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I think hype results in skepticism, and things can be hyped on a far larger scale now than ever before.

If I think back to my early internet days, I remember email (Eudora!!) being the most useful and exciting thing. After that I remember Yahoo and ICQ being really important for me. People were certainly excited in the 90s, but I think the hype was less around the internet in general and more around some of the things it would enable (e.g. Gateway PCs and PCTV or whatever it was called).

I remember more hype around the CD-ROM and CD-R's than I do hype about the internet. The capacity of CD-ROMs and the ability to play video reminds me of the current talk about VR/AR. What we got out of CD-ROMs was Windows 95 being easier to install and cutscenes in video games - not what happened to Edward Furlong in the "Brainscan" movie or Lawnmower man.

Compare that to blockchain or any of the current hyped technologies like Deep Learning or Big Data(3 years ago). "Thought leaders", tech and non-tech companies (small and large), journalists - everybody wants to show they are the leaders and have the answers. You then have a strong reaction of skepticism against this.

I feel old writing this post. I remember Brainscan and hoping something like that was right around the corner...ouch.
>Maybe Netflix should set up channels where they just play shows back to back like cable TV does.

Someone brought this up a few weeks ago but it's not really a good fit with Netflix' cost model. They really don't want to be paying content providers for an always on background stream when no one may even be watching. Of course, Spotify does but I suspect the numbers are a lot different. Perhaps there's enough really cheap content they could do this with.
> I find your claim of "technically an importer" to be completely bunkum

You may well find his claim to be bunkum, but he's correct. If you purchase something from a third party seller in a different country on Amazon's platform, and the seller ships it from their country to your country and it passes through customs, you are the importer.

Walmart imports goods from China and gets them through customs and then sells them, so you are not importing things when you buy them from Walmart, unless you purchase something from a foreign country from a third party seller on their marketplace platform, just like Amazon.
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Just trying to be open-minded: has anyone thought to have given the Tether folks the benefit of the doubt? Isn’t it possible they are well aware of the possible risks but have the numbers to justify their printing? Again, just trying to look at it from another perspective since we’ve already heard the criticisms.
> How do you organize your paper notes?

Meticulously.

For each subject I keep notes on (projects, mathematics, reading, etc) I use a series of journals and different styles.

For my projects I use a system somewhat similar to bullet journal[0]. The Leuchtterm journals are a great fit (and I'm glad I discovered them) because the pages are numbered and come with an index. I use the pocket at the back for reference cards.

I like taking notes using my personal notation and being able to think in a quiet room without a glowing screen, notifications, or the temptation to check HN is valuable. It helps me get in the flow and solve the real problems. When I get back to my work at the computer it's usually pretty rote.

For mathematics I use a dotted-pad with a system I developed for myself. I use smaller, lined books for my reading and diary.

And they all stay in my office in my home indexed by shelf. And it looks quite handsome I think. I don't know whether it will be a boon or a burden to those I leave behind when I'm gone some day but I enjoy having a hard reference copy of my development and ideas.

[0] http://bulletjournal.com/
Not at all. I think too many technologists (including myself these days) sit behind far too many layers of abstractions.

Coding a quick Perl script to solve a real world problem on a factory floor and watching a dozen machinists start grinning and get way more productive is something I've been paid to do, and I never got unmotivated by. One of those jobs where you simply stay until the job is done, and don't feel put out in the least you got home at 11pm.

It's when you're slogging away 12 factors removed on some crap you know is utterly meaningless to anyone - even if it's in tooling you like - that's when I get severe motivational problems. I'd rather work as a cashier at a gas station where at least I can see the effect I have on society with my labor.
I don’t think political correctness is the correct description of what he is trying to complain about.

The word he is looking for is “entitlement caused by excessive privilege.”

The reason people in China work that hard is that there are many people in poverty who would also like to work very hard for those jobs and very little safety net.

I should also mention once again: The United States is nowhere near as racist or sexist as these countries as mentioned above.

However the common opinion is that the United States is extremely racist and sexist. To people who genuinely believe this: You have no idea what the rest of the world is like, please travel.

The things I have seen folks from China openly saying and doing in business make the United States look very fair.
Physical roadspace is far more limited. In most other OECD countries, schools aren‘t nearly as segmented. Public school quality is across the board high.

But all countries have road congestion issues, to my knowledge. It’s an intrinsic feature of road networks. There‘s also a lot more variance than with schools: roads are sometimes empty sometimes full. School attendance is static through the year. (Which suggests an optimal road price would actually be more like a surge, and vary through the day.)
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I've always hated debate because of that and could never understand why it was valued. It is always about winning and never about getting to the bottom of what could be the truth.
Business is about more than extracting the most you can. Most Wells Fargo customers are unhappy, but they stay because the competitors are just as bad. Unhappy customers is bad for business. Startups are often about giving customers a better experience than the incumbents.

Toms writing is targeted to entrepreneurs who need to consider all aspects of the business, unlike product managers at Faceless BigCo, who “win” solely by the shitty little optimizations that you so love.
Yup yup, I went down that path and converted our then very basic deployment process to use serverless and instantly hit hard limits.
I don't think it's a dichotomy - even if torture were heavily used, I don't that would prevent the drone strikes (and then there's the weird arguments of how many would you kill vs. how many would you torture). Realistically, the answer should be _neither_.

However, if you had to choose, I'd probably say torture is worse. Even a slow death is likely to be quick, and has an end, compared with a torturer who is actively trying to keep you alive so you can endure more.
Why does 5 vs 10 dollar boxes get you double everything but CPU. There are all sorts of pricing inconsistencies.

Comparing the 5 dollar to the most expensive using all 5 dollar instances you get:

960 GB more storage

160 more "vCPUs"

180 TB more network bandwidth

Memory is the only thing that actually scales logically. Very annoying IMO. I like DO otherwise. I think it fits in nicely between GCP/AWS/Azure and other lower cost providers having object store and block storage and a good UI/responsiveness.
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Swift is more applications programming than OS or systems. It does have those capabilities, but no one is using it for that and it's not really the intent.

However, to the extent that swift (and obj-c!) are used for systems programming, those programs are useable outside of apple platforms.
Something like this could have a lot of use for the creation of quilt patterns.
In a waterfall organization many of those due dates are months out.

Finish and deliver don’t have to be the same thing. Especially when features depend on each other.

A group of unaffiliated contractors slipped kanban into Boeing in part because we never said what we were doing. But every time there was a hiccup we proposed another kanban process. WIP limits took a while but saved a lot of headaches. If we are over the limit and you finish a story you had to help someone else or get a special dispensation for the leads (sometimes we had stories that depended on other teams and the next story was straightforward).

It is by far the biggest silent conspiracy to do good that I ever participated in.

Unfortunately after we got reported into a sustaining team there was some peer to our manager who would not shut up about Scrum. If you’ve done Kanban, Scrum is like when your parents make you hang out with your kid brother’s friends.
I used google-drafts, wikis, all sorts of combos involving folders & files & hardcopies before discovering org-mode 4..5 years ago.

Since then I've been able to forge 20 years of references, scans, pdfs, application-code!, shell scripts, photos, glyphs, graphs, fonts into an exo-brain (a nice word from the cool kids) that not only includes journals, time & billing, ledgers, feeds, project and resource planning, play-books & checklists for my own debriefing

into something version controlled that boots from a chroot and can transfer to android devices. i can now find, use and profit from clusters of notes, generate html and latex, read, write and code, interface with and even capture just about anything that life has thrown at me since i started re-tooling myself.

I've got a reminder/drill mechanism which picks high-level topics things for me to review and i just go with that to remember and refine old stuff as i go. Its a seething mess of useful.

In essence .. i tag, sort, sift, condense and categorize like everyone else. In under a gig of ram, and, as it happens, at the speed of thought via a consistent user-interface.

And yeah, of course i use a browser. I can capture/convert html to plain text & drag images into files knowing that everything will always be hyperlinked by not-too-obnoxious uuids.

For some reason I had to hold my nose delving into emacs after ignoring it for 20 years. It seemed so weird. Now that I've gotten used to working with software that enables general purpose computing, I'm experiencing Ataraxia.

Anyhow, to the OP, check your net-present-value figures. Are you expecting to be a knowledge worker for a while? Have you ever chosen a slightly harder path to make things easier?

If so, just take this note as a hint for what's possible when you're seriously looking to answer your own question :)
To follow up from my data science job hunt postmortem (https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/951117788835278848), I agree that the trend of having both an algorithm test and a take-home assignment before an onsite is the new standard for hiring in 2017. For data science, I believe take homes are a better assessment of skill. Fortunately, most of my take-homes were 2-3 hours.

The exception was a take-home that took 16 hours due to its massive scope, which in retrospect I should have rejected.
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I think they are. They are more dishonest than paying kidnap ransom, in any case.

When you pay a bribe, you actively fuel the system of corruption that makes them necessary. If you are doing it as a last gasp to escape that system, that is a different matter entirely from doing it to buy in to that system.

The 419 scam lays it out there. You're going to be paying bribes into a corrupt system to take possession of some money that is not yours, but it doesn't belong to anyone in particular, so there is no victim, and therefore not stealing, per se. It's mostly harmless, and just a little bit crooked, so why not just wire all your savings to Lagos in $1000 chunks and get rich quickly and easily?

Being just a bit crooked is essential for discouraging the mark from getting help from a friend or talking to the cops. If they speak of it to anyone else, that person will then know they are at least a bit sleazy, and possibly criminal. It's the same tactic used by criminal predators to silence their victims. Human trafficking, for instance: "You're here illegally, so if you talk to the cops, you'll be jailed and deported, and then you'll have to pay off your debt by farming beets in hardscrabble for the rest of your life."
They are just different approaches, "bundle every library with the binary" vs "make every binary load the system library". And I think it's mostly a distinction of a system designed for final users (Windows), where your priority is making sure the program works with as little unknowns as possible, vs a system designed for production (Linux), where the people in charge wants to know exactly what is running.

Answering your question, I hit that problem on a Windows 7 machine, it was not a suspicious update, just the usual "install C++ redistributable 20xx to make this program work", but it crashed halfway for some reason. After a while I just reinstalled Windows (it was almost a clean install, so nothing starting anew was simply faster).
See NoGravitas post above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16186508
Thanks!....I had no idea about the "random stow" thing.
It was probably 1/2 way through the lifespan of the Wii U that our team was approved to develop for the platform. Not sure how restrictive they were before that.

Everything I've heard is that Nintendo is really trying to keep the quality bar high on the Switch e-shop though, which I can definitely appreciate. Sucks for really small shops that don't have the ability to jump through all the hoops and get approved, but its nice as a player to know the games probably aren't going to just be gimmicks. That said, the initial release of NBA Playgrounds on Switch was pretty abysmal... Fortunately they've been working to clean it up. I guess Nintendo probably just didn't want to be left out on their initial release and felt like an arcadey basketball game would be a perfect fit for the Switch demographic.
Well, suburbia started becoming a thing long before cars and comes from the Greeks. However, I don't think the kind of cities you see today would necessarily have expanded so far without cars. They are not a book to cities or density from what I can tell.
Was Manhattan "based around cars"? I don't know the specifics but I thought NYC mostly just grew from its roots from a time quite a while before cars. I imagine a city truly based around cars could be made to have much less congestion while still accommodating walkers/bicyclists. More lanes between buildings, with sidewalks replaced by pedestrian bridges so traffic flows with less obstruction, for example. Less intersections and more straight stretches.
How much money in deposits has coinbase taken since then?
I drive to work in traffic, and I would much rather be on a subway. Where I live, there is no public transportation from my house to my office. If I could take a subway, I'd be able to zone out, or read a book, or go on Reddit, etc. for 40 minutes instead of being on constant low-level alert while driving.
let them work.
Yes, same. My subscription is mainly for Football, and when it's half time it's usually an excuse to go for a wander, take the bins out or put the kettle on.
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I also delay upgrading versions just because of the hassle of upgrading the database. This is a very welcome addition!
I really hope "the next JPEG" will not be some patent/licensing nightmare, so from what I read here, we should hope for this to beat Apple and their HEIF?
A while ago Flipboard released a canvas based UI. https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas

Most companies do use some flash nonsense, but given the state of that, I'm sure they'll find some new insanity to foist on us.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-01/11/content_279...

meanwhile in the official chinese media, we get a pretty different picture. I wonder what the chinese communist party thinks of westerners assuming their people are willing to work like slaves.
This is going to cause epic carnage when the house of cards here collapses
I go a little further in the same direction: I treat even my wired home network as an untrusted network transport. My home server exposes exactly the same things to the LAN that it does to the public Internet (indeed as far as I'm concerned the LAN just is part of the public Internet - with IPv6 my home server even has the same address from either). My only open ports are secure protocols like SSH or HTTPS or PostgreSQL-with-SSL.

I do use OpenVPN to run a few nonsecure "legacy" nonsecure protocols - the servers for those listen only on the VPN interface which isn't bridged to the physical LAN - but these days I very rarely need it.
> you can have a probability that a person doesn’t know something based on how long they’ve been actively tortured

That almost seems worse - torturing someone to make sure they don't know anything is akin to punishing someone to make sure they are innocent.
This seems worrisome. Are they (and the other exchanges) solvent?

I should start thinking about carrying a low balance on exchanges and putting my holdings into an offline wallet.
They lie about where the tether is coming from. They claim they have that much USD in the bank and it is exchangable at any time 1:1 to the USD. It's not actually.
Yeah some runnable code, not much at the moment but hopefully more as time goes on.

Most of my notes are to do with data or programming, and a lot are just script fragments on how to do something, I want to run them.

In theory I could hack jupyter and datomic to enable me to define relatinoships and query for notes instead of having either a text search or a single hierarchy navigation
If they did, it would be in their best interests to prove it, via some statement from a reputable bank or such, that users would trust holding $500+ million.
Thanks! Python is one of the ones I'm going to check out so that example makes me feel confident about using this as a resource :)
I do have a number of friends working as devs for Comcast, and I've recently been approached for a role doing dev work there as well. This is the HQ, so this is where I'd expect the bulk of technical work to happen.
Given most exchanges are adding 100k+ users per day, probably a lot more.
And it's now +£10 if you drive an old banger (T-Charge)
I think that as liberals, we have a habit of fiercely criticizing problems within our own society, but will gloss over the same (or deeper) problems in other societies as 'cultural differences'. This can lead to a very rose-colored view of the situation in other countries.
So when I was doing stuff with it, I realised I don't wanted to save in my palette all the color I used for the illustration. So add colors to the palette has to be a manual action from the user.
But Im open to suggestions, you're not the first and not the last to complain about it :) [some people find it extremely confusing]
I just love the "bet on the mouse that spins the wheel faster" mentality

(and this is regardless of culture or nationality) betting on those who are sitting on their chairs longer is just "traditional" corporate shortsightedness
I've not read past the first paragraph, but:

> Tether is a magical internet money issued by world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex

As I understand it, Tether is a completely separate company to Bitfinex. The only thing they have in common is an investor.

> It was designed as a mean to launder money

It was designed as a way to transfer USD without having to wait for bank transactions, and without having to worry about banks closing down accounts.

> I’m pretty sure this resemblance in name is deliberate to confuse owners

It's not meant to "confuse", it's meant to mean "USD Tether".

I think this post is intending to mislead far more than Tether is.

Isn't the fact that Tether explicitly state in their terms and conditions that Tethers are non-redeemable for USD enough to know not to trust Tethers? Why do we have to make up lies about them?
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If they were interested in clearing the air they would respond. They haven't done so, which leaves everyone to speculate on what's happening, and of all the possibilities, not many of them add up to anything good.
Original author here. Happy to answer any questions or talk about other things related to working across national borders.
Maybe the solution is to reuse or share content a bit more? Seems wasteful, for example, that the huge worlds created for some of todays AAA open world games are used only for those games.
It is possible but it's hard to blame people for having little faith when you consider the history of cryptocurrency scams and the unwillingness of Tether people to provide any proof for dollar backing of Tether.
devdocs.io is really neat!
Fascinating. Is it Japanese culture to maintain the family business?
Is "speed wobble" anything like the Jeep "death wobble" (actually can happen on any 4wd vehicle, but Jeeps seem to have the problem more as steering and suspension components wear)?
I'm your garden-variety liberal who works at a tech company and the description here is entirely foreign to me. I've mostly worked outside of tech and my social circle outside of work is almost entirely liberal but non-tech - the tech world is far more progressive, the culture is far more supportive in general and more specifically in the direction that is favorable to outsiders and marginalized minorities. Outside of my tech social circle, it's extremely common to hear casually racist and sexist remarks that would get you either fired or ostracized at tech companies. And that's before you get to heteronormativity that is endemic in mainstream society but is frowned upon at most tech companies. The sensitivity towards transgender people is also mostly non-existent in non-tech, non-elite mainstream society, even among liberals.

Maybe Valerie Aurora can find places that are more supportive than tech, but the median work environment in the US is full of Trump supporters and can be outwardly misogynistic, racist and transphobic. The myopia here among people who have rarely experienced the life outside the bubble is quite concerning.
Yeah and don’t get the job. It is pretty simple.
I think you misread the parent comment..
331K transferred. Less than 1K of actual readable text.

In the about section, the author brags about using Sketch, Gulp, SASS, Nunjucks, and a third-party font. Seriously? He couldn't have just envisioned that thing in his head and put it straight to code?
So it already flattened below doubling every 18 months, or we think it will flatten because of barriers at 3-5nm?

The trend graph here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

Shows little tendency to flatten. What I assume will happen when nVidia wants 10k stream processors on the same lithography as 5k are today, is that they will have to double the die area and struggle with yield instead? (Assuming the die can grow without communication problems)
100M a day open mind? That's a bit too open minded.

> Isn’t it possible they are well aware of the possible risks but have the numbers to justify their printing?

They could easily be transparent. They choose not to.
I think that's largely the fault of the manifesto. It is entirely unclear about what putting "individuals before process" actually means.

One way I've seen it used was as a way to justify organizing meetings as a means to solve an increase in defect regressions rather than allocating extra work on automated tests.

The former was "individuals and interactions" and the latter was tools and processes. I thought it was a reasonable interpretation and also wrong.
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