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Wasn't middle-East terrorism funded by US and Europe in the first place? Isn't Newsweek posing a threat to the CIA (and NSA) by arguing for the ban of cryptocurrencies for illegal operations? If they want to continue their illegal things, they do need smuggling currencies, and it's the role of the American citizen to enable them to do it.
> Singapore has similar buses but they are not run by the same operators as the local ones.

They are operated by the same operators [1], unless you were referring to some other bus services? They're about 1.5x more expensive than a normal bus/metro journey though.

[1] https://sgwiki.com/wiki/History_of_Express_Services
About the problems with the mentally ill using public transit.

It seems to be something I see a lot of in every North American city I visit.

The problem is likely not how mentally ill people are allowed to use public transit, but maybe the complete lack of care provided to them.
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French here, lived in Paris, no-one in their sane mind would use their cars every day in the city center, and you can take the metro up until midnight and nothing will happen.
> I encourage you to not stop reading after he called you a loon. He dedicates a few paragraphs to explain what he feels is wrong with your talk.

What makes you think I stopped reading? How do you think I knew that he was attacking a straw man (and hence making a fool of himself)?

> read the comments

Well, that's nice. I feel vindicated. But that doesn't change the fact that he published a totally unwarranted ad hominem attack directed at me based on incomplete information and never retracted it, let alone apologized for it. (Sorry, but a comment doesn't count. Most people don't read the comments.) So I stand by my position that his behavior was unprofessional to say the least.
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Eventually we will have something like tor with enough bandwidth to handle large files and then there will be nothing for the trolls to do.

I believe this way more likely than a complete change of U.S. copyright law.
> believing any algorithm can keep a secret from nation state adversaries is laughable.

Well, yeah, it is.

Defence against (crypto-buzzword) state-level actors (SLAs) doesn't start with gpg and FDE, rather, with operational security, or, even better, not being a worthwhile target in the first place (if your briefcase of secret documents is already on CNN there is no need to infiltrate your stuff beyond gaining assurance that you don't have another briefcase - which is the thing you want to proof as publicly as possible to convince your highly paranoid adversary)

There is that saying "never trust a computer you can't throw out the window". Computers are networked. You're trusting a network of computers, even if you don't use "networked functionality". Can you throw the internet out the window? Probably not! Hence, don't trust computers. People who trust computers to keep their secrets are foolish¹ (Trottel), so just don't.

¹ Notice how governments²³ trust computers to keep their secrets safe, and how admirably and totally that failed. Ask yourself, what wasn't leaked by Snowden? Stuff that wasn't in any computer in the first place!

² Or how celebrities trusted computers to keep their dickpics safe.

³ Or how companies trusted computers to keep their business secrets, well, uh, secret.

To make my point another way: Computers are for disseminating information. If secrecy is more important than dissemination, then don't use a computer.
>"When such procedure is done properly for legitimate reasons, the timeframe is usually set to several years."

If you're trying to crack down on money launderers, 2 years is far too long. You want to make it hard to disguise high levels of hoarding. Whilst I don't doubt that some of that 14 billion rubles took money out of the pocket of normal citizens, perhaps it also hints at the size of the problems that the government was trying to address.
I'm in the same boat as you.

I love my Pebbles, but the lack of good basic apps was always a struggle. I use PowerNoter to pull to do lists from Evernote, which is fine -- but not always reliable.

It's a shame to see them go. Everyone I know with Pebbles love them, but they tend to be more technical users who wouldn't get stressed over a few bugs.

All I really want from a smart watch are:

- notifications (of my choosing)
- some sort of note / to-do app
- multiple timers, alarms, etc
- music / media control (even with a companion app)
- customizable 'do' button (similar to what IFTTT offers)

Most of these were available in some form, but these should have been released by Pebble themselves as stock apps.
Is it going to happen though, if people are separated enough to not even notice?

It seems a runaway process. As people get more and more unequal, it becomes easier for them to put up walls in the society than trying to fix it.

You are also right though, that it doesn't make sense to put it all on the commuters. At least they are not avoiding society entirely.
I picked up a Blackberry Classic in October and it has replaced my Oneplus as my day to day phone. I bloody love this thing.

I'd never owned a Blackberry before, but it didn't take long to get used to and start to appreciate its quirks.

I put F-Droid on it and everything I've tried from there works perfectly. A few Android apps from the Amazon store are a bit unreliable on BB10, particularly Spotify, but nothing essential to my day.

I'm tempted to but a couple more of these in case I break this one (impossible though that feels) because I can't imagine going back to on screen keyboards.
That seems rather unlikely. Generally, the reason public transport loses money is because it doesn't have enough riders, since the cost is relatively independent of the number of people that use it up to some point. You don't tend to get this kind of success problem in public transport, unlike with (say) VC-subsidised services like Uber.
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My bad, I do use the ICICI debit card but many nationalized banks dont support paypal. If it is so important to you could integrate a payment gateway into your app. Payment Gateways support all major banks. Here is a link to one. There are several PGs available. I am not sure if all of them support international merchants.

https://www.payubiz.in/international-merchant
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From the OpenSSH moduli(5) man page:

"When performing Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange, sshd(8)
first estimates the size of the modulus required to
produce enough Diffie-Hellman output to sufficiently
key the selected symmetric cipher. sshd(8) then randomly
selects a modulus from /etc/ssh/moduli that best meets
the size requirement."

The problem is

a) OS distributions ship pre-computed moduli in the /etc/ssh/moduli file. I.e. most users don't change these moduli. This facilitates pre-computation attacks.

b) These moduli are often too short (<2048 bit).

You can create your own moduli with ssh-keygen (see the "MODULI GENERATION" section in the ssh-keygen manpage).

FWIW: Here's my open bug for RHEL7 where I try to convince Red Hat to improve the situation (including more details and references):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1396943
The benefit of the Pebble was that you could get basic information (notifications, notes, time, alarms, etc) without having to reach for your phone. I found it perfect for meetings where I didn't want the client to feel like I was tight on time or rushing things, even if I had to.

It seems silly, but the multiple timers were especially useful for cooking large dinners.

Overall, the Pebble was great because it had fantastic battery life and provided information silently without you having to interrupt a conversation by reaching for a larger device.
True, though controlling the supply of the local currency can also be used to control the prices that citizens pay for goods, which can be used to drive more people into the black market.
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> Actually the worst phase of demonetisation is already over. In 30 days everything will be back to normal.

Even the government doesn't think things will be back to normal in 30 days. According to the finance minister, it will take 1-2 quarters.

http://www.businessinsider.in/Effect-of-demonetisation-will-...
Can you tell us about some specific rules? This sounds interesting.
Well, although the requirements which would lead to such setup are clearer now, it's still smelly to me.

Under this conditions there is still a false dichotomy between RediSQL on one side, and "complex RDBMS" on the other.

What about simple RDMSs like H2? Such solution would meet the requirements:

- network-accessible RDBMS
- no configuration

The only requirement I can think of which would make this solution inadequate would be "No JVM on the system", which sound quite far-fetched.
It's probably just too expensive to sustain a hardware startup aiming at a niche in the west these days. Our hope is probably in China.
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"It is probably fair to say that JavaScript is the most important technology these days when it comes to software engineering."

Uhh ... no?
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> Oracle took the average price of our product from $100k to $5 million for the same size deals. Our sales went from $5-7m to more than $40m with no increasing in engineering headcount (team of 15)

Not that I like the Oracle sales model, but that is impressive. Playing devils advocate, perhaps they are justified to treat sales so well.
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Man, our intelligence service (SEBIN) -really- should spend a bit more on English classes.

Just kidding. But seriously, what I can't understand is how this comment misses the -actual- news here. Here's the other side of the picture: The actual, recent ground news have been reported mostly on Twitter because our media is intervened by the goverment.

A small sample:

A bank, looted. https://twitter.com/AndrewsAbreu/status/809937243280441344
Another. https://twitter.com/guasdualitotv/status/809918995512037376
Protests on a government bank. With smoke. https://twitter.com/MiguelCardoza/status/809892935181496320

The people are angry and despairing on the streets. This measure essentially makes 100 Bolívares bills useless, which were becoming scarce in previous months, so people naturally stockpiled them. You can't even buy a small pack of chewing gum with the highest denomination bill, so obviosly these stockpiles were big. This was done especially by the elderly, who don't understand / have trouble understanding ATM machines and electronic operations.

People are doing street-spanning queues to exchange those bills.

A queue for exchanging banknotes at 10PM. https://twitter.com/fmonroy/status/809955687333789696
Another photo: https://twitter.com/AleReportando/status/809981094925860864

I've heard about people crying on the streets, afraid of their savings dissapearing in thin air.

> "the gov is finally accepting that we have a huge inflation"

No, it isn't. There's ZERO recognition of the goverment on this. The party line is that this measure was necessary to "attack bill trafficking mafias on Colombia and other countries" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/12/venezuela-pull...

> "this is actual good news for venezuelans because even tho we still suffer all the problems we have"

Problems which were caused by the government to begin with. This is essentially a ham-fisted solution to a problem the bolivarian revolution created out of ideological dogma and fiscal irresponsability. Foreign exchange controls, printing money like if there were no tomorrow during previous years, institutionalized corruption, nationalizing industry and then crashing production.

This is our situation here. I'm usually just a lurker on HN, but your apologist tone makes my blood boil. If other HN netizens have questions or want more details I'm willing to answer them.
When I visited the Soviet Union in 1990 (as a tourist), the official exchange rate was 4 roubles for each US dollar. But in the street outside the hotel you could find people offering 20 roubles / $ to tourists. In restaurants outside the official hotels the effective rate was even lower with one being able to afford extraordinary meals for a few dollars, provided you paid in dollars. We ate caviar and drank champagne every day, which I very much doubt any Russians were doing.
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Hyperinflation only ends when you restore trust in the currency. Venezuela supposedly has massive problems with black market trading. If you can cut down the influence of the black market you can restore goods being bought and sold using the local currency, which will slow down inflation. I'd suggest that's what the Venezuelan government is trying to do.
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I am still surprised that the Japanese and Germans did not figure out their codes had been broken. The disaster of the U-boot campaign was pretty good evidence of that, if nothing else.

Besides, expecting a widely used and deployed cryptosystem to be uncompromised for years is absurd. They should have assumed it would be broken, and developed regular replacements.
Even if you could build a case on this argument (which is doubtful; the Supreme Court has ruled that despite the "for limited times" clause, Congress can legislate effectively perpetual copyright if it so desires, so I doubt the "promote science and the useful arts" clause will stop Congress from allowing copyright on whatever), it's wrong on its face. Pornography does promote the progress of science and the useful arts. How many times have we heard it observed that the VCR, and later internet video streaming, wouldn't have had the uptake they did if it weren't for porn? VR is about to undergo the same revolution.
> The bigger issue is that city planners building public transit systems don't have the same interests as commuters. Inevitably they want to use public transit as an instrument for various social policies.

Here's the thing: public transit does not function in a vacuum. You can't build public transit solely based on current traffic patterns, because the presence of good transport (say, a new rail line) will irrevocably alter traffic patterns.

This means that, if you build a new rail line, you pretty much have to (eg.) change zoning near stations. Is rezoning to allow denser housing "an instrument for various social policies"? Most likely yes, but it's also the sensible thing to do!
No money launderer is going to be holding Venezuela's worthless hyperinflationary currency. They've be holding other assets that are actually worth something.
With more and more negative interest rates, or attempts to lock down on how money is used (total removal of cash for example) on the horizon I think governments are quite right to fear bitcoins or any other currency that would let people get out of the attempts to "walled garden" finances
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> Respectfully, banning "assault" weapons isn't going to stop the vast majority of gun violence

True. However, it might well reduce the death rate, and that's better than nothing.

In America, you are far more likely to be killed by a toddler than by a terrorist. In a supposedly civilized country that is, frankly, insane.

> Tens of thousands is a bit of a stretch as well.

Average is 33,000 gun deaths per year of which 12,000 are homicides. A thousand a month. It's not good.

> alienating millions of Americans who just like to hunt or make holes in paper.

How many human lives are those actually worth? Is murdering wildlife something that anyone should applaud? Do people make holes in paper with assault rifles? What's the point in that?
How does revoking the legal tender status of part of the local currency supply help with the black market if the black market is using something other than the local currency?
There are libraries out there, like Jandex[1] which use indexes to avoid repeated reflection for annotations.

[1] https://github.com/wildfly/jandex
Of course it would have costs. It'd have the cost of IT and management, software maintenance, PR, support and of course drivers and vehicles. One of the fundamental problems of Uber is that they cannot be cost-competitive either on the driver and vehicle side or on the corporate side because they're less efficient than their competitors at both: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/can-uber-ever-deliver...
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This, a thousand times. I'm an excellent bug-fixer/chaos-manager/refactorer and this led me to believe I should be an excellent project-starter as well. It has bit me in the ass more times than I can count (although I'm getting better with each new project).
Why would anyone be hoarding a hyperinflationary currency?
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"Bitcoin powered free service: an anonymous, uncensorable and eternal message board."

New Bitcoin powered free service offering an anonymous, uncensorable, decentralised and eternal (almost) message post board.

I've just finished most of the development work http://lockedpost.com/ and would love to see what the people of Hacker News think!

Gladly welcome suggestions, comments or questions.

Thanks
Currently major fatal accidents often result in bankruptcies and may even incur criminal charges. They are not fully covered by insurance.

How often is the driver in those cases under insured? I also wonder how often criminal charges pop up for drivers that weren't being negligent.
Well, suppose for a moment the position or job really was "dying", though. (Which is hard to predict accurately, but everybody gets pessimistic in times of huge layoffs.)

Arguably the older workers are the more-vulnerable section, since they have fewer opportunities (and lifetime) to re-train.
I'm a developer and am currently 47 (about to be 48). I'm the youngest developer in my department (basically call processing) where we work with C, C++ and Lua (which I introduced into the company). Down the hall is another department writing software to be embedded in Android phones (Java, obviously). With one exception (I think he's 30 ... maybe) the average age is mid-50s. The department working on the UI (HTML, CSS and Javascript) are in their 40s, like the department working on the (non-call processing) servers (Java mostly).
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Thank you for showing another side to this.

Just to get a fuller picture of the situation in your country, if you were the President, what actions would you take to stabilise the economy? I'd like to find out if you think there are practical measures that are being overlooked in the current chaos.
They organized airplane flyovers that "saw" the U-boats. The Germans did not know how many aircrafts were patrolling and whether it was a high or low probability of being spotted.

If the British could not organize a parallel construction they simply let it go. They knew the plan for Crete invasion but they could not create a story on how they learned it so they preferred to lose naval control of the large part of the eastern Mediterranean sea. [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Secret-Service-David-Staffo...
>I found it perfect for meetings where I didn't want the client to feel like I was tight on time or rushing things, even if I had to.

Ah, this seems good. Socially acceptable information-checking. I'll keep this in mind as a use for smartwatches, even though I don't need it (yet?).

>It seems silly, but the multiple timers were especially useful for cooking large dinners.

You could also set the phone on a surface somewhere and have multiple timers on it, but I see how carrying them on your wrist makes them more convenient.

Thanks for writing this :)
> For a relatively small cost, the blockchain could be flooded with bogus junk to DoS. The bootstrap mechanism could easily be MITMd to netsplit new nodes. Those are just technological mechanisms off the top of my head, which assume a perfect hypothetical cryptocurrency with none of the teething problems that all of the actual cryptocurrencies have.

I don't disagree the article, but these example attacks sound pretty bullshitty to me. I don't think it is that trivial to attack cryptocurrencies in a meaningful way, so that actually it would be something else to the government than spending some money on pointless harm.
>if a restaurant owner didn't want his customers getting sick, he'd give them hygienic food

Regulation merely enforces your assumption. Common sense to one can be revelation to another. You'd be surprised how many cheap food outlets skip basic hygenic procedures, such as washing produce before serving.
I don't remember specifically, but I'm sure it was one where I said something like "taxation is theft" or "government is illegitimate", or "bad laws should be violated" or something of that nature.

Why? Because HN is apparently full of statists who don't believe in the idea of individual freedom. It wasn't always this way, but it has gotten worse over the past couple of years.
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Sometimes it's a debit card, so reduces your balance, and causes overdraft charges. Sometimes, you have your credit card paid automatically from your bank account; refunding wouldn't reverse the bank payment. Sometimes you want to use your card and it's stopped and you've not yet been told why. Sometimes the bank messes up and doesn't spot a fraud and it costs you a lot of time and money.

They seem like realistic reasons you wouldn't trust the bank's anti-fraud protections alone.

tl;dr that probably hides a big financial risk [for the poor].
And if you don't trust me in this question, you can try to read Uncle Bob. I thought it's not applicable to Rust (because initially it was about OOP), but on one of refactorings I got a lot of broken dependencies in From trait. Then I realized good rules worth to be remembered.
There's a video shared in this discussion that seems to suggest otherwise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p23Fn1LVGv0
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If Venezuela just wanted to make using the currency more convenient they'd have no reason to revoke the legal tender status of the old notes so quickly. In Canada for instance, we've replaced the one and two dollar bills and removed the penny from circulation entirely in my lifetime, yet they're all still legal tender. Ever note issued since 1935 is still legal tender.

Equally, they appear to be running late on actually introducing the new notes - some ATM machines are reportedly even still issuing the old (now worthless) notes, and others just don't work.
I would just start with HTML basics so they could build something "cool" right away. Part of a beginner class is getting them interested in the topic and showing them why it is important. Starting with one of the most boring topics is a bad way to do that.
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