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> such that societies should maximize liberty of the individual?

This is required only because the controlling mechanism (the ruler/government) can be selfish and clueless in regards to what rules the subjects should follow for the well being of everyone. and also they are so detached from the problems of individuals....

Imagine a system where a ruler experience every pain and discomfort of every one of their subjects, real time (like in the body of a living thing). In such a system, I think individual liberty can be completely removed, because no one would not want to do anything outside of the rules anyway...
It's not supposed to restore them.
Some stars from yesterday. Around 60 people visited morebeer, 30 finished the game and 1 person have shared it.
Good point. There is one guy in he thread who doubts that ETH will scale. He stays quite meta but sounds credible because he gives one or two good reasons. Still it's hard to judge if it's just a claim or is it substantial, is it crucial for the success anyway?

This whole cryptothing feels like gambling, 'put all your money on red, red will win..'
A prior paper contributed to by Ms. Flack (https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1406/1406.7720.pdf) presents a framework for modeling the dynamics between individuals - I would assume that is the abstract "social coordinate space" to which she's referring, which places individuals within "Markovian, probabilistic, 'social' circuits" rather than into some Euclidean space.

And Ms. Flack, though her research interests extend beyond the realm of what is traditionally considered hard science, is most certainly a scientist - an evolutionary biologist specifically.

I assume you are linking to her LinkedIn profile to point out her "Doctor of Philosophy" degree? That's just the full, formal name for a PhD :P
You can remove the phone number once you add another 2FA method, such as U2F (Security Key) or TOTP (Google Authenticator or other TOTP app).
And who pays the cost when you need to decommission a nuclear power plant?

I'm not against nuclear in general, but accounting should be apples-to-apples.
Amazing article. I wonder just how much ties to English have held computer science / software back?
I'm quite surprised by the answers. The truth is that Ethereum's success comes from the seemingly ease of the Solidity. It made it possible to have a crazy amount of developer jump in.

As a Node.js developer, it was effortless to start coding with Solidity. But that's part of the problem; it seems so easy, but there are no safeguards and a lot of traps. That's why we get so many flawed contracts that were taken advantage of/hacked and ICOs delaying their distribution or processes because a bug was found.

90s cypherpunks that gave birth and worked on these ideas of smart-contract etc. saw the things a bit more responsibly, instead of development velocity on something that proves unsustainable even from a security perspective not to mention scalability-wise.
Here is are some thoughts from one of the originals - Christopher Allen co-author of TLS standard.

I'm disappointed in the corruption of the term Smart Contracts. Bitcoin's Script, and in particular P2SH is a good start to them, but massive multiple execution of arbitrary code is not (aka IBM's Chain Code), and I would even argue that Ethereum's languages are not smart contracts either—just another chain code. I do agree that business logic is hard to do with Bitcoin's Script, but for all of us talking about Smart Contracts in the late '90's (Szaboian Smart Contracts?) we desired cryptographic composabilty, that the code could be analyzed at multiple levels to be secure (from language proofs to high level business logic atomic validation), limitable (i.e. expression complexity & evaluation cost can be determined) and could often just be validated by consensus of parties not every node in the world (which only at most need to see proof of execution, not the full contract). These would be true cryptographic Smart Contracts!

https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/715197498646593536
I think, by "men of leisure" as in

"this passion for freedom for its own sake awoke in and was
nourished by men of leisure, by the hommes de lettres who had no
masters and were not always busy making a living."

Arendt means those people who participated in the American Revolution (1775) and the upper middle class members in the Third Estate who pioneered the French Revolution (1789). The Spanish anarchism and the Revolutions of 1848 could somewhat be viewed as some parts of a long series of consequences of the French Revolution (1789).

I feel Her essay touches many points about various revolutions in Europe in the second millennium and her emphasis may not just simply lie at the beginning or the end of this lecture notes. There are quite lot of details and points to argue here.
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This is a significant challenge for sure, at least with Ethereum there's no way around needing an external account (centralization) to feed data into the blockchain.

However, I know of at least 1 promising project on Ethereum (Augur) that provides decentralized oracles, and you can trust these oracles due to some clever game theorish mechanics.

The gist is randomized Reporters submit real-world information to the blockchain and earn a fee for their service. Reporters purchased a cryptoasset to have this priviledge, and if a certain Reporter submits information in conflict with a majority of other reporters (e.g. they lied) then they lose a portion of their cryptoasset giving them incentive to play by the rules and get paid for it.

And even further, if majority of Reporters report dishonestly then people will not use the Oracle service, the Reporters will not be able to earn fees, and the cryptoassets they purchased to allow to be reporters become worthless.
When did this happen, and what frameworks did the throwing out?
That......in no way answered the question.
Probing a live chip for 30k - https://zeptobars.com/en/
Really? I think Vitalik writes with a lot more precision than most in the space. E.g. https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/16/secret-sharing-erasure-...
Another cryptocurrency based scam?
What exactly did Mike Pence touch?
But what about literally recording your screen with a hand-camera? That would be quite tech-proof right? It's been done in cinemas for decades.
I use Authy as my TOTP client. It has a encrypted backup feature and allows me to share tokens between my devices (computer, phone, iPad, etc.) It's saved me on more than one occasion. :)
Far more effort has been put into chess AIs than into AI's for modern games. I don't suspect it would be hard for a talented team to make an unbeatable AI for any of the games you've listed.
You should try Authy. I switched over to it after I got burned by Google Authenticator deleting all my tokens after an upgrade. It can store your tokens in a encrypted central location and allows you to share tokens between devices (computer, phone, tablet, etc.) It kinda freaked me out at first but now I really like it.
The worst offender here is Microsoft, if you have a personal and a business account under the same email address (that alone is a major UX fuckup). But they add insult to injury by showing you a typical email+password form, and when you press [Tab] after the email address and start typing your password, the form is replaced under your eyes with a dialog to choose which account you want to log in, only then followed by a password prompt.
Having written (as in, programmed, based on process knowledge from fire departments) a model for forest fires in Australia myself over the last few months, I feel that I can say that while a fine demo application of CA based modeling, this model is not an accurate description of forest fir behaviour (well unless it's just to illustrate how planned burns interact with their crude approximation of fuel load). E.g. it doesn't even consider slope and wind direction, or vegetation type.
The fact the #1 comment on this HN submission refers to "something called gas" (as if it was an advanced concept) instead of "fee" is another data point showing the gas metaphor is confusing :)

Also gas is not its own unit. gasPrice is the unit. Or... actually it's not even a unit. A "unit" implies a constant. But it's not constant since each tx can set its own gasPrice.

The more I think about the cycles metaphor the more I love it. Sorry I have zero sympathy for "gas"
siacoin is relatively slow, it took me ~2 minutes to upload 40mb of stuff. But really it's meant to be cold storage and at $2/mo/TB it isn't that bad. The speeds will also increase with adoption.
>Actually, no. Because the stability of the economy depends not on companies but on the cycle of consumption and production.

It depends on a huge number of factors. One event that can destabilize an economy is cascading debt defaults that cause mass bankruptcy.

At the very least you should consider the possibility that your theories on economics are not right, and that forcibly redistributing huge amounts of privately owned income and savings in order to spur hyper-consumerism may cause severe negative unintended consequences.

>And very vibrant economies

With the exception of oil-rich Norway, Scandinavian countries have been economically stagnant since they adopted large-scale welfare programs in the late 1960s. Just like the US and other advanced economies that shifted massively to the social democratic economic model in the 1960s and 70s, Scandinavian countries have seen stagnant wage growth for the last 40 years, and have seen more market oriented economies close the massive gap that used to exist between them and Scandinavian countries in life expectancy, quality of life, per capita wealth and per capita income.
I agree battery will be better in the future. But it doesn't follow that battery is better investment today.

On civil engineering project going poorly, I think that's the problem of poor project management, but I guess sometimes technical solution to management problem makes sense. I note pumped storage gets built routinely within time and budget without any fuss all over the world.
Coal puts out a lot other pollutants that are poisonous. Coal kills far more people than nuclear.
> but it seems they already have it.

The Snowy Mountains (the location of the hydro) is a very long way away from South Australia and not even in the same state.

So for SA location is a problem.

But I think the bigger problem with Snowy Hydro 2.0 is time and the cost.

The Snowy Hydro 2.0 feasibility study has only just begun and will be finished in December of this year.

If that study finds the project is feasible, it will be many years before the project even starts.

Compare that with the SA battery project which will be finished even before Snowy Hydro 2.0 finishes it's feasibility study.
This is a nice circus trick. I wonder if it helps productivity, compared to a VCS.

And help it definitely can. For some people, pictures and motions are easier to remember and reason about, even in such a text-heavy area as writing code.
Works the other way too.

First country footing the massive startup bill will have an economy slowdown compared to other that can be dirty a decade or more while the tech and the solution become commodity.

Besides countries won't really change until it's in their economic interest. Taking from your example until the cost of fighting bush fires (and other climate change related stuff) is greater than the cost of implementing a national plan on the whole economy, things won't change. That's why the hop production crisis is a better predictor on government action than bushfires or heat strokes deaths.
yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14713997
>> Waymo and Volvo are building systems that can handle unexpected trouble.

How ? What's different in the tech they are building ?
To level the playing field, let's start by removing the reported $AU4Billion/annum subsidies in Australia to fossil fuels. That amounts to over $AU400 per household per year of taxpayer funds...
I took an A+ Hardware at a state college and it didn't even tell us about the certificate test. I'm actually still not certified and am training myself for CompTIA idiosyncrasies using test preps like yours...
For an article that pretends to spread the truth, its surprisingly short of any proof, figure or any kind of data to support the political opinion. Isnt that what they ought to be doing?
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This is important. Plus everything related to debugging when shit happens at 3am and developers are sleeping and maybe contractually not reachable (think about big companies, not startups).

I've been moved to Operations for two years after 10 years of Development. When I went back to Development I started coding as if the 20+ years the code will live after the initial deployment are more important than the 6 months spent creating it. And they are more important for the company, because they pay everybody's salaries and the shareholders. The first 6 months? Not so much.

Academia never has that problem. They also almost never have to deploy code to production.
In academia you get to choose your problem. This means that if something isn't working you can restrict the inputs or only operate on some subspace of the problem.

In contrast, industry doesn't let you choose the problem: you need to solve whatever the problem is that the client has. This means generalising a lot further and having a less optimal solution that is more robust to input error or poorly calibrated measurements. Even if it does fail you should be able to identify why and explain to the user what they did wrong.

In academia this feedback process is generally to the person who wrote the software, so a cryptic error message including some algorithmic details might be sufficient to debug the inputs sufficiently.
Ethereum developers use Solidity almost exclusively, because it is by far the most developed, but there is also Serpent, Viper and LLL. I don't know if Serpent and LLL are still being actively developed. Yoichi Hirai is also developing Bamboo [1].

[1] https://github.com/pirapira/bamboo
Because they're working on the code for other papers and fixing old code doesn't add anything to their CV.

Try to make your company offer them money to cooperate. They might be suddenly very interested in your questions.
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The dose makes the poison.

If you are thirsty and you become trapped underwater, you don't just get extremely refreshed!
Now it's 100 days or free.
It isn't the case. There are many businesses(both utilities and others) who could use a peak shaving solution, especially one as scaleable as batteries.

EDIT: what's unique about the australian installation(in 100 days), is that it is politically driven, or risk management driven(to reduce the risk of outages). see[2].

And so, using a healthy dose of skepticism, All i'm saying: If there's a real economical solution for the big problem of energy storage, real deployments are the test, not politically/risk driven deployments, or psychological/marketing[1] driven deployments(like we see with the power wall).

And this is a repeating pattern with musk(a marketing genius, definetly, and very smart overall), succeeding quite well on the higher end of the market, but when it comes to the more commodity end, his companies are less stellar: see First Solar, or the fact the Renault-Nissan sells more electric cars than Tesla.

[1]https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/how-to-sell-ene...

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14715679
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Me and all my coworkers are in this boat and would greatly appreciate a "I'm a software developer who wants an intermediate technical understanding" page!
Why is it important that something is done quickly? As I understand from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout it was caused by once-in-50-year event. I understand political urgency, but technically there doesn't seem to be anything urgent.
Valuing the lives of animals over people is morally reprehensible. Which is why I suggest eating vegans.
" The ad on this site was an Amazon ad for a pool filter I bought on Amazon about a week ago. It should know that I don't need these for like another year now. The other was for a cruise which I just got back from last week. "

Advertising isn't just about what you really need, but also about what you will need more, or again, or earlier, because the commercial impressed the product need in your head. Neuromarketing is a science nowadays, and is pretty scary to me.

Some interesting content on the topic here.
http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/home
are you writing this from a timewarp and youre stuck in 2012? i have personally bought loads of stuff with BTC ranging from coffee to headphones to international flights and hotel bookings.

its also a pretty flawed comment when its already accepted on something as huge as steam, and at places like CEX, BIC camera and a growing list of other retailers.

and you say none of the true believers want to spend theirs, im sorry but youre wrong there too, ive been heavily into bitcoin since about 2011, but ive always been of the belief that if nobody uses them then they will never become a currency so i always spent mine (if id saved even 10% of what ive mined id be a millionaire by now but c'est la vie) im certain i am not the only person who shares this belief.
I suppose that makes the twitch stream an important learning experience for both parties. You can participate in the chat and make suggestions, ask questions. If you are driven mad by someone doing something differently or making a mistake well then it might be healthy to try and overcome that.
I think it’s more likely they may have been referring to how it’s considered idiomatic to use extremely terse variable and function names in Haskell (and indeed in most functional languages).
I blame the app entirely. Not marking the private keys as something to backup is a really really sucky thing to do.
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seems like you can just use twitch?
Fantastic Meetings and where to find them?
Ask HN: Which dedicated unmanaged and affordable hosting you suggest or use?
I am using wholesaleinternet.com but their customer support is pretty rude and abrupt. So planning to shift to somewhere else.

Few of good servers i found are:

oneprovider.com
ovh.com
hetzner.com
nocix.net

Oneprovider seems pretty good among them. Has any one used them? Or any other you guys recomend?

Configuration around 200-500GB SSD, 16-32GB RAM, 2-8 Core XEON series processor.
I don't have much to say other than I recognize the difficulty in laying out your exploratory thoughts in this manner, and I'm quite appreciative that you did so. I think you are hitting on important subtleties.

Of course, that's not to say we shouldn't stop taking big steps to address the pervasive, unsubtle issues.
EOS doesn't currently exist. It makes a lot of strong claims, and has delivered none of them yet.
"The almost entire state (population >1.7 million) lost electricity for at least a day. Some people were without power for up to a week"

I can personally attest that I was without power for about 3 hours. Large parts of the state were back online overnight. Sure there were places where it took a week, but I'm quite sure that even a system that can provide 'only' 3 hours of baseline load would have made a huge difference. (Especially because once you know there is a a problem, you can selectively and in a controlled way start shutting down subsystems, both reducing load and lessening impact over a sudden, unplanned shutdown).
How do you know? Do you have access to the contracts that, for example, a large provider like PG & E signs with it's partners for their current "peak shaving solution"? Do you have detailed access to their balance sheets and appraiser information?

From their latest 10k[0], Gas related equipment represents 26% of the value of their assets. They would, have to write some non trivial amount off because they would no longer have any use of it by switching to use batteries like these. What would their majority shareholders think in response to that? What if they are also invested in the supply chain of such? I assume those would be non-zero losses.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/75488/00010049801700...

Edit:

If you are implying that economics of a thing can be decoupled from politics, then I think that is a faulty belief. You won't get "real deployments" unless current providers are out competed on whatever front (economics/politics) or routed around and made obsolete in some fashion, because they stand to lose economically based on their current investment. Whether you agree with how Elon (or others) is going about it, is irrelevant in so much as you aren't in direct opposition or exposed to the risk of such changes.

I'm not long TSLA nor have no future plans to be so.
I built Dependabot (https://dependabot.com), a service that checks your dependencies are up-to-date every morning and creates pull requests for you if they're not. Intention was to make dependency management suck less, whilst also adding a bit of runway to a bigger startup I wanted to do.

* Spent 2 months building it - much longer than I'd thought. The work required to get from a prototype (2 days) to a SaaS product (2 months) was way bigger that I'd thought. So much polish, and so many edge cases to consider when the client goes from "you" to "anyone else". Lesson: building something for other people takes a lot longer than building something for yourself.

* Tried to launch on Hacker News but failed to get any attention. Our blog post on "10 years of Rubysec data analysed" never made it off the "newest" page, despite being pretty solid content (spent two days building a Jupyter Notebook so anyone could replicate our results, etc.). Was a big psychological hit at the time. Lesson: there's lots of randomness in launches - don't rely on them to much.

* Thought GitHub Marketplace would list us and help with distribution, but it's been extremely hard to persuade them to. The jury is still out on this one, but they (understandably) want us to have lots of users before they invest in even assessing the app. Lesson: don't rely on the goodwill of third parties - unless you've got something they want/need, you'll be stumped if they decide they're not interested.

I haven't given up yet, and I still really believe in the product, but it's been a much harder journey than expected! Marketing has been by far the toughest part, and I don't have a solution to it yet.
To some extend perhaps...

One of the key arguments when Mozilla decided to implement EME was that the crappy-proprietary-code could be sandboxed by firefox to ensure that it doesn't infect a system with malware, spy on users, etc.

From a security perspective it's light years better than flash and other crappy plugins.
How does deforming your skulls correspond to modern society. In modern society we do the same thing that our leaders do, my point was humans have been doing this forever. It's stupid and arbitrary.
Maybe you didn't read the story but people were sending her death threats.
I'm being sniffy here, and the technical achievement of Ethereum is considerable, but were I talking about a general contract computing platform, I'd want one where I could demonstrate the assertions the code makes. And that basically means a dependently typed functional programming language. I'd start with Idris, but even that might need strengthening before DAO-style issues were hard to find.