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What's that obvious reason?
When blasting light in every direction, does it really matter how small the source is? As long as those photons hit your eye, you can see the object.
The Bay area (outside of the bay area) isn't even known for good working conditions. At least if I ask my friends they have a bad picture of it. It's much easier going in other parts of the country. Seattle is just a bit worse.
For a close enough real life example, and very often just one file (PKGBUILD), ArchLinux uses one (orphaned) branch per package:

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/refs

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/refs

Orphaned branches allows you to have multiple independent trees in the same git repo, si it's basically a way to stuff many "repos" (as in history) in a single one (as in object storage).
Agreed.. I'm paying for Amazon Prime, Netflix and Hulu... I'm not paying for another service at this point. Not to mention UK content I can't get at any price. I also pay for a seedbox in another country to avoid local issues.
You can successfully use this approach only if you do not have external dependencies. If you use some library you have basically the same problem as multirepos. I worked in companies with monorepo and it work really well. Except all external dependencies were copied into monorepo, outdated and with unpatched security problems because no one ever updated them unless there was some functionality missing. Also there were some internal libraries for logging etc. which were worse than publicly available alternatives but it was easier to maintain them then use something standard.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. If you're not going to make money mining Bitcoin, then why do it?
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I presume the identifier is only usable to receive payments not to pull payments? Why does it need to be a phone number or email. Doesn’t it just need to be a unique string?
> People just don’t care and won’t listen.

Not consciously. But when you get into a store and want to buy a shampoo or toothpaste, you are more likely to buy a brand you have heard of than something completely unknown.
Sorry, I should've read the other comment completely before writing :)
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Is there any feedback mechanism to prevent the patent office from issuing more bogus patents?
In this case, I actually used it purposefully. Hitting on quantum mechanical limits are in part holding us from infinitely increasing the information density on HDDs and SSDs.
Not a democrat, way to right wing for me.

Anyway, fake or not is a difficult discussion, i agree. Personally i think religion is also fake news, no evidence available as far as i'm concerned.

Reason i mentioned fox is that i recently read: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-need-to-watch-this

It seems a bit shortsighted to just single out social media for fake news, when regular media is as much to blame.
Here in Australia, bank transfers are free between banks, but can take a couple of days to clear sometimes (same bank is instant). Heard horror stories elsewhere, but pretty good customer experience here in AU IMHO.
I hope they don’t only focus on some minor app bugs, but also address the big giant elephant in the room : speed has been going down in a dramatric fashion release after release since ios 7.

There’s one word i wish i’d seen and haven’t so far : refactoring.
> The target audience is being fed information that looks better suited for scientists, doctors, and lawyers as opposed to who we and our customers imagine / intend.

That's because they intend for you to go to a pill mill, and demand an 'as seen on TV' prescription.

The entire system needs to be torn out, root and stem.
Just like the Norwegian VIPPS. It literally means "in an instant", somewhat cheerfully.
Basically, Steve Jobs didn't want developers spoiling his phone with native apps as they did on Mac OS X. However, it quickly turned out that the native apps could do a whole lot more than the glorified web apps he was proposing, and this quickly led developers to figure out ways to run native code on-device. Apple, seeing the tide turning against it, created the iPhone OS SDK in an attempt to put a modicum of control on the process.
Until they published a peer-reviewed paper, please don't tell me about the "scientific mechanisms". I have yet to see what they really found.
Already bought some!
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I was thinking the same and was wonder why nobody mentioned UPI
I've disabled JS and only enable it in incognito when needed/when mandatory for a particular site. Tedious I know, but a habit I picked up when everyone started autoplaying videos.
Well, you're right, but keep in mind that breaking textbook RSA is not exactly "the frontiers of human knowledge", theory-wise. Most textbooks, in fact, will warn you that their description of RSA is vulnerable to chosen-plaintext attacks, and therefore you should add a padding scheme for your messages.

However, papers like this are extremely useful, as they show new ways to exploit this theoretical vulnerability in a real-world case study.
Why couldn't you do both?
Teenagers can agree to contracts, but only in very limited terms. For example, they can buy food in a supermarket. Buying stuff in a store constitutes a contract.
They charge more. It's significantly cheaper to build your own infrastructure if you don't need the on demand availability, reliability and minimal maintenance the cloud offers.
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'Audiophile grade'

What does this even mean nowadays? Military grade is obvious, but when your target audience thinks lifting cables off the floor with ceramic risers reduces sibilance maybe it isn't a good descriptor of quality.

Also how can something without a 3.5mm jack be 'audiophile grade'? Wouldn't it at least need 2 x balanced XLR inputs?
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The Stifford estate photo is my favorite. The 'new' brutalist architecture of social housing marching in over the old pre war landscape. It's hard to imagine the utopia it was supposed to represent. Roll forwards 20 years those sorts of buildings represented drugs crime and poverty.
Your argument doesn't really make sense: GUIs made a lot of software accessible to the average user, while web apps does nothing of the sort. To the end user, there are almost no benefits to using a web app; they're slower (yes, computers have gotten faster. That doesn't mean that the gap between web apps and native ones doesn't exist), they less accessible, they look worse, and they can't do half the things because they need to run in a web browser. The only benefits are for the developer since they don't have to spend time figuring out how to write native code for a handful of platforms and can now just write software for the lowest common denominator.
It's not just bioinformatics. Wet-lab biology is often similar.

A friend of mine spent a good chunk of his PhD trying to reproduce an experiment involving growing primary cells in serum-free medium (the idea was to use that experiment as a starting point, and explore more aspects of it). The protocol was:

1. Grow some regular immortal cells in serum-based media in a dish, so they coat the dish with extracellular matrix

2. Use trypsin to detach the cells from the dish and remove them

3. Wash the dish carefully to remove all traces of serum, but leaving the extracellular matrix

4. Plate the primary cells onto the dish and grow them in serum-free medium

He tried for months and couldn't get the cells to grow. Then he got sloppy, didn't wash the dishes as carefully as he should, and bingo, the primary cells grew fine, as described in the original paper.

After some subtle digging, the inescapable conclusion was that the original authors had not washed their plates all that carefully either, and the serum-free medium was not exactly that. The whole premise of the experiment was flawed.
> Imho, this is just short-sighted nonsense so some senior leader can hit an arbitrary goal and get a bonus.

Welcome to centralized economic planning, mega-corp edition. Pick a number.
With some exceptions, we found: https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/http-2-is-easy-jus...
I actually wouldn't mind if someone made a application that would run on my computer and mine for sites I choose 24/7. Something easy like Minergate or Nicehash but where you say mine for Metafilter, Reddit, and Ars.

I would totally do that since it is 26ºF right now and I am actually mining a shitcoin to heat my apartment. But you would need to have a easy to set a limit like 10% and back off (nice -19) so if I was doing heavy stuff it would throttle.

edit :: and I know minergate steals hashes. But the software is really nice.
I like https://reviewable.io, low friction github integration but gerrit-like multi-patchsets and generally a sane flow when you have multiple rounds of comments
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Your feel-good story about Venezuela is unrelated to what I said.
I strongly disagree. The « general public » runs on older phones, and so performance and software quality is even more impactful on them.
Right, that's more in line with the way I view duality.

Lately I've actually came up with what I feel is an even more general pattern. And because it's 1am, I'll ramble a bit. :)

Typically we like to say things like:

Something <-> Nothing

True <-> False

etc

I'm thinking a better pattern may be:

Something <-> Not Something

True <-> Not True

Which yields the pattern "A <-> Not A"

The next step is that Everything follows such a relationship, such that you could conclude the Absolute duality of "Absolute/All <-> Not Absolute/All"

An interpretation of this may be that: The universe must exist absolutely out of logical necessity as absolutely not existing requires the definition of absolute existence.

This means past, present, future, all states, all things, all possibilities, exist. There was no beginning and end everything just "is".

This leaves many problems and many things to resolve such as, "if the universe just "is", how is it that I feel the sense of happeningness?". But hey, "Happen <-> Not Happen". They both most be reconciled. A metaphor to reconcile this is to take the static state of all knowledge in your brain as the totality of your brain states. Dreaming, or viewing these different brain states in different orders yields visions where things are happening, even though at rest each piece of knowledge/memory are just static pieces of information.

There are many other problems to reconcile, but this is my current line of thought. After spending my whole life fighting battles that emerge with hierarchical, cause-effect logic, I had to go off-roading a bit.

Of course, now matter how far we take it. You can with a bit of over simplification, sum your brain up to neurons being "connected or not connected" as the base of everything you know. Which means the limit of the description of the logic of the universe is comically limited based on the structure of your brain. I.e. It seems that we can never self-confirm beyond this play on words. I call this the cosmic joke.

Good night. Please forgive my poorly formed, probably not scientific, and brief midnight thoughts :)
Come on, Monero for example doesn't do this, so your argument might stand against Bitcoin specific, but not against cryptocurrency in general.
Ha, that's interesting - validation and normalisation is the responsibility of the banks so would depend on whether the bank of the person doing the lookup accepts it as a valid email address
First of all, that's wrong (as another comment pointed out). Of course, the probability of them stealing your stuff is non-zero, but it's very rare. Even if you use all your own hard and software, people still can steal your stuff :-)
Is unfriending them the only way to stop it properly?
No. Data is mostly accessed using XRootD[1] which can be used to data from an (almost) unlimited number of nodes. So far as I know, it's optimised for large files so the number of available inodes is limited by RAM.

There is also EOS[2] which is based on XRootD and is planned to replace AFS[3] as a general purpose networked filesystem.

[1] http://xrootd.org/
[2] http://eos.web.cern.ch/
[3] http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/services/afs-servi...
What’s the link between skeuomorphic and pixel perfect ?

Real world objects come in different sizes, so i don’t see what the problem would be in having screens that look like objects having different sizes.
I've also given up on OSM due to all the toxic territorial mappers. The idea that the real world might have changed since they last biked through the area unfortunately eludes many of the kind of people attracted to OSM.
One big part of the problem is whether that team (if they exist at all, and that's a big IF) works for the marketing department and whether they have an inherent conflict of interest.

In my experience as a data scientist working along-side some marketing people, most of the performance measuring, if it was ever done, was total psuedo-science. It was almost universally done either by people aligned with the actual marketing or who actually worked on said marketing effort.

Not only is there the universal mantra of "Don't ever come to a finding which says that your team and effort fails to contribute value to the company", but lets say that you actually are a data scientist and you really are independent and you come to a conclusion that your multi-million dollar marketing campaign is doing sweet f all.

This will generally be despite 6 months of presentations from the marketing team about how great it was, and probably several bonuses/pay reviews.

And now you're not only fighting a civil war in your company, you're doing it against multiple people with millions of dollars in budget, who have been proclaiming their success, and who's entire career has been based upon appealing to peoples guts to give them high paying jobs and big budgets.

Good luck with that fight...

Rule 37 of professional analytics in big companies: be VERY careful before turning your analytical eye inwards into your own companies' hierarchy/practices...
It would be interesting to see a line item breakdown of that bill. I'd wager Oracle got a good $50 mill out of it (multi year).
The difficulty right now is way to high for a CPU to mine bitcoin.
Yeah, only for receiving for now as far as I'm aware. As far as the reason it's restricted to certain types, I'm not sure - I'm contracting at a subcontractor of SWIFT so we're down the pipeline at the implementation end of things, not much visibility of business decisions.
Here's my strace hack from 2008: https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-prog...
Lots of FB employees on HN. I take it they realize the importance of HN for recruitment purposes, if you can choose between Google and Facebook which you would choose might depend on what you read here. Not that that should even be a close decision.
"Why? filesystem" I imagine.
A 'then and now' side by side would a nice update to this set, if someone had the time to do it.
> You can't fix something that is specifically designed to get the maximum information from people.

You can simply not participate. That's the quickest fix. FB would be out of business tomorrow morning if people realized what a thoroughly bad company this is.
I had heard of interactive C++ before, but to see it, and see it in a Jupyter notebook, was eye-opening.
I have a separate account (with no "friends" apart from my main account) just for commenting on anything public, and for posting in public groups.
I'm curious about this topic as it seems more likely to offer effective treatments, what is the name of the book you reference?
Thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware this feature was available on GitHub.

I like fossil because it's all built-in and can be wrapped up in a single file. But it's always great to have more choices available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model
That seems very weird. Do you happen to know the reasoning behind it?
> but I doubt even a company like Netflix has the clout to negotiate better terms.

I think they might be getting there - they've shown they can generate their own content that people want to watch and that they're a "destination" site - both pretty big sticks to wield at the next relicensing discussion.

(Imagine trying to explain to your investors that your next 10 years of films won't be on Netflix...)
How does your approach differ from the sites being already used by companies for online coding test? They do the same thing, you login during some fixed duration(24-48hr) in the weekend, and you do the coding challenges(they have a web interface to compile your code) within the alloted time.
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Well, damn. I (correctly) feel a right old fool now. Thanks!

(Sadly I can no longer edit the original otherwise I would add a Mea Culpa.)
Happens in Australia too
$4.55MM to $12MM in a year... dodgy!

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/01/another-money-laund...
I would love one of these. Since it's open source, I wonder if it's powerful enough to run SNES games.
So, you guys are all developers and product managers rolled into one? How do you decided what gets worked on?
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Do people really transfer that much money between them on a regular basis? Everyone was touting this as the selling point for some of the crypto currencies, but I've always thought this is a non-issue. It's anecdotal but I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I needed to transfer money to a person and not to a company.
I suppose you either create multiple email addresses and assign one to each bank, or select a single bank to receive all your incoming payments and transfer to others as required (hopefully instantly).

I hope there'll be a way to delete a phone number or email address from the lookup system once it's added, so that you can move it to a different bank.
Probably, but having a 2^64 tolerance factor isn't a bad idea given how difficult moving from IPv4 is proving to be.

This way we have ~1 IP address per 6 micrograms in the solar system, or per 3.4 tonnes in the galaxy.
>For game development, monorepo is simpler. If one is using git, one needs to use some other software to turn the part of your repository for media into a monorepo, otherwise the asset files become a burden. (gitannex, for example)

I think this has more to do with how git handles diffs more than monorepo vs distribution. As you said, git lfs solves the issue with centralization but that's not the same as a monorepo. You can still split all your libraries out in such a system without issue.
That was already possible in AU within the same bank.
It really depends... I've worked on systems that PostgreSQL (or any SQL rdbms) wouldn't be able to keep up with. I've seen many others that would do fine with SQLite. It depends.

In the end, it's a matter of testing. Also, with faster drive options (Optane and whatever is next), it could very well be a decent option. It all depends.

Frankly, for logging, I'd lean towards elasticsearch (ELK) these days, which is about the most write heavy situation you're likely to see. Depending on the scaling Mongo, RethinkDB, ElasticSearch and Cassandra can all be better solutions than RDBMS. I'd still reach for SQLite or PostgreSQL first depending on the situation though.
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Everybody in this thread knows that it's called proof of work. What you call it is not the point.
If you're also able to make good drawings, this serves as a quick e-mail reminder of the stuff you've talked about ;-)

A good capture app (like camscanner or onenote) is great to complement this superpower.
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I do this too. It's really eye-opening when you go to 'new posts', see some 'friends' have new posts, and don't bother clicking through to read their posts.
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I just launched a flight booking app for digital nomads and remote workers on PH
UPI is apparently something in India and this is something in Australia?
Yeah bank transfers have always been reliable for me in sunny Australia but the issue pre-the NPP is the time it takes to transfer inter-bank and/or inter-credit union.

It’s particularly a ‘problem’ when your payments are delayed by public/bank holidays (especially those that only occur in a bank’s home state!) and feels particularly anachronistic compared to modern payment gateways.

Out of that $1bn AUD, probably half is on banker’s wages :P
You can mine bitcoins using pen and paper too.
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In Australia I transfer money to mates at least once a week. Makes going to the pub or out to dinner with friends so much easier.
If a meritocracy wanted to remain a meritocracy, it would need to find a solution to that.
> indianness

That has to be one of the worst typos I have ever seen.
Right, and that's what I'm saying is flawed logic and a bad analogy for speech rights. Putting people in different groupings doesn't change how many votes they get, and saying that "corporations are people means corporations get their own separate vote" is a gross misunderstanding of what we're talking about. When someone says "corporations are people", they're saying "corporations are simply a grouping of people taking an action together".

The people who comprise a group have no extra vote to give: if two friends and I form a group, a new vote allocated to the three of us doesn't magically materialize. By contrast, since there is no quota for speech per person, two friends and I can form a group (eg, an advocacy group) and tomorrow go down to Union Square (or buy airtime, or hand out pamphlets, or stand on a street corner) and engage in whatever legal speech we like, collectively. The claim is that if that group of people happens to be given the structure "corporation", that doesn't automatically allow for infringing on the rights of the people within the corporation to engage in legal speech.

Again, I'm making no statement as to whether I think this approach is wise or good for society or not, but it's astonishing how common it is to see people who completely don't know what they're talking about on this issue and yet are somehow super passionate about it.
Kids under 7 cannot enter into contracts at all. Kids between 7 and 18 can enter into contracts, either if those contracts are entirely without duties to them (e.g. they can accept gifts) or if their contractual duties are somewhat negligible (e.g. they can buy sweets from their pocket money) or their guardians agreed to them being able to enter into such contracts. All other contracts are provisionally void (?!, "schwebend unwirksam"), i.e. can become void as soon as their guardians disagree with the contract or can become fully valid once their guardians agree.
>If 64 bits isn't enough, the next logical step is 128 bits.
>That's enough to survive Moore's Law until I'm dead, and after that, it's not my problem

;)
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Sheesh I wish I had read your response before posting my own. This more succinctly captures what I'm trying to say.