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Of course you are right about Gold, it's valuable mostly because it is popular and we've agreed that it is valuable - for a while, aluminum was more valuable than gold, because it is shiny and was scarce. You could argue that aluminum is actually more "useful" than gold. Most things are either valuable because they are scarce (mainstream economics) or because a lot of labor went into it's production (labor theory of value/Marx). But things that are not money seem to need a "practical" use to be able to hold value.

Interesting fact about gold, for a while private gold possession was banned in the US. So even in that regard it is not a to Bitcoin...
Why does it matter if usage is increased?
Since you brought him up, Liss gets on my nerves because not only does he insist that something works fine for him, but he goes on extended rants about how everything is fine and he can't see what Arment/Siracusa are talking about. Like, he spends a lot of time claiming everything is fine but in an argumentative way. It's boring and frustrating.

Marco's problematic/annoying in his own way, but Casey is aggressively... status quo???
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Given that there is little churn and lots of repeats signals some potential. However, since your product is broad and spreads across both smaller companies and larger enterprises, as a fellow commenter mentioned, it might be worth plugging away at direct sales yourself. Most sales folks are highly driven by a commission model so they'll be taking a cut from you - you'll have to decide whether the income you're getting from each customer would be worth the cost of a salesperson.

One strategy might be go after smaller companies with shorter sales cycles to build up your foundation before going after larger enterprises.
If your friends don't want to expend the effort to communicate with you via email, phone or other, non-Facebook means: they're not really your friends.
>> In the UK you have dividend tax credit

Not any more, that got shelved a few years back AFAICT.
Often you don't. When you're really leveraging the type system, if it compiles it'll be correct. You might need to test the actual business logic, but realistically that ends up being a small proportion of the code you write. People don't like talking about how type systems let you write fewer tests, perhaps because it makes them sound like cowboy coders, but honestly it's a huge advantage.
It will eventually become something else or be replaced, but that may take awhile.
The reason drugs are illegal is because they are addictive. Many of them so addictive, in fact, that they can easily suck you in and destroy your life even if you resolve to only try them "just once". Some drugs like tobacco and alcohol are less addictive than most and are therefore still legal, others like whereas others like heroin are more addictive and are therefore banned.
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finally someone that knows the difference between tarp and QE.

I don't know if QE3 was entirely apolitical. it felt unnecessary in its scale and made sure the markets were well juiced before the 2012 election.

it will be interesting to see where this takes us. i dont think an economy has been in this situation before. hopefully some natural growth can take over because it feels like we are in The Bubble. The bubble of bubbles. The only thing is, there is so much money in the market it has no where to go.
how do you remember something like that across all of your accounts? (or do you just use lastpass)?
The iPhone 8 Plus is roughly the same size as the X, not the iPhone 8.
It might be fast but does it handle load? Did you try to benchmark it with a service like https://ddostest.me
Can you say more clearly what it is that you're saying follows from the Curry-Howard Correspondence?

My understanding is that the proof that your program is isomorphic to is not necessarily a proof of anything interesting in the domain of your program, which means that the practical consequences of Curry-Howard for day to day programmers is pretty limited. This is very definitely the case for most type systems practically used today (including the one that typescript uses).
I left Facebook about two years ago now. I nearly immediately lost contact with all of the people I'd spent my time with in the city (outside of work). I don't chase them down for other reasons, but it is striking how much it supplanted everything else.

After returning an old work phone I'd made the mistake of not copying all of their numbers over. I moved elsewhere within the city, and so I don't run into them in the neighbourhood anymore.

I really enjoy not getting sucked into checking it and getting 100 notices about people who are friends of friends of friends. Life feels more at a healthy pace, even if it feels like I have fewer friends. I didn't like the constant FOMO it generated -- that for some reason I needed to either be the most expressive person on FB, or always chase other people's posts and doings. It's not for me.
Nice, I've been updating an old program I wrote (moving to Swift, new interface), and have really enjoyed Filters. I am wondering where CoreImage Filters fit into the Metal 2 world. I am probably wrong, but my assumption is that Metal will replace all of the Filters and even OpenCL[1]. I haven't started the conversion myself, as converting to Swift has been my main focus.

1) https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/metal/10/
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This got motivated again!
If we made videogames illegal you definitely would see people doing just that.
> Guile has multiple dispatch as part of GOOPS

A feature which is 30 years old.

What I was referring to is how multi-methods SPECIFICALLY are designed & implemented in Julia, not multi-methods as such. The Julia implementation of multi-methods looks 'modern' in the context of Lisp.
Most interesting part is that they managed to get the hex dump of the software. Quick glance shows there are no copyright texts in it, bummer!

I'm not an expert in PIC assembly but it seems there is very little code and there are no obvious code paths, like a switch..case like construct for processing the serial commands. Lots of I/O and not much more. Most likely they are not decoding the magstripe data in PIC but just get the decoded data and store it.
Yes IRC! It's just not listed on the home page, I'll fix that.
Beef uses 4 times the amount, and pretty much all meat. Targeting almonds is disingenuous
Bilingual user here.
I think predictive typing is a keyboard issue, not an app issue, and the iOS keyboard has been smart enough to use dictionaries in both languages without switching since iOS 9 or 10.
Can you explain what you mean?
I type in both English and German. On latest iOS 10, regardless of which keyboard I have selected, I can start typing in either language and word prediction/autocomplete/spellcheck pretty quickly picks up which language I'm using.
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The explanation stated/assumed elsewhere is that the price of flash has gone up significantly in the last year and may go up further. Apple is changing the price now.

Obviously they could have just taken a hit to their margins instead, but that wouldn’t be Apple-like.

(I’m an Apple fan, but they love their margins)
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Ask HN: What credit monitoring service(s) do you use?
Given what has happened with Equifax, I don't know if I should trust their free credit monitoring product offering. Is there a product that you suggest for credit monitoring? What do you use?
There is going to be a freemium model. I'm working on setting up a company, this should be done by the end of the month.
What if you just spend all your money before you are taxed? This seems to reward non-tangable things, like trips, since they don't count towards your networth unlike say, a house.
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The US does this now if you meet maximum income requirements.

The problem is the people with free drugs selling them to people that cannot obtain them free.
The bubble reference is particularly apt. It's a bunch of people saying "I'll do what they are doing."
> I'm going to spend the profits on those assets

If you make profits you pay tax - Amazon doesn't pay tax because it doesn't make profits. It invests a lot of its operating cashflow true but that is different.
it is true, but there was a large social cost and broader economic cost that is not properly conveyed in the statement which makes it quite disingenuous
James Hamblin at The Atlantic experimented with putting his phone in grayscale mode to combat the power of brightly-colored notifications.

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/480240/adventures-in...
While this is true, there is a lot of value in individual investors investing in index funds, and their performance has borne that out. I don't think that individual investment is going anywhere any time soon. For an investment product that is stable and has more distributed risk, however, index investment can't really be beaten, or rather it hasn't been beaten yet.
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I don't. I think drinking age should be 18, and kids should be allowed to drink with their parents. I think marijuana should be the same way. I think assisted suicide should be allowed (euthanasia is different).

I think every drug, even prescription medicines, should be totally legal to possess, distribute, sell, and buy.
Ownership seems to get mixed up with efficient capital allocation in a lot of discussions about this (referring to likely comments, not the article). For index investing to work you only need a market that's "efficient enough in aggregate". What you're actually purchasing is ownership of future economic growth.
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“In a lot of ways Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company,” Zuckerberg has said. “We have this large community of people, and more than other technology companies we’re really setting policies.”

And this is why I am arguing for a serious revamping of regulation on these companies. As they collect more and more data, build shadow profiles of non-users, conduct "experiments" on their users, attacking individualism and rights to privacy, they are operating much more like a government than a corporation. Combine this with the massive financial clout they have and we are having our actual constitutional rights violated, while being told our Bill of rights don't apply to them because they are a corporation, not the government.
So is the only argument here that "basically dead" was a bit carelessly hyperbolic?
You can always add an splat to use instead of arguments:

(args...) =>
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Anyone who does even a little research knows flash storage prices are going up.

And anyone who pays attention to Apple knows that they have a target margin on their hardware (non-cable, non-accessory), and it's immovable. They will not budge on it.

It's frustrating. I have no doubt current RAM prices also contribute to the MBP's overpriced feeling, and it's also why 32GB is seemingly unimportant to Apple at the moment.
For some, the non-plus is still too large.
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I appreciate the point you are making, and I don't disagree for the most part on Coke's branding process.

But does that type of strategy extend to local communities and Spiritual Healers?

I don't think the math supports that. The team of "expert consultants" who would come up with a plan like this and institute it would charge more in their salaries than the increased consumption in Chiapas is worth. Also, ask yourself why a strategy like that would even be necessary in Chiapas???

You don't need to trick people into buying Coke when they don't have access to clean and affordable water.
who is Mika? As to knowing Richter and Beethoven to play the blues...I think it would be difficult for someone who has the money for piano lessons and a conservatory style education with hours to practice on a Steinway in a climate controlled practice room at Juilliard ... i really think it's hard for those people to play rhe blues properly. Not to get all snobby about the blues (joking here) but I do think the player who understands how to do that might come from a different background. Also, they tend to be black, for obvious reasons. Not to say that people from other races don't experience hardships on that level, it is just that the blues is really a particular language and pathos from a group of tragically oppressed people in a particular time in the United States, who didn't get to attend Juilliard or the like, or eat most days. You know, it's part of the Afro-Cuban tradition that created jazz, which has its roots in the African-American community in the United States. Old European and Euro-descent men only wish they knew something about it, which is why they tried to imitate it (Ravel a conservatory drop-out btw, Stravinsky, Bernstein, Gershwin...)The only one who kinda succeeded in reaching back into that ethos from his Juillard practice room was Miles Davis-- and he dropped out too, btw) rich kidz at Juilliard, eastman, the New Scool, and other conservatory jazz programs spend their life trying to understand what it means to be that oppressed. I know, I've heard hours of blues, or should I say "blues" played by the white children of the rich. Beethoven and Richter don't get it. And schoenberg doesn't either. Frankly, very few educators at conservatory have any idea how to teach musicians. That is because they are supposed to get out of the way and help them teach themselves. This rarely happens, because artistry doesn't have a path. It finds its own- conservatory pretends there is a path, which brings us to where we are now with homogenized music. is there something that can be gained here with respect to programming artistic development? I think so, it just seems that the field is so insular and mono culture (just like classical music and jazz) that it can't learn from other pedagogical and culture mistakes the arts have already made. Namely, there is no "path". Thatmight help. but definitely check out Brushy One String. He is a modern blues guy who gets it-- again, hes from an impoverished island background not unlike the Mississippi Delta back in the day-- no Beethoven and Richter for him-- just poverty, drugs, crime, and oppression.
Looks like it's been broken across nearly everything. Here's where I read about it. Anyone know if this is addressed?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-b...
> PHP SQL injection attacks, for example, were caused not by type errors

Great example: SQL injection are catchable with types.
Instead of using "String", whatever risks getting SQL injection attacks should only accept "EscapedString".
Wondering why this is off the front page so quickly?
Branded with bleeding ears. Dolby.
Their walled garden of industrial standards? You can criticise both HEVC and HEIF as being patent-encumbered and pushed by big companies, but there's no "walled garden" about these two. Hell, fabrice bellard pioneered using HEVC for images with BPG.
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I think OP may be correct that people do this, but I am not at all convinced with the reasons.
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My only issue with Reddit the amount of astroturfing that takes place.

Take a look at a community like /r/fitness, and you get a lot of people recommending a lifting program that requires you purchase a book.

The worst part is, once it's been brought up enough (read: astroturfed enough), users naturally start to parrot it to fit in.
Good points, I'll make the strategy more clear now that I also have a more clear picture.
so can I just pull out my phone and look and assume any close by BT is possible suspect for a skimmer.
That's a good point. They can be stupid and inconvenient about it, but it's not making this stuff completely inaccessible.
I’ll be getting an X because I think it’s neat, I’ve got a 7 now. I agree with reviews I’ve seen elsewhere. If you have a 6 or 6S it will be a huge jump in performance and camera quality, totally worth it. If you have a 7 it’s a nice upgrade (especially for TrueTone) but you could easily go without.

The 7 was a massive jump over my 6. The 8 is a huge jump (in performance) over the 7.

Coming from a 6? You’ll love it.
The X is very close in size to the non-Plus phones. (As someone who doesn't mind big phones, I'm really hoping for an X Plus next year.)
they're already doing it, so this isn't much of a 'what if'. the problem is that money is kept offshore and never spent, because it's at risk of getting taxed immediately upon repatriation.
This makes sense. Microsoft spent a lot of time researching the ergonomics of these controllers, why replicate their user research?
Alice Pascal's code completion isn't really sophisticated, just convenient. They needed it because it was a syntactic editor and typing things was inconvenient. It turned out to be a good idea (for exploration) outside of its original context (save on typing)...but it's discovery was basically an accident.
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And 120, 180, 240, ... ;)
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I find the price arguments mostly moot since many people will see the 8 for ~$40/month and the X for ~$50/month.

On top of that, people who upgrade all of the time will resell their device in a year so again they will not ever see the full $1k price.

I think the 8/8plus may just be a better phone because it's using refined technology at this point. Apple 1st gen stuff can be very hit/miss, so I'm a little skeptical of the X.
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The iPhone 8 does not have dual cameras, which for some people is the key reason for going with a Plus-sized model. I hate how big my 7 Plus is, but I bought it for the cameras. I look forward to having a smaller dual-camera phone — either the X or a subsequent model.
An industry standard nobody wants to use in the industry is not a standard, it's a 'tentative' one at best.

Simply put, the patent groups behind HEVC got so greedy, far more than they had been with h264, that this thing is pretty much dead on arrival. The only consumer facing company that's still pushing for it is Apple. Everyone else has joined an alliance to come up with a replacement open codec, AV-1, which includes companies such as : Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Cisco, Amazon, Netflix, ARM, Adobe, the BBC, Broadcom, Realtek.

There is no backing your term of HEVC being an 'industry standard' other than it being supported by the MPEG group. But MPEG group standards were industry standards because people adopted them, not because the MPEG group in itself has some divine providence given power to call everything they make a 'standard'.

When the fight for which video codec should be 'the standard' was about WebM vs h264, h264 won and became a true standard not just in name but in practice because it was welcomed by every major company, while WebM was mostly pushed and cared for by one (Google), so Apple could get away with not supporting WebM in Safari and showing hostility to more open formats. This time it's not going to happen. HEVC on the web is not going to happen, at all. AV-1 is the only thing that could succeed H264.
Do... do those come up a lot here on HN? Aside from dead throwaways?
Misleading ui is terrible and making me consider other phone OS. I have wanted a toggle for location services in the control center for so long. Now they are going even further to remove useful functionality like toggling wifi and bluetooth. just horrible.

Why is apple moving further away from intuitive ease of use?
No. The iPhone 8 Plus screen size is roughly comparable to the iPhone X, but since the bezels are gone, the iPhone X is significantly smaller in physical size.

You can see size comparisons here: https://www.imore.com/iphone-8-vs-iphone-x-which-should-you-...
Started with some FundersClub funds that try to hit 10 to 20 YC companies at once (Wefunder used to do same but has discontinued). Hand picked a few companies. Followed some great syndicates on angel.co

Jason Calacanis' new book ANGEL advice to early angels actually very closely matches what I started doing in 2013.

On paper gains I'm up, but need a few big exits to actually declare success. Can start judging in 2020, since avg exits are in the 7 to 10 yr timeframe.
Now I'm curious, could one minimize this further? As in, making Chrome accept UDP to get rid of SYN/ACK etc.
> The biggest advantage of static typing, in my opinion, is that simple refactorings like "rename" or "move method from one class to another class" or "change what method does and then modify all places that call it" are done routinely and very often.

Note that this is very doable in a dynamic language environment like Smalltalk or Lisp: you're constantly interacting with the running system, and so can easily rename a function or method, update all source locations, update the class of live instances (e.g. UPDATE-INSTANCE-FOR-REDEFINED-CLASS[0]) and even change the class of live instance (e.g. UPDATE-INSTANCE-FOR-DIFFERENT-CLASS[1]).

> The other big advantage is when I am learning somebody elses code, all info about who calls who and how is right there.

Again, a live environment is capable of tracking all callers & callees. It's pretty awesome, and honestly the only way I'd prefer to develop.

[0] http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_upda_1.htm
[1] http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_update.htm
I assume you're specifically talking about farming those in semi-arid or desert climates like california. I think it's not the watering per se that's the problem, it's growing things in a desert without having a sustainable water management plan.
> Is there really value in an online connection to a distant person who you didn't know existed, at the expense of time you could be spending on face-to-face local relationships?

If you travel, yes. I know many people who have stayed with distant relatives while traveling the world. The same thing happened before Facebook but at least now people have some insight into the person/family before they turn up on the doorstep and also have the ability to keep in touch afterwards.

My immediate family is spread across three continents and Facebook is an essential tool for keeping in contact with them. We still talk on the phone/video chat, exchange emails/letters/postcards, and visit in person but it's difficult to beat the convenience and frequency of Facebook.
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Given how explicit Federighi has been about the FaceID data staying on-device in the secure enclave, with not even Apple having access to it, I think it's very unlikely they'll change their stance on that.

The moment 3rd party devs have access to the scanner, it'd be siphoned off by somebody's ad framework and then sold for biometric ad targeting in nearby stores or god knows what else.
Re: over prescribing antidepressants (and various other medications), I think there is a real problem in America with getting an accurate diagnosis in the first place, which contributes to the overprescription problem. Also, most people are limited to a very small slice of office time, and I imagine that makes an accurate diagnosis difficult, too. In addition, American culture reinforces individualism, and tends to be isolating relative to many other cultures, which, I'm sure, contributes to the problem.

This all just reinforces your larger point that US healthcare is not very good for very many people. It's great if you have the money (or insurance) to see whoever you need to, but not so good if you don't.
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