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> In October, Microsoft officially blamed North Korea,

I can see why Microsoft would want to deflect attention from its own failings to the bogeyman of the week, but I'm not sure what qualifies a private business to "officially" pronounce on weighty geopolitical matters that could result in WWIII.

When Microsoft falsely blamed Intel for Microsoft Surface failures[1], or falsely marked a non-Microsoft web browser as malware and removed it from thousands of PCs[2], at least the lives of millions of people weren't at stake.

A nation state would collapse long before it reached the point of being so broke it had to rely on - FFS - a Bitcoin ransomware attack to survive. I can't believe I'm actually having to type such an obvious thing, but apparently some people think otherwise.

What's North Korea's back up plan for economic survival, a chain letter?

It's a sorry world when people give the time of day to such transparently obvious and nonsensical propaganda, intended to suck us into yet another bloodbath, just because NK isn't a nice place to live.

> as did the UK government, neither of whom is trying to lay the groundwork for war.

Assuming that wasn't as a joke: the UK has been a lapdog of the USA (aka "Special Relationship"[3]) if not since WWII, certainly since the 1980s, when British people themselves openly referred to their country, even in popular chart songs[4][5], as the 51st State.

Of course the UK lacks the status and relevance in Washington DC of a real US state, and is simply treated (and behaves accordingly) like a reserve branch of US armed forces, supporting wars that serve US interests, including the one where at least 20% of North Korean human beings were exterminated by the US military.

[1] https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/132832/her...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-falsely-labels-chrome-as...

[3] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/obama-us-uk-j...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmup_vQvBGk

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a75Ez48alDE
Pretty cool, thanks.

I started once to index all switzerland government websites with yacy. I could index admin.ch and almost all cantons easy. But some city websites did not answer if it was not "a browser" or "google" who asked for the website ;-)
Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units after Loy Yang trips
I am just happy that it doesn't have a reflective mercury like surface
Yeah, I do that with tea.

Some time ago, I was making myself another cup at work late afternoon when my boss came, and he asked me if I'm staying longer today. I said no, I'm just staying for about one more tea. He asked me, jokingly, if I measure my work time in teas? I said, actually, I do - one tea takes me ~25-30 minutes to drink, so it's a pretty good unit of time...
Agreed - at least in my neck of the woods, the use patterns of people in their twenties with regards to Facebook seems to tilt heavily towards Messenger rather than the rest of the site. Events, too, but primarily Messenger. It has replaced SMS entirely.
Ask HN: Podcasts and transcripts?
A couple of questions:

First, do podcasts without transcripts even work on HN? Like if it is a good podcast, can it get any traction without a transcript?

Second, are there free or cheap ways to create transcripts for existing podcasts?

Thanks.
East asians are good at math. Look at rankings by country. Obviously no one would actually do this, but if you were going to, China would be a great place to set up shop.
Cup doesn’t exist in British measures, pint fractions or ml better.
Simulating quantum chemistry was one of the original motivations for quantum computers.

See this paper for an overview https://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.1331.pdf
Thank you for the correction! My, how copy/paste can amplify a typo. Looks like I wrote it correctly only in the first instance.
They got screen time on the TV series and apparently some "sponsored by Firefox" metioning in the credits (?). So the whole "unpaid" thing is a bit misleading as they did get something in return (which has direct cash value).
I use both.

Staging, especially partially staging hunks and lines when doing multiple things at once, is way easier in a GUI when you can scroll around for context and easily undo.

For everything else I prefer the command line, because it's faster and I know exactly what is going to happen. I can do what I need to do, no fighting. If I'm just committing everything, I use the CLI. If it's more complicated I use the GUI to stage and commit, and a CLI to rebase/merge/push.
Would you please not post unsubstantive or flamebaity comments to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They've demonstrated the capability of probably being able to hit the West coast of the continental US with a missile; they also have some nuclear weapon capability which may or may not be a true "hydrogen bomb". I don't think anyone outside of N. Korea knows what their exact capability is on any particular day -- which is probably exactly what they want.

There is a realistic concern about the pace of their developments, though, which is IMO the real food for thought.

Most analysis from more than 12 months ago did not assume they would make the advances in missile range or throw weight that they have, which raises concerns that another state is helping them (actively or inadvertently). If that is the case, they might also be able to miniaturize their weapons more quickly than originally estimated as well.

Absent some outside factor, it's safe to assume that at some point in the not too distant future, they will get the combination of weapon mass down, and missile throw weight up, such that the two meet and give them enough range to hit the continental US.

Most arms control theories suggest that it's better to be clear about what your responses will be to particular stimulus ("deterrence signals"), in order to reduce the threat of an accidental war. IMO, if the US leadership was more competent or even credibly sane, the best-possible response to N. Korea would be a system of "red lines" composed of DPRK actions and pre-planned US reactions, in consultation or at least full view of other nuclear states (principally China and Russia; the South Koreans would hopefully have some say over the responses, although they might do well to distance themselves). I've read some essays that suggest there was an understanding between the US and USSR in the 80s regarding Libya to something like this effect.

But of course, the US is not really credible at the moment in terms of internal consistency or rational behavior, which makes rational-actor game theory, on which a lot of deterrence is based, difficult.
Creating a Better Experience for Insurance
Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin
Right, but when you lose the case, you lose that money again, or vice versa as the business.

To many Americans and world citizens with less disposable income, you might seem kind of nutty to not worry about losing 3% on your under $15 purchases. Credit score and insurance industries are ubiquitous. For most folks if they move to another country you will often be penalized by that country's insurance or credit score agencies for not having recent history. There is certainly room for improvement.
Wow that sounds like a very morally fulfilling occupation.
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And they also say Veteran's Affairs healthcare is great... which is socialized.
I used to hate Ruby until I had to learn it two years ago. Now, I wish that this is the only language I'd ever need to use. It's beautiful, and testing stuff with it is a BREEZE.
$400 billion / ~80 million passenger cars per year would be $5000 per car.
People ask for your setup, but I'd love to see examples of your cards.

I've tried using Anki for things, but I struggled with figuring out how to put things on cards. Languages are easy - you put vocabulary. History sounds easy too - you put dates and names.

But how on Earth do you use Anki for Haskell? How do you use spaced repetition to learn fields that's about concepts, not memorizing bite-sized facts and factoids? I would love to know that, since most of the things I'm trying to master have to do with things I find too large to put on a flashcard.
Hey, it is painfully obvious that you have a high school level understanding of the crypto at play here. That's really OK, crypto is hard.

You'll want to look into how real cryptographically secure open source comms apps do end to end encryption. Properly implemented, the server can be fully hostile and never recover messages.

Then you'll need to go remove every claim of e2e or cryptographic security from darkchat. Thank you for your time.
Your Crypto Kitty isn’t forever – Why DApps aren’t as decentralized as you think
There's no way there's any "right and wrong" or any "should" about this. Also, middlemen save me money all the time. Without my grocery & retail middlemen I'd be out there trying to find an apple orchard, a dairy, a tailor, all by myself, and hassling them to sell me quantities too small to make any money on. And that's just the first dumb example I thought of. There is value in aggregation and in making connections and in brokering. My middlemen make me richer by me paying them. That's why middlemen have been around since there's been commerce and why you can't engineer them away. Engineering them away is just doing it cheaper, beating them in the "middleman services" market and becoming the new middleman.

Facebook is a shit middleman that doesn't provide enough value to me, so they're not included in this.
Would you please stop perpetuating flamewars on Hacker News? This site is supposed to be for good-faith conversation, not smiting enemies. I realize other people don't behave well either, but taking that as license to respond in kind or worse is the wrong way to react here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Would you also please stop perpetuating flamewars on Hacker News? This site is supposed to be for good-faith conversation, not smiting enemies. I realize other people don't behave well either, but taking that as license to respond in kind or worse is exactly the wrong way to react here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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I can totally recommend the Genki books combined with the Graded Readers! (besides any other materials you use, of course ;-) )

https://www.tofugu.com/reviews/genki-textbook/

http://www.japanesetease.net/japanese-graded-readers/
Can't wait to see the one that will build this online ;)
Gross profit, maybe.

Toyota alone reported $43 billion gross profit on $247 billion revenue.
Because there are no cross-platform options between 70s terminal apps and The Whole Internet(tm)?

I mean, this basically seems to be a mpd client, so the difficult work has mostly been done already. But I guess a big draw of the webtechstack is that it's easier for a lot of people to do fancy animations (like the mentioned equalizer) and all the blinkenlights.

Which is interesting in the WinAmp context, as amongst the things that drew people to it were two things: Small size & fancy UI...
Difficult to say with certainty; it's not like the DPRK is going to put out a press release that they've been hacked, if they were hacked.

All in all a pretty good response on Obama's part; it didn't demand immediate visible action but preserved freedom of maneuver; later, if a US cyberattack had come to light, it would have been a sort of chit that could have been redeemed by way of justification.
Apple cracking down on template apps
Hopefully they never take over the world, and we can stop this car nonsense. Having over a million extra people not killed by cars would be nice.
A large part of the profit is made on spare parts.
Ouch. Pomodoros do make you honest.

When I first started experimenting with it, I though to myself: my work day is 8 hours, so I should expect ~15-16 pomodoros; say 14 if I take a lunch break. Between stress, interruptions and procrastination, reality turned out to be more like 5-8.

These days I assume that a good, practical goal to aim for (at work) is as many pomodoros as you have working hours.
Its not the Lithium that is a problem. Its the Colbolt-59 that's next to it. A typical Tesla has about 15 pounds of Colbolt-59. If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60, the deadlist substance known to earth. 15 pounds of Colbolt-60 is enough to kill 24 million people. Imagine a parking lot of them. 4 tons of it is enough to annihilate all life on earth. These Tesla cars are the biggest extensional threat to human kind. Anyway, have a nice day!
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WhatsApp asked to stop sharing data with Facebook
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Pomodoro thus being a healthy alternative to those.
It was never a problem in the first place. There's more than enough lithium in seawater.
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Those people really want to appear on that n-gate dude's website.
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In a slingshot maneuver, the vehicle approaches the planet from outside its sphere of influence on a hyperbolic trajectory, with the hyperbola’s eccentricity determining the angle between its incoming and outgoing velocity vector. From afar, it looks like it “bounced off” the planet, but it really just swung around it. Relative to the planet, energy remains constant — indeed the incoming and outgoing velocity will be the same — but relative to the Sun it will have changed a lot, because some of the planet’s kinetic energy gets transferred to the vehicle.

The downside is you can’t just park yourself around that planet waiting for the opportunity to do such a slingshot. Hyperbolic trajectories are inherently single-pass maneuvers, unlike bounded elliptical orbits. You could conceivably park in a high-energy, loosely-bound elliptical orbit, but to do this parking you still have to lose some of your energy relative to the planet in order to achieve orbital capture, and do a burn to regain that energy later. This is probably counterproductive if your ultimate goal is a solar escape trajectory.

That’s not even the most serious difficulty, though. Intercepting an extrasolar object (aside from a brief flyby, that is) requires not just achieving any solar escape trajectory, but specifically one in the same plane as the target. And even once that is achieved, an actual hyperbolic rendezvous is an extremely difficult maneuver, not to mention time-consuming: with the delta-V budget available to chemical rockets, I’d guess (without having done any calculations) that you’re looking at many decades or even centuries to complete the rendezvous.

Due to the constraints of physics and chemical rockets, spacecraft trajectories are hyper-optimized based on knowledge of the exact mission plan. I don’t think a general-purpose vehicle stationed in the outer solar system would be suitable here.
If being opaque is pretty much required, then Firefox is absolutely the wrong context for that extension, whose whole point is transparency.

It's not that it displays an ad, it's that it IS an ad.

Not only that, but it also parasitically hooks in and wastes resources (memory, cpu time, battery life) in each and every tab visiting each and every web page.

That's yet another reason it's totally inappropriate in the context of Firefox, which is trying to dig itself out of the hole of being slow and bloated.
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> Drivers will have to shed their attachment to the sound, smell and feel of gas-powered engines.

I for one will not feel the least bit sad when continuous, smooth acceleration becomes the norm, and lurchy, awkward automatic transmissions fade into distant memory.

I'll probably feel slightly nostalgic about the sound and smell of fuel-burning cars someday, but it won't inform my buying choices in the slightest.
- Shady - Check

- AI- Check

- Small Float -Check

- Blockchain - Cherry on the cake

Here's some background of the promoter.
Venkat Meenavalli is the CEO of the Longfin.
Here's the brief background for you to understand.

- Promoted another listed company North Gate Technology in India, name changed to Green Fire Agri Commodities touched a price of Rs.1587 in 2007 and now it trades at Rs.0.59

- Promoter of Ziddu.com owned by Meridian (Singapore based company owned 95% by Venkat) was a file sharing website (see internet archives) and was paying people to host content. Most of it was just pirated content like megaupload and rapidshare

- Promoted Stampede Capital which is part of the transaction in LongFin in India listed at Rs. 33 currently trades at Rs.7.5 and Usha Meenavalli (promoter group) has been selling 100k+ of shares every month since January 2016, supposedly to fund the listing of the company in Singapore.

As a reminder, there are no financials of this company LONGFIN, no regulatory details on shares outstanding, and no direct evidence of a business model that makes any money. Currently under investigation for insider trading.
[I] invite you to come to Spain, where we have a flamboyant highspeed railroad service in which there's not a single line that covers costs (not even Madrid-Barcelona). And guess what, we keep throwing money to that thing.

What if you let go of the notion that public transportation must be profitable? I don't know anything about the railroad service of which you speak, but I find it incredible if the cost of running it is more than the value it creates (although I concede that it's possible in principle). Do you know what else most societies keep throwing taxpayer money at? Roads. Yet you don't find very many people having a hard time accepting that the cost of building roads exceeds the value created by doing so.

As for "money not disappearing", you are falling for the "parable of the broken window".

I don't know what you mean by this.

Wikipedia has a much better explanation for it.

I'm sure they do.

Once you're done with that

I have this principle which is that if you can't or won't make the argument, I'm not going to go elsewhere and read someone else make it for you.
Whoa. Didn't see that. That's another compelling reason to own your content on your domain. Then it doesn't matter what other platforms do (as much).
Battery manufacturing is hard. Everyone was really impressed by that "record-breaking" installation Tesla made in South Australia, but that 100 MWh installation is really less than 2000 cars, and Tesla needs to build five times that much per month to keep up with demand. I think people focus on lithium because it's in the name, but lithium access is nowhere near the hardest problem facing battery manufacturers (and correspondingly it's a small percentage of the cost).
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>If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60.

Source?
France to Facebook: You Have 30 Days to Stop Harvesting WhatsApp User Data
Depends on the country, outside US and a few other first world countries, iOS devices are pretty much nowhere to be seen.
Parents shouldn't spy on their kids
This is in line with my Facebook experience. I only post every few weeks on FB, sometimes only every few months. And FB treats me as a second class citizen. My posts often don't even appear in the default feed of my friends.

They do appear when my friends switch to 'Most Recent'. But most recent is pretty much unbearable for friends with many friends because it shows every tiny thing like 'Mike is interested in an event' and stuff.
In a perfect world, there's your very own scoring rules (adaptive and AI-assisted, why not) instead of groupthink-enforcing tools like upvotes.
So facebook should just open source their algorithms and let every technical decision be made by public vote?

If you don't like their algorithms, or their platform, or the fact they are monetizing you, then get off of facebook. Facebook is not responsible for organizing your relationships for you. It doesn't owe you anything.

There is not even a specific ask here. It's just whining because they know it is the easiest way to rile up a mob for blog traffic.
So Facebook as an advertising company has not made a better tool?
Sorry for your loss but... Wake up! Facebook doesn't owe you the prioritization of information flow you wish. It's like TV: you must watch tons of crap, commercials etc. and often you miss important information...
None, regardless of what geek think they know about monopolies, what Apple has isn't one according to the law, so they are free to do whatever they feel like on their own platform.
One of the reasons I switched from Facebook to Twitter is that their feed works much better. FB is full of videos, posts of people I follow are rarely shown. Twitter is relatively "unbiased" and shows posts mostly as they appear.
thank you, it give a good starting point to me.
I'm approaching the nested datastructure playlist problem by having playlists be nothing more than a special tag in the existing sqlite table.
But then you have to reckon with explosive growth when dealing with that table, especially with (potentially ephemeral) machine generated tags.

Anecdotaly, tagging attributes and relationships on a large library is a good way to DIY big-ish data, as my HD learned.
Three plead guilty in US to developing Mirai botnet
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Or this: https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/ (open source like Isso and Schnack, or hosted for those who don't want to install anything)
I used winamp on a pentium i mmx 166 MHz laptop. Using electron while mentionong winamp is sacrilege.
Yep, and the keys could be renewed or revoked remotely. What could go wrong?
OK, we've changed the URL to that. The video is here: http://bvision11.cs.unc.edu/bigpen/yipin/visual2sound_webpag....
BCH expected to be 4th since they made written commitment about letting people get at their forked BCH. Adding an order book along with it is common sense.
It's cobalt. Also, my physics is rusty but transmuting an isotope should involve a nuclear reaction.
I think your disagreement is somewhat off because when people rail against Facebook what they're talking about is the original product, the profiles, the friends, the feeds, the posts, etc. Messenger and to a lesser extent Events are separate products that happen to leverage the friends network. Kind of like how "Googling" is searching, not Gmail or maps or the rest.
estcoin – Estonian Government-backed cryptocurrency
I don't see what's uncivil here, there are no insults. And you speak as if you were an admin, but you obviously aren't.
Lol, you're using the opiod argument because you think it's a slam dunk.

People who use drugs are not harming anyone with force or fraud. And if drugs were decriminalized, they'd be far cheaper, and drug addicts wouldn't have to turn to crime to pay for their drugs. The drug war is a massive failure and a huge civil rights violation.

I would also hope that, when drugs are decriminalized, the drug addict would choose a safer opiate, like simple morphine or heroin. Yes, they are very addictive, and they can cause overdoses, but if people could buy their drugs in a legal market they could actually get good dosage information and it wouldn't be cut with shit like fentanil.
But how would you move around? Public transportation cannot reach everywhere. I would just stop seeing my family without having a car.