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I guess you mean in exceptional cases you can successfully appeal to to the ECHR, or is there some special rules that mean Germans have particularly restricted appeal rights to the ECHR?
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It's called The Duck Technique, after an apocryphal story of an animator for Battle Chess.

http://pud.com/post/59851751577/the-duck-technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess#Development
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It depends on the level of deceit, and who the source was. And we all have good reason to be annoyed if the deceitful source was the team performing the investigation.

> Science reporting should more than spell checking university press releases.

This implies a false dichotomy. Many journalists know a lot about the matters they cover, but of course they can be misled, just like the rest of us, by people who are nominally the experts in one corner of the field.
Still had common emissions problems like NOx etc, unless they also run off pure oxygen.
It's a common pattern in publications. It's the date when the printed issue carrying that article will be published.

https://www.nybooks.com/publication-schedule/

Example of other publications that follow it are the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and n+1.
Bandwidth prices? Iceland is pretty isolated.
Has anyone ever written an ffmpeg script that could break a video apart into interesting cuts?

Someone posted a brilliant script in one of these ffmpeg posts but I can't find it for the life of me. I used it to create "trailers" of my media collection.
No one I knew used WhatsApp or signal (I’m in the US). However I just finished a project with a customer spread between Middle East, Singapore, and India. They ALL used WhatsApp and asked us to use it to communicate with them.

So definitely seems to vary in popularity depending where you are located.
The one I've seen with smalltalk shows that clearly. I'll repost it if I can find it.

IMO about smalltalk, it's not just because of dynamic typing but also because of the builtin IDE, VM and DB.
What about showering? What's that about? Is it the water, or just standing naked in a small room?
It's about productivity not correctness.
I can't remember where I heard this story, and don't know if it's true, but the story was:

Steve Jobs commissioned some famous European designer to come up with a revolutionary design for his awesomely great NeXT computer. When they flew out to see the design, it turned out to be shaped like a human head, so a pissed off Steve Jobs and his team got back on their plane and flew back to the US.

There's some mention of it here:

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/10/steve-jobs-most-i...

Known for his fanatical approach towards hardware design, Stevie was poised to make the company’s first-ever computer a machine that embodied power and strength. Repulsed with the results of the several design houses he hired to create protoypes, including one that resembled a human head, he brought in the designer of the Snow White design language, Hartmut Esslinger, to create the final product. Jobs immediately labeled it the NeXTcube when shown the end result. Even though the machine stoodout as a complete failure, it was the NeXTcube's groundbreaking form factor that established the radical design identity of Apple’s future desktop machines.
Do you have subtitles for those videos?

I wrote a script that cuts out clips of every sentence spoken, and builds them into example sentences to learn Chinese.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhIooD7mFhphhT5nDdhK0...
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Really? By who?
I take it from chicago to kansas city couple of times a year and I see lots of Amish people on the train.

Seems like a good option for people who can't take the plane. I would have never spoken to the amish if not for amtrak.
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It even says so in the trivia section on that very page: "During an interview on Google, Sam Esmail, the creator of the the series, stated that E Corp's logo is actually the Enron logo."
But Smug and Mug (Face) are.
Thanks for posting.

I’m curious about job security and tenure. Are there similar amount of layoffs as at commercial enterprises or are almost guaranteed a job once you’re in. Are most people there “lifers” or only there a few years.

The answers to these questions might be attractive to certain people.
What did I read into your comment that you didn't say? You claimed Google used a line of reasoning when it suits them, I refuted that.

Your argument only works if a few things are true:

* P0 is unwilling to budge from the 90 day disclosure if a bug is legitimately hard to fix. But that isn't true: for example, they kept Spectre/Meltdown under wraps for a very long time. It's not just bugs that conveniently affect Google, either: plenty of Windows issues were given grace periods (usually to hit a patch Tuesday). They've even re-restricted bugs after MSRC _failed to request a grace period in time_ (e.g. P0-395).

* If a bug was being exploited, you'd know. (If this isn't true, delay just means attackers have more time to exploit the bug.) But that isn't (generally) true: plenty of bugs are hard to detect remotely, and we have no clue what hoard attackers are sitting on.

Never mind the fact that that the onus is on Microsoft to show that a period is warranted (attackers aren't nice enough to leave them a detailed reproducer), can we even come up with a plausible reason for this bug being delayed that isn't "we didn't prioitize it"? Is there code that legitimately tries to load the wrong DLL? If the argument is just 'QA should win by default" and mine is "disclosure should win by default", we're just going to have to agree to disagree. Vendors do not get to arbitrarily model their business to manipulate how disclosure works. Attackers don't care.
Ever heard of the Tulip Mania?
OP isn't asking for a guarantee. S/he is asking to know whether s/he has a device that is known to be at higher risk, or if s/he has an unaffected device.

You are responding to a straw man of "I want a guarantee that my device will never fail"
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Brilliant. Would you mind sharing it?
As a late-40's engineer/programmer/admin, I've been fortunate to stay technical for my 25 years or so, but I've seen the other side of this argument. We had a guy who was in his later 50's, as a top-level "tech" pay grade, who wrote some Perl twenty-something years ago. He was given 3 simple tasks in Visual Basic, and couldn't complete a single one. The company did an RIF, and he just barely made the cut to get an early retirement. He took it, knowing he'd be let go if he didn't.

So, yeah, as a middle-aged guy, these stories scare my pants off. However, I think this other guy's story is pretty common. I suspect that there are a lot of people who, thanks to some early success at being technical in a large company, rise through the pay scale, and then never update their skill set. These people NEED to go. They're a drag on an already-cripplingly-overencumbered organization.

You have to keep learning. Forever. After over a decade happily coding with Rails, I'm now learning Java for web applications. Yikes. I can't say I'm enjoying the experience, but I AM learning a lot.

Just throwing out a counterpoint. I'm not sure that taking the money saved, and hiring a small army of Indian college grads is the answer, but that's a whole different discussion.
Is contact absolutely required in such old machines - I wonder if you could float the tape using, say, air [1], ultrasound, or silicon spray, or even just carefully fitted wheels in order to maximize life of the head itself.

I'm surprised generic non-contact magnetic readers haven't been developed for retro tech given the prevalence of magnetic storage tech for HDDs.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_bearing
Yes! I'd like to see that, too.
This is a talk so it makes sense to put the text on the slide and also talk about it.

The image caption, I took it as medium's implementation of although text for cases the images don't load.

In this case they just happened to be similar.
How can you be "productive" writing code that isn't "correct"? That's the worse type of developer - the one who does "negative work".

Negative work is when someone does work so badly that it takes more time to correct their errors than it would have for them not to do the work at all.
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> Vendors do not get to arbitrarily model their business to manipulate how disclosure works. Attackers don't care.

Right, hence my earlier point, emphasis added:

> When so much software runs on your platform, availability matters […]. QA-test the hell out of a patch unless there's evidence of 0d or imminent exploitation.

At the expense of sounding like a broken record: (from an arguably oversimplified angle), confidentiality, integrity, and availability all matter.
you should take a good look at CLOS, you'll be colored rainbow-happy instead.
In the context of the 80s-early 90s color preferences, it's great -- and it still stands bold today. It's also more humanist than techie, and Jobs also wanted that.

Note too, that most logos in use today are tweaked versions of their former designs, even if the designer was such a design icon as Lowry (e.g. Shell and BP logos). For example Apple's rainbow logo.
Planet money had a podcast on this subject.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
Please, I live in the rust belt and knew several people that have died from this. None of them were unemployed. The government giving out money has nothing to do with it. People living off disability benefits can't afford heroin anyway, they're lucky if they can afford both rent and food.
Phew digging up that name was not easy, but it is definitely worth sharing. The group is called the Pirahã [1]. Phenomenally interesting (and educational) group in so many ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3
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I find this funny because I've used Java most of my career and am just tired of having to write so much code for even the simplest stuff. I just wish I could use Perl always.

The latest task was a simple web service for a poc. Java was a pom file, various classes, web.xml, etc. All that could be written as a Perl dancer app and a yml database config file.
I hate to be that guy, but my best friend went off to UCS twenty years ago, and came back a different person.

Every summer he would come home, and tell me his drug exploits. All psychedelics experiences.

Every summer he was more defensive, and less caring.

And the long hubristic speeches. I gave him a wide birth until he started to deconstruct me. That I wasen't going to take. We stayed friends, but god I wish he didn't experiment so much.

He recently tried to get in touch with me, but I remember those verbal jabs, and contemplating wether I should contact him.

I grew up with him, and hated the changes. I can't prove it was drugs, but just gave a weird feeling his changes were due to the shrooms, lsd.

That said, he's much more classically successful than myself. He has always had jobs he loves.

He's a good looking guy, but no females stuck around, and I understood their complaints. I never told him though.

I on the other hand, I went to school, didn't do any drugs, worked hard in school, and side jobs; and had a nervous breakdown.

My life has been a trail of anxiety, and depression ever since. I've self medicated with alcolhol. In a weird way, alcohol is the only drug that made me normal. I learned early on not to abuse it though. Just use it when the anxiety was horrid. (Yea--I'm on a cocktail of psychotropic psychiatric medications. Medication I'm trying to get down to very low doses because I can't go through the process of procuring them, when my doctor retires. It's a game, and it's tiring. The mandatoty rediculious office visits, and refills going unfilled. Ugh!

I don't know what my point is other than do everything in moderation.

I'm not the personality type to do any psychedelics, but the micro doses seems like the prudent way of experimenting. I don't know why anyone would risk perment brain changes with large doses of anything.
I've been tempted to make a Removable Duck for Unity3D and sell it on the Unity asset store for hourly freelance developers to use.

It will quickly pay for itself: The developer can drag a duck into the scene and configure it to define how many hours it will take to remove, and what kind of removal interface and effect to use. Then when they show the demo to the client, and the client demands "Remove the duck!", then can say "Ok. That will take X hours." Then they simply type some secret hot keys or click on some invisible hot spots for a while, and the duck will pop up a count-down timer and slowly start shrinking or dissolving or whatever, until it finally disappears after X hours with a puff of smoke, and then the developer can bill the client for that many hours.
>You don't have an untrained eye; you've looked at logos all day long for your entire life

That's like saying "you have had a body for your entire life, don't let any doctor tell you what's good for your health".

People can listen to music for their entire lives and still have crap taste.
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Did you find any benchmarks with hard numbers regarding performance improvement?
>Those who approach these powerful things recreationally are the most likely to have bad trips.

I only take LSD recreationally and I don't have bad trips. Maybe don't comment on psychs when you clearly have almost zero experience.
>a punishing loan, can run a profitable 7-11

Not really in charge of much if they do that are they?
That is something I will never understand. What are they worried about exactly, rights infringement?
Really, I don't know. He's tried to mentor others but whatever he tells them doesn't "stick". He might be more intelligent than others, and he is intelligent. He could just make better, faster connections constantly. Maybe he just listens to the inner voice and types whatever comes out.

When you ask him, he just shrugs and says he does his job.
Which software do you mean? windows and visual studio 2017 do install fast, also office 2016.
Also, "slowly" compared to what? I mean visual studio does install slowly compared to notepad++ for example, but this is due to different package size..(of course)
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Flagged for being written by a non-scientist, right-wing troll who regularly denies climate science. This kind of nonsense shouldn't be on HN.
On Windows, software installation/removal involves a deep analysis of machine configuration state. This takes time but accounts for the high probability of binary compatibility between the operating system and third party software of arbitrary functionality and variable engineering quality that might be a decade old.

The Windows software system has different tradeoffs than Linux where distributions are compatible with specific versions of software -- i.e. if the distro doesn't have a package there may not be binary compatibility. With Linux changes to the kernel can require cascading upgrades to packages or make packages obsolete or break packages.

Windows' tradeoffs are also different than those made by BSD and similar systems that eschew binary distribution --- systems where everything gets compiled from source on the user's machine. In terms of speed, compiling a large application from source can take significant time though it will probably require few if any reboots.
I don't take LSD and go listen to electronic music because its a window to my 'self'. I take it because its fun and feels good, the same reason people take cocaine.
From my completely inexpert perspective, and keeping in mind I've never taken any psychedelics, I'd guess that 'ego-busting' as you call it is almost certainly the component of value here. Our traditional notions of self are ridiculously naive and very poorly model reality, and I think working from poor models of reality is part of why we suffer like we do, which leads us to being worse people. Psychedelics allow people to more easily shift their perspective and see the world differently, hopefully expanding their conception of it and enlightening their understanding of their place within it, but they are not the only way to do that.
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Why the "poop train" shit train makes more sense, no need to be polite.
Digital files can be duplicated, hashed, have redundancy logically built in.

Analogue files render incorrectly too; surfaces deteriorate - media rots, oxidises, decays.

I've got digital files from last millennium that have survived better than analogue ones - both written text and images. For the most important I've kept logical and physical redundancy (but not yet needed it); much harder to do with bulky physical media.

Libraries in my UK city, and across the UK, have been closed rapidly in the last few years - the materials are generally dumped/sold, but the data from all of them could be held in a small box (computer) with multiple redundant backups for the cost of a couple of magazine subscriptions. For one librarians wage this could all be easily shared with the entire web.

We, or at least I, am keen to hang on to some artefacts. But a lot of what we keep seems to be primarily useful for navel gazing.
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There's actually several scripts: burn the subtitles into the movie as hard-subs, extend the subtitles by 1 second, make clips of each subtitle, make headings, and combine the clips with the headings.

These are my rough notes I made at the time (you could skip the Pingtype steps if you're not trying to make bilingual language learning material).

https://github.com/pingtype/pingtype.github.io/blob/master/d...
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> dynamically typed languages are disappearing and all the popular modern languages are statically typed with type inference

It does seems that all the dynamic languages are learning what the systems people knew in the 70s: for the Enterprise, correctness counts.

A happy v1 is only 10% of the story... Getting to v225.5, warts and all, is just something else.
Wish I could upvote this comment more than once, this was the key takeaway after working in a business where software was a cost center 10+ years ago. I have always made this a rule for all my following jobs.
Can Facebook be replaced? Let’s invest $100,000 in seven teams and find out
New DB with similar time snapshots and immutability ... https://flur.ee ... haven't fully investigated.

Whitepaper at https://flur.ee/assets/pdf/flureedb_whitepaper_v1.pdf .
Elm has always been that way. Trying to say that this is new behaviour and a sign of it “not going well” is a bit off-base I think.

Sure, the particular behaviour and choices of the core team are one of be reasons I don’t use it in production. But they don’t try and hide it, and it’s certainly not new!
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I already addressed why that doesn't really hold water: it assumes that you're likely to know if a bug is being exploited or not. Google found the bug. They're already doing the free research, giving Microsoft a reproducer, and giving Microsoft a well-established policy for when they're going to go public with the bug. Are you suggesting they're responsible for knowing if a bug is being exploited in the wild, or that we should take Microsoft's word for it if it is or not?

To be clear: Microsoft can do whatever they want with the bug they themselves found too. (I imagine their internal teams would want similar policies to make sure that they can hold internal teams accountable for fixing their bugs, though, but whatever, that's on them.)

You are again only interacting with a tiny part of my argument. We're taking it as read that somehow this bug requires significant QA. Can we agree that some bugs don't need 6 months of intense QA to fix? A UAF is a UAF.
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At 34", my monitor is already pretty big. Also, my prescription glasses were pretty cheap @ $50 from eyebuydirect (including shipping).

I see an even bigger boost for the 2 hours I spend on the train during work days with my 15" laptop.
The only way hydrogen works as a fuel storage medium if you have more electricity than customers for it. In he Orkney Isles wind is used in this way.

Hydrogen does not fit into the more popularly imagined future where renewables creates electricity that is then stored in parked cars, to be used when everyone gets home and the solar has run out.
I know of one guy, a brilliant man, who after a period of a month taking shrooms practically every day had a personality shift that is easiest described as "like Rick" from "Rick & Morty" - he became convinced he was the smartest man in the universe, dangerously smart and people would kill him if they knew how incredibly smart he was. That attitude stayed with him, and destroyed him; about a decade later he died due to alcohol poisoning as a result of his overwhelming rejection by others from his elevated behavior insisting his superiority over others. Clearly, he had original issues the shrooms simply magnified out of his control.
Because the types of moments or compositions that Instagram chooses to focus on are low resolution. 50mp is great for a large print, and Hasselblad sharpness, and 10 lights. But Instagram chooses to offer noise and color filter to everyone with a smartphone, so they can make their salad or dog look cool. I have lots of lenses and I love instagram, because I don't have to worry about pixel peepers and get genuine feedback.
Nice. Too bad it's not Free Software.
Employee-level strategy consulting?
Well, ask the same question about a mediocre portrait picturing someone of no [recorded/remembered] societal note by an artist no-one knows anything else about and I'd say "absolutely". Take pictures, make them available to the public, give the original away - use the remaining 99% of the upkeep costs for something else.

When a robot/printer is able to make a perfect replica of the Mona Lisa down to the brush strokes, and we can experience it in VR without even needing the replica, the answer to your question might change for most works too.
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Well, I still have to have those on my computer and in my Docker container. And from a trust, auditing and security perspective it’s pretty horrible, even if multi-stage builds can help

With Buble, Flow, and Roll-up, I can get a decent modern environment with as few dependencies as possible. Upsides? Much faster, too. Less disk space. Docker containers build faster, which is better for CI/CD. And it’s easier to understand the codebase and dependency tree, including development tools.
You might want to see amygdyl's post (apparently dead by default):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16890797
> export Mint's data as a csv, and then build an app around that

This is what I do. Mint doesn't have an API, but I just inject some javascript using the console that pulls the csv file and displays the data in a way that makes sense to me.
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In USA copyright, not in all jurisdictions. Backups and format shifting are not allowed in the UK.
When compared to the enormous inefficiency of the global banking system, the energy consumed per transaction for crypto comes out far, far ahead. How much beef do you have to feed the average banker per transaction?