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Yeah, myrandomcomment makes some excellent points, but the U.S. has plenty of unresolved wrongs. Compared to most aggressor countries, it is possible that the U.S. has the best ratio of reparations to destruction, but that doesn't mean it is blameless.

A non-exhaustive list of the countries the U.S. owes in terms of reparations for wrongdoing:

1. Iran

2. Nicaragua

3. Dominican Republic

4. Haiti

5. Cuba
To me this whole thing looks very centrally planned (to avoid the S word). Government decides it needs space launches, government tells "private" companies to get together to ULA, government pays them above market amount to keep an unprofitable venture running. And now the government also wants to have an alternative, but is still overpaying by 50%.
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Note, however, that the Australian aboriginals' oral histories
(songlines) lack any reference to coming from elsewhere, although DNA clearly demonstrates otherwise.

In such cases, if any given generation omits an element from its oral history (by choice or mistake), it is lost forever.
I see. The take home assignment is not a test or exam, per se. It's code sample that responds to one of 6 coding tasks. We expect something around ~100 lines, typically in C. The candidate leads a code review of their code by the team when they return for the second 2 hour interview. The code review usually takes about 45 minutes. The remaining 1:15 is 1-1 interviews. So we can assure candidates that someone reviews the take home assignment as they lead that review.
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This is not legal.
Yes, laws against "money laundering" are immoral. They're an invasion of privacy. And income taxation is a joke. There are tax breaks for the wealthy. And they leverage them to pay even less. Cryptocurrencies democratize tax avoidance.

I suspect that most murder-for-hire offers have either been scams or entrapment. And regarding child porn, I can't imagine why anyone would pay for it. There's so much out there for free, after all.

Governments do whatever governments do. But so do people.
Hi, zVault is a new deduplicating backup solution that I have written from scratch. It is still in a pretty early stage and all your feedback will be highly appreciated.
> any employer of worth would rather take a candidate that takes pride in their own self education and development rather than expecting the employer to foot the bill for career development.

well said, on top of it - you would be at the mercy of your immediate manager to approve the bills for career development - which honestly could take you ages considering the typical budget constraints at larger corporations. Its better to take your career development in your own hands and do it for your own sake rather than for getting jobs etc.

Good employers will eventually see the value of what you are doing.
All I can think is how this screws up existing recycle processes. In Denmark quite a lot of paper is recycled, but how does that work with this stone paper? If it cannot recycled together in a meaningful way, it's dead in the water.
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Of course it didn't have multitouch; Apple had bought the patent beforehand.
Don't forget to include VAT at around 20% on everything you buy. That's the genius of VAT compared to US sales tax: even smart people don't see it.

Close-to-50% total taxation is unfortunately pretty common in the West welfare states and yes, you're not getting your taxes worth.
To sandblast the oxide layer off the GaS ingots.
Quantum entanglement obeys the speed limits.
It's pretty easy to speed up the process by using multi threaded gpu code.
Caveat: I only have a B.Science degree in Engineering Physics (Colorado, USA) and hobbyist-type research in PhD-level physics.

I've always found it easier to explain quantum entanglement thusly:

Imagine you have 2 cubes that alternate glowing between purple and orange. And they stay in one color for a random amount of time (100s of milliseconds). Holding both in your hands, you would just have randomly color-shifting cubes. But a neat trick of these cubes is that when you close your eyes, hit them together, and quickly put them into separate closed boxes, you know that three things will happen:

1. they will be locked into one color as long as the box stays closed (no more alternating)

2. each cube will be the opposite color from each other (when one is purple, the other is orange, and vice versa)

3. when you open the box and observe the cube, it will stay in the current color for 1 second, and then resume its randomness once again.

So you take one of the boxes containing a cube and ship it to your friend on the Moon (greater than 1 light-second away). When she gets the box, you call her on your phone and ask her to wait. Then you open your box and see that your cube is purple. And then the cube starts blinking again because the entanglement is broken on your end. So you wait a few seconds and say to her "open your box and I bet you the cube is orange". She does so and confirms the cube was glowing orange before resuming the random blinking. Now the entanglement is broken on her end, but you "knew" that by having the purple cube in your possession that hers would be orange.

Using this system, there is no way to exploit your knowledge of what the colors will be once observed (so sorry, no FTL communication here). The particles no longer influence each other after they are entangled at the start. It's not an active process, but rather a very specific type of setup. But it still bothers physicists (most famously Einstein), that you could "know" something without direct proof.

And people in general hope that this un-intuitive phenomenon will open up whole new worlds of sci-fi tech. But no, as the article explained:
"Nothing we knew suggested this goal was unachievable. The significance of this news is not that it was unexpected or that it overturns anything previously believed, but simply that it’s a satisfying culmination of years of hard work."

If you had shipped the other cube-box to the opposite side of the galaxy, thousands of years after you were long dead, someone would open it and still find an orange cube.
I keep forgetting the New Year and write 0b1001010111 on all of my checks.
If you don't understand something and/or cannot explain or describe it, should you believe it? I think this is a very difficult question.
I don't know Idris so this syntax is probably wrong, but by reading the docs for a short while, this would be

any : (a -> Bool) -> Lazy List a -> Bool

... which would make it as performant and clearer than Haskell's any, since the laziness is explicit.

Someone with actual Idris experience might tell if it actually would work like this :) I guess we'd have to make sure that the used or function is also lazy.
This http://bioproductmill.com/bioproducts is probably at the moment most advanced pulp mill in the world and it produces 1,800 GWh per year.
More R&D spending is usually good for humanity, no matter what country foots the bill, so I'm okay with this development.
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Do you know how heavy duty reusable plastic bags made from recycled plastic fare?

I have some that have lasted for years now.
I can't quite parse that :(

But I believe that "being a win for freedom and being a win for crime" necessarily overlap. Maybe entirely. Because anything that allows some authorities to curtail crime necessarily allows other authorities to curtail freedom.
For project versioning I've had a good experience with Splice [0]. It has also got some features for project collaboration which are nice, as well as a marketplace for samples and synths. I believe it also supports most of the big name DAWs, although I've only ever used it with Ableton.

[0] https://splice.com/
I've recently managed to convince my boss to let me work from home for two days in a week (Mondays and Fridays). My productivity did get a huge boost (though that may be through Hawthorne effect; we'll see how it evolves over coming months), and my stress load reduced quite a lot. 3 days a week of direct, face-to-face contact with cow-orkers seems like a sustainable rate for me. 5 days a week made me tired over time.
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Really? In simple terms, explain how this works concisely.
I am worried about the dust this type of paper might produce when it is shredded or ripped, similar to the dust from rockwool insulation materials made from stone fibres. If I remember correctly, the persistence time of rockwool dust (current generation not 1970s) in your lungs is about 4 weeks, during which it is /may be cancerogenic?
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1,000 Italian musicians played “Learn to fly”, Foo Figthers went to play there
It's the Spockalypse.  Rods, Dens, and Replicators, in #Roddenberry
> AMD has always played 2nd fiddle to Intel and it is hard to shake that perception.

I don't know where you got that perception. Perhaps you're a kid fresh out of highschool and are oblivious to AMD's history, but AMD's Athlon line outperformed Intel's offering of the time by a wide margin, namely their Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV and Pentium D lines.

IIRC, Intel only started to become competitive with AMD with the introduction of their Core 2 line.
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I think it's crazy that we're considering "settling" for a 128-bit hash function that we won't even start to adopt until 5-10 years from now, when Google is already planning to announce its 49-qubit quantum computer by the end of this year. It's also very likely that quantum computers will scale at a "Moore's Law" of sorts rate (doubling the qubits every 2 years or so, if not even faster in the first few years). We've seen that with D-Wave already.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/google-plans-to-...

I feel the same about all of those "faster" (read: weaker) IoT-optimized crypto algorithms that are being proposed right now for standardization.

What we should be talking about now is quantum-resistant algorithms that are likely to be even slower than SHA-3, but would at least protect communications against quantum computers. We need them soon, because they'll have to be deployed on 80%+ of the internet by 2030 or so, and we know how slow the internet ecosystem is at adopting a new protocol.
Basically, in the science world, there is a lot of debate going on about exact definitions (memristive device vs. memristor). I can see if I can find the relevant papers if there is interest. Prof. Chua has updated and loosened his criteria a bit in response to the criticisms.

In the engineering world, if it talks like a memristor, and walks like a memristor if you squint a bit, we are damn well going to use it like a memristor. Hence we are happily building and testing nonvolatile storage (MRAM, ReRAM, PCRAM) and other applications - I'm gonna start research on applications as ML accelerators in May :-)
In my 6 years experience I've never seen this either. Here in Germany maybe it's a little different - contractors are very common at large companies, because it can be very hard to fire people once they've passed their trial period (3-6 months). So companies can be more reluctant to make permanent hires. Another reason is that a department might have a strict limit on their head-count (of internals), but not their budget, so they can still increase their workforce by hiring contractors (don't ask me why, just big company politics).

At the two large companies I worked for, around half the team members were external. In both cases there were 3 types of worker:

1. Internal

2. External contractor & a permanent employee of a contracting ("body-leasing") company

3. External contractor & a freelancer / self-employed

In terms of the tasks and technical responsibilities you have in these roles, I didn't notice much difference. The main difference in case 3 is that you get significantly more money (like 1.5-2x more), in exchange for worse job security. Given how easy jobs are to find in the current climate, I don't understand why more people don't opt for this. In case 2 in particular, the contracting company is taking up to a 50% cut of the hourly-rate, it's kinda crazy.
My telco cancelled roaming on data-only plans altogether in reaction. Such a huge win.

Virtual operators, who don't get any roaming income, still have to pay high roaming fees to other telcos and now can't even charge their expenses to customers are basically screwed and have to increase prices. Such a huge win.
1.) The task usually needs to be done, but is not business advantage. E.g. you wont sell more because of it. The developer asks the company whether the thing can be released and company does not care so it says ok.

2.) The developer has high status in the company and thus can do what he wish (up to the point). The company ends up tolerating it.
May I ask about the smart zoom feature? Moving back from Chrome it seems missing that when you double-tap twice on the touchpad, the current paragraph is smartly zoomed to take the full screen width.
I came here to say that.

Source: http://bfmbusiness.bfmtv.com/france/bercy-renonce-au-logicie...
18% of federal inmates. 75% of immigration inmates. Miniscule?
I find it unfortunate how many languages treat strings as lists of chars for no clear benefit. This issue is apparent in dynamically typed languages where a function might expect either a string or a sequence, and now it all has to come down to type comparisons because both can be iterated. I think it'd be time to start treating them as atomic values instead.
> Metaprogramming is often witchcraft.

This is an advice I frequently see, and I disagree with it strongly. For some reason, people are irrationally afraid of metaprogramming, as if it was a different kind of programming. It isn't. It's regular programming, following the very same rules, except that you're automating your own work now.

I don't know; maybe it's because mainstream languages absolutely suck at metaprogramming (if they allow it at all), so people are not used to it?

I mean, it's like someone calling algebra "witchcraft". It's not witchcraft, they just never bothered to learn it.

(Related, I see this approach of lowest-common-denominator programming being popular, and I believe it's very hurtful to everyone. Programming is a profession. If you don't understand some piece of code because it uses weird language features, suck it up and learn stuff, like a real professional.)
> Lots of governments do lots of crap,

> And what does U.S. has anything to do with any of this stuff, anyway

This is whataboutism and has far less relevance in foreign affairs than in interpersonal ones.

The U.S. Government has incentives to keeping the South China Sea's international boundaries in line with the U.N. treaties. Much of, if not most, of the world's trade passes through there. Since the U.S. economy depends on this trade, it is considered to be one of the most important things to protect.

The U.S., just like every country, is primarily self-interested. It makes sense for the U.S. to want to contain what it perceives as aggressive moves to claim what have previously been considered international waters.

In the spirit of fairness, the Russian Federation considers NATO enrollments of neighboring countries to be aggressive behavior on the part of the U.S. The U.S. isn't the only country threatened by apparently threatening behavior.

The U.S. would defend its involvement in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and in Pacific Rim countries in terms of its self-interest for stability in those reasons, stability being a euphemism for unrestricted trade.

> Ukraine

I'm not familiar with U.S. involvement in Ukraine; it's not a NATO member and the U.S. hasn't (publicly) committed forces there.
Acetone isn't very toxic. And it's quite biodegradable. I've had girlfriends who had acetone breath when dieting. But hey, I rather like the smell :)
Your dreams are still crushed. This research is about encrypting normal-speed communication. Instant communication is still impossible.
All such contracts are subordinate to the CBA and can't have conflicting elements.

For example, a ballplayer can't waive a CBA_specified contrast constraint (e.g. many performance incentives are disallowed, can't work for less than the CBA-mandated minimum, etc.).
Choco packages chromium nightly builds for Windows.You could automate 'choco upgrade chromium -Y' (Daily snapshot builds).

Otherwise: http://chromium.woolyss.com/#windows

Which packages http://www.henrypp.org/product/chrlauncher in the portable edition
Nope, I had been at that section reading and accidentally missed deleting it when copying over the URL.
You admit LSD will never be legal. So some of that revenue unavoidably goes to the cartels. They kill people with your money. You know that. But you send them your cash anyway. The mental contortions you are forced to engage in to deny your responsibility for your contribution to cartels' violence do not interest me.

If you were determined to behave ethically, you would refuse to buy the stuff unless you could procure it legally. And if you couldn't obtain it legally, you would abstain.

And as for the tortured war and asthma comparisons, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I don't know enough about France to have an opinion one way or another (I visited once for a few days back in 2000), but what you say sounds mostly good.

From a startup perspective, I think complex regulations are a bigger impediment than taxes; any company that starts as a couple people in a garage shouldn't have to be experts in corporate law in addition to whatever problem they're trying to solve.

I expect in order to have a successful environment for startups to happen, you need network effects of smart people congregating in one place and be a place where creative people would want to live. Having good universities really helps. It seems like France should be able to supply those things, but as I said, I don't have specific recent knowledge about what France is like these days.
> In the beginning you can count your breaths 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 1 again.

Why leave out 9? :-)
That "support" (I.e. Donations) goes to politically well connected companies, burns some 20% on well-connected middlemen and has to be co-funded. Some first hand experience with how harmful and ineffective the donations are would do you good.
Many of these you can work around with language extensions or a custom Prelude, but then you need to have been bitten by them to know that you need to work around them.

I hear "dependent types" and I think "theorem prover", but it seems like Idris is a cleaned up Haskell with some light proving features built in?

Haskell is good for compilers and parsers. What's a good excuse to try Idris?
The article completely ignores the point that I can get far more accomplished talking to people face to face than over Slack or Hangouts.
Python? There's tools for this, like oclHashcat/cudaHashcat
Total tax rate of 50%? This sounds extremely high. Are you sure you are not confusing between marginal and total tax rate? If you prepare you taxes with any software package, it usually tells your effective tax rate, does it really say 50% or near that? I checked back and they year I paid the most taxes I had effective rate of 24%, usually it's even less. I know software devs who make way more than me, but I don't see how even that would take them to 50%.
There are two orders of magnitude difference in time though. Australian Aboriginals have been on the continent for 40-60 thousand years, Polynesians made it to Hawaii 800-2000 years ago.
You could try browser fingerprinting[1] for identification and as a second measure (if the spam is coming from the same machine) at least you can prevent them creating further posts.

[1] https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2
If you ever fly to Amsterdam, make sure you jump in one of the many white Tesla taxis at the airport. :)
This is not true, most of the material for pulp comes from forest thinning, recycled paper and leftovers from sawmills, at least if you talking industrial scale.
For all the talk on how clients and managers tend to bikeshed...
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Phew, glad you cleared that up for me
> we need every company to do their part

Exactly. These days if I see any company making a significant climate pledge of some kind, I support them as fully as I can with my business.
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I'm a catfish. And I love it. The messier the code, the more rewarding the challenge.
You should definitively use hashcat[0]. It's the fastest hashing tool at the moment, and it supports both PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 and SCRYPT for Ethereum wallets since the last update.

It can test 588 passwords per second on my modest GPU. I guess that's a lot better than a basic Python script.

You should also have a look at probable wordlists[1], which contains a lot of passwords sorted by their popularity. It could significantly speedup the research, as long as your password has already leaked elsewhere.

[0] https://hashcat.net/hashcat/

[1] https://github.com/berzerk0/Probable-Wordlists
Great! I've been thinking for a while we need compelling examples of offline functionality and along this comes.
Since you have a pretty "flat" design, could you imagine there being preferences settings for adjusting the contrast?

I love the yellow indicators. However, I find gray text on gray background to not be very readable. Yes, I'm getting old.
Ahhh yes, a business insider article supportive of Lyft and critical of Uber. Yup, as expected, pmarca invested in the venture round and series B and D. Just like he's an investor in Pando Daily and an investor in Buzzfeed via A16Z. Those aren't the only media outlets he's heavily bought into either.

The biggest story in all this is how Lyft's biggest investor also happens to be the biggest investor or one of the biggest investors in all the tech media outlets critical of Uber and supportive of Lyft.

> "Not only has Lyft been able to "lift" its brand by capitalizing on Uber's mistakes, it has done so without directly attacking Uber."

It doesn't have to when pmarca is financing all the people doing the direct attacks himself.
It shifted rather, newspaper paper is down yes, but hygienic products and all sort of package material is up by allot
You can "Control + \" your application to generate a core dump if you want to test it.
> It doesn't matter if the work is "remove this emissions counter when x occurs," they just do what they're told.

Nice one. That is pretty topical. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a contractor who wrote it in (without knowing the context) because the original engineers declined.

Edit: I believe the poster was referring to the Volkswagen scandal, since it appears some HNers aren't understanding what I'm talking about.
There as several affordable and easy-to-use Photoshop alternatives around these days. My personal favourites (on MacOS) are Affinity Designer and Pixelmator. I'm sure that there are others which save you the price tag of Photoshop and the learning curve of Gimp.
That's a very light definition of carbon neutral. All the equipment and energy (for humans and machines) to mine anything costs carbon to bring about.
Going to preferences and setting "allow multiple instances" lets you open multiple projects. Hth
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