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> It's gonna be stupid hard to make a law about "negligent software development" without opening every developer EVER to ridiculous fines and punishment.

Not the developer, the company willing to ask money for software they sell with their products. If you ask for money then you should take the responsibility.

> Is using C "negligent"?

Yes unless you audit the software you're selling and it proves you have taken precautions.

> How about not having test cases?

Yes. If that's the only thing stopping you from endangering people.

> Governments move slow. They declare everything must be encrypted with TLS 1.3 -- but now TLS 1.4 is out. How long until they change the standards? What happens when they start to try and influence the standards?

Whats your point? That we should let shit software that doesn't take basic precautions just exist because the government is too slow?

We can't make airplanes crash-proof either but certain security additions and safety measures have been made mandatory. Why can't we force the same for software? The fact that a thing hasn't been doesn't mean it can't be done. GDPR isn't the best example but it the very least has some legal recourse to blatant violations of privacy, why not make a law that punishes for blatant violations of security.
Hearthstone is a great strategic online card game. A new set of cards just came out so its a great time to start it.
Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?
I lost my ability to focus. I check social media and youtube frequently while doing work. If I do not do that I feel some void and feeling of losing out(I do not know how to express this).

How to regain my focus and avoid this trap?
I'll second this. You don't do academia for career stuff, or because you think that's the path to becoming a professor. You do it because it's fun, full-time science for a couple years.

There was a thread the other day where the top-comment was some guy who quit his PhD as soon as he realized professorship wasn't an option. Personally, I find this staggeringly backwards and have trouble relating...
and... why not a black flag anyway?
Thanks. I'm currently using Antergos, which I understand is roughly the same thing, with the difference being whether or not you use Arch's repos.
Hey Google recruiters, in case you're wondering why I don't respond to your emails asking for interviews, you should know that things like this don't really make me want to work for you.
The E175-E2 is actually the aircraft I was speaking about being over the weight limits under current scope clauses [1]

Without the scope issue being solved these aircraft are dead in the water when it comes to the US. Obviously the US market isn’t the only market but it is certainly the largest and without it a manufacturer cannot expect to be a real threat to Boeing or Airbus.

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2018-1...
Why? I don't have that much stuff to begin with, and I try to buy used when I arrive in a new place. The only added cost is the plane ticket, and I probably fly less than the average vacationer.

Even if you're right, moving frequently is a fact of life for young people who grew up away from the west/east costs. It's the only way for young people who grew up in the midwest to launch a successful career.

Hometown --> college --> internships --> back to college --> grad school --> first job --> second job --> etc.
Here's another link, if you're interested in how the "51" works: http://www.richardspens.com/ref/anatomy/51.htm

Richard for a while sold printed copies of his "Anatomy of a fountain pen" pages; I've got them framed. :-) He also has (what I believe to be) the best current book on pen repair and restoration.

The "51" is a loose successor to the most beautiful and pleasant to use pen ever made, the Parker Vacumatic. Unlike the Vacumatic (and the vacumatic-filler "51"s), the aerometric filler 51s (screw it) have latex (?) sacs, which last much longer than rubber sacs common in other pens; quite often an unrestored vintage 51 will work fine once cleaned. When Parker closed down their Chinese factory, which made 51s, they left the machinery in place---leading to the initial pens from Chinese pen companies to be 51 clones.

This concludes today's random pen facts.
I'm curious about the history of the fat-pointer approach. The first exposition I personally ran across was http://erights.org/enative/fatpointers.html in the 90s. Can anyone point out others?
Presumably you could form a similar IV construction with Poly1305 as your hash, no?
Artificial Intelligence is helping old video games look like new
what negotiation are you talking about?
I am a huge GNOME fan (the interface, the ideas behind it, the look). But I made my peace with the fact that I need stability and performance so Kubuntu 18.04LTS it is (edit: and Gnome hasn't achieved UI coherence yet despite being 10 years in the making,so...).

Performance issues shouldn't appear between LTS-1 and LTS. Ideally LTS should be the polished and stable version from all that came before it and not a rushed testbed for DE that aren't battle-tested.
Grad school is one of the biggest modern scams that convinces highly skilled people to work for peanuts for years on end.
wait... do all versions end in .04?
It doesn't sound like Ryan cares if they are single.
> they disclosed the log in a fashion that guaranteed a whole news cycle about it

1. Aren't they legally required to under GDPR?

2. Let's not give them too much credit. They updated an old blog post on the day the Mueller investigation report got released.
Awesome, thanks for the ref.

I'd agree that it probably doesn't belong in the stdlib, as there aren't many programs that would really benefit from it. OTOH, it's good one to keep in pocket, for the few applications that would.
Why can't we legislate that getting owned by npm is your own fault?

Driving a car that hasn't passed minimal safety and status checks in many European countries is forbidden, why not forbid the use of stupid package managers?
You have a long list of good comments, so it's worth telling you that you were shadow banned at least 6 months ago... I just vouched for this comment and I have showdead enabled.
How can I replicate the common UX of trip planning on my laptop and then send to phone with the directions with OSM? Ideally with offline maps.

I really want to love OpenStreetMap but the usability gap is huge.

I am happy to pay for something too.
You can sort of tell this from the style of IBM's TV ads, which have a condescending and smarmy tone that is quite distinctive.

The ads are filled with lofty buzzwords. No talk of actual technology at all, because the ads are targetted at non-technical management, the kinds of people who might be euphemistically called "decision-makers". The ads make all kinds of promises to these "decision-makers" about how their business will be utterly transformed. Actual implementation of the systems and business-critical changes is left to the IT department. The non-technical management writes a cheque and then washes their hands of the problem.
The book "Why we Sleep" talks about how alcohol is a REM-suppressor and how it prevents you from getting deep restful sleep. Drinking alcoholic drinks in the evening/night is much worse than drinking earlier in the day.
sigh Serves me right for using an analogy I guess. Or a "stupid" one. I dislike the need to defend against a strawman argument, but it looks like I am going to.

Anyway, you're right, and so are the other people pointing out quite correctly that murder is still illegal and an agreement doesn't magically give them a right to kill me. But you know what isn't illegal? A company selling your data that you gave to them and agreed to allow them to sell in exchange for providing a service. Yes, I know there are some weak protection rules out there, and things like the GDPR exist in some countries. IANAL, but an app using permissions that you gave it, to do things it says it's going to do in its description and/or TOS is not illegal in most countries. If it was, we'd not be in the privacy clusterfuck that we're in today.

The point is that trust has nothing to do with it. If anything, these companies tell you exactly what they're going to do (and if they don't, that's another problem altogether which I'm not getting into here) and you can trust that they will do what they said they're going to do to make as much money from you as they can. Treating companies like living, empathetic human beings worthy of your trust to "be nice and give you a product for free without selling your data you agreed to allow them to sell" is silly.
which version is available? unity8?
I can't understand any of it. Its looked the same to me for years and years. Other distros look a little different but nothing substantive is actually different that I ever notice.
Apple are absolute dicks about privacy. My Mom died, and I inherited her iPhone, which I discovered had Activation Lock… after I'd blanked it and installed a new OS.

Grovelled all over the internet trying to work out if there was a legitimate way to unlock the thing. Lots of probably scams out there but nothing plausible.

Turns out there was: in her papers, there was her account information, and I could log onto her AppleID and release the phone the way she would have if she'd known what was going to happen to her (she passed unexpectedly, with no real warning). Without that, I would have inherited a brick, and I'm not sure even the government would have been able to get in. From all accounts, if you try and plead with Apple you get nowhere.

I've got personal info on my iPhone, now that I unlocked it and installed my own identity on it.

I'm quite happy to continue using iPhones. If it costs more to have them monetized the old fashioned way, by charging me vast sums to get the device, that seems fair. It seems the alternative is to try to monetize ME in any way possible, and I don't trust any of these megacorporations too much.
I think it ultimately boils down to the proliferation and growing acceptance of "nerdy" hobbies and pastimes. I think the near-universality of videogames played a big role in this. Almost every piece of "nerdy" culture I've experienced (D&D, MTG, many comics, Anime) I've found through video games directly or through interactions with other gamers.

That and accessibility. You can buy DnD book over the internet instead of having to go to your local comic store. But the fact that it no longer has a significant impact on social status is probably the biggest change.
I'm glad that Zucky's comment finally came up but I'm surprised that it took this long..
Seems amazing that currents < 2mA at frequencies in the low Hz do anything. That's practically DC, I guess the trick is all in synching the signals to what's going on in your head.
Thank you. I was curious about the magnitude of the deal as compared to their other revenues, didn't find what I was looking for, but someone with better annual report reading skills may see something useful in PNM's 10K and the note specific to the Facebook deal at pdf page 194 https://www.pnmresources.com/~/media/Files/P/PNM-Resources/q...
The University of Nebraska's Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (which is housed inside the stadium) is trying to overcome the selection bias of these studies by doing a baseline scan of all football players: https://www.starherald.com/sports/big_red_wrap/football/at-n...
But that's what the OP's quote is saying. "large" companies use them.
Phew, it's not just me then. I use it in a clean room after locking the house up.

The fact I happened to save one ad-hoc SQL query now means every time I hit the "New script" button I have an interstitial step where I have to say, "No, not that script, a new one" is frustrating.
This is an odd defense. You're in essence arguing this is a non-story because no one is capable of securing large amounts of user data over time.

I think that's significant in itself, and at odds with claims the big five make in public and to regulators about the viability of their core business model.
Many tutorials are written by people who have just learned about the thing, not by those who have to have had to write secure code.
Check out penbbs!! (https://www.etsy.com/shop/PENBBSOfficialStore) they've been coming out with really nice materials and all sorts of filling systems.
Well here's a thought that might help (and I swear I'm not doing the same thing they're pointing out in the article, because as you'll see, it really isn't even particularly positive, hahaha):

To the extent each of those companies is working against the public interest (which you can decide for yourself or debate with someone), their employees are all traitors against the people. And buying a traitor always costs a lot of money. Even Judas got 30 pieces of silver. (And even if that story is a work of fiction, that detail is still a masterful touch, no?)

So maybe you have less money, but maybe you're also slightly less fucked-up inside, less cut-off from yourself, less prone to attack people for trivial reasons, and less plagued by thought patterns cluttered with convoluted self-justifications. Think about it and... [silly comment about anticipated downvotes redacted]
> ...what consumers call "basic features"

Consumers are the ones who have insisted — with their wallets — that they prefer phones without user-swappable batteries.
Would you mind sharing this dotfile? Interesting concept
It was never free. Every time you use it, you offer up your current location and/or place(s) you’re interested in visiting, all of which is very valuable for targeted advertising.
I dispute that tablets are a superior user experience. They’re great for some things, but in general phones are better. Phones crush tablets in both sales and usage, and most people have a big phone rather than a small phone and a big tablet.
Thanks! The RFC markup is so respectful of text I don't feel bad for updating it from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8452.txt.
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Also, a plug for Wingsung! They'll look very similar to twsbi or parker 51 at times, but imo they've added some little touches that improve on the twsbi.
It almost feels like these two corporations (IBM and Oracle) and giant marketing, consulting and legal firms than technology firms.
That was also my first reaction.

But TFA says that H+ reacted with neutral He. That gives you HeH+, which is what they detected. And I see that the ionization energies of He are 2372.3 kJ/mol for the first electron, and 5250.5 kJ/mol for the second. But the ionization energy of H is just 1312.0 kJ/mol. So neutral He would have formed long before neutral H, and He plus H+ was the first possible combination.

Also, HeH+ is an extremely strong acid, so it would grab an electron from just about anything else that it encountered.
And neutral HeH is not stable.
I think that is a totally fair criticism of giant tech companies, that it's relevant, and that it's valid.

I do not think people can pretend to work in an industry where this isn't a norm, and that Facebook is somehow handling this far worse than everyone else is.
A Ferrari is still in another world of sport vehicles. You can't find a sport sedan to be better than a Ferrari.
What program is that? Is that something Epic/Cerner/whatever does, or some add-on?
Nice one, very cool.
As someone who obtained their Master's in Physics, I have to agree with the article. The breadth and depth of my scientific training has made me a much more capable data scientist (and engineer) than most of my peers who went the CS path. I only wished that I could have double majored in biology. I would say that my study in physics has taught me how to better see the "bigger picture" and to try to account for all possible outcomes in a given scenario.
Gosh, this could be risky for Google. But it was always going to be inevitable.
Ask HN: Suppose brains follow an optimization function what is that function?
I am running KDE full time off of a 6 year-old laptop featureing an i54xxu and an integrated HD4400. I'd say anything older and not intelish might be problematic but I have no problems running all the bells and whistles of those sweet animations and wobbly windows.

Gnome still leaks and Nautilus is still an old asthmatic tractor though. Nautilus is 50% of the reasons why I switched to kubuntu and I still keep on using awesome-wm when sysadmining. edit: Now that I think about it I also upgraded to an SSD some months after switching to KDE so maybe gnome is way snappier on that same machine and I wouldn't feel the same about it.

Frankly, I seem to remember the KDE harware thing is like 15 years old.
https://github.com/lynlevenick/dotfiles

Here you go! As it says on the top, it only works on macOS right now unfortunately.
> But it was accepted by the Muller Report

Incorrect, or at best misleading; the Mueller report only accepted that the Office of Special Counsel was, by the terms of it's creation, bound by a pre-existing DoJ (Office of Legal Counsel) determination to that effect; that is, Mueller was not permitted to prosecute due to the existence of the OLC determination and the terms of Mueller's appointment, irrespective of the correctness of the OLC opinion as to whether DoJ had the power to prosecute.
It's been around a while now: https://www.ubuntu.com/core
Before the Soviet Union, "red" didn't mean exclusively Communist. Many left-wing groups used red flags.
Slightly over a year back, we were contacted by IBM to try out Watson under some program for startups. Starting out, they asked us to give them a try. We gave them a NLP related task and they were confident they would be able to do a good job of it. After multiple meetings over the next 2 months, they barely produced any useful output. In the meantime, an intern with us got a pretty decent solution using just Python. Our management did get invited to lunches and meetings for selling them some more products. During one of such invitations, since our CEO couldn't make it, I was sent. I was surprised by how shoddy their presentation was given that I thought they might not be doing a good job on the problem we gave them but they should be slick on the selling side. Their presentation seemed like it was out of 2005 or something.
You'll find these on ebay or etsy a lot. Aliexpress too. I would recommend also Wingsung 601 (for the parker 51 vacumatic experience), the Wingsung 698 with a gold nib for a nice piston, Hero 100 for an aerometric parker 51... or if you want more modern designs, look for Moonman, Penbbs, Live In You brands.
Interestingly enough, Google like an increasing number of companies is a "public" company. Brin and Page own the majority of the voting power meaning Google, is for all intents and purposes, their company. The same is true of Facebook and Zuckerberg which makes all the calls to try to replace him rather bemusing. Literally every person who owns Facebook stock could vote to replace him and it'd be irrelevant since he has the majority of voting power.

The point of this is that the direction Google has been taking lately has been very much the arbitrary choice and direction chosen by Larry and Sergey, and consequently highly reflective of their own personal ideologies and worldviews.
How does avoiding the term help at all? Will restricting our vocabulary somehow counteract the phenomenon of people portraying different lives on their Facebook profiles?
Yikes, he was shadowbanned in August of 2017 after creating the account in June 2017 and has been commenting into the void ever since!
Yes. I've been following this for years. Everyone just kept pointing to Amazon saying, "It's not the CEO it's just the state of retail." In numerous cases willfully or just naively ignoring what Lampert was doing the whole time.
No, there are two releases every year; a <year>.04 in April and <year>.10 in October.
What exactly does "force to close" mean and how does it work in a free-market capitalist society then?

If there are valid regulations to follow then sure but that's not what the parent comment seems to be suggesting.
I had that issue two months ago.
I digged into my calendar and found out that's when I stopped going to the swimming pool, doing enough physical exercise.

It's old knowledge but : "A Healthy mind needs a healthy body" stays true.
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I agree. I get that when you build your business around someone else's API that you are responsible for any changes and you should be prepared when business models change, but this would be analogous to milk prices going from $1/pint to $3.80/pint.

A 280% increase in pricing after you've gained dominance in market share is a tough pill to swallow and left a really bad taste in developer's mouths.

I too have moved on to Mapbox, and I suspect the OSM group was thrilled at the changes since now their mapping efforts probably increased tremendously. We're probably going to roll our own map tile servers based on OSM since Mapbox as well is pricey, but not Google Maps pricey.
The destination IP could be hidden opportunistically?

Send the destination IP for high-priority requests and retry without the destination. Low-priority/long-latency requests would always hide the destination.

... I can't articulate why, but I feel even this introduces a very large amount of hidden complexity. It solves efficient routing and freedom in part, but does not consider privacy.
It seems to me that outside of SV and the pages of hackernews, people still interact "normally". These people are called extroverts and the enjoy talking to other people, even if they are strangers. Someday I may be able to study these strange creatures, but my efforts have been hindered by their tendency to call me "weird" and walk away before I can make proper scientific observations.
I guess it makes sense that live patch is (primarily) supported on lts releases?
That barrier can remain even if the relationship is very trusting with regular close contact, not just work acquantances.

Some people are just extremely good at hiding things, even from close friends/family (even those that are usually good at seeing through people).
It seems like natural resources are a counterexample to your "no passive income" rule? In Alaska and Norway, the profits go into government funds that benefit everyone. Even if it were possible, would you want all the money to go to oil workers? They didn't create the oil.
I don’t get why all the phone makers are set on making bendable folding phones. We have the tech to make OLEDs with near zero bezels, so it seems like the most practical way to do this would just be to use two separate display elements, and make the gap between them as small as possible.
I've never weighed a toilet ?! So I cant comment on that.

Close coupled cisterns have been around for over a century.

The ball cock redesign is a result of the dual flush arrangement (I thought?). But yes that is a change.

Having never come across a soft close lid on a toilet I can't agree they're anything close to standard, I'm sure they exist though. (I'm British also btw, so our experience should somewhat match)

So that's one change mandated by law?

You raise a good point about Japanese toilets though.
Same here. XFCE is highly configurable, stable, and has a small memory footprint, which you notice if you're doing any processor-intensive or memory-intensive work. There are also plenty of easy-to-install themes that look quite nice.

I don't see what any other DE gives me other than glossy animations that I don't even want.