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Software companies are like music bands. You might like their current album but next year they could totally sell out and go pop :)

Me, I keep it underground (qutebrowser at the moment) but I'm constantly in search of something better
If you look at Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum, all three kicked off their current bull market in April after Tether lost their banking relationships and stopped even trying to show that they had funds in reserve. I absolutely think that the Tether fraud kicked off this wave to the point that the general public would come in and hold the bag.
The title and content is not matching. As a to-customer company, whether it is a good or bad year depends on how much they earn from their customers and how much they grow instead of how badly they are regulated or criticized. As long as people love using Facebook, every year is a good year. If the article describes that Facebook is losing their users either drastically or gradually, I would agree with the title saying that it was bad for Facebook.
> I read that as "we wouldn't vote for Trump, but did anyways because of how progressives see us". Maybe I misread this.

Yep. I know a great many people who voted for that reason. They felt marginalized, and their vote was the only way they could strike back - because talking could ruin their lives.
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This misrepresents and overstates the Google Analytics and Cliqz situations

1. Mozilla obtained specific legal / contractual protections around any data that we store in GA, as covered in this adjacent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15932224.

2. We did briefly run an experiment with Cliqz, but that integration was only ever offered to <1% of new, German-language installations of Firefox. I still need to read up on the technical details of that experiment, but it's misleading to claim that Firefox in general has any interaction with Cliqz.

3. As a Mozilla employee myself, I'd be very interested in a citation for that statement re: Google.
I'm 7 years out this year, and this hits the nail on the head.

"I'll do my best."
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2) Not if you want to stream 4K content, or do anything else while streaming HD Content...

And that is just with Today's Usage, the problem is one this type of service is ingrained it will be hard to get rid of it, so we will either never see the next new technology because the gate keepers will have killed it, or if we do it will be prohibitively expensive for the average consumer

One reason 4K is getting such good adoption is open internet.

Under a Closed Internet we are moving to we will see an EXTREME slow down in technology improvement.
> Best of all, they tend to have mini web servers exposing device APIs, completely written in straight C code.

Well of course, that's what the 10 year old vendor SDK uses, why do extra work? /s

The state of industrial/embedded security in general is so poor I'm surprised there aren't more stories like this coming out. To give a concrete example, the industrial world was using modbus since the late 1970s and when Ethernet came around in the 1980s someone thought "well let's just encapsulate modbus data in TCP" and thus was born ModbusTCP. Not a single thought was given to security.

There's millions if not billions of dollars of industrial equipment using ModbusTCP today that cannot be secured without being replaced completely. I've yet to see anyone pushing a secure protocol to replace ModbusTCP in industrial environments.

When a utility is hacked (not if) and the attackers get into the SCADA network, it's going to cause a bloodbath of epic proportions.
The original WWW was too. (It didn't have cookies, for instance, so there was no way to track a user from one page to another.)

When it got popular, smart people started bending it to make being a dick possible, which is how we got the Web of today. I don't doubt the same would have happened to Gopher, if it had been the one to get popular.
I have a linked bank account. Can you elaborate please, how could I have possibly made them "angry" at me for buying Litecoins?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act

They may be fraudulent; they may be not. Regardless, they have a lot to lose by revealing their banking partners to the world. The United States probably used the Bank Secrecy Act to force large American banks to not send money to accounts associated with Bitfinex. If Bitfinex reveals its banking partners for Tether, then they risk getting cut off from those partners or those partners getting cut off from western banking.
The beauty of all of this is Bitfinex, and most other exchanges for that matter, are all black boxes. No audits, no regulations, nothing. To my knowledge all the trading on their platform happens off-chain, only going "on chain" when somebody deposits or withdraws their crypto coins. The only visibility we have is what goes into and out of any known wallet.

These exchanges could be pulling all kinds of shenanigans including outright making shit up. What is stopping them from buying / selling more bitcoin then they actually have? If an exchange wanted to pocket some real cash, just sell some bitcoin they don't have. How about just creating fake buy / sell orders to drum up some excitement? Or better, just do real trades back and forth between yourself. Once you add Tether into the mix and abstract away real cash inputs and outputs things get even more exciting. An exchange could start buying bitcoin with unbacked USDT to jack up / stabilize the BTC price--works great so long as everybody doesn't all try to convert their USDT to real cash dollars.

Since they are all completely unaudited, exchanges could be pulling this stuff all the time.

Tether makes this 10x more exciting though.
I think about this a lot with respect to society as a whole. Specifically, legalizing drugs, effects of social media, and universal basic income will affect the most complex system of all, 'society', in ways we can't possibly predict. Anyone who says these giant changes are definitely safe is naive.

Still, we need to try and make progress.
Not exactly a great example if Mozilla is trying to claim the high ground.
You won this thread.

It's not really "computer ethics" but rather, just "ethics".
As bicycles prices start moving toward motorcycles and cars, I don't understand why the shops still feel like the margins can't/won't change. They say 20-30% profit is small, but compare that to buying a new car: 2-3% profit.

And to keep the car comparison going: during the summer, bike shops routinely book two weeks out, which is almost unheard of with car service.

I'm both surprised and not surprised to hear that clothing is not a big seller--I've never been a fan of getting clothing without trying it on. However, once I know how a brand fits, that's not as much of an issue. It is surprising to walk into a bike shop and want some shorts only to find they don't stock anything under $80--you really have to work hard to find $80 shorts at the mall. So maybe the problem is they need to do better at picking what their customers want.

Unfortunately, I don't have good ideas at what they should sell in addition to labor. Need it now items are great (tires) but it's hard to make all of your money just on mechanics.
Oh, I definitely think they can. Didn't mean to imply otherwise!

I do think the surface area for attack is much more limited, since the code is innately public (unlike centralized trading houses).

That (in theory) should make them more secure, particularly if considered in terms of the transparency provided. I also think theorem proving, and languages amenable to it, can greatly reduce the surface area even further; reducing it down to a matter of reviewing what assertions the theorem prover was handed, along with trusting the VM's implementation itself. (The later is also helped by having multiple independant implementations).

But I don't think the tech is there yet. The languages currently being used aren't the greatest for theorem proving; no one's actually done much of that in practice anyways; there aren't "best practices" for upgrading your smart contract when a bug is found; and there's ALWAYS an assertion someone forgot to add to the test suite.

But I do think smart contracts could remove "server compromise" and "unauditable code" from the list of main dangers of an exchange, which does seem quite useful in the long term (once the ecosystem fleshes out a bit).
The end of an era.
I dunno, I used to spend a lot of time making my status messages really clever.
While cyclists have the right to use the road and I don't want to see anyone hurt, I don't understand the apparent lack of sense of self-preservation it takes to cycle on a busy road. Bottom line, if a cyclist becomes entangled with a 4,000+ pound vehicle, it doesn't matter who's at fault: the cyclist loses.

I myself only cycle on low-traffic streets or dedicated bike paths.
Speaking of decentralized (but not private), I recently learned about some EOS 'coin'... Brock Pierce states he's raised multiple billions to deliver a high speed ETH competitor...

I find everything about it hard to believe (I own no EOS), but I'm watching it with much curiosity
Similar boat, my previous laptop was a 2011 MacBook Air, the one before that I think was 2006.

FWIW my friend's replacement was covered. Not sure how much of that is the shop's judgement on "well you shouldn't have gotten dust in it."
The source is at https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/

Its startup is controlled by the addon/bootstrap.js file. Per line 22, it's completely inert unless the user manually toggles `extensions.pug.lookingglass` in about:config: https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33...
I found an old hard drive the other day and booted it up out of curiosity. What I found were old MSN Messenger chat logs from when I was a teenager. I spent all night reading them. It was... magical. Lots of vivid memories returning, I cried and laughed.

It's a damn shame that an entire generation is growing up with their chat logs locked in the cloud.
That seems more like a matter of culture though? It's not that hard to wait several seconds before starting to speak, right?
Why is the focus almost entirely on not requiring identification for voting then, and not on making it easier to get an ID? It seems to me that, unless the point is to allow people to vote illegally, getting people an ID is a far more important issue since you need it for most important actions in your life (getting a job, getting married, etc.), and many unimportant actions too. How hard is it really to get an ID? From a European perspective this discussion makes no sense at all. If somebody proposed no longer requiring an ID to vote they'd be laughed out of the room, and if somebody proposed to set up a system to make it hard for a specific party's voters to get an ID there would be a huge outcry.
The major problem was building a feature into the product that allowed for pushing add-ons without users knowledge much less active consent in the first place, there is no benign use for this kind of functionality.
Pointing out the error of your post is not a personal attack.
> I'm in no way upset at Coinbase for having growth issues.

you probably should... but it might haven gotten better in the last couple weeks.
How do you deal with blisters? I tried barefoot running, made it about 1/10th of a mile, and had to walk back on my heels because my feet were raw and bleeding. I had large blisters for a few days after.
>Snapchat works it will never become mainstream like Facebook

Snapchat is already mainstream, it has 178 million daily active users. Tons of celebrities use it too. It's not some unknown app. Facebook is still more popular by a large margin. However, that doesn't deny Snapchat being labeled "mainstream".

>I think people want to keep personal history in most cases. Like all normal conversations with friends or family, you would want to keep history of it so you can go look up things in the future.

Again, Facebook and Snapchat are two different apps. Snapchat was never meant to become a Facebook copy-cat. They both fulfill two different purposes.

Your comment is similar to watching a horror film and complaining that it wasn't a comedy film and explaining how horror films do poorly compared to comedies. They are not mutually exclusive.
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I don't believe it was falsified but it was missing a lot of things that an actual audit would include. Not just verifying that money was in accounts but verifying what purpose that money was for and what the banking relationship / terms of use of that money was. I do believe Tether had ~$40M in USD in April but I don't believe that they were 100% honest with their banks about their business model, which is why I think they lost their banking relationships and haven't allowed the public to deposit/redeem Tether since April.
I suspect that if AOL still cares about their AIM trademark, "SAIM" would be too close.

Pidgin was originally called "GAIM".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)#Naming_dispu...
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Would be cool if it were interactive like this site:
http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html
Facetime Audio is so crystal clear for me that it feels like I am sitting next to my friend/family vs analog lines where there is generally an echo, and other weird delays. When I talk to my grandparents it always feels like we need to put pauses in our conversation to make sure we don't start talking at the same time.
Beautiful as it may be idk where I'm expected to find the time to read 500+ pages of it
In this case, it is an act of government, repealing an existing regulation, which is allowing the fucking over. Hence, government fucking over citizens.
I know it isn't directly about cycling, but this story reminds me of the parody article I saw in The Onion: "Study: 90% Of Bike Accidents Preventable By Buying Car Like A Normal Person" [1].

I commute 30 miles each day on an electric bike, and while I haven't been hit yet statistically it's only a matter of time. I wish we had the infrastructure in place to make cycling a safe alternative, but it'll take years of build out to get to that point.

One thing I will say is that San Francisco drivers are actually pretty courteous towards cyclists, even when I have to take up a whole lane (happens whenever there's on-street parking and no bike lane). It feels like about half of the people who swear at me/flip me off for "impeding traffic" have out-of-state license plates.

[1]: https://www.theonion.com/study-90-of-bike-accidents-preventa...
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Maybe planar colors make for better-looking images (a more cohesive feel) and the demo images were chosen because they look good.
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There's also the limitation of oscillator precision IIRC. 1ppm deviation is 1hz at 1mhz and 1khz at 1ghz
Glad to hear you've recovered and you're still riding. I agree. Every time I get on the bike I think to myself "someone could kill me this time". It definitely makes me more appreciative of my life and also more cognizant of my mortality.
Speaking as someone who has run a lot of marathons and half marathons, it would be more honest to describe this project as attempting to have a human run 26.2 miles in under 2 hours in perfect, laboratory like conditions.

It's a little insulting to marathon runners to claim this is a 'marathon' IMO.

Long but fascinating article though...
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Message is loud and clear. No Indians are welcome. Now indians on h1b need to figure out, if they will migrate to Canada with skills they have, will they start business in India. Govt have no intentions of improving GC process. Govt want to stop legal immigration under different disguises. I don't know how many people are aware that it takes 3-4 years to get I-120, after some one starts job on H1b. That means all H1b's, who have been here for 3+ years need to go back or become poor in USA.
That's FUD. Mozilla is a 501(c)3 non-profit, and our audited financial statements and IRS Form 990 can be found at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/
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Short names and terseness are indeed features - for those who have already internalized the meaning of names and symbols. The problem is that bridging this ocean takes such a long time that for many people it's just not worth it (and for many others it doesn't _seem_ worth it).

It's doubly frustrating because it doesn't have to be that hard. With a projectional editor descriptive names, explicit evaluation order, inline expansion of functions and macros (e.g. for the C code mentioned below) could just be a button press away. And it's not like experienced coders would never benefit from such tools, either.
This is incorrect in my experience. I live in a city with a high percentage of bike commuters and they all ride bikes that fall squarely in the middle of your price range (anywhere from $400-$1000).

There is actually an entire segment of the cycling industry that has sprang up around catering to this demographic, urban commuters who want something functional and hip looking and are willing to pay the premium, but don't need a $1000 mountain bike for their trip to and from work. I have not taken a full survey of every bike commuter I see in my city, but I feel confident in assessing the cost of their ride falls under or just around $800 (assuming they bought brand new and not used, I think less people tend to buy new).

The amount of these hip cyclists grossly outnumbers the amount of "prosumer" cyclists (spending $2,000 on a carbon fiber bike) I see on the weekends riding trails. I would imagine these numbers are inverted in the suburbs, where you wouldn't find as many bike commuters, but the suburbs are also lower density than a city and therefore fewer potential bike riders to compare with.

EDIT: Also your point about middle class incomes and their effect on how much a consumer can afford to spend on a bike doesn't square with economics. I see your general concern regarding middle class wages not keeping pace with economic growth, but if a bike is essential to someone's lifestyle they will find a way to afford what they need.

And on a related note, many city dwellers are starting to give up on the concept of owning a car, favoring their bike or public transit or ride shares as a means to get around. Do you know how many bikes you could afford if you sold your car and no longer had to maintain its upkeep/insurance?
Too many variables. I would say, grow the most-energy dense, least land & water intensive crops possible. For the US my understanding is that that would probably entail GM corn, tepiary beans, and squash, on rotation or with companion planting, no till, dryland farming as much as possible.

But then there are economies of luxury and scale, people like fruit, and meat, and spices, and stuff which can't be grown nearby. People cultivate the jackfruit instead of maize, Brazil's trying to extirpate a "jackfruit infestation," and olive trees are sometimes considered "weeds" in Australia.

The Neolithic Revolution is bonkers, basically.

I'm not an experienced farmer, everyone's land is different, and just today I learned that there are parts of the world where bushland edibles are so plentiful that the locals see no reason to farm at all. So perhaps I should shut up now :)
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This totally makes sense to me. Entertainment is taking so many different forms these days, and it's increasingly on-demand and more personal. People are getting used to getting whatever they want, whenever they want it, wherever they are at the time.

I always go back to Wall-E and think about the people riding around in their floating chairs with their personal TV screens and constant flow of food and drink. It was funny at the time, and perhaps a little too real, but every single day since Wall-E, that future looks more and more realistic.

I've noticed a tone of more boutique theaters opening up, offering more than popcorn and soda. You get recliners, quality dining, a full bar, etc. I definitely see this trend continuing. All I hope for is that the culture and community around movies and genres doesn't die out due to the increasing reality of everyone staying home to watch movies.

I love big premiers, and I love IMax, and I love going to the theaters, but the movies need to be worth my time and money. It needs to be an experience.
I'm thinking that it'd be cheap enough to route the beam around a tower that this would be cost prohibitive, but it made me laugh.
I was in a serious car accident when I was a young man -- both legs broken and, more severe, a shattered L3 vertebra -- and this rings true for me. It's a difficult feeling to relate, fully, but what basically happened afterward is that this previously abstract notion of a "car accident" irrevocably crystallized into something that actually can and does happen and so riding in a car with other people for whom this possibility remains abstract is now almost unbearable.
In the context of this article (Coinbase going after Wall Street, looking to join Big Finance), I would guess that $1MM/day isn't significant enough revenue to count. Especially if they have overhead. Lone traders can make as much with a computer and a few subscriptions.

For comparison, JPMorgan generates around $280MM/day of revenue and $74MM/day of profit.
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Which investor-group is more risk-friendly than yc then or is yc the most risk-friendly investor-group that exists?
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> Humans cannot survive as vegans

Cite your claims. There are plenty of vegans who are very much alive, and most (but not all) research sugests that well planned vegan diets can be healthy for all life stages.

The most important deficiency in a vegan diet is vitamin B12, but that cannot be produced by any animals (or plants) [0]. Commerically the majority of it is made via bacterial fermentation.

[0] http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/vitamins/vitamin-B12
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I used to have a Motorola Canopy dish at home. It was much more reliable than cable or dsl. The idea is to have one omnidirectional tower, and directional dishes at each house. This scales beautifully, because you can simply add more and more towers to increase density (having directional dishes on one side fixes the crosstalk in both directions, up to a point).

It was doing 6mbit with better latencies than cable, back when cable was < 6mbit in my area. I have no idea what similar bandwidth microwave systems can push these days, but it worked fine in rain and fog.
Did you ever call internationally? My parents would call our grandparents using those phone cards in the 90s and they would sound like they were the good ol' two cans and a string technology.
Roy Moore?

Sorry, couldn't resist ;)