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This was interesting to program. Apart from having to use assembler (which was no big deal in '95), you had to structure your program as lots of tiny objects which communicated through messages.

There was no obvious way of running a program which was not designed for this architecture on the OS, except for making one massive object, which then lost all the other benefits.

Pity it didn't go further. :-(
> The latter is extremely common for embedding static resources directly into HTML pages.

What's the benefit of this? I get that it reduces the number of HTTP requests, but it also fails to cache the resources, so you're betting on the client never requesting that image again (and the client may be a proxy server, right?). It also makes a right mess of your markup, if that's something you care about.
Falcone (a man who knew a thing or 50 about organized crime) said that once you have taken money out of the hands of organized crime they are dead. Freeze accounts, suspend influx, cut the pipe. Without subventions to the south, the Mafia has nowhere to pick that money up.
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You have a lot of allegations. Do you have any data/sources? You sound a bit... passionate? I honestly don't think you're making stuff up, but just expecting people to join your ranks in a "war" without evidence is wishful thinking in my opinion. I hope that doesn't sound harsh, because what you are saying is confirming my suspicions so I'm actually trying to help your case.
it was only horrific because it had no ui libraries, also what was horrific is that it was a second class citizen.
Google always already censor; you've never been allowed "porn" on Youtube from day 1.
That's not true at all... What would possibly make you think that?
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We actually just call them "smörkniv", with the litteral meaning of "butter knife". :)
The project had a very tight budget. That's why relocating devs from across Germany / Europe was not an option.

Also, even if the funding was better: One important aspect is: What if key developers (in that fancy new technology) leave the project? How fast can you find new devs? If it is a widespread technology (say: Node/Express + React) there is no risk. But think of hiring Erlang developers in your region.

I like Scheme (and it's influence on JS), I love functional programming, I like Ruby a lot, I really love Elixir. I like Python and Django a lot. But when it comes to setting up a project there are many aspects that determine my decision for technology. Some very important ones: What are my tech alternatives to tackle a problem? How wide spread is that technology in my region? How fast can I hire talented people in that tech?

I do acknowledge that a small team of good Python+Django devs for instance can work more efficiently than a team of PHP devs who don't appreciate software engineering qualities (not saying that there aren't really profound PHP devs out there, but many PHP devs who don't have profound software engineering qualities). There are only three real alternatives for web dev in Germany (if you have a tight budget): PHP based, Node/Express+React/Angular or Ruby/Rails based. I wouldn't even consider Python/Django, and forget about Elixir/Phoenix.
Hey Baloob. Will you be implementing access control levels anytime soon?
> funding Hezbollah

Do we have a list of what Google considers to be a banned terrorist group for purposes of defunding?
Some skepticism is justified, sure, but at this point making supersonic aircraft isnt rocket science any more. It’s a well understood problem domain and they are using well proven engines.

Even if it were rocket science Boeing has been making rockets a lot longer than SpaceX, who are still handed my them their ass.
Ask HN: Why is there no really successful Ruby on Rails CMS solution
I know there are a lot of Rails CMS solutions out there but the ones that became popular a few years ago are now pretty much dead. The newer ones don't seem to be gaining traction and there are now so many half-decent options that it is really hard to pick which to use.
What is the reason for this? Is it likely to change or is there something about Rails that makes it unlikely there will ever be one dominant CMS solution?
Hey Akash,

(a) Is there a limit on the quantum of the financial transaction? Example, can an online funding platform (ticket size is $5,000 to $50,000) use Cashfree to move money from angels to startups?

(b) Can solution handle overseas payments? To or from India.

Cheers,
Your terms and conditions page is broken.

https://www.cashfree.com/en/terms
I guess there is the possibility of putting porn everywhere...
In which case the definition of ritual becomes "any object or activity that isn't required for immediate survival needs", and it becomes meaningless.

I would not describe a television as being used for "ritual purposes". It has a specific function and is used for a specific reason. If future archeologists cannot determine that function or describe that reason, then I would expect them to say "we don't know what this is used for", not "it was used for ritual purposes".

That's the thing that bugs me about it. If they said "we don't know" that'd be much more intellectually honest.
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Since i'm starting to get worried about China's expanding power. Here are my 2 cents, i'd like to hear yours.

My opinion is that China has been artificially inflating their annual growth to 8% annually.

First, there were easy loans to do this. People can borrow money for building buildings. The mortgage is the building itselve.

What happened, the buildings are never completed ( 50% ) and the rest of the money goes to the owner. The bank takes the unfinished building and it just stays unfinished.

They do other things of course, but since the annual growth of 8% is always met. There is no collapse.

Now, China is expanding globally to do the same. They give loans to countries ( expecting them not to be able to pay back) for creating infrastructure there. In return, they receive monopolies when the loans can't be paid back ( much bigger debt for China).

BUT: the annual growth is met, while expanding their power.

Now i'm starting to get worried. China already has a lot of influence, but they can't go further than what they are doing now.

What happens when the entire structure collapses? Have they gotten too big to fail? Or too big to save?

How do i protect my ( European) money if this happens?
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Cherry-picking / confirmation bias.
So excited about this but I do think they may want to re-think their name, especially given Concorde's end.
> The JavaScript environment, on the other hand, doesn't really have any good APIs that properly separate preferred language from other things like units (metric vs. imperial), formatting dates and times, currencies, and so on.

You could implement the locale-less Intl.DateTimeFormat or Intl.NumberFormat such that they get the current formatting settings regardless of locale data.
All I want it for people to see that recycling is what prevents us from holding the packaging industry to account.

Once you stop believing in recycling, you start questioning why we accept the infinite flow of garbage that this industry creates.
Yes, they are. And if they don't know those practical purposes, I'd hope they'd have the honesty to say "we don't know".
You shouldn't really be shaming people's code on HN
We're working on adding more performance monitoring to GitLab https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/monitoring/perform...
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Probably will shift to india
And this is the reason why the referendum will go basically nowhere, by the way.
Sometimes I go through the airport in 45 minutes or even a lot less, but I still get there three hours early because the risk of not getting through in 45 minutes, and the problems it causes if I don't, are too great. Getting through in 45 minutes four times out of five doesn't help me if I miss my flight and all my travel plans are ruined the other one time out of five.
If something runs weekly (e.g., every Saturday), it could be useful to verify the user has picked a Saturday. Not sure if the dropdown would grey out other days too, as that could be useful to be able to remove unavailable days.
https://www.visy.com.au/

It is both the biggest packaging and recycling company in Australia.

And has the magnificently ironic slogan of "For a better world."

If they didn't have the recycling side of the business, you might say "For a garbage world".

But it's impossible to hold them to account isn't it because they are "recycling".

And now we need to ask "Is recycling real, or is it just garbage being shipped to some other country?"
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This is really not too bad at all. I had a go on an Android Tablet.
What got in the way was Android itself and the weak hardware.
going to bed with left over sugar is bad for you. but for regular exercise sugar is good too (slower carbs are better)

It's all about balance, possibly everyone should have a blood glucose meter and burn off that excess glucose every night.
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There's plenty of evidence that they conducted a massive, highly sophisticated propaganda/cyber warfare campaign. It's impossible to prove that it did or didn't tilt the election, but it clearly could have given the extremely thin margins in key states. I'd say that counts as influence.
Nope, not RESTful but still looks usable and they would surely iterate and improve. Violates third, fourth and last of Roy Fieldings constraints [1], last one being really helpful while using APIs [2]

[1] http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS

Cashfree looks promising and something really needed in India especially the bank transfer API. Good luck to the team.
You are comparing apples to oranges. Takeoff speed of similarly sized plane to F16, Cessna is around 100km/h.

Concorde's take off speed was 400 km/h. Delta wings don't have same amount of lift, hence higher speeds.
This makes chromebook all that more appealing now I slightly regret selling my old one
They can be embedded within a resource that is cached (e.g., an HTML page or CSS stylesheet).
What advantage would an autonomous passenger airliner provide? By removing the cockpit and the pilots, you get a few more passengers and perhaps a few premium priced seats at the very front. The cost of having the pilots in the cockpit doesn't make a big difference in the operating costs, and there would still be crew needed on the ground and on board.

Compare this with the costs of such a project, with ground systems facilities, extra development costs, regulatory hurdles. Then you have the human element, having no pilot on board would certainly scare away some passengers but more importantly would make the whole project seem much riskier from an investors' point of view.

While it's feasible from a technological standpoint, it's not a worthwhile effort to consider at this day and age. There just isn't much to be gained by not having pilots on board.
For some of the executemany use-cases the following execute would work as well:

INSERT INTO myt (myc1, myc2) VALUES ('c11', 'c12'), ('c21', 'c22');
Thanks! Is there a way to do it? It must support bi-dir streams, they just need to be initiated from the phone.
Once the resolution, tracking, energy usage, form factor (...etc etc etc) is good enough these devices will be able to replace every screen you use.
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"Smalltalk is a highly-influential programming language and environment that introduced the term "object-oriented programming" and was the ancestor of modern object-oriented languages."
Funny way to spell Simula.
This is not newsworthy.

But will the inputs be mixed-reality ready?
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When I was in high school here in Scotland in the late 70s and early 80s we did quite a lot of interesting stuff: metalwork, woodwork, technical drawing. I was absolutely terrified of using the lathe though.... welding was fun.

However, my absolute favourite courses were navigation and seamanship - I was gutted that I had to drop these to continue with French which I thought (incorrectly) I needed to get into university.
Yeah I thought that was really confusing! I would have expected that for countries that commonly read left to right and count from small to big the format of day(smallest common date unit)/month/year(largest common date unit) would at least be a sensible default if unable to detect the exact clients country standard, failing that the ISO of YEAR-MONTH-DAY would be fine but not jumbling it up like this and putting the day between the month and year - I know my comment could sound a bit ‘flamey’ but I’m purely interested / invested from the point of view of logical or biology, I don’t care about ‘X country does Y better’.
Some people have gotten video interviews. There is a chat about it here: https://yc.metachat.com/
I've never met a candidate who worked on the internals of the JVM or Java compiler, so I can't say we would hire him. I have met more candidates who know what technology is used as the backend of a website, than who know the internals of the JVM.
Also, is he still aware of the current intrinsics of the JVM and Java compiler, or was that 10 years ago?

My post was very blunt, like I said. I read through every resume I get, and I would be interested in somebody who has JVM/Java compiler knowledge.

As for COBOL: I don't need a COBOL programmer, we have no COBOL and won't write COBOL. We do have a website, which requires development though. If you had to pick one, which would you hire: A COBOL developer with no Web development skills, or a Web developer with no COBOL skills.

I have a view on web development as well, but that's a long post as well. I prefer JSON over XML, I've worked with both, and I struggled with tooling for XML, validation, parsing and the whole 'who creates the WSDL' discussion. I miss some good JSON validation though (and JSON comments). YAML I like less, because using indentation as for logic is asking for problems.

We don't use NOSQL. Our data is very relational.
>the point is that wasm’s goals aren’t somehow eliminating JavaScript, but complimenting it

That may not be the goal of WASM's creators, but it will certainly be the goal of many of its implementers.
How can I be sure to get more data then what I would give away in that form?
Yes, it is possible that with a magnetic field the moon's gravity would be sufficient to retain an atmosphere. Titan has an atmosphere denser than earth's atmosphere despite having a lower gravity than the moon. There are a few hypotheses why and one of them is that, although Titan has no magnetic field of its own, it orbits inside Saturn's magnetosphere.
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/8345/how-does-...
There is Gesture and key actions option inside Hackers keyboard options that allows to switch keyboard layout using Volume keys.
Knowing the right people is still extremely powerful in a free market economy.
It is not that simple. All that packaging reduces the amount of stuff that gets thrown out because it goes bad. That alone is worth more than the packaging, but it requires the packaging to either be recycled or burned.

I'm at work so I cannot give you a source, but look at the environmental impact of producing meat vs the packaging.

Switching to reusable containers sounds wonderful, but it's a very hard sell. Standardized sizes would waste a lot of energy in transporting, and proper washing and sanitization will add a significant environmental impact as well, either by energy use, or production of chemicals. Whether or not this is a net positive remains to be determined.

/edit: spelling mistakes
True; I guess they're then beneficial if the resource is only ever used on that one page.
Sharing of bathrooms, washing machines, etc is actually quite common among people who want to live in the city centres (expensive) while having low income - e.g. students. Reusing the space used for sleeping is much less common, and comes with more trade-offs, but it's not unheard of either (high beds and similar come to mind [1] [2]). Not sure if this is different in the US...

[1] - https://i.imgur.com/IH21TYj.png

[2] - https://i.imgur.com/h0hrXqx.png
The article is not about China exporting waste to Africa. It is about how the Western world might get refused to export their waste to China. Meaning how China is leaving its position of subordinate.

Yet, each time there is an article about China, people here feels the need to point out what China is doing wrong and how China is going to dominate. Also there is a lot articles from the nytimes published here who feels more like warning people that China is going to dominate "us".

This is a long-time classic pattern actually : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril
I am french and white here. When I was young I read, as plenty of my friends, these kind of book : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Lotus or Lucky Luke with its really cliche depictions of Chinese. It was normal but for sure it shows some racist patterns towards chinese people and people perceived as chinese here in France. Actually the consequences are obvious : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/28/police-and-pro...

I think it doesn't free China of criticism and what is happening in Africa is wrong. But coming from westerners like me.. I mean a french criticizing China taking over Africa feels more like a dog fighting other dogs to keep his bone. After you are free to act like if US or other imperialist power/western countries are so different but I am very skeptical when I see reactions here. People from our imperialist countries act like if they wanted to keep Africa for their own economic development, otherwise they would massively protest against our militaries and our companies ruling over Africa.
It's an interesting game, but I was immediately put off by level two, which sinks you into the limitations of the robot API by making you introduce a counter that needs checking. That would be totally counter-intuitive for beginners.
Evidence that "companies have gotten better at hitting people's reward centers to drive more consumption and thus profits" is a plausible explanation:

1. Companies are motivated to increase profits. [1]

2. Increasing consumption is one way to increase profits. [2]

3. Generally applicable techniques for increasing easily measurable business statistics have been developed and improved. [3]

4. Consumption is one such statistic. [4]

5. People are more likely to eat food they enjoy, even if they know it's unhealthy. [5]

Thus it is plausible that companies have found ways to increase consumption by "hitting people's reward centers".

6. People get fat when they eat more. [6]

Therefore this plausible statement provides an explanation for increased obesity.

I hope this is enough evidence for you. Note that I don't think citations are the be all and end all of evidence. They are a useful tool in academic discussion, but in more informal settings, appealing to common knowledge is usually enough, unless it's that common knowledge itself that is under doubt.

When you eventually provide evidence for your claim that people exercise their willpower less, I won't require citations for everything. I'd like to see a well-reasoned argument, however.

[1] Henry Hazlitt, "Economics in One Lesson", pp. 141: The Function of Profits

[2] Elementary mathematics: if you make a certain profit on each item sold and consumed, increased consumption increases profit.

[3] e.g. https://www.mv-research.com/research/pricing

[4] If you keep books on your sales, you have already measured it.

[5] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278431915...

[6] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2009/10/14/ajcn.2009...
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Note that the format "2017-10-31" is also an ISO standard (ISO 8601), so when in doubt, this is the most sane default you can have.
In the US, the Social Security Number is widely regarded as a "secret password". Not as an identifier, but authentication credentials.

If you know the SSN and a few other personal details (like address and phone number), you are assumed to be that person, and can get access to their accounts and sign up for credit cards or loans over the phone or internet.

But every company that uses SSN to authenticate you also must store the SSN, it will be visible to their employees, and recently SSNs, addresses and many other details of most adult Americans got leaked in the Equifax hack.

If this sounds completely crazy and insecure, it is. An ID number should not be a password, it should be a public primary key. And some other method should be used to actually authenticate the person - one that does not ever require handing it over in plaintext.
Barnes Wallis developed some interesting designs in the early 50s: http://www.sirbarneswallis.com/Supersonics.htm
I notice you're getting a bit handwavy when it gets to Russia destroying all US (British/French/...) submarines before they notice that their headquarters no longer exist.

Also, you may have missed the cold war ending. Despite all that's going on, there really is no argument why Russia would prefer post-armageddon hellscape to the SQ.
A note for comparison on use of LCY: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/62...

In short, the largest plane that can take off from there is an A318, and it immediately has to go refuel at Shannon.
I used it on my phone to run mp3Gain to adjust some mp3's volume, and I've also use it to write and run a couple of short C programs (not more than 20 lines of code) I had in mind. It's good also if you need to quickly SSH to a server and you can easily use your RSA key if you have one.
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You have to download the en-GB localized browser to get a different date ordering.

Firefox serves localized downloads by default, and you can also manually get the right one (IIRC it lets you override it on the download page)
The ICBM launches over Japan were probably not an act of war, because they did not go through Japanese airspace. When they were over Japan they were over 500 km up. That's well above any nation's airspace. For comparison, the ISS orbits at about 400 km up.
I’m relieved to see I am not the only one!
I strongly recommend reading "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge.

It's a science fiction novel about a near future where everybody has AR contact lenses and can see the world the way he/she chooses (among other consequences of this technology).
Key word there: rich people. Nobody with power will want to stop this technology. This isn't even getting into how regulating aviation isn't in the Paris agreement, but has been delegated to the ICAO, which is captured by industry.

It isn't just more emissions per passenger mile, but this will also instead the number of passenger miles due to its convenience.
Wasn't there some speculation about destroying satellites with ground-based high-powered lasers?

One could try to blast this thing into multiple smaller pieces, most of which would likely burn up in the atmosphere.

If it doesn't work, the failed attempt shouldn't increase the risk for anybody.
Most people intentionally set their locale wrong, to en_US, because a lot of apps simply do not have actual locale support, but try to do something when presented with a non-en_US locale.
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