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because not all capitalists work for publicly traded companies where they are legally bound to maximise profits. There are plenty of businesspeople out there who aren't constantly seeking out new ways to increase profits. Usually small business owners.
The Raspberry Pi isn't open source. Broadcom only releases their firmware as binaries.
+1 for Julia Evans blog
> A walk in the woods, a pithy tweet, an encouter (a dialog
> -- a communiation -- a discussion -- an interaction --
> an intercourse) with another human (fucking) being can
> also provide that eureka moment.

Eureka moments are when the new bridge has been built in your brain. Reading is one (and one of the most potent) of the things what creates columns on which this bridge lays.
Sharing screenshots in real time, when you don't need them to be persisted.
We have tried a large variety of approaches for the integral transform, but we were not impressed with the density/complexity/quality/decoding speed compromise -- at high image quality. We believe that we can only add a certain amount of complexity in this kind of format, and we try to keep our complexity budget targeted on solving the high-quality-high-decoding-speed image compression as well as possible.
Can anyone recommend any books or essays written in Esperanto by Asian authors? I'm very interested in experiencing these cultures with a non-English skew.

Please, only recommend things you have read and liked!
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many of those things are made in south-east Asia, in countries that aren't really "developing" in the sense you're implying. China is a modern country, Taiwan is a modern country.
1. I don't want to spend $200M worth of Bitcoin to a company in China. Something tells me that when you're ready to send that amount of money, bank fees do not even register in the expenses.

2. So, if transactions cannot be reversed, and I erroneously send money, or am tricked into sending money, I can't get it back?

3. So, BitCoin wins only when compared to Western Union and MoneyGram. Oh, what an achievement.

In it's current state bitcoin isn't a replacement for anything, really
https://veritas.veritaseum.com It’s just not enforced.
Except that bad reviews are sometimes put there by competitors
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Yes, PIK is like guetzli + lepton, but decodes 2-3x faster and compresses 20 % more.
Very helpful and Great information,
we appreciate advise especially coming from a professional.
Thanks again and keep up the great work!
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So it's a bad idea that we're thinking about what we're going to do before doing it?

I mean, I can understand "move fast and break things" when it comes to releasing web applications. My sympathy ends when you're literally moving fast and literally breaking things.
I don't understand the shock here? Large corporations don't want users installing random apps. I don't see why an NHS laptop, for example, should have Bejewelled installed, or some dodgy app which gives permissions to the user's drives, and uploads files.

Similarly, though admittedly not a problem in the same way with Windows store apps, to Chrome extensions. Those working in secretive environments with naive users shouldn't have something like "Youtube auto-hd" installed, which will feedback every single website they visit to some shady third party analytics company. IMO this is why having even the concept of these apps inside a "secure" (re. enterprise) version of Windows is a massive oversight. I will admit that this is not a problem in the LTSB branch of Windows 10 Enterprise; I had the disabled apps magically re-enable themselves 3 times after "updates" on non-LTSB before switching back over.

Sorry to rant, but in summation, don't be shocked when corporate users want their laptops to be as restricted and purely for work as possible.
You offer a few examples of research developed my Microsoft but don't mention the destruction of an entire generation of innovation by deliberate barrier of entry by obfuscation and theft of intellectual property. The history of Microsoft is well known I don't need to recite what most people already know
If you can read Chinese, Meituan-Dianping Engineering Blog is a must-read: https://tech.meituan.com/
This is also true for the App Stores (Mac, iOS, Android), all of which require you to make an account before even using it - Mac might still be an exception, but only barely.
I already see this happening in a lot of industries.

1. Create website that aggregates something tech event

2. Drive traffic to it through SEO and by utilizing the FOMO

3. Create a conference about tech conferences and have an instant audience
Those are sparks to burn off excess hydrogen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=capiUBVd7EU (7m 30s)
This is remarkable and awesome. Great job :)
It's cool to see open source themes that are beautiful beyond the Sass frameworks out there.
Nowadays I mostly use Tup. If I use make it is usually for when I'm working with other people on LaTeX documents, and often times it's enough to just call rubber from make x)
I've heard a lot of people saying they were already using these patterns before they read the gang of four book, it just put a label on those patterns for them.
Your comment is satire
Git is one of my favorite tools of all times.

Not only has it been a time and life saver in my coding projects, it has also helped me out in other aspects - keeping versions of documents.

Once, at work, I created a script that would take regular git 'snapshots' of all the procedures defined on a SQL Server. O'course, there could have been better code management and deployment practices in the first place, but this script let me introduce some sanity without affecting the DBAs workflows.

Off-late, I have been working on a pure python implementation of Git (Calling it Pigit [1]). While, I am attempting to clone git's behavior in Python, I believe there are important lessons to be learned about the different components involved. I am also attempting to see if I can make it modular enough to have changeable 'reference' or 'object' store (instead of the file system). One use-case I can think of, off the top-of-my-head, is having an entirely in-memory repository for testing scripts or purely for pedagogical reasons.

Strangely, I never thought of looking into the AOSA Book for Git! Thanks for the reference :)

[1] https://github.com/rajatkhanduja/pigit
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(Not parent)

Having read both a long time ago, I also feel like Code Complete is the one to recommend: it covers more ground, is pragmatic, and more importantly most of its recommendations are based on studies, i.e. they come from empirical evidences. Clean Code compares poorly to this, in that it's just one guy's opinion.

That doesn't necessarily mean Clean Code is a bad book, but since our work relies primarily on logic, I'd rather have arguments presented to me logically.

Since both books cover pretty much the same ground, it makes more sense to recommend Code Complete.
Not by Microsoft.

"Dell is proud to announce their new line of laptops, with classic Paint built-in!
Depending on whom you ask, having an antivirus may actually be more harmful than not, as it digs deep into the system potentially opening more holes, while not providing much protection due to the reliance on signatures. Heuristics is not yet there to be useful.
Seems contradictory to buy a low quality item based on unfair reviews, complain about that fact, then go on saying that reviewers owe nothing to anyone. They obviously owe a modicum of honesty and objectivity to other potential buyers. Why would you leave a review if not to inform other buyers ?
I really like the most moderate form -- simply eat two meals a day, skipping either your first meal in the day or your last.

Everyone 'fasts' for 8 - 12 hours just by sleeping anyway, so simply skipping one meal nearest sleep means you fast for about 16h a day.
In this case it's not really a question of technical possibilities, but corporate policy: if it says you can't install any software without permission, then better don't try as it can be used against you.
If there is no such clause in your contract, there is no much difference between downloading and using Portable Apps Platform software (which is mostly open source, but beware of catches such as IrfanView which is free as in beer only for non-commercial use) and bringing your own copy of Paint (on a pendrive, for example).
> For all its warts, the Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform. Doesn't disabling it merely encourage downloading zipped executables from sleazy unencrypted websites?

In a corporate environment in many cases it is undesired that users install applications. So of course one disables Windows Store. Additionally one prohibits downloading zips etc. I have read of a way how in Windows one can set that files created/downloaded by users cannot be executed, which is also a desired configuration in many corporate environments.
They spy on you, but might choose carefully who they reveal your data to? How nice of them.
I know, it is a concern, the hardware is as open and there is work afoot to release a completely open source pi, not sure how far they have got
I quite like the way Microsoft is listening back to users, welcome back Microsoft!
I prefer Unfilter:

http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/unfilter/

They admitted being directly inspired by No Agenda but they're less prone to conspiracies and try to point out when they're entertaining them.

I feel they have a bit of a (US) libertarian bias, which as a German makes them feel too conservative for my taste, but their reporting seems somewhat more objective at times than going straight for CNN.

That said, I found their reporting more interesting in the beginning when they were heavily focused on the fallout from the Snowden revelations. It feels like they've started going more in the radio show host entertainment direction lately with Patreon mailbags and such, plus there's a lot of reporting on the cannabis situation in the US (though they usually leave that out of the main show).
I don't know which version the parent looked at, but we had a mix of SQL Server 6.5 and 2000 servers. Those on 6.5 suffered from all kinds of phantom errors which a regular restart schedule fixed. SQL Server 2000 on the other hand was solid.
very cool. Any plans to open source the code?
That doesn't make sense, it could be run on WoW64. (even Visual Studio is 32-bit)
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Can I use an NFC ring as payment on my public transportation?
I’ve mostly stopped buying new books directly from Amazon because they sometimes seem to send crappy quality printed-on-demand copies, and I have no easy way of predicting if I’ll get one of those beforehand. (Sadly much of the book industry is moving this direction even if you buy directly. For example, the past few years of Springer math books are all terrible printing quality.)

I’m mad that they now hide book reviews that aren’t from “verified purchasers” unless you spend several clicks hunting for them.

It’s really unfortunate that there’s no independent page for book reviews with a big enough community to be remotely comprehensive.
Since the “Secure World” just runs a different stack of memory-unsafe software, it’s not cool that Android’s UI characterizes TEE-based FDE key derivation as “hardware-based” “credential storage” giving the user the incorrect impression that it’s based on dedicated hardware, when, in fact, the setup is much weaker than an Apple-style Security Enclave design for FDE key derivation.
Actually, all those things happened before we started outsourcing to Asia.
I think they're all dependencies shared by many other Windows components, and will probably mostly be the versioned API Sets rather than specifically named DLLs. But if there is anything Paint-specific it could just be copied over too.
Wow.

In Russia fully out-of-pocket (no insurance, no subsidy) CT scan will cost you $50-$200 (depending on body part).

So, this is likely around its prime cost. And the rest of your $(3000-200) is split and pocketed by hospital shareholders and insurance company.
I haven't read that many coding textbooks not specific to a language but the Joy of Clojure probably slapped me with the most ideas I'd never seen before. Not sure it made me a better developer in the short run, but I'd like to think that it will in the long run.
You shouldn't be running binaries you don't trust no matter where they come from :) . And honestly I would probably use the MS store if it didn't suck balls.

Seriously whoever designed their "modern" UI needs to get booted. It's terrible and the main reason nobody uses the windows app store.

Ubuntu, MacOS, and even Steam on Windows all have a good app store interface. MS designed the OS and their version is a UI nightmare.

I'm hoping in some way there's some MS employees watching this thread. Please fix the damn app store by just extending the functionality of "add/remove programs" which everyone knows how to use and works fine.
Unfortunately the NHS doesn't have the resources it needs right now. Blame the government right now who would rather sell it off to their mates.
You just reply to any DNS request with your own server's IP, which accepts any HTTP requests with a redirection to the captive portal. The replies can have low TTLs to avoid the caching problem.
That seems to be closer to Ethereum's value, not Veritaseum's market cap, which is "only" $350 million:

https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/veritaseum/
I'd be very surprised if Broadcom released the source code for their firmware. It would probably have to be a complete rewrite from reverse engineered specifications, like the original IBM PC BIOS was cloned. Except a lot more difficult as these firmwares are comparatively huge.
Yeah, that is bad because anybody can MITM you without difficulties.
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> If you're being targeted by governments I would agree you're out of luck even on iOS.

Probably true on almost every OS.
AJAX ruined the web, yeah.
He also states:

> There is no scientific evidence to suggest fasting does any of the above...

You can never know that there's NO scientific proof for something because you can't even know for sure that you've read all the studies.
Windytan (Oona Räisänen), absolutely phenomenal hacker: http://www.windytan.com/
As far as I'm aware, average book sales per capita have never been higher. The headline of this article is a wonderful example of how news outlets are scare-mongering for clicks. People are reading more, actually, and even those not buying books are reading thousands more words per day on their smartphones than they would ever have before. Sure, it's not high literature, but that's a majority of human communication. Newspaper sales have declined, but news readership among young people has massively expanded.

I'm also quite dubious of the attention-span theory. It doesn't seem to have much science behind it, only cultural momentum. The most interesting study I read recently was how the proximity of smartphones can diminish cognitive abilities. But that, to me, is a question of notifications and social functions. [Edit: I just saw The Shallows below, I'll look into it]

We are more interconnected than ever. We can instantly find stimulating discussion on an incredible depth of topics. We read more than ever. What we are experiencing, in my reading, is a measurement/phenomena bias. Now we can find out what the [Jones' next door] think of what's on the news, which disappoints us, rather than allowing ourselves to consider it private and so never give it a second thought. It's not necessarily that the world, or humans, have changed in some ground-breaking, global-depression-explaining manner - simply that the doors to our opinions and habits are more open than before.

Perhaps this does indeed have some effect, in a more permanent sense. But I regard this more as a function of the tendency for people to out-source beliefs. It only takes an hour or two to find the worst of all humanity, and the best. The drafty corridors between people these days carry beliefs across the degrees of separation faster than ever before. My pet theory is it's the beliefs about ones capabilities or 'type-destinies' which hurt the emotive liberals for supporting liberal democracies. It's the cultural-state beliefs that hurt the 'realpolitik' conservatives in gripping the real politics. On both accounts, I do think this can be resisted, but it takes time and psychological space that we have replaced for 'productive' work in mostly zero-sum economic activities.

When it comes to fashionable (and effective) practices like CBT and meditation, I like to ask whether they are assistive for the human condition generally, or just our present condition. Marrying an internalised locus of control with an ebb-and-flow outlook on life could be the healing function. Or perhaps we simply need to arrest our sense of personal identity, and alight the cultural train every so often.
If I'm not mistaken, he was comparing the stolen amount to the entire market cap of ETH (currently 19bil), to make it sound like it was a small amount.
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AMD are working[1][2] on a graphics card that includes a 1TB SSD, which appears to your application as having 1TB of RAM and then just swaps to the SSD. I would say that's a pretty good approach to enabling virtual memory on the GPU - you get really fast swapping and you don't tax the PCI bus and CPU with moving data to and from GPU RAM. No release date AFAIK sadly.

[1] https://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-radeon-pr...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8pMM2wV7k
New version released with some bug fixes in the RSS feed.
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Agreed and thanks for this comment. Is there any online classes or references or blog that he can follow ? Looks like this is very minimal online presence from guidance perspective.
>Middleton said that a hacker had somehow managed to steal VERI tokens during the ICO.

Somehow? they couldn't even figure out how the hack happened? How convincing for their clients.
Efficient by what standard? IE what are we optimizing for?
As opposed to all those capitalist governments that are trying their best to preserve the privacy of their citizens?

And good job on defending what capitalism is supposed to be, rather than what it is.
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Wasn't aware they are
> why don't we set society up so that you have to work less in the first place to earn a living?

The good news is you don't need to "set society up" to do this. You can just work less and live cheaply, and then you're done.

It's especially easy if you're a highly-paid software developer or similar, which you most likely are if you're on HN.
> Why is it a _bad_ thing that society is the one bearing the cost, instead of an arbitrary purchaser of their labor?

Because taxpayers are then paying for companies like Walmart to increase their profits. They are able to reduce their labor expanses because "someone" will pick up their slack.

The government should help you when you don't have a job, so that you can have time for education, your kids, or plain healthcare if needed. But if you are active and working, if you spend your day working for someone (either in an office in a 9 to 5, or as a "giggers" chasing the next one during your day), then you should be able to sustain yourself without additional help from the government.

Because then employers will expect the gov to step in. They will drive their wages lower, and all the competition will do the same. And when the government is picking up the rest of the bill for everyone in the market, where the fuck should taxes come from?

Finally

> instead of an arbitrary purchaser of their labor?

Labor has a cost. If you are unable to purchase it, then don't. But don't expect others to pay for the labor you would have liked to purchase. This is like saying that just because I'm the arbitrary purchaser of a tuna sandwich, I should get help to pay for it. This is beyond insane.

> The notion that this is "subsidizing" purchasers of their labor is Orwellian bullshit.

This is pretty ironic that you accuse me of using newspeak, while you expect the state to become the sole responsible party to support basic amenities for its citizen. Because the latter is pretty orwellian, and thus your accusation itself goes in line with the concept of newspeak. Anyway.
I understand, but what happens is that people will unzip programs from their Downloads folder and just run them from there.
This has been done, it's called Interlingua (de IALA, to disambiguate it from the other conlang csalled Interlingua).
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Two-by-two grids are almost ubiquitous in management circles. They go by many names: BC grids after Boston Consultancy Group, decision matrices, and so on. They crop up in Covey's 7 Habits.

They're extremely useful for concisely articulating a tightly-defined situation and mapping items in order to make decisions. Their weakness is that they may oversimplify and lack nuance.

I used to use important/urgent decision grids quite frequently at work.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=709139&seqNu...
I agree, though I did see some interesting projects, I don't have time to get involved though
As someone who has tried some early builds, what annoys me is that they have made it a lot easier and much quicker to install on Linux than it is on Windows!
I can provide examples of "destruction of an entire generation of innovation by deliberate barrier of entry by obfuscation", whatever that means, for almost any company in the IT landscape.

I don't know, should I start with Google, IBM, Oracle and Apple examples?
Well... I suppose it's because we don't set up societies. In some sense the technology has done its job. When Keynes predicted the 15 hour workweek he (ironically) got the technology predictions right, but the economics/sociology wrong.

Individuals don't make the choices to optimize for less work. As few individuals make those choices, it is more socially and/or economically difficult to make those choices.

For the middle classes, major aspects of the modern economy are also competitive "races." Good neighborhoods, good schools, good colleges... These things are effectively competitive, not absolute. Costs rise with earnings. T

The social context isn't limited to pure economics. Generally speaking, people don't tend to choose lifestyles at all. We like to fantasize it, but don't do it that much. I think this comes down the the "we" problem. Lifestyle invention is something people do as groups (if at all) not individuals. We're more individualistic in modern culture, so there's less room for it even though it is more possible than ever. A religious group could more easily decide on a 15-hr-workweek, or some other major lifestyle engineering choice. There are stranger choices that endure longer than that.
I love how the "Downloads" page only tells you... how to buy veritaseum tokens.

Apparently their team consists of 3 people too, only one of them being a dev.

I'm trying very hard to figure out what they do exactly, apparently they create "Forensic Analysis and Valuation reports" and then sell them but instead of selling them for ETH or BTC they sell them in their own VERI tokens?

I think there's more to it than that since the homepage says (in an image I've had to transcribe): "Veritaseum enables software-driven P2P capital markets without brokerages, banks or traditional exchanges".

I wonder what percentage of their ICO "investors" really understood what they were pumping their money into.

I also hope that some people are thoroughly documenting and archiving all these ICOs, it will make for a very interesting and I'm guessing entertaining post-mortem.