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Check out Stephen Colbert's "Brain Fight with Tuck Buckford" - not sure who's more ridiculous him or Alex Jones. Stephen is funnier though...
But what else do you need? Facebook App?
It is not FUD. Even for a techie there's a decent amount of setup involved, not to mention the pain and cost of having to maintain an entirely separate computer dedicated to video surveillance. I have my own poe setup and maintenance is just annoying in order to maintain feature parity with a major service. For a non-techie, it's not even an option. Also indoor cameras are not equivalent to outdoor cameras, especially in terms of cost. It is going to cost a few thousand dollars for a decent non-cloud setup.
They may not have intent, but they are clearly acting negligently.
There's a reason this was shared with TechCrunch before it was shared with Microsoft.

Do we know Google didn't also have this issue? Or did they have it, patch it, and then make the press aware. Look back at Facebook's PR groups spamming TechCrunch with "tips" and hoping to seed negative articles about their adversaries. This whole thing, while a very valid problem that needs to be addressed immediately- reads exactly like some PR group dropping tips on a client's competitors to TechCrunch.

Forgive me if I'm skeptical of the motives of someone who cares more about the press finding out first that Bing is leaking potential child porn, over actually removing access to child porn.
> Most of humanity fits into those categories.

[citation needed]. "social justice" is absolutely that "most of humanity" does _not_ fall into those categories and in fact there are massive structural failures with society.

it's not "hypocrisy" to deplatform (& socially shun) racists & misogynists, and acknowledge white privilege. if you disagree with those basic tenants than you aren't worthy of being in the discussion, and, reasonable non-shitty people get to make fun of you.
Please, enlighten me further about my aspirations and motivations.
The string.h `n' versions aren't for creating C-style strings, but rather for manipulating 0-padded fixed-size buffers. stpncpy is no exception: the destination is padded if the source is smaller (of course, unnecessary for C-style strings), and the destination is not 0-terminated if the source is too large (not a great idea if you're trying to create a C-style string).

Quite why the stdio.h `n' versions do something different, I couldn't say. They should probably have chosen a different letter, as this stuff has been enough of a pitfall for long enough without adding yet another one into the mix. (One option: following the example of BSD-style `strlcpy', as popularized by Ulrich Drepper, `l'. Too late now, of course.)
> but it's hard to decide where to draw the line

It's actually very easy - legal and illegal.
Depends on what you want out of it.

- Jobs. There are plenty of PHP jobs. Some pay low but plenty pay high as well. I doubt there are jobs in backend languages that can beat PHP in terms of volume. But again, may be you don't care about volume and options.

- Ease of installation: Almost all web hosts have a default LAMP stack where P is PHP. You can setup a php website in few seconds, literally. Compiled languages may have a single binary but they still some tuning and the sheer volume of PHP servers make it easy for anyone to get started. But compared to other interpreted languages (looking at you Python), deployment is the easiest.

- Composer: I think it is an underrated package management tool. Well managed and does the job. If you are used to npm horrors, composer is a welcome change.

- WordPress. Have to talk about WordPress when it comes to PHP. Powers like 30% of ENTIRE world's websites. That is big. So yea, PHP not going anywhere anytime soon. And No, clients don't give a shit if PHP sucks. They don't.

- Laravel/Symfony: Awesome full-stack frameworks. You can build anything quickly using Laravel. If you are more creative, you can use symfony components to build your own. Both are awesome.

- PHP 7: Game changer compared to PHP 5.x. Google it.

- Documentation and support systems: Google and you will get an answer to almost any PHP related question. Try that with some of the shinier languages.

There are obviously lot of negatives as well but since you asked, I would say it is VERY relevant and will remain so for a while.
Wow you're lazy. Just google it.
The problem is Fox News. They have a cynical disregard for the truth.

Lies are sticky. If you passively listen to lies all day, it will affect even you.

Take an excerpt from this article:

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/why-lies-often-st...

Suppose you hear of a family of four who died after eating at Golden Gate Chinese Restaurant. The authorities investigate, and release the information that food poisoning was not the cause. Do you go out for Chinese tonight?
As a parent this is my sentiment. When I compare my parents middle class lifestyle to my own now, there is a lot I would not have been able to accomplish without direct financial support from them. Now I dread that I will hardly be able to do the same for my kids or even prepare for retirement.
Ring has cut a lot of corners to get to market quickly. I don't think this is the last time we'll hear of these types of issues from them (or the other small hardware co's)
Fair enough, I would say that the internals of ActiveRecord/Arel/etc can be complicated but also do a lot of work. I watched a number of presentations by tenderlove and had a bit of background/interest in that area to start with. "Go watch this guy's videos about relational algebra and SQL generation" is probably not what you want to hear when there's a bug though.

By the time you've gotten there though you've certainly more than figured out how method_missing and different filename based conventions work though, you've seen what Rails is and I'd be curious to find out what you like better!
i absolutely agree and was taking issue primarily with the lazy political framing of the parent than the broader conclusions of the article as a whole.

i also would like to see a more comprehensive study (esp. including scientific issues, which should actually be easier to measure and less contentious).
I can concur that I went to a top tier high school and I had 6 - 10 hours of high school. It wasn't because I was dicking around or a slow worker either. The pressure is high for kids these days and you should consider yourself lucky that your kids aren't in these schools.

I tried to transfer out of this school using the insane amount of homework as my reason and the Board of Ed. said the same thing - "There's no way you have that much homework." They refused to let me swap out to a less stressful school because it was such a highly regarded school. They were just so out of touch of how this school and other schools operated in this day and age that they couldn't admit that schools were so much different than 20-40 years ago in their own times.

I guarantee if I had you balance 50 chemical reaction equations, do 20 math problems in a homework set, have to read a few chapters from a book, amongst other assignments all in one night, it would take you the same amount of time to complete and you would burn out just as quickly as I and so many other kids in our nation are. Getting like 4-6 hours of sleep as a high schooler for the sake of prestige was horrible.
It's not enough to just point out a possible fallacy. What's your contention as to why the statement "Venezuela was never actually a progressive country" is inaccurate?

The parent comment asserts 1) that progressive countries must have a pluralistic division of power, 2) that Venezuela didn't, 3) therefore, Venezuela was not actually a progressive country, even if it appears to be.

Which of those assertions are you challenging?
This is something I've feared for a decade now (completed my undergrad just as the financial crisis hit). Even before that, there were worries about customer support jobs being offshored.

Airbnb, Uber, Fiverr, TaskRabbit etc are big companies built on the premise of 'you are your own boss'. I've yet to meet an Uber driver who does it because of his entrepreneurial bent. He drives Uber because his day job isn't enough to make ends meet.
> Does that deserve "kudos" compared to say, Microsoft, which doesn't open up IP as much because it's in the business of exchanging software for money?

I believe you must have missed the news of Microsoft sharing 10,000 patents with their azure customers? Is it different from what you're referring to?

https://startups.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-ip-advantage...
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> Mobile apps should die..for they add little value but cause massive privacy problems.

Mobile apps that are a bad fit for the platform should die. Not everything needs to be a mobile app but some products and services absolutely benefit from being mobile and native.
Yes, wiring is the most complicated part of any outdoor video security setup. Since you can't avoid wires, even with wireless cams (unless you opt for battery operated cams like Arlo), it's just easier to use PoE so you won't need an electrician.
The answer depends on your use case. If you need to do fast prototyping and quick shipping, especially for web apps, I'd say PHP is still relevant.
For the report embedded in the techcrunch article, I'm getting "This document has been removed from scribd" when attempting to view or download it. Why couldn't they just publish it as a PDF file on the techcrunch website?
The assumption when people say X is the problem is that it's the ROOT problem. So if you take it that way then everything is consistent including this author's title.
Actually I am, or at least I was, then I started working on some other side projects, but I should resume the development this year.
I think there's an important distinction. Social media are by definition social, so what happens there is public.

Getting your marks sent to you when you are in a different context is private; you can feel shame or stress and in fact not know how you rank vs your peers.

The social stress isn't that new, and as far as marks went both my parents grew up under systems where the marks were posted outside the classroom and class ranking was also public.

I was really struck about the "prepared" part -- a lot of this should be considered spam: I don't need to know my marks (or bank balance etc) in realtime; I want to be able to get that info when I am ready to ask for it. The continual barrage of requests for attention is itself stressful. Having access to uninterrupted quiet (and boredom, especially for younger kids) is important for mental health and creativity.

Social has its own positive place as well. HN is a form of that.
This is awesome. Biopsies today are incredibly invasive and painful. Anything that makes things less painful, safer, and cheaper is great -- means more ppl can use it and more ppl will get screened.
You'd be surprised how few parents care about mental health if a school is prestigious.
I would do it if I could read (backlit Kindle in the dark) or use my computer. Otherwise, doesn't really seem worth it.
That's the system here, and it seems to favor only individuals who are either purposefully held back a year (in the case of athletics) or whose parents have wealth and connections (in the case of athletics and the arts).

Not sure it's a great system, is what I'm saying.
Do you have any sort of off-site backup? I think one of the big advantage of the "cloud" cameras vs a home setup is that it's easy to view footage anywhere (I haven't used Blue Iris so maybe they make that easy), and if someone breaks in and steals your computer you'll still have the video somewhere else.
I came here basically to write this same comment. Can't give enough love to Jeremy Evans and his toolkit, Sequel and Roda are both "gems" of open source (pardon the ruby pun).
It's self-evident that a privacy-focused service is inevitably going to attract illegal/anathematic behavior. And it's possible that after enough stories like this and "terrorists coordinated on <random E2E encryption messaging app>", average people may decide that the tradeoffs inherent to privacy aren't worth it and start supporting things like Australia's encryption ban.
You mean you can swing your hand as if there were an axe there. It really is different and that’s why Wii sword fighting was never as good as I hoped.
In my mind, Bing has two separate issues here:

1. Not filtering out all child pornography images..

2. Suggesting search terms relating to child pornography.

The second point is the most damning, in my opinion. Here's an example:

1. Navigate to Bing Images.

2. Turn off safe search.

3. Search Bing images "sex"

4. Click on the second image.

At the top of the image detail page, there will be suggested search terms. One of them, for me, is "baby sex fetish"

They seem to process each search result image, and suggest other search terms based on what they think the image contains. For example, if I search for "breast", and click on a NSFW picture containing smaller-chested model, I end up with suggestions like "Skinny Small Tit Girls Naked".

For what it's worth, Google doesn't provide suggestions for NSFW searches at all. I think this approach goes a long ways to solving this specific issue.
How does that prove that they were right about their stance on encryption?
Earth's magnetic pole has been known to switch sides in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

"183 reversals over the last 83 million years... A brief complete reversal, known as the Laschamp event, occurred only 41,000 years ago during the last glacial period. ... Geologists first noticed that some volcanic rocks were magnetized opposite to the direction of the local Earth's field.".
I'm not saying that they should not come, if they think it works for them. I object to the propaganda that it's the only place they should come to, or that anyone will be better off in SV than elsewhere. Neither seems to be correct, or takes in account all the negative externalities of pricing out anyone who does not work in adtech.

And there are lots of places in the US where economic situation (at least if you're IT-related) is quite good. E.g. in Chicago you can have a job, and buying your own house a few years out of college is perfectly doable. And you still have access to world-class culture, entertainment, food, what not. Really, in Chicago I have never heard of anyone working even in some boring corporate drone developer position who had to live with roommates. This is something students, or day laborers do. In the Valley I regularly met grown-up people working as software engineers for FAANGs who were bunking with roommates.

Sure, if someone likes it, all the power to them, but is it really the best option for everyone?
For slow writers but quick typists, an app is always going to win out over a physical journal. Also interested in an event call export + parse.
I need a bit more than calls and text, but not that much more. If it supports Firefox and I can build stuff for it on my own (developer tools), I'll consider buying. If I can make calls and texts over WiFi with my regular number and without touching the cell chip, even better. If I can do all of that with a good user experience (meaning, stuff like Netflix, YouTube, and WebGL demos work in the browser), I'm sold.

I'll be watching the project and hopefully all of my concerns about stability and bugs will be resolved. However, I think it's very likely I'll wait for the next gen of the phone.
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I actually actively dis-recommend watching videos on something as a way to "get into" participating in a competitive activity. It's a substitute for actually doing things like practice and competition. Like, some research can be done for like what tools to use or where to play, but doing too much research and not enough actual engagement is a huge trap people fall into.
> if you've never played Tetris with a keyboard before

Wait, whaat?

Are there pointy-clicky interfaces to tetris nowadays? Well, of course there must be.. I think I last played tetris as the original version made by that Russian guy (or was it so long ago that it was a Soviet guy?) running on DOS.
Maybe consider offering a self-hosted option - even if it's a paid one, it'd be a nice alternative to things like ajaxterm.

I actually thought this looked great until I realized that it was a hosted service.
> No cloud dependence,

I own a few. I'm pretty sure you need to talk to centralized servers in order to hit your cameras, especially remotely - the time it matters most. Did I miss something?
He taught college history at a small state school. Definitely equivalent of enlisted; same sense of institutional powerlessness and futility. Officers would be the university administration. He used to circulate ("anonymously") humorous hand-drawn posters and pamphlets about their policies, and they did not appreciate his sense of humor at all.
I believe they are saying that the American Dream of owning a house and having a good job all one's life is much more difficult now that it used to be.
Homosexuality used to be illegal. If we censored anyone talking about it, it would probably still be illegal today and millions of people would still feel disgusted at themselves for having "unnatural feelings."

Legality isn't always the best way to draw a line.
I have a little bit of experience with lichess and as far as i can tell, their treating of abusers is typically rather deliberate.
Maybe you should start considering their usage policy.
Anyone remember the Facebook phone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First
You miss the point that Taleb is making. His point is something like “Rather than one big bet in biology, what about a small bet in biology, a small bet in physics, a small bet in chemistry.” Likewise, in education, instead of spending 4 years learning one thing, what about spending one year learning one thing, another year learning something else, another year learning something else, another year learning something else, and so on. Smaller, more diverse bets. The argument is especially strong for young people at the start of their career, as the risk of being overcommitted to the wrong thing is strong.
Just because it's in the terms of service (or any contract) doesn't mean it's valid and legally binding. I'm not a lawyer but I would be surprised if a term which allows arbitrary retroactive changes of contacts is legal (at last in Europe). Through that's just wrt the retroactive part.
Guessing they've never heard of "Amazon Basics" either.
These are related and I also found them interesting.

http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/exegesis/sex-shoes-and-calif...

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/encounter-shadow-buddhist-am...

Those are historical articles but this one is about recent events:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/nyregion/shambhala-sexual...
Based on your comment it seems like you haven't looked into or used a game engine since the late 90s (Cube 2 and Irrlicht?). The only real open source competition for Unreal and Unity is probably Godot, and it's not really competitive. Many of the engines you mentioned (OSG, Ogre) are not full game engine, but renderers and scene graph implementations. For that something like bgfx or even three.js if you're targeting the browser is a better open source alternative. Most of the engines you mentioned haven't been updated in years and don't have support for modern tech or platforms (VR, AR, DX12, Metal, Vulkan, PS4, XB1, Switch, etc) so you'd be better off writing your own engine if you wanted to actually ship a game. Your advice is like telling someone to license idtech in 2019...
The problem is that humans don't suddenly turn green or grow horns or have any other obvious and distinctive change upon immediately reaching the legal age for porn, there's issues of consent, etc.

Although legal vs illegal is binary, the decision tree leading up to that is ridiculously complex.
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The US has been running its own industrial propaganda machine since at least the end of WWII. Carl Bernstein and other journalists uncovered a number of "influencer" and cutout operations in the late 70s which placed CIA-sourced stories in the supposedly respectable and independent mainstream media.

The line between honest journalism, state propaganda, and fake news has always been a very porous one.

In fact there are different propaganda modalities for different demographics. Rather like advertising - if you think a message is transparent, clumsy, and ridiculous, that doesn't mean you're clever enough to be immune to manipulation, it means you're not the target audience for it.
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They say the finished phone will have USB-C. the mini-HDMI is just for the dev kits.
I imagine success like a little island, a hill surrounded by ocean. You're born wherever on the hill your parents happen to live. Your effort plus a lot of luck determines how high up that hill you're able to climb.

The higher you reach, the better the view and the fresher the coconuts. But more importantly, the farther you are from the sea. The next cyclone that rolls by chance sometimes washes anyone living too close to shore out to sea.

For generations, Americans took for granted that the hill was getting bigger, the slope was gentle, and each batch of kids could take a couple of easy steps forward and comfortably land somewhere safer and more prosperous than Mom and Dad.

But the last forty years or so of increasing economic disparity mean the peak of the hill gets higher and the slope up to it steeper every year. Harder and harder to climb, and easier to slip down, or get knocked down by a rival.

Meanwhile, outsourcing, offshoring and automation mean there is less and less shore near the bottom where you can start from. The sea is rising and if you can't at least reach the elevation marked "skilled worker", you better hope you're a good swimmer. (On top of this, the seas literally are rising, which will disproportionately harm the poor, just like Hurricane Katrina took out the lowest-elevation neighborhoods the worst.)

It is clear that many of the rich in power in this country don't give a damn about this. As far as they're concerned, the more people that get washed out to sea, the more coconuts there are left for them. They're so high up now, they can barely see the rest down there scrabbling to stay dry.

My hope is that a new wave of elected officials will change the direction we're heading. But right now, the future looks grim, and our childrens' anxiety is entirely rational.
Chess is not real-time, and it's intellectually very "pure" in that your ability at the game is not influenced by any ancillary skills- APM, hand-eye coordination, rapid scanning of multiple windows of screen when managing, say, multiple RTS expansions, etc. Your win or loss is never going to be driven by "I couldn't click fast enough" or "I mis-clicked in the heat of a battle".

Also, at least in my opinion, the very limited nature of the total set of states relative to the total set of states in something like an RTS lends itself to repeat engagement and analysis. You can, and likely will, see exactly the same board position in more than one chess game. You almost never going to see exactly the same game state in multiple SC games. That changes the dynamics of post-game analysis and skill development, IMO.

(Don't get me wrong, I enjoy both- but I do enjoy them differently.)
No worries, I’ve now spent more effort thinking about this than I really care to, and am going to go watch puppy videos.

Thank you to whoever actually deals with this, so I don’t have to.