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Don't use Shopify to sell pre-order items or to run a crowdfunding campaign
On September 1st, 2017 at 10:08PM, two days after the launch of the Type 77 presale campaign (where 50% of the Type 77 timepieces available had already been pre-ordered), Division Furtive was notified by Shopify that the proceeds of the campaign were going to be frozen for 90 days because of a “chargeback risk”. The email from Shopify included the threat that the situation would continue if a single chargeback was to occur during that period. You can read this email here (division-furtive.com/share/ShopifyNotice.png).

Division Furtive was immediately worried for its collectors. Having collectors’ money in limbo for 3 months can only create two things: fear and uncertainty. Which, ironically, is a perfect scenario to see chargeback starting to pop-up. A lot of the future Type 77 collectors are returning collectors from the Type 40 and Type 50 presale campaigns and are among the world’s most faithful and patient people (e.g.: feedback from the Type 40 and Type 50 Kickstarters) but they did not sign up for this and it is unfair to impose this situation on them.

As you can imagine, being imposed a three months delay out of nowhere from a minor actor in the project has devastating consequences on the project planning. This single action from Shopify has ruined more than a year of development and planning for this launch. What strikes the most is the unpredictable nature of Shopify’s decision. In addition to being a fellow Canadian company, Shopify had been chosen for its openness toward pre-orders. The rules instructed by the Shopify Guru in this post (division-furtive.com/share/ShopifyPreordersPost.png) on Shopify ecommerce university had been followed (division-furtive.com/share/ShopifyStoreEn.png).

Division Furtive has decided to put the money back where it belongs, that is in collectors’ pockets, not Shopify’s. At least by doing this, Shopify won’t be making 3-month worth of interest on the money of the presale campaign they decided to freeze out of nowhere.
Tygs is based on aiohttp. But again, aiohttp is very minimalist. You gain very little in productivity if you use only that, and if you don't, well, that's a hell of glue code to write.

Being async and capable of dealing with http requests are only the very beginning of the story. With what async allows, we should be able of doing more. Way, way more.
As I've said elsewhere in this thread, it's that you consider culture in general to be "collective," and that's a dangerous idea. I'm pretty okay with the idea of sharing my culture with you, but unless you're one of my people, you certainly don't have any claim on it.
> Germany is in for a AFD government.

It is very much not. That's just plain false. Right-wing governments have been elected everywhere (US, Australia etc.). I don't deny that the EU has played a role, but you are painting a very dark picture of an institution which has a primarily positive influence on the world.
As a JS guy - it’s more a newbie programmer thing I think (which obviously there are a lot of in JS).
The fact that it's not surprising shouldn't prevent us from being outraged and from demanding a repeal.
> I can't wait to live in a world where we all acknowledge...

Why do you think "we" (as a world) will all acknowledge anything together?

If anything, the current trajectory of automation is leading to an intensification of the difference between have's vs have-not's. Many powerful people in the "have's" group WANT this, they want another gilded age where you have fantastically wealthy people and serfs.

UBI isn't a given and making it a reality is going to get ugly even if it succeeds.
In a way, I am through my work. However it is primarily from doing tickets of people complaining about $feature or $bug or $access_rights. It certainly feels soul-sucking doing it. And most certainly does not feel like positive contributions. But I know that what I work on, many millions of people count on in the end. And my hands are a small part of that.

In the grand stream of things, I've done more actionable and powerful work outside of my job I attend 5 days a week. If I had more time, I could push more innovation in many areas. The money would be nice as well. It's a hard choice, balancing money and time.

I yearn for the days when we finally have UBI or something guaranteeing us the rights to live without being coerced into selling our bodies and minds. Because right now, I feel there's little between me selling my body and mind and that of a prostitute selling theirs. I just don't do sex as work, so it's somehow "better".

And having rights to live for everyone would allow me to work much more in automation tech without the ethical qualms that I am putting many more people out of work - and thusly depriving them of living. Automation tech can work for a limited amount of people (now), or it can work for everyone.

Perhaps I'm just an idealist.
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This is absurd and hyperbolically incorrect; fees in Bitcoin are calculated per-byte of the transaction's size (and in BTC, no less!), so even if the cost of a transaction was that high, the price in USD would be misleading — with the underlying asset at ~$4500, of course the dollar value of the fee would appear high in a weaker currency.

Who wants to wait _any_ number of blocks for a payment to clear, anyways? Blockchains provide a trust anchor that serves well as a settlement system, but they aren't intrinsically payment networks in and of themselves — the ideal experience is of course an _instant_ payment, and waiting for confirmations just doesn't cut it.

This is why so much effort is going into building payment rapid networks on _top_ of Bitcoin, using "rapidly-adjusted micropayment channels" [0] and routing protocols to build things like Lightning [1].

And you're pumping IOTA in this same post? Unbelievable, these days.

Current fee experience of Bitcoin: https://twitter.com/alansilbert/status/905106387260370945
Historical fees: https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

[0]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contract#Example_7:_Rapidly-adjus...
[1]: https://medium.com/lightning-resources
If this time is not completely different, automating jobs will have positive benefits for all, esp those working in jobs automated away. Automation has happened continuously since the 1800s and new machines were always feared to take away many jobs (or earlier, e.g. by the mechanical knitting machine in ~1589). Looking at datasets of popular jobs from just a century ago it's amazing to see how many of those ceased to exist and how little we miss them. I'm sure most of the jobs to be automated away are not "dream jobs" that people will miss thoroughly.

Not to say that it doesn't bear risks but there's currently no indication that this time jobs wouldn't be replaced by something better. Just because many think so doesn't make it true, Keynes also firmly believed in the 1930s that we would run out of work and yet I cannot see that anywhere.
I wondered the same. Right or wrong some equipment does not respond well (lockup, reset...) to port scanning.
I believe that simply treating others the way we'd like to be treated is a positive contribution to society. Treating others with respect, and trying to keep common places clean already goes a long way for society as a whole.
A possible mechanism for this is the "favorite" link that you can get to by clicking on the timestamp of a comment. Currently, I don't think much is being done with it other than adding it to a private per-user list, but it could also be used to highlight or boost the chosen comments?

A quick fix might be to just add another item to the "Lists" link at the bottom that shows the top "Favorited" comments, based on how many people have it as their most recent (or 10 most recent) favorite.
Nobel-winning economist Robert Shiller: Bitcoin is the best example of a bubble
I imagine it would tangle onto your hair or you'd notice the confusion around you ?
HN: I don't like secret laws.

Also HN: I don't like when they don't invent secret laws to punish people I'm mad at.
With lower end software (like 'firmware') the reasons could also very well be legal. You may think of copyright infringement there, but I'd more think in the lines of licensing other software [either by source, or proprietary] as part of your software. Examples could be library, or firmware of specific hardware chips as part of an end product's hardware. Lack of open drivers is a serious problem in embedded land; specifically, it keeps phones on old Android versions where security fixes aren't backported.
Of course it is valuable, and being myself a Linux user, I'm glad somebody did the effort to get all those tools available for us.

However, I feel sad seeing the best tech from Sun going down the drain despite being open source.
Make sure you understand the basics of the new domain extremely well. You don't need to know everything in depth, but every piece you do know needs to fit together in your mind.

Ask questions until you think you understand, then have someone confirm your understanding. Those with experience in the domain will be able to recognize the right questions being asked.

In my experience, most seniors in a company are willing to help you get up to speed if they see that you're actually trying to understand the domain as opposed to just learning enough to get by.

Even though it seems like everyone else has a good understanding of things, this is usually not the case. Often people have bits and pieces of domain knowledge, but not a thorough understanding. These are not the ones who can really help you.

Find someone who has a good understanding that you seem to get along with. Be proactive and ask them if you could pick their brain over a long off-site lunch and then ask a lot of questions.
"you'll be on the hook for it."

Particularly if something goes terribly wrong and you're on the plane.
Yes. My job is to automate tasks at a cancer research institution.
Skyrim is definitely a gem of a game. I wouldn't however call it "directed" or "central". I've had several playthroughs of it as just a hunter or a spelunker and totally ignored the main story of dragonborn/background war (which is a strength of the game, not a fault).

I would consider Fallout 4 to be much more directed. You have to be the survivor, you have to save the patriots, you have to ultimately destroy one of the three powers. Sure you can ignore the plot for a bit, but you can't advance any storyline. You can't play PI or explore vaults unless you've advanced the story.
Risks of Shopping mobile
This. This article is one of those "Hey this area is the area with the lowest cancer rates".

But statistics tells us that small samples are more prone to extreme outcomes.

This seems to be a problem in all scientific fields, a quick google search came up with this article from Nature:
https://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v14/n5/full/nrn3475.html?...
Krastanov's answer is good, but it's worth adding that 'cyclers' are a similar but practical idea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
Were the in flight entertainment touchscreens really capactive? I've found that such designs have almost exclusively been resistive. The resistive designs are cheaper, but also tend to be designed with a high threshold. The two put together makes a lot of resistive touchscreens feel sluggish. You feel like you have to mash the heck out of them to get them to act sometimes. On the upside they don't require human capacitance to work, just screen pressure.
The property rights to your belongings are also fundamentally reliant on the government's promise to use violence to enforce those rights. Concluding that it is therefore immoral is too simplistic. You have to take into account the full consequences of not enforcing those rights, and then determine whether society as a whole is better off or worse off.
That can be a very good sign. People like to feel important but it's very dangerous to be irreplaceable. Key man risk is often underestimated and can kill companies.
My problem is open source linux on laptops (for me anyway) has always been a freaking train wreck. Issues with Wifi, battery life is shit, etc.
Reddit is not released under a free software license.
Completely agree. Thanks for bringing Gresham's Law into it. Now I'm terrified I need to diversify.
Once there are numerous children riding unaccompanied on the bus, the stats may change. Obviously in the current environment (where no children are riding the bus), the number of incidents are small (his stats are from school busses). What happens when people realize that dozens of children are riding public buses all the time without a parent in sight?

The current climate of "over-protecting" kids may be the cause of the lower rates of child-related crimes. Check out some graphs of the kidnap rates falling. Maybe the "woefully ignorant" public policy makers actually have the right answer?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/14/there...
I don't know from where it stems for the majority of opponents. For me, it stems from a complete lack of faith that the system would be well designed and even relatively free from corruption, and therefore that it would not make things much worse, while not actually solving the problem it's supposed to solve.

Certification exams already exist, and employers are free to require them to avoid the "crap candidates". Other problems, like security flaws affecting the users, can be better solved by imposing real penalties on companies.
Of course I do. I work, pay my taxes, donate some to charity and fundraisers, and contribute to the economy as a consumer.
I'm not sure if that's safe either. I installed Windows 10 recently and the install included apps like Facebook and Twitter. In fact a good portion of the start menu was essentially mini-billboards.
> When did you get to vote on anything?

October 2000, there were a worldwide online vote to select some members of the ICANN Board of Directors.

https://www.icann.org/news/icann-pr-2000-09-21-en
Western European culture in particular appears to have encouraged a degree of reward for individualism and self-advancement which Eastern cultures (for whatever reason) have not been able to sustain. Corruption and favoritism are also more commonly accepted, in part I suspect due to the influence of Confucianism and Buddhism. This tends to result in societies with less-democratic structures which ultimately entrench social status.

Most of us have probably had a college class or two with foreign students from Asia who somehow passed the very tough English component of the GMAT or other standardized test, yet barely spoke English. I certainly had a few such folks in mine. My intuition would be that test scores matter quite a bit, but honestly achieving them may not matter as much.

Social mobility is higher here in the U.S. than most Asian cultures, but we put a greater emphasis on honestly achieving it (or did in the past anyway). Combine that with an Asian cultural emphasis around testing/studying and I think you get an interesting dynamic.

Just my perspective.
I don't argue against things that don't exist (time machine). And you are missing my point, most people who are poor do not have a credit card. There options are few and far between.

What I am suggesting by education is financial education such as don't spend what you don't have (if you have an account, don't write bad checks). Don't borrow money from payday lenders, etc. How to reduce expenses by having a roommate, utilizing public transportation, starting a community garden, etc. Then adding things such as you can go for dental care that is income based? Where you can go for annual flu shots etc?

I am not trying to make excuses for the decisions people make. What I am saying is to give alternatives (credit cards) that are not likely available to the majority of people who are poor does little to advance efforts to help find solutions that should be aimed at education and the development of safety nets for those all too common but expenses expenses (dental care).

When people know better, they do better. It has been repeated time and time again in these comments. People learned a better way and with that knowledge they were able to make much better choices and change their lives.
When McCain ran against Obama he wanted to get rid of employer health care. I don't remember the details though.
Yup. I mean as filesystems for Linux it listed Ext2, Ext3, and ReiserFS. A webpage like this is excellent to be managed via a wiki.
The Quest to Restore American Elms: Nearing the Finish Line
That may be largely due to massive amount of work put into the old way. Even if GA is just fundamentally a better idea for doing graphics, it doesn't have decades of software and hardware development to back it up.

Imagine selling this:
I've got a new idea, with a mere re-education campaign for our developers, major graphics engine overhaul, and... convincing NVIDIA or AMD to implement some GA specific optimizations in hardware. We can have a much more mathematically satisfying code base!
> I did a port scan on the System Control Unit

Scanning during flight is not really responsible at all.
No.

Like many, I help in a number of small ways I'm sure, and perhaps I've even made a big impact on a few lives for the better, but I can't help but think I should be able to scale up and do more for a far, far greater number of people.
Great idea!

This way when the company shuts down, your cushions are stuck in one position, unless you hotwire the couch :)
% of population working has declined significantly since 1600. Right now we are under 2/5 of the US population (~38.8%) is working a 35+ hour a week job.

So, I suspect they have been costing jobs. Society has simply shifted to use a lower percentage of peoples time vs. having large numbers of people never work.

However, unless we start reducing the retirement age down to late 40's or other very large scale changes that's only going to keep working for so long.
REM: Resource-efficient mining for blockchains
Yet another documentation dispute
Sure no problem. No the contribution question was left aside. I went to work for a hedge fund because I wanted to live in NYC and go through the immigration process easily (I'm French). It turned out that the people I work with are very smart and super nice. So overall I don't feel like contributing much, but I kind of sorted the money issue and I work on challenging problems with a bunch of smart guys, so I feel fine.
Then how is it showing the flight metrics?

I wouldn’t guess they would add double sensors for all that information.

Or did you mean well protected, instead of literal air gap?
Windows (cmd.exe or PowerShell) and OpenVMS aren't mentioned either.
I guess sometimes it's the smallest of things that can make a genuine difference.
Disclosure: I work for Google. Google Cloud does this with Dataflow and ML Engine in a fairly simple way, and the internals are open sourced as Apache Beam and TensorFlow so you can migrate to other platforms if you want.
Again it's very old school. You have async, you can do something incredible. You can setup real time RPC, propagate pub/sub accross all client and server nodes, provide a transparent tasks queue, enable live settings, etc.

What you are doing here is just "what sync frameworks do, but async". There is no use for that. I can already do it with WSGI frameworks. It works well. It's robust, proven and productive.

If you don't use async to provide novel features that only async enables, what's the point ?
> When the Bamiyan buddhas were dynamited, exactly whose culture were the Taliban "preserving"?

Their own.

> It is entirely reasonable to believe that culture and history have an importance independent of petty, local squabbles.

Calling it “reasonable” elevates it to a level of objective neutrality to which it is not entitled. That view is simply it's own set of cultural values, which, while perhaps fairly widespread at the moment, are no more universal or grounded in reason than any others.
Olin is on to something with their fresh take on engineering education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXNT-RRcfyo
Reading through the post it didn't seem like he found any security issues. Their map has javascript variables which isn't a security issue. It doesn't seem like SCU had many open ports. It was running a relatively new version of Linux.
I wish people wouldn't do shit like this on live systems like this one. Even the port scan could have had bad consequences (especially since this person did -A). By all means explore the interesting JSON object that was downloaded and yeah I'd worry about installing random stuff on my machine.

I'm not talking about crashing the plane; I'm talking about crashing the IFE and me then having to sit through 10 hours of people who didn't bring a book.
Didn't know about SafariBooks. Any course / material you really liked or recommend?
The old one or the new one? I like the subtle "heart" shape in the new one, especially the animation, to implicitly persuade me to love IBM.

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo...
This is a such a great question. I find it fascinating that 'contributing positively to society' is not necessarily related to; financial compensation, legality or societal status.

Not implying it should of course, many of us don't have the option to choose our jobs too easily. But some of us certainly are in a position to choose a job which pays higher but has less moral standing.

My next door neighbour works for a pay-day loan company, and seems to be well rewarded. I don't know if he considers this question. Another friend of mine moved from accounting into private equity, with much higher pay. Similar to the high-achieving doctors who go into cosmetic plastic surgery.

Is there any incentive to consider your contribution to society?
It is true that contribution can often seem intangible. However, if you lower the cost of goods, or increase productivity in any way, you have helped large numbers of people. Repeat that for 20 years and you have probably helped a few million, or if you are lucky a few hundred million people.
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OK, but nothing in there implies that avoiding it guarantees no damage, or even less damage.
Nothing you do to the IFE is going to take down the plane.
Have you had your eyes checked? I've had trouble concentrating when my eyes are straining.
Sounds good. I'll at least toss up the testing plan on GitHub, and maybe compile results too.

I'll probably be doing this for the next iPhone, so it'll be soon.
For those who like to learn from videos, here is an interview/lesson from Carl Hewitt (he introduced the model):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo
It seems like one of Const-me's objections is that Rust data structures like HashMap don't document a lot of guarantees about when they would and wouldn't invalidate unsafe interior pointers. That said, for Vec in particular, Rust actually makes a ton of guarantees about its layout (more that C++ std::vector I think): https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html
How is a law giving the ftc more power here a secret law?
It is what the users of the platform need to be able to accurately track the analytics.