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The barrier to entry is low. The barrier to mass adoption is high. Bitcoin is winning that war handily compared to any other cryptocurrency. There are definitely flaws with Bitcoin that will need to be ironed out, but the world's most elegant cryptocurrency is useless if no one has heard of it or uses it. First mover and marketing often trumps technological advantage. A non-techie doesn't care about Ethereum or Monero, but they do care about Bitcoin when the news is talking about how valuable it is everyday. Bitcoin is changing the mindset of what money is to the masses, this can't be said for other cryptocurrencies.

Perhaps Bitcoin will fail at some point in the distant future, but for the time being it is absolutely the most influential cryptocurrency, this can easily be seen by all altcoins' value being pegged to their BTC conversion rate.
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Yeah we were partly inspired by it and the idea is similar. Although, they seem to focus on ML and Math, while we hope to cover as many topics as possible. Another difference is that we don't host any content, but just links to resources.

For rendering the maps we're using React and D3. D3 is used for calculating the position of elements on the page and, React for rendering and manipulating those elements. Before we had a ref and let D3 manage everything on that ref, but it got unmanageable quite fast.

EDIT: if you're interested here's an article that explains what I'm talking about https://medium.com/@Elijah_Meeks/interactive-applications-wi...
Ah crap! You may have retinopathy! ;)
That is true. But that way lies totalitarianism.
Interesting. I'm solving the same problem but with a different approach![1] I just finished the initial development yesterday so there isn't much in the way of documentation yet, but I'll give a quick overview as a comparison to this (since they have a similar goal but very different approaches):

I have one course put together so far and that course is still a little rough[2] (again, just finished development yesterday).

I think manual curation of resources by topic experts is required for this model to be effective. An expert on a subject will know where you should focus your efforts so you don't get lost just wandering around the internet digesting all the related information. mgadams3 touched on this with their observation about learn-anything.xyz courses needing a cohesive narrative.

I also think tests are necessary. I have read many articles about all sorts of things and more-often-than-not the information goes in one ear and out the other. My approach involves a series of multiple choice quizzes every few articles and a multiple choice final exam at the end. This way you know that you have actually learned something before moving on. I don't have any tests set up for the course I have made yet, but they are an integral part of the process.

learn-anything.xyz is cool. The tech is very impressive! I'm just not sure that it was made by someone that is actually going to use it for all of their learning, and I would have no idea how to effectively use it for my learning. Impressive work but that's just my 2 cents.

[1] https://github.com/claudiulodro/multithreaded-knowledge

[2] http://multithreaded.link/course/mid-century-modern-furnitur...
You can just uninstall it. It looks like apt remove systemd would work on my system, at the cost of GNOME and NetworkManager. APT automatically fills the gap with sysvinit and consolekit. OpenRC is also available.
Debian even has ports to kFreeBSD and HURD that don't support systemd at all.
There were some rough edges last time I ran Debian without systemd, and it might have gotten worse since then, but it surprises me how Debian ended up at the center of the debate when it doesn't seem that bad as systemd-defaulting distros go.
you can do this in pycharm by setting a breakpoint and opening up the debug console and sending a line to the console. i agree it's very useful
An RFC is not always a standard - often they are simply 'informational'. For us, when we wrote the document, it was a way to document as transparently as possible how the system worked so that folks would not need to speculate about it and for us to explain the rationale and alternatives considered. This seemed to me at the time far better than being evasive about it. And a request for comment is often a way to solicit exactly that - good comments (e.g. suggestions on alternatives). In this case, it has led in part to things like the IETF's new(ish) CAPPORT working group being created to develop a better Internet-wide standard for how to interact with so-called captive portals. See https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/capport/about/ for more details and feel free to join the mailing list and contribute!
More guidance here too "It’s Not About the ICO, It’s About the Trading Vehicle" https://medium.com/@gaetanconsulting/its-not-about-the-ico-i...
Thank you a lot. This is really encouraging and helps us keep going with this idea.
> But in software you don't need to cut down trees or mine ore.

Lets not forget the dictators with child soldiers that use forced labour to mine the rare earth materials & the factories with nets to catch the workers that attempt suicide, which are a part of making computers & mobiles that is vital for software development. Also, where our old devices & batteries end up. Softwares do rack up a huge carbon foot-print.
IEEE might say that but they're not the definitive authority on age old ethics debates. If you know you're programming ransomware, that's one thing, but it's not always so black and white.
> It was not an ad - it was a request

As a Comcast customer, I request you discontinue this injecting of javascript into webpages for ANY reason, unreasonably limiting an INFINITE RESOURCE and monopolizing localities so you are the only viable choice. This should not be the behavior of the largest telecom provider in the continental US. We deserve better.
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Extreme Ownership

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Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy

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Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

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Janesville

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The Man Who Could Be King

John Miller

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My Own Liberator

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Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance

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Small Great Things

Jodi Picoult

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

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Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen

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Bharat Anand

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The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

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Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court

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The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

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Stealing Fire

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Economics for the Common Good

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As the other comment said, HTTPS does prevent this, and this only happens on HTTP pages.

> Do we, as a community, have any mechanism to detect if these sorts of attacks are occurring?

Yes, Caddy can detect whether a connection is being MITM'ed: https://caddyserver.com/docs/mitm-detection
Why traffic injection instead of mail pieces? I mean, I open all of mine, even the 75%+ that are upsells I don't want, on the off chance one of them will tell me something I need to know. And if Comcast can afford to send that much junk mail, I should tend to think Comcast can afford to send one or two, or five, mail pieces that carry a warning like ACTION REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN SERVICE on the envelope, to those of whom action is indeed required to maintain service. You guys shipped me a whole new unsolicited modem! (One which I'll put into service, too, just as soon as I've worked out how to disable all the routing and wireless smarts I don't want, don't need, and won't suffer messing with my network.) Surely you can afford bulk rate.

And mail pieces don't produce the potentially rather widespread indignation that traffic injection does. Granted, I don't see the harm in it that a lot of people here do. Unencrypted traffic is unencrypted traffic - open to tampering by anyone, not just Comcast, and for many less innocuous reasons than the one for which you've chosen to do so. But with Let's Encrypt, browser manufacturers, and friends leading the charge toward TLS everywhere or as nearly so as is practical, and with most sites that most people use already employing TLS, the attack surface is closing for even an other-than-innocuous variant of your notification methodology. Of course, that also means that that methodology itself is reaching a natural end-of-life, as it cannot work anywhere that TLS exists, and the majority of the web where it does exist continues to grow. If this low-latency notification scheme is of unique value to your business, then now is the time to consider replacing the outdated technology that underpins it with something which will continue to work reliably over the next decade or two.

All that said, I appreciate your decision to engage in this forum. That's unprecedented in my experience from someone in a position like yours, and I wouldn't mind seeing more of it.
Actually, I think that you are missing the point. It’s true that systemd implements some good ideas that did not exist in other init systems at the time, but most of those feature are pretty niche, and more importantly, you can not evaluate software purely on how good it’s ideas are. You have to consider how good it actually is. Systemd has real flaws that cause real problems for real people. The sooner everyone understands this the better.
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You'd probably have to find a cryptocurrency that has an extremely high inflation rate. There's no other way around it.

So let's say initially 1 million "coins" are created and people put $1 million in total in them, so each are worth $1. To keep that $1 price, you'd have to increase the amount of coins each time more people want to buy more such coins.

So if new people put another $1 million into the cryptocurrency, you'd have to automatically generate another 1 million coins. So you'd maintain, roughly, that $1 per coin value.

Otherwise, with any relatively finite amount of coins in a cryptocurrency, you're going to see an exponential rise in their values, as more people get interested in that cryptocurrency.

It doesn't matter if you create 1 million or 1 trillion coins initially. If the inflation rate is "only" say 10% per year, but millions of dollars, and then tens of millions of dollars, and then billions of dollars are put into that cryptocurrency within a relatively short amount of time, its value is going to explode.
I had a look at https://learn-anything.xyz, and for most topics it's just a link to the Wikipedia page, and occasionally also a link to Reddit or StackExchange.

Is this really all there is to it? It reminds me of the hand-curated website directories that were popular in the 1990s, before search engines had really hit the spot. Nothing groundbreaking here from what I can see.
In terms of booting: we are aware that systemd just kills fsck after a timeout. And that you can adjust the timeout. It is just something additional that we need to take care of, when running a system with systemd that is not the expected behaviour of a Linux system (like: why would you ever want to abort fsck?)
This is pretty old news. This letter was created a month ago.
We can play this game all day. What if I pass an integer that takes 32GiB of memory to store? Also the system's fault if the resources aren't available?
Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence?
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I’m not sure that’s evidence against their natural monopoly position. It might be that we’re in a world where in some places, it’s plausible to have two ISPs, and in many it’s not—but if two try, they’ll both fail to get enough people to be profitable. Then any sane provider wants to demand exclusivity as the cost of pulling fiber through a community, and unhappily acknowledges that they’ll have to cover all of their exclusive territory. If we’re in that world, and the service is nearly essential, we’ll see legal monopolies in lots of places, and some places with no legal monopoly and no service—they can’t agree on a price.

I’m prone to suspicion of their business practices too, but every one of the Comcast technical staff I’ve met, from Jason down, has been an excellent person deeply committed to the best mission of a telecoms company, enabling human communication. Is that a marketing campaign? Yes, but as far as I can tell it’s an honest campaign of showing the world who they are and what they care about.
And re halt/poweroff/reboot: We tried to figure it out for some systems, where a user session was blocking reboot, but eventually stopped investing resources into it. Similar to the booting problem, we expect a computer to "just reboot" and the default behaviour should be that kill -9 is issued after some timeout.
From a purely logical point of view, it might not belong on a falsehoods list, but it would sit very well on a "useless notions" list, right before "anyone can be taught to program".
Is that when they subsidized the ISPs with billions to build out infrastructure, which they never did?

The problem with anti-government rhetoric in the US is it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. Government is not inherently as incompetent and weak as yours often is.

There is no reason why a regulatory solution cannot work in the US when they work well in many other countries of greatly varying size and population density.

If your government fails you, that is not a failure of government: it is a failure of your government.
Except people tend to vote with their wallets for thinner lighter phones. Probably I’d prefer a slightly thicker phone myself but I’m probably not typical.
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I'm not knocking the concept of cryptocurrencies as a whole, just like I would never knock the Internet as a whole. However, I would say that a lot of people speculating with stars in their eyes without understanding the underlying technology makes me wonder when a market correction event is going to happen.

Currently on my Facebook feed there is a kid I know who is a tech support agent but now posting pictures as a "Bitcoin daytrader" and now offering classes on the subject. There is another girl who is a model for rap videos in Detroit and she posts screenshots of Bitcoin prices to show how well off she is now. I've read about hackers walking away with millions of dollars in a cryptorobbery (now a real thing). The next thing is an Ocean's 11 sequel where George Clooney and Brad Pitt pull off a cryptoheist.

I think the real innovation is blockchain and that there will be a major cryptocurrency to rise out of one of the smaller markets. I get the feeling (just a hunch) that Bitcoin will be lycos/altavista/yahoo that will inspire a Google. Maybe that company already exists (Ethereum?), maybe not.
With all the junk mail I get from my cable company about "upgrading" my service to include some crap I don't want, I would think they could find a way to slip in a "hey, your modem's busted" notice.
Cooperate fully, don't talk, and sue everyone involved--especially the local government--afterward. No one cares until it costs money.
The robot to sort plastics is fine. The problem is people keep feeding it with sand and cardboard.
Thanks. Taking deeper look at the titles and authors, it seems to be a reading list for the people who frequent Bloomberg, not necessarily the best books or so.
Lol. Everyone just leaves their money on shady exchanges. A small fraction of people manage their own wallets and they get robbed frequently or lose them.
On the subject of "ums" - does anyone know if there's a tool out there to automatically remove ums and uhs from spoken audio?

Seems like it'd be a useful and comparatively doable problem to solve.
I think the mindset is that at least he’ll be embarrassed on his yacht. Short of that thinking, you’d have to assume a few solid layers of cognitive dissonance.
I actually think I've experienced something similar across every OS I've ever used. With Linux distros I was always able to trigger it by opening and closing the lid a few times. With Windows, I don't remember the exact sequence or what version.

Overall, there appears to be something funky with this overlay technique and how things are asynchronously rendered.
Most doctors are totally clueless regarding nutrition or supplements.

How do you even go about finding a doctor who "stays abreast of this kind of research" .
Been doing remote development for past 5 years. These are some of the super useful tools i use.

# needtomeet.com - for scheduling meeting.

# Screenhero - for collaborative screen sharing.

# Monosnap - for screenshot and annotate.

# Google doc - for collaboration.

# Zoho - for project management. They have a suite of apps so it's easy to integrate.

# Google wiki - for documentation.

# Rundeck - for automation. Will save lot of your time.

# Slack, Skype and Whatsapp - for communication.

# Secretserver - for credentials sharing.

# Autossh - for always connected ssh session.

# Tmux - for collaborative debugging.

# Dropbox - for file sharing.

# F.lux - remote developers spend more time staring at the screen so take care of the eye strain.
Fyi, your copy&paste leaves out _who_ recommended each book. For some, they'd prioritize reading a book mentioned by VC Marc Andreessen over Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein.
So how much cash did you burn by commenting four threads deep, halfway down the page on hackernews, Mr. Productive?
Would have been good if the author did this in the original article.
Why not try implementing the pathway and hour filters on the current UI from Cabs? It sounds very smart and should be easy to add to the existing UI.
> Just because more people want to explore this brave new world doesn’t mean it’s a bubble.

I agree with you that there is legitimate innovation happening. I enjoy reading a lot of blockchain research and the cryptographic advancements that go towards improving consensus algorithms.

With that said, I really do not believe most people buying cryptocurrencies want to explore a “brave new world”. I doubt most people buying cryptocurrencies could explain to you 1) what the word “trustless” means, 2) what their investment thesis is, 3) why they’re buying one cryptocurrency over another.

They want to sell to a greater fool. Just as real estate was a legitimate investment vehicle during the 2007 bubble, cryptocurrencies (and bitcoin in particular) can simultaneously enjoy legitimate utility and extreme irrational exuberance.
It’s high school too. Cops have dash and body cams now. It used to be they’d just take your beer. No discretion now.
If food and housing were guaranteed, there would be no homelessness and losing your job wouldn't be stressful. It's true that we can have more now but we still always have to worry about falling down to nothing again.
You may be missing the point. Those "poor kids" you refer to should ALSO be granted an opportunity to rebuild their reputations.
It would make it harder, perhaps.
Indeed. I really wish Apple would offer an option to have a phone that's twice as thick as their current offerings, with the extra space filled with extra battery. Keep the thin ones available for people who prefer those. But I'm not getting my hopes up for such a thing.

(And to preempt the typical responses to this: I know battery cases exist, but they're a substantially inferior solution.)
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Is there a way for the users to leave comments on any of the courses? I think it'd be cool to have reviews on each course too!
So it can't be statically compiled, although it doesn't require an interpreter provided a full language compiler is part of the runtime of compiled programs whose input can update the code...

Interesting... very meta :-)
The trite example I listed _is_ obvious, yet as obvious as it is, some folks insist that “science” is this free thinking process.

Foucault of course is much more expansive than my trivial example, covering the notion of institutions as ideological enforcement, among other things.

No fool on Hacker News can summarize his work in a reply, and one would be heavily encouraged to read it. It cuts right to the core of epistemology itself.
>The total energy use of this web of hardware is huge—an estimated 31 terawatt-hours per year. More than 150 individual countries in the world consume less energy annually.

It would be interesting if the article stated which countries.

>And that power-hungry network is currently increasing its energy use every day by about 450 gigawatt-hours, roughly the same amount of electricity the entire country of Haiti uses in a year.

This article :

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ypkp3y/bitcoin-is...

In my opinion, Vice, does a much better job of explaining this phenomenon so that the reader is able to quantify the electricity usage.

The author of the same article I shared above also did an article about comparing electricity consumption of a bitcoin vs a credit card transaction (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3p7e/bitcoin-is...)

>In 2015, I wrote that bitcoin had a big sustainability problem. Back then, each bitcoin transaction represented roughly enough electricity to power 1.57 American households for a day— approximately 5,000 times more energy-intensive than a credit card transaction
Spending BTC is fundamentally the same as selling.
Well, thank you for the response, but I am not very satisfied with the answers.

The crux of disagreement is the method of delivery and the importance of the upgrade requiring this sort of injection. You write:

> Available alternatives are not great, such as using DPI everywhere, DNS modification (we use DNSSEC), or a walled garden (all service disrupted while in walled garden). These methods tend to be more costly and cause more disruption for customers.

I'm still not convinced as to why a phone call or an email would not suffice. What information is specifically being cited by customers as "information overload"? Why can this not simply be a notification as a part of the Xfinity main page? Why isn't an email that only has information on the EOL of a modem is less obstructive than yet another pop-up for users who are trained to ignore pop-ups?

The case for an injection isn't really made simply because other intrusive methods are more intrusive; the presentation of the message itself is just more information in a sea of information, and the criticality of the issue isn't sufficiently justified either. This is not the appropriate way of communicating information that has no such urgency. It's a very nice thing to phase out modems that are EOL, sure, I will grant that. But the information is not so urgent that it needs to be delivered right now or injected into the webpage. That is not something the ISP should be doing, which I suspect is another point of contention that will be had.