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In The Innovator's Dilemma over a dozen technologies were documented that were on exponential improvement curves for a period of decades or more. They generally last until the technology either hits a wall in physical possibility, or the thing being delivered is no longer the primary measure of the technology.

Here are some examples off of the top of my head that are happening right now:

Operations per second of a CPU (The famous Moore's law)
bits stored per dollar of RAM
Energy density of batteries
Energy produced per dollar of solar panels

Here are some examples from the past.

Distance a steam ship could travel without refueling
Maximum power of a gasoline engine
Volume of dirt a hydraulic scoop can pick up

The history of technological progress is dominated by exponential curves. Saying that it is logically impossible for the future to be likewise dominated by exponential curves is just silly.
QML was heavily inspired by EFL's Edje and the QEdje project, which was started in the middle of 2008. Qt Kinetic was initially presented at the end of 2008, however, it was still pretty much widget-oriented (the closest you could get to QML's was to use QGraphicsWidget by yourself, like Plasma 1 did). Qt Declarative (later called Qt Quick), including QML, has been shown in May 2009, a year after the acquisition by Nokia (June 2008, announced in January).
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I tried changing a pledge to $0.63 just now, and the web form said I'd have to make it at least $1.00. So I canceled my pledge.
> When I have about a dozen tabs opened on Chrome, all I can see is a tiny favicon.

Which is precisely when tree-style horizontal tabs are better. Because you can see the entire title of each window, their nesting, and easily scroll through the list.
And lawyers. Lots and lots of lawyers.
that's why companies in Bay Area need to at least try to be good citizens representing Silicon Valley. Generalization is a tendency in human nature.
I appreciate the warning, fwiw. I tend to dislike Electron apps, and avoid them if I can help it.

I don't mean to "shit on" Electron, it has it's uses - I just avoid it when possible.
I learned about this video from HN last year or so. The relevant discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952927

...and the Youtube links still work too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cs8QLnxlU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExXDxpBFFR0
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At Lightning Labs, we scale blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network[1], an open blockchain scalability protocol[2] primarily being developed for Bitcoin. Lightning allows for high volume, low fee, instant payments on top of Bitcoin. We strive to continually push the edge of innovation w.r.t blockchain scalability, advanced privacy-preserving smart contracts, and cryptocurrency UX. Amongst our team include applied cryptographers, the designers of the Lighting Network protocol, and several Bitcoin developers making key contributions to the open source Bitcoin eco-system such as roasbeef[3].

Cryto Protocol Engineer:

We're looking for an experienced software engineer well versed in applied cryptography, peer to peer networks, distributed systems, open source software collaboration, and cryptocurrencies. Your job description would include working on lnd[4] the most feature-complete implementation of the Lighting Network, neutrino[5] an advanced lite client operating mode for Bitcoin, conduct novel research into cryptocurrencies (and related areas), and helping to design the next generation of smart contract applications on Bitcoin.

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Our work on the second-layer of blockchains presents a number of UI/UX challenges, as we lift traditional wallets to the next layer creating a new application platform on top Lightning. As a result, we're also looking for a frontend developer that is able to pick things up quickly, develop skills in our interdisciplinary space, and has strong implementation ability. Applicants should be Javascript experts an eye for design, that have experience building applications with React and React Native.
You can contact me directly at roasbeef@lightning.engineering with some, or all of the following: link to your github account, resume, a brief cover letter detailing your past experience in the areas listed above, and some relevant work you've done.

[1]: http://lightning.network/

[2]: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/

[3]: https://github.com/roasbeef/, https://twitter.com/roasbeef

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[5]: https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino
Hadn't thought of this reason, but that might make sense - in essence, the standard AML rules have always required specifying the final beneficiary of a payment if you pay money to someone who'll hand it over to them.

If Patreon is being treated as or claiming to be a payment service provider (i.e. it passes money through to authors without owning it in between, the only revenue on their balance sheet is the fee they take) then it'd be wrong to state that Patreon is the beneficiary of a particular payment, since it's not; and they'd be required to list all the actual beneficiaries on every payment, which can't really be done for reasons, so they need to charge many small separate payments.

On the other hand, if Patreon is being treated as or claiming to be selling a service (i.e. it takes all your money, and pays it out to authors as a business expense) then that has major tax implications, namely, all the amount (as opposed to just their fees) is their revenue and thus subject to various sales taxes and VAT worldwide. This seems to be the current option, since they're charging VAT on the full amount for EU patrons.

It might be plausible that they're currently switching from option 2 to option 1 for financial reasons, and this precludes them from batching in the future.
Symmetry is not the only map characteristic that gives advantages to one race over another. Terran is really good at sieging, Zerg is good at expanding early, Protoss is very bad at defending open bases, etc.. The pro-played maps are carefully designed to balance all that, and when they fail the players themselves limit their strategies according to what works and what doesn't on each map.

The players even get to choose which maps they'll play (by eliminating some map if they feel it's unfair) and in which order...
> Listen to the ones the market listens to.

This is exactly the sort of anti-advice that brings suckers into a pyramid scheme.

> For crypto currencies is not necessarily people with deep technical insight nor is it established economists.

Sure, stir up hatred and jealousy of "experts" and "the establishment" to bring in more suckers, right?

GTFO shill.
The thing about scaling is that you can't justify the engineering involved in overscaling until you're reasonably sure you'll need the capacity. Otherwise that's called overengineering. Managers get fired for approving spending on things like that when the demand does not appear. It's also hard to simulate real traffic because they don't always behave how you predicted they would.

Also, your system gets more and more complex as you scale. More monitoring systems needed, more attack vectors to watch for, deployment systems, backup systems... Imagine the security level coinbase needs to have. It's somewhat unprecedented since a hack could make off with a lot of valuable assets in an instant. (even just from their hot-wallet)

You saying scaling is solved makes me question what you think their infrastructure looks like. It's not just an AWS loadbalancer with some shards behind it. It's A LOT more complex than that.
Very true, but that’s a fact regardless of whether market forces are a send to determine price. Ideally they should, because markets are usually good at determining relative value, but not always as for example in the case of industrial pollution. Eventually over hundreds of years we are beginning to implement some ways of factoring that onto market costs, but it’s been a long and painful process and there’s still a long way to go. For most of that time direct regulation has been the only workable answer, figuring out how to factor it into markets would have been too late.
Ketosis has nothing to do with calories in. It's dictated by whether your body has glucose/glycogen available to run itself. If not, your cells start using fat directly and your liver produces ketones for the brain, which it uses with the remaining glucose in the blood.
Yes. The researchers at IBM don't use the number of qubits as a measure of the quality of the computer. They use the quantum volume [0]. I said 50 qubits because I was just parroting the press release. The reason I didn't mention D-Wave's machine is because it is not a universal quantum computer. It is a quantum annealer [1].

Google and IBM want their qubits to be of high quality (high coherence times e.t.c). One of the big obstacles right now is scaling up the number of qubits while making sure that their quality is high.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing

[1]: https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/resources/quantum-volume....
The answer to my question is "no."

The problem is that most people in the US that "know" Germany gives everyone a college edu, thinks it is literally everyone and it certainly is not the case. Could people from Germany please stop spreading partial truths?
Why do people still use a document database with no transactions for domains with a fairly slim and rarely changing schemas?
It would be more honest --- still inappropriate --- for a company to take everyone out to a strip club where the rules of interaction are well-known.

It's gross that a company would hire women and have them pretend to be employees solely for the gratification of the men. And no, it doesn't matter if there were a few male models. That's not appropriate either, but it's very clear that this is a practice aimed at men at male-dominated companies.

The employer is not in the business of getting you off. Practices that try to do that inherently create an exclusionary environment.

And if your defense against the blatant objectification of women described in this article is some variant of "oh but look at both sides" then I suggest that you look at human interaction in the context of history and not as a blank Jupyter notebook that you put numbers into.
I filled out the request for arbitration. Ive never arbitrated before so I assumed that was the process. But are you saying they settled instead of arbitrating? What is the difference?
I'm actually blocked for registering/banned during registration.

I literally cannot have a Discord account 'cause it'll just get disabled immediately.
"nobody" is attention-getting hyperbole. People have been explaining the differences between (say) Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and Wikiversity for years, now.
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99% Invisible already got a few mentions, but it's so good that it's worth mentioning again.
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Many of KVM's paravirtualized drivers run in QEMU, and in turn that is usually running heavily confined, for example using SELinux.

So it's true that, as in the famous Theo de Raadt rant, virtualization overall adds to the attack surface compared to containers. But it would also be stupid to ignore that it also introduces very important bottlenecks: to get to the hypervisor, you have to break KVM which is only ~60000 lines of code; getting remote code execution in QEMU might be easier, but then you also have to break the host kernel from a process that has access to almost nothing on the system.

There is also vhost, which is implementing PV drivers in the host kernel. This however is also a small amount of code, and it is generally used only for networking and AF_VSOCK sockets.
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Ada is quite common in aircraft system programming.

P.S. I thought I read SPARC.
True, but you should always listen to your body. It usually craves the things you need. If you of course discount the craving for sugars and the like.
I previously pledged between $2 and $5 to almost a dozen content creators. This change would have added quite a bit to my costs so I have withdrawn my pledges. I am billed by Patreon once a month - not sure why I need to pay fixed & percentage fees on individual pledges...
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Except there aren't separate deluxe and plebe lanes. Those paying the toll are using the same lanes as those utilizing HOV to not pay.
This makes no sense as a cost reduction. Amazon drivers in my area don't even come to my door. Let alone knock. With this they want their drivers to:
1. Come to door
2. Knock
3. Wait a moment for response
4. Unlock door with app
5. Open Door
6. Drop package
7. Close and lock door

Delivery has turned into minimizing every excess second. I wager within a few months most of these amazon keys will be ignored as they leave packages on the driveway. I wouldn't buy this unless it comes with a guarantee it will be used.
The relationships are very clear in most code using Qt. When you create a QObject-derived object, one of the constructor parameters is always the parent. Little things like this goes a long way. I never felt the need to express ownership more explicitly with Qt. Whenever I felt the urge to do so, it turned out that I was trying to do something crazy that I probably shouldn't try in the first place...
Having used both at past employers, I'd say they are equivalent.

If you could change the theme and coloring to look the same, I'm not sure you could be able to tell which is which.
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And while you're at it maybe give them your bank account details so that they can just sell you stuff that their AI thinks you want.
And Wellington was a Field Marshal, not a General, in many of these battles.
Yeah it's marketed explicitly to righties, but if the hard-right set can make their own patreon clone (with sensical fee structure); other people can certainly do as well.

I mentioned it not as an endorsement, but as a proof of concept. Since it exists there's no excuse for other people being unable to replicate it (without its political marketing, of course).
And don't forget about public relations. Spend some time with your future users!
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I had a similar conundrum when I was trying to learn modern C++ by writing a network stack. On one hand just wrapping my packet objects with a {shared,unique}_ptr meant that I could freely pass these objects through a pipeline and not worry about lifetime or accidentally freeing somewhere I shouldn't have.

Although it seems to me that most people seem to be proponents of actually sitting down and working out object ownership of your classes rather than just being lazy and using smart pointers everywhere.

I'm still experimenting with this approach, definitely slows me down right now but I imagine that's because I haven't done it enough. Not going to lie, coming from Java/C#, it's really convenient just being able to 'new' an object and not worry much about its lifetime.
No. To be clear, I don't make these regulatory decisions, I'm just relaying the reality of the situation. It's very difficult to have these discussions with people that don't even know the basics about the industry under discussion.
It's not bad per se, but it contains a lot of sugar per unit volume. Some dried fruit even has extra sugar added (effectively fruit flavored candy). So it's easy to accidentally consume a lot of calories without feeling full.
More or less, yes.

Fringe political views will get you permanently blocked by Discord and/or Twitter.

I'm not a right-leaning person but even the concept speech should be free and uncensored if you aren't enabling a crime is an issue.
Use machine learning to find energy materials
Whatever number you can get has no meaning. I could buy a bitcoin and sell it again and buy it again and sell it again... that would be accounted as hundreds of thousands of dollars traded even thought I only paid $10 total at the end of the day, as exchange fees.
I don't think it's harmful - without stumbling onto an example like that, it's hard to justify why we need solid foundations and exact solutions.

On the other hand, very brute numerics work for an awful lot of scenarios - that's why epsilon-delta came centuries after Calculus was invented.

For instance, "first-order optics" and "third-order optics" rise from chopping off the Taylor series after the 1st and 3rd term, resp. And it works! In many places, 1st order approximations are just good enough. A lot of scenarios are inherently stable.

So I don't think the intuition you build up is wrong - it just has a scope. There's nearly always a place for counter-examples where "things work the way you think they should" wouldn't apply, however you think about things :)

On a philosophical note, the continuity is a human construct - down there, things seem to be discrete, just with a very small step size. Continuity models these pretty well, until it doesn't - but that doesn't mean the intuition you build up is wrong. Just limited in scope.
Well in Saudi Arabia, the consequence of being caught stealing would be having your hands cut off. That's certainly enough of a deterrent for most.
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Evolution of container technology
Oh ok, your comment said ".. also employed in these roles.." so I thought you were speaking to more than the article.
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The number I think is important is not how many CS grads there are (no one on my team has a CS major) or how many software developers there are, it's how many people are interested in and capable of this job. I don't know what the "true" ratio is but I'm sure it is more than 16% of women which is where ardit anchored it.

It often comes back to this "pipeline" problem, but we need to think of our companies as being part of the pipeline. I don't have a CS degree -- I came out of college with a BA -- but I landed a firmware programming job, 2 jobs and 7 years later I am experience and "senior". If you're willing to train smart people, you can sideline the pipeline issue.
I've been looking into it. The front page kinda gives me the impression that it's only for people doing open-source projects? I don't feel like sharing all the source files of my comics.
Pretty realistic.

One of the largest US mining operations are said to be located in Seattle where there is dirt cheap hydroelectric. So are many of the Chinese operations.

It's not as mich of a zero sum game as it might seem, it's more of a race to the bottom.

If your competitors are running on cheaper electric, you'd better find some cheaper electric or they are going to increase the difficulty to the point that it's not profitable for you.
I don't have to "ask an Indian" because my grandfather is on the Dawes Rolls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Rolls
I think the core flaw here is thinking of software development as "manufacturing". It isn't at all. It's a design process.

This Toyota methodology is about taking things that have already been designed and then incrementally improving them or figuring out better ways to put them together.

Building software is more akin to the process of taking a blank sheet of paper, a knowledge of what kinds of parts already exist, then designing a new car to fit a new market segment.
Makes sense; I thought parent comment was speaking to more than the one party indicated in the article: "... also employed in these roles ..."
> Nothing preventing them? How many companies will hire the arbitrator that is pro-consumer?

He says exactly that in his comment. There is no law stopping them from doing it.
Patreon uses Stripe and Paypal. Both of their fees are 30¢ + 2.9% regardless of interchange fee for a specific card. Not sure where they got the extra 5¢, but it seems reasonable to charge what their paying.
>"The decision to clear client trades will be made on a case-by-case basis, the person said."

Could someone say what "clearing the trades" mean here?
I dropped my pledges off the back of this news. I was only supporting one creator, so it wasn't that dramatic. Also, I left a comment before I cancelled indicating I was only leaving because of Patreon's business practices, and suggested I'd like to support the creator again if they open up an account with a competitor. Liberapay would be my preferred choice but as long as Patreon get the message and the creators don't have to suffer, some good can come out of it.
I am also curious about it as I've only recently become aware of Athena and Redshift Spectrum for querying data files on S3 w/o any ETL

Cost control and query performance are big concerns with Athena, as I understand it Glue can help with re-formatting your data for reducing querying costs and performance

Not sure what Databricks the business has to do with AWS Glue
That's not so brutal when consider that there are a group of people who purposefully consume less calories in order to prolong their lifespan:

https://www.crsociety.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction
.. and when is the last time you took a vacation longer than a week?
If you are short term day trading you're likely to be a victim of pump and dump groups and manipulation.

Going long on high market cap coins with a longer timeline is a relatively safer bet.
I'm genuinely amazed that they can do streaming updated to GDAX as fast as they do.
A more idiomatic approach would be Objects.notNull(foo)
There's something special about documentaries -- you can convince the audience of practically anything if you're a good enough director.

My favorite case is the Errol Morris documentary Mr. Death. It follows the story of a man who went from an electric chair technician to a holocaust denier. Morris attempted to direct the movie from the subject's perspective so that the audience could understand how you could slowly become a holocaust denier.

When he showed the movie to a Harvard film class, half the class believed that Morris himself was a holocaust denier, and the other half of the class believed the subject's (holocaust denying) side of the story, specifically that the Auschwitz gas chambers never actually had poison gas in them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Death:_The_Rise_and_Fall_o...
So was Napoleon.

I think we are using "general" as a functional title here, not a rank.
alternative take - if you got to the point where you're getting in your car and driving around town for everyday necessities like groceries, pantry items, toothpaste, socks, replacement usb cables, vacuum cleaner filters, etc. with maybe the occasional splurge on something frivolous, maybe it's time to reconsider your shopping habits.