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Buckie, I'm in the process of reading your white paper on Kadena smart contracts, so it may answer this question. What is the purpose of a private block chain? Doesn't it become vulnerable due to available resource to out pace the block chain? Are there companies looking to secure intercompany transactions?
Unless data privacy is an issue; if you started your company with questionable means, keeping your data and internal comms completely private could be a (paranoid) priority.
> People have been shown to be exhibit social anxiety caused by others' lives appearing to be more glamourous than their

Yes. Not just social anxiety, but down right depression.

Source: Research Links Heavy Facebook And Social Media Usage To Depression => https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/04/30/study-l...
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> And in any case, the market for lemons is a theoretical exercise. It does not actually happen in real markets, because there are various market mechanisms that emerge to address it.

The "market mechanisms" you speak of are government regulations establishing minimum standards and forms of redress (e.g., and most on the nose, lemon laws).
Thanks for the reply, makes sense now that you explain it that way :)
There are a few papers up on the site already and some more coming. As a business, publications aren't really the KPIs we prioritize (vs an academic-style lab like DM or OAI).
NZer here. Our craft beer is still mostly owned by small companies, with some notable recent exceptions. But for whatever reason I don't see ads for beer, either NZ or otherwise, online.

I own a BMW, but have no interest in cars and so don't see car ads online (nor would they be effective - the BMW was chosen by my wife).

I take your point, and I am not arguing I am the exception, however your specific examples probably don't apply.

Maybe the choice of utility companies? Internet, power etc. We have more choices here than the US tends to have, due to the smaller market and more government regulated competition. It's hardly a dire violation of my personal liberty if I am manipulated into picking one or another provider of fibre though.
Hey Zach, I'm in a similar boat to you, although less prolific. I read your post as saying "I'm trying to figure out what to do next", and this is some food for thought in that regard. Personally, moving forward I intend to do what you call a "project deep dive", but from a slightly different angle.

There was another highly upvoted post on HN last week titled "Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers" [0]. The article itself had a lot of interesting advice, distilled from interviews with people who had taken side projects and turned them into profitable businesses.

In the comments, soneca had some insightful additions [1]. And we are increasingly in an attention-driven economy [2]. But while attention is being widely harvested through exploiting addictive tendencies [3], that does not motivate me. Reading Hooked [4] was interesting, but also terrifying.

For me, bringing this together means my course of action is as follows: Build an audience around content which enriches the lives of people. Way easier said than done. And some may write it off as hopelessly naive.

But while Facebook and friends scour the dopamine landscape for user attention, building an audience around long-term content that challenges and enriches the lives of people seems wonderfully contrarian to me. And it's in that contrarian tenet that I find solace. Take the slow and the long road, and you can build a sustainable source of value.

In the grand scheme of things, spending a few years of my life creating short interactive games which explore philosophy and society is the path that makes the most sense to me. Like I said, food for thought in your journey forward.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803468

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803468#unv_14804395

[2]: https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511...

[3]: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html

[4]: https://www.amazon.ca/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Product...
Yeah, I usually stop talking when someone does that and wait for them to look up, though sometimes they don't...
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More like, if you read the SEC document carefully enough, you'll see that they applied the 4 prongs of the Howey test to theDAO token and defended each prong with arguments and evidence. They'll probably do the same thing for Ethereum (but not necessarily come to the same conclusion on each prong).

Saying "it has other uses than profit" is not sufficient since you'd have to back it up with meaningful evidence (what are the actual uses that investors are getting out of it?)
Yes, but because human knowledge is so much greater than it was 100 years ago, a given lifetime of work is able to push knowledge forward less. Yes, we still have CRISPRs and other titanic discoveries, but even those are collaborations. There is no more room for an Isaac Newton who basically invents three different scientific fields.
You do realize that Facebook and Google already do this with the intention of squeezing every last advertising dollar possible out of you, right? There doesn't need to be a conspiracy to pacify the masses (assuming this crap even does that because I think there's a very good argument that it doesn't); distracting people is just a side effect of exploiting your data.
Home assistant works beautifully with the Vera.

It's how I have it setup right now, and it was a great way to slowly move away from the Vera (at least as the UI).
What about FrameMaker?
I'm sitting here watching my child at the park and reading Hacker News. I don't use social media but definitely am addicted to being distracted.
Good effort. I tried making something similar years ago, and it was hard (the visual side, not the data side).

I don't know what your goals are with this though. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but to 'genealogy enthusiasts', ie the people regularly spending money in this domain, your website is no more than a toy. In fact, I'm pretty sure that Ancestry.com offers this same tree building functionality for free (when you pay for a subscription with them, it is for the research capability, not the data entry capability).
I’ve been off Facebook for at least 5 years, and the quality of life improvement was greater than anything I’ve done since quitting TV (about 12 or so years ago). I now have time for two fairly time consuming (physical world) hobbies, whereas before it was endless vacuous screen-time, devoid of purpose. Highly recommended—you won’t miss it!
Im curious why would the price of tokens (which are not equity backed securities) rise?

If I understand it right, your hypothetical is just a kickstarter project where a funding level reward is a "virtual token" and just as say a reward of a t-shirt this token doesn't represent equity in the project? Would anyone expect the value of the t-shirt to go up? Is it possible, yeah actually, imagine if Apple originated through crowdfunding, I bet that original crowdfunding t-shirt might sell on the secondary market, so it all boils down to if there was a subjective belief of a profit or a reasonable personable would have expectation of profit.
This is true of proof of work but this isn't necessarily true of all blockchain implementations. Under certain conditions BFT can be maintained without systems such as proof of work.
The problem with Clean Code is, just as the post you replied on said, it's very dogmatic. A problem I often see people who quote Clean Code do is that they take its principles to the extreme.

An example is tons of tiny methods of 1-3 lines each. Sure splitting up methods is good practice but it's painful to read code where you continuously have to "go to definition". There is an article written about this by John Carmack here http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...

Another example is the "comment are a failure" mindset. Sure I don't need comments that say this code is doing an addition between two numbers, but a piece of code doing some complex business logic definitely benefits from a comment explaining what the hell it's doing. No amount of function-splitting and function-naming can replace such comments. Yet all too often people who read Clean Code treat comments as some sort of abominations that has to be avoided at all cost.
"Show barely any progress" and "show barely any progress to the public" are very different. I don't have any inside information here, but a lack of public announcements is not proof of anything.
How do you feel when you enter a clearly private space such as a shopping mall, or stadium, and they don't publish a 100%-complete set of rules for you? Is it oppressive?

How do you feel when you enter public (government) property, but they make available for you thousands of pages of by-laws that govern your behaviour? Is it oppressive?
Interesting that Musk is often accused of hyping his projects, but here he's basically telling potential customers to be wary.
This has nothing to do with Flash, but a move in design trends.
> a good IDE and a solid toolchain

This area is in much need of improvement. Keil ARM-MDK, IAR, ect. aren't cheap.
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> We enable rolling over your retirement assets into Bitcoin or Ethereum in just few clicks

Might as well just take out your retirement assets and go gambling with them, probably would have the same end result.
Also took the Delta Heavy team a long time before they could successfully launch commercial cargos, they had their own problems to overcome.

"The first launch of the Delta IV Heavy in 2004 carried a boilerplate payload (dummy payload), and failed to reach intended orbit. Cavitation in the liquid oxygen propellant lines caused shutdown of both boosters 8 seconds early, and the core engine 9 seconds early; this resulted in a lower staging velocity for which the second stage was unable to compensate. The payload was left in a lower than intended orbit.[6] Its first operational payload was the DSP-23 satellite, successfully launched in 2007; "
I doubt the SEC is a good fit for improving smart contract security.
I'll tell you what the new smoking is. Driving around in a gas car. Hey Ford, cough cough, I'm trying to breathe here.
2040. Why so late?

This kind of law pisses me off. Not the intended result, but that it won't take effect for 23 more years!

I live in London. I'm severely affected by all the diesel emissions. I've had Bronchitis and other respiratory ailments several times over the past few years. I notice this most when walking through the exhaust (trucks and buses are by far the worst), the sharp NOx odors are unmistakeable, and a few hours later I'll have a coughing attack.

It's been estimated 10k people in the UK die each year from diesel exhaust, but NOTHING is being done to remedy this in the short term.

To put into perspective, that's like the number of people who died in the Grenfell tower fire every three days. After the Grenfell fire, immediate checks were done on all council block towers with efforts to change them to avoid another similar tragedy.

Yet for Diesel engines, which affect far more people, nothing is being done other than some vague laws to slightly increase taxes in 3-5 years for diesel.

I was looking to buy a used car and went to CarGiant the other day (like CarFax in USA). 90% of the used cars were diesel. It's ridiculous.

Politicians are scared to make a laws, eg even slight financial disincentives on diesel cars, despite 30 people per day dying because of those cars.

Pisses me off.

(Edit - the article talks about the proposed law to charge the 'worst' diesel owners £10 for their daily central London congestion charge. This is useless, it only affects cars before 2007 and also those that enter central London. Heavily polluting diesel cars and buses from 2008+, or older ones that don't go into central London, can keep on happily poisoning the air for the rest of us without penalty. And btw, you can tell the year of a UK car by its license plate. And many of the affected cars and buses are well newer than 2007.)
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This argument is a little pedantic, but here are some examples that contradict your assertion.

Consider this: without the bomb we would not have nuclear power. Without modern warfare we would not have modern medicine. There are other examples, but you would have been worse off limiting these. Not to mention non-technological benefits like geopolitical stability from MAD.
And yet plenty of first-world countries allow non-millionaires to invest in these companies, and it seems to work just fine.
No, but quite a few people who are familiar with OpenGL are interested in learning Vulkan, and it's really educational to have a side-by-side comparison of the same scene.
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I'm a speaker of esperanto so I'm well aware of the roots and history. But it's a fun silly language.
I quit smoking over a decade ago, but only because I had a S60 phone with an IRC client lol
Progress is fractal, by definition. Technically the rate of change possible is limited by the number of edges on the fractal and the number of people who can work on it.
It looks much worse than my imagination accredited for - but Metroid Prime Hunters was a beautiful DS game:

http://www.ricedigital.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/hunt...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmOqSxAbM_U
Hell, Shannon's masters thesis [1] is probably the most important masters thesis ever written and it cites six references.

[1] https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11173/3454142...
To say nothing of their ridiculous security sandbox design... I remember trying to make banner ads with dynamic price data and between all the various detached hosting abstractions and ActionScript's security requirements (in a time before this kind of setup was common) it was a hell of a project.
You need to let this go. You're trying to argue something that everyone understood well at the time. Thousands of news stories followed up on every detail in that letter and it was very clear what Apple meant.
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>> Wish there was a save feature, I just saved this to a text file.

Click on the time tag (next to the user name), then click on 'favorite'.
Stephen Wolfram might disagree.
What about Flash proper? I imagine sunsetting that would be devastating for the animation industry.
> Wish there was a save feature

There is: select/click timestamp/"go to" the post[1] - click "favourite". Will be listed under favourite posts in your profile.

Or just get to [1] and bookmark in browser.

[1] eg for your reply, go to the url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14853064
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This reminds me of an momentarily disturbing incident quite a few years ago. We were in a gothic cathedral when a large group came through the door. As one, they each raised a straight arm as if at a Nazi rally, and it took me a second to realize they were all using their compact digital cameras (a recent development at the time) to take pictures of the stained glass windows of the apse.

We have mostly stopped photographing our travels in favor of experiencing them, some time after the images became essentially write-only files.
Ages ago Microsoft purchased another company called Convoy, the product was merged to NT4SP6 and Windows 2000 as the Network Load Balancing component.
Well I think what OP actually means (how I understand it) rather than specific inventions is "meta-technologies" such as AI, cryptography, the internet, etc. Perhaps meta-technology isn't the right term or super clearly defined but hopefully you can grok what I mean. Clearly not every single invention was created for he military.
Yes, they were at IAS at the same time, along with Weyl, Einstein, and Godel. I think he met the latter two a few times but did not work with them. He did discuss ideas with Weyl and von Neumann, though.
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Yes, but those miners have invested so much capital into their mining hardware, software, electricity, etc that they have a strong incentive to make sure that doesn't happen. If an attacker were to gain control of 51% of the network Bitcoin would quickly become worthless or at least drop sharply in price making the whole attack pretty worthless. Not only is it very difficult to get to 51%, there are strong incentives for the relevant parties to make sure such a thing doesn't happen. If entire mining pools were hijacked with malicious mining software, someone would catch on and likely pull the plug on those machines before massive damage could be done.
Technically, WiFi beam-forming, which is part of the standard since 802.11n and is really taking off with high-end 802.11ac routers, is a phased array to all intents and purposes.

The future is here.
In many situations I am on my phone so that I don't need to talk to anyone. I'm in the social circumstance for some other reason beyond my control.
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This is a really useful codebase to compare what the code looks like for different APIs and the tooling around each (not so much for directly comparing the graphics, which should go without saying, but a lot of people seem to be missing the point here...)

It would be interesting to add an emscripten version, ie. slight modifications to the original C++/OpenGL code to make it compile with emscripten and run in the browser. After some fooling around I got that to work, however nothing shows up because the shaders need to be rewritten for WebGL. Looks like this was already done for the JS/WebGL version, but the shaders are less fancy and clearly don't map 1-to-1 to those in the C++/OpenGL version, so the code will need to be modified a bit either way.
> He's talking about how the government systematically Rob's from the future through inflation

... What? Wait... what? I'm actually more confused by your response. So, the idea is governments create inflation to... rob the poor?

Also, who's Rob?

> in particular hurting the poor the hardest and creating lost decades and millennials along the way

Are you implying that millennials have... the government to blame for their current grim prospects in the job market? Because of inflation?
Exactly. The labor market (yes, including tech) is absolutely overflowing with average talent. It's just that every company seems to want to hire only the top 2%. Long-term flatline wages support this--if there truly were "not enough" people, wages would rise.
Hi, are you the guy in this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0
And how often in a normal dev workflow do you need to do that?

Most developers, pull, push, merge, rebase, and fix merge conflicts.
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May I ask the name of the rightmost girl? She's Indian probably.
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Is this article not an example of the very thing it complains of?
Which sources would you recommend? The BBC and The Guardian are foreign and have their own news gathering networks but for the most part seem similar to the NYT. If it helps I can read French as well as English.

When I was a kid I listened to Radio Moscow and to go honest found it not that much different from the BBC..
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'Ran outside the sandbox on everything other than Chrome', or 'on Chrome, Flash ran outside the sandbox'? Your comment seems a little ambiguous to me.
I would be very interested in using this 1 year ago, but now I'm gladly out of the email business. Although Mailgun is great, it is still email.

I'm now more interested in your business model. How are you doing with selling an open-source software as a service? Also, isn't your price too cheap? (I'm saying that because I'm doing the same thing with https://github.com/fiatjaf/trackingco.de and my prices are also very cheap, such that the growth hackers out there would be prompted to say incessantly: "raise your prices!")
>That is $100K/year for 10 years = $1M productivity improvement for $10K!

There are two parts of the equation here: [His business] + [Your software] = [Value]. Your software alone, meaning when it is not in use by his business, is not worth $1M over 10 years. It is worth $0. His business is what gave your code value.
This feels a little hit or miss, for example:

> One way to decrease the risk of vanishing gradients is to clip their maximum value

But probably helpful for a general picture if you're new to this stuff.
We do support real-time ingest (helped by the fact that we do not need to index on insert). The only example we have online of that now is our Tweetmap demo (https://www.mapd.com/demos/tweetmap/)
Yeah, you could flash a simple Arduino sketch with such an API, and use that, assuming you can't access the in built API
For more on Shannon, "A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age" is a recent book by the same authors (which I very much enjoyed).
This is naive: The reason the SEC report is specific is because they don't know what the reaction to the ruling will be, what kind of political blowback they could get. Starting with "The DAO" is a politically safe move- If it goes over well with their acquaintances (revolving door and all that) they will start making broader rulings.
quite likely...or at least they had communicated with each other...

It was von Neumann who suggested Shannon to use "entropy" as the word for the measurement of information...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-t...
The territory government here asked for public submissions regarding the possibility of relaxing restrictions on outdoor display advertising. It received more submissions than any other it appears: http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004...

While I haven't read every one, most submissions seem to be against relaxing restrictions and in favor of tightening them up.
Doesn't help--could just have your wealthy friend sign for you.
Because Slack is really expensive. Perhaps they concluded that an in house solution would be cheaper for them long term.
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I think he might, but that's more because he has a very high opinion of himself.
You're kind of agreeing with my point here. I'm saying that tempering evil with the state is a legitimate use of the state apparatus. That shouldn't be construed as thinking that the state can actually fix the underlying cause (abolition did not fix the problem of Race in America for instance), but it can mitigate the suffering of some, and shouldn't be totally discounted.

Beyond that, from my perspective, slavery in America was ended despite the best efforts of the government to keep it going. It's probably just semantic differences between us that make this non-obvious, but I would argue that the state made it harder to eradicate slavery than if it wouldn't have existed, or was less all-powerful. At least in North America, slavery was a result of state-sponsored colonization and state-granted charters and monopolies, not private industry. The history of British colonization of North America is not a history of private social movements, but of politics and the expansion of Empire across the globe.

At the base of this disagreement, I feel it is a mistake to conflate law with the state, and that conflation is the reason we see the state as a benefactor or positive force in the world. Because they force their own monopoly in law, they are seen as being the same as law, but law has existed and still exists outside of the modern state.