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The usual way this works nowadays is that there's a proposal developed with minimal (if any) input from anyone outside Google, often tied to the specific architectures of Chrome and whatever Google app they are trying to improve. Once they publish it, other browsers point out various problems in the proposal, but Google is unwilling to change anything non-cosmetic because "we have put a lot of time into thinking about this and we're sure we're right". Unsurprisingly, the API fails to get adoption in other browsers and web apps unless forced to for web compat reasons.

As part of this process, Google publishes a proposed standards draft that goes nowhere because of the above dynamic plus because it typically doesn't actually match the Chrome implementation. The engineer responsible for the feature gets their bonus, which is tied to shipping the feature (and throwing a standards draft over the wall is a requirement for that; it's better than nothing, but also worse than an actual standard while allowing the engineer and the rest of the Chrome team to feel good about themselves).

Crucially, there are incentives inside Google for shipping features and throwing a standards draft over the wall, but no incentives for actually getting things standardized, adopted in other browsers, addressing feedback on the standards proposal, maintaining the standard, etc. All of this shows in the observed behavior of even well-meaning engineers who have limited time and bonus targets to hit.

There's some movement towards changing the incentive structure. We'll see how it goes. There are definitely _very_ well-meaning people on the Chrome team who are not happy with the state of things and are trying to improve them.

Disclaimer: I work on Firefox and see this play out quite regularly.
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Gating content based on age isn't really about preventing access to it. Gating content (on most any basis) is more about blame-deflecting and CYA: make sure you're not the one to be fingered as the responsible party when the "they should have done something!" hysteria hits.
This is exciting. I've been noticing lots of biotech coming out of Israel these days (etc. lab grown meat). Is there some regulatory permissiveness that's enabling these to be in Israel as opposed to the U.S. or elsewhere?
Then how come most Scala code can be translated to/from Kotlin or Swift with just find-and-replace?

https://hackernoon.com/how-i-ported-10k-lines-of-scala-to-ko...

The syntax of both is extremely similar.

https://leverich.github.io/swiftislikescala/

Basically Swift and Kotlin based their syntax exactly on Scala.

> It is a kitchen sink with every feature under the sun.

You obviously don't know Scala and you're just repeating BS found on the Internet.

Scala is a much more powerful and much more abstract language than Kotlin, so comparing their syntax complexity is unfair from the start.

But if you restrict the problem space to what can be covered by both Scala and Kotlin, then Scala has in fact fewer features than Kotlin. It just happens to have a few more generic, and very powerful unique features, which might look unfamiliar to Java programmers.

Examples:

* Kotlin has special syntax for null-checking. Scala has no special syntax and implements the same feature in the standard library.

* Kotlin has special syntax for coroutines. Scala achieves the same with a library.

* Kotlin has special syntax for extension methods. Scala doesn't provide special syntax for extension methods - they can be created with implicit objects which are a much more generic feature and have other important use cases not possible in Kotlin nor Java.

* Java has special syntax for array access. Scala does not.

* Java has special syntax for interfaces with method implementations. Scala does not.

* Java has static members which are completely alien to OOP. Scala does not.

* Kotlin and Java have operators, and Kotlin has operator overloading (just like C++!), making operators second class citizen. Scala has just method names, so "operators" and regular methods are the same.

> Scala is much closer to C++ than Java

Only in terms of abstraction power (IMHO it is much above C++ in abstraction power; actually much closer to OCaml than C++), but not in terms of complexity. Scala language specification is ~200 pages long. Java is ~750 pages, C++ is ~1300 pages.
"if you fed them with boiled fuel they would overheat"

It isn't clear to me that they would.

I suppose if your cooling system was highly optimised the extra energy could tip the balance, or is that what you're saying? But then all ic engines would be cooled by their fuel, its kind of inherent to the process.
A look at IBM S/360 core memory: In the 1960s, 128 kilobytes weighed 610 pounds
So that's it, then? Some thing, say, a million light years away from another thing is in practice entirely inaccessible to civilizations existing on that other thing, requiring a minimum of a million years to reach?
This paper is really well done. Im interested in seeing what comes of this. Going to spend some more time with it. Looks like you had the initial idea in 2011, ahead of its time. Well done.
Materials for compromising someone. Blackmail material.
Well, if you had an issue with Terraform wouldn't you first look to see if there were already a module for it?

But in the case of "global" tables, they are by definition cross region and CloudFormation stacks are per region.

Looking at the code from the link...

for region in event['ResourceProperties']['ReplicationGroupList']:
replication_group.append({ 'RegionName': region})

It is doing stuff across regions.
Can't agree more, having been in a very similar position. From what I understand (based on the book SQL for Smarties), it's also more efficient for the query planner in some cases (especially when filter/non-join predicates are added to the JOIN).
unnecessary. visual cloaking. are you watching objects in 5th gen FLIR? zero radar cross section. even USAF has acknowledged craft you can't trivially observe. your point is rubbish.
I really think you and pg are saying the same thing?

The dichotomy is between people who actually roll up their sleeves and get things done, and people who just talk and "play house".

You, like many farmers, are very clearly the former. You want to avoid people who are the latter, and can generally trust your instincts on that.

When pg talks about "non-technical co-founders" I don't think he is talking about you. (The way I read "Technical" doesn't just mean coding, it also includes domain expertise, like farming or being a doctor.) I think he's talking about kids fresh out of business school who genuinely have no skills or experience or connections to contribute.

But pg is also known for, well, not being the greatest communicator. So if the things he says don't resonate with you, don't listen to him! There are so many other role models to choose from in the community.
What about concussions?
In a calibrated oven.
> Are there any publicly traded VPN providers?

McAfee bought TunnelBear
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2018 – Pew Research Center
It kinda sounds like we're actually in a gigantic black hole...
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Main branch on the repo I am working on now has 23 PRs. Every merge would trigger 24 builds ?

Our build is ~30 mins ( not ideal but not uncommon either)
> “Legal tender for all debts public and private” used to mean something...

That's a myth. From the US Treasury Dept. (https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/currency/pages...):

"[31 U.S.C. 5103] means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services."
Are we just making China the Boogeyman now on hacker news? I'm not trying to be a whataboutist, but literally everything China is doing had been done for decades by everyone else capable of doing that thing. Why are we suddenly up in arms about China?
How do you figure that it's not a country? I upvoted when I thought it was a genuine question, but now I wonder what point you're trying to make.

FWIW, wikipedia says "The United Kingdom (UK),[15] officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and sometimes referred to as Britain,[note 10] is a sovereign country located off the north-western coast of the European mainland."

Note the words "sovereign country"
There are workarounds for that: for instance, do not use such a poorly conditioned basis to describe the system. In particular, problems in physics that appear only in one particular basis are probably human-created notation issues, not something fundamental, as physics should be basis independent.
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What counts as a country varies depending on who you ask. You’re the first person I’ve seen suggest it isn’t a country, but plenty of people argue if it’s also two, three, or four countries.

(Depending on who you ask: Scotland is the least ambiguous, England is also a country, but Wales is sometimes a country and sometimes a principality of England, and NI is sometimes a region (either ‘occupied by the UK’ or ‘part of the UK’) and sometimes a country).
Oh thank you, I've never seen this talk nor heard of this conference but on it's face it sounds like it's right up my alley.
> and eat one of the donuts before getting to checkout

I'm not sure you have a legal right to do this. I'm pretty sure consuming something that isn't your is actually theft.
More reasons to run Pihole, the setup just took 20 mins including installing Rasbian. Anyone know how to mimic ublock origins filter list in Pihole ?
>Mainstream theories are largely discredited by neuroscience and psychiatry

Could you provide a citation for this claim? Thanks!
> By design there are multiple ways to write many things in the language

This can be said about any language.
True for Java, true for Python, true for Kotlin.
What about being able to make a ClosedCountableRange from that sequence? That can’t readily be done with an Any type without some type checking. Specifying an Int element type should automatically make it easier for you.
IMO that's a really poor strategy. Assuming people use this product, it will alienate anyone who comes later on after all common words have been bought up (or even the owner of a word who would like to use it for two different meanings).

More generally, it's an inaccurate model of language, because it assumes that every word has a single definition - categorically false.
That catch block is often generated automatically by android studio when you create a try block. Not addressing your comment about the general inadvisability of merely logging the error, one can, as an alternative to standard error printing, replace

e.printStackTrace()

with something like

Log.e(TAG, "Caught and ignored an exception", e)
It sounds like you agree with me. Yes, you have to know some things. Developers who came in in this culture know that inputs are for typing things and that divs are for block level elements and span for inline ones. That's a far cry from knowing HTML.

There are many developers who don't really know anything about the head element because its something their tools generate and they don't touch.
Advice on what not to do IS an insight. And there's an argument for why not. The idea that you have to give an alternative in order to not be "negative" or whatever when there's not a one-size-fits-all piece of prescriptive advice is just dumb.
Interesting. Any links to benchmarks?
-1000 for trying to do this with age-based restrictions. Kids will get around it. Kids SHOULD get around it. Gating content based on age does. not. work. Source: every teenage kid ever

My 12 year old son was helping his 10 year cousin set up Pokemon Go and he told him to just put anything in the year until it works.

Heck when I was 8 my 10 year old friend and I used to guess the leisure suit larry questions.

There is really no way to fix this, without creating some kind of goverment id system tied to biometrics, followed by the plot of any dystopian scifi.
> Everything should be encrypted both in transit and at rest. When your secret is encrypted, it is not available to the attacker and you can cut off access and rotate the plaintext secret to remedy the situation.

Not sure how valid this point is. If the attacker has access to a production server, he had also access to all needed production keys. Encrypted or not.
Are you talking about prepaid debit cards? Those have lots of fees and such; as someone who used to rely on them, they’re helpful if you absolutely need it but not easy or painless.

Banks don’t like establishing branches in low income areas, and low income people don’t usually have a means of transportation or time to get to a bank.
> We have significant, long term, data that age restrictions reduced the use of alcohol and tobacco.

Asking for a user's age and giving a dropdown that lets the user select any age they like is in no way comparable to checking an actual government-issued ID.
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It sounds like it did work, the problem is faulty solder.
If they can print a structurally complete heart -- even one without a working SA node -- they would probably be able to print working replacement valves. That would be huge news. Animal replacement valves don't last forever. Nor do artificial ones. Having a working replacement grown/printed would be incredibly valuable for lots of people.
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You also have to spend time putting in our card, then your pin, then signing something, all the while waiting on their slow connection on each step. IMO, it's faster to use cash in most cases.
It is open source. You can probably make it work with a single git merge (judging from experience with uMatrix for Edge).
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There's likely nothing wrong with the solder, but with the lack of flux.
Perhaps you should engage a lawyer yourself and send your own "cease and desist" letter in response to their actions. Let them know that their continued harassment will result in a lawsuit.

It's amazing how quickly some companies will respond to a succinct letter from a reputable law firm.
That sounds like a lot of work. I don't see any problem with committing secrets into git repositories if a) the git repo is not in the cloud, b) what the secret is used for is not in the cloud either.
So Pete gives us a social-issues platform and a game of design to play.

Can we get some economic policy ideas? Or are we gonna pretend those dont exist again
Practical TLA+ uses the Pascal-style syntax for PlusCal - the only guide to the C syntax that comes to mind ATM is Lamport's own:

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/c-manual.pdf
It's possible for userspace applications with root privileges to kill most laptops running Linux in a similar way.
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(Israeli academic here) Nothing special about regulation here. The interest in lab grown meat IMO is due to a high interest in veganism in Israel [1].

[1] https://www.israel21c.org/israel-has-most-vegans-per-capita-...
I just got 6 RX-580's for about $125 apiece. Great card and great prices.
What's wrong with Samoyeds? I understand corgis (dwarfism) and bulldogs (breathing problems) and american german shepherds (hip problems). A quick internet search didn't bring anything up regarding samoyeds and even says they have 12 - 14 life span and breed has been around for a long time.
Jack Ma endorses China's controversial 12 hours a day, 6 day a week work culture
https://web.archive.org/web/20180828113917/https://theranos....

Joking aside, I think most have a MVP or something to tease people. I.E kickstarter etc
> I get the feeling that most of the time when people are complaining about unnecessary libraries they simply haven't personally run into the problem that the library solves yet.

Ding ding ding. "CSS does that!" is such an easy meme to replicate. Let's all try to consider that web developers are not just insane freaks who love to put JavaScript where it doesn't belong, and instead just regular people trying to solve problems like anyone else.
No, I'm talking about something like Pasmo cards, which are widely used in Japan for all sorts of things not limited to transit. https://www.pasmo.co.jp/en/buy/
Good to know, it seemed like a strange thing for the Association for Computing Machinery to do.
It really does feel like the two concepts are related, but there are enough differences that you can't just say we're inside a black hole. For one thing, the inside of a cosmological horizon corresponds to the outside of a black hole. I do think the similarity is part of what drives so many physicists to study black holes and quantum gravity, though. Horizons are a consequence of dynamical spacetime, but a deeper theory is needed to see the universe and black holes as manifestations of some more primitive concept.
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I do miss that. Magit is a work of art.

That said, I've realized that I don't do that much SCM stuff inside my editor. It's nice to have a beautiful client, but I'm comfortable with the git commandline itself and found myself using it for the tricky stuff, even when I had Magit at my fingertips.

My main editor-integrated workflow involves switching branches, committing, pulling, and other routing stuff that VSC handles just fine. It's definitely no Magit, but it covers 95% of the stuff I do.
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There's list here:

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Obama has learned to like Guantanamo, it must be a nice place... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/why-obama-has-...
Google does save on the frontend, e.g. they use pixel-oriented design, which is incompetent. Maybe they have competent engineers somewhere deep in the backend.
Data Labeling: Creating Ground Truth
"All engineering is plumbing - some fields just manage to avoid working on broken sinks & toilets"
-anonymous
Driver had a small part in Inside Llewyn Davis but I thought he was great. Sort of a dry comedic performance. He had a sort of similar role in Logan Lucky as well. He's a good comedic actor.
Writing the most amazing article with the perfect keywords, with all the right metrics, shared on the best channel, won’t convert if your product sucks. Build a product that markets itself. Build a product that people actually love. That’s useful. That’s remarkable. That people want to recommend to others and talk about.

Nobody cares about your product or your company just because you spent hours writing a blog post, or labored over the right keywords, or posted it at 9AM instead of 5PM. Or spent thousands of dollars on content marketers.

Make something people want.
And a little further below, it says:

> The United Kingdom consists of four constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

So, I guess the confusion is in having a country with countries inside. Personally, I don't know what's going on there.
My grandmother wanted to deposit $200K in accounts at different banks and they wouldn't allow her to open a basic checking account because she had no credit history. She and my grandfather had never gotten a loan in their lives.
Not that I like Microsoft... And I really did like sticking it to their loyal followers with the iPhone destroying Windows Phone.

Looking back, it’s OK Microsoft lost out on a few things. There’s now a bit more balance in tech.

Going forward, Microsoft does have some exciting products that could be great. For example, the Surface and HoloLens.

Apple is dragging their feet with the iPad and AR can’t get here soon enough. Microsoft hits it big with either of those products and no one will care about not beating Dropbox or iPhone, etc.
Off the top of my head ->

Carroll, From Eternity to Here - reasonably good and quite accessible.

Coveney, The Arrow of Time - better than average

All of my books are packed away right now for a move, so I'm sorry I can't come up with more. Though that Carroll book is really a decent entry point.
As always, soon we will discover another way, or there will be a different theory that will allow bending the rules.
I don't use Google Maps, but Waze stays open just fine. As long as it's focused, my screen stays on and my phone stays unlocked. I don't understand OP's phrasing. They seems to be saying they want to use maps while the phone is locked, which doiesn't make any sense to me.
>so long as security was guaranteed and backed by legal penalties

What does this mean? Apple's app store doesn't even guarantee security.

Would something like F-droid be allowed? Because if not I would argue we're still not solving the problem.
Much of that seems reasonable but wouldn't this:

>To ensure its success, the ICO added that online services must also adopt "robust" age-verification systems.

Imply that ID of some kind would be required to use certain features of different sites?

It seems like this part in particular is another attack on internet anonymity.
> ALWAYS encrypt your secrets in transit and at rest

And the encryption secret for this is stored...how?
It was a special repair extension program that they only put in place 2 years after the original warrantee+Applecare timeframe ended.
I'm no physicist, but the layman explanation I've heard is that the concepts of Planck length and Planck time do not imply that spacetime is discretized into little "voxels"; instead these quantities are just limits on the uncertainty of any possible measurement.

As I understand it there are two contributing facts:

a) the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that there's a tradeoff between certainty in position vs momentum, so if you're more certain in a particle's position you're less certain of its momentum. (For photons, momentum is proportional to frequency, i.e. wavelength, and frequency is proportional to energy.)

b) By mass-energy equivalence, anything with energy has mass, therefore higher frequency photons are more "massive". A single photon of sufficiently high frequency would form a black hole.

Putting those two together, to measure a distances accurately, you need higher and higher frequency photons with shorter and shorter wavelengths. For example, radar creates blurry images at ~5cm wavelengths, while ordinary photographs can be razor sharp at ~500nm. The Planck length is just the wavelength at which the photon would have so much energy that it would collapse into a black hole and break our current mathematical models. That's why it's nonsensical--with current models--to talk about lengths smaller than a Planck length, but it doesn't mean that space itself is quantized. Similar argument for time.

(Also, the same logic applies to other particles like electrons, protons, and even up to macroscopic items like baseballs; everything has a wavelength...)
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This is the common excuse given for bloated JavaScript usage but it ignores the realities of what is happening on the web. People are building simple blogs with JavaScript frameworks. People are building their 2 form field login page with JavaScript frameworks.

It's just inaccurate to take the most complex thing you can create and act as though that's the norm; it's not. Websites still exist, and people are using the most complex tech to create those too.
The turbine exhaust forms a barrier between the uncooled portion of the nozzle and the chamber exhaust, which is significantly hotter. It's not colder than the unburned fuel being used for regenerative cooling, but the bottom of the nozzle isn't regeneratively cooled anyways.