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Site simulators aren't very new technology. Police departments have had these devices for so long that they were even mentioned in The Wire (2002) with the exact brand name (StingRay).

Handsets will always connect to the basestation with the strongest signal, there is no authentication involved. They then "exploit" (it's really by design) a feature of GSM where you can simply tell the handset not to use any encryption, and since the interface between baseband chip and application processor (the ARM that runs your Android or iOS) is more akin to a cold war curtain than actual information exchange, your device won't ever notify you. Even if they enable the old A55 encryption, that can be cracked in realtime nowadays.

One popular use is to mount them on a drone, wait for it to detect a particular IMSI and then bomb the general area. That is the reality of the so called "precision strikes" in Afghanistan or Iraq.
You're nitpicking on TGV without making an argument within the discussion.
The name reminds of those half a dozen home cleaning service startups that a couple of people kept starting.
Your idea of "cost effective" is quite different from an Indian street vendor.
Or some will just automate, while others go out of business, and then you're left with still more expensive crops than before without any workers getting paid to pick them.

But I'm sure those "slaves" will thank you.
>Then there's of course the fact that almost nobody (with citizenship) actually wants to pick crops...

This is complete bullshit and needs to quit being touted. Americans are not afraid of hard, back-breaking labor. I grew up in the Midwest surrounded by corn and soy beans (and not too many illegal or legal immigrants). Tons of my white, middle class friends went out into the field to pollinate corn in the summers or went down to strawberry fields to pick when they came in season.

What a sheltered life you must lead if you've never met an American that does manual labor or works in a field...
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...with a clean cap table.
These countries will benefit immeasurably when electric/battery scooters are cheap, efficient, and superior in every way to their unbelievably noisy two-stroke counterparts. It's amazing that one dinky little vehicle can make so much pollution and racket.

Leaf blowers used to be exclusively crappy two-stroke engines that would make a huge racket. Now at least there's a lot of electric competition.
Mortgages.

Now, you could argue that the expectation of future inflation is built into the mortgage interest rate at the time you obtain the mortgage. And you'd be correct. But once you have the mortgage, then inflation helps you. Or rather, it helps you when your wages rise in response to inflation.
I removed the "power law" language from the post, other than a quick "this is often called a power law, which probably isn't correct" note. I don't want to get bogged down in statistics when all I really care about here is "it's fat and one sided".
I remember this. "Be careful what you wish for" is going to be a running theme for the next couple of years. I suspect a lot of folks are going to be wishing things had just been left alone.
>t's not exactly that there wouldn't be some kind of safety nets in Europe. It's more that those safety nets become traps for some people.

You'd be surprised. Many of the southern countries have rigid labor laws and strong family ties instead of government safety nets .
This is superficial, but what is the successrate of startups that end in -joy? Homejoy and Staffjoy closed shop, are there others that closed or survived?
Why is it a PC overreaction?

If a parent sees their 8 year old watching they will get upset. They will look into it and find out Disney is supporting the show. Disney now has to deal with pissed off parents who can say (justifiably) they support anti-semitic content.

This is primarily a children's entertainer.
Signal by Open Whisper Systems is far and away the most popular right now.
I got the .com for $10 3 years ago, so I've been happy with it :-)
> I mean, they all provide pixel-identical output?

I wonder if this is even possible once you move it to the GPU. Reading about some of the fingerprinting methods in browsers lately, many rely on different GPU's doing different things with the same input.
Honest question, what is the reason for using a global store for form validation? That seems like the ideal use-case for local component state.
But does this also mean that there won't be any new open data shared by the new administration? If a revamped open data site doesn't ever land then this is still pretty disturbing.
The tenured faculty has no incentive to go on a strike/subvert the power structure. They are very much beneficiaries of the system.
Banana leaves may be traditional and popular in southern India where banana grows aplenty. In Delhi banana leaves would be used in chic restaurants with traditional touch. It is no way going to be used by street vendors.

I have normally seen steel plates/spoon used by street vendors. Not very hygienic as they just rinse in water after use.
they should call trump and as for the national guard
It depends on what kind(s) of development you are doing. I've become more comfortable on mac and linux than on windows... but even in windows now, I'm more inclined to be in a bash prompt (via git, and conemu) than I am a console prompt.

Node is my current dev environment of choice, but I'm mostly doing service level things or web-based applications. So it fits well for that use case. Of course it also shapes my choices if I did do desktop stuff as I'd more likely reach for ReactNative or Electron. Even if I'm very interesting in getting my feet wet with go and rust.
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Most tree-grown fruits fall off the tree easily when ripe, so something like this cherry harvester seems like it would be a lot more efficient - https://youtu.be/YKu6xwJptkc?t=2m4s
Ignore Tucker Carlson, economist Mark Blyth got famous recently for being virtually the only economist who predicted Trump's win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-hV_XS8dH4
My first reaction was "probably because elephants sound like I'd like trumpets," and indeed that's the main theory (more of a guess) floated at the end of the article.
> I've already maxed out my 401K loans on the Japanese game set

"After preserving this set, I sold it and used the proceeds, plus an additional $10,000 of my own money [presumably this is the 401k loan], to purchase all 1450 games sold in Japan."

$10k isn't really that much (it wont destroy his ability to retire), and once he sells the games after dumping them, presumably he can pay back the loan anyways.
Why not use Markdown instead of MediaWiki syntax?

About URLs, you can take a look at StrongLink: https://github.com/btrask/stronglink

Your JSON subset is very interesting too: https://github.com/seagreen/Son
>The administrators are often former or current faculty.

That used to be true but not anymore. A lot of the administrative stuff these days are career administrators.
"The simplicity goal means that it doesn't have many features like tabs or scroll back as in other terminals."

It's easy to be faster when you do less.
I find it ironic that the author of this article bemoans the incompetent wikipedia admin who deleted the article, yet she didn't bother spending the 30 seconds necessary to post a comment on the talk page.

Wikipedia works through volunteers, and if you don't bother giving up a little bit of your time to improve it, you don't really have any right to complain.

I see regular articles on HN prophesying the death of wikipedia, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
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Ask HN: What are some of the biggest pain points when deploying applications?
What are some of the biggest pain points that developers are experiencing when trying to deploy an application to production and what are some of the current tools that are being used to help alleviate some of these problems?
"You do not, in my city, run into bloggers or so-called citizen journalists at city hall,
or in the courthouse hallways, or in the bars where police officers gather..."

But this is 2017, and most cities are one-newspaper towns, generally exhibiting close, mutually-protective relationships between commercial media and government decision-makers. I've seen major papers outright lie about events in city council meetings and legislation (for two examples) when they thought nobody would hold them accountable. I've seen written accounts of speakers and audiences at city council meetings that the reporter didn't even attend. (And if you search online, you may well find independent reporting "gadfly" groups or individuals you didn't know existed -- the local commercial media sure wouldn't tell you. Nextdoor can also be useful, but the signal-to-noise ratio is often low.)

One example process: local governments dish out taxpayer money to pseudo-independent "service organizations". Those organizations use part of these funds to buy advertising in local media and on public transit agencies. Those media, in turn, do flowery reporting on those local governments and soft-pedal police violence and union corruption, resulting in situations like "The Riders" in the Oakland Police Department[0]. This is too often the circle of modern urban "journalism". And that's without even addressing the issue of predatory corporate behavior by publishers themselves[1].

The broader point: modern, for-profit media are exactly that -- for-profit businesses. Their fiduciary duty is to maximize shareholder value. Objectivity and honesty are orthogonal to short- and medium-term profit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_v._City_of_Oakland

[1] http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.29.97/spanish-pre...
I'm not sure - did any good really come of the Obama admin's open data? I don't think I saw any going to particularly good use myself at least.

While open data in general may be good, if it produces no real valuable results it may be more work than it's worth.
No production basestation ever used the "no encryption" mode. No handset should ever accept using it, just as no browser will accept to using the NULL cipher. So what is the justification 25 years on?
The biggest reason for this is that some employers are nasty exploiters. I'd like to make-believe that everyone treats each other well, but it just isn't so. The laws aren't designed to accuse everyone, but to protect future workers from suffering a similar fate.

So you wind up getting laws designed so that employers need to be fair when firing, allowing folks time off after pregnancy (including men), allowing folks to stay home when they are sick, and making sure folks can try to correct their ways before getting fired.

And contrary to your belief, enforcement of laws seems to happen here (norway). Temp agencies seem to be much more used than they were in the US.. and weirdly less predatory to the worker. It still sucks only having a temp job, but that's how a lot of folks get started working here.
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It's true. There is a riff in "Mad Men" where they just walk off and leave picnic litter in a park. That was also true.
IANAL, but I believe that the state is the only one with the authority to deploy a national guard within its borders; the president can only deploy the army domestically if the insurrection act is invoked.
> if you checked in AGPL code

This sounds like taking some of Pijul's source code and putting it inside another project. That would certainly have business implications, which justifies ninjas. It's possible to use AGPL as a business strategy (I worked at a company whose main product used CPAL[1] which has a similar network-use clause); but such decisions should not be made via VCS commit.

Of course, if the choice of AGPL prevents a business from reusing Pijul's code then presumably that's why they chose AGPL. That's kind of the point of copyleft.

I imagine very few businesses would care about Pijul's source code though. If Pijul matures into a compelling tool, then the relevant phrase would be "if you used an AGPL command"; no need for ninjas there, unless (as others note) you're building a PijulHub or something.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Public_Attribution_Lice...
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Ridejoy was also YC funded and closed. (This was the first thing I thought of also.)
No. I would rather automation replace the abuse of illegal immigrant labor.
It seems like Oracle could have a play here, working on adapting cloud infrastructure tools for managing on-premises data centers. That keeps them in play for customers who can't put their data in the cloud and those that haven't because they're already Oracle customers.

This pendulum swings. We're pretty near the apex now. A little work on ergonomics and these tools could be turn-key, and back we go to decentralized hardware.
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Thanks for this very comprehensive reply.

1. I'm trying to be positive :)

2. I should have gone into more detail on that, but the solution I had in mind was not so much a specific policy as a putting-forth of basic principles which they wanted to see administration recentered around.

3. True enough.

4. I know it's more complex than it looks at first glance. Administration increasingly requires compliance with many state and federal regulations which costs money, and likewise sports teams bring in cash from nostalgic alumni, and indirectly subsidize other things.

5. This goes to the heart of what I'm talking about. I find myself wanting to arrange blind dates between members of the engineering, humanities, and economics faculties to figure out ways they could be supporting rather than competing with each other.

6. for sure, and I hope that changes.

7. Clearly I'm leaning too much on a vision of the university as a calling and not enough on its reality as a cut-throat research marketplace.

Thanks again for this in-depth exploration of the issues. I'll keep it in mind on my future reading.
Not necessarily - there can be inflation without worker's pay increases, and inflation leads to more costly credit - so someone in that situation is twice as worse-off as before.
> I wonder if this is even possible once you move it to the GPU.

Different GPUs should produce pixel-identical output. If not, it's a bug either in Pathfinder or the driver.
Using EBay's P/E ratio of 21x, Craigslist owners have 2 options:

1. $300MM in profit each year, which has risk of going up or down.

2. Sell company for $6.3 billion ($300 x 21) and walk.

Note: I don't have time to investigate why Bloomberg is telling me EBay PE ratio is 21, vs Google Finance is 5x.
I simply don't believe this. The cost to develop a system that isn't a horribly complex, unintuitive UX disaster is that much more expensive? We aren't talking about amazing AV quality with lag, we're talking about a system that doesn't take 15 minutes out of a meeting to get working.
I don't think the parent poster suggested there be no regulation or taxes.

Clearly there are more to countries than tax rates and regulations. However, the parent poster relates an anecdote where one country with less restrictive regulation is chosen over another, all other things being equal.

So to answer your question, if a country has a superior market or the right labor pool, then it will succeed despite higher tax rates or restrictive regulations, to a point.

Despite a zero corporate tax rate and few regulations, Somalia still hasn't posed a threat to Europe and the U.S. as a corporate headquarters. The "race to the bottom" is bounded by other factors besides tax rates and regulation. Rule of law, enforceability of contracts, access to a skilled labor pool, access to markets, etc. are more important.

Interestingly enough, these factors are a correlated to sufficient government revenue and regulation to uphold contracts and satisfy labor.
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I started a project last night and ran into dependency hell because my distro's compiler was on version 1.14 instead of 1.15, so it's not always that easy.
The article calls dismisses one or two year contract jobs as temporary work. All jobs are temporary in at-will environment!

Meanwhile, according to the article (which quotes a report based on numbers 5 years old, so who knows how things are now), 50% of new jobs in the EU are still permanent. And 20% of the temp contracts turn into permanent positions.

Not that permanent is actually permanent, employers in the EU fire permanent employees all the time (either for cause, or because there is no viable business alternative; permanent positions also come with a 3-6 month "at-will" probationary period).
Essentially just asking if my browser was running it correctly :)
Are most tree-grown fruits actually harvested when ripe? I seem to recall reading something a while back about how most fruit is picked before it is ripe, and picking is timed such that it ripens by the time it gets transported to the warehouse, grocery store, purchased, etc.
I'm sharing a cabinet with a few other people in one of Hurricane Electric's datacenters. A full cabinet is $400/mo and we split it 7 ways based on space and power consumption.

If you can't get together the people for a full cabinet (which I think is definitely worth it, the more you buy at once, the cheaper it gets), there are a number of providers that offer single server colocation. The only one I've really heard much about though is Joe's Datacenter, which is in Kansas City, Missouri.

Unfortunately there isn't really a "Linode" or "DO" in the colocation space anymore. There used to be https://prgmr.com, which offered transparent pricing based on power and bandwidth usage but they've stopped that I believe. The few global providers are generally geared towards multinational corporations or at least businesses more than small groups or hobbyists. You're really best off with the smaller regional providers near wherever you are.
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An astute analysis - depressing but hard to disagree with.
Unless you have a variable-rate mortgage, of course.
One thing these comments show is that tracking is not accurate.
If I have a debt at an interest rate of 4% and inflation is 5% my debt is worth less every year relative to the value of other things. If I have a debt at an interest rate of 5% and inflation is 2.5% the value of the debt is increasing. This effect is increased if only interest is being paid and the asset the debt is for does not increase in value (like a car).

Add to this that wages are relatively stagnant for most people outside of tech since the 80s in some countries and you have a problem. It can get even worse where wages are kept stagnant by government intervention and inflation goes up faster than 5%.
Try telling that to the working public who basically hasn't gotten a raise in 30 years in spite of sky-rocketing productivity.
GitHub's logo always reminds me of the octopus merge; not sure if it was chosen for this reason, but I think it's quite suitable.
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21 days seems pretty excessive to be stuck in customs. I've sent a fair bit of stuff between UK and US and I've never had it take so long to clear customs. Plus they usually explicitly say that it's cleared customs.

It seems very odd that it would take that long.

Did you pay the right duties and tax on this? It may be that it's still with customs and they have absolutely no idea what a giant box of old SNES games is worth?
Is "dysfunctional" illegal?
There's another explanation for "there are too many graduates", which is that universities increasingly give diplomas to people who don't deserve them, becoming diploma mills and collecting ever increasing tuition from too many students.

I've taught at a university and felt the pressure to assign higher grades even though I felt I was being fair. The whole concept of aiming to give the same percentage of As, Bs, etc in each group of students is antithetical to the idea of a degree, and is one factor that led to my deciding to never teach again.
Right, the raw representations are convertible (at some point a patch-oriented darcs/pijul has to build a snapshot so that it can build a working tree; at various times you want to see the diffs in git or format a patch file to email). It does have more to do with the representation of change context both between patches (strict DAG versus algebraic sets with looser change context models), and even to some extent within a patch (in a classic diff the tools use hardcoded line numbers; in something like darcs/pijul even the line numbers of a patch aren't necessarily taken as a given and are a part of the context of the change).
Cratejoy should be concerned, then.
Those increase longevity on the shelves. Plastic food packaging is usually a net win because of the waste it prevents. Glad they didn't ban that.
I think Gary's commit counts are off:

$ git log | wc -l

This should count the number of lines in the entire git log, including metadata (not just commits). I think he means this:

$ git log --oneline | wc -l

The number of commits for Rails should be closer to 61,000.
I get packages from Europe via DHL every week at work. They are never handed off to USPS, they come in a DHL van. However, they certainly might use USPS for some residential deliveries.

What DHL doesnt do anymore is US->US (domestic) shipments. International delivery is still definitely handled in the US by DHL themselves.
It's been quite some time I ate at street vendors there. In past they would invariably have steel plates/spoons and wash after use. I imagine at least in past it was quite cheaper as compare to plastic/paper wares.
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The apple picker is a prototype, from Abundant Robotics, an SRI spinoff. It suffers from being a Silicon Valley R&D effort - the computer technology is cool, and the mechanical parts are too flimsy. Somebody needs to get those guys some hardass mechanical designers from John Deere or Caterpillar or Ponsse who know how to make machinery work reliably in the field. I think they're still at the angel investor stage. They'll need another funding round soon, and if they're lucky, their funder will know who to put in there to get the thing out of R&D and into production.
it isn't
Years ago, I was told by an executive at a company that I did some consulting for that it cost them the equivalent of seven years of an employee's annual salary to fire someone if the employee was working in their French subsidiary.

I suspected that there was some hyperbole in that claim, but perhaps a HN reader knows just how costly it is to fire an employee in France, for example.
Watch out because some CJK fonts from Microsoft require hinting to render correctly. They are made up of composite glyphs where each sub-glyph corresponds to a brush stroke and hinting is used to scale and position them.

More details here:

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2011/10/truetype-hinting-big-s...
Of course. A culture is made of a bunch of individuals with a common method of communication. I disagree, though, that I can't impose my priorities on others. What makes you say I can't?
Does this mean that as long as you use different strong passwords for everything (via say, 1Password), and do NOT use a fingerprint unlock, Cloud Analyzer wouldn't work?

Or is it extracting login info in some other manner that would still function?
I also think there's a phenomenon in which artists can be classified into innovators and refiners. The refiners aren't as innovative as the innovators, but the innovators aren't as refined as the refiners. Some people are able to hear the potential in innovators, but their work is harder to appreciate, especially outside its historical context.