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100 years in the future you will be able to describe an idea to an AI which will create whatever the idea is for you. "OK Google, make a Facebook without all the fake news." No programming languages.
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Salvage: Optimism is for the weak
Not all markets are as susceptible to rent seeking as the... rental... market.

Distinguishing between rental markets and less pathological applications of market mechanisms is not exactly novel economic doctrine. And in fact, you'll have a hard time finding a tradition of economics without its own giant calling out landlords.
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Even if you could underreport wages, why would you want to?
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>Do you negotiate a lower salary?

Arguably, no. With a salary you are negotiating the value of your productivity against the profit margin of the business.

The stake of the business owner is closer to that of the landlord, who is involved in arbitrage in a system where 'liquidity' (in this case finding another job or home) is difficult, expensive and rare. Prime conditions for rent-seeking behaviour (which is bad).

Now, you as a person may be redeemable ;) but in general, the actions of landlords as a whole use the actual roof over people's heads as bargaining chips to further their un-productive wealth. Which is not to say that landlords cannot be productive in their provision of housing. Just that in general in places like the US, or AU (where I am), this is not the case.

And the thing is, I would surely do the same thing if I had the opportunity to buy up a few rental properties and squeeze the tenants for a few bucks. I would like to think I would at least have the decency to feel a little bad about it.
The translation of Amazigh is said to be "the free people"
You are going against a strawman. The author only had the following to say about the book itself:

>>>The book itself is not really the issue. Ferriss indeed outlines some interesting tips on managing resources to get the highest ROI on your work.
I personally saw the reaction within Zillow Group when Spencer Rascoff got a bad rating on Glassdoor. The reviewer was located, the review was quickly deleted, and Spencer's rating continues to be a source of pride for him.

Don't get me wrong. He's extremely capable and will probably continue to run ZG very well for years to come. But his Glassdoor rating should be lower and it irks me every time I hear it touted.
Which is not to say that landlords cannot be productive in their provision of housing. Just that in general in places like the US, or AU (where I am), this is not the case.

Can you expand upon this? What would that look like, and what are the indications that US and AU landlords aren’t productive?
Additionally to what you said, I find the prezi-style panning and movement between pages extremely distracting and jarring to the point where I did nope out.
Check out the depth chart for USDT/USD pair. There is no buy-side demand at all. Anyone selling Tether would have to eat huge losses by selling their USDT well under $1. It is human nature to not sell at a loss, so no one is selling.

On the other hand, it takes very little effort ($100K) to prop USDT price up. Rumor has it that Tether themselves are propping up the price on Kraken.

Sad part is that once the prop crumbles, everyone in sell-side of the chart will become bagholders because USDT will be worth nearly zero.
You probably didn't mean it, but it sounds like you're saying you don't understand why anyone could have trouble walking three miles? In case that's actually what you meant, then some of the reasons include disabilities (whether temporary like a broken leg, or permanent like arthritis), organizational constraints like having a small child with you, time constraints, or unsafe environments for the walk.
"Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away"

Is a famous quote of Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
AC is straightforward to standardize (it's just a plug, and signaling for the maximum current), but DC charging is complex because the charging electronics are in the charging station. A charge station would have to support all present and future pack voltages, and be able to deliver a requested current at that voltage (and the request can change second-by-second.)
Does this implementation allow duplicates? Typically a set is defined as an unordered collection with no duplicate items.
Did you read the article???
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The order for five four bit values has about 6.91 bits of information. log_2(5!)=6.91

More relevant to the problem, the order for four five bit values has about 4.59 bits of information (log_2(4!)=4.59). Not all of the sets actually have four numbers- many have duplicate numbers, like the list [1 1 2 3] is a set of numbers {1 2 3}- and that gets us down to 4.08 bits of information which is small enough to make this example work.

At least that's how I understand this. I could be wrong.
Wouldn't that mean Kraken knows the purchasers of excess supply are bitfinex? That's a pretty large bit of info to leave to a competing exchange.

Its obvious that holding USDT has lots of exposure, but i dont understand the implication of the bitcoin price today. A 2 billion sellout of crypto must ravage the market. And with such an obviously looming effect, I cant undersatnd how this situation is sustaining itself , even accounting for what you are saying.
It would be cool if you could search by language.
The difference in value between a "new" and "used" collection of cells is on the order of $10k. If you built a system that swapped your cells like this, you'd have to charge somewhere in the neighborhood of this amount -- the price of a powertrain overhaul, rather than the price of a charge -- in order to avoid instantly going bankrupt.
The "hack" in question involves replacing the hard drive.

This isn't an embedded issue. This is a physical access to OS issue.
It's too bad there's no way to grab and analyze who these agents are and turn the tables on them. I'm sure some have parents or other relatives that might have been considered illegal at some point (or possibly still are? I would assume federal background checks would catch that). Name and shame, or, if able, have them knock down the doors to their parents or grandparents house and see how it feels. Jackbooted assholes sending people to their possible deaths.
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I am guessing the pulled an unencrypted hard drive from the ATM, analyzed it and the commands.
Found the one that spits out cash.

They pop in one with modified code and reboot it to read the new drive.

Only similar ATM I can guess in Canada would already be suspect, in convenience stores, clubs, weed shops, strip clubs lol... The none bank name brand.

Had one bluescreened after taking money from account but before outputting money.

Was running Windows.

Didn't give any money, but kept the money from the account.

Had to call my bank.
> “People don’t care about pack swap,” Musk said. “The superchargers are fast enough. Based on what we’re seeing here, it’s unlikely to be something that’s worth expanding in the future unless something changes.”

http://fortune.com/2015/06/10/teslas-battery-swap-is-dead/
Doesn't this mean that all the market values on crypto only exchanges are kind of suspect? Because if you eventually want to get out of crypto and into dollars (to, you know, buy stuff in the real world) there is a good chance you won't be able to because no one is actually there willing to give you dollars for tethers?
Free trial, yes.
Free tier, no.

Basically the free tier subtracts the cost of a f1-micro from your monthly bill if you have at least one running.
> Craftsmanship is a lost art form these days.

In my experience, that is not equally true everywhere in the world.

It's certainly very true in the USA. In my opinion that's partly because college and trade schools are so expensive. Unsurprinsingly, the result is students with less years of experience practicing their craft.

I think this is mostly cultural. The original American craft is business. Everything else is seen through the lens of business. Everything becomes a hustle. Including things that really shouldn't, like teaching a craft, or learning one. In other cultures, the craft itself - practicing it, preserving it, transmitting it - is the priority, and business is a tool to achieve that end. Not so in the US.

I don't know Australia (where I think you're from) but perhaps it's similar there?
I doubt that the wolf spider is intelligent enough to plan on eating the bee's larvae/pupae. I'm guessing that neither recognizes the other as predator or prey. So they ignore each other.
I think similar thoughts about basically all cryptocurrencies.
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Won't those unskilled workers return if there is no work, just like we've had seasonal migration of farm workers in the past?

Farm automation will probably take care of a lot of those jobs.
Maybe this suggests that it would be good for local regulations to say there should be a grace period of say 15 days. But then again, this probably would mean that the landlord would demand an extra half month of deposit at the start, which would have been the same as the savings.

In this case the savings is mandated, but then there are no intense situations where a notice to evict is on the door the day after being late.

I don't know how to feel about the above one way or the other. Do you propose a solution?
Like micro processors, the marginal cost of manufacturing a drug is minimal. The R&D is the expensive bit.

Even gene therapy, is primarily bounded by R&D and then delivery may or may not be expensive, I don’t know.
Thanks for pointing that out (quite embarrassing). I made those edits and I appreciate you bringing them to my attention/
I haven't learned about compression of data, but from what I know, one has to make some assumptions to store n bit data into m bit space, where m < n. Here, the assumption seems to be that numbers are necessarily 5 bit, and that there are only 4 numbers.

What I fail to understand is how this helps to compress the data in this case. The code isn't really that nice, and the comments seem to assume prior knowledge is this field, which I don't have.

So can someone give a ELI-Noob?
Ah yes, the old "I have a great idea, and if you do all the work, I'll be rich!" pitch.

Hm. Yea. How about you just pay me?
The U.S. government started enforcing AML/KYC laws against crypto-to-fiat exchanges.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249058
wrong conclusion...it is because those people are not doing this outside ;) so yes if you sit all day at home and read books it won't be good but the reason is not the reading distance. I remember as a kid my parents always said "don't sit so close to the TV"...same story there
>It's also why the Koch brothers are aggressive supporters of unlimited low skill labor immigration. It's good for certain types of businesses involving traditional labor. The Kochs use it to suppress wages for their blue collar workers.

This is something that benefits both sides of party lines. I've definitely overheard conversations in cafes of people talking about how their "gardeners have families" and in the back of my head I wonder if they're paying that gardener enough to take care of those families.

Yes, the laws need reforming (I think the last time was in the sixties and everything has been piecemeal since then?) but I think both parties have ulterior motives unskilled labor, Dems just are dicks about it and recognize they are humans as well. But useful humans.
I really don’t understand why not caring about the order would save space. Could you explain in simple terms please?
You don't need arbitrary precision, just enough precision. Specifically, in this case you only need 16 bits. You can start with an upper and lower bound, and narrow it down for each number.

Here's an example with numbers dumped from a quick prototype encoder. The exact range numbers aren't that important, but note how the range gets smaller for every symbol we encode:

Say we want to encode the ordered numbers 10, 15, 31, 31.

We start with the full range [0, 65536)

There are C(32 - 10 + 2, 3) = 2024 combinations that start with 10, out of 52360 possible, so that narrows it down to around 4% of the full range, we'll use [49702, 52236)

For the next number we only allow numbers 10 and above, 15 has 153 out of 2024 possibilities, range [51022, 51214)

For the next number, 31 is only 1 of the 153 possibilities, so it gets a tiny range, [51212, 51214).

And now 31 is the next number in 1 out of 1 of cases, so the range is again [51212, 51214)

We can code the sequence as either 51212 or 51213, since we used a range that is slightly larger than needed some combinations have multiple codes. We could have started with the smaller range [0, 52360) instead to get a bijection.
Bcash LOL
The number of bags of k N-bit numbers is 2^N + k - 1 choose k:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiset#Counting_multisets

The number of bits required to uniquely represent such a bag is thus ⌈log2((2^N+k-1) choose k)⌉. For (N, k) we have:

(6, 6) -> ⌈log2(69 choose 6)⌉ = ⌈log2(119877472)⌉ = 27 bits
(6, 7) -> ⌈log2(70 choose 7)⌉ = ⌈log2(1198774720)⌉ = 31 bits

So you can store seven 6-bit integers without order in one int32. I don't know if it'll be slow, though. It should be possible to infer an encoding algorithm from the proof of the counting formula but it might be slow.
FYI, here is the original reason for he was fired for the curious:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/politi...

I know it's not related to the eviction process immediately, but I think given that we (I) are learning from this as a narrative and a data point, I think for some the context can be interesting at the very least.

To me it seems like a badly-thought-through comment on his side but not worth being fired over.
Pretty sure LAPD does this too.
Don't want to be that guy, but I have read where blockchain might make this easier in the future. I'm sure given the money hose that someone is trying to work on this.
Thanks for the precision! It avoids a bad surprise :-)

Do you know if a f1-micro can cost more than $4 per month if it is used extensively? By that, I just mean 100% cpu usage, 100% of the 5Gb disk quota, with just 1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6.

I like the scalability, but I want my clients to know that their bill will not "fluctuate".

Cost-wise, $40 for 10 IPv4 is in the upper tier (some OVH resellers give you 16 IPv4 on some decent dedicated server) but for what I need (low latency), the wide geographic coverage could still make it worthwhile.
Can someone explain this in very simple terms without math? An ELI5 example. Thank you.
I'm just not understanding how a $1.5B scam coin would impact the crypto market dramatically at this point. Coincheck got hacked for $500M today and the markets are green across the board. There are alternative peg currencies to the dollar, including Dai, by Maker, which is backed by Ethereum, and seems like a better model for a stable coin: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dai/
Is he wrong? Adding noise from a radio or TV in the room may be an effective way to obfuscate attempts to use laser reflection surveillance on a window or other diaphragm. Both the device and the person speaking will cause the laser to jitter as the window vibrates.
Sorry for misreading your tone. You make a good point and I agree with your objective assessment.
Refactor your code or code your refactor?
It’s not perfect compression; it’s lossy. Per the top comment, this method treats it as a set i.e. ignore the order. So you’re throwing out some information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249092
Most electric car owners never charge other than at home, while they are sleeping.
The "I need to take my car across the country on a whim" theory of car ownership isn't /actually/ a thing for most people, and "range anxiety" was engineered by the petroleum industry.

Put an outlet at every parking spot for topping up while you work or shop in a more remote location, and you'll solve the problem for 95% of all urban cars.

(If your commute is > 80 miles, you have a bigger problem!)
Maybe it was by design? The guys who got funding did so to get and eat away funding? And just have some fun for other people's money?
This data is better than nothing, but it should be taken with a pinch of salt.

The _sample_ is flawed because H-1B visa holders are atypical. In some situations they are hired precisely because they have lower salary expectations than US residents (paying them less than the prevailing rate violates the terms of their Labor Condition Application, but it happens). In other situations the employer puts up the with expense and delay of the visa application because they have unique skills that also make them more valuable.

The _data_ itself is flawed because the salary information is only recorded at the time the offer was made, since which it has presumably increased, and it does not include bonuses or non-cash compensation.
>Terrorism on the rise

Terrorism in the US isn't on the rise (unless we're counting white supremacists marches, which the media doesn't) but the powers that be and their cohorts are still milking the teat and our fears from 9/11 on this stuff. People who have no reason to be scared of any of this also won't stand up to it ('I'm not a criminal so it doesn't matter...'). Also funny that when/if another attack does happen, it will be those of us in blue cities (NYC, LA, SF, etc.) sacrificing our lives even if we're against this stuff and the system as it is.

Fear is a business and some people are making bank. Osama would be proud.
It doesn't help that almost all the fascia locks on each vendor's machines are a standard key. With that standard key, you have full access to the computer or embedded device drive.

Nowadays the communication link to the dispenser is encrypted, making swapping the hard drive useless. The real problem is the machines aren't replaced very often so there are quite a few old models out in the field that are susceptible to these sort of attacks.
It'd be way better if there was a way to go back.
No it's fine, I just post the links because people like to look at previous discussions.

To be precise, it's fine once more than a year has gone by since the last significant discussion. Otherwise we treat reposts as dupes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. But if a story hasn't had significant discussion yet, and it's particularly good, reposts are ok. Allowing good stories to have multiple chances at getting attention is a way to mitigate the randomness of what gets seen on the /newest page.
J1772 was fine until they added IP networking.
I do not want a physical network connection between some unaudited charging station code and my likewise unaudited car control code.
I don't even want to turn on telematics, until the car industry subcontractors start hiring security engineers instead of EEs for their software.
The Reuters article is very low on detail. https://krebsonsecurity.com is much more informative.
As the attempted serial killer "Lasermannen" shot several immigrants around Stockholm in 1992, Prime Minister Carl Bildt and Immigration Minister Birgit Friggebo attended a meeting in Rinkeby. As the audience became upset, Friggebo tried to calm them down by proposing that everyone sing "We Shall Overcome." This statement is widely regarded as one of the most embarrassing moments in Swedish politics.

Seems pretty obvious to me. Responding to a real political problem with an empty gesture of solidarity is everything people don't like about politicians.
Manning's Kubernetes in action is a good start, additionally I can recommend everything Kelsey Hightower created on that topic.

Also, I recommend that you first try using kubernetes before you dive in with setting it up. Kubernetes.io has a live tutorial where you can work with a minikube cluster in your browser, afterwards you might want to use Google Cloud's free tier for a small Kubernetes cluster or Minikube until you're comfortable with kubernetes.

For seting up your own cluster, I've heard great stuff about kubernetes the hard way – not to actually set one up, but to learn how the internals work, so you can then fix issues in the cluster you’ll set up with kubeadm/kops/GKE
Yeah, also love cops and firemen voting Republican - you know, tough on crime, small business - while also pulling down taxpayer OT pay and pensions. Is there any metric showing they Republican party is actually good at enacting crime-fighting policies or are they just good at funding crime fighters? Seems more like the latter.
Except you can't get usable fiat out?

There needs to be an endpoint distributor of physical cash, SWIFT, or wire transfers of real fiat and those end points are subject to regulation just like localbitcoins or ATM machines are subject to regulation.

Can you explain how a decenteralized exchange provides USD?

abstracted IOU "stable-tokens" like Tether are NOT USD, see the case of Liberty Reserve [1] or [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve

[2] https://hackernoon.com/the-curious-tale-of-tethers-6b0031eea...

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/are-fraudulent-tethers-being-...
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Tether isn’t a traditional “scam coin”. Tether is the currency used on many major exchanges, they don’t use USD they use USDT and if tether have printed 2bn in fraudulent dollars that underly the entire crypto market they could wipe out huge portions of the market when it implodes. The market cap isn’t the amount of money invested, a hundreds of billions market cap can come from a few billion in “real” dollars — and if those dollars don’t exist, well...
If there is such a category, then I think they'd have to actually sell it at that price, otherwise an author could just put his book up on eBay with a billion dollar starting price.
With companies you can sue them. You can find them, break them up, throw them in jail. With the government, not so much.
Well, I think everyone knows Tether and Bitfinex are the same people. That info leaked months ago (Panama Papers, I think?).

The only question remaining is where's the cash? If Kraken and Binance and Poloniex are sending USD to Tether and getting USDT back, they're nuts. I'm guessing people are moving money between exchanges using USDT (which is one of its intended purposes, after all, and a good bit of utility if the steward were trustworthy), and then Tether buys it back, keeping the other exchanges in the dark about what's going on.

Given how difficult it is to deal with fiat for crypto exchanges, I think they really want/need Tether to work. If it were legitimate, it would be a great thing...I think there's a lot of wishful thinking keeping anyone at the USDT supporting exchanges from looking too closely.

I dunno. It looks so freakin' shady, to me. I don't really understand why seemingly trustworthy exchanges are participating, and it makes me hesitant to deal with any of them (even though I'm not overly fond of Coinbase and its huge fees). Being trustworthy is kinda the most important thing in this market, though.
This crosses into a personal swipe, which is against the rules here. Please be civil when commenting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
DNS66 is neat and works like a charm.

If you want more features like per-app internet control, different profiles for wifi/lte/roaming, per app logging, etc then NetGuard is for you:

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

note: hosts based blocking is only included in the pro plugin in the github version due to Google restrictions in the play store.
And those 8 startups have spoiled the culture. Honestly your 2 bootstrapped startup/friends are lucky to survive but imagine if they had to compete against funded startups? The funded guys will outsmart them with money muscle and might eventually crash themselves ruining it for everyone..
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