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Within your own self. The first layer of "within" can be easily understood. In between 2 successive thoughts is a state of "no thoughts". Can we like a scientist hypothesize that we are more than the thoughts? To prove or disprove it we need to observe/experience this state of thoughtlessness, initially they are just few milliseconds long but with practice will be seconds and minutes in length.

And remember if we are always observing through the filter of our thoughts then we are changing the thing being observed - just like in quantum physics "act of observing affected what is observed".
> That might come across as controversial

Every time I read opinions like this, it's mostly by people not using Ethereum.

> For safely storing Ethereum I would advise to keep it out of smart contracts, period

This is what I don't understand. Why would anyone use these things?
Considering scientific statistics, which says there are 0.5 to 25 bugs per KLoC in delivered software, we are really lucky that stuff still work... :D
I mean, for a currency replacement that will solve all the worlds problems; it sure seems to be a lot of news about large thefts and issues leaving people unable to spend their money..
Does anybody know if they plan on releasing the lecture videos? I couldn't find them on the site and this looks very interesting.
As long as it loads from the original source (washingtonpost.com not google.com/.../washingtonpost) I actually like AMP. It loads faster for everyone.
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I agree, totally. I used to wonder why I'd find reviews that feel like they are trying to "sell" me something instead of providing an honest review. It's extremely frustrating and seems to be more and more of an issue (thinking back to the HN thread a month ago - The war to sell you a mattress).

This is an interesting series on fake reviews: http://www.sitesell.com/blog/2017/07/fake-reviews.html

The company became interested in the topic because a competitor was training their affiliates to write fake reviews of the company's product as a bait-and-switch tactic. (They later did a study with methodology that showed their product does a 33X better job at enabling individuals to create high-traffic sites.)

Some of the worst niches, I’ve noticed, are those that have the potential to prey on people due to the nature of needs - health, make money online, pain relief, weight loss. If you can find a fair review when searching on product reviews, it’s pure luck.

I imagine that Google’s AI component of the algorithm should eventually be able to recognize and penalize reviews that actually do the customer a disservice. Until then, some of the suggestions in this thread are excellent.

Hope you find the link useful.
(still) OT: now you two have made me curious about your story...
Considering we have laws prohibiting the sale of surveillance technology to states suspected of human rights violations, as well as the sale of goods intended for misuse according to our own ethical standards (think medicines used in lethal injection executions) it would be quite asinine to look the other way claiming that fulfilling that particular research purpose exhausts all further uses.

Particularly if it’s potentially used against us, citizens.
It is not 9GB/week. The 9 GB is the tx data plus the state at every block. You don't need the copy of the state at every block. The latest state is perfectly sufficient. More indepth explanation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6zcoja/10_gb_in_2...
I was referring to the general public, as (mis)informed by the media. But also the general attitude the public tends to have about whether or not people in important positions are competent.
Given the latest situations with LV and TX, we dont.

But thats not the fucking point and youre literally be intellectually disengenious to yourself for not even being willing to think about the ripple-effect of implications to self driving cars.

So my questions are "ridiculous" -- I posted about the health-safety implications about elf drivin cars as well, care to share your perception on that?

So a person is taking a self drivin car service and decides that without human supervision its OK to shoot-up and ODs in the car? What do?

A person gets in WAY too drunk and passes out to the point there is no way they can et out, even assuming the car gets them safely to their destination, what do?

A person has a stroke or seizure or dies in transit, what do?

These are valid questions, so if you have them all solved, then please share?

BTW - my beef is with SELF driving cars... ELF driving cars are both cute and give off the right vibe....
I wasn't aware of these, but with anecdotes like these then it makes perfect sense to have available remote human overrides! I don't mean to insinuate that maps is perfect, just that the number of times the cars will find themselves in this specific situation is probably minimal.
You make an excellent, if cynical, point.
Banks get hacked all the time
Heres a list (not exactly comprehensive but has some interesting ones)

https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services
CC0 is another one.
Does this move the bugs from the implementation language to the language of the verification spec? Or is there a way to express some generic requirements such as "don't strand assets"?
There has to be an element of cool and fun. These are artists, they want to be where the cool people are . . . and that's not Amazon.
Miniature Mecanum wheels[1][2] might be interesting for this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmiu1wpp_E
That is cool. Good for you. I don't want to steal anything from Intel. I just want a way to opt out of ME and its siblings.

You seem like a troll or a bittered person.
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Depends on how good friends the affected users are with key players in the Ethereum community...
We just leave all our doors open!
Maybe I worded that incorrectly. What I mean is that you would be fine giving a kid a brushed quadcopter without worrying that they're going to filet themselves (for the most part. Yeah they could cut themselves but the damage would be order of magnitude less than with a brushless). Giving a brushless quadcopter to a kid without any instruction would be totally irresponsible. They're still toys yeah but can be pretty dangerous if you're careless.
You probably don't even need to reverse anything. Just learn how other (open source) toolchains work, read N64 manuals and information from other reverse engineers, and work incrementally. It's probably not necessary to reverse this proprietary ROM you're stuck with.
I'm sure it was a calculated decision rather than incompetence. She would have been burned at the stake long ago if she did anything not entirely above board.
When you switch to something different, you see that a bunch of your problems and annoyances simply went away. You may not see yet the new problems and annoyances that you acquired. You're in the honeymoon phase.

With time, you will see the problems with the new language/tool/environment. Is it better than what you had before? Maybe, maybe not. But you are not in a position to accurately evaluate it while you're in the honeymoon phase.
I'm sure there would be pretty significant concerns about government surveillance were the USPS to be recording every street every day.
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>They are all elected officials so therefore directly accountable. Seems like the system is working just fine here.

Did you actually read the LA Times article? Be honest. This post really makes it sound like you did not.
So now, in addition to everything, there will come a day when a person is stranded some-place as the driverless car couldnt exactly find them

Ahh, if you think this is a new problem, you're too young to remember the fun of calling a cab by pay phone to some obscure address, then alternating between going inside and calling the dispatcher and then running out to the street to try to flag down the cab.

At least with a driverless car I can pinpoint my location on a map when I call it.

Person winds up being in an unsafe environment and needs immediate assistance.

Existing car-share (and cab) drivers are also willing to drop you off in an unsafe environment if that's where you told him you want to go. While sometimes they'll stick around to make sure you make it to your door (if you're female), that's by no means guaranteed.
Contracts in the real world are written with the understanding that they rest on the shoulders of millions of pages of legislature and legal precedents.

For the most part, they work just fine.
Seem awfully weird to me to have marketing teams and people working on cad designs when the basic concept hasn't even been proven in 6 prototypes.

at least the VR application of the concept of motorized shoes hasn't been proven.

I guess this is just a "stepping stone" if you'll pardon the expression, toward a general purpose motorized shoe. So if this VR aspect is just a side trip on their grand scheme, maybe it makes more sense to have such a team in place working on what they are.
> So now we have driverless cars effectively classified as emergency ambulances

That's quite a huge leap you made there. Care to back up and explain how a drunk person calling an uber magically turns the uber into an emergency ambulance?
Blizzard reminds me a lot of Google. Massively successful tech company with gobs of money that found success early and has been enjoying it ever since. They can afford, and have the inclination to, give tremendous attention to detail and it shows in their products on a variety of levels.

That said it leads to this weird level of apathy in some parts of their business. They have tremendously talented engineers who do mind blowing work on features they are visibly passionate about. At the same time core business features that are more "boilerplate" tend to receive less effort which leaves to a lot of gripe from their incredibly passionate fanbase.
This sounds no different to the startup ‘dream’ lots of people in the Bay Area have sold themselves on.
Many times people don't have the "star power" to meet the threshold for the Streisand effect inflect.
Agreed. Unfortunately, it's a lot more difficult to get access to NCAA data. Most of the good APIs you have to pay for, which reduces the number of projects people will create.
But then the question becomes: can you (sanely) gracefully downgrade on those small screens (hopefully without making an entire early 00s separate "mobile" site)?
Pretty much. This is why some languages offer the ability to define an arbitrary quote end token.
I should have known the basketball-gm guy was on HN! Awesome work dude.
If you have root you can write a MobileSubstrate hook that calls UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO in a hooked constructor of UIView (then call super.)
I think what guy is actually experiencing strong feeling of nostalgia for older times. And I understand that. I see it on myself more and more with coming years too. We were simply born in some era, which holds strong memories in us. We hold sentiment to old things (programs), because somehow they're connected with best memories from time we were much younger. And the best memories are usually bounded to age around 20 - 30. Ask senior to tell you a story from his time and there is high probability that the story will be from their younger times, than from older ones.

My point is, that maybe todays software is not all that bad. We just don't feel the same needs as 20 year old guy somewhere at Google who programmed it. And it also works apposite way too. Show 20 year guy Visicalc, what he will think about it. Or check teens reactions to Windows 95.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucCxtgN6sc
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"- Work with builders to remove all regulations that prevent building."

This would end disastrously. "All those earthquake safety regulations, those are really preventing me from building." "Those environmental regulations, the ones that stop me from polluting everywhere, those are really preventing me from building."

"- declare certain areas as innovation building zones: Remove all building regulations and let start ups build whatever residential areas in any way they can. Let innovation blossom without hamstringing it with countless regulations."

See above. Most of those regulations were put into place for a reason. Also, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Oakland_warehouse_fire
Natural disasters rely exclusively on word-of-mouth advertising. Political campaigns? not so much.
Until you get half way down the page and everything is missing.
Tell HN: Election day and still working
I moved back to an area close where I grew up, it is a very 'right' area. I knew this and I am often an outsider in my thoughts, what I learned today was that all of my peers have 'off' on election day to vote. I am stuck working almost the entire day.

does anyone know of a way to begin pushing for having off on election day in order to make voting easier?
Banks have government backstops and other provisions in place to ensure that a hack doesn't result in customer loss of funds. No equivalent here
I think you might be missing all of the tech people who love sports, but know you don't like them so they don't talk about them with you.

I am a software developer, and my work has a large community of sports fans. However, we keep our sports talk to some special slack channels for sports, because we know there are a number of people who really don't care for sports at all. So, you might be surrounded by geeky sports fans that you don't even know are there!

As for why I love sports, there are many reasons. I am a geeky sports fan; I love sports stats and analytics. Baseball is perfect for this, but other sports have their stats, too.

I love how sports are very logical; there are clear, well defined rules that everyone knows. There are specific and finite objectives, and there is never any uncertainty about what success is. I love the strategy involved at trying to figure out, within those confines of the rules, how to achieve that victory.

I also love playing sports; I don't generally like exercise (e.g. running, lifting weights, or other only-for-exercise activities). I do love playing sports, though, because my activity has a purpose (trying to win). I love competing, and that is in sports, video games, board games, etc.
Except Oracle lawyers wouldn't like Java being literally used as part of the name, though I hate to say this.

That's why javaslang was renamed to Vavr: https://github.com/vavr-io/vavr
Optional catch binding[0], which is at stage 3, seems like a bad idea[1] and has been pointed out as such[2]

[0] http://2ality.com/2017/08/optional-catch-binding.html

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?EmptyCatchClause

[2] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-optional-catch-binding/issu...
You are aware that amazon is literally running .gov datacenter infra for exactly what I was talking about?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
Being coy about what they will pay is not going to have the desired effect of attracting bug hunters - it's kind of like Dr. Strangelove: "The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost...if you keep it a secret!"
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I swear over-engineering is the cancer of all modern software and systems. It's become my #1 complaint about almost all modern software and systems.
Tesla seems to be the company with an appetite for risk in this area.
Javascript after ES6. I don't think we'll see ES7 etc - so I name them ES6++.
Price is failing, good time to buy. /irony
> some customers reporting that shirts bought five to 10 years ago are still holding up better than those purchased this year.

This isn't just a Threadless problem. All T-shirts now seem to be made out of this thin stretchy garbage material--good if you are an Italian model, bad if you are a normal 40 year old.

I'd kill for a supplier that actually still uses nice solid cotton material that drapes rather than stretches.
When people blamed Ethereum for being the cause of the DAO, the devs said it's not Ethereum's fault but the ones who wrote the DAO, which is technically true, which is why I'm making this point. It's not about technology, it's about responsibility.

Also, a while ago some guy complained about how he lost his money using myetherwallet, and the problem was NOT because of myetherwallet but a library they used. So the guy from myetherwallet told reddit that it's not their fault, which is again technically true, but again fits into what I'm talking about.

Dependency spreads out responsibility, which works out fine for traditional finance because everything is reversible, but not in this new economy.
Nope, that’s a copy-paste from last year’s spec: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...
The American Dream is a middle class lifestyle. Post-World War II America saw a vibrant middle class. Post 9-11/Great Recession America has replaced its vibrant middle class with the ‘gig economy’
Invisibility is minimalism is simplicity is easy is good.
They've historically played it very safe so it feels like a bold announcement coming from them.

We don't know whether they have more advanced tech; there is too much opacity in this space. The best proxy we may have are the California disengagement reports[1] from last year and Waymo were doing better than anyone, by a WIDE margin.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen...
what rights are you worried about? commcerial vehicles operate on our highways all the time. corporations are also tax payers in the US
Indeed. What most people refer to as USB-C is a combo of three, highly optional(!), specs.

The first is the C plug spec.

The second is the USB 3.1 protocol and cable spec.

The third is the USB power delivery spec.

All of these can be mixed and matched as the OEM sees fit.
Still a working draft, but great to see all the potential updates
The main problem is population growth. Even if housing is built specifically for poorer and lower income individuals, middle class families looking for hosuing will inevitable trickle in causing demand and prices to rise naturally. Once again poor individuals will be on the street. The same cycle keeps occurring in cities across America. Properties designed for the poor end up getting bought by middle and upper class individuals, seen this in Washington D.C. and New york firsthand.
A few months ago as a newcomer to Ethereum, I looked into Solidity and concluded that due to the poor design of the language, large-scale problems like this would be inevitable. I decided not to invest in ETH. In my opinion, smart contracts are a good idea, but smart contracts written in Solidity are a bad idea.
That’s ECMAScript 2017.
Unicode strikes again!
Unless you have some amazing new information, one country and one campaign is about as bold as it seems reasonable to be.
Logitech Unifying products (which also work at ~2.4GHz) have been affected by this for a long time too.

http://support.logitech.com/en_my/article/38032?product=a0qi...
This statement is a platitude.
A: "Kim Jong-un is bad".
B: "If you haven't discovered issues with your government then you haven't lived there long enough".
Cook is Bill Gates, not Ballmer. He's a genius level CEO who compromises on design and user experience while advancing the company in the right direction - well enough and fast enough that he crushes the competition.
Let's say the core business is to put customer designs on various products and sell them in a marketplace. So like Etsy, but instead of the artists making everything, the artist makes the design and the marketplace business produces it.

Becoming the number 1 player in that market could be profitable if said company could implement innovations that are difficult to replicate by others. But it's not the type of business where a network effect is going to shut out competitors. Customers will go to where they can get the best balance of price, quality, ease of use, and speed.

Spending a lot of VC funding selling dollar bills for 50 cents is not the only strategy, and it risks running out of money before getting to the promised land.

Running a profitable business doesn't mean you can't come to be the best in a market segment either. Profit can be reinvested in the business, and decisions can be made based on what makes sense for a sustainable business.
Did you read the article? It was a publicity stunt by the tourism board to get Google over there to map their islands. Additionally, the OpenStreetCam domain is owned by TeleNav.
They're trying to pull the wool over your eyes.
And do you think that VC doesn't have any Saudi money or money from another dictator?
I don't think it's as clear cut as that. You'll have iOS devices and a few Windows Phones too. Plus on Android it's pretty common (albeit mostly among power users) to install custom browsers like mobile ports of Firefox. Then you have other devices like games consoles. Things get pretty fragmented pretty quickly once you start investigating the "other devices" rabbit hole.

However that all said, when it comes to product support, I've found product owners generally only care about Blink (Chrome / whatever) on Android and Safari on iOS. So there's usually little interest in all the other random browser + platform combinations seen in "other devices".
This is one of those common sense things that just hasn't been done yet. No good reason why.

Email your congressman.
Tech and Congress did themselves no favors in hearings
For the politician being bribed, the relevant calculus isn't the size of the service done for the briber - it's their perceived risk of discovery and punishment, which is already low enough before taking into account the human tendency to undervalue low-probability risks.
So ISIS execution videos don't cause harm, but child porn does? I mean, I think it seems clear that they both cause harm in pretty much the same ways (they give an audience to horrific acts and can encourage the acts themselves).
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We do not have an adversarial press in the US anymore. There is virtually no investigative journalism from major outlets that threatens the status quo at all.

BTW TFA caused my laptop to heat up with all the ads.
We've even managed to slow down things like Excel 97. I played with a 486 laptop recently, and was completely amazed at how fast things like Word felt (once they'd loaded off the ancient hard disk).

The most immediately notable part was the typing, which felt completely instantaneous. I haven't found out exactly why, but the switch from serial to USB keyboard interfaces (and the lag therein) as well as the various windowing pipeline "improvements" over the years seem to be in the mix.
im 42, so no not too young - and I appreciate your point.

I feel that people are latching onto their opinions about driverless car tech and not talking about the wider implications. That is the point, I am poorly, making, apparently....

I just think that not all the questions have been asked about what it means to be a "driverless car" and that we need to run through all the risks -- and thats the one thing I find really lacking in any of these conversations at all.
Seems like everyone is using the comments to throw shade on Disney, but I'd like to praise the LA Times for publishing good reporting under pressure not to.

Despite not technically being an independent paper (Are there any anymore?) I have long admired the LA Times as one of, if not the only, US paper left that does what seems like independent journalism and is not afraid to call out stories everyone else is ignoring.
You're creating a secret token. Both the administrator and the browser should be made aware of this. The administrator, so that they don't send it to the user via an unsecure method (Tweet it publicly), the browser so that it shows warnings if the site is somehow served without ssl or is compromised.

If it's something like a password, it should be treated like a password. Why shouldn't you use type=password for that?