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> I guess you're not yet familiar with PowerShell or never used it

This is correct - my example wasn't intentionally complex, but the result of googling and looking at the top answers (cmd was deficient, and I was wondering how you'd do the same thing in the 'proper' windows shell). I'm glad I have got the responses I did - I didn't mean to deride powershell, but show that if you want more power, you end up with more complex commands - and at the cli, I'd rather be typing in the unix example that the powershell one.

In any case, powershell should be better than the other shells we're talking about - it's from 2006, and the others are considerably older.
The miners get the Block Reward without including transactions but they earn extra Transaction Fees for each fee-bearing transaction they include in the block too.
Could you tell us if the webview uses the built in chrome webview now? Just that I gave one of your earlier app inventor products a whirl and thought it was slow for html 5 and JavaScript stuff...
I wouldn't say density is a constant. Muscle weighs more than fat for the same volume, as does bone. Same height, higher muscle or denser bone structure, and you can have wildly different weights. Makes simplistic measurements like BMI pretty laughable - look at pretty much any athlete, who would run high over-weight or obese according to BMI.
Assuming a normal distribution instead of a uniform one isn't that outlandishly unreasonable.
> What's wrong with threading on IO?

To modify JWZ's famous joke:

You have a problem. You say, "I know, I'll use threads!"

Nowyou prob h2ave lems
All ideas are built upon.

There is a very clear line between simply copy pasting an idea and reformulating that idea in your own words.

I agree that we should focus more on coming up with ideas independently, and that if they so happen to coincide with an idea someone came up before, no big deal.

In today's diverse world, however, what are the chances that you were even remotely going to say something word for word how someone else before you said it?
Presumably young people would rather use a service that doesn't have any boring old people on it. (As to why young people rather than old ones - the value of young people to advertisers is well known.)
I am tempted to edit my post, but I think the mangled grammar is more amusing.
Ask HN: Where Do ACM-ICPC World Finalists Work?
Hi, do you have a company URL?
I don't understand the problem with "shoddy" crosswords. It's edited by the same person so what's the big deal? Are you not allowed to repeat a crossword?
I cringe at the idea of self-driving trucks. If a car gets it wrong, it is probably a small bump in your door, if a truck gets it wrong, it can easily drive right over your car.
So, Java doesn't live up to the hype?
> The US deals with much larger migrations every year

Are you suggesting that the "much larger migration" in US is provided free food, free housing, free counselling, free healthcare, free judiciary assistance, are taken care of by american public workers to guide them in their asylum application process ?

Yes it is a self-inflicted problem ( the west trying to decide who should rule in Syria, just like in Libya and just like in Libya it backfired replacing order by chaos). But confusing the situation in US with illegals that obviously don't show up at the nearest refugee center as soon as they cross the mexican border with millions of people coming in Europe as refugees seeking asylum and all the percs is not having spent 1 minute trying to understand the situation.

> Broadcast to the world that people are welcome

As far as I know the only country who did this was Germany which is also, rightfully, the country that received the most refugees since they invited illegals to come there. So things work as intended.

What other countries between Turkey and Germany are asking is that Germany starts picking the refugees it wants at the Greek border, instead of relying on smuggler gangs to bring them to Germany.
What counts as "building an app"? Is it someone who just pressed a couple buttons and then never came back? I just have a hard time believing the platform was used over 13 million times to build anything non-trivial. If that is the case, then major kudos to you! Either way I think tools like Thunkable have a lot of potential :)
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I'd love to but it runs horribly on my thinkpad. My choice is between 10-second system freezes when opening or closing or switching browser tabs (i.e. with APM on), or else a 2-hour battery life (with APM off).

On a Sandy Bridge i7.

OpenBSD is pretty good for servers (I run one), but my experience has been that it's just total shit on the laptop.
Why would I want to spend a limited edition BTC™ if I know the system that produces bitcoins is going to stop producing the coins? Adding the assumption that as the 'bitcoin economy' grows, so too will demand for bitcoins thus further increasing demand on the limited supply of bitcoins. So all signs point to never spend your bitcoins unless you want to 'bet' against the bitcoin ecosystem by spending your BTC tokens.

BTC is art.

http://i.imgur.com/P7ylLkD.jpg
The fork accepting more kinds of block is probably going to be jittery and broken right at the switchover no matter what. The percentage only affects how fast things stabilize. 60% would be fine after a couple hours. Requiring 75% or more is to smooth things on a political level.
> In May 2001, a well-known CEO of a security and consulting company, Steve Gibson, released the Raw Socket's warning. According to his Web site, Raw Sockets was a "seriously dumb idea...from Microsoft" that "...spells catastrophe for the integrity of the Internet."

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=27289
This is a really complicated discussion, that has been splashed all over reddit and other forums for the last year. The reality is that the network is rapidly approaching if it hasn't already exceeded capacity at 1 MB. This doesn't break the network, but it ends up with load sheddding (people who no longer transact) and worse, people who transact but due to rapidly changing fees have to wait in line indefinitely to get their first confirmation. The mempool will eventually randomly eject transactions, but this can cause issues for wallets and other services.

To say that centralization increases dramatically at 2 MB just isn't the case. Once people stop running full nodes because they don't believe in Bitcoin's potential as a transaction network then what? This is all about control, who gets to control the fate of the Bitcoin network, and right now that battle is being waged between large well funded companies each of which has its own vision for what Bitcoin is.

Development should under no circumstances be centralized with one entity, but there you have it. The only people who benefit from bitcoin being unable to scale are those who want it to simply be a digital gold / store of value, and those that sell alternative solutions for various markets. This is just going to lead to capital flight from Bitcoin into alternative networks that have a growth potential despite being inferior at the moment.
It works pretty well for a Django project with the exception of anything that's only called from INSTALLED_APPs.

I have a branch that can handle Django, but I kept it private because it's not really general purpose to introspect Django's settings.py then read out data.
They have an interest in bitcoin working, I'm not sure what other ulterior motives you think they have to the actual protocol.
//how many lives are saved by deterring potential murderers

The death penalty isn't about deterrence. It's about vengeance. At least to the family and friends of the victim.

Many in the US, for religious reasons, consider death to be the ultimate punishment. You know - "hell is that way".

But what if you don't believe in hell, or a judgement? Then death is an easy way out. Personally, I'd rather die than be thrown into a hole for 40 years.

So allow me to rephase:
//I'd think that it matters how many innocent people are executed vs how many people believe the criminal will suffer in hell.

Either way, i agree.
There's been plenty of discussion (I remember reading articles about it a year before it was actually committed).

It's also not even a soft fork, just a policy change for minors. It was in the original release of Bitcoin and removed for DoS reasons that no longer applied. Some minors had been running it previously.

It's also opt in. I fail to see any reasonable way in which a blocksize increase is "comparatively trivial".
It might be useful to ask if it's something new in the HR guidebook or a new trend you're seeing in your area.
once you mentioned it, the original commands which are compared are not equivalent. Dir does case insensitive search, find is case sensitive. The equivalent would be:

find . | grep -i "\.txt$"
You don't have to be smart to understand the universe is resource bound.
Bitcoin core seems to have made a money that has a "resource" like behaviour.

The more you mine it, the more it costs. They seem to have a concern about a virtual currency that unlike real ones can prevent some "non realistic" transaction behaviours that are not compliant with the real world.

Transactions are never free. And the bigger a system is the more a a transaction costs.

What frightens me is the High Tech business trying to piggy back on a pretty sane currency and want to influence for their personal interests the system in a way that might deserve the economy globally.

Are all High Tech companies sociopaths just caring about nothing but their private benefits built upon other's works?
Likewise, I've moved to beancount http://furius.ca/beancount/ and the awesome fava https://github.com/aumayr/fava 21 years of Quicken data converted to a lovingly crafted text file. Ahh.

Also a big fan of Moneydance http://moneydance.com and have written a budget plugin for my family's needs
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>weight gain in adulthood doesn't cause you to get taller //

Not even a tiny bit, like because of fat feet or more fat on the head? Not trying to be facetious, just seems huge people have fat feet and that there's likely to be a little fat on the bottom of the foot. Mind you that's going to be countered by compression of the spine, so there could be a inverse correlation?
Dr James Simons says the market isn't random.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons

https://www.ted.com/talks/jim_simons_a_rare_interview_with_t...

Now I'm not sure who to believe, some random guy on the Internet, or a mathematcian who has consistently beat the market.
We wouldn't have solved anything due to limitations of the web stack. There is no way to make it run fast on a $100 handset. The native stack on the other hand can run pretty fast on low hand devices.
This already happens far too often. Just google "car crushed by truck". Given Google's results so far, driverless trucks are likely to reduce the incidence of this hugely.
Are you really trying to blame me for an argument you got yourself into with someone else? Way to go indeed.
This is the first time I have seen something so revolutionary that is also backwards compatable.

I'd say that this is the future of the excosystem. If they had just kept all file names lower cased.

I use ZSH now, so it's not a big problem, but for bash this would annoy me.
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He didn't assume a normal distribution. It wasn't "within ±15% of the mean". It was "the middle 30% of the range". This means excluding 70% of the population for each factor, regardless of the distribution. Finding a "normal person" was impossible from the beginning with that approach.
I'm really not sure where people are getting this. All companies with the exception of Blockstream want Bitcoin to scale so that it can aquire more users. More users is instrumental to the growth of new companies. Not scaling the network means we will cease to aquire active users, and the entire ecosystem will possibly stall. While that happens we will have capital outflow to other coins.

Ethereum has been a beneficiary of that outflow, but is a significantly less tested code base, with much less hashing power, and significantly fewer users. Its still a very early product with its own vested interests. The two networks aren't even comparable at the moment in terms of capability and ecosystem.
To add to that: privileged ports are hugely useful from a security point of view for outside observers, especially with regards to setting up a trust relationship. letsencrypt would not work if it could not rely on this.
big pharma will do what their management and owners force them to do. surprisingly, unlike all other companies in this world, they want to make money and somehow they are in everybody's health business...

as for good advices - i don't think anybody literate in this world doesn't know that being active and doing sports is a massive net benefit to individual. same goes for generally healthy diet - vegetables, fruit, not eating too much, limit sweet stuff and so on.

yet when I look around, I see people trying to blame others, blame evil corps, doing a lot of similar mental work except the very thing that everybody knows is healthy - or why isn't everybody who is able regularly exercising? if I give up on my body, mkay that's called freedom, but damn I won't go around and try to blame corn industry of some crazy conspiracy (even if there would be one). I am the one shopping for food, and healthy in supermarkets ain't so expensive. In fact, many times it's dirt cheap.

until somebody forces my hand to pay for the food i don't want to eat and forces it down my throat, we are free in our choices, and it's only our responsibility to make them as good as possible.
Bias note: I've been an Amazon SDE for the last few years, though no where near the devices division (I make warehouses and delivery systems work better, weee). Additional note: in no way do I speak for the company, I'm just a guy who writes code and likes working here.

Generally speaking, this isn't how Amazon operates.

Firing someone for making a bad call is silly. Mistakes were clearly made but firing people in situations like this is like cutting off your hand because you burned your finger. The person who made the call probably has made hundreds of good calls over the years, and will continue to make good calls in the future, given the chance. Sure, if this is a pattern of stupid mistakes then clearly this person is in the wrong role, but that's not nearly as likely to be the case.

Instead, I suspect a process will be put in place to help make these decisions better in the future- and process written in large part by the person who made the mistake. This way, not only will they not make a mistake like this again, but no one else will either.

Maybe I'm wrong, but from what I've seen of the Amazon culture that's how we generally react to mistakes.
I'm not sure why you got downvoted. Survivorship bias is a well-known phenomenon. I would be interested in distinguishing between hedge funds that do well because some "necessarily must" and those that actually have some kind of advantage with their algorithms. But how can you actually tell which is the case?
I've occasionally used daily-crossword sites as a way to relax and keep my mind working when I need to take a break from code, and the repetitiveness is one of the big drawbacks.

Crossword puzzles have a certain vocabulary of words which are rare in conversational English but appear with high frequency in puzzles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswordese -- how many times have you used 'olio' or 'etui' in conversation?), and poor/mass-produced crosswords take this to an extreme, which in turn takes both the challenge and the fun out of the puzzle.

Also, if you do enough puzzles you will end up noticing ones which are more subtly repetitive, and again there's less fun in re-solving one you've already "done".
People have to lie about steroid etc (gear) use because it's illegal. It's dumb to admit to doing something illegal, especially if you're a celebrity and it'd be front page news. The world's best and biggest body builders publicly say all the time they don't use gear - it's just an accepted aspect of the community that you lie but everyone knows you're lying. No one who's ever read the smallest bit about body building actually believes they aren't using many substances. I am sure they are unhappy about having to lie, but they are asked constantly, even in TV appearances by people who should know better, whether they are using steroids etc. They have no choice.

You can also get a fairly decent gauge of what is possible without the use of steroids etc when you've been in the community long enough. Part of this is just through anecdotal experience of people you know to be truthful and part of it can be see in the "natural" body building competitions. They still have cheaters and people have used in the past, which skews what's possible to the slightly too-big side, so take the average of "slightly below average" professional natural body builders and you're looking at what's possible without steroids for the vast majority of people.

However, if Dwayne doesn't use gear he's a very gifted and dedicated bodybuilder. I would say his body is absolutely attainable without gear, but it's a ton of hard work and good genetics. He's big, but he's not huge, and he doesn't have any of the characteristic signs or muscle imbalances of a long term steroid etc user.
Not when we have millions of unemployed and underemployed people in this country.

There is a reason Trump's message is resonating with so many people (I'm not a supporter).
>Just being able to lock ports down to a uid would suffice for many use cases and could work the same way as the legacy system by default, with ports <1024 reserved for root and other ports not reserved. Then, e.g. # echo "8080 <MYUID>" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/portsec/register

It can be done in userspace with `authbind` (based on some LD_PRELOAD magic).

# apt-get install authbind
# echo '0.0.0.0,8080-8081' >> /etc/authbind/byuid/$(id -u $TARGETUSER)

Then as user:

$ authbind my-daemon
> I'm not saying people can make up for doing bad things.

That's precisely what you are saying. Mormons do wonderful things in many cases, especially in disaster relief and other humanitarian projects. They also have official positions that are bigoted. Both can be true, but the good does not make up for the bad. The prop 8 effort was a work of bigotry.
> Coinbase has an interest to increase the block size so that the protocol can be further centralized, making people more reliant on their centralized bitcoin as a service business.

This is fundamentally not at all how bitcoin works. Nobody relies on coinbase to actually use bitcoin. A bigger -maximum- block size won't increase centralization since 1 MB every 10 minutes is so far from stressing even modest resources. Anyone who can watch netflix can download at least 200 times faster than they need to keep up with the blockchain.
This has been going on, on and off, since before Classic and XT and all the others were announced. Someone's been spending a fairly substantial amount in transaction fees to send spam transactions in order to "prove" that the block size needs to be increased and openly bragging about it.
I work in C++ :-)

I'm not basing my opinion off that statement, but rather my previous jobs doing Java. I just found the quoted chunk summarized what frustrated me about that community.
I don't see the problem. The fact that no person fit the model perfectly doesn't mean that the model was a poor choice.

The question shouldn't be whether any customers fit the cockpit perfectly, but how many customers do and do not fit absolutely. You build the legroom so that most legs will fit, and headroom so that most heads will fit. Then as many people as possible shall fit. Everyone will have some dimension that isn't perfectly accommodated, but few should be rejected. The fact that nobody fits perfectly doesn't take away from a design that reasonably accommodates as many people as possible.

A cockpit is not a suit. It's a communal chair/workspace meant to be used by various persons over many years. The metric of a good design should be how many/few people are so out of standards that they cannot work properly in the space. This is a perfect metaphor for hiring. Look only for that 'prefect fit' and you won't hire anyone, or you end up with hiring the only applicant to get past the roboreader. Seek a broader standard and you'll find plenty of good people even though mr perfect never appears.
You're both wrong.

Most drugs comes from private companies, not public institutions. It's about a 2/3 private and 1/3 public split. Note, that's discovery, not development. Private companies almost exclusively bring discoveries to market.

Second, yes, if garlic cured cancer drug companies could make money off of it. Isolate the active compounds, optimize it for efficacy and patent it. Kind of what they've already done for antibiotics, antifungals, anticholesterols and anticancer drugs. It's nothing new.
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Are we supposed to find it pejorative? It just sounds clunky.
Tell HN: Driverless trucks: just because we can, doesn't mean we should
There are hundreds of thousands of people and families whose livelihood, ability to pay their bills and put food on the table depends on driving trucks.

Just because we can make driverless trucks does not mean we should.

It would be great if sometimes our society made decisions looking to the wellbeing of other people instead of focusing on profit for companies.

What is going to happen to those people and their children who no longer have a means of income?

I feel like technologists corporations and government don't have much ability to put themselves in the shoes of those who aren't doing well financially.
Semi-usable? How so? I regularly buy things with Bitcoin and I haven't noticed any decline in products and services being offered for Bitcoin. Expedia still accepts it. Cheapair still accepts it. Dell still accepts it. Many other large and small businesses accept it. Yes, it's not the same level of penetration as credit cards, but CC have been around since when? And Bitcoin? Have a sense of proportion.
Big Pharma provides major campaign contributions Congress [1]. Would not be surprised if most of the funding from government is to support the OP's idea.

[1]: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=h04&c...
This was an incredible documentary. But also a little painful.
The problem with RBF is that (in some cases) it can allow double-spends with older receiving software. If the receiver accepts zero-confirmation transactions, the sender can send one transaction, wait for the receiver to accept it, then send another transaction with a higher fee and a different receiver. In other words: RBF may be opt-in, but it decreases security for wallets that don't support it.

The problem with SegWit is that it isn't ready. A few days ago, SegWit caused testnet to fork. The cause has been identified and fixed, but it will still be months before SegWit is trusted enough for production use.

While Bitcoin has never had an intentional hard fork, it has had an accidental one.[1] It was chaotic, but not world-ending. In contrast, Classic requires 750 out of the last 1000 mined blocks to trigger, and it has a month-long grace period before accepting larger blocks. It would be a well-known and predictable switchover.

1. https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-03-11-chain-fork
I assume there are developmental genetics that apply to a whole organism. Everything on an elephant has to be big and everything on a mouse has to be small. But then there probably is little correlation between localized development genetics. The result is that within the 5% to 95% range the correlation between the size and shape of developmental features is pretty much zippo and simple non-correlated probability dominates.