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However each instance has its own self contained moderation, allowing moderation to scale horizontally.

If an instance is unable to moderate all its users, they can shut down signups temporarily.
This is unfortunately common with Chinese software. Remember back in the early 2000s when a lot of freeware and shareware shoveled adware onto your PC without telling you? Remember when tools like ad-aware were popular? Nowadays that's the exception, or done by those shady download portals which wrap the installers of everything. And often times there's at least a checkbox in the installer. It seems China is currently where we were back then. User awareness is low, as long as things work nobody cares.

Sure, there's tons of malware on the play store etc., but it's always from some weird vendor nobody has ever heard of. Coincidentally, a couple days ago I noticed a friend's phone running really hot. It was freshly charged, taken off the charger about half an hour ago, but freaking hot. I checked the battery stats and "sougou", a popular Chinese keyboard (if not the most popular one) clocked in with 24 minutes of CPU time. I told my friend and we uninstalled immediately. Two days later he was super happy and told me his phone's battery life increased greatly and he can now even make it through a full day (...).
Now I'm still hesitant to claim this was definitely some mining software embedded in the keyboard, it might as well have been a messed up config making some thread spin in an infinite loop, but the suspicion stays...
A common theme seems to be the feedback loop of attention from other people - from being unable to handle, to not being able to perceive, to seeking too much.
Not the OP, but I can share what I got from Black Panther:

1. When they're in the market, people are still walking around in sandals and even barefoot.

This is counter to either ultra-sleek hygienic futures or the film noir/cyberpunk look where everything is dirty and wet. In this area, it's a bit more like Star Wars.

2. One of the elder advisors is wearing a giant lip ring (sorry, don't know what its called):
https://media.comicbook.com/2017/06/black-panther-green-suit...

Basically, it means you can be "modern" but on your own terms (that is, have your ethnic identity still represented).

3. I like the idea that an African country being the most technologically advanced nation on earth, not Japan, China, or the US...but an African country!

I think #4 is very subversive (for unfortunate reasons). It really made me think what would it take for an African country - be it Nigerian, Botswana, South Africa etc - to compete with the likes of Singapore or California.

4. Lastly, I like the idea of the weapon that look organic rather than looks "hi-tech":
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/3e274163-f36d-4b79-bff7-...

I am okay with the kingdom part. Part of future studies is also the idea that the past can be revisited. In our academically training, one of the things we talk about is that the future is not exponentially changing in a linear direction (like Singularity folks), it can be circular, stagnant, and go "backwards", etc.

For me, the bigger issue is that despite being technologically advanced they're basically a vibranium-based economy, which makes me assume that they would have the same problems as petro-states. Perhaps that explains why they're a monarchy?
So you sell phone numbers?
Consumption is not investment. That's not to say consumption is bad or unnecessary, but they're not the same. Nobody's talking about increased investment, it's all consumption. Italy's government is not criticised for an investment push it can't afford, but rather unsustainable increases in welfare spending.

Anyway, whenever the Italian government invests, it seems to be into money-pit clusterfucks like Alitalia, so I wouldn't be too enthusiastic about Italian governmental investment. How hard could it possibly be to let that monster die and use the money on something useful?

Before the Italian government can invest properly it needs functioning politics and bureaucracy, which are the real problems anyway. Like in Greece, they're just so hard to fix it's not even an option people talk about. It's always magical solution X or Y ("policy"), never how to fix politics or improve the bureaucracy.
That’s a bit different if he actively wipped them once he knew they were in police custody that is tampering with evidence.

However a self destruct mechanism that is either on a rolling timer or event driven for which you don’t need to take an action to initiate it but must take an action to stop it could be a legal loophole but it sure won’t look good in court.
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Since most of my sibling comments are sharing anecdotes I therefore admit that I have heard the term.

Maybe if everyone replies if they have heard it or not we can reach a conclusion if it is a known term in Hacker News community.

Or we can decide that such anecdotes are of little value to the discussion and stop posting them since it is unrealistic to reach the above mentioned conclusion just by reading them and it can mislead some readers.
Seems like it would be best to totally wipe all of your devices before crossing a boarder and restore from backup over the internet when you are over it.
I had my Facebook account linked to my Spotify account. I didn't create an account using Facebook, but linked them later on.

Even when I had a Facebook account linked, I could still login to Spotify using a username (a bunch of numbers) that I was able to dig out from the settings at some point.

I recently deleted my Facebook account, and everything went quite well. The app said my playlists was created by user "null" (they fixed this after a while and now displays the numbers which makes my username), but other than that there's been no changes. So, just deleting your Facebook account and let Spotify deal with it seems to work, but it require you to know the username (and password. I don't know how I got that, maybe it was the same password as the one I used before linking my Facebook account).
That's why we choose to use C and do the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.
The underlying article for this post is interesting, too.

http://www.freeholdgames.com/papers/Generation_of_mythic_bio...

I'd love to have more time in the universe and the computing power to not look at the information transfer or the number of degrees of separation but to consider how those connections were formed. What could we learn about human relations by investigating the chain of connections of millions of humans? I'm certain it would give huge insights into how we could generate fictional narratives that are richer, also, but that would be the least.
It was bad in England. In my university town there was a case where the owner of a property administration company simply disappeared with the deposits, he just left the country. Hundreds of students were affected, tens of thousands of pounds in damage.

There was a spontaneous demonstration by the students who had lost money in front of the premises, which was obviously a fruitless endeavour. They should have staged a pogrom instead but the folks from the target community would have said "Dude, I've got more brothers than you have got friends", and if we follow the line of thought that incentives guide behaviour, that was the incentive for the students not to have a pogrom that day and for the agency owner to run away with the security deposits.

Americans exhibit a fatalistic acceptance of the status quo. Perhaps we are spared the civil war because they are too slavishly obedient towards their superiors.
In my opinion, Software development is a lot more than just being able to write code or make an app. It's about being able to write code that is readable and maintainable. It's about thinking a few steps ahead before you even lay down the code, and being able to work in a team that is going to help you accomplish your goals.

That company that turned you down probably did so because you showed them that your only capable of working on your own stuff that might have a lot of 'non-standard' idiosyncrasies in its architecture. I'd try to take a look at info on common patterns (a la Gang of Four), Architectures (MVP, MVC, MVVM, Flux, etc), and some of the most common (and yes, somewhat trite) interview puzzles, if only so that you can speak to your interviewers in a common language. Nobody wants to hire someone who they can't communicate with using a standard professional language. Patterns, architectures, and puzzles are just a part of that language.
That’s why I like HN. I visit only a few news sites per day and HN usually brings a treat that I never would have stumbled on myself.
Ask HN: When has big $$$ before product-market-fit ever worked out?
While it's always usefull to be great at fund raising, it seems not always wise to raise big $$$ before achieving product-market-fit. When such a startup fails, it always makes for great headlines and 20/20 hindsight commentary.

What are good examples of where it did work out great? And what can we learn from it?
It’s literally the only reason I still have a Facebook account. Couple that with Alexa picking out the worst version possible of the song I requested (“Master of Puppets - live by not Metallica on Spotify”) but seems to get it right with prime music; I’m about to drop it.
This is a solid read for anyone in any field. There's a time when you have no confidence, then false confidence, then real confidence with knowledge of your own limits.
More to the point, Lizzie was designed around the F35 specifically (as the captain proudly declares in many YT videos)...
I also created my Spotify account with Facebook. When I wanted to unlink them I just sent an email to support and they did it pretty quickly with no issues. I haven't used FB and Spotify for years now, so things might have changed, but OP should try and do the same.
>Sounds more like pre-marital cohabitation (which is also already common), but perhaps with a more explicit and formalised sense that this is a time-limited 'trial phase'.

That already exists, at least in Belgium (legal cohabitation) and in France (PACS).
Emuparadise is changing
> What I don't like in this post, is the call for non-adoption when the author has a competing format (CRAM) for which the patent situation and the performance is not clear. It seems a biased opinion.

Actually, the author has been part of the genomics community for a long time. CRAM (and BAM) are existing de-facto standards. There is no rent-seeking organization behind those formats; there are no patents.

MPEG, the Moving Picture Experts Group, is trying to move into the genomics space to make money. They are trying to create a 'standard' called MPEG-G. The very same people who are driving the MPEG-G spec are trying to obtain patents that cover the format.

These patent applications are probably invalid. They seem to be obvious and there seems to be lots of prior art in CRAM and other applications and papers. Proving this in order to invalidate them will be time-consuming and expensive. But also necessary, because you can be sure that the patents, if granted, will be used to extort money from people in bio-informatics. They may also be used offensively against CRAM.

This is a complete waste of time.
Wow, thank you! I'll give this a shot tonight. I've been wanting to disconnect it for a while now as well.
A quick email to support helped me do this a couple of years back. Don’t know if it should be any more trouble nowadays
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Copyright refers to copying an innovation. First sale refers to reselling a product. You’re conflating the two.
any worse than the fact the many host the USAF at permanent bases?

the UK, Italy, Germany...all have permanent military bases for the USA...they're practically garrisoned
Allow me: Negativity
How did MPEG get involved in genomic data? I thought it was specifically chartered by ISO for audiovisual formats.
Same thing has been happening with outdoor footwear, brands that used to be made in Montebelluna are now made elsewhere in the EU.
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> You can have the benefits of cash and the convenience of technologies.

Cash is instant, does not require power, does not require connectivity, and no one takes of cut of the transaction.

Cash also leaves a trail so faint that it requires a substantial investment in resources to trace it.

I think those hurdles will be difficult to overcome in order to match the benefits of cash in an electronic currency.
Proxima and Ultima by Stephen Baxter hit along this theme and are a pretty good read.
Ask HN: Realtime collaborative back end as a service for mac development
Hey everybody,

I'm thinking about an app for the Apple ecosystem only and I'm hoping therefor there is some "as a service" magic for the backend side of things. So, just Apple, nothing else.

Requirements:
- realtime connection (push to client)
- conflict handling (I guess)
- PDF generation (could be client side)
- GraphQL support (I think it's worth it)

Candidates I have in mind from researching the topic:
- Google Firebase
- AWS AppSync
- iCloud (CloudKit, not sure though)

So, what does HN think about this? Are there other options? Can someone recommend or say something about the mentioned ones?

Thx for any comments,
elmcrest
Hmmm. I think I might have to join this.
IMAO Facebook IS a data breach where people voluntarily comply to, not just some vulnerabilities. Login with Facebook is a pretty stupid thing to do anyway, happily giving away even more data.. Cannot think of 1 valid reason to do that except for being too lazy to generate a new password.
Github doesn’t support LaTex equations. I’ve never understood why not. Always seemed like a problem that was solved but no support integrated.
I would advice you to embrace management path.
You are probably applying for the wrong positions.

Try to get a junior position somewhere or try to leverage your non-dev skills to get some job in product or project management
As the other reply said, even if the gun was just triggered for a fraction of a second it's likely that several dozen shells were fired. I'm not sure if NATO uses the same cannon rounds as the US military, but they almost certainly use some form of high explosive incendiary ammo.
That’s revisionist history. Its intended role was nuclear strikes deep in the heart of the Soviet Union. It has certainly not been used to great effect or otherwise for that.

Likewise, we will never go to conventional war with those “geopolitical rivals”. Instead we go to war with countries like Syria and sub-national actors like ISIS neither of which have similar tech entering service, to put it mildly.
I think you might be taking the wrong perspective on this. Everything is a learning experience, even an interview where you didn't get the job. You didn't know what a join table was, now you do. Doing a bit of research on typical programming questions would probably go along way to close the gap. You can go back to your existing projects and rewrite them
with a join table, and with a little research you could probably get the app in a better state that you will look more attractive to a prospective employer.

You obviously learned a lot while building these side projects. I've certainly done things on my own without knowing the proper way to do it, only to learn there right way later on. You clearly know how to write code and build stuff. Being an EE major you understand logic. I don't think it would be too difficult to make the transition to developer.

How many interviews did you go on? I'm employed and when I was looking for a new job I had some stumbles. This is part of life. Even with the gap between supply and demand for programmers , some employers are going to be picky in what they are looking for.
I have always referred to it as a joining table
Ah yes, I want to live and love in a world without starvation and violence, so of course I should happy to be on a desolate island with no hope for growth, love or life. That’s a paradise!

While we are at work on these kinds of solutions, I propose we just put immigrants in cryogenic sleep. It’s probably better than I definitely holding people on desolate islands.

Also the irony is rich, given than Australia was the desolate place to dump criminals.
I read Dawkins before Darwin, which made sense. Just as, if I wanted to learn relativity, I wouldn't go to Einstein's papers first.
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That "House of Commons elects the Cabinet"

MPs in the house of commons elect the Prime Minister (typically this means the leader of the largest party). Technically it's the Queen appointing them, I believe on advice of the civil service on the basis that they will be able to command a vote of confidence, but in practice it's the MPs themselves.

The Prime Minister then appoints the cabinet, most of whom will be elected MPs by their local constituents (in practice at least half of the seats in the UK are "safe seats", meaning the MP is appointed by local party memebrs)

The Prime Minister also appoints one of the EU commissioners (and the PM's counterparts in the other EU states also appoint one).

The EU parliament elects the president of the commission from a pool suggested by the heads of government. That president then allocates each of the commissioners they've been sent by governments to various roles.
Show HN: Monitor and visualize the system with Zeu.js
Disappointment sends Olympic silver medallists to an early grave
Great, now I have this picture in my mind of dozens of people making grimaces at their phones on the train.
Pi-hole should. It blocks the ad servers at the DNS level.
Literally created another account last night and transferred all my playlists. Was actually straightforward on the desktop (drag and drop playlists from old to new account. Lost all of my history, but w/e.

Removing/blocking followers would also be appreciated.
I've seen a few of those type of ads. I've heard people say it's for H-1B visa jobs, where the position has to be advertised locally (in the US) first and if they can't find the correct candidate then they can hire internationally.
Agreed, but I'm not giving over any significant amount of cash to an individual without getting a signed release. $50 and hope I never hear from them again? Sure.
It's time for techies to embrace militant optimism again
> due to inadequate planning

Seeing as you've had the opportunity to thoroughly evaluate Tyndall's emergency hurricane evacuation procedures, the airworthiness of 55 aircraft divided between two squadrons, O&M/MILCON budget of a training base, and logistical impediments arising from 72-hours notice coupled with a swarm of evacuating civilians from surrounding areas, please do take the time to enlighten us all.
The data behind Bloomberg's article are about how much sugar is produced and sold, rather than how much each American chooses to consume:

> The agency does not actually monitor how much sugar we put in our bodies; it measures “estimated deliveries for domestic food and beverage use” and divides it by the population.

Bloomberg's graph rises and falls with the volume of high-fructose corn syrup. When I compare it to a graph of ethanol production in the US [1] I wonder if the "estimated deliveries for domestic food and beverage use" are decreasing simply because ethanol works out better - for growers - than high fructose corn syrup.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_the_United_Sta...
For me there's a giant green orb covering the bottom right quadrant of the screen. I didn't investigate it.
When it says "disconnect Spotify in Facebook" does that mean deleting the Spotify app? Doing so warns me that it could potentially delete my account, which worried me enough not to go through with it.
I don't understand why it wouldn't. Anti-matter has positive mass, which means it affects the curvature of spacetime the same way regular matter does.
Curious what the border control response is to being handed a phone that has clearly been wiped immediately before the flight.
As a consequence, the ad-driven web is much more open and inclusive. The marginal cost of serving another page view to a Pakistani reader is zero, while a $10 subscription is a massive expense for someone who might earn just $100 a month. So if the content can be monetized by selling western eyeballs, the ad driven web works as a massive cultural redistribution to societies that can't really afford to develop similar resources in either subscription or ad-supported models.
Potayto potahto https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3045034/whats-the-correc...

I call BS if they "take points off" for not knowing the exact term "joint table", and if so that's not the kind of company I'd want to work for.
Around 62% of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks
Tyndall AFB is right on the water. Say you can survive 150 mph winds. Now your problem is the seawater 15+ ft deep filled with debris and driven by 150mph winds rushing in and back out.
I had doubt on manned amateur launch too, it is quite likely that the safety requirement would not be as strict as NASA due to funding issue.

Nevertheless, space flight requires bravery, some people might be willing to risk their life on the rockets, cant blame them, space is too much to explore.
The horrifying thing about your example is you've basically described a "smart home" and we're fast approaching an era where anyone purchasing a home will expect it to be rife with third-party cameras and listening devices, and pay a premium for it.
I mean the loss of trust in the provider is an obvious downside of centralized authentication right?

The “unexpected” part is the loss of trust in Facebook as a provider.

I would argue trusting Facebook with anything was obviously going to end in tears but I admit I’m not a normal user.
Ok fair, but the come down from the ZLB high isn't going to be pretty anywhere, except for those who managed to see past the smoke and mirrors in inflated asset prices in all markets and incredible mis-allocation of resources the world has been engaged in…

and even then, they will still have to deal with the fallout of those who took the bait (or "elected" people who took the bait on their behalf) and will be pissed… as we're seeing now all over the world today, and these were supposed to be the good times lol

/me sighs
If you are betting on an Indian styled recovery, then your odds are exceedingly low. Not only did we have a great economist as finmin, but also a lot of people who grew up to later take on major roles as bureaucrats and politicians.

And all of that worked because we had a PM who was able to thread the needle and make it work without giving in to any political group.

It’s a very very small window, and the resulting growth was pent up demand being brought online.
It's a bit difficult to find, but some large companies run small "skunkworks" research teams largely independent of the main operations. This gives you the general working style of a startup (unusual latitude, variety of work, small and unbureaucratic teams) with the funding and job security of working for a larger company - with some caveats, I imagine.

I wouldn't put too much emphasis on 'older colleagues' - it's good to have a range of ages on a team for the different attitudes that they bring. As long as everyone respects one another, it's an asset, not a problem.
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It's not that simple because taxes modify gains but not losses.

Imagine we bet $1 on a coin toss. The expected value for either of us is $0. Now imagine the winner is required to pay 10% tax on his proceeds. The expected value becomes (-$1.00 + $.90)/2 = -$0.05.
I don't have Facebook, and I desperately want to get rid of the panel on the right telling me to login. So annoying. Apart from that really enjoy Spotify.