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> if you get "consent" from your counterparty you can get it instantly. 3-days is about as fast as ACH

You said, like a checking account, one “can also take money out of LN at any time.” I clarified that when people say “take money out at any time,” they mean unilateral liquidity. You can unilaterally demand cash or an instantaneous Fedwire transfer, the latter which costs 3 to 69 cents [1] (though some banks heftily upcharge this service), against your checking account balance. It takes a good deal longer to settle a LN balance (theoretically).

TL; DR The Lightning Network has some neat features, but pitching its liquidity as analogous to a checking account’s is disingenuous.

> you can't lose money if LN is working correctly

This applies to anything. In finance, things never work correctly because someone, somewhere, can be trusted to be an arsehole.

> It's literally not possible to fractionally lend on LN

The number of Americans who have lost a single U.S. dollar to this threat since the FDIC was formed is basically zero. The number of Americans who have nuked substantial fractions of their net worths speculating on Bitcoin is significantly greater.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fedfunds_corep...
Thanks for this clip, it's amazing how it keeps the head still. BTW, the kingfisher has similar ability, check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIs4tpV2FUQ
You've got to hand it to this CEO of WeWork. He's a better businessperson than the investors...
Companies want generalists so they can easily replace employees. Employees with specialized skills can command higher wages and can be difficult to source and replace. You need to understand the business, be an admin, handle shipping, book your own travel (at the lowest price), manage your work hours, train yourself, and do your day job. Would be great skills as an independent consultant, but this is happening as a full time employee at a fortune 500 company.
None of these should actually be a problem in practice.

> * You have to build a state machine inside the kernel to handle cases like applications reading a file one byte at a time.

You need to have this anyway, because regular files exist. Also, the logic is very simple.

> * Programs now have to deal with malicious applications capable of managing mountpoints giving fake results via the filesystem. I could link to /dev/random to /dev/zero, how many programs are going to check for that?

Only root could do that. If an attacker has root, there are many more realistic attacks.

> * You can't let the program go into a chroot jail if it needs to read the kernel's magic filesystem.

You can add the magic filesystem to a choot jail.

> * You have to mingle filesystem access bits with kernel security checks for process capabilities and the like.

I'm really not sure what this means.
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One advantage would be if they can make fuel compatible with presently existing vehicles. Even twenty years from now, gas-powered cars are going to be common, just because gas-powered cars can last for twenty years and upgrading to electric faster than natural replacement is a financial and industrial burden. If you can make a car carbon-neutral while saving the [economic, industrial, environmental] cost of replacing it with an electric, that's a win.

Even in the long run, though- gas currently has something like a 100-fold energy density advantage over most batteries. It will likely continue to have uses long into the future.
I am also dubious. However, I could imagine this being useful as a way to balance out fluctuations in power supply from wind, solar, etc.
This happens over and over again in Sweden: skilled worker immigrants get deported over small technicalities, that is often not even their own fault. There have been many examples of this affecting highly skilled engineers in some of Swedens famous (and not famous) tech startups.

What I find disturbing is that immigrant criminals, who haven't contributed to society at all, often do not get sentenced to deportation. So we have the situation that people who are a benefit to the Swedish society get deported, but the criminals get to stay.
> Well-paid middle managers with no design skills take far too long to produce ugly slides that nobody wants to look at.

So true. Nowadays, whenever I can, I slap something together using impress.js and call it day. I‘m faster and the result is much nicer.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16291272
That still doesn't excuse putting mirrors on bathroom ceilings.
Will truckers be automated?
Why would he get a collective employment agreement in the first place?

Assuming there is an angle the thelocal.se is trying to hide.
I was in a similar position as this entrepreneur. I had the company I created sponsored my own employment visa in Hong Kong. I often took less salary than my employment contract that was provided with the visa application specified because that's what happens sometimes with bootstrapped businesses.

Luckily for me, the Hong Kong government isn't the Swedish government, and didn't give me a hard time when renewing my visa.

It will be Sweden's loss if they deport this entrepreneur.
I went to meetups in big tech cities and less tech-oriented cities, the ones that I liked the most were the ones that had a permanent space in bigger cities. The one I liked the most was in LA, called nullspace labs. You could learn things like soldering, assembly language, gamedev, webpenetration(Radare32), and lots of other interesting topics that you wouldn't necessarily find good resources on youtube.

I think meetups with a clear goal in mind (e.g. Tennis-Only meetup, Javascript-Only meetup, Python-Only meetup) and have much more engaging / interesting conversation topics long term. Short term its nice to get to know 1 or 2 people at a large meetup ("Entreprenuers", "Young and Active"),or when visiting a new city for the first time.

That and meetup.com is just a load of notification spam if you just randomly join meetup groups. Some meetups IMO are very spammy in nature, especially those related to B2B, "entreprenuership" or "business" or "strategy" since its mostly consultants peddling their skillsets or startups. You'll find way more engaging topics on reddit for these.

So I'm pretty excited to see Meetup and WeWork merge together, hopefully this new change would be good. Possibly higher quality meetups overall
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There's a few more not in this article or HN comments in the two, Cracked articles below:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20482_5-hilarious-ways-game-d...

http://www.cracked.com/article_22222_6-hilarious-ways-game-d...

This might be worth a page that comprehensively lists and summarizes various games' approaches. Developers of new games that glance at such a page might find old ones that would work for them or get ideas for better ones. Has anyone started on such a page?
I think maybe you are missing a whole bunch of other risks in your life that are more likely to take your life.

How much do you worry about dying from a fall, or poison, or alcohol, or drugs? Or a firearm? All of those are either similar to or more likely than dying in a car accident.

If you want to rationally optimize for something that will improve your survival odds, heart health is by a vast, vast margin a better place to spend your efforts.

If you drive an average number of miles per year, you will probably be involved in some kind of accident once every decade. The odds you will die in that accident are pretty low, as it only happens about once every 100,000,000 miles driven.
"But for it to work, it will have to reduce costs to little more than it costs to extract oil today, and – even trickier – persuade countries to set a global carbon price.”

...or instead of reducing costs, just wait until oil increases past it.
No, but it's not for a lack of trying. I like tangible things. All magazines I've seen just recycle existing information, or are just full of text.

Maybe I have too high expectations, but I want a magazine that's both brainpower & beauty.
> I was talking about Lightning Network nodes, not Bitcoin

The latter being useless as a currency, per the article, without the former.
That's a misquote, unless the article has been edited since your comment. The correct quote is:

"For many of us – most of us who have devoted ourselves to the pursuit of any kind of excellence – our dreams already exceed our limitations; our ambitions lie far beyond our capabilities. So necessarily, most of us are doomed to fail."

The author is not talking about all people. She is talking about people who have devoted their lives to perusing their dreams.
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That is not true, even in the US.

For one, people may be allowed to walk even on freeways if their car has broken down and they are walking to the nearest exit. I've walked on the highway because I ran out of gas and it was only a mile to the nearest gas station. I've also picked up someone rolling a flat tire to the next exit.

Here's the relevant Louisiana law, from http://legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=88191 :

> Pedestrians on highways or interstate highways:

> A. Where sidewalks are provided, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent highway.

> B. Where sidewalks are not provided, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall, when practicable, walk only on the left side of the highway or its shoulder, facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction.

> C. It shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to cross an interstate highway, except in the case of an emergency

Here's part of the law for Idaho, from https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title49/T... :

> (3) Where neither a sidewalk nor a shoulder is available, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall walk as near as practicable to an outside edge of the roadway, and, if on a two-way highway, shall walk only on the left side of the highway.

Thus, it can be legal to walk on a highway. Do people do it? Yes.

In New Mexico, people do the pilgrimage to Santuario de Chimayo. Here's a picture of people doing that while walking on the shoulder of Highway 503: https://www.abqjournal.com/562845/route-for-chimayo-holy-wee...

Here are some monks doing a pilgrimage along local and state highways from New Orleans to Memphis. https://www.catholicherald.com/Faith/Dominican_friars_to_mak...

Here's a man walking around the Salton Sea, from http://dineshdesai.info/saltonwalk/index.html :

> "Is it permissible to walk along the new section of the highway south of 66th Avenue? ... a CHP officer picks up the phone and tells me that it is O.K. to walk along the old 86 as well as the new 86S."
I use Mozilla Pocket to do essentially just that. I add articles to Pocket with Firefox Desktop and then read them on my Kobo e-reader. I find it much more pleasant to read long articles a page at a time instead of scrolling.
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hm, didn't know it wasn't operational yet. I just remember seeing a diagram of it relative to the venice map
> Why would anyone (specifically developers) buy another apple product if they now start blocking hardware from working on PCs?

Quite frankly, it doesn't affect me. The only hardware I plug into my MBP are 1.) the charger and 2.) sometimes a monitor. They're (usually) pretty good laptops.
I live and work in the US and have never seen or heard of toilet stalls where the walls and doors are that short. That's bizarre. Where did you see that?
Sweden is a shithole which optimizes for shitty ideals while sacrificing what is truly important.
I’m looking forward to some tflite on Raspberry Pi tutorials.
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I would invest in improving Topsy.com /s
I can understand that viewpoint - for Western (as well as Russian) culture, WW II is the last "big good war", with a clear set-up of good vs. evil.

Later wars are much more filled with controversy: Korea, war in French Indochina, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, not to mention the many smaller conflicts where USA (and others) were involved.

Of course, in reality, WW II also had many many controversies, but particularly for American and British audiences, it is simple to associate "our boys" fighting for the good and the other side being at least almost totally evil.

Such a constellation is suitable for exploitation of the conflict and huge human suffering for entertainment.

(Same applies, from Chinese viewpoint, to Sino-Japanese war, which I in fact see as the actual start of WW II, instead of the more traditional attack against Poland.)
> So it does require the private key to your hot-wallet to be on an always on, networked machine, right?

No. You can have the private key in an offline hardware wallet like Ledger, with the lightning app on your machine waiting for the device to sign it.

> And the hotwallet and lightning channel can only transmit, across all channels, as much as is in this hot-wallet, and each channel has a potentially higher and rising transaction cost to open as lightning network will generate more transactions to the blockchain, not less. So you can keep your cake safe, or eat it, but not both.

Let's break this down:

>lightning channel can only transmit, across all channels, as much as is in this hot-wallet

No. Each channel has its own limits, and there's no limits to the number of channels you can open.

> each channel has a potentially higher and rising transaction cost to open as lightning network will generate more transactions to the blockchain, not less
If you want to open a lot of channels, yes, each one will incur a blockchain transaction. Keep in mind though that you don't need a channel per payment/per payment provider. Payments are _routed_ to your recipient via the network, in up to 20 hops, so you don't need to have a channel open to your recipient directly.

Also, in theory this should lead to _lower_ transaction fees on the network, not higher. Lightning transactions need to be segwit by design, so there's a 75% discount to each transaction. Since each channel can have an unlimited number of transactions on it, this should lead to a massive number of transactions moving out of the main blockchain into LN channels. Additionally, the channels can be opened whenever you want, so you don't have to wait till you're paying for your coffee to open the channel. If you don't mind waiting for a few blocks, you can open the channel for cents.

We don't know how this plays out in practice, of course, so we'll have to wait and see.

Edit: formatting
Thank you for the kind words.

We haven't really thought much about running this kind of thing as a proxy service, or what it would be like to implement it. Our tools are really intended for web articles, so they will fail on lots of other kinds of content you'll encounter in day-to-day browsing. If the intention is to avoid trackers, the proxy will have to handle everything, and not everything will be web articles. Browser extensions might be best here.
> This was the first application of monads I encountered that actually made my life simpler, and I started to realise that there was more to monads than smugness and being inaccessible to newcomers.

I had the same experience, Parsec is one of the best examples of the power of Haskell and what really sold me on the language.

It's also a great way to communicate the utility and effectiveness for using monads to solve programming problems (in this case as an alternative to messy Regex).

I'm really looking forward to Purescript [1], which has its own Parsec library in development [2] so I can use it with my frontend development... which is typically where I used Regex the most (in the DOM).

[1] http://www.purescript.org/

[2] https://github.com/purescript-contrib/purescript-parsing
The collective agreement is binding to every employer and employee in the field - you can think of it as a per-field minimum wage law.
Keep in mind that it was the early 1940s—-there weren’t many options other than rolling your own. The code talkers were literally 100x faster than the available machines and much more “portable” and robust.

It also wasn’t just haphazardly deployed like a DIY crypto system inside some app might be. There were tests and working groups and stuff like that.
It should be noted that Uber isn't cheaper to operate than a cab, they are just operating at a loss to destroy the taxi industry. As soon as it's done with that, prices should rise.
I gave up on trying to warn. I have a kid from Ohio who has been doing this since his sophomore year of highschool and is now out of college for at least two years. The most interesting stretch was the first weeks in the dorms ... ohh boy he had some interesting “entertainment” preferences. Of course I also got late notices on his book rentals, login links for medical records after doc visits, etc. I was tempted for awhile to put together a scrapbook of some of the more interesting messages to mail to his parents. Occasionally I will notify a more sensitive sender, e.g. doctor, but have given up on getting him to be more careful or ever change any of the existing accounts.

I also get an array of notices to what I imagine is a late middle age woman in the Midwest. She apparently enters my address believing it is her husbands for important accounts. I get service notices on their cars, billing notices and other account info for her Talbots card, etc. Have tried to contact this couple as well with no luck. I’ve even responded to a couple of non-list senders and asked them to pass on the message for me.

Over the years, I’ve grown less annoyed and more curious about the people causing themselves a privacy nightmare by sending their data to someone with fewer scruples than myself.
Try using beamer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)) as an alternative to PowerPoint.
onnx seems to be an initiative to try to allow Microsoft's and Facebook's AI platforms to compete with Tensorflow.

Considering Tensorflow is more a grab at developer mindshare than an ideal platform [for example, its performance lags by a factor of two behind MXNet and Torch], I think it's a smart plan.
Presumably because he is considered an employee. Happens in Austria for founders who own less than 50% of their company for instance.
At the end they mention the yoctoparsec library which abstracts away the String to a free stream type.

type Parser b t a = FreeT ((->) t) b a

I'd like to see someone make a rhyme out of that.
Thanks for the confirmation! The microSD card's speed is my main complaint, relative to everything else. But I'm just complaining I guess -- because otherwise I think the board looks very good, without any expansions. :)

It seems every board always has a catch somewhere, but if an FMC expansion can work around this, that'd be excellent. I'm looking very forward to putting this machine through its paces once I get my hands on it!
Wow, are you me?

I actually have the Ultima VII games on my desktop as we speak.
Any body of water in a city collects dirt over time. When the water is gone cleaning becomes possible.
It only takes a shortage of one core resource (e.g. water) for a whole economy to crumble.
You're asking someone to politely follow the rules when they're already engaging in full gamesmanship with you.
According to the Migration Agency:

"It is possible to apply to come to Sweden as an entrepreneur and get a residence permit as an entrepreneur, and in those cases different rules apply."

More countries have different rules for different kinds of visa. Although this case seems special, immigration might not have the means to dig into the details of all their cases. Then being strict on the rules might be the fairest thing overall.
Do you happen to know where I can find the code or white paper for the current, working, routing algorithm?
FWIW Tim Harford's "More of Less" programme is one of my favourite radio programmes - it's based on statistics relevant to popular media and news stories.
Here's one, alas there's no higher res tiles than z15.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M3x_IO0jpKd6qMfHO7cfjv0H2nv...
not supported (or is this the patch you mention)? https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/12/announcing-core-ml...
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"Always prioritize the substance of what you're doing. Don't get caught up in the status, the prestige games. They're endlessly dazzling, and they're always endlessly disappointing” -Peter Thiel
> Lightning has huge capital costs. You need to lock up large amounts of bitcoin in these channels for significant amounts of time.

Isn't that kind of the point?

You conduct your day to day transactions outside the bitcoin network and (presumably) only need to hit the blockchain on rare occasions. Or so I assume not having read the whitepaper.

Having studied the history of money and banking in a previous lifetime I'd say it's more akin to gold backed deposit certificates with guarantees against double-spending and fractional reserves.
Salting and iterating would make it more reasonable, but the article (a "best practices" document) didn't say to do that, or why.
FWIW, the current case seems to be "hardware works just as the spec says, OS blocks in anyway."

Mind you, I've seen many types of HW, some of which indeed wouldn't work "with a PC." The expected course of action was always "complain at peripheral vendor," this "we know what you want, but nope because FU that's why" has historically been reserved for vendors trying to keep out competition.

So, while it is theoretically possible that an OS-enforced soft block is there to protect the user, a statistically more probable version is that it exists to protect the OS maker from competition; IMNSHO the ball is in Apple's court to prove otherwise.
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I only subscribe to print magazines when it's literature (The Paris Review). News/science/technology is easier to filter and read through online, in my opinion.
I have my doubts. There's probably no standby army of cleaners, builders and engineers waiting to jump at this glorious opportunity.

I would even guess that the work already in progress has come to a complete standstill. Surely, they are not equipped for wading through deep mud, and they have lost their main means of transport.
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The economomist continues to be high quality. It is an expensive way to get your news but I think it’s worth it.
I agree there is enough to do with getting the LN up and running. However the future of layer two protocols is extremely bright and the current limitations of the system are clearly surmountable. Add op code support for channel factories and you can change key sets on an arbitrary number of factories with one 200 byte on-chain transaction.

Given all the money flying around ICOs, it is pretty amazing that there isn't more money flowing into layer two. Hopefully that will change in 2018-2019.
Happy to chat about all of them - these were the only ones I saw when I check here last night if you look at the times!
That doesn’t make sense. Attackers will just pretend to be one of the permitted devices.

There are also hardware mitigations to make DMA safe(r) now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input–output_memory_manageme...
The obvious problem is that too make enough gas to power a gasoline car, you'll need to spend more energy than it takes to charge a Tesla (likely many times more, I'm not sure what the energy efficiency of the conversion process is).

I do have a fantasy that if we had an abundance of fusion energy (or just nuclear, perhaps), you could not only power cars, but also make oil from co2 and put it back where it came from.