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> the financial past is littered with the corpses of BTC shorts.

It's also littered with the corpses of "very good investments" that will "make you rich quick".

Without any securities standing behind Bitcoin but the promise that it will go higher, it comes down to gambling. Everybody hopes that another fool will come around and pay more than they did before. Bitcoin represents nothing but a currently 150GB large database of transactions. There are no machines (that are useful outside of Bitcoin), no IP, just a few million hashsums on a lot of computers.
> Like gambling, nicotine, alcohol or heroin [...] produce short-term happiness with serious negative consequences in the long term

Same applies to Big Macs, pizza, slushies, Cheetos, TV, seating, laziness, political pundits, marijuana, ...

In the end it is all about caveat emptor: is up to the customer to decide.
Diane Greene’s Advice for Founders [video]
Holy fuck that is awesome
Black holes do not vacuum everything around them - the law of gravity is a function of distance. That does not explain the Fermi paradox at all.
CC is slow? I can nearly pay everywhere with Visa NFC. Don't see how that is slow. Maybe it is just me after having lived in the US where CC is really slow.

In fact, it is way faster than me trying to find the right coins for the chocolate bar.
Namecheap now supports Authy 2FA
The Rise of The Social Media Vigilante
Yea but now you're stuck with a lost generation of no growth for the next 20-30 years, and no national pride. Seems like it was worth fighting to avoid having your kids and your kids' kids groveling the Germans forever. The Brits are leaving voluntarily because they have some fucking pride.
I don't know why you are being down voted. I switched to OSX to get the sweet NIX underbelly years ago and while not everyone* uses OSX for linux deployments... many, many developers do.
Always trotting out ridiculous guidelines.

This community is toxic. Period.
Apple's successes have generally not involved a default position of "free but ad-supported". For example, the iTunes store is a massive success for Apple, but didn't begin with free downloads supported by embedded ads in the music (which is what other music services have done). Instead they said "here it is, $0.99 per track".

Apple's track record of not needing to track me or sell my personal information to prop up its business models, because they launch products that have real "get the end users to pay money for it" business models, is one reason why I stick with their products.
Saudia Airlines warn passengers of strict dress code
Thank you for pointing this out! Was looking for the way to just audit it and could not figure it out.
Their cars have trouble with left turns as well. I was walking to Rainbow a few weeks ago and heard a bunch of honking. Turns out the car wouldn't make a left on a green light (Folsom at 13th).

Fast forward a few days and the same thing happened, this time at Mission and 18th. Only at this intersection there's a no left turn restriction and the driver overrode it and made the left.

If one of Cruise's autonomous cars is doing something aggressive I'd assume it's under human control. Hopefully the cars won't pick up too many bad habits.
> Pure EV purists dislike PHEVs because they have the complexity of an ICE car + an EV car, but I think there's some serious advantages.

I would imagine most the complaints are for when the ICE actually powers a drivetrain. If it's essentially a generator to keep the batteries from depleting too far, that's not much extra complexity it all. Have a problem with the generator? Just swap it out with a new or rebuilt one from some vendor (if designed well such that you can do so). I'm seeing that a Tesla uses about 300 Watts a mile @ 55 Mph.[1] Honda seems to have generators much more than capable of supplying that need for under $1000.[2] I'm not familiar enough with electric systems to know how accurate that assessment is (whether the voltage requirements complicate it, for example), but that seems promising. Then again, I imagine if it was really that easy, Tesla would have put a generator charge hookup and exhaust ventilation capabilities in the trunk already.

Edit: Hmm, I'm definitely missing something, since the $1000 generator says it can go 8.1 hours on a gallon of gas, and it doesn't seem likely for that to translate into powering a Tesla for 8 hours of travel.

1: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/average-wattage-for-...

2: https://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/selecting-a-gene...
No idea about code commonality, but the broad architecture of WSL is basically the same as the original POSIX personality from the 90's. The "foreign" process runs in a special mode and handles a different set of system calls via a different dispatch mechanism in the kernel, but still on top of the same set of kernel functionality beneath that.
Read it several years ago -- it's my favorite book. The way the story progresses from the initial setup is masterful. I'm honestly still shocked that Nostromo isn't the first book that people associate with Conrad, given that it's so much more beautiful and thematically-dense than Heart of Darkness or The Secret Agent. It's like if everyone thought Typee was Melville's best work.
> it does still feel like you want your kids to be bored though

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if at least a little boredom in a kid's life is important for character development :-/
What you can't say: True democracy doesn't have elections. In fact already the ancient greek knew: “It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election” (Aristotle, Politics), see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition)
Freelancing: Invoicing International Clients
Would it be anymore unpopular than funding it in a way that makes sense? The subway is the most efficient way to move people around: if you shunt people away from it you may very well end up making your net financial position worse. At best, this amounts to accounting trickery.
From the memo:

Feel free to comment (they aren’t disabled, the doc may just be overloaded).
For longer form discussions see ​ g/pc-harmful-discuss

Apparently he posted the document in a way that did allow internal discussion.
Do you have any revenue coming from these projects? From what sources?
I'm particularly eager to see WSL allow GPU pass-through so I can use PyTorch without a VM or dual-boot on my work computer.
I doubt they want POSIX ever again.

They want 'me too' POSIX-enough Developer workloads right up to the Deploy phase, where they have are building cushy, hard-to-evade on-ramp to Azure.
There are two options:

#1: Do not intervene. Continue to trust that NK changes course, but in all likelihood NK will continue to build up its arsenal.

#2: Destroy NK. Any arsenal that NK's built up will be unleashed.

It's a game of chicken. If option #2 were to come to pass tomorrow, that means heavy loss of life in South Korea and Japan. In a few more years, it might also mean a nuke in Los Angeles or San Francisco (though it's likely they have that technology even now). It seems possible that, eventually, NK gets to the point where it could become an existential threat to the United States, though this is probably a long way out.

If we never pull the trigger on option #2, would NK ever attack the United States or our allies? That's the big question. NK certainly threatens us, and our allies, all the time. If we're to believe their words, they will eventually strike. We're hoping that they're lying.

Would they respond to lifting sanctions, as you seem to suggest? So far, no, not really. We've lifted sanctions and improved relations in return for promises to turn away from their present course, and time and time again NK betrays their agreement and continues on anyway.

I'm all for doing whatever we can to have a prosperous future for Korea, the United States, and the rest of the world for that matter -- but I'm not so sure it's as black and white as you suggest. There are few good options when it comes to North Korea. Intervening now means an incredible amount of destruction. Yet if we wait, it means even worse destruction down the line. Then again, if we wait, perhaps NK changes course.

It's a horrible, horrible game.
Fantastic!

So why did you then use "neurotic" and get all riled up about it when the document says "neuroticism", which is (a) nothing to get riled up about and (b) a simple scientific fact (as best we know)?
I missed turntable.fm and I found the current alternatives lacking so I built a better one: https://www.jqbx.fm if you're interested.

IMO there's no shame in working on your own derivation of an existing idea (take FB as one example). Sometimes a tweak here or there can be the difference between a good idea and game-changing one. Also it gives you the chance to 'edit' an existing product which is both a fun and thought provoking experience that can really hone your skills.
It's mind blowing that this interpretation has gotten of the memo has been repeated over and over throughout this comment section with no effort to provide any proof or explanation as to why you would get this out of it. I don't agree with the guy either but how do you get "biological essentialism" out of it?
And you believe those differences to be meaningful? To programming? And appropriate to discuss with coworkers?
> And he got fired for exactly this: expressing opinions that are not aligned with SJW dogma.

No, he got fired for making himself impossible to work with. If he disagreed with Google's and his fellow Googler's values, he could've left and go somewhere where he felt welcome. Trying to go out with a bang is just a douchebag move.

> His language was very careful, his claims were sourced

Where are the sources to his claims, pray tell? People keep repeating this as fact, but this is not a paper, and there's no list of references at the end of it.

> He is guilty only of opening talking points SJWs and feminists dont want to talk about and use tactic of character assassination to dismiss messenger instead of debating his message.

Calling people "SJWs" and "feminists" and ascribing some conspiracy to them proves the point that this was a dogwhistling exercise. You, my friend, are barking madly right now.

> I am not convinced this was beneficial for google.

I can guarantee he'll get his ass handed to him in court if he tries to sue Google for discrimination. Any corporation that size has ways to resolve these matters slowly and completely under the radar. To me his sudden dismissal is a strong signal that their legal department gave them the go ahead. They wouldn't do that if they didn't feel they have a solid case.
Saimiam is an Indian, and is likely living in India. I neither understand nor agree with his skepticism. I may have been more generous if he were from some other country.

Kamaal made a claim that "stories of having scored in upwards of 95% aggregate marks, and best rank in competitive exams(JEE, NEET, NATA, CET etc) and lose out an engineering seat to some one who had 35-45% marks."

This is what I have seen too. And yet, I cannot provide any citations because the agencies and the institutions do not publish figures. Saimiam knows this, and himself cannot produce figures of any sort in this field. Our governmental agencies make policies not based on research and citations, but based on what gets them most votes. The govermnent has no incentive to fund research in the field.

This gives a nice cover for people to hide behind, and say, "No proof. Ha ha."
So I was curious about this and read the supplemental pdf, thank you justintocci. The technology hinges on Nanochannel Electroporation as the storage and delivery vehicle for the DNA. Found the following paper (scrapped the url from Wiley) that goes into detail. The potential here is insane!

Joined Hacker News just to share it. :)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/advs.201500111/...
>MSM has mostly abrogated it's responsibility to inform the public.

That's a myth.

The only real responsibility they have is to maximize profits for their shareholders.
I can't give you an educated answer to that, but the general feeling here was that he was calling the shots in the whole negotiations thing considering that Tsipras is an imbecile, and his English were tragic. Varoufakis was chosen because a lot of guys in the government bought the idea that extorting Germany would work out and they would back off.
Haha yea, it's always nice to find out that you've been fortunate in some way that you didn't even really realize existed.
Well, I'd love to use it if the I/O would improve. At the moment I just use Cygwin instead.
You're hopeless.
Back in 2014, I had a number of side projects on the go and I ran out of money to pay my email marketing bill. I created https://emailoctopus.com to save some money, and that's ended up being my most successful side project to date!
If we could regulate ISPs as utilities first, that would be great.
Testosterone has a direct, measurable effect on competitiveness and aggressiveness. Why wouldn't you think this would affect the overall sports preference between the sexes? In an environment where men have significantly higher testosterone than women, wouldn't there naturally be more men than women in an aggressive sport like football? Would you expect a 50% gender parity in such an environment?

Culture plays an effect, but we really need to realize that biology probably pays a role too, and potentially affects gender parities in many careers.
Any processes stuck in D state?
If you think that's interesting, you should look into sessile animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessility_(motility)
Do you think these people don't have extensive private security? The elite could easily take on a whole city of rioters with the resources at their disposal. When the gloves come off and it starts being about survival it won't be bodyguards pushing people out of the way, it will be mercenaries with helicopters and full-auto weapons. The middle class that can't afford such protection will of course be the losers, as usual, and will be scapegoated after all the Richie Rich types have escaped to their private islands/bunkers.
I use Insomnia everyday. Thank you for making it! I shared it with my coworkers and described it as the REST client I would make if I were to make a REST client. Happy to hear it's working out for you :)
This case isn't cut-and-dry. Much of that memo I disagreed with but generally found innocuous. However, there were notable aspects of that memo that could be argued to have created a hostile work environment for different groups were they to be forced to work with or for that engineer. It's clear that, in aggregate, he believes certain groups naturally more "fit" for the work. Now, if you're a woman who has to work with or for him, what do you feel? You likely feel that your capability is more in question, that you have to prove yourself more than the men on the team, and that this person you work next to (or for) starts out with an assumption that you're less capable.

Comments and behaviors that make a protected class feel like that, even if made as "jokes" or "facilitators of open dialogue", are not permissible.

It's not a cut-and-dry case. I wouldn't bet on a lawsuit either way, excepting the fact that Google's lawyers are probably the better lawyers in a legal tussle.
Can you clarify the GNU/Linux distinction with regard to the WSL? I mean... isn't the main WSL layer a flavor of Ubuntu?
So the way I understand it dark matter doesn't even have any physical interaction with matter. But it must be affected by gravity, or else it wouldn't end up trapped in black holes right?
My company is windows based. The IT department run a bunch of VM's running Linux. But it is always treated as a black box appliance. The admin expertise is still heavily based on the windows stack. I think this tech will make it easier to deploy those sort of appliances on Windows, without needing much Linux admin ability. Windows will compete at a higher level with deployment systems rather than the OS itself.
Excellent question. The product would have to be compelling to entice older people to move. And generally speaking, what we have come to know as "the projects" have a reputation for as petri dishes for crime and other social ills. I'm guessing a "project" inhabited with older people might avoid that stigma.

Moreover, it might thwart the NIMBYs who protest every proposed development in ways that ordinary projects wouldn't (what, you don't like old people??? AARP, aux barracades!) So at least it stands a better chance of being built.

Not claiming that personal experience is data, but I live in a neighboorhood that emails everyone every time city hall has a proposed project on their docket. And those who show up voice the usual objections - traffic, other infrastructure concerns, "quality of life" issues -- essentially telling potential newcomers to move somewhere else.

Having said all that, I myself am a couple of decades from official retirement age, but my GF and I wanted to move to a house that had no stairs. Talk about a housing shortage! That requirement alone filtered out about 90% of the available housing in my target area.

So there might be an opportunity, though what form it would take, who knows?
I was involved with one of the bigger ICO right at the beginning of the ICO craze. I had pretty regular conversations with the project founder and was in talks to become the dev evangelist. The project had raised ~$5 million in ETH (this is when ETH was trading around $80). Despite the fact that this project had raised a crazy amount of money the whole project was being conceptualized and coded by a single 23 old guy who was promising features that much larger projects with teams of the best people in the field were yet to solve. Not to mention the project was blatantly lying about it's PoW algorithm.

When I tried to point out that the project should use some of that money to organize the software engineering aspect the founder got pissed off with me accusing me of trying to run the project. They had a second round and raised even more money (in addition to the insane capgains on their first round).

I check the github from time to time and it appears they've got at least 2 other devs involved and may actually bring a blockchain to market but this doesn't hide that fact that the project needed nowhere near the amount of money they raised. Hell they could've used a couple hundred grand from the first round and literally just paid a team of people to build the blockchain for them. did I get off of a gravy train? Yes. But there are more things to life than money.
We should proceed with caution and tact.
As far as I know, WSL is "Ubuntu on Windows", so wouldn't this be a conflict of interest? Maybe they would simply work out a deal to pay a royalty to Canonical or something. Wouldn't that be poetic.

I think it would be really interesting if MS competed in that space. But 'nix sysadmins don't want to worry about maintaining a Windows instance concurrently with their server instances (assuming the only facilities they need are what 'nix provides). Microsoft having Windows attached to their Linux distribution is a net negative, in my opinion.

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Too bad it doesn't seem to be easily searched by label--from a historical perspective, it would be cool to be able to search for say, Paramount or Gennet or Okeh.
by performing the same operation repeatedly and taking the average measurement, you can separate the effect on latency caused by the password length vs. all the other things going on with the system.
No, it doesn't matter, but it is sufficient if not necessary. Google's answer to socialization problems was going upstream: getting "work in tech/Google" into girls' minds earlier and earlier to combat ostensible messages pushing them away from tech. But it's all founded on the assumption that any population difference in ability must be fixable, if not at the hiring level, then earlier.
> in no way was impolite

The reality is impolite is in the eye of the beholder (or culture). And in the Bay Area, that would be considered an impolite way of communicating considering the topic.

I'm not applying a value judgement here.
The worst of is that early adopters will cash out boat loads of money and use that fact to claim they were right all along, as if somehow the top of the pyramid making money proves it's not a pyramid.
Most do this now and it's porous to say the least
I wonder whether this engine will specifically require you to fill up with NON-premium gas.
In my case, it would be that I trust my phone much less than a single-purpose card.
Works with .net core also (they don't specify this).
I'm pretty sure "wear on the spark side" is an all but solved problem at this point. Most car engines made in the last 15 years have 100k mile lifetime on the entire spark system.
Yes. I had a previously published sci-fi story that won an award. You'll have to be eligible for SFWA membership with at least one pro sale.
This is great content! Do you mind if I ask how you made it? Specifically the interactive demo? I've been working myself on a project[1] to explore tools for interactive demos, but so far I've just done one with a toy piece of content.

1: https://akud.github.io/visualization-blogs/posts/01_content_...
'Dodgy' greenhouse gas data threatens Paris accord
I rent to young families who cannot afford the cost of owning a house themselves yet.

Once the mortgages are paid off, the rent will be our retirement income so we don't have to depend on Social Security.
> Has the top 1% really become _that_ much more productive over the last few decades relative to the middle class?

No, and that's actually the crucial point: High wage earners in the US have remained that much more productive than their competitors around the globe. They don't compete/compare at all with middle- and low-wage earners in the US. The "pie" we're slicing up isn't the US GDP (which would be the zero-sum game you-win-I-lose math assumed in the article), it's global GDP.

> It seems to me that you're defending the uppermost social class in the US, and are attempting to place blame on the middle class of the US for not being able to compete on the global stage against the lower classes of third world nations. They aren't necessarily more productive, they're just willing to work for less. A lot less.

I'm identifying the correct problem to solve. The goal is to return to income growth distribution closer to that seen in 1980, since there's a host of benefits to a pluralistic democracy when everyone is doing well. In particular it makes social transitions much easier, such as social justice and access to healthcare, because there's less sense of loss for the incumbents, and the costs of the changes can be borne more easily.

But if you misidentify the problem as mere existence of difference in income, or worse, that growth in the high-income bracket comes exclusively or even mostly from exploitation ("unfairness"), then you'll never solve the real problem, which is:

> They aren't necessarily more productive, they're just willing to work for less. A lot less.

Exactly. The same work, at the same quality, is now actually worth less in real dollar terms than it used to be.

In the 50s and 60s US middle-income workers were much more productive than their peers in other countries, and could charge more for their labor. Now others in the world have caught up (dramatically improving their own quality of life, it should be noted), and if we want to keep getting paid more than them, we have to increase our productivity again. Alternatively we could put trade barriers in place to tilt the playing field in our favor, but the cost for that is borne by consumers of all income classes (via higher prices).
Communications Market Report (United Kingdom) [pdf]
Growing Pains
Microsoft dumps notorious Chinese secure certificate vendor
This is where tools like RescueTime shine. It is getting better and I hope all the loop holes are closed.

Something like RescueTime baked into iOS would be Apple's greatest productivity feature.