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It's led to one company I use supporting (and forcing) HTTPS. They should have been doing it before, but it's still a win. They've also stopped asking for addresses, and are removing existing addresses:

> To reduce the amount of personal data we process for you, we have stopped asking for address, city, state and zip code in our shop (we do not ship physical goods anyway). Also, we are in the process of removing all existing address information from our customer database.
While numerical methods are absolutely critical in practice, analytic methods like you learn in what people call calculus and diff-eq are _absolutely_ essential to understanding the physical world.

You can't actually _understand_ numerical methods without a fairly deep grounding in analytical methods.

The real problem is here is a lack of context. Engineering and most science curriculums take a "short-cut" through mathematical education. They try to teach just enough math to get through the major coursework. As a result you end up with students who feel it's all just one big memorization trick .
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The comparison would be with urllib.request:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html

Which right there recommends Requests, but for simple tasks it's kind of unfortunate that people bring in a library dependency.
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I wonder whether it would make sense to force companies by law to provide proper support, given how much actual money (I know quite a number of people with four-digit-worth Steam accounts) is bound in such accounts, or how central these accounts can be for our modern lives (imagine all the identities tied to your gmail or fb or twitter accounts - and permanently losing them due to trolls "reporting" your accounts).

As for bypassing 2FA: there is, at least in Germany, a way for any online company to have the real identity of the user proven. It's called "PostIdent" and works by having you go with your ID card to a post office where it is checked. It's acceptable enough even for the strict regulatory frameworks for banks.

So the process could work like "okay, you are John Doe, and you want to re-establish control over your account with the ID 123456 by changing the primary email to john.doe@provider.com? Print out this voucher, pass PostIdent and we will modify your account".
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On the testing side of things it’s a really good option. It’s what I’ve mainly used and the Pytest test framework is incredibly flexible and powerful. I personally find it a much cleaner and more readable option when compared against Java. I’m migrating over to Websriver.io now only because I feel there is finally a good JS option that offers the flexibility needed for UI tests.
I have kind of the opposite experience. When submitting patches or solutions, you often don't get feedback at all, people just seem happy.

In some cases someone arrives and implements a smarter, shorter and more easy to read solution to the problem you addressed that is superior in every way. Puts you down for a moment, but in normal cases there isn't any snark involved at all. I hope it also happens the other way around from time to time. But in general I wouldn't say people are vindictive. It is the internet and the slapfight is forgotten 1.5 minutes after it happened.

Maybe it has something to do with how popular a project is and how often certain question are asked.
The real "pirates" are the content editors who lobby for copyright extensions so that works of art never fall into the public domain.

Public domain should be the rule and copyright the exception.
I am not surprised, considering that pirating songs is still the most hassle free way to listen to music, especially down here in India. Spotify isn't available due to label issues and local streaming services don't have a good selection of non-bollywood music. Now that physical media cannot be used anywhere in laptops or mobiles and youtube cannot be minimized on mobiles, the best and easy way to get music, especially western music is to pirate mp3 files and share it on usb sticks and sd cards.
That’s exactly how GDPR works - Google will say that they are protected under the legitimate interest exemption.
Market fragmentation causes some of this. I pay for a couple of streaming services, but occasionally rip an mp3 from YouTube for things I can't find. If there was a "pay and download mp3" button on YouTube, I'd probably pay.
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Yep. And it was abusing their dominant position in search to kill competing browsers.

I don't know why they haven't been punished for that yet after the successful taming of Microsoft some years ago.
> Stellar isn't decentralized. Just like Ripple, it uses Federated Byzantine Agreement, which means that nodes use a list of other nodes they trust. The fact that this scheme has nothing to do with the concept of a decentralized cryptocurrency

There is no centralized authority, which means that the protocol in decentralized. It's just not decentralized in exactly the same way as something like Bitcoin. Some might call that a good thing.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say part of the problem is that streaming services are not available in all countries and if they are the price is not adjusted for the income level in that country.

For instance Spotify is not available in many countries including Ukraine and India. The latter having a population of 1.3 billion people. GPM and Apple Music are better in that regard but nevertheless.
Hmmm, I feel like your sources of information are years out of date. Care to elaborate on your sources?

First, intermittency and integration costs are a huge straw man because they aren't a problem until you get well over 50% penetration of non-dispatchable generation (e.g. renewables)[1]. For the first 50% of the transition, solar or wind by themselves are way way cheaper[2], and by the time batteries are needed at scale, they will be cheap enough to make dispatchable renewables cost competitive[3].

Second, India is currently building way more solar than coal[4]. Also, they are expecting solar + storage to be cheaper than coal within 8 years[5]. So your assertions about India are way out of date.

I'm a bit worried why you still believe the renewable intermittency is a problem or why coal is cheaper. Your "laughable" confidence is likely to lead to you completely missing out on the profits from deploying renewables and storage. Oh well, I guess more money for me then.

[1]: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~smithv/docs/renewables_sgc_2013.p...

[2]: https://about.bnef.com/blog/tumbling-costs-wind-solar-batter...

[3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/how-the-w...

[4]: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/13/62-of-capacity-added-in...

[5]: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/02/23/coal-india-repor...
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I presume you don't log when you're in flow. To clarify, you only begin logging your actions when you notice you're procrastinating?
Don't forget that the small things add up -- small things on their own won't change the world, but they change the lifestyle of one family at a time, and it helps both a little in the short run, and more as children raised in climate-aware homes grow up. If everyone starts making small changes, it will change demand, which changes markets, which changes politics.

Some small examples:

Walk to the grocery store every other day instead of driving once a week.

Use mass transit. Recycle. Use products made from renewable, recyclable materials.

Go ahead and put up a solar electric system, even if the costs aren't perfect, nor is the tech, or even always the carbon offset.... but it moves demand in the right direction and sends a message.

Turn down your heat in the winter, and your AC in the summer. Turn lights off when you leave a room. Be aware of your energy burn. As another commenter said, don't write or use cryptocurrency.

Produce and buy local goods.

And for cryin' out loud -- VOTE, for people who will be on the right side of this issue.
Stellar is a waste because it's a great idea with a super cool protocol but with a useless shitcoin (XLM) all mixed up in the system.

I'm waiting for someone to rewrite Stellar to not have to use that shitcoin (if you need it for antispam, use Bitcoin Lightning donations, whatever), and also use it for other things, like federated DNS or a federated Wikipedia.
You're not looking for a surge from Google though - they're already the 1000lb gorilla, what you're looking for is the limitation in competition, which is what's occurring.

As with a lot of EU digital regulations, they're essentially centralising power to organisations who have the legal resources to either go through the process (and find loopholes), or the cash to fight it.

A lack of competition in the tracking space won't really mean the practice will disappear, but that the organisation who has the biggest consent database will take all the money by default.

I might be biased as a marketer, but I'd prefer to have multiple small companies who're tracking limited pieces of info about me across different parts of my web experience (and who may fuck up occasionally), than one huge company knowing 100% of my information.

(Edit: as a side note, the linked article is doing something shitty with the scrolling on the site, which is more annoying than semi-targeted advertising to me...)
Correct me if I'm off-base, anyone, but it appears to me that the point of the original post is to express that, if you run an open source project, and you want to take advantage of people's hard-won experience and energy to the benefit of your project, you may want to focus on having an inviting community. At least, that's how I read it.

That said, of course there's no moral obligation to contribute. However, as an original author of several open source projects, I take this as a helpful lesson around inviting others who don't have a moral obligation to feel welcome to contribute, and even find some way to reward them, even if I can only afford public praise at the time.
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Or, you need to change.
The alternative if using Ubuntu is called Snap. It has a sandbox and it is better implemented, at the very least the part about reading and writing in home dir.
The fraudsters apparently have ways to prevent their helpers from walking away with a free IPhone.
I guess because most of world on the Android phones buy handsets as pre-paid devices, using them until they either die or get stolen, so they aren't actually being replaced every 3 years.

As for security updates, yes it is a bummer, but not much better than what feature phones and Symbian used to offer, which was basically zero updates.

All the Apple stuff I have access to has been paid by my employer.

I am not doing contracts and their price ranges are out of what I deem as acceptable to pay for hardware as private user.
Why are youtube to mp3 converters illegal? I mean, it's basically just recoding a signal; I don't see how that could be an illegal action. Might as well sue me for recoding WAV to mp3 so more music fits on my phone.
We do nothing of the sort. We wait for the sea levels to rise and we build dams and walls. And we reinforce our buildings against natural disasters. And slowly the public demands changes on greenhouse gas emissions, recycling, etc, and it slowly will slow down the worsening effects.

That's the most likely scenario, nothing will change because the HackerNews netizens change cloud providers and start recycling more.
How so? Not trying to pick an argument, just wondering (as someone who's learning Python) what you mean, specifically, that will lead to this?
Interesting how he used the illustration of a “chop shop”. You would think a multi billion dollar company would have security measures in place for this kind of stuff but it just shows that we will never be able to stop criminal acts, only mitigate them to an extent.
I feel like one third would have been a better ratio.
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That would be mostly due to the massive uptake of streaming music and mobile usage.
>Would the new forest happened anyways and they are just taking your money as a bonus? Is the new forest going to be permanent or will it be removed and re-forested again in 30 years?

Perhaps, in decades/centuries a new forest might happen naturally. I should hope - if you're paying for it - that it not be permanent, carbon capture in trees happens fastest at the beginning of their lifecycle so by harvesting and re-foresting it functions as a renewable resource and has greatest efficacy as a carbon sink.
My company has a policy that if you plug that usb drive into a company computer it will wipe it and encrypt the drive, if it is not already encrypted. It would have made it difficult for people to read the information once it was out, but doesn't solve the issue of someone dropping it outside.
Here in India, 90% of teachers haven't touched what they're teaching, like ever. But you still _have_ to study it because you need to give the exam...

Not like it solves anything -- just that there's this side of the argument too..

> I've seen horrible stuff, such as C89 still being thought like it's the only standard available, or gets()...

Youre absolutely right -- although one could argue that the curious will have the decency to look this stuff up (like myself)

The teaching system is still pretty rekt on the python side of things. Its not like you'll find people who actually code teaching at Universities anyway :(

Like now we're just going into how bad the teaching system is. The original argument that python is reaching is a monoculture seems weird to me, when I can't even run the damn thing on a browser..
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> 35 years of programming and I've never met a language so well integrated with my mind.

That's a pretty good way to put it - and mirrors my feelings. I've been programming for 20+ years (with breaks here and there), and it took a while for me to find Python. But when I found it, it's like I finally found the language that my brain thinks in.
I've never heard Shenzhen be described as a hotbed for criminal activity before.
As a "sane" person from a civilized country, I don't have an online payment account. I couldn't transmit my money to spotify even if I wanted to.

That being said, I also like owning my music. As files. On my own devices. Running "fair trade" operating systems that let me do that.
How many out of a 100 ppl "ARE REGULAR" music consumers now vs 20 years ago ?
> 1 letter xbox accounts go for 10-20k. 1 letter social media accounts (twitter and IG mostly) go for anywhere from 10k upwards to 75k.

> Even if you buy an account, there's no telling if you get to keep it.

What sort of person 1) has the discretionary funds to buy an account like this, 2) wants one of these accounts so badly that they will pay that kind of money for it, and 3) is so stupid as to believe that it won't be ganked back by a different hacker, or even the same one again?

In other words, WHO IS FUELING THIS ABSURDITY?! There has to be a demand side of this equation, and, from my chair, it looks like people who have WAY more money than sense. I know there's a lot of them in the world, but, still.

I've seen several headlines recently that Sony has the console crown right now, but it seems like it wouldn't take much fear mongering by Microsoft in the right places to use this as a scare tactic against PS to try to push people back to XB. I mean, sure, this particular user "won," but you can't expect Vice to do a story about everyone who gets screwed.
???

If you guys are price sensitive, why are you not using OpenJDK? (Not to put too fine a point on it, but you sound commercial, so you guys could even consider contributing to it.)
> Although the number of trackers is decreasing overall, a few large tracking operators such as Google receive even more user data.

This won't be a popular opinion here, but... it's actually good news/ what you observe is GDPR protecting user privacy. You think that Google is bad? Then, you probablly haven't seen the smaller players. With e.g. Mouseflow, you can literally watch users enter their personal email in your "register account" field, then change their mind and use a disposable account. Or glean other kind of sensitive details (passwords too, I think).
This is why Stellar probably doesn't count as a real "blockchain." It's also why Stellar is potentially a lot more useful than blockchain. You don't have to do proof of work, which is wasteful of resources by design.

Note that the cryptocurrency people use the word "decentralized" differently from the rest of the world. They use it specifically to mean that the mechanism for determining consensus is perfectly distributed among an unknown number of arbitrary nodes.

Stellar consensus is decentralized in the conventional sense. Federation is a form of decentralization.
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And yet, these arguments remain theoretical talk - while existence of these communities, where all sharing is implemented without government or threat of violence, only serves to confirm libertarianism.
Any language with static types should be easier to make sense of, though. I get it's faster to write dynamically typed code, but your point is specifically about reading code, which I can't follow.

Of course Python nowadays has support for static types too.
Consumers are definitely sensitive to prices. In the US in the couple years before the financial crisis gasoline prices spiked to above $4/gallon. This had a dramatic effect on buying habits, with a marked shift to more fuel efficient vehicles. And it hurt SUV happy US automakers to the advantage of more fuel efficient foreign companies.

In Europe, gas prices are 2 to 3 times what they are in the US. As a result, cars are dramatically smaller and more fuel efficient. Transportation patterns are dramatically different, with many fewer miles driven per person.

It's Econ 101 that people adjust their spending in response to price changes. It varies exactly how they do so for different products, this is known as elasticity.
I'm not surprised.

Python is a very easy language to learn and use. In the end, ease of use always wins.
You don't convict on "instincts".
I used to work in a place where we had Trello boards, database integrations, and spreadsheets all triggering emails through Gmail (via Zapier) - it was startup-hacky, but it worked.
The greed of the 1% most wealthy people in the world has caused this problem so they should pool their resources and fix it.
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Eh, web assembly is coming so that we can have a _proper_ mess in the browsers :)
I mean NYC is also a hotbed for criminal activity, compared to Podunk, so it's true?
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Democracy can also undermine itself. If people "democratically" decide they don't want free speech or private property, it's not a democracy any more. I don't assert it's exactly what articles 11 and 13 are doing, but it's a step in this direction.
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Copying, any copying, is breaking copyright, if a work is copyrighted. There are some defenses you have if actually accused of copyright infringement, like fair use, but those are exceptions after you’ve been accused.

Is this absolutely crazy? Yes.
Given that we're talking about organized crime here I would assume that these ways include very credible threats of violence.
...and yet music industry revenues are on the up again.

If you can't get something legally - because you actually can't, or because you can't afford it, it's a 'victimless crime' and you desperately want it - you'll pirate it. But I think most people are happy to pay for the convenience of everything. £10 a month for Spotify is a no brainer for me. The problem happens when (label?) greed sinks in again and the streaming services fragment with 'exclusives' on each. At that point, people end up picking one to spend their cash on, and they'll pirate or stream a shitty version on YouTube the songs they can't get on their streaming service.

You want to get more people to pay? Licence everything to everything - then the only people that will pirate are the ones that would never pay anyway. And I bet they're a smaller subset than four in ten.
>I couldn't transmit my money to spotify even if I wanted to.

You surely could. Go to a store and buy a Spotify gift card with cash.
As someone who tried DDG and quickly went back to Google. I can safely say Google has a comfortable lead in the search space. They pretty much just do everything much better than everyone else in this space. I'll give an example. Lets say you want to go to the starbucks closest to you. All you have to do is open Google type the word "Starbucks" and press Directions on one of the results (usually the first one in thr list). That opens maps app with address prefilled and ready to navigate. Done!!! Type "Starbucks" in DDG and let me know what you see. There are a million of these little things that save a ton of time each day for the avg person. The general public only pays lip service to privacy concerns. Saving time and money trumps that everytime
>... his own instincts ...

Wow.

We're putting people in prison at 40 to 50 grand a year because, well, "instinct".
I think it is more common than I want to believe but I haven't given up faith of finding a place with less inept middle management than this one, one that recognizes it'll get better work product, for less money, by supplying a library reading room-like environment for those who thrive in it.

I'm lucky to be in a part of the country with lots of little hi tech places. Some day we'll be together
Well I don't exactly see any attempts to do it..
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Product-wise, I agree. Tech-wise, most of the high-scalability infrastructure, along with many big data (and machine learning) tools and practices are copied from Google. None of the other tech giants come close to the level of innovation on the technology side.

Actually, product-wise, there's some other high points as well. At any given moment, Chrome is usually the best browser, and it's certainly the one that pushed quality forward the most.
I picked up Learn Python the Hard Way. Really enjoyed it. Was super easy even for someone new to programming.

But got lost when I reached the OOP part. This speedbreaker, along with a few other distractions effectively eroded my enthusiasm for coding