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The truth isn't dulled by repetition. It's up to crypto enthusiasts to come up with a use case.
I only make around 20k and I donate $5 monthly to both the EFF and ACLU. I never notice it missing out of my account. Does anyone now of a third organization worthy of support. Not to brag, but I could probably swing $15 a month.
I've found the exact opposite to be true of a majority of cryptocurrency advocates, which makes is all that more disturbing. It's just impossible to say what the real value and future of cryptocurrencies really is.
Can we add this encyclopedia to itself? It's a small compendium of right-wing ideology and quirky preferences.

The two categories of things considered harmful in "Science": "Economics", and "Global Warming Fearmongering". The Eco section, which quotes Milton Friedman as an imagined authority, has just a few entries -- for Rent Controls, Minimum Wages, Intellectual Property, a couple of others.
In Software, a long list of "harmful" things with allegedly less harmful alternatives, all of it personal choice (editors & IDEs, again?) and the stuff of eternal flame wars. Thus, SQL databases are 'harmful', but "plain old hierarchical filesystems" are less so -- and so much more fun to query too; SVG bad, PostScript better (really?!); ... You get the idea.
Yes, of course.

So what?

Just because Bitcoin is fiat money doesn't mean it will fail (or succeed), and it doesn't mean that it's "good" or "bad" either.

By many measures, fiat money has been a success so far. For example, the aggregate market cap of fiat money today exceeds Bitcoin's by quite a few orders of magnitude.[1]

Calling Bitcoin "fiat" ≠ arguing against it.

[1] http://money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-an...
Yes, that React is really convenient for building practically any type of web app, not just real-time apps, and they probably want the slick and seamless user experience they can get by building a progressive web app in React.
You only get to live once. The only limited thing that you have is your time. If you wake up every morning with the passion for the work you are doing, then you are lucky. A lot of people work at a job that they don't like; this includes engineers at top companies.

If you love your job as founder of a startup, I would suggest that keep doing what you love to do. To be successful, you need following:

1. User/Customer Empathy
2. Move Fast in the right direction
3. Focus on hiring and retaining good/great engineers.

When you know that you are failing on any of the above, then you need to think about the exit strategy.
Shit, my bank is down a couple of hours each week for routine maintenance during which I can't even check my balance.
Doubtful. Examples like IKEA shows that people may recall the red M above stores instead of the yellow M on a red square from corporate or think the background white. Did the exercise mentally before checking on wiki and got the colors down right, but added McDonald written under it like in promotional material, so there’s that.
Write once, run everywhere always has various tradeoffs. The closer you get to fundamental differences in operating systems, the more platform-specific code you need.

UI, for example, is hard to make platform independent if your application needs to look and feel native; or needs to plug into platform-specific features.

What would be useful is a way to easily call WebAssembly libraries from native applications. This way common business logic can be written cross-platform; but the parts of an application that need to remain native are left native.
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Not to mention that the value of a currency, like everything else, is driven by supply and demand; so in the face of fluctuating demand, adjusting the supply is necessary to ensure the currency measures a consistent amount of wealth, and doesn't inflate/crash.
You'd probably enjoy running for congress.
Yeah, like buying things.
by all means
The X is better yet right? Will it best the pixel 2?
I have traveled a great deal and seen some pretty oppressed people. I can live most anywhere and one of the reasons I choose to live here is because I am not oppressed here.

Like you, I have no desire to overthrow my government. I do like to complain about then, however.

As for living somewhere oppressive, I don't think I'd do well in a place where I was hopeless. I'd probably end up being a dead revolutionary, just because I would have wanted to feel hope.
> […] it was named after a meme.

> So that made you less likely to trust the code/governance?

Well... yeah! What's your point? That projects deserve trust based on their branding? I'm not convinced until there's peer approval, especially not if it's piggybacking on something "trendy".

I do agree though it's a shame it got subverted from the ultra low value p2p tipping platform it was becoming. Feels like it's just litecoin left as credible alternative in that area.
I've been trying to tell everyone licensing is more important than they realize, but there are so many people who fundamentally misunderstand licensing and therefor just don't care (dwtfyw license for example), or have falsely been trained by subpar instructors at uni and $othertraining about how bsd/mit is the superior license for business because $reasons.

The four freedoms and free software solve so many of the problems I see around modern tech-infrastructure. No, free software doesn't solve every issue and has some of it's own, for example I think at the code complexity levels we are at the many eyes theory is starting to crumble, but it doesn't change the core truisms about freedom in computing that are important for us to move forward in a free and open society if we actually want to start solving prolems.

Now that we have a concrete example of how picking tooling with bad licensing can bite people in the butt, please take this time to at least consider GPL varients (A/L/GPLv3) for as much of your tooling as you possibly can. (perhaps CC0/CCBY/CCBYSA for content)

In my opinion, MIT/BSD licenses like FB moved to in this case simply aren't good enough to be future-proof, primarily because of the ability of future tivoization of a product that removes freedom from the user (think BSD on playstation).

Remember, either the user controls the program, or the program controls the user.

If the GPL scares you for some reason or you have question about it (commercial sales of gpl software for example), feel free to ask. I've spent enough time wading through just about every license so I think I might be able to cut through some fud.
You know who did real tax evasion? Your false-god Steve Jobs. He took a $1/year salary to beat payroll taxes and paid himself with backdated stock options taxed at long term cap gains rate. And he put Gore on his board who was connected enough to keep the government off his back.
Article has Apple and surprisingly only 20% got it. I think the experiment ran with the hn population would give radically different results, but still, the claim that apple floats to mind without effort is just incompatible with the data as collected
I'm amazed what banks will re-enable with a simple phone call as long as you have a name, current address, SSN, and birthdate. But yes, it's a good step to take and makes it just that much harder to compromise an account so it's a good thing to do.
I bet that the "know how to hustle" is a backwards theoretical story. In reality VCs just empirically find cold calls to be much worse because it's diluted down with a lot of really random people. If that's the case that'd be unfortunate because a mindset change wouldn't be sufficient to reverse the trend.
I'm not a trader but that still stands as one of my favorite books, it's wonderfully written
"mean CREATE money out of nothing."

No, this is not true.

Central banks do 'create' money, but they trade it on the market for real assets.

The Fed creates dollars and exchanges them for an equal amount of US Tbills (bought at market rates). $1 created = $1 in Tbills on their balance sheet.

They're not just creating money and keeping it, or giving it away.

The practice of 'fractional lending' by retail/commercial banks amplifies this, but as far as central banks go - every dollar they 'create' is essentially backed by an asset that they keep on the books for that dollar.

The idea is to manage how much currency is in circulation at any given time, so that inflation (and employment) hover at certain target.

If politicians were 'printing money' to pay national debts, or buy stuff or whatever - that would be straight forward dilution.

What the Fed does is not dilution, and it's not a bad thing, it's a good thing.

Same for ECB.
If you call your bank they will ask you for your account number (found on the check), Name (on the check), Address (on the check) and date of birth (not on the check), information about recurring deposit or last deposit (not on the check), and that's pretty much it. I always feel like this is something you can find out by buying someone a beer.
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Actually, since 1777. For as long as the government is able to print paper currency instead of using metal coinage, it is able to make up as much money as it wants. Since not everyone is going to demand conversion to bullion, it generally doesn't matter--this is the principle behind fractional-reserve banking as well. If the government is caught out on printing too much money, then either the paper currency is accepted at less than face value (as happened to the original Continental Currency), or the government decides to suspend conversion (as most recently happened in 1971, but also in 1933).
I'd rather see something like async/await before true threads. So much of web programming is network IO bound; that what we really need are primitives that make async programming easier.

Threads can come later.

The problem is that when async programming is hard due to language or framework difficulties, threads are the easier choice. But then, older code is locked into patterns that are hard to refactor to async/await.
Heh, as you can see from the other comments, I don't know all the vi commands either. Just a few essentials. I'd assumed from the comment you were a vi person and probably knew more vi than me.

I don't use vi for coding, just quick file edits on the console. I was xemacs for a very long time in college and thereafter - to the point of writing elisp to manipulate xml files, but eventually my Java day job pushed me towards a full IDE. Java is kinda unbearable without it.

I still occasionally turn to emacs for a few things I can't get elsewhere (editing binaries, large files, and doing search and replace in a narrowed buffer), but it's no longer my primary editor or mail reader. I may pick it up again for clojure coding, though.
No.

Before 1971 dollars were backed by Gold, now they are backed by US Tbills (and some real-estate since 2008).

It's not that different.

Gold and US TBills are both valuable assets.
The only reasoning they really need is "we wrote the GPL and we're gonna goddamn use it".
It very much seems to be what you're saying:

> You say Nestlé selling you bottled water doesn't impact "an African kid getting water", well excuse me but it very well does.
The phone will automatically download the update, but not install it. To delete it, go to settings->general->storage and icloud usage->Manage Storage (there are two buttons that say this, click the top one). If the update downloaded, it should be there. Tap on it and click delete.

The other thing you can do is install a tvOS beta configuration profile. This will make your phone look for tvOS updates rather than iOS updates, which it will not install because they're not for ios. I won't post a link here, but it should be fairly straightforward to find.
"It will become a currency when"

It will 'become a currency' when people use it to actually buy and sell stuff commonly.
Why is it flawed. Crime hotspots are usually cyclical varying with seasons and weather like she points towards the end. There are other factors. You might be thinking of stock markets which is a different thing.
The article says they already combined three different antibodies to get the 99% rate.
Harder, since they don't have an open API and don't want people using non-standard clients. The clients are open-source though, so probably you can do it.
The smart contract model makes it useful beyond just "purchasing things" (as the unimaginative would say. Yes that's a dig at you senatorobama). The EVM (despite it's implementation flaws) makes it's uses practically limitless.

Bitcoin...is an impractical, user-unfriendly first mover. Ethereum is the flawed second mover (ok, I'm discounting all the silly coins in between). I'm honestly not sure who the ultimate winner is.
Unless the Bitcoin or Ethereum community fundamentally changes, it likely won't be them.
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Apple AstroTurf.
Healthcare is one of the reasons I'm not keen to consider moving to the USA for a startup job. Sure it would be a fun adventure compared to my current cushy contracting work in Australia, but healthcare in the USA is a show compared to the ludicrously easy and high quality coverage I have in Australia.

For reference, I pay about ~$200 Australian to my personal insurance, which is a pretty generous plan with lots of extras, basic health care such has visiting a doctor for prescriptions, etc... I haven't paid a dollar for in 3 years, before that I used to pay $20 for convenience of a clinic that was open late and they didn't bill the government for the entire cost, which is common, but almost always a reasonably small fee in the multiples of $20 depending on how long you spend with the doctor. I paid this when I was a government employee, a private employee contracted to the government, and I continued to pay it when I quit to become a freelance developer, my cover has nothing to do with my job and I cannot even fathom why in the most awful circles of hell I would want my health care tied to my job. Hence my trepidation at ever subjecting myself to the American health care system.
> As far as I know, no one has actually found a Facebook patent that covers React

This would make Reacts PATENTS file a bluff (nothing to grant or revoke). I don't think many companies would be eager to base decisions on that legal theory.
> Until you have 51% of the hash power you can't make any changes as you simply get ignored unless you follow the exact same rules as the majority

This is exactly their point. This applies to everyone and all organizational entities.
It's called the CLR. (Common language runtime, which is what C# runs on.)

The problem is that the CLR forces you into a "one-size-fits-all" garbage collector. It's good for what it does, but if your application needs are different, than the CLR just won't work.
"Well what does? "

People using it as a currency.

i.e. having some practical value.
Ask HN: Recruiter culture in your city
Without getting into too many details...

I don't live in one of the cities in the US known for its tech, but am in a relatively large metropolitan area.

I have been "poking my head into" the job market for about 1 month now, after deciding to leave my last company. With my last job search I spoke with plenty of recruiters, but the job I landed was a position with a company who was recruiting internally. It was my first in-person interview in this area since I've lived here, and it looked to be a good fit. They made an offer about 1 week later.

But in this area most companies seem to go through recruitment firms. I've noticed a trend that recruiters in this area appear to be taking their jobs way too seriously as the "gatekeepers" for their clients. In fact now that I think of it all of the jobs I've landed throughout my career were as a result of companies recruiting directly. Not having the ability to actively sell my skillset at the moment has become somewhat frustrating.

How has the "recruiter culture" affected the job market in your area?
If you're a company do you feel you're receiving top notch candidates from recruiters? As a "recruitee" with a strong background / experience in your selected field do you feel your "resume submissions / interviews" ratio to be extremely high? Any thoughts as to why this is the case?
As a counterpoint, CA purchased Rally (an agile project management tool and issue tracker) several years ago and they're been steadily improving it ever since. That's probably because there's a lot of direct competition from similar products such as Jira.
I think the distinct holders can be classified as such:
1) Libertarian idealists who don't recognize they've already lost control.
2) Money launderers and their developing world mining networks.
3) Speculators (including VC backed firms)
4) Hype followers
5) The few, poor, misguided fools who think it's money.
Ah, yeah, maybe. I wonder if people know that non-profits, especially those that are that large, are given heavy financial scrutiny and that they can actually check the financial information themselves? The foundation will have a link to download their financial information and, given the levels of oversight and mandatory auditing, they are almost certain to be accurate.

The Gates Foundation does great things. I've never understood the complaints. They are pretty heavily scrutinized and their actions are fairly public. It's not some nefarious organization, at least it isn't from what I've read.

Edited to add: Hmm... They responded with a stange, now dead, comment. I am no longer sure what they meant. It'd appear they think Jobs is my false god. I remain baffled.
> embraced by libertarians who are very idealistic and have quite a shallow understanding of economics, software, and the world at large

Sure, but they tend to know a lot about currency.
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I agree that calling it fiat is not arguing against it, but it's important because there are a large number of people who are deep in the bitcoin world, and get infected with a little bit of the Libertarian/gold-standard mentality that thinks fiat is a bad word. In the end, everything that isn't a direct barter exchange of usable goods is a fiat currency, because that's the POINT of an exchange medium; something that everyone agrees is worth something in order to facilitate trade, it makes life easier. Pointing out that bitcoin is just as much a fiat currency as the dollar or the euro or gold helps dispel the misconceptions about currency and helps people learn more about bitcoin and currency as a whole.
BitBucket is my default for pet projects nowadays, and it's also what I typically recommend for professional work. Better pricing, direct access to Atlassian's tools (which have their own issues, but are generally pretty popular), and the "projects" feature is nice (I just wish it was usable for personal repos rather than being an organization-only feature).
Good idea on using weather and holidays. I played with a similar dataset from local police for a machine learning class. And I remember how hotspots movement was correlated with seasons.
It's also useful for cheaper & faster cross border remittances for the common person. For the common person paypal's %3+ currency exchange fees is more expensive than the equivalent %0.5-%1 in fees you get from a 2 bitcoin exchanges. And it's far faster since everything moves at the speed of local deposits & withdraws.
That link shows discussions related to problems with the OS but it doesn't list any problems with the filesystem upgrade. If it does, they might have been bumped down by more recent posts but the only major issue (and the person posting it admits that they changed some permissions) is a read-only drive. That seems like pretty good odds.
This is the fundamental problem with treatment of rapidly evolving diseases. The hope is that if you get a "good enough" treatment and get it out to the population rapidly enough, the disease won't have a chance to evolve and spread further. Herd immunity will bring it under control.

I think the problem with a widespread, highly studied virus like HIV is that a "good enough" treatment isn't "good enough." Any treatment will be deployed in a limited manner to test the efficacy, which will in turn give it a chance to develop a resistance and spread.

That having been said, if the treatment CAN treat 99% of current infections, it will be a boon for at least a couple generations of gay and minority communities in the developed world.
If Google was owned by Wall Street and Facebook was owned by Steve Bannon (Mercer) the world might be a different place.

Everyone knows what happened to the Wright Brothers.
IBM.
Wouldn't you be creating your own fork? A fork of one where peers would then reject every message from you?

No man is an island, unless he wants to completely devalue his bitcoin.
> I did not accuse anyone of being apathetic or lazy (nether word is in my comment) but I do question the behavior because it is drastically less efficient than tap water.

This thread, and my comments, are directed toward a commenter who called people who buy bottled water lazy and apathetic (see parent comments).

> My mother is anything but apathetic and lazy but has always insisted on bottled water only. I have quesioned it and my impression is that she is marketed to. It seems like a comfort food of sorts.

That's a very different situation than purchasing bottled water occasionally while traveling. Elsewhere (see other comments) I noted that the references I've found show about 13% of people (in the US) purchase bottled water as their primary source of drinking water.

At the beginning of the thread, a poster suggested that purchasing bottled water is a sign of the mental decline of American society.

However, most bottled water is not purchased as the users primary source of drinking water. And it does not seem justifiable to call people who occasionally purchase bottled water, while traveling for example, lazy, apathetic, and in mental decline...

That's it really. Can you find a way to justify calling people who purchase bottled water lazy, apathetic and in mental decline?

Or are there other, not totally unreasonable reasons for occasionally purchasing bottled water? Or at least ones that are as justifiable as things that almost all members of society do on a daily basis (like buying other packaged goods).

> Of course people are different. This point brought nothing but noise to the conversation. Face palm.

I don't think you've read the posts I'm responding too. They argue that all people who purchase bottled water are lazy, apathetic, and a sign of "mental decline".

They don't leave any room for people being different and potentially having different requirements. They suggest that all people are capable and should be willing to carry around their own re-usable water bottle in all scenarios otherwise they are lazy and apathetic.

Yes, it's an obvious point. But... seemingly not one that is acceptable to everybody.