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In Sir Terry Pratchett's novel _Making Money_ there is a hydraulic analog computer used to model the economy of Ankh-Morpork[1]. Sounds very much as if Pratchett might have heard of this Russian one. However according to that article, the Glooper was in fact modeled after another hydraulic analog computer, the MONIAC[2].

[1] http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Glooper

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
does anyone actually believe in this 'sound attack'? why didn't any of the Cubans working in the US embassy in Cuba suffer from the supposed ill effects. Is there something different about American biology that makes them susceptible to these attacks?
https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/

DNA is not the end all of an investigation
Which add-ons do you recommend?
Stop acting like a NAT is going to save you. Protip: it isn't.

You need proper firewalls, NAT, and physical network design. It's an entire security package, you don't just slap NAT on it and call it done.
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Hi - I'm undertaking new product management responsibilities at my startup.

I'm wondering if anyone might have good templates or resources to help me build useful and informative documents to help manage my team and set product vision for the company.

I'm looking to build:
- A Product Vision / Mission / Roadmap doc
- Product Requirement Documents
- Sprint Planning docs
it seems pretty one sided as far as trust goes
(Circa 2013)
Without near and far pointers, it is hopeless to write non-trivial programs for 16 bit DOS.
This is one case where an image would definitely be worth a thousand words! I had to Google what these were.
The victory of /r/trees over /r/marijuana disputes this.
Getting microphones active in people's houses is big money for data companies.
It's not just the job market.

It's hard to move to a new city and leave your friends, and often family, behind. Not to mention the lifestyle change, from rural to city, which will often entail giving up hobbies and pastimes.
I agree! https://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
I would think a slow-play is significantly easier. For one, it doesn’t require much capital, unlike shorting.
I’ve often wondered what the efficiency of these fully mechanical systems is, and whether a completely electric system (without a battery or other energy storage) would be more compact, lightweight and efficient at allowing human powered hovering.
And even for things like BIOS they can be useful, and that is what I am most interested in.
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And we are just now starting to figure out that those people were way smarter than those of us who bought into smartphones. Hence even Google pushing the whole "well being" thing this year at I/O. (I've had a smartphone since 2009, but am strongly considering something dumber next time around.)
It never ceases to amaze me when I see pics that look like they could have been taken anywhere on earth, but no that's on another planet and humans put a little hole there!
You need deli cups if you like contributing to your local landfill.
You may have been using low-quality deli cups -- perhaps intended for single-use take-out orders. The high quality ones are reusuable for at least 6-12 months.
One of the greatest stories I ever heard was of my wife's grandfather. He was a Sikh Indian with a hugely prominent position running a 1,000 man unit in the Indian army. Because of weird US immigration laws in the 1970s and his family relations, if his sons wanted to move to the US for a better life, he had to go first. He gave up everything and "restarted" his career as a stockroom boy at a Buster Brown shoe store in NYC, later talking his way into an interview with the CEO of Met Life where he spent the rest of his career. In the interim, he pulled his son from India who became a successful accountant and consultant. I always looked at him with such admiration and said, "now there is the story of a hero". The Sikhs are an incredible people generally. Disclosure: I am 3rd gen Italian-American.
This is amazing hahahahaha. I love it.

Although I still feel bad for the telemarketer operator. I don't think anyone chooses that kind of job. I'd rather just not answer the phone.
I would be surprised to see a judge take kindly to that type of nonsense.
Well, it's the same thing it's always been about and always will be about as long as there is executive management: Trust is a one-way street.
You're only describing how it works with Bitcoin and other coins that are forked (git-forked) from it.

Some blockchains require a higher amount of consensus to fork (blockchain fork).
Hi HN! this is a talk i just gave at React NYC. Since CRA was launched on HN I thought it might be nice to look back at its success, how it works, and possible future. It's also my first time making slides on beautiful.ai (no affiliation). Was a pretty good experience overall. Questions welcome!
> there are certainly organizations with the resources to do it, e.g. intelligence agencies, organized crime

Nation states. Don't forget the large number of sanctioned regimes who would (a) have the resources to execute such an attack and (b) find great profit in doing so.
I doubt those on the receiving end of the bombs share Holmes's sentiment.
For one thing, it was written by a top 3 most up-voted user on HN. It's also an incredible life-hack.
That people who complain about taxes get some utility from the government activities funded by these taxes does not imply that they are better off with the combination of the services and the taxes than without. If this argument is meant to show that people should not complain about taxes, then it is invalid.
Needed to look up three terms while reading this:

- Deli cup - the clear plastic containers used at the market or deli counter to hold cole slaw, etc.

- Ramekin - a little ceramic bowl/dish to hold sauce, dressing, or food, etc.

- Sterno - Can of alcohol gel set aflame under banquet trays to keep them warm.

The more you know…
You pay to access the network, but once on the network it's a bit like Internet peering. You don't pay Verizon if you call a Verizon customer from your AT&T phone. I doubt cell phone companies see anything.
Just put it in the regular trash then.
That's not buying anything with Bitcoin. You are converting your Bitcoin to USD and then purchasing using the traditional, centrally controlled financial system.

And that's not even considering the transactions fees it costs to get the Bitcoin to your account.

Then there are the transaction fees for using the card, which coinbase says is free "for now".
The idea is that I, an adversarial actor, could submit an (or many) applications, and then sue snap if they ever release a feature that resembles any of those submissions.

Basically, as a potential incubatee, I need to trust Snap. For them to remove that clause, Snap needs to trust that there will be 0 adversarial applicants. Thus a one-sided trust metric makes some level of sense.
You don't think what has? There have been double spend attacks against BTC.
Huge +1 to this. Roommate worked in high-end restaurants and converted me. A $35, effectively unlimited supply of delicontainers is a life-changing addition to the kitchen.
Not at all suprising. We started with an Echo but then purchased a Google home and wow! The GH is much easier to interact with as much more flexible in how you can say things. Then also a lot smarter.

Think the gap will grow a lot after Google releases Duplex.
It would be hard to fine them since they did nothing to encourage this behavior, nor do they have very much control in preventing it.
consternation among economists and pundits, who wonder why Americans ... lack their ancestors’ get-up-and-go....loss in self-confidence.

Nothing valuable about friends, family, community, environment, culture ... so far as these guys can see.

And, just maybe, Americans look back a couple of generations to their immigrant ancestors, and see what that was really about.

"A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!"
Amazing how much it takes to do that and how long it took!
Chicago. Chicago is an honest-to-goodness world city with skyscrapers and trains and everything. A luxury condo in one of them can run you less than be down payment on a rundown shack in a far-flung Bay Area suburb. Unfortunately the tech scene there is mostly in the old-school business IT tradition and in suburban office-park hellscapes.
I grew up in nowhere Illinois with a blue collar family. Honestly the values my family had growing up align pretty spot on with blue collar workers I’ve met in the Bay Area.

The problem with tech is the self centered elitist culture. The job filtering is extremely narrow and you need a specific background to get in the door of most places.

Blue collar workers are suffering everywhere (cities, rural) and it’s obvious the rest of America doesn’t care. When these workers turn to alternatives they’re dismissed because they weren’t lucky enough to be born with more opportunities.
> bitcoin supplanting the US dollar

To the extent there is a legitimate threat to dollar supremacy, it is in the Chinese renminbi. The U.S. dollar is ascendant because of the huge base of American consumers, who buy stuff with dollars others then need to find investment for. Plain and simple network effects.
Yes, but this also silences your notifications...
Partially because of the bloated architecture of those Hadoop, Kafka, etc. And of course Java. Implementing modern and lighter alternative to those in C++, Go or Rust would a step forward.
The Apple Homepod puts it at a premium price with a digital assistant that people aren't really happy with. The Google Assitant wants people to buy it at cost or less. I think that Apple can have an assistant that will eventually be as good as Alexa / Google and then they would have a great speaker with a great digital assistant. Since I own Alexa's (and I developed an app on the platform) I don't see why I would buy a Google Assistant but I could see myself getting an Apple Homepod.
The winters are also... bracing, to say the very least. If you like feet of snow, it’s great, otherwise maybe not so much. I love to visit, but I wouldn’t last a year.
>Supposedly the idea that the blockchain was insecure would devalue the coin to such a degree as to disincentive people from attempting these sorts of attacks

The original claim was:

>He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favour him with more new coins than everyone else combined, than to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth

what satoshi didn't take into account, is the rise of "cloud mining" services and thousands of competing "alt-coins" using the same hashing algorithm.
> their databases resemble vomitoriums

Curious what you mean by this. Vomitoriums had nothing to do with vomit, except in an etymological sense.
My setup is “no thanks.” Coding while on the phone is absurd.
The RMB is not even fully convertible, it is the opposite of liquid.

The US dollar is useful to countries like china is because the US government acts as a debtor of last resort, allowing them to park surpluses in treasuries.
> Fort Knox has an entire military base to secure it

Fort Knox has basically nothing to do with the modern U.S. dollar financial system.
If you like this article, you might also enjoy this one by the same author: http://effective-altruism.com/ea/yv/is_effective_altruism_ov...

"TL;DR version: Mental illness is probably much worse than poverty or physical illness. Interventions which change how people think - i.e. reduce mental health and increase happiness - may be more cost-effective ways of increasing happiness than AMF or Give Directly. I outline some new opportunities EA should look into."
No. I don't know what list you looked at, but Lawrence, Kansas is not a place with job growth or much opportunity that doesn't involve driving to Kansas City every day or working for the university in some capacity.
Some states often stand up for their citizens, and with a Democratic NY governor versus Trump and the GOP, I have zero doubt NY will fight this to the extent the laws and courts allow. Trump is strongly and actively disliked in his home state.
Shift isn't sustainable in it's current form. They are temporarily not charging for domestic transactions. Since there is a cost for those transactions, there will eventually be a fee per transaction.
Time machine is now supported over SMB. So no, time machine will live on using either a NAS or macOS Server.

I do wish Apple reconsidered their approach to time capsules, providing an appliance you could back up your machines to was genius. It helped family have proper back ups. Sadly, there is no easy everyday replacement in sight. For many the cloud is not yet an option.
But there’s no point in giving them away for free unless future value can be extracted from those devices. It’s not a service like Spotify where you’ll get a month free to demo/“get hooked” then start paying the a subscription fee. Maybe the value for Google is word of mouth advertising? Data collection to improve future versions?
So that it disintegrates to microscopic fragments and contaminates the water over decades?
centralization does solve a lot of issues, but at that point you might as well go with a postgres instance.
This isn't the first time terrible news has broke and somehow a coin remains valuable.

Remember when Bitcoin forked into Bitcoin Cash and somehow everyone just made up a new value for the coin?

It was like billions of dollars were created out of thin air, everyone started trading it and nobody batted an eye. Bitcoin even GAINED value.

There is no logic or sanity in the coin market.
Isn’t it pretty normal to have “no fear, nothing to lose, and no strong attachments” as a fresh college graduate? Those are more phases of life than character traits. Graduate, explore, slowly put down roots, then stay rooted until your own children leave the nest and start to do the same.
Or you know, they love the idea of an immutable record that’s far from anonymous. Cash is hard to trace, a Bitcoin is easy to trace for something like the NSA. It’s a giant digital paper trail by design! Besides, Bitcoin is as likely to become a dominant currency as shells or promises. No one outside or BTC fanatics honestly entertain that idea, and only a few who do espouse it do so because they really think it’s likely. For obvious reasons hyping the currency translates directly into profit, so it’s hype all the way down.
> You have to account for the different brackets and larger standard deduction.

Not to address the marginal costs of moving, which is where the (dis)incentive comes from.
>What should I be doing?

Get bored. It's OK to be bored from time to time. Your brain needs to get bored. Being able to get bored is becoming an increasingly rare skill. I'd speculate that cognitive abilities improve after periods of boredom.
Hm, well the way I think of it is, MacOS X 1.0 is to NeXTStep as Windows XP is to Windows NT.

Both were releases on a decade-plus-old codebase, and had features (Carbon, e.g.) aimed at migrating legacy users from DOS and Mac. IIRC, it did have some differences that made it incompatible with NeXTstep (like DPDF), but I remember getting it and thinking it's basically the same OS with some Mac emulation and a different skin.
only down 10-20%
How about first improve Apple maps or at least let us use Google maps with Car Play?

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/
Google Maps's Moat - Justin O'Beirne

Only then fix Siri and then try your hand at an automated car. Maps and Siri will not kill someone. But honestly if Apple can not figure out maps or Siri how on Earth would they do a car?
I know I usually don't see gifs on this website but this completely sums it up.

https://i.imgur.com/5lKYfh6.gifv
This is also simple to do with Android:

Settings - Sound - Do not disturb

To activate, once the ringer is set to silent, hold down the volume down button.
> The US dollar is useful to countries like china is because the US government acts as a debtor of last resort

Which ultimately derives from our mammoth consumption. If Chinese consumption eclipses America's and their economy rebalances, they will have lots of Chinese consumers buying goods with renmimbi, leaving sellers offshore with boatloads of the currency to find investments for. (I consider this to be a moderate risk, and not one which would supplant the U.S. dollar but instead cause it to share the world stage.)

TL; DR Bitcoin is not a serious threat to the U.S. dollar. It promises huge profits to banks, which is why they're salivating over it.
Could you point to a PoW based cryptocurrency that isn't vulnerable to a 51% attack?
Wait until

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd1mEm2Fy08
Google Duplex Demo from Google IO 2018 - YouTube

Is launched.
Thanks to Binges and Benders, Postmates Knows the True You
in another analogy, we should not praise the house robber for re-arranging our funiture after stealing our valuables
What you always need to consider when taking on a huge project is what techniques you want to leverage and whether you've scoped things appropriately.

That is, when you make a small personal work, you can leverage all your technical skills towards the goal. And you can redesign the problem to fit your skills. You get to try anything just for the sake of learning.

But if you intend to build a whole business, the leverage - and hence the techniques - come from a different, more abstract place. The SV startup model that is often on display in HN is based on leveraging lots of capital and the existing Bay Area tech ecosystem to build very large, capable organizations in a short span of time. That takes a very broad skillset and it isn't 100% based on the founding team's own skills, but rather on the strength of the connections and recruits they can get as they try to build "business machinery". An organization is ultimately a designed thing, just like a product.

When a codebase gets past the prototype/greenfield phase and becomes a grind of churning out features, bugfixes and optimizations, sales, product marketing and customer support, it is likely to escape the grasp of your existing techniques, because - unless you're extremely selective about what you're aiming for - that kind of breadth is going to be better suited towards an organization with defined roles and specialists than a lone developer who is wearing every hat every day. There's both a technical burden and an emotional burden involved and most people, most of the time, do better by sharing it, hence the common advice to have co-founders.

That said, plodding along for long periods with slow progress is hardly unusual regardless of how you scoped the project or who you got involved. Sometimes you have a technique handy that makes it go smoothly, but oftentimes it is just a grind and you have to commit to the grind to get the learning done and even know what you're doing wrong. It's no different from training your body or mind in other contexts: some things come easily, others don't. Try to go from strength to strength, but don't despair when you have to do something you find painful and stressful.
Autonomous vehicles are a safety issue and should be open source, not a race to innovate.
Good, but I'm an even bigger fan of Space Empires IV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Empires_IV

Its a turn based game that still has a small but active community of gamers and moders.
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This would be a quid pro quo contribution, already prohibited by the IRS. It's hard to see this "charitable conversion" nonsense as anything other than (potentially criminal) tax evasion.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/substantiating-cha...
> Just ask the tens of million of immigrants in this country who have done exactly that.

Seemed like more of a thing when America was actually a land of opportunity.
First, make sure to diagnose the problem correctly. It seems like you have good communication skills so I doubt it’s that. Second, especially at your age, develop your sense of self worth to the extent that you don’t care if you get rejected, it’s their mistake.
Essentially no one - and given that, it’s weird that the dialogue around debt is so moralizing.
Not with that measily 480mbps USB controller split between 4USBs and 1 Ethernet. RaspberryPi4 hopefully.
This is one of those things you need to use common sense to realize these diseased animals are not going to have a positive effect on your body. This knee jerk reaction to ask for a full blown research paper on HN is getting out of control.
Is there a laymans explination for this attack?

"but the attacker was able to reverse transactions since they had majority control of the network."

I thought these crypto currencies didn't allow for reversing a transaction? Or is this "reversing" such as just deposit and then withdraw?
Google's search expertise was meant to succeed in voice. That is just their forte, like Facebook's is social and Amazon's is commerce. I don't see how Google doesn't win voice in the long haul.
Need help finding jerseys for your pets?
Yes, fortunately Ruby, Python, Julia, Java, Delphi, Elixir, Lisp, Forth, Groovy, and Rust are all unique words with no other meaning.
'Mechanical Turk', Amazon's secret (or not so?) sauce to create data sets to compete against the king of all data sets - Google.

Plus, the product placement of echo devices gave Amazon a free run until Google Home happened.

Still, what Amazon pulled of against an algorithm company like Google is still impressive.
I realized I had neglected to make the source to the runtime library available. Fixed that:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/dmc/tree/master/src

Everything in it that is copyrighted Symantec or Digital Mars is now Boost licensed. In particular, stuff that is copyrighted by Microsoft is NOT Boost licensed and cannot be redistributed.
Plenty of legit and rouge nations (or departments within them) who would find that tempting I think. Currency politics and all aside that is a tempting way to make money.
This is a platform war. Largest installed base gets the most integrations. Then you add on ways to monetize the platform.
> I would be surprised to see a judge take kindly to that type of nonsense

We're a nation of laws. Not taking kindly to a case isn't justification for a ruling. The tax law was haphazardly drafted and written specifically to increase wealth transfers from surplus states (e.g. Delaware, Minnesota and New Jersey) to deficit states (e.g. New Mexico, Mississippi and West Virginia) [1]. I see valid arguments for both sides.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2011/08/01/the-red-...
If you have the runway, take a 2 week staycation before launching. There's a good chance you've been burning hard for a while. You may just need a break.
TLDR: the tax reform bill put a cap on deducting state and local taxes, which were previously fully deductible. Now you can only deduct $10k between property tax and state income taxes.

Residents of CA, NY, NJ, etc. easily hit these limits, so some of these states are giving residents other ways to effectively pay their state/local taxes while maintaining full deductibility for federal tax purposes.

Now the IRS is trying to fight back against these rules. But the IRS will have a difficult time drawing distinctions between the existing allowed deductions and the novel deductions they are trying to exclude.

As a (former) tax lawyer, I agree that this is an uphill battle for the IRS. If the states do a good job of creating alternatives to state income taxes, the IRS will have a very tough time defeating them in court.

It's interesting to see the Republican administration attempting to close these "loopholes" and heavily-Democrat states arguing in favor of said "loopholes". Quite a role-reversal!

Edit: clarified language in last paragraph
Prosecutors Illegally Withheld Evidence from Trump Inauguration Protesters
We Are Sorry to Inform You
Not this again!!