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I know a lot of people I know have seen this coming and in the past few years have either switched to Windows (creative types) or to Linux (developer types).

It's fascinating to see Apple's fall from grace. They were once considered the go to hardware vendor in nearly every market segment, are now being easily passed by their competitors.
The ticket is about “free” as in freedom. VS Code comes with a restrictive license agreement.
Ask HN: What is your default privacy settings after GDPR?
What steps do you take to secure your privacy while you are browsing internet? What do you allow for websites to use after gdpr since they're mostly asking permissions now?

Are you going full mode with tor browser, with extensions etc. to give little as possible or are you trusting some sites and share your info/cookie with only them?

I thought of this question because I was always allowing everything and seeing very targeted ads and was okay with this, after reading a few posts about GDPR here, I switched to ublock, umatrix, autoclean cookies (since I don't exactly know which information they collect so I am trying to give none) etc. but I am still sceptical so I wondered how is everyone else doing?
That is so true. We were building for Telegram before Slack and was very disappointed business-wise about it.

Now we're fully focused on Slack and it helps us in building a great product for the narrow use-case.

However, of course, we're looking for ways to expand our market.

I'm not sure about Discord (how many of you guys are using it?), but MS Teams, Google Chat, and Stride are the other players that in my opinion will be able to compare with Slack in terms of features and market size.
License says you aren't allowed to attempt to derive or reverse engineer the source code. So basically the code is available, but if you look at it you are violating the license.

edit: binaries are under a restrictive license and code is not. So definitely don't use those binaries, as they are likely riddled with telemetry crap that isn't in the open source version.
Bunnie wrote about a similar example from today:
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364

At this point, it seems blindingly obvious to me that all zippers should have this tiny tab, but the zipper’s designer wouldn’t have it. Even though the tab is very small, a user can feel the subtle bumps, and it’s perceived as a defect in the design. As a result, the designer insists upon a perfectly smooth tab which accordingly has no feature to easily and reliably allow for automatic orientation.

I’d like to imagine that most people, after watching a person join pullers to sliders for a couple minutes, will be quite alright to suffer the tiny bump on the tip of their zipper to save another human the fate of having to manually align pullers into sliders for 8 hours a day.

Because of the extra labor involved in putting these together, the zippers cost more; therefore they tend to end up in high-end products. This further enforces the notion that really smooth zippers with no tiny tab on them must be the result of quality control and attention to detail.
Would be interesting reads! Do you have any material out there?
It is nonsensical to me.

Latino is a Spanish short cut for Latinoamericano or Latinoamericana. The anglicized version would be Latinamerican or just Latin. So they add the gender, Latino or Latina, and then renege it using Latinx. Why adding the gender in the first place?
The keyboards. The failure rate makes them a risky purchase. You could be just out of warranty and locked out of your machine. This is happening and driving people away. I personally am really going to miss that perfect trackpad as it's not going to be another MacBook Pro for me until this is fixed.
In the US we have the opposite. The pro-car policies have "forced people to behave like they want them to." Most Americans live in sprawling areas where people are forced to have to buy cars to do normal activities like getting to work, but groceries, or get their children to school. People are no longer free to walk and bike where they choose due to speeding traffic and highways everywhere.
>The fact that bad parenting can cause a condition doesn't invalidate the diagnosis of the condition.

You misunderstood me. The bad parent causes it by being there. If you removed the bad parent then there would be no problem.

One of the criteria (although not mentioned in this article) is that the person is having negative consequences happen in a family situation because of their gaming. A bad parent could cause these negative consequences by simply being a bad parent and as a result the kid could withdraw into gaming. With this disorder around the parent can simply blame the kid playing games without looking at their own behavior.

>A scapegoat for what?

For people who alienate those close to them, so that they can blame something else other than their behavior. If a kid wants to interact with their family then they will.
Not my post but my answers would be:

> Is that actually necessary/useful?

Yes, removes guessing, incremental attacks and off by 1 errors/attacks. Obfuscation is bad encryption but good policy.

> why Oauth instead of just a regular user table, login POST form, and the rest as you describe?

Sessions are fixed and can last an indefinite amount of time as an example.

But [token based system X for client/server or some kerberos variant for semi-trusted or m2m] will fill this void as well.
That sounds like two legal departments did not talk to each other.
It's so that we have a surplus of farms and product and won't need to defy physics by spinning up new productive farms quickly. It's a buffer in case of emergencies and disasters.
I would love to know if anyone else here has tried to do a similar thing and what their experience has been like.
Yes, travel from one place to another isn't instantaneous, and they "hide" the loading while you travel. But the game's not supposed to be a fast paced space shooter (check out Everspace for that!), and I don't think they'd take out the travel times even if they could. Trips between moons are maybe 10 seconds, and trips between planets will be longer. But it's very pretty, and the visual effects make it feel fast. Canonically I believe quantum drive around a system is moving about 0.2c.

If you don't want a "quantum drive" scene going from one place to another, you're also free to make a seamless flight using regular engines! Port Olisar to Daymar takes a bit under 10 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_iXlgxsEVc (timelapse of that trip condensed to 15 minutes)

And if you're in something bigger than a single seat fighter, you can get up and do other stuff around your ship while it's traveling, but it's not a good idea in areas with pirates. Still, more options than a Mass Effect elevator.

Flying around a planet/moon all the way down to the surface, getting out of your ship and walking around, and going inside the various outposts happens completely seamlessly. I've only fired it up a couple times since beta 3.1 came out, but my first trip down to Yela was pretty mindblowing.
Should change to MIT license. Microsoft stands to lose nothing by changing the license, but will face considerable developer ire by not changing it.

Edit: should change binaries to MIT license as well
We'll have to figure that out, won't we? The Philippines birth rate is somewhere in the vicinity of 3 children per woman. What's a more sustainable number?
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I switched back to a Linux workstation, after being "all mac laptop" since 2003 (!). My current Macbook Pro is from 2010 and my professional Macbook pro from 2015. The newest Macbooks with their stupid keyboards and USB-C only are total garbage, IMO. Sad.
I'm not arguing against this. There are winners: local producers, at least in the short term. There are losers: to importers and consumers.

What I'm arguing is that there are always winners and losers to trade barriers. Tariffs make it easy to understand and quantify this, because they are explicit and straightforward. They're flexible and leave less legacy or mess. It's always clear what they are trying to achieve, and how.

This is not an argument for trade barriers, it's an argument for how trade barriers should be implemented if they are implemented.
The tennis racket jello shot is 2500 FPS and then played at 30 FPS and interpolated to 120 FPS. The 300k number is just pure screw up in the article. The actual paper states it is 300k frames total generated not frames per second.
> As crazy as these articles have been about gaming addiction being a medical condition are

I appreciate that you're sort of equivocating here to preemptively deter the critics, but I'll take a stronger stance. Gaming is indisputably "addictive" in the layman's sense, even if people seem to get grumpy over using the term "addiction" for anything other than substance abuse. Regardless of what we call it, the detriment to daily life is similar.

I myself experience some minor form of game addiction: I played World of Warcraft about a decade ago, and even though I only played for two years and even though I was the furthest thing from a hardcore player (I never even got a character to max level, I just loved making alts), to this day I still get occasional and inexplicable cravings to play it. These episodes aren't prompted by anything I can perceive. It feels like a tugging in my heart, the same sort of ache you might feel when you watch a loved one suffering yet are powerless to help them. I've played a whole damn lot of games in my life, but that's the only one that I've ever jonesed for.
We use a similar product (Geekbot). It reassuring to see companies like this succeed. A fear is always adopting a great tool into your workflow only to get that "our incredible journey" email.
If you read the issue, the first few lines say:

> The main landing page https://code.visualstudio.com for Visual Studio Code currently does the following:

> it states the offered version is "Free. Open Source." which suggests free software to anyone who knows what the difference of "free" and "open-source" in the common word use is

> Below it immediately offers download buttons for something licensed under https://code.visualstudio.com/License/ which is absolutely not free software in any modern definition of the word.
I don't understand this position. Free trade would be nice, so let's make the furthest thing from free trade by adding tariffs?

The only time the president mentioned lower tariffs was an offhand comment at the G7. All of his other positions imply he disagrees with you and thinks trade is bad.
These are all great suggestions - choosing a reliable provider, implementing DMARC properly, and doing bounce handling are all annoying, difficult, yet necessary pains you need to go through to setup a reliable email program. Shameless plug: that's why I recently launched a Show HN: Flute Mail, in public beta, a provider-agnostic email API provider, so you can switch providers with a click, and setup automatic failover for bounced emails over multiple reliable providers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17243034
You're right and I often go back and forth on both controls when making experiments like this. I like the freedom to explore the scene with TrackballControls but I think you're right and the OrbitControls makes it easier to use.

Thank you.
“Security by obscurity” has become so misused... it doesn’t apply to this situation at all. There’s nothing illegitimate about having a secret token for your user ID. By the same logic, a password is false security.

“Security by obscurity” refers to the obscurity of the security scheme, not identifiers!
The problem is that in many American cities it doesn’t work like that - e.g. a lane of traffic is removed for a dedicated bus lane, increasing general traffic congestion, but bus utilization does not fully replace that same number of drivers that would have used that bus lane
I sadly gave up on the Mac. My next personal device is a Dell XPS.

The platform is great, and I liked the (declining) 3rd party ecosystem, but if the company doesn't give a crap about the platform, why should I?

It's probably too late, but Apple needs to break the industrial design team's stranglehold on the platform. You can only focus on things that the customer doesn't care about for so long. I pulled the plug when my colleague had to spend about $350 on magic dongles for his $2k laptop.
Why not look at an aggregation of tens of thousands of reviews? Much less likely to be bought. In the world of bots and influencers, reviews that cite the hotels weaknesses are the most valuable.
Why Intel Bought Mobileye for $15.3B: Safety
On the switch you can just go to the home screen and the game is suspended.
"Free" has unfortunately ambiguous meanings when it comes to software. The poster here isn't talking about the monetary sense; he's talking about "free" as in "free to do whatever you want with it". Microsoft stipulates things you can't do with the software, and it sounds like parts of the final product are even closed-source, similar to what Google does with Chrome vs Chromium. Except in that example, the distinction and the existence of the OSS version are much more clear and well-known.
Duh! Those places are probably also the most expensive to buy.

I don't really know about the Bay Area but I would bet that rents are probably "cheap" compared to prices.

Where I live, it currently takes 30 annual rents to buy the same place.

The average over the last couple of decades is 26 annual rents. Which means renting has relatively become cheaper. I bet the same holds true for the Bay Area.
Thanks for supporting.
I think the main reason this has done well is because of the quality of the logos. They are simple yet detailed, and just fresh and nice.

However, is there a mechanism to "call" the logos? Suppose I want a fox one for my open source foxy-pythons project and my arch rival uses it for foxy-rails and we don't discover it till the great tech crunch final battle. Shouldn't there be a way of knowing someone already used it?
Yup. Heavily protectionist. Thats exactly how an unbiased economist would characterize US trade policy. Stop watching msnbc dude.

The USA became the world's largest evonomy with massive tariffs on basically all imports. Smoot Hawley Act anyone? Those were removed gradualy starting in the 1970's and lo and behold the trade deficit sky rocketted while the manufacturing economy plummeted.
Seems a bit like pedantic nitpicking. I’m pretty sure the developer community is happy with vs code as it is, FOSS advocates don’t own the word ‘free’.
That restrictive license refers to the build, at best. The vscode source is under MIT at github, there is no need to reverse engineer the build and the license of the build won't affect the license of the source code.
I believe they have a goal release target and they will hit it if money doesn't run out. I am not as certain about monet running out because it's nearly impossible to know how far away their target is and they just keep adding to their head count.

I can easily defend the game itself and try to, but the project management is harder. Sure, we can see huge progress is happening and they are making two games at once hence the massive head count. But everything else is a bit opaque.
Does the binary version of VS code send telemetry by default? I mean, that's an implication.

This goes back to the older GNU GPL vs BSD/MIT/Apache and how each group will call the other group permissive/restrictive. The spirit of free software from the 90s/00s, specifically that of the FSF/Linux communities, isn't really reflected anymore today.

Today most open source projects are commercially supported. I wrote a longer article detailing this a while back:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source...
BSD is free to adopt the GPL at their leisure. Who knows, companies might then start contributing to the project instead of building OS's on top of it, looking at you osx.
Playing moon landing on an old TI programmable calculator[1].

From there I used to travel into the Computing Teaching Centre in Oxford University on weekends to write BASIC on a CTL Modular One[2]. I had no idea of the significance at the time but I met Tony Hoare[3] there on numerous occasions. It was a friend who got us in, I think he just knocked on the door and said can we play with your computers and remarkably they said yes. I was 14 or 15 at the time.

The first computer I owned was an Acorn System 1[4], 1KB RAM, 512 bytes ROM and a 7 segment calculator display. I had to work through the summer holidays picking fruit to pay for it. I spent countless hours hand assembling code for it, I think the biggest project I did was a Forth like language.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-57
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Technology_Limited#Th...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_System_1
Hmmm. So the source is open and free. The compiled versions shall not be reversed. How can one validate that the compiled versions being provided are direct results of what's in the repo? Ie. Not a version with some bonus magic.
Only the "grrr Micro$oft" people care. They're effectively using the same model that Google uses for Chrome/Chromium or Android/AOSP.
The lesson from that suggests the original dev shouldn't have made the project open source in the first place. That a sad but possibly true unintended consequence.
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VS Code binary is vscode plus custom package.json which configures telemetry, gallery, logo, etc. and therefor has a custom license. Similar to Chrome & Chromium, Oracle JDK & OpenJDK, Xamarin Studio & MonoDevelop, etc. [1]

Seems fair play to me.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...
I have this exact thing for domains :)
I hold to my own metaconspiracy theory - that there is a conspiracy to create and promote conspiracy theories. It's Russians and rogue libertarians who want us to fear and hate each other and our government. I mean have you seen all the slick, high production YouTube videos describing the most ridiculous paranoid nonsense? Who's paying for all that? But I have only indirect evidence so I am only metaworried about it.
Thanks, it was almost MVP at those days. Very people from 2016 stayed with us till now.
Touch bar as well, the theoretical upsides were few and didn't really pan out. It would have been an interesting and possibly useful addition to function keys (especially at a $300 markup) but it's just awful as replacement.
I believe the Microsoft wording is correct. The software is free, in that it requires no payment for its use. It is free of cost. It is also clearly open sourced.
But that is exactly the point right? If you devalue the common currency then the amount you pay Greek farmers goes "up" effectively, and the price you pay German farmers also goes "up" so the relative costs of things stay the same and nothing changes. Whereas with a translation layer (currency exchange) you can "adjust" what it costs Greece and what it costs Germany to the advantage of one or the other.

A tariff is a way to adjust this economic cost externally which takes it out of the market's hands and put it into a political realm and one step removed from the actual economy that should be adjusting.
Why am I double-contributing if these hugely profitable corporations won't even pay their fair share?

Facebook steals my data and sells it, but I also need to subsidize the development of their instant messenger?
Come back once you've read past the first page.
This is so stupid. It doesn't say "free software" the page say "free" like zero cost.

This person obviously just want something to be angry at, which is typical for free software advocates. Instead of complaining that other people do not adhere to what you believe, go create it yourself. You do not own the word and if you're so for freedom, why are you so against others not making the same priorities?

It makes so little sense to me.
I might be missing something, but you're still relying on the BIOS to have the graphical representation of those letters. Right?
I was excited about the Touch Bar, but it turns out function keys were entirely adequate. Anyone actually using it for more on a regular basis?

Touch ID on the other hand is incredibly useful, although much like the iPhone, it seems inevitable we will see Face ID sometime soon (which critics may point out just means Apple has caught up with Windows Hello).
For years and years, I've advocated that Apple should just release the OS like Windows. It runs fine on a lot of PC hardware you can buy off the shelf (I've built a few PC's that do just this). And, with the Nvidia drivers that were released a year or two ago, most graphics cards people want to run are available.

I realize that there's a lot involved with suddenly trying to support an array of hardware. But, maybe release with a set of suggested hardware, and a "no guarantees" sort of license.

I've always enjoyed MacOs, but the hardware has been a joke for some time now. My old G5 Mac Pro was the pinnacle of Mac desktops, imo.
There are enough people who remember the "linux is a cancer" days to be a huge stickler about this and make it a real headache for MS. Look at the recent GVFS name change for an identical situation.
There was a cumulative $370 billion trade deficit going back to 2007, and a nearly $800 billion trade deficit back to year 2000. There has been a trade deficit with Canada every year the past 30+ years, including so far in 2018. [1]

How would Canada like to run a $800 billion trade deficit with the US over the next 17 years? You know, just to make things fair over time. Didn't think so.

On the upside, the trade deficit has narrowed from a common $30 billion five years ago, to more like $10 to $15 billion. That's a pretty happy result if you're the US, given it's a consumption engine (lower domestic savings at the median, higher consumption rate, which pushes up demand for imports in most cases).

[1] https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c1220.html
I mean, even Mozilla doesn't let you release binaries with Firefox or Thunderbird branding. Gentoo can get away with it because you're building/using it locally, but when Debain wanted to place Firefox into their package build system, they had to rename it Ice Weasel.
Same. It's the strangest thing - I watched porn from around 14 years old to about 4 years ago (when I was 22), and I had intermittent cravings until about a year later (23), when they stopped completely.

When I gave up social media (although I've since relapsed and am now back on it), I didn't have cravings for it after a while.

But with WoW.... I literally have a craving every couple months, without fail, even though I only played for about 2 years from 2004 to 2006.
As a cyclist, I cringe every time I see an Uber or Lyft sticker on a car now. These are amateur drivers doing a job that should require at least some professional training, and it shows: blocking bike lanes (and often traffic lanes too!), failing to look for cyclists when merging back into traffic (or turning right, etc.), not signalling turns half the time...

I've narrowly missed getting side-swiped more times than I can count, to the point where I'm seriously considering mounting a handlebar cam just to capture license plates.

So: if you're a Lyft or Uber driver, please please please please learn your obligations with respect to cyclists / pedestrians and associated infrastructure. (For instance: did you know that many jurisdictions have a mandatory minimum passing distance (usually 3ft / 1m), or that cyclists have "take the lane" rights in California? [1]) Otherwise, you shouldn't be on the road, and you definitely shouldn't be driving other people around for money.

[1] http://www.calbike.org/bicycling_in_california_sharing_the_r...
>I believe AI and IoT won’t replace HR professionals.

This article was clearly written by a Neural Net trained against buzzwords.
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