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It's pretty clear that bitcoin will only allow very conservative upgrades, it's entirely possible that the creator of bitcoin isn't interested in the development of modern bitcoin.
Monero is considered one of the top.
UI: User Interface - the layout & visual look & feel of the page/components.
UX: User Experience - the interactions of these pages/components by the user (incl. expected behaviour etc.)

> you seem to be using a particularly narrow definition of "designer" here

My definition of UI designer is somebody who designs UI (which encompasses those of print background which a lot will probably have been at some stage in the/their past)

> but it's mostly orthogonal to their role as programmers

No, it's not, unless your programmers have been relegated to code monkeys. In years gone past (pre web dominance, when native desktop applications ruled), developers were designers/user experience etc.. which lead to the checkboxes everywhere UI.

Good UI needs someone with good design aesthetic. This is where UI designers shine.

In contrast to other design fields(most notably Industrial Design, where designers have pretty much always owned (& thought about) design & interaction as a whole), that is not something which UI designers have done. It's only in recent years that I've seen UI teams claim UX in the form of renaming themselves as "UI/UX team".
My point is that UX has not historically been something they've put much thought into ,and as a result, they are not qualified to just own UX.
One thing I am yet to see is a critical analysis of over-engineering. I constantly see articles like this that talk about how those young developers are looking for the newest and shiniest technology and I think that's just a lazy answer to the causes of over engineering. I for instance have tried my best to run away specifically from the new shiniest things like Kafka, webpack, mongo. But this is obviously a flawed strategy as those technogolies my help solve my problems. One might say careful cost/benefit analysis is the answer but it's most times easy for me to point out how much more beneficial the tech I am introducing is. And it could be but it would still be over engineering. Plus it's not really solving the real problem that is adding more incidental complexity to the solution than needed. It would interesting to see an article on causes of over-engineering from real examples so one could extract potential solutions.
ok, so live in the present. thanks.
Sweet! Thank you!
Seen it happen more than once. The new guys throw away the old thing because it's a mess and it's too hard to understand. Two years later, the new new guys throw away the new thing because it's a mess and it's too hard to understand.

The company's website is ever new.
The United States government cannot grant itself power and it does not have the power to beat physical access to personal computing devices out of citizens without a warrant. That is why the EFF has filed suit.
I wish there are more transparency about these networks divisions that make these kinds of decisions. How do we contact a higher level management person at facebook and talk about something that was removed or deleted?

The person in this article mad themselves seem very objective and desiring to be fair, considering many angles... however I do not think someone can click to remove or not remove, thousands of posts / accounts a day and stay objective with all of them.

Projects I worked on have had facebook and tumblr accounts pulled, and I have found no way to speak with someone at either company about the issue. Given how similar the content looked to some standard spam, I can see how a moderator would quickly click to remove when they see hundreds of similar things a day that are indeed quickly made spam. However these particular projects were not affiliate spam, they were original works, however no amount of emails or @mentions on twitter ever brought anyone from these companies discuss the issue.

Had similar issues with google.

When it's just a fake account being used for trolling, the harm in removing an account is likely minimal. However there is little chance these low levels mods know if the poster was a troll of legitimate group trying to do right.

If presence on social networks affects search engine rankings, getting a low level overworked, over stressed person to delete your competitions accounts could reduce their sales by 80% easily.

As facebook seems to want to "be the internet" and monopolize what is okay to be discussed and seen, they certainly have poor customer service for righting mistakes that are made in removing things. This is also true of tumblr and others.

wasn't there something on hacker news a while back that pointed out many of these mod jobs or pushed to countries like the phillipines or something as well?

With the bias that can be created by culture, and the amount of content that people are forced to see, there should be better options for contacting these companies and getting things re-instated.

In some cases deleting an account hardly affects anyone. In other cases deleting an account creates a snowball of removing speech that may be important to many, not just on facebook, but affecting the other portals as well.
make your own coinbase.
Reminds me a lot of the article from the Atlantic ("The Coming Software Apocalypse"): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/savin...
Even that is still assuming you can only update parameters once per game, and only for the players in the game. If I've played a large number of games against someone, and the win-rate is 50/50, and then that player plays in a tournament, my skill should move up or down in accordance with their performance in that tournament.
Standard	MPEG-1	MPEG-2	MPEG-4 Visual	MPEG-4 AVC	MPEG-H HEVC
Bitrate vs previous	25% less	25% less	30% less	60% less

The table at the end is hiding one factor : the computation cost of each new codecs. Have we really found new better ways to compress videos, or is it just Moore's law in action ?
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Coinbase really needs to suspend their new account creation. AFAIK almost all of the other "reputable" exchanges have gone through periods of not allowing new users so that their support network can catch up.

https://medium.com/@mseiler1/coinbase-support-is-non-existen...
CBP etc agents are trained to believe that they have the right to inspect/search devices. Even though they arguably don't. And so they will use force when there's resistance. Basically, it's rarely prudent to resist, given prevalent escalation-of-force policy to maintain control.
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I haven't noticed any anticoagulant effect.

I consume chocolate in the evening and do sometimes clear walking tracks before breakfast, which often involves scratches. So I would expect to have noticed wounds bleeding for longer than usual.
These "hardware features", whether its [U]EFI or ME or whatever acronym, IMO is a land grab by hardware vendors over what we know as the "OS". Less computer owner control, more vendor control.

As long as you can still run the OS of your choice at the top of this stack of vendor OSs, what do the vendors gain by this 'land grab'? Particularly the HW vendors. I can imagine Apple and MS are happy to lock things down so only their OSs run easily but What benefit does any HW vendor get from from UEFI? Surely the benefit to Intel from IME is being able to say "you can remotely manage and recover a borked server if you have our IME enabled", but I can't think what else it gives them.

I like the idea of a system running hardware that does the minimum of initialisation before running code of the user's choice but that is more due to my being an 8-bit kid and worries of buggy vendor blobs than assuming the HW vendors are being nefarious.
This means that codec development makes no sense for anyone who doesn't own either a large distribution platform or a large playback platform. (Much of the research has been done by middleware companies attempting to tax the two; their business goes from royalties to work-for-hire, at best, which is way less attractive for them).

This is fine – in a macroeconomic sense – but of course it sucks if you're one of the companies being disrupted.
If free advertising is a great deal, then negative-cost advertising is an even better deal.
Hi there, just personal feedback here. I contacted Coinbase on September 14, 2017 because I was locked out because of 2FA and a cell phone I had no access to anymore. I couldn't upload or get any document verified, but a human being at Coinbase helped me and after a few uncertain emails, I was able to gain access back to my 4 years+ old account on September 20, 2017.

I'd say hang in there. With the recent bubble their statement make sense, so try to be patient.
I agree re. 'Non-nuclear powers haven't avoided war.' Vietnam, Cambodia, Syrian War (as you stated) IMO have been primarily proxy wars that resulted in a lot of killings while helping the powers avoid killings of their own people. Who can say they would have fought/killed at the same rate anyways if they weren't pushed/armed to do so but it seems to me that the casualty rate would have been lower in Vietnam, for example, if the US and USSR/China had not been involved. EDIT: syntax.
> Please report them to BBB and other authorities within your reach.

The BBB is not part of the "authorities":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau#Critici...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/news/better-business-bureau-...

http://business.time.com/2013/03/19/why-the-better-business-...

https://www.ncconsumer.org/news-articles-eg/the-better-busin...
From my reading of the UEFI spec, much of the language assumes one EFI system partition per device, for example see the capsule updating language on page 262 of the version 2.4 spec.

The directory \EFI\UpdateCapsule is checked for capsules only withing the EFI system partition on the device specified in the active boot option determine by reference to BootNext variable or BootOrder variable processing.

and later

The system firmware is not required to check mass storage devices that do not contain boot target that is highest priority for boot nor to check a second EFI system partition not the target of the active boot variable.

There's no accounting for two ESP's for one device, and how to resolve the ensuing ambiguity, which one is the primary one? Are you certain Windows updates distinguish between two EFI system partitions, should an update need to update the Windows bootloader or its config?
I agree it isn't correct, the implication is that the only "value" that generate new codecs is 'money for royalties.'

There are many reasons for developing better codecs, whether they perform better on hardware, they allow for more channels in a pipe with fixed bandwidth, or optimize the viewing experience for particular types of signals.

When I read the reference post I heard the echos of rationalizations that have been used for years and years to justify applying rents against someone else's labor. I can only hope that the author is correct in that this rent seeking behavior has become unsustainable. That would be a good thing indeed.
I mean, I kind of agree with you, but honestly, would you really want to be the crazy guy yelling in a lobby? Or the employee getting yelled at for something you didn't do? I'm not a confrontational or angry person and would far prefer someone who reads this and works for Coinbase to just reach out to me and make it right.

Then again, if another month goes by with no action, I really might end up being the guy marching around with a sign in lobby, who knows...
I like the goal, and I'd even love to work on something like this, but is this a business or a non-profit project? Where are they gonna make money?

Also, I don't think reform is bottlenecked on data. At this point, we have strong causal hypotheses and the data we do have supports those hypotheses almost unilaterally. The problem is almost entirely in the hands of political science: juridictional and generational politics, regulatory capture, etc..
With what did you integrate yet? I'm looking for a solution like ecommerce in different languages
One line config change to hide the hypervisor from the VM and it works. (Source: worked for me)
The USA is pretty big and has a lot of sparsely populated area compared to Europe. People living outside major metro areas don't care about public transit, because public transit only works and makes sense in dense urban areas.

So people in Upstate New York don't care about mass transit in NYC, and so the representatives they elect to NY state government don't care about it.

Public transit honestly is not even on my radar of issues I care about, because where I live it makes no sense at all.
I had made a post about that when the story was flagged and no comments allowed.

I reposted it a minute ago. TLDR: It is at best disrespectful, at worst could cause great harm to this person.

We have a few heroes - the kind of persons who can disable by themselves a botnet that was hurting the NHS. We repay them by exposing their identity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6bcerj/doxing_t...

Satoshi is one such hero - he gave us technology that will help people secure property rights, with lack of trust of hostile goverments. Think what you want about crypto. It is a technological solution to a social problem.

Once again, some people think hunting our heroes is acceptable. Personally, I find that disgusting. Some people say we have to few nice persons, to few heroes.

If this is the kind of negative feedback they receive, I think I know why.
Cryptocurrencies are extremely slow, have high fees and are destructive to the environment. They also eliminate many consumer protections in place for both banking and investing, leading many to financial ruin and suicide.
I agree completely, and would add further than more lay people than ever are using computers to do even more cotidian but critical tasks than ever, involving commerce, personal information, their digital memories, love lives, etc. Not only do individual programs do more, but more of life itself is done through computers and by people who are not specially trained to operate each system. This is also why fears of devs writing themselves out of a job is a laughable. The easier to use and more powerful we make our software for public consumption, the more opprtunities to optimize our lives the public demands. It's hard work, but the future is bright.
Your position is close to Seneca’s stoicism. There are some books on that I don’t have handy. Thought you might want to know this.
ZCash is up there as well
Headless chrome and a print-to-pdf are the way to go, here. There’s a library (whose name eludes me) which wraps it all up very nicely in a JS lib. If you’ve got the html, generating a pdf automatically shouldn’t be more than one screen of code and a docker container.

Edit: the lib is puppeteer. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/
The example on https://github.com/geonnave/primg shows a binary number ending with zero; doesn't that mean it's even, and therefore divisible by 2?
You will get called for this - I had a friends whose summer job at venmo was to call people and ask them to change the description from ‘sex’ or ‘drugs’ to something more innocuous - or to please stop buying drugs through Venmo.
The taxtoken is a laughable idea! Made even more suspicious by the fact that the founders are barely out of diapers.

I guess a nice landing page is good enough these days.
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> 2009 (he ran on the Republican line, but wasn't a party member).

You aren't talking about "let's ban smoking and soft drinks" bloomberg are you?
Actually, it's even worse than that. As the BIOS no longer has a concept of "active device," multiple ESPs on separate devices are also a problem; the user would have to actively pick the one to load at boot time via the non-EFI "boot device menu" at the boot screen.
Coinbase is a U.S. company. Perhaps a small claims suit (if applicable) or a lawsuit will get their attention.
why can this model handle permutation? whereas pointnet, the paper pointcnn based on, used a permutation invariant function?
Oh I’m sorry I missed your question earlier. It was straight to github. I think he/she had some readme for some basic instructions/about.
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I got a rental in new zealand, and the included tomtom sent me to the hospital. Seriously, I was following directions to an RV park, but wound up in front of a hospital. The RV park was a kilometer away.

It was also woefully (and I mean extra-frustratingly) out of date in Dunedin. And yet it was online with a fast 3g connection 8 hours a day.

Point being - looks like maybe they skipped map updates a while ago. :-P
This was mostly intentional, tbh. Both AMD and nVidia GPUs had "officially sanctioned" cards that worked just fine with their legacy VGA ROM.
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/boot is a partition that your boot loader needs to know about ahead of time, and I still have to point my BIOS towards a disk that has the correct code embedded in a section at the beginning of the disk in order to execute it to read its config to know about /boot.

With UEFI, the pre-boot system can automatically detect OSes that are installed on any disks that exist, and can let you choose which ones to run before executing any other code.

This eliminates the issues of e.g. installing Windows (with its boot loader) and then Linux (with its replacement boot loader) overwriting that and then having to add an entry to boot the old OS, and so on. Now all OSes and boot loaders are accessible from the same level and OS installers don't have to worry about wiping out the other ones unless they're deleting partitions.

> again, grub handles this. in fact, it handles it much better than some firmwares

I have had significant issues with Grub when, for example, migrating from one disk to another, having to swap boot drives, change kernel boot parameters, run chroots, and so on, all to make sure that Grub puts the right code at the start of the right disk to point to the right partition ID to read the right config file to load the right kernel.

Nothing is perfect and foolproof, and Grub on UEFI is vastly better than Grub on BIOS/MBR/etc. in my experience.
GRUB on GPT+BIOS requires the use of a BIOS Boot Partition too (type code ef02 in gdisk... see the full UUID for the full story). So one of the points is moot as well.
https://github.com/geonnave/primg links to https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/7qpfls/does_there_exi... .
Thread from an older post didn't get much love: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210382

But, how did you achieve this?
Why hello!
> Have we had the conversation yet about the politeness of not trying to hunt down someone who quite apparently does not want to be found?

This is the internet... no one is afforded the luxury of anonymity when the hivemind takes an interest in them.
There is virtually no information on that page. I don't understand why this is getting voted so highly. I'm interested (this falls right in my area of expertise, see my other comments on this page) and I've heard about this proposal before, but the landing page this story links to is just a placeholder with no useful (technical or marketing) information.
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I'm not a professional programmer, but I'd imagine the amount of code available for both BitTorrent and Bitcoin might be enough for someone with a lot of experience coding to say whether or not this is likely to be true based on coding style.

My bet is it's not.

Also, agree with the other comments here that these sort of articles are both dangerous and disrespectful.
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> How any company thinks it can continue to make money selling maps is beyond me.

You do not sell to consumers, but B2B. There are 2 maps on the market you can actually license: TomTom and Here. If you want a map, that is where you have to go.
Yes, one may adjust the N in "current top N" to include anything. In reality it is just BTC and ETH.
> AOM will certainly give much needed stability to the video codec market but this will come at the cost of reduced if not entirely halted technical progress. There will simply be no incentive for a company to develop new video compression technologies.

And nothing of value was lost.
Yes, the computation per pixel has increased ~2x per codec generation so codecs are taking advantage of (a fraction of) the gains provided by Moore's Law.
We integrate into most of the major eCommerce platforms and automate common tasks out-of-the-box: returns, exchanges, order tracking, etc. We support multiple languages.

Shoot me an email and I'll see if we can help.
Refreshing with a CEO that doesn't take himself too serious. I can imagine most CEOs would be terrified of doing something this silly, and promoting it in such a nerdy and silly way.

I like how his marketing is basically about appealing to the inner geek or man, who is really just a big boy who want bigger and more expensive toys.

Too many ads are essentially focused on fashionistas, people who want to be trendy or whatever. Flamethrowers in contrasts isn't trendy in any meaningful way. It is just a fun thing.

In a way everything that Musk does is really about making the stuff geeks dreamed of when they were kids. I spent considerable time marveling at space-stations and spacecraft in illustrated science magazines as a child. Beyond 2000 I fancied myself as a space tourist.

Of course none of that ever came to past, but now Musk is bringing back the childhood dreams.

In many ways it makes me realize how important literature and dreaming is. Science fiction literature might seem like time waste, but it is the kind of stuff that has helped inspire people like Elon Musk as a child and make him dream of a brighter future. Without dreaming we can't start to push the envelope.

For a long time I sort of imagined that dreamers and doers could not be the same person. But Elon Musk demonstrates you can both dream and be a talented guy who gets stuff done.
Well I've been here for 17 years and I personally know a lot of people who aren't considering marriage as they aren't considered marriageable as they can't afford a house and don't want to work soul-draining hours for substandard pay.

The two Chinas: affluent business owners, government beneficiaries, and a small ultra-professional and investing class versus the average joe are really far apart.

This means for young people the choices are stark: relax with your friends, maybe make some money now and then or flutter between jobs you see as more of a passing interest or do something small for cash (part time work, online selling, art, piecework translation or media, etc.), taking the ire of your parents who wished you would work harder, or face a truly depressing grind and probably move alone to a polluted overpriced east coast megacity.

I don't think the choices are as bad in western countries, since although the work ethic may be high the hours in China are long and unpaid overtime and deference to managers is certainly expected for the upwardly mobile. Also in the west you usually don't have to move for a decent income, with the social isolation that entails.

There are also a small but increasing number of gay and lesbian couples.
>> "we'll never ask you to pay for map updates for this device"

But to twist it around again, that's the same as, "eventually you won't even be able to pay for updates for this device".
My coinbase issues is now going on 4 weeks, they debited a tranasction twice and credited once, leaving a negative balance, where a significant number of >5 BTC just vanished into thin air.
They're in the process of ramping up pretty seriously I think.
http://fortune.com/2018/01/22/coinbase-tina-bhatnager-twitte...