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I agree with you that there's no such thing as objective value. But my feeling is that there is still something important that differentiates "real" currencies (fiat or not) from bitcoin/gold/etc. Namely, there is a government backing the "real" currencies.

Dollars are "guaranteed" to have value because they are "legal tender," ie you can pay your taxes and buy things with them. As long as the US government has power, that will continue to be the case.

I can definitely see btc being a viable currency in situations where a government's power is limited but, for stable countries, it seems more like a commodity, and that's definitely (at least it seems to me) how people are treating it.
Q: How do you know macro economists have a sense of humor?

A: They use decimals.
> "...but unless you're one of my people..."

This is complicated. Are we to assume that we aren't in a culture group unless we are born from a group's member or born in a specific location. If a culture resonates with an individual that doesn't fit into the "culture group" definition, can they never see the culture as their own? It definitely seems to bring into question what the definition of culture is and when is a culture added to the collective. Isn't that what sharing does?

Aren't there arguments about writers writing books and readers interpreting the story in their own way? The story is now everybody's, right? I do feel the danger in the idea, but it also feels sort of correct.
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I'd say it's more like adjusting the input voltage to the AC directly than simply setting the thermostat. They have to monitor the results and changing conditions and then make adjustments manually, rather than rely on an automatic feedback loop.
Very nice website and concept. Not being from Germany and looking for a startup job in Berlin, I find it helpful that most information is in English.
For me it would be nice to have some additional information from an employee's perspective.
You can use youtube-dl, VideoDownloadHelper .. so many other tools that can be used. This was more of a tool for the non-tech person.

The settlement kept this away from court, so we avoid the much bigger issue. YouTube is sending you their video/audio. Your browser plays it. Depending on which browser or tool, it could play it differently, alter it as it plays it, cache the video or even save it to disk for permanent archive.

There's Hooktube which lets you view videos without the YouTube cookies; pulling straight from Google's CDN.

At what point can companies bind the end users on the Internet for the means by which we accept their data? Can they ban greesemonkey scripts like Facebook did with unfriendfinder?

http://penguindreams.org/blog/discoverying-friend-list-chang...

The big companies are challenging the way you represent the data they give you and what you can do with it. That's not the free web. That's not what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned.
Purism products look every day less of a luxury and more of a need.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/
I've used Pokertracker Stud in the past, and I recall they had an Omaha version as well. This was ~10 years ago however, not sure if either are still available.
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50 isn't old, and well done for achieving success in different areas of work!
Like gold and silver?
> ... the (Youtube) videos are simply uploaded as unlisted, so they don't turn up in search results. The links to these videos are then shared as Google Drive links through discussion forums and other channels so it's difficult for the content owners to find the videos and get them taken down.

Why not share the Youtube links directly then? I see no need to use Drive.
You mean its a no go for a company to go away with the work of others without giving credit beside naming?

Strange world we are living in ...
Does it make sense to study GA for use in data science?
My linear algebra itself is rusty so I'm not clear if the more general operations of GA make it well suited to studying stats/machine learning concepts.
Thanks! I'm glad you think so. I couldn't agree more re: strong, statically typed languages. The more information you give your compiler, the more it can help you Do The Right Thing. :)
Blocks are supposed to be found every 10 minutes (difficulty adjusts to maintain this average). Theoretically someone would find the next block 10 minutes after you found yours and they would broadcast it. Then the next block would be found on top of that one. So unless you could get your block broadcast in under 20 minutes your chain would end up as shorter than the other one and wouldn't be counted as the main chain and it would quickly die.
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thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this article doesn't properly understand the intricacies of inflation/deflation in an economy
> some of the most left-leaning Democrats you can find

> economic policies that redistribute wealth

> universal health care

> support gun control

Is that what a libertarian is to you?
Anecdotally, those who decide to use GPL don't like the results - users are afraid to extend functionality, and conscientious extenders provide code that specific to their use-case and that can't be used.
Could you share some?
The best part of this whole post was the approach the OP took to actually design this. A methodical process of writing the design document, Prototyping with Python and then rewriting the application in Golang to take advantage of speed. Which begs my question to the Sw folks in this thread, why is Golang faster than Python?. I didn't realize that Golang compiler was available for ARMV7 devices such as RPi.
Bitcoin seems like an investment in proving the ideas that may eventually come to form a truly practical cryptocurrency.
I worked with riak pretty extensively in that time period. I'm in more or less the same boat. It had cool features, but they didn't make up for the overall kind of slow performance and limited feature-set.

(Admittedly, our use of riak was clearly a case of premature optimization: we didn't have anything like the scale to require an available data-store.)
So you are unhappy that an online community of people from around the world cannot form a hive mind consensus of thought? Count me as one that appreciates diversity of thought within a community. If it is an echo chamber you want I am sure there's plenty already elsewhere.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician–Silurian_extincti...

See them while they last.
If the US would take a similar approach, maybe people wouldn't feel the need to fake service animal status.

This entitlement that someone thinks they have such a right to have their dog with them everywhere that they are justified in breaking the rules is pretty much the core of the problem.
Just to be clear, the Bank of Canada can control the overnight rate if it moves outside of the "operating band" by directly intervening in the market with overnight repo and reverse repo operations [1].

[1] http://www.bankofcanada.ca/2015/10/overnight-repo-overnight-...
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Well, everyone who submits a patch on GitHub with some CSS updates is now an "engineer", so it's just the logical progression.
Or entering a country. Oh, wait...

next: being blocked from leaving a country.
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>This means that, for every productive action I'm taking, I have to "roll a morale check" and I fail that one more often than not, and stop doing whatever I wanted to accomplish. I consider myself talented but my output thus is inherently constrained.

'Inherently constrained' - no, sounds like burnout. i do the same thing, the only reason i dont have the energy/desire/morale to work on my own projects is because my job absorbs 110% of it.
Hiring does, though. It's clear that a compliant workforce is considered a greater necessity than a competent one.
Agree with the last line 100% - although the same argument can just as easily be applied to any and all systems in any and all arenas. The fact that the potential exists leaves a margin for error, and a window for trouble, which is what the post is about. If the potential for failure in a system is there, it needs to be addressed and the effects nullified or mitigated.
I'm wondering if it would benefit them to be cut off from the world, but not each other.

Lets say China creates a partition in the bitcoin network between inside China and outside China. My understanding is that when they remove the partition, the longest blockchain "wins". If there is more mining power inside China than outside, that gives them the power to deny everyone outside China the ability to do transactions for the duration of the partition.

The network could be divided other ways, but I believe China is the only one who has the ability and incentive to do it. Although maybe you're right that the miners are connected enough to prevent it (I'm sure it would create chaos that would hurt them in the end). Although I don't know if the firewall is administered at the provincial level or the national level? I think it is much less likely for them to have national level connections since I believe the Chinese political system is controlled by ~100 people.
Hehe as someone from Germany living in Sweden, I find this constant cheek kissing with quasi strangers in Southern or Western Europe or the Spanish speaking world pretty akward. But I understand that it's feels normal to most who grew up with it.
As opposed to the banks that lent them the money... sounds like a shift of blame to me.
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Thinkpads with Windows sent (send?) daily usage data to Lenovo, unless you disable the reporting app.

This was documented by Lenovo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13300357
(squeezing eyes shut and focusing my psychic powers) This college I've never heard of will turn out to have tiny enrollment, and the entire effect size will be selection bias + random noise.

>Olin College, a small engineering school in Needham, MA, which graduates around 75 students per year, turns out an alumni population where 2.77% of alumni found a successfully venture-backed startup, more than five times the rate of Stanford (0.51%), MIT (0.75%), Harvard (0.28%),

Wow, who would have guessed.

https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/03/29/why-selection-bias-is-t...
they probably shouldn't lie in such transparent ways, then
Roberts? Yes.

Shared wires? That's fact, right?
I recommend to use the Serverless framework https://serverless.com/.
It's pretty straight forward and very useful to configure imho.
In this way the entire project (configuration + code) can be versioned (svn, git...) easily.
I agree it's not likely, but there can be some rare cascading scenarios. Like pilots may update electronic flight bag data via an onboard network which is separate from the entertainment network...but shares bandwidth with the same satellite transciever/antenna. Your port scan hogs the bandwidth somehow, resulting in somewhat less fresh data for tarmac conditions, etc. It's not likely, but it's possible.

And it doesn't have to be a dramatic life threatening situation to incur a boatload of financial liability. See this for example: http://nypost.com/2017/08/30/unruly-passenger-ordered-to-pay...

The other reply regarding the overheated IFE is another unlikely, but possible, scenario.
Very true. I work at Fortune xx company and there are literally hundreds of developers in their 50s and early 60s. (ones older just retire). Many of them are head down workers reporting into managers who are 10-15 years younger (who probably don't make any more)
Yes, it's perfectly acceptable and even expected that job-seekers will apply to multiple jobs.

Linkedin Jobs has an efficient Easy Apply button.
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I went to babson, took a few classes at olin, my thesis advisor was an olin grad.

Many of the olin students are brilliant, quirky, very progressive, want to give back with their high quality (and what used to be 100% fully funded from endowments and grants, think its 50% now) education. Think this is a large point that gets overlooked - graduate an engineering degree debt free and it is easier to give back through a start up or social venture :)

Huge emphasis on actually building things in capstone classes. Fantastic faculty and amazing machine shop resources for such a small school. Some of the best students in my negotiations and accounting classes were from Olin. Additionally wellesley college is a 10 min bus ride for access to top-notch liberal arts classes. Lucky to have that mixture for sure.
Lying aside there's still a point at which this is negligence. When your value prop is a set of numbers, and that number is obviously, impossibly incorrect, at what point do you have a duty to try to correct that number? At what point do your customers have a legal leg to stand on?
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Presumably to impede automated crawling.
More like TP, antiobiotics, guns and ammunition.
Yup. lifes a bitch. and people are assholes
Yeah, I doubt this is malicious.

Lots of grade school aged kids have an alternate Facebook - one for parents/grandparents/relatives, one more locked down for their friends.

Folks who have to be on FB for work often make a second, work-only account. I still see plenty of small businesses running a "personal" profile instead of a page.
Pretty hard to found a startup and not work 80 hour weeks.

On the other hand, if you are a w2 employee paid salary, don't work 80 hours ;)
> In cases like that, they may mislead you while selling you on the idea

Of course, that's always possible but a perfect example of why the "No. But..." protects you from landing yourself in a nightmare.
We also have a position (just opened) for a full-stack engineer who will work on various tools for querying and visualizing genetic data, analysis results and ongoing biological experiments. Our current stack is React, Redux, D3, node, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Python, Scala, Spark, Elasticsearch.
Two thoughts:

1. If you're graduating highschool and want nothing more than to start an engineering company, and you have the credentials to get into Olin, it is probably worth-while. The social network you'll acquire at Olin will be far more tuned to startups, with a lot of former & current startup founders, VCs, and people really interested in being an early employee at a startup.

2. Whatever Olin is doing right probably doesn't scale to a significantly larger school. If you went from graduating 75 students / year to 1000, you'd lose close contact with the awesome teachers and mentors, your social network would become much more diffuse (right now you could easily know every person in your class, the class before, and the class after yours), and the friendly VCs wouldn't be able to meet and learn about every student and their aspirations.
In case you're honestly approaching this and misunderstanding, the value of the dollar lies in that the US gov't transacts taxes in dollars. It's not just "whoever" - if BTC had a reasonably equivalently vital transaction that it could be used for (OPEC switches to BTC, EU switches to BTC) then it would be a bit more apples to apples.
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So, it's a real life version of Shadowrun's Credsticks? (http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Credstick)
"Bankrupt bit bin biz Basho Technologies" and this gem.
In 2012, I worked on a nine month project to migrate a fairly large hot dataset (10s of TBs) off of SimpleDB and onto Riak. At the time, we were experiencing tens of hours of downtime a quarter, much of which could be attributed to SDB.

My favorite story about that migration is that four months into the project, we were moving along nicely and ready to start cutting over to Riak after the Christmas holiday. My office had decided to go out to lunch our last work day before everyone headed off for the holidays, and I received a call from a SDB support team member informing me that we either needed to move off their platform by Christmas Day or they'd have to shut us off (we'd start degrading other customers). Fortunately we were nearly ready to pull off the cutover, so we quite literally cut all of our traffic over on Christmas Eve (one of our busiest days of the year).

Over the upcoming years, our database continued to grow and grow, and all the while Riak trucked along. It wasn't always a smooth road, and we certainly had our challenges from time to time, but I have yet to hear of anyone who has used a massive 100TB hot database and not had to do work and maintenance.

Throughout the years I used Riak, it served me very well. I'm grateful to the innovative work so many at Basho created during their tenure, and I'm glad to see Bet365 attempt to steward the project to a new phase of its life. If I could toast every last basho employee, I would. Thank you all!
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It's really quite useful. I changed my zsh prompt a while back to show me the status of the internet connection on board, remaining time, flight number and from where to where the plane is going.

https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/867043286128656384
I think its unfair to dismiss the currency aspect of bitcoin. The use case for the developed world is 95% speculation 5% buying contraband online however, for people in Venezuela[1], girls learning to code in Afghanistan[2], or women in Saudi Arabi who can't legally open a bank account, Bitcoin is solving problems that under banked people have now. Of course the ecosystem needs to mature so grandma can use it safely, but that will come with time.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/bitcoin-mining-is-popular-in...
[2] https://www.coindesk.com/how-bitcoin-helps-afghan-girls-achi...
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its to the right of some conservative's in the uk
> If anything were to happen, it definitely shouldn't affect the avionics, not even remotely, or the plane would not have had a chance of certification.

Is that based on expectation, hope, or knowledge?
when you say "Google was the largest employer of Olin alumni" do you mean like, what, 3 to 10 people? Its too small to even compare to Stanford. Its apples to appleseeds.

I mean it sounds like a great school, kudos to the staff, but its a silly comparison.
Nice to see Curtis Roads in the thesis!
One could argue that it's extremely intimate considering how people use their hands for anything. If the guy whose hand your shaking didn't wash his hands after the restroom, how is that not intimate? :)

I actually prefer hugging over handshakes due to my personal perception of it as less intimate.
previous discussions on the same topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14860849

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14777851
This would suggest that an enormous amount of facebook accounts were alt/bot accounts. I simply cannot think of a way that Facebook would be completely oblivious to this, at best this is severe negligence from them, and at worst outright fraud.
Interesting survey, but political opinion surveys are tricky and I think it's hard to say anything concrete.

The ideal "find your words despicable but defend your right to say them" is not all that common in practice, never has been. It's an idealist's position.

I'd guess that the results have more to do with political leanings on the underlying issue, than the free speech one. IE, the more concerned with hate speech, the more illiberal they are in the survey. Change "offensive to minority groups" to "spread lies about the President," and I suspect a different spread.

It needs to be courts who defend these things and they'll do it, if the laws are there.
The article itself tells you what definitions they used. In the context of regulation and redistribution, they mean this:

> the government should [not] tightly regulate business, and should [not] tax the wealthy to fund social programs

My default would be "should not" and "should," respectively, which is where most tech founders fell, and puts me in the minority in the other four categories.

We can argue about tax rates and deductions until we're both blue in the face but most people agree that the more you make, the more you should pay in taxes, as a general rule. And "tightly" has a distinctively negative connotation to me. I think something should be legal and unregulated until there is some evidence that it needs to be either regulated or outright illegal. Business, generally, should not be tightly regulated, except in rare instances (healthcare, yes; banking, probably; insurance, probably).
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One benefit is that you can download the file with ease; YouTube does not do have a download/save feature that I've seen. Lots of third-party workarounds, but nothing native.
>western liberal freedoms

I'm sure China would happily adopt "western liberal freedoms" if didn't mean opening their citizens to brainwashing by western media and all their data being accessible to the CIA.
I started reading your comments and was initially supportive and thought you had a good thought but your examples are not equivalent and are quite biased towards your own values.
Thanks - Hearts of Iron is definitely on my list. Europa Universalis appeals a bit less, though that's mostly because of my perceptions of the interface and cognitive burden. I could be totally wrong about those.

I definitely don't mind bad balance if the game isn't trying for it; Rome: Total War did something very similar with certain nations starting in terrible positions.
If only it were that simple.
You may be mixing up (1)"do the thing right" and (2)"do the right thing".
Static typing does help on (1), some may think it's an hinderance on (2).
Did you read the comment?
> Java is super popular in the open source and academic communities

Don't forget the business community. To a first order approximation, most programmers who get paid to write code work in either C#/.NET or Java. Everything else is a relatively small minority of paid development work.
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