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Yeah, I actually hated when that went away. I had several RSS feeds on there, my inbox, my calendar... never found a good replacement. I used Netvives for a while, but it was somehow not the same (can't really put my finger on it, though).
The Valley hit the floor so fast that the auction company selling off what was left of our startup just combined the auction with that of another startup in the same building that hit the floor at the same time.
No, they should stop using C or C style coding in C++, and write those parts in a mix of modern C++17 and Swift.
At the level of discussion in advanced physics, yes.

But that’s also because that’s where the really interesting work is.

It’s quite a different scope of conversation
The stolen DAO funds were sitting in a time-locked account and couldn't be spent for several weeks.
I don't know about US, but in EU you can buy mini-cars that have 4 wheels, but are equipped with 50-250cc engines, and do not classify as cars legally, so you don't even need a car driving licence - a moped driving licence is usually enough. They also don't have to conform to "car" safety standards(they usually do have seatbelts though), and yeah, they are not allowed on the motorways in most EU countries, just like mopeds aren't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW2nI7VdS_U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdw6mgtTwt8
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I'm pretty sure the Bitcoin Core client supports Segregated Witness fine. I believe it will follow whatever the longest chain is (as long as its not larger than 1MB).
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There are a few problems with this.

1) moral hazard/information assymetry - If I insure you against fraud I have removed most of your financial incentive to protect yourself, so I need to have some other reason to think that you will. I also need protection against the fact that you have more information than I have about the risk of fraud (how do I know you won't collude with the fraudster, in effect defraud yourself and collect on the insurance?) In the normal world this category of concerns prevents lots of types of risks from being insurable, and we have criminal law to protect against collusion
2) Capital commitment - It's not sufficient to just get a promise from the vetters, the capital has to be committed (ie escrowed in some way) otherwise how do I (as an insured party) know they will make good on their payment when I need them to? As an insured party I have to be able to verify that you have done this. In the normal world, this is handled by regulatory capital guidelines for insurers and counterparty collateral posting in the world of OTC contracts.
3) Network effects - If I have capital in escrow, the contracts protecting that escrow would presumably themselves become extremely high-value targets for fraud. Can they be insured? How would you know that the capital is committed to pay out on these insurance contracts? Escrow again? This is a very significant bootstrapping problem - how do I as a participant somewhere in this chain know that in the last resort my insurance will be able to pay out so that if need by I can make good on my commitments. In the normal world this is handled by central counterparties demanding collateral posting against open contracts.

It's very tempting for engineering/technical people to assume that even though they don't really understand all the details, everything has an engineering/technical solution that would be so much better than what has been developed by their predecessors. This disruptor's hubris is necessary for progress to be made against very hard problems otherwise they would probably be to daunting to tackle.

Trust in the existing contract law system has grown organically over a very long period of time. Some of the smartest people going are lawyers and they've had a significant head start on these problems. It would be pretty difficult for trust to evolve organically given some of the poor decisions and scale of subsequent fraud that has already happened in the "smart" contract world.
How susceptible would this be to government influence?

NIST have a long history of positive work in the security field, so they have that in their favour. They also publish the "hash of the previous value to chain the sequence of values together", so presumably someone could record all of the values and test them for randomness ... but still, if this became the default source for random number generators in operating systems everywhere, it would present a very attractive target.
I am amazed and wish them luck, but it's almost impossible to imagine the economics of this. Whatever equation you write up there are at least two impossible factors: indoor land vs. outdoor "land" price is like 4000-10000 times higher, and growth time / logistics time is like 1000? I can imagine this in a fine restaurant though, picking a tomato in front of your eyes and chopping it, not too shabby!
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Commercial yes, but housing no. Houses leveled off briefly. It meant that instead of having to make an offer 50% over asking and literally beg in a personal letter to the owners, you could make a 10% over offer and leave it to the agent.
Yeah, I was really surprised when a friend from Tanzania told me he'd had Malaria >10 times, and shrugged it off as if it was no big deal.
Tried it but the positioning was off by about 1 cm in the produced PDF.

You could add alignment tools for multiple fields - look at Inkscape for inspiration.
If you had read the article, you would know Renault's answer to this question.
Someone stole ~$32M (~153k ether) from three multisig wallets
If wouldn't even discuss this. If that the of code is that performance-critical just implement it in assembler.
Crab/seafood salad, California rolls (sometimes), other things that have "fake crab".
For some microcomputer basics that was true, as they implemented the 'find that line' part of goto and gosub by a linear search from the start of the program, skipping from line to line.

Having fewer lines, or having the most often called routines at the start of the program would speed up programs, potentially a lot.
At the key time JS couldn't achieve everything in the Flex scope, even now some of the less open features (DRM) are still missing.

Having said that 80% of my time is still spend writing AS3 in Flex ;)
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I saw two fatal accidents in Vietnam in the three weeks I was visiting. This wasn't unusual, other tourists saw similar numbers.

I'd guess wealthy drivers simply paid the deceased's family (and the police if necessary), or in other cases the pedestrian or cyclist was blamed entirely and the accident not recorded as a motor vehicle accident.
I really don't think it's just a tech company thing, though.

But, talking about tech companies, or at least my experience which is tech, but not SV, is that I see certain people turnover frequently, but a bulk of the people stick around. There's an aversion to firing people (I think my word use is a bit cold) and the company is also not investing in the employees. Those people who I usually see stick around are dependable, but not always ambitious or following new things. I feel like this can lead to over-investment is old tech and continue struggling with solved problems. That over-investment in old tech can make recruiting hard, too. (I'm talking about continuing to use SVN, Cent5, or Python 2.6 when a DCVS, like git, would be incredibly helpful to your workflow--not using last year's javascript hotness instead of this year's javascript hotness).

On the flip side, there was an article the other day where it showed people who moved around generally got paid way more than people who stuck around. I've been seeing this for years.
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QR codes are just (ugly) reminders that we still haven't figured out how to do optical character recognition.

You're scanning a human-readable QR code right now.
You did an entire (sub)continent in one month? Did you spend all your time on the road/tracks?
Pushing a final compilation to the user is not a good idea - either it will happen everytime you run, or at install time. I have a lot of programs that are just executeables, and will not be installed. Having that overhead every time something is run is just a waste. Install compilation means that I cannot expect reasonable performance if I upgrade the CPU, if it'll work at all.

So for any reasonable implementation we're looking at JIT with caching, for running platform independent code. The very definition of a process VM is "to execute computer programs in a platform-independent environment"[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
This is absolutely crucial. I love indoor farming, I've built some hydroponics systems before, automated a bunch and spoke with my municipality about urban farming projects.

But anyone who looks into it long enough finds that indoor-farming only works for leafy greens. Not because they're leafy greens, but because they're low-caloric plants.

i.e. a whole head of lettuce is about 50 calories. No wonder you can grow it under artificial lighting in water.

That works for a commercial solution: a (hyper) 'local' head of lettuce, produced without any pesticides, by turning a shop or office or otherwise urban environment into 'nature', is lovely and can (with some ignorance on the part of the customer) sell at a premium. But indoor farming still does nothing to impact our ecological footprint at any scale. Once you can produce our staple foods in a manner that's less energy intensive inside than outside, that'd be amazing. But I haven't ever seen anything like that proposed on a major scale.
This make me want to dig up a version I did in Python (for Sudoku as it happens.) The algorithm is a bad fit for Python because attributes are not pointers, but have a look at this:

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~aassaf9/python/algorithm_x.html

> One day I decided to write Algorithm X in Python, and I came up with a very interesting variation on Dancing Links.
Me too. Besides what you mentioned, I'm particularly fond of /r/mdma, /r/psychonaut and /r/rationalpsychonaut (for discussions about psychedelics sans spirituality and religion). Also /r/nootropics. And /r/drugs in general. Don't forget /r/trees, which is of course the gateway subreddit, but it's rather boring in comparison.
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You mean like only allowing the update over wifi? ;)
Just because the "developed" world has already brought us 90% to irreversible damage doesn't mean that we should deny cars to people who couldn't afford them previously. I'm sure that those cars will be sold as EVs as soon as that's feasible. Meanwhile countries that have the money could probably do more to reduce emissions. India's efforts to reduce emissions (i.e. increase them less) look extremely ambitions given their budget.
fixed point is often used for that case
At some point ... :)
I saw it as two main issues:

1. Apple couldn't improve the Flash player like they could with WebKit and Nitro to make Flash content run well on their phones.

2. Most of the complex content on the web was in Flash, by not supporting it the web was fast and light weight for a very low powered mobile device.

If you try and load a JS heavy website on an original iPhone now days it will likely crash.
The visual drops in data shows only one of the things you mentioned had a sizeable impact, and that was discussed in the article.

Almost everything you list are things that happen around a certain time and we don't see those events manifest in the graph.

The reason of course being that the vast majority of Firefox users are not expert and don't care or know about those advance features.

Maybe if you can link to a user satisfaction report...
I wouldn't call what the_donald is doing free speech. I have absolutely no problem with the opinion of people subscribed to the_donald, however their post frequently hit the frontpage and there is never any discussion because everyone with opposing views are banned. The is no "debate" to join.
Fucking great post man. Really hits home.
> For instance Russia's involvement in Syria and Crimea is more about expanding territory and sphere of influence

For the record, these places were Russian sphere of influence before the conflicts started. Though not strictly Russian territory, indeed.
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Can this at least be used to seed a CSPRNG at boot / device install, ideally with a mix of other entropy available? Is the problem that they’re shared for everyone at some given time?
You should add SEGSIGNAL/BIP91 https://github.com/segsignal/bitcoin which is at the moment the lead for starting the activation.
Even so, if you are suggesting dyslexia (in these cases) probably has or probably hasn't affected outcomes, that's problematic. The examples you give provide zero information either way; without enumerating a statistically relevant section of people considered successful, these examples seem to provide information, but actually provide nothing.

You'd also have to adjust for other factors such as parents trying harder to find areas (other than academia) where dyslexic children can consider themselves successful. It's almost intractable to think of a study that could remove these correlations from any statistically relevant top level study...
Minus marks for blank window if JS is disabled.
Wouldn't tetra pak be even more space saving?
In the department I work, 5 people recently started using Python who never wrote a line of code before (except some limited VBA).

While the coding itself was relatively smooth, we spent a majority of our time consolidation which Python version works with which packages and how to create code that can be executed by computers that use Python 2 vs Python 3. Some people had to use packages that only worked with P2, others only worked with P3.

There's still not really a solution for this. We'll probably just switch to Julia once it gets enough support in areas we need..

So I disagree, Python is actually not a good language for beginners. The language is great but the ecosystem can be extremely frustrating.
This was such a poor go to argument from Flash developers (I was/am one of them). However in reality this wasn't just about revenue as many assumed (it's a tiny tiny tiny percentage of Apples turn over). The better argument was that Flash, even wrapped in a native container (cordova etc) was insecure, slower and out of their control. Forcing developers to use native toolkits and frameworks produced far better applications as a result.

Even today the best apps are still native.
Human nature was always as easy to manipulate. It was just never so transparent.
I don't understand why there's a need for complex cap and trade schemes to deal with carbon emissions from vehicles when there is a perfectly simple way of adding a cost to driving a carbon-emitting vehicle. Just add more taxes to gas. Taxing the vehicles unfairly punishes people who drive gas vehicles but organize their life in such a way that they don't need to drive many miles. Who is more environmentally friendly, someone who drives 60 miles per day in a vehicle that gets 60 miles per gallon or someone who drives 10 miles per day in a vehicle that gets 20 miles per gallon? For that matter, electricity isn't 100% renewable, even in CA, so even people driving fully-electric vehicles will also have some carbon impact, which should be, likewise, taxed. Carbon emissions are an externality and we should be treating them as such.

Taxing vehicle sales and offering subsidies are dumb ways to incentivize reducing environmental impact. Instead, just tax that environmental impact directly and don't punish people who figure out how to live environmentally friendly using older, less environmentally friendly technology. People and companies will adjust their behavior accordingly. As a bonus, instead of costing the state billions, the state will collect billions, so they can spend the money building out renewable energy infrastructure, planting trees, creating more state parks and other programs that benefit the environment.
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This needs more attention but sadly none seems to be given.
Great, what i asked for: think for me before I do.
It was my homepage for the longest time. Such a great service. Sadly now I have to come to HN and hope there's something of interest here when I have 15 minutes to spare.
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They try to make solar panels absorb across as broad a spectrum as possible, but they don't absorb everything by default. It's an ongoing research goal to add spectrum without increasing cost.
Thanks for the insight. With your experience, what would be a good language for non-majors so that they can make use of their experience later? Python, Go, C?
IMO it does not necessarily need an assembler implementation, only if that is more clear.

For performance enhancements where code readability suffers big time, I always want /proof/ by comparing the instructions (and some benchmarks help too).
It needs one for such a niece product
http://www.freshnews.org

An early RSS-based aggregator -- but you could (and can) choose your feeds, if you like.
> No one wants to say it out loud, but I'm starting to think that the startup economy requires people to accept the gamble of shit salary for a chance at the equity lottery.

Eh, lots of people say exactly this out loud. People who accept that gamble jsut like to pretend their chances are higher than they are and/or it's worth it for the work experience.
Echoing some of the other replies to your comment, The Guardian has really gone down in its quality of journalism.
You assume that the course is for CS majors. For students who'll only have 1-2 CS courses in their life, teaching some practical skills could be the better choice.
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Encrypted files that nobody but the owners can decrypt.
Have it updated and sandboxed.
Depends where you live. For example in Finland with high tax on cars for 4000€ you can get a -00 Toyota Corolla with 250k km on it.
This was addressed in the article: There is a tendency within that industry of whitelisting API access etc. by source IP, so their customers do need static IPs not primarily for inbound traffic, but to be able to access the APIs they need.

Now it's still stupid of them to not abstract that away from the individual customer servers but, but this issue isn't solved with cname's.
>but BTC is fully public and so money laundering, counterfeiting, and tax evasion both go away when we move to a public blockchain.

So you believe that all the public mixers are compromised? It's certainly possible, but even so, they clearly aren't publicly compromised, and as such, I'd argue that tracking down large amounts of money moved conventionally is easier than tracking down large amounts of money through the blockchain, as last I read, traditionally, btc was sent through mixers quite often.
Wow, hacker news is incredible sometimes :) , I was/am just looking over your notebook a week ago. Vacation is starting in a couple days and i was gonna try and solve if infinite play is possible in Tetris with just perfect clears. People have been at the problem for a few years now, and your notebook is pretty cool :D http://harddrop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7792&hl=perfe...
Szabo's idea was a hypothetical for two decades. Ethereum is the first smart contracts platform people actually write for. There were attempts to do it previously, but Ethereum is the one that actually took off.

So if you're talking about Ethereum as a bad implementation of a good idea, you're weighing up reality against something that was a hypothetical from 1994 to 2014.

In any case, there's plenty really obviously wrong with the idea of immutable smart contracts. Legal code is a bad match for computer code; immutability means changes in circumstances can't be allowed for; immutability means you must code with zero bugs; the oracle problem (getting real-world data in and out of your smart contract) ...

"Dr. Strangelove" is the story of a smart contract going wrong, unstoppably, immune to human intervention.

Szabo's stuff is better than the reality - he does actually understand law as well as code, and at least early on he considered there was a role for human intervention - but it's still the sort of thing that's "interesting" rather than "a good idea".
Trump would probably be a better candidate than either of them, at least he’s actually run a business and would have four years of presidential experience.
>How do these smart contract deal with the real world? I can see how they can work for things that entirely involve activities that take place on the block chain (e.g., a smart contract that automatically pays a crowd funded project if and only if it meets a threshold for pledges by a deadline, and refunds the donors otherwise).

They can't deal with the real world by themselves, but where they have value in agreements involving real world events is that they allow the real world assessments to be debundled from those aspects of the agreement that can be formalized.

So in the cotton shipment example, the smart contract would have three parties assigned as Oracles that determine whether the correct ship arrives at the correct port on its correct trip. The smart contract would dictate that if 2 out of 3 of the Oracles agree that the condition has been met, then the smart contract will transfer the funds. There could also be a failsafe clause in the smart contract, that is controlled by a set of five oracles, who have the power to override the smart contract if the majority deem that an expected event occurred.

So yes you need human intervention, but only for those parts that cannot be automated. This explicit definition of what the human roles are may encourage better contracts, by forcing the counterparties to spend more time reasoning about which aspects of the smart contract are subject to ambiguity.
Learning to program is hard enough without having to worry about hoisting, truthiness, function vs block scope, prototypes, the many rules of this, "classes" that don't behave like classes, and other quirks unique to JS.

Do you need to know all of the corner cases in order to write a simple script? No. But good luck trying to get someone to debug a JS program without a solid foundation. JS is a pedagogical disaster.
If you want anyone to get interested, post screenshots or a gif in action.
You are correct, but as it seems almost certain at this point that SegWit2X (btc1) will reach its threshold in time, we can simplify.

SegWit2x rejects non-SegWit blocks. So with the majority it has it can't cause a fork in the chain (until the HF 3 months later), and neither will BIP148.

So with the rather safe assumption SegWit2X reaches its threshold in the next few days, the only expected fork in the chain by August will be Bitcoin Cash (Bitcoin ABC/BU/big blocks) on one chain and Segwit on the other.
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No. Please file a radar. They get read and the more dups increases the likelihood it'll be addressed.