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I'm Chinese and I don't think this is the case. Investing in mining bitcoins is just like investing in any other industries, in its nature. The reason why some Chinese businessmen prefer this over the others is that it's newer, less competitive, cheaper, more global and under no governmental regulation at all, which makes it a business-as-u-go or a gamble with great odds. Chinese are good at these kinds of things.
It is the Hervé Falciani leak. See the Guardian coverage: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/08/hsbc-files-e...

The origin of the leak The HSBC files were obtained through an international
collaboration of news outlets, including the Guardian, Le Monde, BBC Panorama
and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

1 In late 2007, Hervé Falciani, an IT expert at HSBC's Swiss bank, hacked into
its customer files. He fled to France with police on his trail for breaching
Switzerland's rigid bank secrecy laws.
2 The French authorities detained him, but refused to extradite him when they
realised the data could identify thousands of French tax evaders. Falciani now
lives in France under protection.
3 In early 2010, under finance minister Christine Lagarde, France prepared
confidential lists of the leaked names for other countries. The so-called
"Lagarde list" led to scandal and arrests in Greece, Spain, the US, Belgium and
Argentina.
4 Britain's tax authority, HMRC, received a list in 2010 from which it identified
more than 1,000 tax evaders. More than £135m ($206m) was quietly recovered in
repayments, but only one person was prosecuted. There has been no UK legal action
against HSBC. Names were never revealed.
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Its just my observation from living in second tier cities in China (not in Beijing). I'm not sure who gets the money in the end, but it's a popular option for poorer workers.
Surely an elegant engineering solution would have saved lives in this instance? I think you mean one is not required for all the times that people don't die. Then it's just redundant.
When I make web apps today, the HTTP is only used to serve the client application. Basically, it would be equivalent of

wget http://mydomain/myapp
make
run

But with the benefit of running in a (browser's) protected environment .. The above would be OK in linux running jailed, but a possible catastrophe in Windows where you basically run everything with root (although that has and will probably change in later Windows releases).

Once the "client" has been downloaded and running, all communications are done via Websockets. So it's no longer a HTTP-application or "REST".

What makes it so convenient is that the user can both download and run the application in ONE click (no install, yet cached). Without worrying about malware, so I don't need their thrust. And the client can run on basically all devices and OS's, so no need for porting.
Interesting open source Reddit clone getting its momentum
1m in front of the barrel of a shotgun, I'd hearing loss is the least of your worries!
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I wonder if there are any benchmarks or case-studies on very large git repos? Ideally you'd want to track (commit) every change to files and allow the user to place tags at certain places in the graph (similar to how commits are currently used) to represent aggregated logical changes.

It would also be nice to have a visualization of the graph that could easily be 'seeked' through like a video.

Putting this on top of the existing git CLI code might not be feasible though.
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I've just emailed the author offering to proof/edit. I used to do copy editing in a past life.

Update: He wrote back and agreed.
I doubt all those CEOs and VCs would be interested in someone outside of the MIT etc. circle.
Thanks! Unfortunately a lot of teaching is very relative and strongly depends on prior background. A different student gave me feedback on that section as: "Why are you expanding out all the random steps nonsense? Gradient descent takes one line to explain". It's the same for my lectures: No matter what I say or cover, at any point during the lecture some people are bored and some are completely lost. All you can hope for is hitting the median well and then learning to ignore (to some degree) the person who just asked a question that indicates that they are not following at all, and the person next to them who is yawning and on their phone.
Raw data will be helpful , I tried to explore couldn't find it.
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Most likely since it is a custom build, it would not have the same amount of testing (a lot of bend-tests are done to wings and I believe whole aircraft on commercial airliners) and probably a lot less simulation and engineering.

Since it was designed as a shuttle transporter, they probably designed for 2000 landings and never cared about really defining safety margins beyond that. After all, 2K seems plenty for even an ambitious shuttle program.

Probably in reality it would be fit for 50.000 flight hours, but no one knows how much, so they implemented huge safety margins - since the USSR was not a market economy, no one really cared about price in such a high-profile project.

And: the Antonow has a max take-off weight of 640 tonnes, the 747-400F of 400t, that would put a lot more strain on materials.
SQL is case insensitive. It is a bit quirky though.
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"Obviously" how? I'm not sure how that's obvious, or even true. Could you explain? It's a broadcast to over 500 people; so therefore it's considered a broadcast, commercial or not.
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Can leaked documents constitute probable cause? If so, further warrants could be obtained to investigate account holders.
Policeman is awesome and is now replacing RequestPolicy for me - thanks for mentioning it. I can't see it available for Chrome yet, which means I have to stick to HTTPSwitchboard I guess.
This seems to be biased journalists trying to push their agenda through exposure of private information of selected individuals.
It's just a matter of price-anchoring. I used to charge the same rate for all clients regardless of whether the projects were closed-source or open-source. When I decided to switch to a dual-track pricing structure I pushed one option much higher (closed source) and one option much lower (open source). On average I still end up making the same (since I get a mix of both kinds of clients).
There are also alternative paths for people with good connections from their background. I remember seeing brochure in one of the business hotel I went for work.

It was about a University type establishment but with no major or minor or hard science, instead a mix of business and philosophy curriculum. Because, I paraphrase them, it was more important for the future leader of the world to be attuned to the world and understand the real things in life such as philosophy. They were also conveniently located in a south american country and looked more like a resort than a place of study.

If you follow that kind of route without the proper connection in your family, you chances are basically nil. Those are the place you would send your kid before kick starting him/her at "the bottom of the ladder", i.e. some upper management position with 6 figures starting salary, working on "ideas" and strategy.

Basically, some people are born successful. They can afford to make different choices.
Just start asking them whether any of their ancestors owned slaves. Also why do they let people without insurance and money simply die helpless.
Wasn't able to find anything either.
Well, the Buran flew once in 1988, after that the country of its origin developed cracks and was deemed unsalvageable. It was later scrapped.
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Whenever I've tried GUI Git tools I've always found them confusing than the command line Git

In trying to be simple they often left me feeling powerless
Ask HN: Best method for one time e-mail to subscribers, and results to expect
Hi HN, I have e-mail addresses for the members on one of my sites, and about 500,000 of them haven't been active in the past few months. I've never sent an e-mail before, but I was thinking about e-mailing everyone, mentioning improvements to the service, and trying to get them to return. A couple of questions...

1. Any recommendations for a platform to send 500,000 e-mails? MailChimp credits would run $0.005 per e-mail, or $2,500. I'm not saying that's too expensive, but I'm wondering if anyone has used other services with potentially cheaper prices, and the same results.

2. Secondly, has anyone on HN done something similar before (mass e-mailing users that have stopped using a service), and if so, did you see positive results? What percentage of users returned to the site through the e-mail? 1/10, 1/100, 1/1000? I have no idea what to expect, so I'm curious to hear some stories. Either way, I'll start small with 1,000 or 10,000 e-mails, and monitor the results. I'd need to see maybe 1/150 of those e-mails converting into a user that returns to the site for at least a year. Seems plausible.
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One question: In what companies do Fachinformatikers' work and what kind of problems do they work on?

Added as a read, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9020335 great post.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/2681413

SET CONSTRAINTS ALL DEFERRED

Then do your inserts, followed by whatever work needs to be done without referential integrity, in the same transaction.
"NoSQL" is generally a misnomer. It's not SQL that is/was the problem, but that there are a lot of cases where specific common properties of RDBMS' are limiting. The NoSQL moniker is a result of the fact that most of these RDBMS's uses SQL as the query language, and most of the "new" database engines does/did not.

Since then, a lot of the RDBMS's have adopted features that have reduced the gap. E.g. Postgres' rapidly improving support for indexed JSON data means that for cases where you have genuine reasons to have data you don't want a schema for, you can just operate on JSON (and best of all, you get to mix and match).

For some of the NoSQL databases that puts them in a pickle because they're not distinguishing themselves enough to have a clear value proposition any more.

But it is not the lack of SQL that has been the real value proposition.
> I still fail to see why we should not use Javascript for everything.

From time to time, I found the idea in Gary Bernhardt's talk, The Birth and Death of JavaScript /pronounced as yah-wa-skript/, despite being very hilarious per se, was also very insightful.
A lot of people want to use powerful tools but want it through an iPad-ish interface. If I'm using a space-rocket to get to the moon, I'm certainly going to learn how this shit is working and not fooling myself that if I just know what the buttons should do,I understand the system.

GIT is marvelous if you understand the data-structures, people are too fixated on the commands and think everyone one of them is like magic, but all those commands just function on a handful of data structures. (though some of the commands are not always intuitively named)

Recommended reading:
http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
"...merely impoverishing..." - that's because of the sanctions not ideology or dictatorship.
Well. Lots of them use mongodb though.
In V7, creating a new user was a manual process - there was no program to do it automatically like there is today. You had to do su, mkdir /usr/dmr, ed /etc/passwd (creating an ID with initially no password), chown dmr /usr/dmr, etc. Whoever had the root password would have definitely known that /usr/bin was an existing directory and not tried to create a user called "bin". Of course, you could create user directories on separately mounted file systems as well if you didn't have a lot of space on /usr.
So essentially this converts GitHub repos to maven dependencies.
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That article is pretty damning of the power company, not Microsoft. They issued a fine for not using as much electricity as they estimated, what's the logic there? And then the "utility commissioner" (unclear if he works for the utility itself or not) has the gall to blast them for "not being green"? Plus they are trying to paint the narrative as a "megacorp vs aw-shucks local farmers" that just rings hollow in light of the company's exorbitant fine.
interesting! I had not really given much thought on how distributed computing or enterprise architectures would fit in a modern curriculum...

I don't think that math should be considered filler though - it was very fundamental to my degree! In fact the first year of my comp. sci. degree was /exactly/ the same as the first year engineering curriculum. It was almost entirely math, with basic programming (just pascal) which the engineers also needed for their degree.

As such I'd say that math is still very prominent in most comp sci degrees

edit: in fact as chance has it I was just today going over some old lecture notes from my 3rd degree year, and even the programming courses were extremely heavy in inductive reasoning to demonstrate how, for example, Big(O) notation worked with different algorithms (i.e., actual formal proofs)
For Europe, there's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_Inc_v_World_Progr....

There's not really any case law I'm aware of in the US, mostly because nobody's ever tried. Copyright doesn't cover "facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation". You can trademark the name of a language, and its documentation and any distributed software are under copyright, but the process required to translate that language into machine code isn't eligible for copyright.

Parts of the implementation might be patentable, but I don't know of any cases of anyone successfully patenting a programming language.

The Oracle vs. Google lawsuit is still going back and forth in the courts. It's worth noting that even Oracle isn't claiming that the parts of Android that involve parsing and compiling Java code are infringing on their copyright. The matter of controversy is that they claim copyright on the design of the Java standard library.

Swift's standard library is pretty much Cocoa, which isn't being rewritten here.
"...Western soldiers [and journalists] marching in to liberate the death camps..."

Are you from some parallel universe, where allies and not USSR had won the war and liberated people?
Therefor you should always check out the script before running.
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Elasitcsearch is really a document database of sorts. Think of using it to store logs or messages.

InfluxDB is a time series database. Think of using it to store periodic measurement data (generally samples or point in time measurements).

For a complete solution you really need both of them.
So he was successfully mining several bitcoins a month with 1 ASIC? What year was this?
Why so few prosecuted in Britain? Wouldn't this be a good opportunity to get some assholes who thought they could shift the tax burden to others? Six month prison sentences sounds reasonable. British prisons suck, but given that this is partly the dodgers fault that's just poetic.
I agree that visualisation is key, but ASCII art from `git log --graph` isn't too bad for getting the point across IMHO. Merging/conflicts/etc. are a straightforward extension of regular `diff` usage, which can be learned in a standalone way before approaching git.

Personally I'm in love with Magit which is a thin Emacs wrapper around git.
Not everyone feels like they're wasting their life because they're indoors when it's sunny.
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Does it authenticate encrypted data?
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wxSQLite3 also has encryption available in it. You can use it without having to use the wxWidgets wrappers.
Marketers have become overtly cautious. A/B testing every word, they have bleached the website copy and have successfully eliminated the 'human' component. everything optimized for 'sale'. bs. There's gold in old ways of raw expression. What say?
“Installing things has gotten so fast and painless. Why not skip it entirely, and make a phone that has every app “installed” already and just downloads and runs them on the fly?”

https://xkcd.com/1367/
http://vimcasts.org is also a great resource for vim.
Haha! I've been trying to find a girlfriend for a long time now. Kinda given up on it. Every girlfriend I had left me because I spent time on y laptop more than what I did with her.

I've been in that situation too and I've a list of names and logo with me that I consult for my side projects. You think, that might help you?

Who knows may be, the name of your project is hidden somewhere in the list. :) Just a thought.
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Christian Heilmann makes a lot of thinking errors here:

1) Because a technology fails in the hands of amateurs or learners, doesn't mean the technology is bad.

2) He assumes webdeverlopers don't think about the consequences of a JavaScript only website. In my experience, that's not the case.

3) The fact that there's a lot of talk about JavaScript frameworks does not mean webdevelopers are less interested in the end product. It means JavaScript and everything around it is in flux and improving every month. And the decision which framework to pick is very important. It can mean the difference between a stalled or thriving end product one year later.
I think it depends a bit on the ideology the government wants to follow in which one to prioritise.

I assume one favours lifting people out of poverty through opportunity of economic opportunity (subsidising R&D at the expense of other industry). The other is to lift people out of people through welfare (subsidising sanitation through the expense of other industry).

The latter would definitely help in the more immediate term but wouldn't be sustainable. It's a hard pill to swallow but prioritising a better economic climate may be better in the longer term.

There is also another way to look at it where the improvement in sanitation can improve living standards, thereby improving the economy through a different root of the problem. I think the government is taking an approach that uses less welfare.

I would favour the space plan since the ISRO currently has a very high launch success rate and an incomparable cost. For India and the world as a whole it is more optimal to promote its development. The material/'hard cash' export value of launching satellites can help more in the longer term to subsidising sanitation than approaching it directly and sooner.
True, but very few people write it as anything but.
Yes, but no-one's using it.
Nice! Yeah that's along the lines I was thinking. There have been attempts at visualizations, like I remember clearcase had one that was probably pretty advanced 30 years ago.

I think it's very doable without any serious R&D, and you could build it on top of git/maybe github. The real question to me is: is it worth the effort, and would anyone actually pay for it.

People pay for tower and kaleidoscope so I assume it's possible. I think this is totally something GitHub should make but they seem to be focussing on other things.
It's not clear from the article whether the data is available to the world, or only to my contacts. If it's public, that's worse, but, while it's not good to leak 'private' information, I've seen a lot worse.
Vaccines are not like other medications. With many medications, there is a benefit only to one person. With vaccines, there are benefits to an entire society (especially those who are not healthy enough to take vaccines themselves).

We know that the highly recommended, widely used vaccines are safe. But even if they weren't, there should still be a higher tolerance of risk because the danger that they prevent is certain and extreme.
If you use Django without the ORM, why would it be any more constraining than Flask?

I usually try to keep my queries within the ORM, as it means things like sorting and pagination become very easy, but its lacking in certain areas.
I have waited for a form-fit time to ask if we can experiment with Git using Mercurial syntax as well.

While I have a feeling many would change Distributed Version Control System if there was immediately human translatable command knowledge between formats.

Begs a question of if many software libraries with their typed dictionaries could counter a built-in thesaurus for alternative tool chains, and end a war between literacy.

(What technical limits are aside from fighting for how to pattern match each element and differentiate what is integral to relate.. and committing that a base human localization.)
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And .NET code _does_ compile to native code even without NGEN - it just does it 'Just In Time'. It's pretty close to native code just before that step, so the actual native compilation is very fast.
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Group by is kind of implicit depending on the model you start with.

Model_a.objects.all().select_related(extra_tables).aggregate(arg_params)

will group by the Model_a table.
I was looking into this a little bit more, and Amazon SES seems incredibly cost effective at $50 for 500,000 e-mails. I'll just have to write some simple code to batch e-mails through the Amazon API, which works on my end because I'm looking for a one-time, no frills e-mail, and don't need all the contact list and management software that goes with it. Also, tracking is easy enough, and I can query my database to find the percentage of users that returned to the site and logged in. Any experiences with Amazon SES?
China may be a developing country, but it's not a messy place where people steal electricity like in much poorer south east asian countries.

Electricity is very reasonably priced (especially in rather rural areas where the factory is based) and there are tons of people with money in China that are always looking for potential high yield investments - sometimes with cash that cannot be invested in ventures that can be traced back to them due to it's dubious origins.
Well, it's about as depressing as assigning arbitrary value to gold or silver (or paper!) and using it as money.
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Same person that wrote gitlet[1], as seen on HN a few weeks ago. Personally I'm extremely happy to see HN so supportive of well commented and documented code.

[1] https://github.com/maryrosecook/gitlet
A.German is one of my favorite directors, but something keeps me from watching Hard to Be a God. Probably out of fear of being disappointed after reading so many negative reviews.

But he does have a unique, inimitable style. His cinematography is as far from the mainstream as it can get. His signature chaotic dialogues and remarks, as if you are watching casual home video, except as we know everything that happens in German's films is staged and well thought through to the smallest detail. He can be sadistic to the viewer, as well as warm and melancholic. One thing I can guarantee you, watch any of his films and you will never forget it, whether you liked it or not.
It was given at FOSDEM, the videos should be available "soon".
So does any of this relate to current offences, or is it all historical?
Check out this interview on Mixergy: http://mixergy.com/interviews/lindsay-ostrom-pinch-of-yum-in...

You can pretty much follow what she did step by step (she lays it out pretty much). Her blog does about $20k/month.