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It's hard to demonstrate anything if you don't have a control group and can't turn the thing in question on and off. Conflicts of interest are real, you don't need to demonstrate that they are, though it's not clear how much they sway Mozilla's decisions.

And you're right, the non-profit-status doesn't imply that, they could just as well do the same as a commercial enterprise. It would be more obvious that way.

Would Mozilla make the step to ship an adblocker with Firefox? It would certainly be what their users want (the most popular extension by far being uBlock Origin), but it would pretty much decrease their worth to Google to zero, hence kill the funding. And there's your conflict of interest.
The CVC is behind the MasterCard logo on my N26 card.
I had four Apple IIs (IIgs, rest IIes) and I had a network going and everything. Sold them all in 2003 because of no job for over a year. Sold them all for $250. I could get $3000 today if I still had them, but I wouldn't sell them.
Slightly off topic: is anyone using B2 (which seems cheaper if you have more than one computer for a certain amount of data) for personal data backups with strong client side encryption across multiple platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows)? If so, how do you handle it?
I meant, close it immediately or just bookmark, tag and close it for later.
I'm hoping someone else remembers it and furnishes the title.

I was a kid when I read it, and the book was already old, so publication date circa 1970-80. Best I can do. I trawled through book cover images but no love.

- - - -

edit to add: It's probably "Auto Mechanics Fundamentals" by Stockel. I'm still looking for pictures of the insides of the book, but going by what I can see here, it's very likely:

https://archive.org/details/automechanicsfun00stoc/page/n5

The typography matches my memory, and the description in the introduction sounds spot on, eh? Cheers!
I don't think it's about the expats specifically, native Germans just don't encounter it because they have little need for N26 in the first place and are mostly happy with their traditional banking services.
True. So it may still be at the front of the plane (where the distance from centerline is still small). I could see a V shaped first class. Possible with a keystone-shaped galley, or a lounge.

The other problem is how do you get the toilets and the galley serviced from outside? And load the cargo bay?
My first German bank account was with Sparkasse, and I had to request a MasterCard separately (the main card was Maestro I think? useless for online payments).

It wasn't even attached to the account, I had to transfer money to it (so, a prepaid card) and couldn't even see the remaining balance (I really tried).

Terrible experience, but they were the only option for me at the time.
I can't express enough how YNAB has changed my habits and make me realize _how_ to plan, forecast, and save money. They have lots of video tutorials and it's been worth every penny. Here's my referral link, happy to answer questions on how I use it too!

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I use beancount to track every expense I have. It's really a powerful tool, check it out: http://furius.ca/beancount/ .

I started using the various tools the country I live in has for personal finance (it's France): Assurance Vie, PEA, Livret A, …
Depends on whether those regulations are socially useful or not. It's not a given that should be the next step.
I think the point of parent's comment is that hardly anyone in the UK has heard of N26, so perhaps we shouldn't jump to the conclusion that it's all due to Brexit. Let's be honest, if they had a market here worth saving, they'd apply for the licence.
More detailed from New York Times daily podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736...
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> With 30 fps

What is the framerate actually used by real-world systems, such as Tesla cars?
>Revolut got a banking license from Estonia to continue to operate in the EU.

That doesn't really feel like a fair comparison.
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The link doesn't quite work there. But I'd be interested in signing up.
$200/mo sounds like a lot, but you have to realize your solution also incurs some serious operational/mental costs esp when you have more than one project. Where every successive project you develop does thing slightly different as you improve, and every time you ssh into a given project server you go `cat ~/README.md` to remember all the idiosyncrasies with this specific project and its deployment. And you still don't have a solution for things like logging and piping logs to a service like PaperTrail. And your deploys have downtime, and if you have a zero-downtime solution you will likely have to debug it here and there, or figure out why your rollback broke.

How many people running their own DO droplet even have a convenient way

One of the main perks of Heroku that makes it worth the cost imo is having a standard way to do everything whether you have one or 100 projects. You certainly don't have to go all the way in either, you can use Heroku just for your app servers and then host the rest of your infra on AWS like your DB (RDS).
- Automate boring stuff with Python: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

- Elements of Computing Systems (Building a computer from scratch on a hardware simulator): https://www.nand2tetris.org/book
You can't generalize heuristics by looking only at outliers.
This is not the first market this bank has pulled out from. A couple of years ago they stopped signing up people from two EU markets they previously served (Latvia and Lithuania) without any reason. Granted all existing accounts remained untouched, still these accounts get somewhat crippled functionality and their future is unclear. Although their app is great and I didn't have any big issues with the service itself, I'm somewhat wary of keeping any larger sums of money in my N26 account.
Doing something that doesn't benefit the customers but does benefit your workers (because not all days off are equal) is pretty progressive. It's not necessarily their intent as an organization, but it is the effect.
I've gotten into ancient games recently, and I've tried Senet with various rule variations- I think it's kind of boring. I like much better the Royal Game of Ur-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I

I've also been playing with Indian Pachisi, two player is kind of boring, but I still need to try four player / doubles.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but it has nothing to do with some mislabeled examples. Every system using supervised training assets has labeling issues, and the world hasn't ended yet. Take a look at Google Translate. This is only "scary" if you're ignorant of the problem.

The OP is selling something, and it's in their best interest to spread FUD to sell it.
The government can. For example, take how the police will turn individuals into informants by getting them on trumped up drug charges and then offering them a deal if they work for the government, including engaging in acts that put them at risk of being killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rachel_Hoffman

The end result is "Work for us or go to prison."
New account, 1 post.. I woulnd't answer "OBFUSCATED"'s question.. seems like he's already picked where to dig the ditch for the commenter. GCHQ? Something nastier?
I'm not sure that it would be that difficult with Roslyn and Visual Studio these days. There are Roslyn-based syntax-highlighters and linters and snippet-generators and code-transformers. I use one for making sure all of my code is not just formatted the way I want it, but auto-inserting "readonly" modifiers for fields that don't get re-written outside of the constructor, one that treats not implementing IDisposable correctly as an error (it can also track the lifetime of a Disposable object and warn when it detects that it never gets disposed, which is super cool), and another one that rainbow-highlights code blocks. The tooling is there to support just a thing, it just needs someone to put all the pieces together.
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A national security letter can not compel someone to tap a server for the government or allow the government to tap a server. A NSL can only request existing collected records. So for exampe a NSL could request any logs a service provider has regarding who paid for the server or any access logs they retain regarding the server. If they do not have any logs a NSL can't compel them to start collecting them. A NSL which requests actions or information outside of the scope allowed by law can be challenged in court.
That's weird, I've never ever heard someone complain that a font was too big to be comfortable to read before. Do you have any sense what about it makes it more uncomfortable for you? Small fonts are easy to explain.
My preferred anti-tracking setup is Firefox with the Multi-Account Containers and the Temporary Containers addons (and uBlock Origin of course.)

Multi-Account Contaners lets me set up permanent containers for (groups of) sites I want to stay logged in to. I check the "always open this site in <container name>" box.

Temporary Containers is set up to open new sites (on middle / control click) in new, temporary containers. These containers work like private browsing windows, but store their data for 10 minutes after being closed. So undo close tab works, history works, but each new site is in its own container. And 10 minutes after its closed (or when the browser as a whole closes) all the cookies get deleted.
I was with hsbc for a year in the uk, I'd definitely not call it "generally very good" (ridiculous app and login infrastructure), but I have a sample size of one.
You are on point about observability, that is a keystone in the mitigation and RCA process.

I don't think source code can be the source of truth. It lacks the observability of live systems. How would you know what's going wrong without logs and metrics?

You infra ought to be code (terraform et al) but this still does not cover the state of the live system.

DevOps, and generally development, will require many systems to get a RCA. The many moving parts and information sources are part of modern development and systems. Too many technologies and tools to unify.

Slack should not be anything more than a communication system, def not a source of truth or tracking platform.

Sounds like your company needs to improve its practices.

#DevOpsLife
Not sure how that's today, but a few years ago their "mobile experience first" stuff resulted in quite some security issues: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7969-shut_up_and_take_my_money. That alone would be enough for me to not trust them with any of my money.
> People think that calling something "Artificial Intelligence" implies that it is artificial, yes, but also, critically that it is intelligent.

I mean, the exact same argument could be made about people. Just because you belong to Homo Sapiens doesn't imply you're an intelligent being at all times - e.g. drink a bottle of vodka and the sapiens part is gone.
Another poster used the word "dehumanizing". That seems like an apt description of the perils of cancel culture. If it's okay to destroy someone's career, their life, without considering whether the response is properly measured, why isn't it okay to (literally) burn them at the stake? And maybe their supporters, too?

We're on an evil path here.
The comments here are odd. N26 isn't making any political statements. They're just saying they don't want to apply for a UK banking licence now that they can't use an EU one.

The response "they're only doing this because they can't make enough money in the UK" seems kind of vacuous. Of course that's why they're doing it. The cost of requiring a UK licence outweighs the benefit of being there.

There seems to be some sort of desire to say "Brexit didn't cause this". It's pretty clear it did because they could previously operate without a UK licence and now they can't and it doesn't cost low enough to be worth it for them. I don't think it matters in the big scale since there's Monzo and Starling, but having the EU fracture will be annoying since markets will fracture.

As for the criticisms of starting in the UK post the Brexit vote, I don't understand if you guys have run businesses before, but you have to take risks. Things can change, and for the right growth opportunity you go for it.

As an example, post-GDPR I set up the European arm of our data business, and even though Brexit was on the horizon, we set up in London. Why? Because the opportunity was big enough and we could work our way to a solution in time that would meet what we needed and because (being entirely Anglophone) establishing a bridgehead in the UK made sense. It's a successful business now and we have teams in mainland Europe now. It's like running towards one of those closing doors so that you can slide under it like a hero. You don't want to be trapped under the door, but sometimes what's on the other side of the door is worth the risk.
Well, we have weekly budgets for living costs, monthly budgets for savings ect. We keep track with an app and avoid card payments if possible.

This works good for us. Pretty manual, but works out well.
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DLL Hell doesn't refer to "lots of DLLs", it refers to conflicting versions of DLLs not being easily manageable across multiple applications. Outside of putting assemblies in the GAC (which was always a hack of last resort anyway), .NET has never had "DLL Hell".
still being used in our research group on a daily basis.
> For one, the government can't compel you to do work. That's slavery.

Slavery's perfectly legal. The 13th Amendment:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
> What's so interesting in the rich (and supposedly educated, I'll take your word for it...) groups that you have to buy into them with expensive junk?

The fact that opportunity is driven largely by networks, and that networks are typically class-gated (not exactly wealth-gated; most people recognize that class and temporary circumstances aren't the same thing.)

Unfortunately, social seeking by the poor who aren't mentored on social signalling by someone already in or experienced with higher classes is likely to reflect lower-class misconceptions of higher-class signals, and fail as class signalling.
The font on that page does not scale well.
> at your one specific branch,

Italy is the same way and it is awful. We signed up for our bank account at one specific branch of a bank in Padova, Italy, and it's impossible to do much besides withdraw some cash at other branches. It's so dumb.
Yeah I use B2 with rclone (https://rclone.org/) and it works great.
> cowboy mentality that went into building a moon rocket in such a short time

Haven't read the book but that kinda sounds like SpaceX today.
That's so cool! And sounds like an amazing class. More and more, I'm kinda wishing I had a chance to get to college. Maybe some day I'll return in my retirement. :)
> As somebody who lives in the UK (London area), I've never even heard of this company N26, let alone aware that they had UK operations.

Funny and surprising you say this since I just saw a large N26 billboard in the London Tube Station at Angel Station; very unmissable as a Londoner using the tube these days.
hsbc's app and website are the worst of any bank I've used

nationwide and natwest have much better apps and websites
We were repeatedly told that wouldn't be the case before the referendum. It's hard to see the point of Brexit otherwise though.
For some they're something that I check daily so I just focus then refresh, and for some I keep them open thinking it's something I am going to revisit and read some day.
Because they want an up to date browser for purposes that don't require the extension.
> Anyway from your comment I get the impression that donating to Moz Foundation is not such a great idea. If so, could you elaborate why?

Sorry, that wasn't my intention. Donating to Mozilla Foundation does a lot of good around the world. It just doesn't support Firefox development. I just wanted to make that distinction clearer.
20 year old bug coming through: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572
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>N26 on the other hand just didn't have a compelling offering. They charged for most/all of their accounts (explicit charges for accounts in the UK are uncommon), they lacked features, and their marketing was unremarkable compared to the competition.

I'm not buying any of this. I'd speculate that N26 was denied a banking licence in order to look after the "British challenger" banks who already operated in the EU with their EU licence. Having been denied the licence makes operating in the UK post Brexit impossible.

I use N26 -- it's free, great app and because it's German all savings up to €100k are guaranteed by German gov.
I've lived all over the U.S., the last seven years in Las Vegas. The Believer piece was the most accurate portrayal of the city I've ever come across.

Las Vegas is, in many ways, the most American city.

* Top to bottom, the city hustles for your attention and your commerce. Everyone implicitly understands that if the customer doesn't like the product or service, there are a million other options. It's a welcome change compared to other we're-too-cool-for-you downtowns.

* It remains one of the only metro areas (perhaps the only one) in America where someone with a high school diploma can roll into town, get a job and, in fairly short order, make a middle-class life for him/herself.

* We're a big destination for immigrants of all types who come here looking for work -- busboys become valets become small-shop owners become big-shop owners.

* We're not sentimental when something doesn't work anymore. You see it on the Strip when hotels are imploded, sure, but you also see it all around town. We don't have a lot of half-dead, struggling businesses because, if it's not working, people try something new.

Having said all that? The summers are miserable.
One is someone that over engineer, the other know where to put time and money to maximize returns.
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Oh man, the verbosity thing was a huge problem until C# got "using static". Any static classes that just hold static methods can be imported into your code module as bare functions. I frequently do "using static System.Math;" and "using static System.Console;" when tossing together little mathy processor apps.
Amex was issuing translucent cards in the UK in the 90s. By far the best looking card they ever did.
For an organization, I think it's best to have a company handbook that covers all your standard practices and culture.

And if there are significant failures in policy, you can just put a note after the revised policy that says "we tried X, it didn't work because of Y.
I think it was about Thomas Ericson.

Edit: found it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22064530
I believe that most of your complaints about the experience could be mitigated by timing. My local Costco"Opens" at 9am but the doors are usually open by 8:30. My trick is to make a very fast run on a weekday morning before work (luckily there's one on the way) - have a list, grab what I need, pay and go - and I've found this works wonders for maximizing my time.
There is almost no level of comp that being on call 24/7 for months on end is worth. That essentially means that they control you at all times, you cannot go hiking or camping, you probably can't go skiing or surfing. Any activity away from a phone or out of the coverage area is difficult if not impossible. I'm glad that you were able to get out of that routine because it's mentally taxing.
The existence of the mega-rich doesn't make the "merely wealthy" middle-class.

Here's a bit from the Washington Post in 2017 talking about the difficulty of defining what is "middle class" in the modern era. They arrive at an umbrella of $35k-$122k. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/25/is-10...
No, this is not original research, this isn't being uncovered now, and I'm not sure why this is being republished now in 2020.

There have been detailed leaks since 1995 on cryptome.org and crypto mailing lists about CryptoAG, including details about the message format and the bits used to leak parts of the key (16 bit leak, IIRC).

The CryptoAG story has tainted all Swiss-based crypto/security firms since 1994.

[1] https://www.cryptomuseum.com/people/hans_buehler.htm

[2] Verschlüsselt, Der Fall Hans Bühler, ISBN 3-85932-141-2. 1994 - Book written by former CryptoAG employee Hans Buehler (1994).
It was deliberate. This is how his personal observations on the reliability of the space shuttle end.
There are some regulations i agree are unnecessary and slow things down far too much, but as soon as the UK starts cutting corners on safety they ought to deserve no business at all.
Gosh yes!! The big reveal (he'd actually be learning all along while figuring out how to program the machine) has stuck with me forever. :)
To be honest, I'd find it pretty creepy to both have this asked every meeting, and also to have it tracked by any tool. I would likely seek work elsewhere. One on one conversations about emotions can be appropriate, but a group setting like that reeks of 'emotional harmonization' equating to control.
Rumor is that they are also going to cancel their launch in Brazil. I think they are just re-focusing and trying to make money instead of burning it. Launching in a new market is always expensive.
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I miss Tab Mix Plus too. I also miss Session Manager, Lazarus form recovery, etc. It's been very frustrating that Firefox hasn't provided adequate support for these fantastic extensions to continue in the WebExtensions world.
Yeah same. HSBC have struggled to improve their tech but they are improving now. They released a completely new app and got rid of that terrible login flow last year and apparently it's much better.

You can still send a payment from HSBC, for free, instantly, to any other UK bank account. You can also just about do most things in their online banking. This more than can be said for some other parts of Europe.
The further the UK diverges from EU rules, the harder it will be to trade across the two zones. That’s going to cause ambitious companies to leave for the massive opportunity in the EU, not to set up shop in the UK.
I'm aware of those two at least, but from people I know, not one had them and basing around that aspect of traction - sure that may well not represent the market, but at least I'm aware of them, unlike this N26.
I use Quicken, but not happy with it since they moved to annual subscription model. But with more than 20 years of data in it, I'm locked in. Looking to migrate to beancount, but the data migration is hard. I'm contemplating starting anew with beancount and forgoing my historical data. I could easily do without the data, but something psychological is at play, and I can't get over it yet.
It was easier already. From what I hear setting up shop in the UK is more straightforward than doing the same thing in France.
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Maybe we need an OpenResume specification?
Was posted here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294275
400k is not "middle class" -it's upper (upper upper) middles, and yes, there is a huge difference. It's literally top 1% of income!

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/which-incom...
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>and because it's German all savings up to €100k are guaranteed by German gov.

Same applies to all banks in the EU.