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Generally, the company lists specific approved third party arbitration administrators as part of the arbitration clause, and that administrator is in charge of picking a specific arbitrator for a case. There’s only a handful of large arbitration associations and one of those is usually picked for most contracts. If you piss a business Off too much, they’ll remove you as an approved administrator and that can hurt. A lot. So you can’t be too pro-consumer. But also, if you show provable bias, the arbitration can be thrown out. So it’s really a fine line around callous indifference that leans towards the business, rather than outright anti-consumer.

As for the hiring part - the business pays most of the arbitration fees, but the consumer is on the hook for a nominal amount plus any attorney fees and potentially extra costs like expert testimony.
I'm not saying they'd be 1-to-1 off the bat. I'm asking do forks have their own supply, and are no longer limited by the supply of the previous coin? If so, my question is when BTC runs out of things to mine a) why would miners that needed to process transactions even stick around hashing and not just go to the fork where they could actually make money? b) and doesn't this just mean technically you could create widely accepted fork from a major crypto like BTC, have a 0% transaction cost between each and essentially have them level out using purchasing power parity...basically just extending the initial money supply by making transaction costs 0 between the parent and the fork? Since cryptos aren't based on economic strength, or trade imbalances like fiat currencies, it seems you'd just easily be able to eventually make them hit parity for the mere sake of keeping computers (miners) around to verify transactions.

Bitcoin and others like it I feel are going to become far more centralized than people think, otherwise I don't see who the hell is going to use their computing power to verify transactions...which is really what miners are doing.

Maybe I'm missing something.
Some Wall Street banks won't offer access to the first Bitcoin futures market
Related: http://mapnificent.net
Typical engineer not getting enough credit and probably not enough stock. Sounds like the real deal as an engineer though.

http://www.d.umn.edu/external-affairs/homepage/12/swildens.h...
That doesn't sound right.
West Virginia University's 2014 report to the ICCT only included 3 cars, 2 of which were VWs. There's a unpublished report by WVU with suspicions on Fiat-Chrysler, but that's been floating around this year. The EPA did reprimand 6 manufacturers including GM & Ford for defeat devices, but that was back in 1973.
There's a civil class action brewing against GM truck diesels and I understand that Germany has been recently looking into emissions of the Ford Mondeo, but neither of them are via the actions of the EPA.

>Prosecution started in 2015, and only against VW.

Why not? They were the ones that fraudulently claimed they could achieve low emissions without urea injection, used defeat devices, and impeded the investigation into their malfeasance.
That is not at all what happened. Sean was on television and streams telling people that NMS contained features which simply didn't exist only days/weeks prior to release. No one knew it was BS until they bought the game.
Does the cheap/free pre-issuance submission really matter when you have to spend thousands of dollars on a reexamination fee whether or not the patent gets invalidated or modified in the end?

I get that this is to help cover the USPTO's reexamination costs. But whatever the reason, it's still really expensive to call bullshit. And as the grandparent comment laments, this is a real shame given the low quality of many patents that are granted.

In this case a third party did the job the USPTO should have done when the patent was first filed by actually reading the patents citations and finding that the new patent wasn't a novel innovation on the cited patent.

Wouldn't it be nice if the USPTO paid the third party his $6000 back if they determine that he's right the patent should have never been granted in the first place?
Is auto playing embedded video is becoming the new norm?

I opened the link on iPad and the video on the page auto plays but on mute. Anyone else having this problem?
I started using Discord to game. Then pushed it out to some of my clients. It's great. Webhooks make it so I can replace Slack. Voice chat makes it so I can replace Slack / Skype. The ease of use, the voice channels... it's all so simple. Push to talk, who doesn't love that? Discord has been strong out the gate, much faster at getting features polished than any competitor I've seen.
So this is to Elite Dangerous what FreeOrion is to Stellaris?
Here's an example of a story from that anthology mentioned that does give a vision to aim at. https://medium.com/@aviv/degrees-of-freedom-d883f1265e89 (not by me; I got the authors permission to post). It's not perfect — definitely "over" optimistic.

But it takes a particular set of problems and outlines some comparatively interesting solutions that one can explore. I'd hope that a novel version would go into some externalities of the tech described, but as a short story it does the visioning well — and that's valuable in combination with some great dystopian threat modeling.
“if you type in your pw, it will show as stars”
Hi @amasad,

In collaboration with @jpolitz, we've been working on way to debug programs written in arbitrary source languages in the browser that you may find interesting. You can find a technology demo here:

http://www.stopify.org

Stopify uses existing compilers that produce JavaScript (e.g., ScalaJS, BuckleScript, etc.) We've tested with ten languages, five of which are on the website. There are three key pieces to Stopify: (1) first-class continuations
for JavaScript (warts included), (2) browser-specific optimizations, and (3) language-specific optimizations (i.e., many compilers emit a sane subset of JavaScript that Stopify can exploit to improve performance). We've conducted a
pretty extensive performance evaluation that we can also share. E.g., we've found that PyJs + Stopify can be as fast as Skulpt with suspensions.
That doesn’t actually address the case where the constituent exchanges disagree on which side of a contentious fork is “Bitcoin”.

Exchanges are incentivized to quickly converge on one or the other so it may not be a problem.
The Hope Police are typically fragile people. My favorite philosophical take on perspective and attitude is found in Jake Long American Dragon:

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Sara_and_Kara
I've been trying to learn about all of this stuff over the last couple of weeks, and agree that it isn't obvious.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Kleppmann has been helpful. It doesn't cover every framework, but I think it helps explain where a lot of the pieces fit together and when you might want to use some of them.

I've also found it useful to find podcasts that explain specific projects, such as Apache Kafka, and listen to them when I'm running.
Well, Wal-Mart stores to Walmart. Not any more exciting however
For game designers, who aren't familiar with mysql.
Having lived here a decade, I consider it my home. While I’ll never be considered Japanese, I do find acceptance in society here.

Japanese society classifies people as insiders or outsiders. The key I’ve found is to become active in some community where you can become an insider. For instance, I’ve been active in the Japanese Ruby community where I’ve found acceptance.
I wonder what charities primarily benefit from Newman?
Australian Stock Exchange Will Become World’s First to Adopt Blockchain
It's not as bad as Hong Kong. I had to visit seventeen (17) banks and spend over USD$10,000 to get a bank account for our company over the last 1.5 years. I did everything from opening accounts in the same banking groups overseas to renting needless physical offices. None of it helped. Finally I got accepted by a startup bank with a special KYC process approved by the HKMA. Hong Kong accountants and other professional services firms privately report that their business is down immensely. It's the US' fault and they've announced in The Banker a month or two ago that they're preparing to roll back pressure, but the damage has been done.
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Pre-issuance submission goes to the examiner before it is granted. You don't have to pay a reexamination fee I don't think? Any link to that?
That assumes everyone is rational and nobody lies. Neither is true.
Which is more likely:
1. Peter Watts added "flatscreen" because he believes CRTs are still popular.
2. Peter Watts added "flatscreen" because it makes the sentence flow better.
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Android, iOS? Do they use automatic detection or did they adjust the thresholds.
> becoming

I've found it already is the new norm.
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Years of doing that killed my smell so I'm surprised you can even smell at all.
Blog or Medium post. Medium has an advantage that it is a bit more capable in virality out of the gate as Medium will recommend posts to users based on their interests. A posting on an obscure blog I won't see, but a Medium post might get recommended to me the next time I'm bored and pop open the app.
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> for classical learning algorithms

Indeed, for relatively "simple" models, SVM can get very, very close to deep learning accuracy for classification, with only a fraction of the computing time needed.
The prejudices which a disabled person faces or their partner in this case are humongous.

I'm a dwarf with limb deformities, as CEO of a startup I perform the role of at-least dozen able-bodied people of my age each day. Still, since people who I haven't met personally don't know I'm a dwarf expect a 6ft Suite clad man at the business meeting; at the meeting I can see the sense of disappointment when they see me initially and then overwhelming realization of "This guy did all these?". But I've learnt to cope with these situations.

Always remember, a disabled person see's themselves as disabled only in the eyes of the people with prejudices.
The other half use tab center?
When a lawsuit without merit took your startup from success to a below-valuation firesale, any similar situation might feel personal to you and it must feel good to do something about it.
"Raisins are one of the most commonly consumed dried fruits... Compared to non-consumers, raisin consumers had a lower body weight (-4.2%), body mass index (-5.2%), and waist circumference (-3.8%), were 39% less likely to be overweight or obese, and had a 54% reduced risk of metabolic syndrome. In conclusion, raisin consumption was associated with better nutrient intake, diet quality, and weight parameters, and with lower risk of being obese and having metabolic syndrome in US adults."

Association of raisin consumption with nutrient intake, diet quality, and health risk factors in US adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2012.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29056890
This looks awesome! The graphics remind me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Legacy which was one of my favorite games!
Of course soldiers are considered outsiders. I doubt people stationed in Korea or Germany will be going on about how they felt like true locals either.

The biggest hurdle is the language barrier. People treat you like kids when they think you're just a typical tourist, but once you're past that hurdle, it quickly gets to the, "How can you not know this basic thing? All of us Japanese know it" point. At that point, you're the one reminding them that you're a foreigner.
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> There are. Legal reasons. Banking reason. Simply put, lumping together transactions is dangerous. Dangerous for creators, dangerous for patreons, and dangerous for customers.

You still keep records of who paid who (eg: This dollar in creator X's account came from backer Y), they are "lumped" as far as the CC processor is concerned so you don't have to pay that per-transaction fee for each creator backed. Basically, as long as the transactions are internal to Patreon, the transaction fees should be inline with the cost of a few rows in a database.

> What does this have to do with the majority of people paying via CC?

If they really were interested in reducing fees, they would let people pay via ACH, which it currently does not look like they do.
I'm thinking the same thing. I mean... this whole article just smells off. It's a press hit about one patent claiming that somehow this invalidates the Waymo case in a dispute that is fundamentally about trade secrets anyway. I mean, he found prior art on a LIDAR patent. Good. But... why do we care?
Travis resigned June 20. Technically at that point he's not part of Uber, right? Maybe he tipped this guy off and then he has 40 days to prepare the re-exam docs. Even if it's true, though, I don't know nearly enough about the subject to know why or whether it would matter if a "3rd party" challenged the patent instead of Uber, though.
It's absolutely the new norm. Most news sites have an autoplaying video on almost every article now.

Sometimes the video will even follow you down the page as you scroll. Even worse, sometimes the video isn't even about the same story. I guess they just desperately need to show you a video even if they don't have a very relevant one.

It's terrible, and yet another reason to block almost everything by default with something like uMatrix.
Not to mention 'tweaking' required.
Not universally. We were taught in school but it was very brief, anyone that was off sick that day would not have learned about the holocaust (or several other WW2 atrocities) in school. It never featured on any tests.
On a serious note I've always thought that the convention of entering in potentially revealing commands into the same box that you enter in chat text was a flaw of IRC.
Right, in many cases, small is beautiful! I think that's what contributed so heavily to the massive success of the Xen platform. Is that what you mean?
I created an app to track friend's location anonymously
>Well you have to be better than Chrome, otherwise why switch?

This is such a killer point I wish I could give you ten upvotes. I tried the new Firefox, was immediately impressed by its speed, Tweeted about it and thanked them, and then I continued using Chrome.

Makes sense why Microsoft was hit with IE anti-trust issues. Inertia exists in software.
> when BTC runs out of things to mine a) why would miners that needed to process transactions even stick around hashing

Bitcoin is designed with transaction fees for miners which in principle can replace block rewards as an incentive for hashing.
I kinda posted that hoping someone with a qualified opinion would come along and say, “no, you fscking idiot, you’ve got it all wrong, and here’s why...”. Because I like the products, and the Newman entities at least appear to do good stuff.

Alas, 28 points of upvoting later, no one’s calling me an idiot.
This is awesome. Sort of similar idea, different approach, definitely doesn't look as cool, but my team and I published this today:

http://blog.gradientmetrics.com/2017/12/07/new-york-city-in-...
What was the basis, was this real life or a mix of fiction and real. Would love the true background story.
The advantage your heat map has is that the map isn't distorted into a (potentially) unrecognizable shape.
A man[1] lost in an ocean suddenly developed an appetite for eyes of fish -- rich source of Vitamin C (which they had started to have depletion adrift in the sea)

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/04/castaway-jose-...
Wow, all I see are stars! It works on HN too!
Sure, is there an issue/doc/pr to comment on ?.
Anyone who doesn’t believe this never told n00bs to type Alt+F4 in games to insta win. So easy
And maybe that's a good thing. Don't want Raleigh to become another SV. Life in SV is a miserable rat race. Raleigh-Durham is fun, relaxing and a great place to raise a family.
Amusing. On Reddit it might even be appropriate.
Discord is blocked in the UAE as far as I know...
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http://italiastartupvisa.mise.gov.it/media/documents/summary... (non-incubator version)
the system was used in NASA's telemetry labs and is decked out with a NASA asset and inventory tags from 2005

...2005, a time when "telemetry" hadn't yet gained its more sinister meaning of "privacy invasion", P2P meant you could find just about anything on the Internet, and computing freedom was pretty high. Of course, the Space Shuttle program was still active too. But for me, and likely many others, the word "telemetry" now has a negative connotation.
Wow, I'd forgotten about bash.org I better forget again before the whole night is gone from reading through it.
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> Patreon always has been bundling many small transactions into one large

Yeah, from what I understand they are planning to stop that.

So that's the end of patreon as a micro payment platform.
Wikipedia and Bloomberg also list him as a cofounder, CTO, and VPE. Oddly there appears to have been another cofounder who was also CTO, but I expect that he got a good payday.
Let's see how this goes...
Yeah, it's been so long that I actually forgot the proper (I think) way to go through it, and that it was actualy easier for me because I had contacts/friends willing to help.

The problem with the phone+data sim thing is that you need an actual callable phone number, a lot of the time. Also, you can tell what numbers are used for in Japan by how they start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Japan#Non... , and some places will be sticklers about it.

One sad/funny thing is that I actually needed a phone number to get a place to live as well, but actually my agent just used their own temporarily (literally right in front of the leasing agent, and they didn't care). I get the feeling that if you get a place from abroad they'll overlook that/work that out somehow, even if you don't have an agent that was as understanding/nice/flexible as mine.
Words of praise for fish food.
Semi-relevant but one thing I've been really wanting is a map directions app that optimizes for wasted time instead of time.

- Taking train for 60 minutes (with a seat): 0 minutes wasted

- Taking train for 20 minutes (without a seat): 20 minutes wasted

- Taking bus for 60 minutes (with a seat): 30 minutes wasted (efficiency of work cut by 50% due to bumpiness, people walking by and smacking my elbow, etc.)

- Taking an Uber for 20 minutes (driver is not chatty): 0 minutes wasted

- Taking an Uber for 30 minutes (driver is chatty): 30 minutes wasted

- Driving for 50 minutes: 60 minutes wasted (+10 minutes for parking)

- Riding bicycle, running, or walking for 40 minutes in a day: 10 minutes wasted (30/40 counts toward required-anyway daily exercise)

The application should factor in the probability of getting a seat on a train or bus, the probability of an Uber driver being chatty based on crowdsourced data, and simply optimize for the lowest mean wasted time for the entire route.
Every now and again I forget about Bash.org. (It was called something else for a while, wasn't it? I feel like it was) and then I remember it and try to spread it to new folks.

The first night I shared it with a coworker who had never seen it I periodically received quoted text from it the rest of the night. They must have spent hours enjoying it.

I will ask any commenter that is about to post that everyone knows Bash.org to consider this: I have coworkers who don't recognize the Doom guy face who are really good at their programming jobs—they're just younger– not out of touch or anything like that. Likewise, they didn't know about bash
I think the concern is that selling pollution credits is kind of like selling indulgences. If you offer the wealthy a fixed price for which they can destroy the entire planet then what else is not for sale? And since money is just created out of thin air, you can always make enough money to pay the price.
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He's not talking about the noise people make to get clicks, he's talking about our actual decisions. And yes, in that domain people are outrageously optimistic.
Ah, bash.org!

My all-time favorite: http://bash.org/?99060
I would understand if it was a small small startup like his that was in trouble, but even if Uber got in trouble for violating the patents, its still just research for developing self-driving cars that isn't critical to their day to day business. I am not asking why bother helping a company in a similar situation, but why bother helping a company that didn't really need helping?
That's why I mentioned it. I also disapprove of .google, but it's less ridiculous.
If you only have a single issue being discussed, that discussion is, almost by definition, a zero-sum game.

Example: you want to buy 10 apples, and only the price can change. Your win is the vendor's loss, and vice versa.

If you allow other issues to be added, you create potential for win-win tradeoffs.

Example: "I can't give you these apples for less than I pay, nonnono, my dear friend. But I'll give you this wonderful watermelon on top, for free".
Have we really regressed to the point where simply relaying data with reasonable performance is considered impressive? Figuring out where to relay everything and keeping it all in sync is obviously hard, but that's a distributed systems problem, not (strictly) a performance problem.

We've been able to handle millions of concurrent HTTP(!) connections on a single machine for years; it feels like a pretty solved problem. Although, a lot of that involved userspace TCP stacks and really high-end networking hardware, so if you want to stay within saner territories you can scale that number back a bit.
I wonder what the net effect is from electronic job applications and the addition of the college degree check box; removing the human element. Then later filters which hiring managers use to set requirements for positions which turn away a fair amount of people from even applying. Is this when credentialism and education inflation began to run away?

Looking at archive.org, Facebook in 2006 said something along the lines of "A degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or equivalent work experience," but in early 2007 job listings contained "BS or BFA in any field" or "M.S. Computer Science or related field" [0][1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20060203042947/http://www.facebo...
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070210022307/http://www.facebo...

edit: where->when
Cool stuff! I work with @jpolitz and @enum on the Stopify project as well.

Early on we also implemented a similar generator approach to what you described (as well as CPS). We found that it mostly worked, but had a few drawbacks. Specifically, generators change the type of instrumented functions, which makes it difficult to implement constructors and prototype inheritance, and they also break tail calls in environments that support them. More importantly for practical concerns, we found it to be much slower (at least 2x-3x) than the solution we came up with.

Again, happy to share more information with you!
I didn't say simulate brains or that it would be easy. Research what I suggested a bit more carefully because it addresses multiple parts of your response.
Just have to chime in with my own anecdote that I find discord to be mostly bug free and an excellent, easy to use piece of software.
I really like the idea of building a subway map projection based on travel time, without making you select a starting station. Might play around with force-directed graphs in d3 — meanwhile, looking forward to what you folks come up with!