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"Allow 5 tries, then lock everyone out for 10 minutes" is a rate limiter. If you're talking about an arbitrarily complex one: either you're able to be locked out too, or a botnet allows near-arbitrary retries. A botnet of insecure cameras, perhaps.

It's all a tradeoff. But a smart rate limiter is complex, and rarely necessary when you can be expected to have physical access to the device. Plus, these things haven't even managed basic security, why should we expect them to implement a good rate limiter?
I recommend you read some Jeff Tucker; he also started from the same position but changed his mind later on. I'm not saying he's right, to be honest I have yet to care about Bitcoin, but he is an example of an Austrian economist who favors it.
Go back and ask for the cash price if you pay it right there. It should cost about 1/3 of the normal price. The cost of billing insurance companies and all drives the price way up.
Are truck drivers doomed due to Amazon?
This one comes with a style, weight 2.x pounds, so maybe it works for you? What is the weight limit?
That's a manual tool, though. I personally use Illustrator whenever the need comes for something that is to be shiny, but my desire is for an automatic layout tool that can be driven from a DSL, Graphviz-style.

Aside from efficiency (lots of diagrams for documentation or blogging), one benefit would be the ability to enforce a single theme (font, colours, etc.) across many diagrams, and push out new versions by tweaking the styles. Illustrator can't do that, and OmniGraffle is very weak at it.

I tried using Sketch, which has a support for reusable symbols, but it's pretty terrible at it.
> Typing “cmd” (or “PowerShell”) in File Explorer’s address bar will remain a quick way to launch the command shell at that location.

Where the hell is this stuff documented?!
> whomever is responsible for brand communication at Google should be let go.

I assume that's the crux of the problem. Whomever that is is either entirely impotent to impose a coherent vision across google or, probably more likely, that person simply doesn't exist.
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Sidechains and Lightning Network are not the same thing.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Lightning_Network

https://lightning.network/

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/greg-maxwell-lightning-...

It's basically a network of "payment channels" you can route instantaneous off-chain payments over, which occasionally settle on the blockchain. And you don't need to trust anyone in the network with your funds.
it's way safer than osx. There haven't been any chromeos viruses. It's not because of people trying, google pays people who manage to crash chrome. of course, osx has had many virii.
That's the stated intent, but the plain reality is that it evens the playing field for insurance companies at the expense of leaving the uninsured and underinsured out in the cold.
Tesla made their own software:

The computer delivers more than 40 times the processing power of the previous system, running an Tesla-developed neural net for vision, sonar, and radar processing
There's also Android apps, which would presumably be scanned -- and removed if deemed malicious -- by Play Store Verify Apps.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/2812853?hl=en
To get a closer-to-real cost of healthcare, especially surgical procedures look at veterinary care in the US. Similar tools and equipment, similar medicines, similar training, except pricing is not defused by third party payers and padded by liability insurance costs.
It's worth having a talk with your insurer to be sure how that works in your case, as every plan is different.
You can prune more effectively. Download a program like Leela and let it analyze some positions. You'll get very deep mainlines just like in chess.
look at supervised account on chromeos. It's the best supervision I have seen - my teenager hasn't managed to escape it (yet?).
Here's a medium alternative built by one guy: www.allthink.com.
> > > Languages like Go make it too easy to ignore errors.

> > What? I've almost exclusively heard the opposite: Go makes error handling too in-your-face. People don't like writing "if err != nil" constantly.

> Do you actually have to look at the value you err, or can you just pretend like it's not there? (genuinely asking, I thought it was the latter).

While Go may not have all the capabilities Rust has at forcing error inspection, it really isn't in the class of languages that "make it too easy to ignore errors". I agree that a lot of it is convention, but multi-value returns, usage of named variables and good practices in the base libs (flowing upwards) can't place it in the realm of easily ignoring errors.
Does YouTube actually pay for music licensing though? It's users are the ones that upload the music, afaik all YouTube is responsible for is responding to takedown requests
Velodyne is working on a 50$ solid state LiDAR.
Definitely interesting. Solid-state-LIDAR is the break-through that makes then affordable. The current-gen big spinning LIDARs are too cumbersome in harsh real world environment, if you think of mass deployment in cars.
I can do amazon streaming in the browser on chromeos. What devices have offline amazon streaming, I didn't know that was possible? Is it possible to do that using an android app? If so, run that app on the chromebook, problem solved.
I think most people recognize that they don't necessarily agree with everyone, especially when it comes to politics, and that refusing to work with people because you dislike their politics is, in general, not a smart thing to do. Not to mention not supporting companies because one of their board members takes a position you dislike on an issue.
Every customer of Nvidia's solution "develops their own neural net" by feeding their own set of sensor data into Nvidia's training platform, then using the resulting neural net on Nvidia's hardware in the cars. Did Tesla not do that, the same way Audi did here, and Nvidia themselves did for BB8? Everyone's going to be adding some software on top of that for the UI and UX they want to offer and such. Did Tesla do more than that? Your quote doesn't actually suggest they did.
This is a good term. It is the marketing/branding version of Conway's law[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
Ask HN: What's a good way to handle cofounder leaving?
Suppose your cofounder has raised a substantial amount of friends-and-family money and you've raised angel money, and built a startup. All existing stakeholders are looking for a return and your startup already generates revenue but not enough to just start paying dividends. The understanding was always that you will raise VC. You have a great product and lots of traction. However...

Your cofounder who everyone has always seen with you just quit. At this point you can continue to raise the VC money but they'll wonder why you are suddenly a solo founder. You want to raise VC and grow fast instead of slogging for years to generate a return via dividends. The question is, how best to handle the question of why he quit, to VCs and to original investors? This is what happened and my main goal is to produce a return for investors, who have been waiting for years. VC would help, but does it make sense to get another cofounder just to impress VCs and generate a faster return for investors? Or perhaps I just won't compromise anymore and let the chips fall where they may? Anyone been through something similar, I'd appreciate some advice.
Automattic has over 500 employees, yet they are also "Just a blog platform"

Though I believe they are actually profitable.
Part of the original plan for the Affordable Care Act was, as I recall, to require members of Congress to use the government-run marketplaces. Congress refused. Not surprising -- they probably have the best health insurance in the US.

If Congress were forced to "dogfood" the health system the way ordinary people experience it, I suspect Republicans would be falling over themselves to enact a single payer system.
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I believe you nailed it yes. Notably, computer games do look reasonably humanlike when they're even,for example when playing another equally strong computer. But once they can outcalculate the opponent this disappears.

Compare this to lines that the humans have memorized after deep analysis, like poisoned pawn Najdorf. The play there certainly doesn't look humanlike either.
It's being advertised as being suitable for movies and games.
Personally I can only successfully stream movies when I'm not on the go with a laptop.
Just use elixir on the server, and clojurescript on the client.
Wouldn't the insurance company be interested in a solution that cost less? For example, if you told them you found a store that sold a new, cheaper wheelchair (another comment says they're on Amazon), wouldn't they rather pay for that one, given the option? Or are there liability concerns that would get in the way?
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And this is exactly because of this mentality that windows next move is to add a Unix subsystem (Ubuntu) aside all the old crap instead of just being Unix compliant and progressively drop old chunks of code as year goes by like Apple started to do 15 years ago.
"You're holding it wrong", compiler-writer's version.

IIRC, the Linux kernel has a rule that as a kernel developer, you are not allowed to break userspace, even if you think userspace is wrong. This is an apologia for why compiler writers think they should not have to be held to similar standards.

The argument is always something along the lines that UB in the C standard means they get to do whatever they want, including such nonsense as eliminating entire loops because the last access is out of bounds or going down an if-else-branch other than what the if says.

That this argumentation is specious in the extreme is shown by the fact that C compilers worked fine (and with less code breakages) before there even was a C standard, so all behavior was "UB".

The unstated assumption is that the optimizations enabled by this are absolutely necessary. That overstates the importance of compiler optimizations in general, and certainly the importance of these particular optimizations. (see Proebsting's Law)[2].

There may be code-bases where these extra optimizations are beneficial or even essential, fine, let's add a -Ogoforit or -Oletsgocrazy flag.

Rebuttal here: What every compiler writer should know about undefined behavior or "Optimization" based on undefined behavior hurts performance[1]

Short summary is that this trend towards exploiting UB breaks a lot of code that has been working for decades, and the fixes required to bring them in-line with the new regime imposed in order to enable these new optimizations makes it slower than the old code without those optimization. Yay.

[1] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_201...

[2] http://proebsting.cs.arizona.edu 'I may be best known for "Proebsting's Law", which asserts that compiler optimizations have yielded annual performance gains an order of magnitude worse than hardware performance gains. The law probably would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the protests by those receiving funds to do compiler optimization research.'
I'm imagining the main sales character (Joe) from the show Halt and Catch Fire, who has an extreme talent for persuasion and manipulation.
"Being ethical is a core value of the company."

Google's business model is pervasive surveillance, so that's a pretty odd thing to brag about.
The examples mentioned are the web (50B nodes, 1000B links) and the Facebook social graph (0.8B nodes, 100B links).

You might fit quite a bit into a beefy 3TB RAM server, but it might not be the best ram-to-cpu ratio for graph algorithms.
Certainly not a coordinated marketing push. All of the recent Rust posts on HN don't come from any official venues. It's just random community members writing about Rust, and HN upvoting it.

There was a flurry of Rust posts about "why Rust" near the end of the year, which was somewhat "coordinated". In the sense that Steve wrote a post and this triggered a chain reaction where all kinds of folks wrote about related topics. Completely unintentional, just happened. Most of those posts did not make it to HN.
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It's based on capricious and cliquish factors that aren't documented anywhere. Having the "right personality" to thrive there means knowing who to ingratiate yourself with.

Source: close friend is an ex-valver.
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Maybe so. But wouldn't that increase the incentive to negotiate?
I worked for a health care insurance company during the 2008 debates on the cost and quality web applications.

Like people have mentioned, they only gave a range, and a useless one at that. This was during the big push to HSAs and how healthy people could save using them and roll that money over to an IRA later in life to aid in retirement, or kept in the HSA for medicare costs.

We read Redefining Health care at work and there was a lot of talk, but always with the for-profit ends (even through we were a non-for-profit, not to be confused with a non-profit).

I left the US for a while and I found it interesting that in other countries, doctors could always tell me a price. An office visit was never more than $70 and when I got better work visas, the doctors offices even worked with me to get a better rate (even though I didn't have a full residence visa needed for Medicare).

Every lab I went to for imagination told me the price on the phone.

The Affordable Care Act is terrible. I does help the very poor, but everyone in the middle still struggles between many terrible options. Contractors often get the worst plans that have little to no substantiation.

I have not seen a doctor for a year and only have minimal effective coverage ($17). Full plans from my employer start at $400/month. I've open enrolled in an ACA plan for next year, but it's still $200 a month and I plan on quitting my job and travelling. Because it's based on last year's income, I can't switch to a low income plan until the following year.

Employers should have been banned from offering plans at all, or at the very least, giving any discounts. But really, we should have a single payer system. The current state of health care under the ACA is still not good, and far from our European counterparts.
I'm not sure about the reason but I'm sure I don't like it.
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> but my wife wouldn't.

Why not? You'd get to spend more contiguous time together.
I loved this so much that I bookmarked it to my home screen. I used to do 6502 assembly as a kid. My biggest achievement with it was creating a database application (I had spent the summer doing some data entry work with dBase and loved the idea).

I can't wait to get my son into all this stuff. 8-bit Basic first, then assembly. I think he's gonna love it and I love the fact that people still enjoy the 6502.

So much history and memories with the machines it powered..
Indeed. I find I take extra care to review what I've written with an eye towards how it could be interpreted uncharitably. I'd rather not waste time and good will working through any misunderstandings.
Doctors that specialize in things insurance rarely covers, like cosmetic surgery, are often quite upfront with costs. The complexity of insurance seems to be a big part of the problem.

And you see that with cars too. If someone is having an ordeal related to auto-maintenance, you often hear insurance mentioned...
TLDR:

Not meeting profitability targets.

Starting to run out of money.

Selling ads isn't making enough.

Fired a bunch of people.

VC's want us to get back to hyper growth, whatever that means.

Hoping for the best.
I registered a throwaway account to play devils advocate with what feels like a straw-man argument from yourself:

>digiforce.com directs to some random japanese site

It could be that the brand digaforce wasn't valuable to strategic link partners & they let it go.

> the Strategic Link site looks like something made from a (bad) wordpress template.

Their target market looks like military and law enforcement. You don't necessarily need shiny marketing to sell to the land of powerpoint: personal selling through established contacts works. Ex military stick together because of how bonds were forged.

>I almost wonder if he made up a company to acquire his company.

Are you suggesting he invented strategic link partners? This is probably pretty easy to validate as their management is well documented on their site - all ex military.

>Next, no way Facebook hires someone like that to lead "THE" growth team for pages.

You've built the next step of your argument assuming your previous allegations are true.

>Maybe as an entry level PM or something.

Is what you argued previously about his character true or not? If he was fraudulent (i.e. inventing companies etc.) then Facebook probably wouldn't hire at all (or he'd get washed out pretty quickly).

> He was only at facebook for 1.5 years, which also makes me skeptical he was such a high priority hire for Snapchat.

His allegation says that Snapchats intent was to gain confidential information about Facebook. Does 1.5 years matter in this case? Recent information is what's key here.

> Sounds like a bunch of hot air and resume puffing to me.

What are the facts we know for sure? He worked for Facebook. He was involved in some startups. He is ex military. He was hired by snapchat briefly and fired.

>My guess is that Snapchat realized he had an overly active imagination and had taken liberties with his resume.

Have you read his complaint? He alleges he was calling out snapchat internally on misrepresenting metrics to prospective investors - and they fired him for it.

What's more likely? He faked his way into Facebook and survived 1.5 year, generated enough demand to get noticed by Snapchat and then jumped to snapchat only to be found out to be completely incompetent in three weeks?

Or... his military / honour based mindset got him in trouble when he saw things happening in snapchat that were at odds with his value system.

There is definitely smoke here in my opinion. You have to be grossly incompetent to get fired within three weeks. If he did manage to fake his way into Facebook then he does have a level of competency. To me, it doesn't make sense that he'd screw up and get fired in three weeks. Especially given his military background.

Does this make sense?
that's a very good analogy. thank you.
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Ok, but assembly lines, robots, automation. They don't have to necessarily employ the truck drivers/transport/distributors.

So what is the biggest labor item?
Probably not; people would just learn Haskell.
why are you using a language specific connection pooler (r2d2).

why not something like pgbouncer?

this is similar to the java approach of building connection pooling into the application itself using jdbc.
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> There is definitely smoke here in my opinion. You have to be grossly incompetent to get fired within three weeks.

Agreed. grossly incompetent
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To counter all the negatives, I had a great experience emailing Alex directly! Responses were prompt - Great company...
Duplicate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13320671
PowerShell is almost like using the python interactive interpreter as your command line but better. I was convinced how cool it was when I could import a C# .dll and load the types into PowerShell. You can even just write C# 'inline' and it compiles it on the fly.

It baffles me as well how many Windows people I work with ignore it almost.
The validity of an argument is absolutely independent of the messenger.

People tend to forget this one as well. Some of the most foul rap music out there is authored and sung by people who have been in prison and have a hard time putting two coherent sentences together. Yet, in some cases, the arguments they put forth are perfectly valid.

People flag because they are offended. I find that interesting. I have never down-voted anyone for tone. I don't get offended (it's kind of a pointless state of mind). My approach is to either up-vote or do nothing. In other words, I am perfectly content with the idea that everyone needs to have the ability to say their piece without being stepped on, whether I like the tone or not.

The other interesting thing is people also fail to read and comprehend before posting a comment. Case in point, your comment:

> The part that comes off as hostile is equating everyone who would be fine with a 25% paycut to being a "single hippie who wants to smoke dope all day and have no responsibilities"

If you read my post this is not what I said. I did not equate "everyone" to this caricature purely intended to drive a point rather than be factually accurate.

In the context of a discussion where the proposal is to limit all workers to six hours a day it is far more likely true that people would be unhappy due to the massive hit in income. You can hate the messenger but the message holds.
I was about to say, college tuition is pretty clear cut. At least in the early 2000s, what they mention on the website and the estimated books/equipment costs pretty much lined up with what I saw on each bill. Some people paid less because of grants (although some people did have their grants disappear when FAFSA decided to change the income brackets), and I guess some people didn't look at the cost, but instead at their student loan returns.

But I was an engineer. I'm sure there are other fields that might have crazy hidden lab costs.
I tried it a few times, but it always crashes rather quickly. So it sucks.
"The willingness of a certain kind of customer to pay a lot for salad justifies the investment." It's a hipster thing.

The greens thing may not scale. With salad greens, most of what you grow is salable product. With most vegetables, you grow a lot of plant that gets discarded.

There have been companies doing vertical farming in Japan for a few years, but they're mostly lettuce factories. There's one operation in Japan growing strawberries, but "they are currently selling their medium size strawberries at around $5 per berry, not per package. They only sell through their own channels or at high-end department stores in Tokyo, and they admit that their product is not for people to purchase at supermarkets for daily consumption, but a luxury product for gifts."

There's talk of vertical farming for tomatoes, but nobody seems to be doing this profitably on a significant scale.
Lee Sedol is also a black box, no?

Also, one shot for the survival of humanity is very different from billions of iterations of driving situations every day for the foreseeable future. A complete understanding of the system is much more valuable when you have the opportunity to iterate.

I'm not necessarily arguing for one approach; just saying that the analogy doesn't really apply to the case at hand.
Wow, that is pretty awesome. Is there anyway to get Intellisense into the command window for CSI? I, all of a sudden, realized that I don't remember properties of the objects without it.
Except Powershell isn't a real shell in the same way that cmd or any of the POSIX shells are. It's a REPL for a language running on the .NET VM. I'm neither a fan of the language nor having to wait several seconds due to the latency of having to start the .NET VM when you start posh.
I learnt it from colleagues. Maybe it was mentioned on a blog somewhere. It's the Microsoft way!
I'd like full titles of articles, and drop the slide in animation.