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The JDK requires no installation, and the concept of a "desktop system JRE" is no longer recommended; in fact, a JRE is no longer shipped. The recommended practice is for developers to bundle a custom, minimized version of the runtime with their application (using jlink). End users shouldn't install any Java runtime anymore.

> After the bait and switch with the licensing for the original Java distribution

The product known as OracleJDK used to be part free, part commercial, based on which features you used. JRE downloads also used to contain that annoying search toolbar. What we at Oracle have done is completely open-source the JDK, for the first time in its history, and release it under two licenses: a free license, and a license for those who wish to buy support. There is a large clear warning on each download page guiding people to the distribution they need. I think most people agree that this is a very welcome change, and I see no bait and switch.
I find it fascinating that the word «quisling» was already in use, coined after the Norwegian traitor from WW2.
My idea is that the tool can be used to quickly communicate product vision and current progress to the team or external stake holders. I can also imagine teams using it as their primary tracking tool, if the company is small enough. If you end up using it, please let me know how I can improve it and how you are using it.
Do you drive? Do you use plastic? Then you're part of the reason these pipelines exist in first place. Without demand, they're unnecessary. When there's demand there, they're gonna get the product to market, whether it's by pipeline or truck or rail. So not really a weird argument.
Pipeline is an investment in infrastructure that sets up a sunk cost argument against moving away from oil as a driving source of energy.

"Why would we invest in more clean/green energy sources when we have this brand new pipeline?" It essentially hardens the argument (and subsequent lobbying) for these industries.

I get that it is a huge source of income for folks who travel to and live in these areas. However, it's not a forward looking path--particularly when the environmental impact and costs are so high up front.

In that respect, using trucks--while theoretically having a larger short term impact on emissions--allows for future flexibility and doesn't break into the earth in such a permanent and invasive way.
The first upper-division course I took in college concerned itself solely with learning the art of mathematical proofs. I had an excellent professor, so I can't really say how much this book helps with the learning process when used by itself, but we were assigned An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions, by Peter J. Eccles. Might be a good place to start!
I will submit my user story as an attempt to offer feedback on the site. I live in the United States and am traveling to Mexico next week.

I put in from: United States to: Mexico. The information I received begins with "Visa Required: Yes". This is news to me, as I have traveled in this manner several times and never had a visa. I don't have a visa for next week, and so I am now worried that I won't be allowed in to Mexico.

The next text presented is "Mexico city is the capital city of Mexico. Mexico is found in North america. Citizens from United states need visa to enter Mexico. In the Mexico country page you can find more tourist information about infrastructure and attractions." I do not think this text was written by someone who is a native English speaker. Some tells include not following English rules for proper noun capitalization, missing articles, and weird diction. This makes me less likely to trust the information. Is that fair? Maybe not. But it suggests the page has not been copy-edited or checked for accuracy. This text also reiterates that I would need a visa.

Then the next text says: "If you have a valid Canada, Japan, Schengen, United Kingdom, United States visa or are permanent resident you do not need visa to enter Mexico for up to 180 days." I do not understand what is being claimed here. If I have a US visa for Japan I can enter Mexico without a Mexican visa? I think what it's trying to say is if I carry a Canadian, Japanese, Schengen (EU), United Kingdom, or United States passport (not the same as a visa), I can enter Mexico without a visa for fewer than 180 days. But this is in contrast to the above text and header which claim I do need a visa.

Finally, I clicked on the Mexico page and saw that although it was missing a lot of essential information, it did tell me it's OK to possess marijuana in Mexico. A brief Google search does not make it clear if this information is correct -- I see a lot of information about how they're going to legalize but haven't yet. I am extremely concerned that this website is making a claim that, if incorrect, could get someone in serious legal trouble.

I then clicked "Visa information". This gave me a list of countries that require and do not require a visa to access Mexico. The list of countries that do not require a visa is enormous, far larger than the number above. What explains the inconsistency between the lists above and the list I'm looking at here? Even more baffling, immediately below this list of countries is text repeating the claim above that people with Canada, Japan, Schengen (EU), UK, or US "visas" do not need a visa for Mexico.

I am not trying to be negative. I am simply sharing my experience trying to use this website for a very simple use case as an actual user. After using the website, I am more unclear and concerned about my upcoming travel than I was when I started, and now I need to seek out external information to find out what is true and what is false.
A fellow from Kazakhstan here again.

This is a HUGE win.

This might not work for some countries, but it does work for us. Kazakhstan is not China, we are not technologically-independent, and the government doesn't have an iron grip on its people. Forking open-source browsers and forcing to use them is not a feasible option for our corrupt government.
While the solution of blocking a specific CA might not be elegant or permanent, it does send a strong message to our and other governments who have been thinking of MITM-attacking their citizens.
That figure means nothing without knowing the quantity of oil that doesn't leak.
Kolide's CEO here! (https://kolide.com)

We have been a big part of the Osquery community for a while and we think it's an awesome project that can be used to get an insane level of visibility across your fleet. We also think in the context of rolling this out to end-users, companies need to really consider the privacy implications of the data Osquery is capable of collecting.

To that end, we soft-launched a product in May that helps fast growing tech companies use tools like Osquery to implement something called User Focused Security. User Focused Security involves treating employees like adults and understanding the context in which they work before rolling out a security strategy.

We want to be the best choice for organizations that want to get serious about the security of their laptops but don't want to lock-down devices, violate their user's privacy, or hurt their internal culture with opaque surveillance.

The three values that we use to build our software:

1. User Education over Enforcement

2. Trust through Transparency

3. Quality conclusions over Quantity of data

We use Osquery because it helps us fulfill that second value by giving end-users visibility into what is running on their device.

If your team uses Slack and want to see our approach you should check us out at https://kolide.com
Fwiw even timatic is wrong. I visited your link and entered India and Turkey as departure and arrival for Indian nationals.

The system advised me to apply for an eVisa, however eligibility criteria for eVisas is exclusive to folks who have a valid EU Schengen visa. Someone who casually relied on the result without reading further would have missed this.

The bottom line is travel is expensive and visa rejections have long lasting consequences. It is foolish to rely on anything except the official immigration department website of the country in question, or an official third party who is appointed by the government.
Neither has any other war besides WWII.

As someone from a country that lost 20% of it's population to it, I'm going to go ahead and say that the last thing I ever want to see is another war that poses an existential threat to a superpower surrounded by two oceans.
> I don't think they will manage to make a fork of some of the browsers, simply because level of the our software production is kinda low, especially in goverment sector, and people will definitely not use the browser if they will attempt to make one

Well, they could always license browsers from other vendors, which they will, if things need to go that extent.

> they will manage to use VPN and will find other ways to just use the "normal" software

Are users in Kazakhstan willing to pay extra $5 or more per month for VPNs that respect user-privacy? If not, using free VPNs is going to only make matters worse. In India, where porn is blocked, users typically resort to using Telegram or free VPNs to satiate their desire for it; most wouldn't pay $2 per month for VPNs, even when they could afford it (since $0 VPNs are a click away and unblocks porn for them).
>I'm glad to see the browser developers being proactive to help protect users from this kind of thing.

Maybe I'm the only one who's not glad that browsers aren't just browsers anymore? Now it could be argued that they are political tools.
I've seen myself make mistakes that in retrospect should be have been "obvious", and if you've ever taking a test (a la education), you've obviously made mistakes others deem "obvious" as well. Humans are complex beings, and I don't deny people opportunities to improve -- or even blacklist them.

Which leads me to why one such as yourself would be so adamant in your position to not include that empathy -- its not like moon hoaxers killed and murdered your family in 1990... right? I suspect its more of a philosophy you have regarding treatment of people in the bunch "gullible, anti-science" crowd. Anti-vaxxers, horoscope readers, etc. If thats the case, well, I too enjoy punching down.
I agree with your points over all, but I'm still bitter and will take the time every time to sound my bitterness about the fact that Microsoft didn't back Firefox/servo (the rust implementation of their rendering engine)

Why am I bitter?

1. It hands a lot of power over to chromium, regardless of how much it gets forked by Microsoft.

2. It would have put some very talented engineers onto a Chrome competitor, which I always like to see

3. It would have been a huge boost to Rust, which if it ever will unseat c++/c as a systems language target, will need all the help it can get as a de facto standard (you can argue if this is worthwhile or just pie in the sky dreaming, I'll concede on that)

4. I just plain think we need a V8 alternative for a nodejs/electron like ecosystem, in my opinion servo could be that. I know they are doing node-chakra-core, but this could have taken it to a whole new level.

Competition is good, in another words. Even if all my assumptions are wrong, I'd love to see an alternative history where they were laid to bare.

Now, I will admit, I am actually happy to see that they are on Chromimum instead of yet another engine, and I see all the upsides of this move too, and will definitely take advantage of them (with Microsoft Edge being my favorite version of Chrome right now)
condensate isn't oil. It's what's used to thin out bitumen so that it'll flow through a pipe.
Seems like a metric that should be made visible, no? I mean... if we see votes, we should see flags... otherwise, flags are just a way to secretly control what people can see on the site.
articles like this are really talking about a standard that covers 99.9% of cases, not some sort of universal absolute. We know of many special cases which violate the standard (to the extent that 'life' has 'standards') but it's not clear how valuable it is to point out the exceptions here.
If I choose to install a certificate that is controlled by the government, yes, I definitely do want to give them access.
This is incorrect. Hormonal and genetic factors can have a minor impact on appetite and metabolic rate. However all people will lose weight if they consume fewer calories than they expend.

Eating less isn't "work". It's literally the opposite of work. (I understand that some people find this emotionally difficult.)
Sure. While I would also like to see a real hard core or three released, here's my frame challenge:

What if the existing RISC-V and other academic cores are already good enough for a lot of people? The instruction decoder is a relatively small part of the CPU, swap that out and you suddenly get new SoCs that can run the existing POWER software base (that means proven toolchains, vector accelerated applications, etc.). Right now RISC-V doesn't even have vector instructions per se; adding all that support to the entire tooling seems like a lot of effort for not much gain when you can simply implement VSX in the hardware and use the existing tooling for it.

I keep hearing the open RISC-V cores are going to be very fast very soon. If that's true, how would an IBM provided core help versus an instruction decoder swap on one of those and some tuning?
Not transporting it. A better solution can still be a bad solution.

If you absolutely are going to burn it (sigh), burn it on site for electrical generation. Transmission lines don’t leak methane, and HVDC cables can be buried in a similar fashion to a pipeline. Methane extraction aligns well with geographies that have strong renewable growth and need combined cycle gas turbine backing until battery replacement can occur.

Now, if you’re trying to export it and need it in original form, this doesn’t work and you’re going to try to avoid externalities of transport, which is what regulation is for.
My point is if you look at the last 20 years you will also find a lot of good movies. If you don't like Marvel or Star Wars movies, watch something else, there is plenty to chose from.

Yeah if you look at movie marketing, the spending is focused on the big, safe "tentpole" movies. If you don't seek out movies to your own taste, it might seem like the blockbusters are the only ones getting produced.
Really? It's one of the most obvious social phenomena out there.

Women respect it too, for what that's worth. Short, weak men have low and still declining value from both genders.

Good looking prisoners (even those that violently target women) receive fangirl mail because they are edgy and attractive. Meanwhile 5'4" SWEs are probably full on incel more often than not.

That's just life.
I stopped using it (after many, many years) because it has bugs where the hamburger menu (and, often, tabs) stop working, and it was frustrating to deal with.

It also had some weird issues with remote desktop, and I remote to my desktop from meetings fairly often.
That's a fascinating analysis. The least credible part of it to me is the CIA connection. It's easy to say that some intelligence agency or another is part of some scheme, very difficult to prove, and impossible to disprove. I could just as well claim it was aliens.
Thank you. Do you know of any effort to port GeoDjango functionality to other ORMs ? Or is this something Sorcery supports ?
For what it's worth, not all of these areas are totally unsafe. I am familiar with some of the central valley lakes that are highlighted and I grabbed the current consumption flyer for one: https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/advisories/millertonlak...

The situation is not great but it's not quite so bad as it might seem if you look at that map and think it indicates only areas where fish are completely unsafe to eat.
One thing that sticks out is how many airports the US and Canada have and how few China has.

Does anyone know if the data is incomplete for China, or is this accurate?
The hugos and nebulas are now highly politically motivated awards, and their winners often not really deserving stories more stories that told the right tales that someone wanted to hear ideologically.

They've devalued themselves and old winners of those awards should feel angry knowing that when people see "hugo winner" seals on books it makes that book more likely to be a political sledgehammer is pretend sci fi form, than a story worth reading.

And I say this as someone who buys 4-5 new fiction novels a month, which I think is relatively high for today's entertainment consumption trends.
WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
Thanks! I know that Featmap is not unique in the space, there are a lot of similar products. What I was missing was a free and open sourced tool with just the right feature set. After a couple of months of ambivalence, I decided to scratch my own itch. Would love to get your feedback once you've tried it.
We will be able to transport satellites up to 5000 lb in mass directly to GEO, which should be most of the market.

Almost every large GEO player is developing new, smaller satellites. We will also modify existing interfaces to allow for docking. Rendezvous and prox-ops is all on our side.
Oh, good point. I looked at the wrong map. I was looking at the mercury contamination map on the Wiki page; which is based on 1999 data.
CAs use their private keys to sign website operators' public keys. They don't know the website operators' private keys. Therefore, the only way a rogue CA could intercept traffic is by issuing fake certificates with keys controlled by the attacker, which is what CT aims to detect.

Of course, CT doesn't prevent website operators from sharing their private keys with third parties, but the discussion here is about CAs, not website operators.
Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP
Show HN: JStock fork without Google tracking, minimized, and compiles
Something that I was looking for recently, but didn't find, was a set of ASCII art "glyphs" for rendering electronic schematics.

I am not sure that there exists any kind of library for this, and what I have seen of such schematics (from various text files and other forms), there isn't any "one true way" to represent "standard" parts in both vertical and horizontal orientations (for some parts, it would be nearly impossible, if the goal was to represent the actual symbol using ASCII characters). Most parts are most amenable to horizontal representation only. Fortunately, many schematics can be created in such a manner.
What some people call “negativity” is in my opinion concise and honest feedback.

Personally, when I see “show hn” posts, this is a signal that the OP is asking for feedback and often due to time constraints or one’s personal writing style, some folks interpret straight to the point feedback as “negative” when in reality it is generally based on the responder wanting to help.
I'm going to make a rare exception to my usual hating on Google, and say that AMP is great for users.

I'd like to see a move back to a document-based web rather than a web-application-based web: CSS and JavaScript have not been good for users. A document-based web allows users to pull down content and render it on their machines using programs users control. Coupling content with CSS and JavaScript means that users must use a website's CSS and JavaScript to render the content, which means that users must give up control of how the content is rendered. The results are predictable: most websites have crap accessibility, run a bunch of malware[1] that has nothing to do with rendering, and have user interfaces are all over the place (every website is different so you have to learn a new interface every time you visit a new website, even if they're presenting the same kinds of content).

Why should we let websites determine how content is rendered? I can pull down an AMP page and view the content the way I want to view it, so this gives me as a user a lot more power.

Sure, the most common case right now is that Google renders it on their page, and that gives power to Google. But that's just trading one evil (Google) for another (content providers who package content with malware)--as a user that's not really a net gain or loss. But having content shipped in a more document-based format is a big gain for users.

[1] Code which runs on my computer to show me ads is adware. Code which runs on my computer to send data about me to companies is spyware. If these were written in Python and packaged with a desktop program everyone would call them adware and spyware, but if they're written in JavaScript and packaged with a web application they're ubiquitous and accepted.
"So potent was the rejuvenating treatment used on the mice that they either died after three or four days from cell malfunction or developed tumors that killed them later."

So yeah, pluses and minuses.
Twitter does work, just never the first time. After a reload it works.
Operating in GTO is terrible for electronics.

And also, we could do GTO 2X cheaper than large rockets for even their nominal payload size. For smaller payloads, it's more like 10X.
Check out VPRI STEPS, TempleOS, and Urbit. You end up with a mix of good and bad.
It is now on GitHub: https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa

I've recently used this for a diagram of a FSM in software I'm developing at work.

I drew the diagrams on http://www.asciidraw.com. The diagram ends up as a comment in my source code. This has a couple of benefits: It is easy to keep up to date (I change it if I change the code), and it is under version control (so if I check out a particular branch, I don't have to struggle to find the relevant diagram). It is also not significantly more difficult to do than, say, Visio for a simple diagram like this.

I then used Ditaa to convert the diagram to an image file for more official documentation, like emails to customers etc.

emacs also has a mode for drawing ASCII diagrams, but I'm on Windows, so I can't comment about it.

(http://asciiflow.com/ seems like a nice alternative to asciidraw.com, but asciidraw is the one I started out with)

edit: there is also http://shaky.github.bushong.net/ that I use to entertain people who's seen the ditaa generated diagram.
I clicked on this to use it for the exact use case I posted elsewhere in the thread (US to Mexico). The website loaded faster -- maybe because it is faster, maybe because no HN hug of death -- but more importantly, the information was presented in a clearer and more efficient way. I especially appreciated that the data included "Visa free", "Visa on arrival", and "E-Visa", since these are not the same thing and the distinction is useful. I've been to a number of visa on arrival countries and typically all I need to remember is to have a payment method to pay the entry fee, versus "Visa required", which would imply needing to go to a consulate or embassy in advance.
“the malaria parasite – Plasmodium – is an ancient algae”
I can't imagine how a free VPN could be worse than an actual government-sponsored man-in-the-middle attack, particularly since VPNs don't force you to install their own CA certificate (and therefore can't intercept HTTPS connections).
That you don't know of it doesn't mean it doesnt exist :)
Last time I saw something cool hosted on sourceforge, I was so shocked I fell off my dinosaur and broke my stone underwear.
Okay, you first. All plastics, most transportation, packaging, and medical devices are petro derived.