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> This might also explain why we've got fewer "UFO" sightings than we used to even 20-30 years ago, in spite of all of us carrying cameras in our pockets.

At night, though, we can still see a lot better than the cameras in our phones.

For instance, I saw something weird one night. It was big enough and bright enough that I had no trouble seeing it, but my iPhone 6 plus camera just got a vague blob. This was not a UFO, since among other things it was on the ground, but it illustrates the limits of the cameras.

(In case anyone is curious, I'll describe what I saw at the end of this comment).

The most interesting current UFO reports I've seen (interesting in the sense that they are probably something real--not aliens or supernatural stuff of course, just either an unknown natural phenomenon or some manmade thing that is not well known) are where people see what looks like a star, but moving in a straight line (sometimes pausing now and then), that then suddenly changes direction and zooms off over the horizon very suddenly. No way is a phone camera going to capture that.

The weird thing I saw: this was the night before the 2017 total solar eclipse in the US. I was parked in a big field that had been turned into a car camping area for the eclipse and the day/night before.

A few rows down and a couple dozen spots to the left I saw what looked like two copies of a movie or TV show side by side, kind of wavy and translucent. It looked like either they had hung up a sheet and were projecting video onto it, or they had a couple of flat panel displays and there was a sheet between them and me.

Then what looked like an arm poked up. If they had been in a tent I would have said it looked like someone in the tent was pushing up on the top, stretching the tent--but tents were not allowed. (There were some trucks and vans that had tent-like extensions on top, so they may have had something like that). The arm moved back and forth a while, and then was apparently pulled down.

Then what looked like a leg replaced it...but it was a huge leg. It looked to be about 2 meters long. The "leg" started moving rapidly back and forth along what would be the length of the vehicle. After it had done this a few times, it disappeared. (There may have also been an arm or two mixed in here).

Then a light rose up from the middle of the vehicle. I though it might be a flashlight. It then stopped rising, and started turning. It continued turning until it was pointing right at my car, and then it stopped turning for about 10 seconds. Finally, it resumed turning until it went all the way around, and then it descended, and things were dark, with no activity at that other vehicle.

I thought "what the hell was all that?".

Then the images came back, and the whole thing repeated!

The third time it happened I had my phone out and the camera recording. Unfortunately, all the recording shows is that there was some lights moving around in that direction.
What's so bad about JWT's? The cryptographic protocol is sound.
Some missiles already travel at these sorts of speeds.
> After all, these beacons not mandatory - they're only needed if you want to use the roads as a pedestrian or cyclist. If you don't, you can drive your car like any real (read: non-poor) American, or use a taxi or bus.

You just wrote two things:

1) Pedestrians and bike riders should wear beacons or aren't "real Americans".

2) Poor Americans aren't "real Americans".

Are those what you meant to write?
The auto companies presumably were providing significant advertising to the newspapers. It's reasonable go along with what a significant customer wants. The papers were probably spinning everything for their major advertisers as a matter of course.

Even today it is fun to compare media articles with the original police press release. The media tends to spin such articles against any involved cyclists/pedestrians for free. There doesn't have to be much of a conspiracy, most of the media's consumers are drivers and don't want to hear bad things about that group.
> But I don't think anyone expects D.C. to bail out Bitcoin.

What does it mean for Bitcoin to be bailed out? How can Bitcoin "fail"?

> But a penny price is as good as zero.

Why would it go to zero?
> Do you starve... or do you get... UBI anyway?

And the people who misallocate their UBI and can't afford food? It seems what UBI supporters truly desire is a maternal figure in their lives.
The best I can do is convince you that the difference is one of quantity, not kind. All liars tweak their lies for the weaknesses of their perceived audiences. Governments all across the political spectrum have sat in back rooms, carefully considering what the people should be made to think. That's been going on for a very long time.

You can't create a pannel of lie-destroyers because the liars would just see them as another audience to capture. The only solution, as uncomfortable as it might be, is to mix people so well that there's no way to lie to a target without a nearby non-targeted friend finding out. What does that look like in practice? A marketplace of ideas. If people are captured in filter bubbles, you have a thousand local monopolies of ideas.
You almost certain[ly] do not and will not need "stateless" authentication

Unless you get Bill Murray to run into people on the street or crash their all-hands meetings and tell them this, no one will believe you. Or at least, it's worth a try since nothing else seems to work, as seen in thread.
So by this logic "men's only clubs" (which I am glad have a lesser influence) are fine?
All of this seems inferior to just using a 128 bit random token drawn from /dev/urandom and stored in a database. If you see "HMAC" in an API authentication design, something weird and probably bad is happening.
I don't think this is at all accidental.
I am an Esperanto speaker, so I can say that this is not really accurate. Esperanto isn't a Romance language: it's got a lexicon that was drawn haphazardly from many different languages—not just Romance ones, but also Germanic and Slavic ones—in ways that render the source words difficult to pronounce and very often result in words that are confusingly non-similar to the original. For your past vocabulary to really contribute to knowing Esperanto, you'd probably have to know English, French, a dash of German, and maybe some Polish, and even then, the language is filled with false friends and idiosyncratic choices. (From English, for example, it drew the word boato for 'boat': pronounced "boh-AH-toh", making it sound nothing like the English word!)

And "the knowledge of Esperanto can be transferred to other prominent languages"? Only in the most cursory ways! Esperanto's vocabulary is also deeply minimal: for example, it makes antonyms from the prefix mal-, so that 'big' is granda and 'small' is malgranda, and it makes heavy use of affixes and word-combining to generate new chunks of vocabulary: a school is a learn-place (lernejo), lunch is day-eating (tagmanĝo), a dictionary is a word-group (vortaro), and so forth. This is great for making a minimal vocabulary that can be easily learned, but it means that you get only a tiny fragment of knowledge that's transferrable to other languages.

I could go on about how the structure is actually deeply unnatural and reflects several odd choices, or how the pronunciation involves tricky to near-impossible consonant clusters (e.g. because s is pronounced as 'ts', the word eksciis 'realize' has the cluster kssts!), but it's really not a well put-together language in the way that this seems to imply it is.
Wow, this grudge runs deep.

Did a Lyft engineer kill your dog?
There's a difference between crying "Fire!" to willingly cause panic over nothing (ie: intent to cause harm), and a mistake...

Text from your first link even says that:

> A person is guilty of a crime of the third degree if he knowingly causes such false alarm [...]
People made a version of that argument with mortgages and mortgage backed securities. Mortgages are spread across too many people, too many geographic areas, etc., and there's no way they'll all decline or default at once.
What problem is this intended to solve that isn't solved by moderation policies and forum culture? I ask because I think this is a cool project, but there is also the inescapable fact that at some point men and women will have to work together in engineering environments, and we still have a dearth of environments that foster those interactions.
man, reading this comment was like a breath of fresh air.

we've been collectively brainwashed to reach out for AWS for almost any dev related work.

Also refreshing that a $5 DO/Linode box can do everything AWS can without the learning curve.
This stuff is relevant for sites that allow users to upload CSS to be used by other people. If I can make a subreddit or a social media page on a site and upload custom CSS for it, then I can make the CSS trigger requests to my own personal server on certain events and track the people who visit my subreddit/page. (Reddit adds certain restrictions to CSS that can be uploaded to it to defend against this.)
But that's the point, you're not invested in cryptocurrencies in general as much as most people are invested in 1 or 2 or maybe a small handful. When tech crashed did the tech sector basket go to $0? Of course not and no one contends that it would, but did a lot of people lose their shirts on Pets.com? You bet.
Lambda containers can run for hours at a time. It doesn't just fork a new process for every request:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/running-lambda-...
> Infoworld magazine made their authors write under pen names

More specifically, a number of tech pubs at the time ran sort of industry insider columns written under pen games. This was partly for practical reasons--they were sort of tech gossip columns and it worked better for the writer's real name not to be widely known. But you're right that it also allowed the magazines to rotate through writers. Another one was Spencer F. Katt at PC Week. There was also a longtime one in a DEC trade magazine although I forget the column's name there.

ADDED: A long time ago, Wired ran a profile on Stephens/Cringely: https://www.wired.com/1998/12/cringely/
You deploy autonomous drones that will loiter for an extended period.
So, for transparency... I'm the author of both articles.

It's true that they could be done with a standard DB which would be managed like most of the other public / government IT throughout the developing world. The key to understanding the use cases is to look at the blockchain capabilities one by one and see where Ghana benefits from having a hard to modify public database.

If there is any subject that you would like to see developed or answered feel free to let me know. I usually write my articles as a way of responding to FAQ I receive in my consulting business.
I think we should be making a lot of effort to prevent this kind of event than to prepare for this kind of event. It was a blessing in disguise indeed because it made people realize that talk is cheap and showmanship really can lead to some horrible outcomes.
All investment is just faith to a certain degree. I own stock that could also go to zero over night. So do many other people.

Bitcoin will enable many more exchanges that weren't possible before.
I agree, however the fear of downvotes (however irrational that fear may or may not be in an online forum) does cause me to stop and think of how many different ways a comment can be perceived. The result is that if a comment contains anything negative, I'll reword it as much as possible so that it can be expressed without causing a feeling of negativity in the reader. Which, by the way, has made me a better communicator overall, and has really helped out in my career.

Edit: I'd also like to see a voting system where people get rewarded for upvoting, and have to make a sacrifice to downvote. For example, if you upvote a comment that others also upvote, you get positive karma, and negative votes can cost you karma.
What value does Bitcoin add to society? IF you don't add value, what's the point of having you around? Bitcoin could absolutely go to zero. I say this as a holder of some.
> The intent of most death threats ... is simply to express dissatisfaction

Are they? There are plenty of other ways to do that without (pardon me) going nuclear. Many death threats go so far as to include someone's family, friends, and other acquaintances. If it's mere dissatisfaction being expressed, why go that far if not to put someone in fear?
Thanks!

Prisma is available as a docker image If you are familiar with Docker it should be fairly simple for you to set up a cluster. We also have a tutorial walking you through deploying to Digital Ocean in 20 minutes: https://www.prismagraphql.com/docs/tutorials/cluster-deploym...
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You're conflating "excluded from a web forum" with "excluded from society." The whole point of groups like Leap is BECAUSE those members want everyone working together -- they're not in their clubhouse plotting the deportation of men, they're trying to figure out how to get on even footing in an industry that has been hostile to women for years.
> Why would it go to zero?

Crisis of faith. There's nothing else behind it.
That’s a common marketing claim but the comparison has problems: Bitcoin is turning 10 without a single application where it has a significant advantage over the status quo unless you count ransomware. In contrast, as soon as the internet became available to normal people they had immediate new or improved options for a bunch of different activities.

Yes, speculators backed a lot of bad business ideas but that was because people were getting online in droves because there were so many uses. Those companies failing didn’t change that, especially since there were so many examples showing that concepts were solid: e.g. a dotcom losing money on each sale didn’t mean online stores were doomed since Sears had proven the model many decades earlier.
I mean, you are still running some client code you have to trust. People who want to take taxi rides aren't going to build their own client to interface with the taxi blockchain. What is the difference if the database is distributed instead of centralized?
People are taking popups more seriously when it comes to payment... or sending a nuke.
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Please correct me if this is off-base, but...

What you're describing has always seemed to me as an excellent example why women-only spaces are not necessarily about people-who-identify-as-women, but about people-who-others-identify-as-women. Other people treat you a certain way because of how they perceive you, and you want to have a place to talk about that with other people treated the same way. Does that sound at all correct?
Most JS developers have no or few experience with strongly typed languages. I think it's a thing you need to try by yourself to see the benefits. I was kind of an anti-TS some years ago ("it's too verbose, it's not JavaScript"), but since I used Flow for 1 year I now see the obvious benefits (my favorite being to have autocompletion for almost anything, and not having to wait the runtime to see that `user.fisrtname` is undefined).

Also, probably some React developers would like to use TS/Flow and their manager says 'nope'.
GA is present on 46% of web traffic [1] or 65% of top web pages [2], so you could be justified to claim the majority...

[1]: https://whotracks.me/trackers/google_analytics.html
[2]: http://randomwalker.info/publications/OpenWPM_1_million_site...
I really want to commit to TypeScript for React/Redux apps but I'm gun shy. I don't want to commit to all the added effort TypeScript brings because I'm not sure if apps of my size warrant it. I'm afraid that I will end up with an over-engineered solution for my various apps of 10-100 components.
> Using it to authenticate a person regardless of device doesn't work so well from a usability point of view.

It might be better to have accounts per device rather than per person in that case.
Well they were wrong to make that argument. If for no other reason they were all spread across too many people IN THE US, which kinda invalidates the claim.
It’s relevant to the question of whether she had enough access to know those other things.
I think we should all just admit we don't really understand what the hell is happening here. The "debates" about this stuff usually resemble a bunch of people throwing punches in the dark.
We should probably hold these folks accountable for such a basic security gaffe...
Wouldn't the US just have Canada just extradite him?
Developers don't design. They implement.
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Of course. My point is that people find ways to screw up, regardless of the underlying technology.
Everything is based on faith to a certain extent. None of us (that I'm aware of) have crystal balls that see the exact future. Even companies that have lots of assets behind them could potentially make catastrophic fuck ups that tank their stock (i.e. BP and their Deepwater Horizon spill) in an instant.
Bitcoins are asset, plain and simple. Fiat currencies are derivatives, gold is not. There are derivative instruments on top of gold that let you make money on its market trends, but saying gold is derivative is totally meaningless. The bitcoin protocol gives bitcoin asset value. Now the speculative price market is a derivative, but that's not bitcoin, that's an instrument for people to make money on top of bitcoin.
> they have a right and obligation to serve their client's financial interest

Those financial interests aren't served by depressions or die-offs. It's a pedant's point, not one that affects any of the points I made.
You see crimes being committed and instead of calling the authorities, you continue to collect data (license plate numbers, phone calls, conversations).
Looks like a nice library, but I'm not sold on the name
I put together a gif with some example content from Leap when I posted Leap on Product Hunt. You can check it out here if you like: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/leap-by-yc. I'd describe it as a hybrid. I'd love to hear which bucket you'd put it in.
And here is the inevitable “all money is just faith” argument.

Investing has nothing to do with faith, that’s called speculation. Investment is based on sound financial principals of expected future return based on debts and cash flow, where actual value is being created and added to the economy. This is mania.
I love HN comment like this. Seems like there's an expert in everything here!
We all need a safe space to come in from the cold. When you feel vulnerable, you want to communicate with friendly, like-minded people. However, you'll find more noise within an echo chamber and that jerks exist regardless of gender.

This sort of gender-specific walled garden is nothing new and I suppose will always attract a certain stereotype. Here's an old Anthony Lewis post from 1994 that may sober folks on the idea: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/14/opinion/abroad-at-home-tim...

"I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member" --Groucho Marx
Not awkward at all: https://openmaptiles.org/
Here's a fun fact: Jimi Hendrix was a paratrooper in the early 60s and supported it in it's early stages. Of course later he abandoned his support for the war as many did.
The thing tho is that people have seen the insane gains it can provide. There will always be buyers. If Bitcoin went to $50 tomorrow, you can bet I would buy a lot. I'm not the only one. It's done magic once, it might again.

The point is, there will always be buyers.
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People write things like "the cryptographic protocol behind JWT is sound" and I always wonder where those assertions come from. Do you just think it must be, because none of the people you talk to say it isn't?
> What does it mean for Bitcoin to be bailed out?

Around when Bitcoin was trading at $19,000, my Uber driver told me about the second line he'd taken on his home to buy some. That's not a systemic problem in America. But it might be in some other countries, e.g. South Korea.

Suppose Bitcoin crashed 90% and stayed down for a few months. It is conceivable that Seoul might pay out, to avoid social tension. Directly, e.g. you get a jeon for every won you lost, or indirectly, e.g. temporarily increasing welfare benefits [1].

Note that I said "conceivable." It is unlikely, hence why I think arguing that because lots of people are involved it cannot become worthless is silly.

> Why would it go to zero?

Why would it go to $50,000? Because people decide it's worthless (or worth more).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/03/long-term-u...
I'm glad you like the concept and are going to check it out! Look forward to having you join.
Even if that's set to true (the default), doesn't Firefox prevent the page from reading the :visited state of links? I'm not sure what the privacy value of that pref is.
The problem with the 'blockchain without a coin' idea is the incentive. Why would people spend money to mine a blockchain which provides nothing to pay them back for it? Without the incentive, why would you care who is mining the blocks, and why would care about mining blocks faster then other people? You wouldn't.

But at the same time, without having that race to have the most mining power, the argument that it is computationally infeasible to change the blockchain becomes incorrect. There is now no guarantee that the amount of 'work' currently keeping the network going is actually enough to be computationally infeasible to change if someone buys enough computers.

Bitcoin technically doesn't guarantee the last detail either, but by paying miners it becomes worth it to them to keep buying the fastest hardware and most hardware they can.
>What problem is this intended to solve that isn't solved by moderation policies and forum culture?

I think this comment thread is a pretty good illustration of the problem. A group of women are saying, "hey, we think this is a beneficial project, for this reason and this other reason," and a bunch of men are saying "WRONG it's pretty much white supremacy except against men." Forums reflect their membership -- in an industry dominated by men, discussions will be slanted away from positions held by women unless compensatory measures are taken.
That is not what intrinsic value means. Gold has value in electronics and jewelry (people will always value gold for jewelry and other ornamental objects, have since its discovery). You cannot just pedantically re-define the economic meaning of the term; the rest of the world disagrees with you.
The biggest problem with replacing BGP is the adoption. BGP is "good enough." What's the incentive? If you inject BGP routes into the new protocols, you'll have some of the same issues, right?
The at a glance condition is probably the one where you stick a brightly colored piece of plastic in the chamber to act as an unarmed flag. Still best to be careful at all times IMO.
With the nonsensical sarcastic point? Or the real point?
The irony of it all is that traffic signals were introduced to make traffic flow more easily! The primary function of the traffic signal lies not in the red period, but the green. Traffic signals are what lets you blow through intersections with bad visibility at 50 mph, rather thanhave to slow down to 15 and carefully check for cross-traffic.
I think this summarizes the entire situation of the past 24 hours after China has banned its citizens from foreign crypto exchanges

http://archive.is/2018.01.16-165846/https://twitter.com/AntP...

Just looking at r/Poloniex it doesn't seem like quick customer turnaround is a thing.
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Oh, but there is more to that. It's the kind of mysticism that the educated people wouldn't be ashamed to engage in. The demand was there all along, and still is, strong as ever.

Also consider magic potions, for example.