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Ask HN: Contact Clients Through Viber Public Accounts for Businesses
Is it possible for a business with a distribution list of clients (phone numbers) to contact the client through Viber? Does the client has to start the conversation first(by following or sending a message to the public account). If yes, is it possible to send an invitation link to the client by some other channel to accept messages from the Viber public account? I would appreciate any info on the subject as it seems very confusing online if actively contacting the client through Viber is possible or not.
Extrapolating from the Netherlands, it isn't an 'accept the job or go to jail'. Instead its an 'accept the job or lose your "unemployment benefit".
Here "unempolyment benefit" is a lacking translation. This is basically the last safety net.
As there is a freeloader stigma for people receiving these benefits, these requirements are a condition for receiving the benefits.
> Yes. Or, it's actually rather easy - but it's extremely hard to do well. That's why one shouldn't do it (or, you should, but perhaps for toying with and not for production). See, you obviously know enough about the topic to know this! This is exactly one of those nuggets of "broad knowledge" you need as a software developer.

Everyone should write their own crypto library at least once. Nobody should ever use their own crypto library for anything. :)
A true hipster would never admit to being a hipster :)
I was so wrong about my two week LOE estimate
Another tool which is quite useful:

http://hckrnews.com

Shows articles which have ever hit the front page, even if they have since fallen (or been flagged) off.
Considering his follower base there might have been a number of people interested to know what it was, and capable of finding out by themselves. And from the article it seems the tweet did set off a "hacker feast" against the site.
Horse Clones Start Heading to the Races
I'd be supprised if a red back spider has ever killed anyone? I'd guess maybe toxic shock or infection or some thing at some stage.

I'd imagine they do hurt thought, but so would a dog bite I guess.
Nope, brothels are illegal in DC. There used to be loads of street walkers, but not so many as the city has gentrified, cleaned-up, and crime rates in general have gone down.
Bringing Call Gates Back
Tesla Planning $1.5B Bond Offering to Support Model 3
Sorry...I was only going off of the title of the thread.
The problem is that we're not talking about some aesthetic issue like tabs vs. spaces but rather large groups of peoples’ ability to participate in this industry. Shrugging it off with “what good does it do?” is only possible if you aren't affected by that and it's not a neutral position since it's effectively saying that the reactionary position is okay with you.

It also ignores a lot of good which has come out of these discussions. I've seen a number of colleagues become far more thoughtful about interaction patterns, social structure, etc. in response to this discussion and they've uniformly reported that this has improved the quality of work, too.

That should not be surprising: after all, do problems in your applications go away if you don't monitor or discuss them? You may similarly have to deal with the guy who's really defensive to protect his perceived status but … he's not going to cause fewer problems if you don't.
Tangential, but:

I'm wondering what the ratio of tiled-over private gardens is to tiled-over public spaces (sidewalks, streets, etc.) which are omnipresent in the NL. I'd guess that the poor drainage relating to the public spaces is much greater than the poor drainage due to private tiled gardens.
What happens in between data extraction and visualization
I would imagine the conversation around it would end up quite unconstructive. Many find this a deeply emotional issue, and I think it needs to be both supported and challenged in the logical realm. Julius Caesar's paraphrased defense of Catiline comes to mind here:

> Chosen fathers of the Senate, all men who decide on difficult issues ought to free themselves from the influence of hatred, friendship, anger and pity. For when these intervene the mind cannot readily judge the truth, and no one has ever served his emotions and his best interests simultaneously. When you set your mind to a task, it prevails; if passion holds sway, it consumes you, and the mind can do nothing.

A rebuttal that says: I disagree, whomever supports this is {a pig} supports the author's ideas around suppression of discussion while doing nothing to dissuade less passionate readers. I call this "The Trump Problem": people should be able to present their opinions and discuss them toward perhaps a better conclusion. Right now, dissenters of the popular opinion seem to either choose to be silent or get "backed into a corner and strive to justify themselves" (As Dale Carnegie has mentioned). A deeper analysis of the Manifesto on junk-v-decent arguments would be useful for everyone, even if you think the entire document is crap.
As a X1 Carbon (4th gen) and X1 Yoga (1st gen) user with FHD and WQHD (2560x1440 if memory serves) repectively , I am going back to FHD on the next versions.

That resolution (WQHD) in a 14" notebook is way overkill for my late 30-something eyes... FHD looks like a sweetspot... (Also HIDPI does not work that great everywhere)

Also, the X-series are light ultrabooks, not workhorses.

If you want a work-horse take the P-series (take for example the P70, which is much larger and heavier, but is a beast).

A quick reinstall of windows combined with installing only the lenovo solution center (or whatever it is called today) fixes the crapware problem... (or install of a linux)

I am an extremely happy user with the given limitations...
I do dev work, basic graphics work, database tuning/queries on it with no prolems....

I agree with the subject of the article, the X1s are done right.. even if I didn't actually read it (yet)..

I also know still-happy users on gen1 and gen2 (I had a W-series there myself)...
>the value of which is then inevitably measured in… US dollars, which says something.

Which says a lot. These are crypto commodities at best. The real currency is the US dollar.

I really wanted crypto currencies to work, instead they've made me see the value in the Federal Reserve System even though I don't like the way it's run.

The promise of a systematic currency supply growth was enticing, but now I see what spiking demand can do with a fixed supply. Perhaps this is a problem that could be solved via a new supply algorithm.
>Resources and tutorials are not readily available

I think I know all the major web resources for the language, and I agree. In terms of learning material available online Tcl is simply very much behind Perl, Python, and Ruby. If you're learning Tcl from scratch today, I'd recommend to start by following https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/tcl/ (ignore the broken syntax highlighting) and then https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html, and playing with the REPL extenstively (I am a fan of using http://homepages.laas.fr/mallet/soft/shell/eltclsh as your REPL for how it does completion). If you want a book, there are quite a few, but most of them outdated. While I haven't read it myself, I have heard good things about the most recent, The Tcl Programming Language, and I enjoyed its author's other writing on Tcl. The man pages that Tcl comes with are a high quality reference for its commands. The Tcler's Wiki (https://tcl.wiki/) is also indispensable as a reference and a starting point for research.

>there is no community I ran into to ask stuff

I highly recommend the "tcl" tag on StackOverflow and #tcl on Freenode. The former has some seriously dedicated people answering StackOverflow-scoped questions. The latter is where the developers of the language hang out and suitable for more open-ended discussion.

>Finding a test framework

The standard for testing Tcl code is tcltest (manual: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TclCmd/tcltest.htm). The best examples to learn from are in Tcllib, the language's standard library, e.g., https://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/artifact/47f195f05f695703. If you need a framework for functional testing, try Caius — http://caiusproject.com/.

>linting mechanisms

There are several linters for Tcl; see the list at https://tcl.wiki/3162. At one point I tried using ttclcheck because it implements static type checking, but never stuck with it or any other linter. This may be due to Tcl's sparse syntax and highly dynamic nature, because I do use linters and style checkers for other languages.
Well I imagine it's accept it, or loose your unemployment benefits.
What proc is that ?
This basically describes the dichotomy between CS and software engineering.
And how is that worse than before? Qualified women and minorities were being passed over before. Qualified women and minorities are still being passed over, despite diversity efforts, unless you want to make the somewhat circular argument that 81:19 (men:women) reflects qualifications. Is it just bad that more white men are now being affected?

I contend that qualified people will always be passed over, in every demographic group. Making that number zero for any group is not a goal. Making it proportional is. Do you have any evidence that a higher percentage of qualified men are being passed over than of qualified women? I highly doubt that you do, because everything I've seen suggests that women are still more likely than men to be passed over.

There's a word for the attitude that one's own group should be immune to phenomena that affect others. It's called privilege, and we could do with less of it.
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I hate Comcast as much as the next guy, but I would never choose a government service over them. There is only a few things the government is competent at and one of those is war. But even that is being hugely supported by private companies like Lockheed and Boeing.
Really? I wasn't even interested in the story and yet the first link I found on Twitter reproduced the document in full: http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-div...
It seems the requirement has been relaxed a bit:

"Puerto Rico Senate Bill 864 increases the potential impact of Act 22 by expanding who qualifies for the tax break. Prior to this legislation, Act 22 was only applicable to new migrants to Puerto Rico who had not been residents for the 15 year period before the Act went into effect in January 2012. That period has now been reduced from 15 to 6 years."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2015/01/27/puerto-r...
"Common media narratives" ... or ... "easily observed phenomena"?

You be the judge!
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Out of curiosity, did you read the manifesto itself or just Zunger's take on it?
The $13 Costco jeans have a terrible fit .. but $13!

Car shopping these days is: "What can I pay cash for, and will likely last 3 years without unanticipated repairs?" A 10 year old Lexus is often still in it's prime.
Show HN: AsciiDots – a 2D esoteric language inspired by circuits
Your envelope is more inflated than bitcoin itself. I am a miner, and i was a miner back in 2011. One of my rigs right now uses 923W with 6 high end graphics cards. That rig costs me ~$3/day * 365 = $1095.

Do you really think you can hide the amount of heat from anyone - my rigs are basically a furnace - and in 2011, I think I could probably melt steel =P The guy may have had a few cards in there, but $20k is absurd.
In June, I drove across North Texas on I40 and marveled at the scale of the wind turbines. At those scales (Panhandle I and II generate 400MW according to Wikipedia), I suspect that per turbine materials cost is less of a limiting factor than site acquisition and infrastructure installation. I also wonder about modeling multi-unit installations as shifting wind direction and intensity changes local conditions and moves one kite turbine relative to its neighbors.

It's an interesting approach.
> There's no way you can argue that obesity is anything other than a conflict between the environment we evolved for, and the one we live in

I'll bite. Obesity occurs because our food is too cheap. Especially in the US, our food is horrendously cheap for a ton of calories. I (by some mistake) bought a $4 taco the other day that was about 1000 calories (and quite good).

We went from having people dying from hunger, to having too much food available for extremely low prices. I eat on about $50 a week and live like a damned king - fresh gourmet bread, chicken and steak twice a day, hand folded pasta, imported olive oil, etc.

A few hundred years ago and you were doing well to have some soup and a piece of bread on a daily basis. Now I can get a decent bottle of wine for below $8.

> By the same token, the only kind of negotiating power the modern worker has in finding a good salary is the power to quit, and so people quit often and early, which leads to them moving frequently away from the friends they've managed to find.

I don't think that's it either. I think, just like food has gotten to be too cheap and too readily accessible for our primate brains, we've managed to fake having friends. I can send a facebook friend request and get it accepted by anyone, I can have a drink with coworkers after work, or talk over the water cooler about game of thrones - and none of those are meaningful friends.

Again, it's too "cheap" to form faux relationships. There's a (probably entirely unsourced) quote that it takes about 18 months to know a person. How many people do you spend quality, non-work time with, at least one or twice a month, for at least two years? For most people that may not even include their spouse.
Anything like that which results in a huge financial incentive for outsourcing is not going to be popular.
The network will be under attack constantly.
You can ask for anything you want. But I wouldn't expect anyone to do work for you just because you demand it.

Give me $100 and I'll send you a link to some good crypto books.
Huh, I may have to look into a home wifi camera system based around Pi's. Sounds fun, and far less concerning than proprietary IoT Cameras.
Intel i7-7600U @ 2.8GHz
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/db15/1836543d8a70db1dabef3d... "Bayesian regression and Bitcoin"

> The strategy is able to nearly double the investment in less than 60 day period when run against real data trace.

http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2015/029_report.pdf "Algorithmic Trading of Cryptocurrency Based on Twitter Sentiment Analysis"

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... "When Bitcoin encounters information in an online forum: Using text mining to analyse user opinions and predict value fluctuation"

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e065/3631b4a476abf5276a264f... "Automated Bitcoin Trading via Machine Learning Algorithms"
Object Localization Without Deep Learning
Read How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand, for more on that subject.
While I agree that reducing your desire to consume leads to a happier life, I disagree about how you should respond to necessities.

I have found that when I spend my money on a few high quality products, I appreciate them more, I take better care of them, and I am happier overall than buying the cheapest thing that'll work. That doesn't mean buying "luxury" items, instead it involves looking for products with thoughtful design, durability and functionality.

For example, I don't buy cheap shoes, chairs or computer monitors.
There's an active anonymous poll for it on the app Blind (https://us.teamblind.com/) with a thread titled "How do you feel about the Google diversity manifesto?"

(SPOILER: Poll answers and results copied below.)

Votes: 450

Answers in order from most disagreement to most agreement:

1. 114 votes - "I disagree with it. It should be lit on fire."

2. 142 votes - "I generally disagree with it, but it has some valid points that should be discussed."

3. 100 votes - "I generally agree with it, but it's a little rough around the edges."

4. 69 votes - "I agree with it. Author is a hero."

5. 25 votes - "I don't care about these issues."
No, you just don't understand the definition of correctness as it relates to software. Correctness -- like safety -- is formally defined. You might want to look it up.
There's more than one Proof of Stake cryptocurrency, and Ethereum does want to go PoS sometime.

PoS have been around for 3 (maybe 4?) years by now.

Proof of Stake is quite genius in the politics of it, and the power needed to run is minimal (you still need to keep your hardware powered on)
Well, in theory, you could simply alter the number of 0's required for any particular proof. Under attack? More 0's required in the hash. Not under attack? No 0's required.

Determining if you're under attack would seem to be the harder part.
Funny enough, there are lots of significant differences among the different groups of people for different 'tags' on SO already.

> Why not go over to [a site of which you're not aware] ...

Incidentally, Slant seems to be flourishing about as much as the Software Recommendations SE site.
You might want to look at some companies that have recently had ICOs on the Ethereum blockchain (the less scammy ones at least). They are flush with cash and probably looking for devs. A lot of them also embrace a distributed workforce.
Prostitution in Germany is definitely far from decriminalized. I am convinced that it is right to legalize it - but it still should be thoroughly regulated. The recently introduced laws are partially a step in the right direction. Other parts of it actually criminalize it to some extent. F.x. unprotected fellatio is now criminalized.
Why not use Google Speech API ?
When a story has a lot of comments (in proportion to the number of votes), that story is punished based on the idea that it's probably only a few people talking to each other very agitatedly without producing many novel insights.

Perhaps you're right, but a topic could spark an agitated yet wholly positive discussion. Pushing it down the list just because a few people are commenting a lot wouldn't make much sense in some discussions.
Sorry, but the Apple Tax is very real on their computers. Laptops, eh, it's probably not that bad compared to the other high end PC brands. But it's still there. Desktops are Apple Taxed to hell and back.

Not just hating here either. I've owned numerous Apple machines, and still use a Macbook (with Ubuntu).
I've been doing some work for Areva's (large nuclear services company) North American branch this summer and have had a chance to talk frankly with upper management / executives about the current state of the industry.

Areva's parent company in France had a problem similar to Westinghouse with their first gen 3 reactor build. The designs weren't given enough time to mature, the designs were overly complex, and the contract was negotiated for a fixed price. He pointed to S. Korea's recent success in building new plants [1] to show that it can be done. Although the person I was speaking with seemed much more hopeful for gen 4 reactors than gen 3--at least in the NA market.

An argument that I thought was convincing was that making an energy plan is gambling on future breakthroughs and fuel costs. Natural gas is mostly fuel cost (~80%), so it's a much more volatile of an investment than nuclear which is mostly the cost of construction and maintenance. [2] It just turns out that the cost of natural gas is insanely low right now so utilities are not so interested in nuclear. So keeping energy plans diverse by investing in nuclear will help to hedge against risk with alternatives.

Another point that's been brought up to me while working at Areva is how poorly the nuclear industry managed their public image. The actual stake holders (Westinghouse, Areva, B&W, etc), thought that utilities would manage the public image of nuclear. Unfortunately for the nuclear industry, utilities only actually care about generating electricity as cheaply as possible so nuclear's PR was neglected and steamrolled by coal/wind/solar interests.

Personally, I find it unfortunate that wind/solar proponents decided to throw nuclear to the wayside. The most realistic clean energy future that I see is nuclear providing a modest base-load, and solar/wind/misc filling in while their technology matures.

Overall these points didn't seem like pure corporate propaganda to me, but keep their sources in mind.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_South_Korea#R...

[2]: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_04.html
I have not figured out how this would solve the problem of on-blockchain debt:

"If the funds used for coupon payments are controlled by the bond's smart contract, then those payments can indeed be guaranteed. But this also means those funds cannot be used by the bond issuer for anything else. And if those funds aren’t under the control of the smart contract, then there is no way in which payment can be guaranteed.

In other words, a smart bond is either pointless for the issuer, or pointless for the investor."
I recently made the switch from Surface Pro 4 to a ThinkPad 370 (like a smaller X1 Yoga). I was close to pulling the trigger on the X1 Carbon, but wanted a touch screen. Before the Surface, I had MacBooks and iMacs. Biggest takeaway, I love the keyboard and the TrackPoint. I was concerned about going from a high DPI screen to HD, but after a week my eyes adjusted. I will take 7ish hour battery over the Surface's 3-4.

Build quality is spot-on, no issues thus far. Having 2 USB ports and 1 USB C (thunderbolt) is clutch. I use the thunderbolt port to hook up an eGPU with 1070 GTX card. I can finally play some games and edit video.
In a way, silent modding down (now -1) posits the view that the guy who posted that 10 page paper had issues with.

If anyone dares discuss it, it's because they are on the "Wrong Side", and thus blackballed, punished, or fired. In my case, silenced.

This paragraph in the 10 page document says the following:

"De-moralize diversity.

As soon as we start to moralize an issue, we stop thinking about it in terms of costs and benefits, dismiss anyone that disagrees as immoral, and harshly punish those we see as villains to protect the “victims.”"
Multipath TCP coming to iOS 11
"I'm here to inspect your pipes"

saucy music plays
I like the way you have gone about this - very systematic and seems somewhat comprehensive (though of course more points may be added over time). Thanks for making it.
Working is like running, consistency and staying healthy are key. You can train/work your ass off and get better results short time, but you will pay for it later and geat injured/sick.

Plan your day so you can use those 4 hours of focus the most! For me that means no meetings, phone calls and email in the morning if possible.
Re-pricing is the practice of scraping your competitors and pricing your product just a little lower so that in price comparison searches you always show up at top.
nice to see a modern thinkpad getting a positive review. my T420 isn't going to live forever.
> Then you can't deduct it but in reality these are your costs.

The tax wasn't collected to begin with. The reason you can deduct it when buying from a local company is that they paid it. If you buy from a foreign company that hasn't paid it then you have to because they didn't. It isn't an unfairness, it's the reinstitution of fairness.
> Guix even use the primary Nix package management code.

Guix uses the Nix daemon, which sets up the build environments, among other things. I would not call this "the primary Nix package management code".
Minimalism is a different thing. Living within your means is about budgeting, its arithmetic. Minimalism is about owning very few physical things, but often very nice things. Like only having 3 pairs of pants but they all cost in excess of $200 each. Basically it boils down to owning the just essential and carefully chosen artifacts or modern life.

Note, I'm not endorsing this idea, just trying to describe it.