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> mostly coal

Coal hasn't been in the majority for some years, and indeed there have been days this year where no coal powered generation powered the grid.

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/infographi...
I quite like the idea of them, but I can't get past the design (which I know would look ridiculous on myself). Would be interested in playing around with a pair but they're not very common where I am.
I heartily agree with your points and want to add: programmers want to automate tedious, repetitive, manual work so that we can spend our time in a more pleasant way solving more interesting puzzles.

@tools: just in the WebDev world. I am still battling to start developing web apps, coming from a java/C# now mostly F# world where we can actually debug effortlessly, use static typing (or the superior type inference in the case of F#) and so on
The biggest problem with this story is not that it happened, it is that it could happen again. IT issues is heavily underestimated in government agencies and corporations [1], viewed like it' nothing important. The same goes for politicians, they don't give so much attention to IT at all.

The problem is of course lack of knowledge. They don't understand how important it is and that it is one of societies most critical infrastructure today.

Hopefully this incident will be a lesson to politicians and government agencies to care more about security and IT in general.

[1]: http://www.sakerhetspolisen.se/publikationer/fallstudier-och...
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You mean you can't personally identify all 120 dog breeds in imagenet?
Ingeneers does not exist to please us as ingeneers and let us create beautiful constructions. Neither it exists to create jobs for people in any industry. Actually, it exists to kill as many jobs as possible, including our....
I dunno about this. Automation of tasks that used to be manual is real, but software goes beyond this.

A lot of software allows new or better technologies which can be used to transform the human experience. Such as video games, flight control systems, video conferencing, etc. Other can save lives, such as radio therapy controllers, alarm systems, pace makers, etc. Some can take it away more effectively, like guided missiles, self manned aircrafts, etc.

Just wanted to point out it exists for more then just that.

Also, in the current market, a company who wants to retain good talent has to allow them some fun, amd giving them the choice of tools or language can be a good recruiting tool, or mechanism to keep good talent.
It gets better: while criminal charges for illegal banking practices are part of United States Code (title 18 covers crimes), the banking REGULATIONS that one must adhere to are codified at the State level. This means you must apply for 50 or so different licenses in order to legally do business as a Money Transfer Agent and Money Services Busimess in the United States. Although it seems overly burdensome and deliberately conceived to hinder practicing this line of business, the truth is that it creates an environment where consumers of the products and services offered by these businesses are better protected from fraud, as well as fostering an ecosystem of diverse business practices which leads to an advanced rate of innovation. It's a strange system, but it works very well. The downside is that it takes about $30M in cash to start one of these businesses just to fulfill regulatory requirements vis-à-vis the licensing, deposit, and audit requirements.
The thing is though is that it would be quite difficult to run Slack over IRC with feature parity. The basics are easy like channels and users, but venturing into private channels, group-DMs, custom emojis, (video) calling/screen sharing, status emoji/message, would all require so much custom work on top that the service wouldn't be fully usable over an IRC client apart from Slack's.
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So, does that mean I can't get the BTC I deposited in BTC-e ages ago? I somehow didn't even know any of this was going down. (I have no idea how much it was...maybe a quarter of a coin, which is a reasonable amount of money today.)
China Unicom (I think) my work also has a Unicom line.
It's mad that we're in this situation, with a government so paralysed and impotent that kicking the can down the road like this is being touted as an achievement.
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And make little sense for investors.
If you are captured by the enemy and held in prison, your pay is docked? It is probably my ignorance of the military payment structure, but what the reasoning is behind this?
http://boosterok.com/blog/broadpwn/ shows a simple check using hostapd to see if a device is vulnerable
Retire in your 40s: financial tips for people in their 20s
Most of Eastern Europe and I think Russia use dot as thousand separator. Though it's rare to see these days, it's much more common to simply use whitespace for that, like "1 000 000 000". On the other hand, comma usage for fraction separation is still a norm, for example, 0,99.
Good ol' 538.
Analysing monero traceability is hard. Early wallets picked addresses to use in bad ways. A lot of academic work us needed. Luckily ZeroCoin exists.
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absolutely true. But manufacturers are not going to use a wifi chip maker known to be repeatedly exploited, because of end user perception.
>despite being downvoted

Ain't no thang but a chicken wang.

I have a few deep biases against the Russian govt for reasons I won't delve into here. Despite this I believe in extradition laws as a tool of enforcement beyond borders and a means of political outreach/goodwill building.

If Russia made unreasonable demands then we would be right to turn them down. If they need assistance with something truly heinous and actionable then it feels like our duty to act upon it. These international interactions are just as important as education & commerce to building lasting diplomatic relations.
He meant Software jobs, not software.
I usually email the link to myself in GMail with related tags. As you know, Gmail is great with search!
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The resource industry will experience a big change if this becomes reality. The oil industry will have to shift some of their focus on other non-automotive markets. The electrical energy suppliers will have to step up and take up the gap and reap the profits.
Also are you kidding about Monoids? No way category is part of any General Education curriculum.
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@jcranmer agreed. US financial markets (breadth/depth) / US law influence over multi-jurisdicational banking entities, ensures that US law can/will be enforced by almost all players.

Should the authorities in a particular jurisdiction fail to enforce financial crimes, indicting a bank or sanctioning an individual in that region can effectively block all counter-parties from doing business with them (as they are now doing business with a sanctioned or indicted party).

It's hard to explain in laymens terms without sounding like some kind of "Illuminati-nut" (for lack of a better term) ):

And also requires a better understanding of interbank standards and practices, money/current-markets, SWIFT, etc.
This is fantastic news. Congrats to Slack and the team.

Slack recently ran a Slack Developer Workshop (conference with 100+ attendees) to a small group of developers in SF. I was lucky enough to be a part of it. They made it abundantly clear that Slack has a strong interest in being an application distribution platform and they are focused on creating a superior developer experience for their ecosystem. It was amazing to hear.

As somebody who grew up on IRC, the power, to me, was in how robust and easy IRC was to build for and around. Bots and commands were very easy to script and get the hang of. In my mind, Slack has actually built something more valuable than IRC. They have built a new model and ecosystem for application distribution, and they've added the right product features to do the job. The next step is to make it insanely easy to develop for and truly surpass the "ease" of the IRC experience for devs. It's inspiring to hear stories about how companies are building entire workflows with Slack being the center of their business; Mike Brevoort of Missions for Slack [1] spoke of a use case they're dealing with where Slack is powering the entire operations of a Canadian craft brewery using Slack + Google Sheets.

What Slack really has the potential to do here, in my mind, is be the application layer for business. Think about companies like Envoy (check-in, etc.) with Slack integration; somebody shows up at your office, you get pinged on Slack. You open Slack on your phone to check the notification, there's Slack Actions available for you to unlock the door (or what-have-you). The time-to-delivery on similar applications without Slack... well, it oftentimes just straight up wouldn't happen. We'll see more of these.

This is what Slack is getting insanely right. They didn't stop at massive growth + having a "good chat app." They're innovating and enabling new and veteran businesses to grow in novel ways.

Disclosure: Slack is an investor of ours [2] and we're also pretty passionate about developer experience. Through that, I've had a chance to interface with a number of their team members and I truly believe it's a fantastic organization. I can't help but root for good people.

[1] https://missions.ai/

[2] https://stdlib.com/
He conducted transactions with US persons as part of the illegal conduct. That's a sufficient nexus.
Overwhelmingly?

The UK’s fuel mix has improved. Coal is now <20% and rapidly declining; it will soon be phased out. Overall fossil fuel mix is ~50%, with 30% renewable and 15% nuclear. Could be better, but the renewable sector will keep growing - so it’s a good trend.
> 1) Arresting btc-e admin made all US customers to lose their balances on btc-e exchange. I highly doubt btc-e will come back online.

I wouldn't be too sure about the US having control over the BTC-e wallets. Their Ethereum hot wallet[1] (with around $100M funds in it) has been untouched since the website has gone down. I'd assume that there's more than one person at BTC-e having access to those funds. Assuming the US government has access to the keys - why didn't they move the funds somewhere else in order to secure them?

[1] https://etherscan.io/address/0x91337a300e0361bddb2e377dd4e88...
Yeah, how dare you presume incompetence on the part of Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange, the internet's largest online trading card site turned financial exchange. /s

(Not physical cards traded online, mind you, these were virtual cards in the game Magic: The Gathering Online.)

They were simultaneously bit by an attack exploiting a fault in their wallet implementation in combination with transaction malleability. You can invert all the bits in a transaction id and if you also take the complement of the signature then the signature is still valid. The transaction still happens but you never see the transaction ID come over the network (it's actually the complement of the txid). After a while, most clients concluded that it wasn't broadcast successfully and either aborted or retry, so their wallet balance diverged. And yes they probably did not check it against the official client balance.

A significant number of frontend nodes participated in this transaction malleability attack over a sustained period of time, probably more than a lone-wolf attacker could access (although renting botnets isn't all that expensive, especially if you are sucking out bitcoin at the same time...)

The interesting question is whether they had someone on the inside, although it could also be explained by incompetence and an attacker probing for weaknesses who comes to realize that the bug wasn't being patched.
Very useful for my way of working, hardcore with a nice lottery example, thumbs up !
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The price was cheap but normal taxi service was not convenient or good enough. Grab and Uber have changed that it is not just about the price but the convenience which was my main point.
"Flagrantly disregarding"

That BITCOIN IS NOT MONEY - so KYC IS NOT LEGALLY MANDATE
At least not in civil countries.

I also disagree that Money Laundering is the root of all evil. The crime is the problem, fighting the symptoms of crime (it's pay) harder than the source is, eh, ludicrous.

But when you realise you actually sacrifice freedom of speech for it, that's when it gets /really/ icky. (US Supreme Court named financial transactions speech, as without donating to your cause your cause is f-kd. So it should be private & anonymous, or you give away the freedom of spending, which equals the freedom of speech)

So, do I want to increase my attack surface (=being named and known to the USGOV or whomever wrt buying/trading cryptocurrency and spending it where I will), or will I use BTC-e, which respects that freedom? Hmmm.

BTC-e always had a criminal vibe to it, so that might alter your choice. Regardless the vibe, you suggest self-censorship, ID'ing yourself and confessing wherever you spend, because..? You're afraid of Money Laundering? Check the Panama Papers - you're barking up the wrong tree. I think you're doing it because you're afraid of the panopticon seeing you hide yourself.

It's inhumane how effective this mechanism already is.
Ask HN: Should I start my own consulting business?
Hi HN,

I am seeking advice on whether or not I should start my own consulting business. The business will be a management consultancy advising software companies. I've done the market research and I know there is demand for the niche I plan to focus on. The question is can I turn it into a successful business?

I’m a consultant by trade but have spent the last 7 years of my career in sales. I like to think selling is my strength and will be my only focus after 12 months in this business. My intention is to see this company out for the remainder of my corporate career so I would like to exit at some point.

Here’s my plan for the first few years. Appreciate your thoughts and any advice on how to get off to a good start

Fly solo year 1. I expect to be doing 3 jobs at once – the consultant, sales and marketing. Keep costs low.

Find a T1 customer, deliver above and beyond to build reputation

Focus on high end consulting - helping companies to make money or save it.

Raise profile as a thought leader in my space (working on this at present)

Build pipeline by networking like crazy + running local meetups as well as building a strong search and social presence.

Build cash pile to fuel future growth

Productionise my service offering to make it as repeatable and scalable as possible (if there's such a thing for a consulting business!)

Build pipeline of projects for the next phase of growth

Expand years 1-2. Hire VP of Consulting to build fulfillment team and deliver projects.

Aim to hire 5 more consultants

I take on commercial responsibilities as Managing Director at this point

Grow team to 20 consultants around year 3

Find funding to fuel growth and establish a board.

....Set the business up for growth with a view to selling by year 10.

Thanks all,

Jeff
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IRC had a lot of these but they required clients to agree on the direct connect protocol. But the core statements you're making still hold. It's a lot of work and Slack had done a solid job. It also acts as a repository in the way no IRC server ever did. The closest that irc came was irc bouncers that maintained persistence and logging.

See:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-to-client_protocol

And

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Client-to-Client
It sounded like if you are captured you are paid a dollar a day until you are released or can escape - but can't collect pay while "running away". It seemed unclear whether that was in lieu of normal pay or in addition to it.

I imagine it was worded this way so someone couldn't just be "escaping" for an unknown length of time and just disappear - removes the incentive to not return right away. Still, I'm not how anyone would be able to prove or disprove which day he escaped in the first place - not like his captors gave him a receipt - so the whole thing is pretty goofy.
Remember that the human won't only be thinking "better" or "just as good". They almost certainly can't avoid thinking "If I say 'better' here, what direction will that drive the algorithm in?" They don't just learn how to drive the plasma, they're learning how to drive Optometrist as well.
Yes, but it wouldn't be correct the other way round either. Wraparound on signed overflow is a well-defined operation on CPUs, but it is nonsensical. In almost no computation will it give a result that is meaningful in the context of what the program is trying to do. If you try to compute the average of two positive numbers as (a + b) / 2 but get a negative result, it would be of no use if this were "well-defined".

So from the point of view of a C compiler that exploits undefined signed overflow, if your code could overflow, it was probably already buggy, and you should have fixed it.

(One problem with this line of reasoning is that it kind of also applies to unsigned numbers, but there C goes the other way.)
At least from what I've seen, RoR jobs outnumber Java jobs 3:1, unless you're looking at enterprise jobs, and, well, who wants to do that?
While I find the ban on self driving cars absurd (and something I hope they'll take back when self driving cars become more common), I don't find anything wrong with a government created competitor of Uber and Ola. Why not, if it eventually benefits the consumers? Also, regulation doesn't increase government's revenues. I don't think the idea is bad by itself, it all depends on the implementation now.
Boy do I have news for you https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_tech...
I am not sure if I understand correctly, but ownCloud's Calendar is interfaced by CalDAV and can be internally shared between its users.
That just moves the goalpost though. Denmark could say the same to Germany, and they to southern countries. Should the beach-cities of Italy carry all the responsibility? Should we in Norway not help humanity, because there are some other borders between us and the problems?

(Not aiming this at you)
I thought this study was going to be about the top percentile. I would assume this percentile is getting faster (competition is increasing in all sports at the top level).

Obviously on average Americans are getting slower because they are getting fatter. This almost isn't news.
If you want to prove that the new process is better on average ("Xnew > Xold") , you would have to use "Xnew <= Xold" as the null. When you determine Xold to be 1C using a sample size of 100, you also get a variance that you have to take into account instead of naively substituting it into the hypothesis.

If you do the statistical significance test correctly, you won't be able to show the new process better by taking lots of samples for it, since the variance of the old measurements dominates the uncertainty. (I think, haven't done the math to show it.)

If you get wrong conclusions using correct math, your assumptions are wrong. In the case of your example, the incorrect assumption is treating an uncertain measurement as exact when comparing it to another uncertain measurement.
Doing an old thing on a new problem counts as novel.
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You're discounting the other uses that money could have had if it wasn't taken from taxpayers and given to the favoured company. How many small businesses were pushed over the margin by the taxes that were necessary to raise enough money to give benefits to a foreign corporation? How many companies had to lay off a few employees?

Governments don't have a great track record of picking winners, and companies that are capable of stealing headlines don't necessarily have a bigger or better impact than thousands of unknown businesses.
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Yes, ASP.NET MVC (Now ASP.NET Core) seems to be inspired by Rails a fair amount. Web Frameworks for both Java and C# have changed plenty over the years :)
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> I actively avoid front end work now.

My solution was to move back to native front end.

Still do web, but try to avoid it.
Nothing from Shenzhen. From the responses here I think you can rephrase the title "What are (some random provider in Shanghai) doing with 1.1.1.1?" which is borderline irrelevant to everyone, though bcoates' response was informative. :)
Ick, I'd rather write a CGI backend in C than even touch Spring after having to use it for a consulting job.
maybe the reason Apple products have been such crap lately? they've been too busy obsessing over their shiny new building.
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And/Or, there might be a big investment in hydrogen fuel cell tech. The incentive to keep a fuel business viable is significant, and from a public policy perspective there is benefit in being able to recharge cars at the same speed as with petrol as well as the ability to manage electricity demand in the fuel manufacture process.
I live in Oregon where it's legal, and if reddit posters on /r/portland are any example, legalization doesn't (at least instantaneously) stop this instinctive bias against anything negative. You'll see minimization, denial, and "it's better than alcohol" on every thread whenever a study even hints marijuana isn't a 100% universally beneficial, no-side-effects, perfect drug. It's fascinating to behold.
I've answered this elsewhere but basically money laundering is responsible for keeping the wheels turning in a lot of real criminal activities like human trafficing and illegal weapons trade.
Note: These events happened in 1982 to 1984, and has nothing to do with the current media events regarding Russia.
The oil companies have put themselves in this position too with their denial of global warming. They could have invested in alternative energy and lead the change with their vast financial resources.
Today my 14 solar panels generate enough electricity to make my car go 12000 miles per year. It's not really going to be an issue by 2030 at the latest
Flooding neutral websites with comments and discussion about how something is wrong or unfair seems to work well with corporations because it hits their bottom line and often hits it really hard.

However with government there doesn't seem to be any effect anymore in the USA at least. In fact negative press, if it's negative enough, can have the opposite effect and rally supporters of the very candidate or party that is being protested... that's how good the political spin machine is.

And that's because the money is there.

DDoS though seems to follow the picketing format at least; close the front doors of the establishment being picketed and disrupt their effectiveness enough so they have no choice but to listen. So from a philosophical position, the DDoS fits the constrains of a modern protest.

However, it may be something in the future that web browsers could tackle. A web browser where the general public could chat about each website that users are visiting... could enable picketing and protest to happen without everyone wondering if the internet is down or if they have some technical problems on their system.

You see with an IRL protest, you see the pickets. You see the protesters... so you know what's up.