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The article correctly notices that the market was more worried around the time of the BCH fork, but misses some of the reasons why. The BCH was a more credible threat to the value proposition of Bitcoin because the market could be convinced it was like a dividend to the BTC chain, the market cap of the latter was clearly at risk.

The design of B2X is based on getting every user of Bitcoin to switch software before November. If commerce continues on the legacy chain, the value proposition falls in its entirety. B2X has no replay protection to speak of and no emergency difficulty adjustment is possible. The market correctly reflects the probability that B2X will replace BTC. Feel free to bet on it should you disagree, Bitfinex offers futures trading on BTC/B2X.
The hiring process hires exactly the people that it was designed to. You do not want a team that excels in every aspect. How would you manage such a team? They would go off in directions you cannot control anymore and you have no way of stopping them taking your position.
Well, just as yahoo or gmail do it. Even 'bigjohnfromcanada' or something equally silly, but unique, is easier to remember than 10 or more digits. The other challenges mentioned exist...but dns has served us well, and naptr records already exist..m
>As a left handed user... I fucking despise the idea of thumb-reach heatmaps geared solely towards right handed use.

Hold your horses!

Just use the left side of the keyboard as a toggle button...

when you click it once... the keyboard switches over to a left handed position and stays there until someone else switches it back to the right handed position!
> fact that it's a much bigger clusterfuck

Why is it that people so quickly jump to "markets be crazy" as an explanation rather than "perhaps I don't understand the situation and have been sold an exaggerated version by people who profit from clicks or chaos"?
I don't see the benefit of using name+alias@gmail.com if the point is to obscure your email address
> a more privacy oriented phone like an iPhone

How is a phone with no user filesystem more privacy-oriented?
Straight out of Silicon Valley (the TV show)..
That something different has arrived: I’m joining Google as of Monday

You get a paycheck from Google, which is at least honest and upfront.

Danny Sullivan has been shilling for Google for over a decade, always taking their side.
Daayam. That’s awesome! Hopefully they rename it RatShack and sell actual radios and kits through what’s left of it. Also, it would be cool if there were IoT, electronics, μctrlr interfacing kit subscriptions for academic-level learning through practical kits on a monthly basis.

Adafruit is an awesome, modern business model (juxtaposed to
the tiny margins of components and other commodification) that pumps out tons of quality kits, and Fried is killing it! I see tons of new product demos all the time on their YouTube channel.[0]

0: https://youtube.com/user/adafruit

PS: Still have my PS/2 :cueCat.

Update: if you really love electronics, more YT channels: eevblog, ave, bigclivedotcom, mikeselectricstuff, strange parts, this does not compute, louisrossmann (IIRC)
This is really exciting.

I just know that Adafruit will bring back at least some of the luster that Radio Shack once held in my heart.
This might still change, but you're likely right; as a payment system it's probably not going anywhere anytime soon.

It's other description, as a form of digital gold, applies now more than ever though and I think that's how the market is treating it: largely as a hedge and store of fungible value.
Its never acceptable as a developer to say "I can't do it, because the IDE is broken" - this is a programmer-smell.

Re: CAD software, I would consider them more productive, but only if they actually knew what the basics were and didn't just depend on the GUI doing all the work. If you can't get underneath the tooling and fix it, then I don't want to work with you, period.
I guess I didn't realize before seeing this that Adafruit was of the scale that they could buy a major brand like Radio Shack. Although, in retrospect, I suppose Radio Shack isn't worth much anymore.

I have so much Radio Shack branded crud around my house (and that was even before I went on a shopping spree through like six stores undergoing clearance), they used to be so much more than a store. I'm glad to see it finally end up in good hands.
I can't imagine a better match. Thanks, Adafruit.
Is there a precedent in any field? Large, complex projects seem to inherently require delays due to the discovery of new facets of the project.
Please follow up with this, if Mozilla does not understand anything short of the law this might be the only way to make them believe they are actually doing privacy a disservice.
Hi. In the linked "confessions" blog you've taken the path of making some claims about a topic and supported them through who you are, instead of facts.
People who disagree with your claims will question if who you are is relevant.

C++ is difficult, and there are few experts. My thesis is that one doesn't need to be an expert to write safe C++ code, but they do need access to quality libraries focused on safety, and good practices focused on safety.
Banning some unsafe C functions, saying "use smart pointers" or making a list of UB is useful, but not enough.

C++ can be written much more safely than it normally is, but it seems that's not happening. I'm not sure why, it could be that the performance loss of additional runtime verification is not acceptable, that the adequate learning resources are not available or that it's not an important topic for the C++ community.

P.S: I'll gladly have the kind of error you linked to. It's at compile time, I will try to figure it out and worst case rewrite my code. UB is the problem.
Now that you say it, I believe that there are several (military) aircraft projects that have huge delays exactly due to changing specifications. The people making the contracts did not have a clear vision about what they actually want and there are several parties involved who want different things crammed into one vehicle. As the process moves on, the requirements get adjusted to meet the new political power balance.

The commerical planes, I believe, were designed with a clear goal and are in many ways an incremental improvement on the previous (proven to work well) models.

So in essence you need: A clear vision of something that is acutally achievable. Plus you need to communicate that vision.
As a non-American, I'm completely unfamiliar with RadioShack, except for having seen the name often, and often associated with some sort of strong feelings. Why do they hold such "high" status, or stay relevant in discussions? I could not really gather an answer to this from their Wikipedia page; perhaps I'm just imagining the whole attitude?

(Adafruit's collection I've browsed online, and possibly even ordered something from there; RadioShack appears not to even ship outside the US.)
What aspects of politics?

How do they interact with engineering?
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Amazing and super cool! I'm not even in the U.S. and I haven't yet done anything with Arduinos, etc. apart from buying one for a kid, but this news will put spring in my step today.
This is perfect. The only thing that made Adafruit less than ideal was the shipping cost and delay for small purchases. If I can just hop over to a local retail site and get what I need for my projects I will be so happy!
I always say that building software is like building a house, in the dark, with flashlights.

This also makes it immediately understandable why throwing more programmers at something doesn't always increase the development speed.
Here's my interview with Ed on the IETF proposal: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/security-txt-...
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I will, I’ll continue discussing this on monday with them.

And, in contrast to Mozilla, the Landesdatenschutzbeauftragte actually uses PGP email.
RadioShack was a ubiquitous feature in the U.S. and probably still has a far-reaching string of commercial properties. Hard to believe that any American wouldn't know them. Unfortunately they grew staid and dusty. Adafruit seems the perfect buyer.
If you're shipping a binary image back upstream, you're doing it wrong.

Artifact builds absolutely positively should never happen on developer workstations. Perform local builds as a test, but always push your build instructions and source to a centralized builder.

If you even remotely respect the folks who depend on binaries of your code as a developer, you will avoid shipping those binaries yourself. Send build instructions to a 3rd party and allow them to distribute the binary and keep yourself honest.
I can't believe it either. I always thought of Adafruit as the underdog, and to me, it still seems like a David and Goliath story.
I don't think there exists a single remaining RadioShack store in the US. The website appears to have everything on clearance. I think they've essentially just bought the name, likely very cheaply since virtually nothing else exists anymore.
For a really long time Radio Shack was synonymous with hobbyist electronics- they had a location in virtually every mall and shopping center in the country where they sold little plastic baggies of resisters, capacitors, and the like- not to mention kits, tools, small electronics, etc.

Then they basically all turned into cell phone stores and became irrelevant.
Lets not forget Google trying to steal ANS as their own invention, filling for patents covering >100 countries.
You'd have to do your research. When everything's gone to hell and people are cursing the markets is probably a good time, though. But when others are selling, as Buffett and probably a good number of other investors say.
If you’re familiar with uk stores: Tandy Electronics, or a crappier Maplins.
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I'm not sure the title is 100% true. I think they just bought a framed stock certificate at an auction. Likely, Kensington Capital still owns the RadioShack brand.

Sources:

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-radioshack-kensingtoncapi...

- http://ubidestates.hibid.com/catalog/103245/radioshack-aucti...
...beats trying to time the market...

If you can time the market correctly, that is obviously the optimal strategy.
The IT industry regularly does exactly that. The other engineering disciplines get too much credit for being executed perfectly according to plan and delivering flawless results.

Examples:

Bridges that have cracks. Roads that become too slippery when it rains. Railways that require immediate reconstruction after the first month of operation. Delays, environmental disasters, multi-million projects that become multi-billion projects. Projects that are ten years late...

The Airbus A380 mentioned in the question probably has thousands of defects but it's still a very successful project. On the software side I could mention Windows 10, most triple-A games and Tesla's autopilot. Of course these products have defects. But they're still very successful projects. Give them some credit.
The only stores that remain open are the ones the at did well for Sprint as a Sprint retail location. All the others closed.
This is crazy, this is like Porsche almost acquiring Volkswagen. If you'd told me the other way around (RadioShack acquires Adafruit) a couple years ago I would've believed it.
I was in Fort Worth, TX for a job interview around 2005 or so and we decided to walk through the city and chat with one of the owners. We passed by the RadioShack headquarters. And I said something like "They seem to be declining, they just resell cell phones and plans mostly". And they said, "Nah, it's a large company they'll figure something out". Well I guess they never did. Though Adafruit buying them feels right. It's like having RS return to its roots. Hopefully Adafruit finds some use from it and it doesn't let it drag it down.
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That entirely oversimplifies things, though. For one, Mozilla owns parts of that third party, therefore they presumably do know what happens with that data and can pull the plug from their side, if nefarious things happen.

And secondly, Google can do a lot more with your data than Mozilla and that third party combined could ever do, both from a technical viewpoint in terms of evaluation, linking to other data, distribution, and especially so from a legal viewpoint.

Providing this information as you put it would be entirely misleading, even if it is factually accurate in isolation.
There are three levels: $300/yr for "enterprise" allows you to deploy your app on a large number of devices within your organization (and the terms of service are very explicit that the devices must be under your control: not even for testing by a customer at an off-site location unless you are overseeing), $100/yr for an individual or company normal developer license that lets you install your app for testing purposes on up to 100 of your devices for one year (after which point the apps expire and you have to reinstall them), or $0 for truly "free" provisioning (no yearly fee) which lets you install up to three apps (total; not per account: across all free accounts any device can have only three such apps) on a device using a slightly limited set of APIs (for example: no VPN support) which expire every seven days.

Clearly the free tier is pretty worthless in the grand scheme of things, and being able to write software for you but not being able to legitimately give it to anyone else not also paying the $100/yr "please let me own the piece of hardware you sold me instead of renting it" tax is not really acceptable for people trying to learn to write software as a big part of software is being able to give it to other people. In practice, though, a lot of people are seriously only learning to develop so that one day they can pay the full Apple developer tax and deploy their apps to the App Store under the Apple software approval process, and so it works out: like, to them, software development is all about writing software for Apple hardware under Apple's rules, and that's what Apple wants anyway. The entire scenario makes me feel a little sick: this shouldn't even be legal as far as I'm concerned.
They were a major electronics retailer when a lot of people on HN were kids, so they hold a special place in our memories. They were pretty much the place to go if you wanted to tinker.

Until the one by me closed earlier this year, it was the only place I could go to buy things like breadboards, transistors, and LEDs. Now I have to order these things online.
Christ Almighty if I wanted Chrome I would be using Chrome.

I specifically use FF to get away from this stuff. I have no Google or Facebook account and block/erase as many trackers and cookies because I'm not interested in aiding your data mining quest. Bah.
Being late on a software project is actually profitable.

Being late on an aircraft or building probably comes with financial penalties.
Most Go binaries aren't over 100MB unless they have a bunch of data packed in them. 10-15MB seems more usual to me unless it's a particularly large project.
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I am all out of stocks, put all my money on blockchain companies, as per an Uber drivers' advice. Apparently it is the future.
I think with gmail it's possible to filter based on which alias it was sent to.
I think you want to read the cartoon guide to the computer
Not if you lose all your users over this.
What came before the big bang?
They have a great chance to set up something like techshop for electronics. I discovered a new serious hobby in carpentry thanks to the community there. Imagine what this could do for electronics hobbyists.
I found this as part of a user agent in logs for my webserver: https://disqus.com/humans.txt

And going over my logs for the past year, I only found 6 requests for 'humans.txt' on my server.
If I understand right, this is basically merging s&p 500 [1] and dollar value index [2]. The value of the dollar has been dropping all year, at a higher rate than the value of the s&p 500 has been going up.

Basically, the market's dollar denominated value is going up, but dollars are becoming less valuable. This combines to mean that market value has actually down this year, not up.

Perhaps op can correct me on anything I got wrong.

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/spx
[2] http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
the only reason the blocks have bene full is from malicious actors filling the blocks with nonsense transactions ( miners pumping fees, and seditious big blockers trying to dissolve core )
Funny, and I hope it was cheap and not riddled with debt baggage, because I doubt there's much value left in a pile of ailing brick and mortar stores at this point.

I hope for adafruit's sake this is just a joke around a framed radio shack cert.
The proofs are in the blog post. The code is linked and the statements in the blog post are official statements from Mozilla, therefore if it was factually inaccurate, they could be sued over misleading customers.
I have fond memories of buying my first transistors, capacitors, resistors, and soldering gun from RadioShack and soldering my first devices (a TI-85 interface to computer serial port). RadioShack seemed to lose their way when they started selling phone subscriptions. Adafruit is what RadioShack is supposed to be. I'm glad they have reappropriated the name. I guess all the real estate is gone...but it would have been cool to have those RadioShack stores as ada fruit stores/learning centers.

I went to my local RadioShack's liquidation...bought a ton of RadioShack branded things at discount to have for nostalgia purposes. Was also pleasantly surprised to see a section of the DIY kits you would find at adafruit including arduinos and RPi's.
Yup. It’s probably a licensing deal with the conservator or some such to give a little coin back to investors/debt-holders. The remaining B&M I’ve encountered basically just sell mobiles, junk like toys, accessories and cables. Maybe a handful of discrete passive components, if you’re lucky.

Heck, in the valley, IRL fulfillment (willcall)/retail of electronic components is limited: (Halted isn’t organized and sells mostly used stuff without ESD management anywhere, Fry’s is a joke). Maybe you can will-call some places (Jameco), but the main sources like FleaBay and DigiKey don’t compare to IRL/right-now like Shenzhen highrise of everything bad fakes, good fakes and authentic. If you’re prototyping and about to do small runs it’s much easier in China because suppliers of all sizes and contract manufacturers right there, and can turn-around PCBs in a couple of hours. America doesn’t have anything remotely close to the density and rapid business efficiency of Shenzhen.
crappier Maplins

That's quite hard to imagine.
Sounds like a perfect fit. I would be a customer for sure. Microcenter should take a hint and reorganize their neglected hobbyist electronic section.
True. Americans tend to forget the EU has very different privacy and consumer protection laws. Either out of ignorance or arrogance.
Seems like a pretty misleading HN item then. Also, considering that Adafruit specifically mentioned on their website a few years ago that they were not prepared to use Radioshack as a distributor it doesnt make sense that they would choose to start using physical stores. But who knows these days ...
Tandy used to be the housebrand name of almost IBM compatible RS computers.
XD It wasn’t called RatShack for nothing. ;)
> The document is largely a philosophical statement. The EU still faces the challenge of defining standards, creating a timeline for implementation, and determining how the systems would be funded. In addition, it can expect some controversy, as privacy remains paramount for many residents.

Uh, okay. So all that's left now is the hard part.

Hopefully they'll focus on strong virtually unhackable authentication methods like smart cards, U2F, and such, and won't also allow alternative methods like SMS, digital certificates, facial recognition, and other options that will make it easy for hackers to abuse their e-government systems/electronic voting, etc
Deliverability problems may be caused by misconfigured spam filters. Over-aggressive retries won't be.

So I see no justification there for paying staff to manually filter postmaster@ spam.
Same happened to me. I think I may have used the social media login via Google, which I'm guessing could get your email into the leak without any password being present.
If you happen to be from the ex-Soviet Union or maybe other parts of Eastern Europe (going by your username). You might know about open air electronics flea markets. You could buy anything from tube amps, to pirated movies, trade ZX Spectrum computer programs on tapes, tools, multimeters, mechanical parts for tape players and so on. That was one of my favorite places to go to as a kid.

Well, anyway here in US RS was the place to go for kids and adults who liked electronics and needed parts and tools from what I understand. That's why there is name recognition and nostalgia about it.
"I think it’s a little absurd that we would make the leap to machine super-intelligence without going through the step of machine low or medium intelligence."

Why? The leap from calculators that were worse than humans, to calculators that were much, much better than humans, didn't take too long. No one knows how fast the leap will be from what we currently have, to general intelligence, to super intelligence.

I don't think anyone in the AI safety movement will tell you that we know for sure the leap will be fast. I think they'd say we simply don't know how fast it will be, but the stakes are pretty high so it's worth preparing for.
Iridium is quite active. Phones are about $1000, and airtime is about $1-$2 minute. Anywhere on the surface of the Earth that you can see the sky, you can get through with Iridium. You get voice or 9600 baud data.
It's extremely useful when nothing else is available, as in much of Puerto Rico right now.

A new constellation of 66 Iridium satellites with more bandwidth is being launched. This will take eight launches. Two launches so far; the third launch is in 2 days, using a Space-X Falcon 9.

There are web sites with satellite orbital data.[1]

[1] http://www.satview.org/
I'm just astounded that this needs explaining in the first place. Common sense is not that common.
Collecting personally identifying information has to be opt-in. They don't collect personally identifying information.
Given that Adafruit is retweeting things like https://twitter.com/danielphippsaus/status/91650866813207347..., I don’t think it’s unreasonable to believe that they’re saying they bought RadioShack.

Indeed, the company is a husk of its former self and has already sold off most of its assets.
How much money do these new office layouts save?

Office space in Santa Clara County is about $34/sq. ft./year, though it's been increasing at a rate of 16% per year. The article says offices have, on average, about 150 sq. ft. per person. So that's $5100 per year per worker. It was about 225 sq. ft. in 2010, so an extra $2550 per year.

The average software engineer salary in the area is about $125k per year. (The actual cost is more, because of benefits and taxes.) So these new offices only cost 4% of the salary, compared to 6%.
If you can time the market correctly, you don't need to get investing advice from HN.