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> The likelihood that we'll all see the divine light of von Mises and convert this time is extraordinarily low.

I disagree with Jabanga but the "market incentive to pay for smart kids to learn" is interesting - I'd say it's also very risky - a poor child's parents don't want to pay for the child's education, they're not smart, they decide to rob people, this isn't good for anyone.

But I welcome the discussion and Jabanga has been polite so far.
vkou's comment illustrates a possible reason as to why they've failed:

> Immediately the lightbulb went on in Ryan’s mind that there was a significant shift happening in the market from a physical credit card to digital payments. His mind went wild as he dreamed about what the future of digital payments could look like and within a short time after he launched Plastc."

So, after shopping at a store that sells fruit smoothies and sneakers (?), and being told that nobody cares enough about a universal credit card to use the free Google Wallet one, he concluded that the future is a universal credit card that people will pay hundreds of dollars for?
Yeah, I think our big bet here is that Firefox will achieve better market share by leapfrogging the competition in performance versus remaining insanely customizable despite lower performance.

EDIT: Added "insanely"
Maybe there is a Y-Combinator connection?
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I think Fazebook would still be around for decades, its social network on the other hand would probably become a digital graveyard, a chronicle of sorts that social scientist will use to study behavioral changes. For now the youngsters use instantgram and whatsup, tomorrow when it's some other thing they will just buy it and would get the users it needs so they probably will continue to have a bunch of data to sell to their customers. Also Facbook is more of a information company than tech giants like Googel, Microfrost and Appel. /intentionally misspelled their names btw
You're also welcome to not respond to me if my views bother you. I'm simply expressing my viewpoint.

There is nothing in the Constitution about social welfare programs to provide equality of opportunity. It's all about the "general welfare", which had a distinctly non-redistribitive definition in the 18th century.

> it was never meant they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the specification of powers is a limitation of the purposes for which they may raise money.

- Thomas Jefferson
I'd hazard the statement that this is the best code sample I've seen on HN in a year.

Fascinating to see it alongside Netflix's description of their gargantuan take on container scheduling :)
A reminder that Quantum is the name of the project, not the engine. The result of Quantum is still Gecko.
I've never gotten into vlogs or podcasts. Why watch/listen something in an hour that can be read in ten minutes?
>Global per capita GDP counts non-earners such as children and the sick. That can't directly be compared to median income because median income doesn't account for non-earners.

Ahh, so this system would be rather Ayn Randian then? The elderly, sick and unemployed would be expected to starve? Or would you tax the already low wages these people have earned at a rate sufficient to give those groups a similar standard of living as those whom happen to be employed and not old or sick? If you did so with 100% efficiency you would have an after tax income at a number somewhere between yours and mine. That number would be very likely less than the federal minimum wage.

And even so the government hasn't built a road or a school yet.

>And that is the median household income. Which is not the same as per earner wage. For instance a household with two earners would have household income of 30,000 rather than 15,000.

Children of single mothers would have it pretty rough then. Typically communist systems will give extra resources to parents of children in order to assist with the cost of raising them. I suppose this will not be the case in this brave new world? A bold choice as early childhood mortality will likely be very high as well as the numbers of parents abandoning children they can't afford.

>Are you confusing median and mean here?

Neither was mentioned in this context. The US federal minimum wage (FYI Walmart has a national minimum wage that exceeds that number by roughly 25% very few actually make this little) earned for 40 hours a week work, 52 weeks a year will give you a gross income of a little over 15 thousand dollars annually.
Don't be ridiculous, Chrome didn't even exist a decade ago.
> While the rich pay more than their fair share and then some

Do you honestly think every tax bracket pays the same effective rate as the middle class? I think you will learn a lot in this thread.
Yes, you have a point. But I would argue that while intelligence operations are commonplace practices of states, direct military actions require more thoughts and it is not something Chinese government would carry out without proper justification.

Basically on this matter, the Chinese government has taken a similar approach as the previous US administration, which is to not take actions. On hindsight of course it is easy to say China (Obama) should have done this or that. But it was quite hard to justify actions against NK until pretty recently. And indeed actions were taken in the form of economic sanctions in light of recent events.
Asking what?

eikenberry asked: "can just run all my python2 programs with python3 runtime with no changes at all"

You replied: "Nearly all my code co-runs on 2.7 / 3.6 with almost no hacks. So, yes.", implying that, yes, you can run py2 programs without change, because this is true of your code

To which I replied "And your code is all code?"; Meaning, just because this is true of your code, doesn't mean it is true of eikenberry's code, or any/all code.

You then responded with a project that apparently runs fully on py3, but only partially on py2 - what is the point you are making by posting that project?
For trains, automation already happened - in the 80's. London's DLR and Vancouver's skytrain are examples of mostly automated, completely driverless, metro systems - built in the 80's.

Afaik, the Vancouver skytrain still uses the original OS/2 software to run.
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Nope, they're referring to a new UI called Photon.
Procedural generation of interesting output being created by very small bits of code makes me think very profound thoughts about how life "works". Physics provides the virtual machine that life executes within, and tiny machines interpreting the "instruction set" of a genetic code are just generating procedural output.
You are certainly correct about fascism and dictatorship, that was a mistake not an intentional bait and switch on my part.

And certainly in isolated cases dictatorships can be better than democracies. But I think there's plenty of evidence throughout history to suggest that over time democracies perform better for the people in them.

There are certainly companies that operate like benevolent dictatorships; many high end tech firms come to mind. Small businesses I've worked at come to mind. These are companies which don't require unions and for which unions are mostly counterproductive -- I agree. You generally do not see unions where workers don't need them and a great many companies fall into that category. But we are discussing the case where a union is being formed/already exists. So a huge number of workers have already decided that trusting the dictator's benevolence has not been working out.

And indeed, unions can act opposed to the interest of some of its members. That's why unions have meetings and discussion and voting. States can act against the interest of their members as well. We don't throw away the idea of voting at all and give a person absolute and complete power because this happens.
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> If it's truly an investment, we could let the student loan market handle it, since the returns (in increased income) exceed the costs.

Student loans? I'm talking about primary and secondary education, not college education. I'm assuming you aren't talking about privatizing those and using students loans to funding things, right?
> the future of work is in the hands of those who can hustle

Instead of the Gig Economy, the Hustle Economy?

Hustling is not a desirable state of employment. I don't want scrambling for money here and there to replace steady, productive jobs. Right now hustlers are glamorized, but it used to be an insult.

EDIT: It's useful to employers who don't want the responsibilities of actual employees.

> Entrepreneurship should be the first choice for everyone

Why? How will this produce better results than full-time jobs? How about people with obligations such as children and mortgages?

> less onerous regulations for small businesses

I keep hearing this, but after cutting regulations for 30 years eventually we must arrive at the right amount. After a certain point, losing weight is bad for your health; you might even need to gain some. What particular regulations in particular is everyone complaining about?
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Many years ago, very few founders did much blogging. Joel Spolsky was an obvious, high profile, exception and grew a huge audience. It's almost baked into the CEO/Founder's job description today that they will write about their entrepreneurial journey.

Who delivers consistently good content?
I didn't say Chrome existed back then, you pedant.
A fool that can plainly explain matters to another fool is not a fool.
You're asking for technical advice for a financial platform, on HN, watering hole for flavour of the week, cargo culting, me-too cool kids who change software stacks, libraries and development methodologies more often than they change their underwear.

That is why I said you shouldn't be asking for advice here, if you're working on a banking like platform.

It's like a brain surgeon going to ~~~webmd.com~~~ reddit.

As for the bit about horizontal scaling: if you have a limit like # of hashes per second you can generate, microservices isn't going to solve that - whatever is running your password checking code has that bottleneck, and the answer is either (to a point) faster cpu's, or more frequently and eventually inevitable at scale, distributing the workload. That means multiple servers running the same code to handle more clients - aka horizontal scaling. That's unrelated to whether it's monolithic or microservices based.

Edit: more appropriate analogy
Sure, in the past. If he's a Democrat now or in the past 8 years, it's definitely a well-kept secret.
There were two HN active submissions on it: the main Bloomberg article, and the CEO's response.

Not sure what else can be said.
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The "Green Card Spam" basically ended USENET by violating the spirit and agreement those participating in that system more or less adhered to.

They had no respect for the norms, for basic politeness, and instead wanted nothing more than to make money, no matter how many "snowflakes" were upset.

Not unlike a certain businessman running for President...
Nobody but the backers are surprised and nobody except the backers care.

Really not noteworthy enough to be posted twice in 24hrs.
We're not breaking legacy add-ons for shits and giggles, or in some misguided attempt at "turning Firefox into Chrome." We're breaking them so we can finally land the architectural changes necessary to make Firefox competitive on speed and security, and we're committed to remaining more extensible than other mainstream browsers. The Containers API that landed in Firefox 53 this week is a great example of that.

I'm not going to shed a tear over Classic Theme Restorer or DownThemAll if their loss means a faster, more secure, and still more extensible browser than Chrome.
Great explanation! I would also add that the code does not necessarily have to be turing complete. There is a new language that complies to EVM bytecode that is decidable (not turing complete) https://github.com/ethereum/viper

It's a little less expressive, which makes it safer. Easier to reason about the code, for example)
Someone on HN proposed to have application fees for individual applicants under a company be proportional to the total number of applications by that company, so as to deter them from applying in high number & having to pay exorbitant amounts as fees. Only then would companies with few requirements are also able to get H1B candidates at low fees also without suffering the sheer probability advantage that BigIT gets.
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But those 1% are all that matter in this context, because they are the only ones doing outreach and are thus the only ones being perceived by outsiders. Nobody (outside the industry) knows what the other programmers do or what their work conditions are, because they don't actively tell anybody.

Partly that's because those 1% have to do outreach to get enough workers willing to endure those conditions, and partly it's because those are entire companies filled with passionate people (because everyone who doesn't love the job quickly quits) and they want to share their passion.
Money is fungible. Generally speaking, new taxes are not causally linked to spending on any particular issue.

Obviously, subsidies to cattle ranchers are bad. But whether they are funded from increased debt or a carbon tax does not affect their badness.
China has no one but Xi is to blame. He gets an F for foreign policy. By delaying action on North Korea at the beginning of their nuclear ambition, they've increased tensions in the region with very little benefit to China and a ton of win for US, S. Korea & Japan by having powerful THAAD radars.

It is the radars that is the bigger issue because it diminishes China's nuclear projection in the region.
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> That's a highly charitable reading of what was written.

It is. I also think a case could be made that if someone can't get past a technicality when repeatedly asked to, they are lacking in intelligence in one aspect or another, or are purposefully being obstructive. Note that "find someone smarter" doesn't necessarily mean "you are stupid". It does imply that further discussion with this person on this topic will be pointless though.

> I responded to only part of the comment because only part of the comment offended me: "I'll find someone smarter."

I submit that perhaps because of the greater context and your own views, you might have read more into the words used that strictly called for.
I think the original comment is essentially saying "If I keep saying I have a real problem and you keep deferring that it doesn't matter because of some technicality, talking to you is a waste of my time," albeit in slightly more colorful language.
I found the opposite was true.. Having cash in my wallet meant I didn't know where it got spent (not specifically in bars though, just in general so maybe we're talking about different things).

With tap + debit, I can track all my individual transactions via services like Mint, plus my bank sends me an email on every transaction that happens to my accounts, so I have redundant logging of where all my money goes.
Which superseded the Office of Education, established in 1867. I don't believe the solid historical foundations supporting your point of view(or adopted point of view for playing devils advocate) exist. Even if it did exist I doubt many people are in a hurry to revert our society and education system along with it back to 1789.

I think you would have a hard time finding any credible sources that indicate public education has been anything but good for the world. Cherry picking historical facts and turning a revisionists blind eye to our country's history won't help. As well, the debate over which LEVEL of government should be paying for education is orthogonal to the merits.
I guess you didn't see my comment below that China deployed long range radar system to monitor the sky of South Korea and Japan like 10 years ago? Or are you just ignoring that?

US military is present in South Korea and Japan because of N. Korea and China, not anybody else.

You don't see such US military presence in NZ or Australia.
You've got to understand, entrepreneurs are desparate for hard problems that are legally solvable. There's a vast oversupply of talent with initiative, relative to the number of problems. I don't blame him for trying to find hard problems to solve.

I think, what you are trying to say is that it takes a great deal of domain expertise to fully appreciate and understand those problems. But, you've got to start somewhere. We don't need millions of entrepreneurs trying to build even more meaningless social/gaming apps.

He might need to work in that industry to get enough knowledge to learn about the problem, but, you gotta start somewhere.
Uber rejects 80% of its applicants? That seems hard to believe. Could you post an short excerpt from the paywalled article?
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Because we are in April and March is already gone.
Considering the price its trading at, that is probably what people want.

Bitcoin is crypto gold. It has been valued by markets as cryptogold for 5+ years. Nobody wants to turn it into crypto money now, because that would destroy the valuation for its scarcity and clunkiness.

The alogirthms for cryptomoney are going to be different, and the fact nobody has written a compelling implementation yet (ie, can handle preposterous transaction volume, huge networks, maintain consistent inflation to incentivize maximum velocity so it can work as a money (unlike btc), and avoids costing billions in proof of work mining to maintain) hasn't taken off yet.
FBI infiltrates and places provocateurs in "militias" also. Hoodwinking dopes into plotting crime seems to be anti-terror SOP, I guess it keeps your courageous and necessary defense of the public in the press.
> In this case however it'd be difficult to do anything about biases against men without exacerbating sexism

How so? It's not even established that an unequal gender ratio is "sexism" at all.
"This entire space is littered with hard to use and/or flawed products."

None of the internet facing services actually need a strongly consistent POSIX filesystem that scales across multiple datacenters and a huge chunk of them won't put up with corresponding latencies of something like that for mere convinience. So the products are not really flawed, they just don't need to do those things.
Consider this very website, hacker news. Every single comment has it's own url. Which creates a huge number of redundant urls. There's no reason for archive sites to be scraping a separate copy of every single comment after it's indexed the thread. And it makes it harder to use google to search HN.
D... Doesn't have a large mindshare/corporation backing it.

I had a strong interest in D from 2007-2009. The problem is that there were two competing, incompatible standard libraries for D1 (Phobos and Tango). Then came D2, which was a large improvement, both language-wise and library-wise, but basically split the ecosystem in three for some time.

I think the library and D1 vs. D2 situation stifled the growth of D. I gave up on D because the community was so fragmented.
But fraud is up. Chip & Pin has just motivated them to use online methods. Or load other pay to load cards without a chip.
I've played around with Ceph, I really like its features and strong consistency.

But its weakness is that it is a complex beast to setup and maintain. If you think that configuring and maintaining a Hadoop cluster is hard, then Ceph is twice as hard. Ceph has really good documentation, but all the knobs you have to read and play around with is still too much.

I prefer running a few ZFS servers, very easy to setup and maintain and much better performance. But if we reach Petabyte scale I think I would need something like Ceph.
But then "so would you say those fields that have >50%.." is a valid question by that measure.
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Might be easier to focus on certain models, given the multitude of models out there?
The last time the USA tried to build a ballistic missile defence system, Ukraine got invaded and split into two (if not officially, at least practically). Turns out that when big powerful countries start feeling a bit squeezed, they create buffer zones. By invading a neighbour.

Not trying to make up excuses for any of the parties involved here. Just pointing out that China likely won't sit on its ass as this happens.

The only silver lining I see is that maybe this will provide China with the incentive to just throw Kim under the bus (literally under a bus... or a tank) and put some less belligerent puppet in his place.
D can interface with Objective-C just fine. The Apple-provided tooling will indeed be more convenient for the developer, but the result the end user sees will be a "high quality & native app" just the same.
You implied it, especially by talking about all major browsers except IE. There weren't multiple major borwsers besides IE a decade ago, there was only firefox with 20% market share.
Is that a privacy issue or some other factor?
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I cannot help but feel some schadenfreude as we watch the majority of the US's oil refineries get threatened by rising sea level.
"Cower, brief mortals"
Everyone knows that people on the H1B(20K) with higher education from USA are the actual skilled/MS/PhD candidates that companies want, not the bodyshop which imports one-employee-one-company labor on the 65K remaining H1B quota.

Jaitley(FM) would have us believe that the 65K are the skilled ones, while they are the ones who just happened to be the bosses pet/bribed ones getting a chance to go on-site & not because of some specialised skill.
Yeah thats what I was thinking when looking at the hand squeeze video vs. the product pitch. If its just cut fruit pieces which sounds like big cuts a high power press make sense (if you ignore the price or waste of the pack) but that wouldn't be hand squeezable. If its already a pulp it make sense that you can hand squeeze it but then again why the claim that their press is so powerful if it takes longer than hand?

The blog really boggles ones mind.
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I feel like it's a good thing to maintain a certain level of professional ethics, and, while it depends on the specifics of the situation, I'd suggest that falsely claiming to third parties be something you aren't in order to do something they don't want you to do generally falls short of that ethical bar.

Say your bot misbehaves and effectively starts DOSing a site with a whole lot of pages, like a small Reddit clone or something. And say Reddit doesn't have another way to determine between your bot and the Googlebot. You have now put Reddit in a position where they have to either block the Googlebot (and possibly lose a huge pile of money in the process) or else buy up a lot more hardware and bandwidth to pay for your crawler as well. That's not cool, to put it bluntly.
How does that comment in any way imply that it's ethical or reasonable to interfere with another state's defense systems?
You misunderstood my point. I have nothing against deploying defense structures among allies or in one's own territory.

I was referring to the "possible actions" that could have been taken against NK by China earlier, proposed by the parent comment.
> Lots of people hate tipping

I wonder if that's true. The only place I've encountered that opinion is on HN. It's a practice used across nations and generations; it's not a problem at all for most.
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