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Your two points:

> What crime, exactly, are you accusing them of committing when everyone agreed to a contract that allowed them to do what they did?

And

> How do I know using another contract won't be labeled theft and rolled back?

What the DAO hack revealed is the following fact, which I learned over the past year:

That there are two kinds of cryptocurrency holders, one group demands immutability at any cost, the other group demands 'reasonable immutability'.

The reason why ETH/ETC split was 90/10 because majority of the Ethereum holders fall in the second group, and majority of the people who fall in the first group holding nothing but bitcoins.
Agree. Pinterest search results is spam.
Depth-first search through a concept space doesn't lead to originality as quickly as performing a breadth-first search at each new level of depth.

The shortest path to an idea may require disparate ideas.

I know I'm only rephrasing the headline, but the article's point follows easily from this model of how thoughts are structured in Memory Evolutive Neural Systems.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.07.004

(to read for free, go to https://sci-hub.bz and search for 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.07.004)

EDIT: To be clear, the point follows easily from the model, which says nothing about what's required to understand the model.
They'd probably be happy to do that, but my understanding is that Google generally frowns strongly upon sites that display different content (or no content) to users when they tell Google those pages have content.

I could imagine Google adding some sort of "content is locked behind a paywall" indicator on search results, but if I'm searching for something on the web, a link to blocked content is not very helpful most of the time.
Being paid doesn't make journalists free of incentives: it just changes where those incentives lie. The New York Times, for example, is busy blowing up a hundred years of reputation to try to pretend the Republican and Democratic parties are equally deserving of criticism because its readers want to feel intellectually superior to "partisans".

Paid news will deliver what its users want, and it is dangerous to pretend that that is "objective" or "true" just because that's what the PR says.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have."

For all the talk of "negative externalities" I see on HN and the valley in general, I never see people discussing the rampant "negative externalities" of the laws and regulations we pass. It's unfortunate there's so little introspection going on, and so much reliance on the monopoly of the Government to further what Group A or Group B wants. (But it's OK, because I agree with Group A!)
I misspoke when I said it was simply User-Agent - they appear to fingerprinting based on other items such as installed fonts, etc. I believe when they say it's unique, it means, "unique". Not, "reasonably uncommon". And if that's the case, it's been up for years and has never encountered a system exactly like my current one. I'm on a very popular Linux distro used by most of my co-workers at a mid-size company, and I have the same set of work-related plugins installed as all of them, plus LastPass and Ad Block Pro. So not mainstream by any means, but also not going out of my way to be a snowflake, either.
During my tenure with a hackintosh at home, I never upgraded the OS as it basically meant a reformat. This was around 10.6-10.8 - I don't know if it has got better. Meaning once I installed a flavor of 10.x.y, I would never upgrade to 10.x.(y+1) until a new x came out, then I'd just reformat.
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The iPad mini is a very different thing then the iPad Pro with keyboard and Pencil. There are a ton of great music making apps, photo editing apps (some of the best available on ANY device), and other creative devices. I use my iPad Pro as laptop replacement and very little do I miss or need a macbook pro.
(Your links are switched)

edit: they're fixed now
From the video

"So geolocation, that is, looking at the IP address and reacting to that-- is totally, fine, as long as you're not reacting specifically to the IP of just Googlebot, just that very narrow range".

Also, they will crawl you from an unusual IP using a user-agent that doesn't say it's Google. And when that happens, and you deny access to undercover-Googlebot, but allow Googlebot in full uniform, you'll be penalized for cloaking.
> Your whole argument is predicated on the idea that what happened with the DAO was "theft".

So did the Ethereum Devs, who owned a bulk of coin from the initial auction. And they just so happened to also control development of the protocol AND the client programs. This was the message they "asked" users... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Et...

"....IN WHICH FUNDS RELATED TO THE EXPLOIT ARE RESTORED...."

Consensus is nice, especially when you can manufacture it. Noam Chomsky talks about this in great detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU

Chomsky: "The first place to look is, who's in a position to make the decisions that determines the way a society functions."
> The classic branch is still susceptible to the same problem, though.

So is bitcoin.
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> How do you plan on balancing this overly strict definition of value with a sustainable model of funding (critically necessary) investigative journalism?

Allow people interested in paying for content to pay for content, and then use the discovery mechanisms the content owner makes availlable for that content.

If the content owner wants to promote content that isn't available to the general public via search engines, they can buy search ads like anyone else.

They don't need a subsidy at Google's​ (and, in terms of time, Google users') expense by way of organic search results for content that most search users will not be able to access when they click the result.

> The commoditization of search can't come soon enough. Google shouldn't be able to monopolize this space.

Commoditization of search (which means heavy competition focussed on minimizing costs) isn't going to make it any more likely that competing public search providers are going to subsidize paywalled content that their users can't use.
GPUs don't really use the whole 3.0 x16 bandwidth, x8 is enough. It is sad that they didn't drop Metal in favor of Vulkan, yeah.
Can someone explain Apple's design approach? IMO, most of their apps are bland and blindingly white, and seem almost unfinished. Doesn't this distract from the content in a way? Not trying to be rude, I just don't have much UI/UX experience and I'm trying to understand it.
The thing I can't wrap my head around though is that that display is a very real amount of the cost of that device and will almost certainly still be a great display in five years or even longer, while the "pro" computer is going to be horribly out of date. The idea of purchasing a monitor attached to a computer seems like throwing money into the trash.
Well actually if you are a Ferrari F1 engine customer you do get the engine improvements Ferrari makes and the engines do arrive in a crate. So if you are Haas F1 Team then yes, it is very similar. </smug>
But this article isn't talking about software engineers. We can afford places like LA - we're part of the problem.

People like us are willing and able to pay rent in places like LA and have been moving there en masse. People who used to live there are being pushed out.
I would (without asking for it directly) gauge the already present diversity in the IT teams, by arranging to visit the offices during working hours.

Emphasis on in the IT teams, because from my personal limited experience, gender diversity in non-technical roles doesn't correlate in any way with environment toxicity/rigidity, while IMO it totally does correlate in tech roles.

Ping-pong tables aren't a red flag at all for me, the company I'm in has them, beer dispensers, nerf guns and all, and the culture is very friendly and welcoming to any kind of people.
Our tech team ticks literally every diversity checkbox and everybody can integrate well, yet without being forced to, and despite a few "toxic" elements that don't ruin it for everyone (without being oppressed themselves). The key was that from the start, the first few engineers were already "diverse".

Disclaimer: I'm a while male and I'm leaving for an all-white-dudes startup in one month, so no agenda here.
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This is a reasonable question which has some very good answers.

The data is from a program that aimed to mitigate problems from high lead. The program's primary aim wasn't to allow papers to be published about their research goal many years later. You make the best use that you can of the data that you've got. And don't insist on the perfect data that you don't have.

But even if this had been designed as a pure research program, the design that you suggest would never be approved on ethical grounds. We accumulated enough data many years ago on the negative impact of lead that we cannot in good conscience withhold treatment for the sake of collecting better data. Review the history of the Tuskegee Study for an example of why such ethical guidelines were put in place.
Any commercially recorded stereo music will work well in mono: many mix engineers do most of their work in mono and even those that don't will regularly check that it still sounds good in mono.

A surprising amount of listening is mono so it's taken really seriously: kitchen radios, canned music in restaurants, bluetooth speaker pill things (like the homepod).
Have you ever thought about you are being toxic? No offense, really, I'm just arguing by anecdotal evidence: I claim that people who are putting too much value on their gender - be it their biological or their social - tend to poison their environment by themselves because they're are interpreting many things as offense.

I've had one friend who put a lot on gender, and I fully agree with her, especially if people like her chooses being a woman. But her character was so negative, so that I have to assume, that she will always be confronted with "toxic environments".

To sum up: Concentrate on your performance if you think you're confronted with a sexist or racist environment, try to speak up. If nothing improves, leave the company.
I don't use people's names during conversations and no one has ever pointed it out. Maybe I should read that book
Indeed. Fixed now, and thanks for letting me know.
On a 13-inch, sure. The 15 inch all have i7 processors.

The screen resolution is much higher, they come with double the ram, not a "home OS" (whatever that is), and I'm not sure how an AMD 560m stacks up against an Nvidia 960m.

Not to say the MacBook will be cheaper, just pointing out discrepancies in your comparison.
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Value? What someone is willing to pay. To whom? To whomever is willing to pay for it. That's the way value is decided in a free market economy.
Indeed. I've often wondered why my Macbook Pro can't just have this option. I would use it fairly infrequently but when I did it would be so damm handy.
My guess is that they'll eventually open up SiriKit to the AppleTV and this speaker.

I wonder how Apple will handle the multi-user aspect though. Even with music multiple people in the same household will want to access their own playlists.
Come to Austin. Or Houston; San Antonio, Dallas.
You have an interesting point of view on political echo chambers. Today's rhetoric is that the NYT and WSJ are both "MSM" and therefore on the same side with the same point of view. You'd have to watch (not read) Fox, Russia Today, One America News, Breitbart, etc to get the other other side.

What's really disheartening is that this isn't just a problem with the American people; our president also falls into the trap of only consuming media he agrees with, and regurgitating it without challenge, consideration, or counterpoint to offset the source's bias. There's no easy solution for this; even if Trump leaves early his supporters and the system that got him elected will still be there to put someone like him (biased and manipulable) back into power.
If I were to reorganize the US, I'd make every CSA and primary MSA a state-equivalent with its own legislative, judicial, and executive branches not subject to the jurisdiction of any state and just leave the states to governing non-urbanized territory and primary µSAs. I think the 35 counties of the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area have more in common with each other than they have with the rest of their states, and they should be able to govern themselves as a unit independent of their states.

I've been thinking about this for a while, thanks to the Texas State Legislature making several attempts to override local government and give the finger to local control this year. State legislatures are often heavily gerrymandered, with undue weight given to the rural parts of the state. As such, it's not uncommon for rural-dominated state legislatures to attempt to force their social agendas on the cities, even though the vast majority of the state's population is in the cities. See also North Carolina's HB2. For a while I was thinking that any city over 100k people should be independent of any state, but on further reflection I think just making the CSAs independent of states instead of drilling down to the individual city level would be a better way to go.
That's a purely American definition, right? To me it sounds incredible that anyone would call Italians or Greeks non-white.
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Here's the official blog post explaining the feature in depth: https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention...
Rent is definitely rising but it depends on where you are. Even in the Twin Cities some places have skyrocketed but if you are willing to not live in the middle of the cities my experience is that it's pretty manageable.
Yeah. People have done AMD Hackintoshes. It's more likely that they have some agreement with Intel that prevents them from going AMD for the CPU.
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I made this because Chrome's permissions model for extensions is "all or nothing".

I looked at the source code for some of the extensions I was using, and soon realized that it would be quicker to write my own than to audit someone else's.

The resulting code is 1 or 2 orders of magnitude smaller than its competition, making its source code easier to inspect, and generally resulting in better performance.

Also I wanted to try a "pay what you want" pricing model, but compromised by making it free for self-install, or paid from the Chrome Web Store.

I also gave myself an informal budget of 100 lines of JavaScript, and the current (2.0) release is about 60 non-minified/non-obfuscated lines (2158 bytes).
> But honestly, my boyfriend works at a company with a diversity group and they do the most ridiculous, cringe-worthy activities that really do not make women look very sensible, unfortunately (arts and crafts, etc).

That would make me uncomfortable. Not people who like art and thus do art&craft together, that is cool. But people who tie that to femininity for no good reason.
with what apps? Windows has very few good touch based apps available. If all you do is browse or read pdfs/books sure but my surface is all but useless for much else. The stylus is ok but most graphics apps do a really poor job of supporting touch. Whereas the iPad has a bunch of great touch based graphics apps.
I can't even imagine what the AR device should look like so that it would be "cool" to wear casually. Should it try to look like normal eyewear or be distinctly different? How to cope with indoor vs outdoor use (regular vs sunglasses)? How to deal with the issues Google hit (taking pictures, others feeling uncertain if you are with them or reading emails).

This also creates an opportunity for Apple. It's not just about the technology. You need to really figure out what customers will love and make the right decisions on what to include and what to leave out.
As of today they will be! And synced across devices.

Hooray.

(still encrypted)
What do you do in tablet mode? I bought a surface pro 4 and returned it after a few weeks. Reading a PDF was just straight up horrible as I couldn't a single app that was touch friendly with appropriate features. I.e. highlighting things required too many pen-clicks, on very tiny icons
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Hyperbole about stress-induced medical problems aside, money is quantifiably good. A man who makes 10x your salary can take 10x more vacations to the south of France, justify taking more time off work to spend with his family, doesn't have to worry as much about monetary concerns like loan payments or health problems, and so on. It's not just "impressing your friends", having a nice car can be a joy in and of itself, but I'm always weirded out by people who say they don't want social status.
Thanks, I had seen that. I have to rule it out though because I'm really not comfortable with the apparent privacy tradeoff.
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They showed TWO external 5K displays, so up to three 5K monitors total
Whether the Russians were successful in vote tampering is irrelevant (and admittedly unlikely). What is relevant is how long we will accept brazen cyberattacks against American targets in order to leak data and hurt a particular candidate who promised to be tough against Russia.

Would we have the same reaction if the intelligence community blamed IS hackers or the SEA?
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Am I the only one that thinks expecting to raise a child alone on a personal trainer salary is.. irresponsible?

Also, what is wrong with the homeless 'son' that he can't get a job? Go collect cans if you need to. Illegals manage to find jobs all over LA, there is really no excuse. Collect cans if you need to
I find the polarization of this debate a bit bizarre. While the article may have a point, I don't think anyone believes in pushing it to the absurdity of its logical extreme which would be to write terabytes of output using a pseudo random algorithm (plus a little learning from audience feedback).

So we see there should be a minimal acceptable quality for whatever you're doing, and if this is exceeded then by all means push out the volume.

The question then becomes, how to tell whether you're meeting the quality threshold?

I do agree that trying to be original is a red herring though. In a sea of mediocrity, being good is an original outcome in its own right.
I don't understand your point. People are comparing prices. The process of binning chips is essentially "some of these are broken, but can be salvaged for other less taxing uses by running them slower or disabling features". You just can't compare the prices of the different lines. I just don't understand what you are trying or argue here or why :/.
Not exactly comparable; the 1xB group had (took) a lot more time for their pot, and consciously spent more effort on making it look good. They actively went for max, while the 50x group didn't even go for it.
No user installed fonts on iOS. So that's already effectively the case there.
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You're talking nonsense. H.265 is an ITU-T standard and was adopted as the standard for broadcast television ATSC. This isn't an Apple developed codec.

And many more companies support it over AoM:
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/HEVC/Pages/Licensors.asp...
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/HEVC/Pages/Licensees.asp...
http://www.hevcadvance.com/pdfnew/LicensorList.pdf
http://www.hevcadvance.com/pdfnew/LicenseeList.pdf

Including the likes of: BBC, Samsung, Dolby, GE, MediaTek, Philips, Mitsubishi, Warner Bros, Sony etc. And as for hardware vendors well AMD, Intel, Nvidia etc all support H.265.
Is that really a thing? That must be such a hazard for their developers. I usually have a test for sites that I work on, that scrapes a few URLs as Googlebot, to verify that they are getting an optimized view (no JS, structural-only css).
The best processor you can get on a MacBook Pro is an i7, but anyway...

My MacBook Air was purchased in 2011 and it's working very well today. Every Dell laptop I've owned has fallen apart in a couple of years.

You're welcome to choose whatever you want, but do you need to be so outraged about Apple products?
Appreciate the simple distillation of a useful analysis.
I agree with some commenters here that this is a problem for all sorts of people, i.e. including white dudes; given that many are entering the field that are mostly driven by money and coolness.

Yep that's a subtlety that's often overlooked: brogrammers are an alien culture that colonized tech. Old skool geeks were next to never misogynists, they might have lacked social skills but they were never malicious or aggressive. Geek culture was entirely about accepting people whoever they were and welcomed anyone who shared common interests, to play AD&D or watch Star Trek or whatever...
There are minor padding differences but that's it.
They always listed the GPU for everything, down to "Intel Iris Pro whatever". But yeah, Vega hype train!
There are browser extensions which will remove links for you based on domains. BlockSite is one.
> another country attacks us and an agency documents it

> dismantles agency so that they can do it again

????
I'm afraid that's not how the internet works. Very few ISPs have enough market power to demand paid peering from other networks. Comcast is one of them, but most others would be laughed out of the room for trying to pull a stunt like that.

> The ISPs bear none of the expense of "buying more IP transit".

Yes, they do. Very few ISPs are fully settlement free. Most use IP transit, public and private peering to interconnect with other networks. They may not need to buy more IP transit, but at the very least they will need to pay for the peering and transport infrastructure.

The alternative is obviously not to pay for anything and watch your interconnects saturate. Depending on how much of a (local) monopoly you have, this is either feasible, or not.

> That's always how the transit business has worked in the US -- the sender pays

That's not correct. To familiarize yourself with how transit works, refer to articles on Internet peering, IP transit and 95th percentile billing on Wikipedia. You can also learn some of the basics on DrPeering.

> this is how AWS works, and not by coincidence -- traffic within the AWS network is free in most cases, but leaving the network you pay

Amazon's billing model isn't really related to how IP transit and peering works. It's just how they set up their business.

> If you want to not pay, well, that's fine I guess. But nobody is going to take your traffic.

Plenty of people will take your traffic for free. Even gladly if you are on an Internet Exchange.

> And it's been this way since like 1990.

You've been out of the game for too long, if you think that's how things work.

> Edit: I'll note that it works differently in other places such as Europe because the telecoms are subsidized and partially owned by the government.

That's just factually incorrect. The willingness to peer has nothing to do with government ownership or being European. It's all about market power and what you can get away with. A prime example is Deutsche Telekom, who is notorious for not peering with (almost) anyone due to their strong market position in Germany. This and other similar examples poke holes in your theory.

Furthermore, the European telecoms have been privatized. The government may still own a piece, but they are not subsidized outside of normal universal service obligations.
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