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> they gave Windows 10 upgrades to Windows 7 users.

And they still do, even though the upgrade period has official lapsed. I strongly doubt Microsoft will buckle to the type of these arguments being made by FSF. The list of demands read like they were written by a neurotic significant other.

That being said...

I really do hope Microsoft open sources Windows some day, but the problem is that the users that will enjoy the most freedom on day 1 would be black hats. Windows consists of MLOC that has never been publicly audited and it takes far longer to identify and install patches than it does to exploit a vulnerability.

If a logical argument that addresses the risks, as well the benefits that Microsoft would see, I am sure that Microsoft would at least enter into dialog about this. Even though RMS (and by association FSF) are fundamentally correct, I have yet to see coherent and reasonable communication originating from them in the Microsoft and FOSS discussion.
Event driven concurrency is not really easier than threads with primitive blocking synchronisation. Races are still possible, instead of deadlocks you can have livelocks, resource control and backpressure are non-trivial etc.
I have. I am from one of those countries. After WW2 we were occupied by the Soviets as well. My grandfather spent a significant chunk of his life in gulags. You can't lay all of the blame of a country on the government alone, because the government doesn't work without the people. It doesn't matter whether you're dealing with a democracy or autocracy. Bombs don't build themselves. Armies don't feed themselves. Deportations don't happen because an official wills it. Somebody has to execute the orders.

I am not saying that the government and the people are entirely the same, but I am saying that you can't just divorce them from one another.
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Thank-you for your work. Bits like this will help make the PinePhone be a fine phone.
The context of this thread is chicken, but thanks for noting that. But the point stands -- estimated infections cannot be compared with reported cases.

If you can find actual reported cases in the US from all sources, that would be great to compare -- otherwise we shouldn't make the comparison at all.
Leaks don't generally count as open-source due to their unreliable license from the Jolly Roger Foundation. Such licenses for NeW WiNdOwS generally attract the robust negotiation skills of various incentivized individuals wearing suits that cost more than most people's first cars.

Again, licensing is too important to Microsoft, let alone every other reason, eg copyright/trademarks. They'd hunt you down then Cease & Desist your business / identity back to the foolish-ideas stage or worse.
Can you link me to a study that doesn't have a motivated reason for proving something behind it?
Makes you wonder why Facebook needs that data? To link who comes home to FB location and people's profiles? I'm sure they pay them for this but then you read what happened after the NSA leak in recent times where the NSA had put intentional backdoors in with companies
I'm a young, vegetarian person who is working on going vegan - and making good progress.

If you do a cursory search of vegan material, or only pay attention to stuff that pops up on your Facebook/Reddit/HackerNews/Twitter feed, you'll definitely get a lot of "meat = bad"-type material. However, if you put in a little more effort there's a lot of good material available - from recipes, to nutrition advice, to guides on what products are vegan/are not.

Hint: I've found appending the term "vegan" to my Google searches for recipes tends to work quite well and yield healthy, reasonable, scalable meals. By putting in the work, I've gotten a bunch of YouTube channels, saved recipes I like, and nutrition advice.
Atleast I got dlc refunded. I had to make manual refund ticket, automatic one was rejected because I had few hundred hours of game time.
So the thing you need to know is there's 2 categories of soft contacts that are currently on the market. Hydrogels and Silicone Hydrogels (SiHy). The latter are newer and have become much more common as they are in theory healthier for the eye (they allow more oxygen to pass through). There's some drawbacks though in that the material isn't inherently wettable because silicone is hydrophobic by nature. This means it's a bit more complex to formulate a material and there's some quirks to it, notably it's usually stiffer. This might affect how solutions interact with the surface.

Corneal staining is basically scratching of the outer part of your eye. It is usually asymptomatic but can result in a burning sensation. It was found that the surface of SiHy is affected by what material is used to clean them. This link includes some research and plenty of linked studies: https://contactlensupdate.com/2013/08/14/what-do-we-know-abo... I had a better link that compared various products on the market but I'm unable to find it as this time.
Eggs are a funny one, as the regulation is very different between US and EU.

In the US all commercial eggs must be washed, which destroys the cuticle and is why eggs are stored in a fridge to keep fresh. In the EU commercial eggs cannot be washed, and are typically stored outside the fridge (and vaccinated against salmonella, iirc).

There is a lot of contention about the effect on bacterial culturing, but research I've seen suggests it's a bit of a wash (e.g. 10.1371/journal.pone.0090987)
Stocks did increase quite a lot, as it generally tends to do over the course of the business cycle. Although, it generally was tracking actual profits up until recently (when the Fed was drawing down their balance sheet). It was tethered to real profits during the QE periods.
> And ipads now have full usb host support

And iPhones too, I just used iPhone with USB powered hub, USB mic and USB DAC for headphones, worked great :)
I think mushrooms can open us up to truths that we don't always want to confront and sometimes it allows us to cry and make peace with our existence.

When I grew mushrooms in college, I'd take massive doses of fresh mushrooms simply because I was flush with these amazing fungi.

So I took a massive dose of fresh mushrooms, which I think is a better way to go if you can make it happen, something like over 50g wet. As it sets in, I looked up at the night sky and a drop of water precipitated with all the moments of my life reflected inside it. It was as if I was a single drop from a large ocean. In some ways it was sad, this teardrop would pass someday and return to the ocean. I know it's okay, and I want to say that it's been a lot of fun spending time with everyone.

The experience reminds me of Blade Runner when the replicant confronts his own death.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
Your email isn't revealed to the site, so it's privacy from the site you are signing into. Although I'm sure they are still requesting basic info like name and potentially age.
I'm not exactly sure if events are easier to debug. I use tornado (event-based Python webserver library) extensively at work - when something goes wrong you don't get a nice stack trace, you get some random sampling of callback spaghetti. Also the default state of matters is that everything is serialized in a single thread and everything waits for their predecessor, even when they are totally unrelated, though that probably tells more about the particular framework than event-based programming in general.

I'd rather use a real multithread-based framework, honestly, though I concede that it also opens up different ways of making developers' lives miserable.
I don't think I've ever seen it. I have, however, seen Apple Pay on the web a few times (and in apps many more times), and that has been a great experience.
They don't call it OAuth/OpenID, but they're using the same terminology and API:

https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/06/04/what-the-heck-is-...
Nitpick, but what made AFL much more successful than other fuzzers is that it's not collecting coverage of basic blocks, but a (quantized and bloom-ish filtered) count of basic block transitions from block X to block Y.
It's not so simple but also not an obscene amount of effort. Even with a Micro framework the first iteration should be there after a week or two. Probably most effort is 2FA and the whole E-Mail sending, verification etc. Especially testing this :/

Reliable implementations for hash functions are available for literally any language that is used in production. They take care of all the problematic parts. (In fact nobody should write this by himself or herself)

I'm sure as a custom implementer it's still possible to accidentally sneak in something time-dependent (still difficult to exploit, with smart rate limiting in place, I would say forget it) or a null/whitespace bug (easy to exploit but might require custom tooling). But that's just a matter of testing and having a 2nd pair of eyes look over it.

How do you know an off-the-shelve solution doesn't have the same problems or different ones? With a limited time/money budget auditing someone else's code is far more effort than doing the same thing with the own code.
Two green wave examples I value in San Francisco:

1) the Valencia bike commute green wave (named as such with posted speed)

When it's broken for some reason it's very noticeable and unfortunate.

2) the various coordinated designated auto throughways which make up for the lack of in-city access freeways

Except when you're going against the direction, like when my wife was in labor. :|
> The hope is that these steps accumulate into something meaningful. A virtuous upward spiral.

Or, if let's say the other side isn't working in good faith, they could then hold it up as "proof" they have done their part and ride that "effort" for another 30-40 years.
> that performing minor activities

Can I assume you are also opposed to straw and plastic bag bans? Unlike tree planting which at least does something, those bans are almost entirely worthless.
Java is indeed a simpler language, much simpler. Unfortunately, my experience with Java is it is too simple - I had to write way too much boilerplate over and over.
Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
This is a genuinely hard problem between jurisdictions, because reporting tends to be done in terms of statistics only, with differing (and often unreported) data methods, etc.
> or Valve is letting their code atrophy

There haven't been many good reasons to release a 32-bit only macOS app for some time. If Valve is at fault, it's that they didn't require publishers to submit 64-bit builds for macOS years ago.
Having never worked on a large closed-source software project could you elaborate any on what libraries are used? What sort of functionality are they implementing with them? I've been in software development for 20+ years and I'm not sure if I could come up with one company that licenses out software libraries (adobe maybe?).
A Picardy third can be heard at the end of Avengers Infinity War as Thanos watches the sun rise on a grateful universe.
Affinity runs on Windows. I have Photo and Designer.
I did read what you wrote but your position was somewhat unclear. Your first several paragraphs seemed to conflict with your final statement.
If you want to spend a bit of money, there are several legal mushroom retreats in Mexico. And probably elsewhere in South America.
Supposedly our pasteurization standards are absurdly high as well, so very likely we don't know what real cheese tastes like either
Atari to Open Hotels Across the US, Will Feature Immersive AR/VR Experiences
Thanks for committing time and communicating clearly. Short of getting paid, it sounds like you're respecting candidates, so that's something! :)
Are they medically allowed anywhere?
Apple continues to not give any care whatsoever to anything outside their walled garden. For the longest time you couldn't even preview songs on iTunes store without having iTunes. Want to watch their biggest WWDC live? Had to use Safari until last year. Obviously iMessage and FaceTime are complete no-gos outside their walled garden too.

This is how they keep people in. They have to close down their walls as tightly as possible, to force people in. And once you're in, they make it as hard as possible to leave.
Ohhh, that Anna Delvey!
I remember her from this long form article, well worth anyone's time:
https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-y...
In absolutely no way is this the case. The iPads screen will always be a toy compared to proper AKAI pads. It’s not even velocity-sensitive.
If you remember, please email me or contact me on Twitter when it comes out! I'd love to check it out. And I'll definitely pass it along to the Prevayler community, who I'm sure will be tickled.
Submitted title was Show HN: HN Theater – “Simple Made Easy” Is Most Popular Video of Hacker News

We changed the URL from https://yahnd.com/theater/r/infoq/presentations/simple-made-... so the discussion will be about this project rather than a specific video.
I don't cook meat without chemically washing it either. I was raised on washing meats with vinegar and sour orange and don't compromise on it at all. Chemically washed is quite the spin considering US rates on food poisoning are probably quite low.
Interesting... actually, that is actually fairly compelling evidence that it can be done. Thanks!

For anyone interested, citation is here:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/read...
...meat... in vinegar, bleh...

Do you really not like chicken adobo? You are the first [non-vegetarian] person I've ever encountered for whom this is the case.
What about Balena? How are you different or the same?
So what you are saying, is that criticizing them for any progress is more effective?
I don't think I've seen it either. What I have seen are requests for my App Store password on occasion when I launch, say, Google Maps. It's infuriating because when I'm out in the world, I don't have access to my passwords and I don't remember them.

It's a sign in to Apple, if not a sign in with Apple, and it's weird because what I'm trying to use is Google's Maps application without signing into anything. What is going on with all of this?
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nope, I'll publish rex-robot repo asap ;)
If SteamOS is dead, why are they hiring engineers for it?

https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/jobs?job_id=36
There are ~230,000 Persian Jews in Israel, ~70,000 in the US, and under 10,000 left in Iran. As a non-Persian Jew who grew up with lots of Persian Jews, I can tell you that 300,000 left for a reason.
wanted the app to have the same options across platforms

I guess this is the part I don't understand. How did you plan to test across platforms if you don't have an iOS device with which to test?
If they provide a sufficiently good sdk, I'm not clear on what the issue is justification-wise, beyond the justification necessary for any mandatory inclusions they already have.

Why does a standard matter for justifying mandatory inclusion of ... anything? Most of their mandates probably lack any kind of standardization.
Hype, pipe dreams, hokum... I am wondering at what point do these stories become fraud ? Telling stories about your technology that are not true to gain a financial advantage.
Hey folks, I'm on the NuGet team and I noticed this thread this morning. This is the first I've heard of Application Inspector (Microsoft is a big place!) but the tool looks awesome and the output is easy to understand for a variety of experience levels. The idea of integrating with NuGet sounds very promising! Caveats need to be investigated, i.e. my guess is the report is not exhaustive since code could perhaps call scary APIs in esoteric ways but perhaps there is value even if it covers just MOST of the cases.

I've tracked a feature request on GitHub here attempting to represent what was suggested here:

https://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery/issues/7824

Add additional comments if you have thoughts on how it should work or anything else. Our backlog is pretty full right now but we'll update this GitHub issue if there is movement.
Also last I checked, if it works on Ubuntu, someone usually will make it work on other distros of roughly the same generation, often within a week. If the core is available, the linux gaming community is quite amazing.
In the UK most building have a "porter" so most deliveries go straight to him/her, he/she signs and then drops off the packages INTO the flats (yes some keep keys of all flats). In the USA you have something similar, building manager(?).
That's true, but at least you can handle backpressure at the runtime level and just choose a predetermined strategy for dealing with it (i.e. start dropping messages, exponential backoff, etc)
I agree it is a bubble and believe once the cheap easy money ends, all the money chasing yields will be sucked out of stocks.

I think HN shares some skepticism, but in general isn't quite as right leaning as ZH seems to be. I enjoy reading both for viewpoints along the entire political spectrum.
>The ocean is acidifying because it's absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which lowers pH levels in the water.

Doesn't matter how sustainable the fishing practices are, or how well they manage the populations, if the water quality won't support a population to begin with.
Windows on Linux is completely possible. But... not yet.
> but seeding illegal content

the content isn't illegal, the act of copying it might be
Critical assessment of social bot influence on elections
They are about as sentient as the salad when this washing we are talking about occurs. (I really hope I understood it correctly that this happens after they have been killed)
I feel like the problem is that it isn't a huge market opportunity (at least by Apple scale).

Checking out these graphs about Apple's revenues, apparently Mac revenues are pretty flat, while iPhone revenues continue to skyrocket (currently 5X Mac revenues!): https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/01/fun-with-charts-a-decade-...

So sure, a hobbyist-approved Mac desktop would please you and me and plenty of other geeks, but they'd also cannibalize their Mac Pro sales somewhat, and when it's all said and done, their Mac revenues would still probably be in the same ballpark. So, why do that when they can pour effort into new phones or TV services or AirPods or whatever?

The thing that worries me is that the hobbyist/geek is often the one who turns lots of others onto a technology. I'm probably where I am right now because my geek uncle passed down his used Mac to me and showed me Hypercard. And I'm pretty sure there are people who own Macs today that wouldn't if it not for me. I think appeasing the geeks is worth more than the direct profit or revenue that such a model would bring in, but in ways that aren't as immediately evident on the quarterly report.
Seeing that the only way that Microsoft makes money on Office for iPad is by selling O365 subscriptions -- same as Adobe with Creative Cloud -- having access anywhere is the value add.
In enterprise it's might makes right.
“. . . the level of launching satellites.”

Not with all the easily accessible hydrocarbons gone it won’t.
The wikipedia article linked above is something everyone should know and not forget about Iran and US.

US gov contributed to destabilizing the country because they wanted to keep a tight grip on oil.

This is how Iran looked in the 50s, before the coup: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=iran+in+the+50s&atb=v164-1&iax=ima...
Don't investors ever ask to meet the team first? Seems like a fair ask if one is to invest.
One downside of mailto links, which my dev impresses upon me because he is in this situation, is that not everyone has a designated email client on their computer, and mailto links only work in this context.

However, given how much mobile-based traffic we get, this hasn't been much of an issue for us. Mobile devices always have a designated email client, so this pretty much never comes up.
Hopefully you can find a standard contract template online that you can use without having to pay much, if anything. A contract would have had a specific date the result was expected, and if the candidate breached that, it would have clearly been their fault and you wouldn't have had to pay anything.
They are less multiplatform than you would like, though. MacOS is stuck on an old version of OpenGL with no chance of updating since they deprecated it, and it has no Vulkan support (ignoring translation layers like the one Rocket League used, of course). On Windows, Vulkan is a second-class citizen that isn't always available.

And beyond that, there's the age-old problem of driver quality- for a given platform, using the native API tends to hit fewer bugs, perform better, and support more features. This has been true for years with Direct3D vs OpenGL on Windows, for example- browsers on Windows all wrap Direct3D to implement WebGL.
I live in a city where the traffic engineers are too stupid the understand the value of this...about 50% of the time I get a green light, only to immediately see the next light go red about 100 meters away. It's infuriating.
Can you email hn@ycombinator.com so we can send you an invite to post that? Invited posts go into in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380).
Honestly, a lot of times when I'm doing quick designs, I just open the font page with all the images and just visually pick any that looks best. Definitely needed some sort of legal pass before release.
a $0 rock thrown from a highway bridge can probably fool Tesla's Autopilot as well (and humans).
FWIW, tried to play Borderland 3 this week with a friend and he couldn't get it to connect, at all. Booted into Windows, worked fine (I was on Windows).

So yeah, the store works - but that doesn't mean the "Linux games" work, or work fully, with network.
I'm actually British, and live in Kent. And I agree, Hersheys chocolate tastes like sick. And FWIW I keep chickens and geese for eggs.

On the face of it "chlorinated chicken" sounds unappealing, but I've been to America multiple times over the years, eaten all sorts of food (including chicken) and never noticed any difference or ill effects.

Like most people here, I get to choose what food I eat. I could eat organic, ethically sourced meat every day if I chose to. However, if chlorinated chicken let's people on a lower income eat better than before, I'm all for it.
Good luck with that. I had someone literally impersonating me with a fake account, and directly trying to get me fired from my job by sending my boss's friends messages. My supposed friends at Facebook were apathetic to it and wouldn't even refer me to someone who could help. My opinion of the whole company took a nosedive after that.