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> Indian states set trade restrictions with Bengal. That was one of the policies that was outside the Raj

You mean the British administration resorted to scorched earth denial policies fearing the Japanese advance. It was literally Raj policy.

> Bengal was suffering an unprecedented series of natural disasters.

And the British response to the natural disasters was continuing to redirect supplies to military and refusing to allow shipping of humanitarian aid. Churchill's response to news of the famine was ask why Gandhi hadn't died yet.

> Facts can be inconvenient sometimes.

Like the fact that India repeatedly suffered famines under British rule but there hasn't been a famine since Independence?
How did a falafel house in Tennessee become the nicest place in America?
Your Guardian article sounds like it's saying that population expansion is the real problem. Me not eating a hamburger isn't going to solve the population issue.
Automount Removable Media on FreeBSD
The US used to stylize itself a high trust society.

I’m not sure how much that was a fantasy dependent on horrific repression’s from slavery to Jim Crow, and how much it actually adhered even amongst groups of people that weren’t based on racial exclusion.

Regardless, I worry for US culture. Trust in institutions seems to be at an all time low; institutions take generations to build, we won’t get them back easily or quickly.
Exactly. When the cooperators all leave, the free riders suffer the collapse of the system. Only then can a 'reboot' stand a chance of succeeding.
There are email providers other than gmail. In many of these systems, the “+” character indicates a truly distinct email rather than an alias.
> If something like Minix 3 "NetBSD" in Rust ran on seL4, that would inspire more confidence.

Yeah, I've been thinking about that for a while. There is Genode/seL4, but it's hard to say if it makes as much sense.
Only to those who aren't inquisitive. There are several old promotional videos that have been put up on YouTube, old screenshots and brochures have been put up on web pages, there were the recent 'bringing back to life' videos and talks/demos by many of the people involved at the Computer History Museum etc. The information is there, you just need to look for it. Search on 'Lisp' along with 'Lisp Machine', 'LMI' or 'Symbolics'
> said country's economy is fucked

Indeed. It's the road to currency collapse. The precedent was set in a big way during the last debt crisis; the US government used QE money to buy bad debt, recapitalized institutions and buy treasuries bonds to fund deficit spending. So now the question[1] is; is it possible for the US to suffer a recession without US politicians resorting to the virtual printing press?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17954531
Or we could switch directly to Soylent Green.
Why? Why does knowing where it is located a "right"? I feel US citizens have a right to know who is storing the data, and the parameters they must follow. Also you should have a right to know where the data is located, as in "in the USA". But beyond that, isn't having the actual address a security concern?
stuff like crons, logging stats, all kinds of things. Note that this apparently even affected some setTimeout calls after that long, so you couldn't schedule something to happen 500 ms from now, for example...
I ported one out last year, I had to make it portable from inside my Google Voice account (a quite poorly documented pain, actually), but that's still a much higher bar than your average cell carrier.
I want this but to cancel byzantine gym memberships and other reoccurring charges. Currently trying to cancel a gym membership that won’t answer my calls, reply to letters and insists I have to come in person from 3000 miles away.
Ouch, not a good look when someone keeps mentioning that you should never expect a month of uptime.
AT&T Will Soon Let Magic Leap Users Watch Multiple Shows at Once
But they made a 'game' of it! /s
Even if not a gameserver, virtually anything should not be buggy after one month of uptime. That is just ridiculous. Redundancy is completely orthogonal to this issue.
Filing lawsuits doesn't require being barred, nor does offering legal advice.

Rather, lawyers have special status for a bunch of specific roles: they can be present with a party in court as counsel, their employment for legal advice creates attorney-client privilege, and they can carry out various other roles like exercising power of attorney.

In return, lawyers operate under a bunch of special restrictions. They're professionally liable for legal malpractice, they can be punished for operating outside of their barred jurisdictions (potentially even for things that a non-lawyer could do), and they can be liable for things happening under their attorney-client privilege. All of which is why they're so gunshy about giving advice to strangers online (which can imply an attorney-client relationship in a way that friends-and-family advice doesn't).

'Practicing law without a license', as far as I know, means someone who is not barred in a jurisdiction either taking any action reserved for barred lawyers or marketing themselves to clients in a way that creates an expectation that they are employing a barred lawyer. Things like 'legal advice clinics' with non-barred advisors are totally legal as long as they're clear about their status and lack of client privilege, and are pretty commonly staffed by law students.

An app certainly can't take actions reserved for lawyers, and wouldn't naturally imply privilege, so as long as nothing in the text suggests a human lawyer is generating personalized advice there should be no issues.
It could go either way actually, depending on how people feel about potential outcomes. Things could be pushed up a bit to try to accelerate getting new crew rotation capabilities in place. Or things could be pushed back to avoid extra workload and pressure on a short-staffed station.
Because that would only get them paper. Trees are poached even when offically off limit and enforcement carries its own problems - especially with the optics involved. Even if they started on the rental foreign aid model they would rapidly wind up in trouble via Morton's forks. Government engaged in travesties (even worse if done in defense of the tree subsidies) or becomes a dictatorship - do you stop the cash flow? Not to mention the money infamously usually fails to be distributed equitably driving the desperately poor to make more short term decisions.
TL;DR from the GitHub discussion: had to do with an integer overflow related to oxffffff hex string lengths and unsigned ints, introduced in one of the Node 10.x versions. This is the pull request that fixes it: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22214
Here is the commit that fixes it: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22214
I got in trouble in high school for reading the Dragon Reborn novels during class. Mostly band class.
How about: don't believe in yourself because luck is everything? I walked into Google with 15 years of industry experience. I lucked out being in the early days of the web, lucked out in the dot-com boom, lucked out with a referral to Google, lucked out with real estate appreciation.
Good point.

It never even occurred to me that they would sell music so no wonder they are bad a it, at least for now.
What if Skype and Calendly had a baby? You get 24sessions!
Agree.

The Google Maps tiles are labeled “Amazon Datacenter Complex” or such on at least one cluster. I don’t mean Wikileak’s pins, I mean the public rendered tiles.
Why are almost all the replies by ex Google engineers? I thought I would see an even distribution from all FAANG companies but replies are pretty heavily skewed toward ex google employees. Is this because 1) Google culture is completely different from other FAANG companies? 2) Engineers at other FAANG companies dont quit their job? 3) or they dont browse HN in their free time?
Not the most exciting, or revealing of leaks. Less interesting, then, say, their leaks of Turkish dessert recipes[0]. Great attempt at clickbait though!

Compare the locations with https://www.internetexchangemap.com/ and you'll see that most of these are just the natural locations for datacenters. Most of these locations are within a few kilometers, sometimes within a few hundred meters, of other commercial datacenters.

They generally fall within: Close to major population and finance centers with affordable power, abundant fiber, and local/state governments willing to give subsidies... like every other datacenter.

0. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/757649656650297345
I don't remember on which occasion it was -and can't find it now-, but recently (post-2016) both Assange and Wikileaks were clearly riling people up against Snowden. That's right about when I stopped caring what they had to say (and it's such a hard departure from the 2013-era Assange who was supportive of Snowden).
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This has always been the thing for me - I hate reading a novel and not going cover-to-cover. I get so immersed and coming out of it feels like ruining the experience.
They will not develop powered landing. SuperDraco or not, one of the main obstacles was the difficulty and risk of putting legs through the heatshield.

Smaller Dracos are used for in-orbit maneuvering. SuperDracos are now solely for launch abort. They could conceivably be used for an orbital maneuver requiring more delta-v than the fine-tuning the Dracos do, but at this point the only likely destination for Dragon is the ISS.
It is great there is little objective difference between $800 and $55 pairs of shoes. It means the middle class can afford high-quality items and do not need to care if someone is willing to pay for the brand.
Tutanota, the First Encrypted Email App on F-Droid
2^31 seconds is a little more than 68 years. But the thread discusses 2^31 milliseconds, which is a little less than a month.
"Climate change" hysteria is being pushed hard now, with articles every day here on HN.
I agree with many of the others. I don't see how this information could be useful for anything except someone with malicious intent.
How Trump Could Fire Powell and Rebuild the Fed
I'm not sure why Russian intelligence cares about AWS datacenter locations.

This has largely been an "open secret" for a long time. If you want to know where an AWS datacenter is, ask local taxi drivers and pizza delivery folks. These things are huge, and very hard to hide.
the economist didn't even see the 2008 crash coming.

their prognostications are useless
Windows 95 had a similar bug

https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/
I hope no one reading my comment (GP) got the impression that I think there is something pathological about Rachel's choice not to publish her code.
Basically the Lisp Machine is like booting a Laptop with Emacs as a OS?

I mean not exactly, but mostly like that?
See my comment and discussion in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17189254
It's milliseconds, the title is incorrect as stated in the comments here and the linked issue thread.
@FooHentai: “I've had Ubuntu running on a few cheap desktop machines for some years now used for light duties in a few living spaces. So far we're at 100% failure rate on version upgrades: Both LTR release upgrades have bricked both the machines.”

Bricked you say, I don't recognize that from my experience, as for 'light duties' it's a little more useful than that:

"Ubuntu Linux Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI-YIO0OKz0

"Using Play On Linux For Windows Games On Linux!)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YVCY0rnI90
Except the point is they don't have to know how to solve the quadratic equation. They're given the roots, so it becomes just a matter of plugging in answers. That's hardly a test of mathematical ability, and instead asks if you recognize that it's a valid test taking strategy.
So this is like a reminder to anyone who always reminder others that you do not need to solve problems like Google has.
Well, so does the settimeout. A lot of underlying code is limited to signed 32 bit integers as per prehistoric convention.

JS committee should consider turning timer values into js native signed double
Illiterates need support on Windows too, and the Genuis bar at the Apple store.
My thoughts exactly. Except I'm excited/not excited. It's bittersweet, if that's appropriate.

It was definitely a compelling read, and I'm sure I'll end up thinking about it often.
> Well, a pretty good test for whether a platform is BUMMER, is whether the Russian intelligence warfare units like the Internet Research Agency decided to target it and use it for manipulating people. That’s a really good measure. And so, if that’s the way you’re going to classify BUMMER, then the list is Facebook, Google including YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and, of course, a few other Facebook properties like Instagram. There are a few others out there, but those are the primary ones. Snapchat is an interesting one. I just spent some time with them and they’re sort of an edge case; they’re better, but they still have some problems.

> Another example is LinkedIn, which has some addictive techniques but doesn’t seem to bring out the worst in people. So, you know, I don’t think this is exactly a universal criticism of the whole idea of social media — in fact, I’m sure it isn’t. I’m sure there could be better social media. Basically, if Putin was there, maybe you shouldn’t go there. Maybe that’s a good rule of thumb. Basically, don’t sleep in the bed where anybody who works for Putin has been lately. I think it’s a very good rule for us all to follow.

It never ceases to surprise me how any mention of the Russian spooks in the context of social media inevitably comes to the same conclusion: you cannot co-exist with them. Either you fight them (which is the mainstream position) by demanding that social networks ban them, or you leave the social network.

Weirdly, there doesn't seem to be any middle ground. I do not hear of any messages directed at users about developing some sort of online personal hygiene. Maybe take any ads with a grain of salt? Maybe do not trust total strangers until you get to know their online personality (if you are interested in their opinion at all)? Maybe limit your social circles? Maybe exercise more self-control in online debates? There are probably numerous other suggestions of how to be a more intelligent consumer of media content. And then Putin won't be such a comical bogeyman of online media he has lately become.
Have you tried selling your recipe parser to retailers like Kroger. Many of them are firing up features to order online and they’ll have pickers pull your order together so you can grab it later.
I wonder how much of this result is self-perception. For instance, people in Denmark are constantly told what a trusting society they live in, and that that trust is part of the reason why they are so wealthy. So a researcher comes by with an obviously contrived game, and the Danes play like they are supposed to.

For the same reason I wonder about the periodic happiness survey that makes headlines each year.
The public is far more at risk with the CIA around to begin with, so long as it continues to carry out bullshit interventions around the world that so often come back to bite us. The primary impediment to enumerating these risks is the CIA's lack of transparency.
Yes I fixed my comment.
nodejs ecosystem is a dumpster full of just bad code

edit: lots and lots of garbage in there
Also available on plain-vanilla Android. No affiliation.
> "the reality is that it is operating in a way where we can all be assured it is not doing so in "our" best interest, but instead for some other nation-states purpose"

The reality is that WikiLeaks has exposed a lot of information that we should know, I have yet to see solid evidence it's done for another nation state.

> Just because the party you identify with seems to be helped by something they have done recently does not mean you should take them as being honest actors.

Agreed, but I am also not going to believe the talking points of a party apparatus that cheated one of its own candidates. Would you?

I am not even a U.S. citizen, so I have no dog in this race, but I am well aware that both of the parties do anything to deflect from their own failures and now it's the Democrats, since they lost.

What have the Democrats done to offer a truly progressive platform, instead of the centrist one that lost them the election? Sure, they blame Russia 24/7, but that doesn't offer voters anything. Many Democrats in Congress vote with Trump and the Republicans well over 50% of the time, so this whole thing looks to me like a sham.
Either it works or it does not. If it doesn't, you document the fact.
I don't think the CIA's version of AWS is stored in these datacenters. It's a totally separate region, likely with special physical security measures and oversight rules. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...
Don't worry, soon enough all the companies we deal with will have made giving up your Constitutional rights a non-negotiable requirement for doing business with them.
not sure the app does what your think it does...in fact I have no clue what you even mean by “dry rehearse and check out different outcomes.” I don’t think the app is running any sort of simulation here, and if it did any result other than “it depends” would be a disservice to a client.

One reason a lawyer is going to tell you “it depends” is because that is always the right answer in law. Look at SCOTUS and how many cases are narrowly decided by a split court 5-4. How could any lawyer, or app, tell anyone with any reliability what would happen in a case? In fact that point is codified in all the Bars which have rules prohibiting lawyers from making any guarantees to clients on the outcome of cases. For example, maybe a defendant doesn’t answer and a default judgement is entered, well that will cost substantially less than a case where the defendant answers with affirmative defense and files a counter suit...an app isnt going to be able to determine that anymore than a lawyer. If you want a SCATTERPLOT ok here it is, whether your case is civil/criminal there is a >90% chance it won’t go to trial/verdict, and in civil cases the majority of the 90% of cases resulting in settlement will be confidential...so data from >90% of cases isn’t available for a lawyer or app to use.
Wikileaks, if you leak everything indiscriminately like this you’re like that gossipy person no one likes or trusts.
This site has the biggest, fattest annoyance sticky bar that I've ever seen!
I am impressed the reporter of the bug kept his cool and did all the debugging work for them using libfaketime while they blobiated about code not supposed to be running for 25 days and being unable to reproduce anything.
Is there any news of DirecTV Now allowing multiple streams on say an Apple TV?

I've heard other apps like MLB and stuff allow multiple streams.

I'd love to watch a movie / tv show and a news network in PIP or side by side or.
The bug occurs if your process reaches ~25 days, period. Regardless of the interval that you set - it could be 1ms and still fail. It has been 'fixed' and is now ~49 days, but setTimeout does not throw and so you have to rely on your process crashing due to some other condition.

If you have setTimeout anywhere in your code (including packages), you will need to force it to crash/exit once a month.

The implementation of setTimeout in Node is not sound.
"skeleton crew" unfortunate term.
That is quite amazing. Thanks for the response!
> I don’t know why so many hacker news readers both are illogically irate about paywalls and also irate about data collection.

I have no idea what you are rambling about. The dark pattern demonstrated behind the article link is modal newsletter subscription boxes in front of the content, i.e. distracting, disrupting the user's reading to show him something he didn't click the link for. It's annoying, it wastes time and energy and it makes the web unattractive like dumb clickbait headlines when following a descriptive link doesn't lead to the promised content (without extra effort).
Trust-by-default is pretty much the definition of social capital, which is thought to be incredibly important for a functioning society. Basically, it's more efficient to trust people and be exploited once in a while, than to never trust anyone, which would lead to high transaction costs for any social interaction.
Short intro by Robert Putnam, the big cheese in the field: http://robertdputnam.com/bowling-alone/social-capital-primer...
I did not hear about this, have a link?
For those interested in background of the microkernel (not the L4 runtime environment): Jochen Liedtke, On microkernel construction. http://elf.cs.pub.ro/soa/res/lectures/papers/lietdke-1.pdf
Your argument really depends on the use case. If you have discrete, well-factored operations microservices can make even small systems easier to deploy and manage. For example, you do the front-end API in Java (easier to build secure, debuggable systems with good RDBMS access) and backend analytic services in Python (easier to scrape data out of XML/JSON). Splitting them up into 2 or more microservices can simplify development, CI/CD, and deployment.

Whenever I see large numbers of microservices anywhere my null hypothesis is that some organizational disfunction is leading teams to factor applications into unnecessarily small pieces.
> DoNotPay is the brainchild of Joshua Browder, who initially created it to dispute the dozens of parking tickets he was racking up when he was 18.

Ah yes, let's make it even easier to flood the already overloaded legal system with frivolous lawsuits because you are the kind of person who can't be bothered to not park in a handicapped spot or drive under the speed limits.
> if you actually read more about WikiLeaks than the surface reports, it is simply that they believe in complete transparency of powerful actors to hold them to account

That simply isn't borne out by the evidence.

They whined about anti-Trump leaks. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/817322050297745408
Well he made a website advertising his brand name, then went to what is essentially a fashion conference, showed up professionally, dressed as designer with cards, and they let him in?

Isn't that what you expect/hope for?
This reminds me of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Many people believe the story to be about censorship, but Bradbury himself (in his later years) publicly claimed it was about peoples' increasingly short attention spans. In Fahrenheit 451, people were afraid of books because the stories, thoughts, and concepts were more than mere sound-bytes and were thus unintelligible to the masses with shortened attention spans.

Radio has contributed to our ‘growing lack of attention.’ .?.?. This sort of hopscotching existence makes it almost impossible for people, myself included, to sit down and get into a novel again. We have become a short story reading people, or, worse than that, a QUICK reading people. ~Bradbury

Source: https://www.laweekly.com/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-mi...

[Edit] Punctuation & typos.
Kind of a silly article. People are going to act in their own self-interest. Telling them that they should not is not particularly useful. Instead, figure out how to make things win-win.