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It's absolutely easy to do. The fact that it's probabilistic doesn't by default make it hard, and in fact, over long time frames, it's much easier to forecasts (expected) costs and profit for BTC miners than in most businesses (say, e.g., Walmart).

Miners have continuous liabilities in USD and so most only hold Bitcoins as long as as is necessary by the protocol (100 blocks). Further, expected fees are easy to estimate over medium-to-long time frames. I basically disagree with everything you've said here and below.
You are responding to something I didn't write: "over being tricked like this." Adopted children aren't being tricked as they almost always know that they are adopted.
It would be better just to add an ability to flag comments and moderators could take further action. Enhancing downvote ability while it could work in this context it could wreak havoc in heated arguments.
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I had a chance to play with an iPhone X and it was not really a disaster. Swiping up from the bottom worked without any problem. But it is little too big to my taste. You can not really use it with one hand. But this changes person to person.

I am guessing that Apple is investing and working hard on new technologies and tried to fit some of these new things to iPhone X. This is like a transition version to new devices that we may see in the future.

When Steve was the boss, Apple's main priority was iPhone. But this has changed over the years. iPhone became the best phone as intended and now is the time to work on new things. Like all other phone companies, Apple also needs to release a new model every year to keep those money flowing into company. My advise would be that you buy the model that you need, but know that new things will be coming at much faster pace than ever.
I though slack give another service than hipchap

Hipchap =chat
Slack = integration of all other services, dropbox, chat, etc in one place
As the unfortunately named grabcocque pointed out, you’re only really replacing the simple button press with one gesture. Beyond that you’re replacing complex uses of the button with gestures. And most of the complex stuff is non-essential to using the phone.
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I don't understand the fixation with Wikileaks' motive. That seems independent of whether their information is true or false.
I think it's something more like making this better, not necessarily replacing method chaining.

result = exclaim(capitalize(doubleSay("hello")))

and the pipe makes it simpler to read, especially if you're chaining some functions that can take additional arguments

let result = "hello"
|> sayTimes(3)
|> capitalize
|> exclaim
What is it you don't understand about how modern governments operate? They do nothing for the benefit of the people, that is just the marketing hype. It is only about power and the administration of power and coercion. There is no happy friendly national-level government out there protecting its people, it is about brute force control, which includes lying and misdirecting on a daily basis. Think of the absolutely most repugnant alcoholic you have ever known and that's government.

Why some people haven't figured this out is beyond me. My take is that they are mainly attracted to the exercise of force and seek to impose their will upon others while remaining above repercussion and so they overlook the obvious.
I was going to say something about that my self.

I'm thinking it's more like this TED talk about something being remarkable:
https://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_on_sliced_bread
From pictures I've seen in online media [1], it seems they're sleeping on the floor in the foyer, not in suites. Probably works better for surveillance purposes to have them all in one place.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5055923/Arrested-Sau...
> You would also make the master keys expire regularly (maybe daily) so as long as a user updates their phone they will get updated with the new keys to protect against a leaked key.

What would the logistics of this be? Would the government need to store all master keys to be able to decrypt an old message? How would you know you're using the right key to decrypt a message? What happens if all the old keys leak?

What about foreign communications? You can't compel foreign actors to encrypt with your algorithm. What if I'm storing foreign data which is encrypted with illegal algorithms, is that going to be illegal? If so, then goodbye hosting services in the US. If not, how are you going to differentiate between foreign data and local data?

What about the transition period? What do you do with legacy encryption? What about people who haven't received the newly updated government-sanctioned encryption yet? What about old devices that can't run your encryption algorithm, closed systems, etc?

I don't think it's as incredibly simple as you put it.
Around new experiences, I usually allow myself a month or two before I complain. Before that point, I find it really difficult to separate my brain’s resistance to change from truly difficult UX.

The issue with this article is that the author is comparing a familiar UX that they’ve had a decade to understand to a brand new paradigm. I see articles like this around every new product launch, and I don’t really find them constructive.
> a single new edge gesture

There's at least three - swipe up for home; swipe up halfway and hold for task switcher; swipe left for previous app. If you've turned on Reachability, there's also swipe down to activate that.
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I'd argue that any backdoored encryption (which renders the plaintext accessible to the government and to any other entity with access to the backdoor key) is inherently irresponsible. It introduces a single point of failure that will be routinely exposed in the course of ordinary criminal investigations. If US technology companies rely on this encryption to protect their trade secrets, then it's only a matter of time before China finds a way to exfiltrate the backdoor key.
Western men are deeply conditioned to feel sorry for women in all circumstances. Even when that sorry-feeling is not warranted. They would have no problem understanding that a man doing the same thing to a child is a dickhead, but a women doing it, is a victim of bad circumstances.
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would you consider writing up your system somewhere?
Not that fast. Being able to read the data does not mean you can write something different back.
"They attacked the source"? I had to go look for what you were talking about, I guess it's this:

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2016/04/qa...

I don't see Assange attacking any sources in that Q&A. He does criticise (not attack) the way some journalists handled it, saying they put their own spin on things and that there should have been a bulk release. Otherwise, he argues, the impact would be low. That seems like a reasonable opinion to hold.

2. I looked at their IP addresses. They appear to have three datacenters, at least being advertised to me, one in Russia, one in the Netherlands and one in Norway. From a political perspective having servers in a place unfriendly to America, given how many of their leaks are about the US establishment, seems pretty sensible to me. But saying they are "hosted out of Russia" is extremely misleading, a lie of omission.

3. How are they "actively taking sides in political battles"? They leak what they get. If they didn't, leakers would go elsewhere to get their info out, it's not like Wikileaks has a monopoly on leaking. This is just slander and smearing.
There's a very serious risk that some or all of these princes are going to get executed. That's how Saudi Arabia does things. It's unlikely they will all be set free to go back to their old lives, it would pose too great of a risk to the new power structure MbS and the king are trying to put into place. For example it appears they're going to confiscate Al-Waleed bin Talal's assets. There's no chance he's going to be set free after this, to then go overseas and cause havoc for the regime.
I always wondered why TL;DR requests are being consistently down voted. Sometimes this is not a "too long don't CARE to read" but rather "I'm not sure I'm getting what this is about without investing a few hours into it so please kind Sirs and Ladies, can you sum up in a sentence?". Thanks for responding, responders.
That's…a really good single-sentence explanation. Thank you!
No, it does not magically transfer ownership, but for what crime would you be prosecuted? You've already done time for stealing the car.
This article really resonated with me.
Reminds me of the Office 2007 design woes. Now that everyone's used to it, nobody complains any more.
They basically serve the same function, however since many functional languages don't have method chaining they use the pipe operator instead. I honestly don't know why anyone would have a strong preference for one form over the other
The edge gestures for switching apps aren’t new, they’ve been on the iPad for some time. The swipe up to app switch/go home is the only new gesture. Anyway my point stands: the home button was a massively overloaded bit of UI and no serious UX person would defend that.
This is an aspect of the proposed narrative I don't understand.

How on Earth is turning the country into an absolute dictatorship, with the rule of law utterly disregarded, supposed to help Saudi Arabia move forward? The last things I would want to do financially would be to put money into a state where the local dictator has a proven willingness to seize assets on a whim.
We're talking about several different things:

Native promises do not have a "real" cancellation API (no 3rd path besides resolved and rejected) but you can mimic the functionality by rejecting with a dedicated error type, or use another promise as a cancellation token for example.

fetch(), which uses promises as return type, do not support aborting requests, as discussed [here](https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/447) but the [old XMLHttpRequest does](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequ...).

Aborting is specific to HTTP requests, it's stopping the connection to the remote server (so technically impossible to implement with the current APIs as you said). Cancelling a promise is just stopping all onResolved continuations to be called, so it can be implemented in several different ways as I explained above.

The end result if you use a classic cancellation wrapper on a fetch() promise is that the onReject continuations will be called immediately with a specific reason. The HTTP request will continue to the end (no abort), but the response will be ignored.

In the case of the react library I mentioned, both the onResolved and onReject continuations will be ignored if cancelled, it's the subtlety that allows the component to be garbage collected (and probably why the author decided to call that "thrashable" as opposed to "cancellable" to mark the difference).
The metaphorical person on the street can wrap their head around why having a gun in a person's hand gives that person power. Everyone basically knows that the gun control debate is a debate about who has and is allowed to have power.

I'm not sure the metaphorical person on the street even knows encryption exists; if they do, it's only very vague and probably an entirely incorrect understanding of it.

As for people who are for one and not the other, even though I'm personally in favor of both the second amendment and encryption in the hands of people, it's not hard to see a meaningful difference between them that would make it reasonable to have differing opinions. Guns in the hands of the populace is a positive power to do harm, encryption in the hands of the populace is strictly defensive. Criminals can use encryption to defend things we'd rather not have defended, but that is fundamentally a different concern that criminals using guns to attack things we'd rather not have attacked.

I think the only weird case would be being in favor of gun rights but thinking the government should have back door access to encryption, on the part of someone who deeply understands both. That is to say, I'm sure you can find people who believe both those things, but I suspect the latter is mostly an un-thought-out instinctive reaction to generally trust authority figures who seem generally trustworthy to them combined with a lot of ignorance about what encryption is and how it works. Humans have an all-but-instinctual understanding of physical weapons, encryption is basically magic by comparison.
If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

-- James Madison
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Apple has a paid professional QA department. Would amateur volunteers really provide a better service?

The cause of many of these bugs is an aggressive annual release cycle and fixed release deadlines, not necessarily insufficient QA. Making a significant part of the QA function voluntary wouldn't help with meeting tight deadlines or dependability of the QA process.

The general point of expanding QA resources might help, but it's certainly not a given that making that on a voluntary, best effort, when you get round to it basis would help with the timeliness and reliability of releases without sacrificing some of the other goals Apple and their customers holds dear.
I mean, it is a first time that researchers get full access to the Intel ME firmware, so now it is became possible to reverse engineer it.
After I left university, all I had was a (free) 2400bps connection to a modem bank on an X.25 PAD system, accessible to alumni - fortunately PPP existed and I could bring up TCP/IP over the link, at least... I actually feared this would be the only Internet access I would have from then on. Soon after that, commercial dial-up Internet access became more prevalent and I upgraded to the dizzy heights of 14k4bps and beyond!

Another thing from those days that we no longer need is something called a 'midnight line' - British Telecom in the UK offered this; although I never had one I knew of people who did. It was a phone line that was unmetered from 00h00 through to 08h00 or so, which allowed BBS and Usenet users to dial up for free across the country and exchange mail and news feeds. Phone charges at that time were prohibitively expensive, especially nationally, plus local calls were not free in the UK and things like 0800 numbers for POPs were still unheard of.
Because context is everything. It is easy to lead someone to draw the wrong conclusion by only providing part of the picture, when the context would lead one to a very different set of conclusions.
Some of my conspiracy forums are saying supposedly this is part of a corruption sweep agreement that will include America (rumors of sealed indictments), designed to get "deep state" people to start singing.

Not saying its true, but just thought it might add context.

Never forget who created the house of saud in the first place.
Many people will now start to dig in. War is started and I hope somebody will find a way to totally remove/replace(with a stub) Intel ME before some critical vulnerability will be discovered in the Intel ME's network stack.

In white hats we trust :)
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On-demand water heaters are really only feasible if you have natural gas or propane heat in your house. The electric ones are quite feeble and expensive to operate. This is a good idea. My intuition though is that the additional up-front costs of this type of setup would be enough of a barrier that adoption would be slow.
To add, and maybe the others can correct me if I'm wrong:

Intel ME can be controlled remotely if you have an Intel lan card, even if the main cpu is off, but the motherboard is powered on. It goes from there and gets worse is my understanding.
You should realize that every agent on the case or any case of money laundering have total and anabated control of money flow. They are a part of the system. Guys who caught are just stupidest of the bunch.
I had this exact trouble, and though friendly, didn't know how to tell how to make closer friends. I so wanted, but was so awkward and made social errors. I lucked into finding a bunch of accepting geeks in LA and then SF so I could err in their presence and become friends with some of them, gradually. But even then, knowing how to be closer and accepted as friends was hard. At last, one solution presented itself, through a lover. Being able to talk about myself, being vulnerable, sharing myself, allowed other apes to share about themselves too more, and feel closer. I now can make friends better than I used to. And miss all my friends in the Bay!
That makes it the... Fourth corrupt agent in this case? The war on drugs is truly disgusting. Free Ross!
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If it's truly at the cost of the workers, why do the workers put up with it? If it's so easy to go and work for Black Cab in London, wouldn't they just do that instead?

Or perhaps Uber are actually providing a useful source of work to drivers who otherwise wouldn't be working at all?
Interesting.
I'm reminded of how supermarkets supposedly change their layouts to keep people in the store longer, so they might buy more things just because they are forced to look around more.
And why would this translate to something like cryptocurrency?
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we are talking about low quality cheap replacements to native workers, undermining the economy and depressing wages and causing "all sort of rippling effects" on culture\safety.

Seriously doubt the USA is making the acquisition of world level talent any harder.
"I know, let's examine some suspicious code in a highly-privileged process that the user explicitly trusts to keep them safe."

When you think about it, "it seemed like a good idea at the time" can explain most tragedies in human histories.
The vulnerability exists, wether someone reveals it to the public or not. These people found it with Intel keeping the working of the system under wraps as much as possible. You can imagine the kind of access available to people who did get to see the source code.

At least now that everyone can see the problem people can make informed decisions.
> No, it translates to

Occam would say "it's easier to convince crdoconnor with fake news that have a decent republican candidate, let's support the clown"

> The really puzzling part of this whole thing is the number of people

That refuse to accept they have been scammed by russian trolls

You're so cute 'mmmuricans
> Wrong question. It implies energy can only be used exclusively for single purpose.

No. Both computers did hard work, and earned credit toward proof of work in my example. I’m rather repeatedly saying energy can be used for two purposes (securing a ledger with a difficult computation that also means something), and I have no idea how else to explain this.

I’m not sure why your incentive would drop to zero. Say I swap in a universal simulation from the Big Bang instead of SHA2. A miner simulates a portion it chooses, which involves quintillions upon quintillions of gravitational fields. Eventually it simulates a rare event, like two black holes colliding or something. It somehow notates this as proof that it worked on the problem for a while, hashes that proof combined with the transactions, and boop, mined a block. Meanwhile, all along, we have learned science. I could think of other problems that work: SETI@home and the other BOINC apps come to mind, as does LHC analysis. Large search space, demanding algorithm, rare thing to find (SETI/Higgs candidates), and valuable science along the way. Some issues I could see are unpredictable nature of block time, verifiability being expensive, and problem spaces that move forward in time, like my first example. But I don’t see those as insurmountable.

Why would incentive drop to zero to search the space? I’m not following that claim, nor why you’re scare quoting important.
I do not think it’s accurate to call this a “corruption probe.” Surely that’s how Saudi Arabia’s leaders and their allies would like it described. To me, it’s a biased headline.

Keep in mind that the opposing side is being murdered, or detained, without due process.
Usually it's quite literally burned into a ROM chip.
Shoot the messenger in the hope the message doesn't get out. Look at this story. Flagged. Apparently one yesterday too. Lots of people want the "all Russian people and companies are working together to ensure everything I disagree with happens" line to stick, but US intelligence agencies impersonating Russian firms undermines that angle. So it's gotta go.
Someone should do a movie out of this. One of the most amazing histories i have ever heard and it's not over yet.
This could be a movie.
His arrest is too big a show of power by the US government to go wrong. It's not about justice, it's about authority. Doesn't matter what happen, government will have it's way... As long as people let it.
I wonder if our digital delivery services have the bandwidth to handle 8k going mainstream.
>With regard to implicit names (4), I think I actually prefer writing lambdas with my own variable names, and I particularly like Haskell's syntax for it.

Introducing implicit variable names is my most hated "modern" feature. I still explicitly write down the default name.

The only defensible way to implement this is by making "it" a keyword and allowing you to access the outer scopes with a syntax like "outer.it" the same way some languages support "outer.this" or "outer.super" when you want to explicitly access the parent class of a nested class.
- It's more extensible: You can defines functions over standard data types anywhere, you can't define methods for standard data types anywhere,

- It's more flexible on input types: You can deal with sum types without polluting your classes with flags.

- It's more flexible on execution order: You can shortcut things, you can define your operator in a way that it runs some things twice, you can jump over some function (if the typing allows).

- It's more composable: You can intercalate this with other operators.

- It's data: You can input the sequence into a function, rewrite it and execute the new sequence, interpret it and create some documentation, run some offline verification without executing the code, etc.
Couldn't find the size of it, anyone found it?
>dynasm, ... luajit jit

Aren't these the same thing?
Except at some point, if you are an engineer, you need to do actual engineering. I see more interesting stuff in my Twitter feed now than shows up on HN.

This story has 74 comments, none of them actually mention the company that makes the product the story is about ( Ekso Bionics ) Most, including this thread of comments, are completely off topic.
I think there is a deeper question here, and I don't think anyone has the answer:

Are there societies or cultures which are not yet at a stage where democracy is the best government form?

Because this is what it boils down to.
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