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Hello HN! I am really excited to show you Classical Music Only, a social website dedicate to discover, listen and discuss classical music. I actually tried to do a "show HN" thread 6 months ago when the first alpha release was published but somehow the link was dead and nobody saw it except me:D. Now the website is in beta phase and has become much more mature since first published. The website has many features that you can be interested in, among them:

* Create classical music lists, listen to them and share them to the whole world
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* Review classical works, read others' reviews
* Discover the most favorited recordings for any classical work. Add your favorite recordings
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* See latest posts (discussions, reviews, recordings) of your followed composers on your customized homepage feed
* Share stories, blogs and news about anything related to classical music
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I am really excited to read your feedbacks and happy to answer any question.
The Back-End for Front-End Pattern: BFF (2015)
So this [1] is where they announced their "partnership" (which, to me, remains obscure in nature) with Microsoft.

The blog post is long and features many well-made graphs, including pictures of "Data Silos" with a pictogram of a lock on it, slogans like "Data is the new Oil" in a subsection "Crudely put, data is the new crude", the famous DIKW Pyramid (Wisdom, Knowledge, Information, Data) and, my favourite, the title of a subsection "Data wants to be free, but not for free.".

All the alarms on my bullshit meter are ringing after reading this.

[1] https://blog.iota.org/iota-data-marketplace-cb6be463ac7f
Some SpiderMonkey Optimizations in Firefox Quantum
ZeroHedge recently had an article posted here showing that there were just $6bn of actual inflow into Bitcoin go account for its $330bn market cap. Thoughts on that?
NVidia copies unlicensed code, claims it as their own
Seems morbid but my guess is that they died. Would be a shame, since their family should have it, but it makes the most sense to me.

At least that's how I'd like to think of it, otherwise some poor sod is having to think about this every single day.
Well known technocrats frequently raise because of being good on politics/charisma/etc, rather than their technical skill which sometime can be average at best.

On top of that, pure and legitimate technocrats frequently are so deep in their fields they don't notice side effects to other fields. Politics are about making the whole system work, not about advancing one single field.

It's easy to optimise a society for a specific task (e.g. war economy). But the disbalance it brings may not be worth it in the long run. E.g. today's western societies are not self-sustainable due to huge welfare and too low birth rate. I wonder wether we'll revert to family-based societies next or invent smth new.
The thing is you can make it illegal to sell without being illegal to consume.

There's an important difference there - product safety enforcement vs. morality policing.

Particulary when most dangerous drugs are a result of chemical knockoffs to try and get around supply issues to making reasonably safe ones.
The Netherlands has had that policy since the '90s, if not earlier -- although in recent years (last 10 or so) governments have been steadily moving to a more repressive and less curative stance. Mostly because of our police's failure to deal with organized crime producing harddrugs, but they're throwing marihuana under the bus as well.
What is the "supply problem"? Can you elaborate?
I think it might be there sooner than we expect. The WD announcement (completely different market) came as a great surprise, a least to me. I bet we can be surprised by RISC-V being used in many different ways relatively soon.
This article has incorrect figures:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iota/#markets
Err...the Fire YouTube app literally already does just load the website in a borderless browser window.
Crap list, They should mention https://krita.org/en/
They will switch to a decentralized coordinator this or next month
The browser thing was really just to illustrate a starting point. I was going to mention Microsoft in the same breath, but Microsoft isn't important because they are kinda lost in the consumer space i feel.

And surprisingly Microsoft hasn't actually limited me with the apps i can use, services or buying physical products with

Today you have the closed-app store system's, restricted services to preferential devices and not even being able to buy products from one of the world largest outlets. They do this because in the past these companies have gained loyalty and now use that loyalty like cattle funneling customers away from competitors
The market can stay irrational a lot longer than you or I can stay solvent.
I think you mean "not as good as it could be" rather than "deeply flawed". They're leading the world in getting to a stage where all drugs could be legalised.

The Portuguese doctor Goulão who leads most of the drug panels does want to legalise all drugs. He makes the argument that all drugs should be legalised not just baby steps of cannabis, so he definitely agrees with you.

What Portugal has achieved is amazing because they also had very conservative governments and yet still got as far as decriminalisation.
"They absolutely need to have it called marriage"

Because that's what it called?

You wrote above that entitlement of minorities is cancer. Isn't limiting marriage based on sex just such a cancer? Most of all, sexual desires and even biological structure isn't binary.

It's not being overly liberal, it's being non-discriminatory.

The key here is 'a binding contract between individuals'.

The 'gayness is evil' trope is not fundamental to even western civilization. It was totally ok to be gay in ancient greece.
Australia does have pretty peculiar climate, doesn't it?
Gay marriage is like plant-based/fake burgers. Some people will say it is burger, some will say it is not. I'm more inclined to say that it is a "fake marriage", but I have nothing to do with the relationship of any two-person out there.
I don't live in the US, but I'm skeptical.

There are a lot of places where civilian gun ownership causes problems, gun crime, etc. Some of the places where it does not cause big problems (eg Switzerland) have liberal gun laws and high ownership rates.

There are examples where widespread gun ownership/availability causes exactly the kinds of is "problems" that (according to some) the American founders intended it to cause. Basically, armed revolutions.

There are confusing examples where laws are liberal but ownership is rare. There are opposite examples.

I'm not saying ignore all this. If you want to learn about policy areas, you need to study examples. Just beware the anecdote, attributing cause and effect. Beware within heated political debates, they are known to cause insanity. There is rarely some objective fact that proves your argument, just a collection of facts that may, taken in context, convince you.

Back to drugs policy, Portugal had its own set of cultural norms, problems they were trying to solve, political considerations...

I think Mexico and some other big transit countries need to look at radical liberalisation options. Portugal is a good guide for some of their issues, but overall their situation is very different. They have nasty problems with the wholesale dealing, and the organized crime that goes with it. The street level crime and consumption is not their biggest problem, like Portugal.
Each country needs to have its own thing. In Brazil for example, a measure like this wold not have any impact because we do not have control over our borders.

Take smoking for example. Even if tabacco its alowed, its really expensive to buy legalized cigarrets.

So peoplo just smoke cheap ones, that enter from Paraguai border, with no quality control, and brougth in Brazil by organized crime, or even produced in clandestine factories.

Just legalizing everything here wold not make a diference.
The costs in mining Bitcoin are not really per transaction. They are per block, and a block can include many transactions. The technology is also changing. It is wrong to assume more transactions imply more energy usage.
Definitely a scientific paper. It’s obvious from they way they formatted it that they’re going to submit this to Nature or Science.
"Grab as many processors as you can carry, Morty. These guys aren't good at much, but they're really good at making these chips."
> Whether we like it or not, people will seek out chemicals to make their day better, be it chocolate, coffee, wine, or heroine.

And most importantly, whether we like it or not has absolutely no bearing on whether it's acceptable to limit somebody else's right to put whatever they want into their own body.
I can watch YouTube just fine on my HTPC, because it's a real general-purpose computer that I fully control. I get to decide exactly how I want to consume content.

Buy a locked-down appliance, get a locked-down experience dictated by whatever the corporations want.
it is rare for the US Govt to suffer repercussions that the American people understand as stemming from the actions of its Govt.

Well, there's the current POTUS...
the sad/bad part is that it's only 720p.

1080p only works on chrome on chromeos, edge and safari. while 4k only works on edge.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
The selling of illicit drugs.
Why not now? (genuine question)
The electricity to mine can be made by environmentally friendly means.
Nobody is doing prison time in UK for posessing or selling drugs?
Pharmaceutically pure drugs can be brought by any adult?
People are not dying because they thought they bought heroin when in fact the bought Fentanyl?
Exploiting Tiered Internet Video Streaming to Assure Net Neutrality
Complete WooCommerce Tutorial Step by Step
Head of emerging tech at BlueMetal Inc talks about working with chatbots
But the solution to this is to make more tools with different tradeoffs. Not to add features to the tool that was supposed to be simple at the beginning.
The pharmaceutical companies are basically using blockchain as a data store. The only benefit of blockchain here is availability and security (hacking is more difficult), but they could use exactly the same mechanism and use a traditional database.

People still need the technology in there phone to scan the product, and we need to ensure that those proofs can't be tampered directly on the products. That also seems hard.
A monopoly
I am betting on Dash Evolution.

(Now I will be probably downvoted to hell as usual because mentioning Dash, but Dash Evolution is absolutely ontopic when it comes to user friendly crypto: That project is the biggest effort to make cryptos user-friendly in the industry.)
But if you decriminalize it, you can a) save a lot of money in the law enforcement sector, b) tax it, so you make even more money, both of which frees up cash to c) spend a lot more on prevention of rehabilitation.

Plus, as long as drug trade remains illegal, you have secondary problems such as bribery of officials, gang violence.
As someone upvoting/downvoting this is an admirable approach, but as a commenter it's not how things work in practice.

Double-hop to the most popular/ancient official endorsement via related discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?type=all&query=117171
I think the insecurity of their function was a mistake. I doubt they would deliberately code something that threw collisions and have a cover up plan that is basically name it curl and hope people get it mixed up with the real curl.
Yes. It seems like an obvious bug...
Recommended reading on the topic: Trust Me I'm Lying - Confessions of a Media Manipulator.
Not really. It has changed my coding style so I now only add variables when needed, even in languages like JS. I only get the "unused variable" error about once a month.
Ok, well if your checking account is breached and funds withdrawn you'll be fighting with the bank to get them back while unable to pay your living expenses. It's pretty risky.

Get a second account, even if it's low / no interest, and put the bulk of your money there. That way if your checking account is emptied the attacker only gets your spending money. Don't spend directly from the second account; move money from the "savings" account into checking regularly (monthly by scheduled task if you can't / don't use internet banking, as required if you do). Will also help with budgeting if you have an extra step in making large sums of money available. Not saying you don't / can't budget, just offering experience!
Simplistic programming is underrated
That would be how Amazon (retail) expands in the EU. They open German Amazon for new neighboring markets and then there are acrobatics with UI language, VAT, availability, payment and shipping options, etc.
IvanK is the author of photopea (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6396593). Great tool, just wanted to add that as disclaimer.
Is it? It's the first sentence of the article. The title is totally not descriptive.

You want to get mad about anything, get mad about the horrible ad pop up and soft pay wall here.
This is a good collection!
Most coinbase users withdrew their coins. I'm guessing they have way less than 100k BCH. Xapo recent dump of 25k in a couple days barely moved the price downed considering its volatility. I'm guessing we triple/quadruple from here by early next year. Don't take this as investment advice. I'm not responsible for your losses or your life.
Is Bitcoin a Million Dollars?
How many customers? And how technically apt are they?

I know my grandparents never see the EV certs, because their AV does TLS termination (I tried to talk my uncle out of it, but he really trusts AV). I don't see anyone I know caring about an EV cert missing for a payment provider.

The only exception I can think of would be for big national banks (Rabobank, ING, etc) for those it might be weird not to see EV because all the others have it.
Linux benchmark scripts and tools
For paid apps, you're largely concerned about targeting because of the increased conversion rate from impression to purchase.

Apple here is offering a cost-per-intallation pricing, so it's to their benefit to improve the targeting on their end.
To be very honest, when I first heard about IOTA, there was an article that had the phrase "the inventor of curl", I incorrectly assumed for a while that Daniel Stenberg was involved in the project.
The unlucky man who accidentally threw away Bitcoin worth $100M
I couldn't care less about this topic, but isn't what registered partnership is for? You get all the governmental entitlements, right to visit in hospital, inheritance and whatnot, without any religious context. Minus all the nasty potential divorce stuff (unless thats what you're after).

And yes, marriage is historically definitely also religious, at least that's how our society evolved in last 2000 years. During pagan times it were also priests/shamans/whatever that were performing them in one way or another.
For an exchange there needs to be a counterparty. While Bitstamp is known as 'an exchange', they are not the counterparty AFAIK.

If Satoshi rocks up with 1 meeeelion BTC, if faith evaporates, the bid price could well be zero.
What? I could get a gun license anytime I want. Yes, it takes time and paperwork. But unless you're ex-convict or have mental health history, there's nothing stopping you from owning a light firearm. Hunting rifles are easy to get too. Only military-ish style guns are forbidden.

This is in EU country and I believe quite a few other countries are on similar level.
It renders perfectly fine in Reader View, FWIW.
There's the thing, how can you tell if a computer magazine's article was paid for or not? The distinction is hard if not impossible to do sometimes.
Attempts at wit are so wearisome.
> IOTA had 0% of their ICO reserved for founders.

So the founders were forced to buy IOTA from themselves if they wanted some?
It was not mollie.nl, but similar.
Ministerio de Hacienda del Reino Unido planea regular el Bitcoin
What about Europe? Guns are allowed, although strictly regulated, and there're very few homicides.
I would love to see hard statistical evidence that less guns = less deaths. The problem with your hypothesis (because without proof, that's all that your comment is) is that less guns in the hands of innocent people is a recipe for disaster. I live in the US and we see the exact opposite of what you claim. We typically see higher death rates of innocent people in states with very strict gun regulation (Chicago for example). On the opposite side of the coin, states like Texas and New Hampshire see much less criminal gun violence and domestic terrorism. In fact there have been multiple incidents recently where armed criminals tried to wreak havoc and were stopped by armed civilians.
That's clearly a foul and has nothing to do with the open web.

I disagree. On the "open web", users must have the right to consume the content the way they want to. Or do you also think that adblockers, user styles, and the like are "clearly a foul"?

The fight is understandable, but that's why I'll always choose to consume content using a general-purpose computer instead of these restrictive appliances.
It's a difficult balance to get right. A $2k server as the GP describes costs less than a week of a fully loaded engineer. If those $2k buys you another X time (for any X >> week) of the application working, then it's not at all obvious that it's the lazy or otherwise wrong step to take.

(Lots of handwaving in the above, main takeaway is that it's the expected and rational path in a world where engineers are expensive and scarce and servers are cheap)
Thing is you can just keep trying to submit crap until you find somebody off-guard.
Sure, if I see an EV cert, I trust that cert slightly more.
However, unless I expect an EV cert and happen to check, there is no downside to having a DV cert.

If you are going to pin your apps to a CA, you have quite a few other options. For example, you could cross-sign all your certs by your own root CA cert and pin to that in addition to pinning to the other CA. At this point, you don't need to trust the CA as long as you trust your own root cert.
It always intrigues me how some get a new job "through the networking". In many markets, especially where low cost and outsourcing centers are prevalent there is no network. Colleagues are enemies during the recruitment, in case of success it's safer to keep a distance, and in case of leaving contacts are cut off.
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But is $845m enough to pump the entire crypto market by billions in market cap? Maybe there are secondary effects here, like increasing peoples confidence in crypto because of a false sense of liquidity, or something like that.
why not the fsf or sflc?
So they didn't reserve any iotas for themselves; instead, they got the BTC that people used to buy the initial iotas. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

... which isn't actually so bad when you think about it, as long as those BTC all went to their foundation.

Iota has bigger problems, like pretending to be more efficient by using a DAG, when in reality everybody still needs to see the whole tangle to verify transactions.
That's a pretty tired tautology.

It might also lead to less guns also in the hands of those who don't care about laws.
For example because fewer guns can make them a lot more expensive and/or more risky to aquire illegaly.

One can't simply argue that "A law against X only affects those who care about laws!". That's always the case. Seatbelt laws leads to fewer deaths - among those who care about seatbelt laws. A ban on smoking in restaurants leads to fewer people who care about bans smoking in restaurants...
Depending on the way drugs are sold, penalties could, and probably should go as high as involuntary manslaughter.

Dealers often misrepresent what they sell, cutting with toxic chemicals, lying about purity or even selling an entire different product. With drugs as potent as opiates, it could mean death. In fact, I think this is the leading cause of death by drug use.

These practices should be much more penalized than just selling the drug, even if both are illegal. Just like armed robbery is more severely punished than shoplifting.
By this article's logic, developing and deploying more electric cars will put a strain on the enviornment as well, as most energy still comes from fossil fuels.
> The founders had to purchase their technology back during the ICO.

Which is still dirt cheap and they got first dibs so nothing major there.
>> A generational collector is currently under development (but won't be in 1.10).

> Does it? Do you have a link?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gCsFxXamW8RRvOe5hECz98Ft...

This is the original proposal, although I believe it has evolved significantly during development (in testing some of the proposed ideas didn't pan out as expected).
I'm using Rainloop for my personal domains and so far love it. There's very good integration of GPG and (e.g.) Google Drive. Didn't take me long to move away from SquirrelMail or Roundcube after that. Highly recommended.
Some people do drugs occasionally just for the fun of it, not expecting any improvement.
My stance is that I would like to see most drugs legal to consume, it is stupid and evil to put people in prison because they put something in their mouth (oversimplifying but it is what it is). As for the selling part of things, I would like for state to sell the drugs with 100% purity, at high prices and with some kind of programs to go along with that that handle addicted users (they would be addicted in any case, this way you can at least track them, and do something humane and not put them in prison). But if that would be the case, that you can buy drugs legally, I would enforce even stricter punishments for illegal sellers.
In that case, the "customers" are other scientists and drug companies that _consume_ the research, will pay for partnerships, will pay for research to be done by that lab, etc.. ICOs on the other hand don't have an acclaimed lab or anything special other than a PDF with some buzz-bullshit.
It's not clear that it had an opening book either. In any case it's not specified which one.
I can see that being a weird edge case.

Especially because mollie is often used by smaller sites. The first few times I saw the name, it felt rather sketchy that I was paying to mollie rather than whatever business I was buying from.
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> I have heard : Perl is hard to understand after you write the code.

So is about any other language, it all depends on who was writing the code.
This particular opinion stems from all the non-programmers writing hacky Perl
scripts in '90s. The fact that regexps are language primitive doesn't help,
because they were often abused in those scripts and it takes time and/or
proficiency to decipher and analyze them.
In 2009, China had a very serious problem dealing with tainted milk, leading to infants dying and getting sick. People had sold more than 900 tonnes of tainted milk. It eventually executed two involved with the production process: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/china-executes...

The blockchain solution presented here wouldn't have verified safety in that case, although the author did mention the case which makes the article misleading. Melamine was added to the formula to fool a protein test. The chemical was added by trusted members of the supply chain. Since the members were trusted, they would pass the authenticity test of the blockchain.