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A company acquiring patents is not evil in and of itself; in some cases they're practically forced to do it, unless they want to risk someone else doing it first. Tesla acquired plenty of patents, but they chose to release them with an anyone-can-use clause, meaning their effort actually amounted to patent-freeing some stuff, rather than patenting it.
Brexit demonstrates an available route to expressing disapproval of the ECB's actions.
The forecast for hash functions is also optimistic (same deal as symmetric encryption with respect to Grover's algorithm).

Not all asymmetric key cryptography is in danger either. Lattice-reduction and McEliece encryption schemes don't have a known weakness to post-quantum computing.
Someone did invent the fire extinguisher and come up with Stop, Drop, and Roll, though. I'm not saying don't do new things. For example, Bandcamp giving me a way to download a list of people who've bought my music is like a fire extinguisher. If Bandcamp burns, I don't lose everything with it. That's conscientious of them. Most places that sell music don't offer that.
I think for many people who are dissatisfied or angry, systemd didn't simplify things. Many people have simple use cases, and for them it made things much more complicated. Monolithic, incomprehensible, unintrospectable. It is like a modern car engine which is just a sealed black box under the hood, full of electronics. Sure, it works great, it is progress compared to before, everything is there for a reason. But you can't easily fix things yourself. And for many people, the old kind of engine was good enough.

I mean, for my simple uses, what is wrong with `sudo service nginx restart`, or `sudo killall nginx`? For many people, it is really dead simple. I get that it is not simple for everybody, but that is why we should have choice, not one-size-fits-all.
nice work! at my last company we hooked up word docs with SVN. Its very useful to have a workable format for lawyers to update, and then be able to process everything in the back end.
Correct. In my experience in talking with Apple/Google, that is most definitely not a good idea and could get your developer license revoked. Maybe someday they'll open up the walled garden (lmao ok), but for now devs should stick to only selling desktop apps independently.
Thank you for engaging, dpark. You mentioned elsewhere that the (HN) audience collectively decides. You are right, I have taken a small punishment in my karma numbers, but I am willing to pursue this regardless.

You claim that people hear and believe bullshit. That itself is a symptom; mainstream medicine has been unable to provide adecuate healthcare services, so the quacks come in and fill in the gap. Your chosen side is very eager to throw accusations of malfeasance and stupidity, but in many cases it would be more accurate to say that people is doing a (perhaps misguided) attempt to deal with hard realities with limited options. It does not help that said side is prone to downplay its own pursuit of profit motive.

This state of affairs is not new at all. According to Lester King's "The Medical World of the Eighteen Century", this goes back at least to the days of Henry VIII in the English speaking world (and has its roots in the medieval customs and institutions of the guilds and the Church). The problem is fundamentally economic and political (who has the right to ministrate health of their fellow man), but doctors like to hide behind appeals to authority (ancient tradition first, later science).

True Science should have no business taking sides on what ultimately ends up being comercial disputes; theirs is to look at Nature and figure out how it works. I am obviously engaged in the Alt-med scene, and I can tell you by personal experience that it does work well enough. The problem is that, being a low status subject, the ranks of its practicioners are filled with anti-intellectual types; and yes, this means there're lots of bullshit being peddled out there, and even the stuff that seems to work does probably work according to principles that are unknow to the people that use them. And it is an herculean taks just trying to figure out what's complete bonkers and what's real phenomena waiting to have an actual explanation.
I even went into the view-source figuring there would at least be an html comment and suggestive css class. I guess in retrospect now it's obvious what the bar is for but I agree a hover or similar would be nice.
It's not just laziness. Functional programming is what happens to the universe when you eliminate the concept of Time. It is a mega abstraction over the what's really going on under the hood.

However we live in the real world and in the real world you cannot eliminate the concept of time, even in an abstraction such as functional programming. Therefore Functional programming is an utter lie.

Reasoning about the performance of a functional program is to peer through the lie and "reintroduce" time into this abstraction. This is why it it notoriously hard for functional programs to be reasoned about. Procedural programs are much more better for this in that regard.
This looks great, too bad the historical data goes back only to 2014...
Right, once you build X for group of folks, then the next submission will be "I need a cheaper version of X" -- where X is _your_ app! :D
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I get that as a leader you need to set an example but it struck me as curious that she wasn't able to change Yahoo Mail to her needs or that she clearly stuck with it despite frustrations.
Sure, if the area is clear-cut and not replanted. It wouldn't be good for business if there weren't any more trees to log a few decades from now. Believe it or not, we do think long-term in the timber industry ;)

Controlled burns often accompany harvest operations to return nutrients to the soil.

> Plus some species require forest fires, like ponderosa pine whose pine cones will only open to release their seeds from the heat of a forest fire.

Not the Ponderosa Pine. You are probably thinking of the Lodgepole Pine and Knobcone Pine.
I'm not sure how busy they'll be, but the Menan Butte and the Rexburg Bench could both provide some good views. Of course the Butte is in the desert and will be pretty hot and isolated, but if you bring your own shade and are wary of snakes you should be fine. It'll be right in the center of the path (or as close as you can get eyeballing it) so you'd get about as much time possible. My grandparents live a two minute drive from the base of the Butte, so that's probably where I'll go.
I could argue that if unions were strong and everyone had to belong to a union to participate in an economy the unions could see an advantage to controlling how you contribute to FOSS because your "free" contribution to FOSS impinges on the rights to another unionized worker's right to work. The FOSS developer would theoretically be undermining the union worker.
The pension has been slowly getting worse and worse though. With the newest version of FERS we are at 1% per year at service annuity partially financed with a 4.8% employee paycheck deduction.
Thanks! That is a much better map than original article.
I'm using redux both at my day job and on my side startup. For the day job, right now, it's simple enough we don't really need redux. But it was already in play when I joined and it's not really a bad thing in terms of team communication in code so... On my side startup, I definitely need redux. I have a lot of related data that is rendered in multiple ways and soon I'll be hooking up websockets and emitting changes from server-side that will flow into the client UI via redux to keep some things in sync.

Redux does add complication. But it also cleanly solves a big problem. I've heard good things about mobx instead of redux in terms of reducing boilerplate/total lines of code. So that might be one thing to try if starting a new project today or refactoring.

The purposed solution in the blog is pretty bad. It only works if you have a few things being updated. It might work fine for the author's use case but it's a bad idea to assume it will work well for all use cases. If you want to go this route, please try Backbone.js and come back when you get sick of ghost event listeners (event listeners that didn't get unbound). Obviously, there are ways to work around those issues but it requires understanding them (both by you and any other devs who join the project -- some with less experience might have no idea about these gotchas).
I don't understand why "competition" should not work? Switching currencies is easier than switching citizenship. There are plenty of alternative cryptocurrencies with different rules. User can switch to different ones (and Ethereum is quite a challenger at the moment).

The network effects are great, because otherwise everything would explode into a million different currencies.
From the FAQ:

> Q: I submitted a problem - what happens next?

> A: Over the next 14 days, developers will be able to apply to solve your problem. You'll get a list of applications and a recommendation of who to choose.

So, I guess the answer is "subscriber chooses, and if there are multiple subscribers, they (or the one that paid the most) make(s) an agreement."
>If you invest $1M into a bridge, there's no additional tax revenue, a brief burst of construction jobs, it will need maintenance, improvements, etc long term. You've created a net liability.

Not entirely true. If the net effect of the bridge is to connect two communities together more effectively then there may be people who pay property tax that buy land near the bridge, and then grocery stores, restaurants, barber shops, service stations and the like that spring up to serve those people.

A bridge, constructed in the correct location, can easily spur economic growth which can pay back both the initial cost for the bridge and provide enough tax revenue to pay for its upkeep.
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Since this is HN, the bigger question is how much of this can be automated? For example, you go to one of those sites, fill out a form, pay in bitcoin, and let the system do the rest?
I could recommend this for something like bank compliance. We're stuck with Word and have a largely non-technical staff, but could dramatically improve our performance if our documents were version controlled. If I were OP I would look banks as a launch point.
TL:DR QM programs can be represented by a Lisp DSL, like everything else in life. It's all brackets, all the way down /s
Well that certainly looks like a pretty sweet deal.
Hiring a small army of people to march out into the woods to plant seeds seems potentially counterproductive.
Exactly, if people don't know what it's for then what's the point of doing it in the first place.
Love the idea, especially for quick and interesting side projects.
THIS is how Sharepoint should have worked from day 1. But I guess Microsoft thinks normal office workers won't get version history in their mind.
I think the implied follow up question there is "who died?".

The answer is apparently Chuck Thacker.
While you're not wrong, the fees for international payments vary wildly depending on how you do it, which service or bank you use, how much you transfer etc. Which makes it hard to sell the "its about governance" line for justifying those fees.
In DC/NOVA area $60k a year qualifies you for rent subsidy and other welfare benefits. That said $60k is not what federal employees in the DC area start at, nor is $140k what they normally end at. It's more around $80k - $155k ($180k-$190k if you hit management).
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> Moore's Law is still alive and kicking (contrary to what many claim)!

In GPUs, which is why tech that can take advantage of parallel processing such as Deep Learning, AR or coin mining has a bright future, whereas the rest is slowly falling into standardized oblivion with low-paying jobs.
"Subscribe to news without paying $30/month per website"

I don't think there is a legal way of actually doing this.
That's possible but it's still a great deal compared to saving for retirement yourself. And if you work in Congress you often get an accelerated schedule so one year there counts for several years toward your pension.
This is utter nonsense.

Everything you wrote is somewhere between 90° and 180° wrong.
These customers/RFPs are way below market rate for software development. Given the reality of working with clients, these proposals are likely to result in developers taking a bath.
It's a market, so it clears when my next project and your next project are the same project.
I would probably at least have added an id tag to the div with something like "rip-chuck". That was the first thing I checked until I asked a colleague.
In terms of ML you could probably load a pre-trained image classification convolutional model and fine-tune it a bit and get quite a reliable if not superbly exact "here is some text" classifier without too much effort. Perhaps not 10 minutes, but maybe a weekend to allow for training.
No problem, just trying to dig a little deeper. :) I do offer on-prem installs of Keygen in a dockerized container i.e. an enterprise plan, so it could most definitely be installed in a locked down network. Other than that, you could also set up a policy that requires licenses to 'check-in' at an interval e.g. once a month to remain valid. You could then set up a web form they could visit that let customers 'check-in' all of their nodes somehow and purchase additional licenses if needed. (Just brain storming here.)
> preserving access to the toolchain which operates trivially with files was worth the additional performance overhead of working with the files

Sounds like they're OK with that.

In any case, couldn't you avoid the kernel trips with some dylib foolery (assuming the toolchain is dynamically linked)?
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> I mean, for my simple uses, what is wrong with `sudo service nginx restart`

Not sure, but I'm using SystemD and do this literal command nearly daily. What exactly is your point here?
Hmm, the black bar could be a link to the person's wikipedia page or something...
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"Distributed block chains" have been well understood (if not popular) technology for a long time and have not really been that popular. They've been cost-prohibitive until recently.

I'm not sure they will fundamentally change anything either. You're making the same implicit assumption that there is an appetite in the market for a wide but not-quite-real-time distribution mechanism. I submit to you that outside of medical records and other specialist applications, there isn't.

As for the currencies, when they are backed by the promise of more energy as opposed to backed by the promise of spent energy I'll find that more interesting. I see the big weakness of Bitcoin being that it exists as it does only so long as the majority of computing power within it does not hijack it.
And to add: That reason is that democracy (voting) is not (primarily, although it often follows) about correctness of result, but about people's interests being represented.
Damn, this was literally a project I started working on.

Although, I had a slightly different way of going about it and different way to charge, I love the idea!

Gratz to OP. I'll definitely be submitting, and maybe I'll still come out with mine at some point.
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I think this has the potential to introduce an interesting auction model. People might want to join in, but not at the initial price point. What if everyone proposed wanting in on project stated their maximum price point, and the winning application to solve would get the price they bid at for everyone above that level. In other words

customers_offering_prices = [1,1,4,15,30,30,40,80,100,150,175,10000]

winning_applicant_price = 40

winning_applicant_revenue = [40,40,40,40,40,40].sum

The last 6 customers receive the product and they all pay 40. Essentially a modified Vickrey auction. Everyone has an incentive to bid exactly what the product is worth to them.

Edit: >Everyone has an incentive to bid exactly what the product is worth to them.

Actually not true if applicants see the bids. In my example, the the best applicant would want to bid 10000 because that would maximize revenue, but exclude everyone before that. Customers would adjust their bidding as a result. But applicants should know much they can expect to receive if they win so they can bid correctly.
If you had a version that companies could install on a private internal network, you could easily charge between $100 and $1000 a month for this.

I work in legal and compliance technology, and it is very important to keep documents secured internally if the have confidential information.
For the top two requests, Bench exists for book keeping and Blendle for news
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That would be good consolation, but EMH doesn't really apply to emerging markets due to the large information gap about the market. So if you were part of the informed population and thought it was a good investment, but didn't follow through it's still pretty hard to not feel like you made a costly mistake.
Ah, but see... you're counting (B2,B2) as one item because "order doesn't matter", but then counting (G2,B2) and (B2,G2) independently. If (G2,B2) is different than (B2,G2), then (B2,B'2) is distinct from (B'2,B2).
Well, a "Spotify for news" could be made. I know of several attempts.
Sure. But having to convert to pay taxes and debts is huge pain point for trying to conduct all your business in a foreign currency. It also adds transaction costs.

If you are a business, why would you ever try to run on bitcoin alone? There would have to be a huge advantage. And we see that in many small cottage industries where that is an advantage, like buying drugs online or illegal gambling.

But without the need for pseudo-anonymity why would anyone ever use it? Why would your grocery store use bitcoin over dollars? They wouldn't.

So crypto will probably be a currency in the long run, but it won't overthrow regular fiat.

Plus, if there was a huge benefit to crypto, the Fed could just do a crypto dollar and peg it to the real dollar.
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You're also referring to a major weakness in the distributed consensus of bitcoin: the longest-chain-preferred mechanism is almost certainly a vector of attack on the chain.
Guerrilla gardening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening
>Or are they subhuman and not allowed to take part in democracy?

To be fair, the point was never that they were subhuman.

Yours is a loaded question.
>And if you work in Congress you often get an accelerated schedule so one year there counts for several years toward your pension.

That's true, but the only real people who benefit is the Member and maybe their CoS. Congress staffers make joke salaries in general. The reason people take those jobs is either a sense of duty or as the requisite training program to become a lobbyist.
Amazing. Have Europeans forgotten the Iron Curtain and and, more recently, the Crimea already?

"Si vis pacem, para bellum"
Err kotlin as a gateway drug to haskell? They might wanna fix type erasure first....
SVN does version control for word documents just fine.
> What am I missing?

You're not missing anything, in my opinion.

Private blockchains make little sense, and the standard rebuttal of this simply lists a large number of "potential applications", without going into detail on any of them and explaining how a private blockchain solves that specific problem.
Love the concept, just submitted my side project now waiting for response Thumbs Up
That's an interesting idea. I knew the universe is expanding relative to galaxies, but I didn't realize that the expansion of the universe was overcoming gravity within the scope of a galaxy. Does this also mean that the distance between planets within a solar system will increase? Is the rate of expansion more than or less than the expansion of the sun's diameter? Does this mean that the distance from the Earth to the moon is increasing, and does it mean the planet itself is expanding? Is the expansion of the universe a destabilizing effect on orbital mechanics?
They're there and unbelievably cheap. Just wait for the inevitable death of GPU mining again.
You're right, for some reason I was thinking there was a generation gap there, but it's true that Aristotle did his own teaching also in Athens only a bit later. But I think my point survives, since what we have of Aristotle's works are thought to actually be notes compiled by his students- not intended as finished publications at all. Whether they were released to the public in his time seems to be unknown- there's a story about them being locked in a cellar for a generation before being rediscovered, but apparently that's apocryphal.
Seems these flowchart make a pretty straightforward topic more complex. It's not particularly different from licensing proprietary code, although simpler.
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Thank you for this. I never knew about this, and it's always nice to have a sense that you are noticing a bias despite conscious efforts to make sure youre attempting to be objective about noticing the bias, and then find out its long since been defined and accepted as an issue.

Does not happen all the time, and sometimes I am wrong, but feels validating when it does.
Or even just an alt tag.
"in some cases they're practically forced to do it, unless they want to risk someone else doing it first."

Incorrect. Publicizing something constitutes prior art, rendering any subsequent patents on that void, eliminating the risk of 'someone else doing it first'. The only way to use patents defensively is as ammo for counter-suits.
Good question. The big difference is you own the products you build here, and charge a monthly fee for access (for up to X customers). It's a bit like kickstarting a SaaS business.

Versus with contracting/freelancing, you get paid 1x and the product is owned by the customer you work for.
Can you switch it up to a specific niche? For example "Get paid to build your next video game"
Keccak (SHA-3) is currently thought to be safe. The current state of the art would be Brassard-Hoyer-Tapp[1], but SHA3-512 should be secure against that. It's basically a birthday attack that generates a giant table, then uses Grover's algorithm to find a collision.

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1. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2FBFb0054319
> Industry-specific deep learning interviews and walkthroughs

> 1 customer paying $5/mo

Sounds about right.
My impression was that existing services focus on freelancers advertising their own services.

This is more along the lines of Nugget or OppsList in website form, where folks with product ideas request freelance work to bring those ideas into existence.