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Is ruby that slow? I always understood it was comparable to python?

Plus if it is performant enough for Shopify and Github it seems like it would be performant for 90%+ of use cases? The speed of development and the flexibility of development is much greater than most stacks once you add rails.
Did you mean to say “isn’t” with respect to end-to-end encryption? Telegram chats are, by default, not end-to-end encrypted. Only if you choose to have a “secret chat” with one person it is end-to-end encrypted.
Do you know of a good Linux live DVD/USB for securely erasing SSDs (both SATA and NVMe)? Parted Magic includes a nice app for doing this [1]. Although it is just a front end for hdparm, nvme-cli [2], nwipe etc. I haven't found an alternative that is as quick and easy to use.

[1] https://partedmagic.com/secure-erase/

[2] http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/secure-erase-hdds-ss...
Try pinching your screen with all your five wingers (open hand to pinch). That will show you all the windows that you can close. Also long press on safari (or any app) in the doctors should pop up a menu that lets you view all the windows for that app.
The barrier to be interested in these things is far lower than it is to directly work on them.

Then there's the realities of being an american adult where even science is politicized. Think of all the boomers that grew up watching the space race with baited breath. I bet some of these same people today would support a politician who would defund NASA if it meant saving $30 a year on their taxes.
It’s only end to end encrypted if you opt-in. For a modern messaging solution, end to end encryption should be mandatory.
have you looked at CDK?
> magically exempt from securities laws because they really want them to be.

Well when the law gets changed that's exactly why and how it gets changed

Last year, Wyoming has recategorized crypto assets into their own asset classes that is exempts them from state level securities law and others. Because it was obvious to the legislature and governor there that debating commodities, currency or securities status was ignorant.

This year, Montana representatives have also reached the same conclusion.

This year, Colorado's representatives have also reached the same conclusion.

US Congress has a bill in committee mirroring these. It isn't a priority for the House as you might imagine. Holistic US re-imagining of these assets isn't relevant until the Federal legislature reaches consensus.

A week ago Liechtenstein's legislature unanimously reached the same conclusion, which inherits limited consensus amongst all European Union/EEA/EFTA member states.

So yes, people seem to think cryptocurrency is magically exempt from securities laws except the securities regulators that do not mirror the will of the people and are being steered by their legislatures, as designed. Courts lack latitude to lean any other way as well, until the legislature changes the law, which is happening.
The slide over apps? It’s swipe from bottom to up, then swipe down (put your finger where the short of the top and bottom bars).
the guy massacring somalis in Ogaden
Major punt by Facebook like many others like Oculus. But you nail one like IG and it’s all good!
I recently tried helping someone transfer $10k from US to different country. Only after signing up, filling in all the details, and going through the entire process, was there an error message that showed a Max of $800 could be transferred.

I then just advised to use their local bank's wire transfer, which they had to visit in person at the local branch, as they had originally intended.

Nowhere in my Google searches and Transferwise articles did I see any limitations upfront. Nor did I figure out how to raise these limits after searching post-filling-out-everything.

Very disappointed to say the least. But if anyone knows if I can raise the limit, would be happy to try this again.
> The real reason enterprise software sucks is that enterprises have complex and unique workflows and would prefer to buy software that they can fit to their workflow rather than change the workflows of their profitable business with tens of thousands of staff who will need retraining.

Call me cynical, but as I see it the complexity of the problem grows to fit the number of dollars available. If it's a large organisation they will invariably choose something that takes a colossal number of people to install and maintain it.

I've seen this as a person who designed and built cash registers. Supermarkets selling 10's of thousands of products can only tolerate a limited amount of complexity - so they have the simplest systems. Liquor markets has less products, and so they start branching out into weird pricing scheme (eg, mixed dozen of certain wines - something a supermarket would never contemplate). Go to a restaurant and limited products, and hell even McDonald's will even create a product especially for you on the spot - how many patties would you like on that quarter pounder Sir? A regular restaurant creates the most insane products you've ever seen - how would like it cooked, what sauce, kids meal, and even "which of the items on this bill will your friend be paying for?"

You could argue this complexity does help sales in some way. Bureaucracies are special they add totally unnecessary complex to justify their existence. So the article gets it right in one way: in order to justify that ongoing money in people needed to maintain it they need a product that cost a lot, and so justify that it needs to have a lot ticked boxes. It is in the products makers interest to make the task seem as complex and yet attractive as possible.

Or to put it another way, a big organisation invariably consists of a number bureaucratic fiefdoms whose evolutionary imperative is to make themselves indispensable as possible by ensuring their is work that must be done by them in order for the corporation to function. They are constantly trying to grab work from each other in a dog eat dog world. The worst at it get eaten by the best.

I recently saw this first hand. An organisation is installing SAP for payroll. It's taken a team of 10 or 20 3 years so far, and it's not done. Hmm, I thought, they must be big. Nope - turns out they have a total of two offices. I could write a system that serves the payroll needs of 200 people in 2 to 3 years, and it would be customised to their exact way of operating and would only take one person to maintain it. So why SAP? They only reason I can see if a bureaucratic mandarin can pull getting it installed, he's got a guaranteed job managing 20 people for years with plenty of opportunity to grow it.

IT bureaucracies seem to be particularly cancerous. I suspect that is because most companies core competency isn't IT, yet reducing head office staff through automation depends on IT and everybody knows that. So IT can get away with more in the way of snow jobs than most.
There are some fan edits that improve the movie dramatically. My preference is "Alternative Edition Redux". It used to be available archive.org, though I'm sure it's still floating around the net somewhere.
creating a successor of google.com is difficult but not impossible considering that it is something it hasn't changed in years and that people are more and more concerned regarding privacy. I've started to build something a couple of years ago with proxycrawl.com as I had to crawl other sites first, then my idea was to relate the pages with other searches from users with a rating system. It's complex but I decided to abandon the project and dedicate to something else
If you want to see how well conservation with a weak government works, look to Africa where we have huge problems preserving endangered animals.
FWIW: Am a Masters league Starcraft 2 player and haven't wanted to log in since this news.

I'm sure there are people who "don't want politics in video games", but it seems like this kind of complete moral indifference is about the bar you have to hit to not be upset about this at the moment.

(And I don't find tonight's explanation sufficient.)
I use Wire and Signal. Honestly, there’s no point even comparing Signal with Telegram. The Signal client and the platform are abysmal — slow, unreliable (can’t say if the message will get delivered and when), generates device change notifications at random when nothing has changed, still can’t backup and restore chats on iOS, changing a device means jumping through hoops to join groups again, etc. In my usage, Signal is the antithesis of chat UX, though it has been improving very slowly over time.

Wire is a decent alternative since it also syncs chats across devices, but its clients are slow. Any chat with images will usually crawl when you scroll. The company also doesn’t care about free users (not that it should) and so it probably makes sense only for people who’re willing to pay.

WhatsApp shares metadata with Facebook. So it’s a complete non-starter.
And here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_VsfvRaF5s
Yes, one of them said something like "go on and say those eight words then", referring to the slogan that Blitzchung then said while wearing the mask, and both were generally sounding amused.

However, it appears they had no idea he was showing up to the interview in a gas mask. Production for the event could have told them -- or simply canceled the interview any time after realizing -- and didn't. So the casters had to improvise, it's not fair to blame them as if they shared intent, rather than just wanting to keep a surprising live situation light-hearted and on the rails.
You should call it PyNews :)
I understand that people are different and process things differently. There's nothing wrong with them. But some people aren't suited to be pilots, and flight school is supposed to wash them out. I also don't believe that misinterpreting "continuous" was a factor in the crashes.

One failure scenario that can cause runaway trim is mechanical damage that causes an intermittent short circuit which can cause uncommanded trim. "Continuous" or intermittent, you're going to want to cut off the stab trim, as you would any dangerous piece of machinery that is randomly turning itself on and off.

I have a difficult time conceiving of concluding that "the trim is coming on randomly and pointing me at the ground, but since it's not continuous I'll just let it keep doing that rather than turning it off." I'm not a pilot, but I bet my response would be more like "Holeee phuck, wtf is wrong with the trim, it's going to kill us all! Turn it off! Turn it off!"

As I mentioned, I spent 3 years working on the 757 stab trim system for the 757. Although I didn't come up with the idea, the engineers who did said that's exactly why the cutoff switches are clearly labeled and within easy reach. They're for "the stab trim is possessed by demons trying to crash the plane, shut it off NOW!"

Interestingly, the emergency checklist says to turn off the autopilot first, and if that doesn't stop the trim, then shut off the trim. My tendency would be to stop the trim, then turn off the autopilot, and fly manually the rest of the trip.

For example, there was a crash some years ago where the pilots got an air pressure warning. They dug out the checklist, and started following the procedure. They passed out from hypoxia before getting very far through it.

The checklist was then changed so that the #1 item was "put on your oxygen mask". These things are all so obvious in hindsight, but sadly too much gets learned the hard way.
Fast inverse chirp z-transform found
Magnetic closures are usually enclosed in seams, and address a very real need (ease of one-handed or even two/three-fingered operation). Zippers are an actual hazard for baby skin and also tend to take more hands to reliably do/undo than the typical parent trying to manage a screaming, possibly wet baby (or babies!) has available. Even if you're sticking with more traditional fasteners, snaps and Velcro are way more sensible options.
There are JVM versions of Python, Ruby and Tcl, so it's not really about the VM itself.
damn shame with the dollar approaching a $30 trillion dollar deficit within the next decade[0], it would be very prudent to invest into a competitor.

[0]:https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-12/trump-budget-sees-...
Their point was that elixir is a good language for scripting. I'm not sure if this is true but I don't see any reason it couldn't be. I don't think "distributed systems" are niche... I think every web application I've worked on fits that description, which is basically my whole career at all different kinds of companies.
One of my favorite tricks is to generate the JSON for your API responses in Postgres instead of in Ruby.

You can get 100x speedups, but the downside is that you wind up with big nasty SQL queries that duplicate Ruby logic and are hard to maintain. There was a nice gem that would automatically produce JSON-generating SQL [0], but it is abandoned now. It only supports Rails 4 and ActiveModelSerializers 0.8, which are both quite old. I just published a similar gem [1] that works for Rails 5 and AMS 0.10. Unlike the old gem, mine outputs JSON:API (common in Ember projects). I hope to add the traditional JSON format too. AMS 0.10 makes this easier, since it introduced the concept of "adapters". My gem is super new and doesn't yet cover a lot of serializer functionality, but I'm hopeful about supporting more & more. Feedback is welcome!

On the writing side, I've found activerecord-import [2] to be very useful. It batches up INSERTs and UPDATEs and for Postgres it even knows how to use INSERT ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE.

I also have a handful of Postgres extensions that use arrays to do fast math/stats calculations. [3, 4, 5] If you are thinking about moving something into C, it's natural to consider a gem with native extensions, but perhaps a Postgres C extension will be even better.

[0] https://github.com/DavyJonesLocker/postgres_ext-serializers

[1] https://github.com/pjungwir/active_model_serializers_pg

[2] https://github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import

[3] https://github.com/pjungwir/aggs_for_arrays

[4] https://github.com/pjungwir/aggs_for_vecs

[5] https://github.com/pjungwir/floatvec
> they will freak out knowing that we are all doomed, including all our offspring

Um, sorry to break it to you but the horse has left the barn in regards to future prospects.
That was in 2011. Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, Uber, AirBnB were very much on their way up. I think coders get huge amounts of respect nowdays and I heard CS is one of the hottest majors now. The persona of the basement dwelling, thick lens glasses wearing, cheetos covered, socially awkward software programmer has been replaced by the hoodie wearing, anti-establishment, hyperintelligent, socially savvy rich entrepreneur.
The petroleum industry, even the largest individual corporations, wields more power than any NGO.

I agree that things get squirrelly when corporations (or NGOs, even) wield more power than governments. That's most obviously an issue when large global corporations mess with small countries. Or small states in the US, for that matter.

While it's also an issue even in the US overall, one hopes that antitrust enforcement would kick in before total domination.
Well, the "foo && bar" is a bit of a bashism, idiomatic perl would do "bar if foo" or similar.
> A 2016 study by the Center for Court Innovation found that between 8,900 and 10,500 children, ages 13 to 17, are commercially exploited each year in this country. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/nation-now/2018/01/30...

> In 2001, UPenn released a study conducted in 17 cities across the United States [in which] they estimated as many as 300,000 American youth may be at risk of commercial sexual exploitation at any time. However, the actual number of children involved in prostitution is likely to be much smaller: over 10 years only 827 cases a year had been reported to police departments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking_in_the_United_...

Estimates differ wildly because many feel actual reports dramatically undercount reality. IMO even one is too many, but exaggerating does more harm than good.
Those come later, in the form of evolution. If we find the precursors alone, novel forms of single cell life still at that early stage, we can learn a whole lot about how multi-cellular life came about.
Cutting costs gets you a raise. Delivering a big project is a path to promotion.
There’s still a big market for companies or solutions that make cross border transactions cheap and quick. Conventional banks are far behind and quite expensive. Even companies like Transferwise, InstaRem, Xoom, etc., aren’t the best in all the markets they work in (and they aren’t available everywhere either). Government regulations on cross border transactions matter, but that alone cannot be the reason why current conventional solutions have been so bad for a long time.
Only 7% of Nobel Prize winners are "smart"? https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Religion_of_Nobel_...
Full article is available at the Journal of the American Medical Association's website:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

An interesting take-away not mentioned in the BBC write-up is that the researchers found significant effects as early as three years old, suggesting causal factors found in early childhood or a genetic origin. Perhaps sedentary behavior early in life has long-lasting effects for the CNS?

> Lifelong compromised brain health—including poor neurocognitive functioning as early as age 3 years and childhood-to-adulthood decline in cognitive functioning—was associated with slower gait at midlife.
It does make it very clear that it is just a data structure (state) associated with a class (behavior).
I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision
Also, no one wants to argue against automation (even if it's taking away manual testing resources) because that can make you seem old-school and out of touch.

As someone who is "old-school" and has argued against automation countless times, it's more that your arguments against it will likely be dismissed because the management just wants to see the numbers on their pretty "quality metrics" dashboards going up; regardless of what it means for the actual quality of the product. They'll even ask you to "fix" automated tests by forcing them to pass, if they are failing for some reason you don't know yet. Truly a case of "you get what you measure". It's only when you start showing them the bugs that customers come back with and why they couldn't possibly be discovered in automated testing (at least without an impossibly large and nearly-infinite set of test cases on a similarly large set of hardware and software) that they may start to listen to you. Sometimes.
At the risk of sounding like confirmation bias, I have found many relatives and friends to adhere to this kind of simple rule. The more agile and active you in middle age, the better your sleep quality probably is, and both of these are a proxy for how well you will age, apart from genes.
"when you hover over the element"

On the website I'm looking at Google Analytics for right now, fewer than 35% of the visitors are from devices where "hover" means anything...
Fifty years ago we didn't even know whether there were planets outside of our solar system.
This is like the anti-encryption folks in government arguing no one can have secure communications because kiddie-porn. Baby, bathwater. rinse.
Multitasking reminds me of the Windows 8 fiasco. Terrible discoverability, compounded by the fact not all apps can be multitasked by dragging from dock. Very confusing and inconsistent behavior. Personally I haven’t come across any situation where multitasking on iPad is actually more efficient and pleasant to use.
Maybe I’m missing some implication here. What do you mean by areas?
Sleep is indispensable and one should not compromise otherwise it will compromise with your body. Ontogeny and phylogeny reveal that you can't separate sleep from body developmentally. It will affect your body from single molecule to whole body well-being. In case you still want to wake up for work. I would suggest go for coffee and caffeine inside it will block the functioning of molecules like adenosine which are actually inducing sleep.
That would affect hundreds of millions of people who rely on their phone apps for chat. For others, Telegram would still work with its desktop clients as well as the browser based version at web.telegram.org.
Thank you, that was interesting.
well it's too late now to go to Mars without having been preceded by robots
It is, python Threads are system threads.
A particularly poor algorithm choice for sorting can be catastrophic.
https://weworkremotely.com/categories/remote-programming-job... may have some remote freelance that fit your criteria
Like most privacy issues the issue is scale. None of these people ever explicitly consented to the use of their data this way. Change is often sensible when encountering new information or understanding of an existing situation.

Hell, I can't believe you're expressing any confusion. This is a pretty simple abuse of trust, apparently attributable to Flickr/Yahoo. It's almost like it's completely normal to not base your emotional reaction on copyright licenses—the outrage is legitimate no matter how legally protected the abuser is.
The prequels written by his son and Co are not as great but they are easier material to be converted into movie format which will attract more people to the story.

Unfortunately the original books of Frank Herbert are really hard to convert into movie / TV format and that's why Dune never became as popular as star wars. Part of the reason is the inner narrative and attention to details like facial expressions. Actually what makes the books great is what's stopping them from becoming mainstream.
I'm reluctant to clutter the HN UI. It's simple enough that when X comes up, nothing seems more natural than to just build in X... but there are many Xs.

Automatically finding links to good past discussions is harder than it sounds, too.
The grammar in this post seems really awkward. It's almost like they cobbled together 3-4 different people's statements, didn't proof read it, then released it. Strange considering they waited so long.
Moving the goalpost doesn't prove much. Going from how special we are vis a vis Adam and Eve, to accepting life is actually everywhere and has been since well before Earth was a thing is itself a huge leap to make.
That doesn't help me understand what's going on here. Is this a big deal or just a formality?
PostgreSQL Full-text search is good enough. Also recently in PG12 they did many perf optimizations (Table Partitioning, Indexing, Vacuum) which will help in this regard.

http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...

Text search functions - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/functions-textsearch.html
Frank Herbert on the Origins of Dune ( 1965)