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> So can your bitcoin wallet, or you could forget your key or lose your hard copy.

You can also encrypt your wallet, put it in few public places on internet and not forget a key. And be completely safe. Gold is much harder to secure.

>> People need gold but better.
> Debatable.

People always need better versions of things they already have.

> No, you can fork bitcoin, or create a thousand slightly different blockchains, and you can replace it in the blink of an eye.

It has already happened, didn't replace bitcoin.

> However weird gold is, it is a finite resource with real world applications (albeit not unique for most of them).

Real world applications of gold don't justify any significant fraction of its price. Most of the value comes from scarcity and durability, properties that bitcoin has. Again assuming bitcoin network doesn't die.

> But you also have thousands of other stocks and funds, and real estate, and micro financing, etc where your money can both work for you while also potentially benefiting the world.

When you buy bitcoin you also pass money around to people that need it more than you at the moment.
Learning Rust 1: Printing, Simple Data Types, Variables, and Functions
Exactly what I thought, I'm still not sure whether it's another "Advancing our amazing bet".
Sure, but the question remains whether mandatory helmets would prevent a significant number of car injuries and deaths (I'd say that's quite plausible). Whether cars have other safety features already is neither here nor there.
The arugment is that if Shrkeli hadn't involved himself in Retrophin, it would have continued selling the drug at the same price.
I used to pick up a Bird scooter to and from work (2 mile trip) everyday for a couple weeks until they started requiring helmets which now make it completely inconvenient and cops are eager to give you tickets.
Those aren't renderings, they are composite images made from photographs taken of Jupiter using an infrared camera on the Juno spacecraft.
It's easy to get lucky with small numbers. I was a researcher and I worked alongside teams of hundreds of people, mostly Indians. I was a mentor to a bright young hard working "untouchable" who showed lots of promise. He informed me about the caste system and who was in what caste. Sadly once I left the company the other teams who would work with me ended up shunning him and driving him out of the company. I got him a job at Facebook and he's happy there so at least that worked out.
Ask HN: Someone in the bay area experienced in retail/eccommerce for advice
I am looking for someone who can give me advice about my idea. I am an engineer in the bay area, however my idea is in the intersection of ecommerce and traditional brick and mortar retail. I know next to nothing about retail and ecommerce, and so I don't know if my idea has any wings.

Would be extremely grateful if anyone could either make contact with me, or point me to someone who could help me out.

Thank you in advance HN.
A nice video for String Quartet 14 (Op. 131) as you mentioned. Lovely piece!

https://youtu.be/WlFYC1U5viw
Helmets are also insufficient on bikes but they significantly reduce injuries. With cars I'm not quite sure what problem you would be trying to solve because they probably wouldn't actually appreciably reduce injuries (I don't many of those car deaths are just really simple trauma to the top of the head that a helmet would actually protect against)
It would also help reduce the 200,000+ TBIs (traumatic brain injury) caused by car accidentals in the US every year.

I might be convinced to personally start wearing a helmet if an awareness campaign gained traction. As it is, I will take the additional risk to avoid looking dumb.

I personally believe that (personal adult) helmet laws are a violation of individual liberties but we should create laws that force bike/scooter sharing companies to make sanitary helmets available. It is better to regulate business behavior than personal behavior.
For me, college was a good guide to find ideas that I might not have found on my own, or might have found in a suboptimal order. Hearing the basic ideas always got me excited enough to dig on my own, see how they're used, and what they build up to.

> As it is, two hours of lecture is two hours that could have been spent actually learning instead of wasting time.

The most wasted lectures that I attended were the ones that I went to, but did something else instead of asking questions. There aren't many situations where you've got a roomful of people at your level or above (including an expert in the subject) that you can pose questions to.

> But for someone who is stupid like me, it just doesn't work.

Where did you get the idea that you're stupid? I don't see any evidence of that, and thinking of yourself that way is going to damage any of your efforts. Stupid people aren't generally the kinds that come onto HackerNews to have discussions about the nature of education.
No, Your Furniture Shouldn't Drip or Burst
Stuff like this is really common if you use fiverr or any of the other super cheap logo /design generator sites. You’ll end up saving a couple hundred bucks but you’re likely just paying someone to ripoff something else if what you get back is any good. I saw it a lot in my agency days.
Don't forget about pedestrians. Helmets are like avoiding ECC RAM, soon you are giving them out on every level of abstraction because you don't want to face the fact that the danger comes from cars/memory with bit errors.

Fix the problem, styrofoam will not save you.
1. Getting women in the pipeline from an early age. Whether it's cultural, or women in developed Western economies don't need an escape hatch like in places they face few options --as a country, if we are to progress, we have to find a way to improve the pipeline. Increase the pool of women candidates, and you will not have to work hard at finding good candidates.

I've been in relationships with 2 women who could code, but who absolutely didn't want to do that as a job. (They formed these ideas well before they met me.) I also taught 100 level Computer Science courses at University, and encountered many young women with similar attitudes. There is something going on in our culture which makes women not want to code as a job.

Liana K covered some of this in an even handed way, even as the fury was still running hot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIRvtA2JIIA

Google should have not touched the live wire that is a public policy for PR brownie points.

I suspect that they were invaded by large numbers of employees with an agenda who have what they feel is a moral mandate, who won't take no for an answer, who furthermore feel they are justified in toxic and intellectually stifling behaviors by their moral mandate. People are taught in college and socialized in online groups that it is their moral duty to pursue this agenda and take such actions. Given the scope of the reactions I saw come out of Google during the Damore furor, I think it's basically too late for them. I'd hope to be wrong, but I see little hope.

I don't think Google is wrong for trying to recruit more women. Their problems have to do with how their efforts have manifested in their internal culture in a way which stifles free inquiry and dissent. If it hasn't already happened it's only a matter of time before they succumb to stagnation and only run off of their market position and network effects. Also, as we have seen with other media companies, at some point in their decline, the decline will motivate behaviors which are harmful to society at large. I suspect this process has already begun.
I would guess that their jurisdiction was written into law because of the predominant role of telecommunications and media in the commercial satellite launch market.

My knowledge is more certain about the international situation - the US has jurisdiction over its own objects because the Outer Space Treaty gives each party to it the right (and responsibility) to regulate the objects its citizens launch into space. I'm actually curious why the US decided that it was their job to regulate satellites launched by India but owned and operated by US citizens and corporations, but India seems to agree (because they didn't try to do the licensing for these satellites).
France already has multiple unmanned subway lines that manage to do okay. My bet is cameras and a non-trivial chance of vandals getting stopped at the next station would be sufficient protection against this.
Well I'm not a huge fan of that either, I'm talking very specifically about the sections with HAL. I'd consider all the LSD trip stuff to be the 3rd act.

I appreciate it from a movie making perspective, the effects are very good especially considering the time period it was made. I just think a lot of it was incredibly dull.
> American companies are subject to American law, domestically and overseas

Absolutely not true. American companies don't pay foreign employees American minimum wage, for example.
The rides that they are using are the Xiaomi Mi Jia M365 scooter. You can get them for quite cheap at around $350 to $400. They usually last for more than two years, so they're really not that expensive. Maintenance is also quite cheap.

I own one myself. They have a max speed of 25Kmph, but usually you maximize distance, so you use the eco-mode which keeps you at 18Kmph.
One concern I've always had when people discuss recidivism rates is that it's sort of impossible to find an effective control group, no?

Suppose you're fresh out of prison with no good employment options. My guess is that, when people talk about recidivism rates, that either look at it nominally or they try to control for socioeconomic status. But apart from socioeconomic status, I can see two major factors that might cause recidivism: 1) the personality that led you to end up in prison in the first place, and 2) the effect on your personality that your time in prison had.

Since the only way to study the personality of the prisoner population is to do so _after_ they go to prison, it seems impossible to isolate either effect. Maybe there's a clever study design that let's you do it.

Failing that though, it's sort of dishonest to assume that rehabilitation attempts or changing the prison environment in some way would be successful in reducing recidivism rates "if we would only try them."

What is the actual evidence on the efficacy of rehabilitation programs?
I got the impression that they concluded correlation, not causation.

Could be that less dust decrease lung capacity... Unlikely, but who knows?
All comments here seem to be terribly difficult to understand.
The advantage of the computer is not mass-production but mass customization. How about putting something like this in the big-box hardware stores? They will cut wood for you, but they will not make anything but simple straight cuts, and the cost per cut is high. I like to try to make things from wood, but I am a little too clumsy and accident-prone to want to do anything with power tools. If there was idiot-proof CAD on-line at the hardware store site where I could mess around with designs, see that everything fit together and came out OK in 3D, and then order the pieces by credit card, I'm in.
We run all PaaS except for two very special case VMs. It is an effin' delight not having to worry about security, maintenance, updates. I just deploy my code (app services) and query my data (azure table storage, azure sql). Shit just works. Every time I need to deal with the VMs I cringe.
Oh come now, top of the head? Full face helmets are the better option, and if we're really looking to be safe, we should require them, and anti-whiplash headrest connections, as well.

Similarly six-point restraints, I'm always confused why there's just a lap-and-shoulder belt in most cars.
Does the phrase “time waste alert” ring a bell?
> no real productive gain

Hmm? I grew up around farms. You do realize roosters (male chickens) are not very productive right?

I think these practices are horrible, but I understand that the only reason they happen is due to the productive gain. Even on traditional farms roosters are culled earlier than later, as you only need a handful at most per 100 chickens.

The type of operation you describe is typically for laying hens. Roosters of those breeds are not useful.
That 'nanny state' also pays for your care when you smack your head into the pavement.
I like that you copied it typos and all ;)

I retyped it from the screenshot on my way out the door at work and now note a number of mistakes.
Yeah you're correct. They are concrete.
Oddly that makes it sound not so bad; given the property and environmental issues and the high cost of labor I’d have expected a larger multiplier.
I agree that _recruiting_ is not wrong and arguably the right thing to do. We need to encourage our women to join the men in bringing progress to our society.

I don't agree with the skewed incentives for internal recruiters and the arguably ardent politics that has tagged along with the effort.
I wish everyone on the Servo project the best of luck, and hope this new project will be a success, but I can't help but agree with other commenters who see this as a move away from something that could have provided a huge fundamental advantage to Firefox/Mozilla to something less impactful. This feels like the end of the Servo project in all but name.
Listening to my wife talk about her workday, it strikes me how much tougher the women are at her Chinese dominated company are, in contrast to how it seems at the average Bay Area tech company. At the same time, there is no tension in the workplace concerning gender politics, and men seem to be much more relaxed about that. There is no anxiety over hiring more women. What's more, their work environment is absolutely not PC.

From what I've seen, in my work experience, everything works better when no one thinks of themselves as a victim, and everyone is expected to be a tough, competent adult who can speak up for themselves. It's the opposite of that which causes problems.
Using GANs for brain reading
I recall reading an article a few years about the aerosolization of minerals in the water vapour and how inhaling them cause lung damage.

It could have been a tabloid-ish thing I don't recall where I read it but I often think about it when I am enjoying a hot shower.
This is a really nice tool for the development of headless Android device.
No, I think it's more that Jason is a serious engineer and researcher and not as serious a marketer. It'll get better over time.
A helmet in a car would limit visibility and movement and is completely impractical, not to mention mildly pointless.

On a bike you are exposed. In a car, you are not. On a bike you travel around 30km average. In a car, up to 100km average.
In Spanish, I believe it's only used to mean competition.
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMCrPvtN1G8
It’s important to remember that it is much easier to get property to build on in other countries. In China (which you cite) you don’t get a choice at all - your property is sold for whatever amount the appropriate gov agency believes it is worth.

The article says buying land for the track is a significant problem - I will happily bet that they are not paying the pre-rail market value of that land.
No way I would get into that cab.
> And likely didn't even expect to win since they're paid hourly regardless. Probably was just trying to stretch it out as much as they could. Easy money

This loss is a huge embarrassment to the lawyer and his firm. The billings for this case are negligible compared to what Equifax pays to their outside law firm every year. But mostly, this is just embarrassing. He might lose the client, and he'll definitely be mocked by colleagues for years.
I had hit and miss with Uber in SE Asia. In Vietnam I did 8 trips that worked perfectly.

When I arrived to Malaysia three Uber drivers cancelled the ride in a row and tried to get in touch outside Uber to arrange the ride. Reported this to Uber which handled it well, but decided to not use Uber in Malaysia after that.

Instead I changed to Grab and did 15 trips in Malaysia and Indonesia, which all worked well.

So I would say that both services generally work well and often better than local taxi.
In rainy and hilly places, doesn't water flow under the roads from the sides, making little caverns beneath the pavement that collapse? In hot climates, doesn't heating and cooling from the sun create the cracks. In cold climates, doesn't expansion of ice as it freezes create the cracks?

Back 35 or 40 years ago, Phillips petroleum was promoting a paving material that supposedly solved this problem. Where is it?

There may be single causes, we just need them all to marry single solutions.
Free food makes sense due to travel time and taxes.

When you buy your own food, you pay with post-tax income. The employer can provide that food for less money than it takes to pay you the extra money to buy the food. Alternately, you can get better food.

Travel time can be hours. You may need to struggle with traffic or wait for a train. You may need to get all dressed up for the cold and then shovel snow off your car.
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What are the other areas digital nomads are underserved?
Hack your finances.
> absolutely didn't want to do that as a job

Do they as a hobby, or have they turned their backs on it entirely?
Females have less biological variation so fit in better with industrial farming.

Females are also more docile and less likely to cause damage to other chickens.
Discord is also a good one. They’ve written some great write ups on using Elixir too.
He was prosecuted for raising the price of Daraprim, at least indirectly. This case is peanuts in the world of investment fraud, but Shkreli was an extremely soft target and a prosecutor looking to make a name for themselves saw the opportunity and took it.

There's very little chance of the case being overturned, but I'm guessing he'll go for a sentence reduction by trying to emphasize that his sentence is based on a hypothetical loss number.
We can compare prison systems across populations. Bastøy prison in Norway has a recidivism rate of just 16%. It seems that all things being equal (i.e. if you can assume that "personality" averages out of the statistical equation when comparing across human populations) then they are doing something very important and remarkable for their people there. See https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/04/bastoy-norwe...
Always good to see Matrix on here.
> I've admittedly never used PGP, but I would think if a website at any point has access to your private key and could transmit it back to their server, you're doing it wrong.

Encrypting a confidential message for another party is a public key operation. It’s the fact that the plaintext was sent to a remote server that’s problematic.
oh man you are so insufferable

you're like those people at mcdonalds that flip out if the cheeseburger is missing a piece of pickle

just delete your blog and stop polluting the internet
There's a big difference between "some pretty good points" and "don't have an ethical leg to stand on". If you're now acknowledging that there is in fact a reasonable case for anti-gouging, that's a step forward. Thanks.

Sure, one of Shkreli's attempts to gouge was partially thwarted by a competitor. Were all of them? Is there any guarantee that all future gouging attempts would be equally pointless? Of course not. Because, your free-market fundamentalism aside, markets fail all the time. That's why to get well-functioning marketplaces we outlaw a great variety of market-harming behaviors. Including things like price gouging for things people need to survive.

Markets are not ends in themselves. They exist, with extensive societal support, because they're a useful mechanism to provide a reasonable distribution of goods and services to humans in those societies. When parasitic actors use those mechanisms to cause societal harm, it's entirely reasonable to tinker with the mechanism.
That's what Falling3 said. One species of rooster is shredded alive immediately after hatching. The other species of rooster is raised so it can be cooked and eaten.
Soapcalc and make your own soap: http://soapcalc.net/calc/soapcalcwp.asp

This is what I do. I have a nice batch of coconut/castor/olive/cocoa soap curing under the sink. It's literally just water, vegetable oils, and some sodium hydroxide.
Interesting position to take on those two things, since wearing a helmet makes an awful lot of sense since flying off a scooter onto a pavement at 20km will cause massive head injuries...

...and a scooter hitting a pedestrian is not as traumatic as a car hitting a scooter. ..given the relative speed differences of people/scooters/cars and humans ability to process objects at speed remaining the same.
Have been using vscode for almost one year and love it though sometimes it is a bit sluggish and heavy, also a long time vim user and that's what I use for CLI editing.Still I miss Geany and keep coming back to it, it does not have the most modern UI but it is so light-weight and does 95% editing for me all the time.

It is packaged for Linux, and you can install the newest release with their plugins, if you have never tried it, give it a shot.
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Are people computers? It's not always perfect, but judges ideally have leeway in sentencing because the circumstances around the same crime are always different. A person that actually understands the gravity of a crime and is remorseful shouldn't get the same sentence as someone who has no respect for the law and seems willing to repeat the same crime or similar. It's actually a pretty big complaint about mandatory minimum sentencing when it is used against poor people of color.
Blown away, followed by intense motion sickness, has been my general experience.
Care e Basarabia?
This diagram is so weird to me. Bottom part is simple and neat, while the top half just goes crazy. My puny brain desperately wants this world to be understandable and elegantly designed, but apparently atomic structure has a different idea.
US minimum wage laws are not written to apply globally, but if they were US companies would have to follow those laws.
- Kessler Syndrome, a la "Is the plotline of Gravity inevitable with increasing commercialization of space?"

Kessler Syndrome wouldn't stop us directly. If we absolutely had to, we could use air breathing electromagnetic thrusters to keep extremely low orbit satellites aloft.

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-world-first-air-breathing-elec...

However, if global warming requires us to do geoengineering, such a handicap might well result in the extinction of human civilization.

There are some private organizations that are arguably more powerful than full nation-states nowadays.

There were private companies that basically owned some 3rd world countries in the 20th century. This situation probably still exists to some extent.
How about also making them the _default_ state of one’s credit history?
I'm not really comparing VR. I'm comparing the hype of VR. Because 20 years ago there were plenty of smart people just as confident that it was on the edge of becoming a giant thing.

As far as taking off, we might be close, and we might be far. It's tautological to argue that VR is coming soon because we're close to the level of technology that means VR is coming soon.

And it may never take off. Maybe we'll get to a particular level of technology where everybody is wowed by the tech but in day-to-day use nobody actually cares. That has happened over and over again with 3D technologies. We are definitely in an exploratory phase, but a great number of explorations don't end up going anywhere interesting.
Sometimes I wonder how different our world might be if it were the size of Jupiter but at the surface still had the same gravity we have now.

It could take days to download something from the other side of the planet. And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there.