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>Tillerson’s decision comes after POLITICO reported that he was holding off on using the money despite the desire of Republicans and Democrats to see it spent.

>Almost $20 million of the $60 million was already in the State Department’s coffers and will be released to the center's officials to fight propaganda by terrorist groups such as the Islamic State. Tillerson also approved a request for a transfer of $40 million from the Pentagon to the center so it can fight state-sponsored propaganda.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/31/rex-tillerson-fund...

Both the Pentagon money and the original S.3274 amount were authorized, albeit after some foot dragging by Tillerson. That would seem to undercut my speculation that it went and was spent by news orgs, we'd have to figure out who the GEC's non-governmental partners were/are. I'm not sure how to look that up.
I've worked on services running on java 8 getting high throughput with AES-NI, maxing out 10Gig interfaces. Java is rarely a problem there. Where it is, you can even JNI out to openssl for your AES-NI encryption needs and spare yourself a little CPU power (we discovered that JNI isn't as big a performance hit as people would have you believe)
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The hackery is literally opening the users control center and clicking the icon for desktop theme and clicking on a different theme and clicking apply.

This sets the users desktop colors. Firefox will pick this up and use these colors for elements on the page unless these elements are explicitly styled by the developer.

So say the users theme specifies a grey or black background and white text. The developer wants a slightly different grey on the text but is ok with the default light background that developer assumes will show up.

Since the user specified a default color for the background and the developer did not we get a grey background. Since the developer selected a text color that takes precedence over the users selected color so we get grey text.

End result grey text on the grey background. There is no hackery. The user can't just style both because by design the developers choices are supposed to override defaults.

The user didn't do anything wrong. It is 100% the developers fault for explicitly specifying the color of the text and assuming (making an ass out of you and me) that the background would be a certain color because it is on their install of chrome. This is no different than assuming the users screen is a certain size. If you set the color of text just go ahead and actually specify the background color as well.
The mentality is still there, but years of polish has made it hard to detect by outsiders. I wouldn't for a moment attribute any of MSFT's moves to goodwill.

They were bareknuckled and bloody for years - they got slapped by regulators for it and it was forced under the surface.
NSA needs access to the top government officials via their iphones.
Nowhere in WCAG 2 will you find anything that explicitly outlines both color and background color need to defined in stylesheets.

WCAG doesn't specify implementation, but WCAG 1.4.3 does require a minimum contrast ratio[0]. If the site allows black text on a black background, it will fail that requirement.

0 - https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...
I wasn't familiar with this site. Some great stories about some great games here:

https://www.filfre.net/hall-of-fame/
I'm pretty sure dark (or at least custom) themes came before the web.
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Some people have different points of view, for sure! I am objecting to the argument that:

some people have different value judgements than you do -> those people also probably think statements like yours are paternalistic and condescending.
I wonder what percentage of the Canadian population can receive terrestrial TV and radio transmissions? I can pick up the Washington stations in Vancouver, BC and even as far north as Squamish in good conditions, and that's without a particularly good antenna.

Many other Canadian cities like Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Kingston, Winnipeg, Quebec and Windsor, all seem pretty close to the border too. Of course it works the other way too, I can pick up Canadian radio in Bellingham or even Mount Vernon.

How do country based TV rights work in /that/ context?
I used VPNs. But FB keeps a track of a lot of public VPN & Cloud providers and then throws a ton more "captchas" your way - asking for your picture, govt id, phone number verification etc.

As for searches - I've searched a lot of random stuff totally unrelated to my personal account JUST to throw FB off while acting like a real user (liking, reading, scrolling etc.).
> For whatever reason, the industry press never liked Ballmer, and I guess they like Satya

Ballmer made several missteps:

1. Fruitless foray into mobile with acquisition of Nokia and Windows Mobile and Windows Phone strategies.

2. Billion+ dollar acquisition of Skype that basically went no where.

3. Remember a company called aQuantive? Don't worry, neither does anyone else. Ballmer's MS purchased them for $6 billion.

That's off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are more examples.
You're right, not illegal in that way. I miswrote.
We don't have a role for pure Rust development but I'd be interested to meet somebody with C++ plus Rust, or Python plus Rust. Maven primarily uses C++, C# and Python, but we've recently started using Rust on a couple of projects.
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> Nobody thinks they're evil,

I do, because evil is banal. Rationalizing crazy behavior is what evil usually looks like. Larger evils occur when "trivial" problems are ignored, allowing the deviant behavior to be normalized. Intentions are not relevant, because it's easy to rationalize away the craziest of behaviors.

"No one involved in an extralegal activity thinks of themselves as nefarious. I'm a businessman, okay?" - Quark, DS9 S6E25
For as long as I can recall, the CSS linting tools I have used always warn when defining one and not the other, so it just became a habit for me.
Here is a recent status update with pictures of the beta unit:

https://mntmn.com/media/news_md/2019-01-14-status_update_on_...
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>Commute traffic is very bursty and very unidirectional.

Which creates carpooling opportunities through economies of scale, as Uber/Lyft pool is already demonstrating.
I agree with you, I often find I like Microsoft's services and subsidiary products (those you listed).

I also use the crap out of Excel.

But he's right Windows is taking a dive. And other Microsoft products. Example number 1: Excel has these cheesy glide animations that do nothing but slow down imports.

I export a report from quickbooks to excel and if it's a large one it almost feels like Excel will crash just from processing so many animations.

I tried turning it off, but it's not as easy as it looks.
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What is preventing a company with a self-driving fleet purchasing a few parking lots or cutting deals with them? The cost of it would be a rounding error next to their investment in a self driving fleet.
Computer Science does not have the same heightened degree of Ethical Concern that exists in other sciences. E.g. genetic manipulation of human embryos is highly scrutinized, and action is taken when behavior that would corrupt future generations of humans is identified. Not so with CS.

CS Ethics is muted, often conflated with Corporate Ethics whose "Greed is good" line seems to have won out above other ethical mantras.
If you know more than me, then isn't it incumbent on you to venture an opinion on why we're in the situation of trying to avoid a hard border?

If you're asking for my personal, subjective opinion, then I think it's a combination of two factors.

Firstly, there are the local issues. Taken in isolation, avoiding changes that would unnecessarily restrict crossings at the NI/Ireland border is obviously a good thing, particularly for the people and businesses near that border. Meanwhile, closing the border has little upside for anyone at this level. That means maintaining the open border is a solid vote-winner, like having more funding for the NHS or more teachers in schools.

Any resulting costs will be elsewhere, in this case at a national/international level where potentially the open border could conflict with other possibly desirable outcomes. But of course there are complicated legal issues involved because of the history, and on top of that there is an implied threat of violence that can be invoked. It is very easy to paint a picture where changing the Irish border causes Very Bad Things to happen, and thus not changing the Irish border becomes an attractive proxy for blocking those other outcomes if in your view they are not so desirable but it's harder to make a direct case against them.

In short, there are important local considerations, but at national/international level it's also a convenient vessel for blocking other changes that some parties don't want.

It's probably a rather cynical point of view, but the proxy debate going on here does remind me of the people in the UK who suddenly became constitutional scholars and fierce advocates of this concept they'd never heard of a week earlier called parliamentary sovereignty, right around the time that a referendum widely advertised as giving the people a final say returned a result they didn't support but it turned out that constitutionally the referendum couldn't be binding after all and the current balance of opinion in Parliament might go the other way. It's a very large scale version of getting bogged down in legal technicalities, unfortunately at the expense of more reasoned debate on the underlying issues of substance.
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Ask HN: Is there a justification for a Facebook browser extension?
Is there any potential for growing a user base for a product that is:

* A visual layer of communication on top of Facebook, thus relies on a mass of users to create traffic.

* Browser extension (desktop and some mobile browsers such as Yandex)

* Taking into account 75% of users are using mobile devices:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/380550/share-of-global-mobile-facebook-users/
If it can be done it will be done seems to be the moral of these stories so lets hope not.
Linking these to colab notebooks would be amazing!
As always, I guess a bunch of millennials don't have a clue about cults.
IBM is especially confusing because they actually have offices in SV.
GNU Make makes it easy to write a makefile that works well for a clean serial build, but has bugs once you add -j or when your repository is in some intermediate state.

So true. I wrote about this and solutions here: https://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/pitfalls-and-benefits-g...
Wow, that's a ridiculously user-hostile approach to the problem.
I'll bet you use Azure though (even if you don't realize it). I guarantee you use apps/websites/services that leverage Azure.
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You could recharge your phone using sticks (https://www.rei.com/product/115523/biolite-wood-burning-camp...) or a solar panel.
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Could you provide the JavaScript code that would allow a modal button to access these items?
Let's please not hypothesize exotic attack capability without evidence. It makes it difficult to get people to pay attention when we really need them to be concerned about sophisticated adversaries.
I might misunderstand the question here.

Could you elaborate more why the complete grammar of Rust is important for writing a compiler (for any programming langugage) in Rust?

I thought the question was about whether to write a compiler in Rust or C. But it seems you meant writing a parser that parsed the Rust language itself. Or there's something I misunderstand here.
Regarding #1, eventually I expect Microsoft to release their own Linux distribution and keep Windows as a GUI.

I would not be surprised if their failed project Astoria was reused to run android apps on that.
Installing or uninstalling something might have arbitrary side effects, especially on Windows. Its harder to reason about things that happen in parallel, and since uninstalling things is relatively uncommon, there's little need to spend the effort to make it reliable.

Of course, there's little reason to make the user choose only one thing to uninstall at a time. On Linux you can specify a list of things to uninstall, and the package manager will uninstall everything on the list without further input from the user.

Of course, it'll still be serialized, but that doesn't matter much when the computer is doing all the work.
My biggest gripe with OsmAnd is the fact that plug-ins are actually part of the source code, meaning that I would need to recompile the entire project to accommodate, say, a plug-in that could pull in traffic data. That's my largest use case for maps apps - avoiding traffic on my lengthy commute.

There are some gross hacks to get traffic overlays on the map, but the navigation still chooses routes independently of that data (driving you right into traffic)
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That's true. But there is some progress on that as well. From Jan 2019, the so called VAT MOSS (mini one stop shop) is open to companies from outside the EU as well: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-changes-to-th...

I don't know how it works exactly, but it means that you can now supply digital goods and services to all EU countries after getting registered with the VAT MOSS instead of registering for VAT in every single EU country.

Also, for very small suppliers there is now a €10,000 (p.a) threshold (total sales into the EU) below which you don't have to charge VAT at all.
And the sort of trade deals brexiteers want to negotiate would be far beyond anything comparable to the few EEA exceptions on common tariffs, so it in no way an equitable comparison. For a start, EEA members contribute billions to the EU budget for the market access they get towards common institutions and programmes. The brexit camp want to end all payments to the EU, so a Norway style arrangement is, apparently, off the table.
Given there are lots of species that use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation this is highly surprising. Perhaps there have been mass extinctions but they're not readily found, or our timings are wrong so they don't appear synchronised?

I wonder if there wouldn't be more seismic activity?
Yet at the same time the thing my kids love watching the most on Netflix is Paw Patrol, a animated commercial to sell dog toys, produced in: Canada (we live in Europe btw).

So I don't think the problem is Netflix draining out local culture with foreign ones.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Except that taking proper rest and fluids has consistently helped me to get over anything like colds ever since, and as far as I'm aware it is the only common factor that changed other than my age.
No, let’s use the 6ft freed up for a protected bike lane.
You can use disposable phone numbers to receive text messages
Do you support charging fares for access to public transit? Why or why not? How is bus fare different from a road fee?
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that's clearly wrong. not everybody left. you left
Looks like it's out: https://www.underworldascendant.com The KickStarter FAQ mentioned both DRM-Free and Linux, I don't see either in the release :/
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>Just charge for road use instead.

They do, through taxes. Regional monopolies like inexpensive roads and transportation benefit everyone, even if you're not the one physically driving on it.
this will accelerate the rollout of congestion pricing in the US.
Cos you first actually just need to make some amount of money. Any amount of money. Small is a good target. There is no guarantee you can even hit that. So you make the easiest possible Target to hit and then you ramp it up as you go.
I guess it's Bell Let's Talk In Open Day, all day every day.
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Thank you! Appreciate that.
I live in New Zealand, so no US state or federal laws apply (unless I get extradited?)

Yes, it is a legal requirement, which in practice could void an insurance claim, or a criminal case if I hurt someone, but sometimes you just have to make a choice.
I have never been bugged since I've set up my phone and disabled the bundled apps I didn't need. Galaxy S7 with Oreo.
Space trackers are giving scientists foot by foot look of the wildlife