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also, a mention of GoF Command pattern further convinces me that all design patterns are just workaround to shortcomings of mainstream languages of the time and are simply unnecessary in proper FP languages or at least languages with higher order functions and other functional features.

cargo culting design patterns into languages that don't need them is ironic.
Or H.P. Lovecraft.
I would be. BEAM is just a very slow platform, not just compared to Java, but also compared to JavaScript and Go. Again, that's not to say it's not very useful for some things (although many Erlang apps are really mixed Erlang/C apps because of BEAM's performance). Hey, CPython is really slow, too and yet very useful.

Green threads is another matter as it's not a feature that currently exists on the Java platform (there are somewhat similar features in Java platform languages like Kotlin's coroutines), but there is currently a project (that I'm leading) to add fibers (AKA user-mode threads, AKA lightweight threads, AKA green threads) to the JVM: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/
I would guess more people are gaming on consoles regularly than PC's?
According to [1] in the UK car thefts peaked in 1993 at 36 incidents per thousand car-owning households, and it's now dropped to 4.

Is there really still a massive stolen car problem?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47023003
To me this journalist is disgusting and plainly unprofessional. Yes, Jiayang Fan, I am looking at you.

It's ok to argue with an interviewee, but, gosh, who does it like that?

While "brainwashed" Liu Cixin is "deaf to the argument", the journalist ignores opponent's arguments because of her (commendable, of course) "inflexible sense of morality" and "principles to be upheld regardless of outcomes".

In case the reader is not susceptible to the journalist's line of thought, let's plug a couple of bits like "as if I were minding a small child" and "he sounds almost like a child" in seemingly innocent contexts. Of course, it has nothing to do with how Liu Cixin's words should be perceived in the other contexts.

But what if the reader is still not sure who's won the argument?

The journalist tells what she had read in Liu Cixin's mind: "he sighed, as if exhausted by a debate going on in his head."
Of course, he sighs because he doubts what he says, what else that could possibly be?

"I looked at him, studying his face. He blinked" - oh, Jiayang Fan, you are magnificent.
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The reverse, to a lesser extent (only about Western politics), is also true in Chinese media.
Could you expand on why? Just curious.
I have never seen a definition of freedom of speech that is restricted specifically to government action. Certainly, internationally recognized definitions like that in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights don't make that distinction.

If saying something can essentially wreck your life and turn you into a pariah because you can't even get a job, what does it matter if it's a government or not doing it? When the church punished heretics, did it also not count as a violation of freedom of expression because it was not the government doing it?
i have vague and hazy memories of reading loads of andre norton science fiction books borrowed from a library when i was younger -- lots of weird stories about trading ships visiting far planets, meeting aliens, some unusual amount of gem trading, "forerunner" alien races...

edit: aside from scifi, garth nix' "sabriel" books are a pretty good read. fantasy, necromancy, & quite an imaginative take on how magic systems work
> be written in a Lisp without garbage collection.

Gensym G2 is also written in a Lisp without GC. The Roomba software was written wit static memory allocation in a Lisp... it probably still is.

> I think he may be the only productive Lisp programmer in the world.

There are a bit more...
I think you missed something here https://i.imgur.com/CtFLsSm.png
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2 comments:

1) This needs a [2014] tag.

2) This encourages password re-use and the 2019 guidance really needs to focus on generating unique passwords for each site / property and storing it somewhere secure. The push to move to other forms of security has never been stronger.
> This bug is causing printing using the brother cups drivers to fail on Tuesdays.

Absolutely loved reading through the bug! haha
This goes on my list of "things I want to have in my new world religion if I ever get around to creating one".
You will get the latent heat back when the water condenses again.
Can you name any large controversies around something as small as that? As I understood it the large ones like No Man’s Sky or Anthem even doctored gameplay footage during their presentations in addition to promising the moon and more. However when it was just "We might do this", then almost nobody blames them, a small minority might be angry or upset, but most don't care and many steps in to defend the devs in those cases.
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> This is a device that could only be triggered after theft, thus hardly any privacy concerns

How would the car know when it has been stolen?
There's a hell of a lot of space between "yeah, that hole is fked but you do you" and "hire someone or GTFO" which is what the comment I initially replied to is advocating for.

Property owners should be able to do their own work on their own property or act as their own general contractors. Disallowing that is right up there with gated communities that tell you exactly how tall your grass should be but that's the only way to prevent this kind of thing. I don't think everone's (already highly limited) right do what they want on their own property should be further curtailed because of one bad actor.
Last time I used a traditional hosting provider, I could get a new bare metal server setup in under half an hour. I would hardly call them "pay what you use" even though I could start and stop servers and change the plan I'm on and still be only two to three times slower than doing the same on AWS.
Point taken, but I was thinking more about the "it's a socialist policy" part, and he certainly wasn't a socialist.
I agree to the extent that a hands-on person might not care for or see the value to learn programming. I had arguments with my younger brother about learning software programming, whereas he liked building computers and building out networks (I’d jibe, ‘pulling cable’).

That said, I don’t think music education is a good analogy, unless you’re working at Guitar Center. I’d say it’s more like learning Spanish, if you want to be a food service manager. It’s not your job to speak nor write in Spanish for Spanish speakers, but it’s damn useful.

So what I’m saying is you don’t have to become a programmer to realize the value of doing a data analysis task in a fraction of the time it takes in Excel. Especially how business likes to pile on work (now you have one more thing to do every week) in a way that design and project-based work does not.
> They're rather young for Merchant Princes yet then. Hmm.

i pretty much enjoy any book that Stross publishes, including the merchant princes series, but things do get rather grim. (now kids, what do you think would _really_ happen if a superpower discovered a doorway into narnia? ...)
Thomas Wade, her ex-boss, the man of cold hard decisions, a stereotype in its own right.

One of the most out of character decisions event in the books. As with any "out of character action" a character can take, the blame lies in the author. Like in the question "who would win between Superman and Goku ?" the answer is in the author, not the characters. The author forced a narrative to prove the point that Cheng Xin wasn't able to do the hard choices.
Abortion isn't killing a person.
>If saying something can essentially wreck your life and turn you into a pariah because you can't even get a job, what does it matter if it's a government or not doing it?

Conversely, it's impossible to have a "marketplace of ideas" if all forms of criticism, regardless of their source or intent, are considered a violation of someone's freedom of speech, and this presents the paradox of only considering active speech to be defensible, but not reactive.

A marketplace of ideas implies that some ideas will be considered not worth buying.
While self-hosting is a good start, I believe that everyone should be end-to-end encrypting their data. Servers can be hacked and snooped on, and I cringe at the thought of leaving my personal information in the clear on a server, even if it's mine.

That's why I created EteSync[1] a secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync solution that seamlessly integrates with existing apps and feels just like a Google account.

1: https://www.etesync.com
An article I read claimed exactly that, saying that the real money sitting in a bank would also be used for generating interest to pay back initial investors

Can't find the source but it was reliable, Techcrunch or the New York Times I think
I'm not the best expert at this, but I followed a couple of security courses, so I do have some understanding.

From my understanding: it is a monitoring system that detects malicious activity.

How do they do this? Attackers need to find weaknesses. Where these weaknesses are is a pretty well-known topic. Database calls and I/O processing are weaknesses because if you can manipulate that you have a system compromise. Rendering pages is a weakness because of cross-site scripting issues or cross-site request forgery issues. (Duckduckgo is your friend if I am speaking in an ancient magic language ;-) )

An attacker needs to do some crazy stuff in order to exploit these weaknesses. In a lot of cases you can detect divergent behavior. For example, Let's say that an attacker successfully performs an SQL injection in the username. Then upon processing by the server, it executes an SQL command. This means that the server needs to execute a child process via a system call (system calls are an API exposed by the operating system to do stuff like file I/O or spawning processes and underly all of the I/O functions in any framework that you use). So what you could do is monitor these system calls and do a check on where they come from (you could do many more complicated things, I'm making this up as I write this, e.g. see [1]).

Since this system call has to go through the monitoring, you could detect that this is coming from an HTTP login request, for which database writes are not allowed. On that moment you could halt execution.

I am not saying that this is what they are doing, but upon reading it. It seems this is kind of what they are doing.

Here is a paper on it. It might seem daunting, but it isn't since the paper describes the architecture [1]. The implementation might be more daunting depending on. your familiarity with C.

[1] https://www.cs.vu.nl/~giuffrida/papers/dsn-2016.pdf
National level public healthcare would be difficult to implement in the US for the same reason a pan European standard would be hard to implement.

That said, if you do it on a state by state basis then qualify will vary just like it does between the different European countries.

But as the US is a single nation, the mere existence of variation will mean some people say the system is a failure.
I assume by you sending it and activation SMS.
I don't have an anti-Facebook bias (ok I do, but it's not relevant in this case), but I do have a strong anti-blockchain-as-a-buzzword bias.

1. If the blockchain & all transactions are not public, how is this different to having a non-blockchain based online currency (e.g. "Facebook credits")?

2. If the currency is pegged to USD, how is this different from just having USD in your PayPal account?

My hunch is, this is just a marketing/regulation-evasion exercise. It's not "currency" (it's crypto-currency) so they're not forced to follow the same AML/KYC/capital control/credit check regulations... Governments will quickly catch up though.
i would go through a loop of translating the documenting using online translators between X languages.
It will create syntax errors but will provide maybe some "hashing"
Avoid the mediterranean.
Old IPCC models "predicted" tornados in the mediterranean - there are very brief tornados (google for cap de fiblo) every now and then near Minorca island (I saw 2 myself).
"As a result, one of the association's directives will be to work with the community to research and implement this transition, which will begin within five years of the public launch of the Libra Blockchain and ecosystem."

I challenge the Libra team to put their money where their PR is at. Decentralization isn't impossible. Why should it take five years? This reads more like an empty, vague promise to appease the internet.

"The challenge is that as of today we do not believe that there is a proven solution that can deliver the scale, stability, and security needed to support billions of people and transactions across the globe through a permissionless network."

Many people in the cryptographic and distributed systems community, including me, would disagree.
Hey, cool down a bit. I don't think posting here on HN has any effect on the piece or journalist's style.

Westerners think any opinions Chinese people have, if not conforming to Western values, are due to either "brainwashed" or "fear repercussions".

I have resigned from expressing my opinions long ago in real life because I don't think people around me care much about what I think other than claiming superior or vindicating their own position. So my normal response has been "fly there and ask people what they want, see for yourself".

It has been fascinating to see so many Chinese people who go oversea but end up supporting the current government even more (mind you, not everything the government does, before someone brings this up).
Doom 2016 was only dark enough to be atmospheric. Important things like incoming fire are bright and loud.

The muted backgrounds and bright targets are needed though. Unlike Doom 3, Doom 4 and now 5 are so fast paced you'd have a bad time if the whole game looked like a pride parade.
They could, should and can be high quality. Which is why there is such outrage when developers show one thing and deliver an early beta build for $80.
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What needs to be removed is the password system entirely. I cannot believe that in the age of public-key cryptography we are still using passwords for serious security.
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> Meant, yes, by somebody, but a web service creator can decide otherwise, for some reasons, like simplicity.

As the conclusion of the article shows, if you do that you're breaking the contracts of the web platform. It's a sure way to build a web service that won't play along well with other web services, like a search crawler.
Not really... The move was forced on Cyprus by the EU, which controls the currency. Essentially the same as Facebook controlling the currency.
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IIRC, Kilim (a Java library) performed better than Erlang in benchmarks.
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That would imply an always-on mobile phone connection inside the car, which is bad for privacy because now the phone company knows the car's rough location at all times.
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Where I'd really like the password masking to be optional is on mobile, where I'm never sure if i typed a complex password correctly.

On desktop, like other people, I do type passwords while not alone in front of the screen, and masking is fine.
What I always find massively baffling is, that any transmitted and recorded history is less than 15,000 vears old.

First hints at sedentariness appear around the construction of Göbleki Tepe [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

However, biologically speaking we has Homo sapiens sapiensis are around for approximately 250,000 years.

That's ~6% of our biological existence where we suddenly went from running around, building like 3 stone-wood tools and wearing animal skins to communicating across the planet in real-time.
And the two lead characters in the third one are also women
I feel like there's a line between private and public information that's getting lost here. Maybe 'non-public'? Just because I've shared something with someone (by necessity, in some cases - they work for the same employer as me, so they know I work here) doesn't mean it's public information.

Or to follow that on, if several people see what medication you've purchased in a shop, is that information now public information? Has the expectation of privacy gone out of the window because it was witnessed by another person? Does that then justify that information being shared with 1+ corporations to add to their profile of you?
The only way to actually solve living prices is increase in living space. Its as simply as that. Literally nothing else has worked, and the cheapest cities to live in are those that build a lot of new apparment buildings. Everything else is political snake oil that usually makes the problem worse not better. This is the most basic economics that has been shown over and over again for 100+ years.

If you want to do something useful. Do infrastructure building and make more of the surounding area accessable for large scale building programs.

Make regulations for building easier to handle when building new houses. Meaning allow to build higher and so on. I bet there are 100s of unnessary regulations that have accumelated over the last 50 years.
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I've wondered about this and based on my own personal criteria, I narrowed down to Canada or New Zealand.

My criteria:
* Friendly to immigration
* Access to currently untapped freshwater resources
* Not too densely populated
* Preferably English speaking
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Pretty lucky that the "delete everything, really, also the backups!" button needed a POST.
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Another article about this topic was submitted and heavily upvoted/discussed earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20217256 (264 points, 215 comments)
> Maybe if your only hobbies are nightclubs and getting mugged.

As someone living in and enjoying rural live with lots of space and quiet I really understand your point, but slightly belittling and disregarding comments like these don't help your argument. It's not that hard to see the attraction of big cities as long as you can imagine that someone might have different interests than you. Of course, this applies to city dwellers unable to see the appeal of rural life as well.

> Besides that, people who would prefer to not own any car, rent bicycles instead of owning them if they're a bicyclist, and wouldn't want to own a house if they had the option sound like a niche minority to me.

I wouldn't put the idea of not owning a car in the same category as your other examples. A car is the first thing I'd get rid of if it wasn't required and I have no doubt that a large and increasing number of people feel the same way.
> 3.) Current ECB rates are causing a housing bubble

People keep saying stuff like this but this is a economic theory with very little actual support in any evidence or even in most economic theory of how montary policy works.
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Some similar stories: "unit tests fail when run in Australia" [1] and "the case of the 500-mile email" [2].

Many interesting debugging stories are collected in this GitHub repository [3].

[1] https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/5017

[2] http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

[3] https://github.com/danluu/debugging-stories
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That repo hasn't committed code in over a year. I would class that as "stalled", not in progress.
it's such a weird concept to me.. "server-rendered html" is what i was doing most of my webdev career and suddenly it's the "hot new thing"?

anyway i still don't see why i would need it with Clojure if i can have single codebase and language for backend and frontend and render whatever i want at either -end.
UK != Europe, saying that I don't know if 660k thefts EU-wide in 2016 [1] constitutes a "massive problem" or not, comes to around 0.1% thefts per person (assuming a rough 500 million EU population).

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
I'd move somewhere where the government and people actively care about climate change and don't just say "it's someone else's problem" or "nothing I can do as an individual will make a difference" or "you first!"
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Hi Pierre, congrats on the launch! I'm following your progress since the beginning (2015) and your product is impressive. I saw you have Le Monde among your customer, did you notice than more and more media companies are investing in security?
ugh - the interface looks like 1994 web but it's nice to actually see TXs online
I'd like to see more features developed soon...
> How many people are really stuck on 32 bit?

There's a post about Lockheed looking for VAX people. I guess a lot of people are using 32 bit machines.

OTOH, they don't tend to run the latest software.
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Thishas made me want to dig out my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88
I'm honestly impressed. After more than 20 years programming and reading about programs, this is the first time that I find such a thing: a concise and well-written description of the exact opposite of everything that I believe in. It's like the author was reading my mind and applied a NOT filter before writing it back.
Where can I find a list of such places?
I find it interesting how a lot of Go devs, myself included, agree that Rust is better in terms of language design, performance etc but still use Go. Personally, it's the productivity that has me reaching for it first
Well, it is less than 100000 lines and less than 50 years old, so no, it is not idiomatic.
One year you sell $500k worth of software to customers, the next customers sell $500k worth of software to you. Easy come, easy go, it's a zero-sum game.
It's no coincidence that the OGs who focus on gameplay -- Nintendo, iD Software, Rockstar -- show the least BS.

They've all had bad experiences in the past when they demo'd graphics and learned from it. Nintendo's 2000 Zelda video sent expectations the entirely wrong way for Wind Waker. iDs Doom 3 mishap (no one wants a sneaky, shadowy Doom Guy).
Good to see it so far along!

There's some work to be done in rust on portability - it's been a problem in pkgsrc too.