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One I never understood why people complained of Gnome changing their UI until 3.26 where they removed support for tray icons. Apps like deluge and megasync became a mess(megasync refuses to work) because there's no tray icon. Unfortunately I have been unable to find any DE that has the same navigation style
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That ketchup bottle analogy is wonderful, thank you :)
Me too, I will use BBC for most news.

14 years is long but the power dynamic hasn't changed: they still rely on the government's blessing in one way or another.
But the author even points out that the two are intertwined. Cultural problems will create resource acquisition constraints.
I am totally confused about your comment. What are you quoting? Who wrote "gritty tart biting"? I don't know what the phrase was meant to convey but I wouldn't consider it a pun.
Xamarin just binds the native UI framework and makes some tweaks to adjust it to C# conventions, so you can use the same APIs that native developers use.
A case study of a business adopting blockchain and gaining massive cost advantages is yet waiting to happen.

Relevant questions to ask:

1) How will the miners be compensated? They're needed to keep the infrastructure running, and in BTC/ETH the compensation factor is built into the cryptocurrency.

2) In a consortium environment where only limited entities can add data to the blocks, what are the costs savings compared to a database with master/slave replication and daily dumps made available to the public?

Other than that, Azure recently rolled out blockchain-as-a-service https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2016/... expect AWS and Google to do the same if the demand picks up.
I guess I meant that looking back in history, I'd say there's a good chance that we'll start a world war, or upset the climate or something, and that will "crash" economy, not economy itself.
The problem with being by design a fungible commodity is that your network lock-in isn't anywhere near as strong as Facebook's. Or AOL's...
On mobile, that game runs better than any native game I've seen!
It came down to licencing. Apple wanted $1 per port in 1999, which was too expensive. Intel would rather develop their own bus (USB) than licence Firewire from Apple. Apple eventually caved to $0.25 but it was too late.

Firewire was heavily used for digital video, still used for heaps of industrial cameras. Still very prominent in digital audio. The multimaster bus design, guaranteed timing and bandwidth (isochronous transport), and speed, made Firewire a winner. A Firewire 400 drive is practically twice as fast as USB2. So anyone who had to do lots of transfers used it.
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Well, whatever kills JS and React/Node/etc. There is an upside to everything.
Buying drugs, money laundering, and ransomware
Of those indicators, which is most concerning to you?

I think I'd lean towards public debt...
I have never used one, in fact only became aware of twin elevators this week from the recent EconTalk episode with Tim Harford. I'm wondering as a user of a twin elevator, how are you even aware that the elevator below is preventing you from descending? The only situation that I can think of where this would happen is if both elevators are taking passengers down to the ground floor and the higher elevator either has to wait for the lower one to fill or empty. Does this result in a noticeable delay? Do you notice that on average delays are actually lower compared to normal single elevators?
What do you mean with auditing the reserves yourself? Can I check your bank account to see if the amount is equal to the price*qty of your token?

Regarding the auditing, not anyone, indeed very few, has the capability to audit an smart contract. Was your smart contract, oracle, and software in general audited by a recognized and third party entity?

I am not saying that your approach is not correct but you need a lot of transparency measures beyond the technical solution implemented.
You can easily test your blood sugar, like diabetics do. I did this out of curiosity, and it was interesting to see it rise and fall after eating.
If you want a (free) digital-ocean like interface on top of GCP checkout our Bitnami launchpad https://google.bitnami.com
Libraries are great places to work from! Typically quiet, good internet, nice people, and many larger ones have rooms you can sign out or rent for meetings.
> I think you're right, and that the logical outcome should be poor company performance

Wait what? Quarterly company performance is not the only metric for acceptable corporate behavior. That's might makes right logic.

Steve Jobs created a hierarchy and corporate culture centered around him that couldn't really exist without him- a house of cards. Now it's eating Apple. Same issue.
I'm not an economist. But here is my arm-chair philosophizing about what is happening. To combat the economic crisis we started printing a lot of money. This had two effects: the interest on savings went way down, and the loans became very cheap. Having money = bad, having debts = good, at least for those who can carry the burden. This was done in order to incentivize investing, thus growing the economy. Obviously, that worked: property price and valuations went way up. But those are driven by the future-promise of debt repayment. The moment we stop printing the money, people will get wise and try to sell off those assets again. Because then having money is cheaper than having debt. So now there's a bit of problem: we can't keep printing money faster than the economy grows due to hyperinflation, but we can't /really/ stop doing so either because people will sell off their debts in order to cash in on cheap investments. This to me, seems problematic.
coupled with Alan Greenspan's promotion of home ownership which eventually led to the subprime collapse
Had some time today so put together a .Net client for this data [0][1] in case anyone is interested.

[0]: https://github.com/shrayasr/GlobalAirports.Net
[1]: https://www.nuget.org/packages/GlobalAirports.Net
Would BTC prices rise or fall after this hypothetical crash?
All distros "look" the same to me, because I use a tiling window manager. I don't see a desktop, I just see what I'm working on. The gnome2/gnome3/unity silliness was partly why.
Just curious, why do you do it that way? (i.e. not just exporting from Unity)
Optimization to a local maximum pitfall, it is very much acknowledged in the article that the systems criticised make sense to those inside.
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Drivers aren't locked in, and neither are the passengers.
Capital gains tax was raised in late 80’s and 90’s.
Surely value judgements are not bounded by logic. And the reliance on logic in this case is a value judgement in its own right.
Are you shooting for a unicorn or just trying to make a sustainable, long term business? I think your answer might affect your considerations. For example, if you’re trying for a unicorn, the chances are pretty slim. Perhaps you would want to optimize on salary with some options. If you’re aiming for growing a long term business you might want to optimize on stock since (imho) that goal has a higher chance of success.
Pension funds will be buying next year.

I don't know whether governments will buy Bitcoin, but I wouldn't consider it unlikely that some country decides to use crypto as a replacement to their fiat currency -- either the government of a developed nation does it, or the people just decide that their local money isn't worth the paper it's printed on, and decide to use some sort of cryptocurrency.

I know this sounds crazy, and I would've called it a ridiculous notion if someone told me this 5 years ago, but I don't consider it too unlikely anymore. It has grown on me.

Due to quantitative easing, money just isn't worth much anymore and asset prices have gone up a lot across the board. Just look at the recent acquisition of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci: $450m. That could not have happened 20 years ago.
> With the difference that things he describes still happen at large in the middle east and Africa, while Europe has moved past them long time ago.

Well kinda depends what you define as "long time ago". Speaking for West Germany:

- 1954: Married woman are now allowed to work in public offices.

- 1958: Married woman are now allowed to work as teachers.

- 1958: The husband has no longer the right to single-handedly terminate the employment of his wife. Women still need the permission of their husband to start gainful employment.

- 1962 woman are allowed to have their own bank account.

- 1977: Woman are no longer forced to have a "house wife" marrige. They no longer need a permission by their husbands to start gainful employment.

===

source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenbewegung_in_Deutschland#...
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I disagree, even without DW, Ubuntu should have an advantage in many many polls, and in automated measurements. Ubuntu has a non-insubstantial corporate install base that should've been registered in user agent statistics, while MINT is a wholly community driven project that don't even have an official "default" browser.
> Dirt Rally is not for me ... unrealistic hard while not be very realistic

Dirt Rally is probably the most realistic rally simulator out there, or at least second after Richard Burns Rally. There's nothing that's comparable to those two out there.

And it feels alright to me compared to my experience driving in low grip conditions on dirt, snow and ice (on traffic and doing drifting on empty lots). Also when watching replays it looks like real rally driving (most car games don't look at all like the real thing when watching replays).

But rallying is really friggin' difficult. Richard Burns Rally is probably even more difficult than Dirt Rally. It takes a while to get a hang of the loose surface and the lateral dampening from packing snow and dirt in front of the tyres.

But once you catch the drift (pun intended), it becomes nice and fluent. You need to flick the car in nice and early, get going sideways and then modulate the drift with throttle and brake. I really like the FWD and RWD cars in Dirt Rally, the 4WD's are not as intuitive as in RBR (but that might be because they don't model the 2000's era computer controlled center differentials).

The big difference to driving sims on tarmac is that you don't really spend a lot of time full throttle. Instead you accelerate to a decent speed and then modulate the throttle to compensate for changes in the track surface. Braking is also similar, to slow down you give very little brake pedal with lots of modulation and only go full brakes when doing left foot braking (right foot on throttle).

I can't speak about Dirt or F1 or WRC games because I haven't put much time into them. I'm more into simulation than racing games.
> Sad to see a post by Mozilla only referencing Mac and Windows shortcuts to start the debugger. Most of the web developers I know are using Linux ...

Maybe because the shortcuts will be (slightly) different across the various Linux desktops (desktop environments and Linux distributions). There is not one Linux desktop like there's one macOS or one Windows.
Call me back after the bubble crashes and we can have a discussion about where the dollars ran off to in the middle of it.
> I don't get this. The dot-com bubble ran up to $6.7tn in market cap, in 2000, before crashing down to $1.7tn.

And there you have my coarse investment target (probably adjusted for inflation or M2) around which I'll exit

I built a site to calculate how far we are away from that target and what any portfolio would be worth by then (cryptoport.net)
> If you need your LB to handle 10s of millions of HTTP/S requests per minute, then what other choices do you have other than Google?

The same options every business that needed them has done for decades? Renting dedicated servers én masse, colocating, or running own datacenters? And doing this in multiple countries?

What I'd suggest for a start is renting dedicated servers or colocating in a few places (EU-Central, US east, US west), and running on that.

Dedicated servers, even with having to maintain them, are always cheaper than GCP. Even more so is the network traffic.

I've started with dedicated servers with a few European hosters myself where I'd be able to get servers and traffic for 40€ a month that would have cost me upwards of 14'000€ a month with GCP, AWS or Azure (180TB+ traffic per month, I don't have the exact numbers again, but I used each service's cost calculator for this). Sure, if I want high quality networking, I'd have to pay another 360€ per month extra with these hosters, but that's still cheap enough that it means I can basically run a 180TB/month serving service on a hobbyists budget.
I've always liked Warren Buffett's explanation on why investing in gold is pretty silly[1]. Basically, owning gold as an investment is purely speculation, because earning a return requires greater demand in the future. It doesn't have the potential to provide dividends or grow exponentially like ownership in a business does. Gold earns nothing for you over time.

Instead of investing in gold, why not invest in a foreign market that's at least partially insulated from the US?

[1] http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/commodities...
May i ask if it's a tech meetup or something else?

In my experiences companies, hackerspaces or coworking places are all quite happy to host tech meetups and it's rarely a problem.
> wouldn’t you want your surgeon to be able to buy access to an express lane in which a network was allowed to grant privilege to certain data over others? That is, AT&T should be allowed to provide a service in which data bytes flowing between an operating room and a surgeon take precedence over bytes of 100 dudes Googling to find out whether Jennifer Lawrence is married

A bit OT, but can't that already happen? I thought companies could set up private networks between various locations, and set up prioritized traffic on those already, with corresponding SLA if desired.
+1 you said what I was going to say. GCP probably doesn’t want the business of small web sites and portals. I think that under Diane Green they have a clear vision of who their target (large/huge) customer base should be and what they need to do to attract those customers.

For small projects, especially when I am paying the bills, it is difficult to beat OVH and DigitalOcean on costs.

That said, GCP is still my favorite provider, largely because using GCP makes me a little nostalgic for the time I worked as a contractor at Google - really enjoyed their infrastructure.
Agreed, e.g., try to get R$ out of Brazil
Meanwhile AMD's 7nm process is still on-track, and doing well.
And that's what the author did essentially (receiving no response from Netflix). The GP says he should have started with a solicitor.
It's the goal of the OpenStreetMap project to basically have all o fhtat.
I mean, if it goes through I'll definitely stock up my disassembler knowledge, I bet people on the black market will pay some cash for DRM breakers.
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What is the best thing to do with my savings?
I am thinking about investing, and read up on it.
One thing I don't understand is where to put money to minimize the impact of a recession. Government bonds? But then Graham says, I think, bonds prices also rise in a bull market, and fall afterwards.
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> Wait, is the definition of "pun" just that you're using words with a double meaning?

Yes, that’s pretty much by definition a pun (though it’s usually required to be topical). For instance, Google gives us:

“a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.”
Ask HN: Anyone organized a conference?
Has anyone here organized a conference? I understand it's quite a big undertaking, but I would be curious to hear about small teams or solo organizers who successfully organized one. Even more interesting might be to hear about failure to organize one.

Is it possible to accomplish without significant funding in advance? What kind of profit can you expect to make?
There is no bank account, just the smart contract. It holds the Ether, OMG, or whatever other cryptocurrency you send to it when you buy Unum. There's a function on the contract to return the total reserve in USD, or you can check the actual values of the variables being used. Anything on a smart contract is public.

You're right that relatively few people have the technical skills to query a smart contract, but that relative few is still a LOT of people who can verify the reserves independently. Versus the almost 0 people who can audit Tether.

If you're interested in interacting with the smart contract (or any smart contract), you may want to install Mist. It's non-trivial to get started, I admit, and the tooling around smart contract is incredibly immature, but..man it's cool ;)

https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases
Yeah but I don't want that. I want to use the TPM, Windows just broke it.

For the few times in the month where I need Windows, it's not worth the effort.
Finding "a" space, e.g. for one or two events, is relatively easy. Finding a consistently scheduled space (e.g. "the second Wednesday of each month") at cheap/free is a whole other thing. Once you have a consistently scheduled space, getting speakers is rather easy, because you can schedule way out into the future. For example, a popular speaker may not be available in the next three months, but I could easily get that speaker for April if I already have my venue lined up.

The first meetup I had was a bit of a vicious cycle - we had no home, which made scheduling hard, which made getting speakers lined up hard.

The second meetup I ran started out a Pivotal Labs which was amazing. Free food, free drink, nice atmosphere, good location - and most importantly, we had "the second Wednesday of every month", which made scheduling ridiculously easy. Actually running the whole meetup was a level of magnitude easier after that. Current venue is also similarly awesome. I wouldn't go back to not having a regularly-scheduled venue.
Netflix's use is very clearly not fair use.
Yikes, really sad to see people burying their head in the sand on HN.

Don't be so patronizing.
It's awesome, but Gnome still has two shortcuts to change keyboard layout. Why? Why's it can't be fixed without some hacks?
Nobody knows, but if I were to guess I think they'd rise. If you're someone who loves Bitcoin (and it would make sense to think the people buying Bitcoin love it), then it's likely you think of it as a safe haven.

I see Bitcoin (and ETH, and others to a lesser degree) as a safe haven. I personally have been selling off stock and moving into BTC, ETH, and others because I think the traditional stock and bond market is grossly overvalued and lacks the utility, censorship resistance, and security of Bitcoin. Nearly 10 years of the Federal Reserve buying up whatever crap people are selling, and building a $4 trillion balance sheet, means the current market prices don't reflect what the market can support.
Tech meetup (please see my other response below)
Personally, I don't imagine working under any other OS than Linux as a web developer. And hey, Java and .NET Core/Mono is quite pleasant to work with under non-Windows operating system.
server ME does not connect to ethernet but BMC do. They may enable something like Secure Boot which requires signing to prevent 3party unauthorized backdoors.
The part I highlighted is the copyright owner is in Australia and the company is in the USA, "just file a lawsuit" isn't as simple suddenly.
And then you have to maintain your own consistency layer in the application because you'll either duplicate data or use relations in Mongo like you would in a relational database.
Hope there's a light color scheme as well
I wonder what makes them think the stock market is overvalued. Increasing inequality combined with market saturation and the current difficulty to start a competitive business means it makes perfect sense that stock prices are historically high. Combine with the fact that passive index investing has become the norm, and it seems like it will be a new normal.
One more on the list: the end of quantitative easing. I think QE has largely pushed the markets up since 2009, and the withdrawal of liquidity from the system (if it ever happens, but normally should start this year) combined with increasing rates should at the very least create market volatility, if not apply a downward pressure.
I think I misunderstood the intention for your first comment, probably by interpreting it in the context of another comment that was nearby but not related at all. Sorry
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We were also impressed with DO's GUI and easy of use. We setup a few monitor servers on their network to measure uptime, latency, packet loss and similar metrics since we deal with audio streaming over UDP. Suffice it to say, it was a mess. So many micro-timeouts and tons of packet loss in small bursts.

For prototypes and small projects dealing mainly in TCP and if uptime is not really important then DO is great. For us, we stick to AWS / GCP for the bulk of our load including dev/testing etc as we want to have the environment as similar to prod as possible.
What rate do you consider hyperinflation? Are we in it now? What measure are you using? Afaik we’ve been running under 2% inflation for quite some time.
This is the same NetFlix behind the death-penalty-for-even-trivial-DRM-infractions movement, yes?
Accounting desktop apps? Or desktop apps as a whole?

If you are thinking accounting desktop apps, could you list which ones you have in mind?
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Have a look what can do anybody on Kubuntu 17.04-17.10 tweaking a bit and installing a single plasmoid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBMn6eGH88

https://twitter.com/ZardoZ89/status/935423675825782784

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/enjade-wants-recreate-uni...
But as they say, it's not about piracy. Piracy is incredibly simple no matter what. I can also just take a camcorder to my screen to capture Netflix no matter what garbage crypto they put in the display connection. But I don't even need to do that, because I have a cheap-ass HDMI splitter from China that already strips HDCP effectively and effortlessly.

It's always about control of something, whether it be the consumer, distribution channels, etc.
I get what you're saying, but your math is a bit misleading. As far as I know, the missing 4m are a subset of the 16m already mined. That still leaves ~5m to be acquired in the future, albeit rather slowly.
That is an easy statement to make with a page not found.
I wrestled for a long long time whether I should get a Spotify subscription. I've been a subscriber for around 6 months now, and I like it.

However, I have kept all of my ripped/bought/downloaded music as well, and I have a very clear exit plan for how to keep "my" Spotify library in case the company goes belly-up or decides to cripple its offerings somehow. It will take me a couple of weeks to recreate the library locally, but I'm OK with that.

For now, I'll enjoy the recommendations and easy access to music that is new and exciting to me.
Do you have an example? In most dictatorships I know state was deeply involved in the economy, thus making it socialist.

Capitalism requires free markets. Freedom, the opposite of dictatorship.
Why do you think any of these factors relate at all to whether there is an imminent stock market crash?
While a beautifully painted analogy, it's possibly a somewhat overly cynical one.

As demonstrated previously with the C&D to the Stranger Things themed pop-up, Netflix's in-house counsel are reasonable and PR savvy.

I'd hold off the mob comparisons for a little while.
I think we're hiding the rate of inflation in overvaluation of property and stocks, because money is cheap.