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> Democracies are more stable and tend to contain healthier economies, in the long run [1].

Good for the economies. But some great economies happen in non-democratic places. It tells me nothing. I'm more concerned with fighting oppression than promoting the growth of "healthier economy" (what ever that may mean).

> It is meaningful, on the other hand, to consider how long a regime (and thus one's investments) will last

Investment of worker's means (like his house): sure.

Investment of a billionaires fortune: I do not give a shit, it's not in my interest to protect that kind of investment. For the record: I do not believe investment creates jobs, I believe increased consumption and protective economic policy create jobs.

> the odds of your employees being jailed for falling out of political favor

Now THAT'S oppression right there! I really hate that to happen, not because some company owner has to find a new employee, but because a person and their social environment is ripped to pieces.

> whether favorable rules (such as this one) could be re-written, again on someone's whim

Rules favourable to what? Billionaires? Or the common people?

Ask yourself: can you really define the word "economy" unambiguously? Or are you chasing a spook?
My "friend" started to be aggresive and supporting this Apple explanation. It feels to me they behave like addicted. They need a new iPhone dose for xmass this year.
Why would anyone use that ? Best practices require that every user has a random (probablistically) unique salt. Just use bcrypt, or other password hash functions.
Not really. "Default to privacy" is what gives you insane useless UXes like the one in the article, where you're making login (already a frustrating experience) more painful with absolutely zero gain in security.

Default to knowing your threat model. Default to balancing security concerns with UX, and make an informed decision instead of blindly following best practices.
I'm not sure the point made was as much "use this blanket solution" as "if you're aiming to do this, go all the way".

Obviously, Github and Stripe aren't actually enforcing these messages as part of some larger security policy, or if they are, they're doing it very poorly. But if they were, the email shuffle is what they ought to be doing.
Lithuania's one was two elderly Chernobyl-style reactors which were already past their design life; shutting them was fairly reasonable. I thought Estonia had a couple, but apparently not.
> You can remotely edit on any system accessible over ssh thanks to netrw:

Yeah, and either lose all the goods of path completion or gain atrocious lag
on each tab. Because of that, I rarely use netrw.
This blogger was arrested because Interpol issued warrant for his arrest. Belarus as law-abiding member of Interpol just complied with rules, he was extradited to the country that made request, afaik.

I wouldn't trust the guy who broke the law on purpose. What he did is entered the territory using a fake passport, after he was specifically told by the government the he can't do this. And he did it not for any valid reason, but just to create hype in his blog. Pretty idiotic thing to do.

Anyway situation with this blogger is totally irrelevant to the Decree of Digital Economy that was signed today.
You’re mentioning HTTP as an issue when the persistence layer behind the queue is based on MySQL, which does not seem to be in any way relevant here.
I get that, if he applied to a particular compsci-heavy function... he's just not a good fit. That's fine.

But any HR department worth its salt has a good idea of the company's needs in general (i.e., the other 1000 functions that Google has), and could ascertain and recognise talents and strengths in Max, and find a fit.

The notion that, as Max puts it, 90% of Google employees and a significant fraction of developers worldwide use a technology you built, but that there's no fitting function for you at a large technology company with a highly diverse set of tech initiatives, is frankly ridiculous. There's obvious talent, drive, ability-to-deliver etc there.
Browsers has supported it since the late nineties. The problem are on the practical side. If you ever log in from more than one machine, all must have your private key, and the mechanism for synchronising keys between machines are not there. You have to manually install your key each place. It has also been too hard for most people to make and handle public/private key pairs. Also, if you don't have the private key with you, there is no way you can log in to the site. All of these problem and many other usability problems would have to be solved for client side certificates to be a success.
I made one of these once: https://github.com/thruflo/ntorque

As other comments have pointed out, HTTP is not a great idea because timeouts, etc.

The one subtle benefit that I can relay is that by using your main database as the storage layer, you can enqueue tasks within a transaction, as per: https://github.com/thruflo/ntorque/blob/master/src/ntorque/c...
Can't it be a problem with the fuel gauge inacurately measuring the battery capacity? I have seen it only on one "cheap" Android device and I have been using Androids for a long time. Anyway, easily removable batteries are the way to go.
The problem is AMD (and Intel) require a lot of moving pieces to come together to make a fully stable system, while nVidia is more of a complete packaged solution. For me, I tried AMD (neé ATI) once in 2003 and the experience was so bad, I just completely swore them off. I have literally never had nVidia's drivers crash and kill my X session, or hard-lock the kernel, which were frequent problems with both ATI's closed-source drivers and Intel's open-source drivers. I don't see myself ever buying anything other than nVidia ever again.
If you have a user name, why do you care about e-mail? Let people enter an arbitrary user name, and log in with that. Username enumeration doesn't carry privacy concerns since users can ensure their usernames don't reveal personal information. For duplicate e-mails on signup, who cares? Since you're not using them as an identifier, let multiple users have the same e-mail address.

Making your validation errors cross mediums and a wait for an e-mail to delivered is an unnecessarily hostile user experience.
The writer of this book did a great 99 Percent Invisible interview, well worth the 15 minutes.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algori...
You use scientific buzzwords, but you’re coming into the conversation with unscientific assumptions.
Would be nice to know how many bitcoins will be locked in wallets whose value is inferior to transaction costs if the fees stay at this price or higher.
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The very fact that a company makes a cool commercial is a signal that they are willing to invest a lot of money to make their brand known. From there, people can infer that they won't just make their customers sick, change their name and location to escape the bad reputation, and do the same thing again somewhere else.

Poor people sell food to each other all the time without formal credentials, certifications, inspections and so on. Since they sell to each other, locally, to people who know them, they will only make each other sick on accident. And if someone has lots of accidents people will switch to a better cook. The amount of food poisoning will increase, but not to epidemic levels.
No investor in their mind would believe this. Belarus needs structural reforms first.
Holy False Dichotomies Batman! For the record, I am neither of those things. In fact, I'm not even close to either description.
Having the number of parallel consumers configured per-queue (as opposed to consumers dynamically being able to join and leave) seems like it imposes many of the same restrictions that make Kafka less than ideal at being a job queue.

Basically, if you have messages which can take different amounts of time to process, or you need to quickly dynamically scale the number of consumers on a queue in response to volume.

How well does the "update max_workers" queue-modification command work in situations of very high message volume and/or high consumer counts?
Its the other way around, science fiction drew inspiration from Kowloon. For example Ghost in the Shell is set in a straight copy of mid nineties Hong Kong.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/5827538/gorgeous-shots-of-the-real-l...

Some scenes can even be traced shot for shot with real locations, including unreal Kai Yak airport landing approach over kowloon
https://vimeo.com/33731256
> pretty large conspiracy theory

Actually for just this present couple of HUD camera vids, it's just a couple of videos, a couple of guys doing interviews maybe, and a few wonks at the pentagon PR office. I'm ready to keep an open mind either way.
Android doesn't run iOS apps.

Apple has a monopoly on OSes that run iOS apps, OSes that run on iPhones, phones that run iOS and on App Stores that can install iOS apps.

They abuse all of them (e.g. the Webkit-only issue for iOS, monopoly pricing on iPhones, censorship in App Store).

Conversely e.g. Google has none of these monopolies except for the monopoly in running perfectly apps that require Google Play Services.
In addition to great ressources people are sharing, Security+ and CSA+ from CompTIA can be great certification (vendor neutral and inexpensive).
What’s your source for YC now performing much closer to the mean?

I see it more like Stanford. Become prestigious, then you get all the best folks, many of whom would have been successful anyway, but you still add value as well as serious signaling and a rich network.
Right, but per worker productivity in the construction industry isn't a growth limit (the claim I was addressing), it is something else.
Not just bitcoin, its all going down. Total crypto market cap has dropped from $650B yesterday to $477B now and dropping still.
By its founding principals, Interpol honors requests from places that it really shouldnt. So The fact that someone can trigger something like that, does not mean someones guilty of anything other than getting on the nerves of a dictator. (Check out Russia and Bill Browder for example, Russia uses interpol to hassle him)
As I insinuated, we are going in circles.
Yeah, Lithuania making big deal out of this nuclear station. They aren't happy that it's based close to the border and they trying to say that it's not safe, blah-blah-blah, nobody will buy electricity and so on. Other countries don't have issues with this station though, EU checked it and found everything within norms. But every time something happens at the construction, like they pour concrete at the wrong spot, Lithuania blows the whistle. Lukashenka said that it will be build no matter what, and neighbors will have to deal with it.
It's not a security risk (assuming a properly engineered OS).
Why would you base that decision solely on your experience 14 years ago? The driver is completely different now.
> 2003

You had a problem with ATI's closed-source driver 14 years ago. AMD's open-source driver now is a COMPLETELY different story.
> Business is not about fairness, it is about profit. I don't see the potential profits in racism - if it is possible to provide services to people profitably, it will be done.

That assumes companies are completely logical, singular entities which all follow the same motivation without deviation. As companies are the sum of the humans working there with all their personal problems, faults, opinions and attitudes (plus the organizational framework itself) that's rather unlikely.

It also assumes companies always know beforehand what the best strategy is to make more profit (just look at VW for a recent example where that didn't pan out).
Looks like FullContact got data/systems/source code, a customer list and 6 employees for $1m. Bargain!
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How we trained our first object detection model with India data?
While NVIDIA is far from the only choice and AMD has improved dramatically these days to the point where they are within NVIDIA's performance reach, NVIDIA still dominates the higher end side [1] and they do have by far the most complete and stable OpenGL implementation (with the Mesa front end on AMD you do not even get a compatibility profile - a major disaster IMO - whereas on the other hand NVIDIA not only gives you that but in some cases using it you can get a huge bang for your buck in terms of performance).

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=16way-gp...
Database-as-queue tends to run into performance ceilings before dedicated "true queue" systems, in my experience. As you point out, though, sticking with an RDBMS gives you nice transactionality. Additionally, using a database for a queue for as long as you can before switching also offers you the benefits of using a time-tested, usually widely-supported protocol with well documented reliability guarantees. Your queues are also easily introspectable, which can be nice (this is part and parcel with why databases tend to hit perf ceilings as queues though).

RabbitMQ also supports transactions for some queue operations, but its notion of "transaction" and what you can do inside of one is much more limited than a typical database's: https://www.rabbitmq.com/semantics.html
Yes, one of the reason I switched to Android years ago (which has its own issues). But Apple makes people pay lot of money for "premium device" which has worse long-time usability than Android ones.
> This blogger was arrested because Interpol issued warrant for his arrest

I am having trouble finding an independent source for this claim.
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I've got planning poker cards. Now is winter holiday season. What can I play with this cards?
My non-technical friends do not understand why this deck looks soo different. Instead of explaining them Agile Manifesto and Dark Side of Estimation (maybe I should evangelize them?) I'd like to play with them using this cards.

Any ideas? I know we can play War or Poker but there are fewer cards than in "normal" deck.
This is accurate and you can easily see it through a cursory look at the full history of coin value. These articles have always served as a Buy signal. Whether or not one believes this time will be different is another question.
Business is not about fairness, it is about profit.

Yet historically, a number of businesses in various parts chose not to serve certain sections of the population, and sometimes still do (off the top of my head, wedding cake companies choosing not to sell to gay couples).
Not sure if this is made clear but the source code they released only manages rankings, chat rooms and players.

There's still the dedicated game server software that is closed. Imo most aspiring game developers would be more interested by the game code than the administrative code that was released.
U2F does that. I wonder if sites could use the U2F token as the first factor and ask you to enter a password as the second factor (along with a "remember this computer" box for the password). Would make things much more convenient (unless you were on a device that didn't support U2F, I guess).
I don’t want others to know all of the places where I have accounts.

That’s an easy way to be targeted.
> I'm also fairly sure Musk has already considered doing this, and reached a conclusion that it wasn't feasible.

Do you have evidence of this? Or is it just a hunch...?
2049, not 2019.
Post office has a slightly different mission than fedex. The post office connects the entire country. Which means you’ll have losses in remote places. But the country as a whole benefits from having that infrastructure in place to be able to send a letter to everyone.

In terms of private hospitals you’ve obviously never had to pay a bill from them. They engineer the system to maximize profits, which is different than getting people out the door as efficiently as possible.

Large institutions like the post office / va have problems. I’d argue large companies often have similar problems. But the distinction between what problems these orgs are solving and what private companies are solving is a very important distinction.
I actually don't think it's such a bad thing. Just wanted to point that out ;)
Doesnt “username or password is incorrect” falls into the Security through obscurity category?
You could also potentially build spam email lists too, to target users of that web site, if you automated some system that guessed emails addresses and filed away the ones that come back as registered.
When you say large, how large is that?
Nope it's just rankings, chats, player management. The dedicated game server is still closed.

They essentially released an administrative meta-tool for wic game servers.
>EU has a huge anti-nuclear, pro-carbon lobby.<

What a patently absurd thing to say.
You got it. You can be about security or UX. And when the accounts are public I'm especially in favor of taking advantage UX-wise. The issue's when both are half-assed.
Blockchains reached a valuation of $0.5 trillion and attracted all the biggest financial institutions (Goldman Sachs yesterday). Second Life traction never got even a fraction of that. Also Blockchain growth has been going for 9 years now, Second Life growth lasted 3 years (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/11/why_...).
>> there are product decision makers who understand software and can feed work to the CS-focused engineering teams.

Their product "decision makers" aka marketing dept, have been terrible of late.

Google is really having a problem with new products, the only successful ones are one they bought that were created by software engineers not a marketing dept

Maybe Google needs to start hiring engineers that have the ability to figure out what to build and allow them to build it...
Why is the visualization of the battle so boring? Unless I'm missing something, it looks like the projectiles look the same as the agents.
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Microsoft lied and said that Windows wouldn’t work without IE, to justify bundling it with Windows after they signed a decent decree with the US government forbidding them from using their natural monopoly in operating systems as leverage in other markets.

WebKit is used by several Apple apps—Mail, iTunes, App Store, Calendar, etc—and thousands of 3rd party apps.
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Thanks for that.

FYI
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/09/lan...
Wasn't the Moore law about transistor count PER surface unit? If that's the case, then even GPU are way below the predictions now, because chips have certainly more transistors, but their surface is also increasing.
Here's an idea: you start a company and you're profitable right away and you invest your profits back into the business. You get organic growth because your business is producing real value.
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All OSes have bugs, and the XNU kernel certainly has had its share, so removing the ability to execute arbitrary code definitively makes exploitation of buffer overflows etc in 3rd party apps much harder.
The Post Office will send a letter to the other side of the country for 49 cents. How much would that cost from FedEx? They’re pretty competitive for packages too.
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Probably a "kind of piece of postmodern art event" describes it the best.

BTW Maybe we will have a "Burn 1 Million Bitcoin" event in the future with Satoshi Nakamoto himself burning is Bitcoins.
I see someone has swallowed the right wing propaganda hook, line, and sinker. The VA treats vets in all sorts of conditions. Rich, homeless, retired, and recently discharged. Btw, all the bad news you hear from the VA, like Walter Reed, that comes from the privately contracted section of the hosipital. You know the guys who have a financial incentive to deliver the shittiest service contractual allowed.
> Google Play Music doesn't even have basic "search inside my library" functionality.

Is this within some custom app that you've got? I'm a heavy user of Google Play Music to listen to my library across various locations, and I'm always searching inside my library!
Videos embedded into a webpage have a "muted" boolean attribute, so the nice behavior would be to not pause the music player when muted video starts playing.
The only place where I think this doesn't apply is within an extremely specialized space. I think that very few engineers of that type are generally necessary, though. At the same time, I'd imagine that if you do have the academic background for extreme specialization, you're probably going to be able to demand a pretty high paycheck.
... also, you can often do "Forgot my password" and if you give unregistered email it will tell you that.
See also RoboCode: http://robowiki.net/wiki/Robocode/My_First_Robot

I like that ByteArena is language-independent. That's a pretty uncommon feature, in my limited understanding. Good luck, folks!
The reasons are well known, budget needs money and rich people are good source of it.
> Just FYI Belarus is not a democracy

Democracies are overrated. It's not the "silver-bullet-regime", and has it's own set of flaws compared to others. Why is everyone thinking that living in a democracy makes de-facto your life better ?
Get involved in an active community full of security professionals and learn hands-on helping to secure open source projects.

There is no replacement for mentorship and getting your hands dirty with real world systems.

I will now shamelessly plug the community I learned the most from: https://hashbang.sh
About 30% of households in Switzerland have access to fiber, versus 25% in the US. Switzerland doesn’t impose unbundling on fiber. The major fiber operator, Swisscom, owns its own lines.
That’s simply not true. There was a huge anti-war response in the U.S. too. The country was very divided on the subject.
Except that they dropped the GeForce branding from the Titan V, and appear to be targeting the card for compute at developers/researchers [0].

[0] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-titan-v-transforms...
Ah OK I get it now.

I’m an applied mathematician and a macroeconomist that studied turbulence in financial markets and crashes thereof. I can assure you that the dynamics are pretty distinct. In economics wealth is not a conserved quantity whereas in physics energy and momentum are.
My experience in 2017 is the complete opposite. The nVidia binary driver is the only thing I experience that causes me significant pain, including system lockups. Unfortunately we use CUDA, but as soon as ROCm matures, I'm going to be strongly advocating a switch away from nVidia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877262