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> When Greece was trying to sort out its default, it outsourced tax collection to its utility companies as part of the bailout.

Not exactly.

The Greek government wanted to collect a new extra property tax, and needed to collect it as fast as possible (instead of waiting for about a year for the normal tax collection).

So, the payment of the tax was set to be paid temporarily through the electricity bill. The electricity bill is used anyway to collect 1) council tax and 2) compulsory TV licence, and is still used to pay these two.

Now, that extra property tax is paid in the traditional way through the tax office.
For those who like webgames: https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/

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Yes, of course they sell beyond their capacity. This is the real world we live in.

If everybody in your neighbourhood turned their faucets on at once, water supply would simply stop working. So?
That's exactly what she did.

"I’d had enough. With a final parting obscenity, I yanked the headset off my face"

She's probably never coming back, and her article is going to discourage many women and some men from also ever trying it.
"(~20% cut to GBPUSD, 1% inflation...)"

IMO we are about to hit much more than 1% inflation with the devaluation of our currency.

Think how much petrol has gone up, food is about to go up, imports are going up etc.

We will have much more than 1% inflation annually next year I think, and I don't think wages will keep up. That is if things go ahead as they currently are.

On the flipside this makes Devs in the UK much cheaper, and if we have the combination of inflation and stagnant wages then the housing market will collapse, which will eventually make UK more competitive.
You're attacking a strawman. She did exit, and she didn't say she "was virtually groped in a misogynistic rape fest".

Perhaps she's just one of those crazy people who think that just because one can stop playing multiplayer games doesn't mean it is perfectly okay to be a massive jerk to other players.
Character Assassination: the malicious and unjustified harming of a person's good reputation.

The Trump example fails on all counts: it's not malicious, he's running for President where character is critical; it's not unjustified, he's a piece of work; he doesn't HAVE a good reputation to begin with, even with his supporters.

As a Canadian observer, I've been gobsmacked by how much of pass Trump has been given for terrible behaviour until very recently.
Indeed, but the whole purpose of Brexit was to decrease migration. It's a publicly stated red-line for the negotiating team. Further, there is no way to say whether the fluctuation in GBP is short term ... The new world may turn the UK into a net exporter, in which case the GBP may stay lower for much longer.
It took Switzerland decades to get all those trade deals and bilateral agreements. Without the need to negotiate lots and lots of agreements with other countries at the same time.

The UK will wake up very soon, very hard to a bleak reality.
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But controversy in the US is similarly limited to a two-party dialog: everything in your political system (its discourse, its reporting, its policies) is geared towards this artifical (and often false) dichotomy.

In my view, it is the discourse that needs to be fixed first. As long as your media keeps painting everything in black and white (and it is in their interest to do so, being part of the establishment), I don't think any electoral reform is useful.
Yeah, I wouldn't, if I was Snowden. http://grapevine.is/news/2014/12/21/mfik-urges-investigation...

Having said that, we don't really know on what terms Snowden is enjoying impunity in Russia. I doubt it has come as a free lunch.
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I would guess that it isn't so much the winter weather and the price of goods that is making folks want to leave: I'm in Norway, which traditionally has expensive goods and bad weather. Everyone complains about their weather, but from my experience, the locals don't find it to be all that detrimental to life - I've had to learn to dress better for the weather and stuff like that. (of course, I don't know how strong the icelandic currency is at the moment, so that could be an issue for buying those goods). The second one - that it is really controlled by interests behind the two main industries - is likely much more key. Having a small island country with only two main industries makes it so that folks don't have as much opportunity as they would in mainland Europe or Canada. Not only that, but one of the main industries - fishing - can be rough work in itself. The place being an island also prevents some of the options for avoiding the high prices for goods: Here I can take a (free!) bus just over the Swedish border and buy things more cheaply, but they'd have to take a flight somewhere.
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I normally turn to ringojs[1] for "off-browser javascript" with Java integration. It's been around nearly 20 years[2] now! Is this a new take on the same concept? The examples seem web application focused, but there's not even a mention of JSGI[3] or whether it was even considered.

[1]: http://ringojs.org/

[2]: http://helma.org/

[3]: https://www.sitepen.com/blog/2010/01/19/commonjsjsgi-the-eme...
All of the above are fair points, but IDN makes clicking on

www.cítíbank.com

instead of

www.citibank.com

a very real problem and will make the web more dangerous and will encourage the further growth of "walled gardens" on the internet which I think most here agree is a bad thing.
Can you give some examples of Tesla's low reliability?
What do you think will happen RE Q1 and Q2 over the next few years? Net increase DEMAND for DEV? What about SUPPLY of dev?
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I second project Euler, but for a different use case. It is a great tool to learn the lower level workings of a computer language. Work through the first 100 or so exercises in a new programming language, and you have got a good understanding of how to write efficient code. Most of the problems are solvable in less than 1s in most languages with the non-naive brute Force approach. I remember doing it in a functional style using scheme. At about problem 50 I had a good understanding for how to write in a way that avoided excess allocations/collections.

Ah the frustration when someone was generating primes with a worse approach than I had, and my code was 2 or more times slower.
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you're taking most out of thin air.

let's see: device that sells the free-to-root marketing (even being a lie in this case), Nexus: billions of sales.

device that boast root to be impossible, blackberry: zero sales
It's extremely naive to think that Snowden would move somewhere out of Russia. It's very obvious why he went there in the first place.
Well, practically under house arrest then.

He's actually there because he will not be granted assurances he won't be extradited to the US for far more serious charges.

I'm not saying rape charges are not serious by the way, just that these rape charges seem ... odd ... and he will probably get off.
Ask HN: Any senior Rackspace people here on HN?
My startup company is coming out of stealth mode soon with a product that is built for Rackspace and would be directly interesting to Rackspace.

However, I'm having trouble getting the attention of senior Rackspace technical management.

I want to show the product to senior technical folks at Rackspace - I have no doubt they would find it interesting.

Are there any Rackspace people here on HN who can help?
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because nobody dares publishing anything on Android at Google without going past legal, pr and recently the founder
Even if it doesn't have a public ip address, its existence can be discovered if an organization's DNS isn't separated into public and private.

Then there are all the ways an employee can inadvertently or intentionally make its existence public.
Not sure if you are looking for a commercial solution, but we (Twistlock [1]) develop a security suite for enterprises working with Docker and / or Kubernetes. In fact, we are officially recommended by Google for working with GKE which is very much based on Kubernetes [2]. I'd be glad to elaborate if relevant.

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[2] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/11/enhancements-to...
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Thanks for the list, there's a couple I hadn't come across before.

Domino and TopTal look like they may be more suitable for more experienced developers.

What is everyone else's experience for finding work at the higher end of the market ($600 - $900 / day)? From my experience I know the demand is out there but currently all of my work comes via traditional recruitment agencies which seems a shame for the companies doing the hiring, since agencies charge fairly big fees.

I have in the past tried eLance, Upwork, People Per Hour, and they all seem to end up overrun with low-end work and low-end clients and whilst there may be some gems in there it ends up not being worth your time to sift through / send propsals because 95% of clients will choke if you mention your hourly rate.
Hi greggman, not enough for what? Do you mean usability? gitlab, github and bitbucket provide a GUI to git-LFS. Or do you mean not enough documentation or a technical limitation like maximum file size or check-in/out speed or just bugs?
That is one of the problems with PR its bugging's turn and there is no direct relationship between the MP and there constituency.

And collective responsibility is not undemocratic in its self.
So... I dont want/need to think about this cause I'll be long dead? :) On a related note, how optimistic are you about life extending medical technology (which is likely to be accelerated by even minor advances in computing and AI)?
Or you can use Emacs for free. Subscription based pricing model is a joke.
Well, I would say that some types like "eight-bit character in ISO-8859-1 encoding" is a monumentally stupid idea in this day and age (and yes, I live in 8859-2 area, but that isn't the point … http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html).
This is true, but why should it be the person who's not doing anything wrong who always has to leave? Is this going to become endemic in VR, as an extension of gaming's existing verbal abuse problem?

Are you happy with VR games being boys-only? Is that the VR market you want?
Because the trust model on phones is different.

On old UNIX mainframes the trust model had 2 kinds of actors:

- System administrators

- Users

The biggest security concern was one user getting access to the files of another user on the same system. The sysadmin decided which applications to trust (and most of them were either opensource or made by big companies, so we didn't have to worry about application developers doing nasty things). As a result, applications just ran with all the permissions of the user who started them. They could do anything that the user themselves were allowed to do, like read all your files, open a network connection and send your secrets out over the internet. But so long as users didn't run any dodgy programs it was (mostly) fine.

All modern desktop operating systems inherit that system. But over the last couple decades three things have changed:

- Computers got so cheap that now everyone has their own

- There are more apps than ever, and some of them are malicious

- There aren't enough sysadmins to save grandma

Modern phones we have a much better security model, which they inherited from the web. There are two changes:

- Multiuser support is gone at an application level.

- Apps are sandboxed from one another to protect you and your data from malicious apps. The way they do that is by isolating each app on the phone so no app can read&write to any of the data owned by another app.

For example, if you use google docs then by necessity you have to trust the docs app with your documents. But thats it! The google docs app doesn't get to access to your facebook login information. And the facebook app doesn't have access to your google account. If you had equivalent native apps on your desktop, these apps would be able to read one another's files!

But rooting your phone (at least partially) ruins all that! Rooting (by definition!) gives some 3rd party apps the capacity to access data stored by other apps on your device, which ruins the phone's security model.

The reason why some manufacturers (like apple) take a hardline stance against rooting is that if rooting your phone was easy, some app developers would undoubtably decide they'll only function on rooted devices. (This happens on android today for wifi sniffers and stuff like that.) If enough apps do that, the manufacturers will feel pressure to make it easy to disable app sandboxing, which will result in more and more apps wanting "Full permissions on your phone". People will mash "yes" on the install box (nobody reads that stuff anyway) and before you know it there'll be malware on your phone reading your email and threatening to send porn to your boss on your behalf if you don't pay up. DDoS attacks will come from phones, and will cripple the mobile network. And to fix all that norton will release an android version which will start scanning your phone for viruses at the worst possible moment of that show you like on netflix.

And that is why rooting your phone is hard.
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But, but, Quantum computing.

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And, wonderfully, hashtags from Black Mirror actually started to trend on Twitter as the news broke.
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I have both a yubikey and an auth app but can't seem to find a way to use them with paypal. Do you have some kind of special account or is that a feature bound to a certain market?
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You're doing a startup that's building something only relevant to one other company, without any pre-existing connections to that company?

"Ballsy" is the most-positive-slanted word that comes to mind.
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I had taken that to read that there are programs in the wild that assume hosts are little endian and always "swap" bytes as opposed to converting between the two orders (which might be a no-op on a big endian system).
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The same argument can be used the other way.
If we don't even know which direction to take, what makes you think that AGI is a century or more away?
Say, in 10 years, we better understand the problem we want to solve and the direction to take, what make you think it would take 90 years to solve, versus 20 or 30?

I think we simply have no idea when this could happen, it could be in 20, it could be in 200.
But one thing is sure, when it will happen, this will have drastic implications for our society, so why not start thinking about it now, in case it's 20 and not 200?
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What is your definition of 'win'? They're currently polling at around 20-25%. The traditional conservative party is polling at similar numbers and other parties have less.

Obviously no party will take the majority of the vote. So what is your criteria for winning or losing? Even if the pirates election results were 5-10% less than the polling numbers they'd still have 'won' by some measurements since they'd have more seats in parliament than they did last time.
> It's very obvious why he went there in the first place.

Please enlighten us.
Maybe it's the daydreams of life in a futuristic loading dock in space that inspires Kate Miller, age eight today, to become the scientist inventing unobtanium :)
I can't figure out what the app does to "detect" surveillance cameras?
I thought I'd tell HN as this is the first release that's been workable as a daily driver - arrow keys, shortcuts, history etc. all now work properly.

On Windows 10 or higher, you can install via package management.

If you don't already have Chocolatey:

$ register-packagesource -Name chocolatey -Provider PSModule -Trusted -Location http://chocolatey.org/api/v2/ -Verbose

Then just:

$ install-package openssh

And:

$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_7.1p1 Microsoft_Win32_port_with_VS Sep 30 2016, OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015
The country in question is Iceland. Read the article.
Which has been the case in all of Elons endeavours. They usually take twice the time at double the cost, and probably cost some marriages along the way. But he does get publicity and funds it out of his own pocket as far as he can.
I really wonder if the man behind the curtain really has any control? The info-streams are exploding. And the control mechanisms are half-ass and unsophisticated. And not really in the interest of the tech world, that likes bragging about how many guinie pigs their networks can reach.

People keep worrying about Google or Facebook or the media controlling and shaping the info streams.

What if they cant? What if we have already passed the point where things can be controlled.

Does anybody really believe Google or Facebook will admit that they have lost control?
We did, and nothing supports your claim.
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I was doing OK until the election news started getting superheated. Weekends, evenings, weekdays, all chopped up now. Hoping I can get things back together after 8 Nov, but worry I'll be susceptible to the the next new major news story. Damn you Nate Silver!
Maybe you should inform yourself better. Germany refused to help their so called "ally" 2003 in the Iraq war, Germany refused to help their "ally" in the Libyan war, Germany refused to support any side during the Syrian civil war. Germany is the main reason that sanctions against Russia during the Ukraine conflict were weakened to the point of irrelevance (the US actually wanted a full blockade - LOL) as the government understands that it's really the US that caused this conflict.

The only US war that Germany viewed as legitimate and thus supported was the Afghanistan war of 2001.
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But it's hard to even imagine what something stronger than carbon nanutubes would look like. How much stronger than diamond-like molecular bonds can you get?
I'm not a huge fan of Russian politics or US politics for that matter. That said when I read comments like yours I can only think of how you would feel if Russia had turned up in the US with war planes during the occupy demos?
There's a lot of negativity among young adults here in Iceland. I can understand them to some extent because housing has become insanely expensive because of inflation, lack of new housing and airbnb companies.
What I don't undestand is the "everything is terrible" attitude that's been so poisonous in recent year. Yes, we have bad weather and most of our politicians are hopeless but it's always been like that. The grass isn't greener on the other side.

The grapevine is great but often let themselves down with clickbait and hyperbole.
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Funny coincidence, I'm reading The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds right now (literally). It has exactly what you say. People whose votes are vindicated get their votes weighted accordingly. They end up lobbied to but can't outright still their votes or their weights would go down.
Perhaps I'm wrong but I get the impression that most 'remainers' very much hope this will be the case.
A lot has happened in the past decade, and it's not 3% driving the 97%, not that it ever was (http://www.pewforum.org/2016/05/12/changing-attitudes-on-gay...).

But either way, the percentage of people who believe certain morals does not matter. No matter what our individual beliefs are, we bind ourselves to the law of the land. That's what it means to have a constitution. Even if 100% of Americans wanted to take away your freedom of speech or your freedom to bear arms, we could not do it legally.
Why is party discipline undemocratic?

If you want to get the benefit of the support and branding of a political party it seems reasonable that you should have to follow their rules. The discipline only extends so far as removing that support. That seems fair to me. Does it not to you?
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> MAC addresses are unique

Or at least they're unique on a single machine... except for the various OSes and hardware platforms that have deliberately made all MAC addresses the same for a given machine.
> Well there's also the part where root access fundamentally breaks the security model of the device.

Good thing we're still admin/root on our personal computers. Seeing what MS/Google are doing, perhaps not for too long.
A few months ago some people from Bill's team contacted us about a demo day that they personally give Bill every 4-6 weeks. This particular topic was on Agtech. They said they spend about 400-500 hours researching each market and preparing a 2-hour closed door demo day for Bill and a few of his advisors. For a particular topic they said they research the market and narrow it down to six or seven companies. They ask each company for a bunch of information and then his team gives Bill a 5-10 minute demo of each company followed by a question period.

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If human civilization has been ended with fire, then how does it come back with in ten years and with GNU/HURD to be specific.

Human civilization ending does not imply humans are extinct. There may be a few basement dwellers that survived, and kept coding.