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I feel like I hit the sweet spot by only ever using WinForms, then getting out.

Their framework strife seems like a manifestation of their depiction in this classic: http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
This is not responsive to the parent poster's point. You appear to have a disagreement about the meaning of "exploited," not about the data.
I do. Every morning I get the scale out, grind beans, and get the kettle going to prepare a couple of cups of pour-over coffee. I'm still dialing in the perfect pot of coffee, so I'll change a variable in my process each morning. If I time it right, I make my pour over in time to sit down by some natural light and remotely attend my morning meetings as I sip down my beverage. It gives me a nice break from the screen and allows me to focus on doing something highly rewarding with my hands.

As a side note, I've recently started ordering bags of beans online from various roasters I've had around the country. If anyone has recommendations that sell their beans online, I'd love to expand my palette.
The US and UK both have extradition treaties with HK (partly why Snowden fled to Russia), so they wouldn't have any standing if they tried to insist that China shouldn't have one.
There should be a scihub for isos
Modeline, (as in 'mode line') not 'modeling'.

And previously submitted a week or so ago when it was reported and patched, Ars a bit slow on the uptake!
Carrie Lam has 43% support according to public opinion polls [1]

[1]https://www.hkupop.hku.hk/english/popexpress/ce2017/cl/cecom...
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The majority of every invention / attempt will be wrong in any human pursuit. Just think, 400 useless apps or pieces of software are probably released DAILY to the itunes store.
The only difference is the impact, but its still understandable. What if you had to write software that did the following:

* Fixed a bug in an existing "legacy system", deployed remotely without your knowledge. You have no logs or debug information, but you can speculate on cause and try it in small simulated / test environments (e.g. rodents). By introducing this fix you would also be changing the system in unknown ways.

* You only have a vague idea of how the code in the OS for this system works, your fix doesn't even change the code. Your only mechanism of change is injecting some foreign JS into a webform to cause ripple effects on the system for the user, meanwhile the system is setup to try to stop / avoid such "attacks" and will try to undo your fix if it can be detected by the system's "AI".

* if your fix fails in production for even one user, you may lose millions and potentially go jail, that person may die.

* You get one shot to release it to the public, after go-live it basically has to work or everything was for nothing. There is no "push this fix and everything gets better", even one small change is a complete restart (new molecule == new drug).

* If you accidentally release any information about the users, or lose their data, you lose millions and potentially go to jail.

* This software will take 10 years, a handful of scientists, a lab, some lawyers, lobbying, and a few billion dollars to make.

* Every user using your software will be on an entirely unique stack, processing all kinds of data in tandem with your software, and will not follow directions. Some will even have lots of other bugs in the system that are unrelated to your fix.
> Regardless of it actually happening or not it looks terrible. This should never happen

I understand the problem you're describing, but consider what you're asking for: people with competence and experience should be barred from taking jobs that require competence and experience? Non-competes have the same problem.
Microsoft warns that Windows 10 update will break some Bluetooth devices
And what are you planning to do with photos? Are you aware of any mobile app of Google Photos caliber that can just point to a S3 bucket?
Sadly not, my wife who is from HK and strongly supports the protests just had a fight with her parents because they support the government. They even lived in mainland China during the cultural revolution, suffered for it, but still think the communist party can do no wrong.
> I'm not sure what response you'd like me to have -- call for him to be in prison for the rest of his life?

I think endangering the lives of multiple people ought to merit some kind of punishment, yes.

> That they don't publish anything?

That they make a serious attempt to redact sensitive info that it's not in the public interest to reveal. Their official reason for not doing so with the Afghan cables was, essentially, that they couldn't be bothered. Assange plainly and openly didn't give a crap if anyone was hurt as a result. Has there ever been an apology from Wikileaks?

Come on, you don't need cooperation from the US authorities to blank out the name of someone who's mentioned as being, say, a CIA informant.
A repeat offender would eventually be barred from any participation in traffic other than walking. Basically a form of restraining order, with the same limited effectivity.

Fortunately the law is still acknowledging that drunk cycling is much less bad than drunk driving (and often the only practical alternative besides sobriety), so you'd have to go pretty wild to ever get more than maybe a fine. Unfortunately, this view is increasingly under pressure from the kind of "enemy of the good" perfectionists who always ignore the big picture.
Well, yeah, I think that was a very bad call. But from the hospital's perspective nobody was going to blame them if some children died of a currently incurable disease. But people might very well blame them if there was a problem with the treatment. And there was a problem with the treatment, so maybe it was selfishly good for them that they had this procedure.
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+1 for velocloud. SDWAN mesh between all your devices, and they provide a cloud gateway that allows you to connect to any compatible ipsec device, without having to backhaul all the data to one specific endpoint.
I'm a little confused, how much technical this approach is? I can't understand the meaning of P(D) for example. Does it make sense in strict mathematics?
The US doesn't care much where you physically are when you commit a crime against the US. For instance, if you conspire to traffic drugs into the US, the US can come after you. It doesn't matter if you're physically in the US or not when you do it.

If an estranged noncitizen parent living abroad conspires to kidnap his children from their custodial parent inside the US, he can be tried for kidnapping by the US. Even if his part of the conspiracy never takes place inside the US. The alternative- just letting him off, due to where he happened to physically be at the time- would be fairly absurd. The jurisdiction he's physically in probably doesn't care, and even if they do, most of the witnesses and all of the victims are physically in the US.

The US can't kidnap him but asking the jurisdiction he is in to extradite him is totally normal. This is what extradition agreements are for, in part.
Yeah but if you want the best consumer chip in the market, you're probably a consumer with special needs e.g. someone that encodes/renders videos; engineer/scientist who needs tons of computation/simulation/visualization; gamer who plays CPU-intensive games like factorio/dwarffortress/rimworld etc... so in that niche $750 is still a very much consumer product. The end computer setup will cost around $2k, $3k which is a pretty normal price for these kind of niche consumer computer.
Offering residency to every Cantonese HKer is not exactly 0 leverage. The could unilaterally have offered any number of places over the years since 97 in response to the many Chinese actions. HK is no longer the star relative to the rest of the Chinese economy so the influence of that is now far less than it might have been in the early 00s.

Britain once had influence within the EU and chose to throw that away. They could have used that influence to try and get a stronger reaction from the EU to the many and repeated transgressions, of both the word and principle of the Sino British declaration.

It's really sad to see that the only one consistently speaking out against Chinese actions has been Chris Patten, the last Governor.
Surely the last one should be:

"You don't seem to be having _enough_ trouble - have you tried using this website on a phone?"
This is nonsense. The anti vaxxers place far more trust on someone who is known to have falsified data, and committed egregious malpractice.

The anti vaxxers lack of trust in the media has almost nothing to do with what the media may or may not have done to lose trust.

The actual difference is that one side does not have a good explanation for what causes autism, and as a result admits that they don’t have the answers yet, while the other does not have a good explanation as well, but makes up stuff and boasts that they actually do know the answer.

For vulnerable parents who are just looking for some answer, the second side is extremely attractive.

Everything else about lack of trust, and corporate influence, etc is all secondary, and are after the fact justifications.
Feature request: hide-paywalled-sites

Removes all links from wsj, nytimes, bloomberg, etc.
> I pointed out that I’d be lying if I signed it unmodified and the response was I’d be terminated if I didn’t sign

Why isn't this a good reason to file a wrongful termination lawsuit?
Surveillance-savvy Hong Kong protesters go digitally dark
I like coffee. I like the variety of flavors and smells and the warmth and the ritual of it. I roast my own beans nearly every day. I also am addicted to caffeine. For me, there is a sliding scale of preference from my own coffee or sitting down at a good coffee shop to something quick like a Starbucks to instant coffee or caffeine pills, but pretty much no matter what I have a plan or backup plan to at least get some caffeine in the system.

That said, delivery seems a little strange to me. You don't get the little coffee break to walk to somewhere or have some involvement in making it, which seems like a downside. It also seems like a lot of overhead to obtain coffee.
I am not in this field, but I guess that as an employee at the FDA you approve drugs for all the big pharma companies, which aside from the FDA are the major employers that value their skillset. It may be that if you prohibit FDA employees to transition to one of the big pharma companies, you're telling them that they can either work at the FDA forever or have to leave their field
V1 Jobs was known for being a selfish asshole.

V1 Jobs (post 97) was much the same, but with a bit of humility that allowed him to empathize enough to be able to make successful products.
In contrast, I challenge you to put five economists into a room and ask a question about, say, auction theory. Do you still think you get five opinions?

> See some of the discussion around MMT for a practical example.

MMT is Macro, and Macro is bad. Any of it. The reason is that the assumptions of any Macro model, including MMT, are so excruciatingly far from reality that "formal theory" is difficult to do.

We have formal theory such that five economists who disagree know exactly where they disagree - on which assumption or axiom.

A theory that does not formulate out its assumptions or scope conditions, which sadly includes a lot of "heterodox models", can not be criticized at all. It may be right, it may be wrong, but we can find to common basis on which we agree or disagree.
They probably have a gold web server that can only be powered by the tears of albino giraffes. For the price they charge for distributing one standard once, normal organizations can distribute files to anyone who asks essentially forever.
These bee-centric start-ups are a pleasant surprise, especially given the importance of bees in agricultural production. Perhaps some of them will venture overseas to countries such as China where, due to pollution and loss of habitat, bee populations have been decimated to the extent that pollination has to be carried by hand using sticks and feathers [0].

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-plants-blossom-without-bees/av-...
I really can't wait until Microsoft does this to Google and Google sues them into the sunset. Something tells me big G wouldn't like a taste of it's own medicine in this department.
I agree, but it doesn't seem worth risking my job over. I know, pretty weak.
It looks like depth data can be accessed through the AVFoundation framework provided by Apple.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/camer...
hard to search for since they're numbered, and people collect the ones that are relevant to them personally
>Why do you keep repeating that he "hacked into laptop"?

I think there might be some confusion here. I didn't say that. You misquoted me in the other reply as well.

We'll see in court if he can prove he did or didn't help.

I don't think how well you know the application in question really has anything to do with the viability of the claim.
I've once been in that situation where the company tried to introduce a contract rewrite with the standard lack of clarity over whether it applied to everything, including outside work (e.g. open source contributions). There were enough open source developers in the company that this was a big problem.

So we all just refused to sign the contract change.

The situation stalled for a few months, and they eventually backed down and wrote in a clarification. This was the UK, so we actually had rights and couldn't just be arbitrarily sacked, and everyone was aware that pursuing individuals over this would lead to a mass exodus and the destruction of the company.
Not taking a stance on what has happened here, but, I just find it weird in this day and age how you can be accused of crimes against a country you aren't in by doing something over the internet.

Was it Turkey (I forget) recently that was trying to accuse people of crimes for writing anti-government pieces online and everyone says how bad it is, but, people seem to be cool when it's the USA doing it.

I don't understand the modern world and the reach of governments/where the crime actually occurs etc.

Going to Assange now - I can understand if he hacked the American government and you could state that the crime took place in America, but, if he passed around information outside of America, surely the offence didn't actually occur where the USA have jurisdiction?
If I edit a png file using gimp (open file and make some changes) and then save, I expect that gimp finally make changes to that png file. Whether it stores session or layers or whatever in xcf should be transparent to me.

I don't need to separately export it again to png. Because... I opened a png, I made changes, saved it and closed the file.

If gimp not doing it, then it's an issue.

Maybe, don't let people to open other formats. But let them "import" other formats. This will maintain consistency . Whether usability improves is another question.
I think he is referring to the millions of Chinese government cameras with facial recognition.
Most comments here are only focusing on medical devices; this is about the practice of medicine, not shitty companies!

In dentistry/endodontics it was believed for a long time that installing a post helped keep a crown and tooth intact for longer. But long term studies showed posts can actually reduce longevity. In another case, a study showed that a common type of knee surgery for pain is actually less helpful than a placebo surgery.

The overarching problem is that it's (currently) very hard to evaluate the real effect of practicing medicine on large swaths of the population, and then using those results to change what doctors do. By getting doctors into a continuous improvement cycle, we could identify costly, useless practices, and improve health.
>I once heard unsourced speculation that the French might have given the British the scoop on how to sabotage incoming missiles.

reminded by association - in the new Russian&Serbian movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Balkan_Line released for the 20th anniversary of the war there is a scene with the French bomb dropped on a house in Serbia and which didn't explode because it was intentionally sabotaged. Doesn’t seem to have propaganda value, and I’m wondering whether it is a play on real facts or just an artistic reference to the French resistance to the NATO bombing of civilian targets.
How do these systems do “verified reviews,” and if they can, wouldn’t it be bitcoin just going back the same person?
Assertions made without evidence dismissed without evidence, and all that jaz...
No, IE6 was far less terrible than IE4, but still amazingly awful. If was from the era of browsers where you had to essentially code up different copies of a page per-browser if you wanted any sort of graphical anything.
And they are usually not paid that much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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> In employee-employer relationships, the employer typically has all the power, so if you refuse to sign, you will likely be terminated.

Almost always, it won't hurt to ask. I've gotten approval to cross out some of the clauses when it didn't matter to the employer. Ex: ownership of work clause when I wasn't in a position providing work; but they wouldn't let me cross out asymmetric notice clauses.

I also neglected to sign an NDA for about two years once; I was asked to sign and scan prior to employment, but had some equipment issues and was told we'd do it on the first day, but it was forgotten, until investors wanted to see that everyone had an NDA prior to the next round of investment.
Don’t you just love it when people pull out their dusty tomes to prove to you that you’re wrong? It’s so pedantic yet also incredibly ignorant of how dynamic languages are.

I got yelled at once for using the word “cheap” to mean “inexpensive” once and wish you had been there with me.
Exactly! I should probably have a section (or at least a link to a resource) that talks about _why_ you would want to learn this.

I have an image in the book detailing the spectrum of data viz tools on the web. At one end are the quick-pickup tools that aren't customizeable, and at the other end you have.. d3. Which isn't really a framework so much as a collection of tools that can help with making web charts.

What I probably failed to communicate in this post is that there are tons of opportunities to help communicate data with the web. Tooltips are just the most common interaction, but you could easily envision using scroll as a trigger, or adding a way to "zoom in" on parts of a chart.

The learning curve is definitely steeper, but once you have the skills, the world is really your oyster for visualizing data online. The pudding (https://pudding.cool/) is a great showcase of possibilities, or even uncommon chart types like at https://wattenberger.com/fishing
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The Yellow Vest protests across France, often very violent, have been going on for more than half a year now. Yet tourists still visit Paris... life goes on... same for HK?
oh dear lord does this ring true. Yours, someone that works in banking
Unpopular opinion: this is absolute non-sense. If you want to create a commercial organization to maintain a project, by all means go ahead, but the idea that all open-source work should be paid for in equal terms is not healthy in the long term.

The community aspect used to be the most enjoyable part of open-source, and I gladly donated (a lot of) my own time. It’s about people coming together around a common need - if there’s enough demand more people will join in. I loathe the current state of marketing/funding/clout based OSS where projects become institutions of their own and break the natural attention balance.
With Chrome, you also get Chromium, and the ability to see inside(and contribute!) to development. This did not exist in the IE-dominated era.

Link to chromium dev: https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
The modern apache helmet system already has limited AR capabilities. IIRC, it even includes some in helmet display stuff like systems info and night vision, and also can be used to train the cannon
Did buy 7.5kg of unsorted Legos very recently,so yes, there's some interest.
Except it doesn't work that way. When your boss has you in the room to tell you your fired, instead he would just have the form you need read and to sign.
> The purpose of a timeout for toddlers / small children is to have a negative (but not harmful) consequence they understand...

Looks like we disagree.

In general I am opposed to punishment (obviously one cannot be absolute on such a matter) but in particular: the younger the child the less agency and less ability to connect cause and effect, so I consider punishment pretty much ineffective for toddler ages.

But society is a huge parallel processing system so my opinion need not be universal.
So you're upset that people use build tools with JavaScript but you're totally ok with using a build tool with Blazor?
I know this probably limits my career potential, but I consistently choose smaller companies and enjoy avoiding this kind of thing. There are software "mom and pop" companies all over the place, itching to find a good hire. I sign exactly one piece of paper, my employment contract, and they've always been good about negotiating good terms that allow me to keep my side projects and things of that nature. I think I would sooner change career than move into a corporate sized company, no matter how "startup" the culture is.
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Unfortunately, pushing hard (as in, "I will not sign this since it was not given to me pre-employment") might actually get you booted. Companies routinely update policies and a refusal to comply with those, even created post-hiring, may be sufficient for termination.

If what you mean is "this policy sounds reasonable, but I cannot sign anything sight unseen" any reasonable HR will just print (scan / email) you a copy of anything they want you to sign. My 2c.
> Who you are and how you treat people is more important than technical skills to get your kids to behave.

Or, rather, the actual most important “technical skill to get your kids to behave”, in the long term view is modelling the behavior you want to see.
> I think endangering the lives of multiple people ought to merit some kind of punishment, yes.

That is definitely a valid point-of-view (and it's not one that I necessarily disagree with), but that's simply not what he is being charged with.

> Assange plainly and openly didn't give a crap if anyone was hurt as a result.

If you're referring to the claim that he said "informants deserve what they get", this quote could not be corroborated with anyone else who was involved in the conversation where he apparently said that. Given what lies David Leigh went on to say about Julian Assange afterwards it seems likely this claim was also a lie.

> Come on, you don't need cooperation from the US authorities to blank out the name of someone who's mentioned as being, say, a CIA informant.

One of the main concerns was that due to the technical manner in which diplomatic cables are written, you actually do need to have an expert figure out whether there is any implied references to a particular informant that doesn't mention their name. The Guardian and other newspapers did spend lots of time doing this for a very small number of documents.

But again, that doesn't change that they should've done more to redact them. And in future leaks, they did.