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This is where I have a problem. "This only works for as long as the society deems companies beneficial to the wellbeing of the people" said another way is collective good trumps (no pun) individual liberties, this is just communism worded differently. If you were to logically implement or even deduce what this implies is communism and that is bad as seen by both empirically and logical (deontological) evidence/proofs.

What has the majority done to build a company that they can take it away? If you say they've made transactions or buy buying the stuff the company makes, then I'd say they got their money's worth and that's it. There was no surplus. Additional rights were not part of that deal. So that can't be an objection.

Let's unpack this.
As an example, I'm working at this company. I do no harm to others, neither does the company, but the society has the right to take this away because majority says so (for whatever reason)? So if you can take away somebody's job and their property, the company, because a majority says so, I don't see how that's ethical.
Usually blog posts like this come at pivotal times in a company's lifetime.

There doesn't seem to be anything yet. Interesting.
As do the BSDs. That's what vendors need is stability regarding drivers.
Rule of law v.s. rule by law
Not sure the point your meaning to make.

I was simply explaining that many crypto-currency systems are demonstrably more adversarial and user-hostile environments than most other currencies. Not only are they more adversarial, they are more adversarial in a way that most computer users aren't equipped to comprehend.
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Guido had stated that he didn't want the implementation to place arbitrary limits on the language specification.

This particular limit was not present in the early Python 2 releases.

When the limit was added, limiting arguments wasn't the goal; instead, it was just an artifact of a patch regarding how keyword arguments and positional arguments we encoded in Python's bytecode scheme.
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I assume another close contender is the Nay Pyi Taw airport in Myanmar.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXvqis0htxH/?taken-at=277450644

https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/277450644/naypyi...

The city was built as a showcase capital for Myanmar's military government, and has crazy sights like a 20 lane highway (with almost no cars):

https://www.go-myanmar.com/sites/go-myanmar.com/files/upload...

More pictures:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-304350...

The craziest part of the city to me was the amusement park. It was open, but only half complete. Ride operators would follow us around to turn on the rides we wanted to ride. One of the rides didn't have the female side of the seat belt buckle, so I just had to tie the straps together.

Very sad how much money was spent on this city, especially considering how poor the country is.
Well, _creep_ _shmeep_ (you're just using an ad hominem) you agreed to it when you signed up to free basics. All activities that FB does is according to their ToS and their privacy policies. If you agreed to that, then they are doing it legitimately.
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Ask HN: What happened to Urbit?
It’s been a year since there was some meaningful update from them. Does anybody know if they are getting closer to their goal of giving every internet user their own server?
`const` doesn't mean immutable data. It means immutable variables, i.e. you can't reassign to `const` variables. You can mutate the data regardless (push to an array, add a new key to an object), unless the variable points to an immutable value to begin with (primitives, or actual immutable data structures such as with Immutable.js).
Doesn't that just say roughly that "a new form that is more likely to persist in a given environment came from a previous form that was more likely to persist in that given environment"? That almost boils down the same thing as before. The persistence of life still seems entirely orthogonal to the odds of a self replicating life arising in the first place, right?
You can issue/renew via DNS. I have a bunch of valid certs for domains that only resolve internally using this method. I believe the plan for wildcard certs is to only support DNS-01 challenges.
>We're primates, not pure energy beings that we can reprogram at will.

Nobody doubts this; my point is that our current mode of production has a very strong effect on how we go about our daily lives and the attitudes that it influences; we have overcome "human nature" in many circumstances, but that's irrelevant because it's clear that the way people behave is to do with how they are raised, what kind of attitudes are imbued in them; for Marx labour is not merely something that people do, but it's something that we do which makes us human; thus the changed characterstic of labour, which comes in through the base of society influences the superstructure. I don't know why you seem to be clinging so much to the idea that human nature is as we see it now; Fromm notes for example that "human nature" has changed, such as the arising of the general desire for fame that has only been seen since the 14th century. Yet many would say this is human nature. Do you not think that historical analysis is important here? Socioligists have more of a place to describe exactly what human nature is rather than biologists and the empiricists whose only data is restricted to what they can see here and now. This is too narrow.

>collectivist societies

Communism is the epitome of individualism, the free association of people. All society hitherto is collectivist by definition, man is not an island, he is formed and forms everything around him in the effort to make it non-alienated.

>which we arrived at through millennia of trial-and-error and free choice.

No. Capitalism is no more a natural phenomenon than the Russian revolution's spurred State socialism was. Look at the enclosure in Western Europe and the laws which led up to it, the functioning of the State and how its function has changed. Your idea that we are simply in a natural point which has not been forced in any way, that capitalism is the highest form of development, ignores that history is not linear, and that systems win because people push them. Capitalism comes in to the world 'soaked in blood' as Marx puts it.

>When we listen to the sociologists, we get the holodomor.

Analysis of our society does not bad economic planning and/or genocidal killing make. When we listen to sociologists we also get revolutionary Catalonia and universal health care in the civilised countries.
They renamed the kernel(Magenta) to Zircon.
A number of Chinese businesses are setting up 100%-Chinese factory compounds overseas. These compounds are located in a foreign country, but they are fully financed by Chinese, built by Chinese, employ only Chinese, have accommodation for the Chinese employees, have a completely sustaining internal economy where employees can buy food and entertainment and send mail, posts, banking, remittance, insurance, through Chinese companies etc. so that the Chinese never leave the compound and no-one else ever enters.

The reason for these factory-compounds is because China has challenging export quotas to places like the US and EU. But concentration of manufacturing know-how remains in China. The only way for these businesses to keep selling to high-value markets is to move manufacturing to another country where there is available quota. Although the goods are 100% made by Chinese, they are 0% made in China.

The Chinese government encourages business in this area because it is good employment for the Chinese. In turn, these businesses need better infrastructure in the countries they operate in. The infrastructural investment in these other countries is a wonderful side-effect that the government is happily playing up as part of its diplomatic strategy. When the textiles and the shoes and the fabrication factories are no longer making money, hopefully the ports, the trains, the roads, the power grid will continue generating interest income for the Chinese banks. And the recipient countries of these gifts, as it were, may extract benefit from this arrangement, eventually.
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Can you please just make the mobile app work correctly now?
> continuously standardize things that are very user hostile and only serve content distributors.

Example Nr 1 you are going to quote is the DRM stuff (understandably, it's the most controversial for good reasons, both inside and outside W3C). What other very user hostile examples are there?
There's been a debate for a while now about this. Clay Shirky, Walter Isaacson, Jakob Nielsen, Norman Hardy, Kevin Kelley and others have expressed arguments for and against(mostly for) micropayments.
But there's yet to be a success story, most early implementations failed(BitPass, Ezcash, Peppercoin) but that was before cryptocurrencies. Now there's a new crop(Steemit, 21.co?, etc) that are trying again. Interesting to see how this will all pan out.
Jeff covered this in the post (GameDays, excessive amounts of auditing, etc.).
Regarding the resource limits you suggest, they mention metrics of 50+ pB of data movement and 3.34 trillion DynamoDB queries in 30 hours, all of which they elastically scale down after the event... so I'd say resource limitations are more in terms of humans on-deck and crisis management, rather than physical limitation of hardware.

(edited to correct size - was 52 pB not 520 pB...)
"We used (enforced) a writing method"; "project leads were forced to read them"; "We fired people who could not write English right alongside" (emphasis mine in all cases).

Forgive my bluntness, but your place of work sounds awful.

"I attribute it to HR weeding out ADHD gamers suffering bad grammar of inadequate educations needing paychecks."

Ironic, considering how poorly constructed this sentence is.

You treat people like children and they will act like them. Let me reiterate: your place of work sounds terrible.
That's why payments typically take a few days to clear. Bitcoin is designed for instantaneous payments with no rollback, which is an anti-feature.
I don't entirely disagree with your point but the fact that Alameda & Contra Costa counties aren't part of San Francisco isn't so much due to the machinations of 19th century politicians as the fact that they are separated by quite a large body of water.
This patch was a little aggressive and may get reverted (it caused immediate code breakage in downstream distros and projects). Changes like this typically need a deprecation period (that said, to the extent the current feature didn't really work in the first place, we can immediately take it out).
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Average IT spend runs between 2 and 5% of revenue for fortune 500s. For reference... GM makes 166 billion/year in revenue, and on the low end their IT spend is probably more than 2 billion/year. In 2004 they were making the news because they went from 4B/year in 1998 to 3B/year. In 2006 they were making 190B/year, so I doubt their IT budget has changed significantly and is on the low end compared to other companies in the fortune 500 list.

Facebook and other technology companies might spend a lot more on IT, but that's part of them doing business.

Don't confuse the fact that technology companies do technology better with the fact that any company in the fortune 500 list have HUGE IT budgets. At a large company that I used to work for we had an IT budget of more than 1 billion USD and they didn't patch very well either. Our budget was actually smaller than many of our peers.

If you have a IT infrastructure/application budget of 1B or more and you can't patch, your doing it wrong and there is no excuse. For a full baked/managed solution, you can find folks to do an entire program for less than 12m/year for a 200k node network.
> the female side of the seat belt buckle

The what? Are rides segregated or is there some kind of female buckle I have not heard of?
I think this would be fine as long as you have the users' consent. I suppose you could even give out rewards to players based on how much they contribute. I see this model in a lot of Android games nowadays (although with ads), you are asked to look at an ad/watch a 30 second video, and in return you get a small amount of in-game currency otherwise only obtainable through spending money.
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"Prime Day" is a rip-off, and the pricing schemes border on fraudulent. Give yourselves a pat on the back for tricking people into spending money they'd be better off saving.
Hipchat is the main competitor I'd say.

From what I've heard, Slack hit a pretty big infrastructure wall when it came to big organizations. Teams just didn't scale past 1000 people. So they've had to rebuild significant parts of the product in order to target large corporate customers.

Looking at some of their latest API updates, you can see glimpses of enterprise support. (eg moving away from handles to user ids likely enables active directory integration).

Back to the question: Why raise money? Because enterprise whales are a much more solid backbone than thousands of 20 person startups, and they still have some eng investments they need to make to handle someone like Walmart in an on premise installation with 10s of thousands of users.
Thank you—that's revelatory and mildly disappointing. I'll have to look into it more closely.
Ted Nelson got the name Xanadu from a short story by Theodore Sturgeon from 1956 called "The Skills of Xanadu". (I asked Ted about it when he visited IBM Research around 2000...)

Printed: https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1956-07/Galaxy_195...

Audio: https://archive.org/details/pra-BB3830.08

"The story tells of a representative of the expansionist, imperialistic culture of the planet Kit Carson, and his encounter with the deceptively pastoral culture of Xanadu."

The story is about the social effect of wearable networked computers that can exchange knowledge -- very prescient for 1956!
Yeah, it sounds like someone's just touchy about Trump.
> They have about 4K years of institutional memory

So does Greece. That doesn't appear to be doing Greece much good in the modern era though.

Also, large swaths of China's institutional memory were wiped out during the Cultural Revolution.
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> Rust has a lot of problems for serious low level work

Could expand on where it suffers? I've been playing around with Rust in the embedded space (nothing serious at all); I find it to be as elegant in a nonstd situation as it is in standard high level app development.

> and suffers from a lot of the same classes of problems C++ does,

What are those classes of problems? C++ never offered a safe alternative to C, but did offer some eases of use and stronger typing over C.

Rust on the other hand has a huge amount to offer over C. At no point in my Rust work do I ever wish I was working with C, quite the contrary. But I like strongly typed languages, Rust is definitely not for those that dislike types.
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These are two very different incidents, yet despite being separated in time by fifteen years, they nonetheless tend to travel as a pair -- to the point that I contrasted them in a comprehensive reply several years ago.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9041086
If you want something to hack on, check out the Structure Sensor (https://structure.io). While it's mostly iOS-focused, you can get a USB hacker cable and interface it with a computer. (Disclaimer: I work for Occipital, makers of the Structure Sensor)
The effect of all our waste heat on earth's climate is insignificant -- thousandths of a degree. The greenhouse effect works in a completely different way, by CO2 reflecting infrared radiation that would otherwise transfer heat from the surface into space.

It's dangerous to promote incorrect ideas about how global warming works. For example, if global warming was just a problem of waste heat, we could shut everything off and things would be back to normal in a few days. But because it's caused by CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere, once we release CO2 it takes a long time (hundreds of years) for it to be re-absorbed by forests. People who saw these light-bulbs in a box might think that a quick solution is possible if warming gets out of hand.
"Over all, around 90 percent of the country’s revenues goes to servicing debt. Even a new president who took office in 2015 on a promise to curb Chinese influence succumbed to financial reality."

90% of Sri Lanka's revenues goes to servicing Chinese debt? I find this hard to believe. Any references?
What standard did you set in terms of deciding whether a BTC exchange was trustworthy or not? What did you do to determine whether Mt. GOX was trustworthy and had met that standard? How did they gain your trust?
- Raising additional money can extend the runway before having
to go public. Back in 2016 CEO Butterfield said minimum year
and a half before considering going public https://www.geekwire.com/2016/slack-ceo-going-public-window-...

More recently (Mar '17) he expressed "I've said publicly before that we are trying to run the company so that we're ready to go public, not because we are going to necessarily." https://www.axios.com/slack-ceo-stewart-butterfield-23186588...

So if the VC money is there for the taking, why not?

- Additional capital will add to the war chest to fend of competitors such as Microsoft Teams, HipChat and Google Hangouts Chat. With the deep pockets of Microsoft and Google, more cash can aid in innovation, R&D, marketing, etc.
"Why raise money? " I think the more likely answer is because they can.
15 is not a small city. And the article never mentioned in what way the site is "engineered". I suspect the answer is "not at all." It's just a place in the ocean that octopuses like. Apparently octopuses found to tolerate each other gets turned into "octopuses built a city underwater" in the hands of unscrupulous authors.
"In a sense, it doesn't really matter whether it's the government or a big corporation that performs automated censorship."

It does matter. If it's a company doing this, you still are free to run your own servers and say anything you want. If it's the government, you don't have that freedom. You can be jailed, fined, executed, exiled...
Ask HN: Why can't I whistle in a hyberbaric chamber?
I recently went through Hyberbaric Oxygen treatments with my 17 mo son who was recovering from finger re-attachment surgery. Among other interesting phenomena, I discovered that I couldn't whistle by shaping my mouth in the normal way. Why is that?
That's what he was trying to do at Xerox and Apple.

Without the resources of a large company, the Dynabook will get Pyra levels of adoption and be quickly forgotten about. And no large company wants to take that kind of risk nowadays. Not when there's money to be made pushing "apps" and monetizing eyeballs.
Agreed. I'd also like to see the source for this, as I can't find it mentioned anywhere on the Chrome sites about PaymentRequest or any of the top sites talking about Chrome Payment Request.
Being run by obvious amateurs is a sign of insolvency.
I have a hard time thinking that Google will have a better user focused story than Linus. To that end, I have my doubts about them giving a more stable abi.

Just thinking of how painful taking a dependency on guava can be makes me think this claim is satire. :(
Are you taking the general community's well being into account when you ask for a raise in your salary? You know, if and when you do ask for a raise you're making the product your company produces that much more expensive, you're not adhering to your own rules.

In any voluntary transaction, both parties gain out of it. People who are not parties to that transaction have no business in it.

> 1) Yes, it's voluntary, but the interests of the consumers aren't necessarily taken into account. Only the shareholders of the companies being bought stand to gain from the transactions

Yes of course, because they are trading their private property. When you buy vegetables from the supermarket, can someone complain that you're not taking into consideration other people's interests, namely there's less food for everyone else. And also that only you and the supermarket stand to gain out of the transaction. This is an reductio ad absurdum of your statement

> 2) Google/Fb gives these companies an offer at a moment when it still makes sense to buy them (i.e. when they can both win from the acquisition). If the company being bought decides to decline, Google or FB or whatever monolith has ways of destroying them: - By buying their competitor instead of them, and heavily investing in them - By just building the feature themselves, and potentially fighting a very expensive legal battle

Okay, I see your logical problem, you want good to be done in one instance, but you IMHO fail to see the consequences if you logically apply that concept to its conclusion.

Again, voluntary transaction. If the startup refuses, it's voluntary. If FB or Google goes and invests elsewhere it's their money, their business. Who are we to tell them what to do with their money. Would you be okay if they told what to do with money you've earned? All things you've mentioned are coercive i.e. they are all based on things people have agreed on in written documents. Concretely, if they (Google/FB) buy a competitor, it's their money, their business. If they build the feature themselves, their money, they don't owe this startup their money, they refused when offered anyway. If they fight a legal battle, it's still legitimate because both parties (Google/FB and startup) have all agreed to work with local laws (US or otherwise).
The description of America's retreat from the world has been happening for the last few administration's so I don't know if they are referencing Trump directly.

The US liked to throw it's weight around and act like an asshole at times and China is now trying to provide another option to get nation's on their side
No, that's about complying with Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering laws so they are committing fewer felonies.
macOS/OS X is actually a certified UNIX OS.
Well you inspired me to actually look this up for the first time. Turns out it's allowed, per Article 3 here: http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt/Att010_e.pdf but McMurdo stopped doing it in 1993 because it was more expensive than shipping unburnt waste north. ( http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/igy2/incinerator.html ) So the category may well have been sort of vestigial.
Just finished watching. As I expected so much of it is PowerPoint slides that the video issues are obnoxious but not fatal.

It was a very interesting (and pathetic, for MtGox) talk. Went way faster than I expected because it was so interesting. Presenter did a great job.
If you want to legally lend money why shouldn't you be required to do look up? If you didn't you're liable...
The quote doesn’t imply that all the debt is Chinese.
Yes. Speeding will result in frequent overtaking. Hence the use of the overtaking lane.
«the run of the mill computer user, who barely understands what a browser is, to have the security chops to withstand constant attacks from people»

That's why we invented hardware wallets, which physically separate coins from the computer. You don't need to be tech savvy to use one. And to date, there hasn't been a single case of bitcoins stolen from a hardware wallet.