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> A new virtual currency, Proof of Weak Hands Coin, whose creators referred to it as a Ponzi scheme on Twitter and use a pyramid as a website logo, raised $800,000 before hackers got into its systems last week and drained its fund

The Ponzi scheme lost its money to thieves!
>It was the quick succession of more than a few rapid edits over the course of several minutes that made me feel that you're over-reacting to the comment.

That's a bizarre conclusion but whatever.

>- Its weird everywhere else in the world to sell firearms in the same store as kids toys, milk and cheese. Weird.

It's a giant department store. They sell everything. By saying it is weird, you are projecting your own biases.

>- Gallon cups have indeed existed in promotions at various fast food outlets in the US, maybe not McDonalds I suppose.

Yeah. Not McDonald's. It's almost like I said that. I also have never seen any fast food restaurant with any promotional cup size approaching anything near a gallon.

>- It's extremely rare to have people pull away from a bowser without checking the hose has been put away when you aren't pre-paying for fuel (i.e. many places around the world). However almost every image and video of it posted to car forums etc are from the United States.

Oh you saw it in some pictures in a car forum? Well I guess that settles it then.

>- The US government is perceived as corrupt to many people in many nations, and the current office is making that perception greater. That is why people can accept that this level of corruption in Baltimore has happened.

Yet the link I posted shows the US, like I said, to be perceived as less corrupt than, e.g., France. And Spain. And Japan. And Portugal. And on and on.

>But these were just lighthearted examples, and I digress.

You aren't being "lighthearted" any more than the people you are parroting who originally made these comments were. You are spreading lies and being hateful. You think you are better than "those people" in America so you spew your hatred on the internet. Except most of what you say is false or based on some other crap you, wait for it, read on the internet.

To the downvoters: I'm just devastated you took some of my internet points away. But thanks for reminding me I'm on r/hackernews. Nice "rebuttal"
> Does anyone know whether the software is user friendly? E.g. cloud integration, doesn't require to install shitty software, can email documents, etc...

You need to install a Qt desktop app for the cloud integration or its equivalent mobile version.

There are however some projects out there already that are working on alternatives for the cloud integration such as this one [0].

[0] https://github.com/juruen/rmapi
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why not cap'n'proto?
I'm guessing its this:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-wiki-backup/blob/master/Si... ->

> (eg &'a T)

If you look at the popular web development languages, they don't really have sigils. Javascript/Flow/Typescript/Coffeescript (front end). Java, C#, Python, PHP (ok, I'll grant you $). Ruby is a bit of an oddball and I guess it's part of the reason Python is overtaking it.

Basically, unless you've been working in C/C++, you've never really used funky symbols to denote "modifiers".

Say what you will, but

> public static void main

is easier to Google and even to parse for most people.

Keep in mind that the vaaaaaast majority of devs today have never worked professionally in C/C++. I'd imagine some of them have never even touched it, even as a hobby.
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Feels like Emacs would be perfect for e-ink since by default it doesn't really do any scrolling or "dynamic"/moving-across-screen stuff
Are fractal tree indexes in the public domain, or are they patented?
Fair enough; since GREP_OPTIONS seems only useful for interactive sessions, perhaps non-interactive shells should purge it from the environment (e.g. with BASH_ENV).

It would be great if grep could figure out whether its parent process is an interactive shell or a script, but there doesn't seem to be a reliable way to do that.
> Isn't this how virtually all insurance companies work?

The returns seem high. That implies extra risk.
I heard exactly the same thing about Groupon back in the day. It seems like a standard trick for any company that can hold on to customers' money.
We are very interested at my work in the possibilities for pair programming using this kind of technology. We haven't been accepted into the preview programme yet, but we're looking forward to getting to try it.
I wonder what the official Mozilla Firefox upstream does.
You must be offended since you took the time to butt into somebody else's conversation without adding a single thing to it but a pseudo-insult.
> There's no point in disabling color,

As someone else said, "I like strawberries, therefore everyone likes strawberries". A quick summary of potential reasons:

- it's distracting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323038)

- colorblindness (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322796)

- bad default color schemes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322812)

- escape codes may break text processing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322600)
I have this device, and for hackers, this review misses some stuff:

* the company behind it is based in norway, so you can be pretty sure the techies got treated well

* they abide by the GPL very well

* by connecting via USB and flicking a switch in the options menu, you get SSH access, as well as a REST endpoint where you can upload your files via curl. So if you don't like their cloud offering, you can turn of wifi and be sure your data is local

* I really hope they start a good opensource community program. There are already efforts underway for hacking on this, and in theory making custom applications for this could be very fun

* last I saw, some of the developers are active on reddit and HN, so I hope they comment on the last point
I fell this is the most important moment in space exploration since the Apollo landing, but I don't see a big coverage in mainstream media. Elon is probably on the trajectory to be remembered as the biggest entrepreneur ever.
From 4 years ago... a lot has changed since. Consider this recent post for example: https://tk3369.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/an-updated-analysis-...
You and all (7.442 billion - 1) of the rest of us buddy.
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It's all in what you buy, though. I have clothes from Walmart I've been wearing daily for nearly a decade - they're Carhart and Dickies jeans and sweatshirts however. That's better runs than I've gotten out of higher-end pants that cost 5x more. But I'll admit, I've no idea how women's clothing compares; men's clothing is blessedly simple and robust and fashions change at glacial paces.
the landing page is horrible though. Literally no informations apart from "these guys use it"
repost.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16313925
Out of curiosity, what brand of reader do you use?
I think this is very good news. Fast fashion leads to resource and people exploitation. This is great that people use their old clothes and refrain from buying new ones for no other reason than the old ones have become unwearable.
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The lack of REPL compounds with long compilation times, which is practically a feature of C++ and not going to go away anytime soon. The effect is that, when you explore a new API or need to tune parameters to some function call deep in the call stack, you're an order of magnitude slower than with Python (or Lisp, Scala, F#, Haskell, or even Nim or plain C (b/c compilation times)).

If you know exactly what you need to write, you're just as quick in C++ as in Python, that's true. Programming is mostly about learning what to write, though, and here C++ loses.
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The hackers are often the developers themselves.
For another way to look at it, consider how quickly commercial airline travel became available after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

Compare that with how long it's been since Yuri Gagarin's first flight, and we're just now getting to where we can imagine passenger flights to space in the next few years.

Of course aviation may be easier than spaceflight, but I think a large part of the difference is that aviation was developed by companies trying to make a buck, while spaceflight until recently was dominated by governments who were in it for political purposes.

Myself, I'll take the faster progress you get from the profit motive.

I truly believe that if spaceflight had developed under private enterprise like aviation did, you and I would have been able to buy tickets years ago.
Or use languages where you don't have to these extreme workarounds for what should happen by default.
This summer I'm planning to code outside. Is the 13' Dasung for $1400 really the best/biggest/'cheapest' the market can offer??
https://www.amazon.com/Dasung-Ink-Paperlike-13-3-Monitor/dp/...

@notemaker Boox Max2 Pro looks better, thanks. Pretty small display, but it's a start.
Yep - Titanium is notoriously difficult to work with.
Invite only blogs perhaps. That's basically facebook though. [0]

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1367/
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> what happens to Airbnb when we hit a recession

Or the DOW dropping 1000 points..?
If you are developing your code as a small tiny functions getting stitched later. Then writing unit test cases will solve this problem too.
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In the city I live in I can hail a standard taxi with the app of the local taxi company, of course I can share a ride, and I can pay with bank card/credit card.

I never had to report bad behaviors, but I could just look at the taxi number, displayed clearly near the dashboard, and report it to the taxi company.

I am it that Uber can have minor advantages, but I boycott it due to the huge disadvantages in terms of worker rights.

Also they have been working at a loss to kill competitors: refusing to use Uber means defending your right to choose a service in the future.
If I'm going to use a GUI toolkit, the last thing I want to hear is "it hasn't been updated/hasn't had a revamp in 15 years". I know it's just the site, but it doesn't inspire confidence.
slededit is not wrong: the original code did have a block size limit which limits tx per second. It required an update ("hard fork") to actually change this "feature". However, there was disagreement when the time for the fork came, which is why you now have Bitcoin Cash, which does support far more tx per sec and cheaper tx fees.
Due to Spectre and generally feeling negative about my interaction with the Internet, I was thinking about taking every account I have online in order and trying to figure out how to do without it.

However, the fact is, I feel safer not relying on monthly statements for things these days, because I want to identify any shenanigans in a timely fashion.

Even people I know in their 70s transitioned to the computer/smartphone age long ago.
What I miss most about CRTs are accurate light gun video games. I tried Overkill on PS3 and while it was fun, the crosshair positioning was terrible. Rail shooters seem to have vanished into history (much like Ruby on Rails) (I kid! I kid!)
Probably helps with feeling safe in traffic too, since you can keep up with the pace better when necessary and maintain that speed with less effort, leaving more energy and focus for looking out for other road users trying to kill you.
I'm wondering as well. How does Sony DPT-RP1 compare?
If it doesn't have anything to do with browser as client then why would they choose a hobbled protocol like http or websockets? MQTT, AMQP are already standards for this and much better suited for nearly any task. They are more powerful, more efficient and simpler to use than http or websockets. And if you can't get past the firewall or proxy both of them will run over websockets anyway.
Senior in HS/USA. No one at my HS uses Facebook. Some use instagram, but everyone is on Snapchat.
I think that higher end clothing tends to be higher quality, but higher quality is not the same thing as lasting longer.

You can spend tons of money on a S200s suit, but it won't last as long as a cheap poly-wool blend. At a minimum I would suggest that you get two pairs of pants.
Thrift stores sort and sell. The best stuff goes on to their stores the rest is graded and sold. You see the same thing here in NL charity shops.
One thing the article missed but for me personally is an important point: the rise of minimalism

I'm not the type of minimalism you write about, but clothes last for ages now & I just don't want lots of stuff. Especially here in Japan we do laundry every day, so I just don't need very many items. Just some comfortable layers, enough to have a little variety, I'm all set.

(I'm leaving in the morning for 2 weeks in Florida. My wife was laughing at how tiny my suitcase is - really just a carry on.

I informed her it was only half full.)
'we'? wow, yet somehow you're free to broadcast your beliefs for all world to see.
it's funny you talk about a revolutiuon, since all revolutions ever did was take things that don't belong to revolutionaries and distribute them among them. are you sure you're oppressed and not just envious? maybe the more moral thing is to invest in self-improvement and find a better job?
Wow, just wow! And huge congrats to SpaceX!
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Exactly. For web dev stuff, the database is usually the bottleneck. Caching is the next lace to put your efforts. I think I have had one problem where Python was too slow.
I desperately want a solution for working outside. E-ink would be absolutely awesome. Unfortunately I don't see anything on the horizon. Even the devices that will work as monitors described in the sibling posts would be problematic because they are simply too big. I need something I can put in my bag and go. I guess I'll have to wait until the rest of society catches up with my nomad-work existence :-)
So as per article, Tosi's internal hedge fund contributed to $60m ($5m per month) of Airbnb's $93m annual profit?
In 2016, Ford spent 2.34 billion U.S. dollars on advertising in U.S. media. Total Tesla ad budget: 0. Total investment in SpaceX: 1.6 billion U.S. dollars.
I hope this is good, or that they are working on making it better. I love e-ink, far prefer it to reading on my phone, but the last 2 devices I've had have had terrible software, eventually been discontinued, and in any case, the screens have broken. I get the impression e-ink is much more fragile than an LCD, but maybe it's just a question of the build. I've dropped my Huawei many times without breaking it, and although I've seen many iPhones with broken glass, the display and touch input generally remains usable.. on my e-ink devices, in one case a bit of water completely destroyed it, in the other case, I don't know what happened but I took it out of my backpack and it was busted, so it must have been a small shock, as I didn't drop the bag or anything. I'd buy another e-ink device in a heartbeat, but it had better be solid because they aren't cheap.
This should be done in more places like hospitals and even the police
About five years ago my mom offered to do my laundry. I lived in a little studio apartment and I had to walk about 10 blocks to the laundromat. She did my laundry all the time since she has a washer and dryer in her house.

So I had six bags of laundry I carried down to her car. I put them on the passengers side but the doors are locked. So I go around to her in the drivers seat and we chat of a bit. And then she comes around to the passengers side to get some groceries for me out.

I run the groceries up to my apartment and look out my window and she is gone. I assume she grabbed my clothes. She did not. She drove off with nearly every article of clothing I owned on the side of her car.

It was pretty much the most devastating thing I have ever experienced. She called me about six hours later and asked where my laundry was. I pretty much only had what I was wearing. Tons of band t-shirts that were 20 years old and can not be replaced.

I am poor...

But for 300 bucks I got going again. 7 pairs of Dickies in different colors. 14 white t-shirts and four different colors of hoodies. And some socks and underwear.

Got the stuff on Amazon so shipping took a while. I was washing my only pair of boxers in my salad spinner. Which actually worked well. The salad spinner is still in use. Some bleach cleaned it right up.
Its a solid route to take if the market goes south the states have to intervene as they did in 2008.
Privatize profits socialize loses.
Org mode. I put a Readme.org in every project I start, and it can help with most project management tasks. You can also hook these files up to your Org agenda, so that issues (i.e. TODO items) show up there.

Edit: I should also mention the Dired mode in Emacs, which is a directory browser. I use "% g" quite frequently, and it has useful extensions like wdired and dired-hacks.
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Probably... I picked up a 13" e-ink reader from the Good Ereader folks[1] a couple years back. I'm not sure they're available anymore, but I'm a huge fan of mine. The only downside is it's a little aggravating to find and sideload an old version of the Kindle app that works on it. But for PDFs, it's awesome, and the note-taking with the stylus is really smooth too.

[1] https://goodereader.com/blog/product/good-e-reader-13-3-e-re...
I will never understand this sort of idea?

Did you think the future as a space fairing civilization would be all run by one government agency?

Do you think NASA would fly tourist to moon and the mars?

That seems absurd to me. We don't have government building cars, or airplanes, or trains or anything like that. Why should rockets be built by government?

If government wants to do something in space, they have a wealth of private options.
@ the OP - not to sound hostile, but you write code (like in the example here [1]) that is bound to be slow, just from a glance at it. vstacking, munging with pandas indices (and pandas in general), etc; in order for it to be fast, you want pure numpy, with as little allocations happening as possible. I help my coworkers “make things faster” with snippets like this all the time.

If you provide me with a self-contained code example (with data required to run it) that is “too slow”, I’d be willing to try and optimise it to support my point above.

Also, have you tried Numba? It maybe a matter of just applying a “@jit” decorator and restructuring your code a bit in which case it may get magically boosted a few hundred times in speed.

[1] https://git.embl.de/costea/metaSNV/blob/master/metaSNV_post....
> or even a non-fiction book than a news article.

This isn't a news article. Perhaps it would help if you thought of it as a freely available, very short non-ficton book.
Actually, IIRC 343 does explore C++11 concurrency constructs (see section 11.4.5 of [1]) at some point, as well as concurrency models in other runtimes.

As others have mentioned, uC++ is necessary because other runtimes lack the complete set of concurrency constructs that the course explores. It's essentially the path of least resistance to introducing CS students to all the different flavors of concurrency.

[1] https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs343/documents/notes.p...
Don't forget marketing.

"We need to switch from Python 2 to Python 3!" – "Yeah! We do! Faster running programs!!" – "Well, actually …"
So, I'm very pro-bike, and definately agree that cycling is much, much better, on many, many dimensions than driving an electric car.

However, I feel this is a misleading and therefore counter-productive polemic that seeks to maximise the problems with other options, rather than rank them accurately. I can imagine the reaction of many is to throw their hands up and think "well, why even bother". The perfect is the enemy of the good and all that.

As a result, they seem to have thoughtlessly repeated a bunch of propaganda put about by people who oppose even the marginal gains of switching to EVs and renewable energy. It reminds me (to get needlessly political) of people who didn't vote for Clinton because "both sides are the same". Possibly they thought saying that was an effective way to use their political sway to push things in the direction they wanted, but it appears they overestimated their leverage, and so shot themselves in the foot.
Much appreciated!

One clarification, since my own language was sloppy. C# did not get open sourced in 2014. That was the date that Microsoft open sourced just about everything (and that's a weasel word there - to my knowledge, it is everything) that wasn't already open source. Things like ADO/ASP/Windows Forms/etc were open sourced back in 2008, along with Microsoft's implementation of their framework libraries, which Mono rapidly integrated into their implementation.

And so on that note, much of that information on the Wiki page is outdated by at least a decade. Mono, especially since their 2.0 release (back in 2008), has been a fully fleshed out, cross platform, production ready alternative to Microsoft's implementation. So I certainly wouldn't call C# a second class citizen on Linux by any means. The one and only reason Linux is not my primary development platform is the lack of Visual Studio.

Ultimately C# started out pretty awful. The language was a mediocre java clone, performance was abysmal, and the language itself was lacking in features. But that changed relatively rapidly, and certainly today it bears little resemblance to where it started. And I think that is perhaps the problem, people seem to think C# of today is the C# of 2004, but I don't understand why that degree of misinformation is so strongly exemplified in this particular language. I think it's particularly a shame because of what a successful tool the language has evolved into.
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To be honest, Dylan is not exactly alive anymore. CL and Smalltalk still have commercial vendors providing implementations, Dylan has currently two implementations, but one of those (Gwydion) is completely neglected and the other (OpenDylan) has maybe 5 developers working on it in their spare time.

It's a shame because even with its verbose syntax Dylan is a nice language, with a module system, with object system based on multimethods, with hygienic macros and, as you noted, an AOT compiler. It could be huge. We could have ended with Dylan in the place of Java and we'd be better off with that. I consider Dylan one of the biggest missed opportunities in PL space.