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> The key to learning anything is to start at a level that feels too easy and gradually increase difficulty.

Is it though?

In this particular case, for this particular person, may be. But personally, I always found myself bored and ADHDly switching to something else in 5 minutes if I wouldn't drop myself right in the deep end. And from my interactions with different software engineers over the years, I doubt I'm the only one.
But it seems you think that Assange was responsible for the leak of the uncensored documents.

The defense's claim is that it was clearly an unintended release without consent by a third party.

So negating this, for now, is quite a stretch.
Hi, a bit of background on this project.

When I travel, I often want to find the best place to get a specific dish (e.g. taco al pastor), which is not necessarily found at the best Mexican restaurant in a city. So I created this site where people can input dishes and places and vote on them. So far it's in New York, LA, SF, Toronto, Chicago, and Austin.

Feel free to add dishes, restaurants, and vote.

Would love to hear feedback!
Personal experience. Or how else do you expect to be proven such a sweeping statement?
Can you link any sources that azure ranks worse in quantitative measures?
The real cunts are those justifying war crimes and continued criminal, illegal crimes against humanity in the form of the 5-eyes imperialist wars. Not a word of criticism about those guys, eh - no, instead, we'll just shoot the messenger.

There will be more leaks, Assange or not. The truth is, there are far, far more worse crimes committed by the 5-eyes Coalition to be revealed on the horizon. Assange is just one of many who are working on blowing the lid on the Wests' illegal, criminal behaviour. Unfortunately for those who believe in the moral authority of the 5-eyes coalition as being irreproachable, you can't easily cover up crimes against humanity.

Be prepared for more leaks, folks. This isn't going to stop just because Assange has been kidnapped by his enemies.
But the refund after settlement was $ 20 to $ 280 while these people paid $ 5000 for a previous version of Autopilot (now it's even more).
Multiplication of octonions is non-associative and usually expressed by simple juxtaposition.
I don’t see how WASM could possibly be faster than native as somehow it has to be translated into native with native first right?
Hey HN!

I rarely post here, mostly just looking at what others are building. Anyway, this is my 2nd side project - took me more than 6 months to build.

Most of the mockups are taken from Unsplash. Let me know what are you thinking or if you have any use case for it.

I built it for myself basically - in part time I am building Prestashop addons to build into marketplace and needed some product mockup tool. Unfortunately there are like 2 poor man free tools and over 100 paid. This is how I ended up making it myself. Cheers ;)
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Every heard about the testing pyramid?

https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.htm...

A few UI tests on top of the pyramid does help.

We did move from selenium to Cypress because of flakyness in selenium, and because most browser run the same engine under the hood (cypress is chrome only).
Ecosystems are far from equilibrium. Evolution couldn't happen if they were. Come on, spit it out, what are you trying to get at?
I know of deep fake employment opportunities designed exclusively for identifying opportunities for IP larceny. This is a huge reason for locking down everything if you have any relatives of important people in your organisation as interns. This is the oldest privilege escalation hack I know of, and you might want to see if your outside legal will support a fake interview process for your own people via a headhunter. Reciprocal and wholly legitimate arrangements exist like this in many industries. It’s frightening how much we found we were leaking over family breakfasts in seemingly innocent ways like revealing meeting details and simply mood responses to eager-junior inquiries. Send your sons and daughters to start their own business and learn to value poker playing before they get inside the “family” business. BillG played poker rather well I’ve read...
You were grammatically overloaded. That's why words are bad -- they are ambiguous even after using context.
Changing minds and habits of billions of people is more simple and feasible? For me it's ridiculous. Any technological solution looks way better for me.
This kind of quisling act is of little value.
Since when has China been ready to move heaven and earth in response to the fears of its citizens?
A little competition in this space is LONG over due.
> Until recently Amnesty International refused to even recognize Assange as a political prisoner, and the only thing they had said about him was that he was "not a political prisoner".

That... is saddening. I donate cca 120$ to AI every 6 months believing they would right some wrongs out there where it matters, but I'll strongly consider dropping this.

Maybe they don't have balls to go directly against US government, but then we are talking about huge amount of wrongs that will never be challenged.

As a non-US person, like 95% of the world, I couldn't care less if his actions of revealing massive US war atrocities and breaches of international laws potentially endanger some US spies.
How much would people pay for an expertise development app? Been coding one as a side project for some time now and I'm thinking I have to put it in front of actual users as soon as possible.
CEOs can't fire their shareholders, though.

I don't think being a Fortune 50 CEO is necessarily the best preparation for president, but there is definitely a lot of overlapping skills. This is very different than the businessman as politician fetish the country often has; running a small/family business doesn't require the same skillset.
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I agree, and have to admit that my own knowledge of LA is sadly way too superficial. The article did give a me a big lightbulb on something I didn't understand before: Some of my friends work in quantitative sociology and economics, and use Stata for their programming needs. They basically use matrices as their exclusive data structure, and the reason for that eluded me until after reading this article.
France is the same, or it was when I was participating in it.
> Also: can you honestly, from the bottom of your heart, say that you'd rather filter json documents using some form of XPath?

Come one read the second line of my reply before strawmanning.
Not buying into this sort of conspiracy theory myself, but since I'm reading some Cixin Liu I'll indulge in some creative thinking.

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This is pure fiction:

Seeing this as an offensive weapon, if it were indeed man-made, is a mistake imo.

Right now the market is cratering, China is pretty much in economic lock down (which would have been impossible to enact otherwise), while being self sustained. Population of elders (i.e. non-working population) are being purged. Aren't we in the middle of an economic war between USA and China? China and the world, even? Who is gaining from this situation right now? Or rather, who is suffering less, from a medium/long perspective? If it does get to the States, with no healthcare safety net in place, the country will go through a lot of pain, economic and other.

I think that by the end of whatever _that_ is, China comes out on top from a game theory perspective. It's a bit like the Schwabb vs Ameritrade commission cutting playbook: if we both suffer but you suffer more, I still win in the end.

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Again, pure fiction. I do not subscribe to any of those views. I am not that cynical! Just a fun writing exercise.
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I work in a company in the climate tech space, and this all rings very true. Our customer is utilities and I have stayed from fairly early stage through acquisition. It's frustratingly slow moving at times, but we've also been able to have a meaningful impact. Each person in the company can honestly say that they've contributed to emissions reductions to the point that really nothing they do could ever make them carbon positive again. Most of this is due to the scalability of software.

It's also been really interesting to see how regulations play into this. Getting utilities to value reducing their topline revenue through user energy efficiency requires regulation, and our customer base mostly reflects which utilities are under such regulations, though we also have a customer experience play for when that's not a primary driver.

Like layoric, I would also recommend working in this space for similar reasons. I would also add my experience is that the people are great. It's not get rich quick, so the people here are driven mostly by mission and interesting problems, which leads to a generally high level of positivity.
> It just became wide spread in Wuhan. IMHO, it's from Koltsovo.

What?

The great circle distance between Koltsovo Airport (USSS) and Wuhan Tianhe International Airport (ZHHH) is 5000km:

* http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?&DU=km&P=USSS-ZHHH

And here I thought you were serious... until I looked at a map.
Doesn't matter to me. It seems clear to me that his policies are socialist regardless of what he calls himself.
Please share some of the (numerous, I’m sure) statements by public health officials and epidemiologists crying that China is overreacting.
And the distributed DNS layer will get censored soon enough if it gets traction. If you need proof, look at how TOR is doing in china.
The way the rape case was initially dropped and then picked up again certainly seemed weird, and there may have been political pressure behind it. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, though. The stories of the women involved seemed very credible, and unlikely to have been made up, considering they were supporters of him.

But I totally agree that this treatment in this extradition case sounds terrible, and the judge seems strongly biased against him. Does not sound like a fair trial.

In any case, Assange is a controversial figure. He's done things I wholeheartedly support, and things I strongly oppose. I support his early fight against censorship and the release of the collateral murder video. I disagree with releasing all the material concerning sensitive operations unchecked and unedited. I am concerned by the rape stories, strongly oppose his self-centered grandstanding, and my working theory is that he went mad, possibly with power, due to the massive size of the Manning leaks. I supported the rape investigation, but oppose his extradition to the US, because I doubt he's ever going to get a fair trial there. And now it looks like even the extradition trial from the UK is not going to be fair.

He's a complex figure with good and bad sides. His are a bit more extreme than most. I find it hard to form a simple opinion about him, because nothing about this is simple. But it seems obvious to me that both blind support and total condemnation are wrong positions to take in this. I agree he's being made an example of for political reasons, and that's very wrong, but that doesn't automatically mean he's entirely innocent either.
> The real cunts are those justifying war crimes and continued criminal, illegal crimes against humanity in the form of the 5-eyes imperialist wars. Not a word of criticism about those guys, eh - no, instead, we'll just shoot the messenger.

Thats a different topic and a different discussion, but sure, you just throw them all in together becase you have an opinion on one of them.

> blowing the lid on the Wests' illegal, criminal behaviour

Now you're throwing all the 'West' in with Assange, great.

> This isn't going to stop just because Assange has been kidnapped by his enemies.

Good, genuinely good, accountability is needed. But make no mistake, Assange is a terrible martyr to go by.
The things are so different, you should really look both up. DevOps is essentially an entire suite for developers, from git repos, ticket boards, ci/cd pipelines, knowledge management and hell even a little package management sprinkled in. Brilliant tool.
Ooops, yea seeing the same thing..
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A simple example would be the isomorphism between a complex number: a + bi and a 2x2 matrix: {{a, -b},{b, a}}.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#Matrix_represen...
> When it does, just remember that those same authoritarian governments are the ones who played down the threat, lied, covered up to save face, imprisoned whistleblowers, and refused to let international experts in.

This doesn’t address the commenter’s claim that China did the best job of completely shutting their infrastructure down and quarantining the virus effectively. They did make their bed, but they also laid in it as well.
Ebola pretty much requires you to come into contact with someone so obviously ill they're about to die. It's not like SARS, Covid 19 or even MERS. It spreads well mostly due to scepticism of health services.
Look at yourself in the mirror. I invited you to consider the source. That's it. I asked you to exercise your mind, and to be careful not to accept other people's agendas, be they conscious or unconscious.

Your response to that is to attack. How dare I remind you that bias exists? Are you not shocked and horrified at your own response? You should be.

Almost none of this thread should exist. There should have been zero response to my post. It should be standard fare; that people remember to consider the sources of things they read, especially on divisive subjects. Look at the time people are now wasting on this thread. Assange is on trial, yet people are here arguing about the nature of bias, FFS.
Germanys problem is, that nuclear is supposed to be banned long before coal.

Now while I agree, that in the long term all energy should be from renewable sources, in the short term it is much more important to get those coal plants off the grid. Instead there were new ones being opened.
Explain France and Switzerland then. Both use market mechanisms for delivering outpatient care. Or are these not European nations with universal healthcare?
I used that for a bit, but it's a bit buggy and hasn't been updated since 2010
There are a lot of ways that install-time or JIT compilation can have advantages over static binaries. For the theory see partial evaluation, feedback directed optimization, dynamic recompilation etc.

But yes "faster than native" is not precise enough wording for this, should say "faster than conventional statically compiled C" or something.
He’s probably a Russian bot account, they’re spreading rumors about this all over.
That was just a superficial example. If you include generics, template metaprogramming, auto derivations and such then you could achieve much more with code generation. My skills are just not advanced enough yet to fully utilize these in my programs.
Very loosely for example I was reviewing a well known uk job site just spending a couple of hours to check the site out

And I diagnosed a serious problem and got a fix actioned - the problem had cost them > 500,000 k in less than a week.
> He released evidence rightly so but compromising a lot of sources, methods and other info. It could have been released better. The info should have been released, my argument is not in defence of the original actions.

According to him and his lawyers he did not. The arguments for this are expanded on in the linked article.
> That "it's normal" that governments have secrets is something that should be of the past.

The world doesn't work that way. It probably wont for a long time so grow up.

> Which I also think should be of the past, for the sake of it.
Then there is the way to manage

same as above, I agree with you, but reality is what it is.

> that's just a matter of now doing it instead of just knowing how we can do it...

Yup again agree with you. But the responsibility is on you. I really don't know why people expect it from someone else, even the government.
There are many technically correct answers. The fire triangle shows that a root cause is not a singleton.

1. Them being alive. Obvious fix but not useful or moral.
1a. The less omnicidal but potentially more niche in practice answer is "get humans out of the loop" - that worked quite successfully with automated phone switchboards.
2. Their incentives being misaligned with the nominal goal. The easiest fix there is a "sarcastic AI" goal of making the corruption the explicit legal goal aligning them.
3. Lack of effective oversight - they can only be corrupt if they can get away with it without sufficient negative consequences. Certainty and speed is more important than magnitude and not being enough to be worth doing anyway in spite of punishment.
3a. Enforcement in practice suffers from "turtles all the way down" with who watches the watchers. Transparency and multilateralism can help but well international law is only a series of guidelines because of it being multilateral between powers.
Personal experience of around 3 years of solid usage, spanning many Azure services, with complex systems running in production for several clients.

> they are 2nd only due to their strong existing connections to enterprise

Those connections sure help, but only really for Microsoft-shops. As I mentioned, if you're already using AD, SMB file servers etc, then it makes a lot of sense since they have 1st-class support for these in the cloud.
My ISP has to obey the rules of my government, and it is not allowed to sell my data. It's in my country, with my regulatory bodies and close enough that I (or a group of people like me) can sue them, if they start doing bad things.

What the hell am I supposed to do again cloudflare?
Additionally, sickness, including common cold, can lengthen sleep enough to make it unreasonable to get to work early, and forcing (mildly) sick people to early work getting them further sick is an accepted practice.

Or running civic services 7 AM - 3 PM which makes it impossible to schedule without a free day or understanding boss. Something that should be available with perhaps only a minor downtime works only for a few hours.

The cumulated morning/evening hours tend to overload transportation facilities too.
I don't know why are you downvoted, it's pretty much settled science. There are multiple papers on culture-gene co-evolution of individualism-collectivism and the serotonin transporter gene. And individualism/collectivism is big part of any culture. It's hard to imagine something like Confucianism developing in highly individualistic western Europe.
He has done enough damage with his "work" on leaks with Russia. No thanks.
I suspect that most are transferees, big companies can do that back when I worked for British Telecom they moved 800 people onto middleware projects for example.
The problem is not discovering the vaccine, it is ensuring it is safe. See the recent Dengue vaccine incident of what can go wrong when new vaccines are rolled out without proper caution: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia_controversy
Just because the law requires us to give our data to the government. And the government has all legal means to collect the data in the first place.
Show HN: Runnaroo – A new web search engine
In the sprit of releasing to the public early, I would like to share a search engine/portal I have been building in my spare time:

https://www.runnaroo.com

Why: I started to not be able to easily tell the different between ads and organic search results in other search engines (even on DuckDuckGo), and I have been disappointed with recent UI changes in a lot of the major search engines. My main guiding rule when adding features has been to ask, "is it better for the user?"

Important to know: I still believe Google currently returns the most relevant web results, so like StartPage I use Google's index as the base of the web results.

Some interesting features:

Deep Searching - The inclusion of relevant results from different vertical specific search engines depending on the search query. For example, if a user searches for 'python jobs NY', results from Indeed.com will be pulled in. The long term plan is to connect into the best vertical information sources for each type of query.

Quick Directs - Automatic redirects for a limited number of commonly searched terms (facebook, google, etc.). This is similar to the Google "Feeling Lucky" button, but done by default. I found that most of the searches I did in Google were navigational. It's simple, but surprisingly has been the thing to resonate with normal (non-technical) users.

Strict Search - Optional selection to force all the search terms in the query to be present in the web results.

Full URL paths - The full URL path of the result is available on the SERP under a toggle.

Privacy - The site doesn't do any tracking. There will most likely be a need to put some things in place at some point to prevent abuse, but user search data will never be used for ad tracking.

The number of things I still have to add to the site is incredibly long, but I have gotten to the point where I have switched over to using it full time as my default search engine.
But the initial stated ambition was self driving by 2016, then 2018 and now "by the end of 2020".

They very cleverly formulate it, and you fell for it, because their ambition has been adjusted to "being able to drive coast to coast with no hands on the wheel" and you took it as "create a robot taxi".

What it really means is that their car can do lane-following and adaptive cruise well enough to follow a few highways coast to coast. With a driver fully awake and responsible sitting in the seat.

That's miles and miles away from a robot-taxi and they know it.
And for its justice system. And its infrastructure.

The difference in transparency between China and the US is hard to overstate.
Interesting.

> Extradition hearings are not held at Belmarsh Magistrates Court inside Woolwich Crown Court. They are always held at Westminster Magistrates Court as the application is deemed to be delivered to the government at Westminster. Now get your head around this. This hearing is at Westminster Magistrates Court. It is being held by the Westminster magistrates and Westminster court staff, but located at Belmarsh Magistrates Court inside Woolwich Crown Court. All of which weird convolution is precisely so they can use the “counter-terrorist court” to limit public access and to impose the fear of the power of the state.

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>There was a separate media entrance and a media room with live transmission from the courtroom, and there were so many scores of media I thought I could relax and not worry as the basic facts would be widely reported. In fact, I could not have been more wrong. I followed the arguments very clearly every minute of the day, and not a single one of the most important facts and arguments today has been reported anywhere in the mainstream media. That is a bold claim, but I fear it is perfectly true. So I have much work to do to let the world know what actually happened. The mere act of being an honest witness is suddenly extremely important, when the entire media has abandoned that role.
I can’t imagine freedom-loving people choosing to live in hateful, racist places that are found all over Europe.

https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/being-black-eu#Tab...

Perhaps Europe could learn a thing or two from US culture.
No, the police in Sweden invented them.

The UN special investigator documented the whole thing pretty thoroughly.

But apparently some people still stick with the lie.

Propaganda is pretty effective.
I find this (truncated) quote pretty funny and quite an accurate description of French's relationship with rules:

> in England, everything which is not forbidden is allowed, in France, everything is allowed even if it is forbidden
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This hate seems uncalled for.
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