skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The supply of the Yuan is controlled by China, but In this case the limit isn't the available supply of the Yuan at all.

For Europe to buy Yuan it needs to exchange something for it, usually another currency likely in this case the dollar rather than EUR.

The hard limit is more on how much EUR does China wants to hold and how much USD Europe is willing to spend on buying Yuan.

Beyond that you also go into the realm of would China allow Europe to hold large amounts of Yuan, countries tend to be protective of their currency and restrict any single entity from holding amounts large enough to do substantial damage if dumped.
Basically they would allow you to buy enough currency for them to benefit but not enough for you to hold it over their head.
You can complain to the site operator. Google is not forcing their captcha on websites. If enough people do that, perhaps site operator(s) will take notice. Tell them exactly what you don't like so they don't eventually change to different vendor, but same annoying captcha tech.
Even if we don't teach a single day of number theory, I think we can all agree that modern society would be better if everybody had to have a semester of basic probability or statistics as part of their education.
I ran CNet BBS for C64 for many years as a kid. It's biggest draw was they supplied the source code, so we could modify it however we liked.
The New Way Your Computer Can Be Attacked
Right, we don't have absolute freedom in an absolutist sense. You're technically correct, the best kind, but I wasn't suggesting we had it either.
> Its modernity is measurable by the influence it had on most languages designed after its success, like Go and Swift.

So you are measuring "modernity" by legacy?

Also, I don't see any Python influence in Go and from the brief exposure I've had to Swift, I'd say there isn't much influence there either.

By your axiom, one could argue that C is a modern language.
If you ask me a 40h workweek is very susceptible to Parkinson's law

>work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

I'm less focused sometimes because I know I have time to do something than if I know I don't. And I might be doing more work if I had less hours to fill and knew I had to use them.
Both Spectre and Meltdown break that isolation, deep down at the microprocessor level, by exploiting performance optimizations that have been implemented for the past decade or so. Basically, microprocessors have become so fast that they spend a lot of time waiting for data to move in and out of memory. To increase performance, these processors guess what data they’re going to receive and execute instructions based on that. If the guess turns out to be correct, it’s a performance win. If it’s wrong, the microprocessors throw away what they’ve done without losing any time. This feature is called speculative execution.
Engineers Design Artificial Synapse for 'Brain-On-a-Chip' Hardware
According to this site ( https://www.coindesk.com/price/ ) the value of the bitcoin market is more than $100 billion. That doesn't exactly seem like a small market. I could sort of see the argument on smaller up and coming crypto-currencies, but not for bitcoin.
The link only works if you are logged in, otherwise it says the page not found, which is wrong message because it makes you think it doesn't exists even if you login.
There are very small wifi antennas out there. One of my favorites is a 3mmx4mm cube:http://www.molex.com/molex/products/datasheet.jsp?part=activ...
I live in the Midwest and have been told this is the main reason this will most likely remain a West Coast chain.

I've also been told it's a case of freshness. If they have to ship all the ingredients from California to Iowa, it's not as fresh as they want it to be. Keeping the supply chain close and using local suppliers for specific ingredients allows them to have a consistent product no matter where you get it.

At the end of the day, as an owner, that's what you want. No matter where the customer goes, they always get same fresh, great tasting product.
it redirects to it if you've got js turned off though? at least in my case, with noscript
Indian startup’s Moon mission in doubt
Newman's more-or-less continual invocation of the Straw Man Fallacy is reminiscent of the favored debating tactic of notorious anti-evolution debater Duane Gish: the Gish Gallop.

Gish spewed such forth torrents of falsehoods, that the evolutionist didn't have a prayer of refuting in the format of a debate. Gish didn't address objections raised by his opponents, repeated the same arguments in every debate even after they were soundly refuted, etc.

In other words, both Newman and Gish subvert the very discussion structures that they're supposedly engaging in, using fallacies, distractions, appeals to popular biases, and outright lies to put on a show for a specific audience. There is no interest in truth, only the furthering of an agenda.

Newman is engaging in a dishonest public spectacle, failing at the most basic function of an interviewer (to understand the interviewee), and I believe that any honest intellectual should refuse to be interviewed by her.
> One thing that is incorrect is that we push all our RCs to production

I hadn't recorded them or looked it up, hence the use of the word "seem", but this is at least good to hear.

> Was it problem free? Nope. Did it limit the impact to users? I firmly believe so.

You may be right. It might have been worse, and perhaps releasing more frequent low-impact changes helped, but I'm somewhat unconvinced. Orchestration was known not to be stable; given that, I would typically try and minimise deployments until orchestration had been more comprehensively tested and/or staging/canary environments had better parity with prod.

Additionally, the deployments were done in the middle of work days (as has been mentioned elsewhere), at highly inconvenient times (just before Christmas!), with little to no warning to users, hinting that bad internal planning must have played some part. When queried, the reply was literally that there is no schedule[0] . This response does not instill confidence.

> I do believe that we will get there the best way we know how to, and that is iterating on changes.

I really hope this is true—I'm still using Gitlab myself—but while I was an advocate 6 months ago, I've very much put such advocacy on hold for the moment.

Also, just to mention, I really appreciate there are GL employees on HN commenting on these threads. I've received a reply before elsewhere (on perf. and Gitaly) and it's been enlightening and informative. I really do like the transparency in this organisation, and have done my best to be as patient as possible with the stability/perf. issues up until now. But it's really become a bit ridiculous at this stage.

[0] https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/943574131425140736
I can attest to how awesome rail is. I recently took the shinkansen from Tokyo station to Sendai in Japan, and it turned an 8-hour car trip into a two hour train ride.

The seats were as large as business-class airplane seats.

It would likely have taken much longer by bus because of all the stops and transfers.
> Being socially inept is [...] a personality flaw.

That's a very dangerous and messed up reasoning. For a significant proportion of the population "society" is just a nasty scheme we put up with since we know not better way of not killing each other or exterminating ourselves as a species... Having to contort and torture one's personality just so you can be "socially adept" is a great pain, and when one occasionally gets away with being able not to do this it's NOT "a personality flaw".

One ought to care firstly for developing his/her personality in whichever way himself sees fit. If it doesn't fit well with society it's not a "flaw"!

(Yeah, if goes overboard and results in a team totally breaking up... even that is not a big deal! Some companies are worth breaking up into pieces. Heck, as long as people aren't literally killing each other it's still not "a flaw". Stop being insensitive and discriminating against people with other notions of relating themselves with the thinggy we call "society" and perpetuating this oppressive culture of admonishing people for being "socially inept". Maybe those people have something better to do with their lives!)
All our genetic engineering tweaks existing organisms. We cannot make life in the lab.
> 5- GUI, you can create a GUI in powershell

More than that, it has the entire CLR at its disposal, including the C FFI.
Toxin in centipede venom identified
From Mobile-First to Mobile-Only: Lessons Learned in China
Riding the Unicorn: A Newbie Contributor’s Guide to Kubernetes
Instagram 5xx Server Error
Cybersecurity trends 2018: Cyberattacks will continue to surge
http://www.me.umn.edu/courses/me2011/arduino/technotes/dcmot...

My guess is that this is putting the coils in parallel, not the batteries.

According to that link, the applied voltage determines the speed and the applied current determines the torque. I don't know the exact configuration of the windings in these motors, but having the coils in series should be putting a higher voltage on the motor (higher resistance), and having the coils in parallel should have more current (lower resistance).

Pretty neat way to get a "2 speed" transmission. Of course, it's not going to be as good as the current generation of BLDC motors (variable speed is tricky with bang-bang control...), but for the time it's a pretty clever solution.
This assumes life works like a program.
To quote the article:

> Asked if the French would vote to leave the EU in the same way, he said: “Yes. Probably, in a similar context. But our context was very different, so I don’t want to take any bets. I would have definitely fought to win.

Which is quite different that what the title implies.
wew dude o.o
I am women. It would have to be me who would have to stay.

And I did stayed some time while the kids were small and disliked that a lot. You get used to depression as a normal state, basically.
MessageBird (YC S16) Is Looking for an Infrastructure Team Lead in Amsterdam
my overall feeling as someone that wants to start getting into visual recognition is that there are a bunch of great libraries/ecosystems to choose from and all of them have pros and cons, but i honestly don't want to make the wrong decision and end up being stuck later on. Anyone here has any advise on what i should use to have a camera(rpi) recognize most common objects and then add a layer where we can teach specific objects, ie (putting a name on a person or a pet), thank you!
They wouldn't just need tumblers, they'd also need secret wallets. Public funds pay in to contractor wallet, ..., contractor wallet pays tumbler ... that should be enough to demonstrate corruption?
“I assume that man in your slide deck is your husband?”
But developer incompetence and poor product design can be a 'dark' strategy as well, just a passive one instead of an active one. Good UX doesn't matter because users are not customers to health insurers, they are just cost centers. Their employers are the customers, and those guys care about how cheaply they can buy insurance and retain the quality level of their desired employee base. If the goal is to sell lots of insurance and pay little in claims, the strategy makes sense. So you spend as little as possible on UX.

NB: I think this is also how enterprise tech works.
Well, those waves have nothing to do with the earthquake anyway, and they aren't traveling at the speed of a jet plane :)
As a sidenote, if you're using a command that doesn't have -i, or a chain of commands where the file is read at the start and written at the end, you can use sponge(1) from moreutils to achieve that without temporary files:

sed "s/root/toor/" /etc/passwd | grep -v joey | sponge /etc/passwd

https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
Take care when claiming coins from those forks - even if only for transferring them to an exchange. Wallet software for those altcoins usually come as an unsigned, unverifiable binary and ask you to import your existing mainchain private keys (explicitly or as wallet.dat). Doing so is a best way to lose your BTC should authors get hold of those keys.

Much safer solution is to craft transaction offline on a separate VM (using BCCSplitter [1] or altcoin wallet) and then posting raw transaction using altcoin's blockexplorer or yet another instance of altcoin wallet software (not containing any private keys).

[1] https://github.com/NicolasDorier/BCCSpliter
It's because our news is completely unregulated and local news always spotlights and aggrandizes crimes and whatnot, so that the population is terrified of itself constantly.

Obviously if people took the time to look at the crime statistics, the chances of being a victim of a crime is less than half of what it was when I walked a mile to elementary school every day.
Now try it with the Speed Limit sign. Does that count as a "street sign" or only ones with street names?!
Says Noam Chomsky, who in China, Russia or the Arab world would have disappeared.
If you haven't been to the Rosie the Riveter museum in Richmond, it's worth the visit. The history of Kaiser and the Richmond shipyards is incredible. The number of ships produced per day was crazy. It's a nice walk around the Richmond marina as well.
Are you aware of anywhere that keeps data like that as a reference? CoinMarketCap groups into coins and tokens, but not into soft/hard forks of which codebases.

Although I suppose at a certain point you'd get into the argument about how many changes are required to make it a new codebase even though it originally forked... but a question for another time perhaps.
There seems to be a lot of outcry in this thread about employers dictating what you're allowed to invest in. From what I've seen, this is fairly common.

One small company I worked for forbid more than 2% ownership in a competitor.

The federal government limits you (or your spouse & children) from investing more than $15,000 in a company you are working with: https://ethics.od.nih.gov/topics/deminimis.htm

The federal government goes so far as limiting you from owning more than $50k of sector based mutual funds: https://ethics.od.nih.gov/topics/deminimis.htm

Granted, you can own more than $15/$50k if you're willing to go through the financial disclosure bureaucratic process, but that could very well end in a change of job duties.
Having worked in equally despised and bureaucratic industries, and with HIPAA, I can assure you that the chances of that are very slim. Purposeful blocking of claim submission would mean millions of dollars in fines for an insurance company. Nobody is actively trying to bring that upon their department.

Bureaucratic systems like health insurance are about preserving your position as having the most benefit with the least amount of responsibility. They are ecosystems of mediocrity.

A VP at an insurance company generally cares about two things, balance sheets that make him/her look like they're doing a good job and tomorrow's tee time.

Directors care about their line on the balance sheet pleasing the VP. That's how you get most insurance company software written by low-wage, visa workers, who could care less about code quality or maintainability, because they'll be at a new gig within a year or two.
Phabricator also has a hosted option in Phacility
It's a justification, and a good one at that. Starving millions to death is not less violent than guillotining thousands, even if it is less abrupt.
I understand that it's a stretch; thus the "in some sense" and "close".

See my last sentence. It's not clear to me how you could reformulate analysis, which in many ways is the study of the infinite, into discrete maths in any way other than the very loose sense of starting with ZFC.
or more broadly Tableau, Spotfire for data visualization and Trifacta for data wrangling
> You can only truly believe this if you have never been an open and active supporter of non-conforming (and threatening to status quo) beliefs or are not black/brown.

I've been rail-roaded by vindictive government officials who abused their power. Been arrested for it, even. I know what it means to have my first amendment rights violated at a fundamental level.

> McCarthyism and antiblackness are still very much built into the functioning system of western nation states.

That's, like, your opinion man.

Highlighting select abuses of power doesn't negate the fact that I can openly criticize our government, advocate for change, run for office, and store enough small arms to organize an insurrection without fear of reprisal. We may not have absolute freedom, but no one does and no one ever will. In the context of the conversation, we have a helluva lot of freedom. Much more than the comment I responded to appeared to suggest - that we're no better than China.
The line to get in reminds me of how the line for self checkout is sometimes longer than the staffed lines.
They've got new robots since last year ish; it pulls a cup, puts in ice, and fills with soda. Here's a video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=akv4vSXa5a4
In this video, a human is waiting around for it, but what I've seen as a customer is the machine usually runs unsupervised while the drive thru person chases after the food orders.
I did it with right-click on the text box, and "Add a Keyword for this Search..." context menu entry.
I don't understand. Did you lose Bitcoin? Or did you take somebody else's Bitcoin? What exactly is the problem you need help with?
We're working on that. Because the content blocking mechanism doesn't offer fine-grained controls, we couldn't make it seamless and still block the things we think should be blocked -- like Google Analytics.
Is wall street unhappy with amazon? Share price says otherwise.
1) My first thought on reading this: 'LaTeX never seemed all that melancholic to me..." took a second to get reoriented

2) A lot of his films were favorites of mine in childhood, and I didn't know until much later that they shared a creator. Having said that, two of the disney movies mentioned here as not being so great, "The Fox and the Hound" and "The Great Mouse Detective," were also childhood favorites.

3) For anyone thinking "they don't make them like that anymore," I'd highly recommend you watch and then make it all the way through "Adventure Time." The Ice King's arc is as sad and haunting as anything in Bluth's works. Season 9 begins with the effects of PTSD, complete with auditory hallucinations.
Actually, I've been looking at Perl 6 and I think it's quite amazing. It's really the only language outside those I get paid to work with that I've considered doing a deep dive on.

I'm not really understanding the lack of love for Perl 6 unless it's from folks that have invested careers in Perl 5 and are miffed by the compatibility story.

For example can someone point to the analog of this https://docs.perl6.org/language/grammars in Python, Ruby, Groovy etc?

Also, https://modules.perl6.org/ seems to be growing.
Even Facebook is down
I applaud the initiative, but how does the Firefox extension differ from Privacy Badger or Disconnect?

Does the extension learn trackers as it goes, like Privacy Badger? What does it offer over something like uBlock Origin with the appropriate tracking blocklists?

Also in Firefox, I now have two "Search DuckDuckGo" entries in the right click menu, one from being the default search engine, and one (with an icon) from the extension. They do the exact same thing, so why have them both?
Are we sure we're clear over what is violating noncompetes / "insider trading" vs. I want to avoid my employees undergoing complete financial ruin if X-coin crashes

What tipped me off was this statement:

> which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing

The question isn't whether they can (they just did) but "why"? Their reasoning (unless article is cutting this out) doesn't go into insider trading.
Had some fun trying out these new cloud servers,

https://blog.simos.info/a-closer-look-at-the-new-hetzner-clo...

(not affiliated with Hetzner)
I use one of these running LEDE.

For the original porting work done on OpenWRT, check this link: https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/projects:zsun-wifi-card-reader

For more recent work done to get up-to-date LEDE builds running on the device, check https://forum.lede-project.org/t/supporting-zsun-wifi-card-r...
"All Your Base Are Belong To Us" and "Andrey Akinshin’s blog" do not link to anything (but _are_ clickable).
> There's no reason insurance companies need to be involved in health care at all.

There are a very many good reasons to have insurance for health care expenses, in fact they are the perfect example of where insuring for the average cost helps those who see orders of magnitude larger costs due to black swan events that would otherwise ruin them. Another interesting stat showing how important health insurance is; 5% of policyholders are responsible for 95% of total costs.

Now you can argue that you think a national, government run, single payer insurance company would be more efficient, or more fair, or result in better health outcomes, or... but that’s an argument for a different kind of insurance company. It doesn’t change the fact that there is an insurance company very directly and intimately involved in your health care.
The joys of CRLF vs. LF line endings in the context of Docker entrypoint scripts
I get that, but I was just pointing out that while releasing a release candidate is fine, releasing multiple release candidates of the same version on production is slightly less fine.
I still have 20 FPS when scrolling in a big commit diff.

I also wish they improve a bit the UI/UX in general. I've used Github for almost a decade and GitLab feels a bit messy.
"not known to be discrete" does not imply "It's not unreasonable that there are discrete and continuous aspects to the universe"; it is not known that anything is continuous either.
Things are much more complicated than this, but essentially China as a primary exporter wants to keep the value of it's currency as low as possible since the exporters then benefit on exchange rates.

It also wants stability so it basically pegs the Yuan to the dollar, historically directly and more recently in directly (the Chinese central bank sets more or less of a fixed exchange rate but it does allow it to deviate somewhat these days).

Now to prevent the Chinese economy from being effectively run on and by foreign currency China heavily restricts the ownership and settlement in foreign currency internally. It basically forces the exporters/manufactures to exchange the foreign currency they paid in (usually USD) back to Yuan for any internal use (or alternatively if you want to do business in china you basically have to exchange your currency in Yuan it's the same thing).

It then uses that surplus of foreign currency to buy other assets, primarily dollar bonds such as US treasury bonds which basically brings back all those dollars that came from the US and everywhere else in the world back to the US.

And even this is like very very basic overview of things.

On some level the US economy or at least the dollar economy is basically based on the fact that the dollars used in international trade have to come back to the US.

Basically you buy dollars from the US, you use those dollars to buy something e.g. goods from China then those dollars go straight back to the US in exchange usually for "cheaper" dollar bonds.
The debt economy a side the scheme is when viewed on a global scale is almost like you never actually own a dollar you simply rent it out.
Less than 10% of Gmail users enable two-factor authentication
Rainforest QA raises $25M in funding
The game could place things that require touch in certain parts of the room (or orient you in that manner)

(Hmm sounds like something that might get patented. Can this be prior art and I donate to you guys?)
This is why the internet won't get better until ads are cut out like a cancer.

It is more profitable for them to keep adding layers of ads and trackers than it is to actually build something useful that people would be willing to pay for.