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> The article was drafted in Part XXI of the Constitution: Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_XXI_of_the_Constitution_o...
This is a bad analogy.
Ask HN: Can You Ping Secure.2checkout.com?
I'm implementing the integration with 2checkout (online payments) and found out that I cannot access its URL, which is used for the integration, from several locations in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Could you please try to ping this? I really need this stats.. Their support cannot solve this issue for a few weeks.

My ping results:

$ ping secure.2checkout.com

PING sab84n7.x.incapdns.net (45.60.20.94): 56 data bytes

Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

Request timeout for icmp_seq 1

Request timeout for icmp_seq 2

Request timeout for icmp_seq 3

Request timeout for icmp_seq 4

Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
Nobody would sell consumer electronics in your jurisdiction if they thought it were a remote possibility that courts would endorse "Purchase date + 10 years" or even "First sale date + 10 years" for software updates.

An original iPad isn't even 10 years old and is many years past being able to run an iOS version that receives security updates. A 10 year old MacBook Pro is a few years beyond having a supported OS with security updates. Cisco, with a support contract on actual Enterprise gear, offers up to 5 years from the end-of-sale date and do not actually promise to provide security updates for that whole period.

To expect a $50 junk router to provide an industry-leading support lifecycle is absurd.
I found an interesting subtlety to the message here. They had a Python wrapper around a C library, and effectively never updated the library. I wonder if this was due to engineering decisions, hiring/expertise of their staff (or future hires), or something else (risk? etc). I imagine it is easier these days to find Go devs than C devs who want to work at a company like this?

Also, for a sense of scale, this rewrite took about 4 years to complete from first concepts.
Essential reveals Project Gem smartphone with long, unusual design
I got myself and my best friend in high school fired from a fairly good gig because I cracked some dumb passwords and a CEO took it the wrong way. I still don't think he fully forgave me for it.
Wild yeast is in the air everywhere. Sourdough is a thing in SF not because the environment there is particularly good for it, but because of historical reasons (ie, French bakers moving in during the gold rush).
The west employs this tactic too but calls it a sanction or embargo.
China’s major political shifts until the liberalizations have resulted in bloodshed costing the lives of millions, if not tens of millions of deaths. (E.g. Deposing the Qing, Warlord Era, KMT vs CCP, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution).

The major issue is that the mythos of the Chinese state has always required a unified China, and unifying such a large, heavily populated country is difficult.
Turkey starts attacking syrian kurds SDF after US forces left
How to Choose and Track User Events to Build a Better Product
Emory Tate must have been extraordinary..?
> None of them are (written to be) particularly fond of authoritarianism.

I don't think any of the half a dozen or so characters that are part of Talon (the terrorist organisation trying to take over the world) would bat an eyelid
This needs a (1994) tag. It's a fun read to see that policies enabling China's human rights violations date back to the Clinton presidency. We've basically been ignoring all the bad parts of globalization for 25 years because, hey, it's good for shareholders.
I don’t understand why banks don’t add the reason for the text in the text itself.
This could have been detected earlier if the text said “Here’s the code for the password reset you asked for: ______”
The author of the original article is lamenting that "show don't tell" is making people reluctant to write about the personal traumas of their life, and instead have to write "action-packed" scenes. There are like three action-packed scenes in Trainspotting and they're all well within the lived experience of the average first worlder. It's "boring life stuff" in the sense of being about on the other extreme from a Michael Bay movie. Sometimes people don't talk in precise terms about art they consume.

I was using it as an example of a novel about life that has nothing action-y happening and where many scenes don't directly advance the plot, but remains both a page turner and not particularly preachy.
A lot of pollution isn't visible to the naked eye. PM 2.5 particulate emissions are so small that you can't see them.
Noticing this a lot more recently with the NBA controversy too.
>Anecdotal report of what you thought doesn’t advance the conversation.

I don't know what this means. If it is an insult, I am too stupid to understand it.

>I feel that if you call Dear Esther’s interactivity “amazing”, you either haven’t played enough games to be able to expound judgement, or have a definition of “interactivity” different from most players.

You could not experience the game without interacting with it. It's in first person. You move the story along as you discover new story elements. You experience emotions and perspectives first-hand.

>The consensus is that it’s a good work of art, with a good story, visuals, and sound design, but that there isn’t much to interact with.

Dear Esther would not work in any other medium. It would be extremely boring without the interactivity.

So if we're circling back to the original comment that spawned this discussion: Interactivity is what makes the medium of video games unique. Dear Esther focuses on interactivity by making the entire story unravel as you choose to explore it yourself... interactively.

Your point would stand if Dear Esther put you on rails and you barely pushed any buttons (like a Hideo Kojima cutscene). But that's not how the game is designed.
Native Instruments PXI backplanes are made for scientific instruments so you throw on a couple of mobo modules with modern intel CPUs hooked up through the PCI backplane lanes to RF generators, motor controllers, sensors and diagnostic equipment like spectrometers, network analyzers, etc. The backplane comes with more specialized power sources and a bunch of other stuff too.

If you need, for example, a network analyzer hooked up to an SDR that can live decode and compare tens of gigabits of sensor data to the output for validation and tuning you might need several CPUs ingesting and processing that data talking to another CPU that actually runs the SDR software and so on. For these kinds of scenarios, a few PCIe cards and a rack really isn't enough (or cheaply available) compared to a PXI backplane.
Jeez they even tried to get a song removed from Apple Music? I wonder how much other stuff China was able to suppress without anyone noticing.
I believe they are referring to the Turkistan Islamic Party, who aim to establish an Islamic state in East Turkestan i.e. Xinjiang. Some of their fighters went to participate in the Syrian civil war, where ISIS losing territory might prompt them to move back east. While this is the result of the US fighting ISIS, making it sound as if the US was actively helping ISIS fighters relocate is disingenuous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party_in_Syr...
At least in modern usage, giving the exclam to signal "I prefer this opening move" isn't uncommon, so it's not a stretch to think that it was done in the seventies too. Also it rounds the whole thing out nicely to eight characters.
> As an aside, I moved from London to the Bay Area for a number of years. Many of the Londoners I knew who moved there developed terrible allergies after a few years.

This is common among people that move from one region to any other region.
I don't think it should be an international incident. The reality is that corporations shouldn't be espousing political viewpoints, and nobody should care what their opinion is on controversial policies. They make and sell products and that's all they should stick too. Why should Blizzard get in the middle of what's happening between China and Hong Kong? And to be clear, it isn't just Chinese government versus Hong Kong protestors. The Chinese public, the people who buy and consume Blizzard products, also have very strong opinions on this, as does the Hong Kong public.

The problem is that these brands also want the brownie points. So they'll cherry pick safe policies to loudly support when it doesn't negatively affect their bottom line, but stay quiet when it does, making them look like hypocrites and pissing off everyone.
Your logic can be reduced to "If I can't understand something then it must be a tax dodge." This is extremely reductionist and too simplistic...

The main driving force behind private equiy are the returns where the best funds have out performed the S&P 500...private equity funds are typically limited partnerships where the investors pay tax on income.
Sure, the whole can/should be greater than the sum of the parts. Why not?
When people believe that suppressing speech is the correct course of action, there's really no telling where it ends.
I maintain there is a fundamental difference between an electronic system which attempts to aid a car do what the driver has asked, and one which just puts the brakes on hard and without driver input.

I know what you're saying, but I think it's a false equivalence.
Original blog post:

Einstein Analytics and Go

by Guillaume Le Stum
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/07/how-salesforce-convert...
They're mistakes in the sense that there is a "plan" -- replication of a genome with full fidelity. A mutation is an error/mistake in replication.
Yes, the idea of progress as a straight line is silly, it's like a tree that goes into all directions. All we can do is make progress along a certain route of branches, at the exclusion of others; for every door opened, countless doors close.

To be able to gauge how "well" we're doing, how "good" our progress is, we would have to compare with all other branches we could have ended up on by now, and that is not possible.
> given their rubber-stamp nature.

How do you know this? My understanding is that the agencies will try not to submit anything to the FISA court that they know will be rejected as it would be a wasteful use of time and money.
PG&E power shut-off map
I think evolution is a valid way to look at technology as long as you are open to the idea that it may not be evolving to better serve us. You are simply a part of technologies environment- something it uses to reproduce and grow.
Haiku monthly activity report – September 2019
That in itself may be considered a victory, depending on how far China is pushed and how they respond. If the rest of the world won't/can't do business with China anymore, that would be bad for China. HK's last ditch objective could end up as goading China into chopping off it's own feet to put down the protestors. A pyrrhic victory for sure, but still a victory in the long run.
idk man it sounds like discrimination to me.
As I expected: you don't appear have a clue on what a smartcard actually is.

> My phone requires a password (which I can set to be arbitrarily secure, not 4-digit PIN (LOL)) or a fingerprint (which is something noone can steal, unlike a credit card... or at least I'd notice it's missing much sooner!)

Anyone can steal your fingerprint, and you can't reset your fingerprint like you can with a password or PIN.

A smartcard will self-destruct (wipe the key material) after a number of unsuccessful PIN entries, so the chance of someone successfully guessing the PIN is ~1:3333 for a 4 digit PIN with 3 attempts.
This is good enough for banks to offer fraud insurance, in the off-chance that your card gets cracked your bank will reimburse the damage.

> optionally entering your PIN which you share with every POS terminal / shop) and get a password.

Yes, but that would still require physical access to your card. So they'll need to have both your card and your PIN. At that point you'll need to have your card/account blocked ASAP anyway. Your bank will supply you with a new card and PIN, which is a way better solution compared to cutting off your fingers and attaching new ones ;-)
Which is fine. They can have them.
> what is this strange obsession with type , it improves performance yeah sure

Static typing allows for a lot of static decisions which in general brings better performance for a language. CPython pushes so many decisions to runtime that it is a very significant performance impact.

But the article cites more significant challenges related to type. Not performance, but design:

> "First, Python uses loose typing, which was great for a small team rapidly developing new ideas and putting them into production –but less great for an enterprise-scale application that some customers were paying millions of dollars for," he writes.

Cue the reminder that in fact Python is strongly (but dynamically) typed. But LeStum's point stands: dynamic type hurts developers trying to read/write unfamiliar python code. The mypy static typing should help out a lot but I don't think it's very popular yet.

For performance, IMO in this order you should consider (1) PyPy, (2) multiprocessing, (3) cython and/or c-extensions. (and I suppose implicitly (0) analyze your algorithm, exploit numpy where possible). If you exhaust those, Go seems like a great alternative.
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> The article goes on and on but says nothing insightful.

Every NewYorker article basically.
sounds very interesting! is there any compiled list that summarizes the protester's technological countermeasures, how these steps circumvented previous regulations and how the government responded to interfere with those novel approaches?
So rather screw the kurds and loose them to the russians and Assad, than loosing turkey to the russians?

I bet(and hope), that does not pay off in the longterm.

And turkey btw. will always be on turkeys side first.
I've been impressed by how the SF Chronicle has been tracking the PG&E power outages of Oct 9-?, 2019 when PG&E web presence has been lackluster. How is the SF Chronicle sourcing this data?
It gets smarter. Blizzard has dumped over $100M into Overwatch ESports. Of the 20 teams three are named after Chinese cities: Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. Now imagine if a symbol of Hong Kong freedom is played in any tournament against or for these teams?
Can you give an example of free speech being quieted? We push political issues that way, but I’m not aware of censorship being the trigger.
Pardon me if I don't believe what the auto industry is feeding us.
The NBA at least seems to be walking back their initial condemnation of Morey's comments, China be damned: [0]. We should give them credit for that. Conversely, there's been radio silence from Blizzard so far.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/sports/adam-silver-nba-ch...
I’ll admit, I don’t see apple supporting the equivalent app for, say, the US.
> Propose that a suspended player is a US citizen.

Like Colin Kaepernick? That just happened like 3 years ago, has everyone already forgotten?
Jamaican stock exchange rallies to become world’s best-performing
It's legal to discriminate as long as it's not a protected class.
Now I want to see this study broken down by dog breed, or at least dog size. I also want to see "living in a home with a dog" broken out from "being primary owner of a dog". The extreme cases are very different: if you live alone with a Border Collie, you're certainly going to be doing a lot of cardiovascular exercise; while if your roommate has a Pekingese, you might take it around the block occasionally when they're busy.

I'm pretty confident that the Collie would be associated with improved cardiac outcomes, but it seems very possible that the Pekingese would too. There's decent evidence that adequate sleep on a regular schedule improves heart health, and even dogs that need minimal exercise can remind you about bedtime and breakfast time. And of course, having a dog probably lowers stress levels (in people who choose to get dogs), which is a straightforward improvement.
Sometimes a word is worth a thousand icons.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/sometimes-a-word-is-worth-a-th...
A good type system is like a set of unit tests that are written for free and checked automatically every time the software is built. The better type systems feel natural and do not create extra work.

Actually, having worked with some great type systems in my life (especially in the ML family of languages) I feel they can assist with design and thinking through a problem by explicitly stating your intentions without being tedious. Obviously type systems like C++/Java do not fit this bill.

But lastly, they are even more useful in my experience when dealing with other people's code. Types can be self documenting to an extent and provide certain guarantees (or lack of guarantees) about the code itself. Of course how much information the type system conveys varies wildly based on the power of the type system (Haskell vs. C++) and the desire of the original developer to communicate intent through types.
You can download free charts for many of Europe's inland waterways. One great method is to use OpenCPN [0,1] and its "Chart Downloader".

[0] https://opencpn.org/

[1] https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/info/chartsource.html
Lets hope she doesn't get banned from the game /s
OSOS: Location-based self-censoring software
This is the first major, sustained, modern, technology-enabled, urban conflict between central authority and ambient/peripheral/distributed community.

Without benefit of hindsight it's impossible to know, but I'd wager that this is the single most important political event in the world right now.

If the people of Hong Kong can stop the aggressive imperialism of the CCP that will be a guiding light for everybody. Conversely, if the CCP succeeds in crushing HK who else is there to stop them consolidating their power?

Matt Stone and Trey Parker?
the password is the last part: p/q2-q4!

it's a notational way in the chess program (written by Ken Thompson) to describe a chess move, "pawn from Queen's 2 to Queen's 4."

A very common opening move that "puts a pawn in the center, controlling the important e5-square, and opens the line for the Bc1."[1]

The notation is old. Modern notation would just write it as "d4" because there's only one piece (a pawn) who can move to that square as the first move and only one spot from which it can move (d2).

[1] https://www.chess.com/openings/A40-Queens-Pawn-Opening
I have a great boss: nobody.

Our company has a very flat structure, so sure we have product managers that tell me what to do, but in no way are they my boss.

This works better than any other org structure I've been a part of in the past.
That's a bit of a stretch, the 'player' can still get a job elsewhere, no one has a right to work for whatever company they want using whatever platforms they wish...
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A.k.a. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
No Radical Changes in GNU Project
A lawsuit doesn't depend on the law or constitution.

As a separate note, the player and hosts would likely be considered to be contractors, not employees.
I've seen a number of apps that store settings or presets in Documents. Kind of the same ideas as dotfiles in your home directory, which seems pretty reasonable and I don't think there's one agreed right place for any of this.

A nice benefit of storing them in Documents is that it syncs to icloud automatically even on the free tier, so you can share it between all your computers.
"He never ever learned to read and write so well, but he could drive enough current to win a Nobel."
But, formally speaking, it actually really is within their responsibility to serve as the first point of contact for the individual citizen (think "retail customer") and put it through to the proper channels within law enforcement.

The Bavarian police (this was in Bavaria) even has a "center for cybercrime" which, according to press releases and stuff, sounds like precisely the office that should take note of things like that. But they don't have any public-facing communication channels of any kind[1], and I'm unclear whether they actually do stuff or whether they exist purely on paper as a public relations and politics stunt.

Maybe if I was politically connected or willing to spend a pile of dough to put a lawyer on it, things would be different, but this was just one man trying to do his civic duty and there's only so much trouble that I'm willing to go to for that.

[1] EDIT: After doing some more research, it looks like, meanwhile they do. This was just announced two months ago, so seems to be a new development.

https://www.polizei.bayern.de/kriminalitaet/internet/index.h...
With the current upwards trend for python I wonder how many companies will come to the same conclusion the next 5 years?

Maybe ending up rewriting large parts of their system. If not to Golang then to some other fast and statically typed language like c# or java.
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Thank you for this very detailed explanation !
Not all types of discrimination are illegal - in particular, the GP is stating that refusing to do business with people of a certain political leaning is not illegal.
I'm exactly the same. I generally hate being around dogs: they're smelly, dirty, and require far too much attention. I really hate it when other peoples' dogs jump up on me when I'm just trying to walk down the sidewalk.

I like to take walks myself too, but in walkable districts downtown usually. I can't take a dog there, because that would require taking a dog on the subway, which isn't allowed (thankfully). I honestly don't see how dogs even make any sense in a city for people who don't have cars. They make some sense I guess as a rural or suburban pet, but lately it seems like every single woman in my city (DC) has one.
I think it only applies when inside the boundaries of China, not to people of Chinese origin.

I'm half ethnically Chinese, look mostly Chinese, and don't give a shit what the CCP thinks, because I was born in the U.S, have U.S. citizenship, visited China once with a tour group full of white people from places like Peoria, and have no plans to go back. However, if I were physically in China, I'd be a little more circumspect with my political opinions. This is prudent for white Americans within the boundaries of China as well - while you have some protection because of the CCP not wanting to cause an international incident, you are still in a foreign country thousands of miles from home and subject to its laws or lack thereof.
It's like modern developers are slowly rediscovering things we knew when the Macintosh was released in 1984. Maybe in a few decades we can have computers that don't suck again.
chase does this too.

applepay, for all my cards, gives me an immediate push notification, despite some cards not doing so for regular chip/swipe transactions. really like that feature & also wish all cards did it for all transactions.
If I was writing down offensive stuff about a coworker in the bathroom, that seems fair.
US law protects against discrimination for protected groups (race, religion, age, etc.). Political views are not a protected group.