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I have. Definitely better than the superhero flicks that plague theaters, but he's still got that invulnerable mechanical efficiency that gets a bit old after he's plowed through the 50th person in a 10 minute shootout. I'm talking more like Die Hard, Alien, Air Force One, or even First Blood, where the main character is a mostly regular person with some combat training, is in a situation where they're believably screwed, and has to rely on their wits to survive the odds stacked against them, not just their incredible reflexes.
This is easily confirmed. Just look at the companies upstreaming into k8s, and you'll see redhat is dominating. They have people in almost all SIGs, and are very active in the community. Thanks for all the contributions.
Some decisions feel very arbitrary - how many times has the default state of "Delete source branch" changed (which is visible when you create a merge request)?
If we were to move to React, one of the main things we would want to use is React Native. But our lawyers have forbidden us from using any of the Facebook technologies licensed under the current licenses.
Seem to remember that being good, though I don't remember the specifics, I should rewatch.
Does it have to be mutually exclusive?
I think the story is this:

1. Software patents are a huge, huge, existential crisis facing our industry.

2. So huge, in fact, that nobody wants to deal with it. We can't realistically figure out if the libraries we are using are covered by patents, and given how broken issuance is, they probably are.

3. So the only practical solution is to use MIT licensed libraries, pretend there's no patent issue, and put our heads in the sand.

4. But Facebook's BSD+Patents license made us think about patents. Nobody stopped and said "can we use Angular? Are there patents on core elements of it?". But people did stop and ask that about React, because Facebook was (accidentally) making people think about patents, and the more you think about patents the more you wish you were a plumber and not a dev so all you'd have to deal with is toilets blocked with shit, and not software patents, which are much worse.

5. Now that it's under an MIT license it's just as dangerous to use React (maybe more) but we can pretend it's safe again.

Notice that Wordpress's decision to switch from React (which probably led to this) was quite clear: They were not switching due to patent concerns about React, they were switching because the non-standard license was stirring up FUD and making people ask them uncomfortable questions. (We know this because they explicitly said so, and also because the leading contender for a new library was Preact, which is strictly more dangerous from a patent point of view than React under every possible circumstance, but has a license that lets your pretend everything is okay easier.)
Good point (and sorry for the link, which I'm too late to fix). However, if we take Fitbit's statement at face value, we should infer that Fitbit is as biased and unreliable as the other side, so I wouldn't write off that research.
Yeah, obviously not all lawyers see eye to eye.
Maybe someone pointed out that having They "trust me" Dumb fucks plastered over every news station for months during mud-slinging season could be bad for business.
I'm sure the future blog posts will have more details, but it has to do with immediate mode vs retained mode APIs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTURkjYJ_uk
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> your weight varies by far more than 100g just based on what you've eaten and how much water you've retained.

Yeah, I noticed. Does anyone know how this data is normalized by professional researchers?
Those are two completely different things.

It couldn't be more ignorant to think that a music degree suggests anything about someone's technical competence (other than maybe a weak positive signal of intellectual breadth). One expects that from media outlets but to see it crop up on HN was shocking. Among people who ought to know better, I can't imagine a stronger indicator of small-mindedness.
Yes, that's the distinction. With Bitcoin, a codebase prevails if it attracts enough miners, merchants and users. Those parties in aggregate have "fiat power".

It's arguable that fiat power for each state similarly reflects preferences of banks, merchants and users. However, some of us doubt that money policy typically favors users.

With government fiat, forking isn't really possible, without a revolution, no matter how unhappy users are. But with Bitcoin etc, that is possible.

It's a common misconception that miners drive Bitcoin policy. In my opinion, miners are parasitic. When I first started using Bitcoin, there were virtually no professional miners. Users did all of the mining, locally. So difficulty was very low. Now, with so many professional miners, difficulty is very high. However, blocks get solved in 10 minutes on average, just as they did in the beginning.

Anyway, it's true that Bitcoin is a fiat currency. But governments aren't in control, and that's a good thing.
If you are not the size of Facebook, suing Facebook for a patent violation will be prohibitive to you, period.

http://www.businessinsider.com/just-so-were-clear-facebook-t...
Cartoons and drawings aren't illegal, as pornography, in the US. They may still be considered under obscenity laws in some local jurisdictions.
> Merge (pull) requests and issues have some extra fancy stuff like multiple assignees and discussions on code that can be marked as competed or not.

Perhaps that's unclear, but as of 9.5.x you can assign an issue to multiple users, but you can only assign a merge-request to one user.

Being able to assign a merge-request to multiple users would be very useful..
Haha, this is great! I actually think, perhaps oddly enough, that this is step towards the way of the not too distant future, not just the past.
When I first tried installing the second developer (first public) beta, the install failed during the FS conversion, my computer was left in an unbootable state and I had to wipe my drive, reinstall the os (to be clear, the beta and APFS again) and restore from backups. No significant problems after that, but that's sort of a how-did-Mrs-Lincoln-like-the-play type thing.
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> I have a 1.4 bitcoin T-shirt.

Is that you?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/04/article-2257209-16...
Depending on how loosely you define "trouble", there would be trouble if they intend to cause it.

And the only way to know would be to ask them first.

If the project is small enough, maybe the risks and rewards (however small) aren't worth it for you.
Ah, now I understand why the downvotes. I mean "not having ID and going through identity verification process" is considered an exception by TSA when boarding the plane, not a norm.

I didn't mean to say "not requiring an ID" is an exception to all forms of travel in the US. So please stop downvoting me if you understand what I mean.
Many people don't strive to be trashy all the time, and that reddit style encouragement to always push the trashy envelope isn't always cute!
Have you tried https://21.co/vcs/ ? Might be worth a few thousand bucks?
I think you misread the meaning of my comment, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15318245
This isn't something Firefox can fix, it's up to the Hangouts team to fix this.
Search github for job coding test. 32000 results.

Answer is yes.
I don't like the smell of smokers or perfumes (of any sort), personally. No migraines or allergies or hypocrisy; I just think they all stink. I don't even like scented shampoo. My favorite deodorant now has an "Invisible" version that's completely unscented. I gladly overpay for it - and very much need it due to my own rotten scent after, say, 12 hours.

I smoked in my tiny 1 bedroom apartment for quite a few years. I Never smoked in the bedroom, but the rest of the apartment was open-season. I'd quit smoking in that apartment about a year before I moved to a new city. Two years later, as I was packing to move to yet another city, I realized there was a box beneath my bed I'd forgotten about. After opening it, I realized it was a forever-unopened box, full of [washed/folded] clothes that I hadn't seen in nearly a decade.

The whole apartment suddenly stunk like a bar at 10am in the nineties. It was awful. The smoke had seeped into the closed bedroom, into the closed closet, into the taped-up box and had completely saturated the clothes. It took 3 days to air out the place, and I was terrified that my landlord would show up and think that I'd smoked in the apartment, which I absolutely never would have.

My [now] wife and I looked at each other completely grossed out, with the realization that we smelled like that at all times for 22 years before we'd quit (much less than that for her).
> it's a victimless crime

Not always, not for the worst drugs out there. Heroin and meth addicts regularly commit violent crimes as a direct result of their addiction. You can say that the actual violence is the crime, but if there is a common root cause for a lot of crimes, doesn't it make sense to criminalize the root cause?
> in a situation where they're believably screwed

There's a lot of action-packed neo-noir that you might like:

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/the-20-best-neo-noir-films...
Development moves faster and with far less bureaucratic hurdles than with Bitcoin. No contentious forks (thus far), they had SegWit first and chances are they will have working, beyond proof-of-concept Lightning first.
I believe you are looking for http://longbets.org/
It uses calloc() which then uses... the system library's malloc(). I'm not sure what utility this has --- all it does is add some headers and footers to the allocated block in an attempt to catch overflow writes, but practically all existing malloc()s do that already.
It seems just like a UI tweak. Which is fine...but anyone who is doing serious research or is just an enamored amateur will quickly get over the quirks of their tools.
Top link, quite recent, thousands of results:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/17/handful-of-refugees-caught...
Neither Firefox nor Servo use async http requests in the Rust code.

The only Rust code in Firefox's network stack is the URL parser. The rest of the stack is in C++, and I believe it handles async.

Servo's network code is still pretty premature. I plan to poke at tokio-ifying it at some point, or at least having better thread pooling.
A huge amount of hashpower was behind the desire for bitcoin cash, and that didn't work out.

Think some underestimate firstmover advantage and end-user inertia.
What reason do you have for thinking it was a lawyer who decided in the first place. In my experience lawyers work on behalf of executives.
Would you please stop posting flamewar-style comments to HN?

This particular comment crossed into personal attack, too. That's bad. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it again.
So you're telling me that government money, where everyone gets a say in policy through republican institutions, is worse than a system where the most wealthy users get more control of the currency. Um, okay. I guess the oligarchy is more explicit in the cryptocurrency.
Edit: figured it out.
Although I agree with your assessment, you could have tried to actually point out some problem in the parent's "solution".

I can think of one: you would still have to incentivize people to go the legal way and pay 15% more. Which could be another intractable problem.
Did the fed dig out the gold nugget? If not, there is now more dollars chasing the same amount of goods.

Yes it's still backed but less than before, i.e., devalued.
>Fortinet Secure DNS Service Portal

>Web Page Blocked!

>You have tried to access a web page which belongs to a category that is blocked.
Only four strains, not all strains. Others kill up to nine different strains, but that's still not all potentially carcinogenic strains.
Great article (less the typos, but I feel that's understandable for something so lengthy in which the author did clearly put forth lots of effort to do his research).

I'm in the camp of people interested in cryptocurrencies due to their libertarian qualities and largely motivated by what I perceive to be repeated irresponsible behavior by governments in how they administer their currency (most recently notable in the years surrounding 2008 - just before Bitcoin was activated). In fact, I find it curious that the article did note even allude to the setting in which Bitcoin was born, as its roots go very much against regulation by governments.

The whole idea behind blockchains is distributed consensus. One of the greatest values behind bitcoin is its lack of centralization and a sort of distributed governance surrounding it (more so with some other cryptocurrencies, but bitcoin does have primitive mechanisms for users to vote towards such things as protocol evolution). It has some other advantages that government-operated currencies could make use of, such as being difficult to forge, but the real innovations are centered around the user not needing to trust third parties (govt included) to behave in the user's interest. If you embrace regulations to the extent that they exist in traditional currencies - if transactions/addresses are ever forced to be blacklisted (and thereby reversible), or funds made to be seizable by design, for example - then what value do cryptocurrencies provide that couldn't be replicated by a non-cryptographic/centrally operated digital currency, and why then _wouldn't_ they be superseded by something easier to use/control?

It seems to me that the lack of regulation is a large part of the value behind bitcoin. So when the article quotes:

> The cryptocurrency world is basically rediscovering a vast framework of securities and consumer protection laws that already exist; and now they know why they exist.

I'm skeptical. If consumers want regulation, they'd use the established currencies. Bitcoin exists to be unregulated.

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On a less political note, this article was full of useful information and thoughts, so thanks to the author. I popped out of the cryptocurrency world in 2013 and fell back into it two months ago, and it's disappointingly difficult to find articles like this that actually have some depth to them. There's too much get-rich-quick hype and not enough interest in understanding the social or technical developments associated with cryptocurrencies most places I visit.
If I had to speculate, I'd suspect that even though they reaffirmed the BSD+Patent license publicly, FB probably started exploring the possibility of relicensing the projects shortly after that.

If I had to speculate, I'd say they did a ton of research on existing licenses on the route to BSD+Patent, and they already knew what the best alternative would be if it came to that.
RT isn't killing the movie industry, but bad predictors or review engines are certainly not helping consumers. If any website ever shows you some kind of function(eg average) of the general population's perspective, and you are using it to determine if will like it or not, it will probably be wrong.

Just as there is no 'average human', there is no average movie. A movie which is universally panned by most people may be adored by some. Ratings can only make sense within an egocentric data model.
Amazon  –  Marketing gimmick or System failure?
Not necessarily, because the workers need a capital investment to either design(lab, testing equipment) or build(tools, factories) the robots. This means that at least some portion of the wealth they generate will go to the capital investor. In the case of research, there's a significant investment risk, so the potential rewards are seriously skewed towards the investor. In the case of production, depending on the sophistication of the work the investor could still be taking most of the generated wealth.

This is what communism talks about with "seizing the means of production" - without capital, the workers cannot exercise their design & production skills, and thus the wealth they generate is split between them and the capital investor.

Workers compete with themselves to design breakthrough machines or improve their work productivity in order to generate more wealth; capital investors naturally get exponential gains by continuing to reinvest in a growing economy.

In that sense, there should be a steady increase in the capital/worker ratio of GDP ever since the industrial revolution.
With ACLU, you can also donate to your local chapter.

I'm also rather fond of Heifer International.
According to the bottom of the page (as well as https://web.archive.org/web/20081217030432/https://www.gnu.o...), it goes back to 2006. It could be older, but I suppose we can put 2006 in the title.
From which decade is your experience?

This document explicitly states that they encourage new contributions, there is a list of "easy" issues to work on, and they apparently participate in Google Summer of Code.

Of course reality might look different, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they mean what they write.
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Sadly I believe the ideals of cryptocurrency/blockchain technologies have been currently hijacked by those solely driven by a profit motive and greed. Altruism in the pursuit of a better way is for dummies I guess.

I think that Satoshi's main thoughts at the moment would be bemusement about how the cryptocurrency mania seen today so well illustrates human behavior.
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it is a tick in the settings. something called "Continue running background apps.." in the settings-->advanced -- useful if you need google hangouts running in the background, or to get notifications from websites. I disable that though on all of my machines.
As someone who has followed the crypto-currency scene for the past several years I don't disagree with a lot of the broad points presented about fraud being a problem but he is presenting some flat out false information to support his thesis.

To take one example, his claim that historically Coinbase has kept traction stats close to the vest is completely false. He says that the only accurate user numbers come from a filing in the IRS lawsuit. The IRS lawsuit was initially filed in November 2016 and has been ongoing. Coinbase has published user stats on their about page[0] since November of 2014 two full years before the IRS took Coinbase to court, you can go look in the wayback archive. So the claim that the lawsuit provides the only glimpse at the number of Coinbase users is categorically false.

[0] https://www.coinbase.com/about
My issue with this is that, in the US, PRISM was shut down--whereas in China that would never happen. The US by no means has a perfect or even necessarily good track record, but the people in charge are still accountable to the public and that makes a world of difference.
There is not. If you know the patent exists, you get higher (I think triple?) damages. If you don't, you don't. And you have no obligation to check.

Example: There is a patent in the US on ordering food from a menu online. It's held by a NPE (aka, a patent troll), and they charge a fairly high license fee. Some people who offer online ordering to restaurants pay the license fee; others don't. If you don't pay, then you can afford to charge lower prices than your competitors. If you do pay, then it's in your interests to tell everyone you meet about the patent, because every person you tell is someone who now faces triple damages if they opt to use on your your non-paying competitors.

Let me say that again, because it's so crazy: Some companies actually advertise their high prices, because a potential customer just reading their pricing page can thereafter no longer opt for a lower priced competitor without being subject to increased damages.
Forgot to file that 83b election?
Do college fraternities boost your salary?
I'll ditto the take the money message. Great pain and suffering awaits those who don't whose company then becomes less valuable. But, life is pain. Take the money because the next idea, the one you really wanted to do, that can happen. Once you've sold a company fundraising is 10X easier.
What are you after in life?

A lifetime of financial security and building great businesses?

Or working for someone else / struggling to make ends meet because you thought you could turn 12M into 50M or 200M. But in fact it flopped.

If you have more than enough to be financially secure already (and perhaps your children if you choose that path).... then go for the home run.

But if this thing comes crashing down (99% of businesses fail within 5 years and 99% of the remaining 1% fail in the next 5)... then what would you think?

Sure would be nice to put a million or two in the pocket today.

I'm going to get flak for this.... but there's probably a better chance that BTC/ETH will return 10x returns over the next 10 years than turning a business valued at 12M into 120M.

Yes, that is speculation. But so is your ability to scale 10x (but at least somewhat within your control).
That's pretty close, though not quite what I was looking for. I'm comfortably retired but maybe I should look into making something along these lines. They don't have to be long, for example.
So there’s the “how”, where’s the “why”?

Why Hurd and not Linux? Or one of the BSDs? Or any of the thousands of OSS projects actually useful to real people in 2017?
I also extend the same offer as Leo. Email in my profile.

If you can get a $14m acq offer you can almost certainly get funding if the market is big.
You could make an argument that the MIT license has an "implicit patent grant" due to its wording - check out http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence

I don't think much around patents and software is settled, partly because of the reluctance of big players to use software patents.
> why can't I reply to the comment to my comment?

There's sometimes a timeout, to discourage rapid back-and-forth arguing.
Why on earth would anyone ever consent to this nonsense?

Because the government has more guns than you do.

The detailed legal answer is far more complicated than that, but it simplifies readily.
Wish I could buy a coffee with it.
Drugs are cheaper and largely subsidized by governments with high incidence of HIV.

I'm South African, antiretrovirals are free.*

Almost got it right: Drugs elsewhere are cheaper and largely subsidized by USA citizens.

Those drugs cost a fortune to make and the companies make their money in USA https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pharmaceuticals-usa-compa...
The myriad problems with just getting the political willpower to legalize drugs, is a starter. Then, there is the mechanism to do so - like what do you do with those already convicted? How does one make it so that it's even a realistic discussion being had by the average citizen? What about individual States? Etc...
What DE? You can't leave us hanging like that, we're not chads and this isn't Election2000.
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Roger Ver, who ironically for this thread is a crypto currency investor, renounced his US citizenship to avoid paying taxes and was repeatedly denied entry into the US afterwards. He will most likely never be able to visit his family in the US again.
I guess you haven't seen the Facebook projects where the patent grant was dumped after a handfull of people asked nicely. There it was more of a "Yeah sure, why not?" by the maintainer without much input from the legal team as it seems.