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>One is the "easy western" way - sugar, rosewater, gelatin. This is obviously not halal.

Why can't you use halal beef gelatin?
Of course.

Given that this feature was added to the DBMS pretty late in the game, we can infer that it's only rarely worthwhile.
Kung Fury meets Black Mirror?

Has anyone watched the Norwegian original? Is it better or worse?

I assume the Norwegian writing is not influenced by an algorithm?

https://www.gq.com/story/cary-fukunaga-netflix-maniac
There are two things in my (and many others' minds) about why his confirmation is an egregious "ramming through" by the Republicans that have many people outraged.

1) He is not entitled to this seat. If you were interviewing a candidate who had allegations of any kind (sexual assault, stealing, unethical behavior in general), wouldn't you prefer to interview and hire someone else? Kavanaugh isn't some brilliant legal scholar that we should be so lucky as to have on the bench. This isn't supposed to be a criminal investigation. We shouldn't be arguing the semantics of whether what he's done is perjury. It's not supposed to be close. Nominees to the Supreme Court are supposed to aspire to a higher level of ethics, candor, and rationality (and not emotional exposition). The charges level against him, and the nonpartisanship that is supposed to be the foundation of the Supreme Court, should have made whichever party nominated him immediately withdraw his name and submit as an alternative any of the dozen or more judges with unassailable careers and personal records.

2) He made bare his partisanship with his railing against the Democrats' agenda and his conspiracy theory about how Democrats were out to get him because of some ill-conceived idea of our loyalty to the Clintons. Regardless of charges leveled against him, and regardless of their actual partisan beliefs, nominees to the Supreme Court are supposed to do their best in their confirmation hearings and for the entirety of their time on the bench, to convey a nonpartisan commitment to the interpretation of the Constitution and the American legal framework. He abandoned all this with his attacks on the left and his aggressive, disrespectful responses to the Senators who were interviewing him.

Yes, Republicans hold all the cards and can do what they will. They could ram him through now, after the midterms, or even let Trump do it in a recess appointment. But, the SCOTUS to this point has had an air of nonpartisanship and civility about it that has all but evaporated from every other part of public discourse, and Republicans are trying now to throw away the last bit of integrity left on the Supreme Court.
> I don't understand this. Kavanaugh hasnt been proven to be guilty.

Has he been proven guilty of Ford’s allegations? No, he will very likely never be.

Has he done something that should bar him from being a judge, let alone a Supreme Court justice? Very much so and can conclusively be proven. Lying on the stand[0] is something not allowed for anyone, but most assuredly shouldn’t be allowed to slide for Supreme Court justices, IMHO.

[0] https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/how-we-know-kavanaugh...
> but it's generally more opaque to the consumer.

Are you sure you mean "opaque" but actually meant "transparent"? Over here in the UK we have ASDA which is owned by Walmart. They have their own store brands such as "George" for clothing and home/domestic goods such as electricals. It's pretty clear, or transparent, that stuff labelled George is ASDA's own-brand goods and no secret is made of this by ASDA.

As another example, Tesco have their own clothing brand, "F&F" and like ASDA they don't hide the fact that it's their own in-house brand.
I paid for a year, but what used to be an obvious benefit is no longer that. I order some stuff, but had the same experience you did so I use orders less.

Twitch prime used to justify paying half of the cost on its own, but that no longer gives me the one benefit I care about (no ads). That leaves video, which is a good fringe benefit, but not a main need for me. Amazon music was not a replacement for Spotify (too much things gated behind another 9 usd a month paywall).

To me, it feels like they decided to slowly weaken the benefits of the overall package and hope inertia kept people from opting out (not to mention the dark patterns like cancelling subscription removes the benefits of the current subscription).
Just because something is fun to you does not mean it is fun for everybody. The gaming repeated conviction seem to be that some peoples tastes count.
This article just refers to some firmware vulnerabilities from Apple back in 2015, which is nothing uncommon, and Apple had taken proper measures to mitigate that. Besides it has nothing to do with China's attack.
Cold Emailing Myths That You Should Never Follow
Fashion Nova is killing it right now ;)

https://www.fashionnova.com/

Not ecommerce, but for mobile payments, I am definitely seeing an explosion of usage in Square Cash. I can remember when I felt like I was the only one with a Square Cash account, and overnight it feels like everyone has it on their phones. The network effect of this is real. They've introduced commission free bitcoin trading. And will probably roll out more banking and investment services or some form of peer-to-peer micro-lending.

Square CFO Sarah Friar | Full Interview | 2018 Code Commerce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkPITg4AiMk
Artel, while most comments here have been pretty destructive, almost all have been asking what are the differences between bitdog and hass, and you failed to address this point. What's the point of posting something here if you are not going to answer basic questions from people giving feedback?
It isn’t possible to circumvent it; it just won’t work if it’s repaired outside of a trusted chain of custody.
> Alledged disappearance..

His wife filed a missing person report.
>A furnace's dimensions would depend on the size of the room to be heated. In private homes, where only the bedroom was heated, it would be one to two metres long, a little more than a metre wide and 50 to 60 cm high. In public buildings and monasteries, where large halls and rooms had to be heated, the furnaces would be much larger.

This is massive compared to the size of a wood stove. It's amazing what a thousand years of incremental refinement will do.
2.4 GHZ wifi. https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents... I wonder if thunderbolt 3 would cause a similar problem on 5 GHz just by doubling the signaling rate, but I haven't heard about any problems there.
I've spent days playing with Mandelbulb 3D and other fractal programs. I was really into the projection of 4D strange attractors onto a 2D plane or printout (my current screensaver).
I would burn weeks in FPS mode navigating these Lovecraftian and Fantastic Voyage [1] worlds.

[1] I refer to the original 1966 movie, since the remakes didn't quite make it my opinion! And Raquel Welch.
I'm pretty sure there are a bunch of Randian republicans all across the tech industry.
That's why I try to run most of the finds by the original authors. I sent you an email with some more details; or at least I tried and it didn't bounce.
Circle is the latest to launch its own cryptocurrency bundles
Social security generally pays unemployment benefits too. How that works is obviously very dependent on the country. Also, at least in the UK there are national funds available to cover redundancy.

And yes, I was being facetious - I'm aware unemployment benefit is often pretty low and that actual income protection insurance does exist.
It's not just the physical mechanics. The story arcs and puzzles on their games also started feeling formulaic after a while too. Like, if you played one Telltale game, you'd played them all.

Which makes sense, now that I'm hearing how the company was managed - coming up with really original ideas, and making sure they work, takes time and breathing room. You get that out of people that have time to put their feet on the desk and daydream, not people that live on perpetual crunch time.
He didn't disappear in the middle. It was confirmed by the French that he arrived safely in China -

"The French official said Meng did arrive in China. There was no further word on Meng’s schedule in China or what prompted his wife to wait until now to report his absence."

https://apnews.com/af741e061cfe40f9b80a252a2bfc0a46
General Turtle, anyone?
This is exactly the reason I was cancelling my Prime as well. And the new delivery service Amazon introduced which had a 50% successful delivery rate. Once I was waiting for the truck to come and asked the driver how he attempted to deliver my stuff and he was just laughing at me. He and his co-workers stole 500 USD+ worth of products from Amazon and I could not get this incident reported, even the manager ignored the details and just kept saying I should report it missing and re-order it.
If it in any way matters, I'd be very glad to read some insights on why some people seem so impossibly warm (assuming you don't mean "body temperature"). My fondest memories of meeting people for the first time is always meeting people who exude genuine warmth and I'd really like to be like them some day.
And PRESTEL
A year ago the lead writer for the series released the story on his website:

http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/
Coppicing and pollarding are sustainable methods of producing wood for rocket mass heaters, which operate best with kindling-sized sticks of wood.

Rocket mass heaters are extremely efficient. The wood undergoes almost complete combustion and particulates are not a concern.
Two different stories, about two very different situations. There’s not really much equivalence.

The report contains elements are are near impossible, and has other aspects that are very unlikely.

It has also been denied far more strongly than the Snowden leaks were.

The biggest problem is really why would you do this? Either the report is wrong in significant ways, or it’s not true at all.

The chip they show in the article, is a ceramic package which it would be really hard to embed a semiconductor in (because of the temperatures required to fire the ceramic). It looks like it probably would sit on an alternate footprint for the BCM flash. A ceramic part like that (which they say is for signal conditioning) doesn’t belong at that location anyway.

If your going to develop some weird SMD capacitor sized package for a microcontroller... why not just develop a new BCM serial flash chip embedding the same functionally? At least that way the boards would look visually similar.

So much just doesn’t make sense to me.
Slack case-study URL un-shortened http://firstround.com/review/From-0-to-1B-Slacks-Founder-Sha...
It's also possible that amidst the trade war China vs US, a few people in the US fed a business-oriented outlet about Chinese spying. You can add micro chips in a few Supermicro servers and Bloomberg journalists would eat the story like candy. This would dramatically decrease electronics imports from China, and putting even more pressure for trade talks. See the Vice President's speech yesterday .

I could be wrong. But we had previously paranoia about Japanese corporate spying 40 years ago.
I also have never seen any of those YouTube channels and never watch Twitch. I do peruse those gaming review websites from time to time.
Sounds like those Sierra games. Those hacks.
Kavanaugh didn’t just deny that he committed the assault, he denied drinking, obvious jokes, and pretended to be a church going, sober, virgin. Well, we have loads of evidence that the latter is false throughout high school, college, and law school. If instead of admitting what he did do as in the past, but choosing to lie, not once but repeatedly, baldly, and swearing to god, makes him far, far less credible in denying the assault claims.
> The gaming press is more press than gaming; they're often people with writing degrees who are disproportionately fond of "literary" games compared to the buying public.

The real question is how influential are they today? I think they might not be that influential when it comes to AAA titles, however, some outlets are extremely influential when it comes to indie gaming, since it's a small scene where "knowing the right person" can make a difference when it comes to coverage.

My problem with the press is that there is essentially 2 categories:

- marketing outlets AKA content farms such a IGN,Gamespot who add very little value to the content they produce as they seek quantity over quality.

- pseudo-intellectual outlets like Eurogamer or Polygon which talk about gaming through the lens of "intersectionality", which is their right, but after 10 hours of work getting yield at by my manager I'm not interested in articles that are more about identity politics than the games I play when I get home.

Personally, I take more pleasure in hearing Joseph Anderson babbling about hitboxes in Dark Souls 2 and how you get critical damages even though the NPC sword stroke was PI/2 radians off your character's position, for 3 hours straight on youtube than any of the former.
You don't need to imagine it. Just look at Tesla. Lots of customers in Norway for example wait months to get service. Nobody can get parts to do even simple repairs themselves, because Tesla will not sell them.
That incentive only weighs so heavily against the incentive to run audited code.
That's quite irrelevant to the GDPR.

If you finance your service through ads then consent is required because that's how your business works and ads are your income.

If you sell books online then indeed consent is not required and you cannot make ordering books subject to consent.
Free get out of jail card: Three letter agency force me.
tl;dr: Company ran out of money and shut down.
Show it to the people who designed the PDP11 at the time they designed it, and chances are they won't.

The uneducated masses of soldiers and workers are much easier to dazzle and fool than technical personnel; and I apologize for not qualifying my previous comment enough to convey the idea that the Star Trek replicator, if it were to exist and be transported to the present day, would indeed be magic to any sane scientist or engineer.
I honestly wish I could disagree but it's probably the most soul sucking industry out there.

Yeah there are great companies but considering that just this year alone there were over 1,000 layoffs [1] in an industry that there are just a handful of large developers / publishers it's hard to get a position where you aren't just churning out gambling apps or one off VR projects for a Big Media Company trying to make a quick buck.

The issue is that video games are entertainment and the industry is built off the back of exploited workers that are genuinely passionate but have no resources outside of becoming indie (which is basically rolling the dice) or just using their talents elsewhere.

[1]https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-09-27-more-than-...
Game dev is a meat grinder.

While making games is a great way to learn programming, and is a lot of fun, the working conditions make it an untenable career choice for most.
Decentralization ≠ Disintermediation
A lot of this depends on how far Amazon takes this.

Online, you have an infinite shelf space. So many people have used that to create those so called "private labels" that contribute nothing of value and just add confusion and cost to the market.

So if those we're gone, it would be great.

But maybe we can be optimistic, given that Bezos thinks long term:

Maybe the goal is to create a thriving, competitive market of brands that only belong to Amazon ? Maybe, as long as you can provide significant new value to consumers, you'd get access, and you'd get all your logistics,customer service,and marketing taken care for you ? And who knows, maybe one day, your supply-chain and a lot of your manufacturing ?

And this would advance us towards a world where most companies are more focused on r&d(similar to what AWS did for software), and many startups will thrive.

Sure, we would have to find ways to decrease concentration for power in certain companies, but it won't be all bad.
Could this be a trick to use the top of stack like another register and use all of the one byte stack instructions on it? If it is using the top of stack as a register, where then would be the real stack?
The way I see it US govt won’t enact a law that makes their big businesses worse off (at-least) the current ones.

They brag about how well off the top companies are, valued at trillions and that’s their measuring stick.

But as a consumer, the govt is not for you. If you want repairability, don’t buy from Apple. There is a reason why Apple as a brand is not popular in places where they don’t have Apple stores and good support.
It was back in the 90's.

A friend, a university lecturer needed a hand with some collab projects he worked on with Ecole Polytechnique Paris.
It had a lot of special effects, that’s all I can say about this movie. Most people seem to have forgotten about the plot as soon as they stepped out of the theater.
quake, unreal tournament, tribes, battlefield, planetside.. Deathmatch with many players. Same thing pretty much, but with more action.
Show HN: Gak: Be more efficient with a Git repository
Hi Hacker News,

I want to show this new Python tool I've made for myself and my organization to work get things done with our Git repositories. It's basically an extension to Git, called through the command "gak <command>" that is higher level for doing things like switching branch with a wildcard, going to directories in centralized repositories and building in a generic way. It also has Jira integration, assuming some basic convention for branch names. It's also extendable, allowing you to add new subcommands by simply adding a file in a directory.

It's been really useful to speed up my development process, and so I wish to gather feedback before I publish it officially on PyPi. I'll accept pull request and welcome issues and enhancement suggestions in the Github repo.

Article explaining how to use it: http://softwarebeyondcode.blogspot.com/2018/08/gak-be-more-e...

The source code is here: https://github.com/SamuelLongchamps/gak

Keep hacking!
The revolutionary war was 250 years ago which seems to reinforce the parent's point. That's several generations of human beings and outside of the lifetimes of ourselves, our children, almost all our grandchildren and many if not most of our great grandchildren.

Electronic computers were being built in WWII and television existed. I doubt many would see an iphone as magical.
IMO Overvalued usually implies a comparison to something else.

For housing you could compare to: cost of renting, cost of in-fill construction, salaries in the area, cost of alternatives (eg moving, to other neighborhoods or cities).

I think these housing headlines are also basically asserting that prices will fall, which clearly hasn't been true, but is a valid statement of belief.
One Thing: Extract Till You Drop. – Clean Coder
Logo was my first programming language! I recently rewrote my own version of it so that I could draw a time-proportional train map. I wrote "fd 5" for 5 minutes, for example.

http://peterburk.github.io/tra/

The version I wrote can read values from a spreadsheet, so could be used in other applications too. I think this kind of thing could be a great way for a young person to go from a homework project to the front of Hacker News. If any of you have kids, I'd be happy to help gather the data for some other subway networks!

Also, where should I contribute old Apple II software? I recently used ADTPro to copy a lot of old programs onto my MacBook Pro as DSK images.

5.25 floppies:

https://mega.nz/#!yDITXIZC!8fREZdAruk2yYLv859jKABGSWeG4UkRoC...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150180606@N08/sets/72157672562...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150180606@N08/sets/72157672589...

I've also got a larger selection of DD floppies, HD floppies, JAZ disks, SCSI disks, IDE disks, MacFormat and other CDs. Please tell me if you want the links!
Facebook’s Latest Security Breach May Cost It Billions
Because it takes weeks/months to get such things declassified through standard channels. And all the non-standard ways require efforts by elected officials. They are all busy with something else atm.
San Forgetica: Researchers create font to boost memory – CNN Style
I would love to watch the original. One of the differences that I did read about stated that in the Norwegian show, many of the jokes are made at the expense of the character's mental illnesses. The writers for Netflix made a conscious effort to instead have the comedy come from other sources and to try to be more respectful of mental illness in general.
What you’re saying is true. What I’m saying is also true. I worked in construction for a while. The equipment is similar. Most of the repairs are fixing worn out or broken pieces of machined metal or broken or leaky hydraulic lines, not electronics.

Phones are different. Usually repairs on a phone involve replacing a piece of highly integrated electronics, not a work out or broken piece of metal or plastic.
I liked the story, the houmour and the characters. Can't wait for continuation.
amazonbasics batteries recently started moving from japan to china; so I've heard
According to their recent meetup events, it shouldn't be a surprise if it is powered by OpenIO software (https://www.openio.io/)

After their shitty Riak backed product, they chose yet another technology that, I hope, will finally let users retrieve their data after a few months.
But still, not a word about how it works or why they chose that or another technology.

Maybe it's because they want to be able to let the product die in case of a technical fail, not communicate about it and blame the vendor, like they already did in the past with Riak.
Yeah, its crazy. This would be like walking into a grocery store and seeing grocery store branded items right next to other name brands!

Except that isn't crazy at all and is something that retailers have been doing for decades, in basically every segment of the retail business. And the reasons are essentially the same. The store knows what items sell well and thus knows exactly which items could be profitable when sold this way.
You don't share code between the services, services call each other. This mean you will have some code that is duplicated between services, that's normal.

One microservice should never directly modify data another microservice manges, each service should manage and maintain its own data source to keep the responsibilities clear.

There are some other methods for certain common functionality, like using sidecars etc. There are pros and cons of it all, just depends on the situation and beliefs of the architect.

IME, most companies aren't ready for, nor do they need, a true full scale microservices architecture. Instead a hybrid approach is more likely to be successful, where certain key services are isolated but the rest of the app can still be more of a monolith. The trick is identifying those key services and separating them out. One I almost always separate as a start is authentication/authorization, done properly it will keep that code very focused, clean and more secure. Other likely candidates are any service that might ingest large amounts of data but is focused, this will let you scale it independently to support load and growth but not force you into a complete microservices environment which can be daunting to manage at first.
They generally hold power in urban areas, not just the west. The rest of the country tends right.

As you say, both parties are often corrupt, the reps tend to be the family values party so you actually hear about it when they have a problem in that area. It's expected in the democrat world and nobody cares, plus they own the media almost wholly so it's not really reported much.