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> Right now there's offshore oil exploration taking place in the Falklands - you could see tons of equipment near Stanley. If that comes back lucrative, I'd expect the dispute to heat up accordingly.

I don't think it's a co-incidence given that they think there is vast oil reserves around the Falklands that within a few years the UK will have two of the most powerful aircraft carriers in the world (outside of the US carriers) or that our Type-45 was designed to engage dozens of simultaneous air threats, the argentine military isn't even the threat it was in the early 80's, a British carrier battle group carrying F35's with MBDA Meteors (which are a more advanced but similar missile to American AMRAAMS with a variant having a 200 mile range) with a support group of Type-45's and nuclear subs would make it the most one sided naval battle since The Battle of the Nile in 1798.

Any in-bound Argentine planes would be dead before they got within 300 miles of the Falklands from the F35's not to mention the Type 45's which is acknowledged as the most advanced air defense destroyer in the world at the moment.

I lament that we spend so damn much on the things but within 5-10 years we'll have the 2nd most powerful blue water navy in the World (the question then is do we need that really...)

Throw in that the British government has very effectively used political pressure to block all sales of modern aircraft to the Argentine government they'd be flying an obsolete 40 year old fighter against a state of the art 5th generation fighter, it wouldn't even be a war it'd be a damn blood bath, they can't even afford to run the planes they have now, those planes are a mix of 60's era French Mirages and upgraded vietnam era A4 Skyhawks.
Do Nim macros enforce reversibility? If not, they're no better than C++ ones in this regard.

Everything I read about Nim has the whiff of propaganda; tell me what it does better rather than just telling me it's good.
it is asking you for your phone number because it is a message they broadcastet through telegram.

That said, here's the text:

We were able to identify and block these public ISIS channels thanks to your reports. Thank you!
Here's an explanation of the blocking process from our FAQ:

All Telegram chats and group chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process any requests related to them. But sticker sets, channels, and bots on Telegram are publicly available. If you find sticker sets or bots on Telegram that you think are illegal, please ping us at abuse@telegram.org.

Our mission is to provide a secure means of communication that works everywhere on the planet. In order to do that in the places where it is most needed (and to continue distributing Telegram through the App Store and Google Play), we have to process legitimate requests to take down illegal public content (sticker sets, bots, and channels) within the app. For example, we can take down sticker sets that violate intellectual property rights or porn bots in countries where pornography is illegal.

User-uploaded stickers sets, channels, and bots by third-party developers are not part of the core Telegram UI. Whenever we receive a complaint at abuse@telegram.org regarding the legality of public content, we perform the necessary legal checks and take it down when deemed appropriate.

Please note that this does not apply to local restrictions on freedom of speech. For example, if criticizing the government is illegal in a country, Telegram won‘t be a part of such politically motivated censorship. This goes against our founders’ principles. While we do block terrorist (e.g. ISIS-related) bots and channels, we will not block anybody who peacefully expresses alternative opinions.

FAQ link: https://telegram.org/faq#q-there-39s-illegal-content-on-tele...
So, my after-work project these days is a language that transpiles to C++ and can do all that current C++ can do.

The grammar is completely regular, and the syntax maps 1:1 with the ast in memory, I can generate one from the other idempotently.

The main reason I am doing this is that I wanted a language that is easy to build tooling for (including of course code transformations) while being compatible with existing C++ libraries out there.

This kind of articles give me hope there might actually be demand for my crazy thing once it grows up.
If you're applying to YC backed start-up or to YC itself your HN username will have some weight, outside of that I would not bother.
Reuters cites no sources for the "little or no value." It could be made up from whole cloth. "Some people say" isn't journalism.

Starboard's own analysts assign a value around $2 billion.
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What is so hard about using processors with clock speeds measured in megahertz and not kilohertz nowadays?

What's funny (maybe not ha-ha funny, but anyway) is that the provided equipment is usually energy in-efficient as well. Even while "off".

I'm not paying for cable now, and don't plan to in the future either. There's too much crap I don't want to watch, and I don't want to be stuck with their idea of a DVR either. And its too expensive.
How can governments provide security without endangering law-abiding citizens?
> We want to keep doing those things.

Speak for yourself. I'm an American citizen and I don't want to start economic wars, support violent dictators, create economic sanctions that harm the common people and not the national leaders they purport to, provide conditional and earmarked aid that is sometimes actually harmful, and a wide variety of other internationally sociopathic behaviors. I think most people would agree if they actually understood that that's what's happening. But most people think we're spreading peace and freedom and protecting human rights.
It seems unlikely that they'll be able to transfer money for free indefinitely. Their competitors hold on to balances for a reason: it's the only way to build a sustainable business on top of free money transfers.
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Look at Thailand, a land with many masters over the millennia, India, china, British, Japan. Yet there is only a certain faction involved in terrorism there, their society at large doesn't feel the need to engage in antiwestern terrorism.
It's not every day you can "BA" an upstanding public figure :-)

Guess it helps if your parents are the alien equivalents of say a "Tesla" (quirky scientist/inventor) and (a big black widow version of) a "Doolittle" (general promoting modern warfare tactics).
Why do young people join terrorist factions?
How much of the stock is publicly available?
What is the corporate structure, i.e. is this a one share, one vote set up?
TL;DR

>For a CMTS port to enter the Near Congestion State, traffic flowing to or from that CMTS port must exceed a specified level (the "Port Utilization Threshold") for a specific period of time (the "Port Utilization Duration").

>Given our experience as described above, we determined that a starting point for the upstream Port Utilization Threshold should be 70 percent and the downstream Port Utilization Threshold should be 80 percent. For the Port Utilization Duration, we determined that the starting point should be approximately 15 minutes

>Thus, over any 15-minute period, if an average of more than 70 percent of a port's upstream bandwidth capacity or more than 80 percent of a port's downstream bandwidth capacity is utilized, that port is determined to be in a Near Congestion State.

>For a user to enter an Extended High Consumption State, he or she must consume greater than a certain percentage of his or her provisioned upstream or downstream bandwidth(the "User Consumption Threshold") for a specific length of time (the "User Consumption Duration").

>we have determined that the appropriate starting point for the User Consumption Threshold is 70 percent of a subscriber's provisioned upstream or downstream bandwidth, and that the appropriate starting point for the User Consumption Duration is 15 minutes

> A user's traffic is released from a BE state when the user's bandwidth consumption drops below 50 percent of his or her provisioned upstream or downstream bandwidth for a period of approximately 15 minutes.
There will always be crazies, but crazies like Qutb would likely not have as many supporters if they didn't have a wide base of people with real reasons to dislike the US to draw from.
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American employers like H-1B because of employment-at-will. The author mentions that companies will open remote offices in other countries if the H-1B program is severely curtailed.

Most other countries in the world do not have employment-at-will laws. Instead, they use the "just cause" method which increases the burden on the employer to fire for non-performance.

Labour flexibility is a big component of company profitability. Employment at will coupled with the threat of dismissal and forced return of the employee to their home country is powerful, even though it is morally wrong.

If anything we need to get rid of employment-at-will in America and replace it with "just cause" like the rest of the world.
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Agreed, it runs on my site, but without adoption it'll never be adopted.. :(
Given the interest here, I feel like we should talk about transit more often on HN
As everyone has so aptly explained, it probably will work. But it is certainly not obvious that it works and should probably be avoided (unless you are a 'wizened sorcerer').
And Bush said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So what?

ISIS kills believers of Allah in Syria and other places because it's trying to solidify it's power as a government.
Surely informing you that you were wrong should be sufficient to prompt you to look up what I was actually referring to. It would take all of 4 seconds. If you're not going to do even that little, rudely stop replying.
The chip and pin cards have been in use outside the US for a fairly long time now, NFC ones for several years too, Square won't be able to match the economies of scale of the standard systems if they need their own reader hardware.
> throw a beefy server at the list of transactions, and since you know how much money arrived in someone's possession on a given date, you can now trace it backwards by crunching the numbers.

I hope you realize that you haven't actually described a process for tracing Bitcoin transactions. You can't just take an arbitrary problem, say "throw a computer at it", and consider it solved.

I don't mean to be abrasive, but you are clearly ignorant of the state of affairs of Bitcoin anonymity systems. Look up coinjoin, for starters. When you have highly-connected (in the graph sense), properly conducted mixing systems, you can't just "trace the transactions".
The 65816 is an interesting beast. I used to have a prototype version of this chip somewhere, though after the nth move I have no idea which of the many crates it lives in or if I may have accidentally thrown it out (I seem to have misplaced my heirlooms as well :( ).

The reason why this is an interesting chip is because if offers a window on what an 'alternate universe' might have looked like if Motorola and Intel had had a third viable contender when the CPU wars were still in their infancy. Unfortunately the chip never found itself in a machine that was spread out widely enough and with powerful enough hardware that its potential could be seen. And that's a pity because it had some pretty nifty features, the processor that it is easiest to compare to was the 80286.
The typical security concerns with rail networks don't really apply to aviation: it's much, much harder to stop a plane in flight (esp. at cruising altitude) than it is to stop a train.
Your aggression towards and stereotyping people of religion is speaking enough.
Yet, you need money from the beginning, so you are now back to issuing more bonds, and perhaps, raising capitals with venture investors. This is basically the model of the 19, 20th century railroad race. Of course the government wasn't directly building the railroad, but they were the one who gave the lands and even troops to open up the new frontiers.
It seems that often the signalling system and the real time location reporting system aren't integrated. In NYC on many lines you get reports like 'there's a Brooklyn-bound train 2 stops away' that they make over the loud-speakers. Makes me wonder whether they have a separate device that just picks up when trains pass by a track segment, rather than using the information available via the signalling.
Why is "telegram" and "encryption" ever mentioned together, except to say "telegram uses a phony imitation of encryption" ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940665
Without zmodem... I wouldn't have downloaded the huge number of floppies required to install SLS Linux back in the early 90s. The download took forever. I can't imagine how long/hard it would have been without it! Instrumental in my getting into Linux!

Sad news :/
> Why would she not plead her case behind her locked door? Pass her ID under the door first, explain the situation, and THEN come out?

Read the article. She explains why in the article.

She was focused on a gun pointed at her and didn't know who it was because they did not announce themselves. This is a result of a well-documented byproduct of human behavior in life-or-death situations, specifically tunnel vision and auditory exclusion.

And side from that, doors don't stop bullets. She could've have been viewed as resisting or argumentative. Talk to any LEO and all they want you to do in such situations is comply with their commands.
>IoT looks like more of a hype than anything else

You have to distinguish between the wearables/smart home stuff and industrial IoT that has a real impact on cost saving and efficiency. Much of the former is idiotic. The latter is a huge market even if a lot of the details are still being worked out.
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Yes, when I wrote custom page tracking software for a custom forum I wrote and hosted, I was parsing out User-Agent information and would actually notice malware browser add-ons, and I'd gently post a notice at the top of my web page alerting them that they might want to run some malware scans. Security vs. privacy right there. That was a long time ago, and I don't track anything any more, but it was an interesting experiment.
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HN is very well known to a subset of the high-tech community, not necessarily limited to the SF Bay Area by any means, but probably concentrated there. It is less well known outside of that region, and generally unheard of outside the tech industry.

I would not expect an HN username to do much good on a resume unless, as JM suggests, you are applying to a YC-backed company.

On the flipside, the kind of company that considers your HN username a compelling data point on your resume is probably a fun company to work for. :)
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>BMI is such a stupid, useless metric.

Yes, but it makes it trivial to get a good p-value, so people use it. The state of nutritional epidemiology is abysmal, and has been for much longer than that of social psych.

The thing is, we have better measures than BMI, many of which are dead simple (e.g. % body fat as measured by calipers, or waist measurement). I also wish nutritional epidemiologists would stop using linear models all the time -- it's well known that mortality curves are U-shaped, as excessively thin people have high rates of all-cause mortality.

Returning to your original point, I'm 6'3" and 220 lbs. I have 12% body fat. Somehow this makes me fat, according to BMI.
A homeopathic nuke. Clearly.
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Hi Sebastian, we are currently using N.Virginia in Akdemia. Would love to be a beta user once you deploy over there. I'l spread the word to see who is on eu-central-1.

Best,
Juan
To me, unless you are reasonably well known, with significant available funds or investor backing then staying stealth is the same as just never starting. Stealth = death for a little or unknown team or founder.

That isn't saying you aren't capable or your idea isn't good, but go with the numbers and don't try to be stealth.

From personal experience, it is generally hard to get people to listen to you about your startup initially. So what you learn is generally you are doing it right when you talk to every person that will give you 30 seconds. That is how you revise your pitch, revise your positioning etc. If you aren't saying it enough then you will fail.

Worse yet, the failure of a "stealth" startup is usually slow because you get focused on product first, client second which is not usually how you will make a software startup successful. You also won't have gotten enough feedback to keep you from spending money in the wrong places, and you won't have enough traction to really convince people you are doing something worth paying attention to.

The couple startups I can think of that were stealth and are doing good now both had reasonably well known founders, significant monetary resources and in at least 1 case had already landed large enterprise clients they were working with before they even started writing code. So they were stealth only in that they were not making announcements or doing the common startup marketing things we all have come to expect. But they weren't stealth in that people knew basically what problems they were trying to solve, and knew they already had clients.

An advisor told me once not to worry about the guy trying to steal your idea, just keep inventing and working harder as someone will always "borrow" your idea or come out with a competing product etc. And competition in the end is good for you if you keep executing. Executing well solves almost all problems.
I've been eagerly keeping a close eye on .Net Core. Congratulations to the teams that have been working on this! It's long overdue and I can assure you many others are keenly interested in this.

For myself, mainly because as primarily a Python programmer I've been looking for where to move next with the 2/3 split. I've migrated completely to PyPy4 (which is Python2.7) rather than port/test to CPython3 in the last few years. It was worth the migration and testing that was involved.

I'm waiting to see if PyPy will announce they are the flag bearers for Python2. If so, I'll most likely continue using it going forward.

On the other hand we use .Net and Python at work so while most people would not agree or find .Net Core to be a bit pointless, for me it means I can move my projects and small business to run on my underpowered VPS, utilizing the same well-supported tech stack that many enterprises use.

Keeping my head in C# is a good advantage as I'm also interested in Xamarin and Unity (both professionally and personally). Of course, I'm one who does not have any particular grudge against Microsoft. I do prefer POSIX based systems.
For my home business and hobby tech stack I'm currently looking at 1) PyPy4, 2) .NetCore 3) CPython3. While I'm currently running everything on PyPy4, there's a smaller gap between 1 and 2, and a big liklihood of adoption gap between 2 and 3.
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It's time for sites to always use HTTPS.
Only two truly new (new mechanism of action) antibiotics have been developed in the last 30-40 years. A number of new antibiotics were approved in the 80's and 90's, but I wouldn't say people thought we had won the war.

The really challenging thing with antibiotics (as a reply below notes) is that if you create a great new antibiotic, nobody will use it unless they have to.

There is resistance out there, but for most infections, the 40+ year old antibiotics work just fine. It's not like almost every other disease where the best drug gets used first line.

Unless the financial incentives are fixed, it's unlikely there will be enough incentive to do the R&D to create new antibiotics.
I agree with you. I can't imagine anyone sacrificing their child so antibiotics would still work. I'd murder the universe to keep my family safe.
I agree that you've identified a problem. I don't agree that it's a technical problem. It seems to me that technology simply doesn't offer any solutions to this kind of problem. Perhaps that's a failure of imagination on my part, though: what are some areas of research you think might cause law enforcement to start responding to credible threats?
I wonder if Western sources discrediting it doesn't actually just lend credence to it. From Daesh's POV it's like "Hah! Nice propaganda attempt America! But we know the true power of Red Mercury!"
Yes, emails are currently required on almost every site. I draw this line because BrowserID/Persona (and similar efforts) are quite special - we jump from the pages to browser's chrome, making user-agent actually handle authentication.

I think that the first major standard to come - that'd be embedded in the browser - could change this game rules, because it must be (well - I don't know, I just think it is) a big thing. Even users who don't care would've bought secure yet seamless authentication, neat identity management and so on. But not something after this, because the momentum would be lost and there won't be enough incentive to switch.

So, the first standard must have something sensible as credential, or - I fear - it will be a long time before we can hope for any changes. Maybe I'm wrong here.
You want NSA to undermine CIA/state department?
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I'd expect anyone experienced with C would say that making such casual, deliberate use of the underflow for such a trivial purpose is pretty foolish, the mark of a developer too clever for his own good. I thought the author was perhaps suggesting this with sarcasm: "Wizened sourcerers" and "full clever." But maybe not.

C's variable promotion system is invisible and silent and in my experience a frequent source of bugs in exactly this case (tests in for loops), which is why there's enough meat here for a blog post. It's usually easy to avoid the promotion issue by using the same type for the loop variable and its test condition. In cases like this, sometimes it's better to just use a straightforward and obvious while() loop instead of a correct but tortured for() loop. That makes the relationship between the loop variable updates and the loop body controllable and explicit.
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> The irrational bit of that whole argument to me is that they are effectively trying to keep 'the lights on' when their customers can no longer use overstock anyway.

Actually, it makes some sense (ignoring any irrationality in the fear itself): if its a fairly short-term problem that seems recoverable, you preserve your staff relations, and are ahead of competitors who either collapsed or wound down and now have to wind back up.

If its a longer-term problem, you have a hoard of valuables, a body of workers you can pay with those valuables, and you can pivot to a new business model. The initial set of workers may not be ideal for whatever that new model is ("warlords of Utah"?), but, again, you start out ahead of those that haven't prepared, and have some cushion to manage a transition.
Did you even read the article? It talks about the legend of "red mercury", a magical substance that is more powerful than a neutron bomb, and various groups (including daesh) misguided attempts to procure this non-existent substance.

It's a really fascinating look at how people continue to believe in myth.
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I was going to ask the same question. This seems like a valid reasoning for why. Facebook seems to have rebounded from that event pretty well with its stock price over $100 right now.