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You don't need bandgaps to understand why conductors (other than thin films of ITO) don't transmit light. You derive it from Maxwell's equations and the fact that in a conductor, current density = conductivity * electric field. Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics is the standard undergraduate textbook on electromagnetism, and explains this reasonably well. For bandgaps, Ashcroft and Mermin's Introduction to Solid State Physics is what I'm reading from right now, but you don't need it to understand why metals (conductors) don't transmit light.
There is no "Linux desktop", there are distros, they have various desktop environments KDE, Gnome, Unity, MATE, Blackbox, and lots more.

I'm curious what MS Windows has copied from a common Linux DE or distro that you believe is "crap"?
The commoditization of beauty. Or the next thing that will become cheap, by these providers of beauty. Hopefully the market will be oversaturated with beauty, computer generated perfection and after some time swimming in this junk, we will once again appreciate real people, with all their problems, inconsistencies, imperfections.

Until then let us all hail our gods of technological progress.
Interestingly enough the universe we find ourselves in already has such constraints. The speed of light is the upper limit for anything that has a mass (and is impossible to reach), and other stars are prohibitively far away for us to visit or explore in any detail.

Perhaps the simulation did this on purpose, so they don't have to render far away galaxies in high resolution :D.
I was going to disagree and say that they are part of POSIX, not part of C99; but they are indeed part of C99, section 7.14.1 specifically.
Be careful what you wish for.
Interestingly, pasting text with zero width chars into an iMessage chat box does alert the user by showing "question in a box" chars for the zero-width chars.
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I don't want to debate the state of her mental wellness as we can only speculate at this time, but I don't think a healthy person would feel that a tech giant is specifically targeting them, even if they think it might be unfair and arbitrary.
On a quantum level, when a photon encounters a material you have to ask whether the material is able to absorb a photon with that wavelength. When electrons are bound to a specific atom (or are in specific molecular bonds) then there are only certain energy levels possible: that's one of the core features of quantum systems, and it's the reason that each material has its own characteristic "absorption spectrum" (or emission spectrum: same idea). Photons whose wavelength corresponds to an energy that doesn't very closely match what's necessary to raise an electron from one specific level to another will just pass on through. (Nuclei are in bound states with discrete energy levels, too, so they work the same way.)

But one of the essential features of a metal is that the atoms all share a bunch of electrons that are free to move around more or less any way they'd like throughout the material. Because the electrons aren't trapped in one specific bound state, they have an essentially continuous range of energies available to them (just speed up or slow down a little to change your energy), so they are able to absorb photons of any wavelength at all.

[Now, to actually understand why you get reflection rather than stopping with absorption would take me a little more work to figure out how to explain. My instinct keeps being to go back to the classical explanations at that point, but I wanted to focus on quantum here to address your question about electrons in orbit.]
Funny how a very complex situation can be synthesized into a single perspective. Is this heading what will become the lasting impression of this tragedy?

I can imagine a few other possible and maybe more valid interpretations, none of them exclusive though. (I don't have all the facts so this list should probably balloon, or have items removed as facts unfold):

An example of how some people are so triggered by advocacy groups (in this case PETA) that it just takes a slight economic misfortune to bring out the guns?

An example of how when the shooter is a woman she is not really demonized the way guys are (even when being an immigrant)?

An example of immigrants in the US being pushed over the edge in view of current anti-immigrant policies?

An example of how the mentally unstable have ready access to guns in the US?

An example of how the final solution to personal insignificance in the US is to shoot innocents? The media will oblige with full page analysis of you, your childhood, family and neighborhood and make sure you are granted long lasting and global fame.

There are surely many more that has to be part of the full narrative. That last one is often forgotten though.
They don't even really advertise in the West much yet?

The surveillance threat is one that applies to any cloud-linked device, sadly. As a non-Chinese living outside of China I almost mind surveillance by China less; what are they going to do with it, after all? (Unless you count the Mariott guy they got fired?)
Yep. People have been decrying the end of Nintendo since the Playstation and it hasn't come to pass because Nintendo is actually really freaking good at making games people want to play. They make the hardware to their standards, with a target price they choose, and they make their games to the hardware. It can't push as many triangles as a PS4? Nobody cares, because you can't play BotW on a PS4.
Would love to replicate this, any chance of publishing the source?
>The process of developing more reliable software isn't necessarily more expensive than less reliable software. It can even be cheaper. I'm struggling to find the links (maybe somebody else has them handy, or I'll edit them in if I find them), but there have been a few case studies done a few years back by companies that moved to using Ada. In addition to the benefits of more reliable software, they also found development costs were better or at least no worse than C. I know that isn't exactly the language to compare to these days, but as I said these were done some time ago.

I can believe that. Ada catches a lot of errors you would normally only notice by extensive testing at compile time. You're preaching to the strong-static typing choir here. I believe Ada and Rust could solve a lot of problems of companies working with C/C++ and make development cheaper. You can properly model your domain and abstract without sacrificing safety.

I'm also a strong believer that TDD makes you much faster and safer in the long run.

My experience tells me that most tools, languages or methods that catches errors earlier will save money.

Ada also has the best tested compiler I can think of.

However my larger point was about the engineering processes not the language itself. I think with languages and tools you can make it easier to make good software. The 100x time and cost is more in the sense of process changes when you're working on safety critical systems. How everything has to be traceable from requirement to test, how there are mandatory reviews before any code change that need to be documented, how there are qualification criteria for the toolchain, etc. All these things cost a lot of time and manpower, with arguably very bad cost-benefit analysis, which is only really worth it when human lives are at stake.
> make it Linux exclusive for a time

I completely disagree with that. I don't believe anyone should be forced to use a different platform, when the only reason behind it is a handshake and a piece of paper - even if it's my preferred platform.

Kinda goes against one of the reasons for using Linux.
The Swish limit is for outbound payments, not total transactions.

So a grocer that accepts Swish payments will in no way be hindered by this limit, unless they for some ungodly reason are also swishing money back to customers.
Lone wolf crazies are the hardest to protect against as an open society. Say she was arrested and her gun confiscated. Nothing actually happened, so she'd be out on the street two days later and could go and buy another gun for a retry.
Not at all, but they are a defining feature of the "heavy" frameworks being discussed. (And one of the main selling points of Sails is their rather poor ORM.)

If you're working on Python, there's a lot to recommend both Django and Flask, but if you're not interested in an ORM, it's hard to see why you'd pick Django; most of it's killer features (eg, the admin) are tightly coupled the the ORM. Django without an ORM is basically just a slower Flask with an uglier configuration, and that's really saying something!

If you don't find ORMs important, you're not alone, but you're probably not the target audience for Sails or Rails. :)
That post reads really weird: Isn't hapi purely server-side and React purely frontend, so they can't really have replaced one with the other, but just changed the backend tooling at the same time as they changed the fronted?
CockroachDB 2.0 released
The area around the acute angles would be almost useless due to lack of routing space.
>it's impossible to give quality communication to everyone

This is wrong though. See Valve for a counter example. Steam is also run by algorithms but Valve has managed to give people tons of information on what their algorithms are doing at various points on their store ("this game was shown to you because of X, Y and Z", for instance). The communication problem that YouTube has can be solved by them improving their product and letting creators see more of what their algorithms are doing behind the scenes, like Valve did with Steam.
Which was supposed to benefit the "citizens" but it did not it cost me about £20 a month due to lost cash back - all the benefits where taken by big business.
Actually I disagree. Obviously responsibility is shared and primarily owned by Nasim but some is also owned by youtube.

Think of it like this - does youtube bear some responsibility when creators leave the platform because of demonetization? Of course. Does youtube bear some responsibility when creators make lots of angry videos because of demonetization? Of course. Does youtube bear some responsibility when demonetization is implemented in a way that feels arbitrary to it's creators? Of course. Does youtube bear some responsibility for failing to stand up and protect it's creators from some of the advertisers demands? Of course.

The company makes decisions that affect some peoples lives in a profound way thus they also have some responsibility in the direct and indirect effects of those decisions.
At the end of the day it is still a private company and if it wants to censor or otherwise supress certain types of content it is free to do so. Everyone is also free of course to criticize it for bias and/or use another video sharing site.

Also I don't see the last part about their responsibility in the shooting. Had this been a gun (2nd Amendment) fanatic whose gun demo videos were banned, like many on Reddit prematurely guessed, I don't think anyone would be saying " youtube is responsible for this". Now that it is a woman and she was pro-animal rights suddenly the blame is starting to shift towards YouTube, gun laws, society in general.
I mentioned my view (and linked to others) because there wasn't really anyone posting direct experience at the time, and I thought it might provide some context. Obviously real experience is always preferable, so thanks for sharing.
This was my reaction: they're either even better programmers than I thought if they don't see bifurcating their approach to users based on temporal geographic locations or they're dumber than rocks.

[conclusion left as an exercise for the reader]
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What, that's all it does? Stop someone from accidentally not using the new keyword?

I'm not dissing it, that's great it does this. But I'm a bit surprised (and happy!) that this is all it does.
I think you're confusing being part of the reason behind something and being responsible for it.

When a fit minded adult makes a decision out of his own free will, there's a lot of factors and reasons involved. However, since it's his decision, he's the only one responsible for it.
> There is no "Linux desktop", there are distros, they have various desktop environments KDE, Gnome, Unity, MATE, Blackbox, and lots more.

Yeah, that's a big part of the problem right there.

> I'm curious what MS Windows has copied from a common Linux DE or distro that you believe is "crap"?

Rolling releases, i.e: break everything every 3 months, an over-reliance on the the command line for configuration tasks (and I say this as someone who loves powershell), package managers, and hardcoded paths (mostly for their dev tools), to name a few.
Your example is equal to

await getThingAtIndex(1)
await getThingAtIndex(2)
await getThingAtIndex(3)

whereas the async for loop is equivalent to

await Promise.all([
getThingAtIndex(1),
getThingAtIndex(2),
getThingAtIndex(3)
])

Your example is valid syntax, but it executes each call synchronously.
If the film is thin enough metal is transparent. See for instance 50/50 mirrors and gold plated windows.

Of course you can now argue that if the photons hit the metal they will not pass through, but that's not how it works: the photons will excite an electron to a higher orbit and it may drop back to a lower orbit on the other side of the film making the metal appear transparent or it may reflect.

edit: saiya-jin I can't reply to your comment but yes, the direction is preserved. The same happens with a mirror, the photons ejected will be ejected at the correct angle even though the photoelectric effect has absorbed the photons. That's why metals reflect the way they do!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-mirrors-re...

The small fraction of photons that is absorbed will heat up the mirror.
Was killing ceptors and pods fundamental for your eve game play?

Edit: Also people stil gatecamp.
>We have "censorship" in Europe and we don't have people murdering others because of it.

Europe has a long history of mass murder intertwined with censorship. This history was the basis for the US Bill of Rights, notably the first and second amendments.
I've been using Sails 1.0 in production for the past year and haven't had any problems. Excited to see this fully released!

My experience has been that Sails dramatically improves productivity and efficiency for me and my team. As for the ORM (Waterline), we primarily make CRUD apps and haven't had a single problem with it. But, in cases where you might want more fine-grained control of your query, you can always drop out of Waterline and write native queries.

Sails isn't perfect, but it provides native access to any of the components it uses, so if you ever want to drop out and work with Express and your datastore directly you can do that.

Sails is a convention-over-configuration framework, meaning if we all agree on certain conventions then we don't all have to reconfigure every time we make any app. I think that's very difficult for people that are new to the framework, because they haven't learned the conventions yet, and they are used to doing things a certain way. But if you're willing to embrace Sails' conventions there is a huge upside in productivity.
I don't have any links on hand, but I know of a handful of situations that I remember:

* Xiaomi android phones had some kind of analytics APK built in around 2016 that would send a shitload of data over HTTP to their servers, and even would allow downloading emergency updates over HTTP. Their "fix" was to enable HTTPS, but leave the ability to force downloads and continue to run the analytics programs on the phones.

* Their robot vacuum used a password of "robotrock" to encrypt and sign updates.

* Their "yeelight" smart-bulbs were recording audio and sending them back to their servers over HTTP.

* Their "air purifier" also sends analytics and does updates via HTTP without any signatures.

IIRC many of these were fixed at some point, but I know at least once they said (paraphrasing) "we aren't going to fix it because the device isn't capable of HTTPS", but I don't remember which device it was. And it's enough for me to understand that they don't seem to take data privacy and security very seriously at all.
I'm really surprised at how many of these HN comments are so sympathetic to this murderer's cause. To me, this illustrates how dangerous this type of reporting is, this media obsession with the perpetrators of mass shooting. This is the problem that I feel utterly powerless against. You can make more mental health programs, pass more gun control legislation, pay more for security, but what can you do when the culture around you lionizes these sorts of people?
I have no way of knowing. After all, only one side of the argument is allowed to speak in a voice that I can hear.

Assume that detail is true. Should that mean that Yalincak is silenced? Should we assume that only one side of any business deal can act improperly?
Respectfully, that's bullshit. There is nothing that YouTube could have done that makes an active shooter their fault.

"Maybe if they hadn't been so mean...". News flash: normal people don't go on a shooting spree when bad things happen in life.

This is squarely the fault of a psychologically troubled woman. Discussions about YouTube's monetization policies shouldn't even be part of the story.
I mean, Tony the Tiger has tens of thousands of followers too...
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The size limit is the same as Redis: "A String value can be at max 512 Megabytes in length."

I'll probably make it a bit smaller than that in the next version.
I’ve been getting increasingly more annoyed by the entitlement some YouTube creators have shown towards Adsense dollars. And I’m perplexed at some of the comments on this story (“YouTube was her main source of income”). Yeah, she hedged her bet and put all her content on a platform she didn’t own or control, then thought it’d be a good idea to be financially dependent on them facilitating ad deals for her. Many of ya favorite youtubers complain about demonetization - I get it sucks and cuts out cashflow they were expecting but they’re not entitled to money from advertisers. This is like me demanding Facebook pay me for allowing me to put up a profile and running ads in my friends’ newsfeeds. That’s not how the real world works, kiddo. I think way back when YouTube opened up their “partner” program - that was their big mistake. It allowed far too many people to start viewing Adsense $ as earned income.
So basically every company who has ever laid off or fired an employee should expect at some point to fall victim to a mass shooting?
> you certainly can

but

> most things would not work

It should go without saying that the whole point of installing an app is that it work. It does me little good to have the binary sitting in the file system if it doesn't actually perform the function which it was built to perform.

Developer certs != jailbreak. Apple could provide a jailbreak option, but it chooses not to, so people who want to actually control their own devices (a not unreasonable thing for someone to want IMHO) have to deal with Chinese hackers.
I wouldn’t want to defend someone who opened fire on innocent people but I also think we can’t say she had no problem doing this. She is/was clearly troubled. I watched a few of her videos before and it was either scripted or she had problems for a long time.

Mental health is no joke. She shouldn't had any access to any guns. To be fair though, I haven't read about how she acquired the gun.
Should the father's comments have been enough reasonable suspicion to arrest her, or at least search her for firearms and confiscate them, given her threat level to society?

Not from the information in this article. That would mean any adult who gets upset, and goes on a roadtrip without telling their family, could get arrested. If the missing persons report noted that she could be dangerous, then that's a different story.
The Corning product is an extremely interesting material, the hardness varies with the depth leading to scratch resistance and a reasonably high level of resistance against shattering.
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His point is if the person could have reached some kind of support they might never have ended up in such a desperate situation.

When I get really mistreated / fooled and can't reach any kind of human support and none of the "robotic" support options work - it's incredibly frustrating. Not to the point where I'd shoot someone, but I've definitely smashed my fist on a table once or twice.
I use Linux all the time, Linux Desktop much less often but I keep an eye on things in that sphere. It makes a great web kiosk, and as long as you color inside the lines of what the distro developers intended as a use case you're fine, but as soon as you try to make any changes to fit your workflow you get buried in broken overengineered crap and outdated documentation.
GP's contention is that the media was the ultimate cause of the destroyed careers, because it began the moral panic against ads on inappropriate content.
Of course just because the GDPR _sounds_ tough doesn't mean enforcement will be tough in practice.

The UK decided that all UK companies must disclose the actual humans who control them. This sounded like a really good rule, which would help expose some of the worst abuses going on, although it wouldn't fix everything.

But it turned out that the shadowy figures just ignored it completely and the government did nothing. So you have a form field saying "Persons with significant control: You must list one or more natural human persons who exercise significant control over this company" and a lawyer writes "Offshore Shadowy Puppet Corporation #36656" and hits submit and it's accepted.

My reading of the law is that the government _could_ identify companies that ignored this rule, and seize their assets, on the justification that they haven't taken anything from any actual natural person, no natural human person was identified as controlling these assets anyway. But even if I'm right they do nothing, so what was announced as this big important policy change became in fact just a PR stunt.
Nope, none of the Sails core team are affiliated with that.
I don’t really understand this point of view. There is a system to check people’s legal records, there is a system for the police to check people’s past if they apply to some sensitive job (security, banking, etc.)

On the other side google censors a lot of stuff all the time for various reasons (political stuff from ISIS, copyrighted material, random YouTube videos), and the first amendment does only mandate that the state can’t curb free speech, not private companies that do it all the time.
How is "vegan screed" controversial
Americans in the comment section are reacting about this woman being a disgruntled user, angry about perceived discrimination from Youtube, down on her luck, suicidal.

Me, a european, I'm reacting to how easily she found a gun.

I hate to bring up this very toxic debate, my comment will seem like fishing for trouble.

Yet you have to understand our perspective. Not every lunatic where I live can find a gun when they need one so to me it's clear as day that the issue is the availability of firearms.

There are always going to be disgruntled or unbalanced people but they can't be allowed to find a deadly firearm as easy as it is in the US.
> I don't blame the advertisers one bit from wanting to remove their ads from many videos. Once the media starts playing the game that "an ad on the video == the advertiser agrees with the message" I too would want to do everything I can to ensure that I'm not associated with bad things.

Why do we do that on youtube when we don't do that on TV? Do we assume that if you're ad runs during <some sitcom> you agree with the jokes in it?
CNN, MSNBC, mainly
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