skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China promotes itself as a new, gentler kind of power, but it’s worth remembering that dredging deepwater ports and laying down railroad ties to secure new trade routes — and then having to defend them from angry locals — was precisely how Britain started down the slippery slope to empire.

China should be deterred by the prospect of following the footsteps of the most powerful empire in history?
Thanks to Allah the almighty Jihad is still an allowed surname in the EU.

I guess it is a sign of the health of the economy of the EU.
Mainstream media? This is an rt.com article, a mouthpiece for the Kremlin.
I have not seen or used the app. Having the labels in non-English languages can be very helpful. Typing vernacular languages on keyboard with just English alphabet is complicated to say the least.
Why should Slack support GitHub's implementation of markdown, why shouldn't they just use the common markdown standard?
Irma hit residents of Florida arent allowed to use their own solar panels
My reason for drawing your attention to this section of the talk is to show some of the ideas (now 40-50 year old) were about "dynamic media" - of course live computing should be part of the combined media experience on a personal computer -- and of course you should be able to do what are now called "mash ups", but to be able to combine useful things easily and at will (it's crazy that this e.g. isn't even provided for maps in a general way on smartphones, tablets and PCs).

But the larger point here is that if one is dealing with dynamic objects as originally intended, the objects can help greatly and safely in coordinating them. This shouldn't be more difficult than what we do in combining ordinary materials in our physical world (it should be even simpler!).

In the system used for the demo -- Smalltalk-78 -- every thing in the system is a dynamic object -- there are no "date structures". This means in part that each object, besides doing its main purpose, can also provide useful help in using it, can include general protocols for "mashing up", etc.

We can do better today, but my whole point in the interview and in these comments is that once e.g. Engelbart showed us great ideas for personal computing, we should not adopt worse ideas (why would any reasonable people do this?), once dynamic media has been demonstrated in a comprehensive way, we should not go back to imitating static media in ways that preclude dynamic media (if you have dynamic media you can do static media but not vice versa!).

Going back and doing Engelbart or Parc also makes no sense, because we have vastly more computing resources today than 50 years ago. We need to go forward -- and -to think things through- ! -- about what computers are, what we are, and how to use the best of both in powerful combinations. This was Licklider's dream from 1960, and some of it was built. The dream is still central to our thinking today because it was so large and good to be always beckoning us ahead.
Not even a day and see the number of negative comments on the playstore.
to the dead post:
Australia has always relied on capital inflows for infrastructure and capital improvement. in the 30s-50s it was from the UK, the 60s and 70s from the US (especially with the growth and introduction of Cotton in Australia), the 80-90s from Japan, and now China. All those waves of investment have come with fears of 'takeovers' and all of them have passed. maybe the current one will go for longer, who knows. Fear of foreign ownership are a little overhyped; they can't take the land with them and they must be good stewards of it in order to earn good returns. And they must employ locals in order to do that too - which has brought revitalisation to some regional areas that have gone through downturns.
It hasn't been confirmed but it's highly likely the X has a liquidmetal back. Apple's had an exclusive arrangement for quite awhile and this would be the first significant use of it.
a decent rebuttal but everything I actually mentioned would have beat the S&P500 over the last decade.

the only fund of funds that took warren buffet's bet happened to lose.

ETFs are typically passive and have limits to the leverage. I didn't mention exchange traded funds.
The beige cases have now all turned a sickly yellow since. Yeech.
The home gateway could download the patches and send them to the devices. Its firewall will prevent them to phone home or somewhere else no matter what into those patches.
Those comments are all irrelevant to the OP's point. Debian software is "old" by intention; it is part of the spec that it shouldn't be a moving target.

As for Debian making some policy decisions that you disagree with, it's very different for Debian to make decisions than for NPM to make decisions. There's just no comparison.
It's arguably more mainstream than a niche subreddit,no?

On the other hand, there are more trustworthy news outlets.
I have a Million Dollar startup. Should I opt for a job at Big 4?
I'm a recent Computer Science graduate also the CTO of a Million dollar startup. Being a Computer science Engineer and Tech enthusiast, my long time goal was to get the taste of work culture at one of the Big 4. especially to learn a lot about the engineering practices and working in large-scale systems. But now, I'm put up in a situation to choose between my Startup and Working at Big 4.
Hell, they used to go a bit further than just dropping leaflets...
Gaza International.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat_International_Ai...
As I remember it when first started getting interest in Bitcoin and looked for an exchange in November '13 the sentiment was unanimous in the community: Mt Gox will fail sooner or later, never put money/coins here. But it also looked like a lot of Americans didn't want to hear that because it was the only (as I remember it) exchange where depositing and withdrawing dollars for Americans was convenient.

Edit: just saw that other comments say the same thing with more detailed informations, at least it add a data point that even an amateur saw it
I've seen both. When I wrote the post all the docs from the gateways I had access to called it the iin with a historical note on bin. I don't have access to those docs anymore, though.

Edit: I really need to check when posting from my phone
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Note in interpreting this: If someone graduated from uni less than 3 years ago, then they might not be senior even if the recruiter who called you about them said they were. They almost certainly need onboarding. At the very least, a project that they should start working on. If you want them to come up with their own project, at least intro them to the current strategic goals of the company and whom to talk to find and prioritize pain points. But your best bet is to give them onboarding and at least a first project.

Folks with 7+ years experience: Is it true that you don't need an onboarding besides getting shown your machine and accounts? What is your approach to finding a project and deciding that it is what you should actually work on? Do you approach it as if you are basically a startup within the company?
True micropayments integrated in browser would be amazing.

You might want to check out Brave, a Chromium-based browser with micropayments built-in: https://brave.com/publishers/.
> The thing that sucks is, it was impossible to tell any of this was going on.

It was impossible to know the details of this exact bug - but it was possible to know that something was wrong at MtGox before the takedown.

Of the two-dozen or so people I know who held Bitcoin at the time only one lost funds on MtGox - the rest had long left Gox or were never comfortable using it.

The main administrative issues were withdrawal delays[0], MtGox not being able to prove their reserves satisfactorily[1] and having accounts seized[2]. ID verification was slow, and support was almost non-existent.

If you read the forums in the ~12-18 months before MtGox went down there was a lot of conversation about what was wrong at MtGox.

The tech issues were horrible code[3] (read the description of that repo and tell me if you would trust it with bitcoin), previous hacks[4], many more hack claims and the internal trading bot being traced by outside researchers.

I don't blame anybody for not seeing these issues - there was a lot of FUD at the time and many who saw attacks on MtGox as attacks on Bitcoin. Nobody really wrote a good and concise "this is why you shouldn't use MtGox" post anywhere. Hearing after it was taken down that someone knew it was bad is useless and only self-serving.

I don't think it is possible for a third party to hold your bitcoins for you in a secure way that is also convenient. You can pick any bitcoin company or exchange and claim its insecure and you'll eventually be right for many users.

One of the only ways to avoid the problems and store your bitcoins safely but also still be able to use them is with a hardware wallet. There has been a lot of improvement since MtGox with "vault" products, better multisig implementations, better auth, and offline signing etc. but still some way to go.

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179586.0

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=209362.0

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/23/feds-seize-another-2-1-mil...

[3] https://github.com/MagicalTux/btclib

[4] http://www.dailytech.com/Inside+the+MegaHack+of+Bitcoin+the+...
Especially since it took another 80 years for the country that the 'freedom-loving' Founding Fathers created to actually get rid of slavery. Buggered if I know why some people get so religiose about the Founding Fathers when they missed such simple things like "hey, freedom for all means no slaves. And women get the vote as well."
gandi.net
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I think there is a value in upgrading the cheeseshop to use "verified maintainers" - it should be simple to do a first pass of "the person who signed the hash of this module has also verified they own the domain requests.kreitz.org by publishing that public key at that domains root"

Even more useful might be domain/keys/kreitz/publickeylisting

The key signing party is much harder to arrange but is easier to be confident about

Personally I am surprised the Post Office does not do key signing

Edit: I thought pip did do cryptographic checks?!
as others have pointed out there were signs - but I would say that this is true for most financial institutions if you are paying attention. I remember before Lehman's went down I saw them having a Christmas party and I joked with a friend I didnt think they could afford that anymore - and sure enough not long after they were gone.
The USSR put the first objects and people into space. They also built armaments that could compete with NATO's best.

Meanwhile, today in North Korea it's pretty different.

Who knows what kind of systems they have in place to detect US attacks and how faulty and flawed they are likely to be and how unstable the people on top of them are and it's really something to fear.
Bullshit.

I'm not reading an hour Internet pages non work related. And if i would, i wouldn't count this as my working our.

Not calling my partner every day for 18 minutes at work.

What a crappy article.
But if the system can decrypt itself in your absence it must have access to the decryption keys. So you can't guarantee that the subsequent maintainer of the system won't release the keys after your death. I suppose you could hide the system somewhere (anonymous VPS) but then the encryption isn't actually buying you anything over what the anonymity is getting you.
And there was some news that Chinese would start trading crypto coins on telegram and other chat messengers. I believe that will be really hard now, too much risk.
> That's what happens when EU starts giving away money.

I'm unconvinced how bad this actually is.

An organisation with a ~150 billion euro budget in going to inevitably have some abuse/waste of it's resources but equally I can think of dozens of projects that have positive outcomes. Sure, it's still not okay for the ones like the airport to exist but I think focusing on them undermines the good that can be done by having a source of cash that can be used to improve the world.
…and let me guess no way to pay any business outside of India.
This should actually sound the alarm: The decision (and the alarms) were so randomly affected by life unbalances. This means that a whole system of nuclear missiles might be just waiting for the right random wrong moment to unleash hell on humans.
I mean, it doesn't exactly help that the US happily destabilizes any budding, non-capitalist state and installs a puppet of their own...
Tez – Google New Mobile Payment App for India
> The motivation for dynamic checking was often because many JavaScript programs couldn't be given any useful static types.

I like this quote: “Dynamic typing: The belief that you can’t explain to a computer why your code works, but you can keep track of it all in your head.”

I don't get it personally, when you've got decent type inference the number of type annotations should be minimal and compile-time errors mean things that would cause a runtime crash anyway.
Agree! Conolas it's the best for me. And it's already there.
Here in the Malaysian part of Borneo there are a lot of Chinese tourists. Most of the time they travel with Chinese Travel Tour Agencies, they go to restaurants owned and staffed by Chinese people, the same about souvenirs shops. All the money stays in the same hands. It's very clever from Chinese business (wo)men but local business owners are quite pissed off.
Not sure what echo chamber you live in. Many people in India don't speak, read or write English. Most of them carry and use mobile phones. Why would you exclude them from using the app?
I think I read a couple of hours of news etc. at work. Here I am on HN. It's very individual, but I would not be surprised if it's true for most office workers that they work efficiently for 3-4 hours a day. And for a lot of people, some of that time is spent in a meeting...
It's not about "deserve" but about what people "need" to be part of a civilization and help sustain and grow it. We tend to lose sight of what is not happening right in front of us and take the larger surround as a given. (But it had to be created from scratch, and not just made but tended and sustained and grown. This is one of the main original reasons for having schools in the US: to help create enough sophistication so that thinking, arguing and voting can be done to make progress rather than just for individual gain.)

The simplest ways to think about all this is through the "Human Universals" ideas (more nicely put than "Lord of the Flies"!). Our natural tendencies via genetics and some remnants in our common sense culture is to be oral, social,tribal, act like hunter-gatherers, etc. (With reference to the last idea, consider the general behavior of businesses, of "shopping", etc.)

It's not about "creativity" per se -- this has been misunderstood. It's about helping children become part of the "large conversation" beyond just vocational training. (Consider adding becoming a citizen, responsibilities to growing the next generation (whether or not you have children), gathering and participating in "richness of life", etc.)
It seems to me that with some marketing polish and some work for interoperability with the test of the WWW, Xanadu is perfect as a blogging or wiki platform.
you should consider a rename: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt_%28software%29
expect some more WTFs over the next month, but then their congress will be all cushioned in again and none of this will matter
Smart clever people loved racking up resume win after win with high profile clients. Liking it is not in your job description.
I see what you just did there. From the article: "Simply writing about your feelings may help you perform an upcoming stressful task more efficiently"
German tricolour flags are prominent here (current and German Empire). I think that's an interesting result. There may be more national flags, I was looking for something similar to the Spanish flag, but my knowledge isn't that great there.
How much time do you spend tracking everything? (I assume this is accounted for on a second-by-second accounting.)
Actually, just what could be done 40 years ago. Much more can be (and should be) done today. That's the biggest point.
Whoa sounds awesome.
It's nice to see 8 and 16-bit CPUs are not neglected :)
I wonder if there are other, still classified instances where the weapon has almost been launched. If lt. colonel Petrov was aware of the limitations of the early warning system then there must have been other faults as well - I bet there have been problems with the early warning system on both sides...
More companies? There are like 50 different apps for passing money around in India. Not to include Uber and Ola. The issue to be settled is onboarding merchants and fighting regulations.
At BitMEX we do 100% offline multi-sig. Unfortunately, that also means any form of live proof-of-reserves is quite difficult to do, as the keys are offline.

Early in our history, we thought once-a-day withdrawal would be a problem customers would be quite vocal about. Instead, we found many of them appreciate what it means - that the keys aren't hooked up to a hackable webserver, but are actually protected. Accessing funds should be difficult and should require human interaction.
I don't know how to make clothes (I guess very few of us do) but I do own them and I can somewhat fix them. Imagine if we had to go back to the manufacturer to sew on a button. We can even mod clothes and copy designs without being sued.

A couple of links about that

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100526/0039459578.shtml

https://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashi...
Ever hear of the bomb the US accidentally dropped on the mainland? When they recovered it, they discovered the bomb had armed itself and that all the safety mechanisms failed except one.
Linux Foundation Head:'2017 Year of Linux Desktop' but Runs Apple MacOS Himself
Illegal migrants are easy to pay under minimum wage, because they're under the radar. However, illegal immigration to NZ is (comparatively) minuscule and you don't really hear about payments under the table, except in small businesses like restaurants, massage etc.
Okay. "Exactly the same as outside of it."

jemalloc uses trees (off the fastpath nonetheless), but hoard doesn't, dlmalloc doesn't, etc.

Common sense derived from CS101 on data structures doesn't directly translate to what's happening in the real world. Your opening comment was pure armchair athelitics.
Show HN: Amplify – A tiny script allowing inline image zoom
I'm obviously not in all those channels, more like 20-30. One issue is that channel discoverability is poor. Searching for the right channel is difficult or impossible, since search only looks at the actual name vs. also the description. So sometimes I just stay in channels so I don't forget about them or avoid spending extra effort trying to find them again. Also, grouping channels doesn't exist so you end up with a long list of channels, making it more difficult to navigate (only can split them between starred and non-starred but that's not sufficient). Another one is leaving `threads`, and cleaning up that all threads view is extremely cumbersome. There are many more issues but those are just some basic ones.

It's not all Slack's fault though, it's also partially the company's fault for trying to embrace Slack for everything.
That was a completely sensible thing to build (and I even flew in once!), it was just destroyed by Israeli bombing.
I think a lot of it comes from the inflated rhetoric they present themselves with. It's a chat application, it's not curing cancer.

See: https://www.fastcompany.com/3067246/the-unexpected-design-ch...
You might find Normal Accidents by Perrow interesting. He describes accidents caused by systems (e.g. nuclear power plants) becoming so complex that they are incomprehensible to humans.

"I used to believe that solid components strung carefully together could add up to something understandable. But no, we are beyond that."

I think that's true, but it turns out that we don't have any solid components. None.
MicroPython kind of misses the point in this case though. The desire for Rust is for something not only safer and higher level but also fast and low on memory usage. Rust on the esp32 with Rusty bindings to esp-idf would be fantastic.
And how do you justify your behaviour? oO?

You could use your time you get paid for for better things. Doing something for the company you get paid from?

Here have a read: http://bookofhook.blogspot.de/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity...
Which subreddit was that, if you don't mind?
Who knows what kind of systems they have in place to detect US attacks and how faulty and flawed they are likely to be and how unstable the people on top of them are and it's really something to fear.

It's easier, there the top leader decides and he loves his life: "Should you launch something at us, we know where you are (show a few slides) and will launch x nuclear weapons personally at you, wiping your entire family."

USSR had a leader but also the Politburo, in NK we have everything in one, and so far for three generations. Maybe relay the same threat to the top generals and you're done. Make it personal. Not your country, but your family will go go first. The country will follow...
PS : It's pronounced like 'Taze' but with a soft T. It means 'quick' :)
It is not only in China:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/30/15898386/germany-facebook...