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Are these manufacturers called BMW, by any chance? They sell this authorized "computer module" replacement part for $400. But if you take it apart, there's a 50 cent fuse inside that was blown. Replacing the fuse does no good without access to the proprietor BMW software, because the module will refuse to work after the fuse is replaced until it is reset using their software. Which means you have to pay for a whole new module. However not all manufacturers are like that. After I change the oil on my Honda, there's a silly little dance to reset the oil life indicator, but nothing too crazy. The Toyota Corolla is a favorite for self-driving car enthusiasts due to the hackability of its lane-guidance system into something fuller. I'm also disappointed in some of the directions the future has taken us (it's frustrating to me how hard it is the replace user-servicable parts inside a lot of laptops, eg Apple), but not all manufacturers are the same and talking about the situation as if they are is too abstract to be useful, say, when looking for your next car.
The Actor Model attempts to be as general as possible to support direct modeling and efficient implementation of all digital computation. For example, an Actor is not required to have an external mailbox, which is required for communication in Erlang [Armstrong, et. al. 1992]. Requiring an external mailbox is problematical for Actors because the mailbox would itself necessarily be another Actor thereby immediately leading to an infinite regress. Also, requiring the use of external mailboxes can slow requests between Actors because it would always be necessary to first deposit a request in an Actor’s external mailbox so that the request could later be retrieved. That a request is almost always sent and received without ever residing in persistent storage, where it can be left and later retrieved, is an important engineering goal for Actors.
Chick-Fil-A to Stop Donations to Charities with Anti-LGBT Views
Have you worked on any task related to modeling physical processes, based on my short experience modeling parts of airplane, i believe building something comparable to falcon with 70s technology would have been multiple orders of magnitude harder.

The fact that NASA makes poor decisions today doesn't prove that SpaceX would have been able to create and implement the good plan 40 years ago.
I love how governments love to pretend that either none of these crimes happened prior to the digital communication age or that they never caught anyone prior to it (which they definitely did).

Let's also take a step back and consider the series of events and how this would play into that. Under normal circumstances, you need a warrant/reason to look at such data and communications. The theory here is that if they could decrypt everything that would make their job much easier. Fair point. But in the world 20-30 years ago these tools never existed so there was no such communication to capture. Which means the evidence was non-existent.

Yet, through other means of investigation they were able to identify and gather evidence against these criminals and prosecute them. How did they do that? It's because these are real world crimes (meaning not purely residing in the digital world) so there is real world evidence to be gathered. And all the other methods they have without decrypting data still applies. That can mean tracking credit card charges, phone calls, cell tower pings, etc, etc. As we know, they can build out quite a substantial profile of a criminal network in that manner. They can correlate all sorts of things and gather insights into the data.

This is just government pulling a classic fear-mongering bullshit tactic wrapped in a "think about the children!" plea to simply make their lives easier while simultaneously trying to whittle down our privacy rights even further.
We may have misunderstood each other. I agree we should empower individuals in general, and try to defuse centralization of power. And I thought by powerful individuals you meant people in the government or some rival organizations.

I began talking about recording interactions, though, being potentially a very good thing.
Do you appreciate what you are a part of
I don't have a problem with that so much as with the incessant spamming of floydhub.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=floydhub.com

Especially resubmitting the same links over and over again is really not nice.
Draw.io got completely open sourced a few days back, so now there's no stopping you for adding any features you want either.
+1 for lucid charts.
I used the free trial a few years ago for a senior design class and was incredibly happy with it, which is saying a lot as I was consistently sleep deprived and irritated by most things at the time.
I agree that you cannot easily assess if such a legislation is beneficial for the public or not. That is the case for many government decisions. It still is not a matter of personal opinions/taste, it is a matter of arguments.

So it would be your turn now to argue why this specific law is harmful for the public. (We agree that it is harmful for Apple.)
From what I remember the research suggests this isn't the case. But that was research for predators in general, not the ones spreading abuse images, and thus the findings in the larger group may not apply to the smaller.
PageSpeed Insight Hack: Load Heavy 3rd-Party JavaScript Without Affecting Score
This is about minimizing litigation risk, from the manufacturer side and the parent side.

The manufacturers want to limit their exposure to any one design. If this year's cost-saving design unexpectedly doesn't work, they want to budget and cut off liability.

And, as a parent, if the seat is poorly designed in a way that it ever harms my child, I want to be able to sue the manufacturer.
But they'll allow a cutout for politicians and law enforcement (aka government) - ergo, such people -must- also be criminals.

Heck - we know today, encryption using or not - many within our governments are at best shady, and more than a few are criminals or perform criminal acts.

They say "think of the children"? Trust me - they already are, and not in the good way.

We have no idea just how far and deep the tentacles of Epstein's "system" went - but based on what we already know and/or suspect - it was far reaching, involving many high-up government officials, corporations, public and private universities, and likely more. It wouldn't surprise me to find out high-up law enforcement and quite possibly even individuals involved in child protection systems were involved as well. I'm almost certain there were more than a few state governors involved. Probably also members of the media, bankers - if you can think of it, Epstein probably had one or more of them involved.

They didn't want him to spill the beans. And now, they want things to be even more quiet, so they can monitor, but can't be monitored themselves.
Why the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision Making Is a Fallacy
How About Full-Stack Micro-Services?
I was once approached by someone representing (or at least claiming to) the Nature Conservancy. They had a worthy-sounding pitch but I told them that as a rule I didn't donate on knee-jerk reactions, but that I would be happy take down their info, have a closer look, and consider a donation. They guy said, "oh like on Charity Navigator", whipped out their phone and showed me near-perfect scores for them on Charity Navigator. I stuck to my rule, got home, and looked them up. At the time they had 2/4 stars on Charity Navigator. Guy was using an old screenshot or something.
The Google payment to Mozilla has been in the form of a ad revenue sharing deal since 2005 or so. Before that you could characterize it as a donation, or something.
Google and SEO are a fundamental issue with the web itself. It's been a while since Google could simply search for websites, but that's no longer possible in the same manner it used to be. Google has become so dominant that the web itself changes to accommodate Google.

Google can no longer be an independent observer, as the act of observation changes the results!
A standardized way is "don't add audio". If i want to listen to music I won't wait until I come across a video that doesn't have music that annoys me
Now take the same reaction you just had, and apply it in the context of Kyle's post.

> When I wrote a strong copyleft license for dev tools, the FSF faithful objected. Why wouldn’t a movement best known for dev tools and software freedom want a copyleft license that requires devs using dev tools to make their work free?

Because it's not Free software. It may be an improvement over proprietary software, but it's still restricting user freedom. Just call it "Source Available" or something.
I think that's true, our last big donation to EFF was a while ago. I know some executives have donated over the years significantly, but not as 'google'.
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I'm pretty sure those M3's are around-the-ear. Unless you have gigantic ears. I'm wearing the M1 right now and it's around-the-ear.
> In modern standards

Even in ancient times masons had pieces of strings and plumb-bobs to level vertically and horizontally.

The more likely constraint is that before the 20th century the farmer couldn't afford masons to lay orchard walls, but did it himself...
Serde includes a bunch of parsers by default but if you invented a new text file format, you’d have to write a new parser for it before you could do anything with it, and serde doesn’t help with that.
Not exactly the same thing, but the following is happening now, in Spain. Citizens can opt-out by either turning off their phones or putting them in airplane mode during the dates mentioned.

"Spain’s National Statistical Institute (INE) plans to track the movements of millions of Spanish citizen’s cellphones to conduct a ‘sociological study’, El Pais and EFE reported. The INE will analyze user’s movements between November 18 to 21, November 24, on December 25 and during July 20 and August 15, using data from the ‘big three’ telecom companies in Spain. Data however will be anonymized before processing, the INE stressed."
I enjoy using Mermaid: https://mermaidjs.github.io

It does not support all the diagrams yet, but it's completely themable and you can code away your diagrams like you would with dot/graphviz.

It integrates well into any Markdown tool, Gitlab integrated it about a year ago so it's natively available in Gitlab flavored Markdow.
I had seen the results of that accident, but was amazed by the video at all the people saying that the area is a magnet for such accidents, and that the brick wall itself had been hit many times.

I mostly walk and bike in the city, but that whole neighborhood has wide, straight, clearly-marked roads. It's like you're out in the suburbs. If people have trouble there, how do they deal with some actually-confusing intersections, like Newton Corner, Inman square, or Columbia Road in Dorchester?
In their 2nd comment below you can see that they are trying to call out the colonization, etc. And also I'm not "defending against my imagination"... there's so many commenters that think history is so reprehensible and modern day people should be directly guilty for things that happened 500 years ago.
It might interest you to know that graphical Emacs on a Mac uses purely native UI APIs. No GTK.

(And I wish Chrome used those native Mac UI APIs as well as Mitsuharu Emacs does.)
i've being using https://online.visual-paradigm.com/ for a while now, and am quite happy with it.
> If we were in the center of the void, we would see no stars in the sky with the naked eye. According to astronomer Greg Aldering, the scale of the void is such that "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s."

Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_void. Pretty eerie to think about.
For starters, we can't globally protect children from poverty. This in turn opens up parents in extreme poverty (such as having to choose which kid gets enough resources to survive) to be willing to make exchanges that we cannot fathom.
> If you add more bike lanes, people start riding their bikes.

Which may be true, but they encourage cyclists to ride at the edge instead of the middle of the general traffic lane. A motorist not paying attention is going to notice an edge riding cyclist later than they would if they were in the center of the general traffic lane.

> People don't like to bike because it's (rightly) perceived as dangerous.

Not really. Assuming one is riding a bicycle in traffic that's not moving at more than 40 mph, it's not that dangerous at all.

> There needs to be more separation from the batshit drivers here who wouldn't shrug at a hit and run too.

That's a problem with law enforcement, not a problem with the road design. Also, separation doesn't work when there are frequent intersections. It makes more sense to build bike lanes along side arterial roads where traffic is moving in excess of 40 mph and intersections are no more frequent than once every mile or so. On city streets with traffic moving at 0 to 30 mph, it makes far more sense to ride in the center of the general traffic lane while following the rules of the road.
That disregards the possibility that certain clonal expansions could be beneficial. General clonal expansion may be correlated with aging, but some clonal expansion may concern extended longevity.
Due Diligence Questions You Should Be Asking Every VC You Meet
> 'mountain dark fly alive thing'

山暗飞生物? I'd be pretty shocked at a word for an indigenous species (like "owl") that was more than two characters.
I've been talking about this concept with my girlfriend a lot lately. Why aren't there any dispensaries in WA where you can buy a preroll and just sit and chill at the store like a coffee shop?

It must be regulations preventing it I assume?

I thought it was illegal to smoke inside a business in pretty much every state now.

I was thinking some kind of covered patio with those outdoor heaters for winter would be a way around it but now I'm more curious about how they're able to sell food and allow people to smoke inside.

At any rate I hope this becomes more popular just at price ranges that aren't so hipster LA
Besides the "it can't be reliably anoned" answer, there are other issues.

One key one imo is simply ownership. Why do they get to sell it, regardless of who they are. I find the "terms of service" argument to be disingenuous.

I really think we need to completely change the way we do IP, and "data" has effectively become a new type of IP.

The default should be open/public domain, at lwats for anonyzable data. There are lots of reasons for it, economic moral and liberal.
Huawei Tops ETH Zurich 2019 Smartphone Deep Learning Rankings
>A remaster would need the assets in the original level of detail they were created in.

Wouldn't the original artists / graphic designers have those?

Besides Diablo II came out in 2000. Even the high res Illustrator/Photoshop/assets might be mediocre res for today's monitors...
Note that the politicians and the law enforcement people (and the government by extension) will have walls built you can't see thru...

...gee, where do you think all the criminality will be occurring then?

In a way, they'd be figuratively shooting themselves in the foot. Right now, they can somewhat get away with their criminality, because they are more or less noise in the signal - since everyone has "walls" that can't be seen thru.

If they get their way with this kind of legislation, you know there will be an exception for them.

Once the people realize that the criminality continues, they will look around and say "well how's that possible? if only criminals use encryption...<lightbulb turns on>" - and then they become the targets of the people.

Of course, the people should have realized this NOW - not later...
Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
Had posted this a month ago. Posting this again! Haven't hacked on anything since. I can do back-end, love Python but have professionally written Java/C++. Have an interest in go-lang.
I think it's the thing in most areas with public and NGO advocacy groups. Although the groups are officially non-profits, they are often very profitable for its employees. Local Greenpeace branch essentially takes protection money from various developer and mining companies to look other way (at those that don't "sponsor" them) and use the money for bird conservation activities etc. in other areas.

If you think about it, it's not even that bad. No one else really cares much about the companies' exploits and the money is at the end at least partially used for praiseworthy goals. And wheel of market keeps spinning...
Compatibility mode would be like coding for IE7. Not IE11's fault :D
> You can use names verbatim.

If this ruling passes the Supreme Court, you can't anymore in the context of software. That's the whole point of what has people up in arms. These points of copyright are left to the courts, and they can change the rules if they see fit.

I really don't understand your outright refusal to read the ruling or even the damn wiki page.

I won't be responding to you anymore until you make a good faith effort.
Fabulous! Standalone app sizes look to be less than half that of Electron. Wish I had more C++/Obj-C skills to help out...
War Room Trump’s ‘West Point Mafia’ Faces a Loyalty Test
Product managers for ML/AI products need to understand this post.

That confusion matrix is something I have failed to get traction for in the past, but I'd say all market fit will be measured based on the customer's valuation of that matrix vs. the profile of it your product delivers. It doesn't matter what field you are in, this is the metrics framework for every analysis product out there, imo.

e.g. a customer has an expectation of tp/fp tn/fn rates that is valuable for themselves, and your given tech has hard limits on the trade offs between them. The real secret is that the values of the confusion matrix do not apply to whole or most of a customer vertical, but rather to individual customers with similar matrix values across verticals.

I think you can predict when a ML/AI product company will fail because they think they can apply their product to the vertical of their first few customers, making the false assumption that their confusion matrix applies all the way up that vertical - instead of hunting customers with the same matrix values in other verticals.
Wait what - you can opt out of having any phone or mobile data service for a week?

What on earth are they going to learn? People go to work, people go shopping?
> but haven't demonstrated that it's actually worth reusing rockets.

What would demonstrate that it's worth it to you? Aren't their reused rockets significantly cheaper than the competition already? Or is there some catch here?
Even Git has a complicated behavior that changes. For example, each new commit changes the behavior of Git.
While that is true, motorcycles are cheaper than cars, but you don't see the majority of people riding motorcycles. Protection from the elements and the ability to carry more cargo is the reason why most people drive cars as opposed to riding bicycles or motorcycles.
Mass hysteria!
At a bare minimum, teams that plan via "story points" or other time units ought to count meetings in those scores. When they don't, you start getting teams that either "get nothing done" or have to work nights and weekends because planning meetings are displacing all their intended work.

For actually tracking Meeting Points, one option might be to make them a project metric? As in: "We predict our project will consume 21 Meeting Points, if we go over 25 that's a failure to be analyzed afterwards like overruning schedule or budget, if we're under 15 we're probably budgeting wrong".
http://www.breakdown-notes.com
Tech is eating restaurants' lunch
Owl is cat-head-eagle 猫头鹰(Mandarin). :)
I'm not so sure the issue is risk aversion, so much as it is not seeing those opportunities whether because they're unable to see opportunities in the work that they're doing to take advantage of... or they're just not around environments where opportunities like this might exist; or a combination of both.
Unless they're shipping a fairly complete domain -> category map to your machine and doing all categorization offline, unlikely, then they absolutely have the ability to collect it, and will "accidentally" do so at some point. We've all seen this movie now, multiple times.

edit: also the knee-jerk reaction most people are going to have to this, is concern about certain categories of websites.
I have a picture somewhere of a beauty parlor in Kyoto who's name is Yaoi Hair Brains Faerie.

Also an apartment building named "Space Pope F" which besides being an awesome name made me wounder what happen to all the other Space Popes and if they are being counted alphabetically or hexadecimal.
Response to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/business/how-fedex-cut-it...
You’d think they’d have their house in order before besmirching someone else... good on FedEx calling them out.
The same goes for all UNGOs and NGOs that operate around the world for various humanitarian causes. I have interned at places like World Vision, World Concern, and Save the Children; my sister has worked for almost three years at a well-known French NGO that operates in my home country (in SE Asia). A few other people I know work for various non-profit orgs like UNICEF and UNOCHA etc.

We notice one consistent thing: these purpose of organizations/institutions isn't as simple as "serve the best for the native population that they are supposed to save from natural/economic/humanitarian disaster". The need (say, for regional/program directors) to find the next funding to keep the project going trumps EVERY OTHER altruistic purpose. Also, these program directors don't stay for longer than 2-3 years (let alone getting to know the native population they are trying to help) and most of them are always trying to get in on the next action/conflict in another country, and/or to simply move to a better pasture (a more developed country). The management in these non-profit orgs--such as save the children, world vision, UNICEF--are always whitewashed (I do not intend this to come out negatively, but have to keep it real here) and they rarely promote native workers to have a say in things that matter (although native workers are the ones who have to do the day-to-day, on-the-field hard work). On Facebook, there has been a growing resentment by native workers toward these 'foreigners of ruling hierarchy' that work for non-profits (while taking up most of the salary+benefits and wasting donation money). I don't know how far it will go and am interested to see it out.
Holy crap.

First: you're awesome. Keep it up.
Second: anyone else think this is a great example of how autonomous driving is a last-mile problem?