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central bank scheme is not perfect. however central bank has proven to be very effective at providing stability to currency. bitcoin's scheme is vastly inferior. protection from hyperinflation is not a great benefit compared to unstable currency value bitcoin is designed to suffer. also hyperinflation doesn't occur unless the government is essentially defunct. I'm sure people would just switch to some other reputable currency before it happens.
Here in my garage reading HN, thanks for that awesome knaaawlaaagde.
Rails has not used the stdlib ERB implementation for a long time. As of 5.1 it uses erubi [0] and prior to that it used erubis. [1] So the performance improvements to the stdlib ERB implementation will not affect rails apps.

[0] https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/27757
[1] https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/16773
Question from stupid person: If we regularly use sqrt(-1), why would sqrt(2) be any more or less controversial?
Is it browser limitations, or just DRM limitations? Youtube seems to do 4K just fine.
Property taxes are used to fund all sorts of stuff, like a default cookie jar, so to speak.

Chicago used hike this year to fund pensions

This graph is a good summary

https://d2dv7hze646xr.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015...

> Illinoisans’ residential property-tax burden – as a percentage of median household income – has risen 76 percent.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/growing-out-of-contro...
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True. I was blissfully unaware of such requirements for employers until I spoke with a few small biz owners who downsized because they couldn’t sustain the full work force.

With the current healthcare costs structure, I wouldn’t mind if the quality of healthcare received was amazing (at very little cost). But employees end up paying a lot even with a good insurance, every year.

So in a sense, the health insurance industry is incentivizing big businesses by shuttering small ones (and those employees will go work for a big biz).

If small businesses (I guess less than 200 employees were exempt from providing healthcare, Amazon would have a much tougher time to cope with such competition.

Right now it is a cake walk. Amazon’s robots in the warehouses don’t need health insurance.
Your friends and family are not “early adopters”
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I especially love input latency caused by javascript event listeners triggering on every character entered into input boxes, like currently on YouTube :/
The conclusion/title seems a bit obvious but also wrong at the same time.

In society when corruption is not punished and you combine that with full transparency, what you get is open crime. Prohibition comes to mind, and I am pretty sure no one has thought since then that prohibition would have worked if we just shone enough sunlight on the lawbreakers. That said, more transparency on the bribery and political corruption could have led to further reduced trust in the police and political system until the breaking point where civil war breaks out and the system gets replaced.

The researchers' experiment did not allow for total replacement of the system and leaders. It can show the obvious that transparency can reduce trust when it demonstrates corruption and a failure to punish it, but what happens next is left unanswered.
This guy sounds like a horrible manager. The screed about too many people in the wrong meetings is good, but there are large meetings that have a reason to be. Also, the emphasis on email over meetings is misplaced — it’s not either or, of course you do both. The worst part is the tone described in his one on ones, which apparently are blame games and witch hunts. It’s spectacularly unproductive to encourage team members to throw each under the bus as a normal rule.

One on ones are hugely valuable, but in my experience managers who emphasize those over team meetings are usually practitioners of differential communication — telling everyone a message customized to make them happy — otherwise known as spin. This is usually associated with new managers who practice a weak form of management, focused on being liked over results. That isn’t this guy’s problem, though!

One on ones should be focused on specific discussions the employee is thinking about. Topics include career development, performance management, company issues, and most importantly concerns they have that need to be addressed before they become truly serious. In that way they serve as an early warning system for issues that are affecting the team.

Think about it, the one on one is probably the only time you are guaranteed to have a direct, personal interaction with your manager that is likely to be more than a brief interaction. It’s definitely the only time you’re not meeting to talk about specific projects. Anything other than mostly listening by a manager during this time is a bad plan.
Couldn't read all of it due to paywall.

What is technically happening with these features? As far as I understand it, there is a cookie that lives in the browser which gets sent with the request to the Google/Facebook ad script CDN, or an iframe reads the browser's cookies.

Is Safari running some kind of Machine learning or other algorithm that guesses which cookies are hurting privacy and which ones aren't, and expires them sooner compared to other cookies?

What are the odds that safari ends up breaking some other cookie driven functionality ? Can google theoretically use an iframe that reads localstorage instead? Websql?
Can't Facebook still use the like button to track users? Or does this change mean having to sign in to like things.

I feel like this is not possible to fix without breaking persistent storage for the web. Maybe I am missing something. There are a lot of use cases where I might need this. SSO for multiple domains is one that immediately comes to mind.

I think that the current approach of private browsing mode which puts the user in charge is good enough from a privacy standpoint.
I only took one CS class in my life, "Cybernetics" taught by David Huffman. I clearly remember karnaugh maps (25 years later) because on the final, he gave an example where you had to find a collection of 4 1s in the corners of the map (the map is symmetric on the edges/corners), and I got that one wrong. Sigh...
Doesn't solve my most important problem with LUKS: Allowing Trim passthrough on SSDs without impacting vulnerability.

Also, why use json for meta-data instead of simple C Structs? No human is supposed to read this kind of data anyways.
It's not like everyone have the kind of money to do NYC shopping experience (specially if you're not American.)
You two made my day. My office is down the hallway but I'm rarely in it, wife thinks working from home means I have all day every day free to help her do x and y.
You sure you meant to reply to the follow-up to my comment? None of the hashes you mentioned is actually used by the compiler, except to detect changes wrt incremental recompilation. (EDIT: and to catch recompiled crates, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16004250)

Distinguishing between crates is done solely through their name and -C metadata values provided by Cargo.

Once crates are loaded by the compiler based on either their explicit path (via --extern) or by being a dependency of another dependency (and there the name and -C metadata prevent collisions), "two versions of the same crate" appears no different than "two different crates".

The Rust compiler tends to "index" information (e.g. turning strings into various IDs) as quickly as possible, so a lot more semantics are "by identity" than "by syntax", and that helps when multiple identities may share a name.

That includes compiling against already compiled crates, instead of header files you have serialized semantic types and functions, which all use proper identities to "name" anything they use in turn - you never have to be looking for a definition, or risk using the wrong one.
The success of Xiaomi was really about their price to performance ratio. Which they have been marketing it since its inception. They have been making phones with close to zero profits, and the business was only sustainable when they continue to have VC and money from Government (direct or not) pouring in. The trouble in the ~2014/2015 era was when they tried to make profit, because they have been growing so fast, with so many users they thought their brand has already capture certain mindset. A perfect storm happened as Huawei and Oppo ViVo were dialling up their competitiveness, not to mention their cheekiness ( or may be they really think they are ) against Apple.

So in 2015 ish news was they are running out of cash, and things turn south. But Xiaomi was lucky in that they realize their problem a lot earlier, make changes and keep them a float. And the new Xiaomi is now better and becomes more humble. Compared that to LeTV and LeEco.

Now they have been in talks with many 4G patents holders, once those are settled they will likely enter US and EU market*. ( Hence this PR article )

P.S - Even though you buy Xiaomi's hardware, you really should do yourself a flavour and install clean Android on it.
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Cool which libcurl bindings are you using?
Also in such a situation, consensus could be reached easily on doing a hard fork. Government's effort would go waste on the original one. They can repeat, but it will take some time, and the hard fork can happen again, until govt gives up.

A better approach by any government could be to declare it as illegal (just like drugs). By doing so, they can't eliminate it, but just curtail demand.
You can also just open dev tools and turn on mobile mode.
In 50s sitcoms, you'll see people working union jobs with pensions. There are a lot fewer of those these days.

Even if material wealth has improved, economic insecurity is worse. People feel worse off as a result.
Author uses acronym CDN without first defining it. Explain Like I Do Not Already Know What You Are Explaining.
There is this (much older) piece of software that does much of what nnn/noice do, and more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
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Most choices are between reasonable options. It's Java vs C# not Java vs ASM. So, the cost of poor decisions is vastly less than often assumed.

That's not to say they are unimportant, but picking randomly is often a better choice than spending 500 hours to decide what color to use for your logo.
Going to give it a try now, been missing something like this on OS X. Any good alternatives I should try as well?
I dable in crypto (trading). I should probably not mention that here as HN will be down my throat in a jiffy haha.
Total taxation is at 26% of GDP in the U.S., 34% in much of the rest of the developed world.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxes...
Efficiency versus effectiveness. Good words in this essay, but it sort of throws the baby out with the bathwater.

Do what works and makes sense. Catering to everyone's whim is not always in the best interest of the company. Adjust to your employees' preferences, but from time to time they should adjust to the company too.
I can sum up the article: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should!
> what prevents a bigger player to copy it, improve upon it

Its size can be as much a hindrance as a help. Big companies turn more slowly and are less likely to put out elegant ideas for the same reason a committee is.

Paul Graham writes about how his small online store was able to turn out features faster because he was leaner. I can't find it among his essays (http://paulgraham.com/articles.html) but Getting Real, a small book by the makers of Basecamp, says the same thing (https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real).
sqrt(2) assumes continuity on a single axis. sqrt(-1) assumes an entirely new axis. (Not arguing there is any problem, just putting into words the thoughts I have heard from many students.)
Even a couple of percentage points of churn is a big deal in the long term as you have to keep replacing those customers just to stand still.

If you're in a moribund space you can get away with a MVP product for a long time, but if you're in a highly competitive space where your competitors have a significantly better product and a better sales team it has a real impact.

The other major factor driving churn in bootstrapped b2bs is they largely sell to SMEs who have a high-rate of insolvency.
Looks great. It looks like just what I have always wanted on Ubuntu. Giving it a try!
tip: Use the same amount of decimals as your measuring precision!
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> Its size can be as much a hindrance as a help.

Big companies like Google know this, and often seem to structure themselves into small competitive groups.
I think it darker than simple consumption. The japanese like fish more than whale. On the grand scale, fish and whales compete with each other to consume calories from smaller creatures. More whales means less food for fish. They dont want to eat whale. They hunt whales because they want whales dead.
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that article is pretty technical, beyond the level of technicality of simply knowing what a CDN is.
However common, life in the universe is very likely constrained within the limits of the speed of light.

So you can't just assume that they have plenty of other livable planets to just throw around.
One trend I've noticed lately is that companies are using more and more packaging of goods. Some grocery stores are selling individually wrapped oranges!

Also, a lot of the plastic that ends up in the ocean is coming from heavily populated (poorer) areas of Asia. These are places where goods are sold in smaller quantities (presumably since money is more scarce and people cannot buy in bulk). So you end up with a lot of small packaging. And whether people are just sloppy about tossing trash or if there's some systemic problem in keeping trash in bins/landfills, much of it ends up in the water.

November-February each year, Bali's lovely beaches become the landing place for a lot of this plastic. This happens every year, and the photos of it are shocking. They bring out heavy equipment and teams of trash pickers to clean the beaches each day, and the next morning it looks like a landfill again.
"The missing terminal file browser for X"???
What about ranger?
> don’t always consider convincing others to be the point of the exercise

For myself, this almost always leads to a better discussion, or at least a better understanding on my part.

It also takes the pressure off, because I often don't know what I'm talking about.
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Okay I just properly took a look at this, and some of the sibling responses are only partially correct. It's not symbol names that change, but the crate does appear to have a hash used to sanity-check against this.

I used these sources:

// a.rs
#![crate_type = "lib"]
pub struct Foo { pub x: i32 }

// b.rs
#![crate_type = "lib"]
extern crate a;
pub fn foo() -> a::Foo { a::Foo {} }

// c.rs
extern crate b;
fn main() {
println!("{}", b::foo().x);
}

The field `x` from crate `a` was originally not there, and added after compiling crate `b`. The error when trying to compile crate `c` was:

error[E0460]: found possibly newer version of crate `a` which `b` depends on
--> c.rs:1:1
|
1 | extern crate b;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
= note: perhaps that crate needs to be recompiled?
= note: crate `a` path #1: liba.rlib
= note: crate `b` path #1: libb.rlib
The Federal Reaerve actually thinks productivity is too low: http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fed-productivity-idUSL1N1...

Would be a dream to work just 40 hours per week.
It looks like it is bash dependent
For a graphical alternative, you might be interested in (my) https://fman.io
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Boss: why can't I see the expense reports.

You: I blocked everyone from doing their job!

Boss: Turn in your resignation.
Exactly.
Startup = Growth
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Exactly this, small but important details can disappear.
I'm the CEO of a cannabis testing lab in Oregon (not mentioned in the article). It's true that pesticide action levels are very low, but the reason is more to do with lack of scientific understanding than corruption or malice. The process was open; essentially the rules committee called around to the environmental labs in town and asked "what's the lowest limit your instruments can theoretically detect," and made that the limit. California is experiencing something similar, with regulators rushing to set rules just to get the market rolling as fast as possible. We're not happy about it, but at the same time we're glad to see legalization proceeding at all. Working in the cannabis industry means largely working without precedent (scientific, legal, and otherwise) which can be equal parts exciting and frustrating. States that wind up legalizing in the coming years will have a lot to learn from Oregon and California.

Anecdotally, I can tell you our failure rates for pesticides have fallen dramatically in the last year. We hate to fail product but we believe firmly that the best path towards legitimizing cannabis is being completely transparent and following state regulation to the absolute letter. As a cannabis consumer, that's the industry I want to see.
I don't understand your points, I guess. Your first point is that you've never seen this technique used in any rigorous way, and your second point is that it's an absolute bog-standard technique? I don't follow.
You said it's also Amazon, but then you went on to talk about something totally different. It was a nice story... But how is Amazon contributing to greedy NYC landlords charging unsubstainable rents?

Landlords would rather have empty buildings than lower rents, that fact has nothing to do with Amazon.
It's not that simple. Back in the 1950s, an 850 square foot home for a family of 4 was respectable middle class housing; today that wouldn't even be legal in some states, let alone socially considered "middle class". Standards of living are just incomparably higher today than 50 years ago
I was, yes. Good spot.
This reminds me of the story of the fisherman and businessman, https://www.becomingminimalist.com/recognizing-happiness/
You react like Google pioneered these ideas.

Many of the things Netflix does here, Google does too... but VDNs did before YouTube was a twinkle in Chad, Steve, and Jawed’s eye.

The custom appliance proactive multi-tier video placement process outlined here, along with more techniques not mentioned (some of the most significant are only just now being rediscovered by non-CDNs such as Netflix or even AWS), were generally invented and deployed between 1998 and 2003 - 2005.
I agree, and found it odd that the author didn't even touch on this aspect. The phrase "divide and conquer" came to mind while reading.
I first registered on HN many years ago because reddit had started to become more “mainstream”, so to speak, i.e. the programming-related posts had become the exception rather than the rule. As such I was never interested in start-ups, no matter how the HN founders relate to the start-up world. I think I’m not the only one in this boat. I’m also not obsessing that much over money, other than having enough funds for decent rent, a low-middle-class vacation per year and for gas and insurance for my small 1.4l hatchback. Paying (sometimes) too much money for books is my only guilty pleasure, but you don’t need to own a business in order to do that.
Which media player has an interface you like? I'm usually an outcast for it, but I actually like the iTunes Movies interface myself.
I mean, just pull something from HongKong's playbook? Or Singapore or even NYC.

Why does the government have to be incompetent? Maybe just admit that prop 13 was a bad idea?
Yea especially since your skills are technologically obsolete in a less than decade. Software engineering careers for example are uphill battle post 50, you better have your nest egg and kids college funds ready by then.
Slicing that is sound wrt heaps is often hard, and will contain false positives. Unfortunately in practice developers don't accept fps and get quickly frustrated by these tools unless you are very careful.
> But in this winner-takes-all reality, is that possible?

This is an assumption, and I would say, an invalid one. The reality is actually that there are many successful businesses in any given industry. This is thanks to the fact that one-size does not fit all. Niching down is a good way to build a small, profitable business, because you can address the needs of the niche better than those bigger players that have to try to solve the problems of many different customers using the same systems.
I'm glad you say that because I had the same thought.
The bigger player may consider the idea more valuable in their hands.
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He was talking about his parent's quality of life -- go watch sitcoms from the 90s for that. I'm not sure how the 50s are relevant.
It's a shame it's so ingrained in the culture there. I completely respect that in many situations one isn't permitted to refuse. The idea of showing off at meetings, as opposed to by shipping quality on time and documenting it is crazy.
>In that case, they might want to observe us without interfering to see how we behave naturally. Or maybe they have a sort of prime directive

The thing is, assuming this scenario to be true, "they" seem to be interfering with us all the time. Humans have developed an entire subculture, complete with religious overtones, around the belief in interference by UFOs. One would assume the quarantine was breached a long, long time ago.
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They claim higher performance for nnn than mc. Not sure it’s really needed in most cases though... but nnn could come in handy in edge cases of really large directories, say.
BTW their docs say that they avoid div instructions in favour of floating point multiply. Is this still faster on recent CPUs?
I wish the popup shops were more frequent. 2 or 3 years ago there was a vacant store front on 39(?)th and Madison. Instead of just leaving it like that, the landlord turned it in to a private motorcycle museum. I got to walk by some very good looking classic bikes, he got to show off the shop.
Of course there has to be a balance between the task at hand and decision making effort. People have to be good at it and that is a management concern.
Guess what? You didn't build anything. You bought a house. The building of the neighborhood over the past fifteen years is totally attributable to Facebook and Google etc. They created the explosion of jobs. People wanting to live near work is what built your neighborhood.
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If they study our past signals they will see that we've knowingly caused the extinctions of other living beings and frequently make even our species suffer. Which means, in the event that we get technologically capable enough to reach another planet with intelligent life, we're very likely to do the same thing to them.
Therefore the only logical choice for that alien civilization are to either try and take control of our planet or just outright wipe us out. No?