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Well, they say that "anyone can use" a 2nd layer lightning network but realistically nobody is going to trust any basement-dweller to intermediate their off-chain transaction. This will centralize off-chain scaling to large players like Blockstream.

Blockstream will run a Lightning hub and make money off of facilitating transactions before settling them on-chain. Since blockspace is limited they will make (or have made) agreements with miners like BTCC in China - that way they will always be able to settle, but on-chain transactions might get kicked off and be forced to use their centralized system. It's really rather insidious.

Lightning is also not the peer-to-peer solution that the Bitcoin Whitepaper promotes in its abstract. The first few sentences describing the reason for Bitcoin to exist in the first place make peer-to-peer the number one priority.
I think all of the AirBnBs I have been to (across a few cities in Europe on vacation), it appears that what happened was one half of a couple moved in with the other half, and, with a lease that they couldn't get out of, rented out on AirBnB rather than eating the months of rent for an apartment they wouldn't be living in.
If you own the place, why does your city or your neighbor have to have a say in how you manage your property? This is what I don't get. It's your place, you paid for it, it's yours. If they don't like what you are doing, then they should move. This anti-house sharing nonsense is just a ploy by the hotel cartels.

If you don't own the place, and the owner is okay with you subletting, again what's the problem?

This is one of the few things I don't ever get. Regulation on things that are not an issue in the first place.
What are you talking about? I don't control the Bitcoin codebase at all. I don't have commit access to Bitcoin's repo.
>something so victimless

victims are the poor people who are forced to moved even further out of the city, shutting them out of economic opportunities.
>>Seems pretty ratty to report on something so victimless, especially after participating.

I could say most white collar crime is victimless too. Should we just let all the stock brokers who embezzle money go since the only people they harm are billion dollar companies who can afford the losses?

Laws are in place for a reason. The city had a problem and is trying to curtail certain behavior. This is always the case - they find someone and make an example out of them and then hopefully it acts as a deterrent for other people thinking of doing the same thing.

Time will only tell if it's truly effective though.
Fortunately it's not everyone. One of my instructors back in college was a math+bio PhD student, working on applications of math to biology.
Help out your local plumber. Pay in cash.

edit: Seriously? These guys are elbow-deep in shit on a regular basis. Washington doesn't need to wet it's beak on that.
Generally I find that Redfin's estimates are more accurate than Zillow's. Zillow often is off by more than 10% compared to market prices.
Ah, it is still so long until the next season. http://imgur.com/gVsJood
Our implementation will not be biased towards Blockstream's hub if they ever make one. In fact, it's designed to work in a scale-free network topology.

You can find it at https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
It is intended to depress the net worth of middle class homeowners.
Can someone clarify this, because the article does an incredibly shitty job of doing this? Is it talking about an average government spending of $10,345 over the life of each person in the U.S.?
Mike's stuff is awesome. I just watched the animation of one of the optimum solutions and I realized that all the placements are interdependent on each other. It's a holistic approach, instead of an algorithmic approach.
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Good numeric analysis, but a couple things don't sit well with me. First, 5% is a significant price difference when you're sinking up to half your income into housing (http://la.curbed.com/2015/12/10/9892338/los-angeles-rent-bur...), especially at the price levels we are talking about for Santa Monica rentals.

Second, AirBnB is more than a political issue and referring to people as "rabble" just because they disapprove of illegal rentals is pretty arrogant. I live in Santa Monica, work in tech, and absolutely do not want any of my neighbors renting their apartments on AirBnB. One of my neighbors did so for a while last year and the result was the entire complex repeatedly having to deal with unruly visitors being overly loud at night and trashing the common areas.

If you want to make money on rentals, buy a property that allows you to do that, and where everyone around you knows that's going to happen and can plan accordingly. If you don't want to do that, then you don't get the right to abuse your apartment complex or neighborhood just because you want to make some money. Treating AirBnB rentals like they have zero impact on anyone but the renter and owner is disingenuous and shows a certain level of selfishness with respect to the actual complexities of the situation.
The first problem with your example is that NetApp deduplication occurs at the block level, not the file level. The second problem is, given the number of systems in the field utilizing it - if your example were accurate there would be literally THOUSANDS of people up in arms.

Furthermore, their deduplication is post-process, so even if dedup were to somehow modify atime, which it doesn't, you wouldn't have seen the access time change for at best 24 hours after the file was modified.

Troll on.
No, they're victims of the NIMBY neighbors as much as anyone. Who do you think is first in line to wring their hands if someone suggests building a duplex or a few apartments, that are slightly more affordable in an area like Santa Barbara? The same people complaining about AirBnB.

Look at how NIMBY's react to the construction of some apartments near a community college here in Bend:

http://m.ktvz.com/news/Westside-neighbors-hope-to-stop-COCC-...
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."

It's not so much tyranny that we fear these days but rather the consequences of ceding more and more power to such a corrupt and inept bunch.
The Lightning Network is blocksize agnostic. I haven't been arguing on either side of the blocksize debate.
I searched the whole page and I don't see the word "validate" anywhere.
Is there no-one to tell this poor guy to throw up a landing page and buy ads to see if anyone cares?

Blastoffering - don't quit law school, don't invest, don't get a cofounder. Your only job right now is to validate your idea.

You believe in it - that's dangerous. You could be wrong. Building it and then discovering that is ludicrous. Imagine you dropped out of school, convinced your parents to invest 300k, convinced a coder to quit his job at google and lose $x00k of options, only to discover after building it that nobody gives a shit!. Instead, try to validate your idea in the cheapest way you possibly can.

Your inspiration should be Arram Sabeti, CEO and founder of ZeroCater. The dude had 500 customers before they wrote any code. He scaled it up to 500k ARR while running it off a spreadsheet!

There's this pervasive myth that once you get an idea you need to go find a technical cofounder. Bullshit. The last thing you want to do when you have an idea is code. You need to validate the idea as cheaply as possible.

Code isn't cheap for you. That advice about just building it - that's for engineers, where a few years ago building something was a cheap way to validate. Today, for you, it'll be cheaper to buy ads, pre-sell it to potential customers, or even do the cliche talking-to-strangers-in-a-starbucks things. All of those options are better than writing code at this stage.

Email me, I'll set you straight and help you turn the idea into practical steps which will allow you validate the idea without writing any code: paul.biggar@gmail.com.
Why don't I just buy the house next to yours and start a 100 seat restaurant? Maybe have a poolside bar in the backyard?

Anyhow, zoning exists for a reason. Hotels are a business. You can't run any business out of your home. If you do allow any home to become a hotel, you're opening a huge can of worms...
Not sure why it's posted again, but we might have some announcements soon :D
How so? Zillow shows my house as being worth 50k more than I paid for it 11 months ago.
All of the "big" Forth systems come with some sort of standard library.

In the open source world, gForth [1] is pretty well-known which comes with a comprehensive set of words [2] many are not part of the ANS Forth standard [3,4]. You could call that gForth's "standard library". For stuff that is missing, gForth has an interface to native system libraries [5].

For math and scientific computing there is the Forth Scientific Library [6] which is written in standard-conforming forth and can be loaded and used on most of the forth systems currently in use.

But then Forth coders somehow live by the philosophy "if you want it to be done right you have to do it yourself", so use of library code is frowned upon and people usually tend to reinvent the wheel and writing code from scratch :)

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/

[2] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/

[3] https://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans.html

[4] http://www.forth200x.org/documents/forth14-5.pdf

[5] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/C-In...

[6] https://www.taygeta.com/fsl/scilib.html
I was pointing out the obvious logical flaw in what he said, that's all.

I'm sure he is a nice guy and maybe he's even funny.

Blockstream does need to recoup the 70 million in funding they've received though and it's a fact that they have most of BitcoinCore's top contributing developers on their payroll, with exception to Wladimir.

Clearly I'm not the only one concerned about a conflict of interest and I'm sure it's hard to see conflicts of interest if you're the one at the center of it.

One last edit, aside from a grammar correction: authority deserves scrutiny.
The bad kind of impressive would be getting running ATMs on NodeJS.

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Victims of what?
So, note I don't take an opinion on either side, but one example of why it is a problem comes from some of my neighbors. They rented out their place on AirBnB. The people who rented it held a large party. Another neighbor went over to knock on their door and ask them to turn down the music. The renter took out a shovel and knocked the neighbor into a coma. Then the renter fled.

This problem would be unlikely to occur from the owner of the house taking these actions, given the liability and inability to flee as easily.
You're probably missing the "That strategy does negatively effect people on the internet who register for WhatsApp with Saudi VoIP numbers when they're in France" bit. It's a reasonable trade-off in light of the complexities the alternatives carry with them, IMO.
So it's victimless in the sense that dogmatic authoritarian "liberals" don't like it.
Thanks derekja.
> easy-to-reason-about redux-style state reducers

This buzz phrase "easy to reason about" is so popular in the React world. I feel like I'm the only one who finds it oxymoronic. Especially with regard to Redux, which I think is anything but.

Angular 1/2, Ember, Backbone are all pretty "easy to reason about", so much so that it is rarely pointed out.
Have a look at the fiery package (https://cran.r-project.org/package=fiery), which utilizes futures and that Thomas Pedersen just released:

"A very flexible framework for building server side logic in R. The framework is unoppinionated when it comes to how HTTP requests and WebSocket messages are handled and supports all levels of app complexity; from serving static content to full-blown dynamic web-apps. Fiery does not hold your hand as much as e.g. the shiny package does, but instead sets you free to create your web app the way you want."

Bob Rudis wrote an interesting blog post (https://rud.is/b/2016/07/05/a-simple-prediction-web-service-...) about it the other day. As you can see there, Thomas has some interesting extensions planned (e.g. routr).
It's a matter of zoning. If an area is designated as residential, then the city can stop you from building a hotel there. From there, it's at least a little reasonable to consider that a house used as a rental unit with new, paying guests every night being a hotel by all but name.
As measured by the fact that every major bitcoin company and mining pool has explicitly said that they want these changes to take place?

They want these changes to happen, they just want the Core Development team to say that they are going to stay out of the way, and not attempt to burn the whole thing down if they don't get their way.
Not really. . .

The company — which completed its $2.5 billion acquisition of Trulia in February 2015 — reported quarterly revenues of $186 million, a 25 percent gain over the same period last year. It also boosted its revenue projections for the year to $825 million to $835 million, up from a previously stated range of $805 million to $815 million.

Are you referencing the Move Inc legal battle?

In fact, the company’s litigation costs during the quarter tallied $15.7 million, $4 million higher than Zillow expected. Total loss for the quarter was $47.6 million.

For the full year, Zillow expects to spend $50 million to $55 million defending itself in the case involving Move Inc.

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/zillow-group-posts-25-revenue-g...
The police cannnot and should not be trusted to be the ones who decide matters of access. All video should be collected and dispersed by an independent citizen run board.
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No being able to afford something owned by someone else is no crime.
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Never assume malice when a shitty model will suffice.
Yeah we need snuff out the scourge of voluntary market transactions.
> I have a feeling that if WhatsApp were recording their users' locations in order to provide a more advanced location-aware version of the same strategy, people would not be very happy about that.

They don't need to record your location. WhatsApp client can just query your IP address and silence the call-prohibiting UX if it finds out you're outside Saudi address space. This is an exceedingly obvious solution with no effect on user privacy.
Actually, no: ascii 10B>100. The bug above is that you can't do chained inequalities like that in Javascript.
Try:
should_not_exclude_10B_10C("200")
> why does your city or your neighbor have to have a say in how you manage your property

zoning laws
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> Anyhow, zoning exists for a reason

Yeah, to keep out black people, poor people and other undesirables who cannot afford single family detached homes:

http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/02/zonings-racist-roots-s...

Also, to ensure that you must have a car to do anything at all. God forbid anyone build something like a corner store within walking distance.

Other reasons here: http://www.nimbyngo.com/
The days of yore when hand-crafted artisinal JavaScript could demand a kings ransom is well and truly behind us. Today the linear-gradient() smiths wield their spacetime-hammers in the octarine glow of quietly exploding minds.

What a time to be alive.
Santa Monica has become amazingly expensive, but the town has rent control that is even more draconian than SF. For example, unless the lease prohibits adding additional occupants, rent controlled units can be passed from one resident to another without much restriction, as long as original lease is in effect.

Ellis evictions require huge compensation sums.

As the result, available rental stock is minuscule and prices are rivaling SF. Due to this supply restrictions, what little AirBNB activity goes on, it actually impacts the overall market substantially.

Similar situation is in Venice (city of LA).

As a condo owner, Santa Monica makes me very uneasy - if I fall on hard times, I may have no choice but to sell, or risk never being able to re-occupy my own home again or have to pay an extortion to do so...
Because there's usually agreements between neighbors about expected behaviour in the area. Things like "don't start yelling at 3 AM in the backyard", "Don't throw too many parties late at night", etc.

Of course what you do inside your house is your own thing, but when it comes to extra traffic/noise/trash, having the house be a bunch of short term people makes it much harder for social pressure to work.
It's not nearly that straight forward. Many "fixes" would create incompatible blockchains between the different versions. In practise you need to get consensus before your fork can even be used.
Why do you think Blockstream would capture a large part of that market? They are only known by people who care specifically about the implementation of bitcoin. If you did a survey of just users I doubt more than 50% would know them. Their are much more well known entities in the space that are far more likely to win a battle to be primary hubs.

Bitcoin can't scale in a peer to peer way to handle any real kind of volume. It's kind of the downside of distributed systems is that they suck at scaling and throughput.

I'm guessing you want them to increase the block size to 2mb but what does that get you? 6tps? So we go to 20mb and you're up to 60tps? You can't scale it on chain and get anywhere near the tps needed for it to be globally successful.

So your options are offchain scaling or limiting its uses with fees.
I'd consider large parts of the Angular 1 framework to be anti-patterns. I believe that's the reason why they completely remade the framework with Angular 2, to avoid all these pitfalls. Given that, I find it the complaint that React is doing the same odd :)
It's not really comparable to JS animations, because the browser can render once and cache the pixels.
I don't see how a model is supposed to accurately predict a house's selling price when in many markets people look at those estimated prices and add a percentage.
I'm sure that Appelbaum craziness was part of it. But it also seems that Tor Project wants to distance itself from the US government, and broaden its funding.
When I went to the courthouse in St Louis to get our marriage license, both me (dark brown) and my wife (very white) had to swear under oath that we were not related.

I get a chuckle from telling that story, but it's a silly attempt to be "color blind."

To me, "color blind" means the complete abolishment of race as an issue, and I think that will actually hold us back from the real goal: where people are measured and judged by the content of their character, and not by the color of their skin.

I believe your race makes up a part of who you are, and society should not do away with that.

> I just don't see anything strange, rude or racist about a person being surprised about a black person doing CS, we are a very small portion of the degrees given in CS

A single person, just an isolated incident. Happening over and over again, I can easily empathize there.

///

Another anecdote about me and race. As a teenager, I worked at Burger King at a local mall. I noticed that by and large, black people would either get Orange Soda, or Sprite with their combo meals, with the occasional person asking for iced tea. It got to the point where I would automatically hover over the "sprite" and "orange" buttons on the cash register when a black person would order. Then there was one black guy who ordered a coke.
Closest thing I know of is FFL (http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/ffl/index.html) which works on several FORTHs.
If they want them to happen the Core Development team can't do anything to stop it. They can huff and puff but if everyone moves to another fork they lose all power. So if every major company and mining pool really wants it why haven't they gone around the core developers and coordinated a move?
If that's the case then you (or your clients, or whoever owns the code) have some rather serious code management issues. The answer is to fix that problem, not to suggest the programming language is broken because the compiled result isn't readable.

If you were working in C/Java/etc I'm sure your first reaction to the same problem wouldn't be "C is broken because I can't debug a compiled executable easily!".
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Victims of the type of abuses and zoning code violations that lead to Airbnb introducing a product feature to try to deal with the bad PR.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a45400/airbnb-anim...
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Yeah he seems terrible with his 96% approval rating from employees https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Zillow-Reviews-E40802.htm
Well, they don't solve your money problems, nobody can do this :) They offer you a really good service, which of course they want money for. But I think its around 2,50 Dollar a month? I already saved up to 15k in the last few months, so they can have their 2,50 ;)