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Yes, and I'd prefer it. TurboTax, H&R and their ilk are unnecessary parasites feeding off of a diseased whale. The fact that people feel the need to utilize 3rd party solutions just to file completely run of the mill returns is a sign of a fundamental problem in the system.
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This is probably a 2 part law. The second part forces them to provide a feasible decryption mechanism.
"The Government welcomes your feedback. Submit any comments to assistancebill.consultation@homeaffairs.gov.au by 10 September 2018."
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Finding a neutral in-depth analysis of the project is not easy. In a Google search, I find Japanese, Indian and European opinions . Yet best is the Wikipedia article IMHO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

You won't find a neutral in-depth analysis of the project in Bloomberg (or FT, Economist,etc) as a substantial amount of stories about China are "wishful thinking" meant to be "self fulfilling prophecies" by influencing investors [1]. I mean mostly against China.

[1] David Fickling stories - see the ones about China.
https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQrSL0m_2u4/david-fickling
Me too. Or whenever I see it mentioned in this Slack I'm in. It was very confusing last December, when one guy kept solving Advent of Code in Crystal, and doing so with speed.
Of course you can. It's a matter of perspective. From your viewpoint, someone else that has an opposing opinion has the "wrong" opinion. That's what GP was saying.

Maybe it would have been clearer if they said "position" instead?
It looks like they want to be able to selectively install backdoored software for individual targets. [1]
I.e. they could force apple to deliver a patched whatsapp that disables encryption on the device or sends information to a third party.

[1] https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/consultations/Documents/expla... p. 8 and 9
Do you have a link to a video of the demo? I'd love to check how much I notice a difference with movie scenes.
If you are wondering - The detail of this drafting legislation is found in a PDF that this article links to. It's a long read!
If there's one thing that VR has taught us is that photorealism is completely unnecessary for immersion.
This analogy is frequently used to describe why it's so hard to "catch up" on a delayed project.
> But if the consumer can't tell the difference, does it matter?

The consumer gets used to it. The CG effects in Toy Story 1 look dated, and if you were to watch the Incredibles and the Incredibles 2 back to back, you would also notice immediately. Or compare the movie "Gravity" to "Babylon 5".

Plus I've not even mentioned hair, fur and volumetrics. A staple in pretty much any feature film FX, they were completely absent in the real time ray tracing demos. Hair and fur are commonly not ray traced as triangles but use custom intersection routines. Those are an extra layer of complexity on top. I don't know yet how Nvidia's own API for the RTX card looks like, but Microsoft DXR and Apple's Metal ray tracing both are restricted to triangle geometry only.
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My wild guess would be that it started as a composition character on typewriters to write things such as ã.

For those unfamiliar with how accents work on a typewriter: There'd be a couple special accent marks such as ~ and ` and whatnot that'd put down their accent but not advance the carriage. You could then hit a letter to get e.g. à or ē. It's a pretty clever system to prevent having to have a key for every accent.
This doesn't always work out. Case in point with Greece. Decades of cushy government jobs and tons of people flocking to those positions to be lazy and do nothing, with policies that amount to tenure so they'll never be fired.

I do agree that government jobs should be more competitive in the job market, just with caution.
No particular recommendation, but: where have interesting colleagues - or other people you've met - ended up? Could you join them, or learn from their experiences?
Ah I hadn’t heard that. If that’s the case then I agree 100%
While everything you've said is accurate, I think you're intentionally skirting around the meat of the issue and that is the value of currency. That we can we can 'print' (colloquially speaking) as much money as we like is not in dispute. However, the consequences of choosing to do so are the heart of the matter. In the past our money was implicitly backed by oil thanks to our petro dollar arrangements, but those times are coming to an end. In the relatively near future our economic decisions will be left to stand, or fall, on their own merit - and substantial outstanding debt owned by foreign not-creditor-creditors will play a role in this.
Show HN: Using feature flags for client demos and simulating complex scenarios
Broken how? I got a bunch of signup pings off this thread - Bug report welcome founders@griffin.sh
Please don't break the site guidelines yourself, regardless of whether someone else has done so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "The real question is, how did
the others—how did any animal—manage to
survive? [Impact theorists] have got to come
up with a hypothesis that puts equal weight
on survival. So many of these catastrophists
want to kill the dinosaurs [that] they forget the
rest of the biota. Birds, mammals, and amphibians
managed to survive, and that tells
you that there is something wrong."

This is what always bugged me about the impact extinction scenarios. If it really had that devastating an impact on the entire planet, then why only the dinosaurs and not all land vertebrates?

Does that mean that none of the dinosaurs would have been sufficiently sheltered and capable of surviving the aftermath, but birds, mammals and amphibians could?
Unfortunally we have diverged from economic arguments to purely political ones.

And politically, you've got what you've got, especially as a small country. Things could go massively worse. The USSR had complete freedom of action and it was pretty benign for several reasons. Maybe you have feeling that it sucked big time, but the reference point should be 1984 in real life.
Maybe so, but you've crossed into attacking and name-calling, which is a violation of the site guidelines no matter how right you are. Moreover it's unsubstantive to just declare "nonsense" without explaining anything to the reader. Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How does leanpub allow a book description with such awful spelling and grammar?
Well, it doesn't have any control flow, symbols, or system calls, so most of the work is in setting up a buffer and calling conventions. There's also no language intermediate representation or optimiser.

The W^X machinery bans self-modifying code in the traditional sense, but there may be situations where creating little specifically-optimised gadgets like this can benefit a program.
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I don't think your example shows that, and the article disagrees with you:

"The value of freight between Europe and Yiwu, a much-touted overland rail hub near Shanghai, came to 2.27 billion yuan ($330 million) in the first four months of this year [snip] China’s top four ports alone process about the same value of cargo every three hours."

Also see this graph from the article: https://www.bloomberg.com/toaster/v2/charts/e6c45ea06db24277...
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Fortunately, in Australia, mathematical laws are trumped by Australian law, so there will be no pesky mathematical laws about the impossibility of decryption getting in the way!
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No example of the quasi-quote? I'm not sure how it would look, -"a bit like this"-?
That's how it could work for other app developers, but in WhatsApp's case, WhatsApp is already capable of replacing users' encryption key with its own.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-...

It's a shame much of the crypto community was "skeptical" at the time that WhatsApp would use this capability for anything other than sending users "lost messages", because it's exactly the kind of thing I would expect companies that want to comply with secret (or otherwise) government orders to implement, while having a "reasonable" public excuse for implementing such a feature.
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This is actually a pretty good introduction to functional programming, was not expecting it from the title. Awesome.
It is going to fly as long as the First Amendment is worded to protect you from the government.

Do you really think a Twitter ban is equal to the US government muzzling you? Or do you simply see the alternatives as not good enough and feel like folks are entitled to posting tweets?

Regardless of your (or my) opinion, Twitter is not and will never be a public service provided to you by the US government. you have no right to free speech on their platform. you are welcome to create your own centralized rival service and allow all the hate speech and abuse you want. Twitter and the like are simply not obligated to tolerate you or anyone else being a prick, just like a private message board is not obligated to tolerate the same thing.

So, yeah, I can tell you that. It's not an arguement, facts rarely are. Thems the breaks.
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What was Bloomberg's (FT, Economist, the general economists' consensus, whichever) position in the year before the 2008 crisis? How many times did they flag the impending burst?

Every media outlet has an undisclosed interest somewhere or at the very least a heavy bias sometimes. And it's highlighted more than ever when those trusted pillars of reporting like Bloomberg, FT, or the Economist come up with conflicting information.

Right now CCTV in China or RT in Russia are saying the same thing about the US, or the EU, or Japan, or Korea. And the people reading and listening are having the same discussion we're having just with different conclusions based on that trusted information.
Multithreading and a GIL gives you concurrency, not parallelism. e.g you can spawn many threads in MRI but they'll still be waiting on each other. Hell I even implemented[0] Go-style CSP channels and coroutines atop of Ruby's Thread and Queue (which uses Thread), fully aware it would not magically give me parallelism.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/lloeki/normandy
Toy Story 1 still had a budget of 30 million and a box office of 370 million, in 1995 dollars.

Lets skip past the discipline and lets focus on the consequences. What are the consequences here?

Why is Nvidia's new chip potentially failing product market fit?
Negotiation power of big chains?

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> Were actual, material numbers to have been objectively published, we wouldn't have had a crisis in 2008, because nobody would have bought bundles of crap, and the market would have needed no correction because it wouldn't have gotten out of hand.

This is circular reasoning. The market works on the information that is available at a given time, which includes all the fudging of numbers that salespeople and marketers do as part of their quest for maximising their individual interest - being handsomely rewarded by the market for this.
It is never mentioned explicitly, but my hunch would be that primary visibility is still done using rasterisation and that ray tracing is only used for reflections, shadows and ambient occlusion.

This is how most film rendering was done ten years ago too.
> Maybe so, but you've crossed into attacking and name-calling

Calling a declaration patent nonsense is not "name-calling". Stuff which is "attacking and name-calling" however include:

* insinuating that the IRS rejects pre-filling declaration because they "would make less money" despite them having supported that effort

* declaring that tax declaration is "like a poker game" and that it's "just a fact" is

* insulting other commenters, as ransom1538 has done and I have not

> Moreover it's unsubstantive to just declare "nonsense" without explaining anything to the reader.

Why would I need to substantiate a disagreement with an unsubstantiated assertion?
I seriously believe that the "cachet" that traditional publishing confers is a major block that prevents innovation in this area.

For the racket of academic publishing to be upended, there has to be motivation. This remains the unsolved problems. Opportunity and capability already exist in forms such as blogs, pre-print servers, etc.

However, cachet is inevitably conferred by powerful monopolies. For example, some universities are trying to upset the Elsevier applecart by moving their publishing to in-house presses. But this simply shifts the power from one giant to another.

Producing an open platform that avoids monopolising but still confers favourable reputation seems very hard.
> easy to learn and program

I think that's relative and it certainly hasn't been my experience. If I program in Ruby, Node, Python, etc for 8 hours of every day, it makes sense that I would reach for that over a command line tool with a syntax that looks a bit arcane. The best tool for the job sometimes is the tool you know best.
I knew two people who were "head of IT" (not sure of their exact title) at two different small universities, and your job sounds similar to theirs. (Leading a team, adopting Open Source solutions, some custom development). I don't think they were paid as well, though.
I don't know how I missed this.
I think I know where you're talking about and I bike through there and the biggest problem is that they took away the "3 minute passenger drop-off/pick-up" spot right next to the transit center without giving any other options for passenger loading/unloading.
Is the room service really that expensive? I do remember paying extra taxes on taxes at the Encore
So proofs and programs are isomorphic. We know there are programs which never halt and we know there are programs for which we can not algorithmically decide whether they halt or not. What is the equivalent thing in proofs? Are there proofs which never halt?

Is a proof really isomorphic with a program as written in source-code, or is it isomorphic with the EXECUTION of a program with a given input?

A program and its execution are not the same thing are they? But with proofs I find it hard to think about the difference between the "source-code" of a proof and the "execution" of a proof. Is there such a thing as distinction between the execution of a proof and the "source-code" of it?
> Setting $CACHE_TTL to "months" on everything, and doing nothing else.

That will break a lot.

DNS isn't static; IPs regularly change as servers move, CDNs are introduced/changed. Long-term caching only works on NS records because changing DNS delegations is relatively rare. NS record caching does cause problems, but they are infrequent. Caching the addresses of the actual servers will break some things within days, and most of the internet the next time each server is updated/moved/etc.
Yeah, just like eating dirt solved the problem of world hunger.

Look again at your code. I'm not 100% sure what the Ruby version does, but once I do figure out the exact semantics of drop and split, it's going to be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier to remember, understand and modify the Ruby version than the Perl one.

Your post comes off as something from reddit's /r/nottheonion, you're just making the case against Perl for Perl-haters :)
Sounds like a great line of research!
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> because it's overpriced to help pay their salaries

That's something you assume but cannot know unless you had a look at their books. Paying security out of room service seems quite odd. I don't think that the salary of security is based upon room service at all.

Apparently these security people weren't that useful security wise, but maybe it's more that they know that too.
Rather than the Las Vegas attack, I’d rather expect DEFCON to be hurt by the arrest of Marcus Hutchins. Surely it should have given cold feet to some of the most interesting guests and speakers.
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http://paperkast.com

Hello everybody,

I just wanted to share a link aggregator website: paperkast.com. It's a article sharing and discussion hub.

It's opened recently. I think it was a need for the academia. I don't think there is an online community for paper discussion. Twitter is good for publication sharing but there is no central discussion around a paper. It's all over the place. Seperately, we know that the link aggregation style has a good reputation. It's a good stimulation for discussion.

What do you think of it?
> Like women being allowed to join the workforce increased productivity which also benefited men from having cheaper products

It also nearly doubled the labour force without actually doubling the number of jobs available, which arguably resulted in the stagnation of wages to the point where dual incomes became necessary for families to maintain the same standard of living as they did decades ago.

There are advantages, but let's not pretend it has been some panacea. Dropping birth rates in the first world may largely be to do with women deferring pregnancy for career advancement.

> Should women more often be included in drafts or mandatory service?

War is war. The military needs to be distinct from other fields as it is not an experimental playground for egalitarianism, it is the profession of targeted death and destruction. Changes to the military have to be evaluated in the context of "what makes the most efficient military unit", not "what military unit represent everyone back home best". It's not a representational game, it's a crudely real necessity for the security of a country.

On that front, real study can show what makes a more cohesive unit. If adding women helps, do it. If it hurts, don't do it. Doing it to make a point may endanger real lives.

> Should women be included in the decisions to go to war?

Aren't they already? Plenty of female politicians, advisors, representatives. Of course they should be involved, but on their own merits and through their own career advancement, please. Trudeau-style arbitrary enforcement of representational quotas promises no guarantee of better decisionmaking.

> Would we have less wars if that were the case?

Do women have fewer interpersonal conflicts with their peers than men?
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I'm doing customer development for a potential pivot and wanted to learn more about:

Do you have a process and/or toolset to keep your customer data up-to-date across your organization?

Do you have a unified customer database/customer data platform that works as a central source of truth for all of your business departments?

Any advice and recommendations for processes and tools are welcomed.
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The improvement is higher in quite a few formats. It's slightly masked by some outliers that I need to investigate more.
Looking at the page source, it was most probably handwritten in Notepad, hence the Windows encoding.
I know this is going to come across as a stupid question, but I would like to ask what the point is of studying for an interview?
I am self-taught (under guidance from a mentor) with no formal training, and don't understand why one would prepare for an interview by studying. Isn't that dishonest in a way?
Shouldn't an interview determine if you are comfortable providing a service and (ultimately) generating profit for the company hiring you?
I wonder what this means for Atlassian's international clients.

Does the Australian government have unfretted access to any code hosted with Atlassian ?

Maybe if you are a small business in Australia you would not care about it - but big European, Chinese or American clients would definitely not be convinced by any assurances.

The most important thing is that kind of question should not be raised in the first place, the biggest threat is not the Australian govt or Australian rival companies, the biggest threat are rival companies in their own soil that can take advantage of such a backdoor - it could just be as easy as a cash transfer to a low level employee in the Australian govt.

All of these factors just means Australia is not a good place to invest when it comes to cloud infrastructure, data warehousing or intellectual property, that if is leaked could literally destroy your livelihood.
You're confusing mechanism with economics.

"China isn't the US's lender and they do not make any loans."

Yes, China is a lender to the US, in fact the largest lender [1]. Treasures are loans/bonds. Whoever owns them is a lender to the United States. It's economically the same thing as any other nation selling bonds.

"They can't foreclose, because no loan exists. All they can do is take their coupons or sell the security to someone else who will do the same."

It's the same thing as government debt in all other nations. If you loan money to Greece, you can sell that Greek debt to someone else. The economics of government debt are the same in the US, Canada, and US even if 'how it gets sold' is different.

"China can't starve the Treasury of money "

China can 'starve' any nation to the extent they are a lender to that nation. China's demand for Treasuries makes up part of the demand curve for Treasuries, along with all the the demand. In just the same way as there is demand for Greek, UK and Canadian bonds. Or stocks. Or corn, or whatever.

If China was the only buyer of US Treasuries you can dam well be sure they can 'starve the Treasury' - because if nobody is buying Treasuries, then the government is printing money.

"Also worth noting is that with the stroke of a pen Congress and the President acting in concert could restore the Treasury's power to spend money into existence directly."

Every nation on Earth can do this. It's called 'printing money'. It's not a new idea, and it has dramatic consequences including hyperinflation.

Summary:

China is the #1 lender to the US both in Treasuries (and by holding US dollars.)

US government debt operates differently, but economically is the same thing as government debt to basically any other nation.

The US does have the advantage of 'seignorage' which is to say that because so many people need US dollars to do so many things, that there is a nice bit of 'cushion' in demand for USD, but that's only worth so much.

Otherwise it's just like anywhere else: governments loan at a certain rate, or they can tax, or they can print money and see confidence lost in their currency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...
From what is currently known it seems plausible that Marcus Hutchins should at least be under investigation. Some of the things he has done in the past were murky. Stopping a large ransomware attack (by accident) does not change that fact.

I have not seen remarks in the security community that people were afraid of being arrested out of the blue like Marcus Hutchins.
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