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Yes, we suck at elections. That's why the article we are talking about is about making our elections suck less.

Using both electronic and paper means we get the benefits of both, and each side's downsides are managed by the other mechanism. According to every expert on the subject it's the most effective means we have right now.

If you would like to compare countries and voting systems, I welcome that discussion, but unless it works specifically for the US, it's not relevant.
I don't see it that way.

The focus over the qualifier of whether it's "drop-in" misses the point. How else are people going to interpret and use "a modern replacement for ls", in practice?

Not to replace the file /bin/ls itself. Users will symlink/PATH/alias exa in as "ls" in front of /bin/ls in their shell for convenience.
Yeah totally. Also the fact that people in military command authority by structure. Try doing that as a PM and you will immediately piss off all your XFNs and, in general, build an inferior product.

I think what these articles lack is that being a good PM is more about the process vs. what one knows. A good cook, for instance, would generally have intrinsic knowledge about flavors, cuisines, preparation, plating etc. The more the cook knows about these areas the better she is and would command respect. PMing, on the other hand, has very little to do with the domain of the area you are working on. It is more about the process you use to figure out the following - building out a long term strategy for the area you are working on, breaking down the strategy into smaller parts and prioritizing those, working with and convincing your eng, xfn & leadership team that what you have going is the right thing, being very data driven to figure out what is working and doubling down on it, focussing on a market which is large enough but where you are differentiated etc.

I am not saying a cook or military person can't do that but I would be cautious to generalize.
I stand corrected then. If the only thing that changes is the physical connector then that is not nearly as bad.
There is an application and short quiz here: https://www.coinbase.com/careers/6848?locale=en-US
If it's not small, what would you call it?

Self-contained, portable, featureful, etc. There are plenty of other adjectives to say it's not huge or "download tens of megabytes of runtime and scatter files all over your computer".

For me, <64KB is small and <4KB is tiny. But then again, being aware of the demoscene, I've seen what can be done in those size categories... ;-)
Seconded. I've had money locked up in Coinbase, unable to sell or trade out of their platform, until I complete an identity verification. Problem is, their code seems to be buggy and even after correctly entering information, I'm told that no identity could be found.

No response from support, and from /r/coinbase and their user forums, seems many (many, many!) users have the same issue.

Not much point in using an exchange if you can't use it to...exchange.
> always use 2FA

Well if you are using your phone and change countries you end up with lot of issues as I found out the hard way :(
As I read the part about LinkedIn not mandatorily logging out all your devices, all I could think was that it wouldn't make a difference, because who actually engages with LinkedIn often enough to expect to remain logged in?

Maybe I'm assuming too much that other people are like me, but I interact with Facebook as many times per day as I do per year with LinkedIn.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922884 and marked it off-topic.
2017 is the year of Linux on the desktop
Targeting .NET and SQL Server, the LumenWorks CsvReader in conjunction with the SqlBulkCopy class. The performance quite good and avoids issues with permissions and file access when attempting to automate bcp commands.
annoyingly, on dvorak ls is typed with the pinky of the right hand for both characters, and then I usually use the same finger to press enter again after
Sure, but then it would just be a repost from two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807222
I think it really depends. If you have a visionary at the top (say the CEO, CPO, VP of product etc) then you just need good colonels and lieutenants below. If you're relying on bottom up innovation (e.g. Google's 20% time) then you absolutely need a different set of skills.
Every car is plagued with issues in the first model year.

They will fix the problems, and investors will understand.
The paper is optimistic (to say the least), but it does appear they intend to fly under part 135 (on-demand charter), which is the "following the FAA rules" way to approach it.

I think they're dreaming if they expect to get part 135 pilot requirements waived/lessened because of their augmentation systems. Not for a long, long time.
I'm not trying to be rude or smug. I'm trying to extract the meaning from their statement that I feel is conveyed. When you strip down what they're saying, to me, it's just "new is worse".
It's a freaking coffin. Only reason it can cost $4000 is because safety regulations in india are non-existent.

Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807222
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Congratulations, you just invented the ACPI S3 power state. Also known as standby or suspend to ram. I've been pretty happy with it since ~1998 when I started returning hardware that didn't support it properly. Although these days even linux on a laptop tends to work properly with S3 and S4 (hibernate, or suspend to disk). That said the concept was also part of the earlier APM standard which was a lot more hit/miss.

Anyway, its great, I used it today to ride out a nearly hour long power outage with a couple of fairly trivial UPSs connected to my NAS, desktop, etc. The desktop was already in standby because that is its default state after being idle for 30 mins. But the NAS went into that mode when the UPS indicated 70% battery life.

The problem of course is that UPSs/etc have miserable power conversion efficiencies when supplying just a couple watts of power, like 10-30% efficiency, so they tend to have max run-times less than 2 hours even when completely unloaded.

More on point, for servers, if your server is lightly loaded, or loaded for only parts of the day, using WOL to wake it and going into standby after a few minutes can save a fair amount of power. With SSDs, the resume times are generally less than a second unless you have bad cards/drivers that take forever to reinit.
>You couldn’t give a Model 3 away in Chennai or Bangalore.

If anyone would like to test that theory, please contact me. I will gladly unburden you of your Model 3.

Indian roads and traffic conditions aren't the greatest but vehicles survive. There are many people throwing money at premium vehicles.

The bigger issue is power. Both Chennai and Bangalore are plagued with energy issues.
VP Ops at Coinbase.

Send me an email (in my profile) and we can have someone manually resolve.
So if I'm following right, the FBI tried to keep you away from a hacker conference and -- I'm inferring here -- because you were a foreigner, and possibly a kid ( no offense meant)?
Check out OpenAddresses: we're trying to solve the address/location data aggregation problem so you don't have to. We do all the data scraping and collating for you so you can work on making a geocoder. https://openaddresses.io/
> You would never say that you are 0.0018 kilometers tall. Using sane unit sizes is important.

Ah, but does "this tool" (whichever tool) mean GB or GiB when it says "GB"? As the prefixes get larger, the difference between powers-of-ten and powers-of-two prefixes gets significant.
People said this about the Page deposition as well yesterday. I'm not sure what to say except that every document we can find does not necessarily exist for our edification.
Outrage is one hell of a drug.
She's not being held entirely responsible, she's being held partially responsible. If she was held entirely responsible she would have gotten life without parole.
Maybe we could split the difference between precision and readability by using scientific notation?

How does 524404648 vs 5.24404648e8 look?
FBI grabbed me after the hacker conference. Before the con they just searched my room in Vegas and seized my throwaway netbook and phone.

They didn't harass me for being a foreigner or a kid, I suppose they might have let me off easy because of that though.
I’m still convinced that a TV show runner might be a pretty good choice for running a software project particularly if they have experience with FX. I think they would get the creative part of the process and understand the business end.
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Im glad to hear you're doing better. Keep at it. I didn't get into opioids personally but grew up in and lived in that type of environment for years and had my own addiction issues. I've seen alot of good people get caught up in it. We need more programs for addiction and mental health. It's wrong that things are the way they are. No one should have to live like that. We need to find a better way.
Java is full of problems.

JVM is a wonderful thing.

However OOP is great. OOP is no bad stuff, take a look at Smalltalk. The problem is Java's way of OOP. And let's not talk about java primitive types!!
A criminal trial jury in the United States does not vote. It deliberates to a unanimous verdict.
Over the course of my day I skim Reuters, Bloomberg, The Wallstreet Journal, Vice, Reddit(Front page, news, and worldnews), and Hacker News. I'd say 70% of the time I'm browsing those sites I'm just skimming headlines. On websites like Vice or Reddit's frontpage, I'm really just there to see what topics are generally hot and rarely read too deeply into the articles. I do something similar for the r/news and r/worldnews subreddits but more on that in a moment. For hard news, I go to Reuters, Bloomberg, and WSJ. If I recognize a topic from r/news or r/worldnews I'll give that article priority over others that look appealing. This strategy is generally enough to maintain an awareness of pop-news while allocating more attention to news that matters with regard to the economy or international events. The rest of my time is whimsy reading which might include articles I passed over before or it might be browsing articles from other sites like BBC or Al Jazeera. Whimsy reading comes at the end mainly to keep myself from wasting too much time reading appealing/popular but ultimately vapid articles about things like what the President just tweeted.
> Among India’s 1.3 billion, the most popular form of transportation is the moped. Traffic fatalities here are among the highest in the world, with more than 200,000 people killed in 2015.

Wow.
0-60 in 9s makes it an instant no-go for me.

I love the acceleration from my Model S.
How would they have earned those billions of dollars?
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> Now remove the archive.org part from the beginning: https://twitter.com/TouchMyMalware/status/395862786602827776

> Click on the link and boom you're suddenly redirected to https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/39586278660282777....

> Okay, never fear! In that case I will provide you with irrefutable proof.

> Happy?

https://twitter.com/TouchMyMalware/status/893243147580473344

You proved he is Donald Trump?

I'm not trying to pick a fight here so just chill and move on. We aren't going to agree.
Is your son doing physical activities? Does he like drawing, music, art? Are you playing with him enough?
They should have seen this coming (from the ETC split) and come up with this policy ahead of time, instead of scaring customers into withdrawing or providing any doubt that using Coinbase might mean losing out on significant value.

All they had to say was "BCC support for withdrawals will happen within 30 days if BCC trades above X% of BTC". Or basically anything to the effect of "if BCC is worth anything, we'll give it to you", thus satisfying most people without committing to handling worthless forks.
Sure it can. If you tell someone to commit murder and they do, you are guilty of murder as well. No reason it couldn't be true for suicide.
This is not what you are looking for, but this is a great checklist to make sure your site is secured.
https://github.com/FallibleInc/security-guide-for-developers...
it's easily the thing I'm most proud of
This looks really cool. I'm a little concerned that "there is currently no pay model, and we're not trying to make money. We're testing a product right now, and we'd like to bring public keys to the masses." What's the harm in charging $5/month for 50GB as a beta service that might not last forever to help fund development? Maybe even keep the same level but allow people to pledge monthly to support your efforts? It just always seems to be the case that there's a lot of runway until there isn't. Building a product and making money are not mutually exclusive.
She'll only be haunted by the fact that she got caught.
Hopefully she gets some prison justice to make it more fair. Maybe from an inmate or guard who lost a child to suicide.
I have never assumed anything other than that it would be humans, presumably mostly volunteers from the various political parties, doing the counting. That is how it is done in Sweden, and I think also a bunch of other European countries. It worked fine for us before we have computers and it still works. We get a preliminary result within a few hours, and a final result in like 3 or 4 days. And the problem of manually counting votes scales linearly with the population so the size of the country should not matter much.
I remember paying ~$30/mo in 2012. Are you saying it would cost 50% more for one landline than an AT&T cell line with a healthy data plan?
Dev here: I've had the MBP w/ Touch Bar for about 3 months now.

* For 2 of those months, I did not know I could customize the touchbar and kept hitting siri. Kinda annoying.

* I thought I would hate not having a ESC key, turns out it's not so bad. I'm able to hit it precisely the only problem is that it doesn't have any feedback. If the on screen interaction is too subtle then you have no idea if you've hit it or not. Just a little vibrate would be great, like android capacitive buttons.

Overall I neither hate it nor like it. It's cool, I guess. I like being able to customize it and more finely control my music. TouchID great too not sure that counts as the touchbar. I don't /need it/ in my next machine nor will I seek it out.
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Your primary focus will be assisting with the development of a ChromeOS-targeted web application to expand our suite of macOS and iOS products. You will develop interactive user interface components for audio-visual media playback and manipulation and content creation, and robustly synchronize UI state between computers. You will coordinate with the rest of the team (a web audio specialist, server backend developer, and two Apple platform audio developers) as needed.

To apply for this position please email jobs@swifteducation.com with your previous work history, GitHub profile or portfolio of work, and a brief statement explaining your interest in this position.
It's hard to believe people still bring this up when the reality is that it would have been a very successful acquisition for Microsoft had they actually purchased Yahoo.
Since POTUS tweets using an Android device in the Oval Office, we can at least say 2017 is the year of Linux on the top desk.
Then maybe demand should be lower? If your business can't operate without paying people slave wages, you have no business being in business.

Or, far more likely, the CEO needs to make a few million less so the people who operate his business can EAT.
Would you consider reflecting and writing about your experiences using Rust?
>During a mirandized interview before LE, [he] admitted to mailing approximately 30-35 parcels that contained 50-100mg quantities of Fentanyl each.

Makes me wonder if all the sellers are this inept, or if they're the only ones that get caught...
Wow, the comments in this thread are quite harsh.

I wonder if a lot of that has to do with how it's being "marketed" --- it might just be me, but whenever I see "modern" being used to describe something, it evokes the negative connotations of being trendy, fashionable, boring, vapid, fleeting, style-over-substance that's all too common with software today (Windows' "modern UI/Metro" being one of the first examples to come to mind); not exactly the right sentiment for promoting a tool that's supposed to be long-lasting, foundational, and practical.

Perhaps if the title didn't contain "modern", the discussion here would go in a different direction.
I'm scared I may have to advise close friends to start carrying Narcan. It doesn't really make sense how horrifying opiates are until they start ripping away people you've known for years...
The performance difference between grep and ripgrep is stark, ripgrep is blazingly fast, isn't that worth some "bloat"?
A Google search would have saved you a lot of embarrassment before making a needless inflammatory remark.

3d touchpad takes a 2d device and adds a pressure channel, making it measure three dimensions x,y,z. So yes, 3d like a Kinect.
Have you considered Snow Crash, then? It would have been on top of my list.
The harm is that $5 / month for 50GB is the wrong model.

If this is valuable, they think 10GB is enough to test the fundamental premise and see people hit the edges of what they'd want to pay for.

There might be a segment of the market for whom this is worth vastly more than $5 / month. There might be a segment who wants to pay that little, but it's not about storage. They may not learn these things by priming people on a per-GB storage model.
Betamonkey was someone different. The reason he disappeared without a trace was that he was so bad at PHP that people got sent to prison (his support site was owned by a whitehat and all the customer information was harvested and distributed to law enforcement)[0].

Touchme/Marcus was a close friend of his though, one of his first articles on the site that eventually became malwaretech.com was an attempt to disprove the claim that betamonkey's malware was banking malware. This had gotten him banned from selling on hackforums, his main source of customers at the time. You have to read the article on the way back machine, for some reason he deleted it from his site later on [1].

If I were betamonkey I would be sweating pretty hard right now, his malware is also still being used and Marcus will be looking hard for someone else to drag under the bus.

[0] http://www.xylibox.com/2015/04/betabot-retrospective.html
[1] https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20130625172146/http://touch... (halfway down the page)
I didn't downvote him - as far as I know you can't downvote replies to your own comments.

P.S. The other smart phone manufacturers are just as guilty, but Apple makes the most profit from externalizing their costs. The other phone manufacturers basically lose money on the operation AFAIK.
>I'm not trying to pick a fight here so just chill and move on. We aren't going to agree.

Yes, I'm sorry I didn't immediately realize that you were just trolling. If not, you might want to look at the parts of my post you decided not to quote.
I think in a lot of cases it's kind of nice to just get this all in one command.
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"Visual Studio 2017 will not work."

Ouch...
A pm job is conceptually one of the simplest jobs but one of the most difficult to execute.

I've worked with two great PM's and a shitload of mediocre to bad ones. Technical competence, organization, willingness to work for a team of engineers, and humility is what it takes.

The military calls it "servant leadership." They teach classes in it.

Ideally, the military has lots of servant leadership but in reality it does not.

Oh, and bless the good PM's, they're worth their weight in gold. The mediocre ones might as well not be there. The bad ones are actively destructive.
There's no reason to think "as many as possible" is needed. Realistically if there's even 1000 independent entities (nodes) is that not enough? What's a realistic attack that is blocked by having another 1000 people run a node in their home?

On top of that, with small blocks and 3rd party payment channels, there's very little reason for people who aren't big financial institutions to even care. Gavin Andresen put it well: "Hurray, we just reinvented the SWIFT or ACH systems."

While increasing blocks to 8 or 32MB isn't going to fix everything, it provides a lot more capacity while keeping everything on-chain and peer-to-peer. A few people being unable to run it on their home Internet is a small price to pay. And if core hadn't been so pigheaded about even going to 2 or 4MB, we'd have solid evidence of the impact in block size.
In the process of switching to Gemini. Coinbase limits are too low. I've been waiting for two months for them to raise my limit to half of what Gemini will give me from the start.
And, now, we have two bitcoins. Cash and umm, Bitcoin.I wonder what effect it has(will have) on the future of cryptocurrency?
Mednet is building a medical knowledge base and hiring a senior engineer in NYC
Are you interested in being the first hire at a high potential startup with traction? We are a small team solving a big problem, getting information on cancer treatment out of expert's heads and to doctors around the world who need it.
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Carfentanil is terrifying. Wound up in a Wikipedia hole looking that up. 10,000 times as potent as morphine. Only recently illegal in China. Therapeutic dose of one microgram. May have been the way the Russians subdued the Moscow Theater Attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis#...) by just spraying it over the crowd. It seems that many people died of asphyxiation when they passed out and flopped over. It's considered a chemical weapon.

Consider the mixing requirements of carfentanil: one insufficiently ground grain of the chemical is lethal. And the people making the end-product are amateurs.

One kilo from China was confiscated in Canada. Certainly a bit hyperbolic, but "According to the Canada Border Services Agency, the shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough carfentanil to wipe out the entire population of the country[...]". Divide that by ten and it's still terrifying. Dump a small bag over NYC Times Square or Mumbai and you'd create mass casualties.

This isn't some crazy, Bethesda-managed super-bug or insecticide. It's a bog standard, synthetic opioid.
If you are a lawyer, you should line up tens of unhappy Coinbase customers and start a class action.