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I'm really not understanding this. What you seem to be saying is that when Softbank succeeds they get to own a load of tech companies. That's great, that's the upside of any VC.

Where I'm not understanding is you're saying when they fail, the money they've lost has gone into stimulating demand for japanese goods and kept the currency low. But firstly, that's still them failing - the company will fail, ROI will be low. It might help the domestic japanese manufacturing industry, but it's not going to help softbank.

But also to take your example, Softbank blows a load of money in India on Uber, those Indian Uber drivers go out and buy japanese cars. But it's not like 100% of the cash you're putting into Uber goes to Japanese car companies. It's probably not even 5% - the vast majority of the money will be going to stimulate the Indian economy.

I just don't understand, because what you seem to be saying is that for a primarily export based economy, you should just print money always, that doesn't seem correct to me - but I really don't know enough about it. Surely there must be downside? Normally I'd say this maps to inflation and squeezed living standards- but are we just no longer seeing those effects?
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'Economics' stuff is a hidden gold mine worth mining.

I started playing with Java because a finance newspaper in Spain was sold with the Java Alpha3 SDK CD (yes, I'm that old).
UK to end freedom of movement for EU citizens on day one of Brexit
Personally i believe in flat-earthers. There is a lot of evidence these people exist lol.
Is there any valid use cases for something like "legitimate airdrop"?

Maybe things like hyper local advertisements.
Wasn't it both an exercise and a decoy/distraction operation?
I think this is leiningen and not clojure itself, by the way.
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I'm not sure what the judge is playing at here.

Australia (like many other countries) has codified in law [1] that when there is ambiguity in a law, the ambiguity must be interpreted in the which best matches the original intent of the law.

In this case, the intent of the law is to give police the ability to search encrypted devices, so people can't hide evidence behind technology and anti-self incrimination rights. There is no evidence that the law intended to have an exception for phones or other not-computer devices, otherwise it would have explicitly stated an exception.

It doesn't matter weather you disagree with such a law or not, but the law exists and the judge is required to resolve any ambiguity in the way that favours the intent of the law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purposive_approach#Australia
> ... is less safe because it takes more physical strength to actually handle the car in emergency situations.

Almost no driver you describe would be able to handle a 2000kg+ car (any type) without power steering and brake assistance which is why they all have this and this is no longer a problem.

The higher vantage point in combination with a bigger car also causes more low speed bumps and low speed pedestrian hits, but then again "you" are safe.
Weird. I'd rather say that tech users would use shorter version because there should be no diff between www/nowww
If you want to name a "software artist", I would say Steven Wittens best fit the description https://acko.net/
> 3. Hire the best engineers you can.

This is where most companies fail. Yes, they do want the best developers, but for the budget of an average junior/medior dev.

For some reason most companies/managers I worked for do not understand the financial impact of a not so good developer. Or the other way around; they fail to value the best developers and are unable recognize them.

I've worked for plenty companies where they let mediocre dev's build a big app from scratch (including the architecture), in an Agile self managed team.. These are the codebases that always need to be rewritten entirely because they have become an unmanageble buggy mess of bad ideas and wrong solutions.
OP says SoftBank contributes for 38b to their own 100b fund directly, so i don’t think your explanation is correct...

Plus they apparently did the same thing in their first fund a few years ago.
I thought it was pretty straightforward:

> I don't believe there is any such thing as intuitive interfaces, only familiar interfaces.

You read so much about "intuitive" UI/UX design. It's in the article's title, after all. All based to some degree on what interactions come naturally to humans. I don't think much does come naturally beyond a very basic level, and after that it's purely to do with familiarity. So rather than focusing on some hypothetical universal intuition, focus on what your target audience is familiar with.
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Fully agree. The architect must spend a couple of sprints as an issue solver for the team - that will validate their design rather well.
Those artists are still using AOT compiled Air runtime, or have migrated to either Animate CC or Unity, although a minority might have given a shot to OpenFL/PlayCanvas.

There is no miraculous contribution to open source 3D animation going on.
I recently read a really good book about the 'rewilding' project at Knepp in Sussex in the UK - they emphasise the role of large animals in maintaining a 'healthy' landscape:

https://knepp.co.uk/home

Review of the book:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/28/wilding-isabel...
Why do people keep posting this link in this thread? It's a terrible answer because it uncritically accepts the claim that a static rally at a venue that doesn't hold more than about 20,000 people had hundreds of thousands. Basic fact checking. Do it.
As a Swiss, when I see that constant supervision is mandated in many US states until 12 years old, then I have to think that there's more than just isolated communities there where it's going wrong. You basically have laws that make anything other than what we call helicopter parenting illegal.
Love that blog. Am always delighted whenever it appears on HN and tend lose at least an hour or two down an exploding rabbit hole.
beautiful, starred.
HN loves LISP, there's a LISP (the entire family of languages) article quite often. It's a joke that goes around here and there - the fascination with LISP in this community.

Also, I would not say there is any more hype for lisp now than 3 years ago. It's still an esoteric language to most, and one that few people actually bother learning these days.

All the javascript articles are more "practical" because a wide audience uses them, but Lisp is a language most people only use at home or at uni.
The full judgment if anyone is interested in the particulars. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/...
It's absolutely not. Most of my friends put a picture.
I'm in tech and I don't but that's a personal choice.
> Literally Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Jetty all get it wrong out of the box.

Absolutely correct, it's surprisingly difficult to get a really good working configuration with no weird fallbacks or side effects and have working http2. I have five server blocks per domain name when using nginx, some are reusable though, here:

* Port 80 with wrong domain - close connection, nothing legit does this

* Port 80 with right (www. and .) domain - redirect to https://

* Port 443 with no SNI - close connection, nothing legit does this

* Port 443 with www. SNI (http2 enabled) - redirect

* Port 443 with . SNI (http2 enabled) - display proper page

Not surprisingly it tremendously cut down the amount of exploit scanners and bad bots from logs (they seem to rely on everyone not enforcing SNI) and managed to hide the server from Shodan :D. This is of course not to diss nginx, other servers e.g. caddy and apache were worse or even impossible to configure to the same point.
> Of course if in the car there is no drugs (or explosives) the only net result is a waste of time of both the policemen and the "target".

Google for "civil forfeiture dog car stop". They don't need to find drugs to take the car or any cash in it, as the dog signalling is deemed enough of a cause for forfeiting, though not for prosecuting criminally.
I can help you, but, they are in Portuguese.

This is the wikipedia page talking about the most famous dish: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanfana

This is one of the recipes: https://aldeiasdoxisto.pt/artigo/531
He was also an early supporter of Putin and very much a Russian imperialist in policy views.
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How is that even remotely similar? Wow
Not sure what I'm supposed to see, however this is my Firefox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iiahhn1hb05nm5w/Screenshot%202019-...

And this is my Safari (with the most popular content blocker active):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4n4hxbnumcyqegu/Screenshot%202019-...

So my Firefox has less bits of entropy than my Safari, although I do admit that my Firefox has a custom configuration (it isn't out of the box), but so does my Safari.

Also Firefox might have plenty to work on in regards to resisting fingerprinting techniques, however there are ongoing projects for that, for importing techniques already used in the Tor Browser:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting

And Firefox does protect against entities known to practice fingerprinting, which you can't say about Safari:

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protectio...
Recently there is so many horror stories about Google support, last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20711508, now this...

I'm really glad I don't depend on business with Google.
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> I can only thing they mean the proportion of death was higher (death/participants).

Edited from "deadly" perhaps, which could mean both (absolute and relative).

Still surprised though that the absolutes are so close.
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> Fun fact, goat is the most widely eaten meat in the world.

Do you have a trusted source for this?

A quick search query using my favorite search engine tells otherwise. But that's just random internet information.
This is fantastic. It's been a promise for a long time that computers would become ubiquitous, open source software would be able to allow people to do (semi-)professional looking things for free, having access to the internet would be a great enabler, etc.

This is just proof that it's happening! It's genuinely inspiring to see this.
Each time I see a LISP related article on Hacker News, I always ask myself why LISP is so popular only on HN. This is the only website where I hear about LISP. Is LISP popular on HN because it brings advantages to the table or is it popular because it looks cool to say you use it, or something else?

Please help me understand. I am tempted to learn it but needs justification.
The approach is called holistic management. Basically, you make sure cows stay in one place until they've grazed (or trampled, doesn't matter) the tall grasses away. Then you move the cows to another place and let nature do its job. On average, the places where tall grasses were converted to natural fertilizer, do much better vs. ungrazed places. It's all about the thickness of the humus layer and the presence of the accompanying microorganisms.

He received a lot of criticism, but the evidence shows it's working.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/aug/19...

The places where it's not working are usually overgrazed or missing other elements that prevent erosion.

The problem of desertification can be solved everywhere, though it's not always easy. You need to:

- prevent wind erosion by adding the right grasses
- prevent wind erosion by creating terraces
- make sure leaves, branches and other dead materials are added to the humus layer
- protect the vegetative cover by adding trees
- cycle nutrients through grazing
- trap water in the humus layer, pits, ditches

Also, look up the work of John D. Liu, he did great work in the Löss plateau in China and Jadav "Molai" Payeng, who created a 300 hectare forest mostly by himself.
> WebKit that was forked by Google because they couldn't collaborate with Apple?

You say "they couldn't collaborate" I say "Google really wanted to compete".

Remember that it was Google who decided to perform a fork because they had a different approach than Apple for how "multi-process" should be implemented. Google had an implementation that they didn't want to integrate into the Webkit branch - hence the Blink fork.[1]

Also Apple would have been happy if they could use the Google's implementation instead of using their own - they said that repeatedly [2]

You can also find more details of the story here. It looks more and more obvious that the decision to create a WebKit fork was more political than technical : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5490242

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/apr/05/blink-goo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5490661
More photos:

http://www.ansa.it/sito/photogallery/primopiano/2019/08/11/a...
This magazine is pretty biased though, and most opinions are mainstream.
> All this is based on assumption that those "terrorists" exist and need a sophisticated a reliable banking system.

And that they don't have one. They've used the hawala system since pretty much forever.
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God I hate country drop-downs, especially ones that don't have search functionality, double hate them on mobile. Yep, a normal drop-down will let me move down the options by pressing a key - I'm a Kiwi, so N for New Zealand, but that just moves me to Namibia, then I've got to carefully scroll to locate my country in between Nevis and Nicaragua.

What adds insult to injury is that Nevis isn't even a country, it's part of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
I really like this kind of thinking, it's where my brain is heading currently.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time or skill in weeding through historical facts and theory/storytelling to know if the "agricultural economy informs cultural values" hypothesis is true.

My theory right now is more on income being a much stronger determining factor of culture than realized. A lot of specifically "Asian", "Indian" or "Western" values are actually just a reflection of income levels more than anything else, and many cultural norms will disappear when income levels equalized (like, the Asian attitude towards luxury goods or smoking).
This has been reversed - see https://hexway.io/blog/apple-bleee/
For less reputable police, they might just say the dog alerted when it didn't. What's a layman to say? No it didn't? And courts usually give the benefit of the doubt to police, even if they technically shouldn't. Because police don't need probable cause to use a dog to search your car means it is the de facto way to escalate to a probable cause search, and even if a dog isn't present, bringing one there usually makes people uneasy, leading to claims of "suspicious behavior", and allows the police to detain someone until it arrives.

Sadly, I don't think the false positive alert rate is something the police are looking at or trying to reduce. In my cynical opinion, they are just looking for more reasons to find you a criminal, even if you aren't one. If they view you as a criminal to start, that's a huge burden to overcome.
> 3. Hire the best engineers you can.

What is the definition of "best engineers"? Those with extensive experience? those who follow design patterns and coding standards religiously? those who solve algorithms on a whiteboard? I would like to see if there is a definition for this.

I would say build the right culture (collaborative, always learning from mistakes and revise decisions and no blame or pointing fingers).

You can get a bunch of great coders/engineers _who follow code standards, break down codes to zillions of functions/methods ... etc_ but will fail to work together and conflicts will raise quickly.
It's a fairly common pattern. Essentially it's a slightly cleaner way of doing a multiway conditional rather than if and else.

Ruby has it explicitly (case, when, else), and of course functional languages with pattern matching operate like this as a matter of course. A Boolean guard followed by the code to run if the guard is matched.
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I post on HN infrequently. When I do it says something like "1 point for anthay." But I've been on 51 points for what feels like years. Just curious.
FYI, The Independent has a reputation for writing ridiculous clickbait articles. When you look into the details things almost always turn out to be much less dramatic than the article made it sound.

See here for a response to this article: https://twitter.com/adamfleming/status/1163335442542059520

> As has been previously been made clear, in the event of no deal, EU citizens and their family members already resident in the UK by 31 October 2019 will be welcome to stay and we want them to do so. They are part of our community, and part of our country and we welcome the contribution that they make. If there is no deal, they will have until 31 December 2020 to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to protect their status.
Former Googler here.

Google views picking new engineers like picking quality construction metals. In the end, the machine melts you down and hammers you into a pristine cog.
I find this strange too. I think they're trying to reduce risk. This basically transforms what would otherwise be an equity investment into a debt investment which lowers overall risk
Let me understand, they are smart enough to use bitcoin and dumb enough to not use Tor? I am not sure how big is the intersection of these two sets.
“The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition — hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative — often masks a deeper recklessness,”

I've been surprised to find many cases where it's the complete opposite. A lot of people here are surprisingly level-headed and progressive, and not as 'hyperrational' as other parts of the internet.
“UniFLEX is a Unix-like operating system ... for the Motorola 6809”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniFLEX
I am not defending Google. Google is really shitty in terms of open source collaboration. Many of Google's OSS efforts are OSS just in license, but not in spirit.

All I'm saying is that Apple's WebKit is not a good example of OSS and if that's what you have to show for iOS, then it's a really sad state of affairs.
Let's develop a machine learning algorithm which can decide the likelihood of misleading title by checking what contexts are involved
Aww damnit. :(

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/most-consumed-meat-in-world_n...

Although to be fair, pork makes way more sense.
Nah, you can buy dry ice commercially for about $1/kg in many places, it's used for shows, parties and food refrigeration. ln2 is only a little harder to obtain, but there are companies which will lease dewars and fill them with LN2. It's not like walmart level, but you can get them in bigger cities.
That gets very hard very quickly if you're involving something like monero and are happy to pay some fees and don't require giant amounts in one transaction.
If you DIY it without all the permits, the chances of getting caught is very low. The only reason to do the paperwork is if you want to sell your house before the solar tech becomes obsolete.
I completely agree with you.

What happens in the USA frequently happens in western countries a bit later.

I actually live in Ireland and I’m so surprised everytime I see parents giving their todlers a smartphone with a cartoon on it to keep them quiet.

And the same with kids. There even are tablets in mc donald’s !

And recently, Gardia (the police) stated that they gonna start alerting childcare if they find kids playing outside with no adult watching !

That’s not the way I raise my kids at all. Luckily we are in a house with a big garden and trees.

But, at least in Western Europe, we are sadly following this path..
> "A fluorine-aluminum fire is something to see - from a safe distance"

When I was about 11, I first got some sodium. OK, so throwing sodium in water was dramatic. Then I did a crude hack to remotely drop it in warm concentrated nitric acid.

That was very dramatic.
The bloke at the Youtube channel Veritasium has a good video [0] where he makes LN2 using a Helium stirling engine chiller [1].

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCXkaQa53QQ
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryocooler#Stirling_refrigerat...
It seems like it might be guerilla marketing rather than an actual product...
What do the criminals want? Less trees and more grazing? Why?
They have deals with the power company for frequency regulation or some other high value service I would guess. That's why only certain electricity companies are allowed.

I bet the homeowner gets a reduction in their bill on the basis of total kWh per month, but Tesla is participating in the local energy market on an hour by hour basis, earning far more money in the afternoon "peak AC" hours.
I don't think there is only 1 reason. I can think of several others - ie Marc Dutroux's case was highly medialised in Europe.

People generally have less and less time with kids due to work, and then overcompensate by being over-protective ("I suck at spending enough time with my kids, but look at how I protect them! I must still be a good parent then!").

There are much more cars everywhere, they drive faster too. Especially US problem from my experience, since whole infrastructure is designed around car usage. How are kids supposed to roam freely in urban areas then? I recall having to do 45 min walk to get to my work which was 1km away in LA, and this was including taking forbidden shortcut via highway road. Otherwise a solid 1h walk, to do frakin' 1km distance. Because nobody thought that there are pedestrians. Well kids are pedestrians, even on bikes.
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Maybe you're right.
Because they earn (more) money from the cattle that grazes?
This is just to push the EU into a position where it's more willing to negotiate.
After a brief visit and further readings, I’ve learned to admire Singapore’s 1st world transformation. I’m a absolutely in awe that a government body can produce such a high quality article.
You could use uMatrix instead of uBlock.

Blocking JavaScript is the most potent form of fingerprinting resistance.

It's not comfortable to whitelist websites or pieces of functionality from websites, but at least you have the option. If on desktop Chrome, enjoy it while you still can, because Google just deprecated the underlying APIs ;-)
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If this is the case, this has interesting knock-on effects for a number of things.

1) this would mean that the government (executive) would need to bring in primary legislation to allow EU citizens to continue to work and live in the UK. (those who have registered I think would be ok. I'm grateful for corrections on this point though) This is something they have promised, but not actually delivered (Which I suspect will be running theme.)

2) haulage companies would need to change drivers (and probably truck) at the border (possibly the EU side, which would be interesting, as I'm not sure how haulage licenses work in practice. I know multidrop/mixed purpose [as in deliver x and pickup y are expressly not allowed])

3) as far as I'm aware, any truck driver delivering stuff would need a temporary work visa, which requires a sponsor and load of cash and time (The first is difficult, the last in very short supply.)

If anyone has links to legislation that contradicts this, I'm all ears.
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That intrigued me. Why one can't compare rates internationally? I think we can and that what rates are for, aren't they?