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I noticed the sudden drop of points in my comments score in the past hour, which I must deduce is you going through and downvoting all my posts? Please remember the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Oh come on, you’re being (deliberately?) quite liberal with the truth here.
Good point. Doing your job has never been an excuse for ethical failings.
This sounds suspiciously like the “we are too smart for you to regulate us” argument.

When reading a lot of these arguments, a lot of them seem to me to be very “white box” defending the end result against legislation by arguing about the internal implementation.

Facebook is creating a financial instrument. I’m a bit surprised regulators couldn’t use _existing_ legislation to prevent them from using it in a country.
Giving people an option to invest in a basket of relatively safe investments and currencies is growth of private power that will lead to fascism?
Facebook wants to be your matchmaker with its newly announced Dating service
Pride comes before the fall. Facebook should have spent much of their energy fixing their image first and not tackling anything like Libra. If they need money they need to focus on products that provide real value without intruding on privacy. They need to study how Microsoft turned around their image. It takes time.
>It’s their job to control these kinds of things

No, that’s not a given. Many people don’t agree that it’s the government’s job to decide what kind of currencies you’re allowed to hold and trade.
Didn't anyone look at the map? The drone strikes have nothing to do with the Houthis, they don't have the range. This is a purely Iranian operation with obvious motives - control oil supply from ME. This adventurism is going to lead into a huge war which will be bad for anyone in the region. Perhaps that can't be stopped now.
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I currently feel like I’m in a place where the cool stuff is something I can’t use because it’s too technical, not fully dependable, or just a cool concept at the end of the day.

What value have you gained from hacker news submissions or comments that has helped you in your life?

This is not meant to make HN look bad.
> Perhaps working toward a more meaningful career could be part of the equation as well

A lot of jobs aren't meaningful. Imagine writing ad software. Or filming commercials for loan sharks. Not everyone has the luxury of good, meaningful work.
You can do that without Libra, just buy the equivalent basket, you're even getting real assets instead of something like tether
Here is a high-level explanation of Shodan and where it's used: https://help.shodan.io/the-basics/what-is-shodan
Snowden was a lowly SharePoint administrator. Nobody has ever denied that. Snowden himself said that he got that job to have easy access to the documents. He never touched the actual systems described in the documents.
I think it's more of an anti-tech mindset more than an anti-Facebook mindset. If Google did this, I imagine that Germany would be just as upset.

If, for example, Goldman Sachs did the same thing, that might not go over smoothly, but I don't think it would see such a negative reaction. I'd assume that feels more in line with the status-quo, whereas tech companies getting involved in financial instruments is not as familiar.

I more so wonder what would happen if a company like Stripe did this. They are sort of a "financial" company, but I'd say also undoubtedly a "tech" company too.
What languages do you suggest? Does Javascript have the same association with "race-to-the-bottom markets"? Having used Symfony and Laravel I don't understand why PHP has such a bad rep except that it's on the easier side so any language that makes things simple would suffer the same fate (attracting inexperienced developers (hello Javascript, Ruby, Python)). Both PHP and Javascript have many language specific issues so I'd say they're on equal footing.
It would be nice if Firefox also had DNS-over-TLS support.

I'm not against encrypted DNS, and can see where DoH can be handy for a lot of the general public, but as someone in IT, having to jump through hoops to keep our internal split-horizon DNS workings is annoying.
The javascript implementation defines deg2rad as

deg * Math.PI / 360

It's been a while since high school math, but shouldn't that be divided by 180? Looks like the numbers in the docs are based on this incorrect conversion.
The great firewall of EU :D
Paul Vixie gave just gave a talk at vBSDCon about DNS-over-HTTPS where he outlines some the problems he seems at it. Hopefully the video will be up shortly, but in the meantime some slides:

* https://twitter.com/DLangille/status/1169962162854514688
Grover's quantum search algorithm may be a property of nature
A similar story about Blizzard adapting WoW's original art assets and game data to a modern game engine for WoW Classic:

"Restoring History: Creating WoW Classic Panel Recap"

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22646759/restoring-hi...
Some niches reward deep exploration. For instance in adversarial domains like security, you do have to outrun the bear, not just be faster than the slowest guy. And the bear is moving pretty fast these days. Some black hats have been thinking about it for years. You have to know everything they know and then have one more trick up your sleeve. So you're not competing so much with new grads for jobs.
"My new startup leverages AI/ML combined with blockchain technology to do real-time disabling through software hacking of drones in-flight... we also rent out office space for dynamic companies!"
Somehow, that typical German mindset doesn't extend to banning VW after its proven to be acting in bad faith. How come?

Ah, nevermind -- HQ: Wolfsburg, Germany. Exempt from regulatory action.
Facebook has a non controlling stake in Libra. Libra Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit membership organization. Do you feel a similar threat of non-profits that try to give financial opportunities to people around the world?
Facebook is the most powerful private entity on the earth right now, far more powerful than most nation states.

This is hyperbole at best. Facebook does not have an army, weapons, or literally anyone that would be willing to die or even be physically put out to defend it.

I’m no Facebook fan, but let’s not let Facebook hysteria overrun these comments.
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are usually by design not controlled by anyone but the users participating in mining and trading it. Banning that is like banning people from trading in carrots; you can't.

It's very different when there's a company with its own financial interests manning the door, regardless of what company that is.
"land-use regulations in the U.S. tend to be more lax than those in other places. “In most European countries, it’s much harder legally to build on unbuilt area than it is here,” she said. One reason European policy didn’t gravitate as much toward sprawl is that many European countries were much poorer than the U.S. until about half a century ago, so they didn’t have the same resources to build lots of large houses."

I don't understand this. Since the European nations were relatively poor compared to their American counterpart, they made land plots smaller? The article doesn't provide any specific examples of this, so I don't understand how it is an explanation.
Otherwise a great and informative article.
Fill up your gas tanks.
An interface even if it's just a user interface is a contract. You can't just go changing it because you want to. Many immature companies do this and think it's innovation. It's not, all your users will have to relearn the new UI change.
I think the last thing anybody wants is a vast perceivable immoral entity such as Facebook, which is involved in so many scandals and should likely be broken up if anti-trust enforcers had any bite left to them, insinuating themselves into a fundamental function such as the issuance of money and the transactions thereof. It’s like a hybrid of The Circle and Mr Robot’s Evil Corp’s eCoin.
I find that when doing something less interesting I tend to switch back and forth between two tasks quite a lot while working - each switch acts to regain attention before it starts dropping off again. As long as nothing external forces me to context switch this both keeps me focused and drives my boss nuts.
Does PWA is good for enterprises?
See Montenegro, the country that has no own currency, but uses Euro: they have no particular problems because of this.
> already hundreds of crypto currencies available in Germany

How many cypto providers have > 2 billion users? FB should be regulated.
That's not "the real figure", that's a UN estimate.

If you want the real figures you need to ask the German Statistische Bundesamt. Which put the number at 22,5% in 2016 [0], at 23,4% in 2017 [1] and at 25,5% in 2018 [2].

Keep in mind that those numbers are averages for the whole country and thus can be very misleading in their individual effects on each region. Because a whole lot of regions that previously had barely people with a migration background, at least from the MENA regions, have now seen a surge of MENA refugees.

This has visibly changed the landscape in some cities in the East, in the West not so much because Western Germany already had a lot of Muslim migration for decades, tracing back to literally mail ordering Turkish guest workers from Istanbul. That's why in many bigger Western cities you will find very "diverse" districts often referred to as "little Istanbuls" and Döner shops are abundant everywhere.

Thus in West Germany MENA refugees usually have an easier time integrating and finding contact trough the established Muslim sub-culture there.

The same does not hold true for East Germany, it doesn't have such a history of Muslim immigration, what is there in migration background is mostly from Eastern Europe, a bit of Vietnamese, due to the GDR times. But what the East did and still does have: Lot's of cheap and affordable housing, room for the federal government to cheaply "store" migrants.

By now many Eastern German cities kinda look like their Western counterparts but in a way sinister way: Large groups of young men just hanging out around the Plattenbauten they were put in, with everything from families to pensioners living right next to them, and yes crimes have increased because those guys also can't work (wouldn't want to steal a German the job), so they have nothing to do but hang out and get bad ideas.

[0] https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2017-08/stati...

[1] https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2018-08/migration-deutschla...

[2] https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article198890559/Sta...
Typos on various pages : "How does it works?"

fix to > "How does it work?"
What does tiger woods know about wheaties? Absolutely nothing except other than what it tastes like (maybe).
>which I must deduce is you going through and downvoting all my posts?

I haven't touched a single post of yours, and indeed it is impossible for me downvote _anyone_ with the current status of my account.

Pretty poor theory for a pretty poor person.
Over 660 years before the Battle of Nicopolis, the French under Charles Martel defeated the Umayyad Caliphate at the Battle of Tours[1] using phalanxes of heavy infantry against lightly armored Arabian calvary. The difference being that the French forces purposefully took a defensive position on top of several hills instead of initiating an attack up them.

The battles are an interesting echo through history. Perhaps the lesson is simply "hold the high ground".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours
A classic reactionary approach
No, I am not talking about what EV is supposed to mean in the first place.

EV, in contrary to ordinary certs, is supposed to mean the cert authority verified the registrant really is the name on the cert. Ordinary certs the CA doesn't even claim they did that, they don't even claim that a Cert that says Joe Smith on it was registered by someone who's legal name is Joe Smith or a cert that says Widgets Inc on it was registered by a company with that name. The CA's are claiming to do a different thing with EV certs.

I am talking about a third-party auditing the EV certs to ensure the CA was doing what they committed to do. Like a third party audits a bank by analogy. The fact that banks get audited doesn't mean the bank is useless in the first place. But the auditors do (theoretically if the system is working) help keep them honest.

One of the points of the transparent log is to make this possible. But if nobody is actually checking... it is not quite accomplishing this point. The fact that a transparent log is a good thing so someone can audit doesn't mean the EV is "useless in the first place".

(An EV might be useless in the first place for other reasons, but not because auditing is a good thing).
I'm not sure that's the only explanation. Maybe the goals and mindset of currently active terrorist organisations haven't been compatible with drone usage.

For example, does not having martyrs fit in with the traditional narrative of Islamic terrorism? Was drone warfare really an option before ISIL?
AFAIK, vanilla BF2 has more or less been abandoned by the BF2 community for this.

I'm not sure how they reworked the entire thing, so I'm guessing you might find the source-code/reverse-engineered stuff somewhere.

"Project Reality: Battlefield 2 is a free-to-download single and multiplayer game modification for the Battlefield 2 (BF2) retail Microsoft Windows PC game. Project Reality installs alongside your existing Battlefield 2 game installation, allowing both the original game and Project Reality to be played separately without conflict."

https://www.realitymod.com/about
I think the way Facebook did this was the right way. It set up Libra as an independent non-profit and they have a non controlling share. The founding members include Stripe, Visa, Mastercard and PayPal.

All the media coverage on Libra is incredibly dishonest and ill-informed.
You’ll be delighted with the elements you can mix to make new elements. I love this game, and the original. To start, Try mixing air with earth, then add fire to the result.
Mostly true. I will note exceptions. There's some companies like Altran Praxis that warranty their high-quality software. Far as visits, folks with AS/400's told me IBM techs would occasinally show up to do maintenance on the systems before they fully broke. I think the managed appliances are the closest thing to your analogy, though.
No, I don't. I think the difference between a terrorist, rebel and revolutionary tends to be a matter of perspective. I was trying to keep my personal thoughts out of it, hence I generalized my comment to "rebel/revolutionary/terrorist". However, since you asked, my personal stance in this particular case is that the Yemeni are plainly in the right.
From a WaPo story:

"U.N. investigators said the Houthis' new UAV-X drone, found in recent months during the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen, likely has a range of up to 1,500 kilometers (930 miles). That puts the far reaches of both Saudi Arabia and the UAE in range."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/saudi-tv-ch...
OP agrees :D I've been working 4 years remotely and I wouldn't go switch to on site. We are building our company as a fully remote company.
Perhaps if they reside in, operate from or actively serve the US. In other parts of the world, software patents are unenforceable (as only implementations of ideas can be patented, not the ideas themselves).

Based on their wordlist, they do seem to use American English (so they are probably not located in the UK) but the authors can still operate this project from anywhere in the world.

Mapping some bits of data to a short set of words or pictures isn't even new, neither is the hashing step to ensure that similar coordinates don't use the same name. Validating (session) keys by hashing the key to generate a fingerprint and turning that into words (or these days, emoji) was invented before W3W was conceived. The patent itself is quite flimsy, considering it's just applying some formulas to do something that was already being done on basically any data.
There's a relevant Latin quote from the era of the Punic Wars (if I recall correctly), Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatebur - "The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so."
It's great to hear that you quit drinking. I quit for my own reasons and I'm approaching 2 years now. Keep going, it gets easier! :-)
Chomsky covers your exact comment quite thoroughly here
https://youtu.be/6a1yf_PA5Bs?t=165
As a foreigner who lived in Germany for several years until recently, my experience is also that cards were accepted at 50% of places at most - often with a minimum purchase, and usually no contactless.

By contrast, in New Zealand even most farmer’s market stalls and pop-up espresso carts presume that contactless will be the main means of payment.
Agreed. Mostly regarding the part that DNS should be solved at the OS level.
Encrypted DNS is a good idea, HTTPS seems like a questionable encryption layer, but it will serve.
However, apps should not take DNS into their own hands.

DNS is part of a systems configuration. By setting it, you choose, and can change, your views of the internet. If all of a sudden, that view becomes inconsistent across apps, that is confusing. Moreover, if an application gives an unexpected view of the world (e.g. missing local domains, local redirects, or local blocks) that can have negative impact.

If we screw this up in our haste to secure DNS, we'll be stuck with another legacy half-solution our internet infrastructure. This is essentially taking on global technical debt to get secured DNS requests just a bit faster.
Shodan also scans via domains to identify the proper certificate for websites that require a valid SNI.
The problem isn’t a lack of regulation. Increased regulation could be a partial solution.

The problem is a weak economic model. In the online economy software (products) have little or no value. The value is placed almost entirely upon media and data transactions. Those two are symbiotic but they are neither the same nor codependent. This economic model is what needs to be fixed.

Entrepreneurs out there if you want to do good for the world, make absurd money, and be disruptive then that economic model is what you should disrupt. Go, disrupt the shit out of it.
I might be missing something, but that's a plain out crime to do it right?
It comes down to probability. Let's say we want to maximize the total hours of time enjoyed living before before dying.

Let's say we know we're going to die in a month with 100% certainty. We might liquidate all of our assets. Go into debt. Pay to fly loved ones from all over the country to spend time with them. Spare no expense.

On the other hand, let's say instead we know we're going to die when we turn 100 and with 100% certainty. In that case, it makes sense to delay gratification, invest more, and get the benefit of compounded returns. We might aim to have enough passive income coming in at around 60 or 70, and then we can quit working and slowly spend it all so that our the last check we write before dying bounces.

Since we don't know when we die, the best strategy is somewhere in between these two extremes. If the actuarial tables say we have 50 years left, I'm more inclined to believe the better strategy is likely to look like the second scenario.
Not to contradict you, but your experience does not a rule make, and as with real estate, it's all about location, so, living in Europe, YMMV.

Sure it's impossible to be unemployed as a developer one could say by the number of search results from the keyword software in the job portals in my area, but after closer inspection, if you've been around the block a few times, you can easily tell that over 90% of those jobs are shitty micromanaged fake scrum-driven burnout meat grinders where you wouldn't last more than a couple of months.

So, the remaining 10% of jobs worth applying for are incredibly picky, and, without a prestigious resume (top companies, top school) you're not getting your foot in the door, even though you might master leet code.

Therefore, it took me 6 months on unemployment to find a quality workplace that would take me in and only because I invested in some certs in that time.
Ideologically, at least, extant cryptocurrencies aim to decentralize power, whereas the OP was saying that German resistance to Libra comes from a concern about the centralized power it might afford. That's not mere bigotry.
> No one is forcing anyone to use Libra its your choice.

Don't be naive.

- In order to make a choice, you need to be properly informed. Now, most people won't have the time or interest to see what Libra is and what the consequences of widespread Libra adoption would be.

- Facebook can force a sector of their paying users (mainly advertisers) to use Libra.

- Facebook also has a lot of influence, most people use at least one of Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp. Those apps can be used to advertise and push Libra.

- Once Libra adoption reaches a critical point, you'd need to use it because you need to buy things.

- You don't need to use it to suffer negative consequences due to a private foreign for-profit business controlling monetary policy.
I also find that the linker is the issue. Yes for performance, but also for testing (to the point of failure) linux's 'out of memory' scenario (try make -j8 on the llvm source, for example).
That attitude is what leads to the AWS console.
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Writing, listening, watching a film and navigating a new place all require attention as they're novel activities. But I could easily make a shit paper aeroplane while navigating, and I've coded through pure muscle memory plenty of times. Almost any activity can be internalised.
You're assuming those people are not forced, tricked or otherwise persuaded by a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars, to use Libra. And that company has every incentive to do what I listed above. It also has very shady morals, as proven repeatedly.

Yes, it's a small individual loss (not being to invest in Libra) but probably a big collective gain.
> The Houthi spokesman, Yahya Sarea, told al-Masirah TV, which is owned by the Houthi movement and is based in Beirut, that further attacks could be expected in the future.

> He said Saturday's attack was one of the biggest operations the Houthi forces had undertaken inside Saudi Arabia and was carried out in "co-operation with the honourable people inside the kingdom".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49703143
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OK, maybe you shared my account with someone who can downvote, it doesn't matter. If you have something to reply to my comments, you can reply to me directly with what you disagree with and why, I have always engaged productively with many people on HN whether their viewpoints are similar or different. From your prior comment I know you disagree with something I've said but you haven't stated why you think those things are incorrect, not that this thread is particularly relevant to all of them, it would make sense if you replied within the relevant discussions.
Or to support any JDK newer than 8 on Elastic Beanstalk.