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> You do realize that Android is on your list, right?

I added it later (realized I use it quite a lot and it's unfair to not put it there), but you do get to an interesting distinction: Android runs quite fine on my phone. So when it's barely running, it's a software/hardware mismatch. And products, as long as they're software products, tend to be rather good. When they are part of other products the quality may be more of a "hit and miss".

But, is that a fault of the software? Take cars, I'm sure the software in my car is imperfect, "crap" by some standards.... but, I haven't had it fail. I did have a sensor failure, though. And on the previous car, I've had lots of other hardware failures, and no observable software failures. Would a pacemaker with crappy battery (say, an exploding one) be any better than a pacemaker with crappy software? And how often is the software actually used to mask/work around the crappier parts of the product? That must be quite a lot, and increasing.
Sure, the software in a product might be crappy - but products are crappy all the time, so why should the software in some of them make any exception? You buy a cheap pair of sport shoes, you don't expect them to be the same quality as a pair of Nike shoes (and even Nike ones are imperfect)... why do you expect good software on crappy cheap security cameras?
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Well I think the issue is that unlike the pavement, the roads are much more stringently regulated with sign posts, markings and lights.

For as long as cyclists have to cycle on the roads as we know them a cyclist should be required to demonstrate that they understand the signs and rules of the road. That could be by presenting their official drivers license, or, should they not have one, be required to take a theory test. I think that would be a sensible first step.

You could then imagine a practical test for hazard perception, efficient use of gearing and safe filtering through queues of traffic.

Naturally, people don't walk on the road, and pavements don't have the same kind of mandatory control flow unless they intersect with the road, and most children are taught how to cross the road from a young age.
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You can get a state ID that's not a driver's license. I don't how you can get much of anything without an ID. In my experience you cannot bank, get a credit card, rent, setup utilities, get a cell phone, get car insurance (obviously requires a license), or fly (passports do work) without a state ID. What do you for those things without a state ID? Have your parents sign for everything?
To play devil's advocate: what's the point in changing ourselves when 99.9% of the voting populace, with the help of every media outlet ever, views major elections like a major sporting event?
I would love for someone to explain in english what each of the metrics means. I'm not sure what the difference is between "Daily Viewed Snaps Unique Users" and "Daily Viewed Snaps." Thanks.
That's fair. Another way to look at it is "Fat tail risk".
If you really wanted to use a leaf shutter lens on a digital SLR, the price point isn't quite so high. I've adapted a Mamiya 645 leaf shutter lens to Nikon full frame using a cheap third party adapter. A small selection of leaf shutter lenses were made for the 645 (standard lenses used the body's focal plane shutter with a sync of 1/60s). The 55 f2.8, 70 f2.8 and 150mm f3.8 were all made with an integrated shutter for full flash sync at up to 1/500s. I see the 70mm selling for around $115 these days.

That said, they're a real pain the neck to actually use, since you have to compose and focus, cock the shutter on the lens, release the shutter on the camera body (bulb mode or a long exposure), then fire the shutter on the lens using a cable release, then after the body is finished, open up the lens again.
My first open-source project of 2018: A bot to help your teams automate things
Like America, apparently.

/ducks
If you choose to venture out onto the roads with no idea what the signs mean or how to avoid obstacles, good luck to you.

Realistically, every 5 year old knows what the colors on a traffic light mean and what a stop sign tells you.
I think most people who would traditionally move to further flung neighborhoods to buy are those who are just getting started with families. However, most people aren't willing to commute that far in painful traffic.

Anecdotally, my wife and I are more willing to relocate to Austin or Denver than to NJ or Westchester (this is from NYC). I imagine many other young, moderate income, residents of high population cities feel the same.
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quite a number of gasses will deliver some form of the refrigeration cycle (it's just an exercise in Boyles' Law, after all). Finding ones that will evap and condense at the same pressures (temperatures) as R12 are few, and those that will carry the lubricants needed to preserve the compressor are now quite few in number. R134a is a suitable alternative with only a small decrease in cooling performance.

But getting back to your original point, yes you can change the refrigerant gas to almost any arbitrary gas, however, you'll need to change out the compressor, expansion valve or metering orifice and change the condensor & evaporator -- basically completely reengineer the system to match the operating pressures of the new gas.

That being said: I would STRONGLY advice against using pressurized flammable gasses in an automotive refrigerant system. You state that "leaks are a concern" but I think that's an understatement better summarized as "dying in a fire due to an otherwise survivable collision is a concern." In an automobile crash an uncontrolled release could occur into the close passenger compartment. Propane is a "poor man's gas", indeed. And a foolish man's.

source : I'm a residential HVAC tech
I personally agree, but that would require a culture shift.

I find it problematic that it is used inconsistently - all presidents other than Obama keep their titles for life.

Maybe only white presidents keep their title for life? I’d rather see that disparity tackled first, whether that means everyone keeps their title or no one.
I disagree.

Apple has always made clear that information stored on their iCloud service were subject accesses by a third party with the proper authority. Whether this third party is US or Chinese does not change anything.

Only the information that is resident on your phone with the Secure Enclave is tamper resistant.
No.

It's just that it's highly suspicious that anyone is making any type of mention of it at all.
Since you literally can't think of a single reason, I thought it would be fun if I tried to think of a reason that I had never heard before (or at least I don't remember hearing). So here it is:

Suppose that someone makes $20/hr but only works 20 hours per week. A second (unskilled) job that only pays $5/hr for 20 hours per week would be a significant increase in their income. In fact, where I live that would put them over what is considered a "living wage".
> That includes all bitcoin clones with a few parameters tweaked and a different hash flavor of the hashcash PoW.

Different coins' hash algos are a good hedge against weaknesses in SHA256. I would think that we'd have found the weakness by now, but who knows?
> "I hope that my hitchhiking trip will allow me to [...] learn more about humanity," hitchBOT explained on an FAQ

Well, he (it?) asked for it, didn't he?

/s
That would be dead cool even now!
I don't. In the United States, bicyclists must follow largely the same rules of the road that drivers of motor vehicles must follow. They can even be ticketed for violating those rules although usually the tickets don't have much in the way of teeth (except things like DUI while biking).

Here in the Bay Area, it's a rare bicyclist that actually follows the rules. Talking to other bicyclists, I've found a large number of them are simply ignorant to the fact that the rules apply to them as well; or they have adopted some bizarre version of the rules or a sense of entitlement.

I could talk anecdotes for hours, but one particularly egregious example is a bicyclist who showed up to a 4-way stop after I was already moving through the intersection, cut through my path, and gave me the finger, all without even slowing down, much less stopping.

Requiring bicyclists to pass at least a basic test would go a long way towards clearing things up or at least changing the "bicyclists don't have to follow the rules" culture that exists here, making the roads safer for themselves, walkers/runners, and drivers alike.
Your citation missed my very next word after "certainly", which was "but". My clarification was that few people oppose both equally. If you oppose them equally then a third party vote is your best option. If you consider one to be a lesser evil, your best option is to vote for them.

Just my opinion, of course, and one that is heavily biased as a result of the 2016 election.
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Not that it is my intention to do it, but just for the sake of knowledge, what if I find that Stripe Atlas isn't for me and I want to close the company I've setup? What kind of work does that entail? Is it easy or hard? Thanks.
Obviously there will be (a) pressure from flat owners to keep ground rent down, and (b) inefficiency in how ground rent is spent, compared to how building owner would spend it. The dynamics for both things are exactly as described.

This is slowly evolving story, at some point most apartment are no longer used by original buyers but by their children or grandchildren.
That's coming from the client because the client has received a new public key with which to encrypt messages.
Much as I hate Trump, I'd love for him to do something about China. If China won't open their tech markets maybe we force them to.

PS: don't make this a Trump hate sub thread. Stay on topic if you reply to me
These cases are civil, not criminal. Losing such a case does not by itself imply "guilt" in the criminal sense, nor does it carry the stigma attached to a criminal conviction.

And even though in the US such cases are often addressed to a single official, they ate sued in their professional capability. That means their legal bills, and any monetary judgements, are paid by the government.

All that doesn't preclude voters to draw their own conclusions. But you would have to look at every case individually: this case is pretty obvious, and it fits well with the existing narrative of the Republican party cutting corners to subvert basic mechanisms of democracy. But even actions that are well-intentioned and completely benign in their effects will occasionally be struck down by the courts when, for example, they are enacted by an agency when the courts believe legislative action is required.
>If people are actually concerned that requiring a state ID to vote will disenfranchise the poor, then compromise and make IDs free or discounted based upon income.

But that's the thing. What if the people pushing to require a state ID want to disenfranchise the poor?
Protectionism isn’t going to make your tech industry globally competitive.
Good idea in theory, but needs to be applied equally. I've seen just as much bullshit on Gizmodo (and sister sites) and BuzzFeed as I have on FoxNews, and other like sites. It does seem a bit weird that they are only trialing it on right leaning sources. Coupled with the stuff the Damore lawsuit is bringing out, it makes me take a second look.

There also needs to be a distinction between reporting, and editorials. Every side is guilty of mixing in editorials masquerading as reporting along side reporting. It's extremely hard to tell the two apart. WashingtonPost; I need to look in the URL to see which category the content falls under.

I think an effective method would having something along the lines of the following for each site:

- This is a reliable source

- This is generally a reliable source

- This is sometimes reliable source

- This is not generally a reliable source

- This is not a reliable source

- This is satire

- This is opinion
You're certainly right that it's a challenge and nobody is production-ready yet, but here's Ethereum's stage 1 sharding spec: https://github.com/ethereum/sharding/blob/develop/docs/doc.m...

A good discussion of the challenges is at their sharding FAQ: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ
Not really. Subsequent studies show that the original experiment by Kettlewell was valid. I'm not an expert in this field but the scientific papers seem sound. http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/8/4/609

In any case, the peppered moth example is only an illustration of the idea of natural selection.
Are you talking about US users? I assume you are, given that FB was probably around 1bn MAU's when they IPO'd.
> the exchange is exchanging between two parties, and skimming off the top

Nobody wants to run a credit check every time they buy an option. That just turns the premium into a fancy loan.

If you buy an option on an American options exchange, it is cleared by the OCC [1]. They are everyone's counterparty. There is a long chain of people who have to default for you not to get your money. (Basically, the financial system has to melt down in a nation-state ending way.)

I have no idea how Bitcoin options are being handled, but suffice it to say, counterparty risk dominates any other component.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Options_Clearing_Corporation
In many instances there are many sides to a story. The point is, how do we know Google is unbiased? I don't think it's possible to completely remove bias. Even AI shows bias and if course humans do.

Point is, I'd like to see the fact checking that I trust the most not the fact checking that someone else trusts the most.

Google might have the best one for me, but I don't feel like it'll be the best for everyone.
I run a SaaS business with almost all of the customers in the US from Germany, using a German stripe account. Credit card support is very limited, as any transaction will look like an international charge to the credit card vendor. This results in two situations that happen quite often: the card gets declined flat out (any kind of debit card, Discover, some AmEx) or the customer has to call their bank to allow for the charge. I had to build a customer support automation to help the customers understand that it’s not their problem. It is a bearable problem, but moving the accounts over to the US would reduce this friction, which happens at one of the most relevant times for retention.
That "what if" isn't good enough without concrete evidence. I need an ID to do many more mundane things than vote. Why is voting, which is an important civil duty, the one thing that should not require proof of identity?
>The subject of the article was the "fight for patent-unencumbered media codecs is almost won". To "win" that fight means that content providers can abandon patent protected formats.

Eventually they will, the only missing piece for AV1 to become the de facto successor to h264 was Apple, with them onboard AV1 will cover all of web and mobile. I mean look at the companies behind AV1:

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Mozilla, Cisco, Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM, NVidia, Broadcom, and that's about HALF the list.
It's all still the MTA. I used to live in NYC and took the subway everyday so I have some experience with both. Neither are great, but let's just say I miss my old commute.
Is it? I'm admittedly fairly ignorant on how other countries run their election systems, but... geographic representation seems uncommon (lots of parliamentary systems) and sophisticated solutions to drawing districts within countries that have geographic representation would have to be even more rare.
> against any measure that would make elections less easy to rig

Is there any evidence that this is happening, in a way that voter ID would prevent?
But I thought that the game was at least intended to have consistent procedural generation across all devices; how else would the author's manual removal of impossible holes work? Or why would certain hole numbers be notorious for being difficult/impossible? All discussion of this game seems based on the assumption of consistency.
It sounds like a lot of the people living there aren't holding on to a dying dream but are stuck. It isn't the residents fault that what happened did.

Frankly you sure come off as cold hearted. You are talking about a problem affecting many people as nothing more than a mistake that we should just let die basically.
What you write is just the opoosite of what modern portfoloi theory describes. Young people have more time until retirement, so it's worth for them to put their money into more volatile but higher expected return assets, as they can wait the down periods out as opposed to a 70 year old person who would have to go to work again from retirement
>I've heard smart people say bitcoin will plummet because it has no intrinsic value. Well of course it doesn't! It's a currency. Currencies are an abstraction for value.

Currencies have certain values as currency. This includes factors like limited supply, having some level of enforcement of its use as a currency, ease of use, and also factors such as if it has other applications.

Take a gold coin. Low ease of use, but high limited supply and gold has numerous other uses. Depending upon the actual coin, and the ability to authenticate, it could be worth only its weight as gold, or it could be worth more because of rarity.

Take a dollar. High ease of use, mostly limit supply, has the US government backing it, has almost no other use.

Crypto has value as well. Harder to use in many situations, but easier in some. It has greater ability to remove the identity of the user and their funds, which is something most other electronic payment systems don't have. It doesn't have much backing it except the crypto algorithms (which most don't understand), but it does appear to have a limited supply.

I think crypto currencies do have intrinsic value.

But there is a problem. Years ago this intrinsic value wasn't known. As we slowly worked out what value crypto provides, its price has gone up. This has attracted some people who place value in it not as a currency, but as an asset that rises in price. As more people see it as an asset to invest in instead of a currency, it further drives up the price. At the same time, the intrinsic value of crypto is still being discovered.

So the question becomes, for any given crypto-currency, is the discovered intrinsic value + increase in value from being used as an investment greater than, less than, or roughly equal to the future intrinsic value.

If the intrinsic value that will be discovered ends up being far less than the current price inflation driven by using it as an investment asset, we will eventually see a correct/crash. When, and how far it goes before then, is something I'm not at all comfortable predicting, even if that was the case.

But I will say, when people with no tech interests are coming to me asking about bitcoin and investing in it, it makes me think it is over-hyped.

There is also the possibility of value in just possessing it, but I personally think this is near 0 for crypto (unlike foreign currency where some people pay a little just to have a framed collection of bills on our wall even if those bills have no value).
I think it takes lots of compromises and some luck to get there. Housing is another costly thing you need to factor - depending on your current and future job prospects that may be a significant source of expenditure. Buying also limits your job choices unless you want to live separately / travel. (In our case we bought a decent 2800sq.ft. house where we could afford it but the house was older and so we have had significant expenses maintaining it (roof, hvac, other stuff). Renting is very expensive in this city - we pay less mortgage than renting a smaller town home in a nice area where the public schools are decent.

Two working people == two cars in most places where public transportation is unavailable or very inconvenient. There's insurance, taxes and maintenance. Health insurance - I probably don't need to say much but it's insanely expensive for most people.

I guess for a couple without kids and the right jobs at right places some things are simplified. You could rent a 1BR without worrying about the school districts, have decent health insurance for two, use public transportation and keep your entertainment needs limited. That might get you to a semi comfy retirement at not very old age but it feels like anything else is just going to be a constant hustle.
> "what if" isn't good enough without concrete evidence.

I refer you to this comment, which you should have seen by now. Court case, concrete evidence. No frivolous arguments please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16116107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16115954

> Why is voting, which is an important civil duty, the one thing that should not require proof of identity?

Are you saying that it might be abused? But is it actually abused, in reality? Your "what if" isn't good enough without concrete evidence. Enough double-think.
Wouldn't pathtracing (and raytracing) be a better fit for a manycore architecture?

(Or, when memory becomes a bottleneck, a distributed architecture)
I don’t think i understand your viewpoint, please help me. In my view, the simple fact that North Carolina has a minority party that has an absolute veto proof majority is in itself incompatible with democracy. Even though places like North Korea or Oman do not have democracies, their ruling parties do have constituencies that are loyal to them, and you may ‘rank’ these constituencies by size. The fact that North Carolina relies on a smaller constituency for control doesn’t invalidate this study in my eyes, rather highlights the disenfranchisement North Carolina is imposing upon certain citizens.
See the other comments for the real, benign, explanation.

This also seems to be a good occasion to encourage people to work from an assumption of good faith.

It's especially fitting considering this is the New York Times, a publication that, even if it were racist (which it is not), would probably be smart enough not to let it shine through in the most obvious way possible.
How do you recover the money if it flew into the blockchain and changed hands in the anon cryptos.
> Perhaps we'll see a good distributed peer to peer messaging protocol at some point in the future.

The Matrix protocol is actually fairly promising, as long as you only use it for Matrix<->Matrix communication. Things fall to pieces when you try to bridge it with IRC.

It's certainly more user-friendly for non-tech. folks than, say, the awkward key exchange/setups of XMPP clients, but it's still a far cry from something like Signal in terms of 'ease of use'
He's a character. You should check out "Masters of Doom"
It would just stay at my house till some one came and asked about him. Then I would be like, here.
The article says that since the thrust is always away from the Sun, it can't be used for inward journeys. But if I'm thinking correctly, this isn't necessarily true.

If you're in a circular orbit, and run this for a while (short compared to orbital period), then turn it off, I think you'll be in an elliptical orbit with perihelion lower than your initial orbit. If when you reach perihelion there happens to be a convenient planet with an atmosphere, you could aerobrake and either land or maybe continue in a circular orbit closer to the sun than your original orbit.
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