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I love uBlock Origin. I wish I could donate to gorhill, and I'm actually kind of annoyed he wont even put up a paypal me link or something.

That said, I've noticed more and more sites are starting to do the ad blocker detection and not allowing you to see the content until you white list them. It started with a simple body {overflow:hidden} and a modal box, but they are now truncating their content.

And I don't mind a site advertising, they have to make their money somehow, but I don't like how the modern ad-tech is so kludgy.
That used to be called a "liberal education", which meant an education that was appropriate for free men, as opposed to slaves, who would be trained in a trade.

Today, that corresponds to pursuing knowledge if you don't need the money. If you do, pursue something that pays. (Pursue as much knowledge as you can work in around the edges, but the main focus has to be on something that pays.)
I've made extensive use of the stair calculators, this site is excellent. Built 2 sets of staircases with landings so far. I hadn't thought to explore the rest of the site, I see plenty here that will be useful in the future.
Whether it's at home, work or on cloud, if you don't have a DR or backup plan, all it takes is a typo ...
So you were actually impressed with this project, but instead of congratulating the team you decide to rehash old out-dated arguments and try to bash PHP.

Do you realize this sort of thing is no longer a reflection on the language (folks are immune to it). For people who want to hate just to hate, why are you here on HN? Seriously, go find a subreddit to flame on.
I would expect it to work for a carrier-branded device even with no SIM card, unless the device has been flashed with a stock firmware from the OEM.

For a non-carrier-branded device though, perhaps the presence of a SIM card is required.
The judgement specifically states that this is more than a curbside consult.
How dense is it?
Nobody makes "now, our vehicles come with WHEELS, the new ROUND kind!" their main selling point.
Well, that isn't the only bug in the code, just the one which is being requested for prompting the warning. It's been about a decade since I've written significant C/C++ code, but something far more dangerous stood out to me:

Upon first reading, I'd assume they are seeing the maximum unsigned values, but their variables aren't declared as unsigned -- and C/C++ default to signed values. Secondly, representing the nth power of two actually takes n+1 binary digits, so e.g. 28 is a one, followed by 8 zeros -- overflowing any 8-bit variable, signed or unsigned! This is undefined behavior as-declared (signed values), but would be entered as a zero for explicitly declared unsigned variables.

Personally, if I were to be implementing this, I'd use bitwise operations to generate the correct values, and explicitly acknowledge in a comment something like "the following code knowingly breaks the abstraction of numeric values. It is likely not portable to other hardware, nor should you assume easy extension to other variable types. Das Quellcode ist nicht fur der gefingerpoken!"
The Vanishing of Malaysian Airlines MH 370 [video]
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>It's not up for debate; we have evidence that it's dangerous.

Just like talking to other people in the car or doing anything else other than driving. I know that I will take a driver getting their messages read out to them over a driver who takes their eyes off the road and glances at the phone. Good is the enemy of the perfect, and I would rather take an attainable good over an unattainable perfect.
> Correct. They have given up, and it's good that they have, because they've all proven they absolutely suck at it.

I started my career working on Ford Sync. I remember going to an exec fireside-chat type of thing where someone stood up and said "the worst mistake of my career was outsourcing vehicle interiors in the 70s/80s." This was to a group of engineers who were almost entirely outsourcing all of Ford Sync development to an offshore team. They didn't see the irony.

When I bought a car I went out of my way to find a way to avoid having Sync on it. I did succeed, but the best I could do was bug a separate cigarette outlet usb adapter so I could use it instead of the built-in USB port in the car. Why? Because plugging it into the car would force me to inherit all of the bugs in the assumptions built into Sync.

I left Ford with the impression that vehicle OEMs are the Nokias of the auto-world. I wouldn't bet on them to make a good consumer electornics end user experience.
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I still have my Google Account recovery codes in my wallet that I first generated in 2011.
This doesn't make sense. Why not use both 2fa AND a strong passphrase? To get to the second factor the attacker still needs your password. There is nothing that says you should use a simple password if you have 2fa configured.
They're using cryptocurrency because - off the top of my head in no particular order:

1. Hype

2. It gives "credibility" to their currency

3. they can be regulated as a crypto-currency that way.

4. It enables faster transactions and reactions to the transaction states than regular currency.

5. It locks the users in to their partners because it's more friction to get money.

6. Easier to obtain the data on how users spend their money.

7. Easier to introduce new models based upon transactions/currency.

8. It can be given away for free easily.
> This is an accusation made by the US government, it's not a fact.

Are you claiming the chat logs that show Assange offering assistance cracking passwords are fake?
This is a common method used to create an adsorbent mass of iron hydroxide mediated particls strongly hydrogen bonded that settles and it filtered, dried and used as fertilizer. Not sure where the drugs etc go? changed or ruined in functional aspects probably
That's pretty interesting. As they say, Meme Magic is real.
Why not just auto-update the OS??????????

Non-auto-updating software is the problem
We do know. The number of mainlanders that know about the protests is probably larger than HK's entire population.

If you can read Chinese, go to weibo or tieba or tianya or hupu, you can see posts about the protests. Surely they may get removed after a while but I can assure you that one doesn't gets arrested just for posting the news and discuss about it a bit. The number of off-line discussions cannot be estimated.

Proof (a screenshot from NGA): https://imgur.com/a/FbofCOK

Please remember that HK is physically connected to mainland China and 83.2 million people crossed the border in 2015[0]. Hell, even in 1984 some people still know the government's dirty secrets, it would be extremely arrogant to assume we know nothing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_Wu_Control_Point
There's still a network effect; it's just a duopoly. The third outfit trying to make this work can't, because they don't have anyone with their app on the phone, because they don't have any drivers, and they don't have any drivers because nobody wants to drive for them because they don't have any customers.
For the blockchain to be as secure as possible, a large amount of capital must be invested into mining it, far more than the average individual possesses.

There are plenty of exchanges in reliable jurisdictions (Coinbase, Bitstamp, etc.), why do a few shady ones matter?
And I have no desire to be lied to, yet here we are, censoring a group, and claiming they're not being censored.

When faced with the facts, the question is evaded, attempts are made to change the topic, and every slippery, misleading tactic is used to avoid admission.

I can only conclude such people are wholly uninterested in the truth, and are in fact actively opposed to it.
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I like it took, but I wish the escape key was a physical button. It's nice that you can touch anywhere in the corner and don't have to hit the exact spot on the Touch Bar, but it would be nice to have a button.
How is your solution different from uploading to Google Drive?
I don't think Musk needs to delete his account, but he certainly needs to surrender direct access to it. Somebody with absolute veto power should be vetting everything that goes out over it.
Same thing is happening in Mexico, Colombia, Perú and Argentina with YC backed Rappi. The fact that most of their recruits happen to be desperate Venezuelans fleeing their country makes this practice all the more glaring.
I feel the story told by article deserves a fairly sensational title!

I do agree that the current title is sensationalizing the wrong aspect though, something like "Minnesota doctors routinely ignore diagnosed treatment" would more apt.
If I was doing any development, I think I'd use Linux over Windows purely for the filesystem performance
It's more the other way around, at least in a US context. Concern of the impact of AI/physician disagreement is a problem from a malpractice point of view. Physicians in the US have a huge amount of professional leeway - hence the expansion of off-label use - but this is counterbalanced by a large amount of professional responsibility/liability.
The assumption that baby boomers are "cultureless" or otherwise defective seems a bit suspect as well. Kind of what you would expect from useless lay-about millennials, though.
> This statement makes it sound like every Qt application uses CSS. That's not true.

The applications that are ok with the default style don't need to specify style. Nevertheless Qt is an UI toolkit that supports CSS styling.

> I'm not aware of any FOSS Qt applications using CSS.

And that's ok. Nevertheless I've already worked on a couple of Qt projects that used Qt Style Sheets extensively. In fact, that's pretty much the norm in any non-desktop project.
iOS 13 will support scanning of National IDs via NFC
Mother Theresa's saintly work involved providing healthcare for the indigent and overlooked. Her criticisms involve withholding pain relief from those people for religious reasons.

That's not an unrelated "whataboutism?" It directly criticizes the action being praised.

(I'm not sure why the downvotes. Does this need substantiation? It was directly observed by a major physician, who wrote about it in The Lancet - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...)
In fact the passenger will also detect the potentially dangerous situation and stop taking focus from you. The person in the phone will not, and may continue to distract you involuntarily.
I have one! I love the interior desing and the rpm is like floating! And the AC control is just stupid easy because the auto works very well not like on a BMW were you need to set the speed of fan for auto?!? If is auto whay i need to do anything? That's why Civic was "red dot: best of the best".
The point is that all of these random tokens are functionally identical from the perspective of most users. If you're claiming there's a hard limit on the number of limited edition funko pop action figures produced, you'd better be able to explain what makes them any different than these other identical clones.

It'd be like if counterfeit designer clothes were actually indistinguishable from the "real" ones, and arguably better made in some cases.
You're saying that you're safe because you're not an interesting target. People tend to agree that security through obscurity is not a good strategy.

As for how hackers can swap someone's SIM, consider:

- Does the 20 year old minimum wage employee working at that store know how to spot a good quality fake ID card?

- What about hackers bribing an employee?
That’s from something like 1 trillion bacteria species vs 300k plant species. Considering we have 120+ important medical compounds from plants we would need ~400,000 from bacteria for each species to have equal weight.

Further, fighting bacteria is a connection between us and bacteria so deriving an antibiotic is an obvious connection. Looking for say an anti cholesterol drug on the other hand and your stuck with random interactions.
Having stayed in 40+ hostels, it can get tiring very quickly, at first it's easy to be impressed at seeing so many different people in one location, but eventually I started feeling like everyone was the same, with the exception of someone here and there.

I do agree that off-the-beaten-track is better, location really defines the profile of the majority of the travelers you'll meet there, such as the european party trail(Amsterdam-Berlin-Prague-Budapest) where you're more likely to meet people who just want to get wasted(and hit on 'locals' if they are men).

Not to mention the universal adoption of smartphones, cheap data tourist plans, google maps and trip recommendations at your palm, more often than not, if I'm stepping into a hostel common area I'm more likely to see a bunch of zombies glued to their phones before deciding to hit some of the top 5 recommendations on TripAdvisor, it also makes it more difficult to start conversations in a place where that was way more natural just a few years back.

These days I'm only staying in hostels for the monetary value which is still way cheaper than most Hotels or AirBnBs, trying to stay in dorms that have no more than 6 beds, I end being one of those who is just staring at their phones and doesn't really engage with other travelers(I do believe this is the majority of hostel guests these days). I'll get a hotel for the comfort every now and then. I guess living in a backpacker destination made me a bit bitter about backpackers in general.
Lawsuit and settlement coming up
I feel like VisiCalc is better known than Lotus 1-2-3 and we’ll acknowledged as one of the key killer apps for personal computers in the 80s.
The problem is the government subsidizes loans.
The problem is a lot of manufacturing equipment is either not networked, or not networkable. A lot of equipment relies on USB interfaces to load/store programs. Disabling USB ports across the board is not practical.

And with some of the crazy hardware[1] out there for retrofitting antique equipment with modern functionality; blanket encryption is not always possible either. The cited USB emulator requires that the USB stick be formatted into hundreds of minuscule FAT partitions, simulating floppy disks images and all the documentation comes in one language: Engrish. After that the machines will only load programs that follow a certain naming convention/format/ect...
[1]http://www.gotekemulator.com/

So the choices for many organizations are;
a) upgrade dozens of custom pieces manufacturing equipment so that they're securely networkable at astronomical cost (if it's even possible).
b) Air-gap all the old scary stuff running on ancient OSs & proprietary PLC drivers from god-knows-where and only talk to them via USB/direct interfaces and worry about them when they break.
They're illegal to sell and use in the US though.
That lock-in is called business trade off, which the large majority of the market prefers to compromise on.

Maybe you should make a reflection why no one cares about such Quixotic endeavours, which remind me of soapbox speeches while the gaming industry just carries on business as usual.
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How accessible are open-source slack competitors like Mattermost?

I feel for you. I'm blind in one eye and am at a pretty high risk of going blind in the other because of it. I do my best to make sure the things I build are accessible; it's a real shame that accessibility is typically an afterthought.
Miners have to sell their coin to remain profitable.

No, they don't. They just have to sell a notation in their database that a coin is owed to someone. This is what MtGox did, and it's what Coinbase still does. The trick is to maintain just enough coin to be able to transfer out coins on request (as MtGox tried to do), or to just claim that it will take a few days to process the transaction (as Coinbase does).

Binance, which has most of its funds auditable on various blockchains.

A company owned by Binance audited Binance's books. And posted the results of the audit online...but not the underlying data. This is useful from the POV of conducting a third-party audit...
It's a really cool approach, no doubt. Map makers solve the problem using "Trap streets," which are small, fake streets that don't really exist, which would demonstrate that you blindly copied their map if your map also contains it. But for song lyrics, it's not really an option to add fake lines to the song. Using different apostrophe styles is really smart.
Very possible - I didn't realize it had been changed. My apologies.
last month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19980548
I will never understand how someone can have all his digital life in one single place.. I mean, mail eMail, Passwords to all other sites, scanned documents - all in google? That is asking for trouble. Also, 2FA via Text makes your account unsafer, if any.
Thank you for the correction! Serves me right for being so credulous.
My experience has been the same, not once but many times. Often I consider the lyrics on Genius to be more accurate, to the point where I am in the habit of bypassing whatever Google tells me the lyrics are and searching directly for the former.
Accusation of "withholding taxes" is weird. Generally accepted standard is that income is taxed in a country that it originated. When Apple sells iPhones in EU through the EU-registered subsidiary, it pays taxes in EU, as it should. The fact that US demands that income to be additionally taxed in the US is just American weirdness, no other country in the world does that. US can get away with it only because of its military power (so it basically is an extortion).
> You can't use another method [with Twitter] for 2FA, such as U2F or OTP.

Are you sure?

* https://www.yubico.com/works-with-yubikey/catalog/twitter/
Noise-wise, I'll take the sound of my Corolla over a drone any day. Not sure on raw relative decibel levels, but the whine is incredibly obnoxious.
> This included tax returns, account passwords for my wife in case I died, personal documents and spreadsheets, and just about everything I had paper copies of at home.

This is why you should never store passwords on your computer / cloud in plain text.

> Given that I had 2FA enabled for my bank account and the bank account info on Google Drive, it was just a matter of time before the thief started stealing my money.

Is it common in the United States to allow online banking without any physical second factor? My bank requires me to use some kind of device similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program with my card and code to login or execute transactions. I think most other banks in my country require something similar.
The one with aspect=1 looks incorrectly configured.

There are a number of different graphics modes, they have different pixel aspect ratios, you can also adjust the monitor, it is possible that back in school you were using a different mode or a different monitor. I think there are some other factors that can affect this.
So are cell phone jammers, but there's a decent trade in them.
Yeh that's unfortuante but it is normal for box's API. This isn't Google being overly grabby, its the only scope available to third party read and writing to box.

The API scope doesn't have any knowledge of individual files or applications.
https://developer.box.com/docs/scopes

Conversely, Google Drive does have scopes available for Application specific folder read/write
https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/appdata

So box needs to up its game.
Talking about responsibility to society is hypocritical when you're paying lawyers to hide money away from medical care, schools, infrastructure and other tax funded sources in countries all over the world.

Tim seems like a person only interested in talking in points that smear his competition. Understandable from pure selfish business perspective, but the fact that he's trying to make a moral argument just leaves a bad taste in our mouth.
Nasa taps CMU to develop robots to turn pits on Moon into potential habitats
I imagine they are that expensive. Even low volume car manufacturers often "borrow" switchgear from mainstream brands to avoid the cost of making custom switches. This is why any reader fortunate enough to afford a modern Aston Martin will find the cabin filled with a lot of Mercedes switchgear, as one example. Go back farther than that and Aston were owned by Ford, which is why mid-2000s Astons are filled with very cheap feeling physical Ford controls from this era. Etc, etc. Parts sharing is critical to affordable production.

Touch screens are staggeringly cheap now, as anyone with a Raspberry Pi and too much free time can attest, and fits virtually any car, as opposed to switch gear design which often requires the rest of the dash to fit with the design of the button or knob too. A screen mounting location is usually just a rectangular hole in a dash.
Websocksy: Highly configurable dynamic WebSocket to network transport bridge
Editing, search, organization, sharing and viewing tools. Google Photos is a fantastic UI for that - provided, the pictures actually live in my Drive.
American manufacturing jobs have been decimated. American manufacturing is at or near historical highs in terms of actual output and value. America simply doesn't do much low-margin, low-end stuff anymore.

To use steel as an example, America still produces a HUGE amount of steel. But most is now specialty alloys (which requires more precision, control and ingredient purity) rather than bulk mild steel.
> yuzu only emulates a subset of Switch hardware and therefore is generally only useful for running/debugging homebrew applications. At this time, yuzu cannot play a majority of commercial games without major problems. yuzu can boot some commercial Switch games to varying degrees of success, but your experience may vary between games and for different combinations of host hardware.

still impressive, just thought you might want to quickly find the current state
I had no particularly noteworthy interest in the topic beyond empathy for the families at the time. Yet I found this a compelling read. The descriptions and details made the whole thing pretty easy to follow.
Driven by Tesla’s Model 3, electric car sales rise fast in Bay Area
Hello - good question!

Technical SEO - as I use the term - describes tasks like the following:

1) Performance optimization (One of the most important tasks)

It's basically me telling my clients that their Devs were right all along and that they have to improve their site's speed

2) UX feedback (Help in terms of usability and user experience because unusable sites will rank much worse on Google)

This is basically me telling my clients that their "fancy" 200.000 $ redesign will never rank in Google and that they have to use a "boring" design. (Their Devs were right again ...)

3) Improve internal linking (Prioritize important pages with high search volume, deprioritize less important pages)

More complicated, but this is one of the most important tasks for "big" websites (e-commerce, news, travel, ...) and one of the biggest levers to improve rankings

4) manage URL-corpus

One of my clients' had every single article of his indexed on more than 5 different URLs (eg. https://www.website.com/correct-url, https://www.website.com/correct-url/, https://www.website.com/correct-url?preview, https://www.website.com/correct-url/?preview,https://www.web..., https://www.website.com/?1234). Each URL hat internal links pointing to it, so the domain's "power" was split through hundreds of thousands of URLs. Google hates this and traffic exploded after fixing this.

...

A lot of other related tasks are not that easy to explain for me in text (I am a non-native English speaker and this comment already took me 20 minutes up until here ...) and my guidelines vary from website to website.

But, essentially, I help clients to adhere to web standards and optimize their websites for their users. The last "spammy" backlink I build for a project other than my side-projects (experiments) was probably more than 5 years ago ...