skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if a stock does not return dividends, it still represents a share of ownership in the company. It has a real value to anyone who might want to purchase a controlling share in the company, value in reasonable proportion to the profit or profit potential of the company.

From that perspective, taking control of Bitcoin may have a measurable monetary value but as I understand the system the value isn't in the coins, it's in the miners.
I'm not engaging with that, since it's not the question this subthread is addressing.
A tangent:

> the car becomes a "base"

This is the biggest divide I see when talking with people about future ownership of self-driving cars: will they consume it as an on-demand service, or will they own it outright?

Some are vehemently in the "I'd never own a car again" camp, and others say "I'll buy one right away". People with kids seem much more likely to say the latter. It's not just transportation, it's a mobile room of the house.
Well, it depends on what your goals are. What I've outlined certainly won't support a welfare state, military adventures overseas, drug wars, etc.

But it would be successful in ensuring that people aren't living in anarchy. It doesn't cost that much to keep police, courts, legislatures, etc. going. 19th-century America did this much without an income tax.
We ran into problems where we had embedded Ruby and Python interpreters (Chef/SaltStack) that made it a big pain to ship new libraries. It was much easier to use the grpc-gateway (HTTP/JSON) for those clients and the generated grpc bindings (HTTP2/proto) for services.
Generally, casual biking has little average-speed benefit over walking, in which case why bother?
Much of the action inside cells is done via proteins. It's taken a huge amount of distributed computing power just to figure out a reasonable hypothesis for how they fold (only one part of the movement) and €1.22 billion to build the XFEL and have a way to image them on the required timescales: 1-2 femtoseconds. 0.000000000000001 seconds. 0.01 seconds is an eternity, calculating that long would take an utterly enormous amount of computer time.
> As bitcoin falls, the demand for Tethers goes up.

Or maybe people want USD, but the exchange forces them to go through Tether to get there. So there'll be a brief demand for Tethers, then a big selloff of Tether for USD.
One reason is to be able to call gRPC service from a web browser. Native JSON support makes that much easier.
Visual Studio is written in C# and I think WPF, but I'm not sure anymore at this point. Most professional apps have a wide audience, and therefore can justify more development resources, so they tend to get written in harder ways (C++ and whatever UI works there). C#/WPF work great for apps that require lower costs/more productivity because they aren't going to a million seats.
I think the OP's issue is custom-written enterprise application development though: I agree with your examples of spreadsheets and IDEs (I mentioned those above), but they're generic applications, and their development doesn't justify Microsoft investing in an entire stack.

If the UX and latency requirements can be met with a web app, it doesn't support WPF/.NET maintenance/enhancement.

Web apps can do density so long as the latency requirements aren't too tight. There's where the banking folks spend their IT money.
The story of Basecamp
It took me a bit of reading through the luna-manager sources but it appears to install it to $HOME/.luna/bin
> OK can you answer the same questions for other cryptos not just Bitcoin?

Nah. You'll just be dissatisfied and ask me to answer other questions.
This article is pretty clueless, the author seems to be conflating his broad experience in the banking industry with Enterprise as a whole.

> The Enterprise doesn’t care about mobile — it really doesn’t.

I guess I can't speak for The Enterprise, but only as someone who works in an enterprise. We recently switched to a new service desk system with very strong mobile support, from one with none. Responding to support tickets is a significant aspect of my role, and this has been a huge workflow boost to me. Pretty much anything else we roll out to expand user's access in the mobile space is being gobbled right up. I don't know what rock the author's been living under but a statement like "The few mobile enterprise apps currently out there are more about productivity triage [...]nothing more" is crazy sauce. This space is exploding right now, although falling on their face in that platform race does mean MS and UWP are playing a pretty minimal role in it.

> enterprises do not buy their employees touchscreen laptops, unless there’s a really niche requirement — which is very rare.

Enterprise doesn't buy touchscreens laptops? We've bought hundreds of laptops in the past year and almost all are touchscreen -- not because we give a shit about that, but because they are cheaper than spec'ing a custom order from our vendor to get one without. I agree with the core tenet that touchscreens on laptops are likely never going to be useful, but MS seems to be responding to actual market conditions the author is ignorant of.

> we cannot take advantage of the super-accurate mouse and keyboard input devices that have been so amazing for so long.

I would posit the mouse is super accurate for pointing at fixed targets, but has dreadful accuracy for drawing or any sort of path-based input. There's a reason artists don't use them, and considering a broader range of input paradigms is a decision I would not so quickly fault an OS developer for making.

> Adobe have just release at design tool called XD that’s a UWP app. Compare its usability with its main (proper desktop) rivals like Photoshop and Sketch. The comparison is startling. XD feels like a small mobile app with limited capability, and its because that’s exactly what it really is.

XD is a specialty app with an extremely limited feature set. It is, by design, vastly limited compared to PS because it's trying to compete with more stripped-down successful prototyping platforms from competitors. This is a complete red herring example.
No, I mean that my income, capital-gains, sales & property taxes, along with fees like those for my car registration, equal roughly half my total income.
Man I wish the Macbook was 13" instead of 12!
True, but gRPC inherits these problems as it's based on Protobuf.

As for free-form data, it should be representable as map[string]interface{}. Our specific use case is a document store that stores documents on behalf of clients. The format of documents cannot be not known by the store, but the API to the store is gRPC. Also, we have a desire for documents to contain higher-level types such as dates, but we're forced to use google.protobuf.Value for this, and treat dates as strings, since Value cannot contain Proto types.

(Our next step is probably to model this explicitly, by defining our own Value message that uses "oneof" to represent all the possible types we need to support, and then using a map of these. But it would be nicer if Protobuf had first-class support.)
Comparing gold with Bitcoin is weird. People invest in gold because its values is very stable, obviously Bitcoin's isn't :-)
There has recently been a lot of work for native grpc client in the browser. It’s not fully there yet but is looking real promising!

https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web
Reducing demand for (street0 parking increases road space for moving cars.
The OP doesn't seem to understand TDD:

"So you update the code, a test fails, and you think “'Oh. One of the details changed.'"

Some of the concerns they raise about writing tests are covered by Uncle Bob here: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/10/03/TestContrava... and here: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2016/03/19/GivingUpOnTD...
A significant portion of the main webassembly development teams at google & apple (and probably mozilla, but I'm not sure) use macs, and I think that's true for many mono developers also. The linux and windows (especially windows) toolchains are neglected.

For a while the canonical webassembly tooling and test suite were unusable on Windows due to the selection of software that didn't work there. It was a bummer (that was corrected, at least!)
Where women outperform men, that’s science.

Where men outperform women, that’s sexism.
Whoa, what kinda market had Car2Go but no Uber or Lyft? Is Zipcar not an option?
I'd say 1923 Mickey Mouse is not only quite recognizable, but aesthetically more pleasing (at least to an adult).
> I'm fine with mostly just hanging around the city and looking at the mountains from here

That statement is very strange to me. If you really enjoy nature, I think the last possible thing you'd do is buy a car solely to go see said nature. Seems entirely wrong to me.

Best thing you can do for those mountains if you love them is not purchase a vehicle.
What year were you in Basic Training? I recall one morning (in 1995) we had to go out on a field and stab dummies in the gut with bayonets while screaming "What makes the grass grow greener?!!?!? Blood! Blood! Blood makes the grass grow greener!!" right after hearing a motivational speech by a drill sergeant about a squad of GIs in the Korean War who went nuts and cut up a whole platoon of Chinese after they ran out of ammo. I'm pretty sure that fits with what the GP was talking about. On the whole, it wasn't very hyperrealistic, but I think that's splitting hairs - if you don't have a real rocket launcher handy, you can still do some very good training with a piece of pipe and your imagination, or if you don't have grenades you can still train throwing rocks at a "crazy ivan"[1]. (And there's a reason they're called "crazy ivans" if you think about it.)

[1]http://slideplayer.com/slide/1678667/7/images/65/USMC+Qualif...
This looks like it might a good fit for data flow/transform/etl type workflows.

1. Does this work in a clustered/distributed environment?
2. Does this integrate with Hadoop/Mapreduce/Yarn/Kafka?
3. If it doesn't integrate with hadoop, how hard would it be to integrate it, do you think?
I agree.

The question is whether there's enough of a market between broad-based professional apps and web apps to justify maintenance of the WPF/.NET stack.
+1 for hearing more about this experience. If you wrote about it, please do share a link.
Be aware, before downloading:

This application will not run without providing an e-mail address. It also forces data collection.

I will not use such software.
An overdue step would be an interface to execve that isn't based on a single string, but uses actual lists.

I recall the python docs have a big red warning box that you can enable shell-style-single-string mode instead of a list, but it's highly dicouraged due to security problems. php has about 5 ways to execute programs, but all of them enforce this insecure interface.
This rhetoric around taxes is tiresome. Once you pay your taxes it's not your money anymore. There's no magic that makes taxes different than collected rent or paying a bill. It's entirely a political framing-- a new one at that.
He says that in the article:

> ASCII_A (usually spelled just 'A')

Of course, they are not the same thing. In the last 6 months I've worked on a very old system that uses not-quite-ASCII. 'A' was 65 but '#' wasn't 35.
Yeah, I was going to suggest about the X-series. Even today there is a good X-series lover. I’d say Thinkpad X design was legendary and revolutionary of its time, and surprisingly still very popular today.
I am writing this on a handed down 2003 PowerBook G4 12" — it's my battered lightweight notebook computer and still my main device except for when I am being paid. I am not sure what my next laptop will be. I am looking at overpowered fan-less mini PCs, but have decided to wait for breakthrough CPUs, maybe massively parallel open cores — I could be waiting a while.

I use the PowerBook mostly to type, code, and debug. The code most often runs on other hardware, although from time to time I have compiled the latest modern versions of software I use for the PowerBook.

I keep it plugged in as much as I can and have yet to replace the battery. I am also unimpressed by newer Mac products as the iPhone appears to be their focus.

Apple never really had me as a customer after decades of my using their hardware. I sometimes use an old Android phone without data and consider Google to be the new Microsoft at this point in history.
Every other company in the state will have a harder time hiring those workers because they aren't receiving a subsidy bolstering their after-tax profits. It's unfair to make all other business essentially transfer money to one that spins a good story to politicians.
You are doing L4 load balancing with the ELB? So you can’t do sticky session management? Is that a problem you run into, if so, how did you handle it?
I've just lived through that, sort of.

I was done with grad school last semester, and the department admins immediately shut down all my department accounts. Seven years of academic communication disappeared overnight.

Luckily, after some emailing (CC: head of dept.), they provided me with the MBOX files, which I can load with Thunderbird and a plugin.

Otherwise, my email client would have been my only offline copy.
That would be the only option. It's not like you can turn much you'd pass out or snap the airframe.

I imagine thought a little snake left/right might compromise getting the images that was the point of the mission.
The GC lives in the runtime, IIRC every runtime's GC is native code and most of them have their own. If memory serves most of the official Microsoft runtimes share the same GC implementation (it's open-sourced in CoreCLR), but I'm not 100% sure on that. Mono has two GCs, Boehm and SGen, and the latter is custom.
Successful use of blockchain is not the same as successful cryptocurrency.
It's not a rumor, just saw it today and is why I guessed the values might have dropped.
Gold is highly volatile.
Check again, Google isn't the one most people are worried about.

They are worried about Comcast, Cox, AT&T and the like that own ISPs/broadband, content and control your privacy on every site you go to with the ISP privacy bill they put through, which they moved to the FTC from the FCC so they could control it better.

You don't have to go to Google, you are stuck with your ISP and the other fake competitive ISP that they create fake competitive markets with.

Your points are literally the Jeff Flake [1] points he made about allowing ISPs to take your info and sell it / run ads on it stating that it is unfair for Google/Facebook to own that. Google and Facebook earned you going to their site to get that data, ISPs lobbied to get it and you can't not go to your ISP, they run all your online access. ISPs should innovate and make products to get your information to sell ads from, not bribe their way into another monopoly while the FTC let's them do it.

FTC move for privacy essentially away from FCC was the start to dismantling net neutrality with the same arguments even though it actually created ISP monopolies more heavily because now they get ad revs, content revs, and bandwidth/access revs.

How much more power do you want to give to the ISPs? You can choose to go to Google, you cannot choose your ISP on the fly and most likely you only have one good one in your area with fake ISP competition that was a cut deal in a backroom.

FTC will not enforce net neutrality, they have been against it from the beginning and it is a regulatory captured agency that loves the ISPs.

FTC probably can't enforce net neutrality, this came from one of their commissioners [2]:

> The Federal Trade Commission will not be able to fill the gap created by the FCC’s abdication of its authority and sector-specific mandate. After-the-fact antitrust and consumer protection enforcement by the FTC cannot substitute for clear upfront rules, especially given that vertically integrated broadband ISPs have both the incentive and ability to favor their own content or that of paid “partners” over the content of rivals.

Only thing the FTC can do is after the damage fines, which will be underwhelming. Rules/law needs to stop ISPs upfront, this is why they want it away from the FCC and on the FTC. ISPs would rather win in the marketplace, get their monopolies cutting out competition, then pay a fine rather than innovating to compete. Upfront rules about net neutrality are needed to help create the next Google/Apple/Netflix/Facebook that would be crushed without it.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/settling-a-bureaucratic-turf-wa...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...
Traffic lights are for organizing cars, that's the whole point of the article. Pedestrians and bycyclists are just bystanders that suffers greatly from them.
So that is what "search in result" does?
I'm not asserting that scarcity or effort alone create value, but without those two components you won't have value.

So not everything that is limited is valuable, however everything that is valuable is limited.

Just imagine if someone figured out how to engineer gold out of thin air, the value of gold would drop instantly.
In the past 30 seconds OP went down by two points. Downvoters... may I ask why?
Nord: an arctic, north-bluish family of colour themes
Yes, that absolutely could explain it, except for one detail -- only bitcoin has an arbitrary 21 million coin limit. So making the argument that bitcoin is kinda like gold is implying that bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency. Is there a good argument here that first-mover advantage will be enough to ensure that bitcoin remains the only viable cryptocurrency? Because if not, then the $1T theoretical market value has to be split amongst all the players, and then the argument for a $25K BTC 'value' is pretty thin.
The OP stated he lived in a specific part of the US.
That's cool, let's risk the kids life to save carrying around a pesky car-seat. May as well smoke with them in the car too.

* actual carseat requirements vary by state, the laws seem to be at: http://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/child-passenger-safety/
I would love to see the numbers. How many "hostages" were saved by these SWAT teams, vs how many innocent people were shot.
WebAssembly does not cover use cases that require a ton of C#<->JS interop, and it may never adequately cover it. You end up needing a very complex interop bridge similar to C<->JS interop. A solution like Bridge can compile to JS, making interop near-zero-cost.
The biggest problem is when users of software, programmers of software, and the software code itself have 3 different incompatible theories of how it works.

Sometimes it gets worse still: you can have different theories according to (a) scientists doing basic research into physics or human perception/cognition, (b) computer science researchers inventing publishable papers/demos, (c) product managers or others making executive product decisions about what to implement, (d) low-level programmers doing the implementation, (e) user interface designers, (f) instructors and documentation authors, (h) marketers, (h) users of the software, and finally (i) the code itself.

Unless a critical proportion of the people in various stages of the process have a reasonable cross-disciplinary understanding and effective communication skills, models tend to diverge and software and its use go to shit.
I see really fast and hard to understand animations. What i mean is a 20 minute video demonstrating how to solve a real problem in the environment.
It's the usual combination.

Block size as much as makes sense, optimizations where possible, if lightning works (it won't) - use it.

Gavin Andresen has published about his latest work 'Graphene' which shrinks block sizes dramatically.

They'll take/use any good ideas so long as it doesn't cripple basic onchain functionality.
Also be aware that it's a beta. It's not necessarily an evil thing to want to get feedback on your software from those who are interested.
That sounds lovely. Mine is a therapist, and in lieu of hacking we have a rich dialog on how to live in a world with other people.

I am fortunate to have a partner who is willing to face head on that I will never consent to making her my first priority. Just gotta keep making changes until something works. Worst comes to worst, an in-law suite will probably do the trick.
Thanks for the follow up. Leap is very young and I want the community guidelines to evolve as we learn and as the community changes. To that end – I don't plan to edit other people's comments, but I could imagine deleting an offensive one. If I do intervene in a conversation, I plan to do it transparently. That likely means posting on Leap about the actions I took.
Lots of people out there use mono, and if they want to run in the browser, it wouldn't hurt for mono to have webassembly support would it? :)
I've never had a car and my roommate ditched his car shortly after moving in with me. It's a complete no brainer unless you live in a poorly-designed area[1]. He actually likes driving, but with a small fraction of the money he's saving relative to owning a car, he rents a sportscar once a month and we drive somewhere beautiful (one of our favorite choices is the oceanside cliffs near us).

[1] To be fair, the US wreaked havoc across its cities in the 60s and 70s, so it's a lot more common here than it should be.
>Didn't you get that inversely? It's today's lighter laptops that can MORE easily get pulled down by the standard laptop charger plug.

No, but I probably should have been clearer in my meaning. The chargers now plug in via a very tiny port that is easily removed with minimal force. The larger, heavier laptops of the past had the more standard wall-wort plugs that needed to be pulled straight back to remove them. USB-C unplugs too easily to ever be a risk for a computer getting pulled down and computers are too light now to actually disengage the MagSafe ports. It's a tough balance where too powerful of a magnet won't disengage a light computer and too light of a magnet causes the charger to fall off at the lightest touch.

As for your second point/question, I was mainly saying that paying a premium for a MagSafe connector is less worth it to me than having a non-proprietary port that is also multi-function since it's very uncommon for the use-case that MagSafe was designed for to happen nowadays with computers. I have yet to hear a current story where MagSafe saved someone's computer or where the USB-C cable trashed someone's computer by getting pulled and not releasing. MagSafe was awesome for its time but I think it's not as useful with today's tech.
That would imply that Miners need an incentive in order to mine bitcoin, which would make sense. However, don't forget that there are also transaction fees that they get. So technically when mining is finished they will be making a return on their investment from transaction fees alone.

I'm simply saying that the value of Bitcoin has outpaced what is it's potential intrinsic value through the above mentioned exchange of value.

If you removed the limit on the number of bitcoins and rearranged mining so that difficulty would increase more in parallel with the increase in performance of computers, then you would end up with a stable currency that would have the potential to achieve the original vision of the white paper.