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China's investment in Pakistan, Srilanka, Myanmar is clearly aimed to impose strategic advantage over India.

Especially in Srilanka, apart from economic activities; they funded & trained Srilankan army to conduct one of the worst genocide on their ethnic tamil population in 4th elam war. Sadly neither the international community nor the Indian government did nothing to prevent it from happening on the contrary they even helped the then Srilankan government with their war along with China in a rare display of cooperation for worst crimes against humanity.
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The phrase refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_of_connectors_and_faste...
Ask HN: What has been your purchasing experience on Alibaba
One of my managers at a company I used to work at would talk business with me, and encouraged that I start a business, no matter how small.

Given that I wanted to start with something "easy" and low-investment, I considered try selling soap.

I've checkout out Alibaba and even got some quotes that I'm happy with. Of course, buying in bulk makes me cautious because it would be several thousand USD up front.

Have you made any purchases on Alibaba? If so, how much money have you spent (rough figures)? Positive/negative experience? Tips or things to watch out for? Alternatives?
Not at all.a few years ago, the Chinese monopoly over so called rare earths threatened to increase prices of all electronics. But it took barely 2 years for new mines to be opened outside China profitably and the monopoly was broken. Ammunition is very rarely a market demand. It's dealt by govt bureaucracy and shady arms brokers. I.e nothing to do with economic activity. War is always a political act.
you're not wrong. once i wrote a whole blog post about how to properly include Boost into C++ code using a particular IDE.
There are details of this article that are pretty spot on. For example, I've personally seen an institution fail, then just turn around and change QSA to one that passed them without any changes. This is right in line with the "The current state of QSAs is appalling" introductory sentence.

I do disagree with PCI being a great standard—it isn't.

* It is often vague leading to unnecessary debates between managers and engineers. (E.g., is a smart router that has a login screen a server?)

* It forces unnecessary password resets

* It doesn't do a great job defining changes to the server so again you can interpret that different ways. If there is a typo and I change it in a content view, is that the same thing as changing a typo in code? (You should see the fights this causes amongst engineers and managers in large organizations.)

* Two factor doesn't seem largely recognized. It is sometimes talked about by QSAs, but, in my experience they don't really seem to get it...

* There is some situation where a QSA said to my organization at the time that everything needed to be N many hops away, but wouldn't define concretely what a hop was. Nor did it matter because we had already seen attacks where the attacker took more than 2 hops internally to escalate their privileges.

What it is great at, and I'll give it that, is that PCI echoes the old adage of "Nobody went broke by hiring IBM." It gives great deniability if something does go wrong by saying "Hey we followed PCI! See?!" despite its actual usefulness being pretty doubtful to me.
most buckles have a male and female part. It's a common term to describe parts of things that fit into each other. Used in plumbing, electrical and many other industries.
Bitcoin explicitly does not have instantaneous payments. The standard view is to wait for 6 blocks before considering a transaction as "confirmed" Confirming a transaction at 0 blocks leaves you open to a very low cost double spend attack.
Not the point of the submission - keeping up with the interest, regardless of the contents, still is interesting and useful to know more about.
I love Python for this. Big standard library. I hate JavaScript for this... So many weird legacy issues that generally get resolved with libraries. Though ES6 went a long long way.
Isn't that information already sent if you sync your history?
When two halves of a seatbelt love each other very much, the male end inserts himself into the female end's receptacle
> FaceID is not a good application

Why not? More secure face recognition seems like a very good application that will be useful to millions.
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Well, some cryptocurrency exchanges have insurance too. For example Coinbase/GDAX is insured by Lloyd's of London, and their USD accounts even have FDIC insurance:

https://support.gdax.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2689803...
Would you applaud a criminal for inventing a novel way to commit a crime?
Don't think there's recordings of CampJS for this year, but on the schedule [1] there's a talk about it listed by Marcos Caceres. You could probably ask the guy on Twitter (@marcosc).

[1] http://viii.campjs.com/sessions/#payments
It's a problem only if it's denominated in foreign currency.likely
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For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.

- Óscar R. Benavides
Wouldn't mind that either.
> Please, at least one example of a social networking application where "everybody is"

Everybody is not there, even on Facebook, there is no such social network yet.

> and which makes Facebook fear the loss of it's users.

Whatsapp, Instagram and Snapchat. Facebook has paid premium prices for the former two and gave a pretty high offer for snapchat. They wouldn't do that if they're concerned ( of course, neither you nor I can confirm their emotional state, but we can derive useful conclusions from their actions)

> For example, give us at least one example of a service that would directly cause Facebook to think twice before making it's app constantly harass me to update my page, minimising the videos I am trying to close, and automatically sending me push notifications for someone starting a live video?

Have you stopped using facebook? Then why should they care? They will care IMO, but the point is by continuing to use facebook, you've shown that you weigh the benefits of facebook to be more than the costs/annoyances. So, you're happy enough as far as they're concerned, they might try and make you happier but that's left to them :)

Edit: Whoops! I hit submit before completing my last sentence
I'm questioning the idea/nature of a singular, concrete identity, the "self", that is doing the perceiving. This "self", the thing that seems to be the perceiver, might not be what common knowledge describes it to be.
This makes a lot of sense and explains a lot of the reactions I have berm getting since tracking my concentration meticulously with Toggl.

I work as a remote consultant and track everything down to the second.

"Filling out" timesheets and answering "how much I worked" a non issue.

I've been getting accolades for how much work I accomplish... even when I clock only 3-4 hours a day.
I appreciate the kind words, but I have actually had very few real disappointments in my career -- and those that I have have all been of the bad professional breakup variety. (And though I have come to accept that in those that value longevity, some of these kind of breakups are inevitable, it doesn't make them any less painful!)

So in my (still young!) career, the good days have far outnumbered the bad ones -- and I am blessed by healthy kids, a loving family, food on the table, and a roof over my head. Which is not to say, of course, that I am above a rant or two, but that there's always a twinkle in the eye that reflects an underlying optimism and gratitude.
Indeed, managing waste for a station of over 1000 people while complying with a restrictive international treaty and putting up with extreme environmental conditions is a really tricky and dangerous job. I knew some of the "wasties" well and had lots of respect for them. They had to deal with conundrums like: how do you forklift pallets of waste which are frozen to the ground by several inches of ice following flooding?
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This is true in aggregate, with the additional caveat of over an asymptotically long timeline. Part of the goal of hedge funds, or at least some, is to hedge investments so that you might not get hurt as hard during a recession as the market.

There can still be active funds that perform better than the market, or the market as measured by an index ETF. Unfortunately with the way funds are marketed, funds can often just employ survivorship bias so that all funds look very good. Also, index funds do not have to outperform active funds/traders by definition, because not only can active funds invest in assets outside of the index (other stocks, real estate, futures, options, etc.), but active funds can also have more profitable allocations. Obvious proof: if the value of every stock in the S&P 500 were now worth 0, active funds wouldn't, ergo active funds will not necessarily always be outperformed by indexes.

I think that for your average investor, indexes are the way to go at the moment, but it's not impossible for there to be a world where active funds are often better.
Crazy to me. Slack is a constant distraction - 20+ channels makes it seem like I'm in 20+ day-long, slow meetings.

Real-time chat rooms just to make productive teams, I've found.
Again: That would identify Coinbase as insolvent, right? Why or why not?

I remember how amateurish Coinbase was in the early days, and you can look up a lot of the controversy on HN. People have been coming out saying they haven't processed $5k deposits, that they haven't responded to support claims in months, and on and on. If you're looking for "This exchange is run by amateurs," look no further than Coinbase.

Yet it's not that simple. Coinbase has somehow managed to become the #1 exchange to go to if you're a US citizen that needs an easy way to convert BTC into USD. So I just don't get this line that if an exchange is run by amateurs, it's a sign of insolvency. We have evidence that demonstrates that's not true.
Wow! With such a hostile environment, I am surprised that you are able to hire any developers at all. I am also surprised that you have the luxury of firing employees. I would imagine that the unfortunate developers who joined your company to sprint and go as far as possible from company like yours.
No need to apologize. It works great for my needs and it was easy enough just to hack your hack :)
> If it's a company doing this, you still are free to run your own servers and say anything you want

The Daily Stormer recently had a different experience. Besides, when your entire life's infrastructure depends on an ecosystem of data services, being suddenly disconnected from that ecosystem is tantamount to banishment. That's definitely the kind of punishment that can discourage speech.
That's not entirely the nuance of Warren Buffet's argument though. His argument is that the stock pickers have the deck stacked against them on total returns to the investor due to high fees. So maybe they do actually do better than average, but that it's likely not "2 and 20" better.
I want Mueller to know, and I want to know in a year, but I don't want Facebook to release the info now. Better to let the guilty parties remain uncertain about how much is known so that they make mistakes.
Eschewing diplomacy and antagonizing allies started with Bush after 9/11 and the build up for the Iraq war.
Yep.

efficiency * 110 tons * gh = 45 tons * gh

efficiency = 45 tons / 100 tons = 40.9%
Reading the article, I think what I realize is that us readers how no real sway over either side. If Sri Lanka didnt want an airport, they didnt have to get it and China didnt need to provide an airport.

Before there was real customers coming in, this was likely just a very good deal or a new product launch with no demand, I think the writer is oversimplifying the situation a bit. There are more reasons than maybe economic neocolonialism.
While admirable, I don't really see how CoreOS automatically makes the internet more secure as they claim. I'm assuming this blog is targeted at other tech folks so definitely expected a little more detail than a small blurb.

I say this as fan of CoreOS and really appreciate their OpenSource work.
>Here’s what we don’t know, at least not directly from Facebook:

>• What all of those ads looked like

>• What specific information – or disinformation — they were spreading

>• Who or what the accounts pretended to be

>• How many Americans interacted with the ads or the fake personae

>We also don’t know what geographical locations the alleged social media saboteurs were targeting (The regular list of swing states and counties? Or the most politically flammable fringes?) Facebook says that more of those ads ran in 2015 than in 2016, but not how many more.

>Nor has Facebook reported whether the people who were targeted were from specific demographic or philosophical groups — all of which means we really don’t know the full extent of the duping on Facebook, and maybe Facebook doesn’t either.

Couldn't it be the case that Facebook has given, or is in the process of giving, all of this information to the FBI? And perhaps the FBI does not want it publicized as it may affect an ongoing investigation? Also, it's pretty personal info: in the event that one or more of the ad buyers grouped into the list really was a private citizen with no affiliation to any government, is Facebook in the right to publicize who they are and which ads they purchased?
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We need a sort of Geneva Conventions for privacy and unwanted intrusions on attention.

Creating something like a wide-scale database about individuals based on data collected without their consent or under duress could be treated, internationally, like the deployment of nuclear weapons in a first strike.

Likewise, we could charge people who deploy pop-up ads with crimes on the magnitude of a mugging. Botnet operators could be hunted with the zeal we currently reserve for drug smugglers and media pirates.
A central bank hack lead to $58 million being transferred and withdrawn in cash in just a few days. Permanently lost/irrecoverable... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery
urgh, s/bourne/born
I think the first step we can take toward "software artifacts" is modularization.

If each piece of functionality is a discrete module, the entire platform suddenly becomes both malleable and stable.

The best way to accomplish modularization is by using a functional design.
You can just assume zero trust. Transfer in what you can afford to lose. Split your big trades into a lot of small trades across exchanges keeping a maximum amount in flight at any time. Money is only safe if it confirmed in your crypto wallet, or in your bank account but beyond and period where the transaction could be reversed.
Did I read that right - they currently have $200M ARR?

Keep in mind the $5B "valuation" probably is based on share price of the preferred share times total number of all shares. In other words, fiction.
Their main problem is not the kernel. It’s their application APIs. What a clusterfuck that is in Android. And now with tens of billions of LOCs written for it they’re stuck with it forever.
It seems like most of the documentaries I watch now a days are basically that! They're very interesting and entertaining.
Not sure if the talk has been uploaded, but: https://twitter.com/chrismorrisorg/status/896352427426799618
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Mirabel airport [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al%E2%80%93Mirabel_...] probably was a contender. The passenger terminals were eventually torn down recently, but cargo flights continue to use it.

EDIT: "By surface area, it was the largest airport in the world that had ever been envisioned, with a planned area of 39,660 hectares (396.6 km2; 98,000 acres)"
Thanks. I've heard of pipes being referred to that way, but not buckles.
If you're going to say stuff like this, at least provide a modicum of evidence. What pricing scheme, in particular, is borderline fraudulent? Does it differ fundamentally from events like Black Friday? Why should people save money instead of spending it?
That seems like a stretch.

When you look at the Fuchsia OS repositories in Github and select these by language the overwhelming bulk are C++. Regarding the languages you cite: there are some non-trivial parts in Go; the Fuchsia package manager, for instance. There are several bindings to certain key parts of the OS provided for Rust, but no actual Rust components that I can see. Python is used for some build and packaging utility type stuff. Kotlin is provided with one binding library with four whole commits.

Regarding two others mentioned in wikipedia; Dart is actually more prominent than Go, Python, Rust and Kotlin combined. C has lots of binding libraries, but only a pair of boot loaders appear to be core components, plus a fortune stub.
Dive into the details of iOS 11: Is Apple still detail-oriented?
Yeah you might be right, I just took it at face value. Also, I'm pretty unaware of the specific realities in the interaction between planes and the weather.

Thanks for pointing this out though
Despite all the detractors, Slack definitely made collaboration much easier b/w teams. IRC was just too techy for tech and non-tech teams to collaborate.

However, I don't think the future of collaboration will be Slack. It is just too expensive and quite buggy at the moment. I'm hoping there will be competition that will either make Slack better or replace Slack with a cheaper, less buggy alternative.
You stated that the example was "overly simplistic and largely optimized". I made no claim as to what system this code is optimized for, I was simply stating that it is possible to have an allocater the same size that is (or was) suitable for production use.
>>What are you talking about?

He's talking about teams in the context of Slack not a different product.
Urbit is snake oil. They're never going to deliver anything. That sale of "stars" or whatever was them cashing out.

Take a good long look at the developer documentation and tell me I'm wrong.
...you do realize "non-profit" doesn't mean they don't make money, right? It means they don't show a profit. They still need to monetize their offering, and unless you've got a solution yet to be offered up... it'll be the exact same thing as "for-profit" companies do. As for "objective" - most non-profits are far less objective because they thrive off donations.
My guess is it's easier to get attention for selling cloud security after something like the Equifax breach happens.
> So if the VC money is there for the taking, why not?

- dilution
- possible obligation to pay dividends
- although probably not here, giving a board seat / some control

I think the basic question here is, how can Slack productively spend $250MM over the next couple of years--do they have a vision that exists in some proportion to that kind of capital? Slack is a nice platform, yet it's hard to imagine _hundreds_ of good developers toiling away on mobile apps, desktop apps, webhook integrations, etc.
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The parent is talking about the size of Slack teams, not the Microsoft product "Teams" which you seem to be talking about. (Why would Slack have to rebuild anything because of MS?!)
According to LinkedIn data, Slack has >950 employees. Not 50.

They are going "big". Enterprise. Places Basecamp or hipchat never did or will.
We understand you bothered to look. We're asking "What are the specific actions you took, so that in the future, we may take them? What did you discover that led to your tweet? Was it hard evidence, or was it more of a list of worrying signs?"

Writing on-dead-tree letters is a flowery way of describing what you did, but it gives no actionable signal.
And that insurance is the state.
Not OP, but this is probably it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidbit
>Could expand on where it suffers? I've been playing around with Rust in the embedded space (nothing serious at all); I find it to be as elegant in a nonstd situation as it is in standard high level app development.

By "the embedded space" do you mean "devices running Linux with Rust in userspace?" Because that's much higher level than what I'm talking about, and has very different design concerns from those of a general purpose operating system.

My main beef with Rust for low level development is that Rust is way more complicated than it should be. IMO for serious low level programming Rust should have 1/10th the featureset. It also has issues dealing with the weird data structures that tend to come up in low level contexts in my experience. Rust also has the shiny fad status working against it IMO. If, say, 5% of C hackers understand low level programming and/or kernel hacking, then maybe 0.5% of Rust hackers do (if that).

>What are those classes of problems? C++ never offered a safe alternative to C, but did offer some eases of use and stronger typing over C.

It comes back to complexity and typing. There's nothing wrong with strongly typed languages (of which C is a member), but I strongly dislike object oriented languages and paradigms. Especially in low level contexts it's like forcing a square peg into a round hole. Other features C++ brings to the table like operator overloading and templates are antifeatures, doubly so in a kernel hacking context. Many of the same patterns of unnecessary complexity introduced by C++ are also present in Rust.

C is boring, but it's also transparent and straightforward. Ergonomics takes a backseat to simplicity in C, which is a compromise I'd take any day.
And also take an absurd amount of resources.
How do you approach a customer once you have the data? I imagine you will build a relationship with your customers eventually, but when you're just getting started, do you just ask a potential customer via mail/email/phone if they want to meet and discuss your data of company X?

I'm also curious as to the level of "polish" that you are expected to provide. Let's say you know how many widgets Acme sold this last quarter. Is that by itself enough information, or would you need to calculate projected expenses / other stuff to actually be able to deliver an earnings estimate? What if you just had projected revenue?

Thank you!
I’ve had motorcycle tires in 49 of our 50 states, and lived in a variety of regions of the country. I agree with your general sentiment, because boy howdy there are some bad ones everywhere you go, but I say with confidence that I have found where the worst drivers in the country live.
Easy enough to make it not real-time: mark self as "away", disable notifications, let your team know the right way to contact you if they have a critical issue.
Seems like the guilty party here is Facebook itself. Foreign entities don’t particularly care about the peculiarities of US law. Facebook, on the other hand, should.
Just don't make a joke about it at a developer conference.
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For certain decisions that seems like a false choice.

For example, no amount of contribution would have stopped Netflix et al from pushing through EME as a web standard.
This looks like some epic PR talk for marketing purposes. Maybe they want to sell it to Equifax like companies?