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Every node in Ripple or Stellar works with the same global state. You have to trust Coinbase not to run away with your money, but your Stellar node cannot. The consensus system is more like a replacement for proof of work, ensuring that no one double spends.
The orthodoxy (aka "standard") is there for a reason. It's very easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

If you're only doing small-scale internal interop, especially where you control both ends of all connections, you don't need standards, just do whatever works, but if you have scale dreams, thinking about the rules (What is 'state'? How is it represented? Where?) and why they are there will save you from a lot of headache going forward.
The hard part is probably writing a program to encode the rules of the game. Then, you can figure out how to represent the state (i.e. the board and the player's cards/resources etc) as a matrix or array (i like how this is done in NLP, they tend to represent each character/word/token as a 1-hot vector and then reduce the dimensionality of these (normally really sparse) inputs.

OpenAI's gym is probably a good place to start, as you can crib how they do it for a whole bunch of games. https://github.com/openai/gym
I wouldn't call it a loophole. The EU framework does not try to include pricing at all. And indeed the practice of "zero rating" seems increasingly widespread.

It's not a case of opting out: member states would have to make their own, stricter rules if they wanted to ban zero rating.

Surely non-discriminatory pricing of services is a fundamental principle of net neutrality? Without it, you can't really say Europe has net neutrality at all.
"...he has since said some of what he wrote was in fact not true, specifically the remarks about Waymo's trade secrets."

So certainly, if some of these things are true, that's bad, however why is this letter even relevant if the person who wrote it has admitted that it was a lie? Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.
Unlikely. I very much doubt any country would forcibly allow any parties to a contract sell their side of a contractual arrangement to any other third party.

And even if they were, I very much doubt Tesla's supercharging service T&Cs explicitly guarantee anything to anyone.
If I buy it for someone else or out of loyalty to author, is it counted as no intention to read? If I buy it and then somehow am not in mood to read it or dislike it after few pages, how does it count?

Also, majority of games bought at steam is never played. People buy it because they are discounted and there never go around playing. It is not for show, cause nobody see that. Large portion of those 1 in four gonna be like that too.
What you're describing is the exact same, just different syntax.
> Bitcoin Cash is worse for their application than Litecoin in pretty much every way

Litecoin will have the same scalability problems as bitcoin core, and it hasn't attracted a cutting edge-team that will be likely to try a different approach to improve the situation. Litecoin is a clone using recycled code and ideas from bitcoin. Clones with stale ideas don't generally eclipse their originators.
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Good times. Actually not very useful but they looked so hot back then and I remember just laying on the floor looking at the pictures of such watches.
Um no.

3% of Americans own more than half our guns. THEY are an elite group.

Only 22% of Americans own any guns at all.

They really are not popular in any sense of the word.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/22/study-guns-ow...
The surface area of lightning scares me. Don't get me wrong, I hope it works, but it just sounds really unlikely to.
>> Moms, eventhough all the facts suggest otherwise, assume men abuse children more often than women (even though its the opposite).

Do we have any solid, statistical evidence in support of these claims?
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Well then you are a text book example of someone with a very binary worldview, which consists exclusively of perpetrators and victims, and nothing in between.

This is not how the world looks like, however, even if some are working hard in painting it that way. You are disqualifying yourself with your simple-minded approach of using a label instead of actual arguments.

"Victim blaming" is one of the most problematic labels that are being thrown around nowadays, but it also is a nice way to filter out the people who are not able to have a rational, fact-based discussion.

But to factually approach your accusation:
Saying "It's the person's fault that she/he has been attacked" would possibly be justified to be called "victim blaming" (although even then I personally think there are better ways to challenge a line of argumentation than these highly charged labels. They make people lazy and to disengage with nuanced view points).

In my comment, I wasn't doing anything close to that, though. My point is a completely different one.
Uber hacked into competitors' networks and wiretapped people at a hotel
Oh yeah, got any stats on that from the major tech companies?

I'm curious just how low my salary is compared to an american.
Hmmm:

JavaScript 106.8

asm.js 140.0

WebAssembly 88.4

Shader 0.1

Just a Dell 13 inspiron laptop with latest Chrome 63.
The barrier to entry for new ISPs is usually regional incumbent pre-existing monopolies. While NN is _technically_ a regulation, it adds no cost to ISPs, especially startups. NN essentially prevents ISPs from buying/building extraneous hardware+software for the purpose of indexing origins of megabytes per customer for the purpose of double billing or throttling based on the ISPs contract with the content service provider (who already paid their ISP).
Mozilla's Talk:
https://coralproject.net/products/talk.html
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/06/mozilla-washington-...

Microsoft's web notes:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17221/windows-10-wr...

Both different approaches, but may be of interest.
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Exciting tool. I look forward to working with it.
More than 50% of the hashpower for bitcoin core is in China, so it is just as vulnerable!
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Yes, we are talking about syntax.

OP's first four words: "The thing about syntax".
Seeing the same with Chromium on my Linux machine. In Firefox the JS version is really slow, as you would expect.

It's kind of hard to judge this without having a decent enough look at the code, or how it is being benchmarked. For example, asm.js requires quite a bit of set-up to intialise; if it's restarted from scratch every loop for benchmarking purposes that would mess up the timing.
This brings to mind Moen's Law of Bicycles:

"Good customers make for good products"

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#moenslaw-bicycles
Could you tell/substantiate more on this, because this is the first time I heard anything like that.
I agree with most of what you said, but I would add that part of the value of Bitcoin vs other cryptocurrencies comes from its incredibly high PoW difficulty. The Bitcoin network currently completes 14 quintillion sha256 hashes every second. A similar amount of computing power would need to be controlled by a successful attacker.

I understand that miners can choose to leave Bitcoin, and this is largely dependent on price, but historically, Bitcoin provides the most security, so it is the safest crypto for storing a large amount of value.
That's irrelevant, legally speaking.

Car companies can do plenty of things that hurt your resale value which are completely legal. They do it every time they lower the price, or bundle in more standard features. They do it every time they release the next model. They do it when hidden engineering short-cuts mean expensive repairs are necessary a few years after the warranty expires...
Definitely awful. The discovery led to a huge scandal, but of course it was discovered after Juncker became president of the EC. He shouldn't have the position he has, but I'm not sure what could be done about it at that point.
so, in the UK and EU things are pretty reasonable for electronic funds transfers. in the EU area SEPA instant (~10-20s) payments have been available since november this year between a limited number of member states, and should be rolling out to others during 2018. as for standard SWIFT style international payments, from the UK they should reach the destination the next day, although this will cost more - most banks have charges of tens of pounds. inter bank transfers inside the UK are free, and instant, even for large ones.
Pngnq is a bit better than pngquant, and zopflipng is really good at compressing pngs even further.
This is something nearly every entrepreneur does.
Except image hosting sites applying lossy "optimization" contribute to the VHS problem, especially when they don't allow you to download the original. I am looking at you, twitter "gifs". Stripping out metadata on a high-res photo shot with a DSLR is also a minor nuisance, since you can't even check at which settings it was taken.
Optimizing lossless compression is ok, although even that has a minor downside that it makes data deduplication more complex, i.e. you can't rely on zfs or btrfs deduplication, you have to use format-specific tools that compare the decompressed output.

Most of these things can be avoided by providing a link to the original.

https://xkcd.com/1683/
It's not a horrible thing to say. It's an ignorant thing to say. If you say it, people will think you are dumb.
'different then' is one of the clues in online written communication that the writer speaks American English (with some confusion), 'different than' is 'correct' american english (though seems odd to me as an english english [or just simply: english] speaker), 'different to' is, I believe, more common in english english but not american english, and 'different from' is probably the most correct and universal formulation, and I use the word 'correct' with all the usual caveats when applied to language.
This was posted yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15933687
> Actually, paying a driver to wait at a supercharger costs more than the electricity is worth. So yes, it's totally dodgy.

This is a business decision of the actual car owner.
if being long on BTC is actually being seriously described as 'HODLing' then it's no wonder many banking and finance people find it hard to take seriously.
I'll be honest and say I refuse to read this based on its title. I've used SOAP somewhat recently. It's shittier than anything I've done in programming and I've done plenty of PHP 5 stuff. There's so much inane stuff in SOAP, and it's rare that a SOAP client in one language will work properly with a SOAP server in another.

Yes, it's HTTP-based APIs. But they've perverted the HTTP spec with weird extensions like SOAP attachments. So good luck doing SOAP operations by hand.

Not to mention it's insanely poorly specified. For example, SOAP requests can be GET or POST but most things only support using POST anyways. Why not specify it! God only knows.

I really hate SOAP a lot. Comparing it to REST for some Medium rant makes me irrationally angry.
> it’s not just good for me not to use FB, it’s bad for my friends to use it to see me.

Very well said. You just convinced me to deactivate.
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It is impeded if they have to pay for the US gas stations for the same gas they already paid for in Canada.
I really like this idea.

HN is too curated to cover literally every site or article (and that's a good thing), but you could have a sidebar that federates multiple comment outlets... "Here's what people are saying online..." Like pingbacks, but less opt in.

If nothing is found, the sidebar could push new comments to a special purpose subreddit, or some other default backstop.
" But it's seemingly not compatible with this world."

I was told by a ~50 year old yesterday that the Christmas holidays used to be two weeks. That means that it was common for businesses to close for an entire two weeks, instead of one day.

Now, it's all about the maximum grind.

https://chriskresser.com/busyness-badge-of-honor-or-cultural...
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Then why have a decentralized solution at all? Why not just make it like Paypal?
Someone should just step up and review all of this mess.
Even after working with them for a while, GPUs still feel like cheating. They are just so goddamn good at what they do.

That kind of speed up isn't just a fluke here, it's pretty normal when your work aligns with what a GPU does best.
It was would interesting to compare a C or Assembly version against a shader version. My hunch is that this is just a use case where a general purpose CPU is left in the dust by a modern GPU.
This is probably the culprit: https://github.com/sniklaus/experiment-raytracer/blob/master...

It declares that floats should only be medium precision by default, but those precision specifiers are only followed on mobile platforms.

Desktop WebGL implementations just promote everything to high precision so that kind of bug is invisible until you test on mobile.
It's become Schrödinger's social norms.

Keeping your distance? For the exact same social context that could be (A) not invading a woman's space or putting her in an uncomfortable situation or (B) a harmful approach fueled by a paranoic attitude that is unfair to womens' careers. It could be either until a woman observer collapses the wave function.
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"Code written and passing integration tests" seems like a pretty typical definition to me..?
It's not really even about power: if they're a colleague or your boss, it's inappropriate too. I've never heard of a man being ignorant enough to hit on a female boss, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Even if people don't follow the platinum rule, they should surely recognise that there are interactions they would have a problem with. The people happy handing out "hugs" to people they are attracted to are surprisingly unwilling to receive them from people they find unattractive.

Everyone should be given social space until a mutual agreement that something else happens. This is especially important if there are significant cultural differences between people.
> there is a group of people - perhaps small

Right, but this post is not about the vanishing of Literary fiction from the face of the earth.

A merely shrinking market is obviously consistent with the idea that some (or much) of it formerly sold to people who weren't really enjoying spending hours with a genre almost defined by not having much in the way of story or ideas, which in turn is consistent with the hypothesis that part of the market was sustained by status signaling.
This is not good idea.
I think it's more like 1kg per 10 kWh. 1kg/kWh sounded too much to me, so I did a quick Google search:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_content_of_pur...
So long as an article makes a reasonable attempt to present a viewpoint, downvoting does not add anything to the issue. If you disagree, upvote those replies that you agree with (unfortunately, Medium makes that more complicated than is should be.) If no-one can be bothered to say what's wrong with the article, maybe there isn't much wrong with it.

For example, xmlrpc has been recommended in comments as alternatives to consider. Maybe what's wrong with Medium is that the informative replies are on HN... (to be fair, grpc is mentioned on Medium.)
Being an old HP48 user, finding Calc was what me fall the rest of the way in love with Emacs. If I'm at the shell prompt I'll still startup GP/Pari for quick calculations, but it's hard to beat Calc for longer sessions.

The only downside is that, like any advanced Emacs functionality, if you don't use it frequently you forget all the commands.
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My wife enjoys literary fiction and I enjoy reading scifi (most recently Chinese scifi). We spend quite a bit of money on new eBooks, books, and audible books.

Everyone gets to decide what they enjoy and how they spend their time. I generally enjoy good writing and good movies over spending time with miscellaneous web browsing and network TV. I have friends and family who love watching TV or hanging out on Facebook and that is fine because everyone gets to decide how they spend their time.

It is important to me that producers of great content get paid so even though I enjoy spending time in my local library, I prefer to purchase entertainment material.
I think for this case (with 6 discrete outcomes) you could just use Pearson's Chi-Square test. What you describe is general enough for continuous distributions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson%27s_chi-squared_test
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You should read it.
The title is misleading.
I think the author proposes that REST is the new (failed) SOAP.
What if I don’t want them to track me.
Nautilus has great articles I wish there was a way to make a compilation of the best ones then binge read
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If you (re)read the blog post I'm referring to, you'll find that your concerns are very much addressed.

I actually chose to refer to 'feudal security' as coined by Schneier (at least in the context of computer security), because it is such a compelling and balanced approach to the exact same trade-offs you're describing.
I think this is best labelled a meta-Greenspun:

> "Any sufficiently complicated X contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Y." (where X is the new "simple" way and Y is whatever the greybeards are using.
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Here's an argument:

If I'm an ISP startup, how can I differentiate myself from one of the major providers? For example, if I wanted to offer enhanced speeds for downloading large files or if I wanted to offer a VOIP-optimizd network -- I couldn't do any of that.

If networks are a commodity, then there's zero incentive for a new entrant -- there are also zero incentives to improve existing networks -- why bother? Let's pretend Comcast starts to throttle some traffic. Some new company could emerge where they have the marketing advantage of not throttling traffic -- customers will go to the new service if not being throttled is important to them. Comcast, in order to keep their customers then has to stop throttling. So now the new startup can say, ok, Comcast and us -- we aren't throttling -- but now we're going to lower our prices. Comcast then has to lower their prices. New startup now has some other new innovation -- we're going to give you unlimited YouTube on mobile for free. Now, another company says, that they'll give unlimited Netflix AND YouTube for free. Finally another company comes along as says they're going to give you unlimited everything.

With net neutrality none of those scenarios would ever happen. Now, to be fair, those scenarios are difficult now -- but not because of Net Neutrality, but because of the lack of competition due to the way municipalities and neighborhoods essentially provide monopoly positioning to the major companies. THAT is the real problem. Many parts of the country only have a single high speed provider -- however At the 10Mbps/1Mbps threshold about 90 percent of census blocks have at least two providers.

At the 25Mbps download/3Mbps upload broadband standard -- there are no ISPs at all in 30% of developed US census blocks. What's the incentive for new entrants to those markets?

I live in France where supposedly we have net neutrality -- yet the fastest speeds I can get are 8mps down and 0.8mbps up. And there's a single provider: Orange. I don't live in a city. Fiber is at least 5 YEARS away in my area and there's zero incentive for a new entrant -- even from the existing big names in French telecoms. Orange has no incentive to upgrade the speeds because it isn't like they can provide any special deals with content providers that could provide them with a financial incentive to upgrade their networks. Maybe Netflix could partner with Orange to bring fiber to our area -- an impossible deal with Net Neutrality.

Despite hyperbole to the contrary -- Net Neutrality isn't black and white. There are a large number of unintended consequences that people on both sides fail to consider.

The short answer is that the real problem isn't the lack of NN -- it's the lack of competition which is promoted by the misguided priorities of municipalities.
I think again to say "defined by not having much in the way of stories or ideas" is a level of dismissal that suggests something stronger than mere indifference. A lot of people have bad early experiences with literary fiction and I'd agree that when it's bad, it's the worst. But when it's good it can be exceptional. It also does not preclude strong stories, or idea driven stories. Of course a great deal of it is about capturing subjective human experience in a way that - when it fails for a reader - leaves them with nothing. But when it works it can be incredible.

Generally what I find is that once peoplelike a work of literary fiction they no longer think of it as "literary" - they sort see it in a category of its own.
Most people are reasonable, though. A few are not, and there is never a proper defense against them. The sort that retell someone being grouchy as yelling at them, a movement as a threat of violence. Someone that lies obsessively, even in normal conversation. Or the one that feels slighted and says the breaks are unfair, even though they are getting the same as everyone else.

Admittedly, asking a woman out is more risky for me since I'm female just as it would with a man asking a man out. That isn't due to sexual harassment, but homophobia.

All that said, though, most folks are reasonable to reasonable people who treat them with respect. That's where I'll set the standard for my own behavior and hope for the best.
Hey chicago shout out, this is neat but holy smokes 'array of things (AoT)'? It seems like its just a network of sensors, i thought that was internet of things.