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Rich can and will move. You would need exorbitant force to keep them.

What is your proposed means of oppression to not make them move?

Next, even if housing is mixed, rich can pool resources and start smaller scale private schooling. Results in Japanese model.

You will have to prevent it by force as well.

It doesn't take much to outdo people who are preoccupied trying to make ends meet and being distracted with better education amd more attention.
JailbreakMe actually continued to work until iOS 4.3.3, though of course the exploit used needed to be continually updated as Apple patched iOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe
I'd add Algeria to that list too.
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This got a mention a week back at the start of the "Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots" article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17112298

I see one of his saildrones appears in the npr video.
Hmmm.

> the activity or practice of playing at a game of chance for money or other stakes
JavaScript is almost pythonic (2017)
Presumably he was contradicting "This is the nature of truck driving" - saying, in other words, that the problem isn't inherent to truck driving but rather came about due to deregulation.
People ought to want the currently underpriced externalities to be correctly accounted for. At least I hope there's some basic human decency thing, but maybe the Emancipation was just an act.
Ask HN: Is there any petition for messaging applications to be regulated?
I feel we are in a crazy world with chat/messaging applications and it has been going for a while. It's like if I have a mobile phone carrier I can only call numbers who are with that carrier but nobody else. Or email people only within gmail. The walled gardens of every single chat application (FB Messenger, Viber, Telegram, Signal, Skype, +probably thousands of others) makes users install several chat applications on their phones or computers in order to keep communicating.

My question is actually two-fold - do you think there should be a regulation from somewhere (EU,countries, app stores...?) that if you develop a chat application (I understand that's vague but law usually is) you need to be able to provide a way to chat with other chat applications (via xmpp or whatever).

And the second part is - is there already some initiative that I am not aware of that is attempting something similar.
That's not the same as having a high level description of the concepts used. For details I can still dive into the details later.
> What very few people talk about is eliminating taxes on diesel fuel.

Oh no, a thousand times no. Individual trucks hauling goods around the world is awful to the environment (and to the roads) and if the pollution was somehow priced in you’d be scared. And that is the real cost - we just ignore a decent chunk of it and leave it to the next generations as debt.

The last thing we want is to encourage even more of this practice. Companies would immediately use the tax break as a competitive advantage and consumers would come to simply expect lower prices. We can’t keep destroying the planet like this.
You can buy things with a coin and double spend these coins later. I reckon you can call that stealing.
And yet, there was a time when Behaviourism was all but snuffed out by Chomsky's criticism of Skinner's Verbal Behaviour, and the subsequent rise of cognitive science.

What happened? My guess is we got trapped by the short-term rewards of systems that seem to work for a while- until they don't; and create an ocean of social and other problems in the meanwhile (e.g. the use of "AI" systems to predict recidivism that overfit on race, etc).

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[1] https://chomsky.info/1967____/
This is the correct way to handle it.
ProType – The next generation Object Oriented JavaScript framework
A few months ago Kenya shut down some TV stations [0] that were planning on broadcasting a 'swearing in' of the opposition leader. There was some argy-bargy about it including the supreme court ruling the shutdown illegal, but it went ahead anyway [1]

This was back in Jan/Fab

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/30/kenyan-governmen...
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/03/africa/kenya-tv-stations-...
* what do you use to scale your databases

* what do you use for master election

* what do you use to deploy your stuff

* what do you use on the tcp level for HA (keepalived?)

* what do you use to keep your system up to date

these would be my first questions about your system. and if you would use k8s all of them could be answered with "kubernetes"
I’ve been using Solaris since 1993.

I still use it today.
I’m pretty sure you can, I thought we only outlaw *.
Would be interesting to have comparisons with Rust's std hashmap and indexmap (formerly ordermap) as well.
There were some legal rumblings many years ago about Magic being gambling, and assertions that the government should step in and stop Wizards from selling gambling to kids. I don't remember how it blew over exactly.
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There are different classes of gambling, and in the UK at least they are regulated differently:

1. Proper full-on skill-based gambling; Poker, Blackjack, type games, plus arguably Horse Racing and other sports where you learn the starts and make judgement calls.

2. 'Luck' based games; Pay money, get 'prize' - this is where loot boxes fall into, and in also in the real world, CTGs and LEGO Minifig bags (for example). You always get a prize no matter how small.

3. Raffles; Buy a ticket for a fixed sum, win a prize. The prizes on offer are known up front. Viewed slightly different (for some reason) - most non-business places can run one of these without a licence. However the nationwide Lottery does require a licence, even though it's basically just a raffle.

Types 1 and 2 require different licences if you want to operate them, type one definitely has to have all the GambleAware[1] stuff prominently shown.

You'll see on many daytime and light entertainment programs on TV that they run 'competitions' for the viewers where the question is stupidly simple. They do this to step around the 'gambling' licence issue. By asking a question (no matter how simple) it legally occludes the fact that the text-in/phone-in competition is basically a Lottery.

Back to the point of Games... All games publishers have to do is get a gambling licence (for the region they want to sell the game in) and be up front that their game contains 'some gambling'.

Of course though, if they do that, then they can't sell their game to minors...

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[1] http://www.whenthefunstops.co.uk/
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That is about as far from a decentralised system as I can imagine, we now all have to trust the Estonian government (everyone part of the e-ID chain).
I think the easy-to-kill-walking-lootbox-boss isn't as as much gambling as the current lootbox system. An important element is that the game shows you all these possible rewards much like a slot machine. I'd be surprised if they'd include that as a gameplay element.
When gathered data doesn't answer the asked question
For M:tG cards, yes, I think so. I have to pay something to get the cards in the first place, and I guess you could see the cost spread over each use of a card (uses which, btw, are limited in time- there's only a limited number of times I'll get to include a rare card in a deck, draw it and play with it, until I get bored or it rotates out of the most popular formats I'm engaged with).
That's an odd distinction to make, since MtG/Pokemon cards are practically nothing but "game-changing content."
> This is because risk perception -- especially as magnified by a media that thrives on sensationalism -- is based on how "extraordinary" an event seems, much more than how dangerous it actually is.

This is a wonderfully concise way of describing a phenomenon that I have not been able to articulate well. Thank you.
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What do you need to stop trusting Microsoft?

They haven't changed a lot. They're still patent trolls, and if they still exist is mostly because they're still living off the momentum of their 90s monopoly.

This is the type of BS that comes out of the great minds at Microsoft: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiybbprqag-how-google-tripped-u... <- a great example of how your analytics data might be used.
When did so many people on HN become fans of regulation?!

This website used to be about startup news... startups, aka those hurt most my regulatory capture. Is this just not a consideration for people any more? Have we really reached the point that regulating the negative externalities of large corporations is worth sacrificing the ability for startups to compete with them?
> and (c)the prizes are allocated by a process which relies wholly on chance."

This part sounds leaky to me. Game producers might assign prizes which are based e.g. 99% on chance and 1% on skill.
4 reasons why every business should think like a SaaS business
Looks about right to me.

I wonder why they didn't use something like bcrypt/scrypt with lots of rounds.
https://podsync.net/ + Pocket Cast = <3 - doesn't work always unfortunately.
For audio only I use https://huffduffer.com/ (well it's just adding single youtube videos to a customized podcast feed)
@olifro do you ship internationally?
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For small code bases yes, or for simple transpilers. But for large codebases (like say, Google Gmail/Docs/etc) a global optimizing compile tends to be dominated by the O(f(x)) of the optimization passes, which tend to run in a fixed point loop.

If you rewrote something like Closure Compiler in C, I doubt you could get more than a 2x-4x speedup. The bigger fruit lay in minimizing the amount of work you do each time through the optimization loop.

The problem with most hobby projects that write transpilers is, people take a simple app like TodoMVC and say "look how amazing the edit/refresh is with this transpiler", but design decisions made early can come back to bite you much later when you're trying to handle a codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines.

Transpiled higher level languages tend to encourage people to create many layers of abstraction and re-use a ton of existing libraries, which tends to bloat the inputs to the compiler.
How to Group by “Nothing” in SQL
Emacs 26.1 has been released (and it’s already on Homebrew)
NASA’s building new tools to manage water, as climate dangers grow
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Or "except" where "accept" was meant
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2+2=4 regardless of ideology.
mindset is quite important: brain (para)sympathetic nervous system controls part of your heart rate, it's also linked to hormones (catecholamines IIRC) which in turn affects your vascular contractility and blood viscosity (then affecting many organs, eyes, lung, kidneys).

someone mostly happy may avoid a lot of stupid complications
I wonder how it compares to Google's "Learned Index Structures" https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208
There seems to have been some sort of recent push at Microsoft on this.

A little while back, an update to Office for Mac caused each application to pop a dialog on startup to share "diagnostic data" with Microsoft. The only options were "Full" and "Basic" data sharing. The buttons in the dialog were "Accept" (once you'd clicked an option) and "Learn More". No "Don't Share Data" option.

Many users complained in the support forums about this, saying they wanted a way to completely opt out. Worse: if you closed the dialog without selecting any option, you were automatically "opted in" to "Full" data sharing (as you could see if you then went into settings and looked at the privacy tab).

This week they rolled out another update. Which sneakily looks like it fixed this; now the dialog has buttons "No" and "Yes", but if you read it the question it's asking is "Can Office send enhanced error reporting?" There still is not a "do not share data" option.
In both WoW and Diablo2 doing instas required nothing but the game itself (for WoW it was the monthly subscription, for Diablo2 it was a one time purchase).

Of course, if there's a freemium model, it's very hard to argue that it's not gambling, if people buy in-game-something to speed up grinding.

But in that regard simply wasting time for a low-probability-drop item is also gambling.

The problem is that in the direct microtransaction lootbox model there's just an insane feedback loop, to get that nice knife/gun/armor/breastplate.

It should be treated like addiction - which it is. People like to play hazard games, so gambling will be with us forever, and some people will not be able to handle the accompanying mental draw to that dopaminergic feedback loop.
Lovely. One can only hope that other would-be hackers don't start poking the rest of the Canadian Bank's archaic systems or we'll soon see the rest of our not-so-fantastic banks on the front page of HN.

For anyone not from Canada, our banks are at least a decade behind the rest of the world in terms of IT - mostly due to strong government protectionism. I was a mortgage broker before changing into IT, and up until the summer of 2015, to submit a mortgage application to Scotiabank, one of big 4, you had to fax it. My buddy who works for Scotia said it wasn't until Q1 2016 before they were able to submit a mortgage application without a fax internally.
My imagination might be failing to see it but any startup creating yet another chat application just makes the problem larger. Is it possible that a startup could force giants like Facebook or Google to comply with giving up their walled gardens of IM? I also don't mind the petition to be towards said tech giants for them to make a consortium or whatever that agree on only making and allowing chat applications in their stores that comply with implementing an open protocol.
Counterpoint: https://www.xkcd.com/263/
Or perhaps "dive into the water from 15m above it"?
I see your point, and it’s an interesting issue. Do marketing and managerial skill add real value to a product/service, or are they at best a necessary evil?

I think there is a strong case to be made that they add value. One issue they solve is simply the communication of the existence and value of said product in an increasingly crowded and noisy world.

To take everyone’s favorite example, look how Apple has consistently worked on their image and marketing, and how that expense and effort serves as a signaling mechanism to consumer purchasers of very complex products. Of course, Apple delivers the goods, consistently, and has built up a symbiotic system of communication and technology.

The two big differentiators Apple has used are there focus on design and user experience. It’s not hard to see how these areas of attention blur into the boundaries of marketing, customer service, and product development.

There’s something I think of as “coherence” in created things. When it’s achieved, to end user it might seem like nothing, because the effort put into the subtle aspects of the creation become “invisible.”

If you’ve ever attempted doing something even as simple as writing marketing copy, the difficulty of bringing focus, clarity, and effectiveness quickly hits you in the face.

A company that can execute these “non-technical” skills well is at least a good bet for executing the technical apsects as well.

Can anyone think of counter examples? Companies that talk a good game, set up outstanding business structures, and then consistently deliver rubbish?

Edit: your comment about the contined existence of merely adequate products, wouldn’t you say that there is a real issue of cost? A company could dramatically reduce bugs in software putting more testing into the product, hiring better engineers, but if people don’t want to pay the price, the product is not “better.”

There is a fundamental issue in economics, which is how to “value” things. Price is used as a proxy, because it’s inherently quantifiable, and the alternatives lead to highly contentious differences of opinion.
Tokenizing IT jobs
Yeah, if I had the money for such software, I wouldn't need to ask.
I'll assume you don't know any affordable substitute.
> The problem is that there's no such thing as a positive truth. Truth always refers to a certain framework which is shared and acknowledged by a given group, which also distinguishes groups one from another. (So we may say, truth is necessarily a question of ideology.)

Aristotle defined truth essentially correctly: "To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true."

Are you saying that reality is also ideological (quite a radical claim) or simply that perceptions of reality (and therefore what people think is true) are ideological (which is a rather tamer claim)?
What you’re describing here, sales people lying about capabilities and then failing to deliver, is something that maybe happens in complex business to business transactions, where the product is a set of services and products that defy “apples to apples” comparison

No. It does happen, not "maybe", every day and for every kind of decision, complex and simple. If something is "apples to apples", the sales work is to mud the waters.
Has a BREW call been used? The spec might not support out of order operations. That should be tried before any further GET attempts against the coffee interface.
Sort of off topic: In theory hash tables are supposed to be O(1) (under the RAM model). But looking at these graphs, they seem to grow linearly after they stop fitting in the cache which is especially apparent on the unsuccessful lookup graph. Since it's on a log-scale graph, O(log(n)) would probably fit better.

Just thought it's an interesting divergence between what's taught in school and in practice. I wonder if there's something that's more predictive than big Oh for these types of analysis.
Interesting, for a 2.0m tall person, for a BMI of 22 (normal) you should weight 95kg instead of 88kg for the regular BMI
I was wondering how far down I would have to scroll to find something like this.

The guy is a total political zealot who hates corporations and hates that npm had to become one. He presented this at the end of NodeConfEU17 and also took the opportunity to lecture us (in Ireland) for being too white and not being as "diverse" as he wanted us to be.

IIRC, more than 50% of the presenters were women which he says is the only reason he attended the last day to speak at us. Great.

Hearing him talk was like someone taking a shit on the floor after an otherwise wonderful conference. It makes me cringe that I have to use npm after hearing that guy talk. I am not even sure I will go to that conference again after that.
> Every news site I go to I get greeted by a pop up that won't go away until I interact with it.

Progress is not linear. Perhaps we'll have some AI soon to deal with that issue.
No. I mean the overhead of loading from the register to the ALU is very small. I.e., this is an explicit cache in front of the 256-byte register file.
Are you sure? It's been there since 2013 (https://www.computerworld.com/article/2494794/malware-vulner...) I don't think there's been any change since. Java 8 still had a page about disabling the offers: https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/disable_offers.xml
The psych people I've talked to explain it as a rule of thumb "If it's not a problem, it's not a problem".

Say you feel you need to wear a hat made of marshmallow. Is that a problem? Well, is it? For example if you lost your job because of the hat, that's a problem. If you spend so much on marshmallow hats that you can't afford your rent, that's a problem. If you killed somebody's dog because it tried to eat your hat, that's a problem, and so on.

If you spend money on MTG and enjoy it even if it's $5000 per week that could be fine, psychologically at least, if it didn't cause you or others to suffer. But if you find you're ruining your life, or other people's to buy cards, even if it's just $50 of cards per month then that's a gambling problem.
Uh, no, it's not aiming to be a "native-looking" interface, it's GTK+ on all supported platforms.
Yea, in the Netherlands it was delayed to spring 2018 (which would be now.) But it's not active here yet either.

I read somewhere that they suspect banks are deliberately delaying this because payment data is worth a LOT of money. And banks will loose the "monopoly" on this data.
There have already been raids here to investigate whether they are deliberately delaying.

Also, for example, PSD2 means external apps can make payments (if you permit), so basically your bank software can become 100% superfluous.
So banks are afraid customers might "loose touch" with their brand.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I enabled that setting, edited the css in the shadow dom, and it only changed the appearance of the component I was in, not all the other components of the same type.

As far as I can tell, shadow-dom and web components are anti-tinker in that they don't allow users to play with the underlying definitions in order to learn how to use those technologies themselves. I think that will be a big barrier to adoption.
Everything is addictive in the right circumstances. There are people who became addicted to sudoku puzzles. Things like sports, which are usually considered beneficial can be addictive too. Reward seeking is a normal human thing, and it is essential for the survival of the specie.

The general idea, I think is that addictive things shouldn't be regulated unless it is a significant threat to society. Gambling is, because it is known to put people into bankruptcy. Obviously, drugs, which alcohol and tobacco are, also pose serious problems. But lootboxes? I've never heard about families being destroyed by lootboxes. Yeah, people can spend more than intended, but for it to be a problem warranting heavy regulation, it has to be more than just scraping disposable income.
Roulette is also "legitimately fun" to many people.
If that's the case, it must be a very temporary problem.
> Sometimes, the product-market fit with early adopters is only that. The product won't go mainstream because other people don't want or need that product.

This is something that SV has a problem with. Every product or company is assumed to be targeted at the whole world. There's no room for niche products. Either you take over the world or you end up shut down.

(Twitter is also notoriously bad at handling negative feedback)
If you aren’t looking for measurable results, how do you know when you succeed? Perhaps you were already there before you started?
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They're pretty cheap used. They don't seem to hold their value as well as other Apple gadgets.
The option to suppress sponsor offers is still there in the control panel for Java 10.0.1.

It's of course possible that some users don't experience these "sponsored offers" due to geotargeting, A/B-testing, lack of available "offers" at a specific time, or any other reason controlled by the server side of the installer.