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World Bank Prices First Global Blockchain Bond, Raising A$110M
WASHINGTON/SYDNEY, August 23/24, 2018 - The World Bank launched bond-i (blockchain operated new debt instrument), the world’s first bond to be created, allocated, transferred and managed through its life cycle using distributed ledger technology. The two-year bond raised A$110 million, marking the first time that investors have supported the World Bank’s development activities in a transaction that is fully managed using the blockchain technology.
I'm not a German, but Dutch. Doesn't this generate a lot of media attention and precedence? I thought these kind of actions were especially sensitive in Germany?
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/08/23/wo...

Anyone know the details around the technical side of this, how do you trade it? How do you settle it?
I'm not a parent so take this advice with a grain of salt but I think holding your kids accountable for their actions can go a long way.

Like if they break their phone you give them an old flip phone so they are still reachable but they have to earn money (mowing grass, do the chores...) to pay for a new one (even if paying them a new phone doesn't make a dent in your budget).
Paint It Black
Not machine learning but this is an extremely cool generative approach for emulating sounds on a synthesizer
https://fo.am/midimutant/
Antimatter is a consequence of quantum field theory, but all signs indicate gravity can not be successfully described as a quantum field. Gravity has properties such as having its interaction strength grow with the amount of charge (energy), which is very different from the forces described by quantum fields that have constant interaction strength. To get antigravity, you need to find a way to have negative energy without it making the vacuum unstable.

It's most typical to describe gravity as dynamical spacetime, not a field existing in that spacetime. The closest people have come to a quantum theory of gravity has been to show that in certain toy universes gravity in a bulk space is the dual of strongly-coupled field interactions existing on the boundary of that space-- that is holography. Information-theoretic approaches have have also suggested that gravity emerges as the 'hydrodynamics of entanglement.' All this suggests gravity is not a fundamental force, but is far from a coherent real-world theory at this point.

The closest to an "antigravity" in general relativity is the cosmological constant, thought to explain dark energy. Its tiny (10^-122) positive value behaves like a constant negative energy attributed to the vacuum itself, driving the exponential expansion of space.
The ABA doesn't do much if anything to benefit lawyers' working conditions. It enables and perpetuates the regulated monopoly that makes it a giant crapshoot of an industry to work in.
#emacs would be my recommendation. It's a pretty great channel for random discussion/chatter, and every now and then people even discuss emacs.
In the 2015-2016 Playpen onion site cases, the FBI demonstrated an exploit which hopped outside of the TOR browser to run on clearnet and unmask the user's computers leading to many many indictments (unsure about convictions).

So the mainstep is to have an entire environment that is hardened by TOR, which Whonix offers with its dual VM setup where the entire guest OS runs through a TOR gateway VM.

Sure the exit node may still be problematic and thats where VPN comes in.

But all this isn't really necessary for broadcasting a cryptocurrency transaction. You can create the transaction file anywhere and just have a different computer send that file to the cryptocurrency network (also called broadcasting the transaction).

The network sees the IP address of the computer that relayed the transaction. On Ethereum's network many people use Infura, and therefore most nodes only see the IP address of Infura. You can broadcast to Infura over TOR.

It is theoretically possible that Infura, your exit node and your VPN are all accessible by subpoena. The subpoena's need to be based on the idea of some wrongdoing, and since it isn't 2012 anymore, nobody is doing a dragnet on all cryptocurrency transactions. Yours would look just as benign as anyone else's, and anyone tracing the transaction would eventually be stonewalled by Monero's blockchain. So, that case has never been seen.
I'm a bit confused as to why you're getting 26 MB of JavaScript, that number sounds insane even for a React application.

I tried this right now and I'm getting 3.1MB consistently on the same desktop page with caching turned off.
There are some comments here talking about the possibility of getting better performance without HT. Here's an article from a test (on Intel only) of that theory:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-ht...

In the end, the conclusion is:
"Long story short, Hyper Threading is still very much relevant in 2018 with current-generation Intel CPUs. In the threaded workloads that could scale past a few threads, HT/SMT on this Core i7 8700K processor yielded about a 30% performance improvement in many of these real-world test cases."
This is great. Many times I wanted to showcase to colleagues who don't use Python how things would work in Python, but they don't have either Python or Jupyter installed. So I had to run Jupyter server in my own environment and give them access to it. This is quite an inconvenience as well as a security risk. Having a completely server-less Python/Jupyter environment should make this kind of showcasing much easier.
Well, you'd download the entire stack indeed - but not every time. Your browser does caching too.
I wasn’t aware of Executor, fascinating. Thanks.
To some extent it is because the extra participants still bring all the negative impacts of extra people, like lines and overflowing porta potties, without offering something back in kind (more experiences to alleviate the lines, more rusted bike repair, whatever). Also people who are less participatory are less invested in the event and more likely to carelessly vandalize the works produced by others.
This is good advice. Just in case someone is reading this an doesn't know, ATH stands for 'all time high'.
> "This is actually literally true. There universe's resources are finite. Economic growth comes at the expense of natural resources."

The idea that "resources" that humans use are a fixed quantity that can only decrease is just plain wrong. When humans had no technology or knowledge of agriculture, this may have been correct to some degree, but we are constantly decreasing the size of the population who create value from the extraction and sale of "natural resources". At our level of technological sophistication today, the vast majority of people are engaged in some form of transforming one or more less valuable capital or lower order consumer goods/services into higher order consumer goods/services of some kind.

This is not even to mention that natural resources ARE NEVER DEPLETED EVER. Using oil as an example, the easy to drill oil is all extracted/sold at lower costs/prices, then the rest of the oil becomes more expensive to extract, and this will cycle repeatedly until some form of renewable energy will INEVITABLY take it's place based purely on it's lower cost compared to oil. Oil will then fall into a more niche market and will still be used, but progressively less and less, especially as the old oil infrastructure is replaced with other(s).

This is very similar to how farms use very little natural resources today. As land has become more scarce/expensive to develop, it's use has gotten to the point where farmers know what crops they can grow that will maintain the soil quality, and whether they have to rotate more valuable crops in periodically that damage the soil but produce more profit. A balance is maintained due to economic factors once again.

Environmentalists spend so much time and effort trying to force renewable energy and sustainable practices, but in fact what they want will inevitably come to pass based solely on economic realities.
That would be more than a 5 sigma difference which would definitely be significant but that number you're quoting for normal hydrogren is the 1S-2S line.

This measurement is the 1S-2P line which has an average frequency of ~2,466,051.625 GHz (there's actually two levels). Which agrees to within 1 sigma - i.e. good agreement.
I can think of several scenarios where this could be useful.
Experts urge rapid patching of struts bug
> Because it's hard and non-obvious.

I would argue that for someone who never programmed functional programming will be much easier to learn.

Your statement is only correct for people who programmed for years in an imperative style and then tried to pick up FP, because at this point you have a lot of unlearning to do, and a lot of your know how becomes absolute, don't use variables, don't use loops, push your side effects out... and after all this unlearning you'll have to learn new concepts and abstractions like Monads and Applicative...
LibreOffice online:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_...

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
Dishwashers earn a tiny fraction of a developer's wage, I am quite proficient at washing dishes, and yet I have no fear of trapping myself in a career of dishwashing.

I can think of very few non-contrived workplace situations in which being bad at something is an advantage.
The yield Keyword in RUBY
You are in spirit in agreement, but I don't think he played on words. Just stating (how awful, personal opinion) how it is in the US.
Web Reading Mode: The non-standard rendering mode
That is true as well, including things like slavery, historical and recent immigration waves, and generally a rather different approach to social security, and much much more diversity.
Everything is nonsense about it. In most parts of the world, setting up to be a contractor (as opposed to an employee) is a hassle with various implications (tax, retirement, insurance,..). Doing it for a couple of weeks as part of a hiring process? Get real.

Getting someone to do actual work during an interview is also a no-no. As soon as someone walks through your door and you ask them to do actual work, they're your employee, period. They are now automatically entitled to compensation and a minimum severance period. You can interview people in almost any way you want, but as soon as it involves doing actual work, you're toast. This may be different where you live, but it strikes me as being unethical at the very least.

Hiring is hard. But exploiting people (by expecting them to do actual work, homework, forcing them into temporary contracting) is not the answer.
> If Amazon warehouses were that bad, people wouldn't work there.

I don't know how the conditions at Amazon warehouses truly are, but this statement doesn't sound correct to me. I can think of countless examples of workers that accept from sub-optimal conditions to outright modern slavery simply because they can't find an exit to the system of cheap labor exploitation.

Maybe this can be scoped down to some developed countries or some cities in developed countries, but certainly doesn't hold true for most developing countries and certainly not for past history in basically anywhere.
There's an advantage even if you're running it locally. Now you can just load up some static HTML + JS files in your browser instead of spinning up a server and then pointing your browser at localhost.
Ive been doing developer relations at Google for 4+ yrs now and the points about code snippets in this article are great. Let me add another one though.

Find a way to pull your code snippets from real code.

What I mean is, write the code snippets somewhere that you can use a your normal coding tools and make sure they all compile. Publish this repository of snippets on GitHub or similar. In your doc system, have the docs pull the code snippets from the repository at page generation time. This repository should have basic CI to make sure the code and dependencies are valid.

If you write snippets directly in markdown or html, they will eventually be wrong. Even if they start correct, it will be a real pain to update them for v2 of your API. Every team I've ever seen that thought they were the exception to this rule was wrong.
You could also use a Jupyter notebook uploaded to colab.research.google.com
Self-driving cars will destroy a lot of jobs–they’ll also create a lot
RE: "Shakey ground legally" Are you talking about your particular case where a medical issue impacts your ability to work but isn't a true disability? Because otherwise, for a true disability - employers MUST comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and not discriminate against a candidate who is qualified, disabled - and can work with a "reasonable accommodation" [1].

1 - https://www.eeoc.gov/facts/ada18.html
Convincingly wiping out those "isolated incidents" would be a good start. Making sure those can be safely reported, and systemic reasons encouraging them are removed. Low pay is one thing, bad working conditions another, the latter being a lot harder to justify.
In 2007 there were 1,200 craft brewers – now 6,600
EDIT: lvh/latacora's answers above in thread are most likely better suited to your use case

Cloud security architect at a financial services firm here (supporting thousands of devs). We're using the usual pull request review process between dev/ops teams and our risk management team (which is composed of various subject matter experts) with an SLA. We're also hard gating ("you shall not pass") using Sentinel rules for Terraform Enterprise and service control policies in AWS accounts.

I highly recommend you put a training program together that incorporates a feedback loop from the above process. Before devs and ops folks start, they should be gated until they go through your training process. That should minimize the exceptions you'll need to catch in the review process, but when those exceptions occur, that should be noted for training improvement.
> people can self-medicate themselves in times of crisis.

I cringe reading that as a child of parents who spent their lives self-medicating through drugs and alcohol rather than seeking outside help...

> How many lives has that saved?

I don’t know how many it’s saved, but I can tell you that it’s severely damaged and nearly ruined the lives of at least a handful of innocent bystanders.
This is a memory that promise to be even more than Optane / Xpoint from Intel / Micron. It will be Persistent DRAM with no speed or endurance penalty, along with larger capacity and cheaper ECC.

I am extremely sceptical when something sounds too good to be true. What other factor are they / we overlooking?

In the not too distant future we could have dozens of TB In-Memory Database in a single machine. What used to be "Big Data" in 2011 / 2012 now fits in memory.
clickable, https://github.com/MaskRay/ccls/wiki/Getting-started

Looks interesting. Is there an example of it in use?
Tech Companies Gathering for Secret Meeting to Prepare 2018 Election Strategy
6 Steps to High Performance – Start Your Own Business
Indeed some would argue that a minimum wage can be quite damaging: for those in society who are unproductive so as not to be worth $x an hour, a minimum wage of >= $x actually definitely excludes them from the workforce. They’re even more damned than before. Now I’m not sure either way if a minimum wage of 0 or $x is a good idea, but I would generally go with whatever the evidence suggestions (and I havn’t looked into it). What I find really bizarre is why yours and mine comments are being downvotes so much. Are we not contributing to the discussion? Bit of an echo chamber around here.
We've gotten by on MacOS for a long time with relatively decent Security - everyone always assumes that allowing side-loading on iOS will be a wave of viruses and malware. Apples pretty good at securing an OS, but allowing side loading would impact their profits.
#emacs is an off-topic channel, if you have any questions(that you can't find just by googling), then it's best to use stackexchange/reddit.
I think a cursory investigation will show this is more likely just the company trying to show something to correspond to the large capital injection it is about to receive from "investors" / cronies. (speculation, but look at that thing ...)
While there are many excellent style guides out there, I personally went with the IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors [0] when I started writing technical manuals and documentation.

It is so comprehensive that the book ends up describing itself exactly, as if it were some kind of meta manual.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/IBM-Style-Guide-Conventions-Writers/d...
This is a good overview on how to structure a particular page, but what about the structure of overall documentation? I've actually found several good articles about writing articles, but little about organizing many of them.

I find that most documentation that goes into a wiki, e.g., Confluence, begins and ends life as a plan. It is then surrounded by business process clutter. And then the true gems of reports about performance analysis or other details just get buried.

What would this be even called? Taxonomy? I sometimes wonder if I could convince people to call wikis, google docs, etc, a "library" and we should have a librarian go organize everything. Because it's a little sad how much knowledge just gets lost.
I expect it to be reliable electric car with plenty clearance between any kind of moving parts, and that the electric motor never jams. But if it does jam (which it will), it must be easy to take a part with a 10mm wrench.
In 2018 teaching totally non-technical users to effectively use Dropbox and OneDrive is even a challenge, and those companies have a great many staff positions between them whose full time job is UI design and usability.
Well, the first two aren't even interesting at all, because the fix is not needed there and it is disabled.

The first two just show, that the fix doesn't make performance worse when disabled.

"With non-virtualized operating systems."

"For non-virtualized environments or where it can be guaranteed that all virtualized guest operating systems are trusted." --> Aka disabled.
Android Malware Frameworks Are Rife
Hah, okay. I'm not familiar with OpenBSD so I didn't know who Theo was. Well, that would be good to know, let's say, on the HN headline.

Thanks!
“Research shows that modals that cannot be closed have the best conversion rate”
Diving Deep on Coupling
I don't know about this woman, but a lot of my current real-world social structure is currently comprised of people I met while forming a burning man camp around an art project. The fact that Burning Man ends each year does not negate these people or relationships from the world on some magical 51 week suspension.
Mobility Domination: Are There Risks in Creating Self-Driving Monopolies?
> Users want a single place to keep track of all the shows they’re following across all services.

Isn't that the problem Trakt [0] solves?

[0] https://trakt.tv/
Or just ignore regulation.

Just remove the inconveniences and it’s a VC findable business model.
My uncle in the 80s had the same car, with all the same craftsmanship, including door handles etc. The only thing new in this design are the front lights, and you can see they are of pretty low quality, crooked lines etc. This would be one of the state funded projects, where most of money will be stolen, again.
Anyway, stop recommending bazookas to kill flies in programming
Evidence of genuine demand or a bubble? Time will tell.

Some interesting questions:

1) Has the total amount of beer consumed per capita from say 1990 to 2018 risen, fallen, or stayed the same?

2) Have Budweiser drinkers shifted to craft beer (aka "demand cannibalization", e.g blackberry users switched to iphones)

3) Is 6,600 craft breweries the correct amount of breweries to satisfy market demand? If it's too much, expect to see restructurings and bankrupcties.
If you're essentially attaching it permanently, why bother with an external key at all? Isn't the main point of these devices that they remain with your person?
i can imagine drug dealers all filling up the pre-orders.
Then to what would you attribute the fact that the AppStore is much better curated than the Play Store? Fewer application submissions? More honest coders?

It's a two part answer probably: Apple's store policies are discouraging some of the unwanted behavior, and the actual enforcement of those policies is stricter. Not just a second though.
At my local hospital, in rural Oregon, it's all Danskos all the time. It seems that there are lots of local footwear monocultures.
My parents are in India.
From this guy:

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-plants-vs...

I find him convincing in general in terms of diet etc and he has a lot of other good content.

My opinion on melatonin comes from him too, but I can't find the relevant material.
> I agree that Android is worse, but that doesn't make Apple's store "Good".
Courtesy follow-up after some more digging. If you Google for "Technical Report 145-45" you'll find a PDF with the US report on German fuels that clearly indicates their use of TEL, and at what concentration.

The other major take away from that is the lean/rich Octane equivalents of the C-3 fuel were like 90/130 by wars end. So pretty good rich performance, but laggard lean, which would of course impact engine consumption rates in the larger DB 605.

The allies had widely available 100/130, and some 130/150 AVgas in the Pacific best as I have been able to find.

It comes back to the limited quality of hydroforming then mixed with synthetics for the Germans, vs FCC for allies. US crude wasn't of great starting quality, but they were better able to refine it at scale.
And... the only job posted there also uses a gendered term ("king") that suggests it's not open to women.
It'd be valid if washing machines and televisions were the only things workers today need. Back then they were luxuries, today they're standard issue and we have a whole host of new things that need to be bought. You didn't need an Internet connection, a computer, or a cell phone back then. But none of that matters, it's a ridiculous argument to say that a washing machine is indicative of real wage growth.

What really matters isn't "how much does a washing machine cost", it's "does your salary keep up with inflation" and the answer is no: https://www.glassdoor.com/research/are-wages-keeping-up-with...
wow, pretty amazing they started kind of working on top of Asterisk, with some of their own hardware, building out their own fork of it/pbx software...and now this? Impressed. However I'm curious about Asterisk growth/Digium as it seems like VOIP service from major telcos, in North America anyways, has caught up to what was once a very viable open source alternative. I built asterisk systems for our own in-house multilocation system for years because it was cheaper and offered infinite more control and options. But we phased it out a few years ago because big telco had caught up and offered an easily managed system with alot of the same features, it had just taken them 5-7 years to catch up. The flexibility isn't on par but it's good enough.
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Oline Personal Finance Accounting System
How to Solve for Happy
Looks like the good old Lada 2105
Land is cheap, network is not.

No one is going to move, because cheap land is not yet cheap enough to offset the opportunity (or perceived opportunity) cost of being in a keystone ecosystem.
Life in the USA is all about paying extraordinary amounts for absolutely everything except things you don't really need.
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Yep, this! Lots of articles about low level writing, not much on the high level. I've always liked the old school documentation layouts when it used to be printed -- programmers guide, function reference, etc. but sometimes it escapes me how to apply that sort of structure to other domains.
Apple removes FB VPN application that tracks users