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I loved pointing out to people that my Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 both had a 6502 compatible CPU as the keyboard controller (it had an onboard PROM and tiny amount of RAM, so there wasn't much you could do with it, but it was awesome at the time to upgrade from a 6502 compatible machine to one that had a similarly powerful CPU in the keyboard. But of course the C64 floppy drive (the 1541) had an actual 6502 in it, and enough memory and ability for you to download programs over the serial port...

In other words, we've been in this world for a very long time - a lot of peripherals used to have fully fledged CPUs in them already in the 70's in some cases, and some of them were user-programmable. The reduction in this in the early PC era was an exception, not the norm.
I'm actually investigating the ins and outs of building a product that interposes between e-money gateways and businesses implementing them. It has three purposes:

- Data synchronization. Usually, either because you're sane, or have legal obligations to do so, you maintain your own ledgers in addition to those provided by the payment service provider. It's hard to do, leads to countless hours of manual maintenance when something goes wrong which of course alienates a (hopefully small) part of your clients.

- Proper handling of a "distributed system". By distributed system I mean a CRUD remote service with asynchronous notifications, not paxos-based phd-level systems. I'm not trying to downplay the difficulty of communicating with "simple" systems like this, quite the contrary. There can fail in quite surprising ways. I'm not even mentioning the fact payment-services have unrollbackable real-world consequences, like money-real. It's really easy to lose money when misusing a payment system.

- Providing a meta-interface to many payment-systems.

-- Migrating from one payment service to another one can turn out to be a multiple-people year-long project for some?/many? businesses. This is even more impactful for startups that manage to break through and need to find a better deal with a different payment service as their user base sky-rockets.

-- In some countries (for instance Morocco), there is no deal between international players in the PSP market (PayPal, Stripe, etc ...) and national banks. To perform electronic payments, you must communicate with the system of a state-controlled entity. Businesses that want to extend their market to these countries must support additional developments, that may well cost them as much as plugging to yet another payment system.

I tried my best reading the PSD2, but I wasn't able to determine if the law applied recursively: for instance, as an AISP (Account Information Service Provider), can I legally aggregate data coming from other AISPs (i.e. with the access to that data being granted to me by the law) ?

Anyway, for technical, UX, and legal reasons (mainly avoiding the 50k€ requirement) I thought it would be better to abandon the idea of proposing my clients access to a remote service but to instead loan them a local service as a brick to place in their own infrastructure (in the form of a container for instance). This service's data would be theirs and stored in their own database. To use it they would configure it with their own API keys to these various payment systems.

What would be the legal requirements under such a configuration ?
If you structure your software simply and make it easy to reason about what is going on, then any half decent error message should give enough information to at least start down the right path.

But we don't get that in modern software. We get "Something went wrong :(".
It seems to me (a native speaker of Mandarin) that the written Chinese is not closely tied to the phonetics or spoken Chinese. A person who could only speak Cantonese can write something that can be easily understood by someone who speaks only Wu. While an alphabetic writing system seems to be secondary to an underlying, spoken language, in which case the written language represents the way in which the language is spoken.

Such a perception might be the result of the divide between vernacular and written/literary Chinese that remained uncontested until a hundred years ago. An alphabetic writing system for Chinese would essentially unify spoken and written Chinese, which goes against the aforementioned perception. Hence the resistance against an alphabetic writing system.
How should we impose a sanction on the regional government of Xinjiang specifically? Do you really think the gov't in Beijing has nothing to do with these camps, and should be exempt?

I'm glad that weapon sales to all of China are banned, not just to imperialistic individuals within the PLA.
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>At Riot, employees are encouraged to play League before/after work, or during lunch. My very first week at the Dublin office, I heard shouting from individuals playing together, calling each other “fggots” repeatedly. I was unnerved, but it was my first week and I didn’t know if this was a common occurrence. I didn’t say anything at that time. Eventually, the language would escalate to “ngger”. No one flinched, and I realized it was considered the norm. Nearly the same thing happened my first day of meetings at the Riot LA office, where two men were loudly calling each other “c*cksuckers” right outside the office of the CEOs.

That's gaming culture, plain and simple. Is it a new necessity to change gaming culture to pander to people who've never played games? I believe this is being done for the sole reason of extracting more money by tapping into markets that weren't being exploited before.

Case in point, woman-friendly games like Fortnite or Overwatch. This is not a problem by itself, but it's sad that some companies are pushing this narrative to make it look like they care about social issues and gain the favour of those who do, when they just want more money.
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This includes most blog integrations, eg. being able to configure Wordpress to post a plug on your personal FB when you write something in your blog.
Err, they are very easy to debug. You can have them print out every line as they execute and follow along what was done. Prior to systemd, if there was ever anything critically broken, I could step through the entire startup from the initramfs and bring up the system line-by-line or script by script as I needed, and see exactly what was at fault.

With a script-based startup, the entire system was understandable by anyone with some rudimentary knowledge. It wasn't complicated, and it worked well. It did have its shortcomings, but the accessibility to modification and the ability to effectively debug were not amongst them. In comparison, systemd's behaviour is a black box with the unit files as input. The actual internal state is opaque, and it's inaccessible even to experts.
> That’s just insane.

It really isn't. It's why wall street is selling on the news.

> This is a great accomplishment for NYT but I’m worried about what it means for the rest of the industry.

It really isn't. It's why their share price dropped nearly 7% on the news. Their subscriber growth declined. That's not a good thing.

> NYT switching its business model has to be one of the most public and well-executed digital transformations of an old company ever.

NYT "switch" isn't even the most public or well-executed in their own industry. I'd give that nod to news corp and their properties - not that they are doing much better. NYT is playing catch-up.

> In the age of leaders publicly gaslighting, unrefereed global forums of social media which can be bought, and massive concentration of wealth at the top, fewer and consolidated reporting entities will be bad for the republic.

That's true. But the NYT is just as bought as any forum and gaslights as much as any politician. After all the NYT was created by a politician and a banker. It's in their DNA.

I do agree that fewer media entities will be detrimental to the republic. Unfortunately, the NYT along with CNN/WaPo is at the forefront of taking out smaller independent media entities.
The black bar is how HN pays its respects as a community to people who have left an impact on this world with their passing.

This old Ask HN touches on the same question you are asking, as a black bar appeared on the Brussels event date and Andy Grove's death. I hope it clarifies that this black bar is not connected to an anniversary of an event.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335903
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I was thinking that exact thing in the name of experimentation. A sort of "Please come harass me, I want to see what people have to deal with."
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I can echo that. Their journalism feels predictable, not only the opinion, but also the writing of it. The way they approach the subject from an observer, and possibly assumed superior perspective make me feel detached and indifferent as with the reporter. Other left-learning publication, like Guardian, suffers less from such formulaic problem, make me wonder this might be intentional.
As someone who's never had a Mac, I get the impression Xcode is the equivalent of Windows Update circa IE6 (ActiveX control and all) - so horribly and messily integrated into the system, that adequately sandboxing it such that it doesn't fall over every 6 seconds would be the equivalent of making a perpetual motion machine that can turn yak shavings into kitchen sinks.

The person who commits to designing, building and maintaining this - and achieves their goal - will not be sane. Carefully consider before inviting them to developer conferences.

(NB, as this is currently at -1: The bit above about insanity is meant as a lighthearted joke :P)

NB2, now this is fluctuating even further: This was written with a humorous note but sincerely. If I'm wrong about Xcode I'd be happy to learn as much - and glad to be wrong, as well. I've just heard that Xcode is a disaster to maintain, and that eg merely downgrading Xcode version can break all of macOS, requiring a full reinstall. This being said, having Xcode work on Linux (and Windows...) would be awesome, in theory.
I'm not sure that'll help much. Their oil production has fallen roughly in half since 2000 so there isn't that much regardless of the currency.
> The ROI is very different

If you’re making “little or no profits” you have no ROI.
The more generous interpretation is: We value life and try to reduce the risk of severe damage when making drugs. And regulatory bodies exist to combat the incentive to just ship whatever works without adequate regard for what could go wrong
This looks like it's supported by a 3D printed enclosure. Otherwise I agree - you need >2.0mm thick PCB to prevent falling out and these are not offered by the usual cheap low-volume PCB manufacturers.
The thing about declaring a war is that you force people onto sides, even if they want nothing to do with your war. And you can then use this to feed your own propaganda even more.

If tomorrow for some strange reason half of the UK decides that actually the old testament is right and we should demolish all the Egyptian statues in Kensington, that doesn't make the Guardian part of a war if they say that's ludicrous. It just makes them sensible.
By definition, there's only one way to be a Christian and LDS aren't Christians.

Pedantry aside, Christians are still human and thus succumb to sin and as such are not as charitable as they should be.
> You can split it anyways, search for your favourite DNS provider and for your favourite domain registrar. There is no need to have both at your domain registrar.

DNSSEC has complicated that a bit. Since you need to have your registrar send the value for the DS key to the tld registry. In theory you could set a CDS record and be done with it, but as always, most registrars don't bother in supporting it.
Neither magic, nor leap. Pretty much HoloLens 1.2. Rony Abovitz Had been apologizing in interviews that they had been too arrogant. He should. I especially hated his act at Ted where he wasted everyone’s time with absolute arrogant elitness of putting themselves as ultra-creative people. Can’t believe all these big name investors fell for them. How did these creative elites couldn’t even figure out a single killer app for so many years to ship with the device? Remember all those secret press interviews where they teased that it’s not another me-too HoloLens? And where is that whale jumping out in front of school kids? Here’s a shout out for you and you deserve it: Fraudsters!
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This article, and some comments, assume that certain political stance is shared between all the tech workers. Meanwhile, I know quite a lot of people in tech of many different countries who would be enthusiastic to work for the military, and would gladly accept lower salaries for the honor.
Recently Riot has been getting a lot of, what feels like hit pieces. Conspiracy theory: suspiciously after they were telling on Spectrum, saying they were throttling them and they had to pay for it to stop..
> rock-solid reliable platform

Eh... I've had a lot of issues with it on my flakey Charter internet[0] connection. Php-fpm hangs so often I added a cron job to restart it every fifteen minutes, it doesn't always run dhclient when an interface has been down for a bit and then comes back up (cron to the rescue again), the gateway monitor did weird and stupid things and had to be disabled, services aren't always restarted when they crash (Unbound recently) stuff like that.

[0] I am aware that this combination of words is redundant.
The idea being that you plan to make massive profits down the line. No VC is expecting their startups to cruise comfortably at 3700 employees and 80M yearly profit
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Or even just abnormally high rates of depression treatment...

That said, I believe that there is other data showing there is other perscriptio
drug abuse more prevelance than usual. If that's from increased depression, or merely from being an easier "bad" coping mechanism that's easier to hide, I'm not sure.

There are a lot of judgemental (self righteous?) Mormons in Utah. There are a lot of nice ones as well, though I think you'll find the ratio of nice to judgemental higher in other states.

My take on it? Being mormon has become somewhat cultural in Utah. It's not nearly so much elsewhere.
Except for Instagram posts, presumably?
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Your gaming culture is not my gaming culture.

You can say nasty things to each other without being racist or homophobic, especially at a place of work.
If use of racist and homophobic slurs is 'gaming culture' then there is problem with gaming culture. I don't really see how that kind of language is something that needs protecting.
I think slram is deprecated in favor of phram, though I'm not really sure what what the differences are besides giving length rather than end offset in the arguments to phram. The only information I can really find is this[0] post from 2003 which introduced phram. There wasn't any discussion back then and doesn't seem to have been since.

[0] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2003-July/008...
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Yup. I had DlvrIt posting my blog posts to Facebook, and now that doesn't work.
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I think the political problem far outweighs the logistical one. until the local governments in these area start respect personal, productivity, and property rights, the people will forever be suffering.
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Of course, I agree. As I said there's this new "egalitarian and respectful and social justice and all of that" culture that is being created by the games I mentioned and many others, but traditional online games will probably always follow the "classic" gaming culture.

"A place of work", that's another matter; I agree it's unprofessional. I'm talking purely about videogames and those who play them at home.
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Most nasty things are rooted in group stereotypes, historic conflicts and the like. If it weren't divisive in some way it wouldn't be used as insult.
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Simon Wren-Lewis argues that increasing supply won't help so long as there exists an arbitrage between rental yields and interest rates. Wealthy people will just outbid everyone else for the increased supply: https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2018/02/house-prices-and-re...

Richard Werner points out that the mortgage lending, with associated house price inflation, caught fire in the UK after Thatcher eliminated "corset" credit controls. That may be key to sorting the whole mess out.
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> Looks like the range is compiled in.

Of course it is. UNIX devs...
Yes, I know about the ML syntax languages, they are pretty cool, but Rusts unique selling point is the borrow-checker. Getting GC style code without runtime overhead.
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>"Did I checked the hob is off, is the fridge closed, did I lock the door? Did I close the windows?"

This is exactly me. I have to be consciously paying full attention when I lock my door, otherwise I'll get uncertain about it once I'm a few seconds out the door, and I'll have to go back and check.

I have never managed to actually leave my door unlocked by accident, but I have locked myself out of my apartment on three separate occasions, so I'm actually 3:0 on that, but I still have that uncertainty.
wow, I would expect such behavior from teenage gamers, but I'm surprised to see it reported among (presumably adult) game-devs.

what is perhaps even more surprising is that they seem to somehow be able to cooperate enough to deliver a undeniably popular game.

don't get me wrong, I don't doubt for a second that what Meagan says is true. I am simply surprised they manage to produce anything at all in such a culture, let alone a hit game.
I might offer some insight here. I’m slightly obsessive about not inconveniencing other people. I try hard to put things in their proper places, not to eat the last bite of anything without asking or being offered, not making noise, not leaving electronics in misconfigured states, not leaving my own stuff lying around, I could go on.

It’s worse than the few obsession I’ve had around my own preferences, because I lack the introspection when it comes to people other than myself. I don’t know if they are sensitive to this or that particular nuisance and my priors seem to be dialed up to eleven.

I end up trying not to be around other people do that I won’t fall into these obsessive patterns as often.
DNSSEC is a compromise because of backward compatibility, but the alternative is not signing at all.

> almost none of the largest, best-funded security teams in the world bother DNSSEC-signing

Do you have any sources to back your claim about this? I'm having a hard time believing that the best-funded security teams prefer weak authentication over no authentication.
When there isn’t much to coordinate, it’s difficult to see the value day by day. And yes, you could probably miss one or two without much impact. But go a week straight without any standups and coordination will fall apart. The left hand won’t know what the right hand is doing. You’ll lose time duplicating work or explaining the same thing over and over to different teammates.

Standups are prophylactic - a way to get ahead of instead of behind a problem. In fact, the analogy to a condom is probably apt. Nobody loves them, and the chance of consequences to skipping them on any single given day is reasonably low; but better to use them regularly than to contract herpes or HIV or need an abortion.
"The Nature of the Firm" by Ronald Coase. He called it transaction costs. I ran across this while trying to grok one firm I worked at that managed thru over-governance, funding models, etc to maximize internal transaction costs to the point where it was easier to just hire external expensive consultants.
That's gaming culture to have racist and homophobic speech? There is no valid reason for this. I don't get why people think this is justified and acceptable.
Anybody knows of other projects like this?
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You might want to start them out on Scratch. It's pretty easy to do a game with that. After an hour or two on that, let them move on to JS or Python.

My .02 cents....
Your website is nice as well. How can you use custom fonts and don't get the "blink" when the font is loaded?
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That's great!
I would like to see somebody using this solution while being synchronized with the beat of the music.
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wuuhhh...that visualisation on the firstpage made me sea-sick. and boats don't do that to me!

it does seem to be a pretty cool lib though
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I won’t disagree that Mormons still have a ways to go regarding relations with the LGBT community, but if you have follow the Mormon church at all you’ve seen lots of progress in the last 10 years which continues to be made.

As for the suicide rate, you are making very careless and dangerous assumptions. Yes, it’s higher than most other areas. The reason for why is still very much unknown, and could be attributed in part to a wide variety of factors, ranging anywhere from demographics to the high altitude. Assuming it’s high because Mormons are awful people is baseless and clearly an instance of someone who has looking to confirm their biases.

If you are going to bring data into the conversation you should try and be more empirically minded about it.
Can you expand on unwanted transactions?

TBH, the only “unwanted” transactions I’ve found were indeed fradulent, and these have been immediately caught by BoFA, VISA, and other financiers. I have had problems with false positives, however.
It's a workplace, not your personal video game club.
>Sarah Jeong - ok they have a columnist who dislikes Trump

Wait what? She's an avowed racist with a 5 year trail of comments to prove it, she doesn't merely "dislike" Trump. The fact that NY Times actively sought her and threw their support behind her is despicable. I cancelled my digital subscription because of that alone.
And corruption. Both on micro and macro level. Individuals, officials and politicians. When "everyone" does it, everyone deems it ok to do so as well.

Just fixing corruption would go a long way towards that goal.
I think that would incentivize ideas that conform to the community, and the community to conform to certain ideas. Reddit is a good example, they've wrongly crucified people before for things that don't fit their narrative. Persistent voting systems would solve some problems, but they certainly introduce other problems.
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Maybe that's a subset of 'gaming culture' you've experienced. But, I've played in many, many large online areas across a diverse set of games, socialized in many gaming forums online and, simply put, this would not be acceptable behavior at all and would quickly get people tossed out.

It feels like you are saying 'well, boys will be boys', and that's honestly just a way to rationalize unacceptable behavior by refusing to taken ownership of it.
I have a rule of thumb on swap cost effectiveness: use compressed ram first, if it's not enough, buy more ram. Because swapping is too slow to be generally usable. There might be a special case where being so slow is ok, but then cheap sata ssd in combination with compressed ram could be cost effective.
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