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I like them, although the GFX USB drive[1] is even neater (in my opinion). That said I've got a minor collection of PCB rulers, one from Adafruit that they just threw in with my order one time, one from Digikey from Makerfaire, one from Digilent, and one from nVidia. One that I would like to get is the one that does various things[2] (its an active circuit), and I mocked up one with an e-paper 'edge' where you could set what ever scale you wanted but the cost of a custom e-paper display was going to be $35K NRE! And then the displays themselves were about $50 each in relatively small quantities.

[1] https://www.geforce.com/gtx-g-assist -- and no it doesn't really play your games it is just a nice USB 3.0 flash drive :-)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2p3EYFlwCU
The local bank manager is also a peon.

If you were considering selling your company to Jamie Dimon - well, you can probably trust that he's not going to kill you, but you will show up with an army of lawyers and investment bankers to make sure you get a fair deal.
It was an unfortunate choice of words for sure, but read it from the lens of a CEO who likely just went through the hardest thing in her life and was lucky to see any outcome for preferred shareholders.

Remember -- common earned a salary, and judging from the burn, a good one, so it's eyes-wide-open in these things. Why hold a grudge and make it difficult for the company to move on?
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Not really.

There is a small case to be made in hedging against storefront shutdowns by getting free copies as much as possible on as many storefronts as possible. UPlay being the publisher's own storefront presumably has a different risk assessment for shutdown than GOG or Steam. (By that logic, I love GOG Connect for a small hedge of Steam purchases, and many of my Steam purchases in the last five or six years have been Humble Bundle or Humble Store for a similar reason.)
The principle that a country can apply its laws over me despite me neither being a citizen, resident, or in anyway connected with that country.

If a user asked me to remove their data I would, but I don't want to do this because some entity on the other side of the world decides to apply their laws to me. Allowing this sort of activity is only going to end in tears.
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> By 2027, more than half of all Americans — 53 percent — would pay more in taxes

Grossly misleading because the expiring tax cuts for individuals are an accounting trick and they will almost certainly be extended.
There have been some astonishingly good television programs to come out of broadcast television. West Wing, MASH...

Wait, I'm sure there have been more. Right?

Yeah, never mind.
Yes this would be a defence, it is the non-enforcement that is not.
Broadcast has to cater to the largest possible audience while streaming services can create content for niche groups. There's no competition for time slots.
For those that missed it yesterday, Nautilus is on the brink of bankruptcy [1], yet here it is once again with an article featured on the HN frontpage. If you appreciate the content, and are in a position to do so, please consider subscribing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977166
Ask HN: Is BitCoin phenomenon really a bubble?
For a year now, me and my friends have been witnessing the insane increase in BTC price from around 800$ in December 2016 to over $18K in December 2017.

We've been telling each other that it's just a huge bubble that's not gonna last for long. Is this right? I know, no one can really predict financial markets, but I'd like to know what the Swarm Intelligence on HN thinks like.

Also, what about other cryptocurrencies? I hear LiteCoin, Ethereum, BitCoin Cash, etc. are also available. Do they suffer a bubble too?
(early 2015)

previous discussion, 3 years ago, 23 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003735
If you step back a bit from that game you realize it's tickling the same mental circuits you use in programming. If I had kids I'd definitely try to get them interested.

SpaceChem even more so.
at least Lego is a reasonably healthy toy, right?
There are people in every city who don’t have any other option. What those people do in places like St. Louis is transfer between multiple buses on much worse commutes than the ones you’re imagining on a packed 7-train.

I think what’s actually different, if we’re honest, is that middle class people have arranged their lives to rely on the train in NYC, and they’re a more vocal (or at least more likely to be heard) constituency.
Yes, you can often find async Java libraries to fit your architecture, but those are usually less mature than the thread-based ones. With Node libraries, your architecture is set, so you are free to pick the library that best meets your needs. This is a substantial benefit, which I say as someone who loves and regularly uses the ClojureScript on Node model and selected it only after running into this exact problem with Clojure on the JVM.
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> He's made the world a better place for many

Most importantly, that doesn't mean he's going to make Google a better place, or that his skills will be usable at Google.
If some family is taxed at those rates, they don't need a tax cuts because they are pulling a 7+ figure income.

For reference, I make close to $200k and my effective federal tax rate including FICA taxes was 16%.
> benefits to individuals are temporary and will sunset, after which their taxes will be higher

highly unlikely. they will be extended.

> a deficit funded tax cut today means a tax increase tomorrow to pay for principal+interest

no, it means the government creates more money. the deficits are never being paid back, ever. it is mathematically impossible.
Is that still true? My parents must have over a hundred channels.
uBlock Origin and similar other add-ons, plus some hostfile entries largely mean I don't see any ads anywhere. I also block them on my router for extra diligence. They simply don't get called. The way it's supposed to be.
> A lot of developers I’ve met who hated math had the skills for it. If you can master a new programming paradigm in a few weeks than you can do math, it’s not the monster all theses writers make it out to be.

Let me start off by saying that, as someone whose research is applied mathematics, I agree with you that math does not need to be "scary" if the pedagogy is tailored to the right level and style.

That being said...I think you're being a bit optimistic (or cavalier?), and maybe swinging too far to the other end of the spectrum. I don't believe programming has much overlap with mathematics at all. It's very close to applied logic, but I think even then it's specifically much more like an engineering discipline than a mathematical one. At the higher levels of computer science (like complexity theory) I see a much broader overlap with mathematics, but you use very little of that in typical programming.

I think the skills that make someone a good programmer and the skills that make someone a good mathematician are essentially orthogonal: I've met mathematicians who are excellent programmers (and vice versa), but I personally think that's more because they have learned to keep one discipline "out of the way" of the other one. I don't think most computer scientists or mathematicians actually make very good programmers (and vice versa) because there is little actual overlap in their skillsets.

Once you get past calculus (and maybe linear algebra), math becomes primarily about proofs, not computation. Proving abstractions in math and programming software do not have a significant overlap. I think most people can reasonably learn an undergraduate math curriculum (say, up to abstract algebra and something like elementary number theory), and I think most people can reasonably learn programming. But I don't see any realistic skill transference between these two, i.e. learning one won't make you learn the other any faster.

I'm not trying to claim one subject is obviously harder than the other, I'm just saying that it might give someone false confidence to have them dive into complex math just because they have experienced success in learning new programming frameworks or paradigms every year for their career. That is setting them up for failure - it takes significant mathematical maturity to read through a textbook and understand it without a teacher, just as it takes some domain-specific maturity to optimize learning a new programming language from a textbook or documentation.

People who want to learn math should be prepared to spend 5 - 10 minutes reading each page of a math textbook to really understand the material, followed by a few hours on each chapter's problems. This is absolutely doable for an autodidact, but I think my framing is a bit more realistic than yours. Even if they're innately capable of learning the math, they should be prepared for it to be essentially as difficult as learning programming for the very first time.
It is elegant because you don't need to force people to switch to another complex crypto-blockchain that no-one will adopt. But there is more depth to it :

As an authority, you express your policy goals via a set of rules which grants you a fine policy-making abilities, and then either the market takes you into account and self-regulate to respect your policy or they give you ground for a global ban (but most likely some people will endorse it through fear and the others will have no other choice than to follow or be the one with the "hot potato" (divide&conquer) ).

But as every good tool/technology there are always multiple facets, and it can also be used to create value :

The beauty of decorating the ledger is that it allows to tie ethic to money. For example you can define some decoration rules, which can help promote environmental practices. For example you receive green coins when you donate to wwf, or when you interact with an eco-friendly business. (green token aren't new but the fact of it being public info is)

The great strength of this is that you are no longer bounded to be a summing to zero ledger for your decorated coins.

It can also helps people to cluster and transact only with people which shares some common values. For example if you want to avoid touching drug related money, then you can choose not to.

You can also reward with some coins certain behavior, like transactions between different communities which create out of thin-air coins received by both parties. It gives you fine knobs to adjust your economy.

You can build an e-reputation system upon these.

It probably can be exploited but it's not so easy as because all the books are public it removes incentives to cheat as you risk being marked.

You can create "coins that can't be bought". It is kind of fingerprinting your economic behavior to tell society what you want it to become.

If you can convince some people to share some set of values these rainbow coins can help you smoothly go from "ignored by society" values to values which can bring you new customers.
I have to be honest here in saying that to give a good answer, I took my notes on why I left my last position in November.

I will be starting in a smaller, more human-focused foodtech company in January (shout-out: http://felfel.ch/en/)
The group of volunteers and the corporation aren't really optimizing for the same goal. The corporation is trying to make money through X and the volunteers are really just doing X because they find it worthwhile in itself.
Anyone reading this thread that said "disgusting!" reveals to everyone else that you've never raised money. It is brutal and you have to be 100% prepared to tell your investors you lost everything. Even if you are one of the few who doesn't actually lose everything, you'll have multiple moments in your entrepreneurial path where you go over that conversation in your head, like an anti-Oscar speech, as you face the death of your company (and more importantly, your identity as one of the brilliant).
A hormesis theory of advertising? I think it’s more likely to be a linear exposure model.
That’s sort of where I am. Most of it is garbage but there are some channels that during some times of day have some decent stuff on. It’s just random what episode it is.

One thing I’d kind of like on Netflix and their ilk would be a way to choose a series and say “play me a random episode“. Some shows work well that way. I don’t want to have to go choose through six seasons to find something that appeals to me, I’ll just take an episode. Surprise me.
Now, if other companies follow suit that would be great. If employees at these companies see this, maybe they'll also feel a little emboldened to speak up for themselves and ask for a market wage based on the value they provide, not one tethered by geography.
And honestly, there's a difference between the high-level big-idea fancy stuff that Computer Science focuses on, and the low-level, details of implementing things correctly and performantly. They are not the same skills, but that's all been lumped together under this software engineering profession.
I was about to suggest that this would be hard in fantasy shows, like Game of Thrones. But on review, there's not much of that on Netflix. It's all contemporary. Interesting...

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-netflix-...
Let's say you did some research that suggested FA was the right solution. Now what? FA is not a freshman topic, it's a senior topic. You've got 3 years of math background you'd need to learn first to get to the point of being able to properly understand it (rather than blindly using it as a canned formula).
I'm very curios: whoever downloaded this comment above, could you please tell us, why do you think it's not true?
No. It's a PR stunt. A fun hobby. Seeing them play it's obvious they play like any other group of people that just started. You need several thousand hours to be decent and tens of thousands to be competitive. These people have maybe a hundred or a thousand tops. I applaud the initiative and wish more people would start playing, but any random team of 17 year old CS players will beat this team, despite having a coach. I wish there were "masters" (40+) and "legends" (60)+ classes in competitions.
It's not clear to me how the article for this story or any of the articles the story links to accounts for internal advertising. I'm guessing the claim of "being saved" from advertising is flatly not true because the alleged surveying doesn't account for internal ads.

I also question the veracity of the nameless source who allegedly said "Netflix is a godsend. We try to prevent our kids from watching too much TV, but we love being able to put them in front of a Netflix show and know we’re mostly in control of what they’re seeing. We don’t need our kids seeing repetitive ads for new toys or sugary cereals." partially because I don't trust anonymous sources in contexts where anonymity is unnecessary and partially because the whole article is indistinguishable from what I'd expect Netflix to say if they were advertising for themselves via an article.
Politicians have encouraged home buying over the years, and there is a cultural ideal of home ownership (which goes hand-in-hand with owning and driving a car). This was a factor in the 2007-2008 financial crisis; banks had been encouraged to give loans to people with less income, in order to encourage more home ownership among the working class.
Recall that for someone "making" $5M per year, the majority of income that high is inevitiably extractive and exploitative and comes from ownership and power, not the output of their actual work. One could argue if they deserve any of it beyond their actual real wages at a fairly evaluated rate, which might cap out at $1M in a democratic society. FDR proposed a 100% marginal tax rate on the highest earners, his opponents argued him down to something in the 90s, spawning the most productive period in US history.
We've been a no-tv family since forever. We do have a Netflix subscription (though we do find the selection of shows and movies too small, but still...)

My kids have a genuine aversion to commercials. With Netflix and YouTube, they can watch content they choose without the constant interruption and"garbage time" of TV.
possibly temporarily.
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One of my bugaboos is people using the wrong metrics to try and describe problems.

In this case relative price level means nothing at all. It's all about job security, opportunity and margin. You comment about the difference of $1k is all about margin.
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I don't watch much TV, but my wife watches a lot of these shows. The product placement is fairly blatant, and the storylines themselves seem very materialistic.

What if this is not a replacement of advertisement as much as it is a more thoroughly integrated form of it?

I mean, which would you rather be: The guy who pays for a blatant ad that is segregated from the content, or the guy with a slick PR rep who gets your product glowingly mentioned inside the content?
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There's an other group who is very good at refuting everything: conspirationists. I love how HN comments often provide more insight into subjects that the article they are discussing, but this is no excuse for the blatant discarding of any new idea it often demonstrates. I've been around for a while, and quite frankly, I more and more skip top comments to find really interesting content.

Note that I reply here on the general HN sentiment, not regarding cryptocurrencies specifically. Although I would say that on the topic at hand : beware making general judgments based on one bad day.
I've never been on the darknet. Where are all these reviews? Are there different drug selling sites where the sites are trusted enough not to remove negative reviews?
What are you even talking about... Who pays a 60% tax rate?
I find it annoying when people equate COL with cost-of-housing. One doesn't scale with the other. You can afford to pay a much larger percentage of your income in housing when your rent and income are both high, because hardly anything else is especially scarce like housing in a crowded city. That's the most important reason why one lives in a city that I know of - everything except housing is more abundant and higher quality.
I took this as he doesn't watch TV or TV-like content at all.
I heard it told a little less charitably:

Who were the most successful NHL brothers? Wayne Gretzky and whoever Wayne Gretzky's brother was.

I've also heard a nerdier variant:

Who was the most influential father-son pair in mathematics? Gauss and whoever Gauss's father was.
Yep. Visiting relatives frequently involves me watching them flip channels until I can't take it anymore and go read.

Having never owned a TV myself, I'm actually considering buying one now. The fact that shows are actually getting better, combined with how easy it is to wait for other people to be a filter, combined with no ads makes TV actually attractive to me for the first time since I was like 5.

But still zero reason to pay for cable.
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> no matter how wealthy the population of the bar is.

That doesn't sound right. What if the population of the bar is as wealthy as Gates? The average net worth should change if you add another value equals to all the previous ones.
Am I reading something wrong?
the way you talk about ‘rap’ (by which i assume you mean a superset of hip-hop) makes it sound like you really don’t know anything about it. blind brand obedience is absolutely not ‘a core’ of rap. Some very mainstream music featuring rap verses are that way, but your statement was far too broad.
You probably want to re-check your price.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1%20BTC%20to%20USD
The writer makes a few good points -- I liked his quoted selection "Faced with extreme valuations, the first impulse of investors..."

However, I think there is a fundamental flaw in his analysis -- specifically when he makes this a majority foundation of his point:

"Every security is an asset to the holder, and an equivalent liability to the issuer."

That's not true right? A few moments reflection makes me think of stocks -- which are equity, not a asset nor liability. [1]

What do you guys think? That point seemed to be a big part of his analysis, right?

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-makes-a-common-stock-an-asset-or-...
The line gets fuzzy when scenes are added to the show purely for product placement. In my mind that's an ad.
Approve-bot for the patent office or workers that haven't been outside for 20+ years?

How does this even happen? BoA awarded atomic swap patent this month as well I'd read.
In the United States, paying your mortgage, taxes and insurance is often about the same price as paying rent (this varies with where you live of course). When you choose to put your money towards buying a house a portion of the money you pay each month goes towards paying off the principle of the loan, so you are "building equity". After 15 or 30 years you pay off the loan, then you only need to pay taxes, and insurance if you want. It makes retirement much easier if you own your own home. And in emergencies you can borrow money against your home or sell it to raise a lot of money.

You also have to pay for upkeep of your house, but an offset to that is that real estate can often increase in value over time. And the best thing is, it's your house. Pride of ownership is a real thing, it's nice to be able to do what you want, have a garden (if you have any land which many houses do), paint it how you want, add an addition, upgrade the kitchen or bathroom.

People who do not make a lot of money, but have a steady income and good credit can get a mortgage for a house they can afford, with just 10-20% down payment. But the poorest or those who do not have good credit must still rent, and even that is hard because many landlords check credit histories and want a big deposit up front.
When no one uses bitcoin anymore there will no longer be any congestion. Solid.
This unfortunately makes Zachtronics games a non-starter for me. Software development and Zachtronics games is a fast track to burnout. Their last two involve literal programming.
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A brilliant mentor of mine(who went to MIT for his undergraduate and graduate degrees if that matters to anyone) used to decry lectures that were too mathematical rather than being more intuitive. I feel the same as it's far easier to develop the mathematics after having been given only the intuition than to develop intuition after having been given only the mathematics. Obviously there should be a balance but I prefer that my graduate mathematics courses err on the side of being too intuitive rather than too mathematical because I can generally figure out the maths on my own after the lecture.