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> Workers take a guaranteed paycheck which shelters them from losses in bad years

It's just great when workers accept pay-cuts in bad times, just for people like you claiming that this is just normal, no loss, and certainly no reason to restore their paycheck when good times are returning.
IMO, If you can afford it, hardware all the way. You will be much happier in the long run if you use hardware.

I find that the device that gives me finished tracks with highest probability is OP-1.
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> Obama also kept open Guantanamo bay

Congress explicitly prohibited him from closing it, in response to his administration indicating it would fulfill his campaign promise to do so.
IANAL, but here's my assessment on this:

First and foremost, as far as I know, a registrar disclosing customer data without a warrant would violate the law in Germany as well. For `.de`-Domains the holder information used to be publicly available, at the dismay of privacy activists; in the same way the ICANN wanted the same. Then GDPR came and pretty much put a legally binding end to this.

And it comes down to this: Under GDPR such customer information enjoys strong protection. A lawyer has no more rights to that information than any other party who's not tasked with enforcing the law.

The intention of this letter is to gain information about the EasyDNS customer, so that this customer can be sent a cease and desist, which due to some lack in German C&D law can carry a hefty fee.

Inside Germany a whole range of law firms specialized on actively searching for unlawful behavior and sending out C&D en masse. A common practice among these firms is to scrape BitTorrent trackers for peer IPs + timestamps (or to actually manufacture them), bundling them all up in a criminal complaint so that ISPs must deliver to the state attorney the names of the customers these IP addresses were assigned to at the given time. However instead of pressing charges they will then drop the case, and instead send C&D letters to those people.

The lawyers who operate that way have become known as "Abmahnanwalt"

The lawyer who send this letter is Robert Fechner. And lo and behold: Robert Fechner is known to be such an Abmahnanwalt:

https://www.google.com/search?q=abmahnanwalt+fechner
> Death rituals are incredibly personal and tied up with cultural and religious mores. It seems that freedom of religion and freedom of speech should protect such a personal and significant choice.

There's a lot of leeway in enforcement of all laws and if you could present evidence that the treatment the corpse received was consistent with a religious practice you'd probably be fine, though there would be levels where the conduct is limitable (eg: public display of the corpse as it decomposes for example).

For all the language of "shall make no law" or "shall not infringe" there are many laws that make limitations on freedom of speech, religion, and bear arms. It's hard to imagine any law standing up to a maximal interpretation of freedom of religion for example because a religion can be anything and hold any precepts.

Remains treatment laws were actually addressing a need and harm at the time where corpses were being dug up for medical study against the wishes of the deceased and the restrictions work because they're largely in line with the majority of religions especially in the US. It hasn't really been challenged because very few people actually want to do something against the law with their relatives corpses.
Just as his saying it shouldn’t _lend_ credibility to the statement, his saying it shouldn’t _detract_ from the credibility either. It’s an adhom either way. Extremely effective unfortunately, since pedophilia is extremely taboo, it’s like if someone is calling out obvious tyranny you can get everyone to ignore them by crying “pedo”. They can be a pedo and still be right about the surveillance state. Of course, I can imagine a world where absolute surveillance is pushed in the name of rooting out things like pedophilia “for the greater good” because we “think of the children.” Go read or watch The Circle if you need a little help imagining.
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Doesn't it ask you during the setup process whether you'd like to share analytics and usage data?
I have heard good reviews about Bitwig elsewhere too. A few questions, as a newbie to DAWs:

1. What would one miss if using Bitwig over others, if anything?

2. Same question as the above for Reaper?

3. How would the two compare with each other.

Note: I have already noted the comments child to yours.

Thanks.
Mine not only did not (2006-2010), when the professor was demonstrating something he dropped a constant I knew from prior experience would overpower the big-O in question, then danced around it when I tried to ask about it.

Didn't even try to go down the path of "we're focusing on big-O, so we're only ignoring it for this particular analysis", he just pretended the term didn't exist.
Are you suggesting that one player could win by running out the clock? Classical gives players 30 more seconds after each move so it becomes unlikely to run out the clock.
This definitely deserves to be on the front page more than any discussion involving Snowden.

/s

#HNPropaganda
Read between the lines: "Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Lower Customer Satisfaction." That's less obvious because Amazon traditionally has been a customer-focused company, and this is a step away from that.
Obama is your counterexample here.
In some ways I wish they abandoned infotainment systems completely and just relied iOS/Android to provide those services. Stick a dumb screen in the car with USB/Bluetooth connectivity to my phone.
1.) Apple plasters a building sized "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone" ads to mock competition in CES:
https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/05/apple-privacy-billboard-vegas... [January 5th]

2.) Apple admits it was giving Siri recordings to contractors with no ability to opt out of the functionality. This included false activations not meant for Siri. Seemingly what happened near iPhones did not stay on iPhones:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/23/20830120/apple-contractor... [August 29th]

3.) In 2016 Apple shifted their iCloud servers to China to abide Chinese limitations and give access to content on governmental request. It seems, again, what happens on iPhone does not stay on iPhones: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-apple-chin...

But of course, this whole topic on HN shows that the money on marketing is well spent. Lesson for Google and Facebook: up the marketing spending to keep repeating how privacy concious they are. ;)
I have been an Android developer since Android 1.6 - I switched my personal phone to iPhone and no regrets, especially not after all the Google decisions (and banning of developer acounts), their data collection and changing everything in every release. They can't seem to focus on anything and there is no one single long term plan and roadmap, every Android team is doing something else.
Sure, but that's not really a universal indictment of a system or a language. For example, C gets a lot of justifiable criticism, but the ability to drop down to assembly when it's needed is considered a feature and not a bug.

The highest-performance gc systems (OCaml?) might very well be associated with functional programming languages, but the more relatable system for a lot of people might be the Oberon system, which did influence Go. I'm pretty certain Oberon did not rely on any hand-coded assembly to build a functioning workstation. (although, on the topic of microcode: the newest Wirth Oberon incarnation does have the student program an FPGA to run the system, as an exercise...)
I was trying to do some CLI formatting this weekend and discovered that an equivalent to leftpad exists in the Node API.

I was up to my elbows in troubleshooting (when you don't know how to solve the problem, describe it more clearly), so I didn't have time to dig into the history, but I got a chuckle out of that.
Honestly, our "prototype" was screenshots from an 800 line demo, and about half the people we spoke to believed that this wasn't actually possible to build.
> No one is green-lighting a television show with the expectation of huge distribution agreements decades later.

Really that seems like such a strange viewpoint. All of these shows that Netflix is creating right now, they are definitely value adds that will carry them forward well into the future. If it wasn't for the huge success of old shows, Netflix wouldn't have gotten into this game.
>Legacy company announces that they'll bring a competing solution to market, promising investors that they'll produce a similar quality OS, but across 39 models, uniting 457 separate component suppliers AND the entire post-purchase product support infrastructure. They're starting today and promise to launch in 12 months.

Yup. Sometimes the only way to make real progress is to burn it all down and start over.
In theory he should have nothing or nearly nothing actionable in his head. The policies and procedures of spy organizations like the NSA are tailored as best they can to avoiding situations where low level people have anything of value in their heads (division of responsibility, siloing teams, etc.). You are very much just a gear in the machine. At least on paper that's how it all works.
> we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned

No, this is simply indefensible. There's simply no way you could ever excuse this.

Suspending a customer domain is OK, this is not.
> Realistically you want it at the router level.

I do both.

I run a firewall on my phone mostly to prevent applications from communicating out without my express permission. I also don't turn on my phone's radios without connecting to a VPN that I run at home, so that all of my phone's traffic gets routed through the defenses I've set up for my home network.

On top of that, I avoid using the web on mobile devices to the greatest degree possible.
> Personally, I would recommend anyone in that situation to opt for the Ivy as it really does open doors later in life.

For anyone that comes across this post: I fully agree. I was fortunate in the particular intersection of my skills being comparatively rare, and having a professor that took a personal liking to me and acted as a mentor (while opening a few doors on my behalf through his connections). While I've been successful myself, it's been through connections I've made post-school (other than the bootstrapping from that one professor). I can't imagine the possibilities that would have come with seeding that entire process throughout school.

> If you were accepted into multiple Ivies with full financial aid you were definitely eligible for work study and student loans.

You're not wrong, but that was non-obvious at the time. The student loans were a particularly sticking point, as the cost of attendance letter provided by the schools had optimistic line items for personal expenses (which include books and supplies), creating an artificially low limit on the ability to take out loans. And I wasn't familiar enough with the college experience, nor had access to anyone that was, to understand the potential for work study. Better onboarding collateral geared towards first generation college students would have easily clarified things and provided confidence around this, rather than leaving a gaping unknown on how I was going to make ends meet.
> The powerful abstractions that you mention, including generics, are indeed good things, but pardon me but I suspect you've never seen how badly and easily they can be abused in certain environments. You've probably seen the Factory<Factory<NaturalNumbersFacade>> joke somewhere, real live enterprise software is sometime like this, but unironically.

Isn't that more of a criticism of enterprise software than generics? If they can write ugly generic code, they sure as hell can write ugly Go code as well. They're just different different programming styles, and while some like one others prefer the other. Even when you code in ASM, you'll probably end up writing generic code down the line. You'll just be managing it manually rather than have a compiler, preprocessor, or templating engine do it for you. It's a preference, and I say to each their own. Also, the whole moralizing holier-than-thou simplicity and anti-abstraction talk is getting kind of annoying, but then again, there's lots of moralizing people in the Rust camp who are just as annoying.
Not sure what exactly you mean by that but it's not like someone is monitoring all the conversations you have. You can say a lot before anyone will even bother to intervene. I had conversations about censorship and the Tiananmen massacre with Chinese people in China. Another example would be YouTubers laowhy86 and serpentza. They are pretty focused on the negative sides of China and have uploaded a lot of content from within China. They actually left China just a few months ago and apparently didn't have any problems doing so. I mean not that I'm trying to force you to go to China or anywhere else but I really think it's a very valuable experience. But that also depends on other circumstances like whether you have family. I certainly wouldn't want to move to the other side of the planet for half a year with a toddler. :-)
There is a video of candidate Obama debating president Obama on government surveillance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8
Having worked full stack for so long, sometimes things like this seem way over the top and I don't really get it. Why not have control over your language? Why not have control over deployment, VCS, servers, etc?

I think I understand now that this isn't for me, but could have been once. At one point in your career, you know little or none of this stuff. Something like this would have been very empowering for me while I figured it all out I bet. I like to see technologies empowering people to do more, so I'm looking forward to seeing what people build with this. It looks pretty cool so far.

I would be afraid of hitting limitations and being locked in. That would be a major drag.
Good point, could be both. But the distortion effect is the one that bothers me more, because it doesn't just impact the companies that take Softbank money, but more generally distorts the whole startup space. But sure, could be both.
> just like how 'smart' TVs ship a long-lasting high quality panel with an obsolete/user-hostile operating system

Who cares? Just ignore the "smart" part, don't give it any Internet access and handle the smart part yourself via so HDMI dongle like a Chromecast.
It's development and not developers the thing being iterated, right?

It's as if I wrote "developer deployment".
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> This works if your environment allows a) installing applications and b) cloud sync using consumer clouds (dropbox, gdrive, etc

Re a) https://keeweb.info/ toss this onto any ol' free tier web host you want. No app install necessary. It's not as nice as the apps, but it works.

Re b) Is there an environment that both has a web browser that you want password management with and doesn't let you access any consumer cloud sync service?
> I was also under the impression that only the public prosecutor can charge someone with a criminal offence?

Iirc: the way it works in Germany is that they'd file a criminal complaint, the public prosecutor tries to get the data from the companies / will get a court order to get the data, and the original lawyer will be able to view the information as a joint plaintiff. This was very popular when file sharing was a thing in Germany: the prosecutors would investigate for copyright infringement to get the customer data for a certain IP from the ISP. The lawyers would then initiate civil proceedings and claim large damages.
> > your brain maps physical properties of the book to actual content

> Any resources detailing this? It's the first I've heard of it.

The link to the guardian article in my previous post has more details and a link to the original study.

> I simply can't agree with this. A well indexed ebook is easy to follow cross references in (such as footnotes), you can do an actual search on the content, and the lack of weight is something that can't be understated.

> A specific example: I went through the "Physically Based Rendering" book a few years back. I simply can't understate how painful it was to deal with the physical book. It was the size of a large text book (it was a large textbook), heavy enough it never left my desk. More specifically, it was always flat on the desk, making it difficult to read.

Apple to oranges. The book you describe is 1200 pages of technical snippets that is largely used as a reference index. It's the perfect example where e-reader outclasses paper book, such is the case for dictionaries and encyclopaedia. I'd even venture to say that a laptop or an iPad would be better than an e-reader considering how important diagrams are in this example.

> Even the authors recognized this, providing a digital copy of most of the code so you wouldn't spend all day typing code.

Providing code for CS book was already common in the 90's when CD-ROM were bundled with books.
Let me just further highlight this specific part:

>we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned

Maliciously tampering with customer DNS configs to DoS them for extended periods? Fucking incredible.
1. The "foreign function interface" in Dark is HTTP. So to do machine learning, either use a service that for it, or put your ML stuff in a container with a HTTP wrapper around it.

2. We plan to charge for infrastructure, on a usage basis. If you use only a little, that should fit within the free tier.
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Don't know Fortran, but while C doesn't have generics you're getting similar behavior due to macros (for example min(), max() are macros) and weak typing. So the need of having generics there is much weaker.
I've tried Microsoft Font Maker in the past to create my own font with a Surface Pro. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/microsoft-font-maker/9n920...

Curious to see if this one works better!
...first they have to find the jurisdiction in which you live. I think the idea here is to make the processes of finding that out harder.
Could you elaborate on what it means to have "exhausted all other standard investment opportunities like stocks, private investments in mature companies, personal trusts and real estate"? Is this due to some tax/estate laws?
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I'm confused about the source, didn't Linux Journal just shut down (for the second time)?
You are reading that backwards. The comment said that Rust is better positioned as a C replacement than it is as a C++ replacement. It said nothing about C being able to do things C++ can’t.
does anybody know when Wireguard is going to be merged? can it be done before the release that will be deployed in Ubuntu 20.04 next April or is it too late?
Yes, that is why Google mostly uses Java and C++ instead.
Seems like a good deal to me
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Don't wish for it too much... Getting approval for any decision is like pulling teeth. As a project manager in the oil industry you still aren't the final decision maker in most cases, and even when you are, there are decision review boards/etc.

There's a _lot_ of "process" to everything in oil. It's there for a good reason, but it can get out of hand.

I once spent three months getting approval to spend $20 to order some data from the US government. It was exactly the same process that you'd go through for a $10 million purchase. (Didn't help that we were re-buying our own data from 20 years ago because we'd lost it, but that's a different story.) I billed another wing of the company at $465/hr during the entire process... I billed around $50k to get approval to order a $20 DVD with a bunch of old scanned documents on it. Things can get very strange in the oil patch sometimes...
20 years is not unreasonable. The creator is likely still alive. Why shouldn't they get paid? Why should they see their creations get tarnished by spin offs they had no control over?
I've been re-watching clips of Seinfeld on YouTube recently. I realized that I didn't fully appreciate the genius of Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld writing outlandish stories that had fulfilling payoffs at the end. That, plus the perfect casting of both the main and extra characters.
In the Netherlands the cities are basically flat and worldwide this is the exception rather then the norm.

Ride your bike on a slope and you can easily reach 60 km/h.

Also 20 km/h or 15 km/h is still enough to produce serious injury. On my first fall this year, when I hit my helmet-protected head, I must've had no more than 10 km/h.
My most uncomfortable truth about AWS is that bandwidth is crazy expensive and it does not get cheaper over time like just about everything else does.
The way workers and events are exposed looks pretty slick, and I think abstracting away infrastructure and dev environments is the future for teams who care about speed to market. One nagging question is, how do you plan to make money? Will you have a free/freemium self-service offering? Any plans to target enterprise? I think some assurance of financial viability would ease the minds of otherwise reluctant adopters. Full disclosure, I'm a solo developer working in the IaaS space.
Sounds very similar to "leaking" event listeners in other languages.

The handler and all of the scope it can reach stick around forever even though they should have been replaced or removed.
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That's why I've installed a MITM proxy for all HTTPS connections over my LAN.
I was mostly be facetious, so no.

And in fact I'd say I'm pretty in tune with today's youth. I have lots of teenage family, as well as friend's kids to talk to about these things. I make it a point to ask them questions about how things are different today than when I was a teen, so I can have a better understand.

My first question is always, "How do you learn about new music?" As a teen, they way I learned about new music was from the radio: the DJs would tell us what the cool new songs were. But that curated experience is missing today. Spotify sort of gets there, but it's not really the same.

My second question is always, "How do you talk to your friends?". And surprisingly, the number one answer recently has been "In person". Today's teens are starting to have a backlash against social media and actually like to connect in person, which was refreshing to hear. But number two is usually Snapchat or similar "erase after consuming" media. "Facebook is for grandma" and Instagram is for "only the good stuff that I want everyone to see". Texting is often in the mix too, but they are very aware that texts cane be easily saved and monitored.

Although directly to your point, kids experience missed phone calls a bit differently. Mostly it's more like "I was camping this weekend with my family and they didn't have cell service!".
> even if there are suitable sources for entropy in the system

What might those be on, say, a freshly booted RasPi that hasn't even brought up much of userspace besides systemd?
Is there any work on attention for cnns or other computer vision algo's?