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By far the most ravaging drug in the world is alcohol. So just like alcohol you put rules in place around drugs.

The reason drugs cost so much is because they are illegal, not because they cost a lot to produce or distribute. So we make the drug dealers rich, or we put them in prison, and this has a corrupting effect on police, border patrol, and who knows how many other organizations.

Plus we spend a ton of money, lives, and energy fighting something in a obviously losing fight. Isn't it better to educate, and help people with addictions? Or do you support the prison industry ;-)
Aha. So that's today's announcement. :)
Its because its an excerpt from a book, I think. I totally agree, I'm on board with the point of the article but its written like an amateur Adam Curtis.
Turning off Wifi is not something anyone - whether average or intermediate user - should be needing to do on a frequent basis. Airplane mode already takes care of the primary use case, namely disabling all radios. Someone intending to disable Wifi "temporarily" and then forgetting to re-enable it may wind up paying hundreds of dollars for cellular data. That goes against the "it just works" mentality, which is "Wifi automatically wherever possible. ALWAYS. Cellular as last resort only."

Privacy is less of a concern on iOS; the MAC address is rotated frequently specifically to prevent passive tracking. The battery savings are going to be minimal; with Apple's history with these kinds of optimizations, you'd probably save as much battery by reducing screen brightness by only 5%.

tldr; There's no real reason outside of developer testing to ever disable Wifi. Users who care should not mind the extra tap. And frankly, most who are obsessively toggling their Wifi are probably not receiving the benefits they believe.
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Pretty much no matter what it is going to be something economists are going to debate for the next 100 years :-)
I suppose your solution of "murder is a problem, so let's decriminalize it" could work, but I think there may be better ones.
I consider this clickbait at this point.
This is the exact same thing that has been said during every single boom in Bitcoin's history.
You may like Bitcoin or not, but the concepts of cryptocurrencies and the technical development that the blockchain represents are here to stay. They are being adopted left and right by the banking sector all around the world.
And the source of the library used: https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal
This is far more applicable to traditional, actively-managed mutual funds than it is to index investing. In a mutual fund a handful of people select the stocks to invest in and do so arbitrarily. Sometimes there are specific goals or sectors in mind but other times it is just to chase performance.

In an index the goal is to buy everything of a kind: all of the stocks in the S&P500 or all of the stocks listed on the NASDAQ. A handful of people aren't arbitrarily deciding which of the 500 biggest companies are.

The goal of the index investor is to get average performance - active traders can worry about the microeconomics. If too many people index invest then there will be huge market inefficiencies for active traders to make money on, which will attract more traders to the market, which will make the market more efficient.
I love minideb. It is a great compromise when you need glibc but would have otherwise used alpine.
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This is probably the main reasoning behind the "crazy" valuation of some companies that have seemingly simple business model of selling ad views.

People who talk about some kind of tech bubble often dismiss the indirect value, the value beyond the basic economics of their business models.
Ease of discovery.
If you think of argumentation as the primary form of intelligence, then of course philosophers, who are trained to argumentate to the highest standards, are smartest. If you think that intelligence ought to somehow affect or encompass the world outside arguments, then plainly the natural sciences and engineering are smartest -- that's what their discipline does.

If you think intelligence ought to convince people of things, then obviously rhetoricians are smartest.

And so on and so on. sniff
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Almonds are a particular problem because they're mostly (80% of global supply) grown in Southern California where water is scarce. I'm a vegetarian for environmental reasons, so I've switched from almonds to peanuts.
The next Linus of 2017 will be on a completely different platform, not PCs or smartphones. That's the nature of disruptive innovations.
Totally! Lets try to remove the hopelessness from peoples lives that makes them turn to drugs. We can put the whole drug fighting budget into mental health.
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Bitcoin price impact is the best way to gauge the significance of any particular news (this? not much):

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BTCUSD=X/
Very excited to see this (if it is what I think it is...). Still reading about it.

I really like Terraform but haven't been a fan of the existing way of bringing external code into my terraform scripts, via some strange go-like "refer to this github" repo mechanism.

Hopefully this makes them package able artifacts. Looking forward to watching the keynote and other videos from Hashiconf.
Christ, absolutely. No more hunting down obscure libraries through the Internet and guessing which version the author had in mind.
Author here. I hope I won't spoil the future, since I work at a university, but I am also a programmer, and these libraries and tutorials have been made to be 100% practical with the working programmers as the target audience.
I think this is a really good sign that it's a good idea to get out of crypto currencies. China is actually pretty good at making decisions to defend it's country from negative outside influence. Anywhere that hosts a bitcoin exchange is also hosting criminal activity. Consequently, Bitcoin exchanges are going to make areas more dangerous to live. It's just a bad business decision to allow it to exist in your country.
don't these things have microphones and components of questionable origins? I agree that it's basically a good idea but I'd be a little worried about embedded mics/etc from wherever living inside of nuclear subs.
Why are you scared of Russian intelligence? will they take you to Guam?
I love how if you think something is a bubble, you can just compare it to any bubble in the past, ignoring all of the nuances.

If you want a parallel to Tulip Mania, you have Beanie Babies. It was pure asset inflation for the sake of asset inflation. There was no innovation (except in markets for distribution of the asset), just wild speculation on things that were almost completely useless.

I do think cryptocurrency is in a bubble, but I see it far closer to Railway Mania or the Dot Com bubble. In both cases there is a clear cut demonstration of potential utility even pre-bubble, meaning there very likely a post-bubble future for the technology, even if the landscape changes drastically in the meantime. Railway mania in particular had plenty of failures, but it also had many companies that were viable but just overvalued, and even beyond that, there were plenty of companies that thrived post bubble.

I have my own speculations as to who will come out alive when the bubble crashes, and it certainly wont be anything tied to "smart" contracts, which has been the source of most of the ridiculous market behavior as of late (ERC20 especially). Others will survive on their merits, and I'll say this much: If it isn't low latency, low energy consumption, highly liquid, and traceable, it's as good as dead.
Which you wouldn't have to if they were legal
Both points are already solved if they have already bought a lifetime supply of controllers, which as a sibling comment says, it's not far fetched.
I think you have no experience with updating legacy iOS applications to modern SDKs. It is not just a matter of "recompile and push", it is:

* Ensuring your code still works now that CGFloat and ints change size (can easily trip up code, I've seen things fail subtly and then grow into huge errors with combinations of NSInteger and "-1" etc)

* Updating all UI to handle new behavior (yes, just linking with a new compiler will automatically opt-in to new behavior that might totally break interactions and taps)

* If your app is really old, rewrite all UI to not assume a 320px wide screen (this can be brutal)

* Handling new restrictions and requirements such as supporting IPv6-only network (fun if your app is used to configure an IoT device over IPv4 LAN), and Transport Security (fun if your app allows users to connect to random servers around the world)

* Handling new permission models for camera/gps/contacts/photo library/audio library access, including refactoring your code to deal with asynchronous results

* Updating all your graphic assets for @2x and @3x resolution as well as new app icon sizes (hope you still have those .PSD files, and hope your designer wasn't doing pixel-perfect painting for your bitmaps!)

* The original developer must still be in business, still pay the $100/year developer fee, and still have the source code and the talent to fix it.
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it doesn't catch type coercion, missing properties, ... a whole class of bugs that don't yield runtime errors.
It's not the main point of the book, but it does describe how it's very hard to live a healthy life on only raw food. I remember it pointing out that about half of women on such diets stop menstruating.

This is something our bodies do out of pretty desperate lack of nutrients, and it's of course devastating from an evolutionary standpoint.

The thesis of the book is that we've cooked food for so long that our digestive system is adapted to it. It even speculates that the shrunken digestive system made our bigger brains possible. All that is far from uncontroversial, but it's a well written and argued text.
This isn't news, it's been known for a couple of days.
You hit the nail on the head that Zuckerberg idolizing hacker culture rather than embracing the hacker ethos. They make me think of a guy my friend worked with who was in love with his monitors (seriously, all the pictures on his social media sites are his six monitors) and wearing t-shirts from Think Geek and talking about how cool it was that he could run one npm command and have a whole web server set up. To which my friend replied, "Yeah but it doesn't do anything. You have 40,000 files and you haven't solved a single problem yet."
One thing to consider here, is the addictiveness of many drugs has to do with the purity. If meth is over 60% pure, then the addiction rate goes WAY up. Legalization is one way of managing the purity.
Every fiat currency that I'm aware of has some associated government that requires taxes to be paid to it in that currency, so it is essentially backed by every asset that government has taxation authority over.

Want to own real estate? Then you also need to acquire some currency to pay your property tax bill.

Want to buy food to eat? Even if you pay for the food with some other form of payment, you still need some of the local currency to pay the sales tax on that food.

Want to get compensated for your labor? Even if you want your compensation to be in some other form, you still need some of the local currency so that you can pay your income tax bill.

Want to hire someone to do something? Even if they accept some other form of payment, you still need some of the local currency to pay their payroll tax.

That creates a guaranteed base level of demand for the currency that will never go away, so the currency will always be worth something unless the government collapses or prints too much money.
My country isn't supported :(

Also a lot of technologies seems to be missing, like .NET.
The arbitrary removal of 32-bit app support could be thought of as a heuristic to clear away abandonware. Which, for obvious reasons (security), Apple would like to have as little of in its App Store as possible. It also lets them aggressively deprecate and remove legacy APIs going forward.
Slate focuses on things most relevant to our current politics and culture.
The reply by Harry Halpin is worth a read: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2017J...
...that you can choose whether or not to use.
The React team is working on it right now :) That's what the "React Fiber" rewrite is intended to enable. See Andrew Clark's tweets from yesterday: https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/909926793536094209 and https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/909968784328245248 .
Is a Bitcoin worth $500k?
>The bullshit artists that already 'invested' in this scheme will now tell you that China did not matter and the people under them will parrot it.

If you're so sure that it's bullshit you're free to put your money where your mouth is and short it.
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Open source it? Or try to sell it.
True, but the real problem is obviously the money taken from Coca-Cola having a plant in Chiapas is not reaching the poorest inhabitants through urban planning/economic long term strategy and instead going into somebody's pocket. This is a political problem and nothing Coca-Cola can do will change that. Any attempt at companies getting involved in local activism will just put those people at even more risk. For the water problem they could attempt to fund the building of wells in these communities affected but this will of course be a corrupt money pit, tons will be spent and nothing done so really all they can do is leave the state, then Chiapas is even more poor and desperate.
Also, in my experience, no distributed competition for any service X lived up to a centralized, commercially run X in the past. Decentralization has in the past always added a layer of complexity that makes things appear slow, breaks things randomly and generally ends up in the user's way in one way or another.
I don't understand why are you accusing me of 'demanding moxie cram more features'. I do not use signal at all.

> you can run your own private Signal network and rewrite the authentication if you wanted or remove the sms verification.

You can. What's your point? Most important thing with IM is network effect, i.e. how many people can you contact with it.

You propose putting effort into rewriting the code, then running your own server, then only talking to people who you get to install your modified version of signal on their devices. This is not a solution to the problem, because if you're gonna put all that effort in, there already are viable alternatives.

My main point with my 'conspiracy theory' was that spooks would want to control the scene by being in control of the most popular IM networks. I do not see how you disprove that.
I think the idea would be less "sell more Coke" and more "become an integral part of the lives of the voting population of the town our factory is in". When Coke is holy, those who would stand against it are heretics.
That requires money and ongoing effort on the part of whoever monitors that system. As the article stated, there is not a monetary incentive to the responsible party (the station owner) to make this happen. Even with an incentive, it's still an arms race with the bad guys. Things will only get better when we have more secure payments.
America doesn't even have chip-and-pin at all; we have ship and signature, which is a security joke (I've never seen anyone check the signature).
I'm personally not too interested in the iPhone X, it's a first-generation product that needs time for the software to catch up with the hardware. And with the starting price for a 64GB model being just $50 over a 256GB iPhone 8+ it's really hard for me to justify a $1149 phone, as spiffy as it looks.

Honestly, I think a lot of people are going to end up deciding based on how old their current device is and how regularly they upgrade devices. If you're an annual upgrader you'll probably go with the iPhone X, if you upgrade every 2-3 years and just bought an iPhone 7 there's little reason to switch, if you have an iPhone 6s it's up to preference, if you still have an iPhone 6 then it's a very enticing device.
> apps which were replaced by a successor

Hello, Omnigraffle. I bought this on iPad, used this something like, three times before having a need to use it over a year later and "Sorry! There is a new version to buy and your version is no longer supported, or runs!". It wasn't cheap, as apps go.

Never, ever buying anything from Omni, ever again.

Edit: To add details, I bought this for £35 on iOS 7. When iOS 8 came around, it was discontinued, left to crash on open, and you had the "opportunity" to buy version 2 all over again.
I'll double my RAM every year if that's what's necessary for cross-platform apps that are truly easy to develop.
I am not sure I would compare the invention of the internet or the development of railways to cryptocurrencies. At best, cryptocurrencies are a very minor technological development.
One great thing about the personal computer revolution and the World Wide Web is that, thanks to its open specs nature, pretty much anything can be part of the Internet. That doesn't mean everything should be part of the standards: EME requires a piece of software called the Content Decryption Module, which is developed for Hollywood by software companies like Microsoft and Adobe, and can not be open source. So basically what the W3C is saying here is that every standard complaint browsers should include a binary blob from a private company. And that is, by the way, what will change from today to tomorrow.

This goes completely against the nature of the Internet, and it's also useless (as it will not stop "piracy"). I can't believe the W3C is doing this, it's extremely sad and marks a dangerous precedent.
Ask HN: What are signs of a startup being bought out?
What should internal engineers look for that indicates the company being put up for sale?
> shipping the less-featureful BSD userland rather than the GNU userland, or shipping an old & outdated bash.

You think that's an intentional choice Apple made? If you spent even a moment looking into it you'd realize the GNU user land has a license that purposely roadblocks companies like Apple from using it.

I'm not saying Apple or GNU is to blame, they have different philosophies with their own benefits and drawbacks, but to pretend it's only one side's fault is a bit naive.
> I've had my debit card skimmed twice in the past 3 years.

Huh. I suppose that is the one advantage we have in Oregon where we are not allowed to pump our own gas.
Hah, I thought about doing this at some point. I think it's cool that someone put the effort into it, Rust's macros are conducive for this sort of thing.
> Bitcoin price impact is the best way to gauge the significance of any particular news

Not really. Timezones are a thing and I'm pretty sure the majority of those exchanges halted trading.
The US government has excluded itself (and its contractors) from being liable for patent infringement. See http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=28... for details.
Some of the first studies on QE's economic effects are starting to come out -

"Using confidential loan officer survey data on lending standards and internal risk ratings on loans, we document an effect of large-scale asset purchase programs (LSAPs) on lending standards and risk-taking. We exploit cross-sectional variation in banks’ holdings of mortgage-backed securities to show that the first and third round of quantitative easing (QE1 and QE3) significantly lowered lending standards and increased loan risk characteristics. The magnitude of the effects is about the same in QE1 and QE3, and is comparable to the effect of a one percentage point decrease in the Fed funds target rate."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2017093pap...
How much of that is down to leaks though - every apple product over the last few years has had serious leaks well before launch (touch bar on the new MBP and pretty much the entirety of the Iphone X feature set), whereas the Mi Mix didn't.
Revolutionary complement: if your definition of talent excludes junior developers, there won't be any seniors 10 years later. Every single senior was junior few years ago.

Moreover, companies are biased more against older people then young. Which gives us few yes when we are hiring magically appearing seniors - after they got experience (elsewhere) and before they are old.
Here is some constructive criticism for your pitch.

* It needs to be specific on what you are building. The Stripe blog post talks about that and gives good examples.

* Avoid flowery prose like your first sentence, and "BTW speak" such as inside the parentheses.

* Avoid talking about or implying the need for an NDA such as inside the parentheses. That is the fastest way to get ignored.

* Avoid unrealistic claims like the company being worth $1T. In fact, avoid talk about company worth all together however saying my market is X and the market is worth Y is good as long as the numbers are based on research.
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I would be really happy to have a solution to detect these skimmers. Either an app or device that can just pickup any of these default ids etc.
This does look too contrived to be meaningful, but the author claims that it is an example of a general rule identified by Fama and Sharpe:

"The aggregate performance of the active segment of a market will always equal the aggregate performance of the passive segment." (before frictions like trading costs and taxes are taken out.)

I hope those economists have a more sound basis for this claim than the author gives here - assuming, of course, that the author of this article is not misrepresenting or misinterpreting them. To take an extreme case, if all the passive investment is in a single asset, I don't see how this could be, and an issue with passive index investing is that it is in a limited set of assets.
as the standard gets bloatted, new players could leverage this weakness and build something entirely new. yes, reinvent the wheel. =)
I heard a guy say once in a talk, "There are only two groups that call their customers 'users': Drug Dealers and Software Developers."
Internet companies are the tulip mania of the 21st century. Or at least that's what I was being told at the start of the 21st century. These people should get together and settle on the tulip for the 21st century.

As with the Internet company scenario, the tulip forecast short-term is partially correct. Long-term, as with the Internet, what comes next will be far, far more valuable and globally so. Blockchain technology will touch, essentially, every person on the planet. It doesn't matter if the successful rider is Bitcoin or CoinX, just as it didn't matter if it was Sun Microsystems or Webvan or Dr Koop.com or Lycos that made the most off the potential of the Internet.

http://money.cnn.com/2000/11/09/technology/overview/
That's a good pull quote to keep up your sleeve: Facebook is the McDonald's of the internet. It's unhealthy and kinda crap but everybody consumes it, and the ones who don't seem stuck up for some reason.