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When you're managing "images", it's much easier when you have a limited amount of hardware to deal with -- especially if/when you have to roll drivers up in your images.

This has gotten much better in the last 10 years or so, thanks mostly to Microsoft's improved tooling, but standardizing on specific hardware often saves time more than anything else. I can remember the days when we had to use (for example) "image A" for this model of desktop PC, "image B" for a different model of desktop PC, and even "image C" for a slightly newer hardware revision of the same desktop PC. Fortunately, I didn't have to create or maintain those images.

At a .edu I worked at, preparing and deploying new images was often the biggest project of our summers.
Oh yeah. It’s going to be super difficult to guess who I am when I log into example.com and it redirects me to example.com/profile/igorpartola. Nothing to see here. Nothing at all.
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> Once a transaction gets confirmed on one chain, it's permanently able to be spent on the other.

That's simply not true. If the utxo gets spent on the other chain, the two coins are permanently split.

> Also, automated system may have no way of handling it if those automated systems are not upgraded. Which means a merchant could end up with thousands of payments that they have to manually fix. And, those merchants will be forced into adopting the new software to correct the issue, they will have no choice to o ignore it.

And incur legal liability? Businesses will gladly do lots of manual work to avoid thousands of lawsuits.

Fact is, it's really only a problem for the businesses and even without any replay protection, they can very easily split coins by using either post-split coinbase coins or any coins ever mixed with any post-split coinbase coins.
Because 1% of users is still probably an order of magnitude higher than however many would opt-in and because they want as broad of a user-base. If you only have people that opt-in, you'll pretty much only have power-users.
It's the opposite for me. I'm left handed but use my phone with my right hand.
Worth adding that a bad psychedelic experience can be quite damaging, and just like you shouldn't climb mountains without experience or a guide, you also shouldn't explore psychedelics without experience or a guide.
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Victim blaming? These people aren't victims. They're people who picked a profession where it is (and always has been) difficult to find success, both in terms of popularity and material wealth.

I don't see the creator's job as worthless, but I do think I see it as more of a commodity than many creators would like. The biggest hits in music today aren't there because they're somehow objectively the best at their craft. Don't get me wrong, they do have talent, but their success is largely driven by promotion and marketing. There are a ton of largely-unknown artists who could see just as much success if only they'd been able to get their material in front of someone with influence and reach in a better way than the current incumbent successes have done.

> On a more general note, when a vulnerable part of the population gets shafted, they shouldn't "get with the times" either. It's a sign of our failure as a society.

I'm very sympathetic toward people who are actually in vulnerable places. People who can't kick drug addictions, people who are homeless, people who just made one bad decision or just had enough bad luck to end up in a bad place. Creative types are not that. They've chosen to follow their passions to the place they are now. Even older artists simply can't remember a time when their craft was a "gold mine", because that's never been the case.

> I guess it is not surprising that people in a capitalistic society think that the value of an activity lies in how much profit it can generate to the performer of that activity.

I think you give people too little credit. I think people understand that an activity can be very valuable to society but not be lucrative at all. Grade-school teachers are the prototype example of this that pretty much everyone has heard before.

I don't think many people would argue that music and art have low value to society. They're certainly not essentials like housing, clothing, and food. They're not going to push the sum of human understanding further like scientific research. But they're certainly more valuable than some bullshit apps that we talk about here, things like "Yo" that attracted an obscene amount of investment for what I'd consider very little value.

But I feel like you contradict yourself with this point you've made. If you do manage to separate the value of an activity from the profit generated for the performers, you can easily make the argument that no one "deserves" to get paid for creative output. Just because something has non-monetary value, it doesn't mean people will want to pay a lot for it.
if you read the entire interview you may note he didn’t take personal credit for anything.
Completely agreed. I get that it's difficult to look at things objectively when it's your paycheck on the chopping block, but that's really not the point.

I'm glad to be in a growing field that pays really well. But I'm also working to save a ton and invest wisely so that if my skills are suddenly not in demand anymore, I won't have to worry about being out on the street. I'm definitely lucky that a confluence of factors came into play that allow me to do this, but anyone and everyone should be thinking about how to hedge against employment issues down the line. That's just basic financial responsibility.

If you want to be a musician, you are already putting yourself into a difficult spot financially. If you're ok with that, more power to you... but you'd better figure out how to take care of your basic needs, at least, and you'd better have a plan for downturns since you're already living on thin margins.
I find this fascinating because the main reason I never did iOS development at all (as a hobby) is that I found Obj-C just so goddamn ugly and awful (java level ugly) that I avoided it.

Swift changed that completely. I finally find native iOS readable.
That's not exactly how it works. If an agency wants to give a $1 million grant, for example, and the PI's university has a 60% overhead rate, then the PI will draw up a $625,000 budget (as 625*1.6=1000). So the overhead definitely matters to the PI---except there is little the PI can do about it after joining a university. Most big universities have similarly high indirect cost rates, which they steadily increase over time.

UC Berkeley (2016): 57%

MIT (2018): 59%

Harvard (2018): 59%

Stanford (2018): 57%

This story, from 2013, gives some of the context and history, as well as averages for universities and other research insitutions (which can have much higher overheads):

http://www.nature.com/news/indirect-costs-keeping-the-lights...
If it happened to that many of your relatives, maybe there was a reason?
As a newcomer to Swift, finding "old" blog posts and tutorials that are written in Swift 2 is utterly maddening.
As did Mother Theresa, Gandhi, Lincoln, Washington, Churchill, et al.
Compared to Obj-C?? Unless you’re a Java or ASP developer I can’t see an uglier syntax in common usage.
All the junior mobile engineers I’m interviewing now are learning iOS development on Swift. Junior engineers are probably the most pragmatic programmers on the planet. When they’re choosing to learn Swift vs ObjC, none of them are saying “...but ABI stability!” They’re learning Swift because they’ve found they can make apps faster with it.

Tells you all you need to know about the future right there.
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> One of them didn't care at all. They were transmitting usernames and passwords in plaintext and I actually showed one of their engineers this, live, in person, and he just shrugged.

Here, now that I've shown you that, let me show you the MITM I've been running during the conference! So far I've collected NNN credential sets
Visual affects reading which affects comprehension.

Don’t dismiss visual similarities so out of hand.
That said, I should follow up by saying...we recently did an assessment and determined it wasn’t yet worth the time to refactor our ObjC apps into Swift apps. We’ll probably wait for Swift 5 and reevaluate.
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I don't know your geography, industry or role - but - as a hiring manager for developer roles - generically - if I have to plow through 200 applications to find 25 candidates to screen to find 10 interviewees to fill two positions in any given month, I would not read your resume.

I am not saying that your approach is a bad one, but I wouldn't be "forced" to read your resume.
1) the sentence is true.

2) why should I or anyone else trust a company called Cliqz to do anything?
I’ve developed primarily with ObjC for about 4 years, and when Swift was released, primarily with that - so roughly an even amount of time with each.

The article has a lot of very opinionated comments, some of them not true (e.g. ObjC development has not completely stopped). There are definitely some truths in there too, like how fluid the language has been so far (last year’s Swift code probably won’t just compile this year).

In general, I think it’s fair enough to say that Swift hasn’t matured yet. It’s not so stable, and tooling isn’t great. Large projects might suffer from that. ObjC on the other hand is rock solid, but lacks some of the more modern language features of Swift.

Personally, I’m all for Swift, because it’s the future. Tooling issues and stability can (will?) change. Turning ObjC into a modern, next generation language just isn’t something that seems feasible.

Aside from that, Swift is a really neat language - tooling aside, I find that Swift is (mostly) a great language to write in, with features that I’d sorely miss going back to ObjC. That’s purely opinion though, I’m sure there’s others that might say the same from an ObjC standpoint.
That seems like a narrow definition of "pragmatic". Are they choosing Swift out of experience, or from lack of it? If they are junior engineers, how much experience have they had in building, and then iterating and maintaining apps with a significant userbase?
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Compile times, while aggravating, have dick to do with time to market. Time to find and fix bugs dominates time to compile, and the language that produces far fewer bugs (Swift) is the time to market and low cost champ.
No, it's just that they left off the most disruptive part (for pr reasons). And that is that the people sitting in the seat are merely there temporarily until the software gets to a point that no human intervention is needed. And most likely, even before that happens, drivers will be replaced with a remote driver from a central office whenever a problem occurs that the ai can't solve.
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sierra games were definitely the best back then, king's quest, space quest, police quest, quest for glory, and leisure suit larry were the ones i played a lot, interesting and humorous, definitely on the same wavelength back then, i would spend hours exploring these worlds and marveling at the different ways i could have fun. i remember playing these games on my 286 compaq computer, 4 MB ram, would have to spend 5-10 minutes installing from 5-6 3.5 inch floppies, the nostalgia! can't imagine what the remake versions look like, but i can relate to what the author's saying, i'm sure there's some emulator where you can play the 16 bit versions somewhere. the first time i played leisure suit larry 2, the first thing to do is to check out these binoculars, you look in and see some woman undressing with some huge knockers, then the shades go down or a pelican blocks your view. the music was corny as hell, but so fitting, saxophone, electronic keyboard, really bad lounge music from 70's porn. i also vaguely remember shaving some piece of green wood into some phallic like symbol which some babe wanted, but once giving it to her, she goes off somewhere with the toy on her own and larry gets nothing.

this was all before nintendo and the consoles took over, man, i wonder how much money they made, such innovation back then.
The real point that I think this article misses is framework development. Swift still has not achieved ABI compatibility. If you are using an iOS device, very likely framework code I have written in the past few years is running inside one of the many apps you have installed.

This is simply not feasible to do unless you are willing to open source your code base. I have been shipping closed source binary frameworks written in Objective-C for seven years. None of the companies I work for are willing to maintain binary releases for each version of Swift AND Xcode. It's simply too much.

I'd love to use Swift, but at this point it would only be a maintenance nightmare for my team and I to maintain.
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Here's something from the point of view of a Swift engineer who had multiple conversations with experienced Objective-C developers.

1st. Don't look at it from the language perspective. Look at it from the point of view of the platform and dozens of SDKs that comes with it. It's lot easier to use those SDKs in an environment you are already comfortable with.

2nd. There's no financial incentive for an existing app to be ported to Swift or train experienced developers to this new language. In my manager's own words, "...you have to give me a business justification to port our app to Swift..."

3rd. I'm afraid to say that incredibly high inertia about learning and embracing a new language, and letting go of your stronghold.

Swift is an amazing language, and it's quite easy for you to switch between Swift and other C-style language e.g. ECMAScript. Objective-C has somewhat obfuscating syntax that makes it intimidating for beginners.
Qt can be used commercially under the terms of the LGPL at no cost.

When used appropriately (i.e. dynamic linking to unmodified Qt, or, offering source for a modified dynamically-linked Qt), the commercial company is not forced to open source anything.

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Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417019
Several orders of magnitude.
Well, people who are pissed off should know that Chrome and Chromium have been doing the same thing for a decade.

This doesn't diminish what Mozilla is doing, but at least you should yell at Google too.
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I pay for FastMail for this very reason. When I transferred off my Google Apps email account, I set up a unique ___@ for every website. If my email ever leaks, I'll know who leaked it (or sold it).
I love how they disingenuously imply that their end game is to have tons of self driving cars with a highly trained (and presumably highly paid) driver sitting in the driver's seat.

In reality, those drivers are there temporarily until the tech is good enough to phase them out (obviously). My guess is that the cars will be ready for full driverless before "driverless with backup driver" becomes big enough for anyone to notice.
And all that overhead money is going to 3 things: increasing healthcare costs for the burgeoning retiree population of staff, increasing the number of administrators subservient to the king (I mean, provost), and new construction. The political class sees these additional jobs from the last two as the core justificatiin for the government increasing student loans for students and overhead for grants. They don't comprehend the science or frankly give a shit about it. Maybe when they get cancer they'll have a vague sense of interest in their organ system of choice, but that's about it.
wow, that is amazing

I'm actually surprised that to this day, learning reading, writing and math has not been very incentivized/gamified.
I'd like to hold Mozilla to a higher standard. Sigh.
I hate this advice so much, even if it's true that it works.

How many people actually have any sort of knowledge of (or access to) such measurements? If you're in sales or management, great, but the bulk of the workforce, especially those who desperately need their next resume to land them a half-decent job fast, are not in such positions.

Even as a developer, I've had exactly one gig where I had access to quantifiable results. Customer X was losing $Y per week, and when I provided a solution plugging problem Z... well, that's that. Some customers and employers are rather cagey about leaking finance data. Even if they were wide open about my impact, I'd have to stick around a few extra years to see the result.
Another important question: Did they use a unique salt per password? Their announcement is ambiguous.
The clicking sound on button presses has been fixed in the latest build, and the Flutter team is working on accessibility. But I agree that a Flutter app will always have some deficiencies compared to a native app.

However, the question is whether a Flutter app will be Good Enough when the alternative is writing two separate apps. I would argue that even in the current alpha stage it's getting pretty close to Good Enough - the Hamilton app was written in Flutter and gets 4.7 stars on Google Play [1] so users aren't too bothered that double-tap doesn't select text.

Java Swing was slow, bloated and looked far less like a native app than Flutter. And in 2003 Windows had a 95% market share, so there was no major benefit to writing a cross-platform desktop application. Things may be different this time.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hamilton.a...
> Plenty of FOSS is well funded

For example?
Just for some balance, the Hong Kong Agreement (which is absent from the article) is really important in this timeline - in Feb 2016, an agreement was reached with miners and signed by a few Core devs (however, possibly under duress?) to work on Segwit _and_ a safe hard fork.

The NYA happening with a few CEOs "behind closed doors", was pretty much a result of the year and a half of no progress on the safe hard fork part. Also remember the miners aren't really a fan of cheap transactions, which eats into their profits, and does fundamentally alter their ROI.

Segwit2X was originally sold as a compromise. Activate SegWit for the future since it requires software updates as you noted for the additional transaction formats, and schedule a 2X HF to help the network grow immediately.

> The big-blocker anti-segwit movement stalled work for years, politicized the Bitcoin space, and contributed to making many of the core devs be the target of harassment

I agree sadly, but unfortunately it was the same story on the reverse side. Look at the ridicule and scorn Mike Hearn and Gavin got for their big block proposals in 2015.
JMercouris,

Thanks for this, you made my day!! I was always curious of what could be done using EQL.

Do you have binaries compiled for Windows​? What would your recommendation be for building under windows? Just regular ECL configured for working with EQL? plus GCC tools?

Keep the light of Common Lisp shining like a beacon of hope and joy for the devoted hackers!
Well, first of all, I wouldn't call it "tracking". They're going to be aggregating the data and specifically promise to not create profiles on individual users.

Secondly, I wouldn't necessarily call it "third-party" either, since Mozilla owns parts of the Cliqz GmbH, so will at least know what's going on inside the company and can easily pull the plug, if Cliqz should actually start to store user data.

Generally speaking, though, Cliqz is a content recommendation engine, trying to compete with web search engines, so sort of hoping to take a bit of world domination (and money) out of Google's hands.

The actual recommendations will be generated locally without sending data to Cliqz, but they do need a data set that tells them what users are usually looking for based on the browsing history that they have.
Same here. Trust is hard to earn but easy to loose.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417019
WRT device fingerprinting: I am not an app developer but I recall reading a recent comment here on HN that Apple now provides a built-in way to do fingerprinting but that, IIRC, it is to be able to track multiple installations of the same application on a single device.

I certainly agree that we shouldn't simply blindly trust Uber if they say they haven't misused this privilege (due to their previous behavior). I certainly would not be surprised to learn, at some future date, that they were, in fact, abusing this entitlement.
I assume you're being downvoted because you seem to have misread the author's statement and created a strawman argument. He posited that the financial system's algorithm's purpose is to answer, "what should we do?". You seem to have interpreted that as saying that the financial system should answer that problem for society as a whole.
Same here. Not a person was logged in. Did the same a few years back. Same thing, not a person logged in.
I am always puzzled when a company reports a breach and says "X account details were compromised, and Y passwords were obtained..." when Y is a smaller percentage of X.

I would assume that there is always a 1 to 1 relationship of user account details to passwords, or that the passwords are stored within the user table in the DB, so at best, X=Y at all times?

I can understand if it is a current breach and the DBAs managed to stop a transfer of data mid query, but in a 4 year old database (in this case) where only hackers only have partial data for passwords, but full data for user accounts?