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Thanks! Comments like these, especially backed by good sources, are why I keep coming back to the often pretty messy comment sections of HN :D
If you search the repo you can see the randombytes library is just there for reference and isn't used, that library was created by the same guy who made NaCl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaCl_(software)
It might be the time to use something else, with less privacy violation
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I think the issue is at least partially a failure to present an alternative vision.

People do the things they do and consume the things they do in order to meet some need (stimulation, entertainment, pleasure, etc.). Although, I don't think it's unreasonable to advocate for some austerity, to a significant degree people are going to need alternatives that meet the needs that were formerly met by the things they are giving up.

It seems to me that environmentalists tend to fail to provide a vision for what those alternatives could be.
Cities look to tax pricey real estate sales to pay for affordable housing
A strange emphasis in mentioning the "open-source version of Wordpress" is the one being hacked into. I doubt a proprietary solution would be any less vulnerable.
This is how the very first version of Selenium worked. The application under test was in an iframe, and the test controller was in the parent page. The Selenium "Remote Control" protocol was later added where the controller would phone home to a listening web server for commands to relay to the iframe (basically, AJAX before it had a name. It all mostly worked for the most common test cases, but we abandoned this approach for similar reasons mentioned in the article -- the edge case limitations became more and more frustrating over time. Ultimately, we merged with the WebDriver project, which was implemented in a more native way, avoiding all the limitations of automation-via-iframe.
Countermeasures listed here - https://docs.crp.to/security.html#technical-specifications
No. Google scans your file and index them so you can search them. No advertising profile is created based on content of your Google Drive.
I would say as long as it's not interfering with the rest of your life, it's perfectly fine. The breadth of quality games available in this era is really remarkable. To be able to explore that universe and have real experiences is perfectly worthwhile.

Where I think it becomes problematic is when the focus is on exactly one game, especially ones with online gameplay with toxic communities. In those cases you should ask yourself if you might be part of the toxicity cycle (not always the case, but worth some introspection).
Jesus would approve [0]. It also seems that you have stumbled upon one of the great treatments for depression [1].

[0] https://www.biblehub.com/james/1-27.htm

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/between-cultures/201... << there are a lot of articles like this...
This is what Lisp/Scheme based languages use macros for -> to reduce boilerplate code. A lot of programmers hate DSL's, but using Python to generate test code is the same as using a DSL. The difference is, Python is a much bigger and more complicated DSL, than a test-macro will probably ever be.

There is nothing wrong with generating code in a pragmatic way. It is just strange to see all the time people using workarounds for things that a tiny DSL could probably solve better.
Why offer it only to yank it?
No, I'm pretty sure that in this case you're just trusting in others for security and trusting that they won't overwork you. Unless you're doing work for the Church, I'd say it might be unwise to conflate your client with God.
Also interesting that its one of the first open source applications from China I've seen.
Ah, another believer. The Turtle moves!
I found that I can always optimize stuff in nim to be near C speed - without doing anything crazy non-nim like.

Stuff that is there might not be optimized yet. I hope as more people comb over the libraries we all get a boost here and there.
Considering even a 12 week vacation in India while you undergo treatment is cheaper than the alternative and also legal, the pricing of the US drugs is very... interesting.

There's probably plenty of other countries where you could get treatment for cheap too.
It's a different relationship, but it is still not the same as being employed. The people here equating the two are either clueless or disingenuous, I'd hope for the former but I fear the latter.

It's easy to piss on those that manage their one person business over multiple years from the comfort of an actual employed situation, and it is equally easy to piss on them from the position of the manager or early hire of a business with a lot of employees and a lot of customers.

But the amount of responsibility that typically lands on the shoulders of these one man operations tends to be disproportional and they deal with those responsibilities in a much better way than many of those large companies. The main reason that they stay in business in the first place is because they tend to be good at what they do, and reputation damage being what it is in that world the first job you fuck up may well be your last.
“when you really have it together yourself, you have plenty of positive energy to share with others.”

That’s a really important point. I tend to think about is an emotional gas tank. When it’s full, it’s much easier to be generous and help others. On the other hand, if your gas tank is empty, you are busy enough to keep yourself going and have no capacity for helping others or even for compassion.
I dont think you should be downvoted because thats valid, yet hard to use as an argument, paranoia.

The basic assummption in cryptography is “assume the target system is already compromised” so i would wager you are partially correct. Its just that its not the whole story, especially if u think that private persons get massssive discounts if they try to privately pay (from reading below comments about quotes to insurance companies vs private people).

Its a sad dynamic thats probably ruining more loves than it should.
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Only if all the other costs you incur while getting that thing replaced are smaller than you would by using said insurance to address it. Sometimes the cost you suffer when something breaks is not the same as the price of that thing.
India’s student diaspora rises up against Modi crackdown
It seems like in many of these cases The organization why did the scale up anyway, but never had the capital to make the required infrastructure/technology/manpower investments. At least one of them said scaled up significantly and as a result attracted a new class of donors.
> What other languages offer a similar profile? D? Swift? Kotlin (via LLVM)?

Julia. It’s fast, JIT compiled (static compilation is possible but it’s quite rough around the edges), has a fantastic type system, uses multiple dispatch to achieve some very cool stuff, has quite powerful lispy macros, and a really great community / library ecosystem, especially in scientific computing.
I wasn't able to find an open source alternative to Newrelic APM for ruby.

Perforce is also something that's very useful for game development but relatively expensive.
http://archive.vn/Hj8L9
I've been on the other side of this managing a team of developers that was a mix of employees and contractors. The contractors would coordinate with the project manager to schedule their vacations.

Obviously, you need to discuss this with your employer (I call them 'employer' because they are your only gig and full-time). I doubt they expect you to never take any time off, so it shouldn't come as a surprise and they should respond rationally if you approach it with no immediate deadline. For example: "sometime in the next few months I'd like to schedule some time off and I want to work with you to ensure minimal disruption to the business." If you are willing and it would be helpful to them, you can offer to check email once a day while on vacation for any urgent blocking issues.

You mentioned being worried about competition usurping your work if you take time off. It's unclear if you're doing work where there are instant drop-in identical replacements to you readily available. Since you're wall-to-wall busy with work it seems that your role is important and you mentioned that you'd take less money for less work, so you're pretty well-paid. I guess I don't understand because roles for which there are instant drop-in identical replacements aren't usually high earning. If what you do is so mission-critical that they'll have to replace you with another contractor if you're unavailable for a scheduled-in-advance week, then it's likely you have job-specific knowledge and skills that can't be easily replaced by a new contractor in a week. Which is why they should be willing to work with you to coordinate your vacation and minimize disruption.
You aren't getting the robot voicemails yet? I mean sure I can ignore those too - but it's that much more annoying since I now have to filter through my voicemails to see if anyone left a message that actually matters.

I'd guess about 1/3 of robocallers are leaving me voicemails now. I also very recently started getting obvious phishing attempts via SMS.
I think it's the "right" price, you want to incentivize companies to try to develop drugs that will do the maximal amount of good.

Like, you could imagine a system where you don't have a free market at all, the government would directly fund both medical treatment (like in Europe) and medical research (like nowhere right now, but you could imagine nationalizing the drug companies). So then, before the hepatitis-c drug exists, you are paying $500k for each liver transplant, and you try to figure out how much money should be allocated to that drug research program. You'd want to fund it at roughly the expected cost saving, multiplied by the probability that the drug development is successful.

In the actual system, if the drug companies try to develop the drugs, and then charge about the same price as the cost of the previous treatment during the time they hold the patent, then their expected payoff (so how much money they will put into research) is the cost of the previous treatment times the probability that they will be successful---so this high price is basically what we would want to allocate anyway. And if the drugs are paid for by the government, their expected spending over all the drugs is similar to optimal amount of direct research funding.
On the flip side, my wife spends hours per month trying to get RA meds covered. Despite what her MD thinks will work, insurance wants the lowest cost treatment possibilities, regardless of efficacy and (lack of) impact on QOL.

The American health insurance system is broken. Time to toss it out and try something else.
Moser's Algorithm and the Lovász Local Lemma
Blog posts, especially very long blog posts, are not written instantly.
If you are interested ins speed, here is a huge list of similar benchmarks: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
A RethinkDB-compatible database written in Crystal
need to support hot reload is one of the reasons Erlang does not have static typing
I don't know what you mean, exactly.

I do recall that in 1991, I was the only student in my "Introduction to Programming Using C" 101 class (as a Freshman in college) who could understand pointer arithmetic. That class ended the careers of many aspiring Computer Science majors.

I eagerly learned C++ a few years later. I did not understand at the time what shitpile OOP is. I was totally in OO because it was the "industry trend." Someday we'll fully recover from that entire folly.
> If Thursday is in the new year, so is also Friday, Saturday and Sunday and with those four days in the new year, it is always the majority of the week.

That's only if you count Sunday as the last day of a week, instead of it being the first day of the following week.
Bohm-Bawerk's notion of the contradiction was so potent because it was so hard for Marxists to answer. Hilferding's response didn't even convince many Marxists, which is why the transformation problem was the primary theoretical dispute within Marxist economics for most of the twentieth century.

After Samuelson's famous article on the transformation problem, most people concluded that Marx' system could not be rescued, and moved on with their lives. Up until the 70s Marxist economics was a vibrant field, but after that it's only a few dead-enders. Kliman himself laments this in an article that I can no longer find online. Philosophers and economists don't spend much time on Marx for the same reason chemists don't spend much time on phlogiston, and physicists don't spend much time on aether theory.
Recursive types were added in Typescript 3.7. Hopefully Python takes a page from their book.
For some reason that happens very rarely for me so its not that big of a chore to listen to all the voicemails I receive.
Just over Christmas I heard a story from my Aunt who had their basement flooded because of a fake replacement water filter she bought on Amazon. The entire filter unit exploded and water just poured out of the pipe.
It really comes down to the time between eating vs not. Sustained periods of fasting have different affects, most notably beginning after 4-24 hours but most impactful (for health) between 24-72 hours or more.

Breaking the fast occasionally (ie switching between skipping breakfast or skipping dinner) could be advantageous, as long as you’re still hitting a reasonable length of fast.

https://www.zerofasting.com/the-physiology-of-fasting/
For this kind of tasks I usually create a private Firefox extension which gives me access to extended browser capabilities and the ability to lift some security-related restrictions. I run it in a sandboxed browser, much like I would do with something like Selenium or Puppeter, but I have much more options to hand-tune the automation.
> I'd love to actively prevent people from moving to these places ..

Good luck with that you evil cunt. I left Norway and now I'm finally doing really, really good. I'm late (soon 40), but now have a small family (baby daughter) thanks to low taxes. Screw you.
Statistical Shortcomings in Standard Math Libraries (and How to Fix Them)
This perhaps makes someone faster at implementation, but it's not possible for it to help with the most important UX design skill: analyzing real users' needs and behaviors, and then synthesizing that into a useful/usable design.
I didn't mean to come across as a bigot. My poor score suggests that's how it's being interpreted, though. The stated purpose of the visa program is to solve "labor shortages". If there is no longer a shortage (such as shortly after a bubble poppage), then in theory the visa workers should be let go. Lack of IT jobs on the West coast made life tough for my family back then, and it was partly caused by the presence of visa workers. I'm just calling it as it was. These laws have direct consequences on people's lives.
The original post was about covered preventative measures. They're not "unnecessary medical procedures", otherwise insurances would get rid of their obligation to pay for them. They don't advertise them a lot, which is the only thing OP did.

Therefore: Check what your insurance (and/or local governance) considers essential preventative care and discuss with a professional which of these make sense for you. Then go and do it: it's important enough that some bean counter wasn't able to remove it from your plan as unnecessary medical procedure and it's already budgeted.
That's an experiment worth doing.
Here's a tiny perfume museum in Berkeley!

https://www.aftelier.com/Articles.asp?ID=256
I don't know what the offerer's motivations are, but I do know from experience that there's no reason to expect an indefinite supply of free stuff.
About 1/2 of all my voicemails are in Mandarin.
Pasted the quote into work chat and a waggish co-worker immediately came back with, "on the other hand, Python is like camping with a toilet, but that toilet may have a dangerous snake in it, but you won't know until you try it"
This guy has some great instructional videos on soldering, and reviews and recommendations on tools like irons, microscopes, armatures, bench supplies, etc.
The early research is done on federal grants. What costs real money is late-stage development and especially clinical research, startups and universities are not at all equipped for that.

The financing model is problematic. Return on investment is much higher and faster in IT, besides there is a mismatch between what the market favours and where future clinical needs are (the antibiotic crisis, neglected tropical diseases).
Supposedly, that was coming in 2019:

"Differential sync brings the ability to sync only the parts of large files that have changed, not the entire file. This makes the file synchronization process faster for these files. Currently OneDrive supports differential sync for Office 2016 files. Later this year, Microsoft will bring the ability to leverage differential sync to all file types stored in OneDrive and SharePoint."

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-announce-onedrive-improvem...

Edit: It went live on November 4th 2019:

"To complement these large uploads, we announced availability of differential sync for PC and Mac, bringing the ability to sync only the parts of large files that have changed, not the entire file."

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-OneDrive-Bl...
Meltdown and Spectre are hardware bugs.
2 minutes to twelve, but definitely a candidate for best comment of the year.
A giant star is acting strange, and astronomers are buzzing
Annoying paywall and not even original source. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.150... is much better. Contains all the maps and way more information
Another challenge along the previous 4 years was leadership turnover. In the last 4 years, I've had 4 managers. No one every really lasted more than a year. My most recent manager quit to start a stealth startup around the time I switched teams. He's a great person and a great manager, but he's on to bigger and better things. I've only been on my new team for a few months and my new team is great, but I think you final sentence is really where my sentiment is right now.
I think you first visit the website, then you inject an iframe onto the page you're currently on, and then inside that iframe you can scrape any content on that website.

That's at least what it looked like from his examples.
What's the pattern? People enter "public service" and then become rich or their lifestyle inflates to imply that?

At least in the US we can easily find out this information and vote on it.
I wonder what their ratio of ingress to egress bandwidth is. I would assume most people write more than they read from the service or does Dropbox actively push any changes to all devices?
The government mostly funds basic research, but then there is a lot of work to turn promising leads into products. Googling a bit, in 2017 the pharma companies spent $70 billion on research while the NIH spent $38 billion.
The irony is that the iframe approach is exactly how the first version of Selenium worked. It's a cool hack, but we abandoned that approach over time because automating iframes couldn't cover all automation use cases.
I have an embedded project with an RTOS for things you would do with coroutines, CBOR and JSON handling. I would not appreciate a garbage collector when it came time to debug a dumb pointer or overflow error.

Doing it in C obviously. I can’t really consider Go embedded because I’m maxing the chip out now in C without including a Go VM or whatever you call it.

This isn’t all as rare as you might think.
People who own or travel on boats are rich and the people most affected by the pollution they spew are not
August 10 is actually the middle of summer oO

EDIT: you are all lying, if christmas movies have taught me anything it is snowing everywhere in the world in december.
This isn't quite true. The working conditions tend to be less stressful usually, because by law you cannot be required to work overtime without being paid for it. Every hour you work as a defense contractor must be billable to a government contract, and you must get paid for it. You're also not allowed to work overtime unless the customer agrees to it, which they typically only do if there's a schedule crunch.

You're correct about inflexible working arrangements though. WFH isn't very common, and work locations tend to not be in desirable geographic locations.

The pay is generally good, certainly much better than working for the government (though without the job security), though it's probably not going to beat a top salary at a FAANG company by a long shot. But how many other jobs do? There seems to be a trend here on HN to assume that the very top-paid positions at FAANG companies are utterly average for the tech industry, and they're just not.

Overall, defense contracting is fairly lucrative to people who can obtain and keep a security clearance and aren't completely incompetent, and want a job that doesn't have crazy overtime and lets them have a normal family life. But it definitely won't attract the very top-most talented people, because those people can go to work at FAANG companies for a lot more money.
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Chatty maps: constructing sound maps of urban areas from social media data
Add in the ships carrying containers (of goods) and the amount of pollution is massive. It's ironic that we we're able to cooperate to make the global market work, but we can't address the unintended consequences of all that transporting.
Yeah, I've been happy with my SoloKey, but OnlyKey's integration with a software password manager + OpenPGP + SSH keys is really enticing. I'm on the same boat as a lot of others here, however, that the lack of open hardware is a deal breaker.
I think the basic utility is that you keep your parent-frame JavaScript context.

Normally if you click a link with jQuery, you lose the current context after the next page loads.

By controlling it inside an iframe it's more convenient
That's a great idea and also a potentially viable possibility.
Magnet ingestions surge as rules relax
Oh I know that. I've been reducing my insurance as my financial position has improved. I think almost nobody on this forum would buy insurance on low value items, as the math and straightforward probabilities explain themselves.

But there are many people who don't understand the math or theory of insurance. And those people often have less overall education and earning potential. And those people are getting swindled hard.
Here in Canada there is some debate over sofosbuvir and velpatasvir their cost. A person may be cured of hepatitis C in just a few months. That would be fantastic for them since done soon enough may prevent liver fibrosis. And really for the tax payers here in socialized medical land it saves money by not treating infected people for decades.
Algorithms judge us; how can we judge them?