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Developer does not equal consumer. Just because the developer agrees to the terms and conditions of Facebook's SDK, it doesn't give Facebook carte blanche on the end-user's device - before the end-user has even agreed to the app's Terms & Conditions.

Also, how in the feck do you propose avoiding using apps with the Facebook SDK included? It's not as if such use is advertised by the apps, yeah?

From your argument, it's free, so why the feck should anyone complain? That's pretty banal: Trading subversive data practices for the cost of it being "free" should never have been an acceptable position for anyone to take, in the first place - no matter who it is.
Actually, it is essential to keep people on Office, Windows is secondary, hence the big push for Office 365 subscriptions.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/18/18187990/microsoft-365-co...
I think that is the point. Moving ones personal definition of achievement from superficial to meaningful. There is a innate desire to do something useful(achieve); and you can't get rid of that. What you can do is decide what you focus your desire and actions towards.
An obvious one which comes to mind from childhood memories is the campaigns surrounding the effects of tobacco smoke. The industry flooded the media with misinformation for a number of years, and it was incredibly effective at turning smoking into a divisive topic where smokers were fighting for something by embracing ignorance just to spite the non-smokers / be "free". It was a serious battle just to get smoking banned from common interior spaces like restaurants then bars, that wasn't very long ago. It's insane.

I don't think I need to make some kind of exhaustive list here. Climate change is another obvious large-scale disinformation campaign.

EVs vs. gas vehicles is another particularly hot one over the last decade. Countless times I've seen a talking head on a screen claiming EVs are no better, that it's just a longer tail pipe. Completely disregarding the fact that EVs enable options for clean energy production, an impossibility when everyone's physicaly driving the actual oil combustors. Even if we continued using fossil fuels to generate electricity, you can do it a lot more efficiently without being space, safety, and weight constrained like you are under the hood of an automobile. Not even considering solar/wind it's an obvious win.

This stuff is so effective on a large subset of the population because we don't do a good job educating people and have long had a strong culture of celebrated ignorance. We don't optimize for producing skeptical, critical-thinking folks in our public education system. Such people don't make good consumers, it's bad for business.

An unfortunate effect is when you optimize your population for consumerism/business interests, and politicians are marketed for elections through the same means as commercial products, you don't really have a democracy anymore. It's just something going through the motions of being a democracy. The influence is too reliable and its control too concentrated. The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal is a good example of how bad it's gotten.
No, cars going more than 200km/h are widely available, even small or mid-range models.
You might consider partnering with web marketing services (the kinds that do marketing sites and SEO). They might send you contracts for custom work.

You might also consider getting into web application development. There's a lot of need still for small and medium businesses for custom portals that manage their line of business.
Embedded. That’s when I’ll beleive Rust has made it as Rust is a direct competitor to ubiquitous C in this area.

When Rust approaches and gets an IDE like Segger/Rowley, KEIL, IAR, etc then I’ll beleive it’s happening. But currently supporting a few old chips and the cargo package system having some ambiguous entries for other chips tells me it’s not close yet.
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Check out this open source project - Humanitarian Toolbox

Link - https://github.com/HTBox
There is of course no official winner, but as of right now libav essentially withered and mostly died. Maybe the project will become more lively again in the future, but probably not.

Of those downstreams who ever switched to libav, most have switched back to ffmpeg, incl Debian and now Handbrake. The development of libav slowed to essentially a halt with next to no activity in their git, and their latest release was 11 months ago, while ffmpeg had two major releases (4.0, 4.1) and numerous point releases in that period.

libav, in my humble opinion, also suffered from NIH where they sometimes - with what looked to me like religious zealotry - insisted on doing stuff own their own, while ffmpeg at the same time happily merged tons of changes from libav. This gave ffmpeg, in addition to their brand recognition and associated network effects, yet another advantage.

It also didn't help that libav created a lot of bad publicity for themselves, starting with them trying to take over ffmpeg in a hostile manner initially instead of forking, or when their debian packages (maintained by a libav member IIRC) started telling users that ffmpeg is "deprecated". Or when one of their folks sent ffmpeg a "cease and desist" letter claiming copyright of the logo they had been using for quite a while, insisting ffmpeg stop using it. (That's why libav still uses the 2d zigzag logo, while ffmpeg switched to a 3d zigzag one).
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I like to play typing games when I have a down minute, but I couldn't find a game that would let me practice the symbols I use in my day-to-day work as a programmer. I wrote Orbital Typo to fill that gap. It's my first web game. Marketing ideas would be much appreciated, as I don't have much experience in the advertising space.

The game itself is about 5KLOC of javascript code. I didn't use a game engine. Reasoning about the game structure and handling design dead-ends and workarounds was actually one of the more enjoyable aspects of the development process.
Why are most people barely able to read in such a society? Do you think if there is net return to being literate, people would not be able to learn without government?
Hacker News gets 5 million visitors a month. I'm posting on Hacker News and addressing the audience here. I did not try to find contact information for her so I could try to "school" her on how she "should" behave. I don't happen to assume she's ever going to see this remark, much less care about what I think.

If she wants to be a force for change, hopefully she's cool with sparking meaty discussion among other people who are trying to sort their crap.

Unfortunately, you can't have meaty discussion in the abstract. It's quite hard to latch onto a good topic of discussion without sounding like you are talking about something in specific, in this case her.

My attempts to try to talk here really shouldn't be construed as intent on my part to tell her how to live her life.

It's impossible to work out best practices for talking about a thing without being allowed to talk about it at all. Replies like yours are basically the norm -- we can't talk generally about what works because someone might take it as an attempt to police their choices.

I've generally erred on the side of not commenting on her choices because I believe it's her life. But that de facto leaves me no path forward for talking about any of the issues involved.

Yes, she lives in China. But none of the articles I've seen are really about her life in China per se. They are mostly about her life online interacting with the western world. That's even what the title of the piece is about.

If she were merely limiting her life to China and not intentionally circumventing their rules to reach a western audience, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

It's one of the criticisms of her I gave above: you can't post on the internet looking for money and interaction from a western audience and then tell the west "You can't criticize how I choose to express myself!" And now she's been largely cut off from her western audience and their money and is complaining about that fact.

If she just wants to be a Chinese individual with a Chinese life and no western audience and no money from Westerners via Patreon/the internet, she is free to go do that.

The west only has any interest in what she does because she chooses to go to great lengths to reach out to the west.

You can't have it both ways. You and she need to pick one.
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Please use the article's title: "Runner found to be a hitman after GPS Watch ties him to crime scene"

Or at least tame the capitalization for a more readable "Hitman runner Mark Fellows convicted of murder on GPS watch data"
He did a 10K in 47 minutes, not bad.
To be honest, only marginally better, but there was a bit more sanity in the discourse before FB ads from anonymous sources, and a bit more restraint before someone figured out that they could exploit the NI-only rules allowing anonymity for donations to put half a million quid through for Brexit.

(NI politics has been deeply dysfunctional since the 60s; it managed a decade and a half of normal politics before collapsing in a fraud scandal. Its devolved government has been shut down for two years. A bomb has just gone off in Derry, perhaps a sign of more to come. Brexit and the small government majority has allowed this dysfunctionality to leak into meanland government)

Weak investigations have been made into all the breaches of rules during the Brexit campaign, but nobody has been prosecuted yet.
As a small business owner who has paid for web design, yes I think you can make money at it. I was looking for some help developing a unique look and I found it and paid for it. I looked for someone who focused on the art, and we used SquareSpace to implement the site. This has worked out well because SS doesn't seem to go down and they have analytics baked in. I'm not beholden to the designer for hosting like I have seen with other small business websites.

Other companies I've seen doing it have been focused on a vertical, telling their customers that they'll solve all SEO problems and all that for a small initial investment and a monthly fee. I haven't believed them yet so they don't have my money.
Yup.

Then they rename it and/or break it up, and push it anyway.

See EU constitutions, repeated referendums, and finally "treaty of Lisbon".
If mitigating climate change is your thing, look for opportunities to contribute to these solutions:

http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank
And that MS bought GitHub and despite them staying the opposite I don’t believer Atom will be given the same attention as VS Code. FB have archive their plugins and the ex React manager stated that they just didn’t use it. Atom did some rendering refactor work to go AST based recently and it was since then that I’ve noticed a whole load of stuff breaking. Particularly the FB plug ins which of course will no longer be fixed. The problems with big files crashing it means I’m moving away. VS Code seems like the best way to go but it’s hard to go MS.
What do you mean? Are there not still plenty of rock bands with real drummers?
Maybe instead of hoping that the forces of capitalism alone could make us rich and enrich society, we should've gone into government where we could lay out and fund these large-scale initiatives.

It's happening, though—just slower. Government money has aided the start of electric cars and alternative energy, and a Green New Deal has a chance of building on that.
Their revenue and stock price was basically flat until 1996, when they launched their website with direct sales on the web. Then their revenue skyrocketed.

It's fair to say that they didn't really get famous until they started selling on the internet in 1996.
>And a sensor/AI package that is cheap enough to deploy to everyone can kill everyone in a car if it is hacked properly, and monoculture means everyone gets hit.

You obviously didn't watch Maximum Overdrive. The Russians have a satellite mounted laser that can save us from such a scenario.

I mean... if were going to talk about fantasy lets go all in.
That meta-analysis only looked at animals living among humans.

Is there any evidence of wild animals living far from humans getting fat as well?

If the latter are not affected, it would be reasonable to think that the former are fat because they are exposed to human junk food.

Junk food itself is a natural consequence of a food sector that has to grow in order to please its investors. Sell as much food as possible to whoever will buy it.

It can't shove food down people's mouth, but it can produce food that's deceptively tasty and manipulate our instincts.
In short:

- https://csrc.nist.gov doesn’t serve its content anymore due to the US government shutdown.

- https://csrc.nist.rip is a mirror pulled from archive.org and https://csrc.nist.rip/library its searchable index.

Intended use case is to restore access to reference documents by replacing .gov by .rip.

I added the index for batch access and easy retrieval: for example, searching crystals gives the candidate implementations used during the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization process.
>the service that TSA staff do, right now, is to let people continue to be able to fly, without (say) 5 hour lines

No, they create the lines. TSA inspections are useless. Third party evaluations (government employees trying to sneak weapons past TSA security) demonstrate that the TSA is entirely incompetent at screening for weapons. If we just let people board the plans without inspections at all it would not change the security situation.
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> I actually meant far worse for our body of knowledge and for academic credibility. Particularly since the US has taken a serious anti-academic pivot in the past 20 years.

What evidence is this claim based on?

> They were students at one point certainly, but the circumstances and mentalities of every generation of students differs. To claim there's an inconsistency is to claim you know why enrollment in these disciplines might be down (assuming it is), which you don't. And that tells you nothing about the influence of these subjects outside of academia.

Saying "they were students" is meaningless. I am pointing out the decline in student numbers because the claim that these disciplines are increasing in power is inconsistent with that... and you still haven't stated what fields you think are in those disciplines.

> Right, the hoax highlights the poor methodology common in this field,

No it doesn't, it highlights how easy it is to get bad articles into academic journals, which is also true of many other disciplines.

> The results from this field have guided a lot of policy, in government, in industry, and in academia. As but one example, Google has pushed a number of initiatives to improve diversity, initiatives that are logically impossible to implement and that are legally discriminatory (and for which they are now being sued).

Please show how these disciplines and diversity initiatives are causally linked.

> In every case, there has been no legitimate basis, and so those distinctions were torn down.

The change of ideology through history is more complex than you'd like to believe.

> Except we're now reaching a point where factual distinctions are themselves being torn down, because science itself is being questioned. Here be dragons.

There's no evidence of this. This is a conspiracy theory.
This is also how all communication is handled between Fractal Audio Axe-FX units and PC/Mac software Axe-Edit. Everything is done over MIDI, and nearly everything within MIDI via SysEx messages. Parameters of FX blocks can be individually controlled with short specific SysEx messages targeted toward the FX block and then the specific parameter within combined with its new value to be set with a checksum to wrap it all up. MIDI's low bandwidth (3125 bytes/sec) explains why it's so slow to upgrade and also why there is such high latency in modifying parameters and syncing the Axe-Edit software with the Axe-FX hardware unit.
"All that needs to happen is all of human nature needs to change"

No, just some legislation, policies, some new architecture, possibly some technology changes.

If the government for example banned any org from collecting any personal information at all without specific explicit permission, and applied the same to sharing, it would quite fundamentally change the landscape.

In fact, just taking a 'closed' approach to privacy instead of 'open' in most systems, then most privacy problems would be addressed.

Obviously, a 'hacker' could steal stuff, but those are generally marginal cases, and there's no reason that we need to live with that either.

How often to hackers steal money from your regular banks? Not very often. If we treated personal information like private data then we'd be living in a new world, about the 1990's.
Approximately 90% of billionaires are male. It seems to have quite a lot to do with gender.
In fairness, he’d be a lot poorer if he had never started Dell and instead invested those seed funds in the S&P.
I found it ironic that the emulator is written in C#/.NET, which shares some design ideas with Mesa and its linage, namely Mesa/Cedar and Modula-3.
This is pretty neat. Tangentially, does anyone have a good way of version controlling excel files? I deal with people in the finance domain all the time, and for some files that come across my desk, it's terrifying to see multi-million dollar decisions being made in a file where anyone could change anything and not know any better.
the ice man you speak of was called that because he stored bodies in ice lockers but it has also been used as a moniker ie iced(probably related to the ice man) and is used to mean a hit or assassination.

serial killers nikenames get reused as well like ripper killer monster strangler etc.
SPJ never worked at facebook.. maybe you are thinking of Simon Marlow?
stop down voting me Jeff you got better things to do.
Automating other people's work is improving the world quite a bit, if maybe only indirectly - you're now setting those people free so they can do something else instead! Though of course it's better to automate yourself out of work as much you can, because no one knows the relevant tradeoffs better than you.
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Sadly, where I live investment into gov/public IT services is done, even a big one, but the product is of very low quality. Money gets diluted and the real work is done by unskilled programmers based on bad specifications.
How much lower is the starting pay in Boise, or Kansas City or some non-tech hub? My startup company pays well over 100k for college hires with no experience. And other companies pay more. Yes, we are in one of the tech hubs (Seattle). If other companies don't pay nearly as much, why would people work there?). You might pay 20k a year for your cool apartment in walking distance to bars, shops etc, but you have a great lifestyle.
Sure, and if you'd like to point out what claims in those papers indicate that the authors believe "myths should be given equal weight as demonstrable facts", I'd love to hear it.
Company wants a verbal commitment to an offer before revealing salary. Thoughts?
Why would a company do this? Do any other companies do this?
It's not fun it's utility.

For context, imagine if the US gov said 'no more 55mph' on the highway, instead, everyone has to go 45 mph max.

Imagine how people would react.
thanks for this! I love handbrake, and am thankful for makemkv, but read Blu-ray so infrequently that I download a new makemkv each time. this is a fantastic compromise.
An actionable way to discourage this outcome is to use the General Public License version 3 or later, which contains "right to repair/right to tinker" provisions: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.en.html

In the United States, you can also join The Repair Association advocacy group: https://repair.org/
Why is it a problem that it's not optoisolated? Audio hardware (including synths, laptops, keyboards, DAWs etc) are connected via USB all the time.
I agree switching delivery mechanism from smoking to vaping is good, but in the case of this article the issue here is youth becoming nicotine addicts by going straight to vaping.

This phenomena will likely increase as Altria brings there centuries of proven addiction expertese and research to JUUL.
Oh yeah, I agree with the conclusion. Weakening of technical terms makes clear discussion of these abstract topics in a casual context exponentially more difficult.

I just don't see that argument-from-etymology is a productive way to get there since it doesn't seem to generalize.
Most modern middle class cars can go faster than 200. And you do not see many women going faster than 160km/h on the Autobahn (my personal observation).
Not really, no.

His point was that fundamentally Rust will have overhead by being safe, and that it's necessary to drop into unsafe to match the performance of C++.

He takes this further, stating that if you're going to drop into unsafe for hot code, why not just use Java/Go and FFI into C++.

This is misleading or incorrect for a few reasons.

* Rust isn't considerably slower than C++ (again, the benchmarks are total nonsense and way out of date)

* The performance differences are not a matter of safety features (such as bounds checking array accesses), but separate features like constexpr, int generics, and SIMD.

* His statement on Go/Java ignores that Go and Java will pay a significant cost for calling out to C/C++ for the "hot code"

As an aside, Rust now has explicit SIMD, and there's progress being made on `const fn` (the contexpr equivalent) and int generics.
>Cryptocurrency software is a large scale enabler for ransom, kidnapping, and money laundering, bribery, etc

All of those were done before cryptocurrency even existed. It's not enabling those things if those things are clearly possible without cryptocurrency.
I agree share icons (at least for off site sharing) shouldn't really exist at all in web pages, although I think it would be a good idea for browsers to have a share function integrated so that you could add a new share option similar to how new search options can be easily added with one click. At least one of the many benefits of the blocking I use is no share icons.
Interesting...

I’ve been using Atom for the past 3 years. I’ve tried VSCode but it just doesn’t work for my needs (I’m more DevOps than a developer). Not sure what I’ll do if Atom is EOL’d.
Only the parentheses look like brackets. Everything else looks quite nice. But for lisp programming, those bracket-looking parentheses are ugly...
Your answer should be a firm no.
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It's wonderful that people have put in so much effort to keep this history alive.

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Not all of it, but some of the force does to ensure that they meet the bar of the hiring company and also to get calibrated in the eng ladder.
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- You are getting paid to interview

- If they decline, you usually get a very generous severence package

- While sometimes technical, there is usually significantly evidence of your abilities from the acquired company's records.

- In my experience it's usually a cultural test more than any other.

- Interviewing is part of the evaluation. If the hiring company thinks everyone is grossly incompetent they can reevaluate the acquisition or call it off entirely.
"Americans agree." Oh really? I don't agree. Millions of others don't agree. Who exactly agrees? Others of a similar leftist bent? Sure, who didn't know that?

How about "Serial killer X wants more victims and Americans agree"? After all, it's certain that some Americans would actually want that.
They are trying to screw you over.