of contacts).

[0]: https://github.com/siacs/Conversations#xmpp-features
Seems you're tired of the entire JS ecosystem.

JS itself was in need of updates as it was completely left behind against many of modern languages despite still being in the center of the web.

You see how there are so many AltJS and transpilers because plain JS was dragging behind.
> corporations are people

that may be an accepted legal viewpoint in the USA but it is not the truth

> I can become a one man corporation

In truth you can't, because you will still be a person. Its just that in addition there will be a corporation consisting solely of one person. You may notice that when you incorporate, the corporation does not get a vote and neither does your vote get removed. You may notice that you can incorporate several times and this still does not affect your status as a person.
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> I generalize it as the US protects companies, the EU protects people.

That's what strong laws against bribing and abuse of influence along with proportional representation voting systems tend to get you: governments that are quite inclined to listen to the People (there are varying degrees of democracy, and some European countries are more democratic than others).

Meanwhile, in the US, the People's Voice tends to have zero impact on what type of laws Congress passes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
Most people are ignorant then :)
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I even gave the mechanism, you can use money to generate speech. I don't think you are commenting in bad faith, and I don't think talking to you is a waste of time.
We talk about search results here but reviews are the same way. People who have never interacted with you get the ability to slander and hurt brick and mortar businesses with no consequence.

If you try to get Google to remove a review like that it’s basically the same story.
That's one I haven't looked at much, but can you show me a fake script that does the equivalent of my example? That means a fully incremental build, generating version files, etc. Even things like the version file tend to turn out more complicated in most build systems because they come with a half assed reimplimentation of unix tools

From a quick look t looks like it's task based instead of output based as well, so an incremental build doesn't look simple. Correct me me if I'm wrong, but it looks like it's trying to be a better nant, not a better make.
GDPR can help advocates for privacy within an organisation. Rather than argue with nebulous harm from potential bad PR, you can say "If we don't do this, we risk a fine of $LOTS"
Parent comment says that EU legislating for the whole world is bad. For example, UK (still EU yet) has antiporn laws, next they decide that all online porn should be forbidden, in the whole world. And so on. Is it good?
Say we live in a simulation, who is to say that the layer above is not a simulation as well? Every subsequent layer of simulation will be slower than the enveloping one. So you kind of get a VM inside a VM inside a VM at some point running out of resources.
Anyway, around 5nm you start to have quantum tunneling effects. Current technology can't be scaled down much further. You can keep optimizing things, but you are still near the technology limits and increasing complexity.
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It might be procedurally generated just for me, and everyone else is an NPC that only gets spawned randomly when I see them. They can keep my close friends in Cache, my acquaintances in RAM and the outside world on hard disk.
I did a university project with a Cell back in the day and it was awfully difficult to program. It was similar to GPGPU programming but instead of gigabytes, the SPUs had kilobytes of memory. Orchestrating the movement of data to/from SPUs was very hard to get right.
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Given the fact that the U.S. has no useful bans on hate speech and that has allowed white supremacism to grow and fester within this country to the point where Trump is now President, you might want to rethink that.
Hi, very interesting stuff!

I am trying to choose a new backend, for the programming language I create, currently I use C, so my interest is rather practical here.

Where Viua stands in terms of performance for both generated code speed and compilation speed? What kind of optimisations it does or will do? What library you use for register allocation? Is JIT in plans?

What are the long term plans/goals?
"corporation does not get a vote and neither does your vote get removed"

Exactly. It's pretty hard to argue being a corporation is somehow special, our courts correctly recognized that. I agree with your second paragraph completely.
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My previous job required that each developer spent a couple of hours a week doing support for this reason.
there is no blame in what s/he wrote.
My experience is similar. Overengineered, unnecessary abstractions. Adds little over basic Meteor. A RedHat style "consultanthiringware" in making.
Some people on HN seem to constantly despise any manager in a company that is not a technical person. Whether it's a majority or not is hard to tell, but it's a conspicuous group of people for sure looking at upvoted comments of the sort.

The theory seems to be that all these companies work only because of their engineers. Management is just useless. They are just "people with suits, that memorize buzz words take credit for the work of others".

With all such incompetent people in high position, one has to wonder how these companies seem to survive for so long.

Maybe, just maybe, they are not so incompetent and raise to those positions because of merits. Maybe engineering skils are not the only needed ones.

It seems to me that this culture is just based on resentment for the people that are higher in a hierarchy. From this point of view, the only way to feel good is to disparage them and assume they are there only because of the "corruption of the system".
Try less than $200. LimeSDR Mini or a couple Motorola C123s running Osmocombb with a filter swap...or a hacked femtocell
To be clear: I wasn't suggesting that making everything context aware would be possible in either C or Posix. It would most likely require a complete rewrite of all APIs to begin with - including the C standard library. It would no longer resemble posix after that.
Any reason why chips couldn't be hexagonal or triangular? Either one would still tile a wafer, and go closer to a round edge.
>It definitely shows how well software can work with the right practices. Only one outage in 20 years and that one only caused a reduction of 10% in capacity. Don't think many companies can match that.

This is what happens when you build software with the same meticulousness as other engineering disciplines. However a lot of software is so much more complex than what other disciplines can build (because you can build anything you can imagine), coupled with early deadlines and profit pressure, that it's unrealistic for most software to be developed this way. You easily have a cost factor of 100x in time as well as money.
GDPR-K is going to make games developers a lot more focused on kids
First-hand experience of various dictatorships - not limited to the Third Reich, whose impact reached well beyond Germany anyway - has played a strong role in shaping European mindset, and is a significant difference between the US and Europe.
The thing to do is ask about these things on Mastodon - people might answer, features like this might already be in the works.

I tend to just open up the browser interface and scroll down will I don't recognise things, then read upwards. I've wondered about writing a took to do that, the idea being that if I do so and find it useful then I can offer it to others, and then if it becomes popular then it might get integrated into the code. It is, after all, open source. My problem is that I can't see how the interface would work. "Displayed" is not the same as "have read", and if i's been a while then it might be along way back.

It's things like this that let to the "Things you might have missed" feature in Twitter. Does Mastodon need something similar? Personally, I prefer it as it is, but I can see how others might want something different.
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I'll second what the others have said. Especially their new Hetzner Cloud would be a perfect fit. It's one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) cloud option I could find. Combining that with your B2 storage would be a perfect match.

And the best thing: They don't only focus on price but the quality is great as well.

And for us being a german/european provider is a bonus (GDPR).
great point.

one wonders, though, if it's selection bias, because how could anybody who isn't an expert in this area possibly succeed in this to the point where the story becomes interesting?

"normal citizen is slandered on internet and shows up in youtube" is a completely non-viable story, unfortunately.
At a former workplace (medical systems), they had a very cool and highly useful informal policy where they'd require every programmer to attend a surgery as early after being hired as possible (ideally within the first year or so).

Obviously everyone in this field knows how important it is to get things right. But actually seeing it is pretty mind-blowing.

It's the same for everything else, really -- with medical devices it's just easier to connect the dots and figure out why it's important. But technology touches people's lives in very unexpected ways.
Thanks to using reader mode in Safari by default... I had no idea what you were talking about. I find few sites delivering any value worth turning it off.
Steam machines biggest flaw was they eschewed the biggest benefit of a game console, being a common hardware Target for devs.
They should have a rolling release built around a good Apu and move from v1 through to v2 etc revisions of the hardware every couple of years.

Maybe throw in a pro version of the hardware for people with money to burn
I agree that the very concept of "European values" is vague and of limited use. The continent is very diverse to begin with.
But that's easy to get into compliance, just adjust a setting from 90 to 30.
I'd love to hear the backstory. Who on _earth_ goes looking for vulnerabilities in beep?!
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> you already convinced me that you're not in good faith

We're irreconcilably opposed, but I have no doubt that everyone on this thread is advocating their true thoughts. Please reconsider this mode of argumentation in the future.
> I would set up my server to serve a non-malicious script most of the time and just occasionally substitute my malware script,

why not just detect the `curl | bash` part server-side?

I'm still amazed how many FOSS projects have that as the primary installation path...

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
Next, somebody will find a security hole in True (1)
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This is a really good point actually, aren't there static analysis tools that can figure out things like this? I know in JS we have linters to stop you from doing things that are most likely not very smart.

I find this very useful, a lot more useful than to say "If you don't even read the manpages there is no help in sight".

Maybe the compiler should not do it but perhaps you could run a linter against packages that are shipped with an os to find issues like this easier.
Exactly. I hope it finally lights a fire under asses of the likes of ULA, Ariane Space and Roscosmos. It's time for a space race of 21st century - destination Mars.
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You accidentally duplicated the cs50 link.
Where were you taking the operating systems class?
I'm very interested :)
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No, my friend. I have lived under and interacted with enough suits at big 5 that I can tell you that if 80% of those people disappear you will see absolutely no change in the bits shipped by that group. How do I know this? Well, I have seen one suit getting replaced by another random suit all the time. There have been suits who never actually tried out the product they supposedly owned and preached to outside world. I am not kidding you. They literally had no account in the system. Most suits had no clue where source code existed for their product and even never had read documentation that their customers had to suffer through.

Their known contribution included setting up exec retreats were people are supposed to tell them about what needs to be done and then they go away with “blessing” the plan that got surfaced after their reports fought it out. Another of their contribution was to do meetings with other suits at customers/partners. Another was to do budgets and when things go red (or pressured to show profits), do hard decisions, aka, throwing 10% of team under the bus in form of layoffs. Their next contribution was to present works of their teams when it got done and credit it to their leadership and vision. I am talking about CVP+ levels, BTW.

It’s easy to identify these suits. Go to the leaf level employees in their group and ask them about actual contributions of their CVPs in their product that made a difference. If they cannot mention anything concrete other than blanket buzz words like “leadership”, “vision” etc (in case they cannot honestly answer) then you know you have a suit at the top.

These people are very different from Jobs, Musk, Zuke, Jenson Huang etc who are absolutely down and dirty at every level, knew more details then any individual employee and had real technical contributions in their product that made significant difference.
I think you should consider her age. She is 39 (old) so it is hard to keep up with the new trends in web design and movie making, plus she doesn't look very smart.
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More drinkers than gun owners.

Plus you are choosing one example were prohibition failed, what about when it works, particularly with regard to guns and reducing the incidence of mass shootigs? You choose to ignore the real world evidence that shows it works because it doesn't fit with your political stance.

I don't mind, but be honest with yourself that that is what you are doing.
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>Isn't it possible that her content just wasn't that good?

Even so, she still had 366,591 views, which should all that matters re revenue.
The trick for most device is to get a serial console and set uboot "flashargs" or using the init=bin/sh trick, grab the root hash, shove it through hashcat.
Well, she didn't want to die for that either, just to kill for it.
How do you get the sniffed data, though? You're gonna need some form of high bandwidth uplink.
Yeah, and bypass that whole annoyance of having to taste what we drink /s
GDPR applies to companies/orgs which are (i) based in the EU, or (ii) process personal data of people who live in the EU (regardless of where the corp/org is).

I think lots of EU law applies to residents, rather than citizens of an EU member state.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
> I do not think it's a coincidence that politicians seem to have been focusing on issues that are increasingly incendiary, arguably in lieu of more relevant issues.

I do not know whether you intend to, but "this is not a coincidence" sounds like it implies a conspiracy.

I believe it is a coincidence, but in the same way that evolution is based on coincidence. Random mutations create by coincidence an organism that is better adapted to its environment, hence it survives. There is no need for a conspiracy to arrive at a political system like ours (it's just stabler than average and thus survives), just like how evolution does not need an intelligent designer to come up with intelligent designs.
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