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> I would never allow my kid browse that kind of shit

This is exactly the right attitude, you should be paying attention to what your children are consuming--it's not Steam's job to parent them for you.

> Why are people defending this. How can this be good for you psyche?

Because as with things like smoking and alcohol, some people enjoy them, and in a free society we let people make their own choices even if it harms them. (And it's not even clear that porn and video games are bad for you.)
> Why not just make a regular application at that point and not throw away all of the runtime debugging support?

A few reasons:

- There exist large public clouds willing to run any code you want under a hypervisor, but services that give you shell access to a user under a traditional kernel have mostly died out. This can partially be justified by security concerns: traditional syscall interfaces tend to be more complex and thus have more attack surface than the VM<->hypervisor interface. Hypervisors also tend to make it easier to divide system resources, e.g. by giving each VM a fixed RAM allocation.

- Some clouds, like EC2 with the Elastic Network Adapter, give virtual machines direct access to (custom) networking hardware, rather than making them trap to the hypervisor for every send and receive. This should mitigate much of the performance overhead of using a VM, at least as far as networking is concerned.

- Anyway, unikernels can put everything from filesystems and TCP to threading and even page table management "in-process"; this can reduce the number of syscalls that have to be performed and thus syscall overhead, even for operations that do ultimately delegate to "syscalls" in the hypervisor. In other words, they shouldn't be compared to just libc; they're also taking over many of the functions of a traditional kernel (just not all of them).
Pakistan is a very young, underdeveloped country. I think that's part of it.

If you are well educated, it makes you like an "elder" compared to people who know less than you. With the high illiteracy rates, a well educated 11 year old (the age of a sixth grader here in the US) absolutely can be a wellspring of knowledge to a country where a lot of people have a 2nd to 4th grade education.

That doesn't mean this won't go bad places. But I think it helps to consider the context.
Sucking Carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than previously thought
Who generates the informational pamphlets that people read to learn about your product? Who goes to the trade shows where people seeking solutions might learn about your product? Who keeps an eye out for experts sincerely surveying a space to compare multiple solutions, ensuring that your product is considered?

Marketers do all that stuff every day, and your system would still have them. You seem to be against advertising, which is a tiny subset of marketing.
While I like Tesla, I find the praise for Tesla's fast OTA update for its braking problem to be freaking terrifying.

A problem with variable stopping distances is the sort of thing that should be blindingly obvious in the telemetry data from your testing procedures. Brake systems, and ABS controls in particular, are normally rigorously tested over the course of 12-18 months in different environments and conditions.[0] That Tesla completely missed something like that suggests either their testing procedures are drastically flawed (missing something that CR was able to easily and quickly verify in different cars), that their software development process isn't meshed up with their hardware testing and validation, or a combination of the two. Neither option is a good one.

The fact that Tesla was able to shave 19 feet of their braking distances is horrifying. After months of testing different variations and changes to refine your braking systems, shaving off an extra 19 feet should be impossible. There shouldn't be any room to gain extra inches without making tradeoffs in performance in other conditions that you've already ruled out making. If there's an extra 19 feet to be found for free after a few days of dev time, you did something drastically wrong. And that's completely ignoring physical testing before pushing your new update. Code tests aren't sufficient; you're changing physical real-world behavior, and there's always a tradeoff when you're dealing with braking and traction.

Tesla is being praised by consumers and the media because, hey, who doesn't like the idea that problems can be fixed a couple days after being identified? That's great. In this case, Tesla literally made people's cars better than they were just a few days before. But it trivializes a problem with very real consequences, and I hope that trivialization doesn't extend to Tesla's engineers. Instead of talking about a brake problem, people are talking about how great the fast OTA update for the problem is. Consumers find that comforting, as the OTA updates can makes what's otherwisea pain in the ass (recalls and dealer visits for software updates) effortless.

Hell, I'm a believer in release early, release often for software. Users benefit, as do developers. At the same time, the knowledge that you can quickly fix a bug and push out an update can be a bit insidious. It's a bit of a double-edged sword in that it gives you a sense of comfort that can bite you in the ass as it trivializes the consequences of a bug. And when bug reports for your product can literally come in the form of coroner's reports, that comfort isn't a good thing for developers.

0. https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2018/05/30/rapid-...
>> In 2016 the organizers of a hackathon threatened to disqualify our team after 24+ hours of coding for being "too old to compete" even though the only age requirements at the event were that the participants be 18+.

Wow. Would be great to hear further details around what happened there.
It implies that either:

1) You're capable of discerning what is, or is not, a valid warrant, or

2) You trust the L.E. to do so for you.

Which?
Paying someone the value they create is a whole lot more trouble than the equally unprofitable option of not employing them at all.
There seems to be a spike in negative press about Steam lately. I wonder if this is some kind of coordinated PR hit. I can imagine a few large companies who would be happy to see such a successful independent distribution platform fall on hard times...
Really? Looking at drone strike causualities you’d have no clue how much the US even tries.

Its funny cause I haven’t heard of large scale Chinese or Russian drones flying over other countries targeting terrorists but ending up murdering children on more than one occasion.

Perhaps these technologies can be just evil and the US is the only country powerful enough to get away with using them.

I really have no stomach for just a vapid excuse, and I cannot fathom how so many people fall for it.
> Given he was an employee with clearance, did he even have a choice in saying "I am not answering your questions, talk to my lawyer"...

Yes. The trick is that most likely he needs a lawyer with a security clearance. Yes, those exist for exactly this purpose.
The great depression, which was a period of high unemployment, was still fresh in the minds of many during the 1950s. The theory of the time was that WWII is what fixed the economy. Many people sat in many rooms trying to figure out how to achieve the 'wealth' effect of war without all of the destruction. Creating useless jobs was a common idea.
Interesting, so even if e.g. only one team works for gov projects, is it anyway required that the whole company consists of citizens?
The selling party doesn't lose dividend, they just don't gain it. Losing it would mean the dividend amount is subtracted from their account.
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Maybe I'm overlooking something here, but I don't know why leakers don't just use a forever stamp and drop something in the mail. Securing electronic communications seems freakishly hard by comparison. Is there some reason that is an obviously bad idea?
Watch out, the shills are out in force today.

There’s a lot of money in personalized ads and many people here bring home the bacon due to tracking, so GDPR is threatening their future.

It’s amazing to witness. I mean, several years back I was naive enough to think that the smart people of HN are above such hypocrisy. How wrong I was.

I have been involved btw in implementing GDPR compliance. The companies facing difficulties are those that were irresponsible with user data to begin with. And indeed GDPR is a threat to their business model if they don’t change. Which is good – if GDPR wouldn’t be a threat to the business model of irresponsible companies, then it wouldn’t be relevant at all.

Also that line about big companies being the only ones capable of implementing GDPR is ridiculous payed marketing via tainted publications like TechCrunch and it’s catching on apparently.

But yes, it’s about time companies show some responsibility for it. Because if your whole business model relies on the ignorance of users, you’re doing something nefarious.
That is what I mean. It looks like these things are facts and combined it doesn't look good.
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Aren't they usually designing the UI for new features of the software? Backend developers can't just ship an API in a B2C environment.
I for one appreciate when an article's title is good enough that I don't need to read the article.
Buying specific proprietary hardware to use specific proprietary software.

The dream.
Any component senior executive would simply devolve their military oriented business to the employees that want to execute it.

This failure is acutely felt in Boston Dynamics which was peopled by jingoistic engineers, who were limited in their ability to produce value to Google by the inability of executive to disassociate themselves from the body of that companies work.

Alphabet should have had a second, and majority owned company, take on that drone contract.
You realize this version doesn't have the faulty butterfly keyboard
When I happen to have time on a rainy weekend, .NET is certainly part of the possible options, given that I care a lot about graphics programming.

Languages without good GUI frameworks or nice IDEs usually don't cut it for me, when I am supposed to be having fun.
> That's my guess as to why this isn't yet a "solved question" -- the fringes of both sides have to get their attempt at busybodying in before a stable synthesis can result.

That's optimistic. My prediction is that the pendulum will switch all the back once sexbots become affordable.
There weren't enough cabs during peak periods even before Uber. And yes, I've tried catching a cab from UH or downtown to Waikiki on a Friday night in the rain, and it's nearly impossible. Cars (even ignoring the medallion scam) are expensive to leave sitting around idle, and you have to pay a driver a lot to make it worthwhile to work for a few hours a few times a month) so cab services can't afford to staff for peak service, instead they just make riders wait (or reject them at dispatch by not answering the phone).

At least with Uber, if I really need to be there, I can pay to get a car.

Would you rather pay a 5X surcharge or have no car at all?

Uber is already has incentive to keep the surge pricing reasonable -- not only do they suffer from spoilage, but if a driver clocks in during the surge and doesn't get a rider, he's less likely to clock in during the next surge.

Uber already has competition in Lyft -- I just use "Uber" as a generic name, I only take Lyft unless I'm in a city that Lyft doesn't serve. It's (mostly) the same drivers anyway.
A big problem seems to also be that mainstream audience can't really tell these scandals apart, they often don't understand the details or just don't have a complete picture of any single scandal, so that if another scandal gets reported within a few weeks, they'll think it's still the same issue and only rate this first scandal as somewhat worse, rather than there being a second scandal, making the whole thing roughly twice as bad. And as a result, mainstream media also just doesn't report about it as much.

A particularly strong example of this is Meltdown and Spectre. The news around those came on public TV where I live.
Now we've discovered more and worse vulnerabilities and even for me as someone who frequently reads tech news, I pretty much had to go out of my way to get information about them.
How does he find the time?
There's a significant amount of physical evidence from that. You'd have to make sure it's clean of any fingerprints and DNA (hair) for one. Plus printers will typically inject watermarks into the document. Handwriting is definitely a thing to be analyzed. And the location which you mail stuff from leaks another few bits of information.

It's probably a better idea than email, but not by all that much.
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Well, first thing, you don't send many MB directly to someone. You put it on a Tor onion file-share site, and PM the link via Tor. Unless your adversary is lucky enough to pwn the guard for that onion site, they can't even see the correlation.

I can imagine a global passive adversary that could log all Internet traffic, and make it searchable. The NSA can somewhat do that. But even the NSA can't retain everything for more than a few days, if even that. So even retaining necessary data for a match would be a stretch. Let alone having the processing power needed to do the matching.
One is a superset of the other.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17260500
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> But then, how do you anonymously lease and manage that VPS?

At least on DigitalOcean, it’s possible to create an anonymous account (no name required, not even by their TOS) connected to an anonymous email provider and funded by a cash-purchased Visa gift card. And a $5/mo droplet running IKEv2 VPN traffic (see Algo) is very secure and provides more than enough bandwidth/throughput for several people.

That would only leave the traffic itself (particularly the IP address(es) that initiate connections to your droplet). DO has a policy of not logging traffic unless an abuse alert is triggered.
You don't think a black person trying to use a photo management app and having their children's photos miscategorized as gorillas is harmful?

We know what biases people say offend them already, there's no evidence fixing them is harmful, but a non-zero risk that not fixing them is harmful.

I feel like what I'm encountering is a conservative bias against changing the status quo, "social engineering", and the like. It seems people don't like deliberate, non-organic, changes to the status quo (well, they don't tend to like organic ones either, like succeeding generations becoming say, more sexually liberal)

Machine learning can create filter bubbles, echo chambers, feedback loops, and people may attribute more weight to answers provided by machines than people, and so having machine learning reinforce even more strongly, current cultural biases that we're already seeking politically to ameliorate seems prudent and pragmatic to try and balance.
Ubisoft CEO: Cloud gaming will replace consoles after the next generation
I figured it would be complicated. Mostly, I guess, the need for these glass wares isn't big enough yet to solve that problem.
Yeah, and discovering that your ancestors escaped from that planet and came to earth after meeting up Mars. That would be the cheeriest of all discoveries.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 may be under way to beef up ARM laptops
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These aren't "predicted markets" this is the actual market itself. These are the real bids and contracts. It doesn't get more real than that.

If you think that these providers are going to default, well, then that's a bet you can make. But these are the people with skin in the game that are betting real, actual money and the future of their companies.
When I was younger I read a really good book about Homer that was kind of framed as a 'biography' of Odysseus that was written in that way, but it was open from the start that it was an artifice used to elucidate what we know about the Greek Dark Ages.
But there is no advantage here to produce FUD. In fact it acknowledges the primary problems of fossil fuels, not deny them. They are not seeking FDA approval on a drug, or trying to show that CO2 makes us smarter and healthier. I won't use more gas now because of this article. However, if they can do it (and they have for several years in a test), then we can slow the rate of new carbon, while the growth of solar continues to grow, I think it is a potential win for us, and for a company able to do it.
the ~$100 per ton of CO2 is only to capture CO2 to the form of K2CO3, the energy cost to convert this to fuel will be much more!
Fake news :-)
That is accurate:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-administration-set...

Background on FOIA: Basically, in 1966 the US Government created the Freedom of Information Act that allowed people to ask for records from federal agencies. In theory, it was supposed to create transparency. Unfortunately, it's a bit outdated and in many areas it's turned into many in the Government thinking requestors are just out to get them (and a lot of it is also commercial requesters). Under Obama, the USG denied more requests than ever. In their defense though, it's got really easy to do a FOIA request online and flood the government with requests (it only applies at the federal level, states have their own version of public information laws).
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That's how Reality Winner leaked and she got caught via printer microdots.
I also used all languages designed by Anders, his practical approach is clearly visible in all of them. Unfortunately there are just a few interviews with him but they are all high quality: https://www.artima.com/intv/anders.html
Really doesn’t matter - the legal team at the NYT thinks it might be, and lawyers exist to tell people “you’d better not”.
Can you explain this a bit more?

Are you saying that

- Google’s policy could unmask users behind a VPN, via an IP+time correlation attack[0]

or

- VPN providers who say they don’t keep logs, are actually keeping logs in secret, because of what you’ve seen at Google

?

I’m straining to make the connection you’re hinting at.

[0] You can now basically buy these from telcos as an identity verification measure, so a VPN seems useful here.
Imagining the Google Future (2006)
Well..it broke into pieces.
Using the postal service might be lower-risk, but it's not risk free.

If you try that, don't forget about the Mail Covers [1] program.

If you're mailing a reporter at the NY Times, you're at risk if you use your own handwriting. You might also be at risk if you use a printed label [2].

There's also the risk that your mail will be intercepted, and I wouldn't be too shocked to discover that government agencies were selectively (or not-so-selectively) reading our mail [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_cover

[2]https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...

[3] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53dk3n/this-camer...
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And I am free to use Facebook and not consent. Your point being?
I'd like to see at least some evidence of the "net negative impact". In the case of slaughterhouses, it impedes the local and smaller-scale (and possibly more-human) commercial slaughter of animals. But slaughterhouses should probably, in general, be regulated. I'm not sure if extant regulations are net negative or positive. But I know that their complete absence would probably be bad. It's not a matter of existence, it's a matter of implementation.

I'm not sure it's net negative in the case of the GDPR. As a sibling (cousin?) poster said, good riddance. No company should be allowed to mismanage my personal data, big or small. Until I see evidence that GDPR compliance is cost prohibitive enough to suppress startup formation, I won't be convinced that the tradeoff isn't worth it.
There haven't even been five deaths yet in the entire history of Tesla autopilot car accidents, but there are more than three thousand deaths a day due to car accidents. Tesla's safety record actually is such that if scaled up, their would be a massive drop in the number of deaths per day. Their marketing reflects this. So does their communication on the topic. I know it can sound offensive when they say that a driver died without his hands on the wheel in the six seconds leading up to the crash, but their communication is reflective of a desire to preserve life. So I wouldn't call it evil, let alone call it blatantly evil.

Stepping back further, away from this accident, Tesla is also a leading player in moving away from destroying our planet. By that I mean they are pushing renewable energy. Again, not something I would call evil, let alone blatantly evil.
I object to the idea of limiting new carbon production is keeping the same. It is more like a victory. Solar continues to grow, and fossil fuel companies are being forced to come up with ways to make themselves carbon neutral. Sounds like a win.
You sound fancy, but also wrong.
What's the going rate for open source header files?
> In what other industries does the government require companies to develop military technology?

The canonical example is the early days of aerospace, where for all practical purposes you were developing military technology.

> So you're saying that if I found a company that is based on internet-related technologies, it is reasonable to at some point in the future compel me (or compel me to pay for someone else) to work on military drones?

The government can already compel you to license your work via eminent domain. There's an established process for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_patent_use_(United_...

At any point of time there are always a slew of 'sensitive technologies' whose use and development will be closely monitored and companies are incentivized, severely restricted, or outright barred from freely trafficking in them. It's not a giant leap of the imagination that they will be forced to do the federal govt's bidding if they already do a large amount of business with them or have started out with military IP.

'Internet-related technologies' is not one of them. There was a time when supercomputers were in this category, then it was cryptography, and now it's looking like AI.

BTW, Cisco and a few others have been forced to develop 'lawful intercept' technologies on their routers for the three-letter agencies for years, I think. There was a big controversy about this a few years ago.
Wow, this really is dramatic and telling!
Ask HN: What framework/language should I use?
I'm a product/business guy who studied computer engineering in college. I'm familiar with the basic concepts but haven't coded for a living at all.

I want to build a web application and am unsure which language/framework I should go with... I considered node/express/meteor or python/django or ruby on rails... how do I even decide?

Thoughts?
Easy, using remote debugging, just like we already can do with embedded hardware, JEE and ASP.NET servers.

It is just a matter of tool maturity.
Rails. No competition if you want to get shit done.
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I sometimes wonder what the world of computing, or even the world in general, would look like today if Linus Torvalds hadn't existed, or happened to have not gotten into computers.
first thing I do when I see a Linus email: ctrl+f "braindamage".

never disappoints.