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This would however also mean giving up on the core principles of free/opensource software and turning it into shareware(?). Why would I want to contribute to that software?

I think the patreon-like idea is great! Similarly to how netflix turned lots of people that previously watched movies for gratis on streaming sites into paying customers, making paying money for software easy and convenient should have a large impact.

The big question are who should handle the financials of this and how the money is then divided.
>Boys are more fragile than girls.

There's a hot take
What this article is missing is that the hackers had root access and had NordVPNs private key for their HTTPS cert for several months in 2018. This went undetected for months and they're only now publically admitting what happened due to press attention. Their public response seems to be "it's not a big deal guys, mitm is hard".

> The key wasn't set to expire until October 2018, some seven months after the March 2018 breach

https://crt.sh/?id=10031443

And here's a dump of their logs: https://share.dmca.gripe/hZYMaB8oF96FvArZ.txt
And yet it gets it so wrong too, far more value is in delivering standard pizzas and standard T-shirts than custom pizzas and t-shirts.

It thinks that just offering a cart is a waste of the internet's potential rather than worth the billions that it is.
> I just feel like they aren't in the business of 'getting smart' in the way you suggest.

The problem is that you don't get into Xi Jingping's good graces by being discreetly circumspect.

You get into his good graces by being "Decisive!" and "Fixing the problem!" This is almost exactly the wrong thing to do when you are garnering negative PR. So, unless Xi Jingping actively intervenes correctly (and he doesn't seem to understand the correct action, either), the situation is simply going to continue to deteriorate.

I've said before, once Xi Jingping took over, I don't fear China as a competitor anymore. China is no longer about "What makes China great." It's about "What make Xi Jingping happy"--those will diverge more and more with time.

The worst thing that could happen to China is he lives a long life.
There's plenty of hearing aid apps on iOS and Android. They haven't really taken off because of the delay introduced by the mobile OS and the wireless transmission (> 10ms) causing you to hear an annoying echo effect.
There are 'notable changes' for each minor versions below

I agree there should be a notable changes of all those notable changes :))
> If nothing else, I learned from these stories that the boss/owner should be paid last, after all of the employees receive their salaries.

That's exactly how equity works.
For those interest in designing great puzzle games, I would suggest reading the following thesis on evaluating fun in puzzle games.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27476077_Automatic_...

(update: Non paywalled version https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e401/51cbec7bdcc65b59fff53c...)

Cameron Browne (the author), suggest many way to evaluate your puzzle, and this was used in his further research as a way to automatically generate fun and interesting puzzle games.

http://cambolbro.com/games/index.html
It is rare that I have had problems with dynamic typing errors in P* languages. I am of the view that that dynamic code should be one of two things.

1) Super easy. That way doing it right is trivial.
2) Impossiblely difficult so the only people who are doing it can be trusted to do it right.

To me go falls between those two. It’s real easy to say interface{} (indeed it is more difficult to make a non empty interface) but doing it in a way that is safe isn’t easy.

I don’t think expressive power is the point here. As they are both compleate languages. More it is an issue of what trade offs and comprises have been made.
> it turned out for the best for me

Survivorship bias. What could have happened is that you spend 12 months looking for another job, nothing, you lose your house, end up on street, take some minimum wage job, never comment on HN. We don't get to see stories like that.

The stories we see is where it did turn out good. That's the commonality: you must step out of the comfort zone for something good to happen. However something good does not happen to everyone 100% of time.
Why would you not be though?
it depends on the company most companies take away your options 90 days after you leave and they are known as "golden handcuffs" because nobody wants to leave! Some companies like Lyft allowed early hires to keep options for up to 7 years. This can actually be a problem because there are SEC rules limiting private company stock (not option) ownership to 500 shareholders at most. Many companies let you exercise options when you leave by buying them. I did this at one company - but the owners were crooks - and when they raised a new funding round of $3,000,000 they just put it in their personal bank accounts of the CEO + 5 VPs and shut down the company!
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In other words, some jobs are stocks, others are bonds.

A lot of the “bond” jobs are overvalued. Being able to earn when everyone else can’t has its benefits.
Very simplistic because I have a few minutes. The balances and (mostly political) use of Oil in the world makes it a perfect tool for manipulation. Plus the fact that we now (as a species) can accelerate the shift to cleaner energetic sources (sun-wind-waves)(not completely, yet) means that I find it odd to give some dictators a few more billion €¥$£ because they want to continue being a dark page in human history's and they need funding to continue in their bloody isolation.

For me it is the political aspect of interfacing with such "Powers". UK, USA, Russia had cause more pain and blood that anyone else in the last few centuries. I cannot forget this. But they have (mostly) cleaned up their act (some less than others).

As for the military industry, allow me to believe in a "Star Trek" humanity than a 'we got bigger-better-badder guns than you' future. Arms race benefit the weapons dealers and the warmongers, not the people who get burned by the napalms.

These are hugely complex discussions that are caused and causing many issues on different domains/areas. It may be too simplistic, but let's end energy dependency, let's make more schools, and education will pave the road for a better future.
Swipe or wipe?
> What's the sampling rate?

Analog solution.

> How many input channels?

The microphone amplifier is single channel, the output amplifier is stereo, though they only use one and drive both jack outputs from the right channel.
Software Freedom in Europe 2019
the seat does not help these CEOs, it helps China. They accept the (public) seat in exchange for (hidden) access.
Yeah this sounds so weird. Data loss due to bad RAM will be extremely similar with or without encryption, it's not going to corrupt the header of the disk.

The catastrophic data loss you describe almost certainly resulted from you doing something horribly wrong, and not encryption.
Some scala projects fail to build as `sbt-git0.8.5` unpublished from bintray
Redirects to pizzahut.co.za for me. I didn't even know there was a Pizza Hut in South Africa.
It's OK for women to suggest there are real differences between men and women. It's not OK for men to suggest this.

Best to leave this one alone.
> Pixar movies are creative, but they can still be bland (most of them are anyway).

By a matter of definition, I would expect any creative media to not be bland. Even if every other part of it is boring the exploration of the creative ideas in it should be stimulating.

> I don't remember any Nintendo or Sony game that pushed in the direction Braid or The Witness did

I'm not sure what direction you are referring to. I don't think that either has really influenced gaming as a medium. The closest game I can think of as a comparison for Braid would be Portal and I think it also didn't really push any boundaries for games.

The Witness is still a little young, but I don't think its likely to lead the way for other games either.

On the other hand, I think the original Metroid and Legend of Zelda radically pushed forward what games can do. I think both of them would make you think deeply about the experience of playing them if you played them in their time.
I like to fantasise about invite-only internet ‘shards’ off the main internet. Each shard would have a maximum capacity, and that capacity would be small enough that someone could create an index of every page in the shard. You could only be a member of one shard at a time. Shards wouldn’t be topic-based, they’re just deliberately small communities. Like the “mosaic of subculture” and “community of 7000” in A Pattern Language.

Yeah we thought it was great that the internet could connect us to anyone, but it turns out that I only liked that as long as “anyone” was likely to be someone similar to me. Now that “anyone” is more likely to be a brand, an advertiser or an influencer tween... no thanks.
I was stupid and took a major risk. I had a nice secure job in the defence sector writing embedded software. This was a suddenly ramp up in work after 9/11. But i had some ethical issues continuing in this space. I also developed in internal web based asset tracking system and thought that was more interesting. So I decided right in the middle of the crash to bail out into a 6 person design agency start up. Fortunately they were vastly more competent than their immediate competitors and vacuumed up the rest of their work in no time at all.

For me, my salary doubled overnight, stress levels down, no bureaucracy, no horrid tools to use, much better place to work. Best decision ever! But boy was it a risk. Not everyone lost. There was a grand consolidation and if you were in the right place it was a win.
DDG without JS - https://duckduckgo.com/html/
Even lighter DDG - https://duckduckgo.com/lite/
> Uber on the other hand isn't taking on new drivers since their ipo.

Not taking on new drivers at all, or just not paying big sign-up bonuses?

Not taking on new drivers seems like a very silly move on Ubers part, because the large supply of drivers is what keeps supply prices low and their margins healthy.
Calling Trotsky an intellectual is pretty macabre. The man personally ordered the execution of numerous prisoners of war and civilians.

He was a major advocate of the "Red Terror", which introduced new levels of brutality to Soviet political culture that set norms for decades to come.

His intellectualism consisted of little more than inflammatory classist conspiracy theories, hate propaganda against the properties classes, and Marxist quack economics.
Pretty cool feature that I have never used before.

Still beware that with Apple Pay gives out information like email and billing address.
NordVPN's Log from the Breach
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Ditto. Catalina is working fine for me too. Mac user since 2006, I think the first intel chips. It's definitely not a noticable change. The only such change was the upgrade to Snow Leopard. That was a 'wow' change. This is more like a 'meh' change. I haven't tried the iPad sharing thing yet, not too excited by that either.

What I have noticed is that Apple hardware is highly inconsistent these days. I think it's a function of the Retina displays. The non retina Macbook air with such an underpowered processor sesms to work better than the current Macbook air.

OTOH the Macbook pro is seemingly working great. The 1.4GHz entry model outclasses the older generations by leaps and bounds. I have also started appreciating the touch bar, despite being a heavy vim user. The one touch shortcuts for da y to day stuff like zoom sharing desktops etc are very welcome.
ainiriand said 'stop in safety conditions' which is also the law in France. The problem is proving you couldn't stop in safety conditions when you receive the fine.

> Article R412-31 du Code de la route. Vous devez obligatoirement vous arrêter au feu orange, sauf si cela doit vous conduire à un danger.
Congrats on the launch!
Would love to hear how this compares to other tools in the ecosystem :)
You are confusing 'sea level rise increasing' with 'sea level rise increase acceleration'. Of course when a lot of water enters the ocean sea level rises everywhere. The amount to which it rises may not be the same everywhere, for example due to gravity differences. But as far as the 'acceleration of sea level rise' is concerned, that has to be visible everywhere.

An example. Suppose due to melting ice sea level rises 1 mm at the Dutch coast. Let's entertain the possibility that in Australia this results in 1,1 mm. Let's say this happens every year. Eventually this correlation will break, but for the sake of argument let's assume it doesn't. Now, when ice starts melting faster and faster, the sea level rise at the Dutch coast grows to 1.5 mm each year. This is sea level rise accelerating. Now, it is very unlikely that the rise in Australia stays at 1.1 mm each year and will not accelerate.
That is why I say that if sea level rise is accelerating, it should show up every where. Hence if the rise isn't accelerating on the Dutch coast, it isn't accelerating anywhere.

Sea level rise isn't the same everywhere, but acceleration of that yearly rise should show up everywhere in some form.
Yeah Agilent took the HP way with them...
While I think this might be a good step in production work, it might be killing for firms in knowledge intensive industries. When this happens the first to move are the still employable and affordable youths. So the average age and salary might go up after a move like this. In the long run older firms get more trouble hiring youthful people, etc. Source: an interesting discussion with a union bargainer that was actually dismayed that young people disliked working hour reductions even though the firm promised no layoffs in return. My take away is that for some employees an honest severance package is better than working hours reduction.
A pure and slim Golang SSH-Jumper-bastion-web app. One binary rules them all
Though quite a few of them have been Asians. ;)

For most westerners considering a move to Asia, I'd recommend Singapore over Japan. It's essentially Asia-light, and salaries are higher.
If you just ignore random reboots, sure. But why would you?
People are not using 50 year old operating systems. It's not as if Linux or macOS today are the same as Unix even in the 90's! People are proud that certain ideas have persisted 50 years. People are proud because many things beyond Linux and macOS can be traced to Unix and the philosophy it holds, but also Unix's place in the broader story of computing history. Bell Labs, Thompson, Ritchie and many more played foundational roles. Like any other anniversary, it's nice to look back and reflect and celebrate.
As someone generally regarded as on some sort of spectrum, while your sentiment is appreciated, please take care, what you are describing sounds stressful, and it may be important not to attach something that brings joy to something that brings stress.
That's peanuts compared to the typos in "tommorow", also in the FAQ.
They published the details on how to construct one, and the measurements to show it does what it was designed to do.

Not everyone can design a multi-stage audio filter, design a PCB or have access to a proper measurement lab.
Ask HN: Options for downloading a small (5mb) CSV file from FTP & emailing it?
I'm looking for a service (or most likely a pair of services) I could use to periodically download a CSV file from an FTP server and email it to a specific address. This is intended as a very temporary workaround to thorny corporate bureaucracy so I'd prefer something free (and easy to set up, as I'm leaving my job in two weeks and mostly just trying to get something running as a courtesy to my team).

Current plan is a python script running as a cron job on coworker's computer + mailgun's free tier, but I'm hoping there might be something a little less janky.
Ask HN: Imgur Alternative?
I am seeking for a simple alternative to host my images.
Ever heard of perpetual motion or snake oil? That's what the title alludes to, and here's the summary from the page

A new concept for in-space propulsion is proposed in which propellant is not ejected from the engine, but instead is captured to create a nearly infinite specific impulse.

Yeah, it doesn't look good at all. Maybe some solar freakin roadways: space edition.

EDIT: the end of the slides is telling that this abortion hasn't been validated in the slightest:

Basic concept is unproven
•Has not been reviewed by subject matter experts
•Math errors may exist!
That is downright ridiculous, sorry. You are an engineer, just not a "certified" or "accredited" one for some sub-set of tasks/things/requirements. The fact that we have to even discuss this as if saying you're an engineer is some ultra-taboo because people might "mistakenly" allow you to do mission critical or potentially dangerous work without asking for your specific accreditation is disturbing and Orwellian-like policing of plain language.
I cant speak for every Amazon warehouse but @ Jax2 FC, I've personally worked a role in Vendor Returns, where we would remove, return and/or destroy expired food and candy that has sat in the warehouse for too long. Most of the food that was removed, was on its way to being expired in a few weeks and it was removed well before the expiration date. Some of it gets donated if its still good and the expired goods get destroyed in the trash. - BrianD.J, Amazon FC Ambassador
I'm a big fan of Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (free to download at http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/)
There was a brutal civil war and the people of Baugainville (and PNG more broadly) lost a real albeit difficult to seize opportunity to modernise a big chunk of their country. You probably shouldn't feel better, that situation is pretty much the worst possible outcome.

But to lay that at the feet of Rio Tinto and claim they were responsible for a genocide and war crimes is crazy talk. PNG as a political body wasn't organised enough to maintain order and the shock of the vast wealth (and pollution) being created at BCL was too much for their systems to handle.

Rio Tinto was present, they were involved, they should have done things differently and the company changed its approach to community management afterwards. But it is a very morally ambiguous situation and the blame should probably sit with the PNG polity. It is not unreasonable for a company to expect and pressure a government to maintain law and order. Rio didn't try to set up that civil war - PNG did that to themselves. When it was obvious that the situation was getting violent Rio basically just evacuated and wrote the project off.
Digital colonialism is a deeply ironic phrase that underlies hypocrisy - it has long been favored by communist circles, the fascists wearing communist's clothing types, especially third world nationalists. It is a favorite for attacking any outsidsers who interfere with "their" territory completely independent of coerciveness or actual sins of colonialism. If a doctor came in and brought real medicine into an epidemic they would deride it as colonialism.

And yet here they are Johhny come lates now coming in to colonize their daft ideas about colonalism and control when they were late adopters.
9/11 was well after the dot-com crash. It didn't help, though.
Cool, why not? HK protesters aren't important, better get money&profits from Chinese university.
Yes, just get a good Steuerberater, try to find one that knows this stuff. You can also try to find people who do similar things and ask for their Steuerberater.
This is how I feel it works here in Germany.

Especially professional drivers act like yellow is "speed up" light. There's not a single day when I don't notice multiple people driving on red during my commute.
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I don't know how it works in America, but in Europe (or at least in the European countries I know) that's actually the formal standard. If you have a PhD, you earn the right to be called Dr. (name). If you get a degree in medicine, you are colloquially addressed as "doctor" but formally you aren't one, unless you get the PhD in medicine.
They could do a direct listing instead - it's like an IPO but without raising additional capital. Just put your existing shares on the market.

WeWork, though, needs a lot more than new capital.
For me, no way.

On balance i feel more enabled than disabled. You can argue my perspective is skewed, and i yours.

I wish there was some way to give aut insight to neurotypicals, other than reading PKD on LSD.

For every 'cure' i hear of, i wonder can it be used to mane an NT autistic ?

Also: i suspect a lot of debilitating brain diseases and injuries get misdiagnosed as 'autism' as the criteria are very blunt.
Because the great idea never gets old.
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> if at the moment the light turns red you are so close and so fast that you cannot stop safely, then you can continue.

If you are still travelling fast at the lights when they turn red, you must have been ignoring the yellow light, so this makes no sense. The whole point of the yellow light is to ensure that you have time to stop before the lights go red, making running the red lights inexcusable.

Not that I've never run a red light, I'm no angel, but this argument is absurd.
I've got redirected to pizzahut.se
However, thanks to the Vogons of Oregon, we might now get longer yellows, fewer red light accidents and fatalities, fewer automatic red light running tickets, and great material for appealing those bogus tickets.

No, hats off to the a-holes on the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying. They need to be humiliated even more thoroughly than this. This needs to be national and international front-page news. Let these petty tyrants know that heroes exist.

This story keeps popping up with updates. What a great saga.

And, of course, Mr. Järlström deserves all the kudos, free beer, pizza -- a few $$ that might help defray costs? Where to send?
An application to analyse a database as preparation for designing an ETL
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To address your first point, plenty of functional langs have access control - as an example F# has complete public/protected/private for all levels of function/class.
A private twitter, flickr?
> If they had extensive playtesting early on I would think their uniqueness would be eroded.

Authors also have editors and 'test readers' for their novels. That doesn't erode uniqueness. Why should this happen for games?
I remember a Partner from the large global consulting firm that I worked for telling me a similar story: “There is no point getting in to engineering as it will all be offshored to Asia; much better to become a project mgr that ‘glues’ delivery together”. Since that point I always regretted not doubling down on engineering and have spent the rest of my career trying to become more technical.
pizzahut.fr for me. Could someone rehost thevpage somewhere else so people outside the US can see it?
SEO has always been an arms race between the crap and what people actually want with the Joe's coffee corner caught in the middle. I remember earlier Google for instance having more keyword and snippet spam pages. I am glad they are largely gone but now reviews are loaded with purchased shills.
True, but there's always the possibility of the Vision Fund selling WeWork to Softbank proper. And I don't think this round of investment is from the Vision Fund, so it appears that Softbank proper is going to end up with a larger stake than the Vision Fund already. I suppose there's also always the option of selling WeWork to Berkshire Hathaway or something if they can get it boring and profitable.