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>But I think it would have been prudent to touch on what caused him to shift his perspective.

Going with the tide? I doubt if the Nazis had won there would have been any shifts in perspective.
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She does? Where?
Oh, that makes it more interesting. A workaround to that (thought not as effective) would be face scanning. It wouldn't be as effective because I would imagine it would be more difficult to get a consistent scan of an object inside a car.
Not what I’d consider the moral of the story at all. I’d say the moral was: just because you can win, doesn’t mean you should.

Some movie gets to use a clip, a whole bunch of project for disadvantaged people don’t get funded. Hard to cheer a victory against BS copyright this time.
This is almost as impressive as the Pistol Shrimp who uses a sonic weapon to incapacitate it's prey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC6I8iPiHT8

Or for that matter the much more commonly known electric eel.
https://twitter.com/kevinkiklee/status/957629856518459392

I just created an overlay of Google Maps and Strava Heatmap of the forward operating base I was at in Afghanistan. The heatmap clearly shows the layout of the base.

That base has been in operation for at least 6-8 years, and it is well-developed. The up-to-date satellite imagery of the area is not available on Google Maps for a good reason, and Strava just released it.

I imagine that this heatmap has been thoroughly scraped already.

* I was deployed to Afghanistan from 2011-2012.

edit: initially mis-typed '2011-2102' =D

edit2: A well-established military base, even in a combat zone, has access to wifi and cellphone network.
We are constantly training physically, and we like to keep track of ourselves. We were early adopters of fitness trackers, and I used a couple of them myself also.
Why would you burn it? At least where I live, old christmas trees are handled by the regular trash collection.
Can Babbage's Analytical Engine Be Built?
Europe doesn't believe as much in handouts from the rich, or in depending on arbitrary goodwill.

We believe more in structuring society, government, welfare, healthcare, funding, etc, such that they're not needed.
Just about any satellite photo provider can be used to locate military bases also.

The heatmap is neat but I don't see why it's specifically bad for military bases.
She does.
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Patrol and supply route information I guess?
> The bigger problem is with placing fine components on the board. It's just slow and irritating. I will position the component in its location and then slowly bring it down until it touches the paste.

Have you tried not using solder paste and instead using a "normal" thin solder wire (with jelly flux)? I prefer to use that over solder paste for everything up to 0402.
Before disposable stuff, people bought used furniture and then re-sold it when they moved. It was less convenient, but certainly not 2-3 times more expensive, since good furniture holds its value.
What’s a PRNG?
Lots of static site generators now - this is useful to check: https://www.staticgen.com/
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I think it's important to realize mistakes 10+ million people make are far from character defining.

All governments do good and bad things and it's important to judge them in that context. What separated the Italian fascists from the German fascists was not necessarily obvious at the time. Further, while history reasonably judges German connections harsher, that's filtered through both bias and information people simply did not have.
>A desk I bought is going strong 5 years later

So? Furniture of any quality can be found at second hand stores. From one of a kind expensive pieces to el cheapo ready to break stuff and everything in between.

That said, there's nothing much that can hurt a properly done desk. I have IKEA desks I use for 10 and 15 years now, and other than a few dents I've caused them, are perfectly fine.
Ikea has more and less cheap furniture. The longer life stuff is generally made of solid wood or plywood and its quality is just fine. Ikea never just throws a product together, which also applies to the cheap ones.
ReactScope – Visualize React component hierarchy, state, and props in real time
I tend to put my narrative / talking-points / take-aways in the Notes section so that I can print them out together with the slides themselves and leave them behind for the audience after the talk.

That way - I'm not reading the slides to the audience - and am able to create context for later readers without cluttering the slides with too much verbiage.

Most of my meaty slides have to do with process, charts of various data sets and maybe high level technical architectural concept-ware. Much of the narrative is often about context, relevance and impact: "so what?".
I guess I'm slow, why are these pictures obviously of military bases? What's going on here?
Ah, the lovely world of yesteryear, reminiscent of 2008s synthetic instruments. At least this time these people are actually greedy POS looking for money in a zero sum game. With 2008 ordinary people got hurt badly for just having 401ks. Here you simply have greed overpowering logic. Oh my.
When they print the Tether to purchase BTC, who's keeping the BTC that's bought?

Assuming this is an actual fraud going on and not real USD being held to back each Tether 1:1.
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> The value of such feedback is that it lets you know there is a problem where you can potentially offer a better solution.

I agree there are some cases when that may work but my point is that they are very very rare from what I can see.

The vast majority of cases the complaint or problem statement is already crystal clear and well known such that finding it out doesn't give you any new information or anything of particular value because people always want a better version of what they have anyway.

So you will always get "I want a better Photoshop" or "I want a better Dropbox" or "we like AWS but it doesn't have this feature" stuff.

If the problem is in some very specific small niche that is unknown to most people it would be more useful.

Like some obscure small non-tech-savvy niches that are stuck in the past decades and are so small that no big player bothers with them but perhaps you could make a good small business out of it if you know that they exist and what they are.

For large established markets with well known famous multi-million and multi-billion players saying "$solution sucks" is as useful as saying that the sky is blue.

If you want to get into the customer support desk software market you don't need a bunch of people telling you "Zendesk sucks" for you to know that there's room in that market.

For a category that large there are tons of solutions and between them also tons of very happy and very unhappy people and everything in between.

In the case of Freshdesk/Zendesk (and other similar categories of the same size and popularity) the barrier is overwhelmingly something other than simply knowing that the problem exists.

Everybody knows almost every business needs customer support software. And whatever it is that they have, they always want it to better.

If someone's capable of coming along and challenging something like Zendesk it's not like they need the "aha!" moment or encouragement of a bunch of people saying it sucks.

I'm subscribed to a few sites that send "stated problems" daily/weekly and basically none of them are actionable.

They read like something along the lines of,

"We use Salesforce (or some other giant tool/company) ... it doesn't do this (or needs better UI/UX/API/Integration/etc) ... if there was something better we would consider paying up to $1000."

I just find it difficult to imagine how someone goes from reading that to,

"Aha! I got it. Now I'm going to go and make a better Salesforce."
You’re of course right about this not being encoding ‘9 bits of information in 1 bit’. That would be impossible; to encode 9 (arbitrary) bits of information, you need 9 bits.

On the other hand, you must encode information on the colour of 9 hats, and only the last person in the line is free to provide some information. He can’t possibly know the colour of his own hat, so he can only guess – or use his turn to provide 1 bit of information to the rest of the group (while the other people have to shout out their correct hat colour). The difficulty lies in figuring out why the puzzle as stated does not need you to encode 9 bits using 1 bit …
Your comment is coming from a good place but it’s rooted in ignorance. Most ATM machines are made by NCR and not financial institutions. Majority are also quite old (runnning windows XP old).

NCR is focused on profits not security, even though they sell POS (point of sale), ATM machines, and airport kiosks.

From my personal dealings with NCR, I can confirm that they care very little for security, regardless of what their corporate line.

To put this in perspective: if you go to a grocery store, restaurant, or quick service (fast food) establishment and use a credit card then your full account number, name, and exp is recorded in their system. This information is accessible by anyone with store level admin (not windows admin, but think a manager with manager card).

This violates PCI but hey, fuck PCI, hard sending the system takes resources and who wants to do that?

On HN, folks keep talking about security and other such nonsense, however, anyone who has seen the other side isn’t very optimistic. Between ease of use, profit margins, and no pushback on insecure systems, all loses are just write offs.
Do you have any links showing how to do that with blender?
That’s one hell of a deployment duration! :)
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>That doesn't seem like a good definition.

There's no such thing as a "good" definition. We begin with the definition, not with some pre-existing concept (which would require an earlier definition of the same thing).

The definition is what it is: just a name we use to collect certain phenomena together.
> banks now refuse accounts to "high risk" businesses

We have/had that in the US too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

In this case the federal gov't (FDIC and DOJ) pressured the banks. They even attacked a Constitutionally-protected activity (firearms)
"I live in a [Blue/Red] state and it's no secret that I'm a [Democrat/Republican] - as is the majority of my state. It wouldn't bother me in the slightest if the voting records of everyone were published. You could get the same information just by asking - which is exactly what exit polls do. Don't see the issue."

There is something (seriously) wrong with the above thinking. I don't think I need to spell it out.
Strava could easily make this opt in, or they could filter spots where there are only a few people using it. There are a ton of in between options, this data is not a yes or no scenario.
Cash in an ATM is orders of magnitude safer than cash in a till, most significantly for the store staff as less cash invites fewer (traumatising, dangerous) robberies.

When I worked in a convenience store 20 years ago, we’d dump cash into a safe through a mail slot every time the cash in the till rose over a certain amount (the register computer would show a red bar with a message to this effect), and we’d routinely have to turn down requests for all but trivial amounts of cash back for this reason.
I seem to encounter the opposite problem. Cloudflare never puts up a captcha for me, while Google presents me with a captcha >50% of the time. This is regardless of whether I'm logged in to my personal or enterprise Google account, essentially extracting free labor out of paying users.

From my rough observation, it seems Cloudflare weighs IP country heavily, while Google seems to weigh OS and browser combinations more (pretty much all the Linux users at my work hit Google captchas frequently, while Mac/win users never see them).
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Does it support (or are there any others you've encountered that support) non-hierarchical links? A severe limitation of most mind-mapping software is that every node needs to be in its own little slot in the hierarchy; I don't think like this. I think in graphs, and interrelations – I suspect most people do. If I can't connect widely spaced nodes with some kind of edge, it's not a map of the mind at all.
A well-established military base, even in a combat zone, has access to wifi and cellphone network.

We are constantly training physically, and we like to keep track of ourselves. We were one of the first adopters of fitness trackers, and I used a couple of them myself also.
Is it superior to pen(cil) and paper?
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Wouldn’t that be true of most people? Being a rebel, even against an overtly oppressive regime, is not a light undertaking.
And it seems to follow his suite. The "jackpot" part. Seeing those bells on the atm gave me a good laugh ..
The second part of your post is utter nonsense. If a company makes money from issuing tokens and lying about them being backed by the USD, it's definitely more shady than a regulated financial institution which makes money by lending money at a higher rate than it borrows it, and is definitely more at risk of a "run" even without ignoring all the rules in place to ensure that banks will always be able to borrow at less than they lend, and protections for deposit holders in the event of a bank's loan portfolio going under.
> and I can deliver the 5 products in roughly the same amount of time as the 1

While this may work for software, sometimes, it definitely doesn't for vehicles.
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She does
Where? The only obvious link to github links to a tracking rbspy issue.
Built-in sync causes accidental message duplication in shared folders. Or, at least, it did last time I've tried it, some years ago.

(But maybe I should review and simplify my mailbox/account structure... It grew quite messy at the moment.)
Yet I've never had an issue withdrawing from them, where as I've had countless problems withdrawing from basically every other exchange, including (especially) the ones that have a US address listed on their website.

Binance fees are low but not so low that I doubt how they make money. They have a huge number of pairs without having too many shitcoins. Many of their pairs are now ETH/___, which is much better for many people due to high BTC fees.

But yeah, I'm going to completely ignore a great level of service and security, and instead be worried because they don't list an address on their website. /s

What good is a non-[insert your country] address really going to do for you anyway? A small-time crypto trader isn't going to have any power to get anything from most foreign domiciled companies without very significant effort.

Finally: this goes against the entire principle of cryptocurrency. The point is that I don't want to have to trust my nation (or any other nation). I trust Binance because they haven't fucked me over. The same can't be said for legally domiciled US exchanges I've traded on and the US government.
> Numbers 1, 2, and 3 can all be fixed, and fixing those fix number 4.

How? There is no incentive for the entrenched party to change the rules.
I mean the tiles because the actual dataset is not publicly available and I doubt it will ever be.

One reverse a portion of the dataset from the tiles, though.
It's less common to accumulate very big fortunes because in general there is much more redistribution of wealth and much higher taxes (so also as you accumulate you share a big amount with society). See for instance tipping in the US vs no tips but places paying a more fair amount of money to waiters in Europe. A different model.
I was not warned that the entire second half of the film, about an art project, would be considered off-topic.
No one? Ok.

Rest in pieces.
It is indeed true; the winners always earn the privilege of defining morality and rewriting history to their liking.
Capacitive touch screens don't work well if your hands are sweaty. I couldn't understand for the life of me why Garmin ever introduced a capacitive touch screen watch.

I thought my old Garmin GPS watch was amazing when I first got it around 2010.
Anything in particular? I was thinking of things like viscosity and stress analysis for fluid mechanics. It would be easy enough to animate a stress tensor and show how each term behaves when prodded. Similarity the basic concepts behind laminar boundary layers would be equally straight forward.

Mimicking 3b1b’s style would be trickier since he uses a lot of 2D plots. Of course you can run python directly from blender so you never know.
Would be great for your shell to automount your Google drive. (I know Google Drive isn't a real distributed file system, but the point stands... and if GDrive doesn't work, how about Google making an actual distributed/network file system that I can own for this purpose, like AWS EFS?)
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Infoga – Email Information Gathering
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Why does the NYT look like a tabloid now?
How does this compare to something like Jekyll? Is the only difference that this is written in Python and Jekyll is Ruby?
Last time I was in the one in Dublin, the TVs in the cafe area were literally showing a propaganda film about lingonberries.
The gaming commission also regulates how much each machine must pay out over a given period with a given take. Any machine not in compliance is removed, and the casino can be fined. Continued non-compliance can result in the termination of the casino gaming license.

This was true even before electronic slot machines.
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I don't mean to insinuate that Ikea has bad quality stuff, quite the opposite.

Instead of getting second hand stuff, it's easier for me to just get new stuff from Ikea. But what's happening to all the second hand stuff that I would've bought? Does it all just go into the landfill? Because that's a waste.
I lost the ability to just plug in my headphones and skip between songs on my iPod while drifting off to sleep on planes.

Where has he been for the last 10 years? You've always been able to use headphone buttons to skip between songs on iPhones/iPod touches.

My wife just started teaching fitness classss. She uses this to control music while she is teaching:

https://www.amazon.com/Satechi-Bluetooth-Button-iPhone-Samsu...
I'm still not seeing it. Could you quote the relevant part?
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If he rises from the dead as a zombie, he'll get the trifecta.
Time for other cryptocurrencies to shine. "Starbucks Chairman Says Cryptocurrency Will Be Big — Just Not Bitcoin" - http://time.com/money/5121644/starbucks-chairman-bitcoin/
The other problem with Powerpoint is that it enables the some of the worst professional behavior in us individually and in groups. Some people don't like to write. Some people don't like to read. Or read mail-outs before a meeting. And some people like to hide in endless meetings to appear as if they are busy (working), while they are just busy in endless meetings not working.

Many if not most 8~20 slide presentations could be more succinctly (and index-ably / search-ably) provided to the audience in a two-three page memo with a chart or diagram or two. Even a short white-paper might be nice to articulate a case for present and future audiences.

But at my current company - I give "lunch seminars" with powerpoint slide support on a repeat-cycle (periodically - because we're growing - there are always people who haven't seen it yet), because (from what I can tell), (some? many? most?) people can't be tossed to read a 4~5-page written summary of the topic. (Huge waste of company resources to support some lame-o trucculance in my mind - but I could be wrong)

EDIT: Please allow me to ask a question of the HN crowd. To me, if it were my company (and I have had a few with varied success), if an employee can not (or will not) read and can not (or will not) write in a structured format, in an organized way, and be prepared for meetings, before the meeting starts, by having read all of the relevant material -- is it the company's obligation to spoon-feed them? Or should the company get tight and move those people out the "Next!" door?
That configuration only works if the attacker can't re-configure the system, but considering they're suggesting that many ATMs are still running Windows XP, I'm guessing that finding a privilege escalation exploit is not that hard.
They are based in Hong Kong which has a different set of rules and legal system than mainland China.
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Glad you didn't call Ikea a platform ;)
Calico Labs announces discovery of a “non-aging mammal.”
The sprit of the time in the US seems to be poisoned by the fantasies of get rich schemes still (including founder dreams of making a company to "get rich" instead of making a company to make a living).
Ask HN: Is there a point to encrypting user data?
I'm making a web application which stores user data. For sake of discussion, lets say notes. These notes may be personal in nature however, so I've been thinking on ways to secure the users data.

As an aside, for security minded users I already plan on making a self-hosted option which will work in tandem with the hosted option. (this is mainly because I want to self host haha)

With that said, I was debating encrypting all user data on the hosted system. There of course might need to be some non-encrypted data for indexing, but that's a side concern. My question on this becomes:

Is there even a point to encrypting user data on the server?

If my server is breached, the at-rest data is secure - sure, but someone has access to the server, which means hypothetically they could MITM the decryption data when users write it or read it. So is this even worth while? Furthermore, users have to blindly trust that I'm not storing their key, which undermines the goal of encrypting their data.

I'm aware that an alternate method to do this could be to keep the decryption in javascript and encrypt/decrypt before ever getting to the server. However the question I asked above is because I'm just trying to understand if server-encryption is even worth while. Is it a pointless venture? A waste of time?

Thanks.
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