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Can't speak for everyone, but I downvoted it for snarky disagreement that showed only a superficial engagement with the topic.
Personally I find it kind of disgusting you ever expect anyone to work those hours for anything. That is absurd.
> If elasticity were the only consideration in pricing, we should expect food to be break-the-bank expensive, but it clearly isn't.

Because welfare (and subsidy) programs exist so people aren't desperate for food, just like people who are covered under medicaid are not desperate to pay for health services.

There is really no mystery here.
Google kicks out popular open source app(s) with fake excuses
Not really. If you’re stuck in rush hour traffic, your “free will” is limited by your immediate surroundings, specifically the cars around you. Sure, you could abandon your car and walk or something, but that’s not likely a rational choice.

Given that “free will” is limited, and doubly so when operating a vehicle, that’s not very much of a rebuttal.
Well, you call that plastic bag “wallet” or “purse”.... In China, a plastic bag with no ID and no other important documents, usually we call it trash. Btw, we have a lot of small police offices and community centers that can store lost items but will never contact you. They only wait for the owner to go there and find their lost items.
We need your help. Google is doing evil :(

Google is sending in June messages about limiting access (read NO access) to some apps using oauth accessing gmail.
Of course under privacy pretext, and of course they won't do this is apps 'comply' and udnergo verification process.

Currently it hit (among others) very popular sms backup + (https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus) app which allows to backup and restore calls metadata and sms (with content) to gmail.

Develeoper of the app complied and submited app for verification process, but of course it was denied by Google. Whole verification process announced from them is another corporate mambo-jumbo = read lie.

Google guys, please help from inside. Why your company is doing this?

p.s. it does not applies only to gsuite, but to all gmail.
I am curious. Would the same be true for CSIRO? Considering that Austalia has introduced laws requiring any company to provide them with a backdoor that does not notify the user and the developer is essentially under a gag-order?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/29/project-veri...
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> "Oh it's this other company's responsibility. And, by the way, they don't agree to do GDPR, so it's out of my hands"

In this case, the other company is also in Europe (Spain), so by law must abide by GDPR. It seems they didn't have a contract ready, and Kolibri didn't want to spend money on translating/creating a contract to Spanish.

From what I read from Kolibri themselves (https://kolibri-image.com/causa-datenschutz/), the "processing" was a company that bundles DHL package orders to get batch pricing. You send them the information, they send the order (together with other orders) to DHL, DHL picks up the package and you save on postage. Apparently, Kolibri wasn't sure whether that's actually data processing (but did mention them using the company for this particular reason in their privacy information, according to the Bavarian officials, it isn't). They asked the German branch of the company who said they wouldn't need a contract and subsequently referred them to HQ in Spain. They asked the Hessian official to make the company's German branch comply with GDPR and sign a data processing contract. Instead, the Hessians forwarded it to Hamburg.

Kolibri claims to have stopped using that company after hearing back from the Hessians, but forgotten to remove them from the privacy information on one website. If they are to be believed, they were told "you can't use them without a contract" and stopped using them.

The fine has since been withdrawn and the case was closed.
I'm still bothered by this case. While I don't think that PepsiCo should've been forced to buy and then sell (for points) a Harrier jet, the fact that there were no consequences for the ad just kind of baffles me. If you look at any ad targeting youth markets from the time period, they had the same nonchalance; sure, they're not pitching a jet, but that just seems like a terrible argument.
That's fantastic, are they also to blame for the duopoly of political parties in America? Because the way our system is set up, first past the post, it is almost guaranteed. Are the voters to blame for the structure of our government which was written 250 years ago?
Actually the Soviet Union was indirectly brought down by the humble FAX machine.

The AFL-CIO from Detroit got friendly with the Polish Solidarity union. During protests the government would shut down communications.

They told the AFL-CIO what they really could use were FAX machines. AFL people and priests smuggled in the FAX machines in their suitcases and with it an alternative communications network was established. During protests they could quickly send information country wide and they hoped the government wouldn't catch on and it worked.

Without the absolute control over information one country after another fell.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,159069,...
$150 * 12 months, but your point still stands.
I'm surprised people haven't mentioned

https://https://www.duckdns.org/
Intrinsity wasn't cheap given it was primarily for IC design tools (Fast14). Though you might argue it was a good deal for Apple because it possibly gave them an edge that other IC design houses lack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsity#Products
It's a question of what the community is capable of. If a thread can substantively discuss some interesting topic that overlaps with "direct U.S. politics", that's fine. If it degenerates into political battle and flamewar, it's off topic. Preserving the container takes precedence.
"the easier it becomes to shift risk away from the players who actually ought to be holding the bag"

That has nothing to do with fees.

"$850 billion getting shifted out of American pension funds into the pockets of hedge fund managers"

That has nothing to do with fees either. Further what's the current score card? As stocks have been on a 10 year bull run, and hedge funds have been relatively underperforming.
Thanks, I think I'm in the clear there. I had milk on my cereal which happens to be fortified with B12, some chicken bite things for a snack, scrambled eggs for lunch and beef burgers for tea just yesterday. (With some fruit and veg). That's not an atypical day for me.

That my mother and siblings, and we all live apart, also have it and they don't seem short of dietary B12 either seems to add to the picture.
USG issued an arrest warrant for Huawei CFO alleging sanctions violation. It is only fair to issue arrest warrants for Intel and Micron executives based on the same charges now.
Ok : define Intelligence. Define Life.

There are no accepted definitions of these terms. Are they meaningless?

AI that does not include backpropagation or logical deduction or GA's or optimisation is... is... magical thinking. AI without the nuts and bolts from the last 50 years of work is meaningless. The article is heartfelt, and we all agree with the tenant that people pretending that they are using AI when they are really using a database isn't a good thing, but if you take any current system look right down inside it all you will find is a Shannon type implementation of church-turing.
Yes, makes sense. I think it case of Austria, there are fines specified for dashcams, so it's interesting they decided to use the GDPR instead.
Thanks for responding here in spite of all the criticism.
While I don't know how much of this is PR damage control vs. genuine heartfelt atonement, I do appreciate the frankness at the end of your blog post:

I’m sorry. This really sucks. Both what happened to you and our initial response. As the founder and CEO of KitSplit, please accept my sincere apology....I’m also sorry that it took you complaining loudly on the internet for us to get our heads straight on this one and do the right thing.

I hope the OP comes back to share his thoughts on how this all turned out (or any others who may have slipped through this gap over the years).
Sunday Assembly is getting popular and very much not religious: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/11175092/Br...
People have different interpretations of these things. If you see a particularly bad comment that deserves moderation, we'd appreciate your letting us know about it.

Yes, there's far too much snark and derision on HN. It's an internet forum after all. Surely you're not suggesting we should do less about it?

The "how is this comment so much worse" objection is based on a fallacy. You don't not get a speeding ticket just because other cars were going faster.
How?

No really, how? Have you invented some new process for long-term carbon sequestration from waste biomass?

These are hard problems that don't lend themselves well to the HN-preferred format of one-line tech solutionism. If it were as simple and easy as all that, we wouldn't be in this crisis to begin with.
Just wondering why this wasn’t part of the product in the first place?

Come on, we know full well incidents like this were considered in the first place when launching your business and you nevertheless decided to go along with your fraudulent “insurance” policy (not covering “voluntary parting” which is the main risk in this case - in fact I’m struggling to think of an incident that wouldn’t fall under voluntary parting when using your platform).

The only reason you’re here and you’re launching this new insurance policy is that the story blew up and you’re doing damage control. There’s clearly zero intention in compensating the affected renters otherwise you would’ve done that from the start instead of sending them canned responses.
That paragraph might have been directed at the company, not the founder personally?
Make vs buy decisions work differently for companies with virtually unlimited buying power. The absolute control that doing it yourself provides cannot be bought. And Google has to care only the platforms it wants to support (as some guy at BSDcon said, you have Windows, Linux Intel/AMD/ARM and rounding errors).

Do you think the 100000 cookie cutter game developers for Android will stop developing for it because the platform libc has subtle issues? They rightfully don't give a shit.
All of the original engineers are still on the project, they've just made the team larger.
You also need to make the links obvious. The light grey on white they do on that page likely isn't compliant, and neither is their privacy information ;)
Early 90s revision control flashbacks on the Windows front ... I recall living through migrations from MKS RCS (by Mortice Kern Systems) to SourceSafe (when it was a One Tree Software product before MSFT bought it) and eventually VSS.

Commandline automation of these for build or deployment scripts was painful but we were grateful for any source control on Windows at all because the alternative was still common and it sounded like this, shouted over a cubicle wall: "Hey, I'm going to edit UTIL.C on the WFW3.11 share ... everyone okay with that?" Cringe.
The Lenovo 40AC0135US acts as a male to female extender (+ port replicator). I have one on a 6' 40GBPS 100W cable to my laptop, and the 40AC0135US has a female port allowing you to daisy chain X, has been working great the last 18 months with no issues, mac or PC.
What's so personal about the very legitimate question?
Where does it say that what they did was illegal? The article talks about them breaking “the spirit of the law”, which suggests that the didn’t break the letter of it.
I phone, you drive — and by “you” I mean the car, driving itself.

They should name it uDrive.
Meanwhile you can buy vape cartridges of weed at any dispensary in SF. What makes no sense is SF is going to wait for the FDA to study ecig health effects while at the same time the FDA has made its position pretty clear on weed.
A good property testing framework has two properties, 1) inputs increase in complexity over generations, and 2) properties can shrink, enabling you to find "minimum error conditions", so property tests can help you identify the source of the error too.
Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
If we were to design a brand new internet for today's world, can we develop it such a way that:

1- Finding information is trivial

2- You don't need services indexing billions of pages to find any relevant document

In our current internet, we need a big brother like Google or Bing to effectively find any relevant information in exchange for sharing with them our search history, browsing habits etc. Can we design a hypothetical alternate internet where search engines are not required?
Ok, we've closed the thread to new accounts for now.
Is there something like a good proptest in C++?
Logic (Emagic) is another acquisition that is still going strong.
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> Also, Google has a pretty good corpus of code to test their libc on

I left Google more than 5 years ago but at the time the subset of the language (C++) one was allowed to use was quite limited. Testing your implementation of libc on that codebase could still lead to poor coverage.
Another major issue is immigration. You have lots of people living together that don't share any sort of social cultural connection... and then you have work which occupies most people's existence most of the time therefore there is almost no time to build a new culture outside of work... and no one even knows what that would look like to strive towards something like that. Modern capitalist man is one dimensional isolated man whose sense of self is more or less based on providing for him or herself and the things that they care about whether that be people, pets, or the material things which own them such as their financial obligations to the banks for their housing and their employers.

Before that in the Middle Ages, Westerners in the upper classes who had any sort of wealth were much more social living very much like people in the so-called third world live today where they would throw parties to show their wealth and took pride in showing off their children and their accomplishments. When that culture was bulldozed, people forgot that it even existed... and perhaps it never did in the frontier like Canada like it did in old Europe. The immigrants were always busy working to be productive and industrious and always not closely related to the people they lived near.
"What happened when Apple wanted to CNC machine a million MacBook bodies a year? They bought 10k CNC machines to do it. How about when they wanted to laser drill holes in MacBook Pros for the sleep light but only one company made a machine that could drill those 20 µm holes in aluminum? It bought the company that made the machines and took all the inventory" [1] (2014)

[1] https://blog.bolt.io/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple...
I'm not a lawyer but I think it's the basis of civil law (I speak for France specifically but it's kind of a general principle): any damage must be repaired by the one who caused it, by action or lack thereof, voluntarily or not.

Then of course, the difficult part is deciding who is at fault.
I looked at the comment history and found nothing surprising at all. looks like any other Chinese engineer
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Bring smart is not the same as being well-prepared, diligent, conscientious, tactful or having your constituents' best interest at heart.

You don't get to be King's Scholar at Eton being a buffoon.
Buddybuild didn’t get shut down. FoundationDB is another acquisition that is still going.
I care that my applications work correctly. I don't care what is under the hood. I care that it works, correctly and well.

If anything, the technology underlying the abstraction of data storage should be taking care of optimal use of resources.
Hey, please don't break the site guidelines by crossing into personal attack, no matter how provocative another comment may be or feel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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As European and T1 diabetic - my monthly insulin dose is covered l in the poorest European country - Bulgaria. Even if I need to pay it it is still way much afordable - around 130 dollars.
Looks there are many troubles over the ocean...
One more thing - I get quality insulin that is latest tech and improves my life much. Much better products than I was getting for example 15 years ago and probably the same or better than than my fellow Americans are getting for there.
But I bet the corruption is so high that if I want to import the same products from Europe there will be a law against it.
The "begging" is a mistranslation of medieval Latin petitio, "logical postulate", as if it were classical Latin petitio, "begging".

The idiom descends in a continuous scholarly tradition from Aristotle and his original Greek refers more plainly to "assuming the original [conclusion]".

See https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2290 .
Sounds like you might be using an old version of the Rust toolchain, from before the edition feature was in the stable channel.

Try this:

rustup update

And then try again

cargo install pyoxidizer

Edit: That is, assuming you installed the Rust toolchain via https://rustup.rs/, which you should -- the official package repos of most distros are sure to contain really old outdated versions of the Rust toolchain.
Can confirm: This also works with non-parental residence.

For me, this is the key to surviving hay fever season.
Would you please not comment in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how badly others have behaved? Making this place even worse doesn't help.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20274137 and marked it off-topic.
> Most were not idealists despite what they said IMO, I suspect many if pressed to change their positions did not really care about the issues outside of a couple topics at most (and due to the winds of change in US politics most actually supported surprisingly different issues over time).

They represent the views of the people who vote. Those views change over time. This is much like me doing what my employer asks for, despite my own preferences. It's not our views which are important, but rather the ability to execute for those we are working for.

I think most workers don't care so much about the mission of their employers. They find a way to make their work interesting and things get done regardless.
No, for that you buy a 1988 Toyota Hilux
I am someone you might consider early adopter. I enjoying tinkering with the latest gadget, getting that fancy domain name with an extension like .ooo ( yeah! not kidding :-D ) but .. when it comes to FB, I don't mind being a luddite. Add to that, the country I live in currently (India) has a ban on cryptocurrencies and we have tons of alternatives like Paytm[0] and UPI (Inter-bank transfers in an instant)[1]. So, Mr Zuckerberg et al, thank you but no thank you.

To me , the most interesting part is towards the end of the article (emphasis mine)
> This applies even more to the Calibra wallet: Facebook promises not to mix transaction data with profile data, but that entails, well, trust ...

We all know how the promises turn out [2][3]

[0]https://paytm.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

[2]https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3032946/whatsapp-a...

[3]https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2018/05/23/zuckerber...
Ah, my bad. Only checked the date of the decisions and assumed they were related to GDPR.
I don't think this level of cynicism is warranted

However, as the person who actually runs the relevant promo committees for the org, both would be fine, i'd care a lot more about why the choice was made.
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> ... as most developers will have access to one or a windows machine of similar stats.

That's a bold assumption. Looking around my office in India here, I find not a single Macbook, a Windows machine, or any machine from '11. It would also be trouble to get my hands on a Macbook Air '11, if I had to do it for the purposes of reproducing a benchmark. I certainly couldn't buy one today, and even if I were to buy a currently-in-stores Macbook it'd be awfully expensive.

A much better proposition would be something far more ubiquitous and accessible, something that can be borrowed trivially or bought easily by the vast majority of people, something that stays stable and available for a number of years. An AWS instance or a Raspberry Pi (1/2/3), for instance.
I'd like to upvote this so jberkel can be allowed a solution. I (and many, many others) do not want SMS Backup+ to end.
> Unfortunately I don't think this is merely cognitive bias. It's actually built into our legal system at a pretty fundamental level: machines are held to a higher standard than humans when it comes to failures with grave consequences.

Well, laws reflect culturo-cognitive biases, don't they? And also they evolve.

For the last part, that seems to generally be a wise "bias": when a machine fails, chances are good that all the identical machines will fail the same way.

When a human err, chances are good that this won't be in a way you might expect to identically happen in all its peers, although common cultural biases can happen obviously.

Also so far, our machine are far less expected to self-correct their behaviors when they err, especially regarding some untold social exceptions that were not met through some unexpected side effects.

Ultimately, machines don't care of consequences of their acts because they don't have any feeling of responsibility to someone they love, not even themselves.
Sweet! I find this tool extremely useful for parsing dmn files in javascript (via xml2js). But right now I am more interested in a similar feature for xml/html documents. Hoping if someone can point me to it. Thanks.
Berkeley Tree DB uses GPLv3, go figure

https://github.com/BTrDB/btrdb-server/blob/master/LICENSE
Boris is much worse than Silvio Berlusconi, who is - predictably - following the money and looking out for his buddies. Johnson will happily ruin the whole country for a gain in status.
You're welcome! and likewise.

I feel like we probably shouldn't add a block/hide/killfile feature because it would be a step back into the siloed style of forum (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). That would feel easier in the short term but would perhaps be a retreat from the hard problem of building a community site that actually works. The thing about that task is that it's always deeply unsatisfying and frustrating. One can only fall short. Yet it seems like the right task to be working on. Perhaps in the end, as Bob Dylan put it, we win the war after losing every battle. Or perhaps it just falls back into the swamp. The ambition of HN has always been to maybe stave off doom a while longer (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), or as pg put it years ago, "make a conscious effort to resist decline" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html).
We used to call that an operating system.
> ... there are lots of botched ...

Yes, but have they been "push(ed) into widespread use ..."? That was the point Rich was trying to make, I think.
Huh I see. There's no rustup anywhere to be found. Rust just from MSYS2 in Oct. 2018, just 8 months ago. Updated it now and now it's installing fine, thanks. Here's what I had:

$ pacboy -Qi rust:x
Name : mingw-w64-x86_64-rust
Version : 1.29.2-1
Build Date : Sun, Oct 28, 2018 9:43:06 PM
...

Now I have 1.35.0-1 which seems to be the most recent version (with rustup still nowhere to be found).