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> ...they can raise fees to participate in a network?

The only times they have done that, AFAIU, is when they wanted to pump altcoins (such as Ethereum when there was a lot of uncertainty over bitcoin scaling and community seeing segwit not adopted; or such as BCash when the UASF was coming). Everytime they've done this, they have had to spend a lot of money to do it. We will never know if it payed off, but right now fees are really low.

> Look at the Chinese government able to shut down exchanges to prevent people from exchanging bitcoin for yuan.

Sorry, what does this have to do with blockchain?

> Do you really think five mining pools can't be easy targets for freezing someone's account? Come on.

Not all mining pools are in the same country, so it's not so easy to do that unless you're the NWO. And even if you managed to make the main 5 mining pools censor your transaction, from time to time there are smaller mining pools that mine some block, so if you put a high-enough fee for them, you would eventually move your money.

> Just because you call it a lie and downvote me doesn't make it so. Use substantive argument

I only called any sentence from you as a lie when you were not providing arguments, just FUD. As for me, I tried to back my arguments with reasons all the time. Also I cannot downvote comments that I reply to, so it's not me downvoting you actually.

> Now, as far as diversifying your holdings into many accounts and currencies

I never mentioned "many currencies", and I never mentioned "many accounts". With HD wallets, you have many addresses which all belong to the same account.

> and it's not easy to keep many anonymous identities totally separate btw.

Wrong, please study HD wallets, they are a thing, and it's usage is automatic and not complex.

> They can make the fees really high so as to make small transactions infeasible.

Fortunately, we have Layer2 to save us. Fees will be much lower thanks to that.

> Now, you want to be really permissionless? Use credit-money, like Ripple or Trustlines.network .

I knew all your FUD had some motivation behind it :) Go pump your altcoins elsewhere. Ripple is premined by the banks so using it is like letting the same fiat-money players be the kings of the game again.
Or if the revenue is under a given value. "Small businesses" shouldn't have to deal with that kind of regulation. I would say number of employees under a certain number, but that's kind of the point, right?

I still think a simple progressive tax is better overall (no loopholes or additional taxes). If you can make mad cash efficiently, great, as long as you can't put on an "oil company" hat and avoid paying taxes on those profits.
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i mean... maybe they got so good at marketing that they have succeeded in incepting the concept of "decently built frames for non hipsters" in your mind to be the stuff they produce?

thats kinda sorta the whole point of marketing a branded commodity product...
Lack of gravity also means there will never be a permanent presence in space. Making a big station and spinning it is the only way anyone is going to survive in space for more than a few years.

I guess if the costs of sending something into space comes down this will become an option, then they just have to solve radiation shielding and everyone will be happy.

Of course no tests have been actually done so both are assumptions..
I place a piece of Velcro on the back of my phone, and have Mount points around my kitchen
Unless of course he had a medical emergency, which this sounded pretty close to.
India/Bangalore is in a situation which is somewhat similar. Here are some photos of how polluted lakes look like.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bengaluru-lake-frot...

https://www.ndtv.com/karnataka-news/bengalurus-bellandur-lak...
>profitability per retail square foot is one of the highest

are these numbers public? source?
I did some back of the envelope calculations on Boeing in 2015. The spent about $86,000 per employee on buybacks and dividends. Just a year after strong arming the union out of their pension out of a supposed desperate need to compete with airbus. I really doubt airbus has lower employee overhead than Boeing.
It is definitely faster. The ripgrep author did extremely extensive benchmarking to a lot of tools. For the most common usecase check out this section, but the rest of the article is very much worth a read as well: http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#subtitles-literal
There's also distortions that can mess up our evaluations of the world. We've got some majorly flawed equipment, but it still seems to work just enough so enough of us can reproduce.
Yup, Satoshi totally didn't create a protocol where the cops can already figure that stuff out themselves without any outside help...
A while back I looked into building my own hardware two factor key. I wanted to experiment with the technology. I've since backed off the idea due to several serious challenges with designing secure hardware for this purpose.

* By necessity there's a pretty large attack surface, you've likely got a vendor specific bluetooth stack and coprocessor. The same goes for wired solutions with hardware USB peripherals (though atleast significantly less complex). Being sure the hardware peripheral doesn't have any major memory safety issues is a complete bear to test, and that's not even touching on sidechannel analysis.

* Running public key crypto on microcontroller (excluding specific hardware crypto support) is a little more novel than a desktop machine, the leading libraries are no where near as extensively battle tested. And there's architectural concerns about sidechannel attacks and often the lack of any memory protection units (bigger chips solve these issues, but power budget concerns are tricky).

* And given all software has bugs, how do you update the firmware? Signed firmware patches as part of driver update? Who's to say somebody hasn't already owned your bootloader.

I think the solution to all this, is to abandon the idea of additional hardware, what if your smartphone could act as a two factor hardware token over Bluetooth? The big problem is pairing really, and how to make this an easy process for users, I never figured that out. On the other hand I did come up with a scheme that would allow usb based hardware tokens to work without additional drivers / software and on all current major operating systems and browsers. I really ought to work on it, but as above I don't trust embedded hardware (embedded hardware is such an antithesis to, move fast and break things).
That made my day...
Investing in long term profitability is another option as well. It could go into R&D or acquisitions.
Me neither; I use Rails all the time. But that doesn't mean Rails and React are made for each other.
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I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". I have included links to all of the financials that I could find in my essay, and I have repeatedly asked for more transparency regarding how the money has been spent.

Just to take one example, Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation executive director from 2007 to 2014, received $100,000 pay rise and was secretly kept on as a "special advisor" after we were all told that she stepped down in 2014. This was kept secret for years, until it turned up buried in a required financial disclosure.

I also would like a breakdown of where the money has gone and realistic projections of futures expenses. What you see is my best effort to provide that. If anyone has more information, I will be glad to add it to my essay.
Tech companies are embarrassing themselves with how they handle fake news
Humanity isn't unfree because of there's too much work to do, but because too much wealth is going to those who already have it. Automation, as we employ it, will seal the deal and remove most people along with the need (from the perspective of exploitation) for them. It will transform police states into what will be like solid steel to cotton candy.

Also, leave this rock? It's the lushest place we know so far, by far, in a universe filled with millions of rocks. If we can't make it here, we can't make it anywhere else.

Not that AI has anything to do with that, or anything we do with AI. But the chorus of non-sequiturs will keep on rising, and as the emperor, now dancing seductive-esque, drops the last item of clothing, the buzzword singularity will have arrived. A way to murder billions and call it the lesser of two evils, carefully framed, will be found, too.
I love the premise of Wavemaker: Write your CRUD app visually, and add your sprinkles of business logic with Java or Javascript. It's a shame it's closed source and incredibly expensive ($250/mo in the cheapest tier).
Impressive stuff. They have basically forked their entire backend stack, starting from the OS and moving upwards. I am particularly interested in how much AliOS deviates from mainline Linux.
YC commenters are brutal. Not a single positive comment, so far. That feels a little unnecessarily mean, given that it's a free software project.
I have this book as well. As a more seasoned systems engineer, I think it covers a lot of the groundwork needed for people newer to the distributed disciplines.
How'd your scheme work? I suspect HN wants to know ;) A lot of hardware just acts as HID keyboard, but that only works one direction unless you use a side channel like visual (QR code like TOTP and/or camera like the Bloomberg unit).

I think the Bloomberg auth units are some of the most advanced examples of this - they're protected against almost any imaginable physical attack, too (freezing memory state, power sidechannels, xray/delidding to dump mask ROM, etc.) But they have a lot of money to spend on it...
I second this recommendation. The JINS experience (at least in Japan) is amazingly convenient, pleasant, and affordable. I sometimes drop in to pick up an extra copy or two of a pair that I like, and get my current pair tuned up. They'll keep your lenses in their system so you can drop into any store. Thirty or so minutes in and out, and exemplary customer service. What more can anyone ask for?
I did bother to read the 7 paragraphs.

My question is basically that - OSS existed for decades; why only now in big finance?

That their clients wanted such a trading platform... is that the reason you are saying was plainly stated?
So the maybe 10% of people who fetishize artisanry will still create demand for service jobs. But this is an edge case.
> There’s no way I’d deploy it to production.

I've seen this stated by a few people, but never justified. What are some reasons for not deploying PyTorch in production?
I setup webpack myself on larger apps. There’s a lot of configuration options that you can’t change in CRA without ejecting. Changing how modules are loaded, changing options for css loading or svgs, for example. I prefer to start my own instead of ejecting, because I don’t need everything it comes with and prefer to know every module inside my app, and not include extra things CRA comes with. Adding new loaders, changing Babel presets, there’s so much you can’t change and these things matter in large apps.
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U2F should work with your Yubikeys, irrespective of your slot 1/2 configurations. U2F does not depend on slot provisioning. Unlike your slot/gpg keys, U2F authenticators are unique to each individual hardware component and cannot be replicated between Yubikeys.
Sometimes you get paid more than once.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004273/Woman-design...
Okay but that might be a little simplistic, because automation can also complement manual labor and create more demand for it.

The example that comes to mind is about ATMs and bank teller jobs: when ATMs were introduced it actually increased the number of teller jobs because branch offices became cheaper and banks opened more of them.

Discussed in:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/05/james_bessen_on.htm...
Until self check-out becomes faster and less obnoxious than having a skilled cashier do the job faster I don't think we need to worry at a large scale. We aren't going to be talking to robot waiters any time soon. If Carl's Jr. puts a glorified soda machine as my fast food interface I'll go to McDonald's where I can give my order in 10 seconds instead of fumbling with a machine for 2 minutes.
My understanding is that the cost of the FPGA implementation is about the cost of modifying the tooling that produces a Mill family member from a spec to produce Verilog as described in the 'Specification' talk https://millcomputing.com/docs/specification/
Just started using it out of frustration with XCode stability, works really well. I too have been using a few of the Jetbrains products through the years.
I still have a hard time hearing people complain about environmental regulations, when articles like this post say things like "The river caught fire a number of times". When your river is catching fire, surely that's a sign that perhaps some controls should be put in place?
I also placed these Mount points in my car in the shower, and my bedroom
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". I have recently had extensive private correspondence with several current and former Wikimedia foundation software developers. The developers are not living lavishly. They are doing about as well financially as developers in other industries. In addition, the developers are not doing a poor job. Every problem with the software that the WMF has released was caused by bad management decisions, mostly by managers who no longer work there.
Broadly based on abusing USB ethernet and browser origin policies. Relies on the fact browsers are used to treating the network layer as a hostile environment.
What a misleading title, instead ...

DB is releasing a small program for interop into the public domain to encourage others to use it too.
Even if so, the point of blinding is that it's not the brand per se, but the actual design. And unless they have intellectual property defending the design, there should be nothing keeping a competitor from copying it.
>in a similar vein, what could use somebody's web skills is a ICO fraud site that looks as impressive and overengineered as ICO marketing sites (case in point: IOTA https://iota.org/. not commenting on the merits of the project, just the site). although these sites probably already exist.

That site is insane, I wonder how many people don't even make it past the home page because of loading times or some fancy feature breaks. I loathe websites removing basic functionality like scroll bars.
I'm honestly wondering when will we have the whole coreutils rewritten in Rust.
Not saying things weren't much worse then, but a clever photographer could still find such shots in most cities today.
I'm bullish on food robots in general, but I have to say that as a fan of caesar salad, the output of that robot fails to impress. It looks exactly like what it is - a bunch of ingredients randomly dropped in a bowl. The lettuce hasn't even been tossed with the dressing!

I wouldn't pay for that, and IMO this robot has a long way to go before I'd agree it can make a "mean" salad.
and is so flat that it doesn't offer any directional hinting at all.

These featureless, "wide expanse of pure white" UIs are one of the things that most irritates me about "modern" software today. They give the impression of being unfinished and opaque.
It didn't "utterly destroy" the quotation. It's pretty easy to argue the virtues of cannibalism, it's just that for modern day society they do not trump the downsides.

For example, cannibalism has successfully prevented death by starvation (e.g. the Donner Party), and it reduces the need for disposing of the dead. It's an application of reduce-reuse-recycle. Some species of other animals practice it as part of their normal lives (praying mantis as part of mating, lions as a social mechanic).

The very obvious counterpoints are that it's completely counter to modern cultural morality and it's been shown to increase likelihood of transferring brain parasites in humans.

The fact that you didn't even approach the other side and immediately concluded that he "destroyed the quotation" kinda shows that you aren't making the slightest effort to understand opposing viewpoints.
I mean, the entire architecture of Zerocash is completely different, so...
There are a few categories that I think TensorFlow is notably strong in. Namely:

1. Deployment.
2. Coverage of the library / built-in functionality.
3. Device management.

For more details, I wrote a comparison of PyTorch and TensorFlow (mostly from a programmability perspective) a couple months back. Interested readers may find it helpful. https://awni.github.io/pytorch-tensorflow/
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All the local McDonald's here have installed self-ordering kiosks. They're fast and seem very popular. I personally find it significantly easier and faster than waiting in line and talking to an actual human. (And this is coming from someone who hates self-checkout lines at grocery stores.)

> We aren't going to be talking to robot waiters any time soon.

Robot waiters? Probably not. But using our phones to order delivery, self-ordering kiosks, ipads on tables? The future is already here, and it's increasingly automated. (Perhaps not coincidentally, the latest employment numbers show a sharp dip in the employment among food service employees.)
Yeah, robots for food preparation I have seen in Japan are way more impressive than this one. Calling this a robot is an insult to properly designed robots. I would expect the salad to be mixed properly before it delivers the dish, at least.
You could do the transformation before it hits the ui, and for ui specific business logic, call into it from the higher order components that wrap the common components provided by the community.
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer".

No, you are missing the point. I did not imply that Waterfall if better than Agile (I have managed several Agile projects and really like it when it is done correctly). What my point is is that the WMF is failing to do things that Agile requires -- things that have been around so long that Waterfall required them. Nothing about Agile allows you to build software in secret with no input from the people who will be expected to use it and then throw it over the wall.

It would again stress that this is not the fault of the developers. Their management forbids them from talking to the ordinary Wikipedia editors who will use the software.
sudo chown -R user:user /usr, that’s what you effectively suggest. Also convince tool makers to provide ppas.
The other issue is if this middle layer decides to stop supporting older os releases. We cannot force the users of our app to upgrade.
Competitors have mostly focused on alternative or direct-to-consumer distribution. So instead of picking out frames at your optician's office (where everything is Luxottica), you just get your prescription and then either go online or go to a store that direct-sells non-Luxottica.
> We aren't going to be talking to robot waiters any time soon.

Nope, but in Japan in some cheap sushi joints, you can order your sushi on a tablet, and it is delivered to you via an automatic tray which knows exactly your seating location. No need to having "robot waiters" going around.
The HN thread about it had a good discussion between the ag and ripgrep authors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567328
https://www.fastcompany.com/3041334/warby-parker-sees-the-fu...

"...the company is still averaging about $3,000 per square foot of retail space, a figure that’s in the same breath as Tiffany’s estimated $3,043 ... stores are not profit centers as much as marketing collateral, giant advertisements for Warby Parker’s website. “They’re synergistic,” he says, noting that 85% of Warby retail buyers have already browsed online."
Here's another explanation. After companies get to a certain size, they can't deploy capital as efficiently. The low hanging fruit is gone, they have more principal-agent problems, and lots of waste.

The responsible thing to do is give it back to shareholders who can invest it in countries and enterprises that generate a better risk adjusted return. Boards invent the CEOs to do this rather than waste capital.
> What's new?

Nothing new indeed, but when something creates fear you can be sure there's always going to be someone that is going to take advantage of it to enact laws, collect taxes and the like.
That's the kind of idea that lead to Joey Hess's "moreutils".

https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
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He does say that, but if you watch previous talks (either that or the material available) he says the primary difference (IIRC) is that you aren't supposed to segment individual data objects, but rather instead coarse grained address space segmentation, so there's really no technical difference, but it's kind of an usage difference.
I'd bet my lease gets reviewed by an AI before I eat a robot-cooked meal.

Food is variable and dirty and the downside risk of not being clean is pretty bad, even acknowledging that robots will always wash their hands.

Maintenance, risk, and general exposure to meatspace, in every sense, means that knowledge workers will probably be the first to be automated out of a job.
1999.

Dec 1999 is the 1st blog post. => https://www.joelonsoftware.com/1999/12/
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer".

Re: "It's also become a target for parties that want to manipulate it, but has been surprisingly resilient to that" not a penny of the budget deals with parties that want to manipulate Wikipedia. That is dealt with by unpaid volunteers like me. --~~~~
I feel like they took the salad bar and made it more complicated - the only real advantage I see is it might be more sanitary. It's certainly slower if there's a line of people waiting for their food.
Which of those processes will not have a pending SIGTERM/SIGKILL action as their very first thing to do once continued?
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/webh... and https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/refe... have everything you need to make a messenger client, and there's a ton of more functionality you can add.
> What jobs are left as the fall through for kids who decline formal training?

Robot cleaners, maintenance, etc... I highly doubt we will have a fully automated robot loop that takes care of themselves anytime soon, so there's always going to be a need for humans in the chain.
If you are talking about fast food, I would opt for self checkout so that I can place my order in 10 seconds instead of waiting 2 min for a cachier to fumble with the machine. (or miss understand me, or punch it in wrong, or whatever)
Grant it, not all cachiers are terrible but consistency in fast food sells, and machines are consistent.
I build a browser in your browser, so that you can browse the web browsier.

It sounded reasonably nice (beyond the point that Firefox is all this with a few addons), but Electron? Again?
You have to identify a demand for lemonade before you can reasonably invest in more lemonade stand. In a lot of industries the demand just hasn't been there, and in that case it doesn't make sense to increase capacity no matter how much money you're making.
The Yubico and VASCO tokens aren't simply doing RSA on a microcontroller; they're using parts that probably provide hardware RSA.