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Do something about it. Every little thing matters.

I just submitted an issue to Mastodon:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5843
It means that nobody would be able to view cloudflare sites over Tor. At this point, half the internet is held hostage to Tor users.
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Here's something odd I noticed. The previous crisis obviously had a lot of detrimental effects. However, it also made some people /very/ rich. Basically if you invested smartly right after, you would have more than recovered the losses by now. I think people are anticipating that, I know I certainly am. Next crisis, hopefully sell before it happens and then buy for longs. I'm not quite sure if that /anticipation/ was just as ingrained before. Maybe I've just gotten older and notice it more, maybe it's a real thing. But whatever it is, it's quite dangerous, because it's a catalyst: if people want it, it will happen faster than before. Couple that with real externalities (geo-political tensions, climate change, resource depletion, overpopulation) we might be in for a dangerous disconnect between market movement and "looking out of the window".
Something very similar happened to me. To this day, I don't run any python script without the `-i` flag
A real project usually have a lot of things that changes over time, including how to store the data. Adding columns and tables are basically the only simple things and not even new tables are always easy if they are connected to other tables and you have contraints that means they have to be pre-filled with something from the old database.
Other things that can change is splitting one table into multiple table while keeping all data, splitting or joining columns while keeping data and so on. For large datasets this may cause headaches. Any error will also cause a lot of extra work.
The fatal flaw in Tether is that you have to trust the company behind it. The whole point of cryptocurrency is you shouldn't have to trust anyone. And the company itself is so opaque it should send you running to the hills.

I've been working on a new cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar. It's implemented as a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain, so you can audit it's reserves yourself, at any time, instantly. You can also audit the source code to see that there's no way for me, or anyone else, to withdraw from the reserves. You can buy and sell the currency, Unum, for Ether or a few other cryptocurrencies. Buying and selling occurs directly on the blockchain.

If anyone's interested in checking it out, it's on the Ethereum Ropsten testnet now.

https://unum.one
Hm, the social visa doesn't allow you to work. Of course you still can but you're running a risk. Last year there were a bunch of people deported at short notice after immigration raids, including westerners. And you need a local to invite you.

Still, good to explain how it's an option. I also love Bali, so long as it's as far away from Kuta as possible...
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One of the gastros (my favorite) was a woman who methodically went step-by-step diagnosing, asking for tests, and giving preventative treatment (when applicable) for everything below the esophagus, she didn't suspect Crohn's at all.

Early on, crohn's was a hypothesis I had but I quickly moved on because there's very little evidence to support it in my case; and a colonoscopy isn't something I'd accept based on very little evidence.

The ENT told me "If you don't get better with the gastroenterologist, we can consider a septoplasty" but he was kinda skeptical that a deviated septum alone would cause this amount of phlegm.

Regarding allergies, the respiratory specialist rejected it. And over the course of these treatments, I self-prescribed Claritin (which didn't do anything), followed by Zyrtec (nothing either) to rule out allergies. Also, this is consistent, not seasonal, and not food-related, the latter which I have controlled for.
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Is it fuck. It's about as respected as a shitstain.
Clarification.

No theft involved - nothing was stolen.

since this is a copyright claim, it is about a non-authorised copy - notice copy not original.

Please, let's call this for what it is and not what it is not.

No theft involved, only copying.
I think that's a rather fair assessment of the situation.
I found what was causing the off-result for me; if you do: 128 / 3 (2 int's) in C# it will truncate to int; if you do 128 / 3.0 you'll get the expected output and everything starts to make sense :)
“Goodbye cloud, hello nice UI for VPS hosting”.

If Google’s own premium speedy network, anycast IP, global load balancing and security features bring no benefit to your web operations, then your math might be right.

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?

F/W default “Everything within a project should allowed”? Sorry, but no way.

Not familiar with other DO capabilities, but cloud platform is not just about a VPS available throu REST API, it is way far beyond.
Well, surely DRM prevents enough users from copying the product to make it worthwhile?

It does not need to be perfect to achieve that.

Many people will never go looking for tools to break the DRM or DRM-free copies from torrent sites and the like.

But if anyone could just copy what they see on e.g. Netflix with the click of a button, then many more probably would.
I'll admit it's my personal estimate, looking at last decade's constant up-up-up of US stocks, especially the tech sector, and (as mentioned in the article) the widening gap between the value of U.S. household assets and GDP growth­.

It's unsustainable growth, and I'm afraid the crash is going to happen sooner rather than later.

Will it be as bad as in 2008? I don't know. But it's going to hurt (except if you're wealthy enough to invest heavily right after and ride the wave back up again).
Given the geographic overlap, protestantism should spring to mind easily as a candidate (even if it can only be a cause if its effect take centuries to have meaningful impact). The differentiation between shame and guilt cultures used in the article resonates quite a bit with the perceived differences between catholic and protestant societies.
Do we consider a case where a "crash" doesn't happen?
Say we might have a war or some other global disaster at some point, but not an economic crash.
Is that so improbable?
The bar for 'experienced' variees a lot though. Someone with 0 months of experience is useless. But I've seen plenty of people with 3 months experience do better than people with 3 years experience. Some also have dealt with logic or projects at a much younger age or in college (like college is supposed to do)
Honestly, though, it's not like the Windows API parts of those examples are clunky or hard to understand. It's extremely straightforward code (effectively probably just using parts of the Windows API that go back to 1985). The entry point simply creates the window and the WndProc callback handles a few window things (create, resize, close) and otherwise handles input and the game loop. From an educational standpoint I wouldn't see any harm in that code.
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I, too, wanted to start tracking this a bit but

a) didn't want stuff to be uploaded anywhere

b) didn't want to test a lot of apps

c) am always up for a challenge

So 2 weeks ago I dug out my long-forgotten knowledge about WINAPI and wrote something in Rust. It's an MVP - it queries the active window every second and writes a bit of info to a logfile in JSON format. Then I can run a python script on the daily log and analyze it. It's been fun, but you instantly notice a few things:

a) using a "window changed" hook would be better, but mine's good enough for now, but this prepared

b) idle times are important. Don't leave the computer and then wonder about off times. Current workaround: focus the media player window that's usually not really active

c) dual monitors are really hard. There's 2 windows open - one on each monitor, only one will be tracked.

d) Everything is hard, when I'm listening to a podcast during some other task that doesn't need much concentration, this won't be tracked.

e) actual quality of the data. On the one hand I'm simply not interested in adding all my browser history to this via window titles. On the other hand, maybe you want finer-grained tracking. Same with songs played, videos watched for example. Mayyybeee it could make sense tracking source code files in your editor, but I think that's too finegrained. browser vs editor is good enough for me right now
If you know rails well and keep current, upgrading is perfectly straightforward, if uninspiring, work.

It's a janitorial service of sorts, and it's totally appropriate for some corps to contract it out. It allows the developers with the best knowledge of the business to focus on that, where value is created. Regressions are mitigated by a strong culture of testing.
Have been running i3 sans Gnome for about 6 years now in a minimal Fedora install.

Throw in the tiny `xcalib` package (all 100KB of it) for easy screen inversion (i.e. hotkey toggle light/dark "theme") and you get an easy-on-the-eyes UI with sane window management.
Oh yeah, you should get into mining now, while it's still big and profitable, because that's a definite time-limited thing.
Depends on where you work. I work at a primarily Linux shop. I'm one of 3 people using Windows, compared to everyone else which are using Ubuntu and only one person is using Mac. Although in any regard, I find usually unless the Desktop Environment on Linux interferes most "Windows" commands work with Firefox on Linux. Oh and I'm usually dual-booting, so I'm either on Ubuntu or Windows whenever I'm doing web development.

Linux isn't just a distribution platform, it's also sensibly a development platform. I rather work on the system I'm building for if and when possible.

Edit:

I use .NET Core and while I have done it from Windows most of my time in the past few months, I also do code in .NET Core from Mac and Ubuntu (more Ubuntu than Mac). It works good enough so long as you use Visual Studio Code for debugging.
> “software that can be used to infringe copyright”

aka “software”
Ultimately this will come down to what value Bitcoin really has to society.

An investment is when you work to receive something you don't want, but that you think other people will want in the future so that you can exchange it for things you do want. If you work for money then you do investment. By working for money you are betting that when you need food at the end of the week the shopkeeper will take your money.

Investing in other things is no different. You make a bet that people in the future will want to trade the thing you buy for things that you want at that point. For example, you could buy a small amount of gold every month and when you are ready to retire buy an annuity with the gold. That's if anyone actually wants the gold in 30 year's time. If they don't then you'll have to eat the gold.

People often say that cash is a bad investment, but actually it's really great as long as you plan to spend it soon. What they mean is it's not a good long term investment, of course. But cash stays valuable because unlike other things you can exchange it for things you want almost immediately. Bitcoin is now not like cash because of the high transaction fees. So it now competes with things like gold. So you have to ask yourself: what do you think will still be valuable in 10, 20, 30 years time? Gold? Bitcoin? If Bitcoin isn't a yes for enough people, then it's a bubble.
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Posted this here a while ago and people seemed to like it.
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It also leads to happy tight-knit communities.
Unless the Desktop Environment interferes with Firefox shortcuts. I've ran into oddities where a DE has hijacked a shortcut from happening, but I can't off the top of my head think of a specific case, I just remember it happening. Not on standard Ubuntu with Firefox though.
As I understand it he says that Flutter uses dart and that is much better than js, react native lacks good documentation and the developer tools are great for Flutter/dart.

Both Flutter and Dart seems interesting but I don't think they will take over the world in 2018. TypeScript already exists and has a lot more users than dart and also has good tooling. It is also typed like dart which makes more traditional c# and java devs happy. React is getting more an more popular and react native will probably live on that, even if it isn't the best solution for building mobile apps (and it might be the best one yet, I don't know).
Does Xamarin have native UI widgets not just basic components?

ReactNative has native controls but most are just basic. Flutter has material/ios widgets built in which simplifies develpoment. I like flutters declarative syntax similar to reactjs. But its still in alpha hence can't commit much time to it.
I see what you mean, let me take back my previous comment, which was typed hastily.

I actually agree with you on the most part, you really can't prove that Bitcoin is a good store of wealth.

I am making an educated guess that a cryptographically secure way to transfer value for very cheap is probably here to stay, but it's far from provable.

In fact, if it were provable, it would become a very crowded trade and the returns would drop to zero immediately. The fact that it's unknown allows for potential greater returns (and greater losses if people who agree with me are wrong).
"Fiat" money is backed by enormous sums of debt repayable only in that currency and a tax burden representing a large proportion of GDP payable only in that country, and its supply is kept in balance with demand on a day to day basis by central banks.
(And even then, people are entirely justified in worrying that certain currencies will struggle to retain value because their state and central bank are very bad at doing the latter jobs)
So it's basically backed by years' worth of guaranteed future demand to obtain that currency from people who will therefore be willing to provide goods and services in return.

Bitcoin is backed by optimism.
If you go to bitcoinity and check the price of bitcoin, the first exchange they list is bitfinex. The price they list is in USD. That’s actually wrong. There are no dollars on bitfinex. They use a currency called tethers which they claim is backed 1-1 by dollars but almost certainly isn’t. They’ve created close to a billion dollars worth of that token during this run up.

Rumor has it that they’re using those tethers to buy btc on their own exchange and manipulate the price.

Once people realize those tethers are worthless and they can’t withdraw dollars, they’ll start using them to buy btc at any price and withdraw them on the exchange causing a massive run up in btc price as they make a run on the bank. It’s not really an increase in btc price but hyperinflation of tethers.
'E' here is really hypothetical future earnings. Some investors think that Amazon can raise prices and become profitable after creating the walled garden. Right now they only make money renting time on servers.
I think the trade-off described in the article was that companies value market share control more than the security of their products, since high security would go hand in hand with more open markets.
First, take a look at the parallel or example [1]. It's a computation that manipulates two other completely arbitrary ones, in a simple, compositional way that's not possible in any other formalism I'm aware of. The idea is not too different from how continuous dynamical systems are composed to describe "higher order" systems, despite first-order representation.

Doing a "map" of a completely arbitrary computation f, would look like this:

CONSTANTS T (* the "type" of elements in the in/out list *)
VARIABLES in, out, f_param, f_result, f_done

Map ≜ ∧ in ∈ Seq(T)
∧ f_param = Head(in)
∧ □[∧ f_done = TRUE ∧ f_done' = FALSE (* wait for f to work *)
∧ out' = Append(out, f_result])
∧ f_param' = Head(in) (* send another element to f *)
∧ in' = Tail(in)
∧ UNCHANGED f_result
]_⟨f_param, in, out⟩ (* we don't allow f to change f_param, in or out *)

and then, the composition or the "application" would be:

Map ∧ f

Nothing here guarantees that the computation f does any of those and that it terminates. We could do that by adding an assumption about f's behavior, that states that f behaves like a subroutine:

f ⇒ □(f_done = FALSE ↝ f_done = TRUE)

which states that if ever f_done is false, f will cause it to eventually become true.

This is similar to how ODEs and processes in process calculi are composed, and all of this can be abstracted nicely into a "subroutine call" operator as I do in part 4. It is more cumbersome than sequential formalisms as composition is parallel "by default", but the technique is never used in practice precisely because of the Boolean algebra of computation that allows you to abstract appropriate computations as functions.

[1]: This is the exact spot in the video: https://youtu.be/15uy9Ga-14I?t=37m34s
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Is there a timeframe for how long it will take for those 1m coins to be mined? Is it equally likely that the price craters or skyrockets once that happens?
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If someone says that Linux should be included and mentions he knows a lot of web developers using Linux, then his added comment is relevant. Windows instructions were already included so your reply wasn't needed and I assume you didn't understand the Linux reply.
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Seriously.

In the US they have two parties. Right and Far Right. The media reflects that as well.
Might be due to the fact that the amount of transactions is capped.
I just went out after a long time. Banks are coming in and i don't trust them. They are smarter then me. I took out my profits and i'm doing stocks since a 1/2th year, i'm focusing on that now.

Here my reasoning:

1) BTC takes too long to make a transaction ( 2,5 hours) which make me kinda doubt the use case.

2) the enterprise is adopting the blockchain, which is irrelevant to bitcoin. If they would do crypto, they will create their own coin.

3) the guy further in the street is also buying crypto ( not in IT). Which for me, is a sign of a bubble. He knows nothing about the tech. It won't ever be used for the original porpose at this valuation.

4) First time adopters are going out now @ 10 k., check out reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/

5) The HODL meme is currently blocking the bubble to burst. Some people are willing to HODL even when 75% fades away. PS. Banks won't adopt the HODL meme :)

I have second doubts though, it truelly is an amazing tech.
Pollution from Gold mining:
https://sciencing.com/types-pollution-generated-gold-mining-...

A very rough estimate: World wide Bitcoin mining operation spends per year around 60% as much electricity as all of USA's bank offices:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15615601

With Bitcoin mining there is a high incentive to actually use renewable energy sources and could be physically outsourced to places where building green power plants is otherwise not practical due to the limits of creating a power grid to make such a power plant profitable.
Without defining a timescale, yes, it's very improbable. Feedback loops tend to develop in the markets, where eventually asset prices rise because people buy the assets since they've been rising for a long time. If nothing else happens, that at least is sure to lead to a crash at some point.

Now, whether there's probably going to be a crash in the next 10 years is not something I'd care to bet on, although the odds are far from 0. Overall, the game is not predicting crashes as much as it is being prepared for them when they do come.
What the fuck is wrong with these lame excuses: "But now that apps exist and nearly everyone uses them, big companies can boycott the web, forcing their users into apps instead. That just accelerates the rise of apps, and weakens the web even more. Apps are used to implement DRM, so DRM-using companies are moving to apps. To keep entertainment companies from killing the web outright, the Web must have DRM too."

That is equally lame as what Ajit pai said recently wrt to NN: "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."
On, you're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...

I had assumed their actual production was elsewhere. Neat:)
ok, two other things that may be throwing you off, the input is a filesize, not a width, the result of filesize / 3 is always an integer (even if float representation,) and the result of sqrt(filesize/3) is also always an integer (even if float representation,) as per the comments.

Also, taking the 2log and then 2power is a no-op because it doesn't truncate / ceiling in-between the two.

You kind of see where the code was going to, but it never quite made it there.
That is the kicker isn't it. It's the Overton Window in action;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
I think their argument of not being allowed to copy Netflix content (to watch later) is flawed.

They're the equivalent of the video rental shops from the 80s/90s - we weren't allowed to rent a movie and copy it to watch after the return.

Sure, I'd love to be able to watch Netflix on a RPi or while I'm away - so if there was a way to do this, while stopping me from watching it when my subscription ends, that would be great.