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Absolutely! The only way you can sell gold is when some other sucker buys it. So when at some moment the price of gold drops to 1 cent per kilogram, all those fools who own it will lose their savings. If you are a smart person, you will immediately sell everything you own for dollars, put them in a bag, and keep it hidden under your bed. Well, maybe you at least shouldn't sell the bed. Or perhaps you could use some of those dollars to make a bed; I'm not sure about these technical details. All I know is that everything is a Ponzi scheme, and that this comment will soon appear at the front page of Hacker News.
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The only new thing with these visualisations is that they are nicer than what is currently done. And in nicer I mean that they have more polygons and translucency. Most tools working with EEG do have extremely similar visualisations bundled with them as well.
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"Journal of Ethnobiology"

"Though Aboriginal rangers and others who deal with bushfires take into account the risks posed by raptors that cause controlled burns to jump across firebreaks, official skepticism about the reality of avian fire-spreading hampers effective planning for landscape management and restoration. Via ethno-ornithological workshops and controlled field experiments with land managers, our collaborative research aims to situate fire-spreading as an important factor in fire management and fire ecology."

I'll believe this when I see video proof, thanks. In the meantime I'm going to mentally file it with UFOs that are alien spacecraft, and reptilian overlords.
There was insider trading happening? I'm shocked.
>>> So now my bank has no idea how much money I'm supposed to have (or even if I'm a customer). They fail and FDIC steps in. Do the banks have to periodically give the FDIC or other regulators lists of accounts and balances, so that FDIC would be able to at least figure out things up to the last month, say, or would the FDIC also have no idea who gets what?

When a was running an exchange, which is far from a bank but already has annoying scrutiny.

We were required to have a feed of all the transactions to an off site location. Then we had to store off line archives and off site archives.

The location must be within the jurisdiction of the regulator so they can send the police to the datacenter, seize all the hardware and reconstitute the balances.
Vending machines are still a thing, too. Similar model. All those $5.99 transaction fees add up. Even at 2.99, the machine pays itself off in a year with ~5 transactions a day.
Theyre similar to Perl in the sense that theyre extremely powerful and flexible but they tend to be highly customized to the business domain of their design.

This type of languages enable a very small team of engineers to be profoundly productive but the learning curve with adopting an existing project can be quite high even for expert programmers due to the lack of consistent patterns you would expect for more Enterprise languages like Java .net or python.

The end result is great success for small smart teams but lack of interchangeability and scalability for Enterprises

Edit: I once wrote a closure web application for a volunteer project. The experience was wonderful and painless however finding Developers to a system maintain the code base remains a serious challenge today
That's the paragraph that led me to hitting the back button.
Cats don't need to come up with reasons why they're special. They just are.
The likely reason why they ended up on Youtube was because every last Android phone (and a fair few other phones) have Youtube bundled, complete with a one button upload.

In the spur of the moment, in particular in a warzone, the proper place to store something is the last thing on one's mind.
> The next value is a checksum, which is calculated by applying a function to the contents of the entire file, excluding any bytes preceding the checksum.

[...]

> The header also includes a SHA-1 hash of the file (excluding any preceding bytes).

Wait, each checksum includes the other? How does that work?
Haskell and Scheme may be as far from each other as C and Javascript. You seem to suggest they are all the same thing, when in fact the most prominent thing they share is lack of mainstream (That is, a la Java mainstream) usage.
Oh well not gold.

But if you told them they could get unlimited clean fuel. There could be plenty of funding to extract water/ice from asteroids and send it back to earth.
We can make primality machines that do not know anything about the factors of n
Right now I top up 10USD worth of Bitcoin with bitrefill.com.

I pay ZERO fees and it is instant (due to Segwit and the Lightning network).
Certainly society doesn't absorb these costs evenly, and only a fraction of these costs are paid by taxpayers. I'd bet if you add up the total expenditure on the federal government level for services for the blind, it wouldn't justify trading it for curing people who suffer from this one genetic adaptation (given all the other people who are blind for other reasons).

Plus, it's not as if every person will even get the procedure if it is free. There are complications. There are religious objections. There are personal preferences.

Higher prices don't come down because rich people buy them. They come down because it creates incentives for new innovators to produce cheaper and more efficient methods.
First website I've seen in a while that disallows viewing it with first-party cookies disabled.
Of course, you have to work with people where reading/writing isn't an issue. I've worked in several environments where it seemed nobody could read, and nobody could fathom why what they wrote wasn't 100% clear.
> * $5k on clothing (meh not the worst)

What? Unless you were starting the year with almost no wardrobe (ex. after losing a ton of weight), it's a lot of money to spend on clothes. I'm consistently under $1k per year.
Are crypto price points really relevant to HN? I get that a bunch of us have money in these assets but I wouldn't say the daily price moves of AMZN or TSLA deserve coverage here, should cryptos?
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> The problem with that is you'll essentially re-download the entire JVM (and libraries) on each page load.

I always here these arguments, but if you develop an angular application and somehow can't turn on AoT you need to download a ton of stuff, too.
Also it's way easier to make use of dead-code elimination on java than on javascript (especially without reflective code)
What? The whole idea that you can run untrusted code on your machine in the same process as secure data is ridiculous.

Of course every website needs it's own process. It should really be in it's own VM too.
You should try defining this mystical true benchmark that you seek.

Apple decided that heavy userspace execution and web performance are representative of common workloads. You are welcome to argue for a different kind of workload. As it stands now, at best you're implying that it's common for users to execute syscalls in a loop.
Truth is, they will outsource to Equinix or specialized datacenters.

Noone has been running their own datacenter for a while.
> Inhabiting Australia is a testament to man's arrogance.

Given that humans inhabited Australia for at least 40,000 years without the benefits of domesticable crops or herd animals, I'd say it's a testament to incredible perseverance.
I think the inability largely stems from the manner in which we consume our content nowadays. How many movies or TV shows have you watched recently on Netflix using your laptop from your bed lately? Nolan has always been a big proponent of the movie theater experience. So much so he was against the idea of having a ~$50 monthly pass the allowed you to watch in-theater movies at home.
That would be great.

I know nothing about low level programming, and I'm wondering if webassembly couldn't be a good place to start designing CPU instruction sets?

Can someone more competent on the matter tell me if this idea is crazy?
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Don't forget things like emotion, compassion and physical pain too; we're far too quick to decide that animals "obviously can't" experience these things.
Looks like simple mark-and-sweep, yes.

https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm/blob/d882fd1/core/src/...
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> but on 15' or smaller is kinda lose too much vertical space.

You could see it that way, but you could also say that you gain horizontal space ;)
Basically, I'd trust Bob Gosford. And the folks out bush tend to have a fairly keen understanding of their local ecosystems.
Great, the person I was helping must have just made a huge mistake then :)
I always assumed that the CPU itself would have an internal signature verification mechanism built in. But after searching it seems the OS or BIOS is responsible for quite a lot... I haven't found anything clearly stating if and where cryptographic signatures are verified. Once source at least suggested that it's only present on >2013 CPUs !

[edit]

This is an interesting old paper on x86 microcode security:
https://www.dcddcc.com/docs/2014_paper_microcode.pdf
Dude, if I offer to buy your Bitcoins now for 1% of their market price, will you stop writing about how you can't cash them out? I mean, if they have no value, then 1% of the market price is a generous offer you should not refuse.
I'll join sausage eating contest on japanese live national tv if XRP is not sliding from #2 in 6 months.
> That doesn't mean it's intentional.

Except that of course it was:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-probe/hsbc-to-pay-1-...
Credit Unions have their deposits insured via the NCUA.

https://www.ncua.gov
> Can someone more competent on the matter tell me if this idea is crazy?

Yes, it's crazy. :)

But seriously, the ISA (instruction set architecture) is not the problem, but the optimizations (deep pipelines and speculative execution, etc.) are.
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As a nerd, my argument isn't so much a "moral" one as a practical one. We have general purpose computers, so by definition anything that's pure data (such as music, videos, books, etc) is a commodity that's infinitely reproducible for virtually no cost (which is also incidentally why owning personal data should be considered a liability rather than an asset).

Now, legally it's a lot more complicated than that. But those are all artificial complications that don't mesh with the reality of data on computers. And the law is going to continue to struggle to enforce previous-millenium models of commerce and will ultimately fail not because it's morally bad or anything, but simply because it doesn't fit the reality of computing.

It seems to me that the "new" model of commerce will actually revert to patronage. Creators get paid up front to create something, after which they revoke control of it. This way they get their fair share without needing to struggle against the inevitable sharing of their content.

Another way it could go is that all consumer devices are manufactured for specific applications rather than as general purpose computers. But I don't see that being realistic since the genie's already out of the bottle. People know how to build computers and there's no way to globally stop manufacturing of the components. Even only producing entertainment for specific hardware is unlikely to work, since if it works on one machine it can probably be translated to work on a computer as well.
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AirBnb didn't disrupt anything. people have been subletting their flat since the dawn of time.
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You're making an excellent case against copyright.

I always joke about how much money Europe should pay China for ideas like the compass or gunpowder.
Amazing generosity, and an incredible story.
Yes. From your link:

"Each of these agencies has slightly different protocols and safeguards to protect searches with a US person identifier."
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There weren't smartphones with GPS and 3G 10 years ago. Uber couldn't work.
I'm not suggesting that we measure the signal emitted by the brain like EEG do. I'm suggesting that we look at the fluids movements like FMRI do but using diffraction like xray-imaging with bigger wavelengths.
Haha, this has been a well-trod rant of mine for years. Don't forget scorpions, vampire bats, great white sharks, and the world's top 4 deadliest jellyfish!
2001 is the most polarizing movie I've ever experienced. People either absolutely love it or hate it.

Except my wife. My wife may be the only human being on Earth to not feel one way or the other about it.

(I absolutely love the movie, but I'm not going to argue with you if you find it a bore. I totally get why some would feel that way)
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No its human greed.Don't monetize your video and it will be fine for years.

YT never deletes anything, which is why they're losing money. Any archive ALWAYS loses money. Hosting cat videos for 10 years isn't a good business case.
I think Goldman Sachs took an Uber stake around the time it dumped it's medallions.

So the identity of the rent seekers at the top hasn't even changed. But you use an app now... so, yay?

I think anybody who takes a rent seekers' side over even the most despicable politician doesn't deserve to live in a Democracy.
You don't realize how much (some) lawyers make, I guess.

There was a guy in TX who threw his daughter a $6M wedding. I bet he could pick up the tab and just not buy another Aventador or forego some other idiotic luxury.

The issue of the 1% or better the .01% outrunning everyone else is very real.

Glad she got her hands.
That's not my question… that's the question I would have preferred the article addressed. I already gave an answer to the question in my original comment.

Also, the 'explanation' begs the question, why wouldn't we see a bone replacement evolve that's suited for iron reinforcement? Your clarificiation is a small step down the 'whys', but saying "because bones have evolved to use calcium" is tautological.
How about:

-art (cave paintings, etc)

-music

it's striking to see 6-12 month old infants bopping up and down to music. They're not taught to do this and I've never heard of animals responding to music...
I loved movies as a kid and I felt 2001 was such a classic I made my family watch 2001 last year. (every kid should know what "Dave" refers to in a calm computer voice) Here's the comment's I got.

"There sure is a lot of music"

"This looks like a computer game"

"Those are aliens!" (a blip of crystals in the sky during the transition for Dave, little genius)

"They were happy about making tons of colors instead of a movie"

"They sure like red and green"

"Creepiest movie we've ever seen. It was boring, boring, boring, then scary."

"I should have known as soon as the monkeys, stupid, stupid." (from patient wife)

(I wrote all these down right after the movie)
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I'm from EU too, so my experiences and perspective are similar.
As the owner of gopher://jdebp.info/1/ and the author of gopher://jdebp.info/h/Softwares/djbwares/guide/gopherd.html , I disagree. GOPHER needs a lot of improvement merely to learn the lessons that people learned with FidoNet in the 1980s.
Or with PeerTube, which makes videos available in the browser AND uses a bittorrent-like protocol: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
There's loads of videos of various parrots bopping and dancing to music. Can't tell if it's learned behavior, but they do it.
Patents are not intended to encourage innovation. Innovation happens all the time without patents. Patents are intended to abolish trade secrets! The bargain society offers with patents is tell us how you did it, because we know you're going to do it anyway. But if you tell us how, we promise to not compete with you for a short while.

If the trademark on Mickey Mouse were used forever, this doesn't mean we can't pass Steamboat Willie around. If its copyright expires, we can copy it, we can reproduce it, we can exhibit it, we can remix it; we just can't confuse the public into thinking we're Disney while we're doing any of this. If Disney thought it could prevent people from copying Steamboat Willie without copyrights, it wouldn't be lobbying for infinite copyright on it. The best Disney could do is make us state, in no ambiguous terms, "Mickey Mouse is a trademark of the Walt Disney Company" somewhere very prominent while we do whatever we want with Mickey.

A trademark doesn't mean that the trademarked thing is Lord Voldemort. Otherwise, every time we said "Microsoft" or "Apple" we'd be infringing. It just means that we might have trouble calling our OS "Hackintosh" or "Lindows", and even that's debatable in court (Microsoft was about to lose the Lindows case).
This in large part because the MAFIAA got so damned used to selling the same thing over and over and over, as new ways to package came to be.

This anything that comes around that shortcircuit that business model gets lawyer bombed.
DMCA would be establishing that you believe there to be a violation, but ContentID is just automated matching YouTube does on the behalf of artists - so no such claim exists.
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It's visually beautiful, ahead of its time, but the pacing makes it extremely hard to watch today.
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You can't block torrent. You can perhaps block individual DNS entries, but as long as traffic can flow between "random" ip addresses, torrent will exist.
Ask HN: How to you go past Windows Defender SmartScreen?
We are about to distribute a Windows client from our web site, for potential users to test our upcoming solution. The code signed application still triggers Windows Smart Defender into displaying a scary warning.

I am trying to find a way to get rid of this. I have been trying to solve this problem for a couple of weeks. I can't believe we are the first one to face that.

Details:

* app is built (using Unity) as a standard Windows exe.
* it's a demo so publishing to the store might not be suitable.
* we have deployed apps on the Windows Store before but I am not sure how that can help our reputation
* more details: I posted on Unity forums as well:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/taming-windows-smart-defender-for-standard-windows-standalone-apps.510568/

Here are the ideas I am looking at right now:

* Getting it to work as is
* Windows Logo submission after passing the WACK / Windows 10 test. Can it?
* special trick / help by MS?
* getting all my friends to install it in hope that it helps
* asking help around?
* convert app to Windows 10
* use a wrapper
* make a unity UWP version
* Abandon Windows, make a WebGL version
* Ignore it, and see how it goes...

Any tip?
But we're the only one who can do all this and more. It's a bit silly to argue that we're not special, imo.
I agree and maybe should have stated it more directly - I'm from Europe after all, and I enjoy the European model. Unfortunately, public healthcare doesn't fund drug development itself and, given the costs involved, it would probably be hard to make happen without serious reallocation of budgets in at least member states of EU (which wouldn't be a bad idea, for many reasons, but we both know it's not going to happen).
This may be a personal failing on my part - argument from personal incredulity as Dawkins puts it - but the idea of a bird intentionally carrying fire instead of fleeing it seems a bit odd.

See also http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-03/smart-bushfire-birds/7...:

> Mr Gosford said he had never actually seen a bird at a fire front, intentionally spreading the fire.

> So he said he decided to appeal to people to come forward if they had seen birds behaving in that way.

> Mr Gosford said he received 16 firsthand accounts from people who said they had witnessed birds spreading bushfires to flush out prey.

> ...

> He said he hoped by filming birds spreading fires, others would see how valuable Aboriginal knowledge could be to the broader community.

It seems Mr. Gosford shares my desire to see a video of the birds in action. And hasn't been able to produce one yet.
Art? Maybe

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140723-are-we-the-only-cre...
I haven't seen Inland Empire yet. I discovered David Lynch in the last 5 years and it's taking me a lot of time to get through his movies because it takes a whole lot of processing to really understand every one of them. It creeps into your psyche and sometimes your dreams. And for me it takes time to muster up the energy to put myself through another one of those experiences.

Eraserhead was a trip, I still haven't totally figured it out. But in terms of pure cinematic enjoyment Blue Velvet would be my favorite.

Now that I hear other Lynch fans talk about Inland Empire I'm really excited to watch it.
There's also the minor point that up until around 12,000 years ago a lot of prime land was under ice, and resources were rather less accessible than they are today.
I assume this is something @est would like to use. :D
Ah, I made something similar back when that original article came out. Should have maybe fleshed it out and posted on HN? https://github.com/akx/watercolour
Remember export-quality encryption? Yeah...
Old git here from the pre-Compuserve days.....I like to and have always pronounced it "gif" (not "jiff") mainly to annoy anoraks, bolt counters and sea lioning pedants :)
Check out static website generators like Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com). If that doesn't meet your needs, you can still use the same tools as for a bigger webapp e.g. Node + React + Bootstrap/Materialize.

A CSS framework like Bootstrap (https://getbootstrap.com) will provide you with some easy to use components.
That's exactly what I was thinking: by making the claim they've admitted that both the number and your video are using the same music. Only you have proof that your video existed first, ergo they stole your work :)
I find Frank Booth utterly terrifying - I think he reminds me of some unpleasant characters from the high school I went to.... :-)
From http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-03/smart-bushfire-birds/7...:

> Mr Gosford said he had never actually seen a bird at a fire front, intentionally spreading the fire.

> So he said he decided to appeal to people to come forward if they had seen birds behaving in that way.

> Mr Gosford said he received 16 firsthand accounts from people who said they had witnessed birds spreading bushfires to flush out prey.

> ...

> He said he hoped by filming birds spreading fires, others would see how valuable Aboriginal knowledge could be to the broader community.

This is a much more speculative thing than a reading of that abstract makes it out to be. It's not impossible, but there's no hard evidence of it as yet. Certainly, there's no video.
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It is tempting.
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You may be interested in PeerTube: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
Indeed, didn't think about it, but fees are a problem as well. Also, if bitcoin had to manage the throughput of VISA (or even a fraction of it, at this point), capacity issues would probably worsen dramatically.

It's probably best to stop hoping it will be a currency altogether (unless some radical changes occur). Best shot would be to see it as saving/investment accounts, with smart tricks like prepaid visa cards as a mean to tap into it (I want to buy a car, I charge my prepaid card and pay with it at car dealer, fast transfer compared to a wire transfer, no "weekly withdraw limit" issue and still as convenient as a debit card).