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WASM is basically ready for 2 kinds of app:

1. Heavy computation with no UI.

2. Stuff that renders to Web GL.

For the rest your still best off with JavaScript. 2D graphics is pretty borderline I'd say. More work in Rust+WASM, but doable.

Rust itself is wonderful, and well worth learning for the backend if you ever do that kind of stuff.
"First to invent" doesn't make much sense when the point of the patent system is to get inventors to publicize their inventions in return for a guaranteed monopoly.

"First to invent" runs counter to the patent system.
China is one of the safest countries in the world. While they're not as progressive as the west officially, they also are less likely to give a fuck about you being LGBT (ie. they don't care enough to mess with you).
This is true- but for perspective in 2010 around 100 U.S. banks went under (actually seized, closed, and merged out by the FDIC).

But yes, it’s far easier to get funded as a bank than an individual, mostly because there are laws, institutions, and processes to try and remedy problem banks if trouble happens and individuals are really on their own to find advice and resources.

EDIT: I was wrong, according to FDIC it was 157[0].

[0]: https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/
His book came out today.
Except he wasn't talking about Jeffrey Epstein, he was talking about Marvin Minsky. He was trying to portray a scenario where Jeffrey Epstein would have been committing a crime while Marvin Minsky was not. Minsky's presumed guilt is predicated on two things:

1. His knowing what Epstein was doing, i.e. knowing these were sex slaves

2. The girl was under age

RMS defended Minsky against (2) by stating it's morally absurd having a law differing in different jurisdictions by age. There are many places in the civilized world where (2) wouldn't apply due to the girl's age.

With regards to (1) all RMS mused was what if the girl presented herself willingly? How do we know Minsky knew Epstein was committing a crime and thus making himself complicit in that crime? Does Minsky not have plausible deniability? Too bad he's dead and can't defend himself.

In the end RMS was painting a picture where Epstein is a monster, the girl was a victim, and Minsky was innocent. The media completely misrepresented this portraiture.
You are arguing that there's no room for good software engineering. You must be a journalist.
> [It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.] It was a good time to be an American and it was a bad time. My brother, I thought, was the worst. He was the kind of person who would go to work and he wouldn't come home.

Kind of Hemingwayesque? Or:

> [One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale.] We tell people to do things on a smaller scale. This is often the hardest to do, but it is absolutely crucial to get right. If you don't do this, you 're missing out on the real benefits of scale and you'll lose out on opportunities. One of the things we've been doing to help people with this is to give them a very simple challenge, which is to make something that can scale to a very large scale, like Facebook's site.

pg, consider yourself replaced!
You can borrow money interest free for 4-7 weeks for lunch by using a credit card. These banks are borrowing money with interest for one day (overnight) to keep solvency and liquidity.
NSA broke the law, how do we hold them accountable?
I totally disagree with this take, the problem with taxes is that they are a bizarre box filling exercise and not arithmetic.
Oh man, I really like this. I'm staying up way too late tonight.
This is a really spot on take on this moment in time. I also wrote a bot circa 2016/2017 [1] and the constant exchange error handling killed any profit I would eek out of the arbitrage. I was only doing this part time while a student so wasn't a huge deal to me, but losing to an exchange throwing up an error that I had never seen before and never would again, or my all time least favorite exchange cryptsy having one side of their books 'stuck' for hours was fabulous.

[1] https://github.com/mikem5/arb2
He turned to me and said, "Do you really think the only thing the bank does to log people on is to check the username and password?" Banks are way more sophisticated than this and it goes well beyond merely string-matching credentials; there's all sorts of other environment, behavioural and heuristic patterns used to establish legitimacy. You won't ever see a bank telling you how they do it, but those "hidden security features" make a significant contribution to the bank's security posture.

Their response to having visible security that sucks is to say that they also have a lot of super complicated invisible security which is actually really good? Why am I supposed to believe that? Their invisible security probably sucks even more.
Thanks for the response! Reading through their docs it looks really nicely integrated with all the CI stuff there, a good example of them taking advantage of all the flexibility and power that has. Nice!
Technically you only need to repair their image with the powerful. I don't think there are any single-issue Saudi Arabia voters out there.

We're already seeing the effects of this. I saw on the news recently where someone described the recent Saudi Oil attacks as "Saudi Arabia's 9/11" -- an ironic statement, given the fact that more Saudi nationals died hijacking the planes on 9/11 (15 of the 19) than in this attack (0)
Oh absolutely, not only technically but also because our brains suck at conceptualizing complex systems on a 3-D plane, the fewer the dimensions the more complexity we can handle - hence while a lot of circuitry diagrams are on either a 2-D or 1.5-D plane.
> Discount rate is, by design, quite a bit higher than the fed funds rate, and is only tapped for credit in emergencies.

That's right. Open market operations were traditionally used to target the fed funds rate. The discount window does serve as the upper bound though in extreme cases. Typically, reserves would be loaned overnight between banks on the fed funds market. This market has been decimated by the floor system.

> IOER, by design, provides just a floor.

In theory, yes. It has also acted as a ceiling. Not all institutions with access to Fed's balance sheet are able to receive IOER (e.g. GSE's). These entities loan the money to banks overnight at a rate below IOER. The banks then earn IOER on that money. This arbitrage can lead to an effective fed funds rate below IOER.
Pronoun Island
>> Why should "gender presentation" influence some one's biological sex?

> No one has suggested it should.

Then how can you claim he should be referred to as a woman?

> Man and woman are terms of ascribed gender

They are innate. Why would that not be so?

> something which should be adjusted to align with gender identity

Why? Transsexuality is a mental illness, and ought to be treated as such.

> retrograde and transphobic behavior

Why are you classifying my actions as such?
A scheme for discouraging the formation flash mobs on the internet
It's more complicated than that, sadly.

A lot of contractors are small outfits that "won" contracts because the contract request was tailored for them. In the fed system, your max cap of what you can make wage-wise, is limited by Congress.

The way around that is not to get paid wages, but becoming a contractor that takes contracts at MUCH higher than the wages would ever be. So it becomes a form of its own version of corruption of "I want to hire and pay these people appropriately but im unable to legally so I'll create a contract only they can fulfill." But the corruption itself is rooted with price controls in Congress.

But one of the side effects is that they're "not working for the govt, but for the company" and the company is working for the govt. It also means no govt pension, or any of the perks for working directly for the govt. And well, contractors get none of the protections of reporting wrong-doing.
Ask HN: How to extract number of users from access.log?
I have a website whose main user are advanced software engineers.

I suspect that most of them are using ad/tracking blockers and similar, so google analytics will not count the real number of users.

Is there any good software out there that can give me essentially the basic information about how many real users I got out of my web access log?

I.e. it needs to be able to filter out crawlers/scrapers, and ideally scrapers that have put a fake user agent, but whose behaviour gives them away as scrapers.
I absolutely agree. I was addressing the parent, more - and their question of "why does HN have this obsession with sending people to prison for corporate/white collar crimes?"
No. That is the exact definition of assimilation.

Wiki: Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group[1] or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group.
In addition to other issues, it is not usually the exclusive decision of the whistleblower whether their disclosure qualifies.
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That makes no logical sense in the age of ebooks. No matter how many copies of the ebook version they buy, the publisher could sell more to anyone who wants to buy one.
If you want more information on how you can do computation with mechanical systems, try this video:

U.S. NAVY BASIC MECHANISMS OF FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS MECHANICAL COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 27794 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug
So your business collapses when you have to temporarily pay $236 for something that normally costs $27?
Man, I feel old.
Can’t it be both? Those aren’t mutually exclusive, and in fact are hardly even related in terms of implementation.

And taking out supply to drive up cost of fossil fuel will absolutely have an impact. At least a few people will opt for the fuel economy version of their new car in the next few days after seeing the new sticker price of a gallon of gas.
I don't know what cmd means (I'm kidding, I have seen Apple computers even if I've never used one), but you can find out what the keyboard shortcut is on your own copy of Firefox by hovering the mouse over the Reader mode icon. On my Firefox it says "Ctrl + Alt + R".
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It's worth noting that "Standard Mail" has a specific meaning here, and refers to things sent in bulk, like newsletters and flyers.

It is emphatically not the standard service you would use to mail your aunt a letter. That service is called First Class Mail, and is not to be opened.
No one was facing insolvency.

The Federal Reserve implements its mandate to control interest rates and inflation by managing the money supply. Specifically, they do that by creating and destroying money by buying and selling government bonds on the market, until the price of those bonds is such that the interest from holding them falls within the target interest rate range.

When certain interest rates were, for a moment, excessively high, they took a modestly extraordinary step to intervene. That's all.

Bank bailouts were a bad idea that increased moral hazard and left the economy more at risk than it was before, but this isn't a bailout, and the commentary is about as topical here as a generic Microsoft rant on a random HN article about compilers.
QE is a pretty sneak way to keep a stagnated economy going. And, lets be clear, the stagnation is happening because trillions of dollars are hoarded in financial schemes whose only goal is to produce interest, not on producing anything. The biggest example we have is the way big corporations are furiously repurchasing their own stock. This is a huge fortune spent every few days for no productive reason, with the only goal of making big company returns to look more attractive than they are. All the money pumped in this economy is going for share repurchasing programs, stock market investments made by funds in these same companies, real state speculation, and a small portion into venture capital for companies that for their own nature have uncertain returns.
He keeps saying that it's not that harmful; that images are fine; that coercion isn't force.

That's a lie on your part isn't it?

There are very grave points to make about rms's statements but you are doing no one any favors with these statements and merely muddying the waters.

It would probably be a good idea to knock it off.
I will never visit china because I said "fuck china" too many times online and I think even by transiting through there I might be detained and put on death row on some trumped up charges like other Canadians. No thanks.
* For consumer products.

B2B products often have annual price increases built into contract.
This is a powerful message and makes it very evocative for communicating the need for a treaty. Why is the government so inhumane and closed to the idea of reconciling a disgusting history?
My snippet:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times? You stupid monkey!

Autocompleted:
You are not going to be the one who takes all of the fun out of the whole thing!" He threw his arms up in defeat as the door closed behind him. "I hope you guys didn't mind that he was a complete jerk. You really can 't be too careful when playing with people like that.
How would you go about getting paid for that? I doubt it would be possible, even if the people that reported it really want to and need it, they could never get approval from the bureaucrats.
> So great is their control that they've built one of the greatest public rail networks in the world for the public good.

I don't know how good you know about Chinese government. But I think you made a mistake about the purpose of the investment and building by Chinese gov. The rail network is not "for the public good", at least it's not the major reason. It's for keeping GDP growth rate looks as high as possible otherwise no one/country can buy the over-produced industrial products like concrete and steels after subprime mortgage crisis.

> The assumption you're making here is that democracy is the better more "modern" way.

Democracy is not perfect but I am sure CCP is much worse.
14 hours?

11 years ago "Show and Tell YC: Built a webapp in ~14 hours":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237544
Nah man, the "dont say controversial shit on the job" is a very tired argument. The slippery slope is a real argument that is based in reality. Just look at events like this one and say to me with a straight face that is hasn't become 1000 times worse in the last couple of years. I say whatever I like and feel is fit for the current discussion.

If you don't like that, you may choose not to hang with me. You decide for yourself, not for me. If you think your coworker is a shitty person because what their opinions are then quit the job, don't force others to do it in order for you to have a safe space.

That is what I believe and fight for. People don't tend to realize that next time you may be the victim and then I'll defend you, the hate-crowd which you defend this time won't.
Just for curiosity/entertainment: hearsay is evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay Most are first-person accounts so they're not actually hearsay. And anyway what kind of thing were you looking for? Some kind of physical artifact? A confession written by RMS personally?
This isn't like taking a gun, this is like locking someone in a metal box without food or water for 20 years.
A site that is occasionally useful but regularly has questions I am interested in just closed by some pompous administrator.
Finally bought myself a personal domain but am now currently agonizing over how to design the damn thing, let alone what to actually put on there!
> Only one bank has failed in the US in the last two years.

That's not really that comforting, especially when there were 8 failures in 2017. 2018 was the first time since 2006 that there wasn't a bank failure and multiple bank failures. 2006 was also the last time we had consecutive years without a bank failure.
All the emoji tell me are "this product is as immature as the copy used to promote it". Never have I seen a functional, scalable product advertised with emoji in the headers of the intro page.
If a recession is not coming (ever?) then the economically impossible has been achieved. Never a bad idea to sock away a little money before it rains.
There aren't any languages that support what we need to do to solve the complexity we want to solve, including OCaml/ReasonML.

Given that, whatever language we'd pick we'd have to hack them to get what we needed, and then we wouldn't have JS (realistically, if we were to pick some existing language it would have to be JS), we'd have some shitty version of JS.

Which is what App Engine did with their early versions: I worked on an app engine project that had a hacked version of Django where nothing worked.
Not necessarily. Lots of people keep up with changes in their field.
FYI, I just tried this on Ubuntu 19.04 with today's update to the Steam client and using Proton 4.11-4. The Cosmoteer demo installed without any complaints, but seems unable to launch successfully.
> I just think it's funny that rich people can get billions of dollars to stay solvent in a sudden crisis, and I can't get a dime when I can't pay for lunch.

i think that says more about your relationship with your friends than it does the banking system.
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They don't have the worlds reserve currency nor run twin deficits, fiscal and trade. Their defense is largely supplied by the US also.

So much different outcome for US with large trade deficit and ever growing fiscal deficits. Some argue if we did go the route of Fed monetizing (which almost certainly has to happen) the $ will be value much lower than it is today. This would help to close the trade deficit though, and repatriate some lost industrial capacity, boosting exports.
try holding the world economy hostage with a massive amount of capital you've accrued through a combination of violence and abuse of capitalism's boom-bust nature for decades. then if you miss your lunch you can probably get someone to cover it : )
Price per byte doesn’t really matter for an unlimited service. As that cost goes down, your users will have more and more data to store, in an amount that will basically cancel out.
I have one that was just delivered to my house today... so fail on that one.
I also just realized that WeWork owns Meetup.com. I don't know how I missed that.
I didn't try it, but Wine says it's silver: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
I think that's true. At least, big cities are desirable because of the network effects that come from bigness. Reproducing those same network effects in a small city would be difficult.
The Rust Programming Language (RNN) was designed in the early 1990s, which means that it has two distinct parts. First, a single sentence structure (LSTM) of a language model. Then the Borrow Checker (BIC) has been implemented using a pair of LSTMs, the LSTMs being a function, and the BIC function is a set of function rules, called word classes. There's no Garbage Collector in BIC, and a separate set of rules is provided to check the borrow checker and the borrow checker respectively.

The second part of the BIC is a dependency parsing tree, which consists of a set of dependency nodes and a set of dependency rules. The tree consists of two parts : a sequence of word classes which specifies the set of LSTM rules, and a set of grammar rules.
At least they didn’t ask for a desktop notification!
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I believe the whistleblower act does cover this contract as is mentioned elsewhere turning this lawsuit into retaliation by the govt thus illegal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act
Not really. It's more like, when a bank fails, there's a system in place to ensure a quick, transparent sale of assets to another financially sound institution.
When measured in dollars for all the data you have (what Backblaze sells), S3’s price goes up every time you create a file.
Thanks! The next integrations are looking to be either WooCommerce, QuickBooks Online, or Wix. NetSuite is also a big one but they are super slow in getting back to me. I’d be very interested in learning more about your product and customers, sounds great! The API has been something that’s been requested before but probably not a 2019 initiative. If you guys have an API that I can work with, that'll also work. Either way, let’s get in touch! You can email me at: james@trunkinventory.com
An article, a conversation, anything of the actual public past. Name a forum, scan a newspaper clipping or artifact. Twitter posts from not even a week ago should not have this kind of authority. Or have you considered it ever happening to you?
And yet, most companies readily ask for LinkedIn profile.
Well in terms of the tech industry, there is a on going trend that many unprofitable tech companies are rushing their IPOs everywhere on the stock market and this is perhaps due to many possible actions such as tech regulation or many investors won't fund startups because of the established competition, profitability concerns, etc.

The uncertainty of the US-China trade war is making many investors concerned about the economy and the UK is still playing Deal or No Deal with leaving the EU after 3 years of 'negotiations'. If the UK leaves without a deal, I won't be surprised if this causes a recession, at least in the UK. But the trade war, the IPO rush and possible regulation is perhaps an indicator of a global one in the tech industry.
Solvency and liquidity are two different things.

If you are rolling short term debt and only have long term assets you can't sell, you are taking a liquidity risk. You may be perfectly solvent (have more assets than liabilities) but if you cannot refinance the debt one day, you will go bust.

The Federal reserve is not in the business of injecting capital into insolvent banks (which is why TARP in 2008 was a very unusual and controversial measure), it is in the business of providing a backstop of liquidity to banks that are solvent (this is enforced through capital requirement) but may require liquidity on a short term basis.
> What "vehicles they will themselves never drive" are you thinking of?

...Vehicles that are currently illegal in California due to stricter emission control? (Unless I'm missing something...)
Doesn't it depend on your population growth from ~20 years ago? Or more accurately, your workforce growth.
> So your business collapses when you have to temporarily pay $236 for something that normally costs $27?

No, think of it as paying $236,000 for something that normally costs $27,000.

You can think of this business as providing banking services to large corporations, who aren't able to simply put money in a savings account at their local credit union.

It's doesn't collapse in the short run, but it can harm the ability of these corporations to access their funds. Short term financing disruptions can have major impacts across all markets.

Show me a business where a sudden 10x increase in costs isn't painful...
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