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Hi Adam!

Thanks for the effort you put in for https://getlantern.org

Since you're here, can I request that lantern start being more privacy friendly too, apart from helping with censorship? May be there's two versions of lantern network that you could run? Frankly, clauses in lantern's privacy document are appalling: https://s3.amazonaws.com/lantern/LanternPrivacyPolicy.pdf

> Personalize and improve the Services, including to provide or recommend features, content,
social connections, referrals, and advertisements.

> (We may share information...) With vendors, consultants, marketing partners, and other service providers who need access to
such information to carry out work on our behalf

> When you use our Services, we collect information sent to us by your computer, mobile phone
or other access device. The information sent to us includes, but is not limited to, the following:
data about the pages you access, computer IP address, device ID or unique identifier, device
type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, mobile network information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, and
standard web log data and other information. We also collect information through our use of
cookies and web beacons.

> Device Information: We may collect information about your mobile device, including, for
example, the hardware model, operating system and version, software and file names and
versions, preferred language, unique device identifier, advertising identifiers, serial number,
device motion information, and mobile network information.

> Log Information: When you interact with the Services, we collect server logs, which may include information like device IP address, access dates and times, app features or pages viewed, app
crashes and other system activity, type of browser, and the third-party site or service you were
using before interacting with our Services.

...which you might share with the US government (even if we ignore the fact that you're also funded by them, the privacy policy leaves a lot to be desired).

> We may transfer the information described in this Statement to, and process and store it in, the
United States and other countries, some of which may have less protective data protection laws
than the region in which you reside
> suppression of opposing viewpoints

How are they supresssing oposing viewpoints when alternative news sources are consistantly producing stories with a wide range of points of view? What is it exactly that they are supresssing? Through the internet I can easily access all sorts of takes on any topic.
Very curious how the decision to use the Studies program happened. Why not just roll the version early and include the fix in the new version - isn't Firefox an evergreen browser now? Maybe there is extra bureaucracy to roll a new version, or the hotfixers didn't have permission to do it. Either of which I can understand, being that they made the fix late on a Friday night - so huge kudos to those who worked hard to get this fix started. Seems like a good case study for lessons learned here, I'm eagerly anticipating the postmortem and follow-ups.
We agree that paying a ransom doesn't guarantee any further actions on the part of the attackers. But in our blog post we want to stick to what we know and can influence and not talk about an external DNS record that can be added at any time.
That is not happiness; that is sadistic pleasure.
except you agreed and authorized when you installed the software. Take your position to the logical extreme - software can't make any changes without explicit, interactive approval; and you thought UAC was bad.

I look forward to joining your class-action lawsuit.
Sorry, I forgot about the mentality here for a second. I will spell out the point I was trying to make through provocation. It destroys the fun/joke, but whatever...

The Web was invented a few meters away from the EU, in a lab that literally sits in the border between the EU and a non-EU country that is mostly aligned with the EU, by a EU citizen, funded mostly by EU money, is the only reason why anyone cares about the rest of the technology stack and infrastructure that we call "Internet". It was a dream of creating an interconnected system of knowledge and communication, that transcended borders and would move humanity to a higher stage of civilization.

The Web matters because of what it allows one to do, the implementation details are only relevant in a narrow technical sense.

I have the utmost respect and admiration for many American achievements, and I grew up thinking that the USA and Europe were close friends and allies, fundamentally sharing the same values. NASA and its many achievements inspired my lifelong interest in Science.

I am not nationalistic, and I don't care how invented what. What I am fed up with, is this USA-centric view of the world, as if freedom emanates from the USA, without whom we would be condemned to vile authoritarianism. I am also fed up with the idea that invention comes from VC money, which is largely untrue. Even the Internet as you describe it was invented using government money.
For the entrepreneurs among us, the business story here is that these fantastically detailed sims were expensive to make. The three 20-year-old sims at the github link, Grand Prix Legends (GPL), Mig Alley (MA) and Falcon (FF) were all bet-your-company high concept projects that expected a lot from their customers in 1999.

MA did OK in the market but that only encouraged it's creators to make a follow-on product that tanked their company. GPL and FF were commercial flops, and the companies that made them soon disbanded. Nevertheless, GPL and FF evolved into what are currently best-in-class sim products. The high ambitions and technical wizardry of all three sims inspired dedicated community groups that added content to the sims for years following release. The versions of the sims on the github page include these community-generated add-ons.

The FF project was a notorious business mess that somehow propelled itself through years of headwinds with a kind of prodigious creativity. Both the mess and the creativity are on display in the 1000 page volunteer-created FF manual on github.
You'd want a reverse-engineering lawyer, so be certain. But my (IANAL) guess is: If this is a proper reverse-engineered implementation, you could then convert _this_ implementation to C, and contribute _that_ into the kernel.

Except, it seems this is BSD-licensed, so I'm not sure how that would work in the kernel (which is GPLv2).
>The idea of taxation being "theft" wasn't an invention of Boomers nor is it a particularly unnatural (or original) thought for any individual to have when encountered with collectivism.

While true, there seems to me to be some merit to the argument that there was a subtle change in the nature of such discourse during this period and (mainly) among a large section of the members of this generation (that many members of subsequent generations have accepted as de facto and default) and that is integration of taxation/government with market-based thinking, that is, that paying taxes is something the individual does to get an individual return, in the same way a person walks in McDonalds and expects to put money on the counter and get their happy meal and not, instead, that the homeless guy in the corner gets a happy meal.
gstreamer already does that fairly well (https://arunraghavan.net/2017/01/quantifying-synchronisation...), is there a reason to duplicate the work ?
No ARC/L2ARC?

Edit: of course not. This is actually just it’s just a ZFS user-facing ”front-end”, not a ZFS implementation.
Happiness is not the same thing as pleasure. Happiness comes from within and is unrelated to external circumstances. Pleasure is a purely physical feeling and there are certainly people who take pleasure in other people's misery.
I spent several hours looking in to raising dragonflies and releasing them to combat mosquitoes but it seems impractical in the end.
I keep seeing this and I ask at what point do we start shaming Chinese nationalists? I mean I would not walk down the street with a Nazi supporter at what point do we as humans say this is not right, the Chinese way is not right and I will not associate with any business or person who is Chinese. Are my thoughts misguided here? What else can an individual do to help this situation?
There's no reason that needs to be in VR right?
The JDK would promptly be forked from the last-covered commit, presumably by a coalition of Amazon, Azul, IBM, Red Hat, SAP, Google, Microsoft (amazing times we live in) and Pivotal amongst others.

What enterprise customers want is certainty. Given the choice between "Java by Oracle" and "Basically still Java by Literally Every Other Enterprise Software Vendor", they will pick the latter in a heartbeat.

It would be chaotic and disruptive, but once the dust settled Oracle would (again) be holding the fizzle instead of the bang. That's how we got Jenkins out of Hudson, which has an unrivalled penetration of enterprise.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we sponsor Spring and have a deep interest in the evolution of the OpenJDK. This is of course personal speculation.
There's already an extension banlist.

See profile/blocklist-addons.json

Not sure how not renewing a certificate and letting everything get disabled is useful. It's only useful if cert key leaks.
> One-alarm, two-alarm, three-alarm fires, etc., are categories of fires indicating the level of response by local authorities. The term multiple-alarm is a quick way of indicating that a fire is severe and is difficult to contain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-alarm_fire

The 5th level or a five-alarm fire, is the top level where you're basically talking all hands on deck.
The UK had a small but modern computer industry in the 1980s, via Acorn and the resulting ARM chips that are world-beating today. It also had firms like RIM, Sinclair etc.

Until ARM was sold to SoftBank it was the primary British high tech computer firm. Little known fact - ARM is one of the very few European tech firms that incentivised its employees with equity sharing. It was and still is standard for firms outside the USA to keep all equity for the founders and investors, with none for early employees.

It's hard to know to what extent Acorn struggled to compete with Apple because of Europe-specific factors vs just bad luck: Acorn computers were very slow to get FCC regulatory approval in the USA, and they had a failure in their supply chain at a critical moment that pushed Brits towards buying US computers instead. They sold 300k machines but could only get 30k from the factories. There were a few other problems that stalled their expansion, and all this was taking place in the context of a country going through a major recession as Thatcher ended a government policy of employment targeting to bring inflation under control (inflation hit 22% in 1980). In the end they never recovered - US firms grew too strong and outcompeted them, despite initially stronger technology. Given that Acorn and ARM showed the same cycle of former employees becoming entrepreneurs and investors themselves, it's possible if things had worked out a bit differently for Acorn it could have been the "British Apple" and seeded a British computer industry competitive with Silicon Valley. But - it didn't.
Even sculpting and design apps would strongly benefit from force feedback. In fact, those are some of the specific things I was thinking of where the kind of precise movements that closed-loop control enables are critical!

When you're drawing, for instance, the pressure and friction of the pencil against the page is pretty critical for accurately feeling and controlling your movement. You cannot just wave your finger in the air with the same precision or control you can draw a line with a pencil.

Likewise for sculpting - your hands are far more sensitive to precise shape than your eyes are, and being able to feel the material resist against you lets you use precise amounts of pressure to judge how you are deforming it.

As long as VR inputs involve waving your hands in the air unsupported, they will never be able to achieve the same level of precision input and utility for serious tasks as a mouse or a drawing tablet.
Not saying that their current actions are wrong, just that the optics of it are terrible for them.

There was a chain of bad decisions that led them here though: 1) thinking it's ok to disable software after its installed (using cert expiration -- I'm ok if the cert was revoked but that's a totally different discussion), 2) Taking more control of people's local software than many people are comfortable with, especially considering that their main market is tech savvy people that tend to be more sensitive to this than most 3) Making some of these things opt-out rather than opt-in, giving the perception that they may value data collection and control more than their users privacy.
Freedom is our fundamental human right, self-determination is limited by material means, and dignity is knowing that you seek to both understand and embody the highest ideals.

But sacrificing the freedom to cause misery to others? What a small price to pay.
Does this imply that now is a good time to get a bulk order of LEDs?
If you want full user choice about this you can use nightly or use a community packaged version with the option to disable the checks enabled or compile it yourself and enable the flag. It's not impossible to do that.
First: I know you're not stupid so I have no idea what you aren't understanding when it comes to veteran care costs increase during wartime. Of course they have a separate payer and provider system. That system is included in the growth rate statistics. It should be fairly obvious that people being regularly shot at have higher healthcare costs.

Bankruptcy Law:
In 2005 there were 2,000,000 bankruptcy filings, in 2006 there were 600,000. This was a result of the passing of the BAPCPA in 2005. At that point in time 46% of bankruptcies were due to medical bills. This change increased the expected value of delinquent accounts which in turn should lead to lower costs for medical services.

Great Recession:
People put off non-essential medical expenses, or delay usage of medical services. Someone who might get braces doesn't, someone might take care of a parent themselves instead of hiring an in-home nurse, etc.

ACA Signed:
Marker for before and after growth rates.

ACA Taxes + Exchanges Open:
The two main policies of the ACA intended to curb healthcare costs go into effect. I would classify these two years as overestimation of savings and regression to the mean. Most insurance companies had to backtrack after their financial projections did not materialize.
> Mozilla needs to be able to do something about it.

No, they do not need to. They decided that they want to. Remember that there was a time before certificate signing.

And now the decision to be able protect those who install crapware is also harming those who never had those issues.
> the average time from push-to-repo to AWS account compromise was 6 minutes.

Wow, I didn't realize it had become so efficient, but I shouldn't be surprised. I never really understood the value in hosting non-public software in the public, and if it's open source, it shouldn't be getting anywhere near secrets that can be used to extract money from its developers.

I remember thinking, back when it became trendy for people to upload their personal dotfiles to Github, that it would be a source of endless suffering. Who knows what information you're leaking in your ".profile" or ".bashrc"? Is that risk justified by the dubious benefit of storing your dotfiles on the internet for everyone to see, forever?
Another scaremongering article from this author again. This author's company directly competes with surveillance and security companies from China.

Official number is 13k [1], but people think those jaw dropping estimations from religious groups are more believable.

[1] https://www.apnews.com/0e3b005d281345278ed470823096ec9b
Then ban me. This place is full of fluffed up "I am very smart" types who can't take a few opposing viewpoints. If you can't even have a differing opinion here, there's no fucking point to post here.

If saying the girl died of asthma complications is controversial enough to be flagged and downvoted into oblivion, I don't want to be a part of this place. Besides what the fuck does this have to do with "hacker news" or anything technology related. This place has become a shell of what it once was due to shit quality politically motivated fluff like this post.

Also, it's funny you dont post the same reply to the 10 other unthoughful and uninformative replies to me with the same comment.

Adios.
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UB does not mean "anything can happen".

UB just means that the language specification makes no assertion about how to handle a given case — the behavior is literally just not defined. Any implementation of the language could choose to raise an error for such cases and that would conform correctly to the standard.
Will Vivaldi let me put the tabs on bottom where they belong?
> which is all the priority anyone needs to understand the severity of this bug.

Random user: What the fuck is a tree and why is the priority of this not higher yet?
I don’t think anyone is actually defending pollution. Those who say ‘meh it’s asthma not pollution’ just enjoy being a contrarian, who would point out any perceived ‘error’ in others’ words. They don’t really have any agenda to push nor any opinions of their own that worth posting. Just nitpicking here and there to show how others are ‘wrong’.

Back to the topic, I wish we could ban diesel ASAP. I passed through Oxford Street a few times when it was virtually shut off by the protesters last month, so none of the diesel-burning black cabs not busses were there. It was much, much more pleasant than any other busy London street, almost serene, if there were not that many shoppers...
You were saying happiness is a result of making others happy. Isn't this external circumstances ?

What about people who are happiness is the result of making other unhappy.
I tie my horses to the platforms that customers pay for, instead of religious rants.

I even use C, if that is what customers want to have done for them.

Those Azure Linux VMs happen to run on Hyper-V hypervisors.
C++/CLI is in.NET Core 3.0.
I really liked using this web browser. I like qutebrowser too but luakit has some things it doesn’t have. One was making your own luakit:// pages.

I tried to get a flatpak working for it but was unable to get one of the dependencies luafilesysyem to work. I think the author was going to remove it so once that’s done installing the latest version should get much easier.
> what part of a load flow study is non-linear?

Sorry to give you a wiki reference, but I had literally just read the power flow study page [1] earlier today:

"The problem is non-linear because the power flow into load impedances is a function of the square of the applied voltages"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-flow_study#Model
checking revocations lists != certificate expiry
Only for Windows.
"no need" to get into hearsay, deep character analysis, pleas to please not target this person for harassment since I am being so extensive in my criticism of this person, etc, e.g. what I just wrote above, it should be clear, trust your facts to speak for themselves a little more than you are giving them credit
If I understand the bug report comments correctly, they didn't close the trees to other code changes to prioritize fixing this, they did it because the cert expiry broke some important tests at the same time as it broke every end user's browser.
>They most definitely are not available to the public. For example, all the Apple documentation on board layouts are literally stolen and smuggled out.

And yet

>Experts, however, say Apple's and CompTIA's warnings are far overblown. People with no special training regularly replace the batteries or cracked screens in their iPhones, and there are thousands of small, independent repair companies that regularly fix iPhones without incident.

This article wants to have it both ways. "Apple should release documentation because repair people need it" and "People repair their stuff all the time without incident."

A better argument would be actually to take Apple's side on the "safety" issue and say, "People are already trying to repair their stuff because your OEM repairs are too expensive, so you ought to provide them with docs/parts"
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The unbranded builds are useless for anything but internal addon testing on stable because they do not receive updates.

Custom firefox builds offered by some linux distros are a better choice, yes.
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What matters is that it brings money home.

Maps uses Clojure, and is partially developed here in Berlin.
When Firefox updates, if there are problems, then I am likely to hear about it (e.g. on hn).

I know when my Firefox updates, so I can expect changes.

My Firefox is vetted by my Linux distribution.

This is the first time I have heard about Normandy, and I certainly would not turn it on, because I prefer my work machine to be a laggard than an early adopter.
So you think Mozilla is enjoying this right now? And that this is going to help the perception and market share of Firefox?

Hypothetically, lets say they took the opposite approach, and only checked the certificate date on installation. What would have happened? There would have been a brief period of time where people couldn't install extensions, it would have been fixed in a few hours, and this story would probably have like 20 upvotes and fallen off the front page in like 10 minutes, if it ever got there in the first place.

Now let's briefly look at what's actually taking place: a bunch of people's browsers broke. It broke in scary ways for some people that were using extensions for privacy; IE, their security might have been compromised by this decision by Mozilla. Mozilla is probably going to lose users over this. Their reputation is damaged. Not only that, but now people are evaluating other decisions that Mozilla has made separately from this in an unfavorable light (Studies and Normandy, specifically). The computing industry loses out on this too: we're all better off for chrome having a viable open source competitor. We should want Mozilla to do well, whether you use their browser or not.

Which outcome do you think Mozilla engineers would be preferring today?
I don't understand the criticisms in this thread. Why would anyone trust Mozilla's code but not their preferences configurations?
> In my experience, the biggest drawback of static typing is that it forces you to design your types when you still don't have enough knowledge, and changing it later is painful.

I 100% understand where you're coming from, but I view this as an advantage of static type systems. The "pain" is you having to go through your code and make sure that you change your usages of given types to match the new definitions, right? This is forcing you to make sure your code is still correct with respect to the types.

Most dynamically-typed languages let you skip this part, but this causes you to lose clarity. Is your old code still correct? Or is it just mostly correct? Are there new unexpected edge cases being introduced that you didn't bother to go check on due to faulty now-outdated assumptions?

Changing your types is a pain, I agree. But programs are just about data transformations, and types are representations of the shape of those data. Changing your types without changing every part of your program that touches those types inherently means that your program is now running on invalid assumptions. Sometimes it works fine, but I think it is better to know it's fine than to just say "Well, it seems to work in most cases."