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The current attitude? Are you talking from a technical point of view, general population or a crypto enthusiasts's view?

Technically, people find blockchain to be able to replace trust in some form or the other. Specially in places like stock transactions, where a trusted third party does share transfers with time as long as T+2 days (with T being the day of trade). Problem is people forget that there is a reason why humans are involved in transactions. Its not about trust. It is about a simple truth in business - shit happens. When it does happen, I would rather have a human being to be able to negotiate than have a smart contract execute and try to bankrupt someone

General population, my guess is, still finds this all mumbo jumbo. I have my colleagues telling me about a "bitcoin plan" where they are getting assured returns from a shady money manager. They all have been told about this "bitcoin" thing which went from ~300 to 2.5k in couple of months. Greed takes over and they are shelling money left and right, even with me trying to talk sense into them.

From a crypto enthusiasts point of view, crypto currencies are going to take over the world, replace fiat and replace it with a world where no one needs to trust anyone because blockchain can solve it. Quite a lot of them fear missing out on the next BTC or ETH so they throw money even when don't understand the utility completely.

As for Tenx, it is a tried and tested formula of coin backed cards, nothing new. They will have reserve to hold out for some amount of volatility before trying to sell more coins.

I think this thread about Bancor - the highest ICO yet will add some more info - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14618109
So, let me get this straight: founding a group 49 years ago means that "he's very clearly biased toward proving minimum wage increase's success".

This seems like a lack of familiarity with the scientific method. First, there's a hypothesis about the world. Then, that hypothesis is tested against evidence. The origins of a seasoned researcher's hypotheses about the world and their ideas of what they would like the world to be are not enough to impugn their ability to evaluate others' study design or the integrity of their own hypothesis-testing.

At best, you've provided evidence for "he may be ideologically more pleased with hypotheses supporting the success of minimum wage increases being successfully supported by evidence".
>It's just when working remotely for years, sometimes i didn't talk to anyone for days and that can get unhealthy after some time.

Sure, I agree with you there, and I never go days without talking to anyone. I just don't especially need to talk to many people at work. Just read my code, it's all there.

>In my early thirties now I definitely would not work 12-16hour days anymore as an employee without being a shareholder though.

Why? Sitting at home is more boring, I have more influence at work and the changes I roll out have more impact. Plus I tend to learn more on the job, become more crucial at the company, develop more skills, yada yada.
We had alcohol at a manufacturing company I worked at (I was responsible for that policy). At 4pm on Fridays we closed the warehouse and everyone had a beer then took off early. It definitely improved relations between office and warehouse staff, and I think it made the warehouse folks feel like they were part of the team.
Fair point. I don't mean it to sound like a bad thing, but I understand and accept that research and science can be bought. For every study supporting something, another study could be done that refutes it. Especially in such a politically charged atmosphere and issue, it gets hard to trust one source over the other. I trust the MIT study more than the UW study, but someone else probably has the completely opposite viewpoint.
I have the same question. The WaPo article that described the results of the study (not good for minimum wage progressives) got flagged rapidly. Articles since attempting to counter the story happily remain.
The sad thing is that such consequences have been foreseen for decades, but few people or companies have taken them very seriously.
I don't read it, but just from a quick glance, this headline is misleading: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/07/russian-hacker...

>An investigation by the FBI has concluded that Russian hackers were responsible for sending out fake messages from the Qatari government, sparking the Gulf’s biggest diplomatic crisis in decades.

>It is believed that the Russian government was not involved in the hacks; instead, freelance hackers were paid to undertake the work on behalf of some other state or individual.

They could've easily made the headline "FBI: Qatar hackers of Russian nationality". By making the first 2 words of the headline "Russian hackers", they're obviously trying to take advantage of the recent surge in reports over Russian state-sponsored hacking. Most readers who see that headline are going to assume they meant "Russian state hackers", until they read the second paragraph.

That said, I don't see any factual errors in the article itself.
Watching the Berkeley people dismiss this study because of how many employees are excluded by not having the multi-site data, when the Berkeley study excludes everyone not working for restaraunts, it's something.
Canada's top court rules Google must block some results worldwide
Must they be men?
Nice case of peering agreements in the real world!

(Of course these peering agreements come from a postal union treaty rather that individual 1:1 agreements among private parties, but really they are the same thing).

The number of routes is small enough that there's no need for postal BGP :-)
Do I understand this correctly? You're pushing to go fully custom because the requirements are lacking?

If I do understand that correctly, if I were you, I would spend some serious time learning about why they picked Drupal in the first place. If you run into brick walls, keep on knocking on doors until someone eventually lets you in.

I have been involved in many projects, but I have never seen one with very loose requirements end well.
Yes, please charge me higher menu prices. I shouldn't be responsible for your employees livelihood
> A bag of tricks that mostly look good in certain constrained circumstances.

Yeah. Computer graphics is all smoke and mirrors... except smoke and mirrors, because those are difficult :-)
MtGox was a central bank and possibly just a giant case of fraud that people fell for, how is it relevant?

Coinbase is FDIC insured and has insurance for Crypto holdings?

Don't use exchanges if you don't like them?
I don't think that's an accurate statement. I think it's more about what level is optimal for an area and how we determine it.
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It would be nice if the search was case-insensitive! E.g. 'she' returns different data than 'She'.
Crescendo/decrescendo is nice. I love prefixed notation, except I do find greater/less than a bit confusing. I expect your suggestion will help.
This. So much this, I felt like Mozilla's fall along with their increased marketing push a few years ago about "being open" and "values driven". Don't get me wrong, I think people should speak loudly about that, but for them it seemed to become propaganda to compensate their lack of real values-oriented action. This was multiple encounters and touch points that I saw/experienced over a few years, so sad.
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I've never worked at a place that allows alcohol at the office, but I've worked at places where it was common for people have two or three drinks at lunch. From the productivity perspective I'm not sure there's a difference.
Am I the only one wondering if they have a tool called Anna?
Thanks! That's nice to read
Aren't we already at that point? I haven't experienced any "internet outages" that lasted more than a couple of hours. Critical services are highly redundant.
Is it possible there was a typo and 2,500 degrees C was intended?
Hi Gumby! You're missing a close paren at the end there :-)

ETA: are you sure about the timeline? I thought Multics Emacs was something of a reaction to EINE/ZWEI -- I seem to recall that Bernie didn't like the fact that all the editing primitives required an explicit point argument; he made point implicit, a design decision that was copied in Gosling Emacs. Well, that's my recollection anyway.
I don't have time to list everyone, but a few off-hand:

For crypto, Matt Green: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/

For cybercrime, Brian Krebs (though I would call him an investigative journalist rather than an expert): https://krebsonsecurity.com/

For intelligence/counterintelligence/OPSEC, thegrugq: https://twitter.com/thegrugq https://medium.com/@thegrugq

A few of these can occasionally be biased when there's a political edge to something, but some others I trust: Moxie Marlinspike, Daniel Bernstein, Dan Kaminsky, Rob Graham, Thomas Ptacek, Michał Zalewski, @SwiftOnSecurity (semi-parody account, but trustworthy info), Tavis Ormandy
Since your comment seems to be one of the most negative in here, it's a good place to post this article, and I recommend you also read it. Perhaps it can change your opinion a little bit from the "cryptocurrencies are just like tulips" mentality:

https://hackernoon.com/why-everyone-missed-the-most-importan...
Money is always of concern. But additionally a full stack can take lead on an entire project. There's also an increased organizational/communication overhead for every additional person you put on a project. It simplifies things a lot if there's a small number of people working on it, even if more devs are available.
Surprised to see all the comments about how alcohol should be banned at work. To be fair most of the commentors that said this said "I've witness its drawbacks."

I have a beer at my desk during lunch every now and then, especially if I am working through my lunch as I eat. And every now and then if I know I have to work late ill crack one at 5pm while I work.

The other company in my building also has frequent at-work happy hours (after office close at 5pm, sometimes at 4pm) and everyone seems to be responsible and have fun.

In the end I think its all about showing you can be an adult, and not holding up the intern for a keg stand or slamming tequila shots.
Do you still have the link to that thread? I'm curious to see how the discussion went before the thread got flagged.
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I recently attended primary school in nz and I can say that I learnt all of those. My school (Northland School) was rather well known however.
the min wage hurts low skilled workers. period.
I at least am skeptical of their claims mainly because there's a very well established case of publication bias in the space of the effects of minimum wage increases.

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https://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/lweab/Doucougliagos%20&%20Stan...
> If you eg still use a linked list data structure as an input, you are never gonna be faster than O(n) no matter how clever your implicit parallelism is.

I think you took away completely the wrong point from Steele's talk. The bottleneck is not in the data structures, it is in the control flow, which is just a trivial way of restating Amdahl's law. In fact Steele co-wrote an excellent expository paper with Daniel Hillis, while they were at Thinking Machines, showing how to do parallel processing on linked lists:

http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/hillis-steele-d...
One of the more memorable articles from The Economist was on this topic. "The boredom of boozeless business: The sad demise of the three-Martini lunch" http://www.economist.com/node/21560265
I doubt that would satisfy the anti Whatsapp crowd. It's impossible to know what binary Facebook/Whatsapp runs on their servers.
"Outrageous, sure, but not necessarily easy to attribute to a specific nation"

That won't stop governments, "security experts", and the media from attributing it to specific nations anyway.
the logic here is "if curse then harsh", not "if harsh then curse", which raises an interesting question is there a soft curse word?

Come to think of it, it's like an emotional mapping to auditory expression, similar to this concept I heard about many years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
That's true of almost all extremely large companies, so I'm not sure I understand your point. Those two companies still only represent a small portion of the entire Seattle workforce.
What are the limits to what rights you can waive under the ToS of a website or app? If a website says you waive fair use, first amendment right, and your right to use your computer as you see fit for as long as you are using the website, who’s to stop them from kicking you off the website and suing you for breach of contract?

I’m kind of curious because I received a C&D from craigslist a few years ago (https://github.com/yonran/craigslist-shortcuts/blob/master/c...). Technically I was breaking the terms of service (after they revised the terms), so as I understood it, if I wanted to continue to use the website I had to comply with the terms, however onerous they were.
It's kind of a result of New England culture pervading the rest of the continent as the country grew. New England was founded by Separatists (starting with the Mayflower) and Puritans. Puritans wanted to "purify" the Church of England of perceived corruption. Seperatists had written off the church as a lost cause, which was treason subject to the death penalty.

A trickle of Separatists and Puritans settled New England from 1620 to 1630. Then from 1630 to 1650 many came over during a period called the Great Migration. Then the migration abruptly stopped (it stopped being uncomforatble to be a Puritan in England). So the culture stewed in its own very, very doctrinaire juices, and became homogeneous. Then it's ideas spread as the country expanded. Among those ideas is never using a word that is not written in the King James Bible, much less a swear word. Of course, there isn't a lot of logic to that choice of vocabular no matter how you analyze it, but there you are.

The Puritan church died out, but the no-drinking, no-dancing, no-card-playing version of the Congregational church survived quite nicely intact to my father's generation. (It is possible for it to wear off -- as my friends with whome I have played a game of Hearts over a few beers can attest. I'm a lousy dancer, though.)
Don't waste time with religion, drugs, or alcohol. They all consume too much time and lead to useless guilt.

Exercise more. Don't let yourself get fat.

Stick with the guitar or piano or whatever instrument you play.

Put off marriage as long as possible. At some point you will have an urge to reproduce. Until then, enjoy life. Once you have kids your priorities dramatically change and by the time you can get back to what _you_ want to do, you'll be too old and broken down to do it.

Don't get into debt. Better still, live below your means and save like crazy. When you do spend money, spend it on experiences (like travel) rather than things (like a car). The memories of your experiences will stay with you for the rest of your life, while the things you buy will get put aside as soon as you have kids.

Spend quality time with your parents. When you're older and they're dead you'll wish you had.

Keep a journal.
Thanks! You could also add speedoflight?
My opinions:

Bitcoin - Actually used as a store of value, for capital flight, as a hedge, for darknet commerce, and some other ancillary purposes. Genuinely novel, and likely not going anywhere.

Litecoin - Likely not sufficiently differentiated from Bitcoin to become major, but nevertheless compliments BTC for trading and acts as a sort of 'plan B' for some categories of Bitcoin failure.

Ethereum - Cool tech, but all the innovative parts of it are highly unproven. The most novel thing done with it (the DAO) has arguably crippled the whole scene fundamentally with the fork (Vitalik is a kingmaker, and thus could be held liable).

The "ICOs" - Pump and dump, baby! To understand this, take a look at all the ICOs (https://icotracker.net/) and look at the business plans. Basically, there's a whole ecosystem that seeks to recreate Silicon Valley, and bases their presumed success on the magic of Ethereum to give them a competitive advantage. Figure how many of those would have to be successful for the whole scene to stay afloat, and then consider whether that's even close to reasonable.

I think it's transparently obvious that 95% of the ICOs work just fine with a simple database and don't leverage Ethereum in any way whatsoever. But perhaps I'm wrong.

Some other stuff like Dash seems kinda interesting, but it's anyone's guess how the market will respond to it.
> This seems like a lack of familiarity with the scientific method. First, there's a hypothesis about the world. Then, that hypothesis is tested against evidence. The origins of a seasoned researcher's hypotheses about the world and motivations they would like the world are not enough to impugn the integrity of their own hypothesis-testing or their ability to evaluate others' study design.

And yet the author of the article seems happy to impugn the motivations of the UW researchers, because his ideology does not agree with their results.
Show HN: I made an AppleTV party game using HTML SSE
Hi Hacker News,
I was experimenting with HTML SSE (alternative to web socktets), and made a fun Apple TV party game in the process. It turned out to be great for my situation (where you need to do realtime synchronization from server to client(s) but web sockets were overkill).

You can check out the game here:
https://electrollama.net/alphaparty

I wrote a post about configuring Nginx to work with SSE when used as a reverse proxy for node (this was a bit tricky... my server worked fine when connecting straight to node, but not through a proxy without some monkeying around)
https://www.electrollama.net/blog/2017/6/22/html-sse-with-no...

Also, my first post on HN, despite being a lurker here for over 5 years! I apologize if I've formatted this wrong...
The experts (no scare quotes needed, they really are experts) were commenting on the story's facts as presented. There was no need to read the source of whatsapp, as the facts as stated in the original article were overblown and based on fundamental misunderstandings of cryptography.

The entire story was based on the question of "what do you do when someone you're communicating with using encryption changes keys?" Whatsapp chose to dynamically use the new key, rather than fail & force the user to verify the new key in some out-of-band way. This was described as a "backdoor" in the guardian story. That was simply false. Even calling it a vulnerability is a mis-understanding of how cryptography works and of the risk involved in that design decision.
vault7 has been announced and partially released, but wikileaks has been releasing a trickle of new documents over time (it seems they learned from the strategic timing of snowden release documents); these documents are new to the public. they seem to release new documents from the vault7 trove every week or two.
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The SSID is the name of a Mexican restaurant in western Washington DC...

Unfortunately the document doesn't include API documentation for the geolocation services of Google and Microsoft. Would be interesting to know if CIA is aware of a way around api-key restrictions :)
The problem is that the Seattle law sets the minimum wage of multi-site businesses higher than single-site businesses. The expected effect of this is that minimum wage workers of single-site businesses will quit and work at multi-site businesses for the higher wage. A study looking only at single-site employment counts these people as having left the workforce when they've actually received a raise.
What if experts from around the world came to your home to coach you for free?
Good luck job hunting for a job like that in the US. Here standard vacation is 1-2 weeks per year and getting your 8 hours in between 8am and 5pm is also the norm.

Sadly we don't have the luxury of having such flexible hours and large vacation packages as is standard in foreign countries.
Many "farmer's markets" do not prohibit resellers; it's a major problem for both customers and farmers.
You would be surprised as to how much stuff sold at a farmers market wasn't grown at the farm whose stand you're in front of. At least around here, they're not cheap - there's a strong incentive to buy whatever you don't grow so that you can sell it at the farmers market.

It's crossed my mind more than once to go into Shaw's, buy a bunch of stuff, and sell it at the farmers market that sets up in that very same parking lot every Saturday. Given that our supermarkets even sell local stuff, I can still call locally grown and not be lying to anyone.
Sorry for the low effort comment but Clever Cloud is an awesome name
It's not just the number of competitors although there are a lot of those. It's also that, as they try to expand, new customers will tend to be less of a match for their target demographic. It will take more advertising, discounts, etc. to reel them in and, once they do, they're likely to use the service less frequently or drop it entirely.
Not sure why you're being down-voted.

It's of course disingenuous (and insane) to say that raising the minimum wage will not cause deadweight loss. Everyone needs to understand that raising prices of almost anything will reduce the amount of that thing demanded. When price goes up, people buy less. Wages are just price and labor is a thing that people buy.

The more complicated issue, which democrats and republicans both ignore, is the elasticity of demand. Democrats love saying "Minimum wage increases are good, and they've been proven not to affect the demand for low-wage labor!" and republicans say "Minimum wage increases are bad, and they've been proven to increase unemployment!"

The real question is not if demand for labor will decrease (it will), the question is how much less low-wage labor will be purchased with a certain increase in the minimum wage, and whether policymakers consider this tradeoff good.

http://ftp.iza.org/dp3150.pdf
OMG I didnt know about Keen 1, 3, 5 and 6! Will have something to do in the weekend. I first played Keen 4 on floppy disks installed on Win 98.
Well, certainly not the phonetics.
> some are locked down for user control of networking, but simultaneously designed insecurely as, say, "smart web cams" without the necessary incentives to keep them secure.

The Internet of Scary Things.
This is too broad of a question. A tiring relationship is different from a dead end job which is different from eating the same sandwich at the same bar every Thursday.

If you want advice to broadly apply to any situation then the best I could think of is "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take". If there's a remote chance you can hit that shot, then take it. If you miss, figure out what went wrong and fix your situation from there. The best ability we have is to learn from other people mistakes. When that's not possible then learning from our own is typically good enough.
That's a little grim. It's the method used for sorting rocks too, so that your gravel doesn't have bits that are too big.