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You say that as if there's a guarantee that the upstarts will find a way to be profitable once they've spent several years losing money. The barriers to entry are pretty low in the t-shirt business so it's not like there's some golden goose to be captured after millions of dollars of capital are set on fire.
Not to mention that he retired three years ago.
Good summary article: https://blog.springrole.com/parity-multi-sig-wallets-funds-f...
The whole point is that the Econ 101 model is deliberately simplified way beyond reality to be assimilable by people learning the topic for the first time.
Ask HN: Should I move to a ski town?
I am considering moving my family from Seattle to a resort town full time in Colorado. My business requires me to travel 1 - 2 weeks a month but when at home I work only 15-20 hours per week max. For a number of reasons the Seattle area has lost its appeal for my family and without getting in a car we would love to be able to step out the door and hike or ski.

Currently it looks like my business (a medical startup) has a good forecat for at least the next three years and I make a decent salary. Are there any reasons not to move? What are the drawbacks of living in a resort town?
I would think qualifying a claim of such scope as "widely known" would be very much necessary.
Loved the concise explanations of the What. A nice extension of this would be the Why, something I usually struggle to understand. Currying as an example, I'm none the wiser as to why it's a preferable way of composing a function and it's arguments, or when either is applicable.
It’s a lot easier if you cut it out with the types everywhere, and just focus on writing functions that return values. Values! Pass around values, not weird bespoke type instances everywhere. If that’s not OO, too bad. Above all, keep it simple.
It's sad that alcohol abuse is still such a prominent issue in the UK - we see so many people having their stomachs pumped, getting completely paralytic and doing things that they would never do without alcohol fuelling their actions.
You're basically asking for no new cities to arise. A working theory in this discussion is that SF is NYC 50 years ago. Cities arise through concentration of industry, is that something you just not want to see happening?
Someone made a map: http://mochimachine.org/wasteland/
Would creating a contract for that bet be an interesting programming challenge? What would happen to that contract in a hard fork?
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To add fuel to your fire, I've personally been exposed to supporting the DC infrastructure in multiple companies and let me tell you, it's no picnic. The time and money we spent on maintaining the system was outrageous. Getting vendors to come fix their systems or tracking down licenses for software took days and days. Even finding replacement hard drives that were compatible with our 3 year old servers was a giant task that consumed several team resource's for hours at a time.

These are the things that DC/Colo people don't talk about and conveniently forget when it comes to cloud systems. I would gladly give up that "control" for steady and predictable futures.
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In some sense, John Horton Conway (the inventor of Conway's game of life) is also related to them, but we are also all related to one another. I wonder what the relationship between shared kinship structures and last names are.
Their 'fix' is proof of stake, which is unproven, though I think can work technically. Whether it works economically and leads to more or less decentralization remains to be seen.

Either way, bitcoin isn't going to switch to proof of stake, so the headline is still nonsense from any angle.

Edit: I see downvotes but not replies - I'm not sure which part of this is controversial.
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Certainly the elevation of particular economists is largely political. This Yasha Levine piece on the creation of the Nobel Prize in economics is interesting and relates to your point (the short of it is it's not really a Nobel and was created to push a particular set of policies). https://www.alternet.org/economy/there-no-nobel-prize-econom...
And then the A.I. will learn to manage humans in subtle ways (like filtering Facebook feed to achieve certain benchmark) and voila!

No need for SkyNet and terminators. ML to build better ML schemes to better control humans - that's a fun apocalypse to watch.
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NYC of the 70s-90s was considerably different from today: much less safe, bankrupt, gritty, dirty...while you might have seen and smelled some trash, it's not at all like it used to be.

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/1980s-new-york
AMD?
Fair point, standards aren't immune to breaking changes, it's just a lot rarer, smaller in scope and with a much longer time frame to upgrade.
Adding insult to injury, Intel has something called "High Assurance Platform" (HAP) which allows to disable the ME. Available only to three-letter agencies, of course; what would the world come to if us plebs were allowed to do anything like that?
I couldn't find the blog post itself but I found a Guardian article on it https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/17/san-franc...
And it works great. I know very few software companies that will go anywhere near the thing. Good job GPL /s
Grew up in Berkeley and Oakland, lived in SF for years.. It has always been like that.. Thats where the crazies congregate. You get used to it. Im 32 and I have no other memory of SF being all that different from what it is now.. Homeless camps, crack zombies, poo streets..
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I'm much the same way, but you should try f1calendar.com for session timing.
I just got a G702ZC - basically a desktop Ryzen in a somewhat portable package.

The keyboard is crap. It has a dedicated key for a 'Look! This is my current system load. You can even connect a mobile to see it on your phone!' ROG key where a numlock would be. It doesn't have a End key, which infuriates me. There's a power button in the top right of the keyboard which I WILL press in the future. It's just a failure about to happen. The keyboard is utterly flawed.

Well.. I at least have a Ryzen 7 with 8 cores, right? Yeaaaaah... Right now the braindead EFI interface (you can switch between 'ez' (sic) and advanced mode) doesn't seem to expose a method to enable AMD-v. So ... Yeah. I have 8(16) cores to .. I don't know. Watch YouTube I guess.

AMD and Asus really dropped the ball here. The keyboard is unacceptable. The AMD-v issue is .. low. So fucking low.

Don't buy this laptop?
In Clojure = is the deep equality op. (= 1 1) is true.
This happens with every language, especially when maintaining 10 year old projects. Even a 10 year old project written by middle-of-the-bell-curve programmers in Haskell would be inducing the same amount of ire. "Who writes types this way?" "Did they even think about refactoring the existing types when bolting this other crap on?"

It's the maintenance that's driving this guy nuts, not the language itself. Haskel just happens to be his side project, which will, of course, look cleaner. I felt the exact same way when moving from Perl to Python.
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Now that I think about it, it isn't such a bad idea after all. You're basically moving transient welfare programs from municipal to state concerns. It would be really nice if the government of California could set something up.
That's just garbage day though.
So what exactly was done to the drone and how?
As far as i understood the article lists a few methods which could be used to mod the drone but not what he really did and how.

Or am I just bad at fast reading a webpage?
Here's a quote from the conclusion of the whitepaper in which Nakamoto laid out Bitcoin:

They vote with their CPU power, expressing their acceptance of
valid blocks by working on extending them and rejecting invalid blocks by refusing to work on
them. Any needed rules and incentives can be enforced with this consensus mechanism.

This is Bitcoin's consensus mechanism and it's called Nakamoto consensus.

In turn, this means that 'Bitcoin' is whatever chain has the most cumulative work done to secure it.

Nothing is 'contentious' about this. It either has the most cumulative PoW, or it doesn't.

If the minority chain has some value it might survive. If it does, that's fine. You'll have coins on both chains and you can choose to care or not.
AFAIK hardforks are hard to detect by a contract, the contracts don't know anything outside the chain, if you split the chain, you can't tell there is another.

Of course I've briefly entertained the idea but on the other hand, a bet between two mostly-honest individuals doesn't need a blockchain contract, similar to how I don't need a blockchain contract to borrow money from my sister and pay it back later.

In any case, if there would be a hardfork, it would include the replay protection, so a simple but working solution would be to prepare a transaction for the fork chain and one for the non-fork chain, the participants can then publish the transactions once either chain becomes available and claim the reward.
I've tried it with a bunch of files of an open source project of mine. It's in coffee script 2 so I've converted it to ES6 first. It has found many minor problems, and a couple of potential bugs. Definitely useful!
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What I'm saying is what I remember back then, the article says it was up to $2,500 but I remember it was more as I myself was considering submitting a design.

$750 cash + $250 gift card is the price in these days.
The areas of Manhattan you'd be likely to visit are very dense and there are generally no back alleys so, even with the system working as intended, there can be a lot of trash that ends up on the sidewalk waiting to be collected. Yes, in the summer especially, Manhattan gets hot and smelly. There's a reason that a "house in the Hamptons" is something of a meme for wealthy New Yorkers.

When I lived in Manhattan one summer, during a time when the city was "rougher around the edges" than today, I was definitely ready to get out of town on a number of weekends.
Because the 16 bit executables are closed source. :/ The special linker MILD.exe that organizes all of the RSP(Reality Signal Processor) microcodes and game data is the piece that needs to be reverse-engineered which is possible but currently beyond me. :)
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> the demographic which has not seen progress since 1991 or so is predominately white

I think "demographic" is the key - how much deviation is in that group?

Does a poor white care that "on average" his demographic is doing well, because of all the rich whites? Who decides how to carve up society?
But does turning a blind eye help them escape any better than a few dollars and some camaraderie?
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It's probably safe to assume that the title of "most expensive software bug in history" will be held by a cryptocurrency glitch within the next couple years. It's nearing the couple-hundred-million mark of things like Knight Capital or Ariane 5's Flight 501.
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I've long had a desire to get "Prince With a Thousand Enemies" tattooed from elbow to elbow across upper back. Also have had various online handles based on that phrase over the last 20 years.
Ditto, this is the same thing I did for a 16,000+ line app.

I used eslint ( https://eslint.org ) and prettier ( https://prettier.io ), and using airbnb's JavaScript Style Guide as a reference point ( https://github.com/airbnb/javascript ), I would enable rules one by one. Then slowly rule by rule (commit by commit) I would clean up the code base.
It uses depth to map your face in 3d instead of using basic face detection or iris scan. So it's more flexible than iris scan (you don't have to align to the phone cameras) and can't be fooled by a picture like face detection.
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The freedom to deny freedom to others is not freedom. Society at large, particularly in the US, is having trouble with this notion.
Most people who are new to cryptocurrency try to "fix" Bitcoin at least once. After a while some come to realize that Bitcoin's proof-of-work algorithm is actually a feature and not a bug.
Like mentioned in another comment, the ME runs on a separate CPU.

What might be of concern to real-time workloads are SMM interrupts, which AFAIU run on the main CPU and trap into the firmware. The NERF project might help here too, in that they are looking to either disable SMM or direct them to the Linux kernel.
Yeah, I don't think these people worked on code that targeted IE6-8. Horrible times.
interesting tool
If I have my USB external drive plugged into the port next to the little USB dongle for my wireless logitech mouse, the mouse doesn't work properly. I have to shift one of the USB connectors to the other side of the laptop.
Firehose works for any scale, small or large.
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I don't think it's beyond you, I just think you lack confidence. You can do it! I've been in your shoes before and it worked out.
> But at the end he admits that he's the one who picked that license.

He's talking about publishing code. The BSD license explicitly requires including the license somewhere (anywhere, really).
This article is not FUD and crap. The source of the numbers quoted is here:

https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit...

I know Ron Minnich. He is one of the founders of the coreboot project. He's been at this (replacing proprietary firmware with a free software alternative) for a very long time and he knows what he is talking about.
It depends I think on a few things; one, finance. I think he's making plenty of money with his books and his career at the university, so I don't think that's a problem for him. Two, morals. If Minix was used in e.g. ballistic missiles (which it might just be) I'm sure he'd have objections - even if there's nothing he could legally do about it due to the license, as acknowledged in this letter too.
Solidity is, I think, the fourth high-level language created for Ethereum. This is not a problem that it is going to be fixed with just yet another language: if Ethereum is going to live up to the expectations for it, it will require formal verification at a scale never before done, both in terms of the languages and other tools needed, and in terms of the skills needed to produce verified contract code.
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>2) Arguing that something that looks like a reasonably competitive market is not a reasonably competitive market is an extreme claim. Low-wage labour might not be a competitive market, but the evidence bar for showing that is still high.

Why do you believe it looks like a reasonably competitive market? Tons of studies have been done on minimum wage effects and the conclusions are at least indecisive. If this is a reasonably competitive market why is it so hard to definitively show that? It's not like it's hard to prove competitive markets - anyone can do a study where you take say gas stations, lower the price per gallon at one and watch them pull more customers.

>the evidence bar for showing that is still high.

Surely the evidence bar is just as high to show that it is a competitive market? This is another problem I have with Econ 101 - the idea that the default state of a market you don't understand is competitive is a political idea, not an economic one.

>1) The economy is everyone's business, especially when governments get involved. It is better for us all if things are discussed publicly, politely and with all views available (albeit, potentially rebutted).

Sure, I also live in the world and exist in a physical system so it's also my business which interpretation of quantum physics is correct. But I recognize that my existence in a system and my understanding of it are separate so I don't walk around lauding the Copenhagen interpretation (or walk into any other dispute in physics) because I read a few pop-sci articles on it. I feel the same way here. The challenge for scientifically minded laymen in the 21st century is that you can't "know everything." I believe that's also true for economics and a humbling here would serve everyone well.

If you walked into an econ forum and found a thread about programming and it was filled with stuff about how functions are bad, no one needs version control and a bunch of quantum computing gobbledygook, you'd probably try to correct them. And when you discovered that they held these beliefs not because they didn't know anything about programming (although they didn't) but because these beliefs somehow validated their existing political view of the world and thus they couldn't be talked out of it you might throw your hands up. My previous comment could (rightfully) be interpreted as me throwing my hands up.

>But the politics of minimum wages don't look like they are being imposed on the basis of a straightfoward economic case. They are being set first by politicians, justified second by some economists.

Is that not exactly what is going on in this thread? A bunch of people with a fundamentally political disagreement about the minimum wage desperately hunting for economic validation of their belief? In this thread we are all the politicians in your example, stumbling into subjects we know nothing about and finding post hoc rationalizations for what we already "know."
If a different cryptocurrency can make Proof Of Stake work _and_ persude BitCoin miners that switching to Proof Of Stake is better for them than not, then Bitcoin might switch.

But those are both pretty high hurdles to clear.
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It's a terrible feature.
I dunno... my experience has been nearly the opposite. Lately HN seems dominated by pro big-government / tax-and-spend types who want State involvement in, and regulation of, pretty much everything.

FWIW, when I had the audacity to say "Taxation is Theft" in one thread on that topic, my comment was quickly down-voted into oblivion. So don't think HN is some bastion of libertarianism. Maybe at some time in the past, but not now.
In a sense, if the growing power requirements for cryptocurrency mining box out players who can't afford the compute and the energy, wouldn't that give all the power to the monied players anyway?
Yup. And that feature is why we need to get rid of it.

Bitcoin asks you to pay a humongous upkeep for a trusted system. I am not convinced the benefits of such a system outweigh the energy waste it requires.
Legally, they're supposed to, but hopefully they never do, at least not successfully.
Typescript’s type system is completely structural and unsound. It is very different from C#’s, fitting JavaScript well but not a better more powerful C# by far.
Has anyone managed to add automated/wireless charging to an inexpensive drone? It looks like there are a few commercial solutions out there, but nothing for less than $500.
1) My server runs nginx on debian squeezy, even using the newer packages for nginx from upstream, they are built against OpenSSL 1.0.1t matching the system version which does not support APNL. So while I have HTTP/2 enabled, neither Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome can negotiate to even know the protocol is available for use.

2) HTTP2 forces TLS encryption and compression and several other things making it a PITA to debug as one has to first extract the session keys, then decrypt and decompress the data before one gets something readable. What's more wireshark does not yet have the same level of support for piecing together HTTP/2 as it does HTTP 1.1. And even after all that the data is still a binary format.
I was a subscriber of Threadless for 2 years in a row.
Every month, a new shirt landed in my mailbox.

It was a nice monthly surprise. A cool design for the most part, though, fabric quality varied from one shirt to another.
Some of the shirt's fabric was so thin, it did not hold much after few washes.

At some point, I canceled it.

You want to surprise me, no problem, I'll join the game, just make sure you play it fair.
The reality was that before Microsoft unilaterally added the XMLHttpRequest object in the late 90s, there was not much you could do with JavaScript even if you wanted to do something. Couple that with the fact that js engines were slow, front-end (DOM) APIs were severely limited, and most people connected to the 'net' through telephone landlines on slow PCs (by modern standards) meant that it made far more sense to do purely server-side page rendering.
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Schnorr signatures, Mast and even block size increase is a part of their future plans. Lightning network has been tested on the testnet and alpha version has already been released.

They even had to delay their release of 0.15.1 for this hard fork.
> I'm sure everyone remembers the Justin Keller blog post.

Never heard of it. Is it https://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-g... ?
The modern conception of economic competition is disturbing.
Slave to the regime? Really? Is that what you get from using twitter, facebook and lyft? Its a Saudi conservative paradise?
Where $1.5M for a 1BR apartment (albeit 1600 sq feet) is a deal. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/301-Mission-St-APT-906-Sa...

For us non SV types, it's crazy.
Dynamically-typed languages on the server also tend to work well because they are often just a thin glue layer between a strict data layer (like Postgres) and the client.

Following a GET request through a web server usually just involves some middleware, a dozen lines of route handler, a dozen lines of database queries or service calls, maybe an html template, and you're done.
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Well, we'd reintroduce massive tax loopholes that allow for real tax rates to be less than they currently are - that's how we'd get back to that, because that's what we had then. We'd also cut payroll taxes back to 3% and have them apply to the first 30,000 instead of over 6% and applying to the first 106k of income.

We'd also raise taxes on the poorest quintile - you know, the people that currently don't pay any, and repeal medicare taxes.

That'd pretty much get us back to post ww2 taxes.
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> It's like the city is turning into Manhattan

Manhattan hasn't had widespread problems on this level for decades. SF, on the other hand, has had feces on the sidewalk level problems for decades.
Tanenbaum has clearly been updating and editing his later added note; I saw an earlier version that didn't include the parts in parentheses and a few other parts.
At this point it's basically EVE Online with real money.
> In that case why didn't they remotely disable Snowden's laptop when he went on the run?

There are several possible answers to that question:

1) "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you."

2) Because the risk of getting this backdoor known would not be worth the cost.

3) Because Snowden's laptop was used with airgap.

4) Because at that point, the cat was already out of the bag (the journalists had the data on SDs).
Instead of criticizing the language used why don’t you create the same style of informative website for whatever language you want? It would be pretty neat to have the same website with the option to select what language to see the examples.