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Hi, it's Trent here, the CTO of blockchain.

> I know. I think if I read "scalable" and "blockchain" in the same sentence again I'll scream.
I acknowledge the hype out there.

FYI we were working on blockchain in 2013; long before the hype. We started encountering massive scale problems in 2014 and working on it in 2015, long before the "scale + blockchain" hype. We started work on this. So we're not doing this because it's some fancy combo of buzzwords, we're doing it because we identified a problem years ago, and have been making steady progress to improve it ever since. It was a surprise to me to see BigchainDB to hit HN front page today, since we've been shipping it since Feb 2016!

> Once bitcoin can handle Visa's transaction volume (250M transactions/day) we can talk scale.
We're not trying to improve Bitcoin. We're building our own thing. As we continue to improve the technology, it becomes useful to ever-wider classes of users.

Re CockroachDB: it's a cool technology. The big difference is that it's distributed but not decentralized. That is, the compute resources (in this case mainly storage) are spread across many machines; but the control is in the hands of a single entity / sysadmin. Whereas decentralized means the the control is spread across many sysadmins; and even a few rogue sysadmins won't take down the system.
I have read it. Several times.
Does anyone know a HN web interface (like hckrnews.com) that prettifies such quirks on the comment page for mobile phones?
Half? That's a bit of a broad generalisation. I doubt 90% of voters have an informed opinion on the matter worthy of critiquing their position. Nor is indifference from voters equal to active denial.

People love to extrapolate every position of Trumps and apply it to half the country, and usually well beyond that to all 'conservatives' globally'.
To one day be able to retire from it.
What about cheap energy that is known to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm? Are they a direct threat to your standard of living? Because, you know, a lot of politicians against climate policies are aligned with these energy sources.
I don't really know, as I haven't looked into it much. But my vim config is in git and shared between Linux and Mac laptops. On Linux (2013 Thinkpad) I can't really detect much lag at all, but on the Mac (2015 MBPro) it's really quite annoying - to the point it subjectively seems about as "slow" as Atom. Interactive things like scrolling are especially annoying - non interactive things seem ok though.

I'm no Vim or Mac OS poweruser though - I've just kinda put up with or avoided it. Sorry I couldn't really offer much beyond confirmation :)
And they have: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/21/us/3-are-sentenced-to-15-y...

It just makes it harder to catch who did it.
They are welcome to negotiate salary. They aren't welcome to private information that isn't theirs such as the company budget.
Hacker News is a place for rational discussion, even between people who disagree. Not snark and hostility.
> Did projects in language de jour (i.e. Java) and hated it

Because there is one thing Go isn't is "le language du jour" (ou du mois) ??? Come on.

Personally, I'd still be betting on Java which has really become better and simpler to work with/deploy compared to 10 years ago, it's especially true for web apps, and has the largest ecosystem of all languages. Go is nice, but has a poor ecosystem for enterprise integration, its type system is the reason why it will never replace languages such as Java.
Really helpful, I would add on-chain and off-chain.
Sorry, I thought the analogy was clear, but evidently it wasn't :) "Tesla can remain irrational longer than the investors can continue to bet against it". More of a flippant remark than anything.
#\ is the weird syntax for character objects in Guile, so #\1 is the character "1". This expression reads a single character from userns-file and checks if it is the character "1".
Also why are issues past an arbitrarily-drawn "medical" line the only ones we can treat via medication?

No one thinks working out should be illegal. So why should doing the same thing via other means be illegal?

Maybe it's the lingering Protestant-work-ethic-laced morality of the U.S., but we seem to be disproportionately likely to exaggerate the dangers of anything that seems like a drug, relative to things that don't seem like drugs (even when they clearly are -- i.e., alcohol).
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I design platform-agnostic software, construct software, help people write software better and more effective. It is very thrilling for me to build high performance, maintainable, and scalable software. I've worked on high traffic systems with $1B+ monthly revenue and maintaining it at very high uptime.

Time wise, my experiences include 5+ years software development and leading a team in various platform. My experience fields include Fleet Management software, geography mapping, remote device tracking, credit card payment, SEA payment, commerce (promotion, discount, voucher).

I have experience with various programming languages, such as C, Java, and Ruby, but i code mainly in Ruby and Java. In fact, i am a fast learner and i can grasp new concept in short time. By platform-agnostic, it also mean I can learn current codebase rather quick.

In my spare time, i love to leverage developer communities by sharing some insights. I was speaking in latest Ruby Conference in Jakarta about one of important parts about software stability: understanding and preventing race condition. The conf was here http://ruby.id/conf

Going anywhere is fine for me. I need visa sponsor to work outside.
Well, considering $1 spent on a US election by a foreign power is illegal the comparative ad buys of the campaigns themselves aren't relevant. Also, the 0.1MM estimate from Facebook is a severe underestimate. Twitter id'ed ~20x that.
> They have views that are a direct threat to my comfort and standard of living. Cheap energy should always be a priority.

I'm seriously wondering if you're being sarcastic here.
Indeed, and yet Apple has issued guidance for their highest quarter ever next quarter, and says that pre-orders so far are exceeding expectations. I'm guessing they aren't likely to be wrong on that score.
Leading by example, the author's site makes no external connections of any sort.
Python has optional typing support in the standard library since version 3.5. Granted, not type _checking_, but that is offloaded to external tools like mypy[0].

I feel that gradual typing offers the best of both worlds: rapid prototyping, but also the strictness of types where you need it.

0: http://mypy-lang.org/
Probably the UX and that it's a one-stop-shop for supporting lots of creators in many fields.
I thought that, unlike apps, drivers needed a Microsoft signature, not just any root CA's signature? Was that not the case?
"was needed in the days of Windows XP for a signed driver, is no longer needed" doesn't sound particularly overt, or malicious.
Me personally? I'm no economic policy expert but they do exist. Some kind of carbon tax/credit, and cap and trade, seem to be popular recommendations among economists. The first step is to have the political will to make it happen. Admittedly, going by the last 30 years of denial and propaganda, it doesn't like we're ever going to achieve it. The denialists have won, I believe humanity is doomed. Our grandkids will curse our names.
And,or: they hire the people most likely to feel unfairly paid, and it’s when we feel we are unfairly paid we are more motivated to negotiate higher salaries, and the more a company’s employees ask for higher salaries the more likely they are paid higher. And if the root cause of the feeling of being unfairly paid isn’t the absolute amount of money being received, then the higher salaries won’t reduce the feeling.
Trying a site with a simple HTML schedule: https://www.pineapple.uk.com/studio/index/filter/ didn't work. I'd love it to be able to do this and would pay a small per-API-call fee.
Docker for Windows/macOS run containers inside of a Linux VM, so nothing changes there. There's also Windows Server Containers which are what they sound like.
$269 billion in tax avoidance.
I think async/await is much higher level abstraction than a "fiber", so you can probably implement async/await on top of fibers.
And I'm happy to see someone from Iowa posting here. If someone from a different minority group posted here I would be happy as well. There are many ways to be diverse.
iPhone release vs without. See what Q1 is like.
I'm not quite in your friend's boat, but I don't worry at all about Climate Change. I buy that the Earth is warming and that it's likely human-driven. But I'm not convinced addressing it is worth radically regulating global industry.

Why?

Al Gore lives in a 10,000 square foot mansion that uses more energy in a month than the average American home uses in a year. I have no problem with this. It does make me believe that the catastrophic case he makes in his movies may be overblown. It makes it easy for skeptics or "deniers" to dismiss activism around this issue as moral posturing rather than an urgent, evidence-based call to action.

Why?

I believe Elon Musk, or someone of his ilk, is more likely to solve the problem with a tech breakthrough, than a treaty drawn up in Brussels.

Why?

If GW is the existential threat many make it out to be, why is nuclear energy given so little consideration? I understand the risk of meltdown and the solid waste management issues, but those seem like manageable risks in comparison with the scary unknowability that global warming brings.

Why?

Data seems to show the negative effects of global warming are arriving more slowly than expected. It seems like we'll have the ability to slowly adjust to changes that come, rather than imposing radical sanctions on us today. This may turn out to be a mistaken assumption, but it is what it is.
Assuming you want this done automatically, what's the advantage of 'printing' multiple tabs to PDF in a headless browser, over just sequentially loading and printing the pages you want done?
You can't 'protect' democracy by dismissing the electorate as mindless idiots.

Either you take the position adults can make up their own minds or you dismantle democracy and media as voters are easily influenced and cannot be trusted. There is no literate argument to be found here.

This paranoia is now reaching hysteria, lies are repeated without any sort of evidence as fact and all sorts of dubious agendas are being played out under pretense. No one talking about this will admit they are personally influenced but are happy to patronize everyone else.
Same experience. This company likes to ghost.
Yep, me as well, I wish I could activate that globally for all people I follow at the same time. Retweets are the worse in terms of useless signaling. They also added a filter filtering tweets containing words. What I would like is the opposite, for user U, filter all tweets that do not contain word X,Y,Z so people stay on topic. I'd also like to see a record of the tweet that made me follow user U.

There is quite A LOT of that these platforms can do if really want to make the experience better and stop the flow of information that is completely irrelevant to the user.
The thing that I like about Discovery (even though I'm preferring "The Orville, at the moment) is that it feels like a lead-in to the Trek that I know and love. Obviously, something had to happen to take people from where we are now to where TNG was. We didn't just instantly switch as a species from being war-hungry and emotional to being hand-in-hand with all these other species. It's refreshing to me to think that we discovered extra-terrestrial life (and maybe they discovered us) first and then became a unified species and I'm enjoying seeing this first hand.

That being said, I do not trust Scott Buck, the show runner, at all. He's taken these great concepts that had really strong beginnings and muddled them up and ruined them too many times for me to be happy with what we have. Case in point, the latest episode. It was absolutely great to me and felt Trek-y and funny and smart while feeling modern and real. They gave a good nod to a TOS character again while respecting him and making me prefer this iteration of him. There was some thoughtfulness to the writing, the acting was pretty great, and I could tell that they were trying to lead people to look at things from a different perspective which is very Trek to me. But then it all went sideways at the very end when the bad guy's comeuppance turns into nothing more than an annoyance and, for some reason, the Federation allows a criminal to (SPOILER ALERT) leave without any kind of repercussion or punishment for trying to hijack the Federation's premiere starship and, although the situation washes it away, kill several of its chief officers and crew members. It's backwards.

I'm still going to keep watching and enjoying but the inconsistency is really hard for me to get over. I don't mind if they're slightly inconsistent from series to series but we're only 7 episodes in and they're already being inconsistent with not only the universe they're playing in but also their own universe that they've set up.
The headline is inaccurate. While the design of the bridge leaves a lot to be desired (in the eyes of laymen), the real issue is an incredible dereliction of duty by 7th Fleet and the USN in general in terms of training and staffing.
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True, but in the context of the parent post, "average sale price hasn't changed much", then if we assume the following:

unit price remains stable, unit sales have increased 10%, unit revenue has increased 25%, then profit has absolutely increased (and as you say, only due to a decrease in costs).
Buffet is now a poor example; Berkshire Hathaway has many structural advantages that no individual investor, and almost no institutional investors can exploit.

There are many articles on this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2014/11/19/why-you-...
I felt a strong urge to downvote you to not give this idea any spotlight. (I didn’t though.)

If this ever happens I will disable WebGL, and if this won’t be possible anymore (corporate interests…), I will invent a web competitor where participants are legally bound to my terms. Terms that will forbid ads, spying and spamming. Misbehaving users will experience increasingly long cool downs for misconducts, which can end in quasi bans (cool downs longer than their life). … One can dream.
Combined with the recent attacks on SpaceX, could this be part of a direct attack on Elon Musk?

The latter seems to be at the forefront of disrupting the old-boys network of both the rocketry and automobile industries.
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Based on the history of artificial intelligence, I am less optimistic about the long term prospects of any silver bullet technology, and that's how neural networks and related systems are currently positioned. Ultimately, rule based systems are rule based systems, our inability to articulate the explicit rules should not be mistaken for their absence. Ten or one hundred or a thousand rule based classifiers voting is more of the same, not something different. The black box still has the same inputs and the same outputs no matter how many times the handle of the Pumping Lemma is raised and lowered.
Dude, I saw what appeared to be keyed names and tags on Raphael's wall paintings there. I couldn't believe my eyes.
What does this business entail?
Great, the pages and sections are numbered, so it's easy to refer to the parts of it that support your theory. Or alternatively, you can direct us to whatever conflicting sources of information you believe are more reliable than the official accident report.
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Mmm. I think the brewery test is an unfair comparison. Our problem is not that the major CAs are hopeless. If they were hopeless we'd have abandoned PKIX years ago. Instead the problem is that they're good but not as good as we'd like.

We are looking for somebody who can run aforesaid event fifty times a year for the general public without anybody falling in any of the machinery. In hindsight drunk people in an industrial workplace was a mistake, and so we can and should demand they do their best to make it safe, but perfection just isn't to be expected.
When George W Bush won the election it was all the fault of Fox News and right wing radio.

Now that HRC lost the fault now lies allegedly with social media and evil foreigners.

It's like people blaming comic books, TV, rock music and video games for what they see as the failings of youth.

Acknowledging that the Democrats chose poor candidates in Gore and Clinton and that winning three Presidential terms in a row is hard is apparently harder than blaming people for voting the 'wrong' way on some new media development.
In a way, it is.

But I don't understand the connection.

The core of the issue is the proverbial "worse is better"

All the walled garden on the web are optimising one particular feature - engagement - leaving behind many others that are equally important if not more, like user's freedom or privacy.

It's no wonder that investing so much money in getting users to subscribe and use the platform results in an increase of time spent by the users on the platform.

It is orthogonal to the problem highlighted in the original post.

The net effect is so strong that any other platform that tries to enter the market either has to waste a lot of money (if they have them) or use the same techniques that are already in place to sustain their businness

The choice is on the users, but for the majority of them it's not worth it until it's too late.
> > Amazing that someone would design in multiple steering wheels, only one of which is active, and no big indicator to make it super-obvious which one it is.

> Decent odds you've flown on an airplane with a similar UX for primary flight controls.

Ah, well Airbus does a few things. 1.) A "dual input" warning is issued if there is an attempt at using both controls simultaneously. 2.) There are lights to indicate when your sidestick is active and when it is not.
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It's not only about health risks. Standing near smokers is disgusting and soils your clothes with their smell, specially when they are smoking.
It’s impossible to not work hard
Never have I heard the expression "dog whistle" more than in the last two years, always regarding politics, and always from liberals chastising conservatives. It's like their "in group" slang.
Nam shubs.
My biggest barrier to staying healthy isn't motivation or willpower, it's time. A lot of us waste a lot of time sitting in offices when more hours there don't make us more effective or productive at what we do. Give me some of that time back to go on 2-3 hour bike rides every day, and I suspect I'd be happier, and find some way to be more productive.
The problem with this reasoning, and political funding generally, is that it demands near immediate results. That isn't going to happen.

The problem of global warming will eventually work itself out economically. Industry has been evolving towards a carbon neutral solution since the 1850s.

The large carbon footprint exists because people started consuming and requiring energy faster than energy related technologies were evolving, but this has started to change in recent years. This said people will start off-loading their energy demands onto cheaper more sustainable technologies as they become available, which in time will increase the expense of fossil fuels as an energy source, comparatively speaking.

Even if the problem of energy consumption induced global warming is solved the next consideration is how long it will take for the implications of global warming to be resolved in the effects upon climate.
I'm curious and I can't work out how to phrase this as a Google search, so I'm hoping someone smarter than me can answer this:

At the moment we refer to BTC as being worth $xUSD, but without another currency to compare it to, is it worth anything? Or is it just not designed to be used in isolation?
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> One of the things we keep forgetting as we move forward is that client-control > server-control.

I'm not sure if we're forgetting it, as an industry we seem hell bent on removing user control. SaaS, cloud hosting, software walled gardens, invasive automatic updates, hidden software in hardware, etc. We're losing more and more control all the time. Around here it's nearly heresy to suggest the companies run their own servers.
What's enticing about cigarettes?
When I say "scaring them" I mean "explaining the high risk well". My words were imprecise, but are not at odds with your suggestion, except that I don't explain the potential benefits and strong future. That's for them to find out, I just want to make sure they understand the risks because it doesn't seem well shared at this point.
Hi, it's Trent here, CTO of BigchainDB.

That's a great question. It's surprising how few people are aware of the current German data protection laws (where we're based) and the upcoming EU data protection laws aka GDPR.

There are a few ways to address the issue:

1. Don't store any PII on the database, rather only use it to link to data that's stored on-premise in many places. The database has permissioning, and therefore acts as (decentralized) access control logic. Have a TOS with proper legal teeth so that if a database user does store PII on the database, they are liable in the real world.

2. Run an instance of BigchainDB within a region, e.g. within Germany, and comply with the appropriate laws there. Let PII be on the database. But, each node must follow data protection guidelines, similar to how a single centralized entity would, but now do it for each node.

3. Force encryption of all PII, and pray.

(3) is really a non-option. I stated it because many people are saying "just encrypt". But the problem is quantum computing. In 5-15 years quantum computing will be sufficiently easy to access that any encrypted data that's publicly available can be decrypted. You might say "well let's migrate to quantum-tolerant crypto before then" but that doesn't stop a malicious actor from copying encrypted PII now. You might say "let's use quantum tolerant crypto now" but we've seen with most crypto algorithms that it takes years to harden them. Would you trust your PII with untested crypto algorithms? I wouldn't. In short: putting encrypted PII on public nets is a bad idea. Please, please don't do it.
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You have to type in a number. So if you are going to type in 1000, it would probably more likely be a successful attack if you actually forged the check so it looked like it said 1000, so again not seeing how an adversarial example is helpful here.
The JSON comparison seems a bit disenginous considering Maria has JSON specific functions but just not a JSON type

Edit: nevermind, I was skimming and read that totally wrong, they're pretty explicit about that
Losing only 50% of the data after a million years doesn't sound that bad. The bigger problem is keeping knowledge that the data is there and how to get it to survive even a tenth of that length.
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> My biggest barrier to staying healthy isn't motivation or willpower, it's time.

To be fair, if you had more willpower, you'd be more willing to exercise in what limited time you do have. So it's fundamentally a willpower limitation.