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> Typically dismissed by everyone

Yes, there's no bitcoin hype at all.

> it nevertheless solves universal problems related to something everyone uses -- money.

You know what is a simpler, more energy efficient, universally accepted, easier to use, time-tested, fungible, stable, and better in almost every way form of money is?

Money.

All the tulip mania or dotcom stocks or Florida swampland or whatever bubble fueled by something valueless without any underlying guarantees will never supplant actual money.
"Chose” might not be the right word here. The dmz between the Koreas approximates how far the Soviet tanks got through the Japanese-occupied Korea at the end of world war 2 before acknowledging the Japanese surrender. In this sense, North Korea is analogous to East Germany.
It does, but they have essential no power (until you get to the state).
I've written a handful of apps using PHP-gtk (all written more than ten years ago). I'm sure it's improved since then, but I'd still say it's not worth the effort.
> ...there will always be inequality in a capitalist economy

What economy doesn't have inequality?
drush is great, and I've been using it for a few years. But, module support in drush was abysmal until pretty recently, though (still pretty weak; I'd guess 80-90% of modules have no drush support). And, for a lot of core Drupal stuff that I would think would be obvious (CRUD for arbitrary entities, for example) one has to write one's own drush plugin, and it's often complicated as hell. I love what drush does, but I've frequently been disappointed/frustrated by what it doesn't.

That's not to denigrate drush or the developer(s) of drush. drush is/was a remarkable improvement over the pre-drush era. I just think Drupal wasn't built to be driven by a CLI. It isn't API-native, by any stretch of the imagination, nor is it front-end agnostic. So, drush is historically working around rather than working with, and it shows in that most of Drupal is still inaccessible to drush (at least in Drupal 7; I haven't deployed Drupal 8 and probably never will as the migration from 6 to 7 was too painful for me to be willing to ever do it again).

So...I think we may just disagree on what "decent" and "finally" means. Also, compare to some other ways to build web apps; most modern web frameworks have pretty obvious ways to build CLI tools, and often are built around standard frameworks for doing so (Yeoman or generators/console in Rails). Drupal being based on Symfony now gets it a lot of that same kind of thing; so, it is recently decent, by my estimation. Others may disagree, of course.
They never actually charged it though, you didn't actually have to pay it.
Government bailouts are not free market, and do indeed cause distortion and mis-allocation of investments.

That's not a good argument for raising taxes, though.
The way I see it those janitors, security people and other such workers whose jobs are today almost universally outsourced, are also contributing in their own small way to the company's bottom line and to its success. Why should they be treated any different?
The intent of the saying is encouraging you to identify and remove bad apples, so they don't spoil the rest.

The analogy is apt, but the question is identifying the bad apples - and asking if those on top are the bad apples spoiling the barrel.
Anytime you have a network, the value is said to be proportional to the square of the number of connected users. This is known as Metcalfe's Law. Is it just another vanity measure? I have no clue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
Hi Vi!

Sad to hear about the change. I really loved reading the things you were doing at eleVR, and the clear and thoughtful way you explained them.

HN is indeed weird, but weird in both good and bad ways. FWIW, I'm pretty sure it's where I first found out about eleVR.
DTC is allowed because the FDA has found the benefits outweigh the risk. Here is one positive data point of many in the physician survey:

DTC ads help patients have better discussions with their physicians and provide greater awareness of treatments. The study demonstrated that when a patient asked about a specific drug, 88 percent of the time they had the condition that the drug treated. And 80 percent of physicians believed their patients understood what condition the advertised drug treats.[1]

[1]https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm14356...
AFAIU, none of those were territorial acquisitions in the modern sense. Neither Alexander the Great nor Genghis Khan expanded the territory of the Greek or Mongolian nations, respectively. The modern notion of the nation-state doesn't really have an historical analog. It's a distinction that matters when critiquing this new paper, because its argument is fundamentally premised on (and constrained by) the notion of a modern nation-state. Indeed, without the concept of a modern nation-state we may not have seen European-style territorial acquisition, because it's only within a system of nation-states do you need territorial acquisition to legitimize complete political sovereignty. The "nation-state" is an historical novelty in the way that it makes absolute legal, economic, and social power co-extensive.
This is part of the reason some want to tax consumption more aggressively. "Wealth" that isn't used is really just a collection of expensive large numbers. Sooner or later, when that wealth is used, it can be taxed as consumption and/or real property.
The media consists of people with journalism degrees, not economics. Such journalists commonly believe in the "cash hoard" theory.

To know what they are investing in, consult the Apple Annual Report, which says. Even if the balance sheet says "cash", what they mean is "bank deposits". Bank deposits get loaned out to others, and those others spend it.

Nobody borrows money in order to hoard a pile of currency.
Bitcoin is definitely hyped, though. Sure, on this site it gets a healthy dose of skepticism (as it should, I would argue, but that's a separate point), but cryptocurrency in general is currently increasing in hype, not decreasing. Just look at the number of articles written about crypto over the last year (a rough proxy, but still) - it's only gone up. Also, ICOs regularly garnering $20+ million worth of crypto.

I think the OP was referring to something that gets little hype in general (not just on HN) but could have unforeseen disruptive effects. Like that boring thing that no one really discusses much but a small group of committed people are working on.
IMHO, any argument that specifies "all" or "always" is trying to sneak in a subtle but significant bias. I'm a huge fan of VR, but it don't think it will take over all media. I don't even think it will take over a majority of media. I do think its a new opportunity for more intense medium that most people don't want most of the time, but simply was not an option before.

If you are serious about some task/event/experience then VR is a small hassle that has a huge payoff. For casual 6 clicks per minute experiences, the Web will continue to do just fine.
Anyone looking for a bunch of quality employees ?
Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential Equations (1997) [pdf]
What evidence?

> One would have to balance the "harm" caused to the children of wealthy people for not inheriting wealth (mostly when they are around 50-60 yr old themselves), with the harm caused to society at large.

I wonder if we could think of other examples of how harming a minority of people can be good for society at large.
But regardless of the moral standpoint of the remark you said, you also have to account the harm it does to society to make people spend extra time hiding their wealth and spending it more frivolously.
I completely agree, but for totally different reasons.

If a major function of government is to protect our property (land, savings, boats, cars, etc...), then it could be said the more property we have the more we benefit from government protection and the more we should pay.

Another function of government is to facilitate trade. For this service, ALL transactions should be taxed (including payroll).

If you look at the totality of this, the actual tax rates would be nominal for every "normal" individual, thus it wouldn't necessarily be regressive. We're talking about a 1% tax rate on property and ALL transactions.

To me this makes sense on so many levels. It captures money from everyone participating in the system and it captures it relative to the person's level of benefit from the system.

The hardest part would be tracking. However, if the tax is nominal and the punishment for cheating is high, then it seems like it wouldn't need outrageously intrusive controls.
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>I feel the author failed to address the crux of why people argue that "non-statistical" bias is bad – that we should be judged by our actions, and not by factors out of our control such as race, class, the family we were born into, or where we were born.

This is exactly what the author is talking about. You are comparing the predictions against your fantasy of a world where these aspects do not matter because they're not "fair". When they don't match up, you call the predictions biased. But these factors outside our control do matter, accounting for them does not introduce bias, and averting our eyes will not change that fact.
Here's the example that comes to mind. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14428086 This kind of comment gets made so much on this forum I had a prepared response ready to go when it happened.
It's not as simple as "those who can afford to save, do". There are also a huge number of people living well above their means, and the percentage of people with no savings is much, much higher than the percentage of people who don't make enough to save.

The F-150 is the best selling vehicle in the US, and they're certainly not all going to people in the construction industry.

And $50k/yr is more than enough to save money in most parts of the country. That's a good salary.
> I routinely use vanilla PHP (no special libraries) for CLI scripts

Vanilla PHP has better argument parsing than many recent hipster language. Go has some sort of ugly non conventional argument library which is barely usable, Node has none. But nothing beats vanilla Python for that tasks IMHO.
> I wish it were more funny but it's not. Oracle has a special way of decimating open source projects.

Actually, all three of the mentioned open-source projects Oracle has "decimated", have gone on to live happy, healthy, productive lives.

Perhaps Oracle just pushes baby birds out of the nest to see who can survive on their own, and who falls to their death.
You just need a short exposure, blur is not related to framerate, it is related to exposure time.
Sure, I think they're good things. But, some other languages manage to do the same without so many letters and without so much boilerplate.
I work on bitcoin, and am very involved in the community. Every single person I have interacted with, core developers included, dismissed bitcoin on first exposure, at least in the early days.

And I suggest that you sometime look into how national currencies work and the systemic risks involved. Bitcoin solves a real problem of trust and institutional moral corruption.
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Yes, it is, just as much as creating fake accounts is.

The difference is just that you're stealing from your employer, instead of your employer's customers.
You sound like you're trying to justify a Trump tweet. But there's a long well documented history and consistent pattern you're ignoring.

Do you consider PHP 5.3.7 "moving on"?

> 5.3.7 upgrade warning:
[22-Aug-2011]
Due to unfortunate issues with 5.3.7 (see bug#55439) users should postpone upgrading until 5.3.8 is released (expected in a few days).

No seriously, he's literally as careless as he claims to be, and his lack of giving a shit about things that are extremely important has caused actual serious security problems, like breaking crypt() by checking in sloppy buggy code that would have caused a unit test to fail, but without bothering to run the unit tests (because so many of them failed anyway, so who cares??), and then MAKING A RELEASE of PHP 5.3.7 with, OF ALL THINGS, a broken untested crypt()!

http://i.imgur.com/cAvSr.jpg

Do you think that's just his sense of humor, a self deprecating joke, breaking then releasing crypt() without testing, that's funny in some context? What context would that be? Do you just laugh and shrug it off with "Let Rasmus be Rasmus!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jsudd/you_see_...

>r314434 (rasmus): Make static analyzers happy

>r315218 (stas): Unbreak crypt() (fix bug #55439)
# If you want to remove static analyser messages, be my guest, but please run unit tests after

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/standard/php...

https://plus.google.com/113641248237520845183/posts/g68d9RvR...

>Rasmus Lerdorf

>+Lorenz H.-S. We do. See http://gcov.php.net

>You can see the code coverage, test case failures, Valgrind reports and more for each branch.

>The crypt change did trigger a test to fail, we just went a bit too fast with the release and didn't notice the failure. This is mostly because we have too many test failures which is primarily caused by us adding tests for bug reports before actually fixing the bug. I still like the practice of adding test cases for bugs and then working towards making the tests pass, however for some of these non-critical bugs that are taking a while to change we should probably switch them to XFAIL (expected fail) so they don't clutter up the test failure output and thus making it harder to spot new failures like this crypt one.
HN is basically two communities. I don't like the startupy, entrepreneury stuff, I come here for the mathy, electronicy, computersciency tech stuff.
Bitcoin 3-4 years ago got ridicule, not hype.
What's a "market cap"? Are you talking about the market peak?
I've felt like this my entire life. Turns out for me that it is a symptom of (undiagnosed) ADHD - an execution problem, not a motivational problem. Having gotten that diagnosed, it's a very significant change in my life. To be cliche, the first day of the rest of my life.

For many people, "trying to bend their personality into the shape [they] want it to be" is fruitless, totally counterproductive.

The first thing I had to learn was that in order to change my behavior, I had to change my environment, not my attitudes. My attitudes are fine, indeed, perhaps excessively eager.

It's possible that other people could take something away from that, ADHD or not, it's better to accept and appreciate who you are and the value you bring to the world, and instead seek to make changes to where you are, what is around you, and how you relate through that to the rest of the world.
There are two types of chickens: the ones grown for their meat, and the ones grown for their eggs (I'm not aware of the English terminology on either).

There have been campaigns for both types of chicken to improve their quality of life. Here in NL they were conducted by an NGO called Wakker Dier. There's the campaign against the 'plofkip' (huge chicks who are unable to move, and are force fed) so that grocery stores quit selling these. Then for the sale of eggs (itself harmless for chickens, if unfertilized eggs, and if chickens are treated without abuse) there's a star system ranging from 1 ('kooi') [1], 2 ('scharrelei') till 3 ('vrije uitloop'). Note that this system says nothing about their diet. Now, if you'd translate 2 and 3, you'd both end up with 'free range'. This Wikipedia article on free range [2] explains the EU has strict rules on that term, while the US does not. Its worth noting that due to campaigns of Wakker Dier eggs of type 1 are almost never sold anymore directly, but they are still being widely used within products! If not, they will mention the name of type 2 and 3 ('scharrel-ei' usually or more uncommon in the case of products 'vrije uitloop ei' otherwise).

Regarding the picture you linked if that is from NL, that might very well either be accurate due to fipronil scandal [3] (millions of chickens were killed due to that hence near empty cages), or otherwise a propaganda picture.

Its very important to be critical of farmers. They're treating thousands upon thousands of animals with various degrees of treatment (from loving/caring to downright abuse), as well as affecting our soil (as in, "the inhabitants of Earth's" which also makes sense since our soil is deeply connected with the rest of Earth's ecosystem as well as literally your neighbors's soil).

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Eisen_ko...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-range_eggs

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Fipronil_eggs_contaminati...
The point was to make it hard for 'common criminals' to do it. Your average guy that's going to rob a convenience store isn't going to have a 3D printer or whatever.
Our winter vegetables are great as well. Leeks, Parsnips and Chard are all delicious.
I had the exact same thought after port scanning my own uverse gigapower connection - so seeing real exploits actually be found on it is not surprising in the slightest to me.

Though instead of going with the 802.1x proxy approach, it's also possible to spoof the mac address of the RG with your router and swap it in place after 802.1x authentication has occurred. (You have to swap without the link to the ONT going down however, the easiest way to do so being a switch with VLAN support. You put the RG and ONT on one vlan, and then once the connection is up, you swap your router in place of the RG.)

Then you can unplug the RG and put it in your closet (until you have a power outage and have to do it again, which is the main drawback to this approach. However since AT&T provides a UPS for the ONT, if you have a UPS for your router you should be good there too.)
Drush was amazing ... but only in the context of the hell that Drupal 6/7 was.
My experience is the opposite. I find a narrow selection of mediocre goods in the UK, and a much wider variety of high quality products in the continent. I can't get decent charcuterie without going to a deli, and half the French products I want to buy I have to go to Waitrose to get. Everything from beverages to cheese is really limited, typically only two brands in any given category, one of them usually the store brand.

I feel like the UK supermarket industry took The Paradox of Choice too seriously.
Why did you buy at 370 if you thought it was going to dip to 300?

It's going to drop further, Nico.
It is interesting that the C++ version does twice as many allocations. I suspect this means there is some low hanging fruit for future optimizations.
Have you seen the price of real estate in Florida? I'd say they did a pretty good job of making all that worthless swamp land pretty valuable.
I think that Solaris and SPARC had different fates in this regard: Solaris was dead the moment they (re)closed it in 2010 -- there was simply no way that Solaris was going to survive as a proprietary operating system (the era for which had passed half a decade before).

As for SPARC, Oracle does seem to have invested heavily, in part because of the elaborate self-delusion that Ellison seemed to have that he could develop magical database hardware that would somehow repeal the laws of physics.

As for the warning, it is indeed apt; Oracle is a mechanized and myopic profit-maximizer -- a remorseless and shameless corporate sociopath that lacks the ability to feel anything at all for its customers. Yes, your products will die of asphyxiation and incompetence and so on, but the much more acute damage will be to one's sense of purpose in the world: working for Oracle is a nonstop trip to either an existential crisis or a mercenary's existence (or both). And as many discovered on Friday, working for such an entity out of a noble (if misplaced) sense of duty or loyalty is pointless; Oracle feels nothing for you, its employees, for the same reason it feels nothing for its customers or its partners or the domain or the industry or society writ large: because it feels nothing at all.
So what's a good example of the code of today that will survive the next 30 years?
I never understand why someone working less is considered a bad thing. If a person works less that leaves a vacuum for their services which will then be filled by another market actor.
I don't think the problem with bitcoin is the tech (although I do think the protocol isn't perfect, as hashing times continue to increase). The problem with bitcoin is actually fundamental - once it becomes as big as you say it will, it will be regulated. And once it's regulated, what real advantages does it offer compared to the competition? The reason money works is because people trust that the governments printing it will honor it - otherwise you have people living on communes trading pieces of silver (Planet Money Podcast #777 has an interesting take on this, and later finds out the people were swindling him).

Bitcoin is solving a problem, but not a massive one. It's for people that want minimal government interference like people that live on communes, it's just catered towards a more tech-savvy demographic. I guess you could also argue it's used as currency for illegal activities, so I guess that's a use case for it (hard to imagine The Silk Road could have worked without bitcoin).

Of course I could be wrong, and I don't think bitcoin will disappear any time soon - I just think it's going to become irrelevant.
Well, YouTube-encoded video is a severe mistake and it was his assumption that this would be representative of video out of a commercial camera.

It is not.

The camera is also not calibrated. Text recognition does not work well on video whose distortion characteristics are not known.

I am not at all surprised that this is his result.

This morning I calibrated my dashcam and used OpenALPR to replicate this, and I got FAR better results than this blogger.

At the end of a 30-minute section of heavy traffic, I had many hundreds of license plates with 95% confidence or better. I do not have a way to verify the plates automatically, so I don't know how many of those are actually correct.

I filmed at 2560x1440 at 30fps.
A fair point. But if it's been 3-4 years since then (and 8 years since inception), how much longer until bitcoin/crypto become the revolutionary technology that was promised?
It's not surprising that those who have bought into Rand and her ego stroking 'superman' ideology are sociopaths.

These highly individualist supermen don't need society or anyone else for their success. They stand alone. Celebrating themselves while seeing others suffer and blaming them for their suffering is simply the natural order of things. Empathy is completely absent in this impoverished binary world view of success and failure.

But life and human beings cannot just be reduced to a primitive ideology of success and failure, especially when the successful are riding on generations of privilege. It's obscene for those starting a 100M race at 90M to lecture others on achievement.

While these self centred achievers stroke their egos millions if not billions of human brains are wasted just trying to survive, their intellectual output never given the opportunity to shine. And its not just their loss but a social catastrophe because its only leisure and stability that allowed our tryst with science to begin.