SamUK96

To be honest by how many times the terms Nazi and Facism get flung about these days i'de say that people _not_ seeing people as someone like a Nazi maybe isn't the problem, but quite the opposite.

Then again I suppose both our views are pretty anecdotal and futile to even talk about without it degenerating into "well i saw six people do this", "well i saw seven do the other so my view is more right" kind of gobblewash.

You make a good point. Although the purported motives for Windows 10 S are somewhat agreeable, like approved apps to stop users downloading malware, the whole concept needs to die in a dumpster fire.

You just _know_ that it'll start with not allowing obvious l33t hacker apps onto the store, and swifty end with any app that features a hex color vaguely similar to Pepe the Frog's to be banned because some wannabe buzzfeed writer said that that shade of green is a hate crime (hugely exaggerating here).

Don't worry, it's a click-bait term for being invisible to low-frequency wavelengths, so not visible light.

The US military has been working on microwave-invisible materials for a while and they've gotten very close. But microwaves have wavelengths on the order of a few cm (10^-2), meanwhile visible light is on ther order of 100's on nm (10^-7).

As the wavelength gets shorter it gets much harder to make "negative-refractive-index" materials - the material that enables to bend light around an object.

Shhh you may fool the guy and make him look silly, that's not nice! ;)

Not sure if the parent comment was being serious to be honest. If not, then, well, they are very tragic.

A sizeable portion of HN users are technical middle class citizens and seem on the face of it often highly separated from the working class, who they mine the metals for their self-driving car batteries and fold their $12 burrito, and drive their Ubers (for now).

Having said that a lot of HN is very modest and objective, so you bad sorts like parent comment and good sorts...like anywhere.

/rant

This is essentially Australia's system, lauded for it's rather strict and rigorous "points"-based immigration system. If you don't meet enough "we want you as a citizen" points, you're simply denied.

Contrast that to somewhere like the US where there are many very game-able methods of entry, like the utterly shambolic H1-B visa.

It is to my knowledge that the problems have been around from the start, but you haven't noticed it.

I'm pushed to think that the "media" didn't report on it too much because the problems were economic. But as an average media company, that story doesn't sell, it doesn't interest the average reader, so they don't report it that much. Then the sexual harrasment scandal surfaced and _that_ is when the media jumped on board, because everybody loves getting political and hearing about scandals and feminism and all those kind of controversial topics.

If anything, the scandal damaged Uber's public image, but that is a superficial problem in proportion to their disasterous funding model and general financials.

The thing is, from the Snowden leaks, we _know_ that the NSA relies on being the most powerful hasher to identify people and things as they do. As I said, it's only a possibility that they could be actively trying to damper _consumer_ (not ASICs) SHA hash rates.

But it's unlikely. It's just a motive for them really.

> A lot of the theory behind making hasher functions strong

I said it was a hasher function already?

Replace Intel with nVidia or AMD, it was an exemplar manufacturer showing that big chip-makers _can_ do shady things.

Blame it on the cost-plus contract.

NASA paid cost-plus to ULA and the ilk initially (think 60's -90s) mainly because rocketry was a very new field and it was near impossible to reliably estimate the final cost the manufacturer would incur in fulfilling the contract, so NASA just said "spend whatever you want and we'll pay your spend plus 6%".

However it's well known now how much researching and building rockets costs, so cost-plus contracts are, essentially a very bad contract cost model. It's mainly because ULA and such have become _far_ too comfortable on their half-a-century monopoly and simply don't want their scam to end.

So, very cut down, you're saying that the US are implicating North Korea because they know they can, because they think that "normal civilian joes" don't know anything about NK?

I'de say it's highly likely too, but what we need to find out is why would the US deep-state do this? Is there a specific motive for the US deep-state haphazardly implicating NK, other than, just maybe, the NSA got their hands on some evidence that we aren't aware of?

MDMA _is_ neurotoxic. Very much so too. I'm a little busy at the moment to link to it, but there were a few studies years ago that did tests on chimps, finding ultimately that MDMA gradually destroys neuron synapse receptors. You could say that MDMA "wears out" the seratonin receptors on the neuron synapses, i think is how the MSM phrased it from the studies...

Overall this causes a lot of problems, since, well, synapses are very important! Mood, memory, motor function. You simply just get "generally more brain damaged" in all areas. If you've ever seen a problematic user of amphetamines, it's quite obvious. Microdosing, even though slightly neurotoxic, maybe have benefits that outweigh it, a bit like the addiction and general very slight brain damage that comes with Xanax and the like.

I don't think many people were celebrating it. The vast majority of people saw it as a grubby power grab and a hit to the fairness of the internet.

> 3: RESTful. It should speak the language of HTTP verbs: GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, UPDATE, DELETE.

I know it's slightly off-topic, but when one of the early points of an article contains an incorrect piece of information, that really makes me not want to read on further

Restful API's are a recent "fad" that, even though_do_ have their place in mainly basic CRUD apps, RPC still reigns very popular. See [1] for a pretty good explanation of REST-styled vs RPC-styled APIs.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rest-vs-rpc-soa-showdown-josh...

This is identical to my stack. Never thought I'de see loopback and angular 2 here, they're rather unpopular from experience.

There is usually a small fee of a few hundred Euros. Or at least, that's what a few German students told me.

The 60s-80s-born generation performed a real doozy and told their kids "you can be anything you wanted!", so of course we ended up with a culling in trades and "plebian" jobs, and an explosive influx into "soft skills" like history, literature, etc., since that's far better than milling drill-bits all day right?

The craziest thing is that this has been a totally first-world thing. Any english/american university student will tell you how engineering degree courses are made up predominately of foreign students, where-as the less employable and "trade"-producing courses are dominanted by the firsr-world population.

I did Physics. It was 130 students 120 white male, 9 white female, 1 black female. Zero international students

Same university, but mechanical engineering, 70%+ black, 70%+ international students (india/china essentially).

So, to answer your question to what happened to trade schools: they still exist, but the first world young white generation doesn't want to do it anymore, and foriegn/black students have filled in the gap, for whatever that may be.

I think the OPs context for "good company" is "good company _for coders/hackers_". You can have a company behaving in an anti-trustworthy way, but their software still be _good_.

Also, their antitrust violations was due to the Windows OS and anti-competitive behaviours, if i'm not mistaken? If so, then this is not really relevant to their software or OP's post, but more their business approach of locking out competition, which is a question of legality and economics.

> Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Excellent quote!

I was reading some of the leaked emails. They are awful. Purchasing "legal highs" off the dark web. Cocaine. All sorts of horrendous stuff.

I think the En Marche! leak has many similar properties to the DNC leaks. Once many very incriminating emails were leaked, many "invested" parties jumped on the opportunity to inject fakes to discredit the whole.

If I was Podesta or Macron, and a bunch of private emails were leaked to show corruption, pedophilia, illegal drug use, etc., what would be my first port of call? Discredit the authenticity with fakes.

It's actually a very good law I think. The US could really do with that...

This sounds very interesting for budding platform developers.

One problem is testing the more bespoke vuln routes - that's to say, the buffer overflows, the old package exploits, the strange oddities. By the sounds of it, you are building an "obvious security pitfalls" testing bot, which is in itself very valuable don't get me wrong, but i'm pushed to say that it's an NP problem to test bespoke vuln routes, which means the kind of testing process you are developing (linear-time problem solver) will struggle with testing the non-linear-time problems of bespoke vulns.

However, I wish you luck, hats off to this, it's a great idea!

So, Western involvement in Syria is due to wanting to protect one of the oil pipelines that supplies it's oil?

And Russian involvement is to stop that I assume?

What are you implying here?

I mean, when you put your "scum-bag profit or nothing boss" thinking hat on, it makes so much sense.

You can hire these people, and they'll accept extremely noncompetitive wages (lowers wages), over-saturates the labour market (lowers wages), AND gives a nice boost to PR because on the outside it seems like this company is "diversely hiring from all backgrounds".

Great!

Sorry to be off-topic, but I really do despise the "stressed" narration voice of STEM media these days.

Am I the only one here who misses the balanced, informed, steady and smooth narration of Carl Sagan et al of yesteryear STEM media? Now all I hear is this over-ambitious, over-animated, low-content, and stressed voice with absurdly long pauses. Almost like somebody is shouting at you.

BBC are terrible for it in the UK, it seems like a race to the bottom. Whoever can superficially appear the most terribly "passionate" about whatever they're talking about gets the job...

Cassini rocks though, what an achievement for mankind the whole saga has been!

My favourite bit there:

> people so willfully stupid that they will cut each other`s throats while the bankers drain them dry.

Divide and conquer. Proven classic.

That's actually evil...

I find that the withdrawing of medical programs by a company is a pretty reliable indicator that it'll fold in a few years, since it's a common "exit-strategy" to earn a few last bucks before the up-top rats jump ship.

Been at two companies who were thriving, and both after only a few months stopped their medical insurance. After that, dozens of people left over 1-2 years, and the company was massively haemorrhaging money due to customer dissatisfaction.

False economy.

I Don't know what you mean by leaked western links to terrorist organisations that go all the way up to the CIA, FBI, and NSA, Tony Blair (and the missiles he sold), etc...

> London doesn't have "blocks".

I don't think they meant "block" in the usual American sense, but in the general sense, that is: "an area".

> Surveillance vans are a myth.

Simply Wrong.

Surveillance vans are not a myth, honestly. Maybe not in the what the police would call the "plebian" areas, but in the centre and Canary Wharf, you can see them every now and then, they even have their own WiFi you can try and connect to, which has like 3 password fields (I've tried when I was passing one in Canary Wharf).

> Sure there is plenty of CCTV but most of its is privately owned and operated

No evidence for this, and I think the parent comment meant "street-level" CCTV, not in buildings, and i'de be pushed to say it's more weighted towards public CCTV (govt.) rather than private.