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The problem both sides are trying to solve is that the system as a whole cannot handle the volume of transactions. Before the split, bitcoin handled 7 transactions per second, while Visa handles 50,000 transactions per second (I'm worrying these numbers from memory, so they might be wildly inaccurate).

Bitcoin Cash solves this with a larger block size. This is admittedly a short-term solution.

Bitcoin main, on the other hand, is moving toward SegWit, which introduces third-party middlemen. Service providers like Coinbase want this, because they get to be the middlemen.

But critically, SegWit breaks the only long-term advantage Bitcoin currently has over Visa. SegWit isn't decentralized. Bitcoin with SegWit still isn't as fast as Visa, so if you don't need decentralization then you should just use Visa. The only people who benefit from bitcoin with SegWit are the middlemen.

Decentralization is bitcoin's core value proposition. If you give that up to solve the scaling problem, you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I don't know the long term solution to bitcoin's scaling problem, but I do know that I'm not interested in a centralized cryptocurrency.
I preferred my approach. It was for 9 years old.

I've build with them a robot mask from a cardboard box. (fun!)
Put on the mask and told them that the robot is stupid, just understands 2 commands: step forward and turn right.

Put them to teach the robot to go around the room. Asked how to make the robot turn left. Created a command to turn left. Abstraction! Simplified some commands with loops.

We all had a good time.
MacBook Pro (14) is the ultra high-end model.

MacBook Air (A1466) seems to be the closest competitor to Chromebook Pixel (Google), which is at the top end for Chromebooks. These both seem prohibitively expensive for the type of computing that the mass-market seems to prefer.

MacBook (A1534)... I have no idea why anyone would buy it in lieu of a cheaper, faster MacBook Air.

Other models of Chromebook, like ASUS C202 or Samsung Chromebook 3, have lower price points, that Apple has never realistically tried to compete with. What Mac would you ever be able to buy with $160 (2017 dollars)?
Why should there be an assumption of (full) objectivity on an article written by one provider of the 3 technologies that are being compared?
Whit that said the article is fairly balanced in presenting some layers of the whole context (mostly the historical one).

Although I would mention Google tried to have their own Docker but that didn't pan out (https://github.com/google/lmctfy) so they switched to Docker and had Kubernetes open-sourced.
More historical details would have just made for a longer (albeit more interesting) article I guess.

Now to actual context. While they mention Swarm is not in CNCF and under tight control of Docker Inc. they don't mention that while Mesos is in ASF, Mesosphere hired the majority of the PMC (committers with voting rights). and the rest of the DC/OS is not even in ASF so doesn't even have to abide to the rules of the ASF.
At the same time, Mesosphere heavily used the Mesos brand by mixing Mesos-phere and DC/OS into everything Mesos.

So the reason people talk about Mesos, Marathon, DC/OS and Mesosphere as almost synonyms is because they made it so.
Marathon used to be a Mesos framework and service scheduler, now it's a DC/OS one for the most part (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13656193)

However, in the process, they managed to alienate a part of the community too, all this while Kubernetes was able to do probably one of the best community jobs in OSS and skyrocketed (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=mesos,kubernetes).
That must be a bitter irony if you consider that initially Kubernetes was supposed to be just a Mesos framework...

So yes, Mesos is lower level and with the two phase scheduling it should be more versatile, etc. but that value is highly diminished if you consider the focus is around DC/OS.

I think there are several angles that make this whole context interesting. Perhaps it would be worth a full writing...
On the other hand, recently I received a different color item than what I ordered. Since I didn't want to go through the hassle of returning, I asked them to refund the price difference. They refused to do that and asked me to return. The refund would have been cheaper than returning and shipping a new one.
Can you give examples of what you mean by a defective product?

Do you mean the legal definition[1], more or less as in "unsafe"? Because if so, the reason they are likely telling you to discard defective product is so it can't be used as evidence in a liability case in the instance an unsafe product has caused any harm.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_defect
>place that does not give access to their own private keys.

IIRC there is an option to have a wallet with Coinbase where you do control the private keys, that said I don't know how they were affected by the split.
"some fragmentation..." That's like calling the ocean a bit wet! The experience of learning to code on Android revolves a great deal around dealing with that fragmentation.
> You are getting a dedicated VPS, so there is no cross traffic sharing between other subscriptions. You can also disable logging if you don't want to graphs.

...but neither of those things tell me that you don't still have access to that data, which is kind of the whole issue.
Just curious, how do you know that the job postings you're listing accept those with criminal backgrounds?

Is this a list of curated companies? Or is there something that you're parsing out that denotes this acceptability?
Kids aged 2 and 3 should watch any content together with their parent. Or at the very least, the content that parent watched and approved before. No 2 or 3 year old should be mindlessly browsing Youtube
I had it happen for a MacBook charger I bought on Amazon which turned out to be an obvious counterfeit.
A friend of mine finally had his record cleared of incidents from when he was 19-20. He took courses to learn to program but even now it's still hard for him to get a job because people want to know about the huge gap in his employment history from when nobody would hire him.
Thank you, this answer is what I was looking for.
Facebook: Twitter is a decent competitor for network effects. I've moved my photo sharing to Google Photos as it trumps anything Facebook offers. For me, the biggest Facebook benefit is sharing photos with family on Facebook. Everything else on there is pretty much noise or garbage you can find on any other site. The one recent thing that Facebook does better than anyone that I get value out of are "local events".

Google Drive: Dropbox, Box, OneDrive....

Google Voice: Depends what you're using it to do. Amazon & Microsoft have apps you can use that do similar tasks. Whichever you use does require access to a lot of personal data to be useful though, no matter what company you pick.

Amazon: Target, Walmart, Jet, etc... Lots of competition here. Amazon's online experience is typically better but their is plenty of competition & they often have cheaper prices. FYI in case any Target person reads this. Your site is terrible & full of bugs.
When you hold your bitcoins inside Coinbase, they aren't part of "your" wallet. Coinbase works like a bank. When you deposit $100, they don't mark those bills as being yours. Instead they are commingled with everyone else and the bank gives you a promise that when you ask for your $100, you'll get your $100 back. Not that if you gave them a $100 bill, you'll get back that exact same bill. Coinbase works exactly the same way. This means that you can transfer Bitcoins between two Coinbase accounts (a) instantly, and (b) without incurring any transaction fees --- because such a transfer doesn't actually go through the blockchain.

BTW, Coinbase and other similar companies claim to be a full reserve bank, but unless there's an audit, there is no way to tell from external observation that they aren't playing a Mt. Gox game of being a fractional reserve bank without bothering to tell their customers.

So how does this relate to BCC/BCH? Since each Bitcoin customer doesn't have their BTC in a separate wallet, in order for Coinbase to support BCH, or any other random fork of Bitcoin that might take place in the future, they would have to track when your BTC was credited to your account, and then create a separate BCH account to track the BCH. Then if you ask to withdraw your BCH in USD, just as you are entitled to do with BTC held in a Coinbase account, Coinbase would have to find an exchange that supports BCH, and sell some number of BCH on your behalf.

Coinbase has elected not to do this, and gave all of their customers ample notice that if they wanted to participate in the BCH experiment, they would have to ask Coinbase to transfer their BTC into their own private wallet. (I'm not a lawyer, but I'm sure the fact that they did give notice is going to be something that will be mentioned as part of their defense if and when a lawsuit is actually filed.) When I withdrew all of my BTC from Coinbase last week, the transaction which Coinbase executed to transfer "my" BTC into my own wallet had "change" that went back to a Coinbase private key. That's another clear indication that "my" BTC were not held in a separate wallet, but rather commingled with other Coinbase customers' accounts.
How are they a monopoly exactly? I can google "<Product name> for sale" easily enough.
Anecdotal experience buying on Amazon recently:

Bought a new induction cooking pan. A nice one at $90. Didn't really pay much attention to who was selling it, just bought it like I do everything else from Amazon. It took about two weeks to arrive because it was from an independent seller, and was not 'Prime eligible'.

When it arrived, I took it out of the box and was immediately disappointed. It was really heavy, and the handle was shaped and angled in a way that made it hard to maneuver such a heavy pan. It'd be really difficult to do the usual flip and toss motions when cooking things.

I didn't want to spend $90 on a pan I would hate using, so I put it back in the box and requested a return.

That was when I found out exactly what the independent seller's return policy was. 1) I have to pay for return shipping (USPS best price was $38), 2) I have to pay them for the original 'free' shipping as well (no idea how much that was), and 3) I also have to pay a 25% restocking fee for an item in perfect resell-able condition. So in returning my $90 pan I figured I wouldn't get more than ~$30 back. I decided between being out $90 and having a pan or being out $60 and having nothing, I might as well keep it.

So I suppose that was a win for the seller - they successfully discouraged me from returning the item, which I'm sure would have cost them money. But it also discouraged me from buying anything on Amazon that isn't Prime, and it doesn't reflect well on Amazon that I had an experience completely contrary to their customer service values.
Theranos seems to be an example of supreme hubris. Years from now, we will be reading amazing business school research into how a company, seemingly built on the ultimate vaporware, run by a woman who saw herself as the next Steve Jobs, collapsed due to the CEO's hubris. I think if it weren't for Holmes controlling interest she would have been let go a long time ago.
This is a great initiative and hopefully will lead to a positive change for everyone involved. Will you also be thinking about training/education opportunities for applicants?
You cant teach anything to anybody. An unrelated proof: I'm having to write a bot with phantomjs to scrape my uni's announcements page and turn it into an RSS feed so that I won't have to periodically control it; because they decided wordpress wouldnt cut it and they needed some blumming angular.js stuff, breaking all the urls and removing any sort of rss feeds on the way. And all it is is a blog, basically, nothing more. Mailed them telling that I used to use that stuff, no replies in weeks. At least I'm learning phantomjs which seems to be very useful of a tool.
In your opinion, why do you think so many people continue to use Desktop Linux?
In my view, Leibniz / Newton did enough heavy lifting to deserve credit for developing the field. This is way different than just blurting out a "concept" without even knowing if it's workable.

I'm in agreement that ideas are a dime a dozen. Sure, it's necessary to cite the first known mention of an idea, and there are situations where the first mention of an idea is important such as in the patent system.

"Planting" happens in my world all the time. Unfortunately, managers give a lot more importance to "ideas" than they are really worth, because they over-value their own interventions in general. Somebody will blurt out an idea in a meeting, wait until someone else has developed it, and then rush in to take credit. If a manager does this, it's a blow to morale. I have my own rule of thumb, which is "show your work" from math class. Just writing down the answer doesn't get you full credit.

A couple of historical examples: The ancient Greeks are credited with the atomic theory, but they had no concept of even turning it into a serious hypothesis. Lots of ideas are anticipated in science fiction, but do those authors really deserve credit?
Great question.

I still run all my taxes as if I'm based in the UK, even though I travel and work remotely. I am taxed as an independent contractor.

I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though (https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/) to change where I pay my taxes.

In terms of working while in other countries, it's a grey area for sure. I was travelling extensively in Asia last year and I was on tourist visas. Although I know Thailand for example is considering introducing a 'nomad visa' very soon.
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Anecdote time: Last month I had an XFS volume fail on me. It got some sort of internal inconsistency and refused to work (all fs calls returned errors until I unmounted). This is where I discovered that XFS still has extremely poor recovery tools.

xfs_repair will complain if there is a journal present and tell you to mount the fs to replay the journal. But mount would refuse, saying the fs was inconsistent. So the only option was to xfs_repair -L to just throw out the journal.

Then, xfs_repair sucked up something like 30GB or more of RAM, so I had to make a huge swapfile so that the kernel would OOM the repair.

Then, after roughly 20 to 30 hours of repair it would exit with an error. At that point it would actually mount, but hitting certain areas of the filesystem would trigger the inconsistency again and start the entire process over.

In the end I couldn't fix it and sadly had to reformat. I chose ext4 when I did—I've had lots of experience with ext3 and 4 and I've never had a filesystem that I couldn't at least make consistent again (even if it loses some data).
Agreed. "Oh, you like Horror? Have you heard of Stephen King?"

I've completely given up on goodreads for recommendations and just google "best <insert genre> books 2017" now and usually can find some good lists.
Have you looked at their board? It's basically the ultra-elite. How would you even go after James Mattis? It's kind of sad but a brilliant illustration of how much money can protect you. Theranos the company will fail but Theranos the people will be fine, except for the whistleblower that is.
Just 3? I usually mash that 0 button
Lot of power being used for copyright enforcement lately. Yesterday it was NSA, now this. How much time until we see military getting involved?
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Wow, thanks for the information, I didn't know that! :)
Non sequitur, but anyways: I could hard-fork the blockchain any day and sell each mined altcoin to myself to then sue Coinbase for not supporting my fork. How that makes any sense?
because the board is stacked with billionaires, former senators and secretaries of state.

too big to jail
eBay is pretty scary as a seller, I have to admit. The high volume people take it and chalk it up to the cost of doing business; unlucky individuals can get really, really hurt if they run into an unscrupulous buyer.

I worked for BrickLink for a time (a niche online marketplace for adult Lego fans) and I was surprised at how smoothly that place ran, which is actually a big reason to prefer niche marketplaces if they exist. Community, and reputation, means something there, whereas with the huge world-spanning monster markets you're just another face in the crowd, which is great news for criminals who know that police can't and won't pursue online property crime.
Have you thought about collaborating with CEO works?

https://ceoworks.org/
Oracle has essential control of both "nextgen" filesystems that should be used in Linux - as Sun, they developed and licensed ZFS, and they are the chief contributors of BtrFS. Their refusal to release ZFS under a license that is compatible with the GPL is keeping it out of Red Hat's distribution.

This move by Red Hat must be seen as a provocation of Oracle, to force either greater cooperation and compliance in producing a stable BtrFS for RHEL, or the release of ZFS under a compatible license. Red Hat has put an end to BtrFS for now, and Oracle will have to go to greater lengths to use it in their clone. Customers also will not want it if it does not run equally well between RHEL and Oracle Linux.

It is obvious that Oracle will have to assume higher costs and support if they want BtrFS in RHEL. Red Hat is certainly justified in bringing Oracle to heel.

Oracle recently committed preliminary dedup support for XFS, so they must be intimately aware of the technical and legal issues behind Red Hat's move.

https://blogs.oracle.com/linuxkernel/upcoming-xfs-work-in-li...
How disturbing...
Even if the technology was truly promising, and the company had a clear plan forward to develop and profit, I would not give them a cent so long as Holmes is connected to the company. She's far too much of a liability.
They're still bad.
I'm curious why you ignored the return request. Was the nature of the product one that made you suspicious of fraud?
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With many of these things, the answer is "it depends".

If you are interested in specific advice, please name the country where you are a citizen, where you are a resident, and where you are traveling, for how long, and on what type visa.
Anecdotal, but I've had the opposite experience on Airbnb. A situation arose where I would have certainly received a partial refund from a hotel, and when in arbitration, Airbnb sided w/ the seller (landlord?) and there was no refund.

Basically my word vs the seller's, as things tend to be in online disputes. Not a lot of money spent, so it's not a huge issue, but makes me lean towards hotels unless Airbnb is much cheaper.

As a seller on many of the other platforms mentioned (and as a CC merchant), you are correct. Good luck winning any dispute. Best course of action is to simply try and get the product back and take the hit on shipping.
I've been considering a move down to Mexico for a while now (from NYC), or at least splitting my time between Brooklyn and DF.

I think you could make it work, particularly if you allowed people to work remote for part of the year. You could also rent a house for remote employees to come spend time at with the hope that they decide to move local. A startup I worked for earlier in my career rented a townhouse on South Park back in 2008 or so, which was convenient for any of us that worked remote to come be in SF for a week or two if we wanted.

Plus I'm sure there are plenty of very talented engineers local to any major city that you choose to start in. Pair that with accommodating international hires with remote work, housing, and intensive Spanish lessons and you'll probably be fine.
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I had a wallet.dat from a regular Core client, full node. I wasn't able to find a client that seemed to be able to import that wallet.dat. If you know a way to handle that, great! I don't know if I'd trust some arbitrary client to still be around and maintained when I need to retrieve my funds from the latest version of the block chain. I'm marginally afraid of what will happen if the person maintaining Electrum died, or disappeared, and protocol changes made a need for some mandatory code updates. Because the appearance to me is that private keys may be technically portable, but wallets are basically not transferrable between different clients.

I have a 14TB array that I bought with those Bitcoin I cashed in. It was cheap. But the next time I want to sync the whole chain, I'm really sure I'm gonna have to use it...

Thanks for your comments though, I will look up UTXO as it's another one I have not heard of before!
> And I do not and will not believe that she would have tolerated the expression "personal flourishing" in her prose.

No, I think she would have used it. It would be something the heroine would be chasing at the beginning of the book, and came to see as foolish as the book went on. (Or perhaps learned that it wasn't found by chasing it.)
If CB can't easily allow customers to withdraw the BCC, they probably can't easily exchange the BCC themselves either? (I recognize that people not being able to withdraw the coins at all is an issue, just curious also about the ability of CB to speculate in the interim).
this is the most complicated histo-stretch I've ever seen
Zendesk requires a court order to report abuse
I encountered a support scam website this morning that's using Zendesk Chat, and tried to report abuse using the live chat on the Zopim (now Zendesk) website. The agent replied with:

> I’m afraid all online registrations including Zendesk Chat enable site visitors to sign-up with only a few basic information. Unfortunately, these personal and contact details are insufficient to identify a fraudulent individual and/or company.

> We are expected to keep the customer’s information secured in Zendesk Chat. To assist you further with account related questions, please provide us with a court order or subpoena. Kindly take note that the said document must come from the judiciary department, or other agency with jurisdiction over Zendesk Chat (i.e. San Francisco, California).

> We apologize if this has caused you great inconvenience and monetary loss. Thank you for your feedback, and we hope to hear from you soon.
The issue is of who to trust, the package maintainer or the package repository?

It is comparatively trivial to steal a strong password when it is transmitted over the internet vs local key material.

Nation states with bad certs (china has done this) can steal your password, npm can steal your password, npm can be hacked and leak passwords, npm can be subject to a NSL and forced to hand over passwords, etc, etc.

There is a big difference between passwords and keys.
It's ok you little fascist. But let me inform you that censorship is severely lacking, I can simply create a new account and keep doing it.

Thing is, while you don't stop doing your little white knight ridiculous censorship, we can always create new accounts and sabotage your nice echo chamber.., or you can stop the false advertising and call the site Social Justice Warrior News - News for Snowflakes and let a new site that's really about Hacker News take its place.

Sure, we can't vote, but with you and your thought police removing flags from ridiculous SJW posts, flagging any contrary comment or submission and deleting accounts that don't follow your idealogical cringing, voting in here has no purpose anyway.

Have fun, talk to you again soon... in here.
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I want to know this too.

FD - I recently launched an adblock as a service (listed in my profile.)

Edit1 - maybe it's security through anonymity. Don't tell anyone your DNS server address?