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Original text removed as I already stated below it was wrong but people keep complaining.

Apparently it is illegal since the start of this year (in the Netherlands, as it is where the article is from) since may 2018 as the new AVG went into effect and it is considered personal data which requires approval for publishing.
Surely you wouldn't accept "Unless it has a connection failure, your wireless headphones alway just work". Because it's implying it has more reliability than it actually has. And the reality is that wired headphones don't always just work either. I've had heaps of problems with the headphones themselves, and several instances of issues with the jacks.
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You can still have mutable references and impure functions in Haskell, but its not like "path of least resistance" of other languages. The IO type marks impure functions

Also one can use STRef if they want to have a pure function that is internally implemented with mutable values - that is all the side effects are self contained.

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_pro...

"a function can still be pure even if it calls impure functions, as long as the side effects don't escape the outer function"
Here is the real question everybody should ask themselves: In today’s world, Why do I try to work honestly for a dollar?
That is exactly why AirPods are an absolutely superior product.
What about the mobile site?
> For anyone out of the loop, he sounds like an interstellar douchebag. And, because the article is public, this can become a problem.

I'm out of the loop and didn't get this sense at all. His points seemed fair enough to me. There's way too much entitlement evident amongst people who use, and sometimes even contribute, to OSS[1]. It gets frustrating, and Rich has explained why.

[1] I've never been an maintainer of a popular OSS project, and don't want to be, but a few years ago I was a custodian for a relatively popular free (as in beer, not as in speech) tool, and we'd often get emails from users acting like we owed them something.
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Well, it doesn't explain why Debian gave in. They're supposed to listen to the people, aren't they?
Honestly, I don’t know, but my guess is that it had some things turned off by default. Actually K8s is the most encouraging project in this regard in that it has opinions about how containers should work so they are slowly adding all the secure options by default when containers are orchestrated to the various runtimes. There are only a few features left that remain to be turned on (user namespacing being the most notable).
Well, personally, I had to look up what 'nerfed' means. It's a video gaming term apparently? But you do have a talent for headlines. :-)

I wonder if they worried about igniting the atmosphere, like the Los Alamos people considered they might with a much smaller bomb.
I wonder if this article ended up improving search ranking and revenues for the creator. Another form of automated seo generation I see is youtube users that scrape images and 3rd party news articles then convert them into a video with a slide show and overlayed text to speech. Curious what their ad revenue looks like. I assume a bot does all the work and creates thousands of videos using that approach per day.
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Did the Russian make money too??
> recent nodejs security issue.

Uh-oh. I hadn't been aware of this. Do you have a link, please? (Quick google didn't help much.)
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IVF was also very controversial and "unnatural" at the time. I hope the kid is fine.
In taxes maybe?
I think applied collectivism might be particularly difficult for Westerners to reconcile with our world view, especially those part of entrepreneurship communities.
Used to be if you used Safari you can play video in the background. On iPad it also meant you can get picture-in-picture. Not sure if those "tricks" still work.
I like headphone jacks. They're small, harmless, useful, and work easily. A good idea would be to put them in a phone for customer and listener convenience.
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> I am genuinely curious why you, or anyone else, would think he is right.

Because Rich has the rights to do what he wants with his time and money. (Like everybody else.) It is completely within his rights to establish his own governance and contribution model for his version of Clojure. At the very least, I don't see an argument why it's NOT within his rights to do so.

Of course, there are several corollaries. The first is that nobody is forced to use or contribute to Clojure. The second is that, given that Clojure is Free Software, it's possible for someone else to pick up the baton, make a fork, and run it their own way. (egcs and XEmacs both come to mind as examples where someone did this and it wound up improving the original.... so there _is_ precedent.)

I wouldn't feel terribly bad if someone made this fork, but I'm not going to do it myself. Unlike Rich, I'm not willing at the moment to make the personal sacrifices that'd be required to make this sort of contribution. Neither, apparently, is anyone else.

So Rich gets to make the rules. Because he (and Cognitect) have paid the dues. Whether that's good for Clojure in the long run remains to be seen. (But honestly, my semi-informed take on the ecosystem is that it needs library maintenance much more than it does core language improvements. The core language has been an excellent choice for many purposes for years.)
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For one very niche use-case.

No wireless technology is a replacement for the headphone jack. It will probably be decades before we have anything decent (though I'm not hopeful).
> If you go around advertising your package, get people to depend on it, then compromise them later, that's malpractice on your part.

I tend to agree with this. I've always had a great deal of sympathy with OSS devs and maintainers, but if you've gone out of your way to evangelise people onto your platform (OSS or otherwise), then leave them high and dry, resulting in a load of complaints/bitterness, you have to bear at least some of the responsibility for that outcome.
The problem with your theory is that even in hosted platforms, IT is a cost center.

"The real pros" you speak of are also under the same cost pressures as everyone else. I have encountered many such services where after the "real pros" have set up a system, they are replaced by low cost staff who can maintain and minimally extend while billing...
> So I've started a wiki, and I hope I can convince a few more people to help contribute content.

Where can this be found?
Modern headphones are wireless, and, incidentally, literally have batteries included.
Heh I live near the Supreme store in nyc and every weekend without fail people start to queue up around the corner in the morning. Everything about this brand (down to its Logo which was “appropriated” from Barbara Kruger “I shop therefore I am”) is about appropriating other designs. So they’re essentially selling hype at huge markup via tiny store and line round the whole block. I see people stand in this line all day in the winter! Although some of them are enterprising individuals who re-sell these items at 500% profit
This. I continue to hear about hacks of people running ping to keep a single instance warm. But that doesn't cover periodic changes in capacity needs nor spikes. I would think to avoid cold starts all together you'd need a pinger that sent exactly the load difference between peak load and current load. I would love to hear if anyone is keeping Lambdas warm at more than n=1 capacity.
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to be fair, it's only a claim. not a case (yet).
The national data protection authorities can now actually look into it and maybe make fines for that. however I guess proceeding could take a while.
It's a transliteration of Arabic. There's no single correct transliteration so it depends on the publisher as to what spelling they use.

Here's a very fun Stack Overflow question about using a regex to match the different spellings: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5365283/regular-expressi...
It is not universally agreed that an analog, unbalanced headphone jack is a "perfectly good solution".
> I don't think it should be this hard

The difficulty arises from the underlying complexity. The underlying layers are necessarily complex, and the law of conservation of complexity applies. Documentation can be improved, and it will improve with time - and managed services will get more powerful. But yeah.
And an army of Joe Nobody bots would attack to this information immediately. Please be realistic and why twist words..
I think the interesting question is are there scenarios where the practically achievable precision is good enough that the other benefits of analogue/mechanical results in a net win.

This is a point pondering hard about. Especially so, when we ourselves in the midst of programming with differentiable functions/programs approximated on digital computers.

One can see that one of the tools that will help us grapple with this question is rate distortion theory in general and quantization in particular.
If they were in college, university or first real world job, it’s very likely they had lots or acquaintances they could tap for mutually beneficial help.
it's only a violation IF the authorities think it's a violation. they decide the fine, if any at all.
So if I made an open source solution that automates a lot of this ... I guess it would help a lot of people.
About the personal knife, it is interesting that in the french country, you often see people eating with their own personal knife, even when they have all the cutlery they need in the kitchen. Lagiole or Opinel folding knives are typical.

These knives are often prized possessions, and it is not uncommon to see old people using the same knife they had when they were young, the blade being shortened by successive sharpening.
Thanks for bringing data into the discussion!

("Yes and") There's also very little rate benefit to adjustable mortgages right now, so it's quite sensible to take a fixed rate mortgage. When I bought my first house (in 1996), I recall that fixed rate mortgages were several points higher than adjustable rate mortgages during their fixed portion. In cases like that, it made for an actual decision.

With both fixed rates and ARMs having roughly the same initial rates, there's little reason to choose adjustable.
I think you should expand this absolutely excellent post into an article.
It’s not so surprising, since once you have a compass, straightedge, and a line segment you call “unit length”, you can construct all of the integer valued points in the plane.
Same BS answer was made when Google discontinued their "instant search" feature. You could type and search results would pop up while you were typing.
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Think of Google as an airship. Platforms and features have mass. They've done everything they can to rise without dumping platforms or features. Now they're shedding excess mass to continue rising.

This means streamlining platforms and trimming excess/old code.

I've seen 'code debt' and 'technical debt' mentioned more than a few times in this thread and I think these are why Google is so aggressive about dropping support for things. They don't have time, and the engineers don't want to be forced into someone else's pet project (face it, that's where a lot of these platforms and features come from).

So they cut their losses and rise.
A person who send their resume with no directly relevant experience (being fresh out of school) but listed an array of holiday jobs that got me intrigued.

During the interview, it took me 10 minutes to make the decision to give him a change. He took it and owned it. Worked hard, learned fast and had a great personality making my other coders (8) feel more at ease, motivated, honest and communicative.

Since then, I make sure HR does not hard filter all responses and try to give at least 1 or 2 outliers a change. Results are what you expect :)

One other great hire was a person that came back into the industry (coding) after a 10-year break (children). Over performed like nobody I have ever seen. She is now a C level at a very large international company, x times my senior.
> many times I'd find someone writing as if they were an expert but you could just tell they were only regurgitating something they read.

that's 90% of HN too though.
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I'm doing the reset password procedure on this site, but all the links I get in my inbox direct me to an error page with the message "Unknown or expired link.". Am I the only one with this issue?
Otherwise its called marketing and you have to pay for it. (Not get paid for it)
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My bank verifies my government issued ID. The government is the provider of ID, the bank just verifies that. Some other services might leverage the banks for this too, but in no way does this mean that the bank is providing the ID.

I also have never seen anyone else verify my ID with my bank. I have seen them verify income, but that’s not surprising since that’s where I store my money. When someone demands to know who I am, they usually require my drivers license, passport, or SSN, none of which are bank issued.

And again, consumers send money all the time, using banks and other regular financial institutions. If they couldn’t send money, the economy would have ground to a halt.

So again: why should I want to switch to bitcoin, or have my bank built on bitcoin? It’s perfectly reasonable to say that banks are going to make protocol changes under the hood to make things smoother, that happens all the time. But to say we’re going to use a whole new currency needs justification to the end users who will notice the change.
State budgets are utterly imploding under public debt obligations. To claim there was austerity in the US is comical. The lack of meaningful budget tightening now is going to cause actual austerity eventually though.
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> I'm going to post a comment that will get down voted immediately

... because it is wrong.

> but yes. Unless you are exiting violence or defamation is your goal.

What other goals would you have though? To cause embarrassment or inconvenience would count as harassment or bullying which are not legal in most jurisdictions.

What good reasons can you think of for publishing an individuals address without their permission?

It being able to be found elsewhere adequate justification: if it is that easy to find then what is your reason for republishing?

With regard to your edit (that happened while I was typing), legal concerns aside are there any morally justifiable reasons that spring to mind?
Consumer rights are generally valued lower in the US, and conversely Corporate rights are valued lower in the EU.
This is a common copyright fallacy. So common that Brad Templeton was combatting it 20 years ago. Publication does not waive copyright.

* https://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
> I don't think drafting women, for example, is going to be a net win for society.

If having a draft is good for society, especially a limited, skills-based draft (one of the things that the selective service system in principle supports), then excluding women from registration for it an exposure is a net loss (even if you might also benefit from excluding or limiting exposure of people who might bear children in the future to the type of mass draft used for, e.g., the world wars.)

> But while we still have such laws there has to be a legal definition of gender

The question was “what is the harm of making legal gender optional?” Obsoleting distinctions in law that are not themselves beneficial is not a harm.
It does not require other nations to defend Ukraine from a non-nuclear attack.
And yet, _most_ people have some interest in treating other people respectfully. Which is the only reason the open source ecosystem works at all.
Wow, I didn't even realise Helvetica needed a licence. Nor that its pay per click:

"When purchasing your digital ad license, you specify the number of impressions your campaign will require. If you’re uncertain how many impressions you will need, you can purchase a small allotment and true up at the end of the month."

https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/helvetica/licenses
Headphone jack, water resistance, pick one.
My view is that I don't understand. It looks like you do. Yay!

I will try to explain to you why I don't understand. Maybe you can help.

Computers are an extension of our brains. What I think is happening is that people doing a whole bunch of immoral things online: lying, sock-puppeting, and so forth. But there's a not direct person-to-person link where money trades hands and the other person gets screwed. Instead it's much more subtle than that.

When you add it all up, yes, we agree, a lot of this looks like fraud to me. But maybe it's fraud in the moral sense and not fraud in the criminal sense? If I tell my Uncle Amit that his new suit looks good on him, even though it doesn't, then goes out and buys a dozen, is that fraud? What if 100 people he doesn't know participate in the same kind of lie only using a lot of different tech?

My point is that simple lying is not a crime. So it can't all be a crime. And now I'm back to trying to figure out where the line is.

ADD: As I typed this, I noticed that my FB notification went off in one of my browser tabs. I click over -- and FB is notifying me of something it already notified me of. But got me to click! I'm seeing a lot of social sites doing this double-notification stuff. I understand about distributed databases, that there might be a reason for it. But after a while, this starts to look like a whiny, pathetic attempt just to get me back looking at more Facebook.

Is that fraud? How about when Facebook both shows more of my stuff and more of the people I interact with to me -- while we're all online together, hoping that we'll start interacting directly -- and staying on FB?

There's an enormous amount of this online. FB is only used here as an example. How about when you hellban people and they think they're typing comments into a forum but they're really not? You're directly taking their time and energy away from them by lying.

I hate all of this. I'm just not sure it should be a crime.
> Ethernet to all rooms, and put in other silly features

I feel wired ethernet is essential. 2.4GHz is saturated and 5.8GHz has trouble penetrating certain rooms. I'm lucky that my 10yo condo has Cat5 wiring to telephone jacks in each room. Rather than an expensive wire run I just punch in new jacks.

What boggles my mind is poorly designed designer kitchens, bathrooms, and closets. Like adding granite countertops and a built in espresso maker suddenly means luxury. Our old apartment has less square footage yet felt 2x as large.
There goes the bread and butter use case of Cisco (plugin any network vendor) in AWS. We had a complex setup involving Cisco CSR1000 series routers just because vpcs cannot do transit peering.

AWS is really eating into the business of its vendor ecosystem.
I would agree that it's unlikely that Google or Microsoft will start making prosthetics -- although they could spin GCP or Azure off into other corporate entities or operators who did someday.

More likely would be that Google, Amazon, Microsoft and some affiliated company would be competing in a space where telemetry from something like a prosthetic was reporting information that had some value.

In any situation, the downside of renting something is that you lose control. It is something that you need to think about and incorporate into your business strategy in some scenarios.
One thing that I've found increasingly distasteful (I've noticed it in the React community, but it may be a wider trend), is the use of conference talks to announce/launch projects.

Thankfully it's still usually the case that the content of the talk is generally valuable. But ultimately, if I'm paying to fly somewhere and see your talk, I'm there to learn, not to witness your own self-promotion.
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Squelchy artifacts in music were noticeable over bluetooth in a 2016 model year rental I drove recently. Sound quality was definitely superior with an aux cable. I will almost certainly never buy a phone without that jack.
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I understand the feeling and mostly share it. But if you are wise about that, would I be mistaken in assuming you are also wise with your spending? Perhaps wiser than what the restaurant owners desire.

Therefore it's probably in their best (financial) interest to select for those who will look for popularity and happily blow away money on high-margin items on the menu.
> I've had quite a few headphones in a row whose jack ended up failing due to the way my phone is placed inside my pocket, and a repair was impossible ...

Why don't you change the way you put it in your pocket?
The EU countries (generally) believe in positive liberty where people believe those they vote into power then have the right to tell people what to do for the greater good of some ideology.

The USA (generally) believes in negative liberty which is based around the individual being able to do whatever they want unless it actually harms another person.

Both positive and negative liberty are valid views but generally positive liberty leads towards trouble in the form of authoritarian issues.
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Because they hire lots of designers and they have to keep them busy so they don't leave.
YouTube was full of pirated content when I looked at it this morning...
Aren't you only thinking of a few expensive "flagship" Android phones? I don't think the vast majority of recent Android phones have followed either of those two innovations.
>As a new piece of legislation enacted in May, ...

It's in effect since 2016. I wish there was better research in these articles...
FWIW in most of the civilized world (sans Americas) you'll get laughed out of the room for thinking humans are divided into races.
This study is totally missing the point. Intermittent fasting is not about weight loss. It's about trying to mimic bodily processes that result from fasted states that have been observed to lengthen lifespan.
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Wonderful example of how autonomous driving can start being used sooner rather than later in real-life limited scenarios! Well done, Volvo!
Reliability is huge.

The bluetooth implementations all suck. My $40k car is about as reliable and predictable from a bluetooth perspective as Chinese knock-off Jawbone copycat from 2007.
This is just nonsense, and surprising nonsense from a lawyer. Under UK law, parliament and select committees have the power to “send for people, papers, and records.” And they have the power to enforce their decision to send for a person. They rarely do this because people rarely refuse to appear before committees when invited. But it is within their legal power. This person was in the UK, subject to UK laws, and what they did was entirely legal. As for articles, try this: http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN062...