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> Rust is already a weird language to come to from the likes of python, Java, or Javascript

Every time I see a statement like this, I remember a (paraphrased) statement from Rich Hickey: "[musical] instruments are made for people who can play them!".

I think unless you are specifically designing a beginner language (like Scratch), you should not take into consideration "ease of use" or "familiarity" arguments.
Pattern matching as is in Rust has many notable precedents that IIRC the C# folks considered as prior art, not least of which being F#.
The process for how this feature is being handled is fantastic, and a great example of what I love about Rust and its community.
Most of the problem is Amazon’s third party sellers IMO. I just recently got sent a counterfeit PS4 controller from a third party seller, even though it had Prime. I would never buy bare lithium cells from Amazon, but I do buy SD cards as long as they’re from Amazon directly (and then make sure to test them thoroughly for defects).
We cannot damage the Earth enough for it to be a worse option than space habitats. We simply can't, even if we bomb all of the surface to oblivion, triple the amount of CO2 or even add more toxic gases.
Are there any opportunities for bootcamp graduates in the pipeline?
It may not be a popular opinion around here, but the best election guard is doing them with pen & paper.
I think the "geometric mean" row weights by country-gdp.
"Does this boil down to the fact that, in the current political system, wealth can be traded for political power, and if that exchange didn't exist, then wealth wouldn't be an issue in the first place?"

I think so. Finding ways to completely eliminate that exchange is a challenge, however. Most of the exchange exists in wealth being able to buy a louder voice, either through lobbying or in the media. It would hard to break that without introducing some other inequity.
Is there a place to download the new Terminal to try it out?

(Thank you for responding to so many comments on this thread!)
At some point, the government is going to have to realize that the internet has long passed the days of moving slow.

Putting unrealistic restrictions (only works in IE, can only use .Net) is going to hinder the progress of its development.

There are times where vetting and change management make sense. But then we have applications that were built before 2008 and realize that in the long run, with the tools of today, it would be easier to use the tools of today than adding another feature to this bloated mess.
I seem to remember reading that the ability to cause a power-on stall is both part of standard pilot training and a surprise for most pilots when demonstrated.
Does this spell the end of .NET Standard?

And does this explain why they don't seem to care about making .NET Standard versions at all logical to developers (e.g. making a major breaking change, not supporting .NET Framework, to .NET Standard in a minor version)?

Edit: And before someone says ".NET Framework is choosing not to support .NET Standard, you shouldn't version based off implementations but off changes in the API": That only works if you have many implementations, .NET Standard has 3 major implementations! Losing 33% is pretty significant :)
Israel Neutralizes Cyber Attack by Blowing Up a Building with Hackers
SPYX was a simple one to get for me: https://us.spdrs.com/en/etf/spdr-sp-500-fossil-fuel-reserves...
I wonder if and how much a fine of, say, €5 would work. It wouldn't be the first case where a small nudge would be enough to make a change, and it would surely be a lot less controversial.
LOL yea, seems like the media embargo ended before the actual announcement.

We don't have a link to share quite yet. The first preview builds that will be available from the store will be coming soon(tm). The "now available" part seems to be referencing a part of Jha's keynote that I don't want to spoil quite yet :)

Yes it's using ConPTY as a backend, which means all Windows commandline apps will work in it out of the box.
I think the supply chain problem is the manufacturer's fault. All the 18650s I've bought come with some disclaimer on the box like "not for sale to individuals" or "not for sale for e-cigarette use". So the only way people can buy them is from a fly-by-night vendor that has to lie to the manufacturer and say "oh uh we're putting them in battery packs" and then turn around and sell them to individuals.

Every time a counterfeit 18650 blows up, I blame LG, Samsung, Panasonic, etc. for this policy. It's the root of the problem.
There's two I get regularly. One is from people pretending to be the Canada Revenue Agency. The other is a message in Cantonese, that according to my coworker who gets them too, is from someone pretending to be from the Chinese embassy basically saying the same thing as the fake CRA one. That you owe money and a lawsuit is being prepared under your name, without actually mentioning your name. The one from the 'CRA' is almost comical. It sounds like something a child would say. I've talked to the government enough to know how they talk. They also don't use odd voice concealing effects typically.

I actually called the number the CRA one left back once and a person with a French accent answered pretending to be from the CRA. I just said if they called my number again I was going to report them to the rcmp and then hung up. It stopped for a few months after that. I'm assuming if it was actually Canada revenue, they would have called back. All I was getting were the Cantonese ones. The CRA ones only started again recently.
Yep that’s correct. We’re making the desktop clients remote-capable, and the providing the web editor as a “companion” experience. We want to enable devs to use the right tool for the right job.
Hey, great post, looking forward for seeing brand new VS! Would you mind sharing a little bit of tech approach for your real-time collaboration features? OT, CRDT or a hybrid transactional approach of sorts?

Currently we are developing realtime collaboration for a CAD system called Renga and information is a bit scarce.
This library was a key part of the product for a software company I co-founded a few years ago. I found full calendar to be the best of the alternatives for a full featured, affordable calendaring system that was open source and was stable enough to build a company on. (We looked at alternatives like Google calendar but I was nervous about lack of control should Google have decided to take the calendar API a different way.)

This history lesson was illuminating and appreciated.
I think that was somewhat implied in the article:

> "Difficulty finding qualified, affordable COBOL programmers."

Continuing to emulate the COBOL environment doesn't quite solve the problem that finding COBOL developers is becoming harder and harder.
This is an honest question: do you really see no issue in replacing bees with robo-bees? Do you really believe humanity can just technology our way out of every issue we face? What happens when the whole system collapses?
A bit off topic, but how does one use Windows 10 now without sacrificing on speed / resources? Recently purchased Lenovo E480 and E585, they all come with stock Windows 10, so before getting Linux in, I've tested it and it is basically unusable: disk/cpu usage is constantly jumping between 80-95%, fans are always turned on producing a lot of noise. Is this common to all laptops with Windows or just Lenovo?
I don't know that this is true. Do previous ice ages not count? Or how about the plague? It seems that we've been near extinction at least a few times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck

I'd also add that until the 1990s the threat of total nuclear annihilation of the human race (and probably other stuff) was very real. That was anxiety inducing.
We are currently at unprecedented scale, but it is illogical to think that society and the power structures inherent in them were devised solely by the amoral.

How long have societies been too large to keep the amoral from corrupting them? I don't know but it seems to be thousands of years at this point. But that doesn't mean that individual communities throughout the ages haven't created compassion-based societies where the people they selected to make important decisions were actual public servants. Look at FDR's Four Freedoms and the various compassion-based programs he instituted.

It does seem obvious that once a certain scale is achieved, humanity has failed to apply sufficient systems thinking to keep the amoral from subverting the system for their own gain and to the detriment of the whole. Part of the problem is that most people are just not that selfishly manipulative and, thus, have a difficult time anticipating the disasterous personalities, means and effects of the truly evil. I mean, look at all the literally poor (as in not wealthy) fools that support Trump and his obviously corrupt cadre of rich fucks. The fucker is about to roll back regulations that are designed to help prevent natural disasters from offshore oil drilling, and his tax cuts were an enormous boon for all for-profit corporations.
While a cell is alive, it maintains differential concentration of ions across its membrane, so by definition changing the [Na+] is changing the membrane potential.

The stress on the cell is basically it needs to work extra hard moving ions around to maintain itself. This is typically pumping ions against a concentration gradient which takes energy.
Classic problem with single line of "defense" thinking. That defense has to be perfect.

Same problem in US with thinking that a border wall will help when most undocumented immigrants are visa overstays.
When you stop work for ~20 years, then get crackin' for a few it understandably takes a while for the news to get out. May not be obvious if you're 25.
Yes it does support full RGB colored text.

As far as bidi text, the underlying console implementation isn't quite there yet, though it it high up on our radar of things to work on.
> a series of missed calls... from somebody who didn't leave a voicemail, it was my credit card company

This is a huge part of why this system doesn't work. Perhaps 95% of the calls I get from unknown numbers either produce informative voicemails or are scams. But the ones that don't are often the most important calls I get, from sources like credit card companies and doctors. Depressingly often, the numbers they're using aren't even listed online to look up later.
You are careening dangerously close into abuse of the rules just because a position is slightly controversial, and I think you should rethink your approach to this matter.

I understand that it is likely my last setence that you are talking about, and while I certainly should have worded it a bit more carefully, to have a mod jump in and then call my point "unsubstantive" reeks of abuse of power. Before you begin to tell me just how unsubstantive it is, let me ask you one question; does the queen of the UK have or not have the power to dissolve the Canadian Parliament?

If yes, Canada cannot be considered an independent nation, and therefor to call it a "vassal state" is appropriate even in the dryest academic sense. Of course it's a controversial opinion, but I'm not aware that the HN rules can be construed to say that you can't post controversial opinions.

It is times like this when I would like to remind people that the rule change on HN was protested by many of us and we were completely ignored... and it was because we knew the mods would start to marginalize people who spoke ugly-truths and then got bandwagon-flagged. Not saying they do it on purpose or have a malicious intent, just that they established a structure that encourages this kind of abuse.

I protest.
Meat is great. Driving anywhere I want as often as I like is great. Cooling my house in the summer is great. Buying products made of plastic is great.

I don't want to stop doing any of these things, they make my life great. I could radically change my entire lifestyle to something much more limited and uncomfortable, only for the gains to be eaten up because my neighbor refuses to use contraception, and refuses to teach his 5 kids to use contraception.

The onus of climate change falls on people whose carbon footprint is exponential. Not me, mine is finite. I'm not going to move mountains in my life to make a difference that's fractional compared to other people's careless reproduction.
> humans are the best off we have ever been

This is too broad to be true. It's easily disproven with a single counterexample.

I could guess what you actually meant, but the tiny details in sentences like these change so much meaning I better let you clarify if this was an important point you're making.

Especially since you seem to be aiming to dismiss concerns about people who are not safe, I think it's important you be more specific.
It could also backfire to force the people to do it. Maybe there are people who refuse the vaccinations now because they are not allowed to choose on their own anymore.
> The ElectionGuard SDK will be available through GitHub beginning this summer. We encourage the election technology community to begin building offerings based on this technology and expect early prototypes using ElectionGuard will be ready for piloting during the 2020 elections in the United States, with significant deployments for subsequent election cycles.

Where is the "we invite interested developers and groups to audit this code and try to build exploits" stage?

> recently received $10 million in funding from DARPA to build a demonstration voting system

and maybe with a bounty reward program?

Then again, maybe because this is more of a reference implementation designed to be incorporated into other products (MIT license) maybe the only thing that matters is how the final implementation is done?
If Boeing were to hire me to consult on this project, I'd suggest that they just go directly to five blades and/or make changes to instruments so they can be dialed to 11.
From my best interpretation of your comment you seem to think VoIP is far more "carrier peer to carrier peer" than it is in practice. As a value added telecom provider I have a few upstream carriers but it's not as if I receive calls from every carrier. Just like the Internet, my upstream carriers are my access points to the PSTN, so all of my SIP invites come from either my customers or my know upstream carriers. Those carriers are effectively my ISPs of the PSTN. I chose them and I pay them for service.

Distrusting one of them and the calls that come from them is something of a non-sequitur since you chose them and intentionally became one of their customers and pay them to receive those calls.

TL;DR This isn't like email or IP traffic where you're interacting with other IPs in a purely untrusted network model. Merely analyzing the previous hop doesn't tell us anything valuable.
"Now, don’t panic and toss your tubes. There’s no evidence yet that they’re doing anything harmful inside the body."
This is where duress codes can be useful.
Thanks for pointing that out.

(Also odd formulation of the question: "Why aren't the open soure? - We made the decision to keep them closed source." The actual answer is to the next question: "we may provide premium developer services.")
> that does not mean humanity is the final arbiter of evolution, even of its own, at least at this stage of development

Oh, I agree, and I did not mean to imply so. I'm just saying that that we do have some degree of control. Choosing to launch a nuke at the Galapagos island would certainly shape evolution. That's just example to show that we have the power to interfere on a large scale if we choose.
Right, they shouldn't be fined for refusing to vaccinate, they should be fined for endangering the life of their kids and others with this reckless behaviour.
Seems to be mostly memes with misspellled words and uncorrect grammar now.
Rich tab completions is table stakes for Unix shells these days.
...another point in the favor of legally forcing governments and public institutions to use open-source software and open data formats.

This should be as plain and simple as stating that "if there exists a fully functional open-source technology that satisfies a public institution's need, the institution should be forced to use such technology instead of any proprietary alternative, or to demand it's contractors to develop a custom open-source solution, even if it's more expensive then a proprietary alternative" (with some "sane" limit like it can be "up to but not more than 5x as expensive" - there's befits to society from funding "a bit" of os dev from public funds, but not over do it...).

"Software capitalism" and public infrastructure don't mix well. And private companies can still make tons of money developing, customizing/extending and supporting open-source software for use by gov clients.

But if it's paid from people's taxes, it should only be open-source!
History of How Abraham Lincoln Helped Rig the Senate for Republicans
Draft – Simple app development and deployment – into any Kubernetes cluster
Now THAT is scary!
These anti-vax folks believe vaccines cause autism AND that there is some massive conspiracy to give their kids autism via vaccines so a small nudge seems unlikely to much effect at all.

What we need are massive civil suits against these folks for putting other people into danger.
As you recognize, the Commerce Clause argument is a bit of a distraction--at most, it tells you that the states, rather than the federal government, are the right level to regulate drugs. The states, moreover, are not governments of limited, enumerated powers. They have general police powers. And indeed, as originally conceived, the states' exercise of those powers was not even subject to the Constitution. It was only 20th-century Supreme Court cases, interpreting the effect of the Civil War era amendments, that determined that the Bill of Rights applied to the states by way of the 14th amendment.

States have the general powers to regulate both the public health and public morality. Regulation of socially-harmful vices was always understood to be within the scope of state regulatory power. Adultery, for example, was uniformly illegal in colonial America, because of the potential threat to the social order. There is nothing that suggests the Constitution intended to deprive states of that traditional power. (To the contrary, those powers are expressly reserved to the states.) Regulating the ingestion of psychoactive substances falls squarely within that power.

I happen to agree with you to a degree--I don't think the Commerce Clause permits the federal government to make drugs illegal. (Indeed, I think the whole scheme of federal systems for public health are constitutionally questionable, since that is something historically committed to the states.) But the state governments inherited all the powers of the British sovereign, save for those delegated to the federal government, and subject only to peoples' individual rights. While those individual rights aren't necessarily enumerated in the Constitution, they must exist and be recognized. Nobody has ever recognized a general right of individuals to "do what they want with their own bodies." Drug prohibition is fair game for the states.
That all seems very happy-go-lucky. However, how many malls has amazon put out of business? How many malls has amazon bought for distribution centers? My guess is that ratio is not good.
I've been using FullCalendar in production since 2014. It's very good. I maintain a clone of patio11's appointmentreminder.org for the Austrian market [3]. My customers, doctors, use an FC-based web calendar I provide them with to manage their appointments. Their receptionists literally use the calendar, and thus FC, all day. I get calls if it's down for 5 minutes. They totally depend on it.

I have two open source extensions for FC. One is a plugin for better right-click handling [1]. The other adds multiple columns [2]. It's like the new scheduler functionality, mentioned in the post, which didn't yet exist when I started.

Thank you Adam!

1: https://github.com/mherrmann/fullcalendar-rightclick

2: https://github.com/mherrmann/fullcalendar-columns

3: https://www.terminerinnerung.org
Thanks! We currently use OT for the collaborative editing experience behind Live Share.
There is also kubespray Ansible provisioning of Kubernetes, kops and kubeadm.

Rolling Kubernetes on your own is quite hard though especially the networking part so there should be a market for a company helping out with provisioning.

Using public cloud can be very expensive for some work loads which were not written for the cloud due to higher resource usage. It is still quite hard to forecast cost of the cloud due to a lot of moving parts and micro billing for each item.

With traditional service providers it can be easier to budget for the service expenses.
Because it’s been clear that what exists is not stable, many people are waiting until it’s stable to try.

There were a number of people who converted code to the various proposals, so that helped.
Will it support Windows 9?
Gravitational Waves Keep Rolling Past Earth
Mozilla does not "hate" its users. This comment is way too emotional and dogmatic. Firefox is not above reproach but the presentation of your message leaves a lot to be desired.
Counterpoint: APL and perl vs. python. Python did take usability into account and familiarity. UX is important. Developers are users. As a language (or in general tool) designer you have a responsibility to make that tool easy to use, and difficult to misuse.

Familiarity is a big part of that, although ease of use is bigger (which is probably why python got the traction it did despite being unfamiliar to people who came from braces-land).
What's the situations going to be like for third-party addons for this? My company has need of an online IDE for our end users to code against, and obviously writing our own seems like too gargantuan of a task that will likely result in sub-par outcomes.

Could we instead make some kind of first-class addon for VS Code Online, and funnel users into setting that up instead?
> Who pays the extra cost for a call to a mobile phone, the caller or the receiver?

The caller. You don't pay to receive normal calls unless you're roaming (since the caller can't know you're roaming, it wouldn't be fair to make the caller pay the roaming charges).

> they seem to have inherited a lot of North American phone operator customs (like 850/1900 radio bands and CDMA).

The radio bands make sense, since the whole American continent is a single ITU region. As for CDMA, here on Brazil initially it was only Vivo on CDMA and the rest on GSM, but then Vivo also switched to GSM some time ago.

> They would have deals where calling someone on the same operator was free.

We also have these deals here. And also here, number portability muddled things: while before for instance 95xx to 99xx was Vivo and 90xx to 94xx was Claro, nowadays you can't be sure (and that's before they added an extra "9" digit before all cell phone numbers, making them 9 digits instead of 8).
That’s really cool. Nicely done. I couldn’t find anything in the bear’s fur though.
I do! But no. Just no.
> Chicken, fish, and turkey are some of the healthiest delivery mechanisms for protein on the planet.

Observing the diets of blue zone populations, it definitely seems like meat should be consumed rarely. Although they consume different forms of meat, they seem to share in common meat consumption of roughly 1-2 servings per month. This is far rarer than the average American diet.
WPF will still be Windows exclusive, though. Like many other things. What they really mean is BCL+Runtime+Compiler, and not .NET (read as: the whole ecosystem).