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ICOs are being over-used in the context of blockchain oriented companies. Tokens were never meant to be a fundraising/shareholder vehicle, they were designed aide distributed apps in their mission of decentralization. Tokens are meant to allow you to decentralize the operation of an app, not provide a means for fundraising. Augur is an example of a useful token, they issued a token as a means to decentralize the oracle for the markets that will be created on their platform. Their token (REP) obligates the holder to adjudicate market resolution on their platform in exchange for fees. Most of these ICOs are just mechanisms to raise money for blockchain based businesses.
You understand that I wasn't taking issue with the taxation point, right? Just that there is a possibility that this is a case of egregious government abuse of power, not a case of dodging taxes, therefore utilizing an argument based on the idea of no taxation was missing the point.

He also said "no taxes", not "no income taxes".
Budget cuts, not time cuts. My solution of better time prioritization still stands. Gender and race sensitivity training is the last thing a fighting force should be spending time studying, IMO. This is the military, this is about war, feelings be damned. This is the last place to be walking on eggshells, afraid to criticize or speak out because you're worried about being perceived as racist or sexist.

What happens when a male or female is not strong enough to do his or her job? I can't say myself, but I have anecdotes from friends in the forces. The job still gets done...some people just need to work harder. Those of us who are suddenly less equal...

And when this post inevitably gets flagged, you will see that HN is part of the cultural problem. This is just as bad for the corporate world, I've seen that first hand.

We still live in a world where we are moments from death, where people can and will take advantage of you. It is extremely myopic and sheltered to think that the world will pause to give you a chance to meet your diversity quota, and fight with restraint against for your now potentially weakened fighting force.

Maybe this is a "flame war" topic because there is a much larger [suppressed] counterculture on the HN community than anyone is prepared to admit?
don't forget the microphone, and the speakers (ultrasonic exfiltration)
and the display (ISTR a fairly reproducable van eck attack in the last few years?)
and the cpu (various research on elliptic curve extraction by monitoring CPU power draw using off the shelf SDR equipment)
An agency is a middle-man that primarily adds value via management. It abstracts away to costs and headaches of managing a project. As with any successful middle-man your agency will need to position itself in a nexus of supply and demand.

First, you need the demand. Ideally where the demand for your type of services is above your current capacity to deliver. As in you're literally declining well-paying work with reputable clients because you simply don't have the time to build all the projects yourself.

Second, you need a supply of talent. A network of other developers who are dependable who you can call up on demand or hire outright.

If you lack either of these the agency is going to have a rough time, and probably going to fail.

Third, as an agency you will make money on the margins. Revenue will flow through your business and you will capture some percentage of it. This is very different from consulting where you capture almost 100% of the revenue, less some minor expenses.

The reason for this is simple: labor.

Let's say your rate is $100/hr. Since you're a consultant operating in a global free market that $100/hr is competitive within the market, and is mostly inelastic - there's not much room to go up or down. Another developer with your same skill level is going to cost $100/hr.

So where's you're margin? You can find margin by hiring a less-skilled developer at $75/hr. But then the quality suffers (and so can your reputation, reducing demand). Or you can attach a $25/hr "agency fee" to every hour worked. Or you can find a sucker who doesn't know the true value of his labor, and underpay and overwork him. (This last option is how most agencies operate).

Instead of making $100/hr consulting you're making $25/hr for each hour your sub-contracted developers work. This can work out nicely if you have a high level of demand, and if your developers are responsible self-starters who don't require a lot of management work on your part. But you would need some multiple of your current workload to earn the same amount of money.

My advice is to _not_ fold your current consulting into an agency. Instead, start an agency as a side-project, incorporated as a completely separate business. An agency needs to be marketed very differently than an individual consultant. Find other developers and marketing people you can partner with, agree on a compensation structure, and see if the company can land some big contracts. You can even sub-contract the project work to yourself individually at your normal labor rate.

It will be difficult to find partners who are comfortable with this. It's very difficult to work on a margin basis when your partner is working on a labor basis. But if you can earn $100/hr on the open market why would you work for your own company for less? This is one reason why many consultants end up making less money when they start an agency - they undervalue their labor because it's their company.
As someone who has spent the last 30 days barely sleeping, I can say it was an experience!
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I suspect that some of the amateur runners on the podium at the larger local races are geared. No way to prove it though. There's no prize money and no drug testing. People will do crazy stuff just for pride.
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Don't most countries (especially the neighbors to those with violent tendencies) have automatic defenses against missiles? If Japan has such a system, did it fail to trigger? I just find it very weird that a missile would be able to pass across a country uninterrupted.
So it's essentially just a mobile data pre-sale with fancy tech?

Why is this better than crowdfunding in general??
North Koreans are the build an accurate rocket like the British build a reliable car. They were probably aiming for Seoul.

I don't feel bad making a wisecrack since there isn't a substantive story about this on the handful of news outlets I checked.
The discussion about work hours here typically seems to put effectiveness after 4-6 hours as dropping off for programming, for pilots regulations allow 8 work hours (with 10 required hours off, and at least 8 of those consecutive uninterrupted sleep). It makes one wonder at the working conditions of doctors and sailors.
I actually had the same thought. What if North Korea had a mishap and wasn't intending to cause an incident (or at least, not one quite this extreme)? Would they feel like they could admit it was an accident, or would they play it off as intentional even if it wasn't?
our control paradigm was steady state visually evoked responses -- these are low-frequency components of a scalp EEG rig that correspond to the visual cortex locking on to a blinking test pattern. On a good day with a bald subject and fresh gel, decoding time is between 6 and 11 seconds.

A tobii eye tracker has a latency of about 30 ms.

Spatial discrimination is oodles better, too.
So I'm a little confused, what's all this talk about anti-missile systems? Are they even real or just seriously over-stated? If you look at where Hokkaido is I feel it's hard to believe that some protection system wouldn't activate when the missile lands on the eastern side if the island.
the danger in this world has always been the day irrational leaders of insular states gain the ability to affect any other nation at will.

the issue seems to be, no one wants to be the one that is preemptive in fear of being blamed for setting the whole thing off.

long term is, how does the world protect itself from such as this? is there any true protection possible at this time. Just as the USSR and the USA had too much to lose during the Cold War the US and China, if not Russia, in the mix, all have too much to lose, but smaller states or failing states are a danger. Pretty sure we can list out states of increasing risk. Can any of them be permanent bought off or that a stupid fantasy?
Copenhagen has the fairly unique advantage of never really getting warm or humid and being basically completely flat.
Aww, come on, don't double-down, just let it be. If you want some benefit of the doubt, feel free to give some benefit of the doubt. We can nit pick each other to death, but that isn't going to be productive or fun at all.

You can't take something out of context and claim that it's insulting people that he wasn't talking about. He wasn't discounting anyone. Yours is a bigger and more intentional error than his statement that totality is 0% energy. You're picking a fight instead of acknowledging that totality really is approximately 0% solar power for the purpose of figuring out how much heat you're going to feel on your arm during the eclipse, compared to before the eclipse.

He admitted the noise floor is not really zero. He wasn't contradicting himself, he was clarifying for the sake of the nit pickers. You're using that against him instead of accepting that both of his statements can be true at the same time. He was never claiming absolute zero with infinite precision, that is completely clear from the article.

He also wasn't asking what bit depth to use for audio recording. That would be weird, wouldn't it? Because he's talking about the sun's heat and not the sound it makes. He wasn't talking about photographing it either, or even measuring the heat precisely. He was showing why it gets cold before it gets apparently dark. You can do that in even less than 16 bits.

Yes, human eyes are not perfectly logarithmic. Interesting that you don't care for the sake of camera exposures in the middle of a conversation about the sun and moon, where you just cited bit depths and people who handle low-level signals. The logarithmic approximation isn't particularly good, which the link in the article discusses in detail. Log is good enough for this article, but not for vision scientists. The logarithmic brightness approximation really truly breaks down when you look at the sun or the night sky, human vision does not give an approximately logarithmic response to either the sun or the night sky, not even close. Camera film and camera sensors also break down and begin to clamp at either end of a moderate log range that is narrower than human vision. Photographing the corona well is really hard due to the extreme dynamic range and the way that camera response stops being logarithmic at the ends.
Here's the main product using HAP if anyone wants to see if they can buy it and RE its firmware.

https://gdmissionsystems.com/cyber/products/trusted-computin...

Some stuff is government only but some for businesses. You'll have to contact them to find out.
It's easy to mock the DPRK, but its actions are perfectly rational. The leadership has realised that nukes are necessary to remain in power.
Ah, I see your point now. Thanks for explaining.
Low risk in the short term. Who knows what effects will show up 30 years later?
Why do SCUBA divers drop backwards to get into the water?

If they dropped forwards, they would land in the boat.
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As someone listens to someone talk about themselves as someone does, someone is somewhat silly
If the missile were on a ballistic trajectory that would not impact anywhere on land, perhaps it's better to let it fly on over into the ocean?

Shooting it down could reveal anti-missile capabilities that may be saved for a more serious impact threat.
Cool idea! But still has some important hashtags missing like nodejs, ruby, golang, etc...
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Realism is good, but not essential. Only some productivity uses need high polygon count and depend less on textures (because you are conveying physical form) while gaming depends on what the desired look is. I don't think that enjoyability is a linear function of polygon count and texture quality.

And realism will come. We still have a good 4x increase in transistor density in Silicon before going for the next clever trick.
>I don't feel bad making a wisecrack since there isn't a substantive story about this on the handful of news outlets I checked.

What does that have to do with anything? And the story was broken by NHK, what other news sources would you need to confirm this?
> I don't feel bad making a wisecrack since there isn't a substantive story about this on the handful of news outlets I checked.

This story ends with "Developing...", so not having a substantive story might be more a factor of it being a very recent development rather than it being poorly reported or not worth reporting. I'm not sure that's a good metric by which to judge whether it's okay to joke about, at least in the early stages.
Maybe NK had this exact same question
You are assuming rational actors. Some of them aren't.

Also, know, that as soon as war starts with NK, they will start shelling Seoul with traditional artillery within a few minutes before we could do anything about it. I think Bannon estimated it at 10M deaths within the first 30 minutes with conventional weapons.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-korea-artillery_us...

Edit: Bannon casualty estimates and link.

“Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us.”

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/17/16162332/bannon-american...
The tokens are immediately transferrable on the open market at floating prices. You aren't locked in for 5 years with your money stuck, and if you think the project will fail you can sell your tokens, unlike with kick-starter where you hope and pray they deliver.
It's easily tradable, so as a buyer you don't have to predict your personal usage.
How would you differentiate:

"Alexa, play Taylor Swift on shuffle"

vs

"Alexa, play Taylor Swift on Spotify" (real command)
That seems to be canonically false, however, due to the fact that they had the metaphorical "gun to S. Korea's Head" long before they had nukes, and despite bragging for years about their intentions the international community was still very limited in their actions.

Nukes seem peripheral to the core capability of just being able to do enough damage before you can be stopped that anyone is afraid to engage you. (to provide an example; if you watch the news running up to the iraq invasion, many outlets were _very convinced_ we'd see WMD used against us, but that didn't seem to be the primary or even tangential cause for hesitation at the time.)
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Sometimes I wonder, how it is to be an engineer working for a crazy dictator.

I would guess you get some special privileges, you are not tied to any regulations but your constrains are budget and supply chain efficiency.

The dictator does not need to explain things to the public, does not need to obey the law so you can have a crazy idea about that machine you want to build and if you can convince one guy, you have it all.
Ask Hamas. Apparently there's some logic in shooting missiles at civilians to an enemy that can and will crush you if provoked too far.
Thinking more about it, perhaps it makes sense. If they know it's going to miss the area, why blow it up and give away information about your defence systems. I bet that is a risky and nail biting call to make...
Millions???

You are off by two orders of magnitude. It was 35,000 two years ago.

Still a lot of people, but not millions.

Put in context, it's around one death per 100 million miles driven.
Over the past couple of dozen years, I've wondered if we could have a second set of competitions where we allowed participants to enhance their performance with the use of drugs.

I admit, my curiosity was piqued by Mutant League Football, but I still think it might be viable. They can maintain separate records and petty much allow anything. One might even make another group that allowed body modifications.
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Well, the funders can sell the tokens immediately if they're unhappy with the team's progress. Try that on Kickstarter or your favorite JOBS act crowdfunding service.
> never did I say nor would I suggest that we are selling securities of any kind

Probably the most relevant part of the SEC's report on the DAO [0] for you is this sentence: "These offers and sales have been referred to, among other things, as “Initial Coin Offerings” or “Token Sales.” Accordingly, the Commission deems it appropriate and in the public interest to issue this Report in order to stress that the U.S. federal securities law may apply to various activities, including distributed ledger technology, depending on the particular facts and circumstances, without regard to the form of the organization or technology used to effectuate a particular offer or sale."

To put it simply: it doesn't matter what you call it. If it passes the Howey test, they'll deem it a security. If I fold my company's share into a paper airplane and call it a "utility share" (or "AirShare" ;) ) because I now have a use for the piece of paper, it's still a security.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-131
Can someone explain why it's so hard to build a missile shield around the US? We've been at it for decades and it's still not reliable. Meanwhile, Israel has the Iron Dome. I know we're a lot bigger, but I feel like this should still be possible, yes?
Or they could spend some of their treasure on feeding their own people instead of pursuing weapons of war.

Anyone looking for a fight will eventually find one.

http://www.newsweek.com/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-starving-hi...
Yup, I love those too. They probably have even less conflict than Slacker :P
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Oh, I remember it taking multiple days to pirate^Wdownload software that took multiple disks. And call-waiting wasn't your friend, getting kicked off of the one phone line the entire house had at their disposal. You're right, 50% faster than forever is still forever, and/but 50% faster than multiple days is still multiple days.

That being said, I had quite the software library.
Because "I have no experience with the product but here is what I think based on what my favorite youtube star says" is not a great contribution to a conversation.
What makes Houston so vulnerable to serious floods?
I don't know any specific examples, but I wonder how much of our knowledge today came from people working under these conditions. It's terrible, but do we now retain knowledge learned from people experimenting on humans under Hitler, for example? How many warfare techniques were developed by kings or other absolute leaders asking engineers to build novel weapons with no constraints?
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At some point, they'll just have to decide which threat is greatest. The internal one that is very real for them or the external one they are making stronger every day.
It's actually clever because the U.S. is also struggling with the hurricane now
The rental Astra we had the other month did.
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Pointless comment. Bitcoin is a borderless technology. There will never be, by design, a "Hong Kong-sized" area with BTC accepted everywhere. That is, unless BTC achieves world domination :-)
Yes, AIS is utilized by all ships, and even though military vessels are permitted to not broadcast in the clear their AIS data, they can still receive other ships' AIS broadcasts.

That being said, you still need competent mariners on the bridge who can look at their instruments - AIS, ECDIS/chartplotter, radar - as well as use their own eyes looking out the window to interpret that information and made a prudent decision. As the Navigation Rules[0] are written, all vessels must maintain a proper lookout, and electronic systems by themselves are not a substitute.

Once a mariner determines that risk of collision exists, regardless of whether they are the stand-on or give-way vessel, they must take sufficient action to avoid collision. Additionally, depending on what the situation between the two vessels is (meeting, crossing, overtaking), they are required to exchange sound signals to indicate their maneuvering intention and acknowledgement by the other vessel of that stated intention, or may make those arrangements by radio in lieu of sound signals. All of that requires prudent, competent mariners who can recognize what is happening around them, and their responsibilities in any situation involving another vessel.

[0] https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/navRules/CG_NRHB_20151231.pd...
You're trying very hard to create analogies to explain something that I already understand, have said I understood, and don't disagree with you on.

And if this article were about someone taking a shit-ton of steroids and attaching a cybernetic device that super-oxygenated her blood during the match, then we could reasonably say that it doesn't matter where the line is, she's way over it.
It looks like chrome is doing something similar. Each profile has a different value and each site has a different value, but the value is stable across restarts.

Safari (tech preview or high sierra) seems to give a new value every time you reload the page.
Lame article... Nothing new, definitely not a breakthrough.
Shooting down a missile with another missile is very difficult, especially if it's an ICBM moving at full speed.

Couple that with the fact that Hokkaido is as far north as you can get in Japan (as far from Tokyo and other major population centers further south, so there may not be missile defense systems there. Israel's Iron Dome only has a range of 70km, so I doubt, even if Japan had better technology, that they'd have one of these set up everywhere across the islands.

Being that Hokkaido is so far north, if you look on a map it's very very close to Russia. Not knowing the exact trajectory that it took, it's plausible that it went over Japanese airspace but was obviously not on a trajectory to impact the island itself. The article doesn't say where it was headed, just that it was in Japanese "airspace", and that it landed off the coast.

So plenty of reasons why it wasn't shot down. I'll add one more: the last thing you want to do is try to shoot down a test rocket and fail. Because if you fail on the test, the enemy will be more willing to believe you'd fail on the real thing, too.
Yes we did. A lot of textbooks on human anatomy are from that time.

There is even an ethical issues section on the wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
A contract will not necessarily inoculate you against a charge of fraud.

It's legally dicey to represent that you personally will be performing work and then sub-contract to another person. Usually the client won't care. But if things go sideways (especially on a big contract with a lot of money at stake) you are opening yourself to a large amount of legal risk.

Always be upfront and honest. And always negotiate in good faith. The best legal strategy is to never engage in behavior that will require a lawyer to defend.
I think her imagery is quite evocative and she deserves much applause for it. That said, wouldn't a more accurate categorization be "Algorithms are presuppositions embedded in code". Opinions seems a bit limited, but perhaps I'm splitting vernacular hairs.