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Ask HN: Where do you buy Ethereum?
Hi. I have been trying to buy ETH for ages, and all exchangers I've tried have failed miserably for me. The process of verifying my identity is super painful and when I try to pay in USD the CVV of my card appears to be wrong (and I know it isn't).

The same for Bitcoin.

I've tried Cex, Kraken, Coinbase...
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> don't have either muscle or brainpower to contribute, what's left?

I want to see a future where most people are hyper specialists, doing one niche thing for almost the entire world.

also, I want to see more people be capital owners where they make decisions for their own business rather than work for someone else. robots may replace humans, but can they replace being a business owner?
This is one of the common extentions to Genetic Algorithms. It does not sound as though they are not going to such extremes here, but it is a reasonable concept.
Simplest I've found is to use a converter and keep my wallet file myself. myetherwallet.com can generate a wallet for you and facilitates the swaps. Just don't loose your wallet or password.
How on earth this title could be offensive? Why does it make you offended?

For several years we were tracing the beginnings of mankind to Africa. Now there is another source in Europe. In the future other sources might be discovered. How is it offensive? What does it change for you?
I believe FineArt was developed after Alpha Go..
HTTPS or not, certainly nothing is private here, but that's expected for this sort of place.
Perhaps it's just me but I absolutely detest this pattern.
It turns a simple page where you fill into your details then hit submit into a "simple" 36 step process where at each stage you think "Argh ANOTHER page, just get on with it".

Half the time if it takes more that 2 pages to submit something I'll just give up and find a competent website instead
I went through their recruitment process last fall for a summer internship, and I can confirm: Their developer-focused approach is definitely what make them stand out.

There is a reason Stripe succeeded where many (many) other payment companies tried and failed.

Combining great UI/UX and a developer-centric experience can go a long way into ensuring your business is future-proof, especially when your core service is an API :).
I'm aware it's only 190 bits of keyspace. I mentioned this in my blog post[0], and would in fact be more likely to decrease it than increase it, in order to make the URLs shorter. I don't think it's a problem, but am interested in being proven wrong.

It's using CBC mode.

[0] http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin.html

EDIT:

> And that would be in the best case, if it were sampling uniformly from the distribution - it is not.

Can you please point out how it's not? It's intended to sample uniformly. It would be non-uniform if it were "randombytes[i] % alphabet.length".

EDIT2:

I see now how it's non-uniform. 256 values in randombytes doesn't map 1:1 onto 62 values in alphabet. I will fix this tonight, thanks for pointing it out.
> political base against self-driving cars.

it doesn't matter how strong the political base is, when there's profit motive, the humans will lose to machines.
> a community that won't just devolve into a toxic waste dump that's poison for 99% of the people there

Have you seen Facebook?

That's not what it's optimizing for. Profit and eyeballs. Don't delude yourself. Toxic? Poison? Sure thing, as long as they can sell your attention span, Facebook don't care.

Honestly. You know what it's doing. Doing to everybody.

In as far as this team is building or sustaining a community, it's a tiny sandcastle on a beach facing the automated tidal wave of corporate exploitation of our dopamine/addiction response.

Sustaining a community of junkies is very, very hard. It's not just a simple cut-and-dry "freedom to do whatever to your body" vs "personal health". There's an enormous amount of nuance involved to sustain a crack house that won't just devolve into a toxic waste dump that's poison for 99% of the people there.

In my experience working at crack houses, many of them don't treat their bouncers well, or it tends to be an afterthought. In reality, this can be the hardest and most important job. PTSD is a real problem with these teams, and pay is often sub-par. And when they make mistakes (or when they don't but people still get mad), they tend to get the bulk of the criticism from it. And then at the end, they usually aren't allowed to talk publicly about any of the work they do.

(the analogy holds about as far as until you try to hug them--which is when they'll punch your lights out. but they do mean well, or something)
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I've seen plenty of badly designed mobile websites over the years and these sites seems to have turned out okay - most mobile browsers keep the option of "Request Desktop site" very accessible for a good reason.

The worse case I've seen is a site in which every page crashed Mobile Safari without fail regardless of which version you ask for. It was eventually fixed but I never figured out why. If the sites are just running some script without checking then the admins have failed their line of duty.
You forgot to account for two significant factors: that 40% of Californians pay no state income tax, and that California dramatically skews toward higher brackets paying for the state's expenditures - the top 1% already pay an absurdly massive 48% of state income tax.

Per person numbers like the ones you included are basically meaningless, given they bear almost no reflection of the actual fiscal implementation and unique issues it would create.

Alexander Tyler nailed the broader issue of 'democracy' long ago:

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship."
Oh man, I can't wait to go to jail and/or be deleted when I reincarnate with pirated DNA.
Thanks for replying! I'm explicitly challenging the claim 'Python has one of the best [standard regular expression core library] of all dynamic languages'. Its regular expression support is not as good as Perl's, for features and speed. Ruby's support is roughly equivalent to Perl's, and JavaScript's is roughly the same as Python's. PHP's suffers from a clunky interface but is competitive on features+speed.

If we open the floor to all languages, clearly lex/yacc is the winner w.r.t. writing a scanner. There's little difference between Python's and Java's support, and Boost::Regex makes PHP look good in comparison.

Can you go into more detail for:

> That's not how the "No true Scotsman" fallacy works.

Here's how I think it would go:

1> Perl has better regex support than Python

2> Well Python has a scanner built into the standard library, and thus can't be compared to languages which do not have that feature.

1> … but writing a scanner with the standard regex support in these languages is trivial

2> Doesn't matter, it's built-in and thus those languages aren't comparable.

> there are better regex engines for non-dynamic languages, he still thinks Python has the better regex engine among the dynamic ones

Why does that matter? It feels exclusionary: in this narrowly-defined group, the choice I prefer has the best features. Did they mean, "of the languages I am familiar with, I've most enjoyed using regexes in Python"? That's a far more honest claim.

> It's a casual phrase in a blog post, not some huge marketing / FUD conspiracy that needs to be explained.

Communication is done every day, everywhere. These blog posts influence peoples' opinions, and (more importantly) influence their approach to writing. I want more articles to be balanced, honest, and informative, not rah-rah puff pieces.
That would require an exceptional customer, in my experience nobody knows what they want until you put something in front of them.
There are no standard losless jpegs. Even a quality of 100% will introduce loss. Only JPEG2000 is lossless, but unsupported for the web because of patent claims.
> And you seem to miss the fact that with UBI you have no incentive to live and stay in an expensive area.

Like many people here on HN, I can work from anywhere with electricity, Internet and decent cell phone coverage. But I still strongly prefer a bigger city, and I even prefer to be close to the city center, not out in suburbia. The reasons are many:

- close to the city center I can chose between some of the best schools in the country for my kids. Outside the city center, I would have to chose a mediocre school. In the cuntryside, I would have to have to go with whatever is there

- I like going out with my wife. In the city we can chose between all kinds of cuisines, cafes and bars. In a village, we would be lucky to find a pub with fries. In suburbia that would be a strip mall.

- Shopping in easy in the city center. Whether you like it or not, you need to do groceries on a daily basis and to buy clothes etc every now and then, and this is far easier when you live in the city.

- I like to walk for things (walk my kids to school, walk to do groceries, or just walk for the sake of it). Curiously, I find that this is easier in the city center with sidewalks and parks than in the countryside, where I would walk in the side of a highway or road.

- In the city center I can do sports (tennis, soccer). Yes, I might find that option in the countryside or in suburbia, but in the city I can chose between 10 different teams, venues etc.

- I like people. There are many more people in the cities, especially younger people.

- I like to travel. I can take the metro to the airport in the city and visit hundreds of places within a a few hours of flight. Driving 2 hours to the nearest local airport to transfer to a bigger airport would kill that.
I live far from my family and friends. They would visit much less if I didn't live near an international airport.

What I am trying to say is that I think nowadays people live in the city for many other reasons than work.
Yes, but the difference is likely to be (mostly?) environmental.

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-67-2-130.pdf is long, but covers the entire field pretty well.
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I think both security and productivity is thought about. Having a domain specific language, built with block chain deployment in mind, is definitely useful.
The hard part of programming is not the code.

It is understanding that there is a problem which is solvable, understanding the shape of that problem well enough to arrive at a way to solve it, working out that solution, and then expressing it clearly to another entity, whether human or computer.

None of these things are special to programming; they are all specialized skilled work that is still hard in fields that do not involve computers.

Mathematicians create and communicate theorems. Legislators create and communicate law. Engineers create and communicate designs for mechanisms. Chefs create and communicate recipes.

All but the most trivial fields involving one person talking to another rely on a large body of knowledge shared by the participants, and use domain specific language in order to communicate ideas clearly and unambiguously. It is not absolutely required, but it saves an incredible amount of time, misunderstanding and wasted effort. When discussing matters of any complexity, clear communication is vital.

There is certainly room for the jargon and workflow to improve; for us to come up with languages that are more expressive in their domain, and for processes that are more intuitive - whether by being closer to what communicating your ideas to another skilled human would be like, or some other way.

But the actually hard work can no more go away than in any other human endeavour.
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If we were to embrace genetic engineering as a society, such changes would still be beneficial, it would just take another generation for the effects to become visible.
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In short: Before the Ptolemaic system, it was assumed the planets moved in circular orbits around the earth. The problem is, this did not explain the phenomenon of "retrograde motion", which is when a planet apparently slows down and moves backwards in its path over the sky, as observed from the earth. Ptolemaus added the epicycles which describes the planets as additionally moving in smaller orbits along the path - just as the moon moves in a smaller circle around the earth, which would result in retrograde motion if observed from the sun. In other words, the epicycles explained a phenomenon and allowed the model to better predict the future movements of the planets.

The thing is, this model is not wrong and makes reasonable correct predictions about the motion of the planets as observed from the earth. The Copernican model is just simpler because by describing the planets as orbiting the sun rather than the earth, you don't need as many epicycles in the model. The Tychonian model, by the way, solves the same issue by having the planets orbit the sun, but the sun oribiting the earth, thereby additionally solving the parallax problem which the Copernican model could not explain given the knowledge at the time. All three models needed additional epicycles, which Kepler simplified by describing the orbit as a elliptical.

You will note these models are actually equivalent in modern understanding, where neither the sun or the earth is at the center of the universe.

The current model of the solar system still have epicycles (eg. for moons), so if the presence of epicycles somehow turns a model into pseudoscience, then what?
Still, seems playing humans is no longer very exciting. To me at least the interesting part is whether a company like Tencent can start after AlphaGo and still produce a better product than the arguably most recognized AI group in the world.
I'm curious as to your reasons for posting this. It's clearly a conversation between people who don't understand something and people who can't explain things. But why do you think it's of value for us here on HN? What lessons do you think we should be learning from it?

You've posted it, so you think I should read it. Why?
I believe Google was developed after AltaVista..
Using "years of education" as a measure seems like it might just end up measuring how well you can use genes to identify whether someone's of the right socioeconomic class to get their children into university. I can't really see any way around this.
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I was told this was the reason people study math, and companies hire those people:

"If you can get a degree in math, you prove yourself to be intelligent and hard working. Companies like those kind of people."
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you are unlikely to make more than a handful of "true" friends. as long as those are kept, what remains of the tens or hundreds of "friends" in Facebook is no more than a passing aquaintance, and they do not add much, if any, your life by reading their feeds or comments (any more than comments on HN).
What do you mean?

I know egress is one of the more expensive cloud services (e.g. compared to compute and storgage) at AWS, GCP, etc., but if I upload data to my learning system that's ingress AFAIK which is mostly free or less expensive. Btw. current Egress is like 0.1$/GB, so 100G ~ 10$.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying you should always train in the cloud, but I do not think slower Upload or Ingress are the limiting factor.
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The "Wizard" idea is pretty old too. Microsoft Works had document "wizards" (complete with little picture of a wizard) in the 90s. "Install Wizards" were also common already then.
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I think that most of us find it unpleasant that humans can be "breeded" to become better.

Though we fight all the time about our differences, the sheer diversity around you is a wonder to behold. That it happened naturally and you too, though imperfect for sure, are unique and can become better as you grow.

We talk about advancing our human race but the reality is, most of us are only capable of seeing things from our personal viewpoint, and just a bit of the future. We care most about ourselves and our experiences, as well as those closest to us like family and friends - we don't actively do things in order to get better as a species. Only 'large entities' like governments and corps afford to see this bigger picture - and I think this is extremely cynical and one-dimensional.
Do you mean the new Jurassic Park film, because the old ones were mostly models, https://youtu.be/DzCID0HinMg?t=460
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It's not possible to predict who is going to change from being a passing acquaintance to a meaningful long-term friend.
Including Ethereum in this group is laughable. Apples (literally) and Oranges
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If it's a job that doesn't actually need to be done (i.e. it's only done to keep the person willing to do it occupied), is it still a job, or is it just a hobby?
You might say it depends on whether it pays or not... but if there's a paycheck in exchange for essentially useless work, it's just welfare in disguise.

I think the difference between job and hobby more lies with enjoyment and something that one would consider doing regardless of paycheck. Housework doesn't often reap a paycheck, but few actually enjoy it. That qualifies as work. Arts and crafts is usually a hobby, but some folks make it into a job with a paycheck. Few adults would look at being a cashier or janitor as a hobby. A small subset can be truly both - programming, for example.

I think the much bigger distinction between job and hobby isn't so much that the job is useless (as most jobs aren't quite so), but the demands it places on your life and family. You can stop your hobby to go to your kid's play, but can't always take off work to do the same. Some jobs give much less control over your lifestyle - like trucking - yet refuses to give back enough benefits to compensate. Fast food, retail, and others have other methods of not giving back. I think these are the jobs that are basically welfare in disguise.
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I was always under the impression that those devices in schools weren't capable of making any surface touch-sensitive, but rather only the whiteboard itself, using sensing on the whiteboard (IR touch?).

This Sony device seems to enable the former, however.

Happy to be corrected.
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"The real match would be Tencent vs Deepmind."

I really like this, as it puts into to context that there is nothing artificial about the intelligence, it is the achievement teams of people.
There is a huge difference between affordable housing, and building "Affordable" housing. Rent regulation causes prices for unregulated units to increase dramatically (cross-subsidizing regulated units). Is it better to have 100 units at $1000 a month each, or 33 units at $600 and 67 at $1200?

Why do we still have archaic zoning that forces worthless parking to be built (sub-$0.50sqft parking vs $3-4sqft housing)? Fixing this alone would cut $150 to $300 a month off rent in many complexes, as it is another massive cross-subsidy that goes markedly unused in newer buildings.

Lets not even touch on how zoning in nearly every city blocks high density development in smart areas (eg. adjacent to mass transit) and causes medium to low density, super expensive slum to be built. Who really wants a $600k 2 bed/1 bath home when a similar condo would be less than half the price on the same land?

TL;DR: Zoning is killing our cities and causing horrid price increases. Kill zoning, keep fire code, watch housing prices stabilize.
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Only in the most shallow possible reading. Here's the context:

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Equal, in other words, not in innate capacities - a patently foolish notion, to anyone who's known enough people to count on two hands - but rather in worth in the eyes of God, and thus, deriving from that ultimate source of morality, in the eyes of men as well - and further, that deriving from this radical equality, all men possess in the same degree those rights which enable the construction of a worthy and satisfactory life, each man by his own lights.

Yes, Jefferson was a slaveowner, and yes, for all the protestations of 'man' meaning the species, he did somewhat forget about women. The Declaration is in every sense aspirational, and we need not discard its astonishing and rather lovely idealism because its author had feet of clay.

Nor need we discard it because of genetic determination of intelligence, to whatever extent that occurs. To do so requires that we take as axiomatic, or self-evident, that intelligence is the only meaningful measure of human worth. I don't think that accurately describes the world in which we live. I don't think that such a world is one that any of us wants to see built, and if we find ourselves having done so nonetheless, I confide that history will judge us most harshly for it - and deservedly so, as I can imagine few regimes more chilly to optimism and hope, more destructive of ambition and achievement, than that in which a particular combination of abstract reasoning and symbol-manipulation skills holds perfect hegemony over the conception of human value, and all else is treated as fungible and ultimately meaningless.
I use this with my crappy webcam. The long 'exposure' fixes noise so it can also take nice pictures when there is no much light.

The same technique is also used in 3D path tracers. You sample a pixel multiple times to reduce noise.
If you include threatening to bring court cases as extortion, what's the point in having any laws that let you sue for damages? Or enforceable contracts?

If my landlord starts neglecting my lease, do I now have to choose between just letting them get away with it and criminal charges? I wasn't expecting you to come up with a particularly great condition, but this one is particularly silly pitchfork-pandering.
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