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And when they do, they fail at their job as a currency, because in that instance they are a poor store of value.

But no major world currency in the last thirty years has fluctuated like Bitcoin has in the last thirty days. Not the yen, the euro, the yuan, the dollar. For lesser currencies that have, it's wreaked havoc on their respective economies, proving that these kinds of fluctuations are undesirable.

Crypto currency is a great idea. Getting rid of central control is fantastic, because a rogue central bank is a real risk to a stable currency. But why cripple it with a design that can't succeed as a stable store of value because of its relatively fixed supply? I get that we don't want someone pulling the levers, but couldn't it algorithmically expand in relation to economic activity, such as transaction volume?

I just hear a lot of people who seem to be speaking their book instead of addressing real weaknesses that, to me, seem unnecessary to the intrinsic value of a cryptocurrency.
I seriously can't imagine how much pressure engineers at Apple were to ship this patch. Considering they tend to ship infrequently, I doubt they have the sort of QA turn-around that'd support emergency releases.

Remember that:

- They learned about this yesterday

- They had as much heads up as the general public did

- They are a large company.

I don't disagree that the apparent QA quality from Apple software isn't what it used to be, but we all have to take these sorts of things with a grain of salt. I've certainly been in situations like this before.
The ignorance stems from some sort of belief structure that allows one to believe that it would even be possible to outlaw bitcoin. Either bitcoin is valuable, or it is not. If it is, one should question why it is, and more importantly, why it is more valuable to people than the alternative. But rather than admit the problems of the alternative, he suggests something that is completely impractical (and downright sinister) because he would prefer not to discuss the reasons for its value in the first place.
That brings up another issue, but what about the original issue that GP brought up? If bitcoin continues to fluctuate wildly in value then it isn’t a great currency.
I don't actually think they should be banned. I'm making a facetious analogy to prove a point. Bitcoin is at least as useful as video games and porn.
However, it does not follow that every very polarizing technology is truly transformative.
> They simply don't believe it can have any useful value as a store of value or be used for exchanging goods or services.

I found it very useful for buying cyproterone acetate online as it's not available in my country.

Also there's stuff that's not even illegal, like kink, but for which credit card companies refuse to allow related transactions because of respectability politics or too much fraud.
This is ridiculous. I mean, so many angles...

Can't they just train their system to do whatever it is they propose that it do in response to alleged revenge porn, but with any nude image/nude images generally? Will their system prevent the propagation of revenge porn videos?
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I second this. When I do some quick stuff at home or at work, a small ditch in performance is okay, if I spend less time coding.
But I know a few people (researchers) with access to >1 PetaFlop/s clusters. Being hit with performance degradation is possibly an issue there: More power consumption; other people need the system, too; as an individual, you might have limited cluster time available.
Of course this depends if 1% is to be expected, or 20%...
Ever read Asimov’s Robot series? Future cities are underground or domed. Earthlings no longer venture outside.
By that argument, having children should be outlawed based on the environmental impact.
Early startup employees are risking almost the exact same set of things. The moral of the story is that even as an employee, you're playing the lottery with a startup and you should only join on that will reward you as such if everything works out.
I've been very happily using Pixelmator for years. I'll gladly pay for the upgrade of the new version.
It's also their job not to get the company shuttered for knowingly allowing drug money to flow through their books.

If it's weird to me that you need to buy vitamins from a foreign company using Bitcoin (you couldn't get them for a month or two from a provider who takes PayPal/CC, and you couldn't go without for a little while?!), it's going to be really weird to the compliance department of a financial institution responsible for KYC stuff.
"There is no risk"

What? You're wrong.
Wow!

A foreign company with a bakery here in the U.S. hired 800 foreign workers and management didn't know it.

I can believe that, but I'd have to be paid a lot to be sure.
Emacs has already some kind of buttons and search fields, check out M-x "customize" to see some of them.
And no matter how many times you build that 3 second gap, someone will keep taking the space. What ends up happening is that your 3 second gap means people will try to go around you (if this is the freeway) and then get right in front of you and eliminate your 3 second gap.

I think eventually you'll get into a steady state solution where you'll be limited to 20mph on a 65mph freeway because that's all the room you'll be given - if you follow the rule of law exactly.

Instead, most bay area drivers keep about 40-70ft between cars when going 70mph. Juuuust enough to react in time to an emergency stop. It's a little silly but it's the only way you won't get cut off constantly. Only other way to not get cut off is to go quite slow and be behind traffic speeds.
The average life expectancy for a fiat currency is 27 years.
It's true that it's actually the differential in power prices that leads to its rapid expansion. The underlying tech will raise or lower difficulty based upon market incentives. So forcing mining onto renewable sources of energy by putting a price on carbon would benefit everyone.
It sounds like you're complaining, but if it is really so easy, just become a founder. In a way, it is impossible for there to be an unfair distribution of wealth between people who do A and people who do B if everyone has the choice whether to do A or B.
There is a general rule here, that I forgot to state - we should probably be building scare-factor variability into automatic safety systems of all kinds; to ward off risk homeostasis. So people don't just press their luck until the safety cushion is gone.
The commercial variant still offers indemnification, warranty, and support; all of these are at the least mandated by many large organizations' acquisition policies.
What's funny is that if he did, that would be a low-demand expertise with a lot of willing suppliers so he probably would be making closer to $40k/year.
The "Get Started For Free" button on the front page has an ominous ring to it. I wonder (hope!) that the free version available from FreeRTOS.org remains available w/out an AWS account.
While not quite the same, the REPL of the Julia programming language supports modes as plugins. Out of the box there is the Julia mode for writing julia code, shell mode for shell commands and help mode for getting help on functions. But I've seen lots of interesting ways of extending this.

E.g. one of the debuggers for Julia, Gallium simply adds some new modes. So you can be in stepping-through-code-mode and then at any time switch back to Julia mode and inspect variables at that point in the execution stack.

Another mode is a package mode being developed for the new Julia package manager. So when adding, removing, updating, creating etc packages you can go into package mode and get behavior relevant to working with packages.

I had the idea of creating a mode for a board game, e.g. a Settlers of Catan mode, which is focused on issuing commands relevant to that game.
Show HN: Factfold – Clojure library for flexible and correctness-prone software
Why is GM (and others) allowed to test driverless cars in SF?

Didn't Uber get kicked out of SF for its driverless program and have to relocate to AZ?
The fact they learned this only yesterday is amazingly stupid to start with. People were talking about this weeks ago on the Apple Forums, as a "neat trick" : https://twitter.com/fristle/status/935670476214378496. Surely a moderator should have noticed something was wrong at that point.

This is a major fuckup the kind of which should be illegal.
haha

I came to say exactly this

Mobile engineer here, I don't know any mobile app without some form of tracking because at the very least you want to know when your app crashes and have a way to get the stacktrace.

Enter firebase crashreporting / crashlytics
3-4 might be high, but double isn't. And I say this having seen some of those offers. (And having negotiated my own).
I’m not so sure. With no evidence, I buy into the conspiracy theory that Wall St. is deep into crypto. It’s a new breed of fish, and these are people who live and breathe intricate, counterintuitive financial systems. I’d be shocked if they hadn’t identified some alpha in crypto and were exploiting it.
Literally everything you said is FUD and a maliciously deliberate misrepresentation of the purpose of unions.

Unions exist to collectively bargain on behalf of workers in markets in which individual workers do not have sufficient bargaining power to achieve the same results. They remain in power in those markets precisely due to their continuing ability to achieve better-than-free-market rates for their members, as evidenced by the death/diminishment of unions in many fields where they are not able to maintain above-market compensation for their members.
Bitcoin crashes 20% from its highs
This Is What Could Pop the Bitcoin Bubble
It would be easier just to collect bitcoin through a goods and services or value added tax at the counter. It's what is going to be required anyway. It will be the only way to effectively collect taxes when you remove banks.
Collapsing? The price is higher than it was 4 days ago...

edit: and now back above $10k
This is the case with almost all crypto currency exchanges as well. Even in that case, which I can sort of understand (even tho I still hate it), I was pretty off put by it. If Facebook or some other service starts doing this to me, I will use something else.
With confirmation currently times between 30 minutes to hours for the BTC network, I’m guessing the fees are going to be extraordinarily high.
AI: fake it till you make it!
The author states:

>" DEC started a project to do dynamic translation from x86 to Alpha; at the time the project started, the projected performance of x86 basically running in emulation on Alpha was substantially better than native x86 on Intel chips."

I'm really curious how an Alpha emulating x86 could be faster than the native x86? Can someone shed some light on how this would be possible
Nowadays, this might not be true. 10 years ago, I hired Oracle dbas (not many, mind you) at hourly wages of 300K+ (edit: yes, they worked 40hrs/wk at least)
mobile dev here.

From my anecdotal experience I can tell you that whatever data we collect on Android we collect on iOS too (crashes, usage, etc) .
Actually, big banks are interested in blockchain technology, because having a distributed ledger of stock ownership would help cut out exchanges and brokers, and facilitate international trade.

The broker divisions of big banks are probably afraid of it, or dismissive, but trade execution and asset management divisions are investing in the concept.

My (probably unpopular) bet: blockchain will revolutionize much of finance, but Bitcoin specifically will crash and eventually be ignored.
I count six times you used the word "currency". Yes, some people thought it would be that, but it isn't. It's Bitcoin. "Digital gold" isn't a perfect description, but it's close. Thus, you're flogging a straw horse.

It is not limited to 21M "units", and it never was. It's arbitrarily divisible into whatever units you like. Again, since it is not a national currency, it doesn't matter. It isn't "deflation" when the price of gold goes up.

I guess some people can't let go of the idea that Bitcoin is "supposed" to be like a dollar-denominated debit card.
AWS employee here on the ECS team. A service that does not figure prominently in AWS strategy would not be the first service featured in the keynote at re:Invent. AWS Fargate and EKS were the first things introduced this morning at the keynote.
I recommend you bring it up to your boss. Tech leads are supposed to one on one anyway, to spot issues like this.

Other alternatives would be Kanban and XP. Kanban might give you the flow and flexibility you like, XP might give management the control they want but still give you more flexibility.
As it does for adtech which I was referring to. I’m sure it’s part of Uber and related services as well, but it should be applied across services to create maximal competition.
> quite a bit simpler behavior of automated cars

Simple behavior is often more predictable, but not always. And it's predictability that matters.

> The simple truth is that automated cars drive more safely, with fewer mistakes and much less velocity changing (i.e. lane switches, passing attempts, "oops" late braking, missed exit swerves...).

> "oops" late braking

I'm not 100% sure what you mean here, so I'll split apart "oops" and "late".

A self-driving car might be less likely to brake late.

But everything I've heard says that a self-driving car is far more likely to "oops" in the form of sudden hard braking. Are you disagreeing? Can you back it up?
> He wants to build a wall to keep out immigrants.

That's a pretty dishonest way of phrasing it. Why must the media constantly lie?
The hours are a bit different too. I don't think many people working at Google making 300k per year are working only 900 hours per year.

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/03/09/airline-pi...

"Pilots at US carriers can work up to 100 hours per month and up to 1,000 hours per year, though in practice most pilots are going to fly closer to 900 hours per year.

For example, a 12th year captain on the 777, 787, or A330, is making $293 per hour. At 900 hours per year, that’s ~$264,000 per year. That doesn’t include things like their flight benefits and per diem pay (~$2.80 for every hour they’re gone on an international trip)."

I can see this devolving though. They're really apples and oranges industries; there are too many differences for a straight comparison.
Seriously the top comment here should, WUT THE FK!

Man we should instead of trading bitcoins trade fish in World of Warcraft.
Insane times we live in.
I guess now we get to see where all the holes in apples fucking automated tests are... meanwhile I'm happily running Arch ;)
Number of years are not a good measure of experience. You can spend 10 years in a huge fortune 500 that isn't doing anything innovative or interesting, or even engineering right. There are people who have spent 5 years at companies with their heads in the sand.

Also, must we have a key requirement of being a senior software engineer being mentoring other engineers? Just because I enjoy building good/stable systems and have done it a lot doesn't mean I want to hand-hold more junior engineers or start taking up management tasks. I see this so much at companies and it just reeks of the company trying to get me to become a part-time teacher for their own benefit -- though it's of course arguably what they're paying me to do.
This is why I am so glad I did not update to High Sierra. It obviously is not ready.
Uber didn't get the required permit (which literally cost < $100) from the state DMV.

Rules? Who needs rules? -- Uber's motto
Perhaps it's easier to steal in different ways. Computer-based hacks, bugs, social based attacks (phishing, etc.) sure... but harder to break into a house and steal, as the private key can be hidden better. Easy to assume the safe is where 20 gold bars are.
well in the military you always have less personal rights ;)
How DeepMind solved Atari games using a teacher/student neural network
Not standing in someone's way is them being a master over you?

Uhh, remind me not to be on a sidewalk near you...
I work on T2, and we just released a change that makes your CPUCreditBalance recover immediately instead of through the old complex 24h expiration model. There is now much less need to stockpile or manage your CPU credits: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=5196

With T2 Standard auto-scaling based on the CPUCreditBalance can be a really bad idea, because the rate at which an account can launch T2s with an initial credit balance is limited. If your application has a bug that causes a health check to fail, the ASG can quickly burn through your launch credits by cycling the instances, and then it's possible for your health checks to keep failing because the later instances start with a CPUCreditBalance of zero.

We just released T2 Unlimited in part to solve that. In this new version all instances start with a zero balance, but none are ever throttled and you can do a sustained burst immediately at launch: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t2-unlimited-going-beyo...
Looks like the world is finally catching up to the Future that Temple OS lives in.
Yeah like losing wars and falling prey to despotic leadership. Which bitcoin is much less susceptible to.
Not sure where you got your numbers from. An AA pilot with 10 years experience makes a minimum of $159,000. That’s the absolute bare minimum. I do not have the data of what aircraft many 10 year pilots fly or which seat they’re in but I would imagine the mean of all 10 year pilots at AA is closer to $200,000.
There are several attempts at stable cryptocurrencies like MakerDAO and BitUSD, but because the price never changes they get no press coverage.
> We need taxation. We need monetary policy.

Yes to one, no to two. Monetary inflation allows governments to tax you by stealth. They then manipulate the inflation statistics (hedonic regression anyone?) to make it seem that inflation is lower than it is, so that your purchasing power is debased faster than the statistics. That's why house prices have exploded for 40 years, and just about anything you buy costs more by some orders of magnitude than what it should given CPI.

Bitcoin is the reckoning for that system. The government will be forced to accept that people will not hold their token except to pay taxes. When it is not possible to know the worth of someone, which is already painfully obvious for the very wealthy, the only taxable system will be on the use of goods and services in their respective governanace area.
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It's legal to test them, but you have to register them as such. Uber refused to register them (as I understand it) because it felt they didn't meet the legal definition of autonomous.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/uber-self-driv...
>Common things like rolling updates were a 3-step operation (or they were for us), and node replacement was a pain

I had the same experience until I created an ECS stack using CloudFormation, which made it much easier to manage.
I dunno. I have little problem with images etc. The problem i have is the attempts to "app-ify" by turning every site into a GUI via JS.

The initial idea of the web as a source of linked static documents were fine. Heck, even early CGI sites may have been fine. It was AJAX(?) that brought the madness.

And btw, late gen terminals from DEC could show images (and perhaps even videos by abusing the protocol).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/
I posted this a few days ago and since have significantly revamped the README to (hopefully) better explain what this library is about (allowing you to express your program design directly as data, in a style that's portable to most programming languages in use today) and how it adds value (neatly separating bunched logic into discrete data structures that are near-trivially implemented, debugged, and parallelized).

The wider implication being that hopefully, with this library, the architecture of connected (including web) applications can be dramatically simplified. Specifically, I want to rapidly develop and deploy efficient, reliable applications that don't rely on databases, caches, message queues, or other incidental complexity for small-to-medium-data projects. This library is the first step towards that, with the next being some demonstration of reliable, efficient persistent restart capabilities for event processing.
There's more than 50 American DMVs, all the states plus DC and each of the territories have their own. Do you really think you know everything about all the requirements for an ID for all of them to make such a statement?
I was thinking of just doing a generic tree search + optional heuristic thing to start. As a game developer, my experience has been that even really stupid AIs help a lot to understand what my game plays like.

If having something simple in place prompts someone from the AI community to come try something more sophisticated, I'd certainly enjoy the show.
If you ship an OS that runs your premium+ pricey hardware one of the onuses on you is to be able to quickly respond to catastrophic bugs and security issues without introducing new ones.

That's why you hire best engineers, product managers and QA people and establish processes that let you do exactly that. Trouble is Apple's treating everything like toys nowadays.

Surprising though how many people are willing to give a free pass to an almost trillion dollar company.

Also you realise Apple's asking their customers to run terminal commands - even MS has fixits that just do it :)
Inflation can be properly managed by responsible central banks. It's not really a problem.

Also "wage slavery" is perpetuated by private companies not governments, so not sure how you aim to eliminate that by killing governments.
While I'm against most unions today (at least in the US, and especially in the public sector), I do think the German industrial unions (where they have works councils with management, etc.) are a pretty good counterexample.
If I move a rock from my left to my right does the rock weight more?

Just because a physical thing changes state doesn't mean it weights more.
Depends a lot on the startup, especially outside the Bay. In other parts of the country, you usually don't get substantial stock grants from corporate employers, and you usually do get market salary or close to it from a startup. There's a relatively small difference between working for a startup and working for a corp, but there's a huge difference between founding a startup and working for a corp.
Yes' masterpiece, Close to the edge, has nothing but "nature" sounds for the first 57 seconds. The first human vocal sound (”aaahhhh") is at 2:00, while the first lyrics are at 4:01. But then the song, or suite, really, is 18:45 long. I'm too lazy to check their other long works.
That's actually a legit criticism of putting the first cars on a road, and a valid reason to impose some kind of rules on cars to mitigate "spooking" behavior induced in horses, although obviously not as strong as the so-called "red flag" laws.
By all means, keep pretending robots are people and that I was talking about people.
It has become an increasingly valuable store of value. That's the thing about bitcoin. It is actually money. The thing you're acquiring is money, and the thing you use it for is money. It is 'money' the asset that is being acquired, and its deflationary nature makes it a more valuable 'money' asset to hold than an inflationary one. So its increased utility is the system of 'money' the asset storage itself.
That is how they know whether each and every feature is working well or not.

How does this explain the "quality" of Snapchat and Tinder?
> Your post essentially means "it's okay to hit people sometimes; our city wouldn't work otherwise".

This is trivially true! Otherwise cars would not be allowed on public roads.

When it comes to cars, it's always about tradeoffs and acceptable risk.