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I don't quite understand your last paragraph, but for the rest:

> The whole point is to cryptographically be able to prove ownership of something to the network.

I don't think that's the problem that blockchains solve. That problem can be solved without blockchain just by using public/private key cryptography and digital signatures, along with for instance a public ledger. But a public ledger doesn't need to be distributed and subject to consensus protocols, mining dynamics, etc. It can simply be hosted on a website.
> Only works for under £30

This is set by the bank. In most cases you can adjust the limit. I remember Lloyds allowed you to do that.
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I have always wanted to invent an ice-cube maker that works by being filled with water and placed in a microwave.
I would love to see this be the Rockbox (www.rockbox.org) of smartphones. Best of luck! I'm excited to see this project progress.
There's all this waiting, and pointing and clicking, and signing.

Ok, I agree that it's a bit annoying when I have to wait a few seconds before the terminal will allow me to tap, but it's wait, what, signing?

In all seriousness, the problem you're describing is archaic terminals. Here in Canada I can't remember the last time I signed for a credit card transaction; I very rarely even have to enter my PIN. And it's much faster than paying cash.
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There was a Kiwi couple who weren't allowed to name their kid Lucifer a few years ago. That name is about as religiously charged too. As a bonus, not being named Mo helps you not get picked for random check-ups.
To continue your analogy: get Russian younger generation prepared for a STEM and then see all of them go to other countries for work.
If US companies cannot profit from diversity they would have to open offices elsewhere.
Do you have data that shows that the NHS is better value for money than most/all other providers?

Because the data I've seen [1] doesn't suggest that.

[1] http://wjmc.blogspot.jp/2011/03/us-healthcare-costs-vs-life-...
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I would prefer it if restaurants started accepting cryptocurrencies. I don't really enjoy the fact that paying with a credit card lets both visa and my bank to know where I eat.

Not to mention that credit cards are a giant pain in general, "this transaction was declined".
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Devs often limit regions to slowly ramp up usage, so the servers don't melt down on day one, see Pokemon Go for example.
I don't think you have had to break files up yourself for a long time on S3. You can treat files up to 5TB as a single object. I think you have to do a multipart upload but that's probably not a bad idea anyway.
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As someone who visits China almost every year, and has spent quite a lot of time there including for study please consider what I'm going to say not as a criticism, but an attempt to help you understand how your words will likely be received.

You haven't clarified any facts, you've just made two statements of opinion without any supporting evidence or greater explanation.
Cash is the only unrestricted currency in Germany. Law demands that they have to accept it.
It's fine to disagree with his political views. That's precisely his point: the freedom to disagree is the foundation of a free society.

What facts were distorted? That he was jailed, multiple times, for defending freedom of expression? That he died in custody? That his wife Liu Xia was under house arrest for years without charges? Or was it his role during the Tiananmen protests and subsequent massacre? That he negotiated the free passage of students from Tiananmen, saving many from the advancing tanks?
This is a link to the comment in a Reddit thread, as opposed to the article the thread is discussing.
Ask HN: Are you using akka,actors,akka-cluster,akka-remote with HIGH scale?
How is it going with production high scale high availability, ease of troubleshooting, ease of other people such as devops, technical support understanding and troubleshooting the system? maintenance? is it just fun technology to work with or you actually have a large deployment for example with akka-cluster with real HIGH traffic volume, replacing a like 150 microservices frameworks? is it going smooth? any specific issues? i'm trying to understand if it's fun technology but for real high scale projects I should use standard bullet proof systems i used in past like microservices request-response with combination of load balancers, apps as microservices, kafka when I need replicated log message bus, and the rest of the well known standard stack. baking in my usual recovery and retry and backoff, Future/Promise, when almost every programmer knows and if not, it's not a whole shift in paradigm.

one thing I can think of, with standard request-response model i can very easily troubleshoot my systems, for example when I have no logs (you never know what would happen at friday 2am when you have a problem in our case a problem and no logs to help you out because either someone forgot or your framework does not log for whatever reason) with request response - then any support engineer with http-text based request-response can just sniff the network and very easily understand the http protocol, i know which is the requesting microservices hostname (I can easily find out etcl..). with actors its a different story. This is just an example when I talk about supportability, production, high scale, just one.
Agreed, there are red flags. All their data comes from this smartphone app (717,527 users):

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As a scientist I would have rejected this Nature paper based on highly biased data collection.
On the contrary, the government happens to be full of Sith.
The police look down on speeding, but they are allowed to speed, go through red lights, etc. The law doesn't apply to the ones that make them, apparently.
Russian graduates would love to stay in country, but the the gov't and economy are both big turnoffs... so, while they would love to stay and contribute their "motherland" many who have the option, opt for greener pastures.

It's a bit sad to see a country lose all its talent and potential due to bad economics and politics. If Russia just tried a little harder to open up, they would have the potential to be contenders. But the brain drain certainly does not help their cause.
I don't understand why Google has to depreciate something so low level as http client in their frameworks.

I've already had enough mess with Android, now the trend comes to Angular. Even after a complete re-write of AngularJS, they still have to do this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32153318/httpclient-wont...
> I would prefer it if restaurants started accepting cryptocurrencies.

That's a completely different problem with completely different implications. Doesn't matter if you pay with cash or credit card, dollars are still dollars and are regulated by the Federal Reserve.

To change to cryoptocurrencies is to leave the dollar. So it is not about how you transfer money, but about which currency you work with.
Such censored view is not good for anyone.

"It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is. Given the size of China, certainly it would need 300 years of colonisation for it to become like what Hong Kong is today. I even doubt whether 300 years would be enough." Liu Xiaobo made himself quite clear back in the 1980s. The in 1996, he further argued that

"progress in China depends on westernisation and the more westernisation, the more progress."

Western, independent source here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/15/nobel-...

I thought China should be allowed to preserve it own culture and independence. Liu seemed to hold a quite different idea.

btw, it must be quite a shock for you to know such fact. I mean please feel free to downvote if you agree with Liu's very repressive view on how China should be colonized by the west for 300 years to get better argument. The whole "progress in China depends on westernisation" also sounds like a cultural genocide to me.
You ever get the feeling this Nobel Prize and the western media's fawning coverage of Liu Xiaobo is really just about westerners making themselves feel better?

China will get democracy one day. It will be because a large swath of Chinese people want it. Although there have been some high profile dissidents in China over the last 30 years, including Liu Xiaobo and the 1989 students, most Chinese are probably not ready for their message of political openness. They're still focused on lower levels of the Maslow hierarchy like shelter and food.

These dissidents have the bad luck of poor timing. In another 30 or 40 years when China is fully developed, their ideas may be well accepted among citizenry and party reformers.
> Quilt is, in my view, as open as git or GitHub

Can I run something that hosts a quilt repo on my own server?
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I love it, especially how you summarized the key points in one or two sentences instead of going into lengthy stories.

It seems the key strategies can be listed as follows:

1. Great video which demonstrates a good knowledge of the community (Dropbox)

2. Viral (aka sharing) features built in (Instagram)

3. Leveraging existing userbase (Instagram, Product Hunt)

4. Exclusivity (aka invite only) (Spotify, Facebook, Quora)

5. Reaching out to competitor's users and doing a better job than the competitor (AirBNB)

6. Getting the tougher side of the marketplace on board first (Tinder)

7. Offering rewards for signing up etc. (Paypal, Yelp)

8. Starting with a premium service first to deliver best user experience, leading to word of mouth (Uber)

9. Contests (Youtube)

10. Influencer outreach (Etsy)

11. Seeding site with good content (Quora)

Do continue with this site. I find it to be a very valuable resource.
My point is that these are pretty petty problems compared to actual travesties committed by the Chinese government. There are bigger fish to fry than what you can name your child.
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Everyone knows that photons can't travel uphill. NBN says so!
It matters because some people think that the laughing means it can't possibly work.

This law can work, but it can be stopped. But laughing means some are treating a genuine threat as a joke.
I live in Sweden, and this is very common. Handling cash is inefficient for everyone involved.

The big downside is that people that didn't adapted , usually older citizens, find themselves in a worse situation. This is still more obvious in situations like the buses where you can't even buy a ticket as you need to buy it in advance. If you don't have one, you need to buy the ticket on your mobile device, and this is not easy for everyone in society.

So it is mostly a good thing, with more efficient transactions, but it is not heaven.
Ask HN: Express vs. Loopback. Want a real review for my next startup
Hey we are starting to create this application for our startup and this is going to be our MVP. So the stack we were going through was Node(Express) + Angular + SQL. The problem arises when we start looking for ORM for Express - SQL. And then developing Authentication , Authorisation Module and then comes API's. Suddenly we found this miracle baby the solution of everything Loopback. But then i realize nobody in our team has worked on it. We are ready to learn for sake of development but we want to be sure that it is what they are saying it is.
So if anyone has any knowledge regarding Loopback and Express in production feel free to express his/her views.
You are providing a lot of values in our life so thanks for it already.
There are certain views that should never ever be publicly stated, e.g. Liu said China needs to be colonized for 300 years to get better, is it just free of speech? sound quite repressive to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/15/nobel-...
Interesting point. A big problem with blockchain-style ledgers is that the definition of "ownership" is nebulous and far from instant, only increasing in certainty over time. We each might have a different time frame before we're sure a transaction has taken place.

If there's a particular group responsible for paying out the security, then it makes more sense to me for that group to just host a ledger on their site and officially endorse all transactions (which can use the same crypto that blockchains use). This would be instant and transparent.

I don't understand how security trading works, but if there is truly no trusted authority responsible for either paying out the security or enforcing that it gets paid, then I guess I see the possibility for using a blockchain (but probably you also would want cryptocurrency...).
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I came here to make this very point, several large scale experiments have already been performed into rank levelling and it seems that the ranks don't stay levelled for very long, and the economic disruption caused takes a long time to settle out.

Whether that leaves the countries better or worse in the mid-term than places where the levelling wasn't done (Russia, China versus US, Europe) is something I'm sure can be long debated.
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The police doesn't make the law.
New Skype makes it frustratingly difficult to make calls to my contacts' phones. Way too hard! Older version was eminently easier and friendly. Didn't MS learn anything from its disasterois Windows 8 experience!?
Using tf.scan is a bad idea.

scan implements strict semantics so it will always execute the same number of timesteps no matter what the accumulator is (nan).

while_loop implements dynamic execution (quit once cond is not met) and at the same time allows parallel execution when some ops are not dependent on accumulator.

If you read the code for `dynamic_rnn` and contrib.legacy Seq2seq model you'll find while_loop. I have yet to see tensorflow library code using tf.scan anywhere!

Also, internally, scan is defined using while_loop. In my code, I find scan lacking in RNN and always have to fall back to while_loop.

Here is video of a talk by the RNN/Seq2Seq author himself:

https://youtu.be/RIR_-Xlbp7s?t=16m3s
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Seriously, that sounds magical
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Yes, by definition. I write a program for someone and give it to them. They give me money. There is zero need for regulation in this scenario.
Right now you can use LineageOS, or even CopperheadOS. PostmarketOS might be better in the distant future due to Linux vs Android userland.
Large companies do this, so it must be good for the country!
With the latest version of Skype (iPhone) it is frustratingly difficult to make phone calls using my credit to my contacts' phones. What does MS make it so hard!? Did MS learn nothing from its disastrous W8!?
The thing about becoming profitable is that it extends your runway as you do it. So they may have 10 months of runway in q2, and 10 months of runway in q3 and 10 months of runway in q4 and 12 months of runway in q1 '18 and and 16 months of runway in q2 '18 and 48 months of runway in q3 '18 and profitable q4 2018.
Here's one suggestion from a Chinese perspective: Can you guys fix your democracy first? If you can't set a good example on how good democracy can be, then there's no incentives for any other countries to follow.

You realize that US influence can never achieve anything without the citizens of China agree with it right? Like now majority of Chinese think your political system is a joke. And you know what? The majority of Chinese like those policies that's violating certain human rights. If US can only be ever weaker as time goes by then the values you hold dear can only be more insignificant in other part of the world.
I was referring to the police as an extension of the government.
I am kinda scared to go outside in nature in The Netherlands, due to these little buggers

Your fear isn't completely irrational, but not going outside anymore because of it would be (imo). Learning how to avoid them, or find them, or remove them, or spot symptoms (all in that order) should make the chances of any serious damage quite small. E.g. people often seem to forget it takes time, up to many hours, from a tick landing on your clothes to actually bite. (anecdotal, but I've spotted tens of times more ticks on me than I've actually been bitten). That is already quite a barrier: proper clothing + knowing how and where to check can reduce the chance of getting bitten. And even the, not all is lost. As it takes again many hours before any possible disease transmits. If there is already a disease, to start with. Since you're talking about the Netherlands: there's quite a difference between areas when it comes to rick of ticks actually carrying Lyme, see https://www.tekenradar.nl/ for instance.
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It was on a top 100 list a few years back that I started working my way through. I really disliked the book having not read or even heard of it as a kid. It seems that it is generally well liked, so I'm not sure what didn't connect with me.
>You ever get the feeling this Nobel Prize and the western media's fawning coverage of Liu Xiaobo is really just about westerners making themselves feel better?

Not really. Imagine if the Nobel institute only granted the prize to Europeans. Imagine the furore that would cause. Now, sure, the winners have often been controversial. Here, I can't disagree. I mean, what's not to like about someone who wants to change their own country for the better?
If the movie Life were real, and Earth were the planet being sampled, those cuddly beasts would kill with their cuteness.
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Both Erlang anr Elixir, while safer than C/C++, are still far from ideal for any critical system, since they lack any kind of static typing.
Why must you give them ideas?
That's so you can have a music device and calling device connected simultaneously. Both connections can be consumed by one device if you want both music and call functionality.

I don't think your phone will try to use A2DP for a call.
Egalitarianism is not Communism. Humans have had agriculture for about 5,000 years and states with hierarchy about the same amount of time. Before that behaviourally modern humans were around for ~200,000 years. They lived in bands and tribes that may occasionally have gotten as big as 200 people, almost all of whom would have been either related or in a relationship with a relative.

Humans are egalitarians and would prefer a classless society. Ants are Communists.

On human egalitarianism

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/05/forager-vs-farmer-mora...
This isn't true, an app has to explicitly turn GPS hardware on. Almost all the time apps, foreground or background, get locations passively, which is done by triangulating cell tower positions, i.e. the location the phone already knows.
Under what conditions, exactly, do you think democracy originally came to be? This is a really bizarre, historically nonsensical comment that is unnecessarily dismissive of people who have sacrificed lives or livelihoods to pave the way for fundamental human rights in their country.
I would wager you are an outlier at 80%, although I can't find published US statistics of these numbers. Small transactions such as buying a stick of gum or a newspaper inflate the transaction counts at the low end.
Basically you can take ownership of their IP ranges, modify routing information, etc.

Even if you took a small percentage of the IP addresses in Europe, this could have a snowball effect. You take the IP addresses belonging to a popular mail service used by other domains, then you use admin email addresses to reset and eventually Europes internet is stolen.
> but I suppose they can pay this person a pittance in comparison.

While I respect your opinions on H1B program because you are entitled to have one, you have evidently no idea how much an H1B is paid if you think its a "pittance" (or have a different definition of "pittance").

E.g. See http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Facebook+Inc&job=&city=SEAT...

BTW, the salaries mentioned are just base (i.e. cash component). You can safely multiply the amount by 2 to arrive at yearly gross salary after stock grants and misc bonuses (e.g. joining bonus).
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Ad blocking will always work as long as: a) ad networks insist on having users connect to their servers and b) users have the ability to blacklist said servers.
This book had such a profound influence on my life and young mind. It basically formed a lot of the values I have and ideas about what is right and what is wrong.
...which is why GP said "banning end to end communication"?
Well I assume they're doing that while in pursuit of an individual or to get to the scene of a crime.
Since apps are ranked in the App Store by revenue and number of apps sold, buying copies yourself could also be seen as ranking fraud, so I'd assume Apple wouldn't like it.
I wonder how modern cars assisted steering and brakes fail when they do.
This sums up Hacker News so beautifully. On a post related to the release of a new version of a piece of software for caching data would the topic of slavery come up.
> Do you have data that shows that the NHS is better value for money than most/all other providers

I'm not sure how your link supports your point. the US spends far more on healthcare than the UK, but has lower life expectancy. Even if you remove private spending and only include government spending the US spends more on healthcare.
The first Yanni conference will be "Live at the Acropolis" :)
Sure, the man himself seems beyond reproach, and I admire his courage. But in another sense that's just what I mean, that we can sit here, read this news, and nod approvingly at this man's actions.

But beyond our own consumption of this narrative, his efforts are pretty much irrelevant to any eventual democratization in China.
Sometimes the lockin feels good. We pay a lot, but get a fuckton of value from AWS because of the well-designed ecosystem of infra products.
Just like tax avoidance!