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the US has by far the largest army on the planet to enforce with

That's completely wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18110054
It's cheap to portray COBOL programmers as cowboys, but COBOL and the ecosystem around it is actually one of the most organized and fit-for-purpose programming languages around even if it isn't modern by any means. Time will tell if banks and insurances will fare better with J2EE-based systems (meaning classic Java-based enterprise stacks such as EJBs and portlets running under shudder Websfear, which count as new-fangled compared to COBOL in these circles). I could imagine classic J2EE maintenance is being neglected as career path for millenials, just as COBOL is/was for the generation before. J2EE exposes much more escape hatches into system programming and rope to hang yourself, and at the same time will be around for a long time to come, since Java has been the go-to language for almost all big-time eCommerce and FinTech projects at banks/insurances since 2000.

Edit: a-ok, "cowboys" is part of name of that guy's consulting business
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There are electric buses running as test vehicles on major bus routes in Copenhagen, and the 5C bus line runs CNG buses exclusively.

Diesel buses are still the majority, but they are slowly being phased out.
This reminds me of a cool thought that I've read some place else: "imagine a technology so advanced that can transmit thoughts wirelessly between humans and even change the actual layout of the neruons in our brains".
We already do that with our voices....
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>I'll have to assume that most cops in the US must be friendly and considerate

Its not just the attitudes of individual cops. Its the authoritarian disposition of legal authorities on every level, local, state and federal. The goal of the authorities in the United States is not public welfare and safety, its the imposition of order. Offensive, abusive behavior by police towards citizens is common, for which police face no sanction. Prosecutors regularly withhold evidence, suborn perjury (so much so that a term for rampant police perjury has been coined: 'testilying'), and break the law in a variety of ways, none of which is ever punished. The only people in the United States who "trust" the police (or the authorities in general) are those who are lucky enough to be blissfully ignorant (something that quickly changes once they are on the wrong end of a police interaction).

All this isn't to say there aren't "good" cops, who sincerely want to better society and help people out, but the system itself is rotten to the core.
Just as about everything: you take care of it. See e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management
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Even when guns are involved (e.g. suspect holding a gun or a knife), European police is usually able to defuse the situation better and not shoot to kill. Even if their lives are in danger, that's part of their job.

US police is conditioned to react like unprofessional cowards and shoot first, ask questions later, even if the suspect is a kid playing in a playground, an old woman holding a knife 30 feet away, or an unarmed homeless person (I'm not making these cases up either).
Disclaimer I don't have Facebook anymore, since like 2015 so I don't know which data they require to register an account.

I would disagree with you that Facebook stores more sensitive data. I mean just look at all the services Google offers, which might have way more critical data and lots of more data in general.

If someone would just have access to one of my co-workers Google account he would've access to his phone numbers, addresses, names (contacts); access to all his private appointment's (calendar); mail; and maybe even critical documents and other files (gdrive + docs, ...); All of his searches, even voice commands (Google now); music, book, movie, game - preferences (Google play store) and not to forget social media (G+ and YouTube).

The difference to Facebook is, that on social media you choose what you want to display in public, or to a certain group. (Verification methods are an exception here)
When you use your private phone/Computer, you expect that the information will stay private until you share it somewhere.

Of course it's hard to generalize that, everyone uses these services differently

TL;Dr I think a Google account linked to an android phone of a "normal user" would be more valuable than a "normal" Facebook account.
That's one over-hyped article if i ever saw one.

TLDR; It allows to send two signals that have two different functions in a tetris game - move left or rotate - accomplished by looking at different strobing lights that causes the brain to change slightly.
That also raises the question of if it's implementation-dependent (especially if Apple optimizes AFP over everything else), rather than generally applicable to SMB, not that this would negate the validity of the example.

> Over cable I'd say it's at least twice as fast

That could be be because of the bandwidth difference, if wireless isn't 802.11ac (or if the cable isn't 100Mb/s).

Is it also the case that copying a single file of comparable size doesn't show the same speedup?
More were killed by conventional bombing of Tokyo alone than by both atomic bombs combined.
Do you have a reference for fast gliders? I’ve never heard of anything like that.

I don’t think the FAA plans everything for the worst possible scenario. The odds of a classic 737 landing at max take off weight and thus high speed are infinitesimally small. I don’t have a landing distance chart but at the max over weight landing it likely can’t even land on 99.99% of runways in the US in that configuration.

If the FAA planned and approved everything at worst case scenario then we wouldn’t fly anywhere.
Or just use disk-level encryption (like LUKS).
>In Denmark, a case[1] where police forcefully escorted photographers and journalists away that were following immigrants that were walking a highway as they entered Denmark a couple of years ago, has just been settled, and the behaviour of the police were indeed unlawful.

If that's the worse one came up with, and if it was even settled in court, then it's nowhere near close to the way the US is.
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There are two ways to answer this question, two new questions basically.

One is "raise over $13m." How? This is not impossible. There is more investor money looking for home today than ever, I reckon. However, this is not a level playing field. Who you are and who you know and how well will make a big difference. This is probably the wrong place for advice about this strategy.

The second possibility is "what is an easier/cheaper idea, that can later become a payment bank?" This is the HN philosophy, from our founder PG.^" Say you had $13,000. What could you build that would get you customers, impress investors or otherwise put you on a less direct path to what you want? Then, you are pitching "turn this thing into a bank" instead of "start a bank" which is a little easier.

This is hacker news so conventional advice here is take on hard engineering problems, and easy business problems. If this was a forum for business people, it'd be the reverse. There, people would rather take the challenge of raising a large sum but avoid hard engineering challenges. You need to figure out what you are strongest at. Are you the kind of person that can cold call your way I to a 7 or 8 figure investment or the kind of person that can build a product in 2 months that will get you investors or customers that will get you to the next step.

Finally, what you are asking is "how do I succeed at this very hard thing." There are no formulas that are easy and will work for most people.

Read this, pay attention to the bridgehead: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
In any way, the first thing we should concentrate on is making reproduction without medical support impossible.
Because it doesn't happen on all devices - my XS is unaffected for instance.
Still in its infancy it seems but frankly I'd hate for this to develop into a "thing". It's already hard to switch off in this crazy world, next up: Thought advertisements.
WebAssembly has different objectives than Java and is backed by the 4 major Browsers.
But that's essentially was Google is doing: dictating things unilaterally.

And that's also how the web was founded. No one agreed to anything. People just started to build.

If there isn't a law against it, they are allowed to do it.

Everyone who uploads free content on the web without a paywall essentially says "take it and display it however you like".

Besides that, Brave is essentially building a sustainable model in favor of publishers. They will be very thankful.

It is ad-blocker without an alternative model that is problematic for publishers, not Brave. So I don't see why anyone besides Ad-Tech has a problem with Brave.

You conveniently ignore that most publishers desparately want to see a new model succeed, because Google and Facebook take too much of a share of the publishers. Brave takes less then Google et al., so publishers get more. That's why publishers like the Guardian are already on board.

Brave isn't free of problems, but arguing from a moral perspective isn't legitimate. So where does your hostility come from? Do you work for some big ad-tech company?
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>OTOH if you play along, you get special treatment for your loved ones. And everyone is doing it...

In fact they're even official about it:

https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-cops-issuing-get-out-jail-f...

https://nypost.com/2018/01/21/police-union-slashes-number-of...
Looks to be this https://e.foundation/mobile-phone-os/
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The town of Waldo, FL made the headlines a few years back: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-town-infamous-for-speed...

You'd like to invoke Florida Man, but plenty of small jurisdictions rely on the income stream from fines. Ferguson, MO comes to mind. The police fleecing blacks and out-of-towners, it does wonders for the perception of the law.
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The IT 'cowboys' didn't ride into sunset.

They were fired by banks which are/were stupid enough to cut corners on people who know things about their infrastructure before migrating to more modern systems.

FTA:

>One COBOL programmer, now in his 60s, said his bank laid him off in mid-2012 as it turned to younger, less expensive employees trained in new languages.

>In 2014, the programmer [...] was brought in as a contractor to the same bank to fix issues management had not anticipated.

Also FTA:

>Accenture’s Starrs said they go through a “black book” of programmer contacts, especially those laid off during or after the 2008 financial crisis.

>The job ultimately took five years and cost more than 1 billion Australian dollars ($749.9 million).

So, in short: a bank fired some old people to pay a billion dollars to a contractor who would hire the same (!) people to do the job.

The 'problem' is entirely self-made.
I think the point is to eliminate the extremely inaccurate translation from thought to speech back to thought.
Related:

Modulus without Division, a tutorial

http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/mod.shtml
What a waste of a paid Medium article. I could've read more detail on a free blog post elsewhere.
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I am looking forward to understand what counts as good achievements on one's resume after 5-7 years of experience. What kind of wins do employers/recruiters/managers look for?
Looks like MapR has got something to say to people visiting their homepage, "Two wrongs don't make a right...
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I'll just note that you can mount Dropbox as a file system with rclone ( https://rclone.org/ ) using the rclone mount subcommand.

rclone mount also works with the 20 or so cloud providers supported by rclone (s3, gcs, swift, box, dropbox, b2, etc).

rclone runs on Linux, Windows, macOS and quite a few other architectures! It is written in Go.
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Apple has not been clear about the capabilities of Shorcuts and still has limits[1] that prevent "competing music service" from working as OP suggests:

> Apple may have been slightly coy about this API (extensive documentation was not available at all during the iOS 12 beta)... There are caveats in the API, which may also be a turn-off for the likes of Google and Spotify: media shortcuts don't enable full-blown integrations with third-party audio streaming services. You can only ask Siri to play items you have previously assigned a custom phrase; this suggests that most users will only record a handful of phrases for entire playlists, charts, or artist pages. The ability to ask Siri to search and play any song or podcast episode is still exclusive to Apple Music and Podcasts.

[1] https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-12-the-macstories-rev...
Any YC companies doing homeschooling?
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/e/ is an open, privacy-conscious mobile OS currently under development - https://e.foundation/
QA would normally test hundreds of devices with different settings for each test depending on the test.

Testing a single or a low number of samples is a good way to get a bad or insignificant result.1
> Seems like a no brainer if we care about protecting everyone optimally.

This is fine as long as it's optional, but there comes a point where "protecting everyone optimally" is in conflict with other basic rights, like not wanting the government to have access to minute-by-minute data on your biological functions.

Additionally, if it did work by calling 911, it would probably need to bundle a mobile phone, at which point it becomes impossible to go anywhere without the government knowing approximately where you are.
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Slightly off topic, but I'm from Europe, and when you are saying "you get $15 an hour", do you include taxes or not and how much taxes do you have there?
I know right? This reminds me of work, when I sometimes send over builds for testing, and they have major edge case bugs. Although "plugged in and locked" isn't really an edge case. Maybe Apple should make its new slogan "it mostly works."
As soon as farming startups start using lighting to improve yeild, then they've already losing in the efficiency stakes.

Urban farming, the type proposed by most US based startups are already at a massive disadvantage. Not only is the price of land much higher, but the running and capital costs are far far greater, totally obliterating any hope of profitability.

Take this current startup, they use a generalised robot arm, which would have cost >$100k plus the software to do the visual registration. Event then its moving one plant at a time...

Why are they not spending the time working on low tech plan holders, that could be plucked and moved using cheap conveyor belt systems? even better a tray, with known locations, that can be moved to a specialised plucking machine, which can pluck an entire tray in one go.

There is no mention about pest management, its a massive monoculture, and one or two fungal spore could wipe out that entire warehouse in a matter of weeks.
Warning to those who think Fargate is green pastures: it has its own learning curve. Also, it costs about ~1.8-2.5X the price of standard EC2 for the convenience. Don't waste your money on it for long-running containers that will rarely need to scale.
Well, when you put it like that. I can't disagree. I hadn't considered that it puts off people that are not "like me".

I agree that we certainly need more diversity. I've been fortunate enough to work in some reasonably diverse places and I'd hope to see more of it in our industry.

To turn my argument around, I'll say that I'm a Software Engineer _because_ I love it, I would be doing it anyway when I have the time, it's one of my "hobbies" so to speak.

Given that I can't immediately think of a way to re-structure what I've said in my previous comments, to meet this argument of yours, which I agree with, I'll simply concede that I was wrong and leave it at that.
Hypocrisy but mostly the attempt to unify totally divergent realities, usually by omitting / "forgetting" something.

E.g. you can't be the good guys when you abuse children at your border, so obviously that's fake news (=propaganda by the bad guys) and/or(!) those are criminals anyway (=the propaganda by the bad guys omits those parts showing how what you're doing is the right and overall good thing to do).

Another example where this is readily apparent is Americans and their freedom knee-jerk reflex; all the while the US is a country with some of the most restrictive justice/penal systems in the world, the most powerful surveillance state in the world and also comes with it's own secret court and set of secret laws.

Random quote:

> All men have served their sentence and yet, due to a controversial legal mandate, they remain confined indefinitely.
Please downvote more, I deserve it. Oh, and I guess this helped me figure out who has been mailing excrement to me now. I'll leave it in the hands of the police now.
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Who's to say that there isn't translation to do from thought to thought?

Kind of like we have different voices, accents, speech patterns, languages and manners of speech, I can't imagine our thoughts, even our most accurate representations of the simplest picture (eg "think of a white square"), aren't similarly different.
I don't know for COBOL, but for JEE, we've been able to migrate out of weblogic (to jboss) and then from oracle to postgresql (on code which is 10 years old). So even if JEE might be hard to maintain, it allows some flexibility in the base tools you choose. (my view of COBOL is that once you're into a vendor, it's pretty hard to leave to another one because COBOL is close to the metal, I may be totally wrong)

but in the long run, the problem is also the business logic. What disappears is the knowledge of the hacks that were applied at the business logic level. And this is much harder than to recover from the code. So I guess one has to make the difference between business logic maintenance and the actual COBOL maintenance.

But having rewrote some huge COBOL app in Java, I can say that Java is better structured, at a framework complexity cost.
Yes, if the underlying layer’s hash changes then it has to be rebuilt. But if you just change index.html it caches the other layers and builds are very quick.

My issue with Buildpacks is that it looks like a glorified bash script (which is a skill I am not bashing — pun not intended) whereas a dockerfile is much more human readable and the idea of layers, for a guy coming from a systems background, is much more intuitive for me. The analogy of a very lightweight VM makes perfect sense to me which means I’m much more productive with it.
Yeah, I really like that part:

> A cloud-based brain-to-brain interface server could direct information transmission...

They can barely transmit 1 bit per second with no prospect of increasing the data rate but start talking BS about the cloud.
What the hell is going on with the scrolling on that page? You're just skipping backward and forward instead of the usual consistent scroll..
If it starts being abused manufacturers will add a toggle for it.
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I'm not criticizing WebAssembly but the selling points behind the framework which is a use case for WebAssembly.

GWT users cared less about how it was compiling, and at the end of the day, they were building webapps using Java and Eclipse IDE along with the rest of the ecosystem. Which is exactly the selling points being presented here.

For me this is history repeating itself.
To me razor seems great, but I can only compare it with quite horrible HUGO templating.
I’m itching to replace my home server’s FreeBSD with Linux and Kubernetes. I use it (& build dev tools for others) at work plenty so for me, the learning curve is in the past. I’m not sure if I would recommend this journey for others, but I also wouldn’t recommend FreeBSD to anyone, either. In both cases, you know what you’re getting in to - something complex, opinionated, powerful, and industrial strength.
I see your point, but, here's mine; My wife is more likely to be annoyed if I'm sitting at home absent minded because I'm focused on the problem I couldn't solve today than she would be if I missed dinner or got home an hour or two late.

This is the part about not taking your work home. I'm often pre-occupied with problems I haven't solved, I find for me, taking the time to solve them, or to be sure that I can't solve it now helps with that.

I'm not disagreeing with you, some problems need to be left for another day, and I've said that already.

What I'm trying to say is that I think we're both right in a way, and that finding balance is what we need.
From Europe too, they have progressive system same as we do, if you earn below certain threshold you pay no taxes, and amount specified $15/hr is before tax.
Someone from US can probably elaborate on the exact numbers where you start paying the tax, as far as I know it depends if you have children etc.
a hundred 1000 Dollars crowdfunding sure will take them a long way /s/

https://e.foundation/crowdfunding/#single/0

.foundation?
100$ an hour? It doesn't sound like a serious expense at all.
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Exactly, thank you. Apple is absolutely prioritizing short-term profits and their own ambitions before customers' feature requests in this area. Spotify, and every other music service, would've had integrations ready to go well before the iOS 12 launch if that was all it took for them to be given first-class music player status on iPhone.