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> date of birth required

US law has some requirements on accounts created by minors which essentially means you must check the age for people creating new accounts, and you must not allow accounts for people < X years (but are not allowed to tell them up front).

I don't entirely understand where exactly this applies, i.e. why you can create accounts on some sites without giving your age. It might only apply in some telecommunication accounts cases, or maybe (possibly more likely), Google is one of the few companies subject to scrutiny here, so everyone else just flies under the radar.
I haven't seen Seinfeld yet but I intend to.

"Whoever is first to do something isn't likely to be the best at it, simply because everyone that comes after is building on their predecessors' work. Named after the sitcom Seinfeld, which many people won't watch any more because everything about it has been copied."
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
Teachers work more than 9 months, but even if they didn't, compare the top teachers with the top programmers.

Glassdoor reports teachers teachers average $68k, Software engineers $137k.

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/san-francisco-teacher-s...

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/san-francisco-software-...
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Very interesting, especially in light of the recent claimed hacks to ProtonMail. I've just switched to PM recently and, while I'm no cryptography expert, it did seem unlikely that typing my password into a browser app could ever be considered very secure -- certainly not "invisible" to PM since, as the author points out, you can't see or validate the code running in the browser.
As a user, what I really miss in a lot of make replacements is an obvious way to install a custom location.

Something like ./cofigure --prefix=/usr/local/foo

Another thing I miss is the ability to easily pass in custom compilation options, like: CFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb3" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/foo/include" ./configure

I know these are features of autotools I'm talking about, not of make per se. Still, a lot of tools that are supposed to be way better than make and autotools just seem to assume every user's going to install in the same location and offer no obvious way to give different compilation options and as a user it's really frustrating because I need both all the time.
> This website is optimized for certain browsers and devices.
Please upgrade your browser.

... which? Getting this with Chrome 70.0.3538.102 on Mac.
If you have Google Play installed (doesn't matter if you ever use it) then you'll also have Play Framework or whatever they call it, and that probably has permission to just about everything.

If you have an Android phone and don't trust Google then what their apps ask for seems a bit irrelevant - you've almost certainly already given them whatever you don't want them to have.
That's true. But by the time EVs make up a significant portion of the vehicle fleet in those areas (enough to justify a rescue van with onboard charging!), chargers will be much more common.

Also, by nature, most "ran out of charge" incidents will happen near a charger (or near home, etc) because the driver thought they could make it. It's not likely that someone would drive off into some really remote area with no idea of where they would charge the car.
I am getting this with Chrome 70.0.3538.102 on Mac.
Singapore lawmaker blasts Facebook over refusal to take down 'false' post
Not really.

In many areas, the words are used as synonyms. A scooter could be anything from an unpowered skateboard with a stick to a some powered wheelchairs to a moped with decent speeds, electric or gasoline. A moped is always something one sits on and has wheels, though it can include both the small and large wheels.

Even the legal definitions don't reflect that. The difference is often more dependent on the size of engine, the speeds the vehicle can go, and things like that. These distinctions can make a difference in plates and insurance.
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> Considering all the places where they voluntarily put their content (Facebook, Twitter, Apple News, etc...), is the loss of Google News really a problem?

You should read up on the german Leistungsschutzrecht-Saga from a few years back. The media industry was lobbying for years to get Google to pay for showing links and snippets to their content in Google News. When the legislation finally passed Google offered publishers the option to delist them from Google News (not search) or keep showing their results while waiving their right to get paid. They all chose the latter thereby rendering the very same legislation they have been pushing for so long useless. Absolutely absurd.
I've seen a lot of teams write code internally with the intent of open-sourcing everything once they're done. If you're doing this, you're missing out on a huge opportunity. Just as important as open-sourcing the code, is open-sourcing the collaboration process. Why not make your code 100% open-source from the beginning and let contributors participate in the design process? Let your contributors join in your heated debates & hear the rationale behind your design decisions.

At Origin, 100% of our code is open-source and everything we do is "public by default". We have a culture of radical inclusion and transparency. Everyone is welcome to participate in our open-source engineering process and our product discussions. Our engineers collaborate every day in our Discord (1), we track our progress on a public project board (2), discuss what we're working on each week in a public Google video Hangout (3), and publish our engineering meeting notes for the world to see. (4). As a result, it's really easy for outsiders to get up to speed on what we're building, what our current needs are, and get a feel for our company culture. While our core engineer team is only 9 people, we've had over 60 contributors to our codebase and we have new people showing up every week wanting to get involved. We've also been able to attract and hire amazingly talented people we would never have discovered if we were running a traditional hiring process.

Don't just open-source your code. Open-source your collaboration process too.

(1) https://www.originprotocol.com/discord

(2) https://github.com/orgs/OriginProtocol/projects/2

(3) https://meet.google.com/pws-cgyd-tqp (Every Wed at 1pm PT)

(4) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aRcAk_rEjRgd1BppzxZJK9RX...
Chromecast and all the other IPV4/6 based wireless HDMI are really intensive and saturate your LAN. I have a wireless HDMI that uses directional infrared and it's quite performant with no resource contention issues.
I would be surprised if there was any crypto where not any output bit depended on any input bit (of course it depends on what precisely one means by "depends upon"). Otherwise, couldn't the search-space be partitioned? See also: Shannon's confusion and diffusion principle [1], as well as the avalanche effect [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect
Lexus' new AI-written TV ad, and the rise of emotionally manipulative algorithms
Surveillance marketing: Too much personalization can hurt your brand
I'd love to know who they are!
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I'm unclear - is it intended primarily as a modelling tool, or as a library for implementing state-machine in JS app, or both?
Find someone successful in business who doesn't talk like this. There are plenty of them around. I can't stand this type of talk either, thankfully when I started my business my friends / mentors were much more down-to-earth.
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Just sent this bug report (from the Android client, lol). Will post their response here:

What is the official response to this report?

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1121.pdf

I'm not a cryptography expert but I am a web developer and even I can figure out that typing my password into a web app reveals my private key to you if you want to steal it.

The author is right in one respect: the online and self- updating nature of the web app makes it impossible for anyone to verify what code you're really running.

Reading this report also makes me question your response to the recent hack/extortion incident. Now, I'm not really convinced about your response.

There's nothing in my PM account that's secret and I don't really care if you were hacked. I use PM to avoid being tracked for advertising. But I do agree with the author of this paper that you shouldn't make these security claims which aren't true.

Thanks in advance for your response.

-- D
I have a friend going through this now - roughly a call per minute, DND ineffectual, has tried Call Protect, ShouldIAnswer, Nomorobo, Hiya, and TrapCall. Paid to upgrade ShouldIAnswer. Do Not Disturb set to allow only contacts to call. Confirmed number was on Do Not Call registry.

Calls still coming.
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Thanks, just curious because you are the first I here that have used Emacs and decide for something else.

For org-mode outside Emacs I do not know VSc but I've used in the past Vim port and agree: outside Emacs org-mode support is simply too limited to be considered...
My limited experience with SCons suggests that it is not worse w.r.t this functionality, assuming both configure/make source for autotools and SConstrict/SConscript are written correctly.
Hi thanks for your reply! Will definitely take a look at the links you've provided!
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I wonder these days how much of an illusion this was.

A free-to-use global computer network borne of a military projects programme with all communications in the clear by default, centralised in a country with a highly active global foreign policy. Hmmm. Looking at it like that it seems Google and Facebook are just picking up where the other guys left off.

But yeah still glad we have it though.
So many submissions, as yet zero comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18487584

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18463384

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18457194

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18449205

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18446035

Does no one have something interesting to say or add?
Is... Is this some kind of parody / troll comment?
These are utterly unrelated, the majority of Steam Machines that were sold were sold runing Windows :)

The actual number of SteamOS machines that were sold was a rounding error.
With heaps of oversight and red tape.
All AndroidTVs and any non Android TV Valve has made an app for which is currently Samsung and LG.
I would generally only donate to non-profits that have 501(c)(3) status (not sure if this one does). Not just because I want to save money on my tax, but also because the IRS has some checks in place to make sure the money is used as intended.

EDIT: It looks like they do have it.
> It’s really difficult to have your engineering quality or culture NOT reflected in your open source projects.

Would it be completely unthinkable that a company runs an open source showcase team like Oracle runs their America's Cup boat, as an independent entity paid to project the brands name into the world? That would be far from the idea of business open source, but it might not be the worst way of funding the kind of free software that is not directly connected to a specific business case. Many of us don't exactly remember the name Transmeta for their CPUs, for example.
> What do you mean by that? Can you explain?

Maybe he means culturally
In ML: when your model is not defined by a fixed set of parameters, but the number of "parameters" varies depending on the training data. For example k nearest neighbor classification requires storing the entire training set in order to be able to make predictions. Gaussian process regression and Dirichlet process based clustering (mixture fitting) are other examples. Linear regression on the other hand is parametric as the model is defined by a fixed set of coefficients whose count does not depend on the number of training examples/observations.
Actually, you still have a copy of the data, in memory.
Literary academia does that, but I've not yet developed a habit for it myself.
How do I account for collision loss of two boat hulls?
There were two fishship collided in my city， i did not know how to help them， is there a book about it？
Just a little hole in one ship， but bulb bow of another ship was damaged.
We do not want to know accident responsibility.
We just want to know the hull loss of each other
I use mine for both and love that you can just minimize Steam to stream the desktop and arbitrary non-Steam applications without hacks.

It's one of the most useful gadgets I have.
So in simple terms, it's basically a highly convertible currency, but now all the things you can convert it into are useless, which means it's not as valuable as before. Did I get that right?
The copy is the original
Hopefully, the fear of internal whistleblowers?
It looks as though Google have gradually eliminated support for this because "reasons" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30053167/autocomplete-of...
Not really a Google thing. They all want your data- the tech industry is rotten to the core. Every app is tracking you, copying your contacts .
I've personally never been quizzed for a position. I know people that have in the same general area so I don't think its consistent; I've just been lucky.

As for adding without the + operator, a + b = a - -b :)
Maybe something like http://madlib.apache.org/ ?
> Sadly a RPi cannot do HVEC encoding using hw.

Do you know any small formfactor SoC that can, by any chance? Might be a good intermediate upgrade while waiting for decent AV1 hardware to arrive.
I don't think open sourcing code will necessarily attract better developers. Better is highly subjective. If anything it will attract more compatible developers.
If you feel like you aren’t paying more for something when you pay 5$ more just because I pay 20$ more, then have some magic beans to sell you.

China is “paying for the war” or “losing” in the sense that more of their soldiers are dying (more increase in cost), but at the end of the day no one is better of in the middle of a war than in peace and soldiers are dying on both sides. Also, at the end of it they may end up winning the war even if they do have larger losses along the way.
Would you go through a concrete example?
> So saying they don't care about something they use daily is ....wrong.

A lot of people don't care about cars but will still own one to drive to work every day. It's just a tool.
Question is, how does it know to ask?

If it is based on analysis done by the local machine, no problem. However, if it is based on analysis done by google servers, big problem!
Oh, no.
It seems Nadim (the author of this paper) took it really badly when we called him out for intentionally spreading fake news this weekend. Putting aside the author's personal biases for a moment, the difference of opinion with Nadim can be boiled down to a couple elements.

The key question being debated is whether or not web applications can constitute end to end encryption. Nadim's opinion is that, as he writes, "no webmail-style application could". His viewpoint is that E2EE is not possible with web clients, period, end of discussion. This is a rather extreme position to take as it would also apply to the web versions of Whatsapp or Wire, for instance.

ProtonMail, like Whatsapp and Wire, offers apps on Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android. Like Whatsapp and Wire, we also offer a web app. The major opinion Nadim is expressing here is that we should offer all the above, minus the web-app, because in his opinion, you can't do end-to-end encryption in a webapp. Obviously Whatspp and Wire do not share this opinion. Signal coincidentally does share this opinion.

We do understand Nadim's arguments, and agree that web-apps are less secure than say a native iOS app. Where we differ in opinion is that we don't believe the threat model of web-apps is so fundamentally different from an iOS app, that we need to take the step of not offering a web-app at all. When it comes to mobile apps for instance, the situation is really not so different, particularly since automatic updates are the norm and recommended for security.

There are definitely design decisions that we could have taken to make ProtonMail more secure (no passwords, only passphrases, sync keys between devices using QR codes, no web app etc), but this could compromise usability to a large degree, which runs contrary to our goals.

Disagreeing on design decisions however, does not indicate that the cryptography is unsound or improperly implemented, as this paper seems to imply. That's why this paper reminds us a bit of the now retracted story in the Guardian about Whatsapp's "security flaw", which was in fact a design decision. It is also a bit disingenuous to claim that ProtonMail doesn't meet it's "self-professed security goals", when we have fundamentally different interpretations of those security goals.
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YSFlight user[0] made POC "Airfield Lighting"[1,2,3]

[0] https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?f=302&t=9596&p=114194#...

[1] http://i.imgur.com/MFlehkM.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/am9LzmZ.png

[3] http://i.imgur.com/3KjRHk7.png
We've had lots of local-coop fun with 'Salt and Sanctuary', in case you missed it.
Anyone who'd been paying attention to the mainstream media would've heard the opposite: that the tariffs would come straight out of US consumer's pockets. See for instance https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/business/economy/trump-ch...

The impression that that readers of say the New York Times would be left with at this point is that Trump stupidly imposed tariffs that only hit American consumers, whereas China brilliantly targetted tariffs right at Trump's base. This appears to be the precise opposite of the truth: the tariffs on China are mostly affecting China, and whilst the overall impact of the soy tariff isn't clear it was definitely the result of it being one of the few things the US exported to China in significant amounts rather than of ingenious Chinese planning.
You may like PureScript. More like Elm in sense of purity, without the "artificial" constraints (Elm's creator believes the lang should not/nevah/evah serve general purpose).
> I don't entirely understand where exactly this applies, i.e. why you can create accounts on some sites without giving your age.

That law is called COPPA ("Children Online Privacy Protection Act"). It applies to sites dedicated to children (as per https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...). As Google uses one and the same account for all its services including YouTube, all Google accounts are potentially "dedicated to children" (YouTube IIRC has even a special section for videos suitable even for toddlers).
For a long time, I thought he and Joseph Campbell were the same person (as in "the mentor of Asimov, the one with the hero's journey").
I agree with Chrome's decision here. The data remains the property of the user, they are free to cache it on their machine or upload it to Google if they so desire. Pages that disable autocomplete (or break it with hacks) should die.
Read "The Red Queen" by Matt Ridley. You'd understand that and some more.
This kind of argument is what companies always say is the reason for telemetry, yet somehow it finds it's way into being sold and abused for spam with distressing frequency. At this point it behooves us to not take information that has repeatedly been proven to be false at face value.
For a discussion about morality and, arguably, lack of morality at an extreme level (strategic nuclear war plans) - worth considering the discussion between Marine General David Shoup and Air Force General Power:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/3/22/314933/-

"any plan that kills millions of Chinese when it isn't even their war is not a good plan. This is not the American way."
I'm so sorry for this
My first SaaS app, thoughts?
So you agree with Steve Bannon. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying you're over generalizing. And you would never accept other generalizations like the one you're making.

For instance the democratic party is good for nothing because Anthony weiner is in jail for soliciting sex with a minor.

You could make that argument. Still too one sided.
> Chrome is fun, today I learned you cannot turn off auto-complete for a page in chrome.

Because people were abusing it left-and-right to prevent password managers, and as e.g. banks (my own bank did this...) rarely listen to customers, Google instead decided to disable that opt-out for everyone instead.
See our response above, hopefully that gives a bit more insight into why we have decided to continue offering a web-app.
> Seeing how they had an $800 billion trading surplus with US, I'd expect that.

You're doubling the trade surplus. It was $375 billion for 2017. Total trade was $635 billion.

China's trade surplus with the US for 2018 is running slightly higher, it'll probably come in near $410b. Mostly due to the US consumer and economy being pretty revved up this year.
Once it has been used, it is too late. This insight would therefore not be a solution to the problem.
If you just want to maximise the average amount of money that you end up with then you should bet your entire fortune every day. Of course you will be bankrupt if you ever lose your bet, which is very likely over the course of 50 years. But in the ridiculously unlikely event that you won every bet your fortune would be even more ridiculously large. So the average amount of money would be very large, even though you would very probably be bankrupt.
and for King of the Hill, he says he identifies with that personally. In particular with Hank.
I'm going to question my sibling commenters' assumptions here - reading between the lines of your comment it seems this may have been developed as part of a work project using your employer's time / equipment? In which case I'd look into the terms of your contract before releasing anything.

Of course if this is a side project on your own time then personal GitHub all the way - your employer doesn't deserve any of the credit at all. I always have a good look at job applicants' GitHub accounts and while contributing to open source isn't a requirement, it certainly helps.
I am not sure TLS would have been better if instead everyone rolled their own TLS implementation.

Nor do I think that a more diverse world of TLS implementations would've led to better auditing of openSSL. We had barely enough eyeballs to audit openSSL, let alone to audit more stuff.

The issue with openSSL was that the protocol was sufficiently complicated and sufficiently critical that people just picked the available option. Perhaps those who did look into the code they were running concluded it was bad, but weren't willing to create a new library.
Besides, any new library would have the stigma of 'they are using a non-standard and new crypto library'.

In that case, the solution would've been louder complains about the code quality of openSSL.