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A relative of mine lives in a rural area of Washington State, USA. He has fiber internet through ToledoTel...

http://www.toledotel.com/our-services/internet/

...it's expensive, but he has it. Every time I hear someone say we can't have blazing fast Internet in San Francisco, it's never phrased as a question like "would you be willing to pay $MONTHLY_PRICE for 1gps fiber?" So far, I've only heard "Building fiber in San Francisco isn't possible because of $UNAMBITIOUS_EXCUSE."
is that why Bitcoin's value dropped something like 5%?
> This is a question of credentials only.

And credentials are merely a way to build consensus around what is due process and who can determine it. The net effect is the same, but the process for achieving it is without consensus. This is another example of no proper channels existing, and individuals taking matters into their own hands.
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I bet you can install Cloudready on there and create peppy Chrome OS machines:

https://www.neverware.com/
Mismanaging/squandering/embezzling your country’s oil revenues and a steep decline in said oil revenues without a sovereign wealth cushion was what caused this, not nationalizing food distribution or production.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela_(2012%E2...
I haven't heard of that happening.
Rust's type system is intended to provide memory safety guarantees, which they define as explicitly not including memory leaks. You're not really any better off than just using C++ shared_ptr/unique_ptr.
What makes it a bit worse is that we are social animals, and expectations matter.

High expectations or low expectations, people often rise to the level expected of them.

Not to mention, whether you got in on the regular track or the alternate track affects people's attitudes about your abilities. People need information about others, and the circumstances of how they joined the organization (whether they are in the group that got assistance or not) is a source of information. Sure, some people have been trained to ignore that for the sake of fairness, but not 100% of everyone.
It remind me 3B1B either when I read this much earlier blog. 3B1B is really really wonderful tutor. Liner algebra is only one series among others.
I am not going to defend bitcoin's thin markets but here are couple of things I noted:

First, Quoting a number like “$19699.46” to seven significant figures when your data’s got a 5% spread would get your high school physics teacher slapping you upside the head. It’s entirely deceptive. It should say something like “$19,700 plus or minus $500 depending,” and that line graph should be a thick grey bar.

The question is does the 5% spread change my buying price? I need to buy a bitcoin. Will coinbase honor the price when order is placed ie if it shows $19700 then will it let me buy 0.1 BTC at this price? Similarly, will it allow me to sell them back at whatever price they show on screen? If yes, how does it matter?

Sure, if coinbase cannot honor the price and let's in a huge slippage [1], then that is a concern. Though in most cases where they see markets moving too fast for them, they have routinely shut down trading.

Second, in stock markets it is not about smart order routing but NBBO or nation best bid and offer. Brokers need to route orders to best price available else they are liable for damages. There are no such rules in bitcoin. And as the article notes, there are issues in getting the best price available due to transaction times. In which case, coinbase can set whatever price they want. But if they honor it, there is not much to talk about.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/slippage.asp
>You don't agree with the thinking therefore the author is wrong and her experience and opinion isn't worth considering.

No, I just don't agree that the author's experience generalizes to other women.

>Just be interested in what she is working on based on the merits or her work.

And what of people like the event manager in the article who are interested in other aspects of her career? Shouldn't we practice "acceptance, inclusiveness, and diversity" toward them also?
As others have said, this deal is not standard.If you have other options go for them. If you want to stay at the table here is a counter
for 1M investment
negotiated equity
3 yr term
every time they get a distribution, their equity goes down by a similar %
such that at the end of three years they dont have any equity.

or just negotiate a better deal.
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Fair point, but also a different point. I also suspect it is a tiny number of people out of the "41 million". Even with a low-friction delivery of government services some people will opt-out on principle.

I have several acquaintances that live in poverty if you only count cash income but they are living on their own terms and certainly wouldn't describe themselves as "living in poverty".
Motion detectors with microwave, especially residential sensors, don't use it as the sole detection method. It's always paired with passive infrared. Microwave interference doesn't really make any sense because he'd have to be tripping the infrared and microwave source at the same time.

Source: I wrote firmware for microwave/PIR motion detectors for a few years.
I want this so bad. Right now, Netflix thinks I want to watch animated christmas movies for kids. If that's what it comes up with after looking at my ratings and watch history, their algorithm is fundamentally broken.
Thank you for the explanation.

What I find interesting, in addition to your description of the price elasticity being at issue, is precisely _what_ a bitcoin represents.

In fact, what _all_ cryptocurrency represent, to my knowledge...and that is, some increasingly unbreakable cryptographical mechanism by which information may be passed at ever more secret rates.

The question I have is: precisely who is in the market for such things, and are they not, in fact, what is holding these currencies together?

It also begs the question: if the person who can afford to 'buy' the cryptographical information is the one "funding" the market, are we not at the beck and call of the deepest pockets in terms of securing what may ultimately be state-secret level data?
For context, that is where my mother is from, I believe she was there during those experiments. Also, my ancestor AM who was PM briefly
> It is quite sad, but predictable, that people are trying to silence your voice with their votes

Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, which ask you not to post like this? The parent comment has actually been decisively upvoted. It takes time for the community verdict to become clear.

Also, the "people are trying to silence your voice" thing is an internet trope that is best left elsewhere. We're hoping for thoughtful, non-repetitive discussion on this site, not boxing matches.

Edit: actually, since it looks like you're using this site for ideological battle and have done it multiple times before, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break the HN rules with.
You just gotta really want it :) If you've been coding this long, I suspect you have what it takes to make it if you want to!
One has been online [1] since '98, so it's definitely possible. Question is probably in details around bandwidth and handoff performance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellatio...
I'm sorry to leave you in these circumstances, but the threat to my own
safety is becoming too great to continue. I have made many enemies. If
you want to help look at the list of action items further up. Good luck.

This sounds scary - like it came straight out from a movie
query builders are the sweet spot.
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A lot of the reasons listed in this article actually made me shift from sophisticated ORMs like Hibernate back to a query based approach. A really nice framework for this (in Java) is jOOQ which gives you the possibility to write typesafe SQL via code generation.
https://www.jooq.org/

(I'm not at all affiliated with jOOQ - just a happy user)
I really just don't want any recommendations. They suck. Their algorithm has no idea what I want to watch. Maybe a list of things highly rated by other human beings that I could filter by genre would work. And not just other humans who've watched the same things I have.

But as the the immediate point, guess I'm just paranoid. I want to watch movies without data nerds peering through my windows, is that so wrong? I would very much like to be excluded from their preferences dataset entirely, but as an alternative I'll settle for just not watching stuff.
If you have not read The Vietnam of Computer Science[1] I highly suggest it.

http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...
So when Japan said they would accept Bitcoin for payment of taxes ... ?
Of course.. if you could take a short position against the coin, you could hedge and eliminate your risk.
I have to agree. ORMs can be great when an application is just starting, because that's when you're writing the most tedious queries and statements, but beyond that I personally find that ORMs just get in the way.

As soon as I need to write something more complicated than select-by-id I end up reaching straight for SQL. Otherwise I have to learn both the ORM's query API or DSL and have the proper mental model for how it translates to actual SQL.

Or I could just write SQL and be done with it. No mysteries.

Maybe this is just me, but I've never written a join in an ORM that I had the slightest bit of confidence in.
The latitude/longitude lines in this post were very carefully chosen to just barely knick several countries’ borders and pass over small islands. Differences in the definition of the line certainly will matter for figuring out all of the edge cases here.
He says he likes SQLAlchemy, but doesn't say why. I'm interested to know that though.

To me, the big win with SQLAlchemy is that it separates the SQL expression layer from the ORM layer so cleanly. I can write very complicated queries with the expression layer that wouldn't be possible at the ORM layer, and do it in a much more composable way than concatenating SQL strings. Example: http://btubbs.com/postgres-search-with-facets-and-location-a...
It looks like ToledoTel is a "Local Exchange Carrier" (LEC). These entities have existed for a long time and are effectively the local incumbent telco and are quite common in more rural areas.

Purchasing IP connectivity from ToledoTel is the same thing as purchasing IP connectivity from Verizon -- they are both the incumbent telco in their respective geographic areas.
I prefer to use SQL directly as well.

But some points to be made in favor of ORMs (some of them, anyway):

* Multiple backend support to handle different SQL engines.

* Minimized risk of accidental injection.

* Migrations.
LOL! I got fired from a project for making this argument. OMG, just get your data from sql statements or some sort of cache and be done with it...wtf.
I agree- Sqlalchemy without the ORM is pretty much the best code I've seen.
Japan is notorious for extreme work ethics.. so a high suicide rate is not surprising.

I'm don't think it's fair to make wild speculation like that without sources. It not like they haven't investigated the high (but also falling) suicide rate:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan
> It's not that hard to even lease telco copper or fiber and run a local wired ISP.

Can't they throttle your connection like they would do to any other peasant customers?
> ORMs, however, encourage this use and often make writing precise projections as tedious as they are in SQL.

"As tedious as SQL" is not an argument to use SQL instead.
Why do you need two lids and pots? I understand the pot, you can store it in the fridge. But why the lid?
I think a lot of microwave ovens are poorly shielded. I’ve seen more than one that will kill WiFi a room away, including the one in our house.

As for the S2000, I guess water coincidentally changes the frequency of the leaked radio waves to match the car alarm?
It's actually capitalism showing that you can sprinkle some socialist ideas on top, and do better than actual socialism at being a "workers' paradise".
Probably GSM. They do that, make interference before the phone rings. Put it by some computer speakers turned on full blast with no sound playing. You'll here the GSM morse code.
And a known-good product doesn't mean it won't have fake reviews. The fake reviews are there to boost sales, even for legit products.

If it's an arms race for reviews, at some point, even good products will have to pay up to keep pace.
The "crypto" in bitcoin is about being able to know that the copy of the blockchain you have is indeed the "authentic", consensus blockchain. It has nothing to do with keeping anything secret, as the entire blockchain is literally as public as it is possible for data to get.
Damn. This nails it. Ever since my first exposure to computing and “programming”, I always deeply felt it was a great equalizer and meritocracy filter. A field where instead of your skin, the only color that mattered was of the grey in your brain. Where gender was as meaningless as asking androids their sex. Where your “accent” didn’t matter, because code does not have any. Where what you smell of didn’t matter because all anyone smelt was factory-fresh PCBs, come to life with electrons. Where money was a result of smarts, hard work and imagination. It was, and will likely always be my utopia. It may or not exist in the world out there. Maybe it never did. But, it is real to me, somewhere within me and will always be, in some way small or large. DudeBros, CodeJocks and SoftDogs be damned along with PussyPasses and the GoldDiggers.
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>encourage individual inventors to make technology that the whole society will benefit from at a price of some limitation on use by society for a short period of time

I always imagined it was more along the lines of encouraging inventors to open-source their technologies, by giving them greater legal defenses for doing so.

To avoid the "apple does research, and archives it secretly, lost forever if it doesn't reach market" scenario; instead we now see Apple publishing anything and everything it thinks it can lay claim on, to tune of absurd claims today, but in (80) years, the research is still available to all
> Do you happen to remember where you read about demobilized soldiers in countries

I've read it many times about many countries, current and historical. Find resources serious and detailed enough to deal with that kind of policy issue. There is abundant discussion in the U.S. press (e.g., the NY Times) of the demobilization of the Iraqi army after the Iraq War.

> or about the possible motivation for the crusades

Sorry, not off the top of my head, but it's a relatively well-known theory and I read it more than once. As I wrote, I've read that theory; I didn't say such things happened. That's because I don't recall whether the source was based on serious research and expertise or was repeating a semi-popular 'wisdom'.
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Why are we even having this debate? There are some ORMs that bring so much value to the table that you'd be stupid not to use them. Example being Django's ORM or SqlAlchemy.

Also be specific in what ORM you are comparing to raw SQL. Are you talking about Hibernate or SQLAlchemy. Are you talking about a query builder?

Good ORMs help tremendously with maintainability and security. They also let you drop down to raw SQL when needed.

I don't think rails would have been as popular if you had to use SQL.
Without a major political shift, the US will not be leading the way. This kind of major project seems impossible from both parties currently.
And we need food that isn't grown by big farming. And we need news that isn't reported by big journalism. And we need entertainment that isn't produced by big Hollywood. And we need government that isn't...wait, we need big government. Never mind.
I think in that case people will fall back to buying the brands they know rather than trusting the reviews. There are plenty of other reasons people are loyal to Amazon, so bad reviews on their own, I don't think, will be enough to stop people shopping there.
I might be missing some context here, but usually the L_infinity norm means the max norm, or the maximum absolute difference over all components (data points). This gives (min + max)/2 as GP suggested.

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_(mathematics)#Maximum_nor...

For what it's worth, I think the confusion of your comment and jules's below comes from the idea that the lp-norm is sum(x_i^p), when it's actually [sum(x_i^p)^1/p] (please forgive my notation). Since raising to the 1/p power is monotonic, it doesn't actually make a difference in minimizing or maximizing the norm, so people often use them interchangeably.
At most tangentially.

I am glad they added a new "t-charge" (similar to the older congestion charge) to specifically target cars with worse emissions recently.
How about your kids? In Germany there are a lot of small villages. Kids still playing in the forests and fields.

It's plain stupid to forget that wolves are predators.
I think saying "Just use SQL" is probably a bad idea. You'll most likely end up implementing an ORM anyway, or you will end up with your model code mixed up everywhere with your views.

I do think a lot of people use ORMs as a crutch, which sucks. Also, ORMs often provide too much abstraction, forcing people who actually know SQL to relearn how to do everything the way the ORM happens to like it. I should not have to learn twice as much to be productive due to an abstraction.

What I prefer are really lightweight ORMs that give me models which I can then enhance with custom code. I don't need an ORM that supports plugins or inheritance or a dozen different kinds of joins. All of that can be done more efficiently with custom code.

Also, I think SQL builders are really useful. I think a lot of people conflate SQL builders with ORMs but they're actually very different problems.
Soviet Union too didn't get over-run by Nazis and they infact, contributed largely to the war effort[much more than the British]. By your logic, Stalin should be the most worshipped guy of the last century.
For industrial machines it's also becoming common to have them networked and open so that you can gather data about everything. Watch the temperatures of the injection molding machine and how long it's taking to do it's job. If things change then you know that parts need replacing or it's getting ready to fail. This lets you do more runs, faster, without having to take down for maintenance at intervals rather than when it's needed. That both increases reliability (early failures can be caught) and how much you can produce before needing to take it offline (since you can go longer knowing the machine is performing identically).
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Wolves are preditors. There's a reason why our ancesters have evicted them.
Reminds me of when my dad had strewn ham radio antennae between trees in our backyard when I was a kid. For a few days, any time he started doing his Morse code, the neighbor's garage door would start going up and down.
Maybe the car owner has some sort of parking sensor, uses radio and thus interferes with neighbor’s house alarm system?
Why do laws that appropriate private citizens wealth need to be justified?

Well, the alternative is wonderful stuff like civil forfeiture law. Whereby a policeman without evidence or proof of criminal wrongdoing can take that $2000 in your glovebox in the name of a defacto beneficiary (the state), because on a balance of probabilities he thinks he has a better claim than you do.
For non-binary vectors, Hamming (L_0) and L_1 are in general not identical. E.g. L_0(2) = 1 but L_1(2) = 2.
That's true. Eg alcohol inebriation tends to make a sizeable part of the population violent; pot eg just makes people hungry and lethargic. And from what I heard cocaine is basically sociopathy as a powder. Etc.

The problem of organised crime has more to do with legal prohibition of a good that enjoys widespread demand, than with that good being a drug. See gambling or prostitution or corruption in construction. I remember some article about 'sand mining mafias' in India. Sand!
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I don't hear people complaining about say LINQ. Maybe it's just that your language and/or ORM or integration thereof suck?
I suspect this is a more inexpensive/interesting way to get a small cluster together. (You could also look at user/surplus PCs, but then you probably will use a lot of space and power, and not necessary get a cluster of exactly the same boards and CPUs and what not)
Harry Reid is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. In fact, that democrat putz is so crooked they'll have to screw him into the ground when he dies. Anyway, I hope his buddy Robert Bigelow the male gigolo finds something interesting and shares his wares because something's going on up there.
I'm actually confident that America will eventually get it right. I expect that America, when backed into it, will legislate your rights to protect the fruits of your labour. And then they'll have the moral authority again. They're just going to have to work harder in diplomacy. Which they are quite capable of doing at times. Underrated? Treaty with Iran. Iran ain't really in the news of late? That is better.

But to your question, keeping $1 million in cash, all legitimately acquired, in your house, which could be seized under the flimiest of pretenses, is madness. Bank? Gold? No thanks.

It's going to happen eventually. You might as well figure out how to get used to it. In spite of how the US sometimes is, they have inevitably come down on the right side of history.
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I've used SQLalchemy a lot. I've even written a keyset paging extension for SQLalchemy.

But recently I've switched to writing stored procedures and calling them directly, instead of going through an ORM for everything... And it's so much easier.
I don’t think the “average over multiple exchanges” thing really matters that much when we’re talking about the usefulness of market cap. The reason market cap isn’t a great measure of “total value at the moment” is because there certainly aren’t enough buyers willing and able to buy all Bitcoins or all Apple shares at the current market price.
I'd rather learn the ins and outs, problems and issues, highs and lows, of SQL rather than an ORM.

ORM require just as much investment in time and even then you still need to learn the sql to get the ORM to do what you want it to do.

SQLAlchemy on Python is a truly fine piece of software but in the end it was much simpler and felt more powerful for me to write the SQL. And not even hard BTW.

I only have a limited amount of time available for learning and if I can trim out an entire class of technology (i.e. the ORM) then that's a whole bunch of stuff I just don't need to spend time learning.