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NChain's Inventions for Security of Bitcoin, Digital Assets and Digital Resources
Probably means "when processing ls output", in which case not having to do prefix conversion is easier.
Ash HN: 'best' React WYSIWYG Text Editor in React?
I know the answer is 'it depends'. Would like to know what you think, as well as your reasoning.
Also the famous 'butterfly' passage in the Chuang Tzu[1]

1: https://books.google.com/books?id=_BqCCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
Just because you did one good thing doesn't make you a good guy if you've done bad things too.

The indictment shows he broke six US cyber laws in 2014 in connection to the Kronos malware, which he created.
Less cool place to work. Very, very noisy. Steps were taken to reduce the noise level but it wasn't enough.
Yeah, the 'cd' and 'ls' combo is so easy to type too. 'exa' feels more difficult since my left middle finger has to contort a little going from e to x.
> The unix philosophy is a great idea, but it doesn't really lead to a good experience. Glad people are making more integrated tools!

Bit ironical, as ls already is pretty "non-unixy" and has way too many features tacked into it.

From purism point of view it would make more sense that ls would be just a list of files and let other utilities (stat, sort, etc) handle the rest.
The more design elements you add - colors, type, graphics etc - the more distracting the design get and the more conflict there is between the design elements. By colorizing everything here, nothing is important anymore. It's just poor usability and design.
well i saw the storm on twitter where the lady was all "i am old enough o be your damn mama and also i'm black and you should eat the avocado toast because carpe diem" or some shit and it got like 36K likes and 15K retweets. so i figured it was just more of that.

https://twitter.com/tangelaekhoff/status/864667137138360320?...
> I almost never use the human-readable file sizes.

Same here. I love the idea, and i keep trying to use human-readable sizes in every command which supports them. But it turns out they're much less scannable than numbers in a common unit. How long does it take you to see which of these files is biggest:

13k potatoes.txt
7M tomatoes.txt
128 recipe_ideas.txt
1G hot_sauce_formula.txt

How about now:

13093 potatoes.txt
7182642 tomatoes.txt
128 recipe_ideas.txt
1023984672 hot_sauce_formula.txt

Human-readable numbers also break all sorts of useful things like sorting (unless you have some fancypants sort which understands them), calculating totals with awk, sedding them into an expression to evaluate with $(()), etc.
> The operation included the arrest on 5 July of of suspected AlphaBay founder Alexandre Cazes, a Canadian citizen detained on behalf of the US in Thailand. Cazes, 25, died a week later while in Thai custody.

What's this about? The US told Thailand to arrest a Canadian tourist, who they subsequently murdered? People don't die by accident in police custody.
For this specific state machine case though, an affine type system means you can't statically ensure the machine reaches a terminal state.
That's the problem.
Why does a directory lister need an HTTP parser?
Isn't the content of the book more important than the author? Jane Austen and Frederick Douglass are widely read because of what they wrote, not their gender or race. Most ancient authors were male, but not many would fit the modern profile of racial privilege.
> They last fairly long if you keep them between 30% and 80% charge

wait. does that mean that, effectively, for a careful Tesla owner seeking to maximize battery life, most of the time her practical range will be roughly 70% of the stated value?
True or not, Google clearly needed yet another messaging service, which they in about a year's time would have messed up and deprecated.

Exactly. It's almost been a year since Allo was released, which means we are due for an announcement of a new messaging app from Google. Likely something that combines Allo and Duo into a single app, and call it something like Trio.

Of course, when they inevitably split "Trio" into separate apps a year after release, they won't be able to stick with the same name convention.
If you're in the same physical space / layer 2 network, many things are Simple and Easy (and Efficient, indeed). For sending to people that are 100 ms out there, not so much.
People keep saying these first 30 aren't "real customers." They paid full price for the car just like anyone else would. Employees got first dibs because Tesla put them at the front of the line as a way to thank them. Compare with the Model X launch, where they delivered a mere six cars, all to prominent executives or investors.

Service is definitely a big problem they need to solve. Appointments for non-urgent issues are several weeks out at my local service center. I'm hopeful that they'll solve it, but it's going to take a lot of work. Drowning because you're inundated with customers is sort of a good problem to have, but it's still a problem.
> There is no way back now. Tesla has already won.

Elon has already won. His goal was to get the whole EV thing really going. Looks like the snowball is already rolling downhill now.
I set up $LS_COLORS like 15 years sgo in my .zshrc… and haven't had to touch it since. Doesn't seem like a huge deal worth replacing it over.
I have an unreasonable and unquenchable hatred for developers who assume that their users have dark-background terminals. Honestly, the most insanely passionate contempt.
Laura Southern literally advocates for the death of migrants, pardon me for not giving a fuck about her losing an income stream.
GitHub Universe 2017
I had an idea to write a text adventure interface, where you would type in 'forward', 'left', 'shoot' etc via the API. We understand nearby objects like doors, monsters and pickups, so could implement things like "An 'IMP' appears 300 yards away", or "There is a door requiring a red key in front of you" etc. Could be fun!
I usually alias 'ls' to 'l' anyway, so it would not be a big deal to alias 'exa' to 'l'. I agree that exa is not exactly memorable.
Google buy Snap
still confused about why people use them in the first place.i see no benefits of having a linkedin account. i'm probably just confused about what they are and how they work.
If it's not Git based then I'm not interested in it.

I see no reason to have a RDBMS for issues, merge requests, pull requests, etc. All of these could be modeled in multiple ways using a Git database. Issues are files in a repo called issue1.md, issue2.md ... or issues are branches on a repo ... or something else.
Scrolling is really, really laggy on iOS 10 running on an iPhone 6S+.
Thanks – I'm the one that picked The Nix for the list (I work for YC on their admissions team).

One reason I picked it is that is indeed a great book that I have been recommending plenty to friends.

Another is that I do think it's incredibly important to be able to enjoy and indulge and make time for fiction, especially when you work in tech. It's too easy to "read for facts / information / theory" and forget the joy that good writing can bring.

It took me some reflection to realize I heavily bias towards non-fiction unless I make an effort. But when I do get the chance to read a great novel, it tends to affect me more than reading non-fiction.

The world needs more literature, poetry, and art, so I also like supporting authors who ship that product too :)

(FWIW, the book probably isn't for everyone, but I think reading great literature is – give it a shot if you haven't in a while!)
You're telling me that the general aviation community is, in the mainstream, of the mind that "anyone who wants to" build airplanes to sell to other people should be doing so? With no additional qualifiers?
> exa is written in Rust, so it’s small

I suspected this would be total bullshit, and it is. Its small binary is a mere 3.4 megabytes. I wonder if I misinterpreted the "small" part.
We shouldn't need complete backwards compatibility on a command that is completely new, surely? That would limit the amount of improvement that could be made dramatically.

Also, as a side note, why do you enjoy using machine readable file sizes over human readable? The latter, as chosen by their name, are meant to be easier to use for humans.
passionate sex != passion
And it has a sealed gas tank to keep the volatiles from evaporating away.
HomoDeus is really most excellent continuation of already epic Sapiens.

If you didn't read any of those, they are long but well worth the time.
Furthermore, l and s are typed with different hands, which makes it quite fast to type. Exa is all left-handed, so it takes even longer.
Pop quiz: without investigating, is https://www.capitalonecredit.com/sign-in/ a valid URL owned by Capital One?

Second quiz: Without investigating, can you tell me when this domain expires, if it is registrar locked, if anyone can purchase this domain once it expires, what the mechanism used to verify a request for certificate for an existing domain is, if anyone can use a free TLS certificate service to create a valid signed site once they own it, and how much time it would take for this to happen if it was automated?

(spoiler alert: the address bar will not tell you any of this)
Isn't this right out of the Big Tobacco playbook when they "scientists" in lab coats producing studies that smoking was healthy?

The Tobacco Industry: The Pioneer of Fake News

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402187/
so whats the replacement for sl in that case? can't live without it
Actually I think the matrix example perfectly fits into the op dog example.

The machines invented the matrix because humans would riot if the simulation was too perfect or too shitty, so instead it was made perfectly normal. The machines didn't care either way, they just wanted to prevent more random "wakeup" events that were caused when the world was unrealistic.

So we can't know what is good for a dog other than what they tell us. Dog is biting us or whining, we're probably doing the right thing. Sure, you can throw in a bit of human empathy to account for the fact that we cuddle and pet our dogs, but we still know what they like based on what they're telling us.
How is that undue influence? Did you arrive at youtube without any action on your part, was it auto playing when you logged in to your computer? Sounds like you dislike big media... just not enough to tune out.

tldrl; eat your own dogfood before telling others to do so.
> Properly implemented

Again, 5,000 independent districts, and every single district manages itself independently. There is no way whatsoever to ensure proper implementation.

> have no significant fraud possibilities

We have a ton of provisions implemented to curtail significant attempts at fraud of paper ballots. And in paper ballot and absentee voting, there are large numbers of problems virtually every election cycle in various jurisdictions.

> and convince whoever lost the election that he indeed lost

This isn't even close to accurate. If there is a wide margin in a result, it isn't officially contested, even when we have evidence of corruption. When the margin is small, and a recount could possibly swing the vote, then the electee becomes unconvinced and demands a recount. (Or when the election result is simply too extreme, and the necessity of a recount is obvious)
Why did you not disclose in this comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921274
Different irc, different time. Look at the timestamps on VT, we're talking about 2013 stuff :)
> The main problem I can think of is that I'm so used to type cd and then ls... But OTOH it's as simple to fix as alias ls=exa

Are you really sure you want to replace ls with exa? I can think of a dozen reasons it could cause trouble.
Money laundering is not about simply disguisng the origin, but about disguising the origin such that it looks like some legitimate (typically taxable) endeavor.

Bitcoin mixing disguises the origin only as far as the blockchain is concerned, you still end up with X BTC that you have no explanation for how you earned them.
I totally agree but it's interesting how quickly opinions seem to have turned around on Uber. I feel like a year or two ago a comment like this would have been at the bottom of the page.
Intellectual Property Primer for Startups
See section "From or about your Tesla" for an answer to your first question. https://www.tesla.com/about/legal#privacy-statement
cool. i feel like this whole thread is the epitome of hacker news comments
Well, it can be typed easily with one hand. At least it has that going for it
Yes, but 1) those are government regulations, not a community policy. As a community aviation is much more welcoming of newcomers than crypto, and in the case of crypto this attitude is entirely community-driven, since crypto is not regulated the way aviation is. And 2) homebrew is often a stepping stone towards professionalism in many fields. But the crypto community actively discourages homebrew with its "Don't build your own crypto, period, end of story" message. The message should be, "Sure, build your own, just don't rely on your first efforts for anything mission critical."
> Not a single order has been delivered to a real customer nor have they even accepted orders yet.

And even if the first 30 truly weren't real customers, whatever that means, what is the point of that assertion from the OP? Is that supposed to imply that no Model 3's will ever be delivered? Musk said they're starting the ramp now. Does OP think he's just straight-up lying? What does the fact that deliveries are just starting have to do with anything at all? They're exactly on schedule.
Do you ask them to contribute? If not, how do they know you expect/desire them to?

If you already have a witty zinger answer to those first two questions; how do you quantify "love your content"?
Agreed on all points. There are too many to list, but I'm currently reading Arundhati Roy's "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" and would recommend it to everyone.
Hacker who stopped WannaCry arrested in Las Vegas, charged for writing malware
Steve Jobs' was not completely dependent on both a redistribution of money from competitors (to fund luxury cars, it's honestly ethically repulsive) to his company, local and federal subsidies. He also was 1500 times less dependent per unit on slave labor to exfiltrate cobalt in the Congo. The US already has legislation around buying minerals from the Congo, but Cobalt is a specific exemption, and one that is entirely necessary for the entire electric car industry to function.

Were we to decide tomorrow that we did not want 7 year olds to be forced to mine, Tesla as a company would disappear!

Tesla as a company does not exist without government intervention or exploitation.
> In what place in the US can you vote without ID? Where? Point it out to me. You can't.

Sure, it's almost everywhere.

For example, I recently voted in the 2016 presidential election. I voted in San Francisco. I didn't have to provide ID. I was allowed to vote despite claiming not to remember my own address. (Which I didn't, because I hadn't lived there for a few years. Voting continuously is certainly not a requirement.)

The normal procedure is that you go to the polling place, they ask you to point yourself out on their list of registered voters, and then you vote without authenticating your identity in any way.

Is this detailed/concrete enough for you?
The Bolt, etc. exist because of federal subsidies mostly, not because of some billion-dollar-losing company showing that the idea is viable.
I don't know if I have a good answer for this specifically, but as a consumer, I have a little rant. You know, Amazon must A/B test the shit out of their homepage... but if I buy a shower curtain, my Amazon home page is nothing but shower curtains for weeks. How many shower curtains do they think I need?
This works with other once-in-a-blue-moon items, too: plungers, watches, windshield wipers, phone cases.

What they should do is say "Hey, this guy bought a shower curtain, which means A) he has a bathroom, and B) either moved in or is redecorating... and that means he probably wants a bath mat, a toothbrush holder, a plunger, a towel rack..."

But nope... shower curtains for days. And you know that somehow this works out great for Amazon, or else they'd change it.
Update on Bitcoin Cash
Compared to JavaScript, one would guess. Rust is capable of generating extremely small binaries but none of the compiler's defaults are amenable to it
What do all the colors mean? I wish he would make a little page explaining what I'm looking at and what each color means.
As usual, you have to consider static vs dynamic linking, all sorts of other stuff.

Good overview and HN discussion of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11823949
I do not believe that customers have an expectation that they are hiring totally independent operators they need to vet themselves when they decide to ride an Uber.
„...I BELIEVE the former is the case...“

There is no point to your argument if it is just a hunch.
I like color formatted text if possible, but more so just for keeping columns in a tabular output more easy to tell apart.

Just clicked-through to see what you meant about `exa -l` and I agree. When individual characters have different colors that's just way too much.
It's a lot bigger than conventional ls, but compared to a node.js implementation or Java program the description "small, fast" seems justified.
Should I pay legal costs of my vested options?
A startup I worked for had promised me to grant my options that were vested, however, they are making me pay the legal costs of executing those options. Is that legal? On the contract, it says nothing about legal costs. I feel like I'm being hold for ransom with the fees.
Rust is my favourite language for code that has to run on end-users' computers. It's also my favourite language in general, but for that specific usecase it's leagues ahead of the competition in my opinion.
OnePointFiveio A - For text

OnePointFiveio B - For video
Wow, that's a new low. These guys are crazy. Just in case you didn't already know.
Not to sell. But for their own use, yes, absolutely. Anybody who wants to. It turns out not very many people want to, particularly when they find out how much work it is. But almost certainly the same is true of crypto.
I think that study found that there was no correlation between the introduction of right to carry laws and gun violence.

They also found it was pretty hard to study general trends, due to an overwhelming number of factors and poor quality of source data.
According to this article, it was an apparent suicide: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/1...
LastPass Price Hike
I agree on The Power Broker; it is kind of amazing and changed my view of New York City. To summarize, Robert Moses leveraged a parks commission position to reshape New York City how he wanted it: from bridges and expressways and urban renewal to the Lincoln Center and United Nations buildings. The first key point is how to leverage a minor position into dictatorial power. The second key point is that New York City didn't just end up how it is; many of its good and bad characteristics (including many racial issues) are because Robert Moses made it that way. However, I can't really recommend reading the book since it is very, very long - longer than Infinite Jest.

And yes, Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" is definitely a must-read if you're interested in urban areas.
Interesting point. Maybe we could have our cake and eat it too:

.. 13k potatoes.txt
.... 7M tomatoes.txt
128 recipe_ideas.txt
........ 1G hot_sauce_formula.txt
That doesn't jive with your original argument. So GM made the Bolt because Tesla proved (??) that they "would be profitable in 10 years"? That is what your argument amounts to.
They aren't supposed to give their full investigative details; this is just a summary of the allegations they're making against him. We will likely see evidence and details in the coming months.
>> Vulnerable people must be proactively protected.

"Slippery slope" is the term used to describe the fallacy of logic in that sentence. Who must perform this proactive protection? Why should/must they do it? What constitutes "vulnerable"? This sounds like the musings of a privileged youth.

It's not too late to avoid making the same mistakes you made that resulted in your original grievance. No one put a gun to your head and made you become an Uber driver/passenger. You/they decided to take on that role, and failed to assess and appreciate the risk involved.

tldr; those unpleasant things in your life that have happened, are happening, and will eventually happen in your life are ultimately your fault.

PS: I'm not advocating whatever happened or didn't happen to whatever circumstance you are attributing "rape" to. I'm not sure if you chose that verb for hyperbolic reasons or not.
It is not uncommon for factory workers to prefer 12 hour shifts and working alternating 3 and 4 day work weeks. That staffs a 24x7 operation with four crews of workers.
How to use Redis for real-time stream processing
Since 60% of my job is finding content for our audience, this is what's been working for me:

1. Quality newsletters - they help you know what's important and aggregate commentary around it. My favorites - Mattermark's Daily Digest, Pocket hits, JS Daily/Weekly, Quartz Daily Bried

2. BUZZSUMO (paid but worth it) - helps you sort through the noise and see share volumes for each channel based on a domain (ex. wired.com) or you can set topics where it aggregates most trending pieces based on virality of shares. Also has content analysis tool that allows you to see what keywords are most common for a domain and analyze FB page content for shares and popularity. Does much more but that's the quick and dirty.

3. Of course HackerNews is great, especially if you cater your content to a techie audience.

4. Twitter Lists + Nuzzel
In 2012, 4,309 inmates died while in the custody of local jails or state prisons [in the US]. (...) The number of deaths in local jails increased, from 889 in 2011 to 958 in
2012 (...) More than a third (36%) of deaths in local jails occurred within 7 days of admission

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/mljsp0012st.pdf
Seconded. I love this book. I was surprised to see it on the list because I expected them to all be recently published.
I was being facetious.

Women are better writers.
Never Stop Serving: Making Redis Concurrent with Modules
Closures are so nice. Working without them makes everything so much more difficult and inelegant.
> Frankly, I think this is an unrealistic expectation. The whole point of spying/intelligence is that you operate in foreign environments without their knowledge with the assumption they may have a hostile response if you're discovered.

Here is an article from yesterday's Hollywood Reporter where a "genealogist" who just happens to work for the US federal government and has a Top Secret security clearance and claims to use "a global network of public databases" proudly talks about stalking and doxing a local Los Angeles celebrity:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/angelyne-la-billbo...

Here is some old news about NSA analysts stalking spouses/girlfriends/women they were interested in:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24...

CIA/NSA analysts now think that abusing their illegal domestic surveillance programs to stalk and dox people is a fun hobby.
Italy's Controversial New Plan to Stop Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean Sea
Spin up a new .NET Core web app in a docker container using a web IDE
Good. About time.

Good writing needs to be organized from the top down. Stack Overflow's Documentation tried to create documentation from the bottom up, and the result was predictably a jumbled mess.

This outcome really shouldn't have come as a surprise. Other projects have tried and failed to crowdsource documentation before -- Wikimedia's WikiBooks is a prime example.