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> Second, the Serpent language is untyped. It allows any operation to be performed on any data. Every value is a 256-bit sequence which can be used as an address, a contract, an integer, or an array.

I normally dislike people who criticize startups for not being perfect from day one and understand it takes iterations and a wide audience to get things right. But this isn't a normal startup and security was an obvious big piece of the puzzle from day one. Their reputation and developer adoption will depend on it.

Why doesn't the primary Ethereum language have types? This is basic stuff if you're trying to reduce bugs from the outset.

From my understanding they wanted the language to be as accessible as JS... but even JS developers are all converging on types via TypeScript, Flow, and Babel plugins like babel-typecheck. It's basically an accepted requirement of "5th-gen languages"... let alone for language-based interfaces to security focused systems.

Immutability seems like another obvious choice here for catching errors at compile time and forcing careful design considerations.

Also the language should have a (typed) Quickcheck implementation that hammers each function with random data to check for breakage... and it should be documented as standard practice. https://begriffs.com/posts/2017-01-14-design-use-quickcheck....

The fact Tevos is built with OCaml and is focused on code safety/verification gives me hope there is some sanity in the cryptocurrency marketplace. But it still blows my mind that this stuff wasn't given proper foresight.

A security obsessed language designer should have been the first person hired to implement the VM and reference language on top of it. And competent security researchers, like the team in this blog post, should have been brought in to do QA at each major release. It's not like Ethereum has a shortage of funding for critical infrastructure.
"Extremely hot" without predicated value is cannot be an accurate label in any context. It's a relative label, alone. In this case it's means "largest positive normalized value". The proposition that it is accurate by existence on a graph, is dishonest. That isn't constructive.
I'd highly recommend an op-ed the original author published in the ny times. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-f...

It's short and to the point.
You're allowed to state you're invested in something, or promote it. Not against any securities rules.
Phoenix is great! I only wish there was one recommended way for authentication and authorization - there are so many [1] different libraries that I got stuck in researching the options - I am confused, do not know which one to use. What is your preferred way? I would like to avoid to implement every little detail on my own - to get security done right was the main reason for me using open source libraries.

It would be great if there was one official way to make it easier to implement app security with the framework. I feel that this is the only missing part in phoenix - but it is a very important one.

BTW: does anybody know some tool that generates a phoenix api from a json-schema? Thanks!

[0] https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir#authentication
Why should it not apply to cigarettes as well?
Here in Northern Virginia, near the DC area, it was so hot that winter never came. Grass, bushes and trees were still green during winter. It didn't snow this year. And it's been incredibly hot through spring and summer. Temperatures have been consistently rising each month for many years.
Upstart was on the good path, but had its own issues as well. Detecting which process it should track was rather tricky in some cases. For example any server optionally spawning an extra command before forking is not possible to configure in a generic way. Shutting things down properly without cgroups can be bad too. (It's server's fault, but good init can help here)

I imagine it would get better if upstart got a serious v2 or higher, but it seems it won't get serious changes anymore.
I didn't realize Quartz was incubated by Atlantic until you're comment prompted me to look into what made that interesting.

As a potential reason why it may not be included I found that it (Quartz) was being shopped for sale in late 2015-2016[0]. My guess is that they ended up selling Atlantic media instead, or Quartz is still for sale/being sold.

Agreed, interesting they didn't include it.

[0] http://fortune.com/2015/12/11/quartz-sale/
Looking at your graph here[1] it looks like your correction affects the shape of the distribution but not the shifting median. Is that a correct reading?

[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XN8uKkAKWbw/UJlrmG-yBfI/AAAAAAAADZ...
Yes, but "stringing together" == "non-parallelism" | "unmaintainable because shell scripts". This can kill projects. I'm not even joking.

EDIT: Again, I'm not saying CMake is perfect, but then you haven't offered anything better, so... NYAH? Do you have something better? It's easy to complain about build systems (I do it all the time), but not so easy to come up with something better. Btw, have we dispatched the single-language assumption at this point? (Because, unless "your" language is C or C++, it's not going to happen unless POSIX is miraculously displaced).
According to Connor McGregor, Mr. Mayweather "can't even read" so your fear is definitely valid.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2017/07/13/cant-even-read-...
I've used both and honestly it probably wouldn't change much. Unless you're building an application that deals with tons of persistent connections and websockets there aren't really that many advantages. The Python ecosystem is also much, much bigger than the Erlang and Elixir ecosystem and it has far more mature libraries.

If you really want to learn a functional programming language I'd strongly suggest looking at Haskell, Ocaml or F#. Functional programming only really starts to shine with a good static type system and dialyzer simply doesn't cut it.
that would be interesting, if it didn't require facebook
Wanted to download an app or game from play store to PC here's how you can do it
Would you suggest to choose Elixir / Phoenix for an api for a startup? Is it too risky now, or good enough + very attractive?
I get that the SEC exists for very good reasons - but a part me wishes that ICOs and cryptocurrencies as a whole could remain unregulated. Sort of like an economic free-for-all zone: risky, experimental, not for the faint of heart.

At the same time, I guess the only way for these to become mainstream is for them to be regulated. Hopefully regulations help them thrive rather than dampen growth. Time will tell.

Regardless I'd like to see the SEC at least send a warning shot Floyd's way, cause he seems out of his depth and he's trying to bring his fans with him.
well suited for decimal money, though to be fair that's just about all money these days.

Adding or subtracting numbers with any fractional part hits the "slow path". A slightly more clever implementation could add "equal exponent" values in the not-quite-so-fast path (xor exponents, giving zero in dl; if zero, store zero back to cl and do the integer add) (but does this hit partial register access pipeline penalties? probably)
I'm not sure if these idea is very libertian though.

Also really not sure about HN and libertarianism. HN seems to be more interested in (Scandinavian style) socialism IMO.
I mentioned that no one had much experience with the implications of Ethereum's model and you point me to a bunch of articles but I fail to see how they apply to the case of Solidity.

What are the big ideas from E that Solidity is missing?

Also, the article by Nick Szabo has some interesting ideas, but as far as I understand, it does not describe a language for programming arbitrary smart contracts, just some notation for common financial contracts.
Regulators will have trouble finding anti-trust cases against amazon for the same reason they'll have trouble finding against conglomerates like Berkshire Hathaway. Both get their price setting ability from being conglomerates rather than monopolies. Size benefits both because one business unit can support other business units for less than their competitors pay and cross selling becomes much easier, both of which allow them to price competitors out of the market. If regulators could wrap their heads around the dangers of a conglomerate like Berkshire Hathaway, they'd be able to see the dangers of Amazon.
START WITH BUYING YOURSELF A KEYBOARD WITH CORRECTLY WORKING CAPSLOCK.
Floyd Mayweather understands "money" and understands how to acquire or increase it by "social proofing".

His stunt is so successful that, even on HN ,people will be like what is stox ico and look for it.
> Stop getting hacked and releasing emails showing people discussing how to "hide the decline".

Victim blaming much?

Also, the infamous "hide the decline" is not what you believe it is. The point has been explained thoroughly by so many people, I don't feel the need to repeat it here.

That's like someone taking a phrase from Linus's mail saying "this nice trick allows us to hide the latency in module XXX", and then running to the press saying "Linux is hiding its latency issues! Linus himself said that!" Of course, what's unbelievable is that some people are willing to fall for that.
It can be difficult to extend/modify the SSG in case you don't know the language. So I would still recommend picking one based on the language you're most at home with.
You seem to be defining "Brisbane proper" as the area between San Francisco Ave. and Firth Park. But Brisbane is much more extensive. The majority of its land area is taken up by empty land, single-story material handling facilities, and ludicrous sprawl at "The Ridge".
New Apple Watches start at $269 and you can pick up a pair of Bluetooth headphones for less than $10 these days. Why are you saying $1,000?

It has battery life that lasts almost two days, which is more than enough for most people.

How is it exponentially more breakable? By what measure?
Depends if you consider several millions US$ as 'enough income'
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I will. The only risk is finding devs - there are too few that know elixir. Not hard to switch though ;)
http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-newoffer.html
I would want the "drug deaths due to overdose" to include alcohol-related overdoses (although it's arguable whether that would include deaths due to alcoholism). Unfortunately I don't think even these enlightened reports do that :-(
> In fact here in the Bay Area who you knows matters more than what, just like anywhere else, and in some ways more.

I got my current job applying through the website knowing nobody at the company. There are just more (and better) opportunities here.
Amazon does have a monopoly in ebooks. I believe they are using that market power in anti-competitive ways. This is against the Sherman act today.
Looks like good tech for very automated jail.
This site isn't called "normal people news".
Great, sounds applicable then.
Making the BSDs more compelling, this Pottering coup. The astroturfing is interesting to see on HN.
Thanks, I'll take another look at it.
Can buy some cigarettes, can't buy investments. The little people need protection from dat ROCE.
They should have mentioned which of the listed places have an airport that is served by one or more major airlines. Those places provide the opportunity of simply flying in, hanging out at the airport until the eclipse and watching from there, and then flying home.

I checked a few, looking for round trip flights from Seattle leaving Seattle the day before and returning the day of the eclipse. For some it may be possible to arrive the morning of the eclipse, but I didn't get into sufficient detail to check that.

Casper, WY: many flights, around $800. One week later is around $300, so it looks like the eclipse has driven prices up.

St. Joseph, MO: Many flights, $400-500, including a few nonstop so only 3.5 hours (as opposed to 6 to 7 for all the ones with a stop). (I did check same day for this one. There are leaving very early Monday morning from Seattle arriving before the eclipse).

Carbondale, IL: many flights, $700ish and up.

Metropolis, IL: Many, $1000ish.

Nashville, TN: Many, $500ish.

Clemson, SC: Many, $600-2000.

That was just cities that the article highlighted. There are also many fairly significant cities, some near the center of totality, that they left out. Columbia, SC (which has many flights staring at $700), for example.
They also have a good market data tool at https://www.redfin.com/blog/data-center

Trulia used to have a similar market trends page, but it is really limited now.
> Apple controls all your devices and knows what you're doing with them.

Except there are a massive amount of android devices and windows PCs in the world. Apple controls a small portion of devices in my opinion. I think they are the smallest whale in the ocean these days.
> how could you justify not resolving it prior to release?

I'm not objecting to him addressing the lag, I'm objecting to him resolving it first. Until you've built something people want to play, addressing lag (and similar tertiary problems) is solving a hypothetical problem for a hypothetical player. And it may well be wasted effort, if you never nail the core product. But if you approach it from the other direction, as most game devs would, you know with a greater degree of certainty whether you should spend the time polishing. You either nail the core mechanics of the game and know that your polish work is justified in bringing the product to market, or you discover you don't have a product at all and avoid wasting your life solving imaginary problems.

Because even side projects are resource constrained. He missed a vacation with his wife. This is tragic, and happens all too often when you approach a product from a technical perspective prematurely.
If their goal is to convince people of something false that would be enough. Their goal is usually ratings, and this kind of stuff makes for a better show.
The BBC is ostensibly owned by the public, so they stand to lose politically if they buried scandals at the BBC.

(incidentally, the BBC was accused of doing exactly that when they spiked a Newsnight story that would have broken the Jimmy Savile scandal)
From my limited understanding, ICOs are more or less a tax on being stupid, as (relatively) intelligent individuals ride the cryptocurrency wave, profiting off the naive greed of the dumb. In other words, money made off cryptocurrencies are zero sum. Similar to how money made from stocks are zero sum (for every buyer their must be a seller and if one made money the other must have lost for the buyer to have gained, yadda yadda) if you ignore dividends.

Any truth to this statement? I've tried to gather some more information but I still fail to see the advantage of any cryptocurrency for the average person conducting an average, typical transaction. I don't see how everyone investing in crytocurrencies can make money.

EDIT: It seems this comment has riled a few people up. Basically, all I was trying to say is that the simplistic stock market (one without dividends) and bitcoins are very similar as they seem to be built on irrationality.

People taking advantage of this irrationality in my view is how "dumb" people end up broke and the ICO sponsors or what have you run away with the dumb people's money.
Oh, that makes sense. Instead of talking about what we could actually do -- build high-density by an existing and underused transit hub -- let's complain about the way the entire Bay Area is laid out!
That's not the town. That's the industrial park. The town is just south of there. It's made up of houses, not warehouses. Even including the industrial park, Brisbane is small, a town, not sprawling, and is completely detached from SF by water and a couple miles of rail yards. Tunnel Ave is really long and no one drives on it. It is effectively a country road that leads from SF to Brisbane. Go drive it or bike it or walk it some time. Brisbane is a completely separate place from SF
Because stating observations, whether true or not, isn't always an effective way forward. I was working under the assumption that the response was intended for the original commenter, which may have been assuming too much, but when it can be summarized neatly as "You're wrong. Your whole way of looking at this is wrong. Everyone else is right, and you need to just accept it." but with different words, I think it's not effective at engaging with that person. I think that the recipient of that might feel less inclined to accept an alternative point of view if that's how the interaction starts.
The big question is how you'd even split up a company like Amazon. The Economist published a quality piece a little while back on how antitrust rules need to change for the data economy: https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721656-data-economy...

On another note:

> They are implicated in complaints that Facebook has aided the rise of “fake news” while draining readers and revenue from legitimate news media.

This feels tired as if Facebook and Google were using anticompetitive practices to drain "legitimate news media" from revenue. Traditional media outlets aren't victims: they still refuse to look at alternative models of distribution, and have no one to blame but themselves.
It's really nice to have a small, dedicated device that just plays music and does it well even if you're in an area with poor reception.

Luckily, there seems to be a viable replacement for a small fraction of the cost: https://goo.gl/176cos.
Counterpoint, overdoes deaths increased during some years and drug use has markedly increased:

Also the chart supporting less overdose deaths seems to be actually a chart about all drug induced deaths, and not just overdose deaths, which means it could include HIV/AIDS, once a big killer of heroin users which we can now treat for much better.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/10/portugal-decrimin...
It is more like Amazon hires the antitrust lawyers as some sort of insurance in case an antitrust suit is filed against them. This is like getting a vacination shot to advoid the flu in the business world.

Is Amazon too big? They are like a gentle giant offering services and products cheaper than competition with a good return policy in case of defective stuff. Amazon is sort of a better Walmart here but instead of going to a store front you shop online and things you order get shipped to you. If Amazon is too big, then so is Walmart and others.
here's the non-mobile link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-food...
Light is not just on/off, it's a million different shades and intensities, some more appropriate depending on the time of day.

> Who is all this engineering effort for
Everybody.

Sure right now philips hue cost hundreds of dollars, but that price is going to drop seriously. The price of smart-everything is going to drop.

Try to imagine a house where there's a thousand different machines just there to make your life nicer.
The latest Planet Money podcast talks a bit about an interesting 'flaw' in the system causing Amazon to grow and grow even more and eating every other company.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/26/539552579/episo...
It's not us you need to worry about. Good luck!
$269 is still a lot more than $50. Where I'm from anyway.

The Shuffle was great and still easier to use than the standalone music playback capability of the Watch.
Don't they in effect?
By virtue of being controversial, which is not true of your examples, this does indeed add to its list of issues
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Cigarettes are probably not the best product for your argument as they are highly regulated.
Amazon has been around for 20 years, and the only thing it has used it market power for is to crash prices, which is good for consumers.

Amazon is directly responsible for ebooks being so cheap today. The publishers and Apple wanted prices for ebooks to be high.

If Amazon's monopoly power results in low prices for me forever, then I say bring it on.

The ONLY purpose of monopoly laws is as a consumer protection. And if prices are permanently low, like they are in the ebook space, that is GOOD for consumers, not bad.

In another 20 years, those "inevitable" price increases aren't going to come either.
> is that the author (Pottering or whatever?) fault?

Yes, he's got technically good ideas, but not a great experience with either security or large systems. He's also terrible at receiving critical feedback which makes this unlikely to change.

Some people chose systemd for the positive technical merits and others disagree. But just because his ideas got popular, it doesn't make him right and without blame for other behaviour. We have enough bad, popular leaders recently.

Ideally, I'd like systemd with each project split out with separate leadership and without Pottering. Nobody getting a pwnie award should be a leader of a large project.
Well, it is a recognition of risk not of guilt.
You can create whatever crazy investment you want as long as you limit it to qualified investors. But those people mostly won't fall for pump-and-dump ICOs.
This isn't the JS-inspired language, that's Solidity, with it's own hilarious comedy of errors. Serpent is a Python-like language.

What makes Python or JS suitable for any sort of inspiration for smart contract programming is up for debate. Probably the idea that making it popular trumps making it right.
I think you're reading into it too hard. It's just neat to find out that there's more than meets the eye here.

> or are they shill accounts

If you know something the mods don't, email them. But that's not a particularly nice thing to insinuate.
> they're at the point where in some circles they discredit science as a concept.

Because the left has politicized science. Science should be apolitical. Many on the left do not fail to provide those on the right justifications for dismissing science outright. This will not be fixed until those on the left with a high respect for the impartiality of science start to condemn those on the left that abuse that science to further their message.

The right discrediting science as a concept is the effect, not the cause.
I'm all for competition. If amazon is the best, then more power to them. However if they stifle competition, that's a problem.

From what I have read and my experience, they are stifling competition. For example, I read a persons blog post who said amazon had a rule that you can't sell your product on amazon and sell it for less on your own site. That's just rotten. Also I have an ebook on amazon and in order to get exposure you have to exclusively sell on amazon. I get why he does these things, but that's just not right.

Amazon isn't a horrible corporation, but I think some of the things they do are anticompetitive and should be changed.

So are they too big? No being big is fine and helps them be more efficient. The real question in my mind is if they are using their size to compete unfairly.
Just because you dislike the premise of the question does not mean it's not a legitimate question that can be discussed and debated. The headline "Is [company/individual/country] getting to [rich/big/powerful/indebted]?" is a valid question, and very different from a headline like "Is [White House staffer] capable of [an incredible acrobatic feat]?"

Edit: OK, I think I get your point that the headline is a clickbait considering the article is supposedly lacking. But my point is that the question being posed is not a question that anyone would get into legal trouble for stating as a positive fact, so the "headline law" doesn't apply.