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So I am looking at Bitconnect which is IMHO the biggest sh*tcoin out there with many alleging it is a ponzi scheme. There was recently regulator action against it[1] and it looks like it is dead. Except it's still trading[2] and has recovered some value after falling 90%. This is the most curious thing about the cryptocurrency world. Is it that as long as they trade and there's limited supply and the network is still up this stuff will just keep rolling along in zombie mode? A cryptocurrency doesn't need to have any company at all behind it as long as the network and protocols work. Am I missing something here?

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/bitconnec...

[2]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitconnect/
If that was true, why would Bitfinex not agree to an audit to prove the funds were held?

And do you really believe 450m was transferred to Bitfinex in the last 3-4 days?
Maybe author hears it mispronounced often and it bugs him.
If you confuse cryptocoins with stocks and shares in Companies with real world assets and obligations like Apple you're in for a dear surprise.

Cryptocoins are reproducible software databases. Production and minting of the supply is trivial.
So there are multiple policy options that you could do.

There's deregulation; deregulate anything that isn't explicitly for safety purposes. Schools and sewers and congestion and all of that should ideally be paid for with impact fees, not reflexively blocked out of hand. Every additional regulation is a cost on the developer passed down to the owner and the renter, and with enough small costs eventually you start pricing people out.

There's also more regulation; a lot of the current appreciation is because America places a lot of strange emphasis on housing as an investment product, rather than a commodity. It wasn't always this way; go back a few decades and property performs more like a bond than a stock, none of this speculation and house-flipping BS. And in most housing markets, housing works this way. Tax or restrict purchases of non-primary homes and such.

And then there's the final thing; lot size regulation. You can cap how big a lot can be for a project of a given size. You could build a very comfortable house at 1/10 an acre, or even 1/20th of an acre; it's hard to justify a single-family house much bigger than that. And in general, buildings should take up at most a quarter of a normal city block.
Nothing? Steam provides these features in order to maintain the network effects; losing the library exclusivity would be a crushing blow to that strategy.
Lot of black and white, 1+1=2 type statements here. Politics is about dealing with uncertainity and ambiguity. The real world is full of it. If your parents can't stand each other but tomorrow you get cancer and this dsyfunctional unit has to deal politics applies. Good politics makes things better.

Writing down on a piece of paper - these truths are self evident that all men are created equal does not make it so in the real world. That's an example of ambiguity.
There is no question of smashing things up and hitting a reset button when dealing with ambiguity. Here too good politics applies cause everyone in the room knows the statement is false but good politics can bring everyone into the room and keep them there and make them decide they are going to change the "truth".

Young people like you, aren't exposed to ambiguity or expected to solve ambiguities, cause you have enough on your plate accumulating knowledge about all the unambiguous stuff. It is easy for a young person to get it into his head, that all problems are pointless to work on if the text book is only filled with ambiguous problems. Which is why students textbooks aren't filled with them. The flip side is some students get it into their heads that all problems are unambiguous. They are the ones that misunderstand politics. Leave alone what good politics can do.
To downvoted, some data.

A surgeon in CA earns on average about $400k while its peer in UK makes $100.

4x the cost of labor should partially explain why a surgery can easily cost 6 figures.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6766106
The code posted on the site fails simply on incongruity of the JS behaviour (window.chrome) and userAgent. I can see how this can fail with common user setting userAgent to Chrome on Edge or Firefox for some compatibility reason or just forgetting to turn off old referrer override. There can be other valid reasons it will fail if user is not bot that I miss. And BLAM they'll get all wrong data for no reason... You may call it gross incompetence or whatever but this method will get you one angry lost user at the time.
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similar experience here, I'm actually glad that the schools don't coach their students to tone down the arrogance as it makes interviewing them a lot easier
The major issue i have with ripple is that they essentially minted all of the coins themselves and then are selling them off as time progresses. Its completely missing the point of decentralized cryptocurrencies! Anyone buying ripple is the greater fool. There is no way for users to contribute to the ripple network other than trading amongst themselves. If ripple decides to shut shop, thats the end of ripple. Also the small number of master nodes means easy targets for DDOS attacks...
Austin has one rail line and buses - what solution could they come up for mass transit?
So using HTTPS seems to mitigate everything in this article?
I think this is a pretty reasonable answer...summed up, you could have all the steps but you were missing two things:

1) the theoretical knowledge of how the devices worked, which enabled the creation of steps in the process that resulted in fully working devices

2) the ability do do each step repeatably and precisely and reliably.
I grew up reading about Lunokhod. The rover shape itself always looked funny to me for some reason. Oh and I still like to troll people about how the Russians went to the moon 10 years before the Americans.

The missions to Venus are also relatively unknown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera. Though, I've seen more articles here about it recently.
They can hardly complain to Google when the device doesn't behave as desired then.

They should complain to the store staffer or make some effort to find out what those settings the are enabled actually do.
> statements like [quote elided] take a philosophical position against regulations in general

I don't get that at all. Regulations cover lots of things other than potential collusion.
There are a number of W3C specs for this type of thing.

Linked Data Signatures (ld-signatures) relies upon a graph canonicalization algorithm that works with any RDF format (RDF/XML, JSON-LD, Turtle,)

> The signature mechanism can be used across a variety of RDF data syntaxes such as JSON-LD, N-Quads, and TURTLE, without the need to regenerate the signature

https://w3c-dvcg.github.io/ld-signatures/

A defined way to transform ORDO to RDF would be useful for WoT graph applications.

WebID can express X509 certs with the cert ontology.
{cert:X509Certificate, cert:PGPCertificate,} rdfs:subClassOf cert:Certificate

https://www.w3.org/ns/auth/cert

https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/

ld-signatures is newer than WebID.

(Also, we should put certificates in a blockchain; just like Blockcerts (JSON-LD))
Is Google's process for women different than their one for white men? I only have direct experience of the latter, but the 2017 and 2011 versions were pretty similar. Their hiring process, as I saw it, was dominated by algorithmic college-course-type questions (as if nothing else I'd done in the last 6 years mattered at all) and years-of-experience type stuff (e.g. the message I got was good luck getting a manager job there unless you've got 5-10 years already doing it - don't try it if you're an up-and-comer with less than that). And apparently I was good enough to pass it in 2011 but not in 2017 :|.

All of that is stuff that I think is highly tilted towards a certain profile of devs, and going to be hostile towards anyone who didn't follow the typical CS undergrad route. And that undergrad route is very unbalanced, as is the profile of e.g. established tech managers.

If you're not willing to do much more training than most big companies, I don't see good steps to fix it outside of fixing the high school and college pipelines.
99% of the coins are vaporware backed by marketing hype and fake news and because the majority of the worlds population is technologically inept, it means they can get away with selling off their shitcoins to the masses...
We definitely do NOT treat female doctors as just doctors. Women are the big spenders for medical care. Women greatly outspend men in medical care and women have a strong statistical preference for same gender care, especially for areas like gynecology where 90% of residents in training are female. It's quite easy to find a women's clinic, and while it's fairly easy for a man to find a male GP there are basically no men's clinics whatsoever.

Further, for more "general care" men basically have no option but to have a female nurse, since 90% of nurses are female. On the off-chance that a male nurse needs to do something like insert a catheter for a female patient, they will almost always ask if the patient would prefer a female nurse. This option of a same gendered caregiver is not offered to male patients.

When a woman goes to a gynecologist to talk about potentially embarrassing issues related to her reproductive system, basically everyone she sees is going to be a woman, including the front staff. Compare that to a man's experience going to a Urologist. Sure, most urologists are men, but the man will still have to tell the front staff person or nurse, who is almost certainly female, that he has ED, or some other problem.
To add some data to your anecdote.

Median surgeon salary in CA is $400K. In UK, a surgeon gets about $100K.
They are too busy trying to build a walled garden. They hired a bunch of console people and they see everything from that perspective, so the main goal is to sign exclusives to short term gaming hits as a way of getting more users locked into their services, not to create a general computing platform.
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Amazingly, she learned English from television. https://youtu.be/z8NIw1HeBBk
>Probably the easiest, yet most powerful one is to only use the browser in incognito mode while surfing on insecure networks. This way, no information (like passwords or cookies) can leak out and no evil cache entries can sneak in.

Is only partially true. If you sign in using incognito mode your passwords and cookies will leak. And you have to remember to open the incognito window after connecting to an insecure network and close it before you connect to a secure network because the cache and cookies are maintained until you close the window.
I feel this is an extremely selfish attitude, as generally it's not just the one who pushed into production who has to do extra work on the weekend, and usually they are not willing to do extra work because someone's ego couldn't wait 2 more days.
I don't see how HTTP2 can replace webkack. Even if websites stop making single file bundles of JS, I think we'll still need something to:
- Transpile from latest ES standards, to browser supported code
- Compile from non-JS languages like TypeScript, Flow, and so on
- Do dead code elimination, minification, and tree shaking
- Bundle code shared by other bundles
- Optimize images
And on and on...

I think webpack is a mess, but I think it really is just a reflection of the complexity of the web platform.
The altruist would play. By saying this you fundamentally misunderstand Bitcoin. The altruist that buys (and takes on the risk, joins the movement) is allowing somebody else to withdraw. Likely in a situation better than when they entered, (or at least in accordance with their desire to trade since they are doing this voluntarily). By doing this, we lift everybody up slowly out of debt, and provide a protocol for liberated transfer of wealth for trade and banking. Cashing out early is fine, but there is every chance that it will always be 'early'.
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Teacher and clever user here. I’ve been interested to watch the roadmap unfold, I helped out with getting some schools on board in my district and it’s really great to see features like this rolling out.
I'm still waiting for a TV commercial to tell me the story of a kid whose parents lost their jobs due to emissions restrictions. Anectodes work perfectly - it's terrifying, because they work in any direction equally well.
Verge is one of the biggest path-finding shitcoins around. One of their selling points is "no pre-mine", but in terms of community, technology, dev team, and so on, it has little to no value in the context of other projects. Eerily, new coins are emulating Verge's model, most notable of which, at the moment, is Tron.

A great heuristic that will cut a lot of the chaff is: how organic/productive is their community, and is the technology there/actually possible? A more formal method is SpacesuitX which is a method of breaking projects down into categories and rating them based on personal research. http://SpacesuitX.org
In New Zealand, Pharmac [1] is a government run entity that bulk negotiates bulk contracts for supplying the entire country with prescription drugs.

It's not quite the same as manufacturing it themselves, but the bulk buying does bring the price down quite substantially.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmac
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Would you consider yourself to be a specialist in cloud storage/infrastructure? Anecdotally the people in their 40's--60's who continue to find employment as individual contributor software engineer seem to be specialists in a particular field.
Well, sslstrip still likely works on websites that don’t use HSTS, or that you’re visiting for the first time. I suppose the HTTPS Everywhere plugin might mitigate this.

Do any browsers try https first yet?

Now that I think of it, I guess many search engines now use HTTPS with HSTS and will send you straight to the https site if it knows of one, so that’s good.

https://moxie.org/software/sslstrip/
HTTP/2 can't. But it can't make builds less complex. You're not longer bundling every script, inlining every image, etc.
I recall being told on a surprisingly regular basis, as a nerdy white boy in the '90s, that I could be "the next Bill Gates". In light of the debate over bias in tech, I wonder how many girls and people of color got that same message. In one sense it's an incredibly small and narrow thing, but it clearly didn't happen in a vacuum.
I'm amazed that this announcement has barely made the front page and has only 75 comments. It's a novel release from a major brand. It's a product that would ordinarily intrigue technical types, curious people, makers, etc - people that are all over Hacker News.

Is there another discussion I've missed or is there another reason this hasn't captivated the community?

I would've thought there'd be 50+ comments each about the use of cardboard, about how the piano even works, or the potential in schools, or as an activity for parents with curious kids, etc.
seriously? lots of men with lots of guns that get paid by rich people who like being in a society that keeps them rich
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PCI passthrough requires twice the amount of GPUs, for the same performance, if you want to game both on Linux and Windows.
If your intent is to eventually buy a Lambo, then you're probably the kind of person who is duped by shitcoins. "Investing in depreciating assets, that's an interesting strategy." - Carter Thomas
I think most cryptocurrencies are shitcoins. The only currency that provably IS NOT a shitcoin is Monero.

Monero is the only private, untraceable, trustless, secure and fungible cryptocurrency.

There is a growing number of online goods and services that you can now pay for with Monero. Globee is a service that allows online merchants to accept payments through credit cards and a host of cryptocurrencies, while being settled in Bitcoin, Monero or fiat currency. Project Coral Reef is a service which allows you to shop and pay for popular music band products and services using Monero.

Linux, Veracrypt, and a whole array of VPNs now accept Monero.

There is new Monero only marketplace called Annularis currently being developed which has not been created for those who value financial privacy and economic freedom, and there are rumours Open Bazaar is likely to support Monero once Multisig is implemented.

In addition, Monero is also supported by The Living Room of Satoshi so you can pay bills or credit cards directly using Monero.

The use-case and features of Monero are well explained in this post:
https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7ra409/your_...
i never got the self pity vibe from hoagies' page. i felt it was more explanatory than comiserational. it's a great resource, though.
Except that medical providers don't honor the estimate in the same way an autoshop typically does and is required to do in many jurisdictions. They treat it as just that -- an estimate. You still get charged for whatever procedures are performed, which can change from the estimate when situations change or they deem something to be medically necessary in the moment.
Same people doesn't mean it's same company. If we talk about a normal real world company, these kind of transactions are illegal. Subsidiaries, even if we can call Tether and Bitfinex that, have strict rules regarding these transfers also known as ICPs or intercompany transfers. Many times these transactions end up being used for hiding losses in both companies.

As for Bitfinex USD withdrawal it was banned for a long time and restored in November. Given that all withdrawals/wires take time we need to wait and see if there are issues reported for Bitfinex withdrawals before reaching a conclusion about smoothness of the process.
For many, many DDoS scenarios this does not work. The spurious packets may saturate an upstream ISP, causing that ISP to unilaterally apply a null route or block for all packets for the targeted origin IP. No CloudFlare packets would arrive at all.

If one is concerned about DDoS, one should work with their ISPs on the plan of action for various scenarios. Finding out their procedures when ones' hair is on fire is not fun.
The rare events could be priced into the routine cases.
The governor's father co-founded Target and his sons still own a large share. The subsidy per Amazon employee in the Minneapolis HQ2 bid was $100 compared to $12,000 when the Best Buy HQ was built and $150,000 when the new Vikings stadium was built.
You can do the NHS way and forbid paying for unwarranted procedures for life extension.

Can't find data right now, but a generally healthy person will spend most of it's lifetime healthcare expenses on its last 2 years.

NHS adopts this measures in the so called death panels. So it can have money to fund preventive care and promote healthy lifestyles.
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I love these sorts of projects and solving these sorts of problems. However, I don't have time to work on an Open Source project, and can't due to employer restrictions anyway. So I get out my inner refactoring by going to the Code Review Stack Exchange [0]. Check it out if you want to do some analysis of a small self-contained piece of code.

[0] https://codereview.stackexchange.com
I'm inclined to categorize Bitconnect completely apart from shitcoins. It's not necessarily that it's not a shitcoin, but the fact that is so wildly, obviously a traditional scam with some modern tech as dressing. I feel some level of sympathy for a beginner who falls for a shitcoin, but that sympathy becomes anger when the general chorus is yelling "Don't mess with that," but greed is still the deciding factor.
My guess is that it dropped from the front page pretty quickly so not many people got to see it, which is definitely a disappointment. The front page algorithm here can be pretty perplexing at times.
I feel like some of this may be more pronounced in areas like SV. Specifically, areas of the highest competition. The personality traits that correlate most strongly with success are: high conscientiousness, high stress tolerance, and low agreeableness. Of course it makes sense that the people in the areas of stiffest competition in tech are in an environment of high stress and are generally really disagreeable to be around. This is going to be the case at the top of any field with stiff competition.

I live in a 2nd tier city (not NY, SF, LA, etc) and these depictions of the "tech industry" are unfamiliar to me. Sure, there's the odd asshole, but those are everywhere. I feel like people around SV and other high competition big cities are generalizing about the industry in a way that doesn't reflect my day to day life.
I read the "[in]consistent with liberty and justice" quote as a stance against laws that inhibit the right to associate, and that is very closely related to the right to freely contract, which the vast majority of regulations inhibit.

If he believed that it would be consistent with liberty and justice to prohibit certain classes of contracts, he would have simply advocated for a law against collusion agreements/contracts as the solution to merchants colluding.
Funny enough, when I was younger and more naive, I attempted to write a Linux kernel implementation of Win32, starting with a PE binfmt and linker. Never got much of interest working because I had trouble dealing with syscalls.

But I realized over time that it wasn't actually a good idea. Linux and Windows have one hell of an impedance mismatch. Windows distributes the user-space and kernel-space dramatically differently from Linux. The Linux VFS layer is greatly different than the Windows filesystem layer, and related semantics. Windows likes UTF-16 APIs, Linux likes UTF-8. They do threading differently, Winsock is extremely broken, named pipes don't work like netlink sockets, Windows is a little bit country, Linux is a little bit Rock'n'roll...

I'm sure someone with more experience can list off more. Even the general ecosystems are entirely different. A lot of things on Windows are kind of 'defacto.' Like, wintab32.

At the end of the day, the hacks that Wine does to make things work are astoundingly small compared to the massive undertaking they have reimplementing Windows in a fashion that is useful. You could go in with the logic of trying to be 'as Windows as possible' and use as much of the Windows libraries as you can, but how are you going to deal with things at that level, when Windows puts GDI and RPC in the kernel and Linux has it as userspace daemons?
Using Open Zeppelin does not guarantee the lack of contract issues, but since it is independently audited, it is more secure than contracts built on top using the Zeppelin library and which are not audited.

For example, Parity - covered in the article - uses Open Zeppelin and had wallet insecurities twice this year. But Zeppelin itself was not affected in those scenarios.

I sort of think of Zeppelin as a “safemath” library, similar to those in C. But even though safemath libraries exist in C, that does not mean C is safe from security issues.
Here in Sydney, Australia, the taxi drivers are generally hopeless and in many cases can hardly manage basic English, let alone navigate properly.

That's why I understand Uber has become popular but not all of my experiences with Uber have been so crash hot either.
Those limits didn't matter when Mayo called in 2013[1]. There's one reason Amazon didn't get any worthwhile tax breaks. The governor's sons own a bunch of Target shares.

Amazon was offered $100 per employee. The total package was smaller than St. Paul offered Cray to move 200 employees. And much smaller than the $12k per employee Best Buy got for their HQ.

[1] http://www.startribune.com/rochester-mayo-clinic-celebrate-5...