skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tourist shops and shops that sell milk powder in Europe also accept at least Alipay already.

And while it's hard to connect your Wechat account to your bank account as a foreigner, it's like everything in China: If you have Guanxi it's no big deal. You just give cash or bank transfers to your friends and they send you Wechat money.
I issue valid TLS certs for my internal servers using letsencrypt DNS challenge (there is a nice cloudflare hook for dehydrated that I use). Runs on cron, haven't had to worry about it once I set it up. (Haven't tried with concourse, but don't think that would be a problem)
The success of AliPay and WeChat Pay is mostly the result of a good banking infrastructure. Even before these services popping up, you already can transfer money from any bank to another bank instantly and with no fee (or a small fee, depending on the bank and your account type). PBoC has been pushing banks to make interbank transfer efficiently and cheaply for years. The new mobile payment systems just use the already built infrastructure and replaced the ugly out of date bank webpages with cute looking apps and also greatly relaxed security so you don't have to keep the 2fa usb key with you anymore.
Why I (mostly) dropped off Twitter
ViaBTC: We’ll Introduce a ‘Bitcoin Cash’ Token If Blockchain Splits
IETF moves meeting from USA to Canada to dodge Trump travel ban
I had a similar experience in India where I was watching a cooking showing and they were talking about some chicken dish. Suddenly I heard "Put the chicken [beep] in the pan", then I realized they were cooking Chicken breast and the word breast was beeped out.:P
I've used the metro in NYC and Washington DC this week, and will do in LA tomorrow. Strangely I couldn't just wave my phone or credit card at the barrier like I do in (state-run) London - had to actually buy something to get on board. It's almost as archaic as the (private run) busses in the UK.
I think he just wants the video card to play games. Gamers have suffered from low supply of graphics cards because of the mining fad. With that dying down, they should be able to buy a card now.
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Magic numbers of the Linux reboot() system call
Bad telespammers will continue until a billing entity can be derived from what appears on Caller ID.
Seeing ads don't brainwash you. Seeing ads that are targeted to you based on the content you consume and your browsing patterns brainwashes you.
>A cryptocurrency enthusiast would tell you that the energy consumed is not "wasted" because it is necessary to secure the block chain.

Note that this is zero-sum.

If a device is invented tomorrow that is 100x more efficient per dollar/watt to mine, the cost to 'secure the blockchain' remains the same because people will just buy 100x more computing power for the same investment and the difficulty ramps up to compensate.
That's not the comparison I'm making. Compare the ratio of energy spent over jobs created.

It makes sense to spend a few hundred megawatts on a system that created thousands of jobs.
The funny thing is that with Docker builds, that anti-pattern is cool again. Why bother telling the remote to pull from Git when you can just push it an entire disk image that knows nothing about source control? Of course, those 10K lines are still there, they're just hidden by Docker abstractions :)
I don't agree. I think the goal would be better served by creating a registry for numbers to change their Caller ID, and to what.
I took part in evaluating Concourse CI for the needs of my company (30+ devs). While it has amazing CI pipeline capabilities, we ultimately didn't select Concourse because it felt much more like a CI toolbox, requiring some development to put those tools to use. And what we really wanted was more of a turnkey CI product.

Perhaps ironically, we ended up doing some development around the edges of the CI product we ultimately selected (GitLab).
> Seeing ads don't brainwash you. Seeing ads that are targeted to you based on the content you consume and your browsing patterns brainwashes you.

I know to be extra skeptical of claims in ads and to do proper research before I buy things. Friends and family give recommendations all the time which I apply critical thinking skills to as well...I don't just blindly do things people suggest to me. Have you honestly ever felt you've been brainwashed by ads somehow?
Instantly, so the money is on the new account directly? It's always surprised me that transfers still don't happen that way in Europe. But feeless transactions from any bank to any other bank also exist in Europe, and have existed for a long time within many European countries. So that's hardly unique to China. Yet we still pay mostly by debit card with pin.

But reduced security doesn't sound like a very good idea.
Sure, but this is my personal view, so of course take it with a grain of salt.

Capitalism, and hence consumerism, is a relatively recent thing in China, dating only to the 80s. Therefore, the well-developed mechanism in the Western world that encourages and protects it are still lagging.

One significant aspect of it is consumer protection. Chargebacks are almost unheard of in China. Fraud protection is pretty much nonexistent. The results are twofold. First, security is an utmost concern, which explains the PIN-and-signature requirement in POS. Second, free of the responsibilities, banks can offer a much more attractive interchange rate.

Another aspect is credit is not as developed in China. Of course, culture plays a large part as well, as traditionally Chinese value saving over spending. Therefore, there aren't crazy cash back schemes that American banks offer (credit card points do exist, but nowhere as lucrative), and people don't lose anything by switching to mobile payment, which are basically prepaid cards.

These two situations are of course rapidly changing. Younger generations are much more willing to take credit (and you hear horror stories of young girls using their naked pictures as collateral), and more and more company realize consumer protection can be used as a competitive advantage. But mobile payment took foothold before traditional card did, so looks like they are here to stay.
There's a list for that!

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-board...
Absolutely not, and I think you should. They may still say no, but it can be a valuable tool in your salary negotiation. I've done this before when switching jobs -- "you want me to start in March, but I have $X in options that vest in July; to switch I would need you to add $X to my signing bonus". Both times they've agreed to do so. Recruiters seem to generally have more leeway with signing bonuses than salaries. (And of course on top of this you should be aggressively negotiating your salary etc.)
In Denmark we have been using mobilepay[1] for a couple years now. Contactless credit cards are still widely used as not all stores accept mobilepay, as a result it is mostly being used between friends, e.g. when you split the bill at a restaurant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobilePay
Its better to have some privacy.
Only for debit transaction, credit can be printed
Instant Pot. More veggie meals for less.
I've been eyeing Concourse and Go.CD over Jenkins for a while.

The main criticism I saw on Jenkins and Go.CD vs. Concourse was that Jenkins Pipelines aren't first class and that it's easier to export configuration(in that regard Concourse > Go.CD > Jenkins). On the other hand Jenkins and Go.CD supports extensions, which Concourse touts as a feature.

I also want the CI builds to create my base boxes with packer in multiple steps. And I somewhat want to be able to hand over the stuff to ops at some point to be able just stay alive for the next 5 years or more. Would anyone know if it makes sense to even consider concourse or go.cd or some other CI/CD solution and if so which?

Obviously the boxes need to be used as artifacts and everything has be on premise as well.
It seems to me that this is partly about Twitter, and a lot about the author’s personal addiction to it.

I never really got into twitter because of the reasons he listed: way too short messages, echo chambers, and people spouting inane streams of consciousness into the twitter ether.

I don’t see the point of it; I see people with tens of thousands of tweets that don’t mean anything.

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That said. I think twitter is great for keeping informed on certain events- for me, esports tournaments.

I also think it’s useful for connecting with people and spreading info about what you’re doing- like OSS projects, etc.

Lastly, it's hard to not be on twitter. It's such a huge social behemoth with a vast number of users, arbitrary limitations or not. There isn't really an alternative besides maybe mastodon if it had more people (doubt it; federation isn't easily grasped or shiny).

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Like anything in life it’s about moderation. If you check HN 14 times a minute that’s bad also.
I personally think button is unnecessary. The most people will decide if they want to use lbs or kgs just once in the beginning (maybe it would be ok to create view for choosing right after registration) and this decision is based on metric system which is used in their region. If they want to change it at some point, it'd be still possible to do so in their profile settings.
Well there is https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/

but i would not recommend using it
Can we stop posting proposals or RFC's people have submitted as "X coming to Y" - namespaces would be handy in ocaml, but until I see a patch with serious consideration from the developers on a mailing list/github/issue tracker/whatever it's nothing more than a POC.
you can use the login command with -k (--insecure) to skip the SSL verification.
If a number is flagged by you as spam, subsequent calls should go directly to voicemail.

A robocall never seems to be missed on Google Voice. Rather they cause a 2 second blank voicemail to be generated.

If you have Hangouts integration enabled, you still get a notification for these voicemails.
It certainly will. With a number of participants in EEA and attention from governments like Russia and Singapore. Plus, eventual Casper update that does facilitate ETH staking as a decent form of position in the crypto market that will only grow down the road. It’s a long term approach but one has to believe in tech itself of course.
The conversation was being had: this is the politicians ending it.

They've consulted with security experts, who said it would be universally bad for encryption.

They've consulted with economists, who said it would be a dangerous idea that could have unintended effects.

They consulted with sociologists, who said that history shows that this power will be abused.

They consulted with lawyers, who said that this kind of law cannot currently be made safe for the populace.

After all this consultation with the right people in the right fields... They've decided that the handful of dangerous individuals who may make use of this technology, without hard evidence that they actually do, make the risks worthwhile. In direct contradiction to those they consulted.

What conversation is left to be had?
Not the parent commenter but yes, Chelan and Douglas counties have fantastically inexpensive kwh due to their hydroelectric plants.

The dams are owned by a public entity and the cheap power and plants are meant to be a boon to the local economy. Last I heard (directly from a city council member last year) there is a moratorium on high load customers due in part to all the mining operations that sprung up. Realistically, for the Public Utility District it's been much more profitable to sell the power to other states than it is to allow more mining operations to eat the cheap power.

There were high hopes for the data centers that sprouted up in neighboring Grant county, but they didn't bring anywhere near the number of local jobs that were expected (leaving a bunch of empty houses in Quincy). That in combination with the closure of the Alcoa aluminum plant (which purchased the _entirety_ of one of the smaller dam's output) and you shouldn't expect the moratorium to be lifted any time soon.
Not sure when it came about, but when I first evaluated Concourse, not being able to trigger jobs manually was a primary blocker. Glad this showed up on HN again, because they've added it in at some point. My favourite thing about Concourse was really its ideas around "Resources". This always felt so much better than this idea of plugins due to how unified the experience was. Also, the ability to implement resources for yourself is extremely easy. So if I had an internal software running, being able to build something for it meant defining three bash scripts.

That said, the docs around implementing resources still needs some improvements. Whatever I learnt was from cloning and modifying existing resources.
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No, they can replace it with Preact pretty simply.
Been lifting off and on for 15 years. Try to go 5 days a week. Rotating upper body, lower body, core + cardio.

Eat pretty well. Supplement protein shakes with minerals. Sea salt, oils (coconut, flax, hemp), various vitamins.

6'2" ~220lbs. Ideally would get to around 235lbs.
It's the ubiquitous and often insidious profiling of everything you do that's scary. The ads are just part of the mechanism of how the profiling is paid for and delivered. The data about what you do, as the basis of a model of your future behaviour, is what has the potential to be incredibly damaging.
Alipay is trying to expand into the US. Citcon is trying to get US merchants to integrate Alipay. First Data is on board with Alipay. At least 4 million US merchants already accept Alipay.

That's probably more traction than Google Pay or Apple's payment system ever got.

"Alipay, leader in online payments. 400,000,000 Users."
Cool to hear you selected GitLab. We recently added multi project pipeline visualization. That was partially inspired by concourse CI. Is there anything else you would like to see?
Wenatchee Valley. KWH are somewhere just above 2 cents. Lots of electric plants down the Columbia river, and Wenatchee has great 1 GBPS connectivity throughout.
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Workout logging is an interesting product/User Interface problem. There are a lot of workout logger apps, but not a single one has emerged as a clear leader in the space. Why is that? Also, a lot of tech savvy people that go to gym, still use the trusted pen'n'paper approach. Why is that?

One reason is that training regimes differ a lot - a single app is unlikely to be a good for strength training (training is build around 3-5 big movements with a few auxiliary exercises), body-building (more movements) and crossfitting.

Other reason is that convenience of pen and paper input is still hard to beat, and for reason or another, people don't get enough value from the digital views to their training history and performance.
Miners don't want to push their GPU's that hard, a hardcore gamer may overvolt their card to get a more stable overclock but a miner will undervolt it to run it cooler and increase the life of the card.

I'd rather buy a used Fury X off a miner than a gamer.
It's not about being scary. Why on earth would you think that?

It's about creating cognizance of the fact that someone else is making money off your behavior. You can be scared of that if you want, but creating that fear is certainly not the aim.

I personally think things which increase people's general cognizance of the world around them are net goods. There's damned little enough of that as it is.
We are using concourse at work right now and have 50-ish pipelines for various repositories. IMO, there's definitely some work you have to put into it because you'll sooner or later run into a problem with the existing resources and need a custom one. Writing custom resources is pretty easy however.

Concourse also isn't really made to work well with the Git Flow, there is no builtin way to run the CI on multiple branches (there's a git-multibranch community resource which requires redis at some point). we're basically thinking about changing our workflow to trunk-based, but it still feels weird to me that we might change our workflow to fit our CI better.

that being said, I personally still really like concourse and it's fun to work with.
Success building products and organisations has brought me a lot of happiness. I genuinely enjoy doing it and have been relatively successful professionally as a result.

Unfortunately, a side effect of this has been more frequent engagement with groups of people who, inadvertently by virtue of their own success, have optimised "talking about building things" over actually doing so. This has reduced my happiness somewhat as I struggle to improve my communication, without succumbing to imitation.
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Going Cashless? Bad for Tax Cheats, Privacy, Poor
Thing is: happiness is elusive and relative.

Some people will feel miserable after achieving some professional success (either for having used much time pursuing what they now consider vanity, or for still finding they're not successful enough). And some people will seem happy regardless of anything that happens to them, professionally.

If you feel miserable because you're not a successful founder making tons of money now, we can't really tell you whether achieving that will make you happy or not. There are all kinds of stories.

I guess it'd be good to understand why you crave for professional success in the first place. Is it to please your family? Is it for self esteem? Is it to make money so that you can party a lot? Is it so you can make money to give to charity? Is it because you want to spend time with smart people who value your decision and make you feel good? Is it to be more seductive? Is it because you love working? Is it because you want to make your dent in the universe?

Professional success is only a mean to fill something else. For me, I couldn't care less about changing the world, or success for self esteem. But I am still fairly driven to make money. My goal is to be more free and still have some comfort. As in, i don't want to depend on anyone: have my own place, have enough money to not have to make decision because I lack of it. I could reduce my needs, but I also like my comfort, living in a nice city, etc. So right now, i'm playing the professional game, but only because I'm looking for a way out.
Wow, this is terrible for all the countries these people came from. I couldn't imagine living in a country where technologists flee at their first opportunity.
>Even Ethereum abandoned the idea of completely switching away from proof-of-work because they realized PoS isn't completely workable

No it didn't. I follow Ethereum development closely and I know for a fact that's absolutely untrue. I'm not sure why you're misleading people about this.
Yes, ignoring copyright law or patent law - this was exactly what Germany (or rather German countries) did for much of the 19th century. It's the source of 'Made in Germany' which began as a British label to make sure consumers were able to recognize inferior German copies of British (patented) products. When the quality of German products increased 'Made in Germany' developed into a sign of quality.
That article was really excellent, thanks for that.
I started working for my current company about a year back, and I was given ownership and the freedom to develop my work which I found very lacking in my previous company. I took this opportunity to learn a lot, I took ownership, and I started doing things that were not in the pipeline in my free time that would benefit the company. I was really happy with what I had built, and I was rewarded for my work. I was happy!

That was nearly six months ago. Now, working at the same company I am not very happy, probably because of burnout, lack of senior developers or decrease in the learning rate or possibly because of how confused I am right now.

Professional life can bring you happiness, but I am doubtful if it can do that for a very long time. It's always the personal life that determines how happy you are.
All social democratic policies are forms of central economic planning. Central economic planning is not limited to full-scale communism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_planning
> I work at a wholesale insurance company (middleman); we have over a hundred individual systems, some simple, some quite complex. Some of those systems can be maintained by any programmer that comes in. Others really shouldn't be maintained by someone who doesn't have good experience in writing maintainable code.

It sounds like you have far too few developers to cover those systems. My company is similar, although with much fewer individual systems. The biggest problem we have is that we expect developers to be familiar with all of them and it's simply too much ground to cover, especially when you add in decades of technical debt. I've been there over a year now and picked up almost no domain-specific knowledge because the cognitive load of all the projects and their intricacies and the constantly switching between them is just to high to learn anything in detail.

The second you aren't working on something your knowledge begins to fade. If I have to pick up something I haven't touched in three months then it's pretty close to being a new product to me.
After 20 years of doing this: nope.

Seeing my kid win his first bmx race? Yeah, that totally did.
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I think it's important to understand that there's a significant amount of selection bias possible here. In general, folks who switch jobs every two years are the folks who are not getting offered big raises by their current companies. The ones who are getting offered big raises may still choose to leave due to other reasons, but they often will choose to stay instead. And they won't be making a big fuss about it online.

There's another phenomenon here. Almost by definition, average developers are not going to get big raises. They'll get average raises. The average developer raise is probably 3-5%, which is not big but it's more than the average raise across all professions, at least in the US.

This leads to an interesting question: why can the average developer get a big raise by switching jobs? I think at least part of the answer is that companies simply have more information about employees who've been around for at least a few years than they do about potential hires still on the market. It's a lot easier for a company to realize an employee is about average once that person has been on the job for 12+ months than it is during the interview phase, where the questions are heavily sandboxed and generally focused on basic problem solving ability rather than the candidate's ability to convert that into business value.

Finally, in general people who are average but think they're above average really do not like to confront the fact that they're average. So average developers with big egos being offered average raises will often very vehemently argue that the problem is all with the companies they've worked at and never with themselves.

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Another point worth focusing on here is that raises are really determined by the business value that you're producing, not your raw intelligence or passion for coding. Very smart coders may or may not be any good at converting that talent into lots of value for the company. It may even be that sometimes a less talented coder gets offered a much bigger raise because other skills allowed them to create significant value.

I think this explains why so many folks are average but think they're above average. It's because they might indeed be above average in some metrics, but not the metrics that matter to their employer.
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