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> Proof-of-work creates an illusion of dependence on blockchain miners.

How is proof-of-work's dependence on miners an illusion? Seems like a fundamental property of proof-of-work that it depends solely on the consensus of miners.
I don't think you understand. If you are legally drunk - blow a .08 on the test - you can get a public intoxication charge. It is that simple.

All that takes is living out of town and walking down the main route to your house and someone stopping and smelling alcohol.

It is great to put that theoretical thing in place. But people do, occasionally, mess up. I rarely went to bars because of transportation - others, not so much. Alcohol impairs judgement as, and if the options aren't there and easy to use, it is more likely that folks will drive drunk.
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Philadelphia is a much more interesting and hip city to live in, but the crime, high taxes and crumbling infrastructure are a killer. The city government is incredibly corrupt, with a lot of the machinery that empowers city councilmen (I'm looking at you, Kenyatta Johnson...) trying to keep outsiders from coming in and diluting their traditional voter base. So there is a sizable segment of city politics that is not only not interested in improving the city, but is actively working against change because improving the city would harm their political interests (and their ability to give no-show city jobs with six-figure salaries to their family members). Chaka Fattah [1] didn't become that corrupt in isolation.

Pittsburgh is literally just happy that you're there, but in Philly there's a sense that newcomers are not welcome. That feeling extends to businesses as well - if you don't hire union workers, expect things like sabotage and picket lines. You can't just go take over an abandoned warehouse and put your startup in it, you have to grease the right palms to get the zoning permits approved, the right union contractors to do the work, etc. All of that costs money that startups who are trying to be lean don't have. There's a lot more pay-to-play present in Philadelphia, which is IMO the reason why it's not a bigger tech start-up hub than it is.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/16/chaka...
Swift doesn't have a GC and you can use it to program like C with malloc and free via UnsafeMutablePointer<T>.

IIRC, Swift's runtime is like C++'s with v-table lookup for dispatch on functions that do not involve Objective-C objects.
Did I read the article correctly that uber, lyft are not profitable yet? That's news to me as I thought they were very profitable given the amount of media attention and visibililty they gave got. Are companies like say slack and github profitable? They also get so much attention (atleast here on HN).
They are the only PC maker making money. In what sense do you see them failing?

The VR wave is just starting. The only VR devices that will matter in 10 years will be standalone mobile devices in the $500 price range. When I look at Oculus's technical achievements I don't see anything difficult for Apple to copy. On the contrary, I think Apple's mobile chip design expertise, vertical integration, and developer base put them in a great position to release a great mobile VR device. Apple is probably the strongest company out there in power efficiency, which is the central limiting factor for mobile VR.

Frankly, I think Apple should sit out this generation, and let Facebook/Microsoft et al spend the money to do free market research for them. They can just do R&D behind closed doors until they have something special. VR with a cable tied to a giant PC is cool, but it will never be a big market by Apple standards.

Where will Apple be when there are VR devices in everyone's Christmas stockings? That's the question.
Not sure about the downvotes. To quote directly from the article:

"Mr. Buffett has said that large stock picks of above $1 billion are usually made by him, while smaller purchases are made by one of the two managers. They don’t consult with him before making their investing decisions, Mr. Buffett added Monday."
The jump in support from Safari 9 (53%) to TP (99%, and then the last little bit from TP to current WebKit) is staggering.
Removed from the readme - that's old and no longer applicable. Thanks for flagging it.
Comments like this are not allowed here.

We detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11705156 and marked it off-topic.
Three points:

- Non-trival amount of resources go into hardware R&D and OSX development

- Desktop and laptop computer market is increasingly shrinking

- Revenue growth is flat

It's not as simple as "well we make $x for every iOS developer, $x/2 for every OSX developer and that's going to be $x/3 in 5 years" but that's the general gist of it. Consumers are not buying computers and Apple has never been a major business player.
"The" blockchain = one subset of potential uses of Ethereum ?

Did someone take some time to tell author that internet is not www, and that www is not maintaining datacenters ?

I'm surprised that some people find this article informative.
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> Most technical people consider 'doxxing' to be bad.

By the way. I'm genuinely curious - were there any researches on this sort of statistics? If you know of anything like that, would you mind sharing?

I suspect (without any basis) that if a different groups to be compared, the fraction among the STEM people could be somewhat lower, relative to others.
Ask HN: Why does a pizza app know my location and 911 doesn't?
I know I don't have all the facts. But apparently the system 911 is using to find your location, depending on where you live can have a 10% to 95% chance of finding your exact location; and by 2021 they still won't be able to find 1 out of 5 people.

Can someone tell me, if we're talking about bold people tackling the world's biggest problems, is there anyone working on this? It seems to me like an obvious, ripe place for disruption.

Here's a source of the problem explained in more detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XlyB_QQYs
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Another good method is to use https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny and the ciphers from https://cipherli.st
Although lots of websites are crappy, it does seem like the mommy blog space is particularly bad. I think this is somehow rooted in how women and moms get treated, but I don't know how to articulate that at the moment.

I did the full time mom thing for nearly two decades. I have blogged for 15+ years. I never have done what she describes.

I spend time on HN in part because some people here make real money for real work via the web. I used to be more bitter about not getting the kind of help I want for figuring out how to do what I do better and make more serious money at it, but discussions of the crisis in making money from ads has convinced me that men who know how to make real money online don't know how to effectively do what I do.

So, I kind of have this hypothesis that effectively making money as a woman doing "girly" sorts of things is kind of virgin territory. No, I don't think selling my soul to give reviews of products for sample products or whatever while claiming it is "my 100% honest opinion" constitutes development of the space. That is not something I ever plan to do.
In many parts of Brooklyn, NY the car service companies are great. Some are reliable, some not. I have had so far positive experiences with companies I know are good. However Lift Line makes a very competitive price with these car service companies. The airport is a perfect example of when I use them. But service quality varies greatly -- some are always massively late and don't communicate, some are fantastic and cheap. Lyft has a more consistent experience feel, and that is valuable.
Yes to this. Not only could we find the correct original DNA sequence by statistically looking at a large number of cells- the fact that biology can't do that might explain why (almost) all living things age. If you can't error correct statistically, (and evolution can't since earth biology can't compare multiple DNA strands at once) then you have to prune the mistakes by reproduction followed by death if the new organism has defective DNA.
Counterexample: just yesterday I spent nearly two hours trying to understand why a bunch of records was not being updated to database. Turns out that when attributes on already persisted records get assigned in particular sequence, ActiveRecord suddenly decides that there are no changes to be saved. Swap two calls, everything suddenly works. And there was nothing to help me to get to that solution, just groping in the dark and trusting my years of RoR development for a general direction.

Rails is great, and I've been productive in it for a long time. But the complexity (some would call it bloat) is real, and there are nasty edge cases. And when you stumble upon one, well, good luck.
That would be your imagination. In all my years of regular use (17 to 33) the effect has never lingered after a good night's sleep, and I feel no permanent long-term effects at all. Some people are so scared by the bullshit propaganda fed to them that they will invent reasons to be scared of pot.
This is untrue: "Because blockchain is consensual, after a certain point of centralization, the rules of the system depend on very few users."

If a blockchain has rules that don't meet my needs, I can choose a different blockchain. If I adopt a blockchain that changes its rules to be undesirable, I can take the history I care about and move it to another blockchain.

This argument depends on proof-of-stake. Some people think proof-of-work blockchains are the only useful ones, but I disagree. It's also a boring debate to have, so I won't be doing that here.
> Market incentives exist for it not to crash. People who put money into ETH/DAO and who want to see growth have strong incentives against this type of bank run.

That's where the pyramid/ponzi/bubble comparison comes in. There's no actual value (yet?); the adopters would have to keep buying more to keep the price up and to keep the "value" of their holdings high. Not because it's so useful; just financial incentives.
> Right now, there is none. ... a person going out on the weekend and smoking a lot (much like drinking most weekends or occasionally) is going to be really impaired.

I think the article is pretty misleading but the conclusion is clear: "There's plenty of evidence showing that marijuana use impairs key driving skills. If you get really stoned and then get behind the wheel, you're asking for trouble.".

The problem is that the legal thresholds for THC are so low that "stone drivers" are not actually stone, making the whole federal study flawed.

Here: "Several states have passed laws attempting to define "marijuana-impaired driving" similarly to drunk driving. Colorado, for instance, sets a blood THC threshold of 5 nanograms per milliliter. But that number tells us next to nothing about whether a person is impaired or fit to drive. "

If you look at the data, "any illegal drug" is also not correlated with more accidents.
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Time to go reread Daemon!
I still like https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny better. It's a simple python script (300 lines) and you can understand what is going on.
Url changed from https://medium.com/@andersem/a-guy-just-transcribed-30-years..., which points to this.
Anyone have any clue when we'll see this land in Safari?
Right. A management plan is not the same thing as the product roadmap. Apple is secretive about their products, but not how they run their business.
The transparency is refreshing.
> "maturity"

maturity is many-dimensional here.

* userland packages - yes, sure. erlang/elixir ecostystem is not mature as of yet. It works, it nice, but you can't find everything you need (including e.g. blog posts and SO answers for every possible question).

* On other hand, erlang base brings stability, instruments to solve every possible _production_ issue out there.

* Phoenix itself is has same mixed aptitude - it's pretty new and, at same time, written by core rails dev and therefore has many design issues fixed from start.

> "it's magic and that's bad"

IMO it's not the magic that hurts but overtwisted internal logic where you can't figure out how it works exactly (and yes, Rails became pretty complicated software). Keeping things simple (at least "mental model" of things) is damn hard :( Phoenix is basically == "rewrite from scratch to reduce complexity and fix things that can't be fixed without starting from scratch"

> convention-over-configuration

i like that! Also, both Rails and Phoenix doing it right. 90+% other frameworks failing miserably :(
Yeah, even if you argue that the sideloaded app stores and whatnot that you could put on a jailbroken iPod Touch (remember those?) and 1st gen iPhones existed for a little before the official App Store, it was hardly the experience people think of today when talking about apps.
> a well-understood BAC-like scale for marijuana usage, especially as the drug becomes more and more legal to use.

That'd be tough. BAC is a meaningful metric because alcohol crosses the blood-brain barrier very easily. So, the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream is a very good predictor of the amount of alcohol acting on the brain.

THC, on the other hand, does not cross the blood-brain barrier so readily. So the problem isn't that we can't measure the amount of THC in the blood; it's that it doesn't actually tell us anything meaningful[0].

> Lots of people have a decent approximate sense of what 0.08 BAC is when it comes to alcohol consumption, but everyone who is "high" is just "high" without some sort of well-defined scale.

I actually don't think it's true that most people have an approximate sense of what .08 is. I think that most people believe they do, but most people actually have a very flawed misunderstanding of what .08 means (and doesn't mean).

You can test this out yourself! If you want to be the life of the party, buy a portable breathalyzer for about $100. When you go out, ask your friends to guess what their own BAC is (and what their friends' BAC are, based on how drunk they're acting). I bet you you'll find really large disparities between the numbers. People just aren't very good at gauging how drunk they are (or how drunk their friends are). Or, alternatively, BAC just isn't a very good measure of impairment - you can interpret this either way.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12404577
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I actually get the opposite feeling. Maybe that's because I'm so used to rustdoc now, but it's super easy to find everything. Go's doc tool seems like just a giant dump of API signatures.

Rustdoc isn't perfect, but it's pretty easy to find things imo.
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Of course it's faster and more densely connected. And? Extrapolating that because people shared before, and now they can share BETTER, to "the music industry is doomed" (or whatever statement you care to make), is what is 'not a valid extrapolation'. I wasn't extrapolating anything, just saying "this is not a new behavior", and given no other data, the fact of that behavior is not in and of itself a death knell.
Regarding power efficiency: I've profiled this method. Its impact on battery power is negligible.

I guess the best way to ease this concern will be to make the interval variable. Polling is often the only way to access clipboard data (it's that way on OS X, by the way.)

Regarding RPC / complex data: This does not happen. Only simple text in immediate memory is captured.
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>alcohol makes someone more confident, or more likely to do stupid things.

Reminds me of the "say the alphabet backwards" challenge that cops often present in sobriety tests.

Drunk: ZYX... ZYXW... wait-wait... okay, ZYXTW, ummm...

Sober: I can't do that.

Stoned: Oh whaaat? No way, man. I can't even do that sober - shit, I mean...
Yes, let's just acquiesce to the whims of the state. Who cares about personal liberty or science or medicine or pharmacology?

If anything, my experience with the state and it's drug prohibition, has made me want to smoke even more weed. Fuck the hick country cops who made me recite the alphabet backwards. Fuck the school admin who revoked my scholarship. I make six figures and travel the world for my job and for my pleasure and I smoke as much weed as I want.

If I may get personal for a second, weed is the only thing that has helped with my depression and schizophrenia. I had several depressive episodes in my life, from when I was young to my late teens and spent time in a mental facility. However, since I've started smoking habitually I have not had a single episode and feel hundreds of times better than I ever have.

Was it worth all the trouble? Honestly, yes. I learned about what matters in my life and I learned to take responsibility for my choices, which means yes, I am going to keep smoking weed for as long as I want because I'd rather stay out of my depression and focused on living the best, most meaningful life I can despite whatever bylaws are forced on me.
I now install AppNeta TraceView [0] whenever I launch a site. The free plan is fine for initial profiling and it's useful to see what matters under a production load. And the paid plan has proved itself.

NewRelic is similar, but I find the TraceView interface much much better.

0: https://www.appneta.com/products/traceview/
Can this run on Raspbian 7 Apache?
> currently, engine devs enjoy working with OpenGL (or D3D)

Where did you get that idea? I almost only ever hear bad things about them both. Bloated APIs with even more bloated drivers. Layers upon layers of hacks and fixes.

Presumably, Vulkan will enable the emergence of slim, nice, rapidly evolving apis built on top of them, giving developers much better tools to build apps or engines with.
And they dropped my bill $20/month or so after my contract was up.
> trait-based exception handling

I'm obligated to mention that Rust isn't growing an exceptions system, that RFC was just poorly named. :P
This makes me really tempted to a "Dear Tech Blogger" equivalent. The dynamics aren't quite the same, but they're close. The real killer is that in both cases the people buying blogger exposure/goodwill are experts at doing so without making their assets feel like whores. Most people won't do an obvious quid pro quo, but they'll forget everything they learned in psych class as they trade their blog notoriety for special access to invitation-only events, which they'll write about to increase their blog notoriety, which . . . you get the idea. Hey look, there's quid and quo standing together. What a coincidence.

Do you think these people don't know that they'll get more - and more positive - coverage by bringing you in and giving you personal attention? Do you think that's not why they sponsor these little mini-junkets? That's their job, and they're measured by results. They weren't dazzled by your insight or wit. They saw just enough of those things to make you one jellybean in the bag they're buying for their employer. That's the extent of your "friendship" and you'll see that soon enough if you decide their presentation just wasn't inspiring enough to blog "independently" about.
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For me and most of my friends, Slack has filled that gap - but more for groups of friends, with overlapping subsets of interests. (e.g., I'm in a NYC redditors slack team with 52 people, and we have over a dozen channels.)

For smaller interests, a lot of people tend to use Google Hangouts - I'm in one with mostly people I know focused on the game Star Realms.
Probably at WWDC, between June 13 and June 17.
Yes, you can specify a relative/absolute path in DllImport if you'd like. Generally it is easier to get consistent behavior if you either: 1) rely on the user to install the binary somewhere and place it on the path, or 2) deploy the native binary along with your application. We generally do 1) in .NET Core, or we rely on components of Windows, for example.
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Does this include native module import/export? I never saw anything to suggest they were even working on that.
Is ES6 native much faster than transpiled?
The law in Indiana was adjusted in 2012.

http://sftlawyers.com/new-indiana-public-intoxication-law-go...
> but 99% of all CPU cycles go to waste

Reminds me of this tweet which summarizes Ruby quite well:

https://twitter.com/reubenbond/status/662061791497744384

There's no doubt that by not fully utilizing modern CPUs it is giving a serious advantage to the future prospects of languages like Elixir which make using concurrency as easy as using Rails or Go, where performance is baked-in. It's not so much about is Ruby good enough but why use Ruby in the long run if there are languages offering similar benefits but with better performance or good concurrency primitives?

Having support for the latter is not a detriment to early stage projects using the languages (this isn't about Java/C++ vs Ruby any more...), but later on lacking it will
Generating standalone binaries is orthogonal to the presence of a runtime. Go also generates standalone binaries (even more standalone than Rust and Swift) though it indisputably has a runtime.
Maybe/kinda? I used to teach at General Assembly, at at least when I was there adding the layer of Docker for complexity, on top of RVM/RBenv, Rails, etc... was seen as too much.

In my current company, we also haven't moved to Docker. A few people use it for a few things, but I'm not running it yet myself. Definitely not a universal, and I'm actually kinda unsure where to get started with it in my daily workflow.
> Billions in Ali Baba stock if nothing else.

My understanding is that's the one thing that is not up for sale these days, and that all relevant discussions are regarding the spinoff of their core web businesses.
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Yes, vi(m) seems one of the few editors that would work for mobile (touch) devices. It was already my favorite and only editor before my quest...
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Found this on Wikipedia[1]:

> United States v. Lori Drew, 2008. The cyberbullying case involving the suicide of a girl harassed on myspace. Charges were under 18 USC 1030(a)(2)(c) and (b)(2)(c). Judge Wu decided that using 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(C) against someone violating a terms of service agreement would make the law overly broad. 259 F.R.D. 449

I think it was a wise decision. This particular case aside, government's ability to prosecute over ToS violations opens up an enormous way for possible abuse (think of visiting a site whose ToS forbid ad-blocking with one active).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#c...
That was a really good talk, one of the highlights of that FOSDEM for me.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Itanium_Sales_Foreca...

It was intended to be the x86 sucessor.