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Bitcoin is so divisive you've managed to shit on his parents to win an argument.

An argument that you then concede, saying that it doesn't matter whether BTC is legal or not because you can always sell it online.

If it's illegal, doesn't it's value go way down? If you literally risk jailtime to sell it (or more accurate, to convert it to fiat eventually)
According to your logic, pretty much any illegal activity will - by definition - have real world use cases, and should be permissible.
Actually, neither ICOs nor dark web trade would be possible without personal computers.
I don't mean to be rude, but you need to get out of your bubble and see how the rest of the world lives. I hope you're living your dream, but everyone has different dreams, constraints, etc and they're not all inferior because they are different from yours.
Yes, but a 40% drop isn't necessarily that bubble popping quite yet.
I suppose this all hinges on what "near roads" means.

To me, that includes pedestrians walking on a city sidewalk who might jaywalk as the TFA that started this whole conversation is talking about. Now the only way you can ensure folks have that device is to mandate for everyone. Of course in the US it isn't nearly as common, but I know plenty of city-dwellers without cars. IANAL but I'm having a hard time believing a mandatory beacon would pass Constitutional muster, let alone public support.
I have turned down 3 offers so far. To this day i am not sure if they are the best decision but i am sure they are not the worst. I don't really have much mentors to guide me, most of time i have to make my own decisions. I can reach out to some folks but not some one who is in good sync with me.

First Jump.

I was with company A which offered me 9 L INR. I wanted an opportunity to work in USA or hit the 12 L INR in India.

<TURNED DOWN> I got 11L INR from B.

<TURNED DOWN> I got 12L INR from another flight ticket management company (forgot its name) (product based company).

I got 9L INR from a IT services company and they promised to process my H1B in the upcoming cycle.

I picked the H1B one.

Second Jump.

I got 105K USD from a telecom giant in USA on 2.5 year contract and my employer was a major staffing company in USA and they promised to process GC immediately after joining.

<TURNED DOWN> I got 125 K USD from a small consultancy and client would be an Airlines. It was a contract to hire position. In Texas, but i din have good reviews about the consultancy and they may compromise on visa and may not be able to take my GC thru and i had doubts if they can even pay properly.

I picked the 105K USD one.

What do you folks think, am i making good decisions of totally horrible ones?
You don't necessarily need to buy a junker to have an inexpensive car.

You can lease a Fiat 500e for $90/month in California (which is what I do).

That has the added benefit of removing fuel costs too.
Did Lyft claim that the 250k ditched their cars _because_ of ride sharing apps? I didn't see any causality implied in the article, just the number. It's like saying 250k Lyft customers quit smoking last year, it's just a stat based on the user base, I don't think they were claiming to be the main cause of it.
Your insurance number is pretty low. Also I'd say most people don't buy $1000 cars.
I can't park for much less than $20 in downtown Washington, DC. Now, if I had to drive, I could get monthly parking, but that seems to run $250/month on up. Maybe an employer would subsidize that, maybe not.
Do we really need new design for Thunderbird? How about reusing Photon design system (https://design.firefox.com/photon/) from Firefox?
Not yet but I am planning to add other auth mechanisms in the future. If you send me a note at leap at ycombinator dot com I will let you know when I do. Thanks and sorry for that!
> Most people look at price charts in linear not logarithmic mode

Do you have any tools you recommend that make it easy to see these logarithmic charts?
Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" also addresses this topic of a "theory" which is built in tandem with a piece of software, in the minds of the programmers building it, without actually being a part of the software itself. Definitely worth a read: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
Some of the answers depend on tricks with Unicode strings and I have encountered bugs where a bad cut-and-paste via chat program led to a character substitution that was not apparent to the human eye but led to a subtle misbehaviour.
It's not an overnight thing. Like the transfer from Bitcoin to the new thing would be very gradual, standard technology adoption rate curve. And like, it's not clear by how much would you really diminish Bitcoin. Like crpyto became a thing but I dont think it was at the stock market.
I misread the title as "the design of software is a thing of the past". I welcome the actual title and content though.
A corollary is to say that this is what free markets look like when driven by greed.

We can't just blanket say that any government interaction with a market is negative. Sure many aspects are. But there are positives as well.

If you look at the housing crisis that occurred that was because the market was becoming unregulated over time and because fraud was allowed to flourish. That was then coupled with human greed and it wasn't entirely the government or the banks faults either, because if regular people weren't going out to buy houses to make money doing nothing, then there wouldn't be such a huge collapse.

At the end of the day it's all the same. People want to get rich doing nothing and any opportunity to do so brings out the greed in individuals. If there weren't some winners in this equation, especially winners that you can relate to, then people wouldn't join in. But when an everyday person makes money this way then everyone starts thinking, well that person isn't special, why can't I do the same?

More often than not the early investors are the ones that reap the profits and hope to exit on time, while those entering the game late are the ones most likely to incur losses.
A lot of near misses take place when people make mistakes and then freeze up and get hit. It's kind of like when two people try to pass each other in the hallway and go the same way.

Within certain sets of circumstances I can see hammering down and nope-ing out of there being a good default response.
I've managed to avoid the Air cult, mostly because I need extra beef, and Air never seemed to have it.

But I sure am glad there are machines like the GPD Pocket around. I'm not entirely convinced the two, at each ends of various spectra as well as legacy, are inter-linked, however.

Which is to say the Air "was inevitable", its just that Apple did it 'best'.

Its taken a fair bit for other vendors of electronic junk to catch up with the Air factor, though, but I do wonder about what the future may hold for the GPD Pocket 2. It has the potential as a 'just as good Air experience', only .. you know .. fully open.
Meltdown patches causing performance problems
The study you linked in no way rejects his hypothesis ( there are the statistical trends: as video games trended up, violence has trended down )

They are completely unrelated.
> they can insert any demand they wish and you have no ability to negotiate or power in the discussion

you have no ability to negotiate because they have something you want, and you're unwilling to give them anything they might want. would a meaningful fraction of the population pay even $1/mo to receive better contractual terms on their dropbox account?

without looking at it, i expect that the terms for S3 look quite a bit better.

> You should not have to read the EULAs, because companies should not be allowed to require that you waive your fundamental rights like this as a precondition of using their service

whoa there. there's allll sorts of stuff that can go into a contract besides waivers of "fundamental rights", that you'd really not want to agree to willy nilly.
Is this to say you deconstructed the machine and sold individual parts (on eBay)?

I'm surprised doing so would have such a good return.
> I pointed out that class action/courts generally at least required a licensed lawyer to maintain and work on the suit, which was expensive, whereas arbitration could be done by lay people, and that he was essentially betting that nobody could make it cost effective to have a paralegal or someone manage fifty arbitrations at once, or a class arbitration.

This depends on the state. Some states still consider that to be unauthorized practice of law, even in arbitration.

Even if a law firm wants to manage hundreds of individual arbitrations, finding individual people to opt in makes that very difficult. In consumer cases, the harm to individual consumers is often very small. The law firm would have to advertise to those consumers somehow and those consumers would have to take the time to opt in and give individual attention to the minimally-valued case - just not very practical or scalable.
I think relational databases and airplanes were massively adopted without pumping tokens.
Ah I understand a bit better now, thank you! Interestingly, I am an IT person with GIS ambitions, heh. Good luck to you regardless!
Which is why the USAF never had a plane shot down over the USSR as Gary Powers will certainly be glad to confirm. It’s also the reason no US planes ever fly over Syria, Irak, Afghanistan, Pakistan or any of the numerous conflict zones that the US is involved in. Also note: My point is not that satellites are useless, they are much more useful for continuous spying and surveillance, but there are numerous mission profiles that a plane can fulfill much better.
You've obviously never seen the kinds of production code that I have. This example is clearly distilled down but manifestations of the cause can be found in many different languages and I've encountered quite a few of them in my day.

That said I wouldn't really consider this a good interview question.
Thank you. It's really common for the arrival of a women-only (or trans-only, survivors-only etc.) space to be met with alarm from men. On the surface, that's not even a bad reflex to have - identify things that seem exclusive, and try to make them more inclusive.

But what we don't always realize is that the internet isn't terribly inclusive in the first place. There's a prevailing atmosphere in well-populated tech spaces - Reddit, HN - that tends to shut down women's voices, especially if they're talking about an experience that men on the internet can't relate to.

I'm all for this project, hope it works out.
Management is not some all-powerful, all-knowing spectre impervious to persuasion. Don't give up so easily.
I think it depends on your parking circumstances too. I know that in the city I live in, the average monthly parking is $250 (probably higher near where I work)

Additionally, many apartments and condos in the city charge $100 per month to have a parking spot.

Right there you're increasing your car ownership costs by $4200/year.

Also, the model of buying burner cars is fine in certain circumstances, but many people aren't willing to deal with that additional overhead in car ownership.
Contraceptive app blamed for a string of unwanted pregnancies
So your point is that some technologies take a lot longer to mature than average, for example {some examples}, and the delay itself should not be held against such late-blooming technologies.

I'm onboard with that. Although your argument may benefit from better phrasing, because it actually does come across like that, which is a disservice to your advocacy effort.

Back on topic, I don't see a lot of people in this thread saying "it's been forever and nothing came of it, let's just end the whole thing." What people are saying here is that there is no foreseeable legitimate (and legal) use case for the crypto currencies, hence let's not start the frenzy just yet. We should have a proposed legitimate use case first and a frenzy second, otherwise it's indistinguishable from millions of other exciting idea. Just because this particular idea excites you doesn't mean it has potential.

So where is the potential? What is the use case?
Some math ?
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Timesheets for salaried employees:  do people really need it?
Blockchain apps aren't going to happen, just how BitTorrent apps never happened. There's a bunch of reasons, but most of them come down to the fact that decentralization isn't really a boon. Consider a new social network I want to build. Making a simple prototype and hosting it on AWS is easy. Getting people to use it is hard. Getting people to use it and make them self-host some kind of "node" in this decentralized universe -- that's exponentially harder. Diaspora clearly showed that no one wants to set up and host their own nodes. And then you have to solve all kinds of really hard problems: double spending, consensus, 51%+ attacks, and so on. Some of these problems are simply unsolvable and we have to compromise. SSBT, for example, has no consensus, so everything is subjective[1] (which makes it almost impossible to do anything useful with).

The people still fighting this war of decentralization remind me of the Japanese soldiers[2] who didn't realize WW2 was over. You lost. No one cares about decentralization. Google won. Amazon won. Facebook won. The great majority of people invest in BTC and ETH because they think it'll make them wealthy, not because of some noble desire to fight "the man." Besides, BTC isn't really decentralized anyway, the million-dollar-VC-backed miners basically control that ecosystem.

[1] https://github.com/ssbc/secure-scuttlebutt/issues/86

[2] http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/17/world/asia/japan-philippines-w...
There won't be 100,000 full nodes; more like 1,000 full nodes and 99,000 light nodes that only verify their own transactions.
Your friends theory is just a theory.

As of know, on the CME, volume notional amounted to 135 million worth of BTC, whereas the total 24-hour volume on all the exchanges for Bitcoin is over 12 billion dollars.

135 million / 12 billion = .01125 or 1.125%

Maybe there are just more sellers than buyers.

(http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoi...)
I'd love to chime in on this particular question. I am biologically female, but am gender-nonconforming in how I actually present and identify. I still see tons of utility in a place like Leap. While I don't fit the traditional description of what a woman looks like, I still am very much treated like one in the workplace (not to mention all the years of socialization and cultural treatment as a woman)!
I agree that the current system involving miners is fraught with political implications. But that doesn't mean the system is broken, it just means it needs to be improved (proof of stake, for instance).
You can have it both ways -- add a new light state (or just use flashing red all the time) that self-driving cars can ignore.

All other road users have to stop and the light cycles normally. (and during this specially triggered light cycle, even self-driving cars need to stop)
When I was doing management in software companies, I found Management By Wandering Around (MBWA) [1] to be useful.

Being an unstructured activity (but still planned, in the sense that you knew that you were going to do it now and then during the day or week), you tended to get more out of it in terms of information about progress, status, issues, and being able to help team members, technically or otherwise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_by_wandering_around

It was supposed to have originated, or at least been used early on, at Hewlett-Packard (and also earlier by Abraham Lincoln :) see [1]).

Although I worked for a while in a company that was a joint venture with HP, I did not learn about MBWA there, but later on, in another company where I was doing management. Read about it in a management book, thought it was a good idea, and tried it out; turned out that it was useful.
Yes, finally! I've always said, the way to end gender discrimination is to create a secretive forum that selects members based on gender discrimination.
Step be step guide how to start a business from Tim Ferriss and Noah Kagan
Thinking about it. Also quite possible that the system could only handle so many messages a second.

But regardless of excuses it should never take that long to send that message. You are going to have people with PTSD for years over this.

I wished the state would be sued by every single person in the state -- I am sure than both the guy who clicked the link and the UI would be gone presto. Probably some sovereign immunity that stops that though.
There are many glaring issues with bitcoin but what you wrote is nonsense

No 94% is not owned by 4% of people. The cold wallets behind major exchanges completely skew those number

And no, 30% of coins are not “lost”. Realistically it’s closer to 5%
Sure, we can implement the good ideas behind Cardano to see if we can improve some areas of existing financial system. But I don't think the society needs to help pump cardano tokens.
Coinmarketcap has a log scale button underneath their charts : https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#charts
9th Grade Students Gain the Attention of Scientists After Their WiFi Experiment
I can give you an example from a very different legal tradition, the German one. Even some in Germany say it goes too far in the other direction but it might be valuable to see what others are doing.

Whenever a contract party uses preformulated clauses (i.e. not negotiated for that specific contract) such as TOS, they are limited in what they are allowed to put in there and any unclear clause is interpreted to their disadvantage. It cannot be unreasonably detrimental or surprising to the other party. For contracts with consumers there is a list of what is definitely considered detrimental. It includes binding arbitration.

Yes, this limits the freedom to conclude contracts. The justification used is that usually the party using preformulated clauses has much larger negotiating power and such a relationship is usually not made of equals.
Not at the moment unfortunately. If you send me a note at leap at ycombinator dot com I will let you know when I add other auth mechanisms.
Tone isn't that important in jazz. Hence, the importance of the saxophone, an instrument rightly reviled in classical music for mostly sounding awful.

I'm only half joking here. I'm a guitarist, and was having a conversation with a trumpet-playing friend once. I was talking about the technical struggle of legato playing at speed, something hard for trumpet players as well, but easy for saxophones. My friend was like "Yeah, but they have to play the saxophone". Few players can get a beautiful sound out of it, and only after years of struggle. Brass and guitars, on the other hand, have naturally beautiful tone, and are easy to get to sound nice.

The importance of melody over tone, and the melodic advantages of the saxophone, explain its popularity in jazz.
My main issue with the blockchain hype is the inability of its proponents to explain what the future landscape will look like. Twenty years from now, what will the top three benefits of widespread blockchain adoption be? It shouldn't be that hard to offer concrete descriptions:

In 1984, middle managers at Sears and AT&T were able to accurately predict how we'd use the internet in 2014.

In 1999 a now-defunct ISP explained how Netflix streaming would work.

https://hackernoon.com/what-14-tv-commercials-from-the-dot-c...

When I talk to crypto folks, I rarely get any predictions to this level of fidelity. There's a lot of talk about "Sovereign Individuals" and the decline of the US dollar as global reserve currency, but very little in the way of intermediate steps. How about this as a starter:

Which will be the first public tech company to cite a blockchain project as the reason for a missed quarterly profit target? Is it Filecoin pinching Amazon? If not, who?

I don't doubt that I'm missing something, but it seems like many are overly-concerned about joining the litany of Luddites:

"Everything that can be invented, has been invented!"

"There's a world market for five computers!"

"Apple's not just gonna walk into the phone market!"

That they've checked their critical thinking faculties.
But then you wouldn't answer the question with "Yes" in their survey, would you?
So you're relying on friends/family to do the driving if you're outside of lyft/public-transit areas e.g. on vacation in a rental car? Not having a car is a great idea if you can get away with it - not having a license basically means you can't help out when necessary.
It depends on the city. However, for places like NYC unassigned street level parking is a tiny fraction of overall parking.
Because of uninsured/underinsured drivers in my city insurance is one of the highest in the country. $250/mo is the avg quote I got. That's down from $280/mo after the first year because I haven't had insurance for years.

The only cars I see in that 500-1k range have basically been worn to pieces, smell of cigarettes, smell of mildew, or the suspension is completely bottomed out.
> Bitcoin is so divisive you've managed to shit on his parents to win an argument.

Not really, I dislike the fact that he volunteers this information. Replace ivory with child pornography (ethically they aren't that different). Would you still defend op's parents? Also note, it was a side note, I didn't say it to win an argument.

> If it's illegal, doesn't it's value go way down? If you literally risk jailtime to sell it (or more accurate, to convert it to fiat eventually)

So like all governments at once will outlaw doing anything with crypto? Like not regulate it, even if heavily, they'll just basically make owning crypto as illegal as owning idk, child porn (pardon for the repeat analogy). Like you aren't realizing the impossibility of making something like crypto illegal.
Overnight parking in San Francisco, for most people renting: ~$200 a month (last time I checked was closer to $250, so who knows what's up to now.)

Daily parking in San Francisco (if, say, you have to park at work): ~$20 a day, although you might get some tax benefits on this.

Annoyance of finding a parking spot anywhere in San Francisco at any of the times you might want to use the car to meet friends (lunch, dinner, weekends): very, very high. Annoyance of not being able to drink more than one drink: varies by person.

So, YMMV. If you live and work in a heavily car-based city (say Minneapolis) then using Lyft or Uber won't make much sense. If you live in a metropolis with decent public or company provided transportation for commuting, then it's cheaper to use Lyft for going out and getting the occasional ZipCar or Thrifty whenever you travel for the weekend.
If they want me to assume this kind of code would never be in prod, then they can assume I know how to write code and we can dispense with the technical interview altogether.
A password for the Hawaii emergency agency was hiding in a public photo
Science search engine links papers to grants and patents
Poster slogan idea: "I need sexism because womyn and children should be sheltered from the harsh realities of the asphalt jungle."
Take a look at beaker. I'm not sure that decentralized apps wont happen. I agree that centralized servers have many benefits, but there are also benefits to giving control to users.
Is this game conditioning me to be rapist?

Oh come on. The lengths you took that to, when applied to anything, will result in insane conclusions.
I meant google as a company. Very little of Google's value is in real estate. Do they even own all of their offices?
What I find interesting is that the speculative bubble seems to preclude productive uses and vice versa. It also looks like the only real use case (apart from speculation) is for enabling transactions between parties that really, really do not trust each other. For just about anything else there are mechanisms with much lower overhead, such as multiply signed transactions etc.