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Really? I didn't know that was an option. Shame, still VB.NET isn't as painful as I'd feared it might be and the important thing is the concepts. Secondary school CS is a whole world better than it was when I was their age.

Having said that I know there are concerns that by focusing on 'real' computer science the course has swung too far away from everyday practical computing skills. Personally I think schools should have a bias towards putting weight on the academic end of the vocational-academic spectrum.

I've avoided pushing Python too hard, they have enough on their plates learning VB, but I have dipped into it with them to show how it does some things differently. I don't want to make them feel resentful about learning VB, that wouldn't be constructive, so I'm learning VB along with them. I do think it's useful to understand what things are pretty fundamental, and which things can vary meaningfully between languages though.
Looks really cool but might be sensitive to tiny perturbations because the inverse function is over fitted to the optics which are basically random noise. I am thinking temperature changes, scratches and knocks.
Yes, we plan to use that as a means to sustain ourselves till we can actually make some money from this. Thanks for pointing, I have mentioned it in the landing page's FAQ now.
> Later, insurance companies hired brigades to only put out fires on insured properties.

In some parts of the world, insured properties were marked with metal plaques (generically termed "Fire Insurance Marks" [1]) bearing the insurer's symbol/logo. This enabled the insurer's firefighting service to verify that they should protect the building. I've occasionally seen them on old buildings here in the UK. One I remember was a stylised representation of the sun, denoting The Sun Fire Office - which was founded in the 1700s and still exists as RSA Group plc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_insurance_mark
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You can't fool me, NYT. Salty about loss in revenue and readers? That you are no longer alone in controlling the public narrative?

The media vendetta against facebook is blatantly obvious. Note that in the true spirit of collectivism the NYT never accepts that the user of a social network has any responsibility of using it like a grown up at all, instead the users are seen like little children who have to be guarded and guided by the corporation.

What happens when NYT goes the way of MySpace? Probably article like these.
And I'm surprised that major airports don't have counter-measures.

The vulnerability is huge, and not only for airports.

There's a pot of gold waiting for the right product.
Ask HN: Yes PHP or no PHP?
I have been working as a PHP developer for a few years. In 2019, I plan to dive deep into it and become its yoda. Is PHP dying very soon?
How NASA Uses Artificial Intelligence to Detect Exoplanets
Did they only pay people who make money from Facebook? This wasn't clear to me... 1000 USD seems like a hell of a lot of money for an average user to require.
So running a 6502 on an Artix-7 or W65C02S, is this more or less the most you can get out of it. That is does it max out the available logical units on the respective chips? Also do you get a 1:1 speed, when it comes to frequency etc?
Start-Stop in cars does save a considerable amount, which is a fact that can easily be verified, so you pretty much disqualified yourself there with "for zero fuel actually saved"...

The additional wear is not on the engine itself but on the starter components and those are simply designed for the additional load so that they can deal with the starts and stops.
Funny, a website with a "hall of shame", but it tries to use Google Analytics and Twitter, two things known for tracking their users everywhere at every step.
Is it itself on its "hall of shame"?

The "hall of shame" does not even load properly, when you block Google Analytics and Twitter, as I usually do. So you are forced to be tracked, if you want to see the content. That is another bad pattern, I would say.
I've been meaning to try it out, but the lack of an iOS client has held me back. Perhaps now is a good time to start :)

I wish there had been some progress with the EdgeOS port, specifically with hardware offload. a Ubnt employee was looking into it a year ago, and then nothing. The current (major release) beta of it doesn't mention anything about it either.
e) Generate more wealth, because the collapse of civilization and millions to billions of people dying has a negative effect on GDP.
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Did Facebook fund this study for positive PR? Or are the authors just trying really hard to get hired there? $1k to shut down Facebook for a year is the kind of result that should make one question one’s methods, not publish it.
I only know one WeWork in Paris but I agree that the acoustics are terrible. Basically there's not soundproofing at all. Sure, everything looks great, but I would trade that for meeting rooms with less reverberation.

Some American things are funny like free beers but don't you dare smoke a cigarette on the rooftop. Or the communal spaces that are designed in a way that kind of force you to have lunch at your desk.
just a reminder that for Linux you can use SSH connections to any server as VPN via SSHuttle.

100% simple and easy
No, it won’t die soon. If you like it, have fun!
Definitely NOT Berlin.
We can work on an open source project and even make some money along the way. Drop me email, if you are interested.

Yeaa, we'll work on GitHub.

I am building a plug and play subscription manager for SaaS startups.

The key selling point of this app is that, it will support many different payment gateways so if one gateway runs into issue, it will fallback to second one.

It will support tiered, metered, on off and recurring billing.

After that no one will have to implement billing on their own.
Wouldn't it be easy for you to post an example of the article being wrong, then? Otherwise it looks like you have a personal agenda against the new york times.
I love to right click, "block element" with ublock origin.

I wonder if websites are legally required to prove user clicked on "I agree".
Its pretty obvious to anyone who is not looking to get triggered that there is nothing racist nor fingerpointing in what i say. The illegal immigration is used to illustrate one of the things that make the us system wastely different especially from the scandinavian system even though they are always used as an example. Almost every person there is has lived their whole life there.

And given i dont actually give you any other reason to think i am racist its pretty absurd that you decide to make that interpretation of what i say but unfortunately its becoming more and more the norm. Try asking me what i mean next time instead of just throwing words around accusing people you dont know anything about for being racist.
"simple language like lisp"

I guess some lisps might be simple but I wouldn't call Common Lisp simple!
Makes perfect sense, the vacancies stay vacant because the salaries are so low!
UK-based startup PetaGene raises €1.8 for its genomic data compression software
I suspect you wanted to comment on this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18722952
Surprised this has no comments.

Amazing stuff, hope they can make it production worthy. The gold usage in most nano applications is negligible, the copper film might add up though.
I quite like this scheme too.

One benefit you haven't mentioned. All in copyright works are centralised into one register so you can actually tell if something is copyrighted or not.

I'd go for an initially shorter period though. 10 years freely extendable for another 10 years? I suspect the majority of copyrighted works wouldn't even take up the extension. And allows people to do interesting things with that book that no one read that much sooner, for example.
Haven’t you heard?

Even the esteemed President of the United States acknowledges the problem with the NYT.
that's genuinely hilarious in hindsight
Taking back ownership of personal data!
Those don't go terribly fast, In addition to the tiny tiny wheels not having a lot of grip leading to slow acceleration and deceleration. Getting those to align with the track is an operation that you'll only want to be doing at standstill.
I don’t know what Malta specifically is doing. The project mentioned elsewhere in here[1] is actually a thermal plant design — it uses mirrors to build a solar furnace and the salt acts as a buffering stage before the heat gets transferred to a conventional steam turbine setup. This eliminates one of the conversion steps.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project
I think you meant to comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18722952
Doesn't prevent your partner from cheating on you or getting a cut from a barber.

Getting bruised from a barbell carrying puss/blood from an infected person.

This is why I've invested in a personal gym.
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Haha, wrong item, one off ATM
> If you want to discuss how structural changes in the economy have let capital fuck over labor, that's a different conversation.

Well said. This should no doubt be the focus.
> I started using Go in 2008, but I get your point.

Yeah, it's an imperfect heuristic. I didn't intend it as a remark about you or your article in particular (I had added a sentence about that in my previous comment, but it must have gotten lost in the editing).

> it would have been better if they'd just said nothing.

Yes, I agree. "If you can't say it nice, then it's probably best to not say anything at all". I thought it would just be helpful to explain some of the frustrations that are (probably) behind the comment.
Well, I think that some people, at least, are trying to do that. But it's about as big a tragedy of the commons as you'll find.

What we need is for most people to eat less meat, live in walking and cycling-friendly city in a modern flat built without concrete, use renewable energy for electric, heating, and cooling, and take the train or slow-ish boat places (or a very expensive flight with audited carbon offsetting). All of these things are feasible - hell, downright easy, technologically.

Not a bad life really. Amsterdam and Copenhagen have among the highest quality of life in the world. I am envious every time I visit.

Instead all of the people doing that are essentially making things slightly better for the one's building bunkers in New Zealand (with enormous emissions to boot). Sooner or later you realize individual action is just a bandaid on a shotgun wound, and to some extent you're just making things cheaper for you gas-guzzling meat-loving cousin. Change MUST be organized at a governmental level. Governments exist to solve problems just like this one! Lighthouses are a common economic example (any one person not paying can still reap the benefit, so you have to enforce/organize action on the construction of said lighthouse).

Of course, it doesn't help that much of the world, especially the US, forced every city built in the last 100 years to be horrible by law. (Parking minimums, zoning, Robert Moses types, redlining, etc. etc.)
Does Google (or any of the other cloud vendors) audit/review the actual source code of packages used in the images? such as apache, nginx, openjdk, etc? or do they just run a scanner that test for known vulnerabilities?
I’ve been using the TestFlight beta for a while now - since it was first announced - and it’s been a great experience so far. The recently added option to activate on-demand is great, as it means I can now force VPN for any WiFi and/or mobile data connections.

The primary niggle I came across was transferring the keys between my host and the client, however after a bit of tweaking I found it far easier to just utilise the QR codes option. For those interested, I wrote about my experiences on my blog[0]

[0] https://grh.am/2018/wireguard-setup-guide-for-ios/
> in the United States and Canada

And that key detail is why this article is wrong. US and Canada are certainly most lukrative markets in terms of profit per single user, but they are far, far from the only markets in the world. Facebook usage in North America may start stagnating in the next few years, but it is still rapidly growing in other areas. And after that, well, you just run out of people in the whole humanity itself - and that's not a business problem that we have any historical example of.
Wait, things can be taken out of the public domain? What the fuck?
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In most parts of physics there are literally things spinning.

In signal processing we can take any periodic-in-time signal and pretend it is a function defined on a circle parametrized by angle measure.
What would happen if we discover an object that deserves the term "planet" at 180 AU, and then five years later discover another at 120 AU? Which one is "nine"?
Data is currency!
What if it’s just a measure of the strength of addiction?

I imagine if you ran the same study and asked Heroin users or smokers how much you’d have to pay them to stop it would have similar results.
I specifically have a calculation I use to be real with myself. I subtract all taxes and expenses from my gross pay, and then divide by the number of hours I work.

Believe it or not, I'm only saving 3 dollars an hour of my pay. That's about $6300 a year because I work about 2100 hours.

If you account for commuting time and emotional/physical toll of working, I'd say it's nearly negative pay.
You can make a case that democracy is a grand application of “wisdom of large crowd”. But if that can easily and consistently outperformed then do we have better political system than democracy? What are the consequences of this?
Is it really over-engineered though? As far as I can tell it's guide wheels welded onto existing busses and some concrete throughs to drive on. It seems to be an exceedingly simple and easy to apply system.
Are you a UK/EU citizen and were you registered where at the GPs you went to?
It uses gas compression through staged compressors to make the hot side, and gas expansion through staged expanders for the cold side, which makes a loop.

Think of it like a scaled up, reversible refrigerator.

I'd like to know if they also have a 'medium temp' tank, since if they do, they can keep the temperatures of the hot and cold tanks constant, and just change the amount of molten salt in them. That in turn means the compressors can be fixed compression ratios, which will dramatically increase efficiency.
Sure, but WireGuard has several other benefits (security-wise and operation-wise to sshuttle). sshuttle is a "poor man's VPN", WireGuard is a next generation VPN.
I used zstandard to compress mesages in P2P multiplayer game engine, and, taught on our real-life packets, it got us 2x-5x improvement. Awesome library, will use it in any similar project from now on.
Similar technology already in production in the UK: https://www.sunamp.com

They make a molten salt heat battery for homes and businesses. You store excess heat or electricity in the battery, and use it for central heating and hot water. Since you’re not trying to convert it back to electricity it’s very efficient. It basically replaces a large expensive water cylinder with a smallish box.

PS: I have no connection with or investment in Sunamp, I just think it’s a terrific idea. I am a potential customer, though!
This article reads like something between a hit-piece and a I-don't-like-Facebook-opinion-piece.

A similarly article could be written about Google but it is not. I think the interesting question is why not?
No question that this is against current US expert laws, but do you have any examples of a US tech company getting in trouble from export laws?
I'll need some proof of your claim. It makes no sense to me. Cos the intuitive thing is for addicts to use that money for binge smoking.
'Moar speed' is not really the point of 5g, and as usual the main advantages are not widely talked about because a lot of the media doesn't understand them and how to communicate more advanced concepts to readers. In my mind the biggest advantages and shifts in thinking are virtualization and network slicing [1], and enabling IOT [2].

[1] https://www.sdxcentral.com/5g/definitions/5g-virtualization/

[2] https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/india/authored-articles...
Hardware development was accelerated by games, too.
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Microsoft issues emergency patch for IE Zero Day exploited in the wild
What Happens When Google Goes the Way of Myspace?

Google earned more than $XXX billion in profit last quarter, and yet it has spent much of 2018 trapped in a defensive crouch. This year was defined by brutal press coverage, internal strife, executive departures and unwanted attention from authorities. The company stands accused of various offenses: degrading politics; empowering despots; leaving users vulnerable to abuse; abusing its users’ data for profit. It is in a constant state of crisis such that its executives’ responses to scandals end up becoming scandals themselves.

But the single event most pertinent to Google’s future, and with the most explanatory power regarding its recent past, came in Xxx, when the company admitted its flagship site had found a worrying limit. In late 2017, XXX million people a day were using Google in the United States and Canada. Despite strenuous efforts — you may have noticed more notifications lately — that number hasn’t been exceeded since.

...

The advertising data exposed in a user’s personal Google archive is, of course, just a sliver of what is available to the company. Google’s real profile of who you are — the one that it uses to fill your feeds and show you ads — is far more comprehensive. The company’s relentless accumulation of user data isn’t just a grab for power or a default behavior. It’s a long-term investment. You may forget Google; it could happen sooner than you expect. But it’s not likely to forget you.
Yep. You get a choice to be gouged on premiums or essentially gamble, hoping that life doesn't reset your savings to $0 (or lower) by getting in a car accident or something.
Also, we have to discount for the bubble of information that we sweat about as tech community. Outside of tech community, very few people seems to be noticing this and DAU/MAU for FB were even reported to have bit increased, although at lower rate. One cannot escape to see that NYT wants to hit FB in anyway it possibly can. When they don’t have news they line up opinion pieces.
Presumably they'd drive into the elevator on one side, and drive out of the elevator on the other side.
What's misogynistic in a picture representing breasts? Are they pictured in pain, or something like that?
wow this editor is great!
Maybe it's also a value thing, where the young people nowadays have much more liberal values in general. Also technological advancements like the Internet, etc.
Who cares about copyright, i consume all my content from archive.org
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RE 5: I'd argue that with a relational database (barring extreme scale cases) is the perfect place for your business logic. Constraints, unique indexes, etc, all ensure that your data is always consistent with itself and with the business logic you've encoded.
This device does not place a hidden camera where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Someone STEALS that device and moves it. The device's owner isn't breaking any law.

You are looking for problems where there are none.
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I once got a speeding tickrt for driving 20km/h faster than the claimed speed limit of 100km/h however this was on the german autobahn and nowadays when I'm there people are driving there at speeds of 130km/h and above without getting a ticket.

All of this bullshit is just a moneygrab.
I enjoyed the write up. I love these kinds of semi-technical, semi-story-telling, pieces.

I am saddened by many of the comments here though which equate to: "never try anything until you know everything" - sorry but that's just not realistic and it's unfair to the people who - commendably - contribute to these write ups and hold their hands up to mistakes-made, decisions that went badly with hindsight, etc.

Bigger picture: the Guardian appears to be thriving, and is succeeding based on the efforts of the tech team here. So if you read this and come away with a sense of "failure" you're probably missing something important.

It's OK to try new things and fail - just get back up and keep on trying, and use the new wisdom you build!
They're using AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) which isn't open to the world (you use a VPN to bridge the VPC into your internal network) and which you can spin up dedicated instances that don't share underlying hardware with other AWS customers.
Negative prices pretty much never happen in countries without subsidies.

It also isn't true that turning off any power station can't be done instantly. The station has to be able to cope with all its transmission lines suddenly being cut, which is a forced instant turnoff. It's more that the startup time is large, and they think that by losing money now, they'll still be running later when the power price is positive again.
I don't understand why a tube's profile cannot be emulated with a DSP and so be indistinguishable.
Emulation on a Pi adds several frames of latency, between the emulator, OS, and graphics pipeline. When combined with the latency of a modern LCD screen, this can be enough to really impair playability of some games. FPGA-based recreations of old machines can theoretically eliminate most of that latency (other than the display lag).
Assuming you are not an EU citizen, you are don't get free healthcare in the UK anyway. They probably told you to go to the private doctor because if you are non-EU you would have health insurance which would cover this no?
"Sharing economy" with local temporary monopolies and the intermediaries giving everyone the short stick while aggresively reinvesting the transaction money they keep hostage. Can we get over it already? I WANT TO OWN.
You should definitely give a percolator a try. They sell em at ikea last time I checked, both single-cup and two-cup sizes. You put water in, You put coffee in, You stick it on the stove. When it starts making spluttering noises it's done and you pour it out. The only trash generated is the coffee used. Bonus points for grinding your own coffee fresh, my preferred method is one of those hand-crank grinders for mounting on the wall.
It's one of the few things they've done right, carbon tax, pushing vehicle electrification, cancelling new coal generation.

But yes do agree the system is hardly perfect, for instance theres been a spike in illegal cfc-11 coming out of southern China, and while the authorities talk tough and have shut down numerous operators they struggle with enforcement in general and more pop up anyway.

Likewise gas wells in the states have been found to be producing far more fugitive emissions of methane which is incredibly harmful but again not recorded.

To top it all off emissions are only measured for a countries production not consumption, a big beef exporter gets the blame for another's hamburger. Which seems somewhat unjust.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-china-cfc-dilemma...

https://theconversation.com/the-us-natural-gas-industry-is-l...
Learned Vue -> React

Go, Rails, Lambda/serverless, docker, java, python

Learned how to use dynamodb, google cloud datastore, bigquery, redshifts

I did this while working for startups which seen to use many different technology.

I work in ad tech because that's the only place i get to handle billion of clicks and challenges to deal with the traffic volume.