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This isn't a nitpick about how the blockchain isn't perfect. IPv4 is imperfect, HTTP is imperfect, etc. The blockchain is ill-conceived and impractical.

At this point, I only check in on the bitcoin community casually, so I'm not familiar with proof of stake, but I'm glad to hear work is underway to resolve that glaring issue in Ethereum. I'll definitely read up on it. Thanks for the pointer.

>[As always, Hacker News is full of critics...]

Indeed. We come here to discuss, which will involve some criticism. Working on Ethereum is not really an indictment, so don't worry. :)
I'm not saying it's that likely to happen, I'm just pointing out that all this "oh well, technical writing is just low-paid worthless work and always has to be" fatalism is misguided.

There are proven models for demanding higher pay for writing, but they require labor solidarity (and some measure of accountability from industry)
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Remember the speaker when it comes to inequality - sometimes, it looks to me more about upper middle class/the professional class assuaging internal guilt than a movement from the lower class.

I agree honest, a bunch of my friends from home don't do shit, don't want to do shit, and are perfectly happy with life. Honestly, probably happier than my wealthy friends. Low cost of living takes a lot of stress off your back.

The above only applies to people in that exact situation - there are of course huge structural problems with poverty in America w/r/t/ race, immigration status, etc. that are 100% not semi-idyllic image I'm describing.
Profits have a way of making what would normally be considered an uninhabitable place, habitable. Look at a map, pick a place that seems crazy to live and look it up on wikipedia.. there is usually a natural resource being the reason there are people there and it is usually oil.
I don't find that very weird. But then, as a currently successful person, I believe way less in the concept of "free will" than most.
I've got 2,000 in dogecoin, one day....
It's been amusing to see all the apologia and simple ass-covering following this.

Lustre is a monstrosity - badly designed, poorly implemented, very hard to configure and keep running or even get adequate performance under other than a single limited use case.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Interesting that having a way to fix problems - someone you can call for help - always seems to be left unsolved with digital currency.

> What happens if I lose my phone? Can I recover my funds?

> Our launch today only uses Ethereum testnet coins (not real money) in case this happens. However, you can recover access to your wallet by storing a backup phrase, or by choosing trusted friends (coming soon).

Also, the stated aim of helping the poorest sounds noble, but experience with charity is clear: poor people want solutions used by wealth countries, not a solution designed to be used by them. Banks and Courts can't be what the first world uses to fix problems, while we make a different system for the poor.

https://www.ted.com/talks/timothy_prestero_design_for_people...
Only 4% of Uber drivers remain on the platform a year later, says report
The quality is not the same. Lower resolution + anti-aliasing makes the text blurry.
S/MIME works fine with Thunderbird.
Does it work better when low IQ people "deserve" to be shafted by high IQ people for being stupid?

Is that any less moralising and controlling?
It's just as much about the liquidity/depth of the ETHUSD market, which is abysmal compared to BTCUSD. Crypto currencies are a great idea, but without liquidity it's fairly useless as a value transfer system, as you'll lose significant sums to slippage when exchanging.
He was late to a private party at some billionaire's home, right? Perhaps there's some other context, but that doesn't seem particularly rude or ballsy, unless this was like a 4 person "party".
Do you have a link to info about that kernel/userspace incompatibility? I thought Linus' mantra was "we don't break userspace".
An important factor in choosing a language is platform. I'm not going to choose Go or D to write an iOS app in, because it would be painful and buggy, if it's even possible in the first place. I'm restricted to Objective-C(++) if I want it to really be a high quality & native app.
The sad part is that all cultures with industrial-level populations could easily sustain many generations of sub-replacement reproduction rates without any risk of disappearing, if it wasn't for outside breeding pressure. It would be a shame if we ruined our planet only due to an unconstrained outbreeding race. Should we maybe accept borders (like the ones Japan naturally enjoys) for environmental reasons, to make it easier for cultures to abstain from participating in that destructive race?

And another thing: would shrinkage really be that bad, in the long term? In any case it could never be very difficult to ramp up reproduction again when needed: all future generations, no matter how low the reproduction rate of the ones before, will be descendants of a direct line of ancestors who all did reproduce, against the odds. An environment that makes it easier to resist the reproduction drive could only make that drive stronger in the next generations, due to selection.
The law has specific exemptions for archival and search, which google and IA use. Do you really think they could do what they're doing when any one of millions of people could just take them to court at any time?
> (At Project ORB, we are working to build a platform for blockchain games which incorporate Counterparty tokens. In addition to rarepepe, [..]"

So I guess they are trying to get more people to focus on this silly thing in hopes that they'll get more users for their app? Adverts are weird
Any recommendations for alternatives, and what their relative weak points are in your experience?
Keurig is huge. It's a money machine. Why not spin that into another market? Maybe you'll land an easy flip: build it, prove it, and get acquired by the company behind Keurig or some other food product/service mega-corp. Cha-ching.

This is reasoning by analogy rather than from first principles.

Most people reason mostly by analogy and so therefore most investors reason mostly by analogy. Reasoning by analogy is why these kinds of bad "X but for Y" or "like X but Y" ideas get funded. They look like other successful ideas by simple pattern recognition. Add in a team with good credentials (secondary indicators) and a founder who sends solid alpha-primate signals (matters little unless sales are in-person) and what's not to like?

To see why "Keurig for Juice" is a bad idea, we have to look at it from a first principles point of view.

Fruit is perishable, and the taste of juice is highly dependent upon the freshness of the source fruit. As a result a juicing machine is really only going to be competitive with pre-packaged juice if the fruit is fresh. Fresh fruit juicers already exist, but they're not super-profitable since there is no recurring revenue angle. You can buy fresh fruit at any supermarket or farmers' market, and indeed doing so is likely going to give you fresher fruit than getting it from a specialized vendor.

Fruit is also heavy. It's mostly water. That means shipping it around is expensive, especially when you factor in the need to preserve it at a low temperature (dry ice? thermoses?). That means competing with supermarkets and other experts in food shipping (or local farmers, etc.) is going to be very hard and shipping costs will eat your margins.

All that means a Keurig for Juice has to be expensive. That means it has to be a premium product. Premium customers for a juice machine are only going to be interested in it if the juice it produces is very good and very fresh. That in turn amplifies all the problems above in a vicious cycle. In the end you're left with the very top of the premium market, and that market is more likely to buy their premium juice from a restaurant or, at the very top, have their in-home maid/nanny/whatever make them fresh squeezed juice from locally grown fruit.

Coffee is different. Coffee is somewhat perishable but nowhere near as perishable as fruit, and it's far easier to package and preserve. It preserves for a long time at room temperature. It can sit on store shelves. It's also small and light and easy to ship.

Keurig works because it makes sense from first principles. It's easy to package coffee in a cartridge and it's fairly easy to build a machine to brew it. The result is something more convenient than drip coffee and customers like that, and the cost of doing this is not prohibitively high for either supplier or customer.

Fruit fails for the aforementioned reasons. Keurig for fruit makes no sense.

Reason from first principles, not by analogy.

Reason from first principles, not by analogy.

Reason from first principles, not by analogy.
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It's been a couple of years since I was really immersed in the operational aspects of NTP/PTP - glad to know I can still mostly follow along.

Nice theme on the blog.
Jane Street:

https://blogs.janestreet.com/
Wasn't the reference compiler open-sourced recently? That could've sparked some new interest.
No insurance company will offer it because it is too risky. Also you would need a mandate for everyone to buy it. It'll be a FEMA thing if anything and yes I would guess that Congress will authorize bailouts especially for wealthy landowners who donate to their campaigns.
Yeah, maybe it's the frequency that some component runs at but not the produced sounds? Or maybe they forgot a "k" in "kHz"? Eyeballing a chart in their presentation seems to show 100kHz piezotronics. [Page 8 of https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2016/04/f30/31297_Momen_... ]
"Inequality" is a bad rallying cry because no two people are equal, and few would like to be equal to someone else. So what people mean by "inequality" is always something else, and varies in meaning from person to person. Even if you choose something concrete, like "equality of income", few really mean that an 18 year old should have the same income as a 45 year old.

Ordinarily a meaningless word is great for a rallying cry, but things like "equal" and "fair" are just too meaningless.
Investors put $120 million in the product.
Yes, basically. This is a fairly textbook river delta.
How are they being shafted? As for whether they deserve to be born rich, poor, smart, dumb, it's not for the government to say who deserves to be born with what.
I think the term you are looking for is "hypocrite".
I think that believing people are not criminals is the less extra ordinary case, considering how few people are criminals in the first place.

There would have be something extraordinary about bitcoin or the way it was represented to society at large that attracted criminals.
Of the 5 announcements we made yesterday, milestones for 0.11, 0.12, and 1.0 was one of them (and their details will be published to GitHub soon): one of the main purposes of 1.0 being stable is so that we can find ways to distribute Caddy better for people who want to use package managers. I know holding out isn't a popular decision but we really want to make sure we get it right given Caddy's unique needs with regards to plugins.
Looks like they work pretty much the same way they do in most languages: https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#closures
Why not introduce a $50/month (hell, even a "pay what you want") option, with no sponsorship benefits (mentions, link, etc.)? Depending on volume, you could still offer Slack access as a benefit, perhaps if paid up front for a year.
Tata and Infosys are perhaps the worst abusers. Wonder if it makes sense to have a better mechanism to keep a check on the visa applications instead of having given them free reign to game the system.
I didn't read the article yet but I would think "conspiring" to commit terrorism would be much more common than carrying it out.
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Along those lines, the idea of meeting a millionaire who makes bottle caps tickles me more than meeting most well known entrepreneurs like Phil Knight. Something about commonplace, yet invisible products.
If someone wanted to sue the Archive, they would probably argue that every time archive.org serves a file they are making a copy... which is true, after all, if anything reproduced digitally is a "copy" in that sense.

Nice point about the lack of implied permission in copyright. It makes me think robots.txt probably doesn't have any meaning one way or the other legally, but is just a community thing.
Some people have never made it that way, or any other way. Anyone who ever has made it that way would immediately understand.

What a hand-cranked ice-cream bucket might look like in ASCII diagram world:

|
o----o
____________|____________
\\.salt..|~~~~~|..salt.//
\\######| |######//
\\#ice#|cream|#ice#//
\\####|_____|####//
\\#############//
\=============/
No, actually, I don't. I was just expressing an opinion backed up by my own evaluation of Bitcoin's strengths. User chc responded with such incredulity that I thought he might have some information I don't.
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Performance has never mattered. That's why Internet Explorer's map access implementation was exponential instead of logarithmic (to the size of the map).

That one piece of lazy coding held back Javascript on their platform for years, and I'd argue that it as the most significant cause of their browser's market share plummeting (or at last tied with lack of adblockers).
Did you mean GPL3? If not, would appreciate a link on GPL2 patent issues.
But the majority of the world that is overpopulated does not have the standards of nutrition and schooling of the west. If those are the reason behind the Flynn effect, then when those countries become more developed, their intelligence should come up to parity. I you don't acknowledge this, then it sounds like you believe those in the west are genetically superior to those elsewhere.
quick question about preemption instances:

if I were to launch an instance of Kubernetes (via container engine) with such VMs, would it have an issue? (as in, if I had more load, more preemptible vms would be provisioned automatically based on a previously set max amount and if a vm was removed, another would be assigned based on my minimum amount)

am I wrong in thinking that this is a much better option than running dedicated vms?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxx1KdGXti0

^ I was listening to this earlier and I can't help but point out the creeping government overreach in all aspects of our lives. We drop bombs at the drop of a hat, and send people to prison for thought crimes.

I really hope everyone can see that we must roll back the powers of the federal government, or it is going to roll over us.
The unique risks in the hills are fires and mudslides.
What you say is true, but it's also true that convincing people of this reality is hard. There's a counterfactual world somewhere where everyone is slightly better off because the MSFT monopoly was broken, and tech progressed faster than it did in our world, but people find that kind of thought process tricky, and it involves making enemies of someone rich and powerful in our actual world.
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Between the low concentration, UV exposure, oxidation, acidity, and salinity, I suspect most the stuff is long gone. You almost certainly get more exposure eating off plastic plates, using plastic silverware, drinking from red party cups, etc.
Is that bad? Or is it just different that what we are used to?
IA has every right to scrape, save, and display. See US Code 108. Robots.txt is mostly meaningless in terms of the law, because it doesn't say anything about copying or distributing–only access, which is outside the scope of copyright.
We don't have a water shortage problem just like we don't have a food shortage problem. We have a water/food distribution problem. Throwing away a burger in the US takes nothing away from Africa.
Ok. Just wondering. I actually have neither opinion nor data on the subject.
C does have a bool type as well. I have not seen it used much in the C code that I have encountered. See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/stdb...
Thinking more about it - it's pretty funny that such a patch would:

* do nothing on machines running < Kaby Lake

* not install on machines running >= Kaby lake with no modifications

* only install and function on machines running >= Kaby Lake that have been hacked by the user to download future Microsoft patches
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Most languages with a C FFI (and ARM/Mach-O compiler support) can do pretty well on iOS. Rust bindings to Objective-C APIs are pretty painless for example.
Perhaps the reason that there are "dozens" of "these" is that the question is far from settled. Perhaps this is a "classic flamewar" topic (something I'd love to see you substantiate) because of the smug dismissal of anyone who dares to question the narrative.

My point is that the narrative is one sided. While I was not specifically referring to nursing, notice how you immediately presume that men are choosing not to go into nursing because of a lack of interest, not because of some kind of discrimination-yet we cannot even suggest this possibility about women in stem fields without being accused of trying to start flamewars?
Sorry . It's hard to keep up these days, I'm 112 in Javascript years.
Sure, go join the realms of shady SEOs and malware, if I want to really stop you I'll know you're not coming from a Google IP range. https://www.incapsula.com/blog/was-that-really-a-google-bot-...

However, consider what your ultimate end game is, if it's a website you expect visitors to find through Google or the Play store, good luck once web masters start reporting your misbehaving "Googlebot" crawler.
I don't think "focuses on comparing it to C" is the right phrasing, but being a drop-in replacement for C is certainly a killer feature.
Does D have much of a use case left?

Java and C# are statically typed, garbage collected languages with a huge adoption and massive amounts of tooling.

D's attempt to become an alternative to C and C++ was eclipsed by Rust, which doesn't have the GC overhead and has a ton of other really compelling features.

There are a bunch of other new and exciting languages too: Go, Nim, ...

Why would anyone choose D today? (Serious question.)
> I asked, and the answer was: "it's important to fight these fights, which is why I'm donating to the ACLU".

The ACLU and IA are two different entities, donating to the one does nothing to help the other.

> I believe Us Code 108 is relevant here.

Yes, it is.

> There's obviously more to it that I haven't done research on

Glad we got that out of the way.

> but that's a pretty good start and I wouldn't worry too much about lawsuits.

Well, since you're not operating the archive it isn't you that should be worried. And given that 'there is more to it that you haven't done research on' it is probably fair to say that lack of such worries thereof is a bit premature.

> In fact, if they were at risk of lawsuits, I don't see why respecting robots.txt would stop them–there's no "but you didn't tell me not to" excuse in copyright.

Because it shows effort on their side to not collect when copyright holders make a minimum effort to warn outside parties not to collect their data.

In the eyes of a judge - or a half decent lawyer - that will go a long way towards establishing that the archive made an effort to stay on the bright side of the line.

Law is interpreted, the fact that there is no such provision in copyright law doesn't mean that a judge isn't able to look past the letter and establish intent. If you are clearly in violation and refuse to do even the minimum in order to avoid such violations then judges tend to be pretty strict, in other words, they'll throw the book at you. But if you can demonstrate that you did what you could and that the plaintiff did not make even a minimum effort to warn others that archival storage or crawling is not desired then their case suddenly is a lot weaker.

See also: DMCA and various lawsuits in lots of different locations, the internet is far larger than just the USA and there are a number of interesting cases around this subject in other countries, some of those had outcomes that were quite surprising (at least, to non-lawyers).

I've copied Geocities.com when it went down and have had quite a bit of discussion with IP lawyers on the subject. So far I've been able to avoid being sued by responding timely to requests by rights holders. But that doesn't mean they would not have standing to sue me and if they do I might even lose.

This is not at all a settled area of the law and if you feel that the Internet Archive is in the right here no matter what then you could of course offer to indemnify them from any damage claims.
Maybe "Googlebot" is a trademark, or maybe you are violating the usage terms the crawled sites have put in place by masquerading yourself... Could you get in to trouble? _MAYBE_? Seems like a stretch in practice though. I've come across people doing this to sites i've been an admin of relatively often, and unless you're crawling with enough intensity to cause a DoS or doing something nefarious with the content, most site owners would maybe roll their eyes and move on.
> They cannot be faked

The directory of the owners (the Rarepepe "scientists") can autocratically approve whatever they want, including clones of anything valuable. This system can function only as long as it remains an unimportant joke.
I can see your point, but, when it comes to the "Internet" it is Ok IMO. It is global already, people everywhere "consuming it". Facebook are "helping the poor people of Africa" now as well as the author hopes to.
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This is why 'Eat The Rich' is my rallying cry.
It'd be interesting to see breakdowns by race/religion (Muslims in mosques vs NRA gun collectors who are in local militias).

There have been cases where mosques have contacted the FBI to inform them of people they found disturbing (trying to recruit people) only to discover later those people were FBI agents sent to root out extremists.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fbi-plant-b...

If one of these people, released from prison in exchange for this work, feels pressured to convert/indoctrinate a person who would normally not give a damn about any type of revolution, how is that not entrapment?

Other disturbing trends: some people are arrested for giving money to a mosque in some far of region they grew up in. If you gave money to a church or a lobby origination that ends up doing highly illegal stuff, are you now liable?

The greater speech issue: if Americans start to gather and think America should be split or states should succeed (won't happen today; there's less then 3% support even in places like Texas/Cascades--but in the future?), even if they work on peaceful means, could this be marked at terrorism? What if peaceful organizations for revolution have a few violent members? Will the leaders of peaceful originations be arrested for giving monetary support to members of a militia who do something violent?
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UI for the HTML rich elements such as the spinner.

Punnycode encoded email addresses in email fields.

Numerical keyboard on number fields.

The whole mess with WebRTC.

Video elements codecs.

History API in early mobile browsers.

The various APIs for storing data locally in the browser (particularly regarding blocking and size limit).

Data expiration. This one is so messed up it makes me angry.

Spawning a background task.

And those are just the ones that popped in my head in a few minutes.