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> My point is that depending on people have a phone number, and even more one that is widely supported (which my current numbers are not) is simply wrong.

Maybe the bank is not interested in serving people like you - and why should they be? A bank needs to be able to loan money to fulfil its function - everything else they do is about enabling the loan business. To be able to make loans they need to be able to have some hope of being repaid, so they need a reliable way of contacting someone tied to that person's identity and expensive to mess with. Emails are ignorable and untraceable. Home address fulfils those functions but isn't really practical as a sole means of contact - would you like them to place suspicions transactions on hold while they send you a letter and wait for your reply?
I specifically mentioned the main engines. And we can't really compare with the F9 when, once again, it has never been reflown. A lot more of the Shuttle was intended to be reusable than ended up being the case - who's to say how that will play out for the F9?

The shuttle main engines required a lot of maintenance and inspection after each flight. That's to be expected at the start of a program, but they never got away from that.
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Menus, Nutritional info, contact details, location map, franchise info, competitions, complaints, job listings and probably more.

(I've not actually checked the site to see if any of these are actually there, but.. these would be valid for nearly any fast food chain)
Me neither, as much as I love that standard and the people involved in making it happen :) Just getting the implementation details right is at least a life time effort. And like you say, a lot could be improved and some is still missing. But as a solid, mature foundation; it beats the mine field that is exploratory language design.
Yep, I've built two very nice servers in erlang, but main problem - only I can extend and modify them in my company, my coworkers can't learn this. One made some inroads into this, but there's just too many cheap .net and java developers around for erlang to be successfull.

Upside for me - I'm irreplaceable. Downside - there's no one to help when something is wrong and company progress is throttled by my performance.
Reminds me of a complain I read on Twitter last week.

Native Australians were angry, that FB blocked their real names, because they seemed fake to them.

They have last names like "Creepingbear" and such.
China is huge, though, and the UK is not. HS2 is dragging in the UK because it's a massive amount of money to spend in order to shave 45m off a trip to Scotland. The cost/benefit ratio is totally different - and with the Hitachi training they're bringing in, the saving goes further down. HS2 is a large waste of money.
It actually says "secure imap server" besides the logo in the page header too.
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I've always wondered when this would happen. If premium content went programmatic we would see a massive upending of the advertising status quo.
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Then ok, I didn't know it was that early stage, but yeah, gather feedback, improve it, get feedback again and repeat this process for as long as needed.
Just a reply of "Hi, our IT staff confirms this is a security issue. We intend to fix it as soon as possible. Thank you for your help." doesn't need to wait for the 3rd party agency to come back from holiday.
> The security of passwords at rest depends on how they are stored.

Insecure passwords are insecure at rest no matter how they are stored..
Wow, congrats. Good engineering. I remember Dovecot for being the easy option back when I ran my own mailserver.
Had some experience with it in BigCorp™. I don't love it, but it works. It's just a plugin that will install node (and npm), run `npm instal` and then run the specified gulp task.

The good part is that it's not that bad to fit within the company infrastructure, particularly if it's a BigCorp kind of thing. It's interesting because it allows you to play well with CI processes and quality rules - I'm thinking about tests here. With this kind of setup, you can make the front-end build fail if e.g. code coverage drops below a given threshold, using the same setup you use for other components.

The boring part is that it's yet another place to put config info. A particularly ugly one which reeks of over-engineering IMHO. Also it's XML; XML isn't quite the song of the front-end people, at least config-wise. :)
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Can anybody explain why Rovio -a finnish company- is going UK while hard-brexit is coming closer ?
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If a package has only one published version with no dependents or real users, the call-to-action should be a button near the top of the screen that should describe the action expected (e.g. "claim package name").

Clicking on this button should start a partly-automated, formal process and not require writing an email or manually soliciting contact with the original owner. This process can then be managed by NPM, who can stop relying on hearsay over whether these disputes are being resolved.

The only reason to bury this within the 'Legal Stuff' section is when you erroneously assume that this action is likely to be a legal issue and informed by patent, trademark or copyright law.

The current solution is cumbersome, not pointed to sufficiently, and likely to become progressively worse as the NPM ecosystem expands. I'd bet many NPM users aren't familiar with this resolution process. (Apart from those that remember the kik and left-pad debacles. "hahah, you’re actually being a dick. so, fuck you. don’t e-mail me back.")

All I'm saying is that this process needs to be clear, structured and measurable.

If NPM was doing a good job here, this HN post would never have been upvoted.
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Huge, and authoritarian. They move whole cities worth of people when it comes time to build a hydroelectric dam, by force if need be.

The west in comparison gets bogged down in NIMBYism and haggling over land value pr CM of track/road. Never mind multiple rounds in court if one of the would be contractors can find any reason to claim the government was biased...
MOOCs are the McDonalds-ification of education. It's disgusting honestly. Western Capitalism is utterly failing to provide a decent, affordable secondary education even to its relatively privileged middle class, so instead they try to convince us that watching a few videos is a decent substitute.

We know how capital views education, just get a service job and watch the horrific training videos. That's what Khan Academy is for aspiring skilled laborers.

Note that the conclusion is "the credentialling problem has to be solved". Credentials are an attempt to commodify learning. So instead of pesky B.S.'s and M.A.'s you'll get some print-at-home Happy Meal prize. No thanks.

According to The Atlantic, it would cost $62B/year to make state colleges tuition free. Last month it was revealed that the Pentagon covered up a report showing how they failed to save $125B over 5 years simply in bureaucratic waste. So while The Economist is telling us how watching videos online is a reasonable alternative to a university education, the kind of funding that could revolutionize American higher education is basically pocket change to the War-makers.

The rush to online education is just one more way Capitalism is hollowing out the United States.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/heres-ex...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/pentagon-burie...
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There's currently going a discussion, whether Rust is ready yet for such a project. See http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7303
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> What were they expecting that to achieve?

we added a crypto for security measures. this seemed like a good place to add a crypto. it is now more secure.

In my basement I have a fingerprint+PIN protected blastproof safe bolted to the foundation. I use it to store my house keys, so that if anyone breaks into my house, they won't get access to my house.
Thats because you are educated and are directly hired.

Tradesman jobs on the other hand...
I remember the struggles I had trying to book a hotel at Essex Junction in Vermont to visit IBM. Netnanny had serious issues with that town (name). I otoh thought it and the people working at the IBM ASIC plant was very nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_Junction,_Vermont
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I think there are two separate issues here: unbounded queues vs finite resources and also the overhead of asynchronous message passing (or "don't make every particle its own actor").

Regarding applying backpressure, you're correct that Erlang doesn't have a silver bullet. Process mailboxes are unbounded and can exhaust resources. Or you can implement a buffer and drop messages based on some strategy.

As for making every 'operation' asynchronous, you could do it and not run into any additional unbounded queue or error handling problems, but it would add overhead without any advantage over concurrency via preemption.
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Hmmm, frankly its just a CLOS object, with the defmethods controlling the iteration. I tried to model the object like Python iterators, however the API ended up a bit more like Haskell.
FTA:

> A phone number is nothing you can just keep. Also i OWN my emails domains. Therefore they are under MY control.

No, no, no.

Just like phone numbers, your domain can be yanked out from under you. In many cases, their are procedures and appeals that can be worked out but realistically, if someone hijacks your DNS, it's over.
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Have you ever taken a MOOC? A quality one, like Andew Ng's Machine Learning, or Data Analysis and Statistical Inference from Duke.
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As mentioned in some other comment my bank was a bad point, i see why its more relevant for banking. While one of my banks is perfectly happy with what i am doing and offers me paper TANs and contacts me via letters the other isnt.

I am more about everything else than banking tho. Things that dont have the need to contact me ASAP and still use SMS for authentification purposes. (Personally i dont even mind verification, i have a number, just not for long)
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Yeah, I agree, we wanna test everything out before we offer our exact solution, we started out during Christmas time with this project and we believe is something that can definitely give value to it's potential users.
C# in depth by John Skeet. This could easily be one of the best computer related books i've ever read. The amazing thing is that is shows with code examples how the language progressed from one version to the next. I've never read anything similar in computer literature. It gave me a deep understanding of the language and all its caveats.
All performance critical stuff is implemented in C++. Python is just for the high-level part.
If one would be a target of automated spammy link attack - let's say a competitor would order 100 spammy links a month for example 3 a day - how could one defend against this kind of attack? (I'm not in such situation, just speculating)

What I'm wondering is how easy it is really to get to top at some more obscure search term by just using nasty black hat tactics. I'm also wondering if this is actually the easiest way to get top of search results. If that is the case than it's really alarming IMHO.
That EC2 example is a bit extreme, but in general I agree with what you are saying. Unfortunately, the reality is that most people paying for software development are more willing to accept these risks than to pay for security.

That said, security is not all-or-nothing. And anyone who believes that modern web-connected software can be 100% secure is either misinformed or trying to sell you something that you probably don't need.
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Pssh, I'll say it - I'd fall for this, more than 0% of the time. Am I an advanced user? I can try to give you an example of some client side TLS thing I have implemented and we can haggle over where the bar is for "advanced", but give me a Saturday night beer-riddled netflix binge and a midnight email check, I'm clicking this link.

I'd hope my 2FA would freak out, around that point, and save me from myself. I guess it would depend on the type of 2FA.
This article is not quantitative or scientific, although I am certain there is some validity to it's claims. Any same person would agree that trying to take these drugs away from addicts will only push them to heroin. However to become addicted one must try a substance, and or medical system has allowed far too many opiates to be sold and facilitated far too many first experiences. To the tune of 4x the number of prescriptions which should exist given US epidemiology.

The interesting question is how you could show rigorously that this type of safety net is effective.
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It's slightly more complicated. Besides WG and HP, Taiwan actually once used 3rd system called "Tongyong-Pinyin" (Tongyong means general/univeral usage), I'll use TP for abbr..

- In Taiwan, it's officially using TP during 2002~2008, the reason was to unify romanize/pinyin system for Mandarin/Taiwanese Hokkien/Taiwanese Hakka.

- It was then switched to HP at 2008 for English-friendlier environment.

- It is 100% Bopomofo in education. For most Taiwanese people we use Bopomofo as computer input method, but there are alternatives like Cangjie (based on how we write characters), Ziran (means natural literally, which is a mix of Cangjie and Bopomofo plus some heuristic). The alternatives are invented because there are too many characters sharing the same Bopomofo, you still have to choose characters after typed Bopomofo. Most alternatives have low market share in general public, but high market share in typing heavy jobs.

- Because WG was officially translation rule of ministry of foreign affairs before 2002 and they only recommend instead of forcing switch to TP/HP, so name of most city and people are still based on WG. So does those widespread words (like, Peking Duck).
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I find the biggest way you can improve your coffee is to get out the kitchen scale and weigh it rather than using a scoop/spoon to measure it. That makes a much bigger difference than grinding.

I think there's lots of room for education to explain brewing methods. People know all about how to store and open and taste wine (for example), but coffee it's just a drip pot or Nespresso, which are both pretty subpar.
Does never having any interest in anything count?

Still, my work is not my (whole) life and is nothing more than a way to earn money to support me. At least that way I'm not disappointed by my current job, which is mostly useless and unrewarding.
Forget high speed rail. It would be great if the trains weren't 30+ years old.

On the lines I most often use the carriages don't have automatic doors. I'm constantly embarrassed when I have to show visitors how to open the window, stick their hand out and use the handle on the outside to open the door (which is how it's done).
Is the article a bit strange? They say Liu Zhijun was "removed for corruption", which, of course, in China, does not mean anything. They mention the crash in 2011 but not that the government wrapped up rescue efforts the next day and buried the trains.
It's looking good. I am fan of "brandon-grotesque" which you used as your heading in homepage.

There is an issue in 2nd section with id #answers_not_reports. In that section you have used bootstrap class row without warping it inside container which is causing horizontal scroll in webpage. Wrap it inside a container. If you want full width container in bootstrap use .container-fluid class instead of .container class.

it seems like you have used three different font-faces "paralucent", "Open sans" and "brandon-grotesque". Using too many web-fonts can make your site load slow. I think "brandon-grotesque" for heading and "Open sans" for body will be good.
This seems to be a common practice, storing UserIDs, Usernames, etc. in cookies rather than a unique SessionID that can be used to look those things up (and will expire). I'm curious as to where people are getting the idea to build things that way.

Because it never would have occurred to me to do so. Or rather, had it occurred, it would have immediately begged the question of "what happens when the user monkeys with their cookie". Surely everybody else thinks the same way.

If so, how do we end up with this? Are there really "Teach yourself in 21 Days" books that have examples with this pattern that people are following?

Or does everybody just assume that they're going to be Facebook with 4000 servers and no way to quickly generate or store or manage or look up those keys for millions of simultaneous users, and that it's worth the tradeoff?
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>> Few people in Russia use Google for Russian language searches

This is not true, Google has >20% share in Russia iirc
That's a ligature for the "ae" diphthong in Latin though, rather than the ash character of Old English. There's also an "oe" diphthong, hence "oestrogen", "foetus".

British usage usually preserves the "a" and "o" in those diphthongs.
> I thought this is more common in Europe, but apparently it's not?

It is. Most of the other Dutch banks do use such a device (I haven't seen devices that try to read your screen yet though).
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>The Compute Module 3 will be used in NEC’s new range of smart, large-format displays

That’s interesting. Upgradable CPUs in a TV? I know it’s been done before, but never trivially or cheaply.
Just to add to the discussion - Blue Origin don't land on land yet, but when they start doing orbital launches with New Glenn, they will have to.

IIRC Blue were sitting on some "landing on a barge" patents that SpaceX successfully fought, because they were far too obvious.
> otherwise they'd already have changed it

Do you really believe that? I was just reading someone comment's on Reddit yesterday about him working for a bank that only recently stopped working with credit card number transfers in the clear...

Some if not most of the banks just use ancient technology for the same reason most other big corporations do - they don't really "get" the security "value" so they don't bother to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in new infrastructure.
In case anybody else had no idea what this is:

The Compute Module is a Raspberry Pi in a more flexible form factor, intended for industrial application.

The compute module contains the guts of a Raspberry Pi (the BCM2835 processor and 512Mbyte of RAM) as well as a 4Gbyte eMMC Flash device (which is the equivalent of the SD card in the Pi). This is all integrated on to a small 67.6x30mm board which fits into a standard DDR2 SODIMM connector (the same type of connector as used for laptop memory). The Flash memory is connected directly to the processor on the board, but the remaining processor interfaces are available to the user via the connector pins. You get the full flexibility of the BCM2835 SoC (which means that many more GPIOs and interfaces are available as compared to the Raspberry Pi), and designing the module into a custom system should be relatively straightforward as we’ve put all the tricky bits onto the module itself.

source - https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module/
It was absent from Old English, which used "cw" instead of "qu".
Both of those definitions are wrongly stated, and that's why you're producing this wrong belief about primary residences.

An an economic sense, an investment is an allocation of capital. Certainly consumer purchases of durable goods are not investments. The most common type of capital to invest is money, but other types might apply. By investing, one becomes the beneficiary of some of the means of production. Real estate is a perfect example. Real estate is always an economic investment, whether one then consumes the output or not. Also, by the way, many investments in this sense are consumable, usually with long rates of depreciation. That applies to a CNC machine, it applies to a fleet of productive vehicles, and it applies to buildings, including primary residences. If the fact that a house degrades with use makes it not-an-investment, you argue yourself into an obviously-silly corner.

Your line about "it's a bad financial one" is almost too foolish to touch. A bad financial investment is still an investment. Telling people that a bad investment is not an investment is not communicating, it's posturing. Financially, if you buy a candy bar, and its value drops, it was still an investment (a poor one).

If you want to make the claim that housing is a poorly-chosen investment, that's a different claim. Although, without knowing more about the life circumstances of the would-be investor, a fairly preposterous one, since it's clearly a good investment for many people, in practice.
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Makes me think of Intel's IME. It has legitimate uses on corporate desktops and servers. But when it makes its way to consumer desktops it runs face first into a massive conflict of interest.
Agree, MOSS is the "boss" of the SOS project; as stated in theSOS's budget appears to be $500k to start per:
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At least they've still got windows. Around here you have to put up with aircon that doesn't work in summer and a heater that's turned up way to high in winter. I find the older ones with windows provided much better temperature control.
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TV appearances don't always show how well the crowd was monitored and people in it vetted and searched. And I can think of plenty of Western leaders that have made TV appearances standing in the middle of an apparent non hand-picked crowd. John Major standing on a soapbox surrounded by crowds jeering at him and waving placards condemning his government springs to mind. (Imagine a crowd being allowed to do that in Iran!)

The US president is a more potent symbol of his country's power and values than Iran's president and thus a more conspicuous target (even without taking into account the importance America citizens attach to possessing firearms as a supposed bulwark against tyranny)