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This is part two of a series on International Trends that will dominate the 2020's, but involves a bit of speculative futurism. Next up: Space, Transnationalism and Experimental Governance in the Post-Westphalian era.

There's some invaluable analysis into economic trends here, by the way. So if you're <ahem> responsible for investment strategy, there's some good ideas here, but they need data and lots of vetting.

#Kanye2020 I hope you'll vote for me because i'm running for president in 2020!

Part One: http://te.xel.io/posts/2017-02-28-international-trends-2020-...

Part Two: http://te.xel.io/posts/2017-02-28-international-trends-2020-...
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you make it sound like that is an unfathomable reality to be used an analogy for how ridiculous the Uber scenario is, except that would be reality.

all banks operate under licensing regimes these days. if a legislature also decided to hold bank tellers personally liable because they were operating without a license personally or their organization wasn't, it would be the same. Does the Norwegian government do that? Well I wouldn't have been able to tell you they did that for taxi drivers there 5 minutes ago. The point is that its not actually far fetched.
It isn't the login password but the message password - although using sha256 for a login password isn't great either

if you're doing

aes(plaintext, sha2(password)) = cyphertext

given cyphertext I can get to plaintext with sha2(8-char dictionary)

well designed systems will generate a truly random key there, exchanged using public-key. if you're going to use a password, you need a key-derivation algorithm

this is all bunk tho since the big vulnerability here is that you're delivering the encryption routines via javascript in a global browser space
Except in this analogy the bank would be a rogue operation that deliberately and openly defies local law. And the teller would be someone who knowingly participates in breaking the law. So it's really more akin being a member of the mob.
AFAIK most UBI advocates aren't looking to just throw money at people and tell them they don't need to work. It's not called a Universal Comfortable Income, or a Universal Middle Class Income.

Unless you're a devout ascetic or minimalist, you'll probably still want other sources of income. The UBI provides you a baseline that can make it easier for people to spend a while retraining, or resist being underpaid for miserable/dangerous work. One of the big potential boons of a UBI is that it could be paired with a rollback of minimum wage/benefit requirements, shifting the point at which automation is strongly incentivized.

In such an environment, meaningful research projects with significant low-skill components should have an easy time (at least relative to today) staffing up.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/07/technology/wikileaks-cia-hac...

http://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/former-ci...

"Completely avoiding"?
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That's the weak argument Uber is trying to make everywhere.
I'm under the impression that he was saying that it's harder to manage and has little benefit. I'm sure they could but it seems kinda silly
I am Instant Pot patient zero in my social circles. I have infected almost everyone I know, and they have infected almost everyone they know. It's just that good.
This comment is just too depressing and accurate. It kills me I voted for obama and the dems, and they just spied on people nonstop. It is uniparty...
Simple != easy.

Wordpress and co are easy, but they're fundamentally much more complex than static sites.

Jekyll is quite simple, but it can be hard to use in comparison.
Not OP, but my understanding is that aluminum paneling is uncommon enough and supposedly superior due to lighter weight than conventional steel paneling. Perhaps the major draw is aluminum paneling, with the 50% recycled material a nice extra?
The 1800X will use 130W+ in the same scenarios as the 6900k. AMD just seems to be defining TDP differently.
After the conciliatory approach of Night School in San Francisco got them attacked and shut down by the taxi industry, Uber's approach became inevitable. Lyft consistently operates in cities that Uber has already opened up.

It's one thing to suggest that maybe a nicer, kinder, friendlier approach could have been used. It's another to have an environment where such an approach can succeed in isolation.
I love creating programming languages! They're powerful tools of abstraction - designed well they make complex concepts look simple.

Couple of examples - a language that compiles to Bitcoin script opcodes [0]. Although the Bitcoin script engine is stack based (easier to follow) I couldn't resist designing a small, simple language that could be used to write transaction output scripts. This way it's easy to understand what are the conditions of moving funds to the next owner.

Another language has first-class functions, operators as functions, optional lazy computations, but more importantly a small runtime that supports tail-calls and capturing execution as a value (callcc) [1].

I've also written parser and interpreter for Prolog [2], just to get the feeling of logic programming.

Writing a small language can make you understand the paradigm (functional, imperative etc.) better and it takes a great deal of effort to decide how should the syntax look like, how will the runtime work (usually with toy languages you provide runtime too...).

Edit: Just noticed the "except toy languages" part... :-/

[0]: https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts

[1]: https://curiosity-driven.org/continuations

[2]: https://curiosity-driven.org/prolog-interpreter
Human beings are full of way-overcranked early optimizations. I guess that's what was required for the propagation of the selfish gene (and individuals be damned, Stalin-like), and you can't really blame a natural process - but sheesh, the whole thing just looks like a stinking pile of bad engineering.

Maybe that's because I'm thinking from the side of the individual. The selfish genes, however, must be pretty happy with the result.
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I'm from Norway, and e24 is credible enough in this particular case.

I'd like to shed some background on why the story, though: In Norway, transporting passengers is extremely regulated. As in most other countries, taxi drivers need to have a license, go through certain tests etc., to be allowed to transport passengers.

The problem is that Uber (in Norway) won't cooperate with the government in regards to a number of standards we have; it goes all from how the drivers are paid (taxation) to (more importantly) if the insurance covers any damages other than the car and/or its owner, not the passenger(s). Also, how well do Uber do background checks on their drivers? I guess it's easy to give a negative rating on a driver after you've been raped, or hit in the head with a hammer, but - hey - that could happen to anyone?

I've lived in San Francisco, and used Uber, and I must say that I feel a lot safer in a taxi. I know that their insurance will cover me in case something happens, even though my Norwegian travel insurance is worth more than gold in US hospitals (tried that, different discussion). I know that my taxi driver represents a company more than an Uber driver represents him-/herself.

Said that, I've met some fantastic Uber drivers over the years, and I hope that - over time - Uber (and the likes) and the licensed taxi/cab business can meet in the middle somewhere. The priority shouldn't be price, IMO, but the safety of the passengers AND the drivers.
This one is great:

'* Linksys WRT54G flashed with DD-WRT v24sp2 used as surrogate for testing MikroTik MIPS-LE binaries. No actual RouterBoard (i.e. MikroTik) hardware was used

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/files/UsersGuide.pdf
> a lot of programming interviews are terrible because they abuse the whiteboard

I think this puts the cause in the wrong place. The interviews aren't terrible because they abuse the whiteboard. The interviews are terrible because the interviewers have no idea what they're doing or why. I'll grant, if whiteboarding weren't standard, the particular form of terrible interview they did might be less stressful for candidates, but I doubt it would be any more effective.
it is more prominently marked as "secure, end-to-end encrypted communications" - which it certainly is not.

it is also being marketed as such by you here
What's gray about it?
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What happens when you have 2 scientists arguing over what they consider fact? How do you know who to believe? It then becomes that example of requiring everyone to understand metal work prior to picking up a knife. You don't get very far.
> If you want facts that won't change after 15 years, you should study Mathematics.

I was just watching The Man Who Knew Infinity the other night and I would dispute that even Maths won't change after 15 years.

Once in a generation, someone like Ramanujan comes along and manages to change something even as fundamental as Mathematics.
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Imagine how much more expensive living in LA will be. Instead of fixing their god awful public transit (like NYC) they want to punish people for using the only reliable mode of transportation?
I'm glad he does it right. Now if the people interviewing me could do it right, that would be great.
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Just looked back at my notes.

That first Show HN post sent about 700 unique people to our website, of which about 100 clicked the download button and roughly 40 signed up. That may seem like a small number, but it was huge for us at the time. It gave us a lot of new information about where people would fall off in our funnel, uncovered some edge cases we hadn't accounted for, etc.
That's not what he was saying. Yes, it would of course be a good idea to try to hide the malware implants from tools like Little Snitch. It's just that the method they propose of going about it is really dumb.

What tptacek is saying is that instead of writing some hand-tailored userspace code to specifically fool Little Snitch, they should just be using a kernel module that will hide the network and process activity from all analysis tools. That's what most nation-state malware does (or tries to do).
32 cores in one socket may also take a bite out of some servers that are currently 2 sockets.
Haven't read the book, but the concept of causal inference from event data really deserves more attention. Automatic/assisted cause analysis in complex systems has huge potential.
I was about to get a new machine as FF was getting unusable on my 2011 macbook pro. I installed Chrome and its like I have a new computer. Web browsers are hard but clearly FireFox is missing something chrome has.
How are you going to get people to invest in public transit without getting them out of their cars?

LA is hands down the worst major metro area I've been to when it comes to transit, and getting people off the roads will only improve that situation—carpooling, public transit, biking, and hell WALKING are all better options.
just saw half of these comments on /r/hacking. literally word for word.
I've seen benchmarks showing the 95w number is very unrealistic and that it actually uses more like the Intel processor under certain loads
Why on earth would you ever expect both sides to have justifiable reasons?
Overloading means calling a function, and is treated like calling a function.
Harsh?
...But what if you can implant into the kernel? Also, what if you don't want to use a full-featured zero-day kernel exploit if you can get your target with a somewhat lower tech exploit?

Clever to just recover all your data using a browser process which has (likely) already been fully authorized to exfiltrate data.
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Yup, though our emphasis is more on making finances as relatable and friendly as possible. The chat interface isn't just a skin on top of existing data (which some other chat interfaces can feel like), but completely dictates the entire experience. This is super relevant for our goal of coaching people to better financial health—chat is a great medium for coaching, but a traditional UI would probably be more difficult.
I'm kinda curious whether one could "use" your service to upload 4k chunks of a base64 encoded image (perhaps by hitting the shortener using curl)...seems doable from a first glance?

Maybe you have something in place to prevent that?

If not - then I can envision an API of sorts that you could feed an image to, chunk it out, get the codes, then do the reverse...

...the thing is, if I can see this possibility - somebody else likely has long before me (I'd hope).
> To be fair, Nix language is completely different from other languages out there -- it employs only immutable data structures -- so using another language would not be possible.

I don't think the immutability is actually important. Only derivations (which are basically language agnostic) need to be immutable/hashable.

> It does not excuse Nix to have such a braindamaged^W esoteric syntax.

What's so bad about it? The main pain point I've found with it is the lack of documentation for builtin functions. The syntax seems fine to me.
This is precisely what the vDSO does. The clocksources mentioned explicitly list themselves as not supporting this action, hence the fallback to a regular system call.
Can you share if you needed to do anything to deal with time drift issues when using tsc? For my own systems, incorrect timestamps would cause a lot of issues.
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> Imagine you get a new job that pays half of what your last job did and then you get dismissed at the end of 3 months and have to restart your search.

I'd take that. You're still getting paid for your work instead of spending months searching with no income. It also gives you a chance to see who you're working with, who your boss is and the state of the code base you'll be spending the next several years of your life on. You don't get any of that in a whiteboard interview.
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If you're a horse, and the car was just invented, what do you do? That is the question.
Because the "A Life Beyond Literature" is not a huge giveaway?
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Most home pressure cooking is sensitive to your local air pressure. You already have to adjust for that. And the kinetics of pressure cooking mean that structural changes that happen while getting up to temp will be a rounding error compared to full temp, for all but the shortest cook times.
It's like nuclear weapons; if you don't have one, then you're nobody, if you do then you're untouchable, at least by conventional means.
No, it's not. It's more like the US practice of charging people with a misdemeanor crime for selling insurance without a license, which can be levied even against someone selling insurance for a company . Zenefits employees, for instance, risked felony charges in some states and if the company had continued to do business that way I think it's plausible some would have been convicted. However Zenefits changed their leadership, publicly said it was wrong of them and that they wouldn't do it again. Uber has doubled down and said "nah mate we're cool what are you going to do about it". Surprise, the Norwegians are calling their bluff.
The thing is, it's already starting to happen in a small way. A quick search will find you several articles like this:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/10/dating-...

Of course, there absolutely are plenty of single men out there, it's just that they are invisible to the women quoted in the article, because they're not in the correct socioeconomic group.

I am simply saying that this trend is likely to continue. It's neither sexist nor demeaning to say that.
Given the track records of the US intelligence community in that regard [1-4], I honestly don't understand how anyone could possibly believe them when they say they aren't using their tools domestically. There is insufficient oversight of their activities for anything they say to be believed, given their long history of lying directly to the American public. Saying the CIA doesn't use their hacking tools on the American public is like arguing the sky is green.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensor...

2. https://www.thenation.com/article/cias-student-activism-phas...

3. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000538627....

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)
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I hope they succeed. Wish them good luck
That's what volatile reads are for - they indicate a side effect.
> Is being able to hack others worth letting ourselves get hacked?

The answer to this for me is a clear no. What I was more questioning is given the CIA's role and job, I don't think it's necessarily their responsibility to do it. We're talking about a government agency who's purpose is to collect information about potential threats against the US, they have no reason to want to make that harder on themselves.

If you want to debate changing the role of the CIA, and if or if not it should exist, that's a different set of questions. But given what their job is, why would they want to turn that funnel of information off? It's not in their interest to do that.

I want everything to be hyper secure on the internet, but I also know that there are threats against the US (some created because of our actions) which the CIA is responsible for trying to keep an eye on.

A similar question: is it worth being hacked so that we can know that there is an imminent attack coming against some US interest?

EDIT: I know that the CIA is responsible for some really ugly things in the world, I'm not defending any of those actions. I'm speaking more of what their theoretical function is and what responsibilities they have in disclosing some of this information.
Great opinion, continue to price individuals out of existence.
When a mental model dies by no longer being predictably useful in the world, no matter if its religious or astrological or chemistry or physics or politics or economics or whatever, unlike the death of a famous person, the death of a worldview is a very hard sell, but "the folks we don't like also happen to be dumb and crazy" is an extremely easy sell. The twilight of every model looks the same across all humanity. A left wing fake news provider today sounds pretty much like a right wing pre-civil rights era southern "humorist" talking about blacks, its the same speech but different subjects.

If you believe in the right/left dichotomy then over more than a century the right tends to respond to dissent with force, isolation (camps), and criminalization, whereas the left tends to respond to dissent with indoctrination medication and mental hospitalization. "Anyone who would disagree with world communism must be mentally ill, lets treat them in a special hospital ward". So a natural concern troll against the right is to insist they're just taking the wrong pills and with the right mix of benzos they'd be happy to see their civilization annihilated. Which, technically, is true, if you get people high enough they don't care anymore.
I wonder where the sweet spot is between a centralized service like Slack, and extremely decentralized scenarios where people just try to cope with a multitude of one-to-one channels?

Federation is a given for this hypothetical sweet spot of course, but how do you find the spot? Are there any HN readers who can point me to research in this area?
And that was my point as well.
So do the bulk of the risks. Those profits power retirement accounts among other investors. Given on what forum we are discussing this, investors are important too.
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Norway considers them independent contractors? You would never require this of regular employees would you? You would hold the corporation responsible.
As long as it's the poor people that you get off the roads which is what the effect of tolls will be.
Yeah, it's all over. Prescription stimulants get diverted, resold at a markup, etc.

The demand is high and the supply is there. Low doses of oral methamphetamine arent entirely uncommon either. Meth is cheaper, more potent and more widely available.
"punish people" is odd way to phrase that. It would help everyone not hurt just some people.
...with e24 as the sole source. Not saying it's not true, just that dn.no repeating it is not /that/ much of confirmation.
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OK, but many times that I see people making this argument they turn around and point me to some conspiracy theory from some guy yelling on youtube.

There are dark ugly forces that benefit from the destruction of trust in the press and democratic institutions. You have to maintain a balanced world view. The government and the press have their biases but they are not always in conspiracy mode out to destroy the little guy. Many times they are on your side.
I misinterpreted your first post as being a lot more snarky than this second comment suggests, sorry about that.
What in the world are you talking about?

They stated that different laws exist for different reasons. That's not picking and choosing laws. And they didn't say that laws to make money are inherently bad either.
The first version of the Twitch brand, space-themed, was created by Jacob Woodsey (our only designer at the time and now owner of all social features at Twitch), in approximately 4 hours spread over the course of a single day. So probably equivalent to $1500 to get a high quality designer for a single day.

For the second version of the Twitch brand (Purple!), one year out and post-series-B: we had 3 designers on the Twitch brand, not quite full-time, for about 6-8 weeks. Plus a lot of Jacob's time. I'd estimate the total cost around $50-$100k to hire a high end design firm to do the same work.

In both cases, it was the right level of investment for Twitch at the time. Something quick and dirty to get us going in the first year, and something with some depth and quality once we had enough momentum to commit to a brand direction.
Many pundits were calling the TPP dead before the election. All the candidates had come out against it by summer. Congress wasn't gonna take it up, Republicans to piss on Obama some more, but also why bother with all the Presidential options are dissing the idea.

His immigration stuff remains to be seen. The first attempt was shut down. Second is pending.

He nominated a judge. WOW! All that power and staff, and ability. A nomination appears! And it was basically from a dossier already vetted candidates handed to him. May as well just put their pictures on a dart board.

The lifetime ban is an executive order, which can be immediately revoked by him or the next President, or the courts. So, you know. "Lifetime."

Among the rest of the Trump stories, like the rest of the political powers in the world thinking he's a joke, a cruel tyrant, flaunting his win, functionally illiterate, tearing apart families. And he's got 4 mediocre actions accomplished.

Woo, really breaking a sweat, Donnie.
'Rule of law' generally refers more to how laws are written and interpreted in general, rather than whether they are enforced in one specific instance.[1] I would argue that the way Uber, AirBNB, and other similar companies are being treated is in violation of the 'rule of law'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
What's that Sincliar quote people like to throw around on here again? Oh yeah, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
LA is 35 miles long. What would the walking commute of 10 million people look like?

So you're suggesting that instead of fixing the problem (public transit) they should start whipping people so that the rich can drive on their traffic-free roads?