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> I get that it feels different to you - but I'm telling you in good faith that it doesn't to me.

I think there's a very obvious difference:

(hopefully) Your views on guns and personal liberty are based on ethics and under the system you believe is ethical, personal liberty and firearms are important. You do not hold a code of ethics because it allows you to use firearms, but you believe you are allowed to use firearms due to the ethical system. (I may be mistaken here, but allow me to overstep and state that I'd find anyone who developed an ethical system to support their use of firearms downright scary).

For someone who is gay, there's nothing like that. They find different people attractive. No ethical systems to it.

In other words, "I love people of my same sex" is an axiom, "people should be allowed to use firearms" is a conclusion.
You are (mostly!) right. And I am not really objecting to the HN ethos and policy. I am just pointing it out.

Don't believe me? Try posting a gushing endorsement of your current president's policies (assuming you are American). Or take the road less traveled on any number of social, gender, what-have-you issues. See how it goes.
Are exchanges going to provide us with necessary tax documents in order to pay these taxes? So far all I've found is a terrible csv export that shows the date and amount of purchases of various crypto currencies, but no information at all on the current price at the time of purchase or the amount sold for (this is on Coinbase). I'm starting to get a bit concerned.
Samsung brand battery, or is it just a replacement part?
I swear for about 3 minutes I thought the title was "Racism for Realism". I said to myself, of course, Pixar. Can't have a believable fairytale without it.
This is based on a Open Risk formula we are working on, https://github.com/binaryedge/ratemyip-openframework.
Then bury it in the settings. Let the phone automatically fall into "dead battery" mode but give me an option 7 menus deep to undo it.
I'm working on a little project I've been tinkering with for the past 9 or so years. Its a club-house of sorts for artists so that they can learn and discuss art.

One of the features is called 'Lightbox' where you can draw overtop a picture and follow steps of a tutorial. Another feature would be to help artists find resources related to your niche with 'LinkKit'.

Right now its very old code and I've been working on a much cleaner update during the past year. So, once its ready I'll do the show 'Show HN' thing for feedback.

Here's a taste of the old code.

Lightbox
http://artjutsu.com/lightbox/canvas/Default.aspx?q=3

LinkKit
http://artjutsu.com/beta/linkkit.aspx
These are pretty tall accusations that don't seem to be backed up at all in this short, 6 paragraph article.
"Probably Never" is wishful thinking. They will never. Full stop.

Why would the U.S. government tolerate universal currency when it has something far more advantageous? A currency it controls every other currency is pegged to (including Bitcoin).

More practically speaking, the government needs the ability to expand the money supply during financial crises. Bitcoin doesn't lend itself to any of those Keynesian tricks.

And, government is not "afraid" of Bitcoin. Letting the experiment continue is more about laissez-faire capitalism than an inability to regulate crypto.
>Immigration agents aren't the most polite people in the world but how does the immigration agent know you are not a criminal?

I assume he already has a visa to enter the country. It would be easier to conduct the criminal check before granting the visa, and it can be done offline. They can take as long as they like. Or maybe the person came from a country with a visa-waiver program with the US. In which case, I'd agree that the questions could be warranted.
>...but the expectation that people with diametrically opposed outlooks on the world should "just get along" for the sake of a project seems absurd to me. It's why most companies have values, and is pretty much the only non-BS use of "company culture".

Replace 'outlooks' with 'skin color' and you can see why some people think that people should, in fact, "just get along".
I'm always leery about buying batteries off ebay.
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I find it funny that the human interface guidelines for iOS states the following under User Control:

> Throughout iOS, people—not apps—are in control. An app can suggest a course of action or warn about dangerous consequences, but it’s usually a mistake for the app to take over the decision-making.
The expressed concern around environmentalism suggests we're discussing this in a context of replacing batteries rather than throwing phones away, instead of hot-swapping batteries to keep using a device while away from a charger.
Authoritarians hiding as collectivists has given a bad name to the latter, but let's be sure to not conflate or causally link the two.
If something like:

"In order to maintain the battery life you are used to, we had to introduce limits on your iPhone. This is because by time batteries unfortunately lose their capacity. Your phone will be just as new if you take it to our stores and get the battery replaced"

would be communicated, it would be nice. In my opinion.
btw batteries usually also have a year of warranty, so there really should be a way to check it's performance.
Capone's transactions were not recorded on a globally distributed immutable ledger.
I successfully replaced the battery in an iPhone 3GS once because the battery had inflated like a bag of microwave popcorn. A few months later the replacement battery also did the same.
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> I highly doubt that’s true.

Having lived in New York for a decade and also spent time in London, there's absolutely no comparison. Heck, even just looking at the nightlife: pubs in London shut down before midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. That's completely unheard-of in most of NYC, even bars in the relatively residential areas.

NYC also tends to have other businesses open earlier and close later than London (or most of Europe). In order for that to happen, it's necessary to have people who work the early/late/graveyard shifts, and those people are incredibly dependent on overnight service.

It's unfortunate that you're mixing in overnight service with the rest of the points you make, because you're correct about the rest - the fares are a little too low right now, and rampant corruption at the TWU wastes what little money they do have.
And how many people end up bricking their phone doing so? It’s not easy and I’m sure a lot of average users simply won’t as they’re afraid to even attempt to take it apart.
Government does not need this ability, it just wants it.
It depends upon what one is trying to do, and what resources one has available, IMO.

If someone is actually working for an intelligence agency/criminal organization, or is part of an internal red team, then they have the time and resources to target specific classes of system, plan everything out, and build a package that will do exactly what they want against those specific systems, without any operator interaction.

Most pen testers don't have the time to do that, let alone do it well, and there's a good chance that anything automated that they hack together will miss something interesting either because the person who built the payload didn't expect it, or because blindly doing all of the things that would locate interesting information would involve sending gigs of data back to C2.

Knowing how to quickly improvise things like what's described in the article is super-helpful for the more generalized "see how you can misuse this system" type of pen testing.
Buy a fifth of your favorite liquor.

Give it to someone you've never met.

Enjoy.
>> If given the option on my old iPhone 6 plus, I would have chose to maybe have the phone shut off suddenly at 40% battery life and run at full speed.

This sort of begs the question - if your phone is shutting off suddenly at 40%, is the battery really at 40%?

People have certain preconceived expectations when they see a percentage. The best analog I can think of is a gas tank. People know that how they drive affects their fuel consumption, but they also know that when their gas tank is 40% full, their car's not going to shut off suddenly.

Perhaps we need to look at using a different measure than percent to indicate remaining battery life. Having said that, I don't know what that different measure would be.
Close dimensional tolerances sounds like a bad idea for batteries that are likely to expand as they age (which causes home buttons and force touch to stop working)
I went to a funeral, and the son of the deceased asked me about investing in Bitcoin! Quite a flag.
> So in the non-pejorated term safe-space, some views are not appropriate, views that undermine the comfort of vulnerable people to express themselves fully.

Personally, I would take a slightly different perspective. I would say that in a domestic abuser safe-space, it's not so much that some views are not appropriate - it's that debate/discussion of circumstances is inappropriate. That's a behavioral restriction (don't engage in debate, this is not the place), rather than a viewpoint restriction (this is a place for debate, but not about that).
Technically there are graphs that recorded the history of price at any point in time. So you could fill your taxes even with that poor csv Coinbase gives. Now 100% aboard with you, exchanges need to get on it and deliver us some workable tax documents. It's already enough of a pain as it is now, no need to make my tax season any worse!
yes, this is what hold bitcoin back but is getting better, the amazon device can be software signed, also you could encrypt your keys and upload to all cloud hosts.
I find Anker batteries to be the same or higher quality than Samsung's own. They usually run for about $10-$15.
Totally agree. But the only way for software people to take any power or control (really, for any worker to have any say in the business at all) is to unionize, and us tech folks tend to treat that like a curse word.
Yeah, people get it; which is why people are talking about it in the first place, how dense can you be?
Just a heads up to everyone. I had my 6S battery swapped for free under Apple warranty last weekend. The CPU has remained at 1848mhz the entire time since, all the way down to 1%. It no longer throttles the frequency. You should contact Apple if you're having whacky slowdown issues. Because my old phone feels brand new again.

https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/
I hope you will be an innocent target one day.
I went looking for details on the new bike plan and found this interesting article on how hard a time Berlin has had hiring transportation engineers to develop the plan: https://www.thelocal.de/20171215/over-a-dozen-engineers-urge...
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> Nothing changed other than paper gains increased.

Is this implying that cryptocurrencies have not evolved over that time period? I think you know that this is false.
> I can't say Im one the same page about availability of guns and all the gas guzzling vehicles

I work from home, so I consume far less gasoline than the neighbor across the street that has a Chevy Volt ;)

As for firearms, to each his own. I've lived in places in the US where they're very restrictive and now I live in a place where it's quite the opposite. I'd much rather have the choice, than have it made for me.

All I've ever heard from family in France/Italy is that it's basically impossible to get fired for incompetence.
> Lady Justice doesn't wear a blindfold as a fashion accessory

I never noticed that before. Thanks for pointing this out!
Making battery non-user replaceable we're engineering a time sink + cost sink on the side of the user. This isn't progress, it's rentseeking. $79 per year x 1 billion phones.

Apple profit on the transaction is smaller than my loss. It takes me 15sec to replace battery compared to driving to/from the store & involving 5 people in the process (sales, technicians, accounting). It's a clear win- lose with a negative total transaction.
Bitcoin was being more used as currency two years ago than today.
The difference is brokerages will actually issue you a 1099 form. The crypto exchange sites won't.

Let's not kid ourselves... Nobody is going to be reporting crypto-to-crypto exchanges.
I'm planning to use either cointracking.info or bitcoin.tax - they accept these exports, and use their own feeds for determining cost basis at purchase time.

Overall I've been pretty dissappointed by the recommendations put out by the IRS - I ended up having to talk to pay to talk to a tax advisor due to the conflicting advice on the internet.
I know you think you're joking, but older vehicles typically lose compression as the engine ages, which will reduce performance pretty significantly. And yes, the engine can be rebuilt which replaces the worn-out sealing surfaces that are causing the loss of compression in the first place.
I've been an iPhone user since launch, but this really is user-hostile behavior.

I understand why they did it, and it's not bad as a field-patch to a hardware bug, but doing it silently is pretty skeevy.

They should have mentioned this in the original battery recall, and displayed a warning on the battery screen in Settings, at the least.
No they don't live well in to their 120s. You just made that up.
Low power mode seems to turn off unnecessary animations and speed up my phone.
I've built and maintain quite a large serverless system, with a large team of people, and most of these issues aren't really a big deal. Cold start is well-known and also has well-known mitigations (e.g. don't use the JVM, which wasn't designed for fast startup times).

I use AWS extensively, so I can elaborate on AWS's approach to these problems. Deployment is straightforward with CloudFormation, VPCs/security groups/KMS/etc. provide well-documented security features, CloudWatch provides out-of-the-box logging and monitoring. Integration testing is definitely important, but becomes a breeze if your whole stack is modeled in CloudFormation (just deploy a testing stack...). CloudFormation also makes regionalization much easier.

The most painful part has been scaling up the complexity of the system while maintaining fault tolerance. At some point you start running into more transient failures, and recovering from them gracefully can be difficult if you haven't designed your system for them from the beginning. This means everything should be idempotent and retryable--which is surprisingly hard to get right. And there isn't an easy formula to apply here--it requires a clear understanding of the business logic and what "graceful recovery" means for your customers.

Lambda executions occasionally fail and need to retry, occasionally you'll get duplicate SQS messages, eventual consistency can create hard-to-find race conditions, edge cases in your code path can inadvertently create tight loops which can spin out of control and cost you serious $$$, whales can create lots of headaches that affect availability for other customers (hot partitions, throttling by upstream dependencies, etc.). These are the real time-consuming problems with serverless architectures. Most of the "problems" in this article are relatively easy to overcome, and non-coincidentally, are easy to understand and sell solutions for.
How was your 6S still under warranty? Were you able to claim "manufacturing defect" to Apple?
Wait, that's not how it was. You left IE6 out, which is significant.

If BTC is Netscape, I'd say ETH is IE6 and it will stay for a while. Chrome and FF is not even on the horizon.
I TAed at Virginia Tech for a computer systems course (in 2010) that was based on the CMU course. It used the book, and the projects were also based off of the CMU projects. You can look at the past seven years of what they did here: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3214/
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I'm no fan of Facebook, but I'm having trouble getting worked up about this.

It is illegal to not hire someone on the basis of age, but what is so wrong about targeting ads at young people, for a job that older people would be unlikely to apply for anyway? That just seems like common sense. And getting outraged at not being shown ads, as though your constitutional right to have companies spend money to let you know about employment opportunities while you're frittering away time on Facebook were being violated, just screams entitlement to me.
They will never be able to address the issues in New York. The whole place is polluted to hell -- the beaches are gross and dirty. I mean for fucks sake you have to ASK to not get a plastic bag (usually two). What year is it, 2002? The place literally smells like hot garbage and piss. The people have no respect for the land (ever go into prospect park on a summer weekend?). People working in business al

> You have almost literally the best of anything in the world within that hour-or-less subway ride.

Bullshit, You can take a 10 minute Bike/Light rail ride in portland and get to straight up farm-land or forest. In an hour you can get to the coast, desert, or mountains. In San Diego you can bike to the beach from anywhere in 10-20 minutes (that arent crowded and over trashed).
What does this even mean? BTC is a commodity, the government wins via taxes when people make gains. That’s like saying the government will never embrace stocks or real estate.
I think the original quote is "The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions." 1966 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson But the idea probably applies to most predictions :)
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I lived in Downtown Hartford until last month, I don't recall many, if any bikes on roads. Then again, I do recall traffic being generally unsafe, I definitely would avoid riding a bike there.
That only works because Apple has been so good at executing technical details in a way that benefits the consumer. Everything just works.

When it starts not just-working, that shows up in the experience with the device, and it no longer makes sense to tell people they shouldn't be asking questions.
They emailed back with a job offer. Back then we assumed it was trap to get him to travel to the USA from Canada, but these days, based on what I've seen, I think it was legitimate.

I think it is a trap of sorts --- "join us and help build the future dystopian surveillance state, or we'll find out who you are and arrest you".
Not that excessive, imo.

When you pay a lot of money for a high performance phone (which is what all iPhones are when they're released), you also expect it to perform accordingly for a reasonable amount of time.
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> Kubernetes seems to be a lot of magic and NIH

Not heard that criticism before, what are you referring to in particular? The NIH part seems incongruous to me, since Google were a major contributor in inventing warehouse scale computing and cluster schedulers (c.f. the Borg and Omega papers, etc.).
Again, not the same thing. As far as the atheist is concerned, that belief is ridiculous. You're conflating belief with action. A better example would be an atheist working with someone trying to impose religious law.
Maybe. I don't necessarily think taking a huge risk with substantial upside is always an idiotic thing to do.

Yes it might be a gamble and speculation, but get it right in a bubble and you're (sort of) set for life. You can make a good calculated bet and see it pay off. Any engineer on $100k to 200k a year can probably afford to put $200k in crypto and recover if it evaporates.

If you compare to certain high risk shares trading on the stock market (i.e. some tech and biotech shares), even though crypto might have a 10x upside, I don't think investing in crypto is 10 times as risky. If you're aggressive, you're probably better off investing in crypto today than in the market.
https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/

Type in your serial number, and it's probably covered.
Although I wish ranged weapons were not prevalent in my city so I can run away from a assailants, and although if it were up to me, I would make it illegal to carry guns outside the home / firing ranges / etc. because then we wouldn't have gun homicides the size of the Paris attacks every 6 days in the USA, even so...

I respect that we live in a country where people have different political beliefs and we should engage with them. And I respect that a large part of the country feels strongly about owning guns. And I also understand that the Constitution has the second amendment -- and even though the first explanatory clause is invariably ignored by gun activists ("A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state") I leave it up to the Courts to make this decision. Incidentally, after McDonald vs Chicago it's likely that ALL cities including New York may eventually be forced by the federal government to allow open carry and concealed carry on the street!

That is why I upvoted this comment to counteract knee jerk downvotes.

To everyone who thinks Brendan Eich's support for Prop 8 is "different" than supporting a ban on guns, you have to ask yourself if you have a huge double standard.
> If you were an adult during the first one

That was uncalled for. I was very much an adult during the first one.

You are talking about the internet revolution in general and a comparison to blockchains could possibly be relevant but not in this discussion. You didn't trade the internet in the Dot-com bubble, you traded stocks. Bitcoin is different because that's the actual instrument being traded.
Ahh yes, with a 100% provable 1-to-1 mapping to all US citizen illegal transactions.
Up != Apex, same developer, though. Apex embraces serverless as an architecture, Up runs regular servers as functions.
I agree with everything you said – but will point out that modern cars, if they are not properly maintained will degrade in capability in an effort to prevent further damage. I was bad about getting oil changes and eventually my car had a limited ability to accelerate and a limited top speed until I got the oil change, it seemed to be clearly done by a computer control, rather than mechanical degradation.
I think this article doesn't take a broad enough view of the question. As stated, it's a very large (and non-trivial) question.

For example, as stated, the question includes questions like: - Should America care if somebody is convicted of a crime by a foreign nation?

- Should a school care if a candidate to be a teacher was discovered viewing child pornography?

- Should a job care if/why you got fired from your last job?

- Should you care why your ex's last relationship failed?

The answer to all of these is obviously "depends on the specifics." It's tempting to draw hard boundaries so as to prevent people from weaponizing politics. Unfortunately, I just don't think hard-boundaries are coherent here.
I find it funny how you go from

>This whole question really stems from a sad and pervasive tendency for 'intelligent' people to overestimate their general expertise

to

>Within a community, individuals should only be judged based on their contributions and value within that community.

and then justify that with

>Everyone is not expected to be right, or agreeable, about everything, with everyone else. Aiming for this is pointless.

I'm not sure you agree with yourself.
I think the environment is a bit different now than it was once.

You typically have a cluster of machines, so you have to be able to run multiple instances of your application simultaneously to use all the processing power. And once you can run mutliple instances of the application in parallel you can as well run 16 instances of it on a 16-core box.

The upside is that you don't have two levels of granularity (threads, machines) but only a single one (processes) which makes both the coding and the ops as well as stuff like capacity planning much easier.