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Grit is just one quality of a good executer. Grit with poor execution doesn't yield results. Grit is not the secret to success, execution is.
Well, even if not keeping everything in Bitcoins (which, I agree, sounds dangerous) the same scheme can be used as a convenient cash alternative that - unlike many credit/debit card payments - preserves privacy. I mean, I rarely want merchants to know my full name or email or whatever, however cash isn't always convenient. The transaction fees aren't great, but it's still looks like a fairly nice option.

(Offtopic) And, sorry, I had just fat-fingered a downvote when I meant to upvote!
The United States Government is extremely likely to provide more stability.

The same cannot be said for every government, in fact the number of people that are under a government that forces them to use a currency that is more unstable than bitcoin is already in the 10s of millions.
Sorry, but the rejection of "Boaty McBoatface" seals the deal for Brexit. You ask people's opinion and then won't accept the result -- that's the "democratic deficit".
Do you not insure yourself while you are in it?

As a USian who has driven inexpensive cars, something like 2/3 of my car insurance payments have been for medical coverage.

If there is a substantial difference in the medical costs associated with auto drive and manual drive, I'm sure that single payer systems would also account for it somehow.
The whole schmeer is wildly incoherent and will never make any sense.

I've done the "real estate because schools" thing; that school system imploded because of the local gentry interfering with it. That system also had a 33% dropout rate while the valedictorian went to Harvard medical.

You have to use public schools as a resource for getting your kids educated. Teaching is semi-de-professionalized because of careerism and magical thinking. My youngest went on the basically teach time management to lost little children at an expensive private university.

Now she's shut of the whole education system. Turns out training dogs is a better business model.
There is actually a thing called ion thrusters, which use propellant only as reactive mass and consume electricity for energy, but they are too weak for use in Earth-launched rockets.
A great, free site: http://lichess.org/
John Deers newest tractors, Tesla's S and Microsoft's Windows 10 are very different from what we are used to. You simply don't/can't own those products.

In reality, those corporations have complete control over the device. Only they can activate it for you, it's dongled to your account, you cannot sell it in aftermarket, they can deactivate it with a killswitch and remove or add functionality over air without your knowledge, they can spy on you and the device phones home without any way to completely deactivate it. It's very wrong.

People who want to own things, should be able to own things. We aren't slaves, right? People who want to rent/lease a service, may be able to do so as well.
Ask HN: In what ways is ambivalence about being in business a strength?
"Craiglist is ambivalent about being a business. This is both a strength and a weakness. If you focus on the areas where it's a weakness, you may find there are better ways to solve some of the problems Craigslist solves." - Paul Graham

http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html
Here in Switzerland the entire financial system is arranged via wire transfers.

I get a bill. At the bottom of the bill is a red pay-in slip with a magic number on it. I log in to my bank, enter the number, tell it how much I want to transfer, done.

There's a not-used-enough automatic system where one of my creditors can send their bills directly to my bank. Now, I log into my bank, get told there's a pending e-bill, at which point I select it, press 'pay', done.

No fees anywhere.

I'm from the UK, which is just starting to do this, but it's nothing like as polished; small traders and tradesmen still prefer cheques, and regular payments are typically done via direct debit, where you authorise them to debit money directly out of your bank account (with a whole pile of banking guarantees). Switzerland seems to do this much less frequently; most people just pay the invoices monthly.
...and see your money oscillate around 20% per day with the probability that you can loose it all by having it easily stolen by some hacker or having bitcoin value completely crash.

There is this group of people that had higher education and are well versed in system security, they are called sys admins and even they get hacked some times... but here you are trying to convince us to put all our money into easily movable and untraceable bits in some bitcoin wallet claiming it it the safer option we have.
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But the silicon can also make mistakes, and will - when it has to deal with new conditions that weren't anticipated by the manufacturer and breaks hard ... unlike the adaptable meat-bag which will figure out something to do when it starts hailing out of a clear sky in July.
And how frequent are those situations compared to those where people accelerate too quickly and lose control of their car? That's like the argument that seatbelts are dangerous or lethal in some situations. Sure they are. But in all other situations they save lives and reduce injuries.
Every single Apple app has a share icon which also lets you post to Twitter, Facebook, etc. Why is it such a problem for you if Overcast offers this feature? You don't need to use it. Not attacking, just confused about why the presence of the feature is so offensive to you.
The odds are better than 1 in 6.

What you are suggesting is a system that over and over again has proven to create poverty and destroy innovation.
That limit is per account, not per person. If you have more than $250K in an account, open a second one.
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I put per-user crontab stuff in ~/.cron/ not only cron-specific scripts go there, but ~/.cron/crontab is the (inactive) master copy of the crontab itself.

Make changes active with `crontab ~/.cron/crontab`

Diff with `diff -du <(crontab -l) <(cat ~/.cron/crontab)`

For servers or not-my-own-user crontabs, config management is the way to go. The crontabs should be in a config management repository, so there's not just a single copy that's deployed and active.
They could all be good schools but we simply don't want that. We want education theater for the same reason we want security theater.

In all subjects - but most especially history - it take decades to undo the damage from the public school system in America. We use it to spin old narrative yarns about what we'd wished happened.
Well that brings a few other factors in as well.

1. The company can depreciate capital expenditures and deduct their costs from income whereas the employees would not reduce their taxes by doing a kitchen upgrade or going grocery shopping

2. The employees will spend more time at work because the kitchen with free prepared food is there instead of at a restaurant or their house so it technically doesn't even need to break even to be advantageous for the company
This would seem pretty clear when California voters (notorious for not voting in taxes or bonds) approved the high speed rail project. What was even more interesting were the forces that came out against it and how they have acted.
If its a standard loop, the compiler could replace `int` with `size_t` as an optimization.
I understand you will not be happy with this answer but, you know what keyboard shortcuts do by looking at the knowledgebase:

http://help.slides.com/knowledgebase/articles/235434-navigat...
I live in the EU. It's the law that any car insurance, even the cheapest one, has to cover up to 5 million euro in medical expenses(plus up to 3 million euro in damages to property). I know in US you have to specify how much you are insuring yourself for, but in EU it's literally unheard of, I guess you could theoretically ask for more than that 5 million euro cover, but I have no idea why you would. And yeah, that medical cover is only useful if you need any rehabilitation afterwards, but I literally can't think of anything that would actually produce a bill, I could have 10 operations after an accident and no hospital would actually bill anyone for it(well, they would bill the government, but the insurer wouldn't care).
With wire-transfers you mean international wire-transfers?
I think it might be just an american thing, mexican banks usually don't charge you anything for wire-transfers inside the country (in their "use your credit/debit card at least once each month plans") and well, it's Mexico.
Though I think "first world"-something is quite the phrase just to describe consumer comfort: not advanced, not better (or worse), just "it's ok, I don't mind".

---EDIT---

Wire-transfers between national banks are free if you wait a day; there's a small fixed fee if you want them immediately. Transfers between different clients in the same bank are free and immediate. And it's becoming very common to be able to pay a quite assorted list of services through your e-bank account (from utilities to departmental store accounts) without fees.
The last time I had a bitcoin argument I was forcefully reminded that a global public ledger really doesn't preserve privacy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11589272

Edit: also, systems that are private will get you in trouble with KYC/AML.
This may have been true in the past, but when consoles require an internet connection to function, it's a small step to turning it into a dead, black box. Even if it provides an offline mode, it will usually require a periodical sync with an online service and this is where you're at the whim of Microsoft, GM, Tesla, Sony, Ford, you name it.

> I don't see any reason you'd need to have common ownership to implement 3rd party traffic control.

You don't have to, but once vehicles work in a swarm and do not function stand-alone, you lose the benefits of pretend ownership. I suggested leasing a vehicle and thereby making it clear that you don't own it.
> With a higher level mechanism, we can separate the behavior that we want for loops from the behavior we want for everything else in a nice, clean way.

Yes! One decisive advantage that high-level iteration constructs have over for loops is that they're easier to optimize.

One obvious example here is bounds checks: there's no need to have infrastructure to optimize out bounds checks over arrays during loops if you have a construct that eliminates the indexing entirely.
Before "developers, developers, developers" comes "backward compatibility, backward compatibility, backward compatibility". Windows is perhaps the first commercial platform to commit to Unicode; they made that commitment when UTF-8 was still some notes scribbled on Brian Kernighan's napkin. And all future Win32 implementations must be 100% binary compatible with previous ones. That creates inertia for UTF-16 (or UCS-2), true, but the backwards compatibility guarantees make Windows an absolute joy compared to Linux if you want to write software with a long service lifetime. The decision to stick with 16-bit Unicode is an engineering tradeoff.
> More interesting would be a crash against a tree or a concrete pillar - then one could argue if the crumble zone of a Tesla S is better compared to a traditional superior class Volvo or Mercedes with a front motor.

It doesn't really mean anything, but as someone who has been in a bad crash into a concrete barrier in a Volvo (all four doors able to open and everyone walked away); comparing how that front-end looked to the Tesla, I got the feeling the Tesla would do well.

> the Tesla S doesn't look that special

As someone who always drove Volvos when I owned a car, and knowing---as some in this thread have pointed out---that some cars don't fair as well in accidents, to me this article didn't point out that the Tesla S is "special" but I was glad to see it is in the class of cars where you can crunch the front end and have an intact cabin. Makes me feel better about my feeling that if I ever buy a car again it might be a Tesla not a Volvo.
I'm in Canada. We have both course-based Masters and research Masters in Computing Science. The course-based ones almost never have funding available and are quite expensive, while the research ones are more competitive but well funded and act like mini-PhD's (at least that's my general experience).
Buying OSVR – Is it worth it
I am wondering, whether its worth it to buy OSVR HDK 1.4. I had been tempted to almost buy one in the razer store. But am wondering whether its worth it or not. I know Oculus and Vive are getting shipped. But OSVR's price point and extendibility seems more worth than the others. But am wondering how people who have bought already is using it and having content or hacking their own content etc., to play with VR. It will be great to hear experiences, pointers and disappointments.
Yes and no. They both have the resources (money, engineers) to do alot in-house, and the market share that vendors will support them specifically. They can't not do this, they are under the same commercial pressure as other OS vendors.

If you want proof, just look at the systemd fiasco. Red Hat's way or the highway.
Yeah, that's one of many examples of how well Volvos stand up in crashes.

Related: http://www.volvosavedmylife.com/
I think there is only circumstantial evidence at this point, in that Clinton's emails imply that her staff is able to forward classified information to her. Since the staff does not have a legitimate means of access, it's hypothesized that they may be using her login credentials. Description here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/03/fbi-investigating...
> What I'm asking is for us to support--or at least, not oppose--some more bets on basic science when it comes to computing.

tl;dr: This article is the absolutely demolishment of a straw man.
It would be really interesting if we could factor-identify the problem as one that's fundamentally about racism. I don't suspect that this is going all that well as a project.

What we find is that race matters less than whether or not the kids have the resources and interest to exploit schools properly. The factors behind that are profound - you might consider "The Wire" a dozens-of-hours essay on the nature of the problem and it ended without much conclusion.

My Mom taught poor kids. They were of many races, but they all had the same basic problems.
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Meaning LLVM has backends that target these various architectures, with very few (if any) changes required to the IR.
The reason for char being 16 bits is that the JLS predates Unicode 2.0 (1996), which added 32 bit codepoints. At that time, UCS-2 was widely believed to be sufficient to represent anything "international."
Can you disconnect your "connected car". eg don't get a 4G account for your Chevrolet.
> I do not accept the concept of “trust”, I don’t know those guys, why should I trust them? On the other hand, with BTC trust is not even considered to be a factor.

That is a strange argument. The value of Bitcoin comes from the trust people have on Bitcoin. If nobody trusts Bitcoin, it's worthless except as a mathematical curiosity.

And after just a few more paragraphs, we see another instance of trust. The author describes leaving most of the money in a hardware wallet. That is, the author is trusting that the hardware is neither malicious nor buggy. A malicious hardware wallet could use kleptographic attacks to exfiltrate the private keys, or derive them from an attacker-controlled seed. A buggy hardware wallet could, for instance, have a "stuck" RNG (like a well-known OpenSSL fiasco), such that the generated private keys are predictable.

The author is trusting people he doesn't know: the designers of the hardware wallet, the manufacturers of the hardware wallet (including workers at whichever factory manufactures the hardware), and even the postmen. Moreover, the author is not only trusting them to not be malicious, but also to not make mistakes (with crypto, even small mistakes can be deadly).

And there's also at least one other problem the author didn't consider, or at least didn't mention: inheritance. If the author has an accident, what happens to the money? And what if the accident is not fatal, but leads to neurological sequels which render the author unable to access the hardware wallets?
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Of course it can be an encompassing reason if that is the one that is to find in every case. Grit isn't, some are successful without grit, confidence isn't either some are successful while not confident.

But luck, luck you find in every single case.

The reason of success is luck luck in chance encounters which then leads to unpredictable outcomes amongst others success.
If you want to give the talk at the CloudFlare office in SF or London (can get a couple other speakers -- maybe about network services), we could provide food for attendees and either free for 100-300 people or have people make a donation to Linux Foundation. Getting it professionally recorded so you could put it online somewhere would be easy; I can give you the files, or we could find a place to host them.
In case of an accident, the cars speaks with the emergency hotline in english. That's how it works in Ford and Lexus cars (current gen) and that's the best solution! (offline text-to-speech solution based on Nuance tech, GPS antenna, connects via Bluetooth to cell phone, if the user agreed) and no phone home or spying
The chart diet, or a sedentary life as software developer
From personal experience I can say that Locale Emulation doesn't reliable work for many games.
This is what really irks me about Apple and OSX. Things work fine until they don't at which point you need to pay a third party $40-90 so that your hardware will work again.

If I were sitting on some professional multi-thousand dollar hardware this might be acceptable, but I'm not pay that much for a cheap USB scanner I spent less than $100.
What about liability insurance? A main driver for development of autonomous cars is to reduce the rate of traffic fatalities. Once this is realized, shouldn't insurance rates for human drivers increase to reflect the change in relative risk?
You can use Overcast without an email address, if you want an account you can but they don't make you - there's a really obvious button when you first open the app up
You are playing semantics instead of trying to understand what I'm saying.
I wonder if the ease of movement both physically and financially is going to make it permanently non-viable for countries to keep control over their citizens' assets as was done in the 20th Century.
Right, it isn't the same coverage then if the government system is picking up the hospital bills. Note that I'm not praising the US system here, I was just surprised at how low a payment you got (I was paying ~$600 for basic liability and great medical coverage).

The point I'm reaching for is that the system where the government pays for medical care will likely respond to a substantial difference in safety, at least in the case it would save the system a substantial amount of money.
For the most part I like how the podcasting environment currently functions, but I do think that Apple's outsized power leads to some frustrating practices. I have found many podcasters who only list an iTunes URL. I rarely if ever use iTunes (as it requires booting my barely-touched Windows VM), and even with it open it is annoying to find the actual RSS address if it is even possible. The interface is so bad that I usually resort to using WireShark or a URL sniffing program to locate the actual feed.
As someone who played a lot of competitive chess at a very high level in my youth (and poured hours and hours of my life into it), I can attest that it is a game that seems to attract eccentric minds. Whether they are eccentric before chess or whether chess introduces eccentricity, I don't know, but I met so many interesting people through chess, the likes of which I would never meet in my other usual social circles.

I can also agree that, at a high level, it can be an all-consuming game. It can be difficult to turn off. There are a lot of activities and pursuits that you can physically put away, but for a great chess player, the positions are always in your thoughts.
Huh, I didn't know these were a) a 'thing' (as in, more than one across the UK, and b) officially called 'magic roundabouts'.

I've encountered one in Hemel Hempstead; it was a little scary (istr you can see traffic coming 'towards' you), but the article makes me want to go back and try it out again.

Edited to add: Between this and the horrific Welwyn Garden City one-way system, I guess Hertforshire must have (or have had) some of the maddest traffic planners in the UK...
Roundabouts are pretty bad for pedestrians. Imagine trying to cross the magic roundabout on feet from one block to the opposite one. And adding walkways might be expensive (especially if you want to accomodate wheelchair users).
What I don't understand is the extent to which people are paranoid about inflation in Europe or the US. It's low, stable, managed and not a problem unless you're keeping very large amounts of money in accounts which offer inadequate interest. It seems to me that worrying about this or the FDR gold-confiscation collapse of the gold standard is not merely fighting the last war but analagous to hiding in the jungle and refusing to admit that the war on inflation is over.

Residents of e.g. Brazil and Argentina are entitled to a different opinion due to different history, but in those countries people sought hard currency .. the dollar.
So there are a few orthogonal discussions here (largely due to lack of focus in my original comment, I'm afraid - haven't had my Sunday morning coffee yet).

Firstly, luck is a label for a subset of all factors on the outcome of a particular endeavor: specifically the subset that we aren't consciously aware of. I wanted to refute it as a singular reason for success (being, by definition, multiple reasons).

Secondly, I think an attitude that mostly dismisses the importance of luck (by emphasizing the importance of factors you can control) can help inspire confidence, an often-necessary and entirely-insufficient factor in successful human endeavors.

Thirdly, I make no claims as to knowing the single most heavily-weighted factor for success, or even the absolute weight of any given factors. I have lightly-held opinions about relative weights of various factors, based on my own experience and things I've read on the Internet.
A Framework for Understanding Uncertainty in Complex Systems (2004) [pdf]
I only really found out how easy and fast Bezier curves are recently when I was adding some smoothing pathing to a game. They're really impressively useful.
Is it really much simpler? This comment in a recent thread is interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650966
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The Fed is not a public institution. It's a private bank. It's as Federal as Federal Express.