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How is the 1st Amendment relevant when private parties deal with each other? (As far as I know, it's not.)

It's contract law and tort law that's relevant. Intel's defective product, Intel's ToS, and maybe fair use. (As the tester could get the patch without an explicit license and try to claim fair use.)
Yes, I think so. If you believe that it was used previously, show evidence?
I don't really care what oath the doctor took (especially considering the actual wording of the hippocratic oath) but I definitely take comfort in the medical board's ability to revoke their license.
Fully second this, we also have Forest. They have proven to be the most reliable Home Automation part in our home.
Prices start at about EUR 500, but increase with curtain length (excluding the curtains). Seems like at lot, but having to recalibrate / repair a cheaper system every now and then will be more expensive in the end when your time is valuable.
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Had a SD card die in my Pi a few months back, good to know HA was the cause. Now running on a proper box.
Indeed mostly we encrypt phones, laptops, disks, etc. to protect in case of theft.
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Which is a really awful way of hiring. Forcing someone to go through the hassle of being a contractor for a couple of weeks, only so you can decide whether you want to hire them afterwards. I suggest you don't try this in Belgium, where employee protection is a thing and this sort of nonsense doesn't fly.

Unless, of course, you're looking for a long term contractor and not an employee.
The Case for Applied History
What's the issue with the belt mounted computer? That seems like it will be a pretty common thing for decades. We're nowhere close to a comfortable head mounted computer that can render 4k 3d scenes for an hour or more.
Kid IS the big plan then!
I feel like the safer bet is that future elections will be decided in much the same way as current elections are, by weaponized money. How many people would make great candidates that we never hear about because they don't have the money and realize the futility of even trying?
Sounds like that old site got bought by someone building a PBN (Private Blog Network).

They buy old domains, get the old content from archive.org, and then add a link in somewhere to their "money" site, or to another site in their tiered linking structure.

It's a BS tactic that can sometimes still work, but it's a LOT of effort to really keep up with it. TBH it's much easier to just actually make a site people want to use and reach out to people who might be interested in sharing it.

Hosting/managing 100's of sites just to prop up 1-2 money sites is too labor & time intensive for most of us. That said, there are some people making good money still using these tactics, as shady as they may be.
Mom reveals to kids she's a spy
> you can solve ABI issues by simply compiling yourself

As much as I would love it to be, not all Linux software is open-source (or even source-available).
Especially in the (disgusting) world of enterprise software, ABI compatibility is crucial because the word "update" basically isn't in their vocabularies.
Recompiling isn't backwards compatibility. It's essentially an update.
Backwards compatibility implies it Just Works™.
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The wired to your goggles belt mounted computer strikes me as a hazard and source of potential discomfort, and is noticeably absent from its nearest competitor. Those cables aren’t break-away, so with your view of the real world dimmed by 80%+ and your FOV narrowed life could get pretty interesting.
I had a windows mobile phone at the time and disagree. The ux of the iphone was so far beyond any competitor it was a different kind of product. It felt like a part of the future, instead of the bleeding edge of the present.
Even at very low speeds, a civilization with a 10 million year "head start" (which is nothing on the timescale of the universe) would be able to send autonomous robots across the galaxy. At least that what we would do if we had sufficient enough technology. This is essentially the paradox.
> They likely weren't very "intelligent" in recent years.

They were intelligent enough to convince a non-trivial number of voters.
Do you mean they don't know the benefits of functional programming?
No. Civil harm is something that can (for the most part) be remedied by payment of damages to the harmed person.

Assult/battery is a physical violent crime that cannot be "undone" with payments.
try to read Three Body, you will find another new world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
>No benchmarking allowed

If this isn't a smoking gun about performance loss due to vulns, I don't know what is. Intel is in hot water.
Could anyone describe practical benefits to studying lambda calculus (other than, perhaps, to better understand the underlying concepts in LISP)? It seems kind of interesting because it is a way to describe what programs do with a very small number of building blocks. But why is it useful? What insights does it bring?
There is a bare minimum of precaution some of these cases don't seem to be followed.
DES can be brute forced. RSA can as well, with key sizes that were once considered reasonable. MD5 and SHA-1 both have serious vulnerabilities.

Edit: it also used to be really common for people to use crappy, often homegrown primitives. How many systems were broken because the “encryption” was a simple xor with a fixed key or something? Now it’s very likely that the information you want to access is protected with something like TLS.
Certainly it's the sum of the parts that makes the business valuable. Some of those parts are free, but I guess I just don't understand why they should be in a business context. I am not a budding capitalist who is disappointed that I'm not getting a cut mind you. I just have no desire to contribute to commercial tools for free.

Back to the desire to work on OSS. I used to work on an OSS eCommerce platform for a living, and as an agency we would contribute back. The platform gives us work because it exists, we contribute back. But it's still all commercial software made for monetary gain. Its just tiring, and deters me from working on it after hours. I don't want my whole life to be about making other people money.
Nothing last forever.

Ideal, and idyllic, things often seem to be ruined by popularity (and the commercial or other exploitation popularity brings?).

See "overtourism" as another example (and somewhat related).
It's not clear how I, an individual consumer, even choose to avoid doing business with Equifax.
Open source is not open for all. Is open only to the developers. The most and the important distinction.

Anyway we should avoid creating this confusion with this new crazy license, commons clause is malicioua in ita attempt to use a well understood term in a way that twista its meaning.
Drag at low altitudes is much worse, so perhaps just bringing it to a higher altitude is that much more efficient?
V-EZ is now open source
I hope Eventbrite and Brown Paper Tickets are successful in stealing some business from their nasty competitors like Ticketmaster whose fees can be 50% of the ticket price.

Edit: their fees can be over 100% of the ticket price.
I know what you mean, and I've often wondered why this hasn't happened yet. I honestly think that a big reason why this has not yet happened is that most of the young folks who are equipped with the kind of free time and expertise to do it have no idea how easy Visual Basic was. And not just VB6 -- NeXTStep/OpenSTEP, Delphi... They were never exposed to the successes -- and many, many failures -- of the RAD environments of the 1990s.

(I've been toggling bits and writing C for a living for a long time now, I certainly suck at anything web-related).

You look at enthusiastic web developers telling you that Electron is easy if you couple it with React (I think?) or Photon, and I mean, they're sort of right if you're comparing it to GTK (or ohgodohgodohgod MFC). But if you've touched Visual Basic, NeXTStep (or Cocoa, or GNUStep), or even Qt for that matter, it seems anything but easy.

It's illuminating to show someone who's reasonably apt with computers but never wrote much code (save, maybe, for some Excel formulas) how to write the "canonical" currency converter app from the NeXTStep docs. You need to explain pretty much four concepts to get them to grok how things work in Visual Basic: what a form is, what an event is, what an event handler is, and how you get and set data from and to UI elements. You can whip it up together in 30 minutes, tops, and they can do a variation on that topic all by themselves the next day. You need half that time just to explain what CSS is and how to center most things with it, and then you get into the whole renderer process vs. main process thing. Eww.

I suppose the other big reason is that things like branding and recognition are touted as Really Important (TM), so no one really wants to design a tool that helps you build an interface that looks like any other interface (somewhat ironic, considering how uniform and compliant web design is in 2018).
Did you bother to read the article? The company admitted fault.
Fogleman also have awesome Minecraft-clone[0] in Python/pyglet in just 900 lines of code.

[0] https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft
I’m turned off from going by the fact that it seems the only friends I know that go are a narrow demographic of your typical techie. They plan their entire year around it and act like it’s their sole purpose in life. Honestly I don’t want to end up like that, thinking that the real world offers no thrill or spectacle or surprises such that I need to reduce my life down into a few weeks in the desert at the end of the year.
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I meant anal, short for "anal retentive" i.e. paranoid about doing things "properly".

Your logic makes sense if the Earth were the same everywhere. It breaks down if you understand that New England is fundamentally different from England or Africa.

The fact that puritanism thrived says something about New England's natural state in the 1600s. It says nothing about humankind's natural state.

Really, the fact that it emerged so late in human history, and was dominant so briefly, in such an unusual place suggests it's somewhat unnatural at a species scale.
Ideally, we will connect to far away people using tv size video conferencing , that enables eye-contact and the viewing of full body langauge - maybe creating something similar to the emotional experience of meeting people(according to research). And the tech is here , just a bit expensive.

But instead we use a tool,text, that creates very little emotional connection(according to research), addicts people in all sort of ways(intentionally), manipulates them via ads, and creates all sort of negative psychological effects.
Spot on. Everyone's investing goals and risk tolerance levels are different. It'd be criminal to put my 87 year old grandmother in high growth, unprofitable equities.
If the choice comes to "be an optimist, over-hype, get funding, and survive until engineering investments pay off" or "be realist, get less funding, deliver even more mediocre product (because less funding = less engineering talent), and die" which one would you chose?

In the end what matters is runway and culture. With enough runway and solid engineering management they have a pretty high chance to eventually release revolutionary product.
Exactly. People can understand each other just fine without explaining which word they are using in Kanji. Korea was able to jettison Chinese logograms (Hanja) entirely from its education standards, and the only reason Kanji remains is due to tradition instead of any inherent superiority over the syllabaries.
From the overview:

"V-EZ is an open source, cross-platform (Windows and Linux) wrapper intended to alleviate the inherent complexity and application responsibility of using the Vulkan API. V-EZ attempts to bridge the gap between traditional graphics APIs and Vulkan by providing similar semantics to Vulkan while lowering the barrier to entry and providing an easier to use API."

Overview: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/V-EZ

Documentation: https://gpuopen-librariesandsdks.github.io/V-EZ/
Class-action lawsuits are the best tool we have -- even if the money each individual gets as part of a settlement is a pittance, in aggregate they do give companies at least some disincentive for unethical/illegal conduct.
Not to mention voters weaponizing the ballot by voting for the candidate of their choice.
LiveNation owns venues, promotion houses (booking agencies), festivals (brands), and so on.

And they can easily force their own venues and festivals to use their own system. (TicketMaster)

I hope Eventbrite can make a serious dent in this monopoly.
Johnny Five doesn't let JavaScript (Node) run on the microcontrollers themselves -- it requires a USB (or serial) link firmware installed in the board.

The program runs on your computer and issues commands to the firmware via the link. This makes the board "tethered" to the PC so to speak.

That said, hooking up a Raspberry PI running node to an Arduino sort of alleviates the "tethered-ness" and I believe it is the lowest effort barrier to entry into robotics and presents endless creative opportunities.
I am a vegetarian and have a dog. I love my dog. However I also know I'm a very hypocritic human being. The kibble my dog eats is made of chicken, so I'm actually sponsoring the killing 100's of cute adorable chicks to feed my dog.

But my dog doesn't like a vegan diet, probably not healthy for him either.

I think the argument I've heard from some of my meat eating friends is "why should we be vegetarians? animals kill other animals, we are also animals. Most animals don't usually kill their own kind. We do the same. At the end nature is quite violent. The most adaptable survive. Humans are the most powerful species because we've killed other potentially powerful species in the race of evolution. Killing to win is in our nature"
I am kind of glad that they actually have a real product. IT still feels like they took in way too much investment but at least they are not a complete fraud like I started to suspect.
The fact that so many businesses want to kill class-action suits is, to me, a testament to how effective they actually are.
Ya, there's a huge niche in the market for pro-American leaks.
WINE + DXVK can pretty much run any modern game (with varying performance).
As eager as I would be for a Foundation TV show, I think about Dune and what an abomination that was. Similarly, I loved The Hobbit, but Jackson's trilogy was all but unrecognizable. With few exceptions (GoT, for example), multi-volume novels are made well.
Traditionally companies achieved profitability before trying to bilk the average Joe's 401k.
How useful is a PhD in computer science and/or machine learning these days?
Dealing with Side Effects in Pure Functional JavaScript
Earlier this year there was a good EconTalk episode[1] with the CEO of the Burning Man Project. I've never been to the festival, but I'm fascinated by the economic and logistical challenges of keeping the thing going (in contrast to something like Woodstock, whose 30th anniversary event in 1999 was a train wreck).

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/marian-goodell-on-burning-man/
An update on state-sponsored activity
Congrats to EventBrite on choosing to go public, but I think a congratulations is in order for their 2017 sales team.

> More than 95% of creators who used our platform in 2017 signed themselves up for Eventbrite. In 2017, we derived 54% of our net revenue from these creators.

Selling to about 35,000 creators (700,000 total) for 46% of the profit is no small chore, and, in my mind, speaks to a highly effective sales strategy. It also partially explains why LiveNation is not taking a "create your own event online" approach: direct sales can be more profitable.
Meanwhile the full series isn’t available in iBooks
So you're betting Facebook will always be on top of the world.

Otherwise in ten, twenty, however many years, when Facebook is churning through ideas to stay profitable and relevant, "selling our user's data" becomes a very attractive one.
A reminder about government-backed phishing
That's nonsense. PCI/PCIe FPGA accelerator boards have been around for ages, mostly used by the finance traders and for machine learning/math-intensive computations before cheap GPUs with much simpler programming models (no need to write e.g. matrix multiplication in VHDL/Verilog anymore) like the various programmable shaders, CUDA and OpenCL have pretty much relegated them into obscurity.

FPGA is great if you need to talk to some hardware very fast/on many pins. E.g. something like a network router where you are shuffling packets between many high speed interfaces. Or doing a lot of measurements/interfacing a bunch of high speed sensors.

But not for general purpose software - GPUs are both faster, easier to develop for (and with good tooling) and much cheaper for doing that today.
I wanted to post that exact quote as a TL;DR for the article.

We can consider the article a reminder that secure communication tools are not enough for full privacy. One also needs a privacy aware behavior to take advantage of such tools: don't record/backup these conversations, delete the history from your app, have strong passwords, etc.
Place a stack of books so that only you can see the monitor, then feed your partner info as needed when you get stuck.
Straight from the BM blog: A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man. (TLDR: nobody).

https://journal.burningman.org/2016/10/philosophical-center/...
Hopefully you're also happy to be exercising some stock options!
I don't think the payout in wrongful death or personal injury lawsuits really "undoes" the harm any more than a payout in an assault case would.
So will JavaScript and C# be patched?
I’d love a good modern Dune movie series. It would go well in the current genre of dystopia movies.
Response from Intel that includes a new version of the license is here:

https://twitter.com/imadsousou/status/1032680311753072640

Disclaimer: I work at Intel
Fantastic! Also "Operating Systems: Three Easy Steps" Authors have written up about Free/Open Source book experience. :-)

http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-fre...
Plenty of people feel the pain, but do you really think this Congress gives two shits about regular people?
OK, I have to go Google its nearest competitor now, to try to understand your point of comparison...

Edit: I think you're talking about Hololens, which does put all of the batteries on your head. Yes, I think you've correctly identified another company taking a different approach. And you've correctly identified the usability trafeoff associated with the belt-mounted battery. I maintain that the tradeoffs are such that we will see many companies using non-head-mounted batteries in order to support longer use sessions.

Hololens is notably not good enough, graphically. Neither is Magic Leap. I don't contest that you can do a not-good-enough head mounted computer
This looks promising. I've been looking for apps to test out the new Siri Shortcuts and I've been in love with Speedify since it's inception. I cant wait to beta test this app!
In related news, apparently 90% of the attendees were named "Chuck U Farley".
Sony Created a Robot Dog
A great article on this very useful feature of PostgreSQL.
never expected BuzzFeed on HN frontpage (:
They're neck and neck at this point, within a few percentage points.
Zen 2 should close that gap to negligible hopefully.
Because people are irrational and clickbait runs rampant.

If they contract testing of the beta to a 3rd party, they don't want them running benchmarks because if they get released, news organizations will jump on it, broadcasting the performance hit.

This matters because when later beta versions improve performance, the news about the improved performance doesn't spread nearly as much. Even if it does, the first impression sticks, and there's nothing Intel will be able to do about it.
I want to budget cognitive learning cycles to learning lambda calculus, but I've tried superficially a couple of times and couldn't find a practical reason to do so. Prioritizing picking up a more nuts & bolts skill has always seemed more engaging and lucrative. If I already know some Lisp-ish stuff from languages I already know, is there some benefit to picking up Lambda Calculus that isn't super obvious?
Understanding Overdelegation in Tezos
I went in 2010 and one of the first people I met there was an advertising exec who said this event was the only time she felt alive. It was really sad.
Hacker News be like:

"Speech should be free and unlimited!!!.... Well, unless the topic of the speech is me, then I should be able to control 100% what what other people are saying about me, of course."

How you gonna sue someone for saying things about you that are true? That's not a thing (for good reason). Would you also sue a friend if you borrowed money from them and didn't pay it back and they warned others not to lend to you? Imagine how much a judge would laugh if you showed up to court saying "I didn't get a mortgage because I have a history of not paying my bills, I deserve compensation."

Nonsensical.

That's ignoring the fact that you actually consent to data sharing as a condition of obtaining credit products. And that's a reasonable condition with a business justification.

In the US it's politically infeasible to have any sort of government agency to collect this information, so it falls on the shoulders of private companies.

The data Equifax has on me is the exact opposite of "damaging." Because of data sharing I'm eligible for a broad range of credit products that I have gotten tens of thousands of dollars in value from. On top of that the information they collect about me allows me to pay a very small premium for car and home owner's insurance.
And in practice, we also don´t have completely free markets, and even if we did, it´s highly unlikely that they would function the way current economic theory believes that they would.
I have to admit I heard about Snapchat for the first time when they turned down IIRC a billion dollars from Facebook. Then I looked into it and realized that the CEO must be crazy because his audience was almost entirely composed of fickle teenagers.
Ifixit is such a treasure trove these days. Their guides are so well-made, accessible to all audiences, and they don't seem to have any biases towards any one platform/technical agenda. I really hope they're able to stay independent and not get bought out by Microsoft or Facebook.
The author updated the post. I'm guessing #1 (I work at Intel). Text and link below.

UPDATE: Intel has resolved their microcode licensing issue which I complained about in this blog post. The new license text is here (https://01.org/mcu-path-license-2018).
Reminds me of spending countless hours messing around in ComputerCraft. So much fun.
Denis Villeneuve is working on a new Dune adaptation.
We're talking about open-source software. And in most cases, open-source software is delivered and installed by source, and there's no such thing as an ABI issue in this case. Only API issues remain.
Check out the Huawei Matebook D with Ryzen if you want an amazingly built laptop for a great price. Might change your mind, it's the best 600 dollar laptop out there.
I am curious as to how the radio tech will work for these things. Im skeptical that something super low power will be able to send us back some pictures from that distance? Is our current tech that good?
No I'm equating the CEO Dan T. Cathy to Kim Jong-un. This guy's a scumbag who loves nothing better than commanding the world to follow his hypocritical commands, and his staff are personally responsible for supporting this behavior by going along with it. I can't say I have any respect for him, his company or the people who work for him. The US should simply outlaw his antisocial policies because that's the right thing to do.