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>if one wants to run untrusted code, it cannot be native one so any bug can be fixed without replacing hardware

It's a bit hard to parse that sentence, could you rephrase?

Are you saying that untrusted code should only be run on systems which do not use hardware virtualization, because there's a risk of hardware bugs that require hardware replacement? The problem is that there is no single-system equivalent, users would have to use multiple laptops/desktops and air gaps to achieve separation (e.g. between network drivers and userspace apps). May not be practical.

Yes there's a risk of a catastrophic hardware bug with no workaround, but that risk applies to every feature in the CPU, not only virtualization or page tables or speculative execution. Statistically it's only happened once with the single Intel CPU recall, which are better odds than other risks.
I have a friend who worked with the billing system at a major hospital in Florida. Beyond the obvious practice of providers billing for much more than the actual cost of service, to maximize insurance reimbursement after rounds of "negotiations" after each client, there is something more insidious going on as an industry.

My friend (anecdote, sure, but something like this will never be written in policy, so I can't cite) said "we were told NOT to send anything to collections unless the amount was "very high." He was then told that the hospital was made whole with every insurance reimbursement, and that any amount "owed" from clients aren't actually a big deal- if they pay it, great, if not, it's alright. Furthermore, the impetus for not sending to collections was because there is a certain threshold where if the populous found out about their many shady billing practices, they would be exposed, and would rather not deal with that.

I'd like to say that I am surprised nothing has been done about this, but I'm honestly not surprised because the incentives and economics are there in your face.
'Good feels' there you have it. You think empathic people are just virtue signalling, totally ignoring the benefits of a more social democracy. You believe in a system that's totally unfair to a lot of people, ignoring that I am from a country that proves that there's absolutely another way.
US Sororities have been around in the US since the mid-late 1800s, but that's not really the point. The point is teen-ish people have been having big parties a lot longer than "recent phenomena." Fraternities, think Greeks and Romans, pagan festivals, etc.
Status is still unreleased and supports testnet only whereas Cipher is available on both iOS and Android stores and supports Ethereum Mainnet. Cipher is also primarily a Dapp Browser before anything else, and we try to be compatible with as many Web 3 Dapps as possible and implement the latest enhancements to Web 3 API as quickly as possible. (e.g. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/712 - eth_signTypedData)

I gotta say Status is a very cool project though (and really well-funded too and I own some SNT tokens as well) and I really appreciate all the work they are doing with Whisper protocol.
Generally we use vendoring, i.e. you have 1.1 in your gopath, but vendor 1.0 in your projects (as long as they're standalone projects).

It's also important to limit cross package dependencies as much as possible to avoid these situations.
The canonical advice with vitamins is always that it's best to get them in food, as part of a healthy diet.

The interesting thing here perhaps is that if you live above 37 degrees latitude, there are very few ways to get vitamin D, mainly fish and fortified foods.

Fortified foods are arguably not that different from supplements, and fish is pricey, unpopular, and somewhat of a specialty food.

So, perhaps there really is an argument for vitamin D supplementation. Although, at least for its cofactors, I'll be trying to get them from food.
Except for faster transaction confirmations, and lower fees.

That may well turn out to be a temporary feature. Until 2015 (its sixth year of existence), Bitcoin had negligible transaction fees.

Ethereum and Bitcoin are subject to the same limitations: namely that every node requires every transaction to fully validate the chain.

Both systems are also subject to the same limitations that will throttle "mass adoption:" the need to secure cryptographic material from network-based attacks.
I intentionally left out key exchange to see if anyone would ignore my points on ease of messaging to focus on something else. Nice taking the bait. ;) Yes, we can do a front end improvement on that part, too.

What you think about my greater claim that one can use it effectively exchanging text files after learning a handful of commands? It's more important because it refutes the GPG is too hard argument.
You are referring to the slow down and hence the extra slow down for calling an extra syscall?

If so, then isn't it technically correct that the bug will affect regardless of virtualization or not, but heavier penalty for VMs?
To explain “need to go to the doctor”...

To be clear, I’m talking about the cost/benefit. If the cost is $0, then that equation is out of balance. There are literally people going to the ER for a stomach ache. I’m only going off of personal experience here.

You made a few interesting assertions about TX without references. Could you please site statistics for the increase of malpractice since tort reform went in place?

Looking for myself, I only found articles refuting your assertion about insurance premiums [1].

1- https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2013/09/0...
Nice work!

btw, there is also the Ethers wallet which is open source and also in the iOS app store: https://github.com/ethers-io/EthersWallet-ios

the author is quite skilled and has spent a tremendous amount of time to consider a secure implementation throughout the entire code base. I highly recommend it.
Government work also suffers from over regulation. A friend of mine who works for a major defense contractor as an electrical engineer is literally not allowed to use a screwdriver driver. He must requisition a union worker for jobs involving a screwdriver. This takes tons of time and the simple job may ultimately never get done. In practice, he and his colleagues wait until after 5pm, when the union guys have gone, to use screwdrivers.

I told this story to my Uncle who worked for 30 years at a national lab. He said they had a similar problem and solution for using a broom to sweep up a mess in their work area. These stories sound unbelievable but I believe they are common and that situations like this regularly cripple and demoralize government work.
> "I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization"

Taxes are never about what YOU want to pay; no one is stopping you from "buying civilization" with your own money, if that is what you want. Rather, taxes are all about what you can make OTHER people pay for your "civilization".
In 2015 Fort Collins voted to overturn the legislation preventing competition. In 2017 another 17 municipalities in Colorado did as well.
> How many other Intel hardware bugs can you point to that are comparable to the ones below?

Disabling a whole feature (TSX) across an entire generation of processor and early steppings of the next? That's pretty major, given it's a marketed feature.
DAX doesn't appear related here at all. That is about bypassing the page cache for block devices that don't need one.

That doesn't move anything from kernel land into userspace, certainly not in the app's process in userspace anyway.
>is really more of a success story for politicians and government regulation.

Why? I thought the latest Mazda rotary engines were of very low emissions.
there are a LOT of vegan proselytizers on HN who will slip a casual off-hand remark like that into a large seemingly un-related comment.

they pop up in every nutrition thread like clockwork, especially those that involve low carb discussion. but looks like vitamin supplementation is not a topic they shy away from either.
Status already got their ICO Lambos, have not released iOS app.
These guys are just planning to get Lambos, but app is already in AppStore.
I think this has a good chance of being a good long-term investment for one simple reason. Spotify has something that few companies have but all dream of: pricing power.

The other week, my kids were watching TV and my wife and I were in the kitchen and one of them yelled out, "Mom, something popped up on Netflix saying the price is going up. What should I do?" My wife and I said the same thing instantly: "Just hit okay." We didn't even know what it went up to...hell I don't even know what it cost before. Pricing power is a helluva thing. Why does Netflix have this power? Because people love it. Because it's a part of their lives. Because people are habit-forming. And Spotify fits this mold pretty well...maybe not as strong as Netflix but still impressive. I think there are millions of Spotify customers out there [raising hang] who couldn't fathom going back to pre-2011...it probably makes them hyperventilate. Spotify could probably charge 2-3x what they charge today and I'm really not sure it would affect subscriber counts.

Remember a couple years ago when Amazon raised the annual Prime fee from $80 to $100 and no one cared? Yeah, kinda like that.

Buying from an oligopoly probably won't matter much here. Apple quickly blew those businesses up in the 2000's. The other problem is that the music industry suffers (like many other industries) from the 80/20 rule: a small group of artists are responsible for the vast majority of the profits. (Actually, I think the music biz is even more lopsided) It creates a weird dynamic for the labels and ultimately gives purchasers like Spotify more power. Consumers don't know anything about music labels - maybe not even their names - but man do they LOVE Spotify. Those kinds of things tend to be good investments.
Worth noting these were pushing very close to if not true 1080i on the final models with 1000~ lines of vertical res, when most LCD or plasmas were doing 1024x768(yep, non square pixels), or even 800x480. Only the REALLY expensive ones were true 720p, even.

They looked so much obviously better that it took plasma into the late 2000s to catch up

The closest comparison i can think of is gaming laptops vs desktops. You got objectively better performance for less money, at the cost of it being large and heavy. They were also pretty reliable, especially compared to early plasmas that blew various expensive boards constantly.(and i would know, i scored several for free this way)
I don't have any opinion on how good of an investment Spotify is, but the power balance between Spotify and the labels may not be as lopsided as you think.

Rap Caviar, a playlist curated by Spotify, is making music into hits: http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/spotify-rapcaviar-most-influe...
This is usually the kind of story that gets me all riled up, top-down corporate pressure puts bottom-rung workers between a rock and a hard place where they make the wrong decision. That decision cost a life and then everyone blames the workers at the bottom and never changes the companies practice. Then you add in it's taking advantage of our screwed up health system to overcharge insurance and it's preying on the weak, this is my stuff.

However most of those deaths were suicides and there's only one that wasn't. It's tragic but if in the total life of this company they've only had one accident like this and it's not re-occurred and they cleared up any discrepancy with their workers about what sort of existing medical conditions they can handle then I have a harder time engaging my righteousness.
The SEC would need to be able to show that Krzanich initiated that rather large selloff based on this inside, privileged info. Given the short document retention policies in place at most companies, this would presumably prove pretty difficult.
Oh sure, fair point. When I think of the college sports monolith I'm typically thinking of D1 exclusively.

I don't think many sports fans would care or even notice if you got rid of D2/3 programs. It's an interesting point when people like Ben Wallace or Chris Ivory come along, but it's mostly a non-factor.

I'm not even sure the NCAA would care, honestly, other than it being a talking point for them to claim athletes are "students first". I'm guessing it's mostly the athletes themselves who would care.
Would you recommend one for me?
Isn’t raw water basically rainwater?
> federal laws have been more and more relaxed as the likes of NRA lobby and bully congress.

How so? Also, keep in mind the _entire_ gun lobby spends less than Microsoft does each year. It's pitifully small compared to many other lobbying groups.

> Again, if we are talking about gun experts, Wayne LaPierre ain’t one.

Yeah. Although I don't recall bringing him up. :-)

> 1, 2, and 3

1. Sure, perhaps not "well-regulated" (whatever that means), but see #2

2. They are, because see #3

3. Not really. Consider the case of the middle east: two super powers—Russia in the late 70s/80s and the US ever since—haven't been able to "win" their wars in that area for the last 40 or so years. Why? Because ultimately you still need boots on the ground physically controlling the area. Sure, we could use our military prowess to turn the entire thing into a sea of glass, there's _zero_ benefit to that. Which is why we've lost over 4,000 soldiers instead of just bombing the place and calling it good.

Now consider if the US government turned on its citizens or if the US were attacked by another state. You'd end up with the same thing as the middle east, except for the US has many more firearms and, in case #1, the US government would be fractured: plenty of soldiers and police would not want to take the government's side. That's what plenty of people think about wrt "militia."

> Notice that the second amendment does not talk at all about personal safety...my view it doesn’t even apply to most cases of gun ownership.

This is part of the long debate about the 2nd amendment. You can reach different conclusions depending on how you interpret it. When it was written, firearm ownership was simply an assumed right. People owned guns and could protect themselves with them. Depending on how you parse the 2nd amendment's text you can reach different conclusions. That one comma could make a world of difference (historical details about gun ownership notwithstanding).

> but I would argue that not having access to a firearm will in some cases give the person extra time to think before they go through with it.

And so it seems the question is then: are there better ways that don't trample gun rights, and if not, is losing the gun rights worth the extra time it buys some individuals?

(As an aside, I'm not incredibly familiar with suicide, I just know what I was told by doctors when I had a close family member "go through" it, for lack of a better term.)

> As a citizen I want my schools safer than this.

I do too, but at 4 per 50 million (1 per 12.5 million) I'd consider it safer for my kids to attend school than, say, swim in pools or drive a car—both of which are considered routine and "safe" events.

Interesting link! I've always wondered what would happen to the rates of mass killings and such (the "high profile" incidents) if we'd focus on it less. It seems the 24/7 news stories only seem to inflame tensions and normalize it, increasing the propensity of it happening again and spreading fear of what is an otherwise rare occurrence (see: right-wing folk and terrorist attacks).

> If only this had any real world effect :)

We can dream, huh?
Wow way to try to maximize how much you can dump employee options and stock into an IPO before the lawsuit and others like it materialize. This is nuts. Lawsuit yesterday start of IPO process today.
>It's popular to say things like some government employees are "folks who can't hack it in civilian life," but there's basically no evidence this is true.

I'm not aware of any scientific studies, but I spent a decade on active duty, and seven years as a reservist so far. When it came to technical jobs, almost everyone was terrible at their job, which was usually an incredibly narrow and overly simplified version of what the job would actually be in the civilian world. Everything is compartmentalized to the point where even if you excel at your individual responsibilities, you would still be terrible in the broader field. Almost every marketable skill I learned during my time in the military was something I did on my own time that was completely unrelated to my day job.

After I left the military and transferred into a different kind of technical role, eventually I started helping with interviews. 15-20-year government service veterans with incredible resumes and sr. titles are regularly found to be unfit for even an entry level job.

There are exceptions, but the rule in the military is incompetence. Its not that there's something inherently wrong with people, its just that the military recruits intelligent people, trains them very poorly, and then never lets them do anything remotely interesting or challenging. They just follow whatever steps they were told to complete in training over and over again for the rest of their careers.

As with anything, there are exceptions. Some tiny parts of the military do interesting work and have developed a culture that's reasonably conducive to innovation and fostering talent. From what I've heard, parts of the NSA used to be like this, but the lack of ethics among the organization's senior leadership ended up being partially responsible for the reorganization. Additionally, there are other people that manage to become really good at something in spite of being constantly strangled by the government's attempts to hold them back. Some of the most brilliant people I've ever met started out in the military, but the overwhelming majority of people that serve in technical roles are unfit to do anything besides put asses in seats for the defense contracting industry (which 95% of the time isn't any more capable of specialized technical work than the military).
Additionally, it removes a large liability on the balance sheet and makes accounting a fair bit easier.
No, it was about managing the growth curve. Nobody can turn on a website for the world all at once. It would be better for network building if they could.
> raw_water == snake_oil

True
I shipped for 100 days straight, and I learnt about my flow state
If you lack compassion, like him probably, it's very easy to ignore how the system that's benefitting you is screwing over an awful lot of people.
Apple acquires app development platform, buddybuild
>Some of us grew up on well water. It's generally fine, although you need to inspect and treat it regularly

You need to inspect it (the CDC recommends annually sending away for a water test[1]), but I'm aware of no EPA or CDC recommendation that calls for unconditionally treating the water. You treat well water only if the tests find a problem.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/private/wells/testi...

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/private/wells/trea...
> So, once again. What exactly does blockchain bring into the equation if everything remains the same?

I did state it, repeatedly, but it doesn't count because everything else remains the same and it doesn't magicaly makes everything simple and easy. Allright.
I am sorry, but I read it three times and I am still unsure how the practice helps the providers? I was looking for "stealing more from clients", but I can't deduce any from this anecdote.
> Remember that red meat is considered "Group 1, carcinogenic to humans" by WHO

The WHO carcinogenic groups are about the probability of something being carcinogenic, not about how big the carcinogenic effect is.
> what makes you think that this is reasonable for government to provide?

[disclosure: am Canadian]

Pragmatically, the fact that it works well and has reasonably good outcomes in every first world country other than the United States.
That 100Hz timer tunable just got a lot more attractive...
> that does not mean peering at each other through the alienating window of a mobile phone screen.

Says who? You are falling into the trap every old person does. Thinking their youth was great and that society is going to crumble since you are on your way out and the kids today didn't live like you did.

> In 1969, at the age of 9, I could be left to play with my friends and wander several miles from home without any sense of danger.

The more things change, the more things stay the same. When you were 9, your grandparents and other old people were saying the same thing. Society is falling apart. Kids are sat in front of "idiot boxes", turntables, etc. Or wasting time playing silly games or rotting their brains listening to rock and roll.

When I was growing up in the 90s, old people were blaming MTV, gangsta rap and 3 way phone conservations for the end of society.

> There was balance because we had less technology

Not compared to your grandparents.

> It's unthinkable.

It's unthinkable because you are old and out of touch. Kids today do all the things you did. Maybe not as much. They go to school. Interact with their classmates. Hang out with their neighborhood friends. Play stickball, football, etc.

So don't worry. Society will be fine without you and life will go on. Who knows, when I get to be your age, I'll be saying how VR tech is ruining kids. I hope not.
My BTC wallet feels more vulnerable then ever
I'd say for new folks I highly recommend Doug Demuro's youtube channel. Unlike other car reviews that focus on the high end market, I like how he still focuses on extreme details around ergonomics to performance and look. It's the only rating system where I trust.

If you are look for value go with a Hyundai. And I'm not saying this because I'm Korean (or the fact that my birth city is known as Republic of Hyundai due to their reach into every economic sector) but it just doesn't make sense to pay for a Toyota or Honda badge when all the stuff Hyundai gives you included with base costs extra at other dealership. Especially now with the release of i30N (possibly coming to N.A.), built by the guys who brought you Audi and Lamborghini cars (basically an Audi), it's hard to shrug off Hyundai for the extra options and value they include for the base price of competitors. TLDR: You want to go from A to Z for the best bang for your buck.

Having said that, stay away from KIAs if possible. No Korean I know will ever defend it.
I'm the manager for the infrastructure team at Outreach. I'm happy to speak to this & follow up to answer any questions.

We have a bit of a phased process where our recruiters have a phone call to do a basic screen. Then we have a phone tech screen focused a bit more on general programming.

The onsite loop has a 2 hour pairing session, an hour long session focused (lightly) on distributed systems, and an hour long coding session focused generally on algorithms (done on a whiteboard, laptop, or wherever you feel comfortable), then a session focused on our company values.
And there's still a very, very strong market for these as retro gaming displays. I scored a few when they were dirt cheap used, and now people are charging $400+ for an old 20in with a ton of hours on it, and even more if it's a high end "broadcast" model
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Finding individuals to help maintain smart cities is critical to their success
Your value is what you earn for your company. The difference between your value and your compensation is the surplus value the company collects from your labor.

The company's goal is to maximize aggregate surplus value. Salary and wage based negotiation is a zero sum game until you add commissions, stock options, profit sharing.