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OK, I didn't do the math. Thanks for the correction :). Turns out - lets ignore your generosity there, that we are realistically talking around 1000 trillion. National debt is at like 14 trillion. Chinese M1 money stock is 7 trillion. Now at the current growth rate, which is unreasonable to continually sustain, could continue to be high for a while, and you can't ignore the incredible growth of the global narrow money stock - https://data.oecd.org/money/narrow-money-m1.htm#indicator-ch... (10x in 15 years - 62x for Turkey in 20 years!). So I'll agree with you, highly, highly unlikely - but not at all beyond the realms of possibility - given what appears to be highly improbable (yet predictable history).
Individual shareholders are not capable of meaningfully directing company action unless they act in aggregate and even then it would be very hard for individual stockholders to make this happen because of the low frequency with which shareholder meetings are held.

Stockholders - especially those that originally bought company stock when it was issued - assume liability already, if the company goes under their stock is worthless, if the company is fined their dividends drop.

To make them liable beyond that for something they themselves do not control in a way that would enable you to assign blame is excessive.
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With the latest barrage of Wikipedia ads, I finally installed a Javascript blocker and an image blocker too. I'm suddenly noticing that huge swaths of the web are much, much more pleasant.
A driveway is fine, but the rest of the front yard should be unpaved.
Earlier discussion can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15865613
> I can see how AI could be leveraged to generate implementation of highly precise specs

Interesting idea - maybe as a draft.

But keep in mind that people have been chasing this target for decades. SQL was supposed to be a language so close to English that business people could use it. Wizards and templates were supposed to eliminate the need for hand-coding. 10 years ago I was advised to learn UML or prepare for extinction.

All they've achieved is the explosion in the number of programmers.
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> I'm not sure what exactly simulations means? lots of Matlab/R/some specific DSL?

Mostly C++ and python. Though I know Matlab too.

I'm not looking for a job, per say, but it is always good to know what I can get. But you would suggest a head hunter? I do have experience now.
I've had a corporate Android phone since Ice-Cream Sandwich. I assume people that started before me used earlier versions too.
That was political grandstanding. Imagine if some war broke out or something like the financial crisis happened in 3 years. Already poor economic growth, 401k crashing, job cutting, businesses losing money and all of a sudden taxes go up 15%? It would sink the economy and force govt to pay trillions. It was a comically absurd idea that becomes easily refuted with 5 seconds of thought. Unfortunately, 99% of politics is grandstanding, just hope that things that pass into actual law are rational.
Not sure anything new in this story from the one discussed four hours earlier (70+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15865613

The official press release was on reddit, submitted but with no comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0s6o/official_p...

A handful (5) of comments on the earliest related submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15863306
Okay, that is true. I am just not satisfied with proof-of-work as a solution there. It makes Sybil attacks unreasonably expensive, by making the entire operation of the chain even more unreasonably expensive.

I do like the math behind Bitcoin but I wish it had just remained as a proof of concept.
I doubt the man resorted to extortion. 100k seems pretty reasonable for the severity of this issue and given Uber's budget it could've been a reasonable initial offer.
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yes i built ast quite a few times. nmake always worked fine.
Of course. There's no inherent technical countermeasures against someone doing so.
I entered one account on Mint and found myself with OP, and decided I didn't want to enter a bunch of different login credentials into a different app.
Ha you considered using GAME coin instead?
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Here's a list of the top 100 American surnames. The majority of them are British/Scottish/Welsh: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/century.html

No matter what you think, the British Isles are the ones who populated the country.
Can you link to a product available for purchase that implements your recommendation so that I can compare pricing vs. the Trezor?
Please someone on HN get this cracked...
Bitfinex offers this.
"If you can write a program using nothing but the simplest syntax, it is a net win."

In other words, write everything in Brainfuck FTW? Seriously?
Kent is not arguing against integration tests.

> I take this as a challenge. I’m happy to write integration tests. I insist on it. But a part of me registers the need for integration tests as a failure or limitation of my design skills. I’ll put that frontier in the back of my mind and a month or a year or a decade later bing I’ll figure out how to raise the level of abstraction, put more of the system in that happy state where I have complete confidence in it, and I’ll have new tools for thinking. Yippee!

He is trying to figure out which design abstractions are yet to be invented. It is a challenge not a criticism.
Edit: this paragraph is full of lies. -- There are a lot of things to be worried about with global warming, but I have never heard the density of ocean water listed among them. Water at 24 C is 0.002 less dense than water at 14 C. Since 10 C swings in global temperatures would long have caused catastrophes in other domains, I don't think we'll be much bothered by this small of a change in ocean density.

Please enlighten me if I am incorrect. Edit: thanks, all. I stand corrected.
In the future humans won't have write code because machines will do it all.

So all that will be left for humans is set up configs like webpack. This will take a tremendous amount of time and effort. So there will be a huge demand for configers. And thus configer bootcamps and Medium articles on how there is so much sexism in the configing industry and others bemoning the prevelence of config-bros.

Sarcasm aside, at the end of the day someone has to tell a machine what is wanted. Unless machines get much smarter and they aren't about to get that smart any time soon near as I can tell. Those someones are called programmers.
Actually I don't think he was successfully making that agnostic point.

It's more like: don't gold plate it, and don't use abstractions that you learnt later.

Not gold plating things seems obvious. I think there's a TDD advocate who has an example of when he created a wiki that stored its data in a text file. Purely by accident. But it worked perfectly for his use case; he didn't actually need to fire up the latest distributed NoSql blah blah blah. And perhaps that's something worth considering.

Not using abstractions learnt later in life tho. I think that's a problem. It took me years of contorting my head to fit in some of the customary Haskell abstractions like monads and functors. Today I probably couldn't describe them accurately, but I'm sure I benefit from when I think in terms of them. For instance, it seems that the code is better if I write a method which accepts an object then does something, vs writing a method which might accept an object, then tests for null, and if not null it does something. (And similarly for looping constructions for instance. You write a more superficial level of code that knows about nulls or arrays and a deeper level of code which doesn't. Directly thinking "monad" literally helps me here.) It's simpler, but it's not at all more simplistic.

And so at this point, I want to distinguish between complex/complicated and simple/simplistic. Things which are complicated or simplistic are bad because they're simpler or more complex than they should be. Things which are complex or simple are inevitable and complaining about them is unproductive, like complaining about the weather.
Yes, Bitcoin might very well eat all money on Earth. No joke, no freaking joke. I'm thinking along the lines of a financial black hole.
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Sounds like an interesting gig, anyone open for an informal chat about the roles and sketching out a relative fit?
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If you don't have pricing on your website, I'm going to assume I can't afford it.

.... Which, now I think about it is probably the point
Buy land at 50 ft. elevation? I only half kid.
Audi's former head of R&D, Ulrich Hackenburg, and Porsche's former head of engine developent, Wolfgang Hatz, are the other big two (aside from Winterkorn) in the crosshairs.

Not "just engineers". They were, but they were responsible for some extraordinarily impressive stuff when they were. Hatz also presided over powertrain development for what is indisputably Porsche's truly golden era for its sports cars, where they are almost never regarded as anything but some of the best on the planet.
Your three statements are false.
You can go onto underground markets and forums today and buy hundreds to thousands of Uber accounts. They're obtained via endpoint malware and shared passwords.

Buying and selling Netflix, porn and Uber accounts in this way is a very common and popular

If you're account was affected it's a very good chance it was via this method rather than a broader Uber breach
What current jobs don't require interaction with other humans?
Houston didn't. I live here. Our freeways fill up with water but don't channel it away.
Bitcoin Cash is the brute force solution to scaling. Increasing block size results in longer validation times as well as slower block propagation. Both of these things lead to centralization. The entire purpose of bitcoin is to be as decentralized as possible.

Anyways, here's a video released today of a lightning transaction happening on mainnet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73Gz3Tvx3k

Here's a video of Greg Maxwell explaining how slight propagation delays can lead to drastic increases in centralization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIuuKCm53o

And here's rootstock, an ethereum compatible solution for smart contracts: https://www.rsk.co/

Bitcoin Cash is like trying to solve traffic congestion by adding more lanes.
Sure, but charging more than a couple bucks to see a movie isn’t sustainable either—either way movie theaters are fucked if they try to peg profits to tickets.
Yep, and this happened to Donald Knuth: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
One tunnel isn't going to solve all flooding problems in a huge city like KL. It's a step in the right direction, though.
If v is an eigenvector of T with eigenvalue λ, then (T - bI)v = λv - bv = (λ - b)v. The image is a rescaling of v (and in particular has the same eigenvalue). Therefore

(T-λ_2) ... (T-λ_m) v_k =
(T-λ_2) ... (T-λ_(m-1)) (λ_k - λ_m) v_k =
(T-λ_2) ... (T-λ_(m-2)) (λ_k - λ_(m-1)) (λ_k - λ_m) v_k =
... =
(λ_k-λ_2) ... (λ_k - λ_(m-1)) (λ_k - λ_m) v_k

Now if k is not 1, then the factor (λ_k - λ_k) appears in the above product, so the term drops outs. So the only term left is the v_1 one.

The eigenvalues are all distinct by hypothesis: "Non-zero eigenvectors corresponding to distinct eigenvalues...".
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Circle still sells BTC, just (generally) not to consumers. It's addressed in _Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots_ #250: http://giantrobots.fm/250
Yes but I believe with ACH you have 60-days to dispute the fraudulent debits.
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I would love to hear more about what must be Coinbase's love/hate relationship with MongoDB.

From my very uninformed perspective, the tool mostly does what it says on the tin these days, but that hasn't always been the case. I would be interested in following along with Coinbase during this transition, and hearing more about what MongoDB is used for there today.
There's clearly a spectrum between "reward" and "extortion", but... come on. The point to a bug bounty is to make it worthwhile for smart hackers to report their findings to the company in a ethical way, which broadly means that it should be comparable to the kind of money they can make for their labor on the open market.

A hundred grand for a few weeks or a month of work is way, way above that level. This is a jackpot, not a reward. Whether Uber threw out the number or the guy demanded probably won't ever be known, but I know where I'd put my bet.
I live in Houston and there may be something in the works but if so I haven't heard about it yet. I sure hope someone is working on it...
“I can send my USD only if my bank permits me to do so and depending on their schedule.”

I can login to my online Bank of America account now and transfer money to most anyone I know in about 100 countries. I can do the same from my bank account in A foreign bank account.

Freedom = I don’t want the government to know. I don’t have anything to hide and I am perfectly fine with the government seeing to whom I send/receive my money.

But bitcoin’s utility of it being a mechanism for transactions is over. It has become a mechanism to hoard wealth. The same way Tulips were used to hold wealth. The bulb will burst and it will lose that mechanism as well.

That said I think crypto currencies are the future...I just don’t think it’s bitcoin...
>2. When trying to recover an older account, the recovery keeps asking for my phone number but isn't sending me texts properly. If you say you lost your phone, you can submit id+selfie, but to get to that step, you need your phone??

I did this a week ago. They ask you for your current (= old) phone number and your new phone number, but you don't actually need access to your old phone number. You just need to enter it.
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>like me, you can't access Facebook wherever you are

Wherever it is, it sounds wonderful.
Let's just store all of our money with the government then, eh?
Downtime, lack of trust from users, etc.
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My situation was crazy. I was denied insurance right before the ACA took effect because of a "preexisting condition" that I never thought about. I have what for all intents and purposes is very mild cerebral palsy. As an adult, I've never had any complications, I was in excellent shape - I had been a part time fitness instructor for years and ran two half marathons the year before. The only noticeable effect of my CP is one of my hands.
We could fund a basic income with the data we give away to Facebook and Google
"It's safe as long as i think it's safe." Gotcha.
When it hits all of:

Acceptability
Durability
Divisibility
Stability
Portability
(Elasticity)

If you can't spend it easily, it's not a (functioning) currency.

If it spoils or decays within your lifetime it's not a currency.

If it's not something you can divide in order to make payments of a more-or-less arbitrary amount, it's not a currency.

If you can't predict how much of the asset you will need to pay your bills next month, it's not a currency

If you can't bring it with you to the place where the exchange takes place, it's not a currency.

If you can't obtain capital investment in a currency because the currency itself is more valuable than anything you could produce, then it's not a (good long term) currency. This last one is in parens because it one only matters in a growing economy. A deflationary currency can still otherwise function as a viable medium of exchange, but eventually, lack of availability for new entrants will mean that entrepreneurs will begin looking to do business in alternate currencies.
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Not unless they either have physical check from you, OR are enrolled into MSP (merchant service provider). But MSPs will monitor fraudulent activity just like providing CC in any online store gives them access to empty your CC doesnt mean they will get away with it :)
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No matter what you think, white Americans are mostly German. Here is the top hit when I googled that:

"German-Americans are America’s largest single ethnic group .... In 2013, according to the Census bureau, 46m Americans claimed German ancestry: more than the number who traced their roots to Ireland (33m) or England (25m). "

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21642222-americ...
That makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. By your logic, people using coinbase to hold their coins aren't holding bitcoin. It is exactly the same.

Bitcoin from my wallet is being spent. It is increasing in value while i don't spend it, because it is in bitcoin. It is no different than an American using their cc in europe.
Based on my experience* over the past ~week, "robust" is not a word I'd use in the same sentence as "coinbase".

*In addition intermittent outages which prevented me from accessing their site, I sent some Satoshi from my local wallet to coinbase (10 days ago at time of writing) in order to unload some; transaction was marked "pending"; they've since sold the coins; customer support has stopped responding to my emails.
A 0.002 relative change in density is actually quite a lot, if you consider that the oceans are 12,000 feet deep on average.
The end of this post mortem was a bit handwavy TBH. I feel like they didnt dig deep enough, and the problem was the backup VIP, not the two processes crashing at once and the backup VIP.

I think by still allowing the backup VIP to run on the sync replica the same mistake is being repeated, there will always be the possibility of a situation where the VIP cannot be moved when promotion is required. That replica should be doing nothing but sitting there waiting to save the day, and if they want the backup VIP to be highly available they should provision 2 async replicas.
The “innovation gap” is mostly about income differences
It's for in-memory databases:

https://www.mapd.com
bitcoin boosters will try and spin this as good for bitcoin somehow
If I'm correct (not a hydrologist) 0.002 decrease in density translates to a 2M (~6 feet) sea level rise per KM of ocean. Some quick googling suggest that the average ocean depth is close to 4KM.

So even small changes can have noticeable effect, particular when it's combined with other changes.
On notional value bases, he is probably right but we all know how the derivative guys like to lever up and hide it all under layers of synthetic securities.
Not to be overly critical here, but don't you think your pricing structure is completely disproportional to what you're offering? Have you ever asked anyone whether they would be willing to spend $500 a year on 365 programming problems when they could just IFTTT a feed of Project Euler questions into an email in 5min, or log on to HackerRank or similar using the reminder emails they send you?

Additionally, (correct me if I'm wrong) but is having one-on-one support the only difference between the "Plus" and "Pro" pricing tiers? Is it really worth spending $475 extra/month for the opportunity to discuss problems with the founders (whose names are nowhere to be found?)

Again, I really don't want to hate on anyone's product. I'm sure there's something super amazing about this. I just want to understand the rationale behind the pricing structure, since I've never seen a product like this before.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15863182
Nothing wrong with my memory

http://bitcoinist.com/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-announces...

Not to mention being a signatory to the nya, being the attempted hostile takeover of bitcoin via 2x that crashed one block before the fork. And let's not forget :

http://www.coinfox.info/news/persons/5012-brian-armstrong-ca...

Losing side. Every time.

And no one is interested in a centralized alt like bch, which is why it has virtually no traffic. If people were interested in that use case, they'd be using litecoin, having double the capacity of bch, as well as having segwit, and atomic swaps with bitcoin.
I don't know too much about bitcoin but am I reading this correctly that they had $60 million in ONE wallet?

Wouldn't it be wise to have part of this money in several "offline" wallets or something?
Barter is, by definition, an exchange of goods without using money. In other words if you have to barter to get rid of it, it's not currency.
Oh Uber was hacked in 2014 per this article https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/11/21/ube...

Scroll to the middle of the article.
FDIC insures up to 250k so you have to spread it around to get protection above that. Not like that is a problem to most people just saying there are limits to that protection.

Crypto currency accounts have some massive accounts now, not sure those would be covered much in those cases even with FDIC protection though it would be nice.

If there truly was a banking crash where more banks went down than in the Great Recession, I wonder how FDIC would hold up based on how many over leveraged games were being played that led to that implosion. Crypto currency is probably a reaction to that as well, trust in banking is immensely low in history.
Yes, actually it is a significant factor.

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

> Based on figures from between 1993–2008 two thirds (68%) of recent sea level rise has been attributed by melting ice, and roughly one third has come from thermal expansion.

https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-5-1...

> During recent years (1993–2003), for which the observing system is much better, thermal expansion and melting of land ice each account for about half of the observed sea level rise, although there is some uncertainty in the estimates.
If you think that some future economy will run on cryptocurrency (not totally far fetched IMO) and that currency will have network effects (I don't really see this yet, apart from deflation via speculation, which will stop eventually, it's not stable) then there's a possibility of a winner takes all outcome. But it's very easy to doubt any specific currency will be the final winner.
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I was doing lot of refactoring around ksh93 code and legacy build system was not really helpful in detecting problems. It was best to change it.
Also I wonder how it compares to the carbon footprint of the mining industry of gold.
maybe the projection that programming jobs will disappear in 10 years is due to a programming 'error' ... it would be a genius move to discourage people from becoming programmers in order to decrease supply and drive programmer salaries up
> By your logic, people using coinbase to hold their coins aren't holding bitcoin

Exactly, they aren't. Coinbase owns the private keys, thus the bitcoin.
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Of course the sea ice normally returns every winter. Even at a modest 50 degrees of latitude, the insolation in summer is 6 times higher than in winter [1], so over short timescales, seasonal effects are so huge that they obscure the effects of any positive or negative feedback loops. That doesn't mean those loops don't exist and can't be significant over larger timescales.

[1]: http://www.applet-magic.com/insolation.htm