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Someone claiming to be a group of miners have said that they are going to go through with the fork.

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x...

https://bitcoin2x.org/

Of course it's entirely possible that this person or group of people is just someone who bought B2X futures and is trying to push the price back up to minimize their losses.
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CuneiForm was a close competitor to Abbyy that got open sourced, both were Russian companies. CuneiForm OCR is certainly better to Tesseract OCR. The open source Windows version is feature complete and very similar to Abbyy though it compiles only with VS 6. Some converted it to an Linux application, but most advanced features never got ported nor the great native UI is available - unfortunately. It would be great if a community would re-activate this open source OCR gem, though some Russian speaking devs are needed to translate the comments. (Tesseract OCR is based on 1995 HP OCR application and more behind than CuneiForm OCR) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CuneiForm_(software)
I think it's difficult to say "Japan doesn't want immigrants" but perhaps more accurate to say that "Japanese society is not friendly to outsiders."

The difference is that rather than being explicitly "we don't want immigrants," Japanese society is a fairly closed one that relies on a niche language. No language, no acceptance.

Beyond that, for educated people to immigrate to another country, you need to have a job market that accommodates those people; Japan doesn't really have that. The wages and benefits aren't competitive and the pension system is unfriendly to immigrants. Additionally, you really need a good grasp of the language.

You can also see another recent post of mine about the difficulty of making friends in Japan, which is another thing that makes it difficult for people to come here. It doesn't help that people who come here often have a mediocre grasp of the language, which makes things more difficult and encourages them to live in a "foreign bubble," which will often lead to depression when it pops.

On the up side, the Japanese immigration process is INCREDIBLY simple, especially compared to the US one (which I've heard about second-hand from Japanese people). In order to work here, you basically need a university degree and a job that pays more than around $25k/yr -- with those, you're a shoo-in within a month or so.
?? Of course people start comapnies. Of course property investment is super popular.
The L.A beast recently taught himself how to shatter a glass over a 5 week period which is a pretty impressive feat
https://youtu.be/sZfaXtjHTzA?t=38
For some time, I was amazed by Meteor.js developer-friendy approach and it's "magic" stuff. But after some time I've found that I had to do many hacks to achieve something and gave Express.js a shot - it was a purification experience for me - You have more control what framework do out of the box and You can avoid using hacks easily.
It is more real because she believes that the father spends time with her each week because he loves her and wants to look after her.

In every social interaction we can never really be certain of the other person's motivations or feelings about us, or even if they really have feelings as opposed to being an automaton or a hallucination. In many cases it doesn't really matter that much. When a waiter smiles and laughs with us, they might just be thinking about their tip and how much their shoes hurt, but we can still enjoy their company.

Parenthood, romantic love, close friendship are not like this. They rely on a deep level of trust. If you pretended to be my lover, it wouldn't be enough to say "well you couldn't tell and you enjoyed it". There is an implicit shared emotional connection.

In particular, children need to be able to trust their parents.
Being in vogue has little to do with being successful in business.

If being in vogue determined much, Oracle wouldn't be doing $37 billion in sales. Windows wouldn't have existed past XP. And Python would have disappeared years ago when its popularity was particularly low, long before its most recent revival.

What's in vogue about Priceline.com? Further, what's in vogue about what they do?

Google search is in vogue? No, it's boring and very much out of vogue. It's about as exciting as the plumbing in your house or the water company. It's merely a hundred billion dollar business though.

Online auctions - a stagnant ~20 year old business - aren't in vogue? Don't tell eBay's $2 billion per year profit business.

And so on. The majority of all tech and the majority of all businesses in existence, would not be considered fashionable in any regard.
I meant a 'client side' ignore feature. :)

Service side content filtering only creates bubbles.
>Can't remember is a statement that can be disproven

It is? I'm not sure how you'd disprove it. Anecdotally (which I suppose actually matters in this case!) I've had a case where a (fairly long, 26 character) password I used regularly suddenly (and thus far, permanently!) went out of my head. I can remember some fragments of the password but not the whole thing.
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All of them prevent a "free market" and the idea is that governments break those things up or regulate them

What did govt do exactly to prevent, I quote the WP article, " food markets in cinemas, airports, and sports arenas, college textbooks, the Kosher food market in the United Kingdom, and phone calls and food in jails and prisons" ?

maintain a legal system to facilitate agreements between parties

Yes !

maintain a trusted currency for the exchange of goods and services

Yes but they also forbid some forms of private currencies and make mandatory to keep using their currency. If their currency was so great, why would it need force to make it mandatory ?

if governments only oppress a market

I didn't say that. Maybe govt are the best solution we have right now for homeland security, police and basic justice. For the rest of its activites, I'm pretty sure it's useless
He did, you cant receive mailed packages without signature in UK. Dropping valuables on a porch is very alien concept to Europeans.
Web app dev here.

Used Ubuntu on my old thinkpad. Bought a newer thinkpad and the drivers wouldn't work for ubuntu. Reluctantly stuck with the pre-installed Win 10 with new Ubuntu Bash extension (I wanted to stick with linux command line) and haven't looked back.

Apart from some issues with Docker (which I don't use anyways but I'm sure some of you do) haven't noticed any real issues developing exactly as I did on Ubuntu :)
If someone spends a few million dollars and builds a company worth billions, how do you confiscate almost all those billions of dollars from the company owners without killing the company, or crippling it's ability to raise funds for expansion and growth? The investors in Facebook took risks based on expected rewards and Zuckerberg and nobody else had the strategy and vision to deliver that for them. How can you take most of those rewards away, while still expecting investors to invest millions, build companies and fuel technological advancement and growth?

Until you can answer these questions, how do you expect anyone to take your position seriously?
we create value

How ?
If you read his biography by Walter Issacson, he was considered fairly mediocre for many years in his youth and quite heavily internalized it.
The ability to create searchable PDFs is very useful and convenient. But creating searchable PDFs does not require a deep understanding of the document format (like column detection etc). You just place the words at the right coordinates of their bounding boxes. You can test this for example here: https://ocr.space - select the option to create a searchable PDF. It works even for the most complex documents.

Now, creating a Word document from a scan is a different beast because it requires layout analysis. This is where Abbyy with its long experience still has a good lead.
I personally haven't had an issue with disabling telemetry. Also, stumbled upon this a while back (maybe worth checking out):
https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10
Yes, anyone can start a fork. It's hard to get momentum on it though, as it'll likely just be a shitcoin that no one cares about. Witness what happened with Bitcoin Gold.

So far there's only been one successful hardfork of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Cash) in all its history. Anyone can try, but few succeed.
Or just never sign a CLA. Can’t relicense my code? That’s a feature, not a bug.
I received a message from someone claiming to work at FB who says it is indeed the new building (20) and it is supposed to look like that, and that another one exactly like it is being built next door. Apparently the numbers on the beams can tell you whereabouts it was taken. He's not a fan either!

The interior designers must have been paid well I'm guessing - this is successful company, perhaps the rest of us have poor taste and we will eventually grow to be dazzled by it.
I think he meant that the physical process is the same, although the energy/frequency differs, explaining the different interactions with sunscreen vs concrete.
Wait, $2000/month with 25-40 guaranteed hours of overtime on the low end? That sounds absolutely terrible, or am I missing something?
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I was running Skype for Linux 5.5.0.1 (pinned version) because I didn like the new one (8.x) but it seems that, since yesterday, Skype won't let me login anymore.

I had to update to version 8.10.0.4 to be able to login.

Anyone seeing this too?

EDIT: The accessibility is terrible. I can't find a way to change other people's colors (it seems to be using the color gradient they chose).
Ask HN: Trying to shift to corporation culture too early?
Let us imagine situation like this: you join a startup and take on tech role. For certain amount of time you work crazy hours (and enjoy doing so) so you get MVP out and there is lots of interest from big players around your sector. You build the team however you are aware budget is limited so you and your team can only deliver whatever can be delivered in any 24 hours day. You, as somebody who started the tech, start transitioning into coaching/leading/reviewing rather than doing it yourself and all works great. You build the team around all parts of the solution as funds allow you, try eliminating waste (or indeed avoid it). You get lots of positive feedback from the founder.

However at some point, suddenly, your founder comes along with manager and tell you you are a single point of failure and that methodology and tools used by the team are wrong. You explain that the team will do well without you however your words are not heard. Suddenly the only feedback you get is the negative feedback even though the product keeps getting more and more traction and more validation from the market. Nonetheless the atmosphere gets worst every day, manager guy starts even telling you how to send your emails.

Days go by and you realise your founder and manager are thinking about outsourcing everything, testing, development etc. Your team is subject to discussions of not working long hours (even though they are not paid much and already contribute a lot).

What would you do if you was in such situation?
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Swinguff is a social music network where u can connect your music with your friends.Its the right platform to share your handpicked song with your buddies.Just Check out it let me know the feedback in comments.

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Article on the IRSN website (in French) with a map of likely release locations : http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Pages/201...
Well, you start by valuing the humans over the corporations. Weird, I know.
I never set out to explain strategies of life, and I'm not sure why you thought otherwise. My argument is much more simpler than that. Like I said, it's about the environment. It doesn't really matter what strategy a beetle or its friends take, if it gets hit by an asteroid it didn't get equal opportunities compared to beetles who didn't, and that's not fair.

I am getting the impression that when you're talking about fairness in life, you're talking about how one lifeform treats another. Am I right? Life as an actor vs. life as a state of existance. When I'm talking about fairness of life, I'm talking about the latter, so I also include all the non-live entities (e.g. asteroids, or sulfuric acid if you want something more common) and how they affect the fairness.

Looking at this whole discussion in summary, I'm increasingly feeling like we don't really disagree on much. As best as I can tell, we both think life is unfair. Perhaps we even agree on the amount of unfairness. It feels more like you're describing the situation as a cup half full, and don't like that I describe it as half empty.
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I don't think the issue it with "political", but rather with "glib [...] and of little informational value".

There's a comment in this thread saying "Welcome to late stage capitalism, folks" with a follow up asserting slavery. Both are dead, but presumably weren't when GP wrote their side point, and anecdotally that kind of commentary feels like it's in the ascendency.
That argument would make as much sense if you replaced first by last.
Facebook changed the UI so many times between 2007 and 2012 that I stopped using it. They were known for the salami tactic - after each community outcry, media reported it and FB revered it back just to baby-step-adding it back in with much less outcry as some people got used to. Initially everyone could see what you posted in your network. Then they added great privacy options (good). Later with the timeline/wall introduction the changed the privacy feature many times and hundreds of changes to the settings pages. Often the settings got renamed and changed, and new opt-out settings got introduced. The change of the timeline to a newsfeed with no possibility to view all posts in descending order killed FB for me long ago (2012). The same clusters..k happened with Win8/10, so I stay with v7.
Milkdrop is open-source :)

http://www.geisswerks.com/about_milkdrop.html
Norway does something similar. If you're willing to move to the northern parts of northern Norway they will write off a chunk of your student loan each year plus give you pretty decent tax reduction on your income tax.
The moment that the US government stops complaining about encryption is when you will know that it has found a way through it.
if 'cashless payment via touching a card' is what I think it is, it is completely widespread in London, in all shops/restaurants, and also on public transport.
Agreed again. Starbucks coffee being over roasted is a common complaint, also I find the atmosphere unappealing usually. Most coffee shops I frequent have to hit the sweet spot of having decent coffee + price and being a pleasant place to work while having access to reliable wifi -- for me that turned out to be the local supermarket, I get real ambient noise as well without having music being blasted over speakers all the time. The trick I found is to look for places where people want to hold conversations in public; I often see Arab immigrants gathering to converse, local meetings proceeding, retirees conversing, and people conducting business at this location -- the defining feature is that nobody is really under the age of 30-35 usually if they use the venue for social functions. It changes from city to city, sometimes it's a local hipster cafe or a random 24h chain where interesting things happen outside the purview of what is mainstream.
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As well as the readability advantages, a major reason for the pipeline operator in F# (the first place I encountered it) is to help with type inference. Because type inference happens left to right in F# the compiler usually knows the type you're dealing with already with code written using the pipeline operator but you may have to manually specify the type without it. It also makes for a better intellisense experience.
I agree, experimentation was the best part of the series although I think they felt the need of making it harder since this is the finale. Personally it really made me concentrate on what's happening not to die. Sadly there is no way around it even in New Game +. And when I want to explore just one thread (e.g. Aliizi) deaths just get in the way... ;)
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Didn't know the app. I can only see compilation videos on youtube. What does the app do exactly ? It remaps the time of the video to match/sync lips with the lyrics, that's it ? Does the user has any other control on the result ? Thanks.
The problems with Chrome's debugger UI for server-side development are:

1) It requires another window to be open, which requires screen real estate. I don't always have an external monitor attached.

2) Navigating around requires clicking buttons with a mouse. These buttons are quite small, so Fitts' law dictates that it takes longer to navigate. It is much faster to be able type "next", "c", or "up 3" in the same text box that the output appears than to have to keep moving the mouse back and forth between buttons and the console.

3) Because of point #1, it is harder to get as much space for the output of running some javascript.

4) It takes longer to make the connection happen and (at least in the past) has been unreliable. This is a significant annoyance if starting and closing a debugger window frequently, as one might do if trying to navigate to a breakpoint in a particular test case.
I did some digging, and found an explanation for the change:

http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence_and_Legal_FAQ/Why...
> I don't think the issue it with "political", but rather with "glib [...] and of little informational value".

Full agreement on that one, but those labels are sometimes applied unfairly to any comment which doesn't toe the valley-culture-technological-determinism line too :)
You can read in this very thread how people react to that. This wouldn't work. Parents would revolt if you taught kids that.

Above all, people deal very poorly with confronting their own failings. Getting their kid to criticize their financial and economic decisions (which is what this will do) ... that's going to go down VERY badly.
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> Investing is buying something that will generate returns, and cash cannot generate any return, kind of by definition.

During the hyperinflation of the 90s, if I bought US dollars and sold them a month later, I could have a return in the double digits. That looks like a good investment.
We do actually find these kinds of comments helpful, because it lets us know which of our TLDs are in highest demand.
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I would be very curious to know why he thought he would get away with this. Did he erroneously believe Bitcoin is anonymous? Have there been any interviews with the agent or those around him?
It's not a bonus, it's theft. It's still theft even if you take it from a criminal.
Not an author of comment, but was using different distros few years ago: Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Elementary OS, Slackware. I also tried out different graphical environments: Unity, Gnome, XFCE, Pantheon, etc.

When I bought MacBook Pro, my first feeling was that this is how Linux should be done for the end users. The only concern I still have is non-intuitive keyboard shortcuts (Windows and Linux have much more intuitive ones or I've just got used to them more).

As a developer I'm happy with MacBook Pro. It just causes less headaches for me and I feel more productive. Linux always requires random tweaks here and there, googling solutions to get the idea how to make my touchpad properly work in particular distro, fix random issues after updates, understand why it consumes so much battery life and why my laptop's brightness keyboard button doesn't work properly despite of installed driver, etc. This is my main concern with Linux and why I don't like it as a user.

I think Linux is becoming better these days and probably not all the issues I've mentioned are relevant. But I'm not sure that UX is as smooth as in OS X.
Yes, bitcoiners like to say "It's deflationary because the number of bitcoin is fixed" but you can instantly double all bitcoin in existence by forking to two otherwise identical (but incompatible) chains.
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The £25 one I got the other year didn't...
Yes, the site title is misleading (imposterous one might say ...). Fun idea nonetheless.
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As a plagiarist he had to suffer. Don't tell me you have no clue what I am talking about.
This isn't newsworthy, the incident happened in 2013 and he was already caught, sentenced, and sent to jail in 2015. He received 71 months in prison. His partner in crime (Carl
Force) received six years in prison (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10417551). The whole incident was well publicized in the media (thousands of articles). The only new thing this one adds is that the DoJ announced he is receiving additional sentencing.

The submission title is clickbait, and does not reflect the article's contents. A better title would be "Secret Service Agent receives additional 24 month sentence for theft of 1,600 Silk Road Bitcoins".

If you're interested in the background for the case, WIRED has a good article from March 2015 [1], as well as a link to the pair's criminal charges [2] .

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-secret-service-agent-s...

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/03/dea-agent-charged-acting-paid-...

[2] https://www.scribd.com/document/260409270/Force-Bridges-Crim...
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The title here suggests the license was GPLv2 previously. It was GPLv2 and proprietary relicensing.

That is, printer vendors were already able to not comply with the GPL when a proprietary license from Apple applied.
Sounds like the script of a Black Mirror episode.
Anyone who posts predictions about the future on a public forum runs the risk of people from the future reading them! Checking back from time to time is a good way to remind ourselves exactly how seriously this sort of material on HN ought to be taken, in spite of the confident air of many of the predictions.
Impostor syndrome means the person feels incompetent despite not being. If one is actually incompetent, then feeling like so is just having an accurate perception :)

Plus, I'd say many don't even realize they're incompetent.
100000000000000% wrong. Store a file from your offshore account--showing that you avoided $1.78b in taxes--at home and IRS can raid it at any time with a court order. The same applies to all your documents, papers.

The 4th amendment doesn't mean you can do every illegal thing in the world and never fear the state...simply the state cannot engage in fishing expeditions. If 5 kids are reported missing from your neighborhood, and a day later you have a backhoe digging on your backyard, be ready to answer a few questions--that may lead to other questions and warrants.

>>The risk of the government abusing it's power in a completely legal way

No such thing in a western /democratic society. After you go all the levels, you must obey. Sometimes it sucks, but...
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Stoke-on-Trent will sell you a house for £1 and lend you the money to fix it: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/council-plan...

The globalisation history there is that the pottery industry went away, to China. But that's an industry that the UK and the Netherlands took away from China in the first place in the 1700s.
Small towns don't get to run their own immigration policy sadly.