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> They essentially have an entire team dedicated to designing and implementing security measures for their devices.

Isn't that the absolute barest minimum for a corporation of that size and infrastructural importance?
It’d be nice to list the names of the books, rather than just links. I’m curious about your suggestions, but don’t necessarily want to visit Amazon.
They found this during internal testing. Although this is bad, it's commendable that they released this info - many companies would have buried it.
At the moment of writing there is $394B worth of "trust" in the crypto coin markets. Before you say it's speculation, let me point out that speculation still operates on trust: the trust of exchanging coins on the market, the trust the blockchain would not lose their transactions, etc.
> But yeah stopping on the shoulder of course is a no-brainer. How to do that, though, is maybe not so simple. In winter judging where the road ends and a ditch begins can be very hard if there is no rail.

If the vehicle can't handle that then it can't handle driving without a human on board. Being able to safely come to a stop somewhere that is not in the middle of a traffic lane is table stakes for any unmanned vehicle.
Yes. And people complaining about their kids not being able to adjust to it (kids grow up, they'll learn to live with it eventually ;))

I really hate when people complain that they get to sleep 1 hour less. The switch is always during the night of saturday to sunday, who cares?
This doesn't explain why not.
No, many people are predisposed to like luxury items due to instilled cultural values, not because of an innate utility. But that was part of my point: to honestly criticize the diamond industry, we should criticize the entire market of veblen goods in general.
He also then donated the proceeds to Litecoin development.
I still find lightning incredibly ironic. To me, it looks like:

* Gold =~ Bitcoin (2009)

* Gold Standard =~ Lightning Network (2018)

* Fiat Currency =~ (???)
That's a pretty bad definition of jaded:

"made dull, apathetic, or cynical by experience or by having or seeing too much of something" [1]

I would say that someone who feels that it's commonplace for managers to refuse to allow new employees to schedule 30 minutes with other members of their team while on-boarding would fit the definition of being overly cynical.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jaded
So... Project Insight? Hail Hydra!
The biggest study I have an issue with is the heart attack one.

If you're to the point that losing an hour of sleep triggers a heart attack, DST didn't cause your heart attack. Daylight savings time rescheduled it from Wednesday to Monday.

Edit: I guess that was apparently in the original study, it just doesn't make it into most pop coverage of it.

"The overall number of heart attacks for the full week after daylight saving time didn’t change, just the number on that first Monday. The number then dropped off the other days of the week."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heart-daylightsaving/dayl...
So is it still 'frozen' (it is ice afterall) even above 0c?
Really? I think it arises from simple economic incentives - not taxing emissions makes people (politicians and employees of basically all companies) richer than taxing emissions. Even the most educated and science worshiping populace would be hard pressed to vote for policy that would hamper economic growth and cost jobs/profits.
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I've been watching my partner try and build a web app "the Rails way" for the past couple of weeks. The result has been huge amounts of pain any time slightly not-off-the-shelf functionality is desired, especially when Devise or email is involved.

It's supposedly great, otoh, if you're working on a CRUD app with minimal requirements, you're not that big into TDD, or if all the complex stuff in your app actually lives on another service that you can talk to over e.g. RabbitMQ that isn't tied down by Rails.
They let people upload video/audio, I'm sure their definition of corner case[0] is very narrow and I'm not sure this would qualify. It's really no different than computer generated music.

[0] I don't think corner case is appropriate terminology in this discussion. I think it should be edge case. But even still, I don't think Google would think this is an edge case.
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NYT did an article last year summarizing what's been adapted to screen and where to find it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/watching/agatha-christie-...
To anyone interested in taking up the hobby, it's very easy to get started and if you get into the rhythm of studying it's possible to go from Foundation to Advanced in about a year. I was fortunate enough to go from M6 to M0 (I'm in the UK) in just under a year. Intermediate (2E0) isn't much of a stretch past foundation but the advanced (M0) took dedicated study time. The excellent bit about gaining Full licence is the ability to transmit in most other countries (providing you adhere to the local laws).
I don't see them keeping TB around as a sponsor after this. Pretty darn bad press.
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According to https://coinmarketcap.com/ it's the #3 cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Last time that happened to me I just called the bank and told them to block payments. I think it was either stamps.com or siriusxm. Really no reason to prevent someone from cancelling right away... just a shady tactic to retain people.
Do you think it's normal for software managers to refuse to let their employees schedule 30 minute meetings? That seems absurd to me and would qualify as more dysfunctional than any workplace I've ever been in.

This is knowledge work we're doing here; we're not working the assembly line.
Emacs covers more than just text editing. To be honest, if I just wanted text editing I'd probably stick with vim. But emacs is a live, extensible, programmable environment. I essentially run applications on top of it (magit, org-mode, IRC via erc) and interact with other environments through it (common lisp via slime, erlang). And it happens to have (for me) a pretty good text editor (certainly better than most IDEs have, though arguably not as good for some tasks as vim but I am used to it).

The loading times aren't slow if you run it in daemon mode (as I do now) or strip down your .emacs file to its core (so you only load what you need for the files you're editing).
My resistance to putting my life in Emacs these days is that half my time is spent on mobile devices. I know org-mode exports a variety of formats, but how easy is it to interact with my todo list or add notes from my phone? If popular services all had APIs I could see hooking Emacs into them, but they just don’t in general.

I read the posts so far from this article, and was hoping to see the mobile angle addressed.
That conflates two things in the discussion. People can care about something and have it affect their buying behavior, and people can car about something without it affecting their buying behavior.

There are certainly people who are not buying Tesla cars because they don't feel they have the value or quality for the money they cost. And I am sure there are people who own Tesla's who wished that the fit and finish was better than it is.

But from Tesla's perspective, improvements to fit and finish are addressed on the assembly line and they slow down the number of cars per day they can build. They also reduce yield by increasing quality check fallout from the manufacturing line. Taking that hit to production rate or yield does not make sense when the current customers are not either cancelling orders or returning cars purchased due to "minor" fit and finish issues.
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> 'During their time as black market administrators, the Dutch police only banned one product on Hansa: the highly dangerous opioid Fentanyl. All other drugs on the site continued to flow freely, a circumstance over which Ras and Boekelo seem surprisingly unconflicted. "They would have taken place anyway," says Ras without hesitation, "but on a different market."'

So, the goal is probably aligned more with career progression than stopping drug trade as such
That is basically anti-net neutrality, but for energy, instead of information.

Why should I pay more if I use my laptop for mining crypto, instead of playing the latest AAA video game on the highest settings?
Or maybe generalize it to frivolous computing.
Please take Upwork as the model of what not to do.

Competing on price with bottom-of-the-barrel programmers, crazy hoops (skill tests) to jump through to prove your worth... I get why these things arose out of their model, but I will never participate in their marketplace because of them.

Just let people sign real contracts, for realistic prices, and let people's skills speak for themselves based on their own portfolio.
If middle class has to have the same effort the previous generation did for the same results, where is the GDP per capita growing for?

Doing the same as the previous generation and getting the same means a diminishing rate of income.

I agree that our generation consumes a lot more, travels more, goes out to eat more, drinks more, etc. But maybe that is the consequence of not having a home and having high rents, not the other way around. For the past 20 years the RE market has been very unstable for our generation.
In every situation in a new environment, the best way is to just listen more and talk less -- pretty fast you'd get the social dynamic without pretending to be someone you are not or trying to wrongly impress people. And -- important -- keeping to yourself your weak spots during the timeframe when people form their opinion about you.

Soon you will see what the main struggles are in the company, who opinion leader is, and what the product development dynamic is. Only then, when you figured out the playing field and all mines you may start talking more if you really have something to say.
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It’s that nearly the entire runtime is executing as lisp code that you can modify dynamically. There’s no boundary between your code and the editor code. So the experience is that your text editor is written in your code and that you can change any aspect at the drop of a hat.
Ask HN: Best CLI tool to encrypt large files?
Hi,

I'd like to create an interface where my users upload files and I'd like to encrypt those files. What's the best tool to do that? File sizes are expected to be up to 10GB.
Haha. I have it opened in my browser waiting for some prolonged work interruption.

I guess I have to dedicate and report 1h for learning and self-improvment during next week.
If your society of 10 people has one person controlling the majority of the wealth, things might go poorly for that one person.
There are genuine attempts made to police those uses. In the case of USD, the US enjoys being the default global currency. That bad actors also use it is more of a side note alongside everyone using it.
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> I can't imagine any problem space that would take a senior developer a full year to become competent.

I am somewhat arbitrarily latching onto your statement as a place to respond. But my thoughts are swirling around many other posts in this whole thread... I think "problem space" conflates too many different aspects of real world work which can all require significant time to comprehend as a new member of a team.

Any non-trivial project must include hysteresis in planning and management, meaning that an architecture encodes a number of economic decisions and strategic positions. Hardly anybody would look at a long-lived project and declare that they would build it the same way if starting from a blank slate that day, but this is irrelevant when considering overall engineering costs and risks. Things must be far worse than "not ideal" before it makes sense to invest in rebuilding existing functionality rather than maintaining it.

Secondly, the actual "problem space" is what gets assigned to subject matter experts in very large organizations but must also be understood by those making engineering decisions. I don't think that there is such thing as a "senior developer" who can waltz in and start declaring how to solve problems without learning this subject matter, and it can certainly take years to acquire such expertise. You can't just know how to build things to spec, but must have an appreciation for which things to build, and what business purposes are being served. Often, a worthwhile rearchitecture is not simply refactoring the code that performs the same thing, but refactoring the entire solution to address subject matter problems in an entirely different way. Sometimes, the subject matter is highly technical (like physical problems, or logistical optimization, or machine vision) and sometimes it has much larger social components (knowing the customer/user and their requirements or limitations).

Finally, there is a third space of expertise which gets to the heart of some complex projects. A deep understanding of how an engineering organization functions and of its members can be another realm of subject matter expertise. You can't appreciate the economic and application decisions encoded in the architecture if you aren't aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the team. Sometimes, a senior person with deep technical knowledge can be faced with the worst truth of all: a better technical approach that you are well acquainted with is simply inappropriate for a project that does not have the staff nor the will to build and maintain it. Decisions are hardly ever so modular and independent that we can satisfy all participants without compromise.
Nobody in Go culture treats it as "evil voodoo" that I'm aware of. There are clear guide-lines. User passes in a path to a file that doesn't exist and you attempt to open it? Return an error. That's not "exceptional" or "programmer error" - it's just normal "shit happens". You have an array-like structure with 10 elements and your function that modifies it gets passed in index 13? That's probably a bug or programmer error, not "user" error - so panic.

Go documentation is very clear on the difference between the two, actually. I've never been confused.
Meanwhile the aviation industry said "to hell with it" and doesn't even use time zones, let alone DST!
How do you copyright leftover radiation from the big bang (since that is how white noise is generated) when the "static" is 13.8-billion years old?
It looks like BritBox only has the first six seasons (series?) of Poirot. For the remaining seasons, you need to go to acorn.tv.

Let's see, can I get it from iTunes? Nope, Apple only sells 7-13 in the U.S. too.

(Still waiting for the video rights holders to learn the same lesson the music rights holders eventually did: if you don't want people to pirate, make it easier to buy it than to steal it.)
Wow, you named one. Congrats. I'm referring more to small businesses. To name a few I've seen: A bed and breakfast I stayed at in Tulum, a cellphone repair shop not far from my home, a small theater also near my home.

Bitcoin has better characteristics than the USD. If people continue to see that, it'll succeed. There's of course an element of speculation when buying bitcoin -- I'm hoping other people see value in a currency which can't be manipulated by governments, can't be confiscated, can't be censored, has a known supply, can transfer instantly anywhere in the world, and anyone can open an 'account' with.

To quote Julian Assange: "Bitcoin is the real Occupy Wallstreet".
Another area where my materials science research took me! A decade ago I was working on the problem of countering active laser threats to sensors and the clear solution to at least the primitive offensive laser weapons was to place a sufficiently non-linear optical material between the threat and the sensor. By properly engineering the material for the application, you have the ability to place a material between the sensor and the environment such that standard environmental light will pass through at a near zero refractive index. However, as the intensity of light shifts towards that of a high powered laser, the material will act with a much higher refractive index and "bend" the intense light away from the sensor such that it cannot be disabled.

Really interesting project and most likely what they for some reason are leaving out of this article. BAE systems has enough detail on their site that I can assume this information is out there for anyone who is looking for it, so not sure why the article doesn't atleast mention this. I would have enjoyed taking this work into grad school, however 2009 didn't feel like a good time to go into research.
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How is that not just a rebranding of "convenience" though? Making difficult things easy is providing convenience, but when that's done, you can then do more complex things. Abstraction provides convenience, which leads to, as you put it, an expansion of human potential.
I made an easy and free way to view and convert DWG and DXF CAD files. No download necessary.
>...That's transparency

The criteria you specify for transparency is subjective and I don't agree that all of those criteria are strictly necessary. Specifically, I don't agree that knowledge of "provenance, relative supply and transport/marketing cost" is required of a buyer at all in a free market, though they may personally have an interest in those things. I would venture that most consumers know and care very little about those things.

>If you don't have that, a free market can't work well.

>which is why it's fundamental for a free market

What's important is the principle of subjective value--that the buyer and the seller value what they are getting more than what they are giving up--and that can happen without the various criteria of transparency you outline. Certainly there are cases where market actors will demand some of those (and many cases they will not), but I wouldn't state it's a foundational requirement the market must be built upon.
I stopped using org-mode when I moved from academia to work as a programmer so that fits with what you say.
Oh I understand fully. I work for Amazon.
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Because long-term you'll end up with a situation, where your special profitable customers leave for greener pastures (those willing/able to pay higher fees) and your base customers can't or won't afford it.

Short-term they can make some money raises the prices, until supply-demand equilibrium is reached again. But then you shoot yourself in the foot for the long term.
Cool that Google understands that AGPL is evil and has policies against its use! :)
> Did I say anything about unfounded beliefs? I didnt. I even said I accept research on intelligence.

I wasn't commenting on your personal beliefs. I was commenting on your position that certain true facts should not be spoken in a political context. To me, that is the same as saying that people should be free to make policy without being challenged if their beliefs are incorrect.

> But I'll bite. Tell me a way that intelligence research should inform policy that isn't immediately morally repugnant.

No Child Left Behind in the USA is (I think) widely regarded as a failed piece of legislation. It is based on the idea that the only reason kids don't succeed in school is because schools are failing them. It heavily penalized schools that can't get their achievement scores up. Intelligence research can provide one leg of a counterargument that kids are different in all kinds of ways, and proscriptively mandating equality of outcome makes for bad policy.
In this day and age? Other than your occasional Google or Apple, I don't think so.
Why is privacy an upper class value?

It may not be one of your values, as evidenced by your choice of email provider, but it has nothing to do with class, or dismissing your own needs. You can be poor and refuse to hand over your data to big corporations, or rich and have a Gmail account and keep using Google search because of the convenience.

You are the owe that chose to bring up personal details out-of-the-blue in this discussion. There were comments showing that there are ways to ensure your online privacy without necessarily spending money. The fact you do not wish to do so, is irrelevant to your economic situation.
Serving web pages, static files, and DB transactions requires a trivial amount of processing power compared to cryptocurrencies. The per-square-foot power density of mining is 10x or more than that of a standard rack server.
It happens very often. I call these people “tourists” and there are many reasons why it works this way. Many people have great jobs and aren’t really interested in side projects. Some people get bored very quickly and are looking for perfect project whole life. Some people try to learn new technologies and abandon the project when first problems arise. It’s great luck to find somebody with passsion and discipline to continue when enthusiasm dissapears and the bumpy ride starts.
Get exposure to content not made for learners or beginners (native content) ASAP.
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I always thought postCSS was just for vendor prefixes. Thanks.
> In the last couple months I decided that I needed to stop tweaking every last thing and wasting so much time

Isn't that exactly the same thing vim pundits are doing these days? Typical vim installations now load megabytes of macros and settings. I've always stuck with plain vi / nvi (until the encoding problems became too much) and never bothered with all the autocomplete scripts etc. ...
I've wanted to learn emacs for a long time, but every time I try it I get overwhelmed after 5 minutes, close it and swear to try again later. One of these days...

* edit-- not that it looks all that hard, just the sheer amount of things to learn makes it daunting.
> We can get into conspiracy theory here a bit by noticing that Qaddafi wanted to create a common trade currency for Africa. Saddam Hussein quit trading in USD in favor of EUR. Russian and China agreed to exclude USD from their direct trade in 2014.

Aside from China, which has a currency large enough to become a trade concurrency, these countries were all strategic enemies well before these moves. The decoupling of the USD seems more of geopolitical strategy than economic risk for these countries.
what made you not to share the discord server invite URL? :)
Am I missing something, or is it inevitable that bitcoin mining will lose profitability again, possibly very soon?

The problem is anecdotally outlined in the article. People are willing to mine bitcoin at a loss if need be and that makes mining rough for everybody because of the increased difficulty.

The problem is it's too easy to mine bitcoin. As the article points out, all you really need is somebody to keep an eye on the servers. People will push it to the edge, at which point, a tragedy of the commons will ruin it for everybody.

The only hope is for bitcoin prices to increase exponentially for all of eternity.
Not really. People don’t want to change clocks. And I doubt anyone really has an issue with long light evenings in the summer. But at least some number of people, especially in the North, don’t want it to be pitch black in the winter when they’re getting up, kids are waiting for school buses, etc.
Perot was not the Trump of that era. He was a 3rd party spoiler candidate.

He also ran on a platform of "reining in the deficit" which is, more often than not, an indirect means of wage repression.