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>> Not to mention, France is increasingly an outlier in Europe with a punishing corporate income tax rate (33%).

> In line with Germany.

The problem in France is not corporate income tax, as some huge companies do not pay that tax with creative but perfectly legal accounting.
The problems are with the "taxe professionelle" which is not based on revenues and the taxes on labour. If some employee receives 2000 euros, usually the company has to provision 3000 to 4000 euros. Most of those labor taxes go to the social security organism which has a budget as large as the state budget.
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My real name doesn't uniquely identify me, because there are more people in the world with the same name. According to some web searching, I have already died a long time ago, I am a technical illustrator, I collect model trains, etc. So a "real name" could be compromising even if totally unjust
> We’re optimistic we will beat climate change.

"Beat" climate change ? I think you people totally misunderstand the problem then.

The reason it's happening in the first place is very simple and we all know it: mindless, senseless, useless consumption of everything.

Armies of methodically brainwashed "consumers" unleashed upon the limited world around them - under the war drums of advertising and marketing.

Water tech will help, but it will not fix climate change...

You can't "beat" climate change without addressing the elephant in the room.

Now that's a truly "hard" problem.
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Complexity theory abounds with such algorithms in order to solve concrete problems. In fact it's even worse than that. There is a whole subfield of complexity theory which looks for "fixed-parameter tractability" and typically involves algorithms with reasonable exponents but astronomical constants. Even if you have an O(n) algorithm, if the constant hidden by the notation happens to be on the order of 10^10000 this is not something that you could ever hope to run.

One example are all the consequences of the Robertson-Seymour theorem which (non-constructively) asserts that a large number of graph problems "is in P". For instance, we know that testing whether a graph can be embedded in the torus is in P, but the algorithm in question is completely infeasible.

I would expect a positive answer to P = NP to be completely useless in practice. A negative answer would similarly be rather unexiting by itself. What would be exiting are the tools for getting this answer...
That's what Knuth suspects, P=NP, but essentially impractical and not tractable.
Extremely sorry, forgot he set up a redirect to an offensive image if you link to this from HN, and too late to edit. Please try this link instead: https://www.google.com/search?q=jwz+nscpdorm
> You can check out Double Your Freelancing

Already read it, and it's great! But it doesn't explain how to start getting clients from scratch.

> Expanding your network is a great way to increase your 'luck surface'.

That's what I'm trying to do. But I feel like going to developer meetups is going to be a very slow way to expend my network. Any other ideas?
I just wanted to say that as someone who never really had much access to computers during my teens and early 20's due to financial reasons, and subsequently missed out on the kind of online friendships you're describing, they have always seemed extraordinarily cool to me.
Some x86 boards have hot-pluggable memory too (it's a ACPI feature), it's been a very long time since that was a big-iron-only feature.
The problem is that less and less websites support JS-less browsing, even though in many (if not most) cases it's completely unnecessary, i.e. what I need from the website (mostly: reading text) could be accomplished just by HTML and JS.
Facebook hate groups are real (anti-immigrant, anti-lgbt, ...). They're getting better at skirting the rules, so there's no way to disband them. I'm seeing dozens of such groups form for a country with a population of ~2 million (Slovenia). I think the mentality those bubbles breed is even more dangerous than Twitter harassment. Instead of manifesting itself in bullying and conflict, it's nurturing the different flavours of toxicity in nicely compartmentalised jars.

I can't agree with the author's statement, that design itself is not primarily responsible for a solution, as it is instrumental in enabling such an environment in the first place.
What about forcing rains through chemical stuff with planes? The rain ~does remove pollutant from the air, right ?
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I'd like to point out two things regarding the size of Frankfurt.

Frankfurt is no London and no Paris, this is clear. However, that's also related to the way in which Germany as a whole functions. The individual cities aren't all that big, but they are clustered in metropolitan areas.

If you live in the vicinity of Frankfurt, you can just drive to Heidelberg for a Saturday night out (about an hour). Or, if you're more interested in food, theater or classical music, you have a large selection from Mainz to Aschaffenburg, all of which is easily reachable from Frankfurt.

Equally, the pool of support staff you can draw from isn't recruited from the minuscule population of Frankfurt (700k), but from the whole metro region (5.5 million). I myself live at the outermost boundary of the metro region and know many people who commute to Frankfurt.

The second point is that the relatively small size of the city of Frankfurt is an asset in one critical regard: Frankfurt is first and foremost a banking city (and secondly an airport city). If banks want to exert some influence over policy there, they have all the leverage they could want. This is not the case in Paris.

Personally, I'd be surprised if there was anything other than a somewhat even split of relocations between Frankfurt and Paris. And I'm fairly certain that the TGV service between Frankfurt and Paris will also be extended beyond what exists today.
I suppose it has been invented in England (or Denmark).
Agreed, I was wrong. I have a 2015 X1 Carbon, which has a touch-screen. I'm surprised they removed this, it's quite decent. But it is unlikely that I'll miss it.
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A common misconception is that targeting is about your interests. An AI won't select ads for things you want. Instead, it will use all of that tracking data to select ads that are more effective at misleading you or changing your interests.
You don't need to execute the stack. Just use ROP to fill the stack with return addresses that point to "gadgets". Gadgets are basically a single assembly instruction at the end of a function like XOR EAX,EAX and then a RET. Every time a RET is executed the CPU will jump to the next gadget. There are usually enough gadgets inside a program to basically do anything you want.

https://www.exploit-db.com/docs/28479.pdf
I'm guessing he was referring to the Macedonian teenagers from https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...
>That's not the argument here. It's stating that it's tiring that the US is always singled out as if it's somehow _specifically_ bad.

And that isn't the case in the original quote. The US isn't listed as specifically bad, it is included as a member of a list where the author contends mistreatment of some groups is common:

"In societies including the US where violence.."

Nothing special or notably different there. Additionally, usually the kind of articles you are alluding to are addressing a US, or at the very least a Western/Anglophone audience, so if the US or UK are pointedly included, the intent may be read as "'we' are not any better at this thing than we imagine 'other' countries are".
I'm guessing almost nobody.

What you have is an acute case of righteous rage against a flaming straw-man. The only medicine against this affliction is girding your loins and guarding your mind against those seemingly plausible but ultimately horseshit security theater tropes, so popular among the impressionable today.

Attacking curl yielding nerds is not going to get you a botnet.
> A post by ESR was even flagged off HN because its message was that he expected evidence to back claims of harassment,

No. People flag ESR posts because he's a pathological arsehole and his threads contain some deeply unpleasant posts.

>I reject the assertion that these issues are "common" in the US

Interesting that you complained about people not bothering to support their claims, and then immediately make a claim with no support.
Probably the assumption that either Frexit won't happen, or if it does that means the EU is over anyway.

The EU is supposedly a union of equals. In reality it isn't. It's run by and for the benefit of the original founding countries, in particular, for France and Germany. That's why the UK leaving is not seen as a threat to the EU's existence but France leaving is, even though in many metrics they're comparable countries.

Of course Amsterdam has the same issue. The country's politics are in some ways more volatile than the UK. The most popular politician there strongly dislikes, maybe even hates, the EU. Whenever this comes up I tend to see Dutch people online saying things like "well it could never happen here because" followed by some explanation of how European moral superiority ensures that even if anti-EU candidates come first in elections nothing will ever change, as everyone else will unite in opposition, which isn't very convincing to put it mildly.

Also bear in mind that we're talking about the eurozone here. Some countries have populations flirting with the idea of exiting the euro but not the EU. I suspect if one tries it they will discover they are fully under the control of the EU and are simply told that their votes will be ignored. It happens all the time in Europe.
I highly recommend looking through this site which extensively covers travel by train.
http://www.seat61.com/

I've travelled by rail through Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. It's not always easy to buy (cheap) tickets online or in advance outside of Russia but it's worth taking the risk and buying in-country for the experience of the 3 + day journeys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

We're globally at 2.36 births per woman, it dropped below 3.0 in the 90's. We'll probably reach world population stagnation in the 2050's.
I think this is probably the key takeaway from the article here:

> Designers need to acknowledge that design cannot solve harassment and other social problems on its own.

Trying to remove anonymity will not 'fix' trolling and harassment. After all, a lot of people simply don't care what others think of them, know they're too far away to be affected (in most cases) or just have nothing to lose to begin with.

What can 'fix' trolling is evenhanded, firm moderation of a community site. There are tons of forums and wikis and other such sites out there which do well here, because they simply lay out clear rules for participation and ban people for being scumbags and breaking said rules.

Facebook and Twitter struggle with this, partly because it's impractical to manually moderate a site with so many users and partly because their model doesn't really allow it. And maybe in part because they're very clearly inconsistent with who gets banned for saying what (like say, banning more conservative accounts than liberal accounts for trolling). Which itself undermines confidence in the site's rules.

So yeah, the key to an online community without harassment isn't removing anonymity, it's having clear rules in that place and enforcing them equally regardless of a member's status or political views.
What I've never seen discussions on signal safety address is: why must an OS have signals to begin with?
> 100% pair programming

I don't think there's a faster way to send me running away screaming. I'd actually take "100% Visual Basic" over "100% Pair Programming" if I had to choose one at gunpoint.
Ah interesting. I thought paredit was standard in emacs.
Active MITM of the TLS connection is a problem and has happened on the scale of entire countries IIRC, so I hope you are doing "proper" verification, whatever that might mean for your two servers.

TLS without active MITM protects the connection, but only between your email server and foobar.com. If someone@example.com is a forwarder to foo@bar.com and there is no TLS on that connection, then there is an issue. Same for unencrypted IMAP/POP3 connections from the laptop/phone endpoint to the final mail resting point.

Of course, all the sysadmins on the chain have access to the data too. This is where OpenPGP or SMIME come in.
How can they not convince Congress, apparently both parties don't trust the claim? If you cannot convince another branch of government, in particular one that can fund and write laws to assist in continued action against, then you have an apparatus that is more politically oriented than public oriented.
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I'll happily turn off my ad blocker when it no longer blocks any ads.

Hopefully it's because ads are simply static images and text content, served by the target site.

Once that happens, I don't mind them. It's not seeing ads that I worry about, it's the ads seeing me.

What needs to happen is that both publishers and advertisers need to understand that the time when you could charge per click/impression or show "targeted ads" depending on who your viewer is - is soon over.
> But generally, Frankfurt is perceived very well. Less hostile towards non-French speakers than Paris (subjectively), less remote than Dublin. It's a very small city, but you're quickly in Munich/Berlin/Cologne, which helps.

that's objective, germans generally are more keen to speak with foreigners in english than french, no matter their level
What changed?

On what basis where applications reviewed before?

What do you mean here by rolling basis?
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PoW's had six years to fail to overcome objections that were raised literally in 2008 in response to the white paper.

PoS has no practical examples. I'm saying "nice idea but it hasn't worked out" and you're saying "but here's this other idea that hasn't worked out!"
Heh, breaking a winning streak by your opponents internet timing out.

Off-topic: for some reason this website created lots of browser history items...
At least that one is really simple in Crystal:

x = [] of Int32 | Char
x << 42
x << 'F'

=>
[42, 'F']
I will be very curious if the savings hold up. Then throw in the risk of cargo theft which will be higher by this method of transport and this method is also more subject to mechanical issues with both vehicle and the rails it rides on.
Wouldn't be the first time Estonia is associated with Balkans, probably because it's actually in Baltics.
Do you have any concerns about maintainability? So far Apple has been advancing Obj-C interfaces along with Swift, but time will probably come when some new OS features will only be available through Swift.
> You're engaged in a discussion that is purely about the definition of fuzzy words. What is "common"? It's about trying to get the upper hand rhetorically by defining words (from both of you). Not a particularly enlightening debate.

Good catch and I considered that as well, but decided it was worth commenting on for discussion as I took the use of "common" with the context of a named country/society to be a claim of happening with increased frequency relative to other countries/societies or to mean "likely for one in that country to experience" (while also noting the author was casually asserting something quite bold).

I quite strongly believe in online anonymity, and as such, I don't want the argument for it to become weakened against debate.
Can you expand on this?

Also, what do you prefer over Python?
You could make the same argument that this is why it should be read. Especially with the right being on the rise across the west, there's still much to be gained in understanding how the "average man" was led down this path "last time". "doomed to repeat it", etc.
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!!! Important Follow-up !!!:

I've aquired the portion of the log related to the hostage taking, posted below. In particular this log shows that __no__ backup of the data was taken. So please don't pay any money!

------------------------------------------

Although my colleagues and I have already pointed out the issue of open-by-default databases in spring 2015 (look at the references), today it seems for the astonishingly first(?) time somebody took the opportunity to erase hundreds of MongoDBs leaving only this Message:

{ "_id" : ObjectId("5859a0370b8e49f123fcc7da"),
"mail" : "harak1r1@sigaint.org",
"note" : "SEND 0.2 BTC TO THIS ADDRESS 13zaxGVjj9MNc2jyvDRhLyYpkCh323MsMq AND CONTACT THIS EMAIL WITH YOUR IP OF YOUR SERVER TO RECOVER YOUR DATABASE !" }

Well played, system admins.

Updates:

The price for the data seems to equate to about 200 USD currently. Thanks, wereHamster.

This has been going on since at least yesterday (https://twitter.com/achillean/status/816385533538631680). Thanks, NietTim.

There have already been transactions by presumed victims:
https://bitref.com/13zaxGVjj9MNc2jyvDRhLyYpkCh323MsMq . Thanks,
anondon.

Please read the official security checklist by MongoDB! In particular, use passwords and don't expose on all interfaces (duh!)!
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/security-checklist/

Sources/References:

The Jan '15 info paper of which I am one of the authors: https://cispa.saarland/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/MongoDB_documentation.pdf

(Jan '17) http://www.csoonline.com/article/3154190/security/exposed-mongodb-installs-being-erased-held-for-ransom.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/04/mongodb_installs_wiped_by_bitcoin_ransoming_script/

(German) https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Eindringling-nimmt-offenbar-MongoDB-Datenbanken-als-Geisel-3587479.html
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If digi_owl's dad is/was resident in the US or Canada it could have been a Timex branded version of the ZX-81. There were also quite a few clones back in the day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX80_and_ZX81_clones
Netflix's stack ranking is a huge turnoff though. Netflix's philosophy is that it has no loyalty to employees and expects none in return. Regardless of Netflix's other attributes, this policy is a huge turn-off.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3056662/the-future-of-work/she-c...

If I wanted great pay and cutthroat competition, why wouldn't I just work in finance? The finance industry isn't stupid. They have developer efficiency teams too.
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The average income in Africa is below $1000 / year. You aren't going to sell a $60,000 container to a subsistence farmer, even if the whole town pitches in.
The economics just doesn't work out, and will never work out.

If you extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon, you're still bound to fossil fuel, and you have to build a hydrogen infrastructure.

If you do centralized electrolysis, you still need renewable energy to not be bound to fossil fuel, and you have to build a hydrogen infrastructure.

If you do decentralized electrolysis, i.e. you plug in your hydrogen car to charge it, you essentially have a battery that is slower, more expensive, and shittier than existing Li-ion batteries.

We have the infrastructure for electric cars already, they're more efficient than hydrogen cars, and they're cheaper to produce so why bother? It's extremely unlikely that the underlying economics and energy fundamentals will change, but if Toyota wants to dump billions into research - fine, I'm not going to stop them.
Isn't the obvious solution here cheap/clean electricity = cheap/clean purified water? Seems higher leverage to focus on the energy part of the equation.
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If a potential employer is only going to look at your GPA, then you probably wouldn't want to work such a jerk.

Having work experience (I'm assuming the 4 years are full time - not internships) and a MS would make you look pretty good. I don't know about the non-work metrics (GitHub & SO), but certainly continuing to work for the likes of Cisco is going to look good.

The only suggestion I would make is to avoid being a jack of all trades. Make sure that your experience is substantial in a small number of in-demand areas.
Why do you think it's mental gymnastics?
Fedora 25 is solid and compatible enough.
Interfaces are a better tool for that case IMO. One small utility interface (save/load) and two implementations would be easier to test in isolation and wouldn't suffer from the fragile base class problem.
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And usually they mean dent corn specifically. Sweet corn, popcorn, etc. are typically said by their more detailed classification.
Most of the length is electrified already. Yekaterinburg-Madrid definitely, Kazakhstan-Yekaterinburg likely, China-Kazakhstan connection and Chinese side probably remains an issue.
I disagree - a simple solution exists, which means you cannot use the mic and a button at the same time. Apple invested time and money to solve this problem in a non-trivial way; it seems perfectly reasonable to me that headset manufacturers wanting to use Apple's solution should pay royalties
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Sure you can.

The #1 reason bankers will shift will be due to 'passporting' issues - banks will require EU based personnel for legal reasons. In this case, I think it's easiest for London banks just to have staff in the easiest and most accessible place: Dublin.

Other than that - I don't see the reason why any jobs at all would go to Europe.

If they can do it from the UK, they will do that.

There is no growth in Europe, it's all in Asia.

Now - I believe the EU is trying to pull some Euro currency exchanges and clearing from London, in which case, there might to be another 'regulatory' reason to switch some people over.

But I think this is overblown. There's nothing pretty about banking in the EU.

London has not become more attractive because it's without EU regulatory limitations - and - they'll have considerable leverage with Theresa May etc. to win more concessions to make it even more competitive.

It's entirely plausible that there are even more banking jobs in London after this is all settled.
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> And that isn't the case in the original quote. The US isn't listed as specifically bad, it is included as a member of a list where the author contends mistreatment of some groups is common:

I contend that the US doesn't belong in that list, and also that a generalization with a single enumeration is almost comical to defend as not attempting to identify as a specific case.

e.g. "Software pirates, including 7Z7, often..."

> the intent may be read as "'we' are not any better at this thing than we imagine 'other' countries are".

Except that the UK and the US is quite good about these things to the extent that the author had to cite something written about _Twitter_ (with a title mocking a perception of men, no less) to make a point about violence.
I discovered recently that the default install of vim on Ubuntu (and I guess Debian in general) includes some customised configuration (/usr/share/vim/vim74/debian.vim), which makes it a bit harder to grasp what's going on.
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