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Ask HN: Are there any good solutions for public audit logging?
I'm looking for a service, blockchain-based or not, that would allow me to publicly (and ideally irrevocably) log audit-related information, i.e. put a blob into a database with a unique ID/URL and allow anyone in possession of the ID/URL to verify that the data was put there (and when). Any recommendations? It should be cheap (< 0.01 $ / transaction ideally) and fast (confirm a transaction in a few seconds) so I think using something like Bitcoin or Ethereum is out of the question.
Hello World example https://github.com/melvincarvalho/helloworld
Conversely, Jim Al-Khalili on the role of quantum physics in biological mechanisms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwgQVZju1ZM

and his BBC version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ONRJ1kTdA
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Thank you! It’s easy to forget many of the “safety nets” we enjoy in Europe stem from socialist-style welfare policies that our forerunners fought for.
Source codes and a demo gif is available:
https://github.com/yogurt-cultures/laktoz
I already acknowledged that torrents are good for some non-video applications. :)

I just can't ever see it being practical for video deployment. At least not in its current guise (thus whatever P2P model might succeed in the future wouldn't be authentically bittorrent).

If anything, with AWS and other "clouds" offering services for video delivery (Media Live, CloudFront supporting RMTP etc), I can see bittorrent becoming ever more irrelevant for video distribution. At least thats the trend Ive been observing recently. But tech can move in unpredictable directions so never say never.
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Exactly. Anonymity is a feature, not a bug. Certain unpopular opinions can’t be said if the one posting now has to worry about the repercussions in the real world. A despotic government or just some malicious people are now able to punish you for simply having a different view point, which is NOT my version of an ideal internet.
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Oh yeah, definitely. If I don't get enough sleep, the next day is completely fucked. I'd say a good night's sleep is the single most important factor in ensuring I'm productive. It's something I struggle a lot to get right, especially when I'm on a roll in a late night coding binge but know I'm going to pay for it the next day.
> The resulting current increases at an astounding 40 million amperes per microsecond and tops out at about 4 amperes.

Could someone with more understanding of the material explain the above fragment?
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He got the boring company where it is right now because of Twitter.
When it's 5pm...

But seriously, you should have a metric of quality over quantity. If you work on a team or a highly collaborative environment, the Dynamics and the answer will change.
I have limited experience with them but I think tools like Coverity or Veracode are significantly better, but maybe they are just better at marketing.

Coverity actually offers free scans for some open-source projects, here's the report for the Linux kernel:

https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux

They have a large list of other projects as well (it seems you can't drill down into individual errors and only see summary statistics though, which sucks):

https://scan.coverity.com/projects

I didn't find anything comparable for Veracode, but comparing the Coverity results with a static analyzer like Clang should give you an idea of the effectiveness. It's not a magic bullet (IMHO) but it definitely can find bugs that other tools don't see.
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The web 1.0 was a success because it was simple. I don’t understand anything about Solid.
Actually, the revolution is still solidly in the white paper stage:

https://github.com/solidpayorg/solidpay/blob/master/package....
Creating Rubik's cube variants using programming
The Bible and the Koran would easily be on the world's best seller lists if they weren't excluded by default.

You might argue - and I would agree - that this is not necessarily a good thing as far as content goes.

But the point is that putting something into writing snd giving it a tangible form on paper gives it an inherent stability and authority missing from digital media.

We tend of think of digital media as temporary, disposable, relatively low value simulacra of a Real Thing.

Digital media can be hacked, edited, deleted, and lost when the power goes off.

A copy of a book from hundreds or thousands of years ago is just going to sit there for some indefinite period. (Which actually depends on the quality of the paper - but in theory could be centuries.)

This is not about practical reproduction and storage technologies, it's about persistence and tangibility.

A book is a tangible object which has some independence from its surroundings. After printing, it's going to exist unless you destroy it. If you print many copies the contents are geographically distributed and it becomes very hard to destroy them all.

A file depends on complex infrastructure. If the power goes down, it's gone. If the file format becomes obsolete, it's gone. (This has actually happened to many video and audio formats.) If there's an EMP event, it's gone.

And it's not just a tangible difference, but a cultural. We have a fundamentally different relationship with digital data than we do with tangible objects, and this influences the value we place on their cultural payload.
There is a minimum speed guaranteed for most home subscribers but that is a fraction of dialup speed. Home routers do latency profiling to have a better connection stability; meaning even if you do not fill bandwith, all your requests will be delayed to smooth out until the buffer completely fills.

In most operators, limited bandwith users are oversubscribed and unlimited bandwith users are linked to dedicated channels. Oversubscription ratio is around 20:1 for DSL and 100:1 for mobile here in Turkey.
The point of bangs is to make searching your favorite website really fast and easy. Find your favorite website/search and remember the bang for that, and you can search it from DDG with very few keystrokes (the biggies have fewer letters, so bangs end up roughly Huffman coded).

But you can also use site:wikipedia.org syntax in DDG to search any particular website, just like in Google.

So don't criticize bangs for not being good at everything "site:" allows you to do, they're different tools; use the right tool for the job. DDG gives you many of the same tools that Google gives, but adds many other tools.

And DDG has shown willingness to add more tools; just find/remember the (small) subset of these that helps you out, and someone else can find/remember those tools that help them out, and you each have good user experiences.
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The SEC doesn't protect inverstors by protecting share prices. They protect them by removing bad actors from the market.

If CEOs are allowed to release false information, it won't be long before every other company behaves like Enron, and investors desert stock markets.
Because Apple does the "take it our way or leave" approach.

Which is also a reason why they hardly have a meaningful market share across the enterprise world.
Ask HN: What pain points do you experience in your daily tasks?
There is no rational form of consent available. You either give up your data or you don' get coffee, period. That's not consent. That's an asinine abuse of privacy. If there were actual consent they would allow you to pay for the coffee. They don't.

That's not a valid form of informed consent. That's coercion.
Think of the first (current increase) as an acceleration, and the second (current) as a velocity.
I just can't address this further. I'm not convinced you have the slightest clue what bittorrent is (how on earth does not having 5 9s matter for a consumer connection? If a node drops noone will notice).

I'm not saying there won't be problems. A major problem is the asymmetric nature of many consumer connections. Not only is the upload often a fraction of the download (that is the easy part), but the download speed can be greatly sacrificed if upload is utilized. Add to that issues that home users might want to use the connection for other stuff.

The nightmare and confusion surrounding "I can't game because someone is watching torrent-tube" will be real and add to that issues with ISPs that have a fixed quota or people on mobile (or tethering a mobile connection to laptop). Netflix et al would not like to deal with that kind of FUD spreading around.

And all this is before considering local ISP bottlenecks as it isn't what the network was designed for. A vastly superior option is to put a proxy on the ISP network itself (but yes, hard to do for small players).

Those alone are probably a magnitude worse than the technical issues you speak of. Even spotify got much flak for it, and no, I don't think anyone on earth think the bandwidth requirements of audio and HD video are similar.
As an aside, what would be today's ideal intro to design patterns?

Now .. on topic ... I had a roomful of books collected from my youth. I cleaned out my room at my parents house some years ago ... and pretty much everything got chucked. The only books that I kept were seminal books like Knuth, Cormen, Gang of Four, TCP/IP series (v6 kinda makes them out-of-date too). All my MFC books ... java books .. pretty much all of it was out of date. I had an epiphany .. CS does not age well at all.

I no longer buy physical books ... I got a subscription to Safari and love it. Also consume tons of content on e-learning platforms. But .. I really miss real books.
It’s not so important about who the groom and bride knows, it’s more about everyone the groom and bride’s parents and grandparents know also.

It’s more of a “bring the whole tribe together” affair, but only makes sense in villages when food and labor was cheap. But that was within the grandparents’ and parents’ lifetimes so it still lingers around, only now it’s a status symbol to show how well you’ve made it, and of course, some (most?) people choose to over extend themselves and choose to show off to the tribe rather than invest in their own future. Especially since the “tribe” is further and further away from the original rural villages which were geographically next to each other.

The new tribes are split along educational and wealth boundaries, so anyone who thinks wasting money entertaining the tribe will help keep them in it is sorely mistaken.
Most UWP improvements coming up in FluentUI were originally developed by the Office team, as shown on Build 2018, so this decision is kind of weird.
I use the feature branch Git workflow. How do you know the majority of people here use Git Flow rather than feature branches? Have you just guessed that?

And anyway Git Flow still has feature branches that you close on merging!
What's bad about GDI? (I used to do windows but have not been following, I remember that you need to do GetDC and ReleaseDC on a window handle to get the device context and then to release it - in pairs, else...)
This doesn't mean the company won't go bankrupt but that they are more resilient than given credit for.

The Bloomberg Model 3 counter registered a sharp dip, so the risk is real, but my take is that it doesn't matter.

There is an unprecedented amount of decent EV models coming up for model year 2019. This goal has been achieved and I believe Tesla's stock always reflected the rate at which we were getting there, not the company's long-term viability.
> Why can't I debug a function without restarting my program?

I do this in Erlang all the time. It's one of the most fun parts about the whole system.
4A does not seem all that high?
Well, Europeans in theory have Right to Erasure.
TCAS: Traffic collision avoidance system
Shorting is not merely a matter of patience. Some people use barrier products, or can't face margin calls.
I am working to solve this by creating a conversation bot based interface that can make personalized learning viable. If you are interested for updates you can sign up here: https://tinyletter.com/primerlabs/

P.S: I was supposed launch a month back. But a lot of rewrites made it difficult. For now, I can say I will be launching soon.
Israel doesn't have long dark winters and yet they're the pioneers of innovation and start-up culture.
The current in question increased from 0 to 4 amps in approximately 100 femtoseconds (10^-13 seconds). When generating fields this large, the coil's destruction is guaranteed, so to create a large maximum field magnitude, you have to ramp the current faster than the coil can vaporize/disintegrate. 40 trillion amps per second is pretty fast.

For reference, a back-of-the-envelope calculation puts the current ramp rate for the LVDS data lines coming from your phone's camera around a few hundred thousand amps per second (-1 to 1 mA in a few nanoseconds).
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Like everyone else, the biggest difference is that Microsoft keeps the old tech around, while most other companies are willing to loose customers that don't want to move into the new stacks.

On one side it is a big reason why they have achieved their market size on the desktop, on the other side we reach this kind of situations where new tech improved tech like Singularity, Midori, Longhorn or now UWP gets thrown into the garbage can in the name of backwards compatibility. Quite sad.
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Not everything useful has APIs. The most frustrating example in my life is WhatsApp. It is positively horrible. On IOS? Only way to backup your chats is iCloud. On Android .. only backup option is google drive. On an ipad without a cell phone (low income seniors who cannot afford cell plans) .. go away. It is sad and messed up how much of a locked in kingdom we have in software today. It has NEVER been this bad.
Oh easy, I just attended a wedding reception where over 2500 were invited. It was one of the biggest I have seen but 1000 is normal. My father had 10 siblings and my mother 6. You got to invite all their relatives, kids and your own friends, you can easily cross 1000. I guess its the huge population in India and China.
This depends on your definition of speech I guess. Many animals have vocal capabilities to create complex enough sounds that they could conceivably construct perceptible human phonetics (not least parrots), but they don't do so naturally in the wild. They do however all communicate with each other in some form, much of it vocal; does that constitute "speech"?
Out of the loop here, what happened?

Afaik krokodil was around for ages.
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Whenever you see a government that doesn't have a significant organized crime problem, it's because either (a) the government is the organized crime (Russia), or (b) the government has resources at its disposal that are an existential threat to the organized crime while overlooking moderate operations (the US).

The US government has significantly overlooked organized crime operations in general (and while some members of government may have pursued them, it was largely a sideshow by the "legal" arm and not by the "operational" arm - and had organized crime retaliated against those senators, you can bet that there would have been an "operational" response). At times, we've worked with organized crime (running cocaine with the CIA, etc, or the CIA working with Lucky Luciano in WW2).

That's the thing with organized crime - it's not all that secret. So there's typically an informal balance stuck between the government and the criminals - don't be too much of a problem to civilians, and especially not members of government, and we'll leave enforcement to local law and not bring in the big guns, and we won't work with your competition against you.

I think the big difference, as others have noted, is that in Mexico there isn't significant corporate corruption in politics. So the money lining politicians' pockets was more likely to be drug related, and cartel specific. So the cartel wars extended into government and there isn't a sufficient corporate interest in stability to have pushed back against it. And well, now it's far past the point of a balance being stuck.

It's worth noting that we've had instances of significant local corruption and infiltration of organized crime into local police/AG/government in the US (including killing of local civilians by the police - you can search for "The Boys on the Tracks" - the argument against Dan Harmon is compelling) - it's just not as widespread and it's not at a national level.
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I actually did cover that point (albeit at a much higher level) and of course I know what bittorrent is. Just because I don't agree with you it doesn't mean I don't understand the problems. Quite the opposite, I happen to work in the video delivery industry so it's my job to understand these problems.

Like I said, it's ever so easy being an armchair critic but try deploying this stuff at scale with SLAs covering 5 "9s" and paying customers then tell me you've got all the kinks in bittorrent solved ;)
I use old HTML UI btw.
I just want to share my experience, which is extensive.
Yes. But a long time today (fast and fluid travel) is not the same long time of decades ago. The faster and more frequest we move, the small the long time window gets.
Can someone explain what are some consequences and real world applications of this?
I do Windows development since 3.0, currently maintaining a couple of Forms and WPF applications, the Forms are the hardest to maintain due event handling spaghetti code instead of proper MVVM with data binding, no use of Table/StackLayout components and still do background handling in BackgroundWorker classes.
I am been involved in 4 marriages including myself where the total guest list neared 600. You would need to invite your siblings families if they are married. Then your father's and mother's family. Their extended family. Your grandfather grandmother's family. Their extended family. Your neighbors, office guys, friends. Both groom and bride and you would have a number near to 600.
yes of course, you can include js libraries in App constructor and execute js by doing app_instance.execute_javascript(jscode)
Well, their summers are kinda long and hot.
And being part of an extremist tribe who were useful to the Brits/Americans versus the Ottomans in World War 1, who then continued to provide a “stable source” of oil. Stable because they stamped out any sort of democracy or society with freedoms that would allow anyone to object to their arrangements with the West, in exchange for one family of the tribe to become extremely wealthy.
Correct, but it is the rate of change that is more crucial.

Just like 60 mph isn't hugely fast, but we still quote 0 to 60 times.
"Horrible"

United States: 175h
Germany: 218h

Governments are not very easy dealing, but to call it "horrible" when some countries require 10x the time is unfair.
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Recommending Google's and Cloudflare's DNS is not privacy friendly at all. Even when you use an VPN and push all your domain name requests to either or.
A good start would be a law that ensures a woman’s claim on marital property in the case of a divorce. Current Chinese law makes no such provision, and thus provides a strong disincentive to marry and a very powerful incentive to charge higher bride prices.

We have laws like this in Europe. Marriages keep happening later and TFRs keep plummeting. Why would it work any different in China.

Journalists always push their prefferred policies even when there's no proof they solve the very clearly stated problem. Subsidize kindergartens! Mandatory, paid maternal leaves! All while populations that implemented them keep collapsing.
> Taking into account all the abuse she had to take from them, and their lazy and useless way of life, they're not getting a penny from me.

Then why are you planning to marry "into the family" if you have such a low opinion of them?

> Many people though feel powerless to resist and ruin themselves financially by paying it.

If $10K is going to ruin you financially, you shouldn't be marrying anyone. Not that I agree with the dowry custom, but $10K isn't that much money.

Just because you are lonely or feel like the girl you have is the only one you could get isn't reason to get married. Despite what you think now, parents/siblings/family matter. Money matters. And the longer you are married, the more important family and money becomes. Don't get married out of naivety or desperation.
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Does Google even use nodejs or try to hire devs for 'popular languages'? Last I heard everything is still mostly C/C++, Python and a little bit of Go.
In this company's case the PCs were the cheapest of the cheap. Bottom end Dell and HP stuff.

when they were life expired they were given over to a recycling company, whom I assume would take the time to pick the epoxy out of the USB sockets or probably just replace them. I think buying new USB sockets and connecting ribbons to the motherboards is probably quite cheap these days
Ah now I get it. Thank you very much!
Deposits are global, deliveries are US and Canada only.
The (extremely large) company I work for has a product management team that customizes Jira to match what it wants which does not work at all for anyone else. Upper management of course doesn't understand anything about software development and just wants to see meaningless burndown charts. I am sure its possible to set up Jira is a useful fashion but damned if I have ever seen it done.
Just a decade or so ago, what Trump says, about a non-interventionist US, end to globalization, and so on, were left demands. Remember the anti-war protests, Seattle and Genova anti-globalization protests, and so on?

If a pro-war and pro-globalization republican was in office (e.g. someone like Bush), the US left (I use the term loosely) would still be against those things and protest widely.

If a pro-war pro-globalization democrat was in office (so like Obama), they'd just have some token resistance.

As it stands, democrats are butt-hurt from losing the elections to the Republicans, even more so when it's to a morally reprehensible person that goes against all the etiquette of the 10% (even if he himself is of the 0.01%).

Republican career politicians are butt-hurt too, that someone who's not one of them, and hasn't played the game long enough and paid enough dues, disturbs their "business as usual" musical chairs with the democrats.

This bipartisan agreement is good for the big corporate interests and the media they own, since globalization and interventionism are where the big money are made, and all of the business interests and deep state (what they used to call a "military-industrial complex" support them.

And for the rest of the "good people" (Hollywood, the "bon pensants", etc) as always will go with the flow and the fashion du jour.
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I don’t think you really can compare Apple’s and Microsoft’s situation here. Think of the extreme bigger amount of software that was written for Windows including all that custom made business software for small companies. Apple was always in the situation that a lot of their 3rd party developers were also „fans“, who are more willing to keep up with their transitions, where however most the Microsoft tech developers were just doing their job and want to keep their stuff only running with the least amount of work necessary.
Power is Amps x Volts, so I'm guessing the voltages involved are epicly huge. (Even though this paragraph is really talking about the acceleration)