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One of the greatest victories of Human Rights in the past few hundred years came down to philosophy and goodwill, not economics. The abolition of slavery cost the British government and Navy a considerable amount in their enforcement effort. The US paid a terrible price for it.

http://imperium-europa.blogspot.com/2016/06/thomas-sowell-br...

Economics is one of the biggest factors deciding what people do. (I'd put it at #2 or #3) However, there are even mightier factors than money and livelihood. Otherwise, we'd be Ferengi, not humans, and the Ferengi characters in Star Trek which are written to be different would be the main characters. That economics reigns supreme is one of the false cornerstones of the original Marxian economics which experts in the field now know to be false, but which persists in zombie form in the popular consciousness.
He did, in this article published in January 2017: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-m...

It's a great read.
You are correct. Convenience is the reason. So is most everything else - unless you sleep in a cave and cook over and open fire...
Chip cards work super-slow in the US. I often pay in cash because it's so much faster. I take the same chip card to the Netherlands and it works in a few seconds.
I always downvote those Venezuela posts because they are invariably Bitcoin propaganda. The linked stories inevitably originate in a bitcoin news site and are backed by more wishful thinking than actual data.
This sounds a lot like AT&T U-verse, which is technologically impressive.
Patch your program to dump the keys or traffic?
One thing to note is that the benchmark is running on a Skylake Platinum chip which has two AVX512 FMAs.

You need a Gold 6000 series and above to see any benefit from AVX512. In most other cases the CPU throttles down some insane amount and there’s no to little benefit.
Other communist states were/are doing the same: exporting a product of their captive workforce for foreign hard currency. For instance Uzbekistan is exporting cotton picked up by school students which are essentialy a slave work force. China is just a bit more "liberal" in this regard.
The original post about this change pitched it entirely in terms of "more money going to creators".

I am a creator and my immediate response was to think about the math for a few seconds and go OH HELL NO.
That's what hardware "design for manufacture" product stages are all about. But no one puts money into that unless there's some knowable value in putting forth that effort. So if a startup proves the value, then a vehicle manufacturer could be willing to do that redesign and integration.
PuTTY Begone Microsoft will ship an OpenSSH client
Interesting, my assumption has been that it must reside mostly or entirely in the square. Now I'm wondering are the instruction intentionally vague?
Yes, you can disable anti-virus per directory or per-process.

AFAIK. Certainly for some anti-virus software.
That's not true. I'm completely fine with the idea of paying processing fees!

Once per month.
If you see major issues then you should say what they are. I think trading some battery/mains power and a bit of wear on the device for using an otherwise ad-based service sounds fine.
He probably held his Bitcoin on coinbase.
I hope you'll post something here when you launch. I like the ideas presented on the site but they are a bit vague right now.
They mention it below the original announcement, though they don't give any numbers.

> Not only that, but if you’re a creator on the monthly plan without the benefit of charge up front, you are constantly worried that your patrons are going to delete their pledges before they’ve paid.
I've made a number of $1-$5 pledges not to get a concrete amount of value in return, but as a way to vote with my wallet and say "I want more of this in the world".
Where? I haven't seen any in years, at least in the southeast.

There are more stores not accepting credit cards than charging extra.
I think your math is off. You mean 17 years, not 7.
Bitcoin payments in DDOS for hire, or extortion (as in we'll stop if you pay us). If they cashed out via coinbase, the authorities can find out who profited via the paper trail created.
As far as I know there is no lack of female hackers in movies nor of creative girls and women in real life. Take the electronics/maker scene. Even though there is even less women in EE/ME than software (which is quite the feat in itself) I can think of at least half a dozen public women in what little scene there is. Software culture is much more subjective and largely based on things that doesn't exists anymore. And even if it did it would to a large extent have been created by and for men. If we want more women in software culture it has to be about making cool things and not about fitting into stereotypes.
All current consequences are simply because the system hasn't been fleshed out and perfected enough.

It's way too early to judge the approach based on current implementations, because of flaws in those implementations.

But consider a system where the user is always in control of how much resources the web miner is consuming, via say, specific quotas based on domain, content creator, etc., and that there could be little risk for the miner to hijack those resources.

This is a technical problem that can be easily solved in future revisions.

That said, I'm not sure if mining is the right approach, simply because the proof of work is completely arbitrary for some currencies (e.g. Bitcoin) and has no real value.

With content creators it's clear: they provide the value, the content consumers want, and set the cost accordingly, and the consumer simply decides to pay for it. It's simple, and no client side mining would be required.

Mining is only necessary to lower the barrier of entry for the consumer, since they wouldn't need to have a digital wallet with existing funds. But in the near future owning a digital wallet will be just as common, if not more, as having a social media account, so this wouldn't be necessary for the long term.
Interestingly, in addition to Paras Jha and Josiah White, the justice department's announcment mentions a guilty plea from Dalton Norman, who isn't mentioned in Krebs's article. I wonder what the story there is?
They said they're sorry and they're going to do something toward whatever the hell it was they thought they were doing in the coming year.
Motorola too!
>Every time you make an assumption, think if that assumption is being driven by gender stereotypes.

I have, and most of the time the stereotypes have some truth to them, however unfortunate it may be.

> The problem isn't hormonal or biological, it's cultural.

Culture doesn't spring into existence from a vacuum, it arises from the aggregation and normalization of the biological impulses and drives of many people.
No, I very much insist on consistent indentation. Yet what I consider consistent indentation and what a given tool might consider consistent indentation does not always agree. But specifically with Python my problem is that I've yet to see any setup where things like e.g. cut and past works consistently without regularly mangling indentation in various situations. Then having the indentation convey semantics is a nightmare.
They're raising them for everyone except the rich.
Thanks for that link.

Made me wonder about the stores/restaurants I frequent here that do charge, apparently they're still ok to do so after 2015(link from the comments in your linked post): https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/credit-card-surcharges
The authors (specifically, Ronnie Schreiber) that worked under Bertel also wrote multiple, glowing articles showering praise on Elio motors and basically secured them many of their preorders...
This is an interesting thought -- one of the other things we see creators do is physical rewards, which means there is a cost to them in fulfilling their pledges. Although I could see compatibility to your suggestion still b/c you just wouldn't get the physical good twice, one good would cover the period of the next month + the original grace period.
English grammar and orthography are weird and funky, but given that the title is summarized anyway, can we change “has plead” to “has pleaded” or “pleads”
Would be interested to see the source (for reference purposes only, anyway - I prefer Python myself) or any other resources you recommend.
Stripe has volume discounts.

Patreon's Zendesk until recently listed 1.9% as their Stripe rate.
Heh? People use client certificates with HTTP2 all the time. Is that nonstandard?
Do you expect Chapo Trap House to advocate policy positions because it benefits only them? That's, uh, not really their thing, is my point.

The point isn't whether they'd benefit, it's whether they're in favor of it when (possibly) polled.
I'm single, with no kids, and no one to support but me. I'm not going to work for less either.
I'm not willing to put up with harmony at the cost of the code I have to spend most of my time reading being formatted in ways I don't find optimally readable.

Making people who care about formatting to the extent I do refuse to use the language is the cost of tools that enforce those kind of rules.

That's of course their choice, just as it is mine to stay clear of tools (and languages) I don't consider worth my time.
only 17 components?
One alternative is Podia. We've been getting a lot of signups from Patreon users over the past few days. We don't play games with fees (no transaction fees at all, actually, only what Stripe/Paypal charges). Here's more on the differences: https://www.podia.com/patreon-alternative If anyone wants to give it a shot, feel free to reach out to me (Spencer, the founder) directly in the live chat widget :)
I'm not even Russian and I find this "funny" usage of "Я" and sometimes "И" rather grating.
Understanding cryptocurrency 101
Presumably a competing ad network with less fraud will provide even better returns and dollars will migrate there.
Sure, that sounds better
Even if a Tesla Semi weighs the same than an unloaded diesel semi, the point would still stand.

Diesel taxes are one way to help make the truck industry cover the costs of road improvements, which electric semis will never have to pay. This requires a new funding source given how much semis destroy the roads.
Developing the Next Realities for Travel
Thanks. So is the libuv package implemented as two distinct components then consisting of:

1) The main event loop thread.

2) a thread pool of "workers" which make the actual I/O request and sleep while waiting for the I/O. Then when a "worker" thread is set to runnable again by the kernel(because it's I/O request has been completed)notifies the main event loop thread via a signal?

Is that correct?
I have friends who work at HQ and others that were laid off during the myriad rounds they had a few years ago. It would be safe to say that their warm/fuzzy corporate culture has been completely changed with their current CEO Brian Cornell. It's a numbers game at this point. Not saying it's a bad thing when you're fighting for survival, but to say they value their employees well and that Amazon doesn't, isn't necessarily founded in reality. In fact many former Target employees I know have either gone on to start their own rep companies that work with or go to work directly for Amazon. Which should tell you something.
The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format
Show HN: Ticker – a simple clock for the Atom status bar
One solution I’ve seen suggested: Pro-rate the SECOND transaction. The one on the first of the next month. Full charge for the first one.

You have ONE solo transaction, the rest are able to be bundled as normal, and the $1 pledges that make up half of my Patreon income (and, I’m extrapolating, a similar fraction of everyone's Patreon income) aren’t eaten up by that 35¢ fee.
It's not hard to do at all. You can pass a law that forcibly unbundles the last mile, so dozens of ISPs can compete on even terms on the same wire.

And that's purely a political will issue, not a "we need to invent alternatives" issue.
> A type provider that allows local schema would deal with your issue and then you would get type checked SQL queries at compile time without the direct db dependency and connection latency.

You might be interested in Rezoom.SQL [1], which is exactly the thing you describe.

As an aside, it also has unusually thorough documentation [2] by F# standards.

[1] https://github.com/rspeele/Rezoom.SQL

[2] https://rspeele.gitbooks.io/rezoom-sql/doc/Tutorial/
I don't think you will encounter the following problem: "I wouldn't want to go through the entire interview process and realize that they can't pay me what I need to support my family."
After filling out an application the next step is that a YC founder will reach out to you. You can literally talk about salary requirements in the first conversation.
Yes, my friend is now in an SRO. Heavily subsidized it is over $600/mo (market would be over $1000 or $300/week). There is no way my friend could afford market rate. Without moving far out of town there isn't going to be anything like that.

He had to wait 18mo for that subsidized rate. There is a long waiting list and and he was able to push constantly to stay on it (checkins, paperwork, etc). If he wasn't over 65 (or otherwise disadvataged), there would be NO availability.

Note that SJ is looking at tiny homes (dispensation from state to violate building codes), but for 80sqft (or 120 double) they are looking at $75k (100k double) build cost. That does not include land cost or utilities. Cost is likely to be $7-10k per year realistically so subsidy is fundamentally necessary.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/12/tiny-homes-for-san-jos...
Toyota's manufacturing methods are well known at this point...

If you've read about Lean Engineering or the Toyota Kata or even foundational devops books like The Phoenix Project, you've been beaten over the head with the idea that Toyota's process is highly effective. (And it is)
Maybe I should've mentioned "Los Angeles" higher in my comment, but looking at the sibling comment to yours, apparently there are plenty other states where it is legal to pass on the fees as a surcharge as well. Obviously your situation may vary.
Most corporate strategy/competitive strategy problems use game theory on a daily basis. Market entry, retaliation, oligopoly, monopoly, etc. are good examples.

Game theory-heavy industries are the ones in a competitive balance. Think Coke/Pepsi, telecom, etc.

Another way game theory helps is in building the right mindset: you assume that your opponent is just as rational and smart as you, and will be trying to predict how you will react just as you're doing with him/her.

This helps to avoid the failures that result from underestimating your competitors ("we're smarter than them" or "we're better than them").

Disclaimer: I work in strategy.
I don’t see how T-Mo succeeds at that price point when streaming w/sports + Netflix or Hulu is about half that cost.

I pay a little over 50 bucks a month for Hulu's Live TV service but the interface and UX is absolute garbage. If I could get everything I get from Hulu Live with a real honest channel guide + easily managed cloud DVR I would pay an extra $25 a month and drop Hulu in a flash.

I'll definitely be giving the T-Mobile service a look as the only thing keeping me on Hulu is lack of good alternatives (I'm looking at you DirectTV).
I wonder what $80b in extra tax receipts could do for American education, healthcare or social mobility.

Ah well, at least Apple shareholders get a few more dollars.
I'm torn on the issue.

On the one hand, I view the early internet as saving me/raising me. I detested school, still do. Sure there were dangers back then too, but that's why we learnt to be skeptics, anonymous, question people's motives, and actually understand the technology.

On the other hand, social networks weren't around, videos weren't really around, advertising wasn't around, nothing was monetized, there was no such thing as a Webcam, no such thing as a mobile. By the stage of the internet, I was well and truly addicted to reading.

If I had children, I'd probably want to restrict them from phones and social media, at least until they learnt to love reading, learnt to concentrate without distractions, and skepticism/pushing back against social messages.

Simultaneously, I feel my current life would have been worse off without early access to the internet...

Edit: in case it's not clear, I think this is generally a good thing. It may do us good to remember this isn't the first time technology has tried to insert itself into the classroom. Television was supposed to revolutionize teaching, but most of us now would be hard pressed to believe that TV in the classroom is generally a good thing (the teacher generally used them when they were lazy or needed some time off). Let's not kid ourselves, the MAIN purpose/use, like TV, of phones and tablets are currently media consumption and social communication, not learning.
Not only to the US, to the rest of the world. Chinese money is also being parked in real estate in Australia, NZ, Switzerland, the UK etc.
Is file append atomic in Unix?
For what it's worth as a user on the other side of the marketplace — i.e. a founder scanning listings for prospective hires — the first thing I wanted was _more_ information.

For example, I would love to know at a glance what the applicants' interests/passions are by sector/product type — in addition to technological passion/experience.

While I recognize that each field adds friction, I'd take a high expected quality (e.g. qualified technical and passion match) candidate over a high volume of candidates any day.
Creators get paid, don't feel pressured to provide refunds, and patrons get a little sign-on discount.

This seems like the key. Instead of making any decisions about payment scheduling options, design your system to allow for all of them within reason, and give the creators a menu.

If you don't offer your users enough options, you will eventually be out-competed by a patronage service that does. Hardwiring your system to a model that happens to work for you simply ensures that this will happen sooner rather than later.
good suggestion!
But imagine your interest rate on the 15K loan is 2%. And if you withdrew the 30K you’d first lose 10K to taxes, yielding only 20K. And you actually make money on the 15K you were loaned by using it elsewhere.
So if you think that the problem stems from a unique problem in academia's culture, then why do you think academia ended up with that culture while other endeavors didn't? Was it because of the character of academics, or because of the incentive structure they operate in?
Hence http://starmine.ai
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not yet but its on the list :)
The first question you shouldn’t be asking is how to have an ICO, but why do you NEED an ICO? What’s the role of tokens in your idea? Otherwise you’re just buying into the hype that is blockchain.
1) Talk to a lawyer, there is a chance your ICO could be considered selling securities and doing so without being licensed could get you into legal trouble[1].

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_co...
Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes – RDX – Medium
That it isn’t TripleByte. When I applied at TripleByte I must have fallen through the cracks. My account doesn’t let me go forward it seems to be stuck in limbo. Their promise of interviewing people never occurs. They constantly change the rules for the sole reason that it’s just another staffing agency with a automated test .
Microsoft Announces Simplygon Cloud; Optimizes Mixed Reality Development
Road maintenance is funded primarily through taxation of gas and diesel [1]. As electric vehicles don't use either, they do not pay a proportional share of the cost to maintain roads. The fuel tax has been an elegant funding solution because it scales both with mileage and vehicle weight (as heavier vehicles use more fuel).

Further, electric vehicles weigh more than comparable gas or diesel vehicles, making the ratio of road wear to tax contribution even more disparate.

Even if you agree electric vehicles are good for society overall, we will need to find a new way to fund road maintenance.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X16...
> The Tesla Model S weighs significantly less than most pickups and large SUVs

Pardon my ignorance but I thought the S was a luxury sedan and not a pickup or large SUV? Does the weight of the S compare favorably with vehicles in its own class?
Yes, you can blame them. It would give a great feeling of righteous indignation. But would that help solve the problem?
Not sure I follow your logic:
1. What are you calling the market in your first sentence?
2. Why/how is an index fund somehow less risky? What is the fund indexing and how does that compare to the market in your first sentence?

In your scenario, if the index fund is properly designed to capture the risk of the "market" as you have defined it, a monkey has equal chance of performing better or worse than the index fund and the average monkey (or an average of a large enough set of monkeys) will perform with the index fund. Certainly, though, if your index fund is not designed to be reflective of the market, but of some subset, then it will carry different risk, but not necessarily less risk. However, a monkey randomly picking stocks from a pool will not, on average, outperform the average return of that pool of stocks.
Agreed. For passive experienced/advanced investors who use brokerages like Interactive Brokers, I wonder if this would be enough to get them to switch to something like Robinhood, which will likely in turn force other brokers to either lower prices or offer more valuable incentives?
If you do not perceive a difference between HDD and SATA SDD, then you won't perceive the difference between SATA and NVME SSD either, that true.

If you do the first, you will do also the second. It makes a difference even when launching Excel or Firefox.
You didn't explain how it would make the situation worse.
Pro-rating is fine, just make it a month+. So you support with one week left in the billing cycle, they get charged for 5 weeks. You could make it an option that creators set.

I'd really like to see a debit system: I could load up 6 months worth of pledges at once and incur only one fee (whether it's explicitly charged or done 'hidden', I don't care). Creators could choose how often to be paid, as well, so they control what kind of fees they incur as well.
Good question! We've been discussing this a bunch internally and will probably change in the near future. Doing so would provide a lot more trust that this service is indeed an official YC project. And I've I've recently learned, will do wonders for our SEO.

FWIW, the reasoning for not doing that from the start is that we wanted the site to be very closely associated with the act of searching for "I want to work at a startup". Perhaps that's a bit old school, but I still like to think there's a little bit of value in it...either way, we'll likely just redirect workatastartup.com to something on the ycombinator.com domain.
ABB is part Swiss, part Swedish. As far as I know, the robots come from the Swedish part.
UBI is a thinly veiled attempt by elites to buy the consent of those of us who then can't just drug or satiate with cheap goods. I won't fall for it. Consume the rich!!
Banks are just giant ledgers as well and theyre worth trillions. Seems like ledgers are valuable indeed.