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A Google Groups search for "Keith Rollin Mac System 7" don't find the Usenet posts I expect, and I know that Keith Rollin have a lot of Usenet posts about System 7 that should have returned results. I know there are a lot of Googlers on HN.
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Depends how you define "working", I guess. There are at least a couple of research prototypes, ProtoRINA and IRATI, neither of which are anywhere near production quality, but they do exist.
Exactly this. The precursor was Szabo's bitgold [0]. Also, the feeling in the community has always been that bitcoin would remain as the gold of the cryptos, used as both money and a commodity with some industrial applications.

[0] http://unenumerated.blogspot.com.es/2005/12/bit-gold.html
>If you have an actual idea that will stop the gridlock in Congress, I'm all ears.

There was a whole article of ideas. One of the most effective is also the most obvious: the majority vote. Congress is gridlocked because it's too hard to get an up-or-down vote on bills.

From there, we can shift to a mixed-member proportional representation system, which will fix even more of the gridlock - especially pork - by ensuring that votes for local issues and votes for national-scale ideologies go through separate channels.
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I didn't realise before how http2 will improve things for me, but you're right about Oz. 8.25 vs 4.36.
So what you're saying is that what the Constitution needs is even less democracy and even more oligarchy?
>That said, there is no valid engineering reason why any web app should require more than 512MB of memory to run with minimal user load.

GitLab (and every other Rails app) makes the assumption that it's better to eager load an entire codebase once at boot time rather than to load code on demand and throw it away during a request.

That trades off baseline memory usage for runtime performance, and it's a perfectly valid 'engineering reason' for why GitLab's baseline memory usage is so high.
No stanford?
No Stanford?
Yes, I know. That's exactly what I mean by syntactic sugar: it is an automated way to write something that could already be written, but is annoying to do by hand.
I suspect that most of those who were accepted were highly credentialed (either via brand name schools or former employers). It would be wonderful to be wrong about that, though.
Hum, the "shut-up and calculate" idea is that the theory works, people've tested it. Now you either use it, or go find empirical flaws, so people can improve the theory. But thinking about the reasons your math looks like that has no use, unless you get something with observable consequences, don't waste the time.

There's nothing in it about math being a perfect language, or experiments not being necessary.
Right on, I hear ya. My fears lie with the implications of having these recordings exist. I think that they will quickly become more than just a keepsake as soon as the police decide they can use them to solve crimes. I think withholding your recordings from any investigation which could be aided with them will become a crime in itself and yeah... I just have real worries about the state of affairs regarding surveillance. I'm a bit of a kook about that stuff though.
You can get a certificate for an ip address.
If a company itself is "hip", it doesn't need to worry about "looking hip" to developers. If I was starting a company, I would focus on the productivity NOW rather than worrying about how hip it will make me look in 3 years. And from my experience Rails is THE most productive framework on the market at the moment. I really tried to like node and have built several apps with it but I didn't even feel half as productive as using rails
San Jose is bigger than San Francisco only because its city limits occupy far more area. San Francisco is a bigger population center.
I was hoping that this was a commentary on the cost of healthcare, making a clever reference with the headline to this lovely Monty Python skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCITMfxvEc
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Ah, but they do, as long as it's for "demonstrations, racing, training and investigations"... :)

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/06/17/indy-councilor...
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Polygon needs to die.
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Yeah, Witcher games are a great example, but I'm sure they have a lot of stats for different games sold on GOG, and that's one of the ways they combat this DRM stupidity. I.e. they come to publishers, show them charts and say that they simply lose sales by not releasing their games on GOG DRM-free. It works, though not rapidly.

With video, the MPAA/DRM corruption is so strong and sick, that publishers are just scared to move away from the status quo even when they admit that it's stupid. Someone will have to really break that wall to move things forward.
They're pretty interesting. The inholdings I've encountered are in the Los Padres National Forest in central California. It's strange to be hiking miles and miles into the wilderness and then come across a homestead complete with a house, barns, fences, horses, mules, and orchards.

This one and others I've seen in the area have been privately owned for many, many years.
When you say that supermassive black hole binaries are rare, I understand this to mean that lots of galaxies have been surveyed and they almost all have a single supermassive black hole in the center, which indicates that something allows them to overcome this problem and merge. Is that right?

How do you detect the existence of two supermassive black holes one parsec apart in a galaxy millions of light years away?
Likewise, I switched over. I just wish HTTPie could have an "output to curl" feature.
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Emacs would show everything.
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Why "todah" and not "thanks"?
I actually know someone who receives her salary in Bitcoin. She's a remote contractor who lives in a country where the banking industry imposes really unreasonable fees on international transfers. To me, she is using Bitcoin the way it was originally intended: to break the stranglehold of the monopolies in banks for financial transactions.

Similarly, I'm not entirely sure that the "Pay with Bitcoin" approach, where an exchange converts the currency for you is that far removed from this idea. Before Bitcoin, my options for payments were pretty limited. Either credit card or Paypal -- both of which are convenient in the US, but at the time very inconvenient (to the point of impossibility) for people living in poorer countries.

I've read the early mailing list archives for Bitcoin to see if I could understand Saotoshi's intent in creating Bitcoin. Interestingly, he doesn't seem to discuss it much at all. It seems to be all about the tech. I think the "bitcoin is going to replace fiat currency" narrative is something that was adopted by overenthusiastic people who arrived on the scene later.

I think Bitcoin (and potentially other digital currencies) still has a number of hurdles to get over, but it's succeeded at wresting the payment industry from the banking monopoly (plus Paypal) far better than I originally suspected it might. I certainly hope it can continue.
Quite frankly I don't care if people agree with me or not, it's an opinion site not a popularity contest. Toning down opinions for the sake of not ruffling feathers is the work of politicians, and I'm not one of those.

You've also interpreted meaning to my comment which did not exist. 'Considering those less fortunate than you' has zero to do with understanding dynamic market pricing. Anyone who implies a morality to price action misunderstands the entire principle. Uber doesn't increase prices to laugh at people who are priced out of the market. They increase prices to encourage more supply. Anyone who reads a moral side into the argument will never have a balanced thought about it, and is always going to be wrong.
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This is part of the reason for the server demands as well as spying.

When a business has things on a server somewhere and a relatively dumb client, it's REALLY hard to pirate, steal, copy, modify, etc. You can bake your "crown jewels" into the server and it never gets into the hands of the client.

One of the phone chipset manufacturers used to run service where they would compile your code for you. But they would NOT give you the compiler.

I was really annoyed as a developer, but I also understood the reasoning as it effectively kept the Chinese from cloning their kit.
"This stack ranking process systematically undervalued female technical employees compared to similarly situated male employees because, among other reasons, it meant that lower ranked employees were inferior and should be paid less and promoted less frequently regardless of their actual contributions to Microsoft," Moussouris' lawyers write in the complaint."

From the article, I see nothing that singled her out as a female. It only pointed out the unfairness of the ranking system, regardless of gender.

I have to chuckle at some of these lawsuits that I've been seeing recently. Men have been dealing with this kind of bullshit and unfairness for many years. It's only now coming to light because women seem to think that it's sexist, when in reality, it's pretty much equally miserable for all.

It just so happens that more women are entering the workplace to experience it.
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"Change files" are refered to quite a lot. What does that mean?
I tried Polymer by use it in my project, it's a new way to do the web thing,as the Polymer summit said, we need think in Polymer.There is a lot use case[1] out there.BTW, all the doc in the code, Polymer core is very small, you can read all in one hour, after you read the core, you will feel the elements is very familiar if you look in code.

[1]: http://expandjs.com/demo https://www.materialup.com/ https://www.polymer-project.org/summit
> Historically, states and credit-based money came first. THEN came the unit of account and medium of exchange money that you are talking about.

Actually, the Wikipedia page on "fiat money" (if that's what you're referring to) says: "Fiat money originated in 11th century China" [1]. There were many commodity currencies before that.

> Going back to the original point, can you go to a deserted island and make "money"? No. You need society. You need government. You need an economic system. The money is only partially "yours".

That's if there is only one person on that island. If more people live on the island, they might start trading services and use some some improvised currency, e.g., coconuts or seashells. In this case, you have a society and money, but not necessarily a government.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money#History
Your lender may be or have been behind the times.
I don't think it matters (or should matter) to regulators what Satoshi intended, or what one person does, or what a few hundred people do. I agree paying with Bitcoin is a good option and I hope it becomes more accessible (and that the price stabilizes).

That doesn't mean regulators should treat it like currency when, practically, the real world doesn't use it that way.
Agreed, I forgot about Veep. If I recall correctly, VP Biden has said that is actually what his job is like.
For GNU less, you can use the -R option, which is like -r except that it only lets color escapes through, and not all escape sequences. So if you want to alias less to less -R that is much safer.
Yes, the problem is the even larger problem of a decorrelation between the economic "fundamentals" (eg: wages, energy prices, manufacturing outputs, service outputs, educational level) and the FIRE-sector asset markets. The latter got sky high before 2008, and have gotten pretty damned high again. The former started declining in the early 2000s, took a hard dive in 2008, and have basically never recovered.

The former are also much more strongly affected by fiscal policy rather than monetary.
I couldn't find any info on this when I researched before, but I guess some CA's will do it and some won't. GlobalSign seems to.
Ni, or 你，means "you" in Chinese.
Thanks for sharing the issues you encountered!

* I agree it is too hard to find forks. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2406

* I agree we should make it easier to add new labels to an issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2574

* I would normally replace the full commit sha1 in the url of another commit. But feel free to add it to the search.

* That is strange, hopefully this gets better when we get rid of satellites in 8.0

* Indeed, the graph is for one repo, the calculations are done live and are cached, but doing it for many forks could take too long.

* We load the gravatar's over https by default if you enable https in gitlab.yml https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/config/g..., it is strange that you had a mixed content warning.

* Issue comments should have a preview tab.

* The documentation is in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc... but after 8.0 it will be integrated in GitLab itself so you no longer have to set it up separately.
Bartering goods/commodities IS pretty much what money is. Only it makes more sense to barter something that's fungible, which is why most currencies in history have been some kind of commodity, like some form of metal, and scarce, like some form of precious metal. Only recently have we been able to create scarcity out of other materials like paper by putting unique identifier marks on them, so that only a small percentage of the paper supply can be money and only the government has (or tries to, anyway) the technology to mark paper with those identifiers (i.e. printing money). Bitcoin is merely the digital variant of that, it's not a physical commodity, it's a scarce and relatively fungible digital entry in a database which can represent money or anything else of value we want to. I don't see how you can say it doesn't fit the definition of money.

Whether it's used popularly mainly as money or mainly as an asset class for investment is a different question, and the answer seems overwhelmingly the latter (although it's getting less lopsided every year). But even here, the two aren't mutually exclusive. An Apple I in a museum is both a museum piece as well as a computer, even if it's exclusively used as the former and rarely as the latter, and these two conditions aren't mutually exclusive.
You edited it to say that. Before it said something about a "hot blonde that was too expensive to touch". And I'm not PC at all and I didn't downvote you, but it's still good advice.
That's great information, I'd recommend you sure on the GOG forum for that game and email back GOG support so they can add it to their knowledgebase.
So, should cash also be declared commodity now?
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The best hacks are the ones that look like mistakes. It's the reason plausible deniability is one of the judging criteria in the underhanded C contest.
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Elon Musk is an engineer and entrepreneur/inventor, not a physicist. He stopped being a physicist the day he dropped out of grad school at Stanford. Why would you call a lecture he gives a physics lecture?
Ok, we'll use your title. Thanks! I'd push back a bit here though:

> A random war reporter quitting isn't interesting.

An article about an unknown reporter might well be more interesting (in HN's sense) than an article about a famous one. That is a function of the article, not the fame of its subject.
…do you live in San Francisco?
The addition of explicit anti-tivoization language to v3 does not imply that they think v2 couldn't have that effect, just that they thought it would be nice to have a stronger case. The GPLv3 makes it an almost-guaranteed win (to the extent that such a thing exists), but that doesn't mean trying with the GPLv2 is a guaranteed loss.

And this conversation is clearly about more than just which legal interpretations hold force. It's about the spirit of the license and how closely it aligns (or not) with the interests of its more prominent users who have the standing and resources to at least try to to fight against uses that go against the spirit of the license.
Is this a good thing? Or bad?

Sure, we want it to replace money but that doesn't seem feasible when all debts in your given country must be paid with your given country's currency. This now puts it in the running with things like silver and gold -- perhaps it will spur more trading?
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Or digital cash. Where do you actually draw the line?
Good point. According to Uber's website:

> Your company will see trip information about rides that were charged to their Uber for Business account, including pickup location and destination, product type, time of day, and duration.
FTA:

> Hint:
> 'less' doesn't interpret escape sequences unless the -r switch is used,
> so stop aliasing it to 'less -r' just because there's no colored output.

Instead you can just use `less -R` which allows colored output but doesn't interpret any other escape sequences.
What are their reasons for being furious, aside from that it wasn't their idea?
Nothing you said contradicts anything written in the article. In fact it's basically a completely different topic. If someone wrote an article about the American economy it wouldn't be contradicted because you can denounce the American government or criminal justice system.
Elsewhere in the comments here, it's mentioned that nginx doesn't yet have server push so maybe it's fair to call these naive test setups then? I'd certainly buy that HTTP/2 has more head room for acceleration and optimization but I'm curious what the difference there would be. However, it starts to sound like programming language benchmarks where the test servers aren't setup in an "idiomatic" manner.

I believe that HTTP/2 isn't opening many connections. It's opening one TCP connection and multiplexing many requests through that. This would allow for exploiting a pre-warmed TCP connection in subsequent requests. I've always felt that was a flaw in HTTP/2: with minor modifications, that multiplexing protocol could have been split out.

I'm interested to see how HTTP/2 could accelerate your modern jumbo media websites. The ones with a dozen or so tracking bugs, ads, etc. All splattered across multiple domains with ad servers that aren't quite as zippy as one would wish.
I don't see a mention of how much the service costs; what fees they charge. Perhaps that becomes transparent after creating account, but it's probably important information to have immediately available.
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If this is true, I'm ecstatic. This isn't a war advertisers can win and any service taking this approach to keep its ad revenue will go down with it.

Then again, this could just as easily be by accident. I've seen poorly coded pages lose entire features because they block on ad loads and it gets overlooked because not all engineers run ad blockers on their dev machines.
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> Actually, the Wikipedia page on "fiat money" (if that's what you're referring to) says: "Fiat money originated in 11th century China" [1].

I'm referring to ledgers of credit. They originated in Mesopotamia, thousands of years ago. Check out the book "Debt" by David Graeber.

> That's if there is only one person on that island. If more people live on the island, they might start trading services and use some some improvised currency, e.g., coconuts or seashells. In this case, you have a society and money, but not necessarily a government.

See, that's completely untrue. What is actually going to happen is that multiple people on that society are going to bludgeon each other to death once there are enough people to constitute a society.
I'd say both and mostly used as an asset class, just like bitcoin, both money and an asset class and mostly used as the latter today. Why must they be mutually exclusive? It's no different from the dollar which is both money and traded as an asset class everyday.
Seems extremely fast, and actually has a lot more information about my university than google maps!
> You might be thinking "If I opened that in my browser, I would detect
it being malicious!"
Well, think again...
One can have all sorts of fun with user-agents, something that can
easily come to mind is verifying if the user-agent is from curl or wget,
and make them download the malicious file, if not,
redirect them to a legitimate file that looks like the original
output. Your browser would fool you then.

I can't decide whether this is evil, genius or disturbing. I don't typically copy paste curl commands, but it never occurred to me that even if you check the URL curl is pointing to with your browser that's no guarantee that the same script will be downloaded and parsed in the server.
that is how sidecar works, although the actual mechanism of achieving that is quite clunky.
I don't think "Stockholm Syndrome" means what you think it means.
(Rewriting) Another similar company also in the US is car2go.

https://www.car2go.com/en/columbus/
You may have missed the part where he was quite underpaid.
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I was about to say this. It makes no sense to worry about things that far down the line
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because it's not a monolithic value. 1) it's geographically varied. 2) Uber calculates the surge, but if it can't push that value out to the passenger-side app before the ride is arranged, it must honor the surge value it presented to the passenger. So at any given time, due to network latencies, and the like, there are going to be multiple values for the 'surge'.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for blog posts about successful side projects?
Sometimes, when I'm trying to get motivated to work on my own side project, I'll read blog posts by other people who finished a project and are recapping what they did. You know, the "here's my side project and how I did it" posts. As an example, I read this one recently from a guy who got vim to work with a mechanical typewriter: http://qqrs.github.io/blog/2013/05/03/vim-on-a-mechanical-typewriter/

This is one of those times I could use that motivation. Anyone seen good posts recapping side projects recently?
Yes, this is the majority of usage but some customers pay me in bitcoins and I pay a few development services with bitcoins too. I can lose or win with the fluctuations but I am more confident that the bitcoin is fluctuating less and eventually will move up, in the mean time I keep this bitcoins moving inside the ecosystem.

My rational side thinks that this ecosystem is just starting and there are killer use cases. For example minors offering their services (e.g: web design, software development) for bitcoins where in the real world they can't handle their own credit card or bank accounts without permission.

Another killer use case is loans, in developed countries you can pay more than 60% of annual interest, cryptocurrencies are a way to normalize these numbers worlwide.