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Right. That’s how technology works.

But internet right now is undeniable. Block chain will be the same.
I love even the website is done in the most lazy way lol.

Great site!
>unclear how best to achieve the same level of efficiency whilst simultaneously not allowing the principals the power to centralise reward to themselves as well

Everyone does literally the exact same thing but you add profit sharing to the consultancy. As the article said "Clients Pay For Value, Not For Time." Unless the principals are somehow actually providing the overwhelming share of the value rather than the people doing the work.
Also Bitfinex uses Tether tokens, not USD, which are by their own terms of service worthless, and it's dubious as to whether their actually backed by any real USD.

This arbitrage exists because of the huge counterparty risk of exchanges
I appreciate your concern for comment quality, but please don't respond to a bad comment by posting another. That amounts to feeding trolls and the site guidelines ask you not to do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Instead, the thing to do is flag egregious comments, as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. You don't need nearly as much karma to do that, and we review most flagged comments.
I probably should have added an explanation for those unfamiliar with the term, but then it wouldn't have been two words! :)

Essentially conterparty risk is the risk that the other party to a contract, in this case the broker, defaults.

Bacause automated arbitrage trading requires you to hold your funds with the broker, rather than transferring them to your own (preferably cold) wallet, you are exposed to the risk that the broker goes out of business without returning your funds, or otherwise fails to live up to its side of the bargain.

With crypto-currency exchanges, that risk over the long term might be assessed to outweigh the possible rewards from arbitrage trading.
Well he does not seem to disagree with the diagnosis but rather with the advocated solution which he considers to be anachronistic. Reading this reminded me very strongly of Zizek. I'm pretty sure I've read this argument almost word for word in one of his books.
This reminds me of the reporter that asks Jeff Bezos in a sarcastic tone “So your telling me Amazon will be bigger than Sears??” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6cTjhzSgdwE
After rereading my initial comment and the responses to it, I absolutely agree that my tone was unduly harsh and condescending. I did not at all intend that when I wrote the comment, but it was clearly the result regardless. I apologize to everyone in this thread for not communicating my concerns more constructively. I have tried to reply to each comment in a much more constructive way.

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As far as sharing passwords, I was flat out wrong to argue that users do not need to share passwords. As you point out, users may need to share passwords because of the shortcomings in any given software because they might not have an option to switch to a different solution. As part of educating users about best practices, many courses educate users to not share their password with corporate IT/support desks/bosses/coworkers/etc. I think that is the absolute correct thing to teach to users so that the initial reaction to any request to share a password is suspicion and hesitation. In the event that users DO have a legitimate reason to share passwords, they should use a tool which implements end to end encryption so that only the intended recipient can read the plain text password. As you also highlight, most password managers provide some ability to do just that.

The LastPass article that you linked to highlights the fact that, although there are reasons to share passwords, users should do so securely:

> You don’t have to rely on insecure methods of sharing passwords, like through email, texting, or writing them down.

As far as the ephemerality of Pass.sh links, you are absolutely correct that I neglected to consider that security benefit. I absolutely agree that the ephemerality of messages on Pass.sh means that it is more secure to send a password using Pass.sh than via normal email. However, this is missing the point. Just because A is better than B does not mean that A is good. Sending passwords via plain email and by Pass.sh link in an email are both insecure methods of sharing passwords and end users should avoid them both. Instead, they should use one of the many tools (e.g. password managers) which solve the problem of sharing passwords with other people in a significantly more secure way (e.g. end to end encryption). They could even use a free solution like Signal [2] which provides end to end encryption. Yes, the password will stay in the receiver’s message thread forever, but you have to trust the receiver to send them a password via any channel in the first place.

I realize that users will continue to follow some bad habits in terms of security regardless of my comments here in HN. However, I think one critical component of solving the larger problem is education and developers play a role in that education. When we build solutions that we claim are secure, we should be upfront about explaining how they work, the appropriate use-cases the tool is trying to solve, and the potential risks associated with using the tool. Developers are in a unique position to answer those questions and normal non-technical users are often not aware of the questions they should even be asking in the first place.
Or maybe they are just overdrawing it above the recharge rate like it happens in the Central valley in California.
You can't teach any arbitrary thing (nor temperament) to any arbitrary person. For a specific example, consider:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichm%C3%BCller_space

I can say that not only would I never get anywhere with math at that level, but some of the related mathematical pages on Wikipedia surpass my ability to even tell if they are real or the work of cranks.

For any random person, there are things they can't do or learn because of the way they're made, any more than a cow can do calculus.

What's deceptive is that people constantly tell you that you must believe in yourself. But the reason isn't that believing in yourself is sufficient for success - the reason is believing in yourself is necessary to succeed so everyone who is successful attributes their success to that.
Sybase is pervasive in investment banks. Not sure why.

Other popular big databases are Ingres and Informix.

At a big airline I worked at, we had three different major databases on our Unix systems: Informix, Ingres and Oracle.

The mainframes had a few more.

Here's a HN poll on what dbs people use.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684620
By the week of work performed, not by the calendar. This is 3 weeks work. It starts Tuesday and will conclude mid February.

or yes, take an hour out of your work day for non-client stuff, and work an hour longer so it is not at your client's expense.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but that is a good point.

You start with $25k, then bid on sabotages.... you take home what you keep. It's usually a few thousand, but once I saw someone take home $25k.

If I were an aspiring chef or successful chef -- I see the show as having more risk than possible reward. If you lose, you might be subject to criticism of your cooking, when it should be criticism of game theory.
These were dollars they had deposited before April and couldn't get out again.
In general the phrase should be spelt "rite" (as in ritual), not "right" as in a legal right.
Note that your ISP can see/log your internet history regardless of which Dns server you use (unless of course you use a Vpn/Tor.)

So be aware that using a Dns server other than your isp-provided-one, will result in giving your dns lookups to yet another third party (the public dns provider) without gaining an advantage. It might actually decrease privacy.

Therefor, in my opinion, it only makes sense to do this if for whatever reason you distrust your ISP to mess with your dns lookups (censoring etc.)
Read two posts above you. We were talking about how one of the founders is a public racist, but how Vice's current editorial approach seems to have move passed that.

I don't think it's controversial that sexual misconduct is persistent across the political spectrum.
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There is a deep desire in the OO world to make custom, domain specific ontologies for every domain.

The FP approach attempts to do the opposite: create as few new names as possible (or when we do create them, they should not be exclusive unless they are truly domain specific).

A modern way these meet in the middle is called "named row polymorphism" as demonstrated in PureScript.

All three of these approaches have tradeoffs. It's not a very good idea to say any of them are uniquely suited even to a domain.
Madagascar. Least nice people I've ever encountered
Literally any bank having 100,000 fucked-over customers would consider it - or be made to consider it - an issue, and any reasonable person would consider it a matter of tremendous concern.

Would you consider it a matter of no concern if it was your bank, rather than something bitcoin-related?
DR, journaling, auditing & security, data integrity - at scale. These are all Oracle mainstays.
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Screenshot of a QR code with a TOTP seed is pretty neat trick, thanks for that!
IMO there are a lot of needlessly downvoted comments on HN these days. A few months ago I was trying to stem that tide and upvoted downvoted comments when I saw no reason for those downvotes. It really looks completely random many times, or at the very least "I disagree", but without any attempt of making a counter argument.

However, my voting rights were removed, and when I asked HN by contact email I was told I was behaving like a "troll" - the reasoning: I upvoted comments other people had downvoted, so I must be out to cause trouble! I gave up that account and don't care any more, I also hardly ever participate any more. I think the HN site admins contribute to this, being called a "troll" for doing what I still think was reasonable - I did not upvote a single comment that was in any way, shape or form objectively bad. They all had no insults, were no "cheap shots", not too short, not useless - they didn't even voiced troubling opinions. I still don't understand why they were dowvoted in the first place. The opinion of the site admin seems to be "you have to live with downvotes" and, at least in my case, when you try to work against what I think is clear downvote-abuse, you are assumed to be a "troll".

Okay, I think voicing a negative opinion about the site is going to go down well... but that's okay. I think this site would be better off with no voting at all, given that a sizable number of downvoted comments don't deserve it at all.
So the city is sinking many inches, even feet per year(due to excessive ground water withdrawals). With all the problems the city has, how does climate change(an average sea level rise of a few millimeters per year) even wind up on the reporters radar?

I'm no denier, but it aggravates me when someone tries to force a connection to global warming/climate change.
Those property taxes sound high!

I pay over $3500 to rent a house in Santa Cruz while my landlord only pays $2700 per year in property tax. The place is worth $1-2M depending on what website I'm checking.
Yeah, I remember playing around with Unity when their main selling point was being a game engine for the Mac. It’s insane how they went from niche novelty to utterly dominating an industry.
I'm curious. What are these forces that require you to be a part of social media?

And why are you using Google rather than alternatives like DuckDuckGo?
I started both yes and in its time it was niche (but expanded into much more traditional type company). We were focused on web-app and product design (started in 2005) when everyone was focusing on web design.

Did a ton of projects for Adobe and their Lighthouse division who were pushing their flex platform back then.

This time we are focusing on something quite different but again in an area with few people who can offer what we do but who still are used to paying for consultants.

We get great clients but they get someone who is very experienced and know a lot of the typical pitfalls.
Any stories?
Is this typically 5k to 20k engagements over a period of 2 to six weeks?
Thanks for the replies. I'll reconsider.

I still haven't forgiven Parker & Stone for telling people that voting didn't matter. If they've grown up, with some kind of mea culpa, I'll be happy to welcome them back to civil society.
Well it's that, plus low density zoning regulations
Because they don't need a full time person to achieve the results and it would be silly to shell out more money and try to train somebody to do something that they've clearly failed to do in the past. If my car needs $1000 of repairs, I'm not going to shop around for a class to teach me how to repair cars - especially if, like your example, it costs more than just getting it fixed.
Just bill 50 to 100 percent up front.
>Personalities are built; you're not born an introvert.

Unless, you know, someone is on the Autism spectrum...
With cryptocurrencies you also have other exchange risks, notably the risk an exchange is hacked or otherwise goes out of business. Imagine if you had been buying BTC on Coinbase and selling BTC on MtGox in 2013, making a great profit (on paper) through arbitrage, until MtGox tanked and all those profits were frozen.
Actors, musicians, athletes, etc... are all making so much money that an agent taking a 2% cut can still be very wealthy.

There are firms out there, like recruiting firms, but they will take much more than 2%. Probably close to 25% and you work for them.
Reading this just reminded me how lucky we are to work in tech and have the ability to extract so much money out of the companies we serve. My girlfriend works as a copy editor at a major online news site (it's in the US top 100 on Alexa) and her salary is essentially half of mine, even though her job seems more stressful and taxing. I'd love to make more money, but I also think it's ridiculous that people in other fields are getting screwed while we prosper. I wish there was a way that we could apply our skills toward fixing this injustice.
5-figures a week is a high number, no doubt.

But are you saying there is NO way to improve one's position in life and income? That, if a path can't be shown repeatedly and reliably in a double-blind clinical study, there is no value in attempting to improve oneself?

Do you believe income is fixed, and that if you can't hit a five figure mark, well -- you might as well not try?
I have travelled there for four years and for Indonesians good social relations are more important then to many other modern societies I have seen. So people are generally friendly, welcoming, smiling and easygoing - more then in other countries I have been to including my own.

Of course in a country of almost 300 million people there is huge bias in my observation.
Because to benefit from an electric car you don't need to care if the stock is overvalued or volatile. To benefit from crypto as a currency, you kind of need to not lose your life savings in the space of an afternoon due to volatility.
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I think the point about 'culture' is over-stated.

Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have a similar culture yet became liberal democracies.
Well actually adjusts fedora rate of sinking is orthogonal to whether it winds up underwater
I dont think these expose’s and #metoo campaigns are going to have the effect that they are going for. These things are merely exposing consequences (or lack thereof)

I think it is more likely that gender exclusive clubs will become more in vogue again, where they simply bus in the people willing to be objectified

Unfortunately There is nothing about this that is curbing behavior or desires, it is only showing the folly of gender diversity in the workplace. The additional liability incurred

Im not endorsing these observations, I and almost everyone will publicly say this is wrong, upvote how heinous people in power can be, but what I perceive of peoples desires are unchanged.
There certainly is a right way to apply it. No where does that rule say the last 20 percent of reward takes 80 percent of the effort. That's grossly mischaracterizing the rule.
In Australia non resident foreigners are, for the most part, only allowed to buy new builds. In Sydney some have called for an empty residential property tax, but it hasn't come about yet.
Here is the perception of non-millennials:

It's like you running to the neighbors and saying "Help, this house in on fire! And you started it by having that bbq two weeks ago. I'm sure the natural gas you used, in addition to ravaging the environment, was somehow at fault. By the way, you really should be eating this new meatless meat that's all the rage. Oh yeah, and while you're busy putting out that fire, I'm gonna hang out with my buddies drinking kale shakes and eating avo toast. Let me know when everything is all good again and I'll slip into that newly remodeled loft."

Clearly (and supported by the comment threads here) there is a wide gap between millennial and non-millennial perception of the existing problems and the proper solutions. You should do what us Gen-Xers did, figure out how to play the game to get what you want and work on solutions to the most important issues. Pick your battles - raging about every single issue and injustice desensitizes the rest of us to the real troubles you are having.
I know several married couples that met on eHarmony. Folks tell me they like it because the fee is a barrier to entry that keeps out non-serious folks, and the detailed profiles help you cut down the crowd to something manageable. Seems to work.
Yes and no.

No, because going remote opened me up to opportunities I previously didn’t have. It has been fantastic for my experience in terms of communication, mentoring, and in learning new roles (e.g taking responsibility for infrastructure).

In that sense, my career has blossomed!

On the other hand, I believe that progression would be a struggle because remote work can create such a massive comfort zone that it takes a lot more effort to break out and network than it does if you’re co-located. It can be very isolating and difficult to break out of that lonely routine.

With hindsight, I wouldn’t go remote again unless I had the full network of both professional and personal support to healthily sustain it.
because socialism is not same as corruption?
It's not in the spirit of this site to use someone else's name for your account. Since this account isn't that old and doesn't have much of a history, it's probably best if you just make a new one. In the meantime I'm going to ban this one. If that's a problem, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.

The best solution would be to rename the account, but we don't have that implemented yet.
Besides the other reply here (good info), there's also complexity. Determining if you've "completed" the work - they want specified results, which you probably want to negotiate on - that's far more nuanced than "I showed up at this club and did my 2 hour set".

There are tech recruiters that will do short term contract/placements, which may be close, but they're not an 'agent' in the same way as a music/actor/sports agent might be, who may know you for years and understand your career/strengths/skills/etc. The tech recruiter will still more be a body-shop sort of thing.
In your home, it might or might not be different, but either way, if you don't record audio, I think that you should be ok (I am not an attorney but I have never heard of a law preventing security video recordings containing only images, unless it is an invasion of privacy like in a bathroom or something similar).
Does the IETF still take cryptographic advice from the NSA?
It shouldn’t read junior engineer, it should read one engineer’s opinion. It’s your argument that’s weak, if you must resort to using his rank as a point of persuasion.
I know people say it without thinking. But I for one really do not mind it if people tell me how they are actually doing. Beat down. Bored. Optimistic. I'm okay with all of these answers.
As GP stated, this is not about (not) believing your employees, this is about risk management. In many cases it is justified - do you really want to run your company based on everything your employees come up with? Sometimes you need to check if their instincts are right, especially for decisions that have huge impact on your business. Price for consultants, while it might seem high to you, is actually pretty low compared to business values. Look at it as a kind of insurance.
Never be ashamed for learning. Sure some people will think you're an idiot, but the real idiocy is judging the person instead of his arguments. Just fuck everyone that thinks someone is worth less for having a different opinion.
> trying to suggest that donating for CA's prop-8 was in fact a pro-LGBT act...

I suggested no such thing. I said explicitly I was sticking to a previous bargain. Hate on that if you must, but don’t put words in my mouth.

At this point you have misread so many declarative statements I’ve made here that I am going to let you have the last word, if you like. But no, I never suggested that. It seems to me you are engaging in faulty logic to cast what I wrote in an either/or. Stopping here.
California is not in any way an ideologically homogeneous population. The Californian ideology here seems to generalize about the wealthy in California, who traditionally tend toward socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
This sits rather oddly with the fact that the Malagasy are basically a bunch of Indonesians who landed on an island off the coast of Africa.
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I am baffled by the outrage. Isn't Vice known to be an edgy, drugy and boundary bending outlet? Are we seriously pretending to be suprised that drugged up late teens are doing sick stuff. Or what am I missing here?
This is just a guess from what I've seen consultants contribute but there's usually some (at least the appearance of) low hanging fruit to cut costs on. Usually focuses on advice on how to get the AWS bill down.
It depends a lot on the project and your immediate team situation. As an example of what’s possible, look what happens over pull requests, email, and chat in open source projects. Shared goals, shared communication mechanisms -> stuff gets done, networks are forged, conferences arise, people have beers, people get jobs. Now, corporate work has much different structure and goals, so you have to watch out.

I have had very high growth remote work periods when I was engrossed in a good project and working with a boss who consistently engaged with me electronically (despite being in the office himself) and pushed me.

But teams and projects change. Unless remote connection is really engrained in the company, that is when growth does not come so easily but requires intentional effort outside.
I didn't say anything about being an introvert or any other personality type. I don't know patio11 or anyone else who commands high consulting fees. But clearly it is more than just knowledge that gets patio11 high fees. There is personality too. If patio11 were a raging asshole then his employability would decrease.

I've met Marines that were assholes so I'm guessing that 'join the Marine Corps' isn't as great advice as it first appears. Recently a Marine drill instructor was implicated in the abuse of Muslim recruits. That isn't a good leadership skill for the corporate environment. Your notion is too simplistic. It doesn't apply to everyone. It applies to some people but not all.

People lie on a spectrum in terms of abilities and personality. Not everyone can be molded to have the requisite knowledge/personality type to command high pay. It's simply not possible. Just take extreme examples and one can easily see this.