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>This is not a reasonable place to apply a complex regulatory framework. The idea that this involves "serious responsibility" or "grave risks" is akin to applying a regulatory framework designed for an oil refinery to a garage sale because a used lawnmower may contain some "hazardous" motor oil.

You're subject to exactly the same regulations on health and safety and hazardous materials handling. The steps you need to take are smaller and simpler, because the scope of your activities are smaller and less hazardous. You're not allowed to take the guards off your machine tools or pour motor oil down the drain just because you're a small shop. Same with GDPR.

If you're a small company that sells wood carvings, you don't need to do very much to comply. If you're a small company that maintains a blacklist of construction workers, you're in deep trouble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consulting_Association
Hovering doesn't work very well on touch screens :-)
Kjyhn
Who is? CSS and SVG are great, but how is her javascript? Neglecting the role that jQuery played is foolish, and even respected developers can say foolish things now and then.
That's true, but when you use the key a lot it often happens that you press it and then release it. It's very annoying

Also, the hardcoding of super-o is even more annoying.

I also noticed that in recent versions of Gnome, super-s doesn't work anymore. I have no explanation for that one.
"cheapest protein possible"

Okay. I always figured that ambition went sloping downward along the lines of "Hormel SPAM to Armour Treet Original Luncheon Loaf to Tender Vittles to Libby's Potted Meat Food Product." You can always find something cheaper in the categories of "Material formerly regulated as cheese" or "Material formerly regulated as meat". It doesn't have to contain a particular noodle.
This seems like the sort of tool you could use to find large mining rigs that have been set up in suburbs.
Facebook losing out to YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat among US teens
I'm not sure you even want this. Several studies have shown that it correlates with people being depressed about their lifes. Eg http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Of course correlation is not causality, but one should still be careful
I'm more of a Patreoner, making around $1000 a month through Patreon and my audio DSP plugins and around $20 a month from YouTube. I have a good sense of why these people are burning out.

The only reason I'm able to do that well (still far below minumum wage, if minimum wage legitimately gave you 40 hours a week which I think generally it won't) is that I spent close to ten years entrepreneurially running the same business as a commercial proposition, all by myself. I made between twice and four times as much selling plugins directly to people, but it was COMPLETELY unpredictable and the Patreon is not nearly as unpredictable: provided they don't implode, it's a slow steady growth curve as more people discover what I do.

And going commercial didn't protect me from things imploding: I went to Patreon because I'd been using Kagi as a payment processor, and they imploded. They still owe me two months' pay that I will never see. Patreon was one of those bold intuitive jumps where I went 'I'm happier giving my work away, let's gamble my whole life on this working, and if it fails, whatever, I didn't want to live anyway'. Turned out I was able to survive on it, and the relative predictability of the admittedly-lower income is good for my mental health.

That was where keeping up a better-than-monthly grind of product releases got me, when I absolutely depended on having 'hit' products to sell to make up for the ones that fizzled, and never knew what was actually going to hit. It's this which is killing the YouTubers.

It's not just that they don't know which videos will go viral, it's that they also don't know what the rules are or will be, and worse, they are subject to being algorithmically handicapped in a way they are blind to. The whole system is set up to goad them on to unrealistic behavior, and appears to silently punish them for failure to comply. All they can do is cling to cargo-cult-like obsessive lowest-common-denominator stuff and double down on what they think will help them, which is never actually confirmed by YouTube. This is a recipe for killing people, in action.

Being an entrepreneur and small business owner is already sort of fraught with uncertainty: you can fall back on 'if I work hard and do what I do, I can get through to a certain number of people and build a following'. Being a 'Youtuber' is more than twice as bad, because it's that except that your platform can and does literally stop you getting through to your own people if they want to connect your people to some newer youtuber that they would rather stick in the recommendations. The very act of getting through at all is subject to restriction by the YouTube that you're working for, so it's no wonder people are going insane trying to please YouTube.
Gkyhh
JEP Draft: Timely Reducing Unused Committed Memory
I know this is a rhetorical question, but Prototype.js was pretty similar to jQuery; although jQuery won the popularity contest.
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Ujhmuy
But I wonder if he would receive a US court order would he treat it the same way?

Court orders take a comparative mountain of effort before they land on someone’s doorstep. They require someone to determine that there is a legitimate cause of action against the site, consult their attorneys/legal department as to the best course of action, research the case and produce enough evidence of their claims to hopefully convince a judge to give them the order they seek, then prepare and file the legal paperwork. In most cases, by the time such an order is issued, several people have invested dozens or hundreds of hours in the effort.

By contrast, sending a “nightmare letter” is a matter of copying and pasting, which can be done by anyone in just a few seconds. Even a small site like the one at issue here could easily receive hundreds or thousands of such requests per year that the owner is obligated to produce detailed responses to, under the threat of enormous fines.

This regulation was written in a way that made it ripe for abuse. We are seeing real-world abuse now, and we are barely a week into it. Shutting down and/or at least blocking EU traffic is entirely reasonable in light of the situation that GDPR has created.
"the inbox" refers to a HTTP endpoint required by the activitypub spec. He's just saying that pixelfed can't receive messages from other AP instances, so he disabled it sending messages to other AP instances too, to avoid the assymetry.
I agree. Atom is definitely in danger. They will not give up VS Code and maintaining two "identical" products makes no sense.
Baking powder should be separable into an acid and a base. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baking_powder
All those "import www.github.com/..." Golang stuff comes to mind :)
I agree. 1st table I ever owned was a Nexus 7. I bought it because I was very satisfied with Nexus 5 being my phone (price and stability).

The thing that annoyed me the most about Nexus 7 apart from lacking on basic things was its sound... I'd go in an airplane and I wouldn't be able to hear anything. After that I never bought a Nexus product again, and tbh I don't feel left out of anything.
It'd be nice if the author dialed back the oh-so-clever display of the photos. What's wrong with just putting in the photos like on a magazine page? Geez. I want to look at the pictures, not irritating overlays and weird scrolling.

I suppose it's the modern version of blinky text.
GrafX2 – a bitmap paint program inspired by Amiga programs
Jgyuyg
Ask HN: Demoralized by front end development
I have a lot of ideas for side projects, but I'm unable to get any of them off the ground because I suck at front end development. I have an extremely hard time with CSS and can't even manage to work with Bootstrap. Does this forum have any suggestions on how I can overcome this obstacle?
It never stops to amaze me how many of the creative and destructive forces of the 20th century originated in Vienna. The writer of this piece concentrates on literature, but one could as easily concentrate on music, art, politics, philosophy, math or natural science. What’s more, there were common themes running through the developments in all these fields, which makes studying this place and time a uniquely rich intellectual experience.

Of particular interest to the HN crowd may be a recent book by Karl Sigmund, Exact Thinking In Demented Times, which documents the rise and decline of the Viennese Circle, a group of physicists, mathematicians and philosophers who changed the course of maths and science. Mach, Boltzmann, Einstein, Russell, Gödel, Wittgenstein, Neurath, Carnap, Von Neumann, Schlick, etc. etc. The interconnections will dazzle you and the place that holds the whole web together is Vienna.
The video and book were a great example of playing the hand right BUT

for me the conclusion was a rather grim Ecclesiastical one.

Stoicism seems to me 'making the best of bad situation' still we are doomed and doomed soon.

What difference is there between stoicism and fatalism?

Offside:
If you are a conscripted soldier in 1940 Soviet army, ordered to march against a machine gun nest in Finland where do you get your solace?

The Finnish soldiers were amazed(and developed PSTD) how consigned to their fate the advancing Soviet soldiers were despite wave and wave of them being gunned down.

Same goes for a situation like in Boethius Consolation of Philosophy and The Last Lecture.

They are screwed and you can delude yourself into thinking things are great.

http://gunshowcomic.com/648
https://gfxzone.planet-d.net/interviews/x_man/x_man-intervie...

src: http://linuxfr.org/news/grafx2-enfin-en-version-2-5
I almost only use my Nexus 9 for Netflix/Plex in bed and a few ebooks now and then. Not sure I want to replace it with something that does more than that, buy some expensive replacement and still only end up doing the Netflix in bed thing would suck. I hope there still are some cheap (Xiaomi maybe?) tablets out there when that day comes.
Most Android devices aren't capable of truly low-latency audio (sub-10ms round-trip). This makes the total addressable market for pro audio apps very small, which means device manufacturers have little incentive to spend the engineering resources to provide low latency, which makes the total addressable market for pro audio apps very small.

Unless Google start setting audio latency requirements, it's a lost cause.

http://superpowered.com/latency
I don't see any ads. I'm using Firefox on my Moto G5+.
When a new law is enacted, it's not prudent analysis to assume anything about how it will be enforced based on the previous law, especially not when fines were increased 25x - GDPR is not a minor clarification of a few bits and pieces, it's a whole new thing. The previous law was specifically criticised for having no teeth, and the new law has specifically been highlighted for it's new teeth. Of course it's possible that regulators will just sit on their hands, it's just not very likely.

The only reasonable assumption is that those new teeth will be tried out, and whoever they will be tried out on first will have a bad time. Do not assume that the first cases will be Google and Facebook, the regulators aren't stupid enough to try their luck first on the two organisations that has spend the most on being technically compliant, and has bottomless warchests to fight it.
The point is that very few of these people had any intention, let alone capability, to commit a terrorist act against the US. Most of them were civilians or young men who joined their countries' militaries to defend against an invading force.
Who said anything about making IP addresses public? You seem to be assuming registering a domain name implies delegating that domain to an actual name server that must respond to public requests. These assumptions are both incorrect.

Registering a domain prevents those names from being used for other purposes in the future. Your domain does not have to have valid NS addresses. Even if a domain has NS record with a valid address of the authoritative name server, that server does not have to respond to requests from the public internet. It doesn't even have to have to be accessible on the public internet.

Register a domain for internal use and run an internal name server on e.g. 10.x.y.z that handles your private IP space, and configure the local recursive resolver name servers to hand out your internal server's address when asked about the associated NS record. At the same time, set the real NS records for your internal domain to e.g. a traditional DNS hosting service that returns a CNAME pointing to your public domain. (the public internet only sees *.private.example.com as a CNAME to www-public-name-com.example.com)
Primer into Node.js Native Modules
Show us how to make it work without JavaScript then.
I'd say that Microsoft is worse than most other companies because it caters to governments, not consumers. Skype and MSN mysteriously worked in China at a time when no other service did. What's their incentive to push back against LE backdoors when they're not an edgy consumer brand anyway?
Can't we do something like a customer-buy-out and put Github into a foundation of some sort?
They do have an enterprise version of Windows 10...
OMG this is perfect! I'm so stealing this quote. It applies to so much it's scary.
I foresee a great future... for Gogs [1], Gitea [2], Gitlab [3] and other Github-alternatives. I was a late and somewhat reluctant adopter of Github as I don't like the idea of centralising so much of the free software infrastructure and putting it in the hands of one company, even a supposedly 'friendly' company like Github. I mirror everything I do on Github to a local Gitea-instance as a backup and exit strategy for when Github becomes a liability. If these talks go through and Microsoft does take over the latter will become true and I'll remove my accounts there.

[1] https://gogs.io/

[2] https://gitea.io/

[3] https://gitlab.com/
From FOMO to Funkstionslust
So they happily continue for the next 10 months. Well played.
That's an incredible compliment.
You assert that because one key aspect of human need is improved that others arent harmed in equal measure at the same time.

Who knows which is a larger factor in suicide. Social Pressure from being bullied by your only community is probably a stronger force than loneliness.
Why does it matter to you so much who owns GitHub if it's a good tool? Sounds unnecessary vitriol.
Mghh
I though we'd not see those messages after IE6 died but Chrome stepped up and filled that role : - |
Heh, I just pictured a GPU inside an empty PC case, and then immediately realized of course that wouldn't work, and am now wondering, how do you generate the necessary load to correctly EMI-test a GPU?

Do GPUs include a secret "crank everything to 11" test mode feature that exercises all the cores and RAM and everything, so you can just bolt it into a case, maybe connect it to a fake motherboard that supplies 3.3V or whatever so the card initializes properly... or do vendors test with a massive pile of motherboards, measuring and offsetting for the EMI generated by each motherboard?
Some of us are old enough to remember Microsoft of the 90's and early aughties. "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" was the name of the game then, many of us haven't forgiven Microsoft for that yet (and nor do we plan to).
I find serp api very interesting but the big data plan is very expensive still for medium size companies. Does it really work for Google?
Ouch Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Takes Potshot at Bitcoin
The old answer was the 8" Nvidia shield, which like the Nexus 7 is just better than most current android tablets. unfortunately that is also discontinued now.
Boohoo daddy state, this big bad privately run service of which I voluntarily registered is storing my data, please go beat him
Lhjj
Drupal and React for Web Development
When you say full form factor, do you mean something other than the 13”? That model is $800 at the cheapest.
I agree, as they say, 'snakebit and doomed to die'
http://www.memidex.com/snakebit
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And a more recent example: Skype.
Yeah I would love to use a smartphone that doesn't require to have an account! It's simply not possible with iOS or Android as you need an account if you want to download apps.

Also I would love a smartphone that doesn't come with many preinstalled apps I don't need.
On the other hand, life might be harder for people who don't fit in well and then don't have anywhere else to socialize; the lack of privacy and constant gossiping probably doesn't help either. I grew up in a 1000-people village (not on an island though) and experienced this to some extent, but would imagine this to be much worse in such tiny communities.
90% of all internet traffic goes through Erlang controlled nodes, Cisco claims
> But it took a lot of work to convince people that it [JQuery] was unnecessary.

First it took about a decade of browser and ECMA very intensive development to actually make it unnecessary.

> it is becoming difficult to convince new developers that React may not be necessary for their next project.

Give it a decade for the web "components" to actually become composable and for inventive and useful native language built-in solutions to state management to happen before you start advocating people out of React. Until then telling people they might not need React is not a step forward but backward. Imagine people saying "you might not need jQuery" in times where IE reigned and browsers were wildly incompatible.
Don't they have a contract with the federal government for the current period? Are you suggesting they should be breaching it?
1e^100 kills
Why do you think "they are unfamiliar with it"? On the contrary, Microsoft has a lot of stuff ongoing in GitHub. Seems many critical people in this thread don't have a clue.
Eventually these cryptoclowns will hit a frequency the FCC will rue and then we will finally have some much needed respite of this hype as they are shut down, hard.
It also happens to be owned by the biggest media company - Stuff/Fairfax NZ, a competitor who isn’t going to take this lightly.
There's a lot of hidden subsidies in things like teachers and doctors coming over from Denmark for a few years, and I suspect they don't include the cost of the naval support either.
It would be interesting to know what technologies they use to scrape on high volume for 0.005 US cent a successful request. I checked this package and it looks decent, i like dependency free libraries. I'll check their API for Bing. Thanks
This is what I was thinking also (though you articulated it much better than I would have).

A large company doesn't make an acquisition like this without a business incentive. For them, it's driving people to their products. Maybe making the tooling in github for interacting with microsoft-y products a little bit better. Maybe adding whatever licenses microsoft likes to the front of the default licenses you can pick from when you create a new repo. Things generated by their editors going into your .gitignore by default.

I don't see any reason they'd acquire github and then entirely leave it alone.
With old age comes your brain dribbling out of your ears.
Hhgj
Nitpicks aside, it seems to me that React/Vue are only/mainly useful for two-way data binding. If it's just one-way binding (i.e. JSON to template), then jQuery with something like Handlebars will be just fine. Correct me if I've misunderstood.
"executives saw the contract as a huge opportunity while being concerned about how the company's involvement would be perceived"

Pretty damning they are concerned about how they may look to the outside world, instead of being actually worried about the consequences of being complicit to the development of a new breed of killing machines, and therefore also to how they will be used.
What extreme advertising? I've been using Win 10 from the beginning and haven't seen ONE add.
It's a real shame for bedroom producers like me, I've got a disposable income but not a spare grand for an iPad pro (plus I'm an apple anti-fan :-D ).

If Google had sorted out the audio story earlier, you might still have had problems with commodity tablets, but it might have been worth somebody's while to make a tablet specifically for audio and midi. It wouldn't be a million miles away from Maschine or something like that. But I fear the opportunity's gone now, and Android tablets are just a write off.

I still have my Nexus 7 which I basically use as a Kindle.
Mhgb
Babelified code sits in another directory, I hotswap it if I think they are not on a modern browser (IE or older version of mordern browsers). So any normal Joe using chrome or ff or edge will not get a bundle. But if I'm not sure, the backwards compatible version is sent instead. So I think I can claim that there's no bundle since most of my users don't get one.