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> But, apparently, they think it would be bad for their business to implement it.

While this is true, users have the power to change this dynamic. If the statement "Facebook promotes stalking behaviours by refusing to implement an invisible mode to help protect victims" (whether true or not) is accepted as common knowledge, for example, then that can change things.

It is accurate to say that they presumably must not have a business case, they're a private company and they can do what they like. This does not contradict others promoting a particular opinion in what they should do, because that has the power to create the business case for doing it.
No, not really. Most currencies have a value which can be tied to real-world value at the most reductionist via which governments accept it for tax and the stability of those governments.

Bitcoin is different, not just because of the lack of government backing but also because the way it is structured meant the earlier people got into it the more bitcoins they got. (Fundamentally because mining rewards reduce over time).

But that's irrelevant to fact you've missed the point of his quote, that most people buying other currencies are doing it with purpose (such as hedging) and considering their value, whereas people buying bitcoins are doing it for speculative reasons and aren't making a judgement on where they think the price of bitcoin ought to be.
Amazon phone, lol.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(emblem)
I uninstalled the app, so I can't post screenshots anymore. Yes, I had the latest client with 4 teams, I also have a 2015 MBP 15", but with 16GB of RAM
There's a middle ground: don't grow as much, and pay some taxes. Not saying it's optimal (for any party, or on any axis), but it's not like there's just this binary choice of "growth consumes all profit" and "don't grow at all."
If so, point them to Calibre. While I currently use the Kindle app to read my books, I have made it my "policy" to on each purchase ensure that I am still able to break the DRM and store a backup copy in a non-DRM'd format. The moment that changes, I'll stop buying Kindle books.

Some purists would prefer to avoid buying DRM'd products in the first place (and I do when I have an alternative), but this is "second best" to me - I'll tolerate easily breakable DRM, but not one I can't remove.

The upside is reduced lock-in - it may affect usability (the Kindle app is still the best reader app I've used for Android as well - if anyone has recommendations for any actually usable ebook reader Android apps I'm all ears) but I know I can read all my books on any device, using free/open apps.
Early adopters of technologies, platforms and financial products tend to benefit more than later adopters. Is everything a pyramid scheme?

(Assuming the product or platform succeeds rather than fails)
That is a terrible summary of what is written in that page.

Edit: See the commentary below the post.

"This is a blog post, an opinion piece, and a provocation to think. As Piper says, it is about “shifting perspective”. It is not being written by a university president, nor is it something we are acting upon. We are not actually firing anyone. A common argumentation device is to take something to the extreme to really help us do the shifting (and often with things regarding race and gender, this is an effective device, albeit upsetting for some)."
> but as long as criminals can use CASH to make transactions, it's going to have some value.

There fixed it for you.

Why do people chose to remain ignorant and make ignorant claims?

Do you even know how much the US Dollar is used to profit criminals?

Illegal sales of Oil by ISIS.
Opium sales in Afghanistan.
Drug trade coming from Latin America.

Seriously. Before you start throwing rocks at Bitcoin and talking about things you have no idea about. Have a few minute to ponder about what you are saying.

There are plenty of uses for bitcoin and crypto currencies.

The remittance market, transactions between banks in different countries, p2p micro-transactions and replacing gold as a digital store of value.

All of these are legitimate uses.
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No, J# had no advantages on the .NET platform over the alternatives (C# and F#).
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I really dislike judging a person's argument based on correct predictions said person made before. It's turning the "argumentum ad hominem" inside out, giving credibility to an argument because someone specific said it.
Instead of reading this value-empty article, here is the report: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/the...

In my opinion, the report shows a lack of understanding of the fundamentals and inner-working of both bitcoin and other digital currencies. It is hard for me to take a report so seriously when the author shows incompetency in the underlined topic.

The report main argument against crypto-currencies is: "But they are not real!" repeated multiple times through the report.

Well, define "real". What does it mean to be real? Is the dollar real because you can hold a 1 dollar bill in your hand? If so, is the value of the dollar equal to value of paper; or the amount written on it?

The author main argument is very weak; and in my opinion shows a lack of understanding of how markets work.

In the very long run, everyone will die, the Sun will run out of fuel, and the universe might crunch. We could also be in a simulation.

What matters is the normal distribution of volatility of such assets; for day to day usage. And their trend, for longer term investment. People assume the US dollar is a stable currency because we have yet to experience a black swan event that disrupt that.
Has anyone tried this? Seems like it wouldn't be worth making the switch from VS Code on mac
There are people who try to make money via currency trading, but it's very much speculation, not investment.
Even if Bitcoin's first and foremost use were money laundering, it is not very well suited for that with its public ledger.

Anybody who needed proof for that just got it with the btc-e founder case.
I don't think it works that way. After 48 hours, a package is transferred to the nearest InPost POP, where you can retrieve it within 3 days.
I'm not saying there aren't applications where it is useful. If you can't tolerate errors, then you typically don't use floats in the first place. We've been running banking/accounting software for a long time without Perl 6.

What I am saying is that this isn't a killer feature.

It makes me go, "Oh, neat", and not, "Wow, this will make my life so much easier".
We are talking about J++ vs Android Java.
Interpersonal trust can be replaced with trust in legal frameworks, rules and contracts. Well functioning rule-based society is important for globalization.

Countries where personal relations are important for business suffer from smaller number of opportunities because forming personal trust takes time.
Just recently did a hackathon for teenagers. The differences in abilities were krass.

And not just programming knowledge but also mental agility, self assurance, independence, problem solving and social as well as soft skills.

Some couldn't even speak up. Others seemed like born problem solvers - 16 yr olds you could directly employ. Some were a fountain of creativity. One kid had an ego so big, that made him unpopular with us grown ups but I have to admit, he'll have a great future at any start up. Probably his own.

Kids aren't born equal - but the role of psychology and possible neurochemical makeup is IMO under-appreciated in how we educate people.
Yeah but then you'd be living in Dallas instead of Austin...
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Great UI, great product. I'd use your product to replace prodpad.com anytime :)

> We're already experimenting with different approaches to the graph visualization like visualizing the links between items.

Yes please!
Being able to visualize links between items that I created would be amazing.

Coloring items by cluster would be great too: I'd like to have different types of items (some would represent customers, others features-requests, and I'd like to be able to differentiate customers and feature-requests in the graph visually while visualizing links among them).
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Funny but I last tried it in november of 2016 and I had the same issues as you describe in points 1 and 3. I only tested on Mac and Linux. Wasn't aware of an android version.
Someone is looking to buy low.

Joking aside, I think what's happening in the cryptocurrency world is what has happened in the financial world before, just on a much more accelerated and aggressive pace. Cryptocurrencies have value as commodities or even a securities through ICOs just like many things in the real world, too. I don't think they are that fundamentally different.

People just tend to think of them as being different because they are digital assets and not something you can touch, even though people "buy gold" all the time that they also never get to touch. And don't get me started on fractional reserve banking's "virtual money"...

Pretty much everything in this world doesn't have inherit value. It's the value we assign to it in a marketplace that makes things valuable. I remember an older discussion on HN about this, with Bitcoin being more like tulips and gold not being like that because it has "inherit value." No it doesn't. Gold is like tulips, too, except it lasts longer, so it's a better (key word) "store of value" because of it.

Think about how things were in let's say the 1600's. Why did kings store their wealth in gold? Because they thought other kings regarded gold (and not some random rock or mineral) as valuable. Bitcoin is the same. It's valuable because people who hold it believe others think it's valuable, too.

Same for the USD, or the Venezuelan bolivar. People still believe the USD has value right now, but in 50 years it could be another bolivar if everyone starts believing that the US will never repay its $100 trillion debt (or whatever it will be then). Then nobody will think the USD has any value. FIAT has no more inherit value than anything else. It only has value as long as everyone agrees it has value (and even that changes on a micro-time frame, as people compare it to other currencies or gold on any given day).
Government-issued currencies have an underlying value in that the government requires you to discharge your tax obligations in them. Everybody has to pay taxes. Since you have to have some, they make a fine currency as well. Moreover, because the government keeps printing currency, inflation encourages people to spend or invest it rather than hoard it. Bitcoin is deflationary, so it's better to hoard it rather than spend it.
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If you're trying to check this out and don't have anyone to talk to, like me, here's my contact info:

Contact me using 'gilani' on the Ring distributed communication platform: https://ring.cx

BTW, on Android, I had to setup my username after creating my account.
>Thanks to the efforts of developers, the XML description of a new document written by LibreOffice is 50% smaller in the case of ODF (ODT), and around 90% smaller in the case of OOXML (DOCX), in comparison with the same document generated by the leading proprietary office suite.

Given Microsoft's record in implemeting OpenDocument, this shouldn't be too hard to do.
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Would it be possible to have headphones, bone conduction or otherwise, something they can still hear normal sounds through at least, which could convert an ultrasound "click" played by a speaker into a human audible "click" so they could use this in place of the audible clicking of human echolocation?

So a high frequency speaker on their head plays the sound, and the headphones convert the returning reflected sound in the correct frequency range into a lower frequency and the brain does the rest. Seem like if we can have active noise cancelling headphones removing sound frequencies, we can have a headphone with microphones converting a frequency.
I haven't run into that issue. Maybe background notifications prevent the tabs from being suspended?
Ask HN: What is the stack you are phasing out in your company / team?
Many companies/teams have the task to rewrite their old software in something new. What is being slowly phased out in your company. Do you miss the stack ? What are you replacing it with ?
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The vast majority of SpaceX's current success is attributable to government funded research and experiments (the entire space program for the last several decades) and government funding (currently) that Musk is taking advantage of. They don't have more mishaps because the innovations they're undertaking are small relative to the existing body of research and experiment, and built on a solid foundation that already exists.

It's popular in some circles (not directed to your comment, here) to lionize Musk as some exemplar of how the government sucks and to promote privatized space exploration but that's just not in line with reality as it actually is.
Yeah, I had something delivered the day after I went on vacation and it just sat in the entrance for a few weeks, then I took it upstairs when I got home. This is in Brooklyn FWIW.
Son of a bitch, thanks for that first tip. But this speaks to a greater problem of feature discoverability on these devices.
I'm looking forward to giving LibreOffice Online a test drive. Perhaps it can replace Google Docs for us with a nice self-hosted solution.

Are there any public demo instances available?
What are your system specs?
That applies to most of what's being said in this thread as well.
It could likely be carry-over from WWII. Many of the U.S. and German spy devices were engineered in small cylinders and then tucked away in corners of rooms. IIRC it had to do with improving the ability to pick up certain audio frequency ranges and naturally cancel out unwanted noise whilst remaining small in size.

j/k probably aesthetics.
Actually, I work in analytics well inside the commercial sector. 10 digits of accuracy works most of the time, and when it doesn't there are other alternatives. As with anything there are trade-offs.

I wish more languages would do this and I happily applaud Perl 6 and go for allowing sane operations in the real space without needing separate packages.

But there are high quality packages for all modern languages that allow you to get precision if you need it.

I'm not debating the utility of this feature, but I am saying it's not--by itself--going to make me want to pick up Perl 6 for my next project.
Some enterprise-grade server platforms already have this functionality, it's called a "watchdog". Linux supports this since (at least) 2.4.

I've been using this with HP ProLiant servers and (for me, at least) it has always worked as intended.

For more info, search "linux watchdog timer".
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Looks interesting, the front trunk and cut-down "UI" look especially great. This looks like an EV you could actually work on in your garage.

Vaporware until they get a production line though, and the absence of airbag is somewhat worrying when it advertises a top speed of 127mph and 0-60 in 4.5, at a GVWR 10klbs it's outside the light truck regs (8.5klbs GVWR) and thus doesn't require them but still...

Of note, the Verge article is light on useful pictures, there are other sites with interesting pics especially of the interior: http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1111790_bollinger-b1-the-...

And while it has the same dimensions as a Wrangler it avertises 2~3 times the curb weight and towing capacity and almost twice the cargo volume (rear seats stowed). And the maximum ground clearance is pretty ridiculous as well (advertised as adjustable from 10 to 20, most trucks seem to be between 8 and 12)
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Yeah, RoN is my preferred RTS throwback game. Such a good game. I think the later ages are poorly done though. I usually limit the game to 2-3 age advancements. Super fun.
You got it backwards: it is not about what percent of money laundering is done with Bitcoin, it is about what percent of Bitcoin is used for money laundering. I've just posted link (few comments above) about $4B laundering scheme discovered, that's 9% of global Bitcoin market cap (currently $46B).

And you can assume that this Russian arrested wasn't the only one doing it, so actual proportion is probably bigger.
A "medical university"? Strange, I wonder how I did my PhD in experimental condensed matter physics there :-)

It's a general research-focused university, like MIT. The oldest research-based university in the USA in fact.

Though you're right it's very strong in medicine and all things 'bio' including biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, and biotech.

But it also has a strong astrophysics program, eg the Space Telescope Science Institute is based there.

And the JHU Applied Physics Lab is not too far away too.

But I'm not sure why you feel that med-tech and bio-tech don't contribute to a tech hub. Are you considering tech as purely web tech?
Agreed. I also believe we'll enter an economic crisis (smaller than the 2008 one) in 2018, in part because an economic crisis seems to happen every 10 years or so, and in part because the stock bubble is looking to burst sometime soon and it will bring other things down with it (because of the overall panic in the market, as it tends to happen).

There's a high chance I'm going to be wrong about the year, but if I do get it right, I'm going to refer to myself as "the man who called the 2018 economic crisis" around here afterward.
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If this were a research paper it would be rejected for not citing any sources. There should be a footnote marker every two sentences in this story if we were to hold it to academic standards. There is no easy way to verify anything he is saying. That's not to say it's wrong. But I like to see primary sources.

With that said, I know our industry (high tech) would be very different if people weren't allowed to keep and invest their unearned income. He holds up Wallstreet as an example of greed (as one does) but ignores that other industries have created massive upwards mobility because people were able to keep their money and were incentivized to re-invest it (to make more "unearned" money).

In the US our entire retirement system is based on saving several million dollars and living off unearned returns on that money.

Now one could argue that the state could support retirees but I don't personally see that happening.

I for one am frightened by these articles... I don't have a lot of unearned income right now but I am working my ass off every day on new companies and ideas in the hopes that someday I will have unearned income and be able to retire at a normal age with the same (or better) quality of life I have now. If I knew that earning more just meant I got to keep less, I probably wouldn't be working as hard as I am now and taking risks. And less people taking risks is bad for innovation. And innovation is a job creator.
The 'General' in AGI is emphasised because it specifies the type of AI that is essentially self-aware and able to learn and reason as humans do.
Calling it infamous would be an understatement. That thing single-handedly attached a negative connotation to the term "drone".
"So, is there even such a thing as a gifted child? It is a highly contested area."

This seems to be at odds with your title, The Guardian.
Pyramid schemes can be long running and successful, like Herbalife. Seriously, that is a pyramid scheme but it has gone on for quite some time and is successful. Others are Amway and other multi-level marketing products.
It's not BTC but rather the absurd ICO bubble - the majority of these companies are selling worthless tokens in exchange for Ethereum. It's like penny stocks but even less regulated!
Oh cool, I'll have to check that out. Thanks!
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The playground format that this course uses ("playground book") is currently not supported in xcode, but hopefully that will change at some point.
I've been wanting something like this for years. It doesn't seem like any car company is building an all-electric truck.
Sounds like a missed opportunity to at least get a referral fee for resolution.
I moved to Raleigh back in '97 under the mistaken impression that it would be a major tech hub. While there are many good tech jobs there, the RTP area fell pretty far short of my expectations. Also, the dot-com crash gutted that area like a fish and I'm not sure the commercial real estate sector there has ever recovered even to this day. It was fun for a brief time in the late '90s. I moved away in '06, but went back to visit recently and now that area feels very overcrowded. I can't speak to the tech sector and how it is doing these days.
Seems to be Ethereum... ouch. You'd've hoped people would've come up with a better way of solving Zooko's Triangle than forcing everybody to store an ever-increasing, unprunable amount of data on their devices - that also requires massive amounts of data to be downloaded, wherever you are, even over mobile networks.

In practice, even DNS-based aliases are a better idea, given the tradeoffs.
I made this point to someone a while back on Reddit, and added that it couldn't work as a currency because it is inherently deflationary. This was back when the aggregate value of Bitcoin was $100M.

Meanwhile I have a relative that was an underemployed anarchist who now has his own plane purchased w/ Bitcoin proceeds.
I'm not completely sure, since "Contact Request" is currently listed as TBD on the wiki, but since the JSON data is apparently limited to trusted user contacts, I assume that they have to be manually confirmed, which would limit the bandwidth of an attack. If the export also requires manual initiation (as the part about manually copying the PIN seems to suggest), this is likely not an issue.
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I saw a talk by the founder of this company: https://radicallyopensecurity.com/

They're based in Amsterdam, but she said that a lot of their pentesters and engineers are remote (all over the world).

Might be worth reaching out!
You've been downvoted but what you've said isn't wrong. For example

> Each RingID has 40 characters

picture an md5 string but with 40chrs to imagine what your userid looks like. Yes, you need to supply this userid to others for them to contact you.

> We haven't had time to add contact managing features (adding, editing, etc.) to Ring yet as its not the priority in the alpha stage

Dust off the old rolodex for those 40 character strings, there's no way to save your contacts.

> The Ring OpenDHT network is new and it may take up to a few minutes to discover Ring nodes around and reach your partner's machine.

It can take minutes to set up a call. Long distance phonecalls in the 80s were faster

> Ring can usually reach computers behind a NAT provided that you have checked the Allow UPnP setting

So no corporate use then.
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Thanks, I got thrown off when I seen PWA talking about service workers, it sounded simlar to the data channels talked about in WebRTC. I haven't had a chance to dip in to either yet.
I would also be twisted and bitter if I didn't get in early
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Seriously. Trivial tiny things.
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The block chain could eventually fork to become inflationary.
includes is the same as indexof, what's the big deal in your opinion?