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> Experimental evidence suggests that having lots of users isn't a guarantee of stability. See Venezuela (right now), Zimambwe Dollar, German Reichsmark, Argentine Peso, Mexican Peso, Thai Baht, etc. All of these had tremendous collapses despite a solid user base.

True. I don't think this negates your point, but it's worth noting that in each (or at least most) of these cases there's a feedback loop between the financial and socio/political collapse which might increase the currency's volatility. In fact, perhaps we see this even more strongly with Bitcoin vs. a state-backed currency due to the current speculatory climate, but this may be another false characterization of the current culture (I'm not sure).

> Bitcoin's instability is also generally overstated, in my opinion. There have only been a few instances where it was so volatile that you wouldn't want to use it for day-to-day transactions.

As someone who's only tinkered with Bitcoin and tends to otherwise read about it only in the news in situations like this, I think you're right.

I appreciate your reply!
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one of my bosses had my personal email and my work email on his auto complete. for some reason, he kept emailing me work stuff to my personal email because autocomplete recommended my personal email first (and he never bothered to check).

i had to ask him more than a couple of times to delete my personal email from his agenda so this wouldn't happen again.
That's an immediate way to lose my eyes. I hate using my phone when I don't have to, and I hate installing site-specific apps even more. I'm already using a computer with a nice screen, mouse, and keyboard. Why would I want to use something with a tiny screen and touch input instead?
I know Anil's a smart dude. My feedback comes from a good place.

> The friendly community where you’ll build the app of your dreams.

Thought #1: The one word for what Glitch is is "community"? A friendly community might be (aspirationally, at least) a nice part of Glitch, but the more I think about it the less I'm sure I know what that means. My feeling is that lots of people who might find this interesting will bolt when presented with the apparent requirement to adopt yet another community.

Thought #2: I've had the pleasure/torture of hearing people's app dreams, and people will not be building the apps of their dreams with Glitch--and that's fiiine. What Glitch might be (assuming I kinda understand it) is A Place to Make Duct Tape for Internet Stuff, which seems like a great thing.

> It’s even easier to use Glitch than it is to describe it…

That is problematic. You invented an amazing thing (presumably) and you're not sure how to sell it to people who don't already get it, which is an unenviable scenario.

I'd really like to see how the Glitch folks would fill out the classic "For (your target) who wants/needs (reason to buy your product/service), the (your product or service) is a (category) that provides (your key benefit). Unlike (your main competitor), the (your product/service) (your key differentiator)."
Google has been the target of infiltration by staet actors. At least once we know for certain, with the incident in China, and presumably other times.
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lyft is US only, uber is not US only. if uber disappeared tomorrow, thousands of drivers would be unemployed outside the us.
There are sub-interpreters: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/init.html#sub-interpreter-su...
Google corporate accounts might behave the same as gmail accounts. When an employee leaves, the account is disabled, and all emails bounce.

Hence, if jsmith left google, emails to jsmith@google.com would bounce, and bounce messages from google are returned as SMTP errors before the mail server accepts the contents of the message.
>one of my favorite comedians working today has said publicly that he made all of $16k in 2015).

Who's that?
I think the cost is so low because they are providing the absolute minimum in terms of a degree - curriculum, and marking of assessments and exams. In fact, you even pay for them separately, so you can pay some amount ($800?) In September to register for the year on 4 courses (which is full time, equivalent to 30 semester units in the US), and get access to the whole curriculum. Then you can decide by Feb the following year which exams you want to do, and only pay for the ones you want to do that year, which is around $300 per exam. You are mostly self taught, though there are some online forums with teaching staff available to answer questions.
i disagree again, making cars isn't the competitive advantage it's being able to run and service large fleets of cars, taxi / bus companies with all the physical plants would have the competitive advantage out of the gate.
It seems like a lot of the "Show HN" shares do that kind of thing...from domains that my work blocks. If it sounds really cool I'll load it up on my phone. Otherwise, that's a great way to make me decide "not worth my time" and move on to the comment thread.
You can, I've used Pervasive Displays (I bought them from Digikey, they also have breakout boards): http://www.pervasivedisplays.com/

But yeah they are kind of complicated to drive. I've only used the small ones, but you do the refresh pattern manually - you also need to compensate for the temperature, and the pixel layout is a bit funky. Luckily there's already software for this at repaper.org, so you don't have to worry about it. The complicated logic being in software opens the doors for more complex refresh logic as well. Just keep in mind if you do this you can burn in the display, so buy a couple if you plan to experiment :)
Ak, that was actually Clay Shirky. Sorry Clay ;)
Talk to an accountant with experience in dealing with tax both inside and outside the US, and watch them wither before your eyes when they describe the cacophony of the US taxation system. You gotta love a taxation system where everything changes depending on where something is sold versus where something is received versus where head office is, varying right down to the county level...

Most of the reason why Americans get so frothy about tax is because they've made it ridiculously complex to comply with.
> man-in-middle attack vectors

This is not too surprising.

In the CIA's use case (data exfiltration), this rationale is likely due to target organizations using a firewall which utilizes TLS interception to capture and inspect data, requiring the computer or mobile device to have a custom trusted root CA added in order to properly send traffic through their firewall box.

So the issue would be that TLS is going to be useless for protecting any data that is being exfiltrated, as the firewall box would obviously perform it's DLP duties and block their exfiltration attempt. Custom additional cryptography or added obfuscation makes sense in this case because they only need to get past the automated inspection, not an actual human. The data has already been sent to the LP by the time anyone has a chance to crack the additional layer of crypto/obfuscation and see the data.
I believe thats total cost of degree, if I'm reading this right, when converted, is 6921 USD (or 7K). Which works out to less than 2500 a year (which is what I was working on). I figure, if you start count some additional unexpected expenses somewhere, 2500 is reasonable.
Still a steal. From what it sounds like and upon doing more research, is a all around solid uni.
I wonder too if its too good to be true myself. Haven't found evidence to the contrary yet.
I WOULD LOVE some input from anyone who actually studied this, hopefully from the USA? though any input is good.
Innocent until proven guilty as a legal prescription has nothing to do with respect and trust and some peoples (filtered) opinions.
A charitable interpretation would be to note that as of the 114th Congress, both California's senators have high seniority, which is how senate rank and privileges are determined.

Boxer's retirement leaves CA in the 115th Congress with Feinstein, 8th, and Harris, 97th.

http://www.periodicalpress.senate.gov/seniority/
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My thesis is that the 2016 elections have graduated this question into a pertinent political problem. The Facebooks and Twitters of 2020 will have to be built on something, and the current model of "VCs/existing tech companies/etc" controlling larger and larger portions of the stack is simply inoperable, long-term, for a free society.

Every VC-funded startup is premised implicitly on "full monopoly" as the endgame for exits that demand extremely high returns from investors. This worked really well from 2002 to 2016, and is still a really good model for a lot of software innovation, but we need to start seriously thinking about other funding models -- grants, not-for-profits, institutions like Harvard/MIT/Stanford, etc., to be involved in funding the next generation of web software technology.

I know this isn't a super popular opinion here :). I'm pretty confident in the reasoning, though. The solution to the sociopolitical problems Facebook unearths isn't "another Facebook", it's rigorous rethinking of the relationship between users, companies, data, and new software applications. Sandstorm was exactly the right next step, but unfortunately kentonv & co had to spend most of their time on enterprise sales, because this is the tail end of what the VC-funding-only ideology expects you to do if you want to enact widespread software innovations.

Another approach I think will work well: https://solid.mit.edu/
I've done a little Android programming over the years ever since the first beta SDK (m3) hit in November 2008. Android Studio was a revelation, but like I said, I do very little native programming and a lot of Web stuff. I haven't messed with iOS yet.

My experience is: finally, I can program like I do on the Web! And not just in the sense it uses JS, but like, double typing R to "reload" the app being super fast and seamless. Coding my first React Native app has been the most enjoyable experience I've had creating a native mobile app ever. Even small stuff like being able to use the Fetch API over whatever native gobbledegook API Android uses is a massive quality of life improvement for me.

I actually don't particularly care for React itself (the Web version), but that's because its download/execution costs are still iffy for me and I don't think JSX has a place on the web long-term. I also don't think it's opinionated enough and the roster of React "plugins" reminds me of the bad side of jQuery widgets. (If you couldn't tell, I've moved to being more of a Vanilla JS purist in recent years as the ECMAScript standard has evolved.)

With React Native though, none of those points really matter and I'm able to enjoy the "breakthrough" of self-contained JavaScript components combined with super fast debug iterations. It's a win-win in my eyes.
I wish there was a way to include "What could have been" or "What could be" into the "What is" of an "education" in Computer Science.

Distributed Systems, Databases, Networking and Architecture all have a past with much better solutions that were never adopted because of patents, cost, or some such other that grow fainter with every coming day.

If courses like these cosnsited of "History" in parallel I think I'd be a more well-rounded graduate.
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Need help finding a simple DC motor controller. I'm using two Linak actuators of different spindle lengths. Both have reed switches, giving 6 pulses per revolution. The actuators have 3 wires: 2 for power, 1 for the reed sensor. I need some sort of way of controlling this setup and setting a single "memory" position in-between the two overload positions of "both up" and "both down".
Oh god, good luck man. May the force be with you..
You tell the people you hope to poach, especially if you intend to give them equity rather than salary because you're cash-poor because you can't get VC funding.
I also think the sexual harassment claims pose a massive liability. If the harassment is as wide spread as Fowler says it is, Uber could be looking at a massive class action lawsuit.
If I read this correctly at this point the machine was running Windows. I have zero doubts, however, that Windows has equivalent impressive logging, apparently the USB vendor and device ID pair was recorded as well.
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Everything in that list, aside from 2 (advertising and expansion), 7 (fleet operations), and 8 (self-driving R&D, which is honestly well outside of their current business) is dirt cheap in comparison to their operating costs - paying drivers, vehicle purchasing, insurance, and maintenance, and buying fuel.

Service and hardware businesses have completely different cost structures as compared to tech companies.

Think about it - standard deduction is about about 50 cents per mile for vehicle costs, and actually having a human in the seat probably costs more than 50 cents per mile ($ per hour divided by average speed), and the average drive is about 5 miles. We're talking well over $5 in wholesale operating costs for each ride. Times literally a million rides per day.

The cost of a few programmers and servers is tiny in comparison.
Magic tricks and con artists employ many of the same tricks. A convincing con is one so elaborate it looks like it'd be too expensive to perform, would require way too much rehearsal if it was really a con, so people are lulled into complacency.

Maybe it's that one form is being deceptive to entertain, the other to steal, but they have a lot of commonality.
I now read that deposition in full, this guy is dead and buried six feet under.
I kept two text books after graduating college -- one was Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I also remember going back through Harvey's videos online whenever I missed lecture... are those being taken down too? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856
And it's MIT license, or as I think of it, the starving artist license. Why not license under AGPLv3, the way MongoDB does? You want to use it in open source stuff? Free. You want to use it in commercial product? Commercial license is available for a fee.
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No, it really is around $7000 for the whole thing! It used to be more like $7500, but the british pound dropped after Brexit :)
I live in the SF Bay area, and I am doing the BS in Computing and Information Systems. My daughter is doing the Creative Computing BS, while working full-time as a software engineer in SF - she actually got a transfer place at UCLA to study math a few years ago, but decided she'd rather learn while working, and this lets her do that.
Happy to answer any questions, here or by PM.
I like very much the program x virus example/citation.. but I would put it in the other way around:
"A program can find all virus, unless the operating system is a virus itself."
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https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/argo-ai#/entity
It's certainly true that Rusts future model (which is readiness and not completion based) is the one that requires fewer allocations - e.g. compared to JS promises or C# Tasks. There seem to be some in the Task structure for parking/unparking. I don't have any idea how often these happen as I don't have a deep understanding of that code. Besides that I think most more complex scenarios will use boxed futures, as combining the raw futures yields more and more complex future types which at some point won't combine anymore unless there's some type erasure (through boxing) - or probably with intense effort and knowledge that the average user won't have. The comparable thing to lots of these combinators with goroutines would just be normal control flow (loops, conditions, etc.), which will not allocate. Then there's some things where I'm not certain about how they work out with Rusts approach: E.g. let's say I have some kind of parser with 20 input states that, and for the duration of each state I would need some temporary variable of 500bytes. With the stackful approach I would enter a new scope (maybe in form of a function call), put the temp variable and the stack, work with it in the blocking call, exit the stack and the memory is freed. My understanding is that with Rusts state machine approach where everything is allocated upfront I would need to reserve the 500bytes in each of the child futures which handles the step and the total future would combine those, which results in 20*500bytes. Or are these coalesced since the combined future can be represented as an enum/union?
Prices are incredibly transparent and accurate.

Made money from buying and selling used cars a long time ago. The business flow died down slowly with the rise of the internet and car estimate sites.

Ultimately people could just go to whatever-site, enter their car model and get an accurate estimate, corrected for year, mileage and maintenance tasks done. There ain't any car bought or sold for 10-20% under or over median value.
That was definitely a red flag, but for me it would have to be how quickly Otto was able to develop the 64 laser LiDAR circuit board in such a short amount of time. This was a circuit board that reduced the cost of LiDAR by an order of magnitude and Otto was able to design and build it in 6 months. Additionally, the orchestration of the events leading to the acquisition were clearly premeditated.
No, it was running Windows and was reimaged to Linux. It is very strongly implied this was done to cover tracks as it was never switched on again.
1 -> 0 = 0

What does this mean? Is the 0 after the equals the antecedent? Consequent?
gwern, I'm shocked by your post. You include an assumption that most imigrants are "bad" and "useless". You take on this authoritarian stance and yet you yourself are mostly known for trying out illegal drugs and posting the results. How can you possibly have authoritarian oppinions? Oh the hypocracy!

I have nothing against you trying out illegal drugs, and nothing against imigrants, but I expect some consistency. Either you want to have a man with a whip over you or you don't, you cannot go picking and choosing.
The altcoin trading market went berserk after the ETF decision, so there is likely some correlation. I guess a lot of money was made off the volatility around that time, so it had to go somewhere.

P.S. as I write this, poloniex went down.
That plus each CA senator represents over 18 million people as a contrast to Wyoming's senators which represent a hair over 284,000 people each.
My experience is more like:

- I tap my Clipper card.

- A Caltrain employee checks my card about every other time I'm on a train.

- Sometimes they threaten to arrest me because I didn't tap it hard enough 3 days ago.
I don't track that information on the function – but I really should!

Based on StdLib's dashboards – a bunch of folks have been using it per month with a steady pace of a few 100 scrapes a day type of thing.

We've been using it internally for quite a while now.

And as far as I know, StdLib doesn't allow you to use your own AWS credentials. They have their own gateway and a bunch of stuff on top of Lambda that makes the whole experience a lot easier and more powerful (e.g. 128MB limit on payload vs 5MB for Lambda)
> They don't take work home,

You're not paid for doing that. Please stop.
The WAP has been dead for more than 40 years, and 28% of the Australian population was born overseas (21% if you discount poms and kiwis). In comparison, the UK has 12% foreign-born and the US 14%. If you exclude the refugee crisis last year as a once-off, the only sizable western countries taking in more migrants per capita are Spain and Norway.

As national policies go, there aren't many that have been so resoundingly reversed. The only thing that keeps the WAP alive is people that keep on referring to it, thinking it represents the current state of affairs.
Dot Emacs Bankruptcy might be for you :p

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DotEmacsBankruptcy
> Rush-hour trains are so crowded that their aisles are filled with passengers

I thought that was normal. Is there anywhere that this isn't the case?
Any tips? This is a skill I'm still developing.
> tussling about what obvious documents might mean if you try hard to misinterpet them,

In this case, it really sees this is cut high and dry. We will see but this really looks bad.
Did not know that. But I'm sure there are plenty of foreign startups that would pick up the slack. There's no secret sauce in Uber's tech. It would be fitting to see Uber fail due to hubris.
If planting saplings in rural Alabama wasn't a better life from whence they came, then presumably they wouldn't have come. There are some hidden assumptions there, but I think those are pretty safe assumptions given the actuality of their movement.

Also, all labor is "exploitation". Does your company pass through 100% of the value you add to the organization? I seriously doubt it.

Meaningful exploitation would be, say, Alabama benefitting from Mexican immigrant labor while simultaneously discouraging or preventing their children from going to public school.

Now, sending immigrants back home might put an end to that kind of exploitation. But it's disingenuous to say that it's a favor to them to do so. It also ignores the fact one could also end the exploitation by, you know, ending the unfair treatment.
Thanks for the heads up. I'm grabbing these all to a HDD now for review later.
Native navigation is definitely a great addition to the community. It's good to see a company, like Airbnb, driving its feature development by their use-cases. Having such a solution in production, used at such scale, is definitely going to secure stability of navigation - something that we were missing for quite a while.
what does capability-safe mean?
Has anyone mirrored it?
Given the age of the population and the trouble paying for social security, working age imigrants can only help. Thans to the way social security is set up to pay out to the baby boomers, every worker in America today pays more in taxes than they will ever receive in benefits.
The degree you get is the same one you would get offline from the University of London - in fact, you can transfer to the final year of the offline degree if you're willing to pay the (much higher) tuition costs. That suggests that the curriculum and marking standards are the same, in fact I believe that the exams themselves are actually the same as the in-person exams.

http://www.qmul.ac.uk/international/international-students/e...
Sorry, I meant it's based on Chromium, which is open source unlike Chrome.
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It is very easy to switch pools and miners do it regularly. If a pool makes poor decisions, the exodus from that pool is very fast.
Speaking as a former HK resident, there's an awful lot of special-case stuff going on there historically, legally, and economically... so I'd be very hesitant before trying to make comparisons beyond "more density is technically possible".
Yeah, I did my exams last year at Daly City library, and this year I'll be going to San Jose State university to do them.
Wow then it is actually extremely interesting.

My main question is about time, if you don't mind answering. The website estimates about 250 hours per course, looks like about 4 courses per year for the first two years, that would amount to about 4 hours of study per day (weekends included) per season (about 9 months), how accurate is this? In short, how much time do you devote on the program?

Also, how are exams conducted? Does one have to be physically present?