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"Your posting caught my eye because I've been a reader of How-To Geek for years. In fact, I discovered your site through the article you wrote about setting up a Raspberry Pi as an always-on downloading box. Thanks to that article, I've now got 3 Pis sitting around my apartment doing various jobs.

I'm currently a Technical Architect with doejo, a digital agency specializing in WordPress development and one of only 13 WordPress.com VIP partners worldwide. What that basically means is that we work on enterprise-scale WordPress. (See also a talk I gave at a local meetup detailing some important considerations for large WordPress sites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB_e7yZ4MCM)

I wanted to reach out because the position that you and How-To Geek are in sounds like the position that Investor's Business Daily, one of our former clients, was in a couple years ago.

When we were brought on with IBD, they were deploying code to production late at night or on weekends because they were scared their deploys would break. There were pieces of the site that just plain didn't work. And there was technical debt all over the place that kept their developers from doing their jobs effectively.

I led the team that took WordPress and bent it to our will to produce one of the most custom digital publishing workflows I've ever seen. After migrating 100k+ pieces of legacy content and completing and documenting the new WordPress build, we handed it off to their internal development team and got to work on their DevOps situation. I helped their operations team architect and deploy staging environments so they didn't have to be scared of production deploys anymore. We helped them replace their out-of-date source control with Git and put in place processes that worked with them instead of processes they had to work around.

This whole re-launch and re-build resulted in a site that loaded 25% faster and brought in a ton more traffic. Couple that with the fact that they now trusted their developers and felt comfortable pushing changes to production in the middle of the day, and it was a win all around.

As far as tech stack, I exclusively use Nginx these days and I've never looked back. Javascript and jQuery are squarely in my wheelhouse. I know WordPress actions and filters like the back of my hand and I'm not afraid to use them or trace through someone else's use of them to get things back on track.

To sum up, I'm really impressed you've grown How-To Geek as far as you have while still deploying to production from your laptop. I think it's great that you see the challenges you have when it comes to infrastructure and technical debt. I'm excited by these challenges and look forward to taking them off your plate so you can get back to running and growing one of the best tech sites online today.

I would love to talk more about the position and answer any questions you may have for me.

(And yes, I won't pull punches when I see some particularly terrible code. I have a library of facepalm GIFs at the ready.)

Talk soon,
Keanan"
Segwit2x was an initiative to replace bitcoind with btc1. It is strange to describe it as being rejected by bitcoind.

Bitpay's business model was always a bit of a special case. Undercut centralized services on fees? Not likely.

It'll work as long as there are early adopters to spend their windfall, but in the long run they'll need to pivot. And not to the next altcoin.
Yes, why not.
The browser is not even needed with stuff like weboob[1] (WEB Outside Of Browsers).

[1]: http://weboob.org/
after or before the bubble... :-)
i have seen a few of your comments and i would like to talk to you further. can you contact me? my email is my username @gmail
> You are apparently not allowed to think differently, which is sort of ironic, coming from the birthplace of Apple.

I hate to be "that guy", talking about the "normies" invading his favorite community, but I feel like this is essentially what happened in tech. The shear value of the industry has mandated the involvement of more conventional groups. It's no longer a space of cold logical computer nerds, emotion and ideology has crept in.

My main point is, I don't think that the innovators, or the "different thinking" is gone at all, it's just been overwhelmed by the cookie cutter college intellectuals we churn out these days. I mean lets face it a College education isn't what it used to be...

I'm not trying to say that computer nerds are somehow smarter than other people, or that College grads today are idiots. My College GPA alone would suggest I'm the idiot. I'm more talking about the death of cold logic, doing whats effective, and living ones own life, which seemed to be the mantra of the old school libertarian "big thinkers".

And yes, I do hate myself for using the term "normies". I'm washing my keyboard with bleach as we speak.
Isn't it part of the issue that he conflates sequences with totals?

As he notes there are trillions of ways to get between 40 and 50 heads. Our surprise isn't in the sequence but the distribution of outcomes?

I would absolutely be "surprised" if someone accurately predicted a coin flip 92 times regardless of the distribution of heads and tails.
This "scary and invasive capability" has been included in almost every larger piece of software for years and is widely accepted to be a mostly good thing - it's called automatic updates.
Considering updates allow pushing native, even admin-level code, this capability of pushing little bits of JS becomes benign in comparison. Therefore, the only thing that's left to worry about are their intentions. And I, for one, would rather trust the goodness of Mozilla's intentions than Google's or Microsoft's.
There have been security issues with LastPass. When Firefox switched to webextensions and broke lastpass, I switched to bitwarden, on the recommendation of other HN users
UPDATE: I was able to get in and check my account. In my recent activity there was a week ago a $165 charge from the same vendor. The listing on the website gives a more detailed name:

STRIPE VIA QB*2 8 9 DE WWW.QUICKBOOK CA 94043 US

The listing for the credit gives:

STRIPE VIA QB*2 8 9 DE 877-887-7815 CA 94043 US

Googling that phone number, most of the hits are for people saying they have unauthorized charges on their credit card. A variety of cards are mentioned.

My conclusion: it was a fraudulent charge. Capital One figured out it was fraudulent before it showed up on my statement, and reversed it. Since people with other credit cards are reporting similar unrecognized charges, this suggests some merchant got hacked.
VC is a very tough business.
The paper you're quoting seems very insightful, even if I do not consider it an authoritative source, it seemed balanced and sensible.

For "TL;DR" folks, you can scroll at page 24

> Without a more careful theoretical foundation explaining why social media affects users, research risks comparing behaviors that are simply not equivalent. Passively browsing information on Facebook is simply not comparable to having a conversation, theoretically or from the perspective of users themselves.

People in [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14213868] (Pavel Durov Has Unfriended Everyone) dismissed Durov's action as a marketing move (it is, but NOT ONLY).

After reading the piece I immediately thought about his words

> Everyone a person needs has long been on messengers. It's pointless and time-consuming to maintain increasingly obsolete friend lists on public networks. Reading other people's news is brain clutter. To clear out room for the new, one shouldn't fear getting rid of old baggage.

The "new FB" is as unsuitable to some kind of people as the "old one".
Who mines a block or where the nodes are etc is irrelevant, the ledger is open and public for both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. This isn't the place for wild anti-Chinese conspiracy theories.
Thanks. I looked again. Are you referring to that one graph? I couldn't find any mention in the text.
Of course competition isn't just-there. But that hardly means it's not there. Apartment rents don't go up whatever large percentage in a vacuum, for example, they have a context. But whatever the context, the competition for apartments if that happens is going to become more intense as more people fight for the fewer apartments that are in their budget.

Broad brush conclusions, of course, are hard to give full support to but I would still expect a large number of folks would say the US is now extremely competitive and has become more competitive over the last twenty and fifty years.

Edit: Also, competition is a bit like fame (if many people believe someone is famous, by the definition of fame those people can't be wrong). If many people believe a society is competitive, it makes the society more competitive because it impels the people to compete more.
Range voting and approval voting are closely related; approval voting is just the limiting case of range voting where there are only two values on the scale.

My take is that range voting is useful when you have a relatively small number of voters, but once that number gets into the thousands, its advantages over AV fade. Instead of one voter rating one candidate a 7, say, instead what you have is 100 voters of whom 70 vote yes on the candidate and 30 vote no. Once you have enough voters that that effect is statistically reliable, there's no further need for the added complexity of allowing more scale values.

And as you add scale values, tampering gets even easier. How would we notice it if someone went in and changed a bunch of people's 6 votes to 7s?
Which one do u suggest to buy now ?
Gingerbread Cuneiform Tablets: Because sometimes a biscuit needs ancient script
That trailer is pure perfection...
Obviously it would be relevant to their marriage, which is what the story is about.
Dropped to ~$4600 now. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/59728/amds-new-radeon-pro-ssg...
Probably should be completing AML/KYC checks before funding the account, but funny how there's never any issue with that not happening in a speedy amount of time...
The problem is how we make the determination. For whatever reason, many well-educated, powerful people (university faculty and journalists come to mind) are content to conclude that women are oppressed today based on C-suite or STEM demographics while ignoring mining, garbage collection, construction, forestry, oil rigging, and other hazardous or otherwise undesirable occupations. Or serial assault vs literally any other kind of assault. Not to mention the myriad criteria for which men are clearly disadvantaged (health/longevity, judicial prejudice, homeless, mental illness, public resources, education, etc).

I don't know how we can hope to answer your question with such a blatantly biased approach.
Corporate cultural values vs. corporate PR
Dr Explains What Happens to the Body When It Goes into Ketosis (Ketogenic Diet)
> Bcash

It’s Bitcoin Cash. You’re just making the community look like a cult.
Wrong, you are at a net loss, you're just blissfully unaware of it due to your bad accounting: you're ignoring that you've already made the gain.
Software over there seems like it must be a total mess. There is a pretty good sized market for people training DL models that Nvidia currently owns completely that they have not yet entered simply because they haven't made Tensorflow and Pytorch work with ROCm. Even the ROCm web pages are amateurish and appear to have virtually no work behind them.

Seriously, it's three very good developers and a few months of work that's holding them back from maybe a hundred million in sales, and at least 20 billion in their stock valuation from being perceived as being in the DL game.
Billboarding is more general than that, it refers to any 2D sprite that always faces the camera. It's often used at close range for things like particles and grass as well.

Billboards that are used as substitutes for 3D models at long distances are more specifically called "imposters".
God I hate SOAP. Creating a client for WS-Deathstar was always an adventure.

The types are defined, so no need for documentation to explain the semantics. Oh, and if you don’t have the same tool stack, good luck getting the envelope header the way our server wants it.

Sometimes, there’s value in being able to add or omit attributes without some brittle (static) monstrosity messing itself.
I use Pidgin with Gmail and Slack accounts today, much like I used it with MSN and AIM accounts many years ago.

I use the Hangouts and Slack apps on my Android phone to read scrollback history for the time period when Pidgin is signed off, or to monitor channels in mostly read-only mode while away from my desk.

I find responding via swype infuriating and rarely worth the effort. It leads to very low information content since people use poor grammar and vocabulary when writing on a touch screen and having every third word randomly replaced with something else by the UX.
The described system is basically identical to Bitcoin's pruned mode. It's lot better than geth's fast sync, which trusts your peers to not have messed with the state.
> but getting more than 0.5 BTC out became quite difficult

And then Bitfinex is not processing BTC > USD transactions for ">250BTC"...
> 3) The developers responsible were having fun with an opt-in research service.

Having fun at whose expense, though? Widely deployed platforms used for extremely sensitive, personal materials shouldn't be subjected to "for fun experiments". That's the height of unprofessionalism.

What if the add-on had a bug, or an unintended side effect? Come on.
Here is Stanford Medical school on the subject, from just this past Spring: http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-b...

And a highly cited study from 2013 addressing Damore's topic directly: http://atavisionary.com/study-index/intelligence-psychometri...

The evidence is not 'cherry picked'. It is abundant, comprehensively researched, and well replicated. Take a trip to Google Scholar yourself. It is certainly not 'fringe'. That's why the public reaction was so absurd. Damore was fired for exactly the type of phenomenon Sam Altman is talking about in this post.
This is the best way to test SGX, there will be huge incentives to find a vulnerability of any kind (including hardware).
The only thing potentially unethical about running a Patreon is aggressively publicizing it, particularly in tools others use. (although I’ve done a call-to-action in GitHub READMEs and at the end of blog posts and there haven’t been any issues.)
Yeah, it's absolutely mind blowing. My last involvement with graphics programming was the 90s demoscene, and fill-rate was a massive constraint on doing cool things. Doing the amount of math these modern engines do per frame, let alone multiple times per pixel, would have been unimaginable.

It's amazing and cool how much GPUs have changed all that, and the techniques are so different and constrained in such different ways.
Because people want to know how people who have money got it. What kind of question is that?
> You will have every one of your transactions tracked if you use this alt

I don’t think you understand the concept of a blockchain.
the only thing i'm interested in, is it good for mining?
how many sol/s?
Exactly.

Monero is the only real cryptocurrency because it does not have a public ledger. Monero is fungible, meaning you cannot tell two coins apart, which is an essential property of money.

This is a very real issue most people into Bitcoin does not seem to care about. Anyone you transact with can gain insight into your personal finances which at best informs your friends of how rich/poor you are and at worst making you a robbery target.
Coinbase has been saying, publicly, that their support is sorely lagging for a year or more. This is hardly news to them (or their customers).
I ask this because generally people going on Patreon for open-source reason that they have been doing open-source for free and sustaining out of their last job savings. And now they won't be able to go much far on those savings, hence Patreon.
Would you please not post like this?

I almost banned you, because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15883519 and other past comments also broke the guidelines, but you've posted plenty of civil, substantive comments as well. Please stick to those only.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can always use analytics on the calls made to find hot code paths.
If you don't run your own node, which is the aim of bcash, your ip address is tied to your payment. You have the payment processor, and the node, and the miner, all sharing the same information.

The chinese government appreciates your compliance with its crypto implementation.
also, dividing by area wouldn't be inappropriate.
The project is relatively mature at Twitter and has indeed a much longer commit history. Per our internal policies, the repo had to be cleaned before we could release it to public, and thus we erased the history before putting it on github. An exciting fresh new page in the project history.
I wish it were suitable to just submit a resume along with a message "Reply 'YES' for a cover letter," before I take the time to draft a nice, custom cover letter. Because too many times, applications including a nice, custom cover letter apparently do not even warrant an acknowledgement of receipt.

Honestly, it feels like a bit of a power imbalance.
And yet they'll debit your account that very day...
I think he is just using an extreme example (China) to point to the fact that SF should be much - much -much easier to for "discussing controversial ideas".

I think your link connects the dots of using China as an extreme example.
"MobileCoin does not rely solely on SGX for maintaining transaction privacy. Transactions are designed to employ CryptoNote1 one-time addresses and onetime ring signatures, so MobileCoin will still maintain transaction privacy through unlinkable addresses if an attacker is able to defeat SGX and view transactions on the network."

https://www.mobilecoin.com/whitepaper-en.pdf

Other than that, i very much share your concern..
This is exactly the reason I will never use Windows again.
"Imagine trying to explain to a kid that this one computer is actually a bunch of computers and why that is cool vs. having a bunch of flashing lights visually showing the work being done in a way that they have never experienced before."

As a kid, I would do something in a virtual environment (although at that time, that meant "programming the ZX Spectrum") and the others would say "does not!" or "prove it" and then any evidence they couldn't touch was not real, it was just something I made the computer do.

On completion of my CS degree, some former friends of mine would read something at an appropriately undergrad level that they thought was interesting and tell me about it. When asked "Can you not do that?" the response would typically be "No. And neither can you."

There's something quite satisfying about building something that you can throw at the head of another person.
Handling Java 8 Objects and MongoDB ObjectId in Jersey RESTful
At least you have organized, specific recourse. From the first few words of the headline of that article:

"Feds Investigating..."
I use KeePass.
There is a mechanism for dealing with this: secession.

A lot of violence will be saved if we start agreeing to amicable divorces.

I don't expect us to do that, so, sadly, I expect a lot of violence.
Answering the question in the title...

Easy.

Doing it consistently?

Hard.
You are welcome defend your guess with measurements, but your explanation comes across as "not even wrong". Incrementing the loop does not cause a branch prediction error (why would this happen?), the loop is small enough it comes out of the loop cache (so no cache misses), function calls are not slow (as evidenced by the example). Worse, as far as I can tell, your explanation doesn't actually even explain why adding a call would make the loop run faster.
That's speculation on the level of Bitcoin taking over. There's no reason to value altcoins over sidechains, for example.

We don't know what the future will bring, only that large economies can't take place wholesale on a blockchain. But whether transactions denominated in Bitcoins will be popular is anyone's guess.

Surely some better technology will come along, but it won't be altcoins as you know them.
If you're asking that question you've already lost.
That does not fit with my experience. Giving openly hostile people the benefit of the doubt never resulted in me finding hidden allies. It merely wasted a lot of my time and got me actively crapped on.

So let me ask: are you a member of a marginalized group? Because I can't help but wonder at the reasons behind our very different point of views.
This seems needlessly pedantic. He’s the producer and in general the guy with all the big ideas. And the studio is named after him. We know other people work on the game without saying that every time.
Monero Compatible Bulletproofs
Even Small Amounts of Alcohol Impair Memory
Oh the irony of this thread.... Here is a social media site (Hackers News) that prides itself in being different because its comments are much more informed and knowledgeable, criticizing the leading social media site (Facebook) for putting out an informed and knowledgeable self reflection on its own value with a bunch of opinionated comments without any supportive evidence.

So the better question for this crowd should be: is Hacker News any better than Facebook?
As an outsider looking in people in the bay area can be way too damn sensitive. With all the social justice warriors running around I am really put off in moving to that area (even if it weren't so damn expensive).
Centralized chinese miners, centralized chinese nodes, and centralized chinese payment processor.

The chinese government appreciates your compliance with its crypto implementation.
For "normal" investments, a 10X return is easy.... given enough time. Invest in your 20s, it is definitely going to be 10x by retirement.

Now, 10X in a short timeframe, that is a different story. Being rich when you are young is mostly about the right idea, at the right time, in the right place. Being rich when you are old is simply about organizational skills.
Please don't break the HN guidelines, regardless of how wrong someone else is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like the compromise. A clear definition of background + what they want out of a new role. If they are specifically targeting my company, I want to know that and why ("In a prior role I was a financial analyst. I then went to college to study computer science" will get a very different level of interest for specific roles from me than "I went to college and studied computer science").
By Firing Anthony Levandowski, Uber Got Otto on the Cheap
I think you wildly overestimate yours. As a 'for instance' i know what a node does. And what decentralization means.
I still do all my work on a 17" MBP. It's 6 years old now, and I fear the day I will need to replace it.
For me, it's understanding which types of parties across the table can and can not do what. Saves a lot of time!
The randomness of the board set up partially cancels the bias you introduce into the dice. There are 20 different possible numeric token layouts, and each of those has trillions of different possible tile combinations.

You really have no practical way of knowing in advance which resource tiles will be under the number tokens you have biased for by loading the dice. So cheating in this fashion doesn't really provide that much of an advantage over the other players. Since the intentional cheating is scientifically indistinguishable from randomness, all good players will already be able to compensate for unfavorable variations in die rolls.
Posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments will get you banned here. You've done this more than once, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this. Whether you're right, and what the topic is, don't affect the need to follow the site's core rules.
what is the situation in east bay Oakland or thereabouts? or perhaps Marin county? are they just as insane?