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I am writing a second reply to you because this is a new thought and only something I just remembered which seems to not be covered by your proposal.

I was involved with a startup in the past several years where one of the people in the startup had a relative that was an official in a federal bureaucracy. The startup was in an area which was tangential to the regulatory authority of that bureaucracy, but relied on third parties which definitely were under that authority. The relative, it was reported, made it clear that if we thought that the third parties were acting in a less than compliant fashion towards us, thus hindering us, we should let them know so they could make it right. I expect our colleague made a bigger deal of how connected they were with us than may have been warranted, but the implication was clear: I'm connected and can pull strings if someone gets in our way.

Now of course a company reporting a regulatory problem they're having with another company isn't underhanded, no matter the connections... but I have a hunch that having the contact within the establishment would have helped that claim move up in the line or be taken more seriously than a claim coming in without the proper introductions (if you will). I don't expect the relative gave our colleague the yellow-pages number (yeah, I'm old) to make such a report, just in case, if you know what I mean.

But the key here is that this didn't even involve a politician. Rent-seeking in a highly regulated environment doesn't even have to come through the politicians. It can be made through the appointed and career officials that create and enforce the regulations mandated by legislators. This is especially true today when so much of law is simply and vaguely mandating the creation of categories of regulation rather than actually specifying what is law and what it is not.
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It's just a demonstration of how the hierarchy works in the abstract. And it's just displaying the price on the meter, not saying the "car" has to deal with that. The driver would, or the player, if you look at this like game code, which would make sense.
Also consider whatever you value your hourly rate. You can work/do whatever you want for an extra hour in a driverless car on your way to work but you cant do that in a traditional car. There are other cost factors here besides electricity/gas.
Ha. Part of what you say is true... he helped me to be a better programmer. I would just jump right into and start coding. Now I actually write all the logic and functions out before starting which saves me so much time.

His greatest lesson to me: You can't really code for the customer if you don't understand what your program is supposed to do for the customer.

Though we did part ways and he did say some words to me that I was not fond of. That was just the type of person he was. I actually parted ways with him more nicely writing an email thanking him for giving me exposure to the programming world once again. He was mad about it, but hey, I was being courteous and trying my best not to burn bridges.

To let you know the type of person he is/was: I received a nice paycheck from the IRS a few years later out of no where from his business. He must've been audited.

But he did take a chance on me and I am grateful for that. It pushed me back into the world of programming and development. Without this job, I wouldn't have gotten the experience for the companies that came afterwards to take me seriously as a professional coder/programmer/developer.

And Visual Basic 6.0 was quite outdated... he was probably the last company to even still be using it. Had I stayed, I was working on a web version of the program. But choosing another job, going forward, moving on... I actually got hired and moved across the country by another company.
STL is exactly those simple data structures referenced in this article. For a long time it didn't even have something as basic as a hash table.
That's probably the most ironic comment I've read in awhile. Maybe you should try to not apply the very black and white thinking you look down upon so much.
What is the right order?
The problem is being addressed both supply-side (H1B body shops) and demand-side (salaries and working conditions are broadly better than they used to be IMO). So it is hard to say.

I do think there is some truth in "ten years of experience" versus "one year of experience times ten". There are a lot of jobs in this industry where you only have to know so much, and that's all you have to know. CRUD forms are CRUD forms, at least until they change the technology stack.

Software is a fad-driven industry, but I think the underlying reason for continual new-stack fetishism is to shake-out the 1x10 people, rather than say the 5x2 people.
"While your federal protections are probably limited to antifraud..."

Thank god I am German, all that trouble is not my problem. If Paypal owes me, I can sue them. Simple as that.
I find that the side-to-side motion is nearly natural. However, the up-down movement seems to introduce clipping between the lower eye lid and the iris in addition to slightly smudged upper lid. Still very cool technology. And here I thought Skolkovo was long dead.
When passwords are case insensitive I'm always skeptical that they are storing passwords in plain text.

Ofcourse they could be using a function to change the case before putting it through a oneway function but it just adds to the suspicion.

The other horrid offence that I see banks make is preventing users from pasting / autofilling their passwords. This just asks for people to use common easy to guess passwords instead of a password manager.
Well the Google Apple non-poaching secret agreement demonstrated who's a filthy communist. Right?
Oh ! sorry never thought you were saying Python was the source of the problem.

Since Python happened to be a common feature common between our two scenarios, wanted to caution other HN'ers not to put blame on Python. In my case Python was indeed doing the right thing.
For those of you working on Windows, may I suggest PyScripter:

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(not affiliated but I want to support it by bringing it to your awareness)

It's a native IDE, it's fast, doesn't crash, there is a portable version as well. I use it for the last four or five years when developing in Python.
Any tips on finding one? I'm assuming you don't mean infectious disease specialist. I'm familiar with most of the allergists in my area and none are immunologists.I just did a search on google and I can't seem to find any in SoCal.

Are they clustered somewhere in the country? Like how all the geneticists seem to be on the east coast, and the limited geneticists here all seem to be in children's hospitals.
I wouldn't use it without end-to-end encryption, and I probably wouldn't trust your implementation of encryption (no offense, but probably you can't be a wizard at both financial software and encryption software) unless you used some proven third-party solution. And even then ... I would just keep the data local and encrypted. Why do I need to put it in the cloud?

However, I'm a tiny market of 1, and I and the HN crowd are not representative. While I'd love it if you designed your solution specifically for me, it probably wouldn't be good for your revenues (for good software, I'll pay $100/yr!).

People put their financial information online all the time, using QuickBooks, tax software, Mint, etc. Most have no idea what end-to-end encryption means, but if you tell them it's more secure I imagine they will like that. As an 'influencer', I might be more likely to recommend it (with the caveats in the first paragraph).

Is there some liability involved? What if there is a breach and their data is stolen? What if you tell them it's encrypted, there's an exploit, and your claim on which they depended turns out to be false?
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His suicide was before the bombings/witchhunt even happened.
TL/DR: In this article, the FEE only does what it was created to do: tell us how socialism is a bad idea while liberal capitalism is a good one.
No surprise here.
Thanks for very informative video. Sketches and diagrams on top of code are really well done. I wish more tutorials would use them.
Yes, and to be clear I am not calling on developers or browser makers to abandon JS.

I'm talking about an additional API that is more suitable to polyglot support in the browser and more in tune with how modern browser frameworks work.

JS would remain a first-class language, and users of libraries or frameworks such a React would have to make very few changes to their application if they had to make any at all. The difference is the new API used by React itself to render HTML elements would be faster with native support for diffing and batching updates. Less work would be performed in blocking script contexts or on UI threads with changes to content being essentially atomic.

A developer could decide to implement an ES6 module and use a new tag, <import module />, instead of <script>.

This tag would support JS, WASM, and a new Dynamic WASM with support for interpreted and dynamic languages like Python or Ruby or Clojure or Elm using a similar bytecode and syntax to WASM.

The <script> tag would not change and the window, navigator, and document objects and DOM APIs will be available as always.

The same would be true for Angular, Ember and even JQuery.
> the management can't tell who's any good

When they don't know what to do, they resort to the basics, i.e. "he will stay alive longer, he is underpaid, get him".
Sounds like just-world fallacy. There's plenty of examples of people who take actions that do not lead to desirable outcomes. The idea that people choosing something in itself proves its value is nonsense.
I'm looking at using Paypal for my next business, and it scares me that there is no recourse whenever an issue arises. I need to receive payments and send payments to workers, mostly in Europe. I'm doing a marketplace for jobs kind of like Upwork. I'm based in the USA, so Paypal makes it possible. Are there any alternatives to Paypal? I've been talking with Payoneer, but they have not inspired much confidence. I had my paypal account frozen about 10 years ago for a bullshit reason, and I'd like to avoid using them again.
You mean just for launching apps? Basically I think there's nothing faster than Spotlight; Cmd-Space, then type the first one or two letters of the application name and hit Enter.
A better solution is to have async syscalls, this helps both the scheduler (you could batch return) and given a proper language the developer as well. The microkernel approach still suffers from the high context switch overhead and IMO it would be better to use something similar to an exokernel while implementing most things in userspace.
I'm all for pointing out problems.

I do it all the time and probably bothered a good amount of my friends.

I just find this problem reported massively more than it is worth. Everybody who cares even a bit is long aware. Today, I will appreciate posts on "what we did about this problem already". And I have already seen one just recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13194074
just yesterday was checking many browsers, Firefox on Android is slow, was comparing loading times and it was very slow compared to Brave it RSBrowser or even Chrome plus no pull down to refresh is killer and there doesn't even seem to be plugin to add this only button or more fingers gesture or not just swipe down

on bright side on desktop i switched from chrome to Firefox and it seem ok, though it seem not so many pages are cached and need reload when switching many tabs
I've connected on a colocated server that's on a switch with a gigabit pipe from Hurricane Electric, which peers with SpiderOak's ISP. This should rule out ISP throttling completely, as the only ISPs involved are transit providers. I've only ever heard of throttling from consumer ISPs. I might try from a server with premium bandwidth from GCP or something later though.
I think some of the context for "WNOHANG is a bit of a hack" got lost.

> You can sort of work around it by calling waitpid(...WNOHANG) every tenth of a second or so.

For event loops, you can still use SIGCHLD (which is portable) or signalfd (which integrates better into event loops). This avoids the extra syscall every loop through the event loop.
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> The problem is that our industry, unlike every other single industry except acting and modeling (and note neither are known for “intelligence”) worship at the altar of youth

Popular music, athletics, professional team sports, combat sports, hospitality, beauticians, the military (a big one, that one), until recently airline hostesses... there's tons of them.
It could just be a network effect you know. Standard startup idea these days is to do whatever it takes to hook people in and then use network effects. Seed some social service in whatever way it takes, at some tipping point, people who don't like your service still need to participate because it's where the other people are.
2014 article, and the pushback on Gladwell's book began almost as soon as it came out. I think there is a certain level of misunderstanding the argument he makes, in that it is assumed that the person engaging in the practice meets the minimum requirements for the activity. If you can't amass enough muscle mass, no amount of practice will make you into an NFL lineman. The problem is that in more complex activities or in areas of aesthetics like the arts, what the required level of talent to attain a high level is hard to quantify or recognize.
I take great pride in paying taxes. It's such a good deal when I look at what it would cost to be American.

I'm not trying to rag on being American. But I've got close ties with the U.S. so often I compare what a life event would have been like, had I been a typical U.S. family of my economic class.
yes it is, from cofounder of Mozilla

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
>>this is only used with the new keyword

This so not true. "this" is much wider paradigm in JS.
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brave browser try this business model with their ad blocker, though i am also using adaway
If I buy real estate as an investment, I can deduct the mortgage like any business loan. Why artificially penalize owners who want to live in their properties over owners who don't?
Salaries have gone up, and software companies regularly rank among the very best companies to work for in the world. What exactly are you expecting?
In what country are you paying taxes? And is your tax rate above or below 30%?

Based on anecdotal evidence, I think that people paying more than 30% rarely ever "love" paying taxes. Below that, it seems to feel much more ok (I'm also below 30% and - while I'm not enthusiastic about paying taxes - it feels like a fair deal).
I suspect conservatives are more strongly on both sides of the civil forfeiture issue than the left is (a bit like how civil rights once divided the Democrat party, leaving Republicans as spectators).

Yes, the right is more hostile to arbitrary use of power by government, than the left. But the right is also more strongly in favour of cops and other law-and-order matters.

I'm also interested in the slight similarity between this and debates about the "rights" of companies. In both cases, officials find it easier to do what they want because they make their case against a persons property, which doesn't have the rights that the person has.
In the context of discussing monopolies, whichever is most conducive to bringing value to the consumer, and harms the market least. So it's definitely a debatable point.
>The statement says the band members were told they did not have to acquire work visas because they “were in no way going to earn money from it or receive any form of payment.”

>“They confiscated our cellphones and we were denied the possibility of contacting our families and loved ones,” the statement reads. “Around 10:30 p.m., two prison officers frisked us, handcuffed us and brought us to jail in a police car. We spent the night in jail and had been escorted there as though we were three criminals.”

Unnecessarily heavy handed for what sounds like a simple misunderstanding.

>The control agents who did a quick check on the concerts we informed them of noticed that two of the venues were asking for entry fees and this was enough to convince them that we needed work visas

Pretty thin evidence of any wrong doing on the part of the three individuals involved. Someone else is getting paid so you need a work visa, enjoy your night in jail.
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I don't think we really need more regulations in this area. There is already a bunch of privacy related laws on the books.

Plus using data to improve the user experience, recommendations(YouTube, Netflix), targeted ads seems pretty neat(I prefer ads about tech products, my interests compared to makeup or pads). The products get better and improve. Facebook doesn't sell your information, they let advertisers use it to target you. Probably more profitable to let companies use the data instead of selling it.

Companies like LexisNexis and Acxiom are the ones I'd be really worried about. Some states DMV's even sell databases. I'd be more worried about them, Google and Facebook are way better corporate citizens than these mega databroker companies would be. At least Google and Facebook you can opt-out of. LexisNexis, good luck opting-out. Last time I checked only law enforcement who fear they are in danger can opt-out.

Regulations are what kills innovation. Probably since the government has mainly left the internet alone is probably why it's one of the most innovative industries. Imagine having to read a 300 page 2 column paged document and wait on a lengthly process before you are even allowed to put up even a blog.

Then all of this talk lately about "fake news" just seems like censorship. I am worried that some day the internet will be over regulated and censored it will be just like cable television at some point.
So you need a work visa to work in a foreign country, in other news the sky is blue.

All these immigration stories are non stories and it's getting annoying seeing it on HN. People get turned away from Canada for shit like this everyday, we had a TV show about it, yet it's not on HN.

This isn't news...
I have been using this for months now and would feel very unproductive without it, considering how often I use it for searching shell history. I would highly recommend anyone to give it a shot.
Income tax is still very visible in NZ. On your payslip it lists the before-tax value, and then deductions for PAYE, student loan payments, etc. Plus wages/salary are still expressed as a before-tax rate, so you can see the disparity there too.

I get the argument, but whether or not I /want/ to pay taxes, I still have to, so why make it inconvenient? The NZ government finds plenty of other ways to make me angry and upset anyway.
Just curious, could you elaborate on your opposing view?
His use case should be solvable with a timer and a kill. Then asking for a timeout version for the syscall is for convenience. But that's a bad guiding principle for system interface design. You want to keep things simple and orthogonal and that rules out a timeout parameter. Maybe a general way to cancel in-progress syscalls would do it?

Anyway, as my late systems professor used to say: timeouts are always too short or too long.
Let's say you are a rising band from America, invited to a prestigious music festival in the UK. You are definitely going to get a lot of exposure and publicity in your performance AT the festival.

Now, looking at your excellent performance, a few local bars invited you for a meet and greet, small performance, chilling with fans. Wouldn't this be great for the band? Exposure with international fans!! This is great for the bar too...raising their profile in their city.

Now, since you (the band) are a law abiding person, you decline any payment for those meet-and-greet events, because your work permit doesn't allow it. Awesome! Good for you!!

But because it is a bar with limited seating, they have cover charges for people coming in after 10 pm. Note that this money is not going to the band but it is going to the bar.

Should you (the band) be disallowed to enter the country and perform in the UK festival in the first place just because a fucking small-time bar charges entry fee?
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I like Slack, our team communication has never been better,

I like Facebook (messenger) because it's a common platform for all my acquaintances.

Are we forced to share anything (really) personal though?
Mortgage interest is also deductible for rentiers. If owner-occupied mortgages were not deductible, it would be redistributing income from those who live in the properties they own, to those who own property and live elsewhere.
It seems like it is $300 for the next 12 months. There is no mention of always free.
Ask HN: How to exploit Linux notebooks?
So all of you have probably read or heard about the CIA leak that says that the CIA compromises TVs, smartphones and not only Windows and Mac computers, but also Linux computers.

Now my understand is that my particular notebook is rather secure against any remote attack: my browser doesn't launch java programs/applets, I don't have flash installed, my email client (mu4e) doesn't run code from attachments, there are almost (!) no services running (postfix, cupsd and sshd are an exception) - so how the hack does the CIA (or anybody else for that matter) get into my notebook?

I would assume that either my browsers (chromium or firefox) have security holes that I am unaware of or... or what?

Attacking the Linux kernel on IP level? Using electromagnetic waves to flip bits on my SSDs?

Please post as many ideas and details as you have - I would like to summarise this thread later to make a list of things to be done for other Linux users to secure their desktop / notebook system.

Let's not focus on the physical aspects, as going to a computer and changing stuff physically, even with a partially encrypted drive, is rather easy and cannot be easily prevented.
> You understand that's still offensive and implies I have brain damage, right?

My apologize, I didn't intend that. I mean that some people are used to Unix and use their familiarity as a post-hoc rationalization for some of the poorly designed aspects of it.

To be clear: my position is that several Unix APIs are bad designs. Rather than making excuses for them we should demand better cross-platform APIs.

> It doesn't have to be bespoke, but I agree that the Unix VFS interface isn't appropriate for it.

I don't agree. Network filesystems should be mountable and traversable just like local filesystems, but the OS and libraries should do more to be async and multi-thread aware, as should applications.
(Er, sorry, didn't mean to be this mean; I'd been stuck in flight delays for hours.)

I do think the analysis is both incorrect in conclusion (SAFE is the best choice in many/most cases for both sophisticated founders and new founders), and the case badly supported in the blog post.

But it probably isn't someone doing the equivalent of pushing a self-serving agenda, which was my instinctive reaction and thus defensiveness.
I'm really happy that everything they mention in this article is "dying," good riddance.