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Steam blamed volatility when they bailed yesterday.

Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15863182

> due to high fees and volatility in the value of Bitcoin
That sounds like something a movie character would say before seeing a red dot on their body and being executed :)

Don't worry about it, I'll take your word for it. The world is more interesting than I thought!
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I think Hatreon was just designed to not censor things. At the moment that happens to be appealing to white supremacists and right leaning content creators, but I wouldn't be too shocked to see NSFW creators moving there soon.
Doesn't this logic apply to putting your money in a bank as well? That's why I have multiple bank accounts and buy gold.
uBlock Origin, TreeStyleTabs, Reddit Enhancement Suit (I should just disable that; stopped using Reddit after their CEO edited comments and their warrant canary got removed), Open In Browser and Mega.

Only thee of those are active on more than one website. If Web Extensions are suppose to be this great improvement for security and performance, extensions themselves shouldn't matter, or should at least show up in about:performance if there are issues.
Yes, just look up phone sales, app sales, popular app daily active user statistics, etc. You are not in the majority. Also, checking Facebook once a day can easily affect how you think and feel. Not as much as using Snapchat 100 times a day, but anything you do every day is a major part of your life.
Same thing happened to my mom at 45. Only she was overweight, worked really hard to get to a healthy weight and get off insulin. And then had to go right back on it. She was devastated.
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I think this is what happened to me.

About 4-5 years ago I was very unhealthy and experiencing symptoms of type-2 diabetes. It scared the hell out of me and I cut out all sugar and started running multiple miles per day.

The result was significant and I lost something on the order of 60-70 pounds. After that, all of my symptoms subsided.
People need to stop with the 'sophisticated attack" shenanigans. No one is going to say 'un-sophisticated attack", when the reality of it is, it usually boils down to negligence. My bet is on an insider.

Interesting in this case is that the CTO / Co-Founder's son was previously arrested for creating the "Mariposa" bot net and money laundering.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/matjaz-skorjanc/
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25506016
Actually, I'm glad you pointed to the failure of the gold standard. It's a great example of why commodity money is dangerous.

The gold standard was abolished because the economy was on the brink of collapse. A dollar grossly mismeasured the value of an ounce of gold, because there were far FAR mare dollars than gold to back them, and the mapping of gold to dollars was not adjusted at all (from $35/oz) despite the discrepancy growing and growing for decades. In a sense, each ounce of gold was being double-counted 100 times over by so many dollars floating around in the economy. That situation was horribly unstable, because it was at huge risk of a run on gold (You'd have a lot more wealth if you exchange your dollar for gold; because of the aforementioned double counting, an ounce of gold actually corresponds to a great many dollars. If everyone had realized that and done it, the economy would have been toast).

Disconnecting the dollar from gold allowed the value of an ounce of gold to be correctly measured. So while other prices in the economy remained stable, gold shot up, because now the market was free to price it accurately (reflecting that the economy had grown far faster than the supply of gold). That doesn't indicate inflation, it precisely illustrates how dangerously out of whack things were before the gold standard was lifted.
I've actually noticed this and was totally blown out of the water by it. I understand you can use getwd() and setwd() but I thought you could simply do relative paths (similar to other languages) but it doesn't always work and I haven't figured it out.

For example, if you are loading a data.frame from a csv, my.df <- as.data.frame(read.csv("file.csv")) seems to work if the R script is in the same directory as the .csv. This is what I tend to do in .Rmd code chunks (which is my primary R workflow). It also tends to work across platforms which is handy as who knows what box I'm going to be hacking away on. However, R's preference for absolute paths in general I find very strange as I'm always on different machines with, of course, different directory structures. Isn't everyone?

Regardless, R is funky but I think I like it in a sort of awkward 'first date not sure yet' kind of vibe. I'm a noob and novice programmer otherwise though so who knows.
The only downside to insulin for me is the cost and I'm pretty lucky. I buy my testing strips and pen needles from Amazon and spend $200 or so every few months when I need to restock. I signed up for a Lantus (slow-acting insulin once a day) discount card and am fortunate to pay nothing for it. Humalog (fast-acting insulin taken with food) costs $75-100 a month.

I go to the doctor every few months and demand free insulin samples when I'm there. I also got them to fill out paperwork saying I'm disabled (this is technically true by the letter of the law in the US). I used that to get a reduced fare bus pass and free entrance into National Parks. Figured I got fucked over and am going to milk what I can out of it.

Overall though it's not that bad. It's more of a hassle dealing with the routine than anything else.
Northern Virginia has something like 8 out of 10 of the richest counties in the country (due to government jobs)!
You know Rust is gaining traction when people are writing papers discussing adding Rust borrow-checker features to an Ada-inspired safe languages!
Real Time Test Discovery is a very welcome feature. The Python improvements sound interesting too, does anyone that uses Visual Studio for Python development care to comment what the experience is like? How does VS compare to other popular Python IDEs (e.g. PyCharm)?
Pretty interesting. I'm guessing this is something that Google uses internally for their Kubernetes workflows.
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Blockchains have transaction fees. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH6QwQrWAAMGl8y.jpg
LoL!!
All systems of the body follow a circadian rhythm. Following the body’s circadian rhythm and adhering to a time-restricted eating pattern (i.e. intermittent fasting) is even more important than explicitly only restricting calories. Secondly, avoiding processed carbs and sugars is more important than explicitly only restricting calories. Combined, those two principles directly impact your insulin sensitivity, which is very influential in telling your body how to process the calories you eat, when to feel hungry/full, and to what degree.

Of course, by following a time-restricted eating pattern, you naturally consume less calories, but in general, calories are largely irrelevant when you are adhering to a consistent circadian eating cycle and eating clean, whole foods. Healthy insulin resistance directly negates fat/weight gain by telling your body to simply dispose of the excess energy rather than storing it as fat. Calories-wise, the body only uses what it needs and gets rid of the rest. To keep insulin resistance in a healthy range though, you obviously need to not consume things that will spike it and reverse the feedback loop. Following the body’s natural circadian rhythm contributes to keeping it in a healthy range as well, and it is significantly easier to adhere to than restricting calories only.

For the curious, here are a few resources that I have found super helpful in learning to better control my diet and health.

The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, MD
http://a.co/7MHTlmU

Found My Fitness Podcast with Dr. Rhonda Patrick
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/foundmyfitness/id8181983...
> Shouldn't an exchange be able to handle volume? Seems like a basic requirement.

Exchanges are just websites like any other. They're build to handle a certain amount of traffic based on the average amount plus a little extra to handle spikes.

If they only get (And I'm pulling numbers out of my ass here just to make a point) an average of 10 trades per second with occasional spikes to 100 trades per second, how much infrastructure should they build? What capacity should they build to? 1,000 trades per second? 10,000?

There's a cost analysis involved. I think it's a bit unrealistic for them to have enough infrastructure to handle spikes an order of magnitude higher than their typical peak loads.
His point is that Bitcoin/the blockchain doesn't enable any new applications that people care about[0], while it was obvious to everyone at the time that the internet enabled all sorts of new businesses. He's not claiming Bitcoin is a business anymore than he's claiming the internet is a business. And the ICO stuff is just supporting the his argument that the technology has no underlying value.

[0]: Someone will probably comment, "but Bitcoin[1] enables decentralized blah-blah-blah". Okay, but why is the decentralized version any better? Centralization works fine for almost everything, and in fact is the trend in technology.

[1]: Someone else will probably say, "Bitcoin is just an instance of a blockchain/a distributed consensus protocol/whatever you want to call it and that's what's revolutionary." Okay, fine, but what applications does it enable that aren't better served by existing technology?
Right, as I said, that's the simplistic view, and just some of my thoughts.
I my startup company our dev team is pread across paris, copenhagen, dubai and beirut. We with struggled using slack and skype for communication but have recently went for discord, it really boosts the morale and connects the offices in such a cool way. Always being able to talk in a voice channel is just amazing, and everything works incredibly smooth.

You can even video chat if you make a group call outside of your channel though

Would recommend for other small companies in same boat
Why do you expect the state to give a shit about everything you write into a contract?

That's what California does with non-competes, it (figuratively) tells the company it is pretty cool that they have that contract and good luck.
I am still trying to dial in my diet Right Now. I am a Type 2 diabetic and cardiac patient; it all came on very fast and furious. I've tried LCHF before and it didn't work as described with my chemistry. Same with vegan (low fat super high carb). What diet Team am I rooting for now?
Team I-Don't-Want-To-Get-A-Bad-Case-of-the-Dead's-Right-Now.
Not sure what form that is but I am still testing.
I lost 50 lbs and it didn't budge my blood glucose by a single point. So, not OP nor GP but I don't think we know enough to tell people to just figure it out.

What did work for me, a little, was increasing the amount of beans I eat, and with it grains (rice), and curries, and not eating meat for at least two days a week. My bloodwork got better across the board (cholesterol, glucose) despite gaining 10 lbs.
the people who control the budgets are corrupted by the requests of their billionaire donors and of the anti intellectual thoughts these billionaires promote in the poor population. I'm not in academia; we all benefit from having research being accessible, instead of more money going to the billionaires.
This happened to me as well. I was diagnosed about 5 years ago, and I thought for sure this was the beginning of a descent into my early death. But after about a week of moping, I got off my ass. I'm down about 90 pounds now, I've cut most of my sources of sugar and carbs, and I'm down to normal A1C values and off of medication. I also feel better than I ever have in my entire life. I wish that I could go back in time 20 years and tell my teenage self what was going to happen, and how he could turn it around so much earlier than I did, and with so much less effort and heartache along the way.
I actually bought a chisel from amazon and a sharpening stone for it about 4 years ago. I have used them no more than twice but it's a comfort to know they are there when I need them.
A very similar talk from Abbeel, without Facebook in the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYqV543LWoY
Number of physical qubits is not a meaningful measure of computational power, especially since fault tolerant computation has not been demonstrated. (In the limit of large errors, a physical qubit has zero computational power.)

D-Wave has a 2000-qubit machine.
My wife came home today and said her work load had just doubled. She's been told to copy reports from Word to a web based application. I told her that this could be scripted really easily. She shrugged. Imagine the efficiencies possible in normal jobs if everyone knew of the possibility of automation, even if they weren't able to do it themselves.
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Have you looked at about:performance and also when you hit this, then create a perf profile using https://perf-html.io/ and submit it as a bug to bugzilla.mozilla.org. If possible do both using Nightly. In my experience the developers are very(!) welcome to good bug reports.
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Yes you are an outlier. And you're probably older too.
I just think it's an amazing opportunity to be part of a bubble. I missed the last two bubbles (real estate and dot com). Bubbles pop, sure, but putting at least some money into them can pay off, of course I'm willing to lose whatever I put into it.
> See if you can find local news sources, as small-scale as possible, to get a better feel for a particular place.

No, that's a fucking terrible idea; just a little less terrible than using non-local news sources. No 'news source' has any reason to disclose all the wonderful but boring details of any places it covers.
Qt has always been available under a dual license. A commercial one, and... "one intended to be open source". If you wanted to make your application open source you could use Qt, and if you wanted to keep your application proprietary you could buy a commercial Qt license.

Back when KDE was being developed (which was open source), although the Qt source was available Qt wasn't free software nor OSI compatible. Back then it was owned and developed by Trolltech ASA, a Norwegian company (it was eventually bought by Nokia). Because it wasn't considered free software nor OSI compatible, certain distributions such as Debian didn't include it in their free repository and the FSF claimed it was incompatible with the GPL. So you had to grab it from non-free. I remember compiling 1.4x myself, same with KDE. It was eventually released under the QPL which wasn't considered GPL compatible by the FSF. Eventually it was also released under the LGPL. However while all this relicensing was going on (and it took various years), GNOME was already being developed, which was taken under the wing of the FSF as the free software desktop. By the time Trolltech had released Qt under the QPL and GPL, we already had a fractured "Linux" or open source desktop.

During the early versions of GNOME and KDE (before Web 2.0) ie. KDE 1, KDE 2, KDE 3 and GNOME 1 and GNOME 2 KDE was seen as a Windows esque desktop environment with lots of bells and whistles. As you say, it had large support in Germany and SuSE. Meanwhile, GNOME was regarded as a more Apple-esque desktop environment (like OSX or macOS as its called now) and the other main large commercial Linux distribution RedHat and main competitor of SuSE had GNOME as default desktop environment. GNOME also had HIG when KDE didn't yet.

Meanwhile, as you put, GNOME's libraries were LGPL and were therefore more proprietary-friendly because it doesn't require the fee for a commercial license which Qt has. For bigger companies that might not be a large barrier of entry, and you can find an ample amount of high commercial quality applications based on Qt.

A comprehensive history is written on Wikipedia [1]

Incomplete lists of software using Qt (doesn't contain discontinued software such as e.g. Opera for Linux) [2] [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#History_of_Qt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Applications_usi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_that_uses_Qt
> though it will break if you need the same object used across two disjoint subtrees of the calll tree

Yes, while I prefer to use plain values or unique_ptrs when I can, I will use C++ references (or plain pointers) in this sort of situation. Basically in C++ I think an of old-style pointers/refs as Rust-like "borrowed" references.

This is an example of how the Rust safety model is really about compiler enforcement of good practices from C and C++ (as opposed to, say, GC which is a distinct practice). I appreciate what Rust is doing, but it is also true that good coding conventions in C++ will get you 90% of the way there.
the diet in the paper at 800cal/day is far from ketosis, so it seems one can enjoy the benefits of low cal without going to that extreme
Anything that ranks Wellington[1] below Napoleon[2] needs some rethinking, IMHO.

[1] https://ethanarsht.github.io/military_rankings/Arthur%20Well...

[2] https://ethanarsht.github.io/military_rankings/Napoleon.html
I wonder how quickly CoinBase could release funds from cold wallet(s)? Could be hours... which could pretty bad.
Creators: please provide an address for a cryptocurrency of your choice. I dislike this move by Patreon.
W/s doesn't make any sense. Its Ws or Wh instead
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This article and especially the comments here are desperately searching for something to take offense to. FFS it's just a corporate holiday party. These things are usually so bland and sterile I don't even show up. Companies do all sorts of things to drive attendance: Good food, drinks, interesting venue, and entertainment. These guests are hired to further improve the atmosphere. Artificial? Sure. The end of the world? Come on.

The article specifically mentions that male models are also employed, so all of the knee-jerk ranting about sexism and misogyny is misplaced.
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There is also safe_ptr[0] in case anyone is interested.

[0]: http://archive.adaic.com/intro/tech/safe_ptr.html
If you assume that a bubble starts and ends at the same place[0] then a bubble just serves to transfer wealth from one group of people to another. If you think you know something that allows you to be on the receiving end, great, you might even be right. Otherwise you're just gambling.

[0]: Simplifying somewhat since some assets like stocks, homes, etc. have upward trends so the bubble probably ends slightly higher than it started.
The warning is that the app will be unnaturally resource-intensive and have an odd UI compared to a "native" app.

I won't say I didn't intend to stir the shit a little with this comment and figured I'd rightly it would be downvoted or flagged into oblivion, but now it's my most upvoted comment in the last week or so. So people seem to appreciate it a lot more than anticipated. Maybe every Electron app that shows up on HN needs an "Electron warning!" subthread.
You're giving some company complete autonomous control of the keys to your house and you're calling the people skeptical technophobic? Not disagreeing that it's clickbait though.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-05-27
"Sophisticated hack" in crypto translates roughly to "we decided our customers' money was better off in our bank accounts than theirs".
This is a much smarter idea, because it also locks their money into Patreon once they've stocked up on points to spend. Not sure why they didn't go this route, to be honest.
Not for them. They'd have to make sure your total volume of packages will fit in the box and probably have the delivery person inspect that the box itself was properly secured (chained or bolted to the house?)

And they apparently are considering some kind of marketplace for in-home services where Amazon takes a cut of the price and they grant your dogwalker, house cleaner, grocery deliveryperson or personal chef access through the same system.

Permanently installing boxes might also violate leases/condo/HOA rules.
Why don't more people use Ada?
How do you square your claim of misogyny against the fact that male models are also employed in these roles?
srsly. If I let slack run for a couple weeks, it will easily grab several GB of memory. That is insane.
Dermatologists still prescribe antibiotics for acne. For some specializations, it's all about the maintaining the status quo.

Truth be told, doctors still don't know much about IBS and/or Crohn's. Or even conditions like rosacea and/or dermatitis. Mark my words, better gut flora/microbiome will be the cure for these conditions in the near future and doctors will contest this up until the evidence is too loud to ignore.
I thought WinObjC died alongside the Windows Phone efforts, and I do Windows development.
Why do you think it's bollocks? It makes perfect sense. A transaction fee + % is common with payment processors. Couple that with new rules coming down the pipeline (as well as common sense when it comes to processing transactions for other people), nothing about the pricing is unreasonable. Quite the opposite, in fact.
The "it's a sure thing" posts have really been ramping up in recent days. Lots of talk on reddit about how people should take their money out of the evil banks and put it in Bitcoin where it's "safer" and "sure to make them more money".
Some in the chess community seems to be still in denial phase.

The Go/Baduk community has experienced the similar thing early last year.

- Jan 2016 (AlphaGo beat Fan Hui): Fan Hui was only a 2p and European champion, he's no way near the top

- Mar 2016 (AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol): AlphaGo still lost 1 game. The #1 rank player can probably still beat it

- Jan 2017 (AlphaGo Master beats 60 pros): Ok, AlphaGo is strong, but those are only online games with short time control.

- May 2017 (AlphaGo Master beats #1 ranking, Ke Jie): ...

- Oct 2017 (AlphaGo Zero beats AlphaGo Master): Ok, nothing we have right now can probably beat it.
> With all that complaining about signing away your right to sue and work, why do you think it's OK to sign away your right to speak? Serious question.

NDAs are also bs mostly but they cover company specific confidential information and possibly information on clients, contractors, employees etc. All of that is fair to not speak about as that is their property and what they are doing.

Non-competes want you to usually stop using your skills that you brought to the company, with other companies. It is really absurd when a company that wants a 6-month contract wants a non-compete for 2 years, laughable.
I tried using Amazon Lockers when I was living in an Airbnb in downtown Philly for a month. There were almost never any available nearby. Wonder if others have had the same experience.
There is a possibility, but at the cost of uglier macros (since no reflection): https://woboq.com/blog/verdigris-qt-without-moc.html