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>Companies like Adobe decide to not sell licenses anymore, rather to rent access monthly. Not that I use Adobe, but Feedly dinged me for $69 for their Pro option again this year. Do I really need to pay yearly for a damned RSS reader?

I've come around to the subscription model. Customers are not satisfied with the 'single purchase' model. They want to purchase the product, and also purchase lifetime updates. Its not really sustainable to sell software at a fixed price point while providing free updates. I would rather companies do the subscription model than give stuff for "free" and then do other unethical anti-privacy things.
Important information related to this incident:

1. CoinDash did not publish the address of the contract in advance of the ICO:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6nsy6x/coindash_w...

2. Allegedly, CoinDash ignored issues brought up by a software contractor / code reviewer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/6nrxk5/never_mis...

> In reviewing their crowdsale code, I found multiple bugs and many errors. I've been ignored since I brought up the problems with the CoinDash team three days ago.
I think mining should not be a way to profit. The rewards are so mining doesn't cost anything to miners. Bitcoin/Ethereum users should be compelled to mine because it means more security that no one controls the blockchain.

I wonder if there's an algorithm that could deter people from building mining farms?
> Apple's hubris is starting to catch up with them.

If anything, their hubris has paid off. It's hard to see how mediocre gaming support has significantly hurt Apple until now. Mac gaming isn't exactly great, but it's far and away better than it was 10 years ago when I got my first Mac, and there's good reason to believe it will continue to get better. That's good for Apple and Mac users.

There's this persistent meme about Apple that their contrariness and spurning of received wisdom and practices in the rest of the industry will imminently bite them in the ass and hammer the company. It just persistently fails to actually happen.
Elegant solutions using language's in-built features- case study in text parsing
We've recently tried out Terra's Kitchen primarily because they ship the meals in a reusable container that is returned to them. There's still a small amount of plastic that we have to dispose of, but the overall amount of waste seems to be dramatically lower than the competitors.

http://www.terraskitchen.com/how-it-works/
Add to that: working your ass of for pennies for the first year or so...
This seems to do requestAnimationFrame animations which are janky during garbage collection rather than CSS animations with 60 fps goodness even under heavy load...?
IIRC Google Music had a lifetime cap (2 times) on downloading your MP3s. Is that still the case?
tl;dr:
Scenario: Studio sends 10ks advanced copies of their film to reviewers before screening. One of them gets leaked. They want to know who leaked it. Custos embeds a "watermark" in the copies that contains a private key of a bitcoin wallet containing 5$. Each copy has a different wallet.
When anyone down the pirate chain decides to take the money, Custos knows who the leaking source was. Benefit over traditional watermarks is that they only have to monitor the wallets.

IMO this is quite a clever idea because even after pirates start scrubbing the key off, there will always be an incentive to claim the money, perhaps much later when someone can get many of them at once. It will seed distrust that'll be hard to weed out.
The basic question is how to scale; off-chain or on-chain. The rest is just theatrics and typical nerdy hyperbole.

One side of the fight (Core / blockstream) wants to scale off-chain, pushing transactions to side-chains and/or lighting networks, and want to profit from off-chain solutions.

The other side of the fight (segwit2x / miners) wants to scale on-chain, making the blocks bigger, and profit from block fees.

Both sides have pros and cons.

Pros of off-chain solutions - more scalable, don't need expensive confirmations for each transaction, more long-term. Cons: the solutions don't exist yet and might be vaporware; segwit etc are just stepping stones.

Pros of on-chain solutions - making the blocks larger can be done now, no need to wait for new software and new networks. Cons - makes the blocks larger, which makes running bitcoin nodes harder. Also cannot scale this way infinitely (you need to keep all the transactions on a disk forever).

The discussion about segwit is in reality just discussion about how to scale, and who profits.

As for me, I don't really care, Bitcoin is inefficient either way
>the constant call to go in with guns blazing doesn't seem helpful to me.

Getting independent information of your value isn't "guns blazing."
Why I think Data is King When it comes to UX
And there I thought this would be an Apache user directory tutorial.
Base 12 is more efficient for arithmetic, but I never really mastered it. And converting back and forth seems to me to be more trouble than it is worth.
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but why not both?

By both you mean, SegWit + Bigger blocks?

It's not possible today to raise the blocksize without exponentially increasing the computing resources required to run a Bitcoin node. So it's not a parameter that can be easily tweaked without drastic consequences.

Also, increasing the blocksize requires what's called a hardfork. That's a backwards incompatible change. Anyone who hasn't updated their Bitcoin software will be left in the dust, and potentially dangerously so.

SegWit, on the other hand, raises the effective blocksize to 2MB, patches a bunch of issues, and provides a means to safely enable off-chain transactions on top of Bitcoin. It does all this as a soft fork; backwards compatible.

That doesn't mean a blocksize increase isn't appropriate; it needs to happen at some point. But because hardforking is so disruptive, it would be best to roll in other breaking changes while we're at it. We should have a solution to the exponential computation issue, and we should have a mechanism to increase blocksize again in the future without another hardfork. Those are hard problems to solve that will take time. SegWit was meant to be a stop-gap.

All that said, I'm not personally opposed to the idea of a more immediate hardfork, ala SegWit2X. I don't think it's the _best_ idea, and I think the hardfork should happen at least 12 months down the road, not 3 months as SegWit2X plans, but the perfect is the enemy of the good. The big issue with SegWit2X is that the developers working on it are not competent for the task at hand, and it's being pushed by parties with perverse incentives.
My point here is that $200 on CD's you have forever. $170 on a service, you have nothing. Yes, it's very convenient, it just that it's ephemeral.
I go right after work. Living close to a gym helps. I just moved to a new place that is upstairs from a gym.
How sad that a human-created and human-run endeavor turned out to be merely human after all.
Are they poor decision makers, or were they poorly taught financial concepts? Were they ever taught how to budget, how to see the actual cost of borrowing, etc.?
My Mac gaming experience over the past decades has mostly been "fuck it, buy a console". Every time I try to play something on the Mac it's an uphill battle to get it to talk to any of my various controllers.

I lose mods, and I lose genres that really do work a lot better on keyboard and mouse - I've been having an on and off urge to find some kind of Settlers retread lately, for instance, and this really doesn't exist on consoles - but I gain a lot of time not spent swearing at incompatibilities.
How do you think Radarr compares to Couchpotato? Considering making the switch, since Sonarr has been fantastic.
There are only 2 card payment networks of worth and most cutomers have cards from both. They don't care.
I don't know how much people tie this to paying the minimum instead of paying nearly everything they owe, but there is perverse, pervasive belief that you have to carry a balance on your cards to build credit.
AFAIK Blizzard's WoW works faster on Windows on the same machine. I'm playing it on my Macbook with dedicated GPU (GT 650M), it's quite terrible, basically I have to play on lowest settings with 720x450 resolution (1440x900 with half resolution and upscaling) to have some playable FPS (10-30, drops to single digit sometimes). And WoW uses Metal API, not some wrapper.
Garden makes use of runc (an Open Container Initiative project with a lot of contributions from Docker), in the same way containerd (component included in Docker) makes use of runc to run images. You won't find the docker engine being used by Garden.

Edit: I _think_ what you're likely seeing (if you are seeing docker in the top output) is Concourse using the docker-image-resource to pull images for your tasks to a local docker registry.
Eth has more than enough liquidity to handle this.
What is your rent? How much does it cost when you go out to eat?

I don't know much about Chicago, but a quick look online suggests that almost all of the difference would be eaten up by cost of living differences.
SIMH emulates a lot of things, including VAX. You used to be able to get a Hobbyist license for OpenVMS from HP. I'm not sure whether you still can.

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
You don't _have_ to shop on Amazon. But I feel like being a cognizant consumer is your own responsibility. By that I mean I don't have to cross-reference with 8 other sites, I feel like the prices are fair, and as best I can tell I have avoided buying cheap knockoff items. I hear this complaint a lot (here, especially) but have yet to see much evidence of that.
People follow block signaling a lot. Note however that miners cah signal whatever bit, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they actually run some specific software. For example "NYA" signal doesn't mean actually much, maybe intention to run segwit2x. The first software was released one day ago, the NYA signaling started way before that.

http://coin.dance/blocks
What do you intend to achieve with such a useless comment/question, Talbotson?

How could anyone read text and interpret "drunk"? Are you into drugs or something that makes you visualize people from written text?
Not necessarily, because the issue here is that the website containing the address itself was altered. If an attacker can get access to the web server then HTTP public key pinning does nothing to protect you.

What would have worked, however, would have been to pin the ICO address to the blockchain in advance. Same concept.
Personally I wouldn't sell now, especially if you can wait it out a year or two. The dust will settle eventually, and it'll be on the rise again, most likely, higher than it got a couple of months ago. But I don't know what's going to happen anymore than anyone else claims to.
From the employee POV it never made sense for me either. It may not feel all the way as blackmail, but it's not some nice conversation either. Besides:

1. If the company is not paying you well now, it will also not give you timely raises or promotions, so you will have to do it again and again.

2. If there's a great team there, and the only problem is with the money, unless it is a temporary thing with known causes, odds are the entire team will leave soon. So it's not something to consider.

3. It's very likely that your employer will work towards replacing you and will let you go on their schedule. It's always best to leave on your schedule than getting it forced onto you.
If cashing out were delayed well past the statute of limitations, it'd be interesting to see the repercussions.
Until you realize you can get a Whole Foods branded meal kit with the Whole Foods smell included (ahh, fresh produce!) delivered SAME DAY with Amazon Prime shipping. Premium product + unmatched delivery network = 800lb gorilla
There was a coin called Primecoin that looked for prime numbers rather than useless hashes. It also went up in the last few months and is going down now like the rest.
Does buying something you don't actually have money for, something that requires education? I mean, that's just self explanatory.
The manufacturer has a program to recycle them:

https://sealedair.com/product-care/recycling-bubble-wrap-pla...

You can also use Amazon boxes to donate used clothes and household items:

http://givebackbox.com/amazon
When Friction in Design Is Good for UX
Yes, this is both uninteresting and true. The whole field of ML exists precisely because many things are too complex to model directly.
You're right but there is a lot of predatory lending. Should people even be able to get a $20K limit on a credit card? How many could ever reasonably pay that off? What about payday loans, etc.?
There needs to be some mechanism to tell you what the other P2P endpoints are and what address/port pairs they are listening to. It doesn't have to be a server necessarily, could be just a copy-paste string.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776864
I'm not saying cryptocurrencies shouldn't exist, only that they are not at this time a serious or practical alternative except for very unique scenarios that are generally outside the scope of the average citizen, especially in the developing world. In the developing world, very often, even access to computers, electricity, and internet are serious obstacles, not to mention a gap in technical literacy compared to the developed world.
But any business that refuses to do this, will lose money and fail to compete with those that do. Eventually, they'll get bought out by the company that does.

It's up to government to regulate this stuff - a business is supposed to maximise profit.
For screens at the time, there were no non-1080p displays on the market. Yes two years after the MPBr came out, you could get much nicer displays, but not at the time. Also, most laptops (though not all) did feature the 16:9 aspect ratio, and screw that.

I had a Thinkpad before and yes they were nice in that they felt very solid, but the nipple mouse thing is controversial at best. The touchpad was tiny (again, at the time), and the keyboard wasn't my cup of tea. I would certainly recommend Thinkpads, especially if you have a lower budget and want something that quickly dropped in price but still has a ton of life in it. But I could afford a nicer laptop, and at the higher end there was no comparison.

As for aluminum, yes I do like it. I have no dings on this machine and I do lug it around. The hinge still works great, which was my biggest issue, even with Thinkpads. They all get wobbly eventually.

> You are showing your bias here.

You are probably right, but I feel OK with my bias in some ways. I spent about 10 years avoiding Apple products all around because (a) I like FOSS and (b) I wanted to save money. I came around when my work issued me a MBP and I realized that I don't have to think about my laptop anymore. It just works and I don't need to worry about drivers, upgrades, whatever. Yes I know not everyone's story is as peachy, but my experience has been good.
"- it is not a workers market - if it had been, incomes would not have stagnated"

In general, no. But in terms of software engineering, it very much is.
Nonsense. One's personal experiences are worthless as evidence, and all theories are subject to Occam's Razor. That you dislike these principles being applied to some subject is your own problem.
The gatekeeper is king, as they have control over all the eyeballs.

The content is just a means.
The Limitations of Deep Learning
Mobile middle click please
My understanding is that having 0% credit utilization is slightly worse for your credit rating than having 1%-10% credit utilization. That doesn't mean that you should only pay the minimum. My approach is to regularly pay them down to a $10 balance; it's possible this is pointless because it's rounded down to 0% in their calculations anyway, I'm not sure.
That's fair, but when I shop I don't buy food with just one meal in mind. Sure, at home maybe I'll have a bit less onion one day then I would prefer because I used half of it the night before, but storing excess in the fridge and buying with leftovers in mind or multi-use items (bulk bag of carrots) means I have very little excess food waste. Certainly excess food waste is far, far less than packaging material from these companies.
Some of your assumptions are incorrect. Those names you list are documentation categories, under which you can publish any pages in your own order. The final docs do not actually display those category names, but some have different menu colours by default.

You can also link between written docs and API docs, though it is a bit manual/hacky (you need to know the rendered file paths).
An article called "The Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry" relates how the meal-kit industry faces the same problem(s) as Groupon:

"The problem Groupon faced was that their initial success validated a model that anyone could copy, and everyone who copied it increased both Groupon’s cost of customer acquisition and its churn rate."

https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/the-slow-motion-trainwreck-f...
They've been actively working on that for almost a decade [1]. Most (all?) cushioning in my packages is now heavy brown paper or plastic air bags, a significant improvement from the days of packing peanuts and bubble wrap. I'd like to see the air bags go away too.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/zhr3q9mgfqub33r
The Steam Hardware Stats [1] also show the following abysmal market share:

Windows 96.24%
OSX 2.95%
Linux 0.72%

If you aren't Windows in the PC gaming space, you really don't have a leg to stand on when trying to force developers to work your way.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Somewhere between 15% to 18%.
Not putting down a breadcrumb, but implicating John Doe. Presumably because the watermark/key was created specifically for John Doe's copy.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram
Its possible they are perpetually in a "rough patch" Americans do have a mind set of "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" That would lead to this kind of behavior.
TodoMVC with Dutier
It would be really nice if Apple decided to work with some player like Steam, who also has an interest in gaming on Unix-y systems. I would be really interested in the overlap between Steam's work on Ubuntu and Apple's OS X.

A large part of the problem sounds like Apple's commitment to Metal, but if it drops and and seeks to work with Steam, then they could stand to make a really great experience on their platforms, and perhaps in the living room, too.
Pretty much agree. I think it's more:

- Grocery delivery seems to generally be gaining a bit of momentum in the US, at least close in to major urban centers, as a lot of people get more and more comfortable with buying things online.

- Grocery chains are beginning to take notice of meal kits. Most of them already sell a fair bit of prepped but uncooked food. Creating packaged bundles with a recipe card is a pretty small incremental step.
Few devs work with Metal directly - iOS or otherwise. I think the play here is to get Metal adopted by popular middleware so that devs who use them get native Mac support "for free".

And it appears that gaming in general is coalescing around Unreal and Unity, and both have strong native Mac support.

Metal support I think is less of a problem than Apple's own hardware - the anemic GPUs in consumer Macs prevent most AAA titles from being playable, even if the middleware is completely abstracted out. Apple's focus on hi-dpi displays makes this even worse.

Apple doesn't seem to have a coherent strategy around this. If you look at the Mac App Store right now, the games being most heavily advertised all have very marginal performance even on higher-end Macs, and likely straight up won't run on most of their (new!) laptops. It seems absurd that Apple is so heavily marketing games that will barely run on a typical Mac.
Amazon's AWS in Talks to Develop Software with VMware
What's the resultant carbon footprint as a result of delivering these things back?
https://github.com/k0kubun/llrb

and

https://github.com/vnmakarov/ruby/tree/rtl_mjit_branch
Ask HN: How do you stay sane, when developing apps for companies?
I've been developing apps for clients for some time, then I stopped because the clients were driving me nuts. How do you guys stay sane when working for clients? How do you structure your workflow?
Vitalik was talking about token sales that give discounts to large buyers. And that they can be circumvented via collective-buying smart contracts.

I got that information by reading his tweet.

Frankly, I don't know what you're talking about. I would imagine if he was trying to convey one should avoid all token sales he would have said something similar to that. Not something specific to a specific situation.

The trick I'm employing involves reading comprehension.
When they release the detection tool, and I reverse engineer it to produce a tool to set arbitrary watermarks on arbitrary video files, what would be the legality of releasing such a tool?

Of course, pirates are unlikely to care about such legal issues, but I'm still curious if there are any.
3 years' experience may sound sufficient only if we're talking about something very narrow and/or confusing "getting aquatinted with" with "mastering" something, otherwise you don't have to go to 10 years - you'll sense the difference even between 3 years' and 5 years' worth of experience.
Your best bet is really to build your base image using debootstrap or similar. The 'official' images are often a joke. For the longest time, the maintainer of the 'official' Ubuntu image had no clear association with either Docker Inc or Canonical.

edit: To clarify, the images themselves are quality, and do get generated from Canonical's rootfs tarball, but the trust path for a huge chunk of binary data now hinges on a single individual, rather than a corporate entity.
The Reason BYU Doesn’t Have More Successful Startups
As a heads up, speed is increased significantly by following the official auction rule: When you land on a property, you have the option to purchase it outright; or if you do not purchase, the bank will then conduct an auction of the property.
Now that's what I'm talking about.
Well it's probably because all of their computers are prebuilt with relatively weak gpu's for gaming..even if they had prioritised it through the software how many people would game on their hardware.

Though now with thunderbolt 3 and external gpu's I think some of that excuse is gone away.
This is false. Bitcoin is a consensus system, and the default client for better or for worse has a stickiness that doesn't exist in normal open source software because of this group consensus. So there is definitely a measure of control. Yes, it's not total or complete, but it is there.
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