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Distributed computing is being reborn in the crypto currency sphere.

Perhaps in 20 or 30 years we will have something akin to plan9 or inferno composed from nodes on these networks?

After all, at some point everything old becomes new again when it comes to computer technology.
100% agree with this, as do several of my friends. Curated correctly (pretty easy to do), Instagram becomes a place of respite and solace.
And for some, a pleasant peaceful channel before going to sleep for the night. Kind of ironically :)
X86-TSO: A Programmer’s Model for x86
I had to quit as I was particularly disturbed by what I saw as signs of professional deformation in me: a kind of hyper vigilance (especially about the risks for my family). I was dreaming about the job an my own perception of reality shifted in a most concerning way. The terrible Las Vegas Shooting suddenly seemed entirely normal to me.

I know we like to believe otherwise but an observation of human behavior en masse shows that we are preternaturally vicious. Extreme cruelty and violence is the default as much our need for connection and love. Those of us who've had the opportunity to observe or take part in humanity at it's most primal form, in the unsafe gaps between "civilization" and a well functioning state, often come away with our reality shattered. I know mine was.

Lastly, the author shows signs of PTSD, granted this is an armchair assessment.
A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Very bad article.
Does not address WHY would loneliness have such an effect. I mean "scientifically" why, not qualitatively.
Silicon Valley with the DNA of Mezzojuso
Read fiction. For me, science fiction broadens perspectives and increases creativity in ways that apply directly to work.
>At Facebook's scale, there is not a good way to do it. Even if they were able to scale it, it would not be good enough anyway

Facebook is picking the quota for decisions per hour or whatever, and choosing whatever help is available to reviewers. Certainly they have some culpability for the outcome.
How else do you think people learn? Losing money by making bad trades IS learning something of value- like learning not to touch the hot stove.

You certainly don’t learn anything from giving all your money to a mutual fund.
> It is easier because you do not need to have a Unix machine with the tools you mentioned and it takes just one click once you have the page open

When the heck will you not have a unix machine at hand? And you need a whole
browser to simply generate 124-bit random value. I fail to see how is that
easier.
It might make sense in theory, but in practice there are very very few Plan 9 users and developers. Fundamental design quality is never a guarantee of "success" as measured by size of the userbase. If you look at the culture of Plan 9 users, there is also often a somewhat adversarial perspective on standard software. It's a complicated topic, with a lot of weird history involving things like Plan 9 not having a decent open source license for a long time. Once the patterns were established, sociocultural issues outweighed any technical issues. You can imagine an alternate history where things all worked out differently, but at present, Plan 9 is hard to view as a realistic option for any kind of mainstream corporate software work. A lot of us think that is probably more of a good thing than a bad thing, economic incentives and software design quality are often misaligned.
When I was working for a pro audio company out of LA, I ran into a product manager there who had been a sound engineer for porn. Good person.
Finite Field Arithmetic: “Exodus from Egypt” with Comba’s Algorithm
TL;DR Cryptocurrency Tax Guide (2018)
This advice is essentially "don't build on top of platforms, because platforms can become competitors".

It's good to point out this risk, but as with all maxims, it can be wrong depending on the details. Many big companies have been built on platforms, after all. In fact, as far as I can tell, one of his examples of "boring" companies that doesn't fall victim to this is Square, and Square is built on top of a platform. It's built on top of the credit card network. But VISA didn't kill them. Why not?

You have to look at the likelihood that the incumbent will enter your market. This depends on the threat/opportunity you pose. It also depends on the technical assets and abilities of the incumbent. It also depends on the opportunity cost the incumbent will incur. It also depends on the strain it will put on other lines of business. If the incumbent has to rewrite much of their business processes to compete, they'll be less likely to do so. You have to look at how open the platform is, and how likely the incumbent is to change it in order to kill you.
Microsoft Issues Windows Out-Of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations
Huh. I have never heard anyone brag about the size of their linkedin network.
>These are still minor concerns, simply because there's so few immigrants here. But it will have to change, because of demography. And no, 500+ won't help, it's simpe math. Even if every women in child-bearing age had 1 more kid than now - because of a demographic hole from 90s - the number of kids born will drop to record low in next decade.

I am not Polish or anything close to it, but I would imagine that most Poles would have a hard time getting excited about this. "Our culture is dying, but it's OK because we can bring in some third-worlders to keep the population numbers up!" does not exactly inspire jubilance.

Thinking about these two (fertility problems and anti-immigration sentiment) juxtaposed makes me wonder if they're connected. As an American, would I be as up-in-arms as I am about illegal immigration if I felt part of a strong, successful, viable culture that was by and for me? Probably not.

One other thing: that Saudi Arabian kids know who Shakira is is not a sign that Western culture is winning---at least, not the good parts. The parts I care about are things like Christianity, the rule of law, and, candidly, people who look like me. I feel like sort of a provocateur writing this, but it would have been an entirely unremarkable statement two hundred years ago---and I suspect the Poles are channeling something like it. WTF do they care about Shakira?
Unfortunately it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
My wife took only ibuprofen after the C-section birth of our son. She was ok with it. The nurses had her walking around the next day to help with the healing.
@cliffordheath on twitter says [0]

> This will be a kernel data structure protected by a mutex or semaphore. task_for_pid waits at pri>=0 for a wakeup that won't happen because race. ps queues behind it at pri<0 (disabling ^C). At least two bugs there.

Seems like a reasonable explanation as to the underlying cause of the behaviour.

[0] https://twitter.com/cliffordheath/status/957505667568353280
There are processors without clocks, just saying :)
Would you care to elaborate on why you consider it so greatly well designed? I have always been curious about plan9, but would be nice to listen a bit about what makes it so distinguishable before getting my hands on it.
My parents went through the same thing with me. Turns out I just really, really like computers and I get really, really anxious around new people. That time of your life when everything is awkward and you're full of hormones certainly doesn't help.

He's 17 which is the "I think I'm an adult" area. Every 2 years he'll be looking back and thinking, "wow, I was really young".

Tread cautiously, treat him like an adult and just talk to him. The more comfortable he feels around you, the better. Many of us got sick of our parents at that age (I moved out the week after I turned 18 - nobody expected it), but I figured out later when I lived with another adult who treated me almost like I'd imagine a really good boss would, ala, "everyone keeps the house clean, if I ask you to do something it's because I've already done something today and I know you've seen it and not done anything about it. I get it, nobody wants to do this stuff - but I work 8 hours a day, 7 days a week and I hate it too, but it's easier on both of us if we work together".

Get him to participate in more around the house stuff, cooking is good, help with your taxes if he's interested (then hopefully exploit that for the next 30 years). Repairing stuff. Don't tell, ask - reward.

On the social side, go to meetups or clubs in things you've found interesting together, ask him for help finding them. I get people say kids should be around people their own age, and generally speaking I think they should, but I look back and at that time I just wanted to do stuff that interested me. Unfortunately none of my friends from school had similar interests - so I found that escape through work and online.

I'm glad I forced myself to hang with my friends then since we still keep in touch, but there's opportunities all through his 20s (and especially university, send him to student living spaces) to build relationships with people his own age. I do regret however, forcing myself into relationships just because it was "what was expected of me".

Plenty of people live lives that are considered "the norm", parents hope their children follow similar paths they did. But sometime we don't. And that's OK, so long as we're happy. So concentrate on that.

Good luck!
This seems to me to be entirely backwards. If you appreciate creativity, don't you want to have as much time as possible to experience and enjoy the world around you? To learn? To create? Why would you spend the day stuck in bed feeling like shit, unable to do anything but watch TV when you could easily solve that and do more?
Current title is bait.
New suggestion: Military officers strava data reveals previously unknown bases.
This is OK, if the fees the streamers charge do not increase, thus they operate with lower margins - if they can.
If they can not operate with lower margins, then they must pass the costs on in monthly fees, which will reduce subscribers and increase piracy. .
They often call this the law of unintended consequences...QPP...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences
According to this she's at least in the 8th percentile (http://graphics.wsj.com/what-percent/). Meaning she doesn't have to worry about keeping a roof over her head or how to feed herself (that's 1 in 6 btw https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-hunger-us). So yeah, she's safely rich enough to be insulated from being wrong about poverty. And people will listen to her because she has a title (ie rich enough to pay for one) and so therefore they assume she is right.

A complete dumpster fire the whole way down.
The Linux kernel is maintained by hundreds of contributers and Linus is quite cautious about regressions.

Linux has a mature ecosystem and several flavors and components to choose from.

Plan9, while leagues ahead the *nix design architecturally, has a much smaller ecosystem, no real choice in components, and virtually no enterprise support.
> For six months of the year, from February 1 to 31 July, it's under Spanish rule - and for the following six months it's French

If I'm counting right, France has it 184 days per year (185 in leap years), and Spain has it 181 days.

I wonder why they didn't balance that better? April 1 to Sept 30 for France and Aug 1 to March 31 for Spain would have given 183 for France and 182 for Spain (183 in leap years).

The same balance would also arise from June 1 to November 30 for France and December 1 to May 31 for Spain.
Agreed with ibrofen but why not take parcetamol
Well the one I'm on definitely doesn't. /anecdata
I've lived in California for the past 9 years. I grew up here and left before returning, but that was before the crazy signs.

I sat here and tried to remember the last time I saw this 'causes cancer' sign, and failed. They are actively invisible to me.

So dumb.
Oh, my mistake. It's "High Sierra" on which it can't work. I can't keep track of the OS names.
I can second your observation. With me though I do like to go out in public/to different locations (e.g. library or park) even if I don't actually interact with people there (whereas being alone in a room for months on end would be quite unpleasant, then again even if there was another person there it would probably still be unpleasant).
The gleeful tone of the article makes me uncomfortable. This is an artifact of a crime against humanity.
Agreed. A lot of the value of Silicon Valley is the networking and easy access to top talent. It works if you want to be the first to do, say, AR blueprints for construction sites. But most competitors in porn just die of starvation.
Oh, absolutely. Like I said, it's bad practice, and that's because it's not guaranteed by the standard. I'm just saying it's done.
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Yes I managed after a kidney transplant on the odd paracetamol after the first 24 hours or so.

The pain buster don't realy do that much as neither did the oral morphine
Actually, I can kinda see the advantages there - but isn't insanity just a natural result of trying to work in lots of contexts?

I mean, consider something like vim. It's a nice program, well designed - but undoubtedly insane, just because it's supposed to work in every imaginable context.

It strikes me that plan9 wouldn't be immune to the same phenomenon.
Well, for me it definitely helps, I just don't like taking pills unless a doctor tells me to.
Atlanta has an extensive deployment of fixed license plate readers which has gone mostly unnoticed. I think this falls into the categories of either not knowing or not caring, and I expect that to continue until there is a publicized misuse. For anyone interested, the largest deployment is in Buckhead, then Brookhaven, then Norcross. I have counted almost a hundred and fifty readers so far, and many more PTZ cameras.
I think the definition has broadened over the years, even pwnable.tw calls their CTF-style challenges "wargames".
There might be shell companies with a remaining active banking license, that were approved pre-2008? Seems like regulators are preferring that you acquire a charter over acquiring a new license.
Chinese manufacturers just figured out how to make a complete ballpoint pen last year.
That's simply not the case. It is exactly for an US audience important, because the German system is vastly different: universal health care, regulated by the government, 99.9% coverage, run by a system of 100+ insurers and various health care providers.

> Social insurance contributions are mandatory

Mandatory is to be insured.

> based on income

in a range, or if one is privately insured one pays based on risk/age

Family members (wife/husband + kids) without income are insured. Plus various other regulations.

> to a state entity

Krankenkassen and Krankenversicherungen are not generally state entities.

Would you call something like the Audi BKK a state entity?

https://www.audibkk.de/english/

> enforced through exactly the same channels as regular taxation

No, health care contributions are paid directly to the Krankenkasse/Krankenversicherung where one is a member, not the tax administration (Finanzamt).

> That should be pointed out, yes, but the word "taxes" is internationally still appropriate for that.

Obviously not. In the health care domain, the Social Insurance systems and tax-based health care systems are different models.
Show HN: Simple and ergonomic command line task manager written in Shell
The replies here are beyond pathetic. Sure glad most of you don't live in California. I for one live here and I am glad that I am made aware of the fact that the product I am using contains substances that may cause cancer, it does make me prefer a product with a similar price that does not carry that label.

I find it hilarious how people play these warnings down. Just like people played down warnings about radiation poisoning 50-100 years ago, or just like people played down the radiation levels of cell phones back in the 90s, early 2000s. You are all of the same pack who will just never learn, and naively assume that corporations actually care about your well being. Keep drinking the kool aid. The only thing that keeps companies from poisoning you are government regulations. Meanwhile those who do take these things seriously have the chance to know better and live longer. You are more than welcome to ignore the labels.
Snapchat VP of Product Tom Conrad to Leave Company
I wasn't trying to apportion blame, because I don't see how it's useful to do so when there is no possibility of a good outcome.

If Facebook adjusts the quotas, they will just be doing a more effective job at pursuing an unworkable goal.
This is one of the reasons I won’t fly swa
It varies by doctor. Usually, the more awful stuff they have to actually do, the less willing they are to issue pain pills for minor inconsequential things.

The guy who operated on my penis gave me a grab bag of pills that went right up to serious prescription pain killers and said just to call by if I needed more. I never even took the first day's pills, it barely hurt at all, but then he's a penis surgeon, it's not even essential to _have_ a penis, half the population don't have one so how important can that surgery be?

The guy who used to be my dentist before he retired was a Max Fac surgeon in his day job, dentist was how he relaxed before the weekend. So, normally he's putting back together ruined faces from car accidents and that sort of thing. Need a filling? "I can numb that, but it's in your lower jaw, and it's not touching the root, so I suggest we go without, then you won't drool for the rest of the day". "OK, but it will hurt?" "Barely at all, slight discomfort, weird sensation, no real pain". He was right, it was fine, definitely worth the small amount of discomfort to be in and out quickly and not drooling like an idiot.

On the other hand, when I was a kid I got hit by a car (my fault), they used Entonox (medical laughing gas) back then, I was high as a kite, and given the car smashed me good, that was probably the right call. So I'm not saying "I never use pain killers" but more like "I think pain killers are something to reserve for when it's really bad, not the first thing to reach for every time".
Firefox Focus might be the browser for you.
Show HN: Decentralized education platform powered by content from the internet
It would hardly be fair if one country got to enjoy the island in the nice warm summer months, while the other only got it for the cold winter, would it?
Beverly Hills to install more than 600 cameras in effort to curb crime
Hi. I'm the author of that presentation, and I just got a text message from a friend saying that I'm on the front page of Hacker News...

The one thing in that talk that I was never 100% sure of was whether it was block-mq that provided the performance improvement. It wasn't until about a year later that I came across some articles which confirmed that that it was actually due to the development of, and subsequent fixes to, the Xen persistent-grants feature.

In other words, ignore slides 15 and 16. =/
What does it mean for an operating system to run on the blockchain?
If this conspiracy theory would be true, companies would only hire women, because they are 20% cheaper. Why is this not happening?
Who says they didnt?

Any such notification to agencies that matter would be classified information.

Now given that it’s Intel, the notification may have been “Reminder that our chips are working according to spec”, but I’m sure people knew.
Or you could just not start tracking right at your house. Wait until you get to an intersection, for example.
Well from experience 3 ops 2 minor 1 major in the UK last year they normally ask you to rate your pain on a 1 -10 scale and base meds partially on that.

I seem to be lucky and don't feel much pain so did not need any really strong painkillers after the first day or so and Tylenol made me nauseous so I stopped taking them.
A simpler version of the same link is to replace "wsj.com" with "fullwsj.com".
BF1, being set in WW1, doesn't have 9000 attachments and camos to pack out the lootboxes, which is the only difference between it and BF4.

Simplified weapons mechanics puts more emphasis on the combat rather than OP attachment combinations.
This place is becoming more and more like reddit...
The man was a hero.
Time Series for scikit-learn People
That sounds more like Focault
Rumor has it that's the exploit the 3 letter agencies use to hoard passwords in the first place.
Very true. Unfortunately, for kids/teens they tend to gravitate towards the "bad" content. I don't mean the content is necessarily by definition (i.e. r-rated or poor production quality), simply that it provides no value other than "look at me" and "see how I live" value to viewers.
Isn't that like only following people whose political views you agree with?

On one hand, we've got to burst this bubble we're in and get out of the echo chamber.

But if you burst the bubble and get out, then you'll just be depressed looking at everything you hate.

Hmm.
Possibly the Lightning Network on Bitcoin will help with these kind of problems, once its up to speed. See discussion on the stripe announcement thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218056
Should be easy at night if you can detect IR. That's how I'd expect them to "light" up your plate, so that the pic's exposure time can be short enough to not be a blur.
People here might be more willing to respond to your question if you didn't refer to a highly researched Washington Post article as a conspiracy theory.
Not GP but I have, and I wonder why you ask?
Yes, the 'quaking with excitement' quote felt a bit wrong.
Came here to say the same! Very distracting to read.
I laughed until I realized, wait you're right! I've noticed that the healing process seems to accelerate and inflammation is reduced when I put my attention on the pain (which takes practice, as the natural tendency is to try and escape it).
Thankyou that was the one, my production engineering classes where a longtime ago
> Luckily, he died before I had any significant issues

Did they find his drill embedded in his occipital lobe?
Interesting. So salting your plates skirts reflectivity and plate obstruction laws because a) the plate is still visually unobstructed, and b) the laws apply specifically to the reflective coating rather than infrared visibility more broadly?
LinkedIn network size is almost treated as a binary big/little category to recruiters, because after 500 connections it just shows "500+" instead of the actual number of connections.

So a recruiter sees "500+ connections" and thinks, "this person is serious about [finding a job/networking with professionals/staying connected with colleagues]," or the recruiter sees "79 connections" and thinks, "this person is only on LinkedIn as a formality."

It's not really something to brag about and if you're a perfect fit for a job I doubt your network size will keep you from getting hired (unless you are in a social-heavy career like marketing). But, if you've got 475 connections it's probably worth it to send out 26 more random connection requests to get past past 500 and into that space where the recruiter doesn't know exactly how big your network is.
Is there any chance it'll go mainstream, in your opinion?
Some context also helps.

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He said that his involvement was youthful "stupidity" and the "greatest mistake" of his life.
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Fractal and the Tower of Hanoi [video]
I think I have found an american.
I suggest you read the white paper if you're interested: https://raiblocks.net/media/RaiBlocks_Whitepaper__English.pd...