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There has also been terrible legislation in Germany though, that had to be revoked in lengthy process by the courts, take the Vorratsdatenspeicherung(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention#Germany):

"The law became valid on 1 January 2008. Any communications data had to be retained for six months. On 2 March 2010, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled the law unconstitutional as a violation of the guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence.[41] On 16 October 2015, a second law for shorter, up to 10 weeks long, data retention excluding email communication was passed by parliament.[42][43][44] However, this act was ruled incompatible with German and European laws by an injunction of the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia."

Or the planned road toll that is incompatible with EU law: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48674703
Oh, sorry - I agree. But it sounds more like you're criticising the title of the list.
What's the point of a pleasing rhythm if its not clear what its about. If I'm just scrolling through the front page and I don't understand what a title means, I often don't even bother. Clarity first, aesthetics second.
Kind of hard to refute this with such blurry phrasing, but many cities in Western U.S. had functioning rail systems in the early 1900s. L.A. had over 1,000 miles of rail, for example. San Francisco, Denver, Phoenix, and many others had pretty extensive streetcar systems as well.
Although the article mentions some of it (the plastic) coming from the US, the public in general got hoodwinked.

We should have been burying that stuff in landfills, but someone saw an opportunity to create a new way to make money by creating a recycling regime that’s proven quite useless over the years -prone to fraud and resulting minor utility.
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I see this as an existential threat to human civilization. It poses a very significant risk of creating power asymmetries between the politically connected elite and the masses that lead to highly unstable social hierarchies where states have total control over their population.
Almost every dead language and piece of hardware has a JavaScript emulator out there.. why isn't there just a .evalLisp() / jslisp.min.js library?

With how much people wank about it, surely it would be the final word in scripting and application development if only it could reach it's audience?
That’s an actual joke. Also one that’s kicking up (as opposed to one simply reproducing, say, racism or sexism), so I’m quite ok with it.
If the download is digitally-signed by Microsoft, you can download it via a temporary VM and verify the installer signature. Since Live Mail is around the Vista era it should be signed.
Sounds like you need to auto-clean your uploads directory
That was my first thought too!
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/SerDe

This was where I first saw it as well. Years ago...
Somewhere in that realm for sure, maybe closer to Malinchism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinchism
How? Non of those word are slurs.

It was a genuine question. I was surprised to see a book I have a low opinion of on a best-of list. I'm trying to understand who the book appeals to.
I actually know the answer to this, as I used to live with an architect. This information may apply more specifically to Canada than other places.

1. It's not very good at insulating relative to other materials.

2. It's more labor intensive than other materials.
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The real sweet spot for Amtrak are trips between 50 and 200 miles. Within a city, subways / light rail are a better option. Longer than that and air travel starts to look better. Many cities also have regional trains that serve the areas between 10 and 50 miles outside the city.

This is how every city in Europe works. There are only a handful of cities in the US with a well-developed rail network -- and most of those are crumbling due to half a century of under-investment.
Because the US will pressure other countries to do the same thing. If enough countries agree then it'll be easier and easier to push it onto the rest.
Thank you for pointing this out. Recently I've been talking to many different banks and payment service providers in the Netherlands, and it's absolutely crazy how little specification there is to the technical end of things. It's effectively an auditorium of hundreds of banks and PSPs across Europe, shouting at each other over how they want to (or not want to) do this one specific thing.

It has not helped by any means with the ton of technical debt they had, because now everybody's just winging it and being minimally PSD2 compliant. We still don't have a standardised OAuth (or OAuth-styled) access to banks, and it doesn't look like PSD2 is helping anybody out beyond the "yeah, like, just make the data accessible without scraping, thanks!"
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I guess it doesn't matter, after all that time, that poor Maskelyne's name gets destroyed for the sake of a good story.
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Copyright is the entity that came first. A copyright license is the object you can use to claim you have permission to do something which copyright declares illegal by law.

We can put gpl first when trying to determine the intersection of all the set of permissions when dealing with multiple licenses, but in the end the fundamental question to be answered is: Do you have a set of permissions to do something which copyright makes illegal. Yes/No. In the case of multiple copyrighted work you need permission for all that which copyright limits in those cases.

If we want to look at it from a game theory perspective it we would ask who the agents are, their goals, the environment and the resources. Here a narrow intersection can be a cost, or it can be irrelevant depending on context. The biggest permission is always to write it yourself which make the limitation of copyright a non-issue for the author. Naturally that is not the only factor, nor the only agent, so it all depend.
btw. a lot of your questions are answered with a single statement.
The world biggest manufacturer is a really really small company, compared to a lot of other companies. The villages around the company have a smaller population (together) than the company has workers. (herrenknecht only tells about direct employed people, which is way below the people that work on-site)
the pressure from chinese companies is extremly big and a lot of tbm's are special machines that ONLY work for the specific tunnel/project, there is no such thing as an tbm for everything, most (not all) of them are special purpose tools.
I suspect because cinder block or ICF is just so much more economical and you can make it look like anything you want (brick will always be brick). Plenty of wood framed but that’s purely cost.
Chase has had contact-less payments for the better part of a year now. I haven't used Apply Pay since the change
The next step is unfortunately not coming up anytime soon. They made account information and payment initiation service provider (AISP and PISP respectively) licensing mandatory to connect with banks, but most banks don't even have their APIs production-ready in time!

Rabobank (Dutch) quoted to us the end of 2020 for their 'official' connection platform, but the requirements have been made legally binding in September...
The new terms of service go into effect on December 10th, so I wouldn't expect there to be any reports before then.
Compare to bus companies, where the infrastructure is almost entirely not even their problem. The roads are simply dealt with by the government (built by private companies, who win contracts from the government). For whatever reason, that's not how we do rail infrastructure for the most part.

So, one could argue that Amtrak's rail infrastructure _should_ be entirely off-budget, because really it shouldn't be part of Amtrak at all, to make a comparison to bus companies more valid.
Yes, I'm saying this never happens. Clever hackers get four feet of space in a noisy open office and a JIRA backlog. Well-connected MBA's get CTO positions.
Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down?
> their work resists the evil empire of the software industry

Not sure that the creators of BSD really cared about the things this article is talking about when created BSD license. Many of the opensource projects that I use are either created or maintained by the "evil empire of the software industry".
It's quite nice though when you consider it's really small without requiring difficult BGA mounting (QFN reflow is about as hard as QFP reflow).

It also provides superior electrical properties like low-inductance.
I've heard that historically all the major search engines have used a lot of hand-tuned results (ordering, exclusions) across the highest frequency searches. IIRC Microsoft bought Powerset in '08 just before the launch of Bing specifically to shore up their human tuning. That said, I expected humans to play less of a role by 2020.
With regards to dialects, that is reckless risk taking! :-)
I've lamented the lack of true public property for a long time. I'm thinking about buying abandoned property in various places, at very low cost, and opening them up to public use.

It would be done through a non-profit land holding company with the stated mission of opening land and abandoned structures to public use. Enter at your own risk signs, and a brief description that this property is now open for any legal use would be the only changes. (Barring removal of true death traps)
I use Nuraphones at work. Their main advantages are a gel-based ear surround and in-ear deliver of most non-bass sound, combined with environmental filtering and pass-through option if you need to hear around you.

Also, they detect your hearing range though some sort of auditory feedback they're sensitive to, and are really clear as a result.
With high speed rail, the kind that other countries have plenty of, the sweet spot for rail would extend much farther than 200 miles. Tokyo <-> Kyoto, for example, is around 300 miles and is solidly still within the range of rail being a much better option than flying.
This is the strawman.

Can you give me a link to someone that lost their job for something they wrote 5+ years ago that was actually "edgy" and not, like, grossly insensitive?

The poster I replied to, in a separate common for this article, used blackface as an example. I believe, however acceptable to the majority of people at the time, blackface was always cruel and derogatory.

People respond to images of them doing blackface 20+ years ago with "well it was just a joke and okay back then" and not "back then, our culture felt okay with cruel jokes meant to bring down black people, and by participating, I helped bring down black people"

If you think it was just "okay back then" you're missing the point.
I understand that child predators are thrown around a lot as an example of why backdoors are needed - but, in reality, it's the worst example.

The crimes that warrant a violation of public privacy would need to be those that create _systemic_ risk. Like on the order of the 9-11 attacks that were so disruptive to the entire country that they merit a (temporary) privacy sacrifice.

Child predators are used for their emotional bait, because everyone agrees they are hated, but for all the horror they inflict, they do not cause a systemic problem.
You should update the English Wikipedia with that!
throughout history, bad people protected themselves from good people using the same technologies by which good people protected themselves from bad people.

if you remove the former, you also lose the latter. there’s nothing more to it. anyone advocating for removing the former must first be clear that they are abdicating the latter. any other framing is a lie.
> When you trespass, you are striking a blow against hierarchy and capitalism and uptight motherfuckers everywhere.

I think the controversy comes from the authors overall tone. Quotes like this make them sound like an edgy teenager
This reminds me of the cypherpunk movement in the early 1990's (more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk ). We have seen this kind of threat before. We need organizations like the EFF and ACLU more than ever.
"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics." -- Bruce Schneier
Fallout 3 doesn't get enough credit here. Maybe not the whole main quest, but there are tons of side quests that get this for me. Some that I remember toiling over are whether to set Harold on fire and what to do about the Pitt considering I thought the leader was had a set timeline and seemed trustworthy
I use Brave which is a fork of Chromium just like Chrome. Click Settings, Additional Settings, Privacy and Security, Site Settings, Javascript.

Then under Block click Add and type www.nytimes.com as the URL and click Add.

The site works fine for me then and is sooooo much faster to boot.
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What happens if we consider the massive subsidies given to fossil fuel companies -- Are they still profitable, when you factor in the massive damage their products are inflicting?
do it with your eyes shut?
I have always suspect brick is superior for sound insulation, perhaps not weather though?
It may be obvious to those of us with an interest in etymology, but when the phrase came up in my tabletop gaming group (ages 18-50), they were unanimous (save for myself) that the meaning was "the fast and the dead". I had to resort to a web search to convince them otherwise.
My dad has this happen shortly after Christmas the year my mom died. They'd been together nearly 50 years, and I don't think he ever really considered that she might die first. After Christmas, after we kids had all gone home, he woke up one morning knowing something wasn't right. He took some aspirin, and drove himself to the hospital. He'd had a massive heart attack, and was in that mid-60's age range where they often kill you. His doctor asked him if he believed in the afterlife, and told him if he did, he must've had someone looking out for him, because he was very lucky to survive. I think a few other things may have contributed, like the fact he was very athletic most of his life, to the point his heart was more efficient than most, and that he helped take care of one of his grandkids regularly, which gave him a reason to want to continue on.
Also coffee was introduced to China in late 19th century...
> Of course it would be easier for the police to catch bad guys

A police officer's job is only easy in a police state.
Yeah the word "spy" might be debatable but it's certainly something like "snooping".

Just because they process the data doesn't mean they need to record it. I feel like a good analogy here is the ISP is your secretary. Sure they must have access to your documents to do their job, but if they're reading through your stuff for "gossip" or snapping photos of your documents, that'd still be an invasion of privacy.
Yeah but the didnt have the tech of today right ?
>If a memo, or meeting minutes were to come out showing that Apple was signing exclusivity agreements, or disabling payment apps on the iPhone (NFC) to specifically put competition out of business, well then that would be monopolistic.

I think people get confused because the way APIs work on Apple's platforms, effectively open to all subject to you agreeing to their license, that people don't realize there's no obligation for Apple to create APIs for anything. Literally every app or feature could be the result of one-on-one business development agreements.
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'heart attack' is very imprecise. There are a ton of different conditions that can happen that are commonly referred to as a heart attack. MI is a specific condition.
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Personally, HCL is what bothers me. Yes, it’s infrastructure-as-code... but that code is in a niche proprietary language. It gets unpleasant as soon as you go beyond trivial static config.

Pulumi and AWS CDK are taking what I think is a better approach: use your favourite general-purpose language to build the declarative infrastructure definition.
Perhaps it is the opposite — we would gradually replace all functions of government with technology :)

We already have, to a large extent. The post office. Printing and letters patent and many kinds of licenses. Many kinds of clerks. And so on.
I am working on a CL for JS that I will likely share at some point. I post updates about it occasionally to Mastodon [1] if anyone is interested in following my progress. I'm also happy to discuss rationale, design, and implementation -- it's been really fun to work on.

1. https://mytoot.net/@alandipert/103120653862853368
The same could be argued as defence for J++, but naturally Google gets free pass, because it isn't Microsoft.
Anti-encryption stances will also concentrate power, and thereby make for less stable societies. That in turn will harm the rate of economic development, which is what brings children out of poverty where they are most vulnerable to child trafficking rings.
This is missing a giant piece: in what context?

Is this for "business" software? Scientific? Crypto?

There's an old saying: Good, Fast or Cheap, pick any two. That might be relevant to drag racing (the context in which I heard it first) and irrelevant for software, but the underlying lesson, that there's inherent tension between different conceptions of "ideal" should not be lost. Picking a context for "ideal", making that explicit, and then acknowledging that compromises are necessary is necessary. Any other path will leave everyone wondering how they're going to make necessary compromises in one aspect of "ideal", without getting in trouble.
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> the ridiculous "on the computational capacity of the universe."

I'm really interested to know more about the critic of this paper. Please detail or share some links.

(Note: not part of of the academic field, and I really don't care at all about the politics and characters involved, but I am interested a lot in the concepts in the paper)
In my experience traveling from western ny to nyc or visa versa, there is always at least a 1 hour delay going through Albany. My record being 2 hours. The reason being they switch out trains with a train coming from a different location. It's super frustrating not knowing how long you're going to be stuck there.
Besides the physical activities, the number of interested parties that become involved when touching so many things drives up the bureaucracy with each party bringing their own engineering requirements and conditions for cooperation.
Ask HN: Any “Git diff”-like service but for when terms of conditions changes?
One gets the terms of conditions updates via email, like linked-in, or just as start-up popup when you init the app, like xcode, anything that helps to understand exactly what changed especially for well-known apps?
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I suggest we fold in the cost of traffic accidents and fatalities, which have been estimated at almost a trillion dollars. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/motor-vehicle-crashes-u-...

When you do that, suddenly the tables flip and driving is way behind.
You can always detect whether tag <foo> is supported in JavaScript by testing whether HTLMFooElement is defined (but I understand you are speaking more generally).

I understand your feeling, and by making it usable without JavaScript you are already going a long way, but using those tags also makes your pages accessible.

Making your pages beautiful with animations is only extra. Things already work out of the box in any case without <details> without effort, only better if it is supported.

HTML is mostly designed to gracefully degrade, detection is not always necessary.

How would you like things to be handled? Handling retro compatibility is hard and I find HTML does a good job at it.
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And yet a certain nutorious US politician was called a lot of names for pointing out the problems that the Swedish immigration policy has made.
My expectation is that when there are 40 people in line and its rush hour during a work week, and they know this every single day, that they have employed more than a single person to man the ticket counter.

I can see why you’re to obtuse to understand.
What if we apply the same radical transparency to government as well? No more secret courts or meetings, even black ops must be revealed after each limited operation is complete, everything must be out in the open. But leave democratic elections, for instance.

Would any government agree to unilaterally do this? I think the biggest danger will come not from the other governments but from losing the ability to be bribed and do unaccountable things.
I’ve been pretty frustrated with Google lately. Maybe it’s me, but they seem to keep skewing their algorithm to ignore precise queries and always show broad matches.

For example I recently searched “US ambassador Germany” on Google News and the top results were all stories about Ukraine and the impeachment hearings. Google completely ignored “Germany.”

Similar things happen to me all the time on Google Search. Perhaps I just search too many long tail queries?
I seriously forgot how much fun boomboxes were. Then we had to rehab our old apartment. Our contractor had one of those DeWalt toolboxes with the boombox built-in. I've been looking for ages for one like it and still haven't found it.
Somewhat click-baity. They are not implying runtime / live intervention (which isn’t possible anyways). Top bad results are tweaked. That is part of making the “algorithm”. Who says that is immoral or illegal?
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> More likely your bank won’t work with Apple because they don’t want to pay Apple a cut of the fees.

So now it'll work because they can choose another processor which doesn't demand Apple's fees. That's how free market should work. If Apple provides value, then they'll keep using Apple Pay.
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