skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This triggers multiple levels of wonder. That the tune alone is compose-able from 256 bytes is uncanny. What would this have been like to witness in the 1980s ? -being as it could have been published as a relatively easy to type magazine listing.

The name "A Mind is Born" has special resonance at this time as there has never been more popular anticipation that artificial minds will soon be able to coalesce from the same kind of bitwise operations made visible and audible in this demo.
OP Here, I just tested this, the passwords aren't case sensitive, and google[0] and HN[1] says this was known in 2012..

The HN discussion is a little more dismissive of case sensitivity, so I'm wondering if I should be so worried anyway.

[0]https://www.google.com/search?q=wells+fargo+password+not+cas...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4285954
China has been interfering in North Korea since the establishment of the country. If they stopped now, the place would fall apart. So all that comment is really advocating for is a minor change in how they interfere. Noninterference would likely result in rapid collapse and war.
> if there is a standard, an implementation should comply

Yes. However, we are talking specifically about the parts where the standard is undefined. The standard most emphatically does not require a compiler to do these crazy optimizations that remove safety critical code.
The Thunderbird codebase has nothing to do with the Netscape codebase you're referring to.
Believe me, we wanted to do this, but it broke a lot of WebSocket connections and other legitimate, long-lived connections. It confused many users. It's hard to know what is legitimate and what is not. I wish we could configure timeouts on a per-request basis but not without some serious hacking around the net/http lib for now.

I do encourage setting timeouts when you are able to. It's easy, for example:

timeouts 30s

I have heard of occasions where people have done this and it made their servers breathe again. At this point it's just up to your discretion/judgment.
> yet almost 100% of the article i see on D never stop from claiming how much better it is compare to c++

And I see the same from Rust and Go communities, hell I see it in Swift and Java communities a fair bit too.

That's not a real argument for or against a language. It just says the community will actually compare itself to other languages in similar fields. X vs Y articles are dime a dozen.

Some of Ds library inspired things in the new C standards, and D is influenced by other languages. I fail to see how that is a bad thing.

Common Lisp influenced Closure.

CoffeeScript influenced ES2005.

C has influenced Go.

Python, Nim.

That's just natural evolution. A language trying to become more flexible, is a good thing.
Now it's definitely specified that a compiler can interpret this:

void*x = trk->x;
if(!trk) return 0;
return doit(x);

as:

return doit(trk->x);

but is that right?

Compiler writers can argue that this kind of optimization is useful because it makes other kinds of optimizations easier to implement, but the argument isn't that it's "technically correct" so they must. They have to argue on the merits of the decision, and if they fail to be convincing, people will find other solutions.

The DNS specification required clients use source port 53. I think this is dumb because it made it easy to spoof DNS requests -- simply generate 30k UDP packets in a short period of time for a domain name that is commonly requested (like yahoo.com) on a DNS server that's popular (like opendns).

If only clients would use a random source port, the number of packets goes into the billions.

A few DNS clients ignored the specification because it was wrong, but a few DNS clients stood their ground insisted that it was specified so it was right. I remember the smear campaign referring to one of those secure DNS clients as "not standard compliant". Brutish, but it was effective: Some people remained insecure for a very long time simply because they trusted the standardization process as right and truth.
Travel Hack. Finding the Cheapest Way to Travel from Panama to Colombia
I was wrong, reflecting on the .NET design choices
I think Russia never was a classic patriarchal society. At the family level matriarchs always played as important and prominent role as patriarchs. Yes, in the past the official power institutions were almost completely male dominated. However there were notable exceptions such as semi-mythical princess Olga, emperatresses Anna I, Elisabeth, and Catherine II. Also Peter I came to power as the result of power-struggle with regent-princess Sophia Alekseyevna. Actually when the party of Peter I won, the actual power was grabbed by his mother Natalia Naryshkina whose nickname was she-bear. Peter became the true ruler of Russia only after her death. There were other notable historic women in Russian history such as princess Sophia Palaiologina. All in all throughout Russian history there were many much-revered and/or influential women. Also some folk fairy tales feature mighty female warriors. In particular there is a story about a knight Stavr Godinovich who was arrested by the king Vladimir and was rescued by his wife Vasislisa Mikulishna by winning in several contests ranging from wrestling to chess-playing. I believe gender biases for ages were weaker in Russia than in Western Europe let alone Middle East and you name it.
That the US is taking advantage of the NK situation to "ring China".

I consider NK to be a serious threat to the US and her allies but I think the Chinese do not consider NK to be a serious threat to the Chinese.

Imagine if Cuba decided to start allowing Chinese anti-missile defense systems at the US' doorstep because we weren't willing to deal with our ally Mexico regarding a conflict that didn't threat us.
This is a perfect example of what I was talking about. It is a nice idea. However there are no problems charities face that existing FIAT currencies or bitcoin or standard real-world contracts don't already solve. Unless there is a case to be made that censorship or centralization is a problem for contracts in the charity space, this app is a solution looking for a problem, in my opinion.

It is unclear how blockchain smart contracts contribute any value to the users in this case.
The point that the author is trying to make here is that the digital asset cannot be forged. The Bitcoin blockchain and the Counterparty protocol enforce this.
What happens if you put "(not Googlebot)" on the end of your user agent?
I would be happy to ask the admins to change the link to the Information page, although point is that this link is locked for me! Assuming that quote from The Information (re: 20% accepted and and 20% stay) is true, I agree that CNBC phrase "Only 4 percent of people who sign up to drive for the ride-hailing service are still driving a year later" while being factually correct sounds misleading, even though they directly link to the riginal content!
define better run? You mean from a business stand point? Sure. We would throw a lot of things, wash our hands all the time. From a hygienic/client point of view? I wouldn't agree.
> but that's like asking if something is "secure"

no, that's asking if an enterprise grade project is fronted with Caddy.

> People use it for "real" projects. (I do.)

Sure, but you're not Facebook, Google or Oracle, or big brand X or Z. If you can get Coca Cola, or Nike website run on Caddy, it will change that perception.
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I think he meant the former.
What do you mean? I am not AWS pro but the boto3 API seems to be pretty great for me on almost all of their services.
Hi, compiler author here. You're not being downvoted for your POV, but because you're not grokking that the thing that you are asking for is fundamentally difficult.

Nearly all serious compilers have at least one representation which is not isomorphic for all programs. (It is homomorphic, which is required for the compiler to be correct.) As a consequence, at least some programs will be mangled beyond recognition.
NK shares a border with China and obviously can't trade with SK. It'd be miraculous if China wasn't their largest trading partner.

I suspect almost all countries that don't get military hardware from the US or Russia build their missiles with Chinese parts.
There are enough professionals with bachelors being hired from top universities outside the US (ex. University of Waterloo, ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, Peking University, etc...) who come to the US on H1B visas in the 65K batch.
First, show them respect by expecting that they will complete their tasks. That's not to say that you're setting them up for failure, make sure the tasks are appropriate and they are committed, but don't spend your time trying to teach, at least not at first. At least some of them can educate themselves.

Mitigate risk by having everyone write test code and do peer code reviews.

You'll probably do a lot of fire fighting initially. If your team is >7 and truly none of your devs are "competent" (unlikely), then hire someone who is, even as a contractor. If you don't have headcount, then fire someone to get headcount. You need at least one other person you can rely on to fix urgent problems if you don't have bandwidth to do it.

You said "very small start up" so I'm assuming team is <15, but if it's that size then you prob need sr devs to help you lead the team. With a couple good hires, you can wrangle a fairly large team of very junior devs.

I've had dozens of devs (~30) report directly to me, and a lot more than that indirectly. I've never seen one who was totally incompetent. There was one guy, and no matter how much I tried to encourage him, he was performing way too poorly so I removed him from my team. Years later by coincidence I found out that he was working at a friend's company. I asked about him, and it turned out that he was a strong contributor on his team.

People sense when you don't respect them and once that happens the interpersonal dynamic will negatively affect the team, so you have to police your own attitude. Maybe you don't have much experience leading a team. You could say, possibly, that you are as incompetent leading the team as they are in swdev. Please try to respect them regardless of their competence level.

Find out your dev's strengths/weaknesses, so you know who to use when. I had one eng who wrote the absolute most heinous code imaginable, but he got tasks done super fast. I had to rely on him several times to meet customer delivery dates -- and had to accept the technical debt too. You make those tradeoffs.
Interesting study in this regard: Michigan State University, East Lansing: Modulation of mammary gland development in pre-pubertal mice as affected by soya and milk protein supplements. [1] - Makes me wonder if there is a connection between the young mice and the milk they get from their mothers "isolated form of bovine alpha-lactalbumin commercially available. Alpha-lactalbumin is the primary protein in human milk, and is therefore extremely important for infant nutrition."

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=XLy5ZQVwPbcC&pg=PA24&lpg=P...

[2]http://www.sovereignhealthinitiative.org/articles/antiaging....

[3]http://www.daviscofoods.com/specialty/alpha.html
Of course if the compiler has a certain behavior I have to deal with it, I just feel that certain optimizations based on undefined behavior are too aggressive, later this evening I will maybe write in more detail about this in anoter comment below.
Since when has it ever been illegal to claim you're someone or something that you're not on the Internet? This is legal without question.
> and all of the electricity required to generate it in order to verify the transactions of the tiny quantity of people currently using bitcoin is obscene

I have the same thought when I see lawns and trucks, or all the roofs that aren't collecting their rainwater. Homo petroleum petroleum.
FWIW the police does not perform ticket checks in Berlin. Traditionally it was done by employees of the public transport company and now increasingly by third party contractors.
China launches a pork-price index to smooth the “pig cycle”
That is valid, but tokens also have value from managing real scarcity in the underlying protocol. For example, bitcoin as a p2p protocol can only transmit so much information reliably. Bitcoins fundamentally have some value in relation to that bandwidth. The value may be relatively small compared to the value as financialized bubble asset, but it is still there.

This is more apparent in a token like Huntercoin. HUC plays a role in a game that is played by following the Huntercoin protocol (ie, on the "blockchain" though I hate to use that term). One could trivially clone this project and build Froggercoin or whatever, but you would give up the real network effects from humans playing the Huntercoin game.

This could become a more interesting dynamic as people come up with bitcoin-like protocols that (a) do more interesting things aside from merely publish tx sets, and (b) are not protocols that could exist as federated services without a scarcity token.
That worked up until I was required to change it the first time, or until I was assigned a PIN.
I tried using it. It works like a charm. May be I felt good because I have been following the Ethereum ecosystem. I am fine if someone would have felt otherwise.
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That is absolutely a false equivalency, and it's one that is generally used by anti-union politicians/management to support curbs on union activity.

So - a union (as plenty of people in this thread have pointed out) is a worker organization, intended to support and protect the (collective) interests of the workers in a particular trade or a particular industry. They may fail to represent any particular worker whose interests don't align well with their fellow workers as a whole because of unusual circumstances. And it's possible for a union to fail to represent its members as a whole -- this normally happens with big trade unions where the leadership and payed administrators get too cozy with management and too far removed from the shop floor, a structure encouraged by US labor law. However, unions are, at least in principle, On Your Side and representing Your Interests -- when they fail to do so, it is for the same reasons that representative democracy tends to fail.

On the other hand, you have management, who are out to maximize profits, especially short-term profits, and see labor as a cost-center to be minimized as much as possible. Management are inherently in opposition to Your Interests as a worker. And their opposition to unions is mainly due to the fact that the union gives you the power to fight for Your Interests in opposition to Their Interests.

So you see why the two are not at all equivalent? Pro-union propaganda may be to some extent false -- to the extent that it presents to you an overly rosy picture or a best-case-scenario that you are unlikely to realize. But anti-union propaganda is guaranteed to be an absolute fabric of lies trying to convince you to act against what are almost certainly your best interests.
I specially mentioned Ada with C/C++ in my first post that started the tread.

No need to defensively boast if you realize that you are wrong.
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NK Has strategic value to China more than anything I believe. Although, maybe China just doesn't know what to do with North Korea and therefore just tries to get along with them as best they can, or they are actually happy to have NK on a leash and remain friendly enough to keep NK from biting them.
> to ensure that no one entity or small groups of entities has control over the network.

Why is this necessarily a problem? I think the hard forks in both BTC and ETH have shown that there is an inherent "appeals" process no matter what. Seems like you can separate the appeals process from the underlying settlement and record keeping technology. New blockchain providers just need to represent what the ultimate appeals process is for each implementation (instead of hashing power, could easily be any of a dozen other ideas, including recourse to the existing judicial system which has what I'd call a net-neutral set of advantages and disadvantages).
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Your racetrack analogies are deviating too far from the classroom example. If you want to model selective advantages, give one student additional coins to flip.
I have a hard time seeing why we in the US should care in the least about a missile defense system in Cuba.
I've been using credit cards without ever signing them for about a decade, and have been questioned zero times about it.
Trademark regardless if you're serious about giving it a go..
A lot of merchants, like small hotels and restaurants, in Germany and Austria flat out won't take credit cards, because of the expense. They often will take EC cards and have the chip-and-PIN readers for it.

Americans never believe this until they've made a frantic run to an ATM after hosting a big dinner out or when they want to check out of that charming Gasthaus in a ski town.

When I first got over here in 2004, Media Markt (large electronics chain) didn't take credit cards, but did take EC-cards.
It might be against the terms of service of the website you're crawling, which puts you in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (i.e. you're considered to be "hacking" them).
I've worked at a couple financial institutions where all http/https traffic is proxied transparently (with internal key installed on corp computers)... certainly makes working with command line utils interesting... HTTP_PROXY HTTPS_PROXY are mostly friendly, but some aren't so nice.
Strange, the title renders like this for me in two browsers:

> "FBI plant banned by mosque &ndash; because he was too extreme"
>Ahh, so this system would be rather Ayn Randian then? The elderly, sick and unemployed would be expected to starve?

This makes no sense. I pointed out you were comparing income statistics incorrectly (which was also noted by another poster) and in response you:

1. made up a political program which is entirely missing from my post,

2. ascribed it to me out of the blue,

3. and then wrote two paragraphs attacking me for this fantastical program.

I'd hate to be your math teacher:

Math teacher: "cmdrfred, you got this problem wrong 2 + 3 is not 6"

cmdrfred: "Ahh, so this system would be rather Ayn Randian then? The elderly, sick and unemployed would be expected to starve?".
me too! I applied late as a solo female founder.
Verging on off-topic here, but I found the video itself really odd. Why would you reach your bare hand into the bag to scoop it out rather than simply pouring/shaking the contents out after cutting it open? Perhaps they wanted to avoid any resemblance to squeezing the contents out, but it just seemed strange.
26 doctors involved in $40M insurance fraud in OC and Bay Area
Ask HN: Will the committee that built Common Lisp make a new one in the future?
The authors of the original paper [1] identified that the set of client cipher suites advertised by each browser can be used to fingerprint and identify a browser.

Caddy records the cipher suite advertised by the client during the TLS handshake and then later examines the client's user agent. Using the fingerprinting techniques mentioned in the paper, Caddy then determines whether or not the advertised user-agent is compatible with the user-agent that it inferred through the client cipher suites.

TLS interception proxies establish their own TLS connection to the server. Depending on what underlying TLS library the proxy uses, it also has its own unique fingerprint. When the TLS proxy forwards the user's request, Caddy detects the mismatch and flags it as a MITM.

[1] https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/interception-ndss17.pdf
I believe archive.is is also on https.
really, "magicians" is what docker users call themselves?

I mean, it fits: sleight of hand and misdirection used to make people think you're doing something amazing, but that's still a pretty obnoxious name. It's almost sandwich artist level obnoxious.
There are real-world repercussions to violating the rules. This implies some form of hybrid blockchain/real-world-contract with trade via blockchain and enforcement via the real-world law.

A blockchain backed by legal requirements could then be used to authenticate chains of custody. This would actually be useful in legal proceedings and for the tracking of things like medical records.
Assuming (can't check myself, content is locked for me!) that quote from The Information (re: 20% accepted and and 20% stay) mentioned in comments below is true, I agree that CNBC phrase "Only 4 percent of people who sign up to drive for the ride-hailing service are still driving a year later" while being factually correct sounds misleading, even though they directly link to the original content!

Therefore, I ask the admins to change the link to the Information page!

Also, it would be nice if anyone can (for people like me who are NOT subscribed to The Information) kindly copy and paste here the whole original Information article. Thanks!
* Operations and control plane for all of the above that is robust enough for SREs to deal with million-to-one-chance occurrences happening every few minutes.

* Complexity multiplier (variations of contracts, catalogues, infrastructure, language, currency, payment methods, taxation, government regulation, corporate governance, market structure, customer preferences) of offering service in >100 countries.

The suggestion that building a service like Netflix is a "solved problem" is naive to the point of idiocy.
> US military is present in South Korea and Japan because of N. Korea and China, not anybody else. / You don't see such US military presence in NZ or Australia.

I'm not sure that paints an accurate picture.

The first reason the U.S. is in Japan and S Korea is because the U.S. won WWII and setup bases in captured territory. If you look at most major U.S. bases around the world, you will notice they are in territory captured in WWII: Germany, Italy, Japan, S Korea, the Philippines (legal and future status uncertain), etc.

It's the same reason the UK controls Gibralter (since a war in ~1704!), Russia controls Kaliningrad (WWII), Taiwan is relatively independent (Japan conquered it in the late 19th century, then the U.S. took it in WWII), Hong Kong (UK in 19th century), etc. It's the spoils of war, and the consequences can last perpetually - until the next major war. Imagine how different China's situation would be if those bases weren't there.

The second reason is that East Asia is militarily unstable, and the U.S. presence provides stability appreciated by all. Otherwise all these very distrustful neighbors would build up militaries, disrupt trade, and end up in wars. China may be the exception, but probably even they don't want the U.S. to just walk away, leave a vacuum of chaos, destabilize the Korean Peninsula, and compel Japan to becoming a full military power again; they probably want to slowly replace U.S. power with their own.

Australia and New Zealand are not militarily unstable, though they do have close relationships with U.S. military and security institutions. The U.S. does base troops in N. Australia now, to support security to the north.
First blog I thought of, although it's not a company: Dolphin. https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/

As for actual companies, as an embedded dev I think Atomic Object (https://spin.atomicobject.com) and Free Electrons (http://free-electrons.com/blog/) both do a good job.