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Global Cryptocurrency Regulation Update (April 2018)
Linux is definitely ready for full time Desktop use as long as gaming isn't needed. 7 years only Linux and I feel great about it.

I highly recommend Linux Mint with Cinnamon to anyone just starting out.
Amazon and Google are engaging in concrete industries. Google is still the largest advertising company in the world, facebook is not. Facebook has been and will be second fiddle to Google in the ad industry.

"His" list wouldn't have included Facebook because they haven't really dominated anything, let alone stretched their arms out into other fields. Facebook can only hold the dimmest of candles up to Google and Amazon. There are giants, then there are titans.
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As a basketball fan, I love this kind of analysis. As mentioned in the article, I think the defensive skill of NBA players is a big reason for the differences in accuracy within six feet. For many NBA players, it's much easier to take a 7-12 foot shot than to challenge the taller/stronger players that defend closer to the rim. On average, the "rim defenders" in college aren't as strong, making it easier to score on dunks and lay-ups.
I think because from a technology perspective it's only a 6-7. "Tech people" only find it mildly interesting at best. and let's face it devalues code and the skills of people that make it.

"tech money people"(VCs/Angels) find it interesting because it allows you to monetize something you couldn't before a protocol. Also, it's interesting because it lets you capture value from an economy as opposed to just a marketplace. (I'm calling an economy something where the rules aren't as rigid and controlled as much by a central authority versus an ebay or uber). ie Why some VCs are investing in it.

The open question is just because you monetize V1 or V2 of a protocol does it allow you to profit or does V1.2A split and you lose your shirt.

Plus, as with any new "tech" it's over hyped at best and a lot of fraud at worst.

And it's current best Use Cases "secret economies" aren't exactly something that's going to benefit society in general.
As I understand, there are devices that check if you're paying attention in many autopilot systems for precisely this reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11017034
For comparison's sake I just compiled the Jester hello world example using Nim:

import asyncdispatch

import jester

routes:
get "/":
resp "Hello World"

runForever()

Command: nim c -d:release --opt:size file.nim

The size on my Mac is 349K and that's with very little tweaking.
> With a single resolver, I can verify that they're trustworthy enough [for me], just once, and direct all my traffic to it.

Apply this deceptively simple principle to every need you have on our wonderfully decentralized Internet and see where that gets us.

Oh snap. Not so decentralized anymore.
Or he could ignore people like you and just use Windows. If you're going to have a bunch of headaches you may as well stick to the ones you're familiar with on the system that actually does what you want pretty well.
The reason windows is so popular in the home market is because it was in the 90s. businesses bought windows/office, and people brought the floppies home, which led to schools following suit, which lead to a generation thinking windows = computers.
http://adamierymenko.com/web_eating_desktop.html
If they can't be tracked, how would that deter thieves?
Edit: looks like they can't be used to track, but to identify cacti "suspected stolen", so I guess that's something.
T-Mobile does it and that is an enormous ISP.
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I agree and it's not just for developers, also non technical roles. But I've found that these crypto startups do actually seem to offer more remote opportunities than your conventional startup. This job board is pretty good in terms of remote crypto jobs https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co/remote/engineering/
Thank you for posting this, definitely interesting and useful.
You don't see those headlines because short sellers aren't obsessed with those brands like they are with Tesla. Not because those brands are actually safer or don't have accidents.

"Tesla is, by a wide margin, the No. 1 short stock in terms of money at risk and exposure within the global auto industry"

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas-roaring-start-to-20...
Can't we have a system where a paper is not necessarily reviewed at first, but as time goes by, more and more reviewers endorse the paper?
I feel like your original phrasing is a little ambiguous. To say they are a scam sounds like they are fraudulent, but they are not (as you clearly understand), they are in all but a handful of cases a necessity.
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> It has a giant roundabout, fake cars, and roaming mannequins that jump out into the street without warning

Well, there you go.
Autopilot isn’t a self driving system (yet), it’s a driver assistance technology. It explains this carefully to users when activated.
Talk about fine-tuning! How is it we are in the metastable area?
It goes to NYC ...
It's a question of collecting money not building infrastructure.

When 100k people move in and you need a new water treatment plant. Those 100k people should pay for the water treatment plant not everyone that lives in the area who also paid for the last water treatment plant.

Further, you need to start building infrastructure now, not in 20 years when the new people have paid enough in taxes to pay for it. It's not like you need a new police station and a new school from a single new home but you do need them after X new homes.

Debt seems like the obvious solution to time shifting infrastructure, but that increases costs, adds risks, and still forces everyone to pay for new infrastructure. When a tiny home is worth 3x what would be somewhere else that value is from the existing infrastructure not the cost of building the house so adding a tax to capture that surplus is completely reasonable.
>No one has an Android device on their desk at work

If you mean as in a desktop PC then no, but smartphones is becoming more and more important and Apple is not strong outside the US. Around here almost everyone has an Android phone as a work phone and I see more Chromebooks by the day.

I also want to point out that i believe that saying they abandon the ecosystem is missing the point. They don't. They just don't let Windows dictate what the rest of the business does.
I agree. I wish Microsoft would focus on Windows 11 and not think of Win10 as the last Windows, thereby flooding it with adware non-sense.

There are still a lot of tech heads and gamers that depend on Windows and will continue to buy into the platform. I even know hard core Linux devs who've switched back to Win10 and just work off of the new Linux Subsystem and an X11 server.

With Android being a clusterfuck of vendor specific bloatware and not having a single concept of a clean install, Microsoft should focus on keeping a clean Windows install equivalent to a fresh Mac install.
Well, it's either a "glorified golf cart" or you're a short seller with a financial incentive to spread the nonsense in your post. I'm going to bet on the latter =)
> Without those two there would have never been a PC in the first place.

Can you clarify that statement? My memory of computing history include other types of personal computers during and around that time.
So Windows will basically keep on existing to run Office and Visual Studio?
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It’s certainly true you can find musical qualities in almost any noise, but “music” by definition is a purposeful structure or arrangement of sounds to convey an idea or emotion.

That is not to say that all music must follow some prescribed form or another, but the distinction between sound and music is, at a minimum, structure and intent.

And it is also possible to intentionally structure some sounds in a way as to be not music, or unmusic, which is the impression I get listening to Four Organs.

Structured noise can certainly evoke an emotion — in this case for instance, confusion and disgust, and likely this is intentional. It may be an artform but I don’t think the noise is meant to be musical so much as it is meant to provocate.
We’re working on it in California this year, but the bill is about to go through some very difficult committees. Details here: https://yimbyaction.org/supportsb827/

Calling your state senator to leave a message of support takes just 30 seconds. Emailing them takes just one paragraph. In both cases, they don’t usually get much constituent feedback, so you really can make a difference.

The link above makes it easy.
That's a myth. We don't need more programmers or STEM grads.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-...
Well you could add a conflict of interest clause. If the thing you're testifying on impacts the property value of your home then you must state that up front. Further, such rational economic thinking isn't really that rational. For example next to my home is a tent encampment. That certaintly doesn't increase property values and could easily be fixed by say building some affordable micro-apartments on that plot of land.
I was thinking of things like https://shader.kaist.edu/mtcp/ , or https://github.com/snabbco/snabb or these kind of things: https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/06/30/why-do-we-use-the-linux-kern...
More or less so. Plus, you also could not just decide to go to Moscow (or other city), you needed "propiska" (residence permit). And those born in countryside didn't have passports until _1974_ so had no freedom of movement at all.

Seriously, I cannot find polite words for people praising USSR
It's amazing how much they nearly lost it all. In the late 80s early 90s apple was a fairly common sight in education, 10 years later it was windows everywhere outside of degree level STEM (where it was *nix of some sort)
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or if Windows 8 had set one UI default for tablets and the other default for desktops. The OS was faster and had better load times. It was a far cry from the failure of Windows Vista. It was just that start menu that really killed it for most people.
What I don't understand is, with Apple and Microsoft moving to "services" business-models, who do they see as providing the hardware for this future they envision? I don't think we are near the point where either laptops or phones are a commodity. If nobody want to make hardware their first priority, how is anyone going to ensure the best experience for the customers using their serviceS?
I agree with you. I went mattress shopping a couple years ago and was taken aback by the prices. The whole thing felt like a scam, as people have been sleeping perfectly well for hundreds of years without all this extraneous marketing crap.

I ended up buying a $200 queen size mattress on Amazon. My fiance and I have been sleeping on it for ~2 years - never once had an issue, easily the best mattress I've ever owned. I can post the brand if someone wants to know, but I'll refrain for now as I'm not interesting in shilling for some company.
I'm in Europe too which is in Paris and Google DNS is way faster at 4ms vs 15ms for cloudflare.
> macOS isn't business-level stable.

Can you elaborate this assertion? As far as stability goes, macs are top notch. I'd say in the business context Windows machines are prevalent because of successful MS strategies (in terms of marketing, not ethics) in 1995-2005 era, and it kind of stuck around.
It's definitely every few minutes. I can attest to that from personal experience. Alternatively, you can just keep your hands on the wheel and then the warning doesn't come up.
I change my oil when the car tells me to. (Which for me is only about once a year since I rarely drive more than 100 miles a week)
Let's not forget that most non-tech users can do almost everything they need nowadays in the browser.
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As a counterpoint, my wife runs her own bookkeeping business and pretty much all of her clients are using Quickbooks on Windows workstations, with no real desire to try anything new. I know a couple people myself that are using cloud-based accounting products but they seem to be the exception. In both cases they are tech businesses, which perhaps makes them more open to trying something new than a typical small business.
I don't normally complain about submissions but I believe that this is inappropriate/off topic for HN
Taxi company that isn't a taxi company. Hotel company that isn't a hotel company. And now, car rental company that isn't a car rental company. And, as always, all the regulations are somehow bad.

The PR person compares this to lead paint certification, but I'd argue that the bulk rented apartments need that too. Instead they're fighting sales tax on the rentals. Besides this, cars are far more dangerous to others when maintenance gets lax.
One of the more amazing bits of technology in Windows is that which allows the graphics drivers to crash and restart without taking down the system. They've spent so long fighting buggy third parties that this is the solution.
Wouldn't you still be pissed to find your mattress was only comfortable for 2 years? Or even 5?

Anyone here had one of these rolled-up mattresses for 10+ years? The long term durability of these roll-up mattresses is a concern for me.

That and mattresses are notoriously horrible to recycle anything from, so caring about mattress longevity is both selfish and selfless.
You can't compare java to rails like this. Java is a server side language - rails is a web-dev library written in Ruby.

All the things you are complaining about have been abstracted away by many recent java and groovy libraries.

You are literally comparing some random company using a random java framework 4 years ago to modern ruby on rails. The comparison just doesn't work.

You can make java as simple as you want or as complex as you want. Modern tools like spring boot and groovy make it VERY easy to make java simple.
I can't imagine test tracks data being in the training set, so overfitting is irrelevant here.
This is useful, but the naming is quite unappealing :)

As a sidenote, I see a lot of "normie" devs (as in formerly working for "big data", "cloud" etc. projects) joining blockchain startups suddenly.
Given the context of this thread note the irony that Microsoft actually bailed out Apple to polish up their image for anti-trust reasons.

https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech_0806/
I felt that last week with Amazon: https://twitter.com/garfieldnate/status/977994478911975426. For non-customers they show a nice price to get you into the web site, and for customers they might block an item altogether to get you to sign up for Prime. These days I always check the prices of large things in an incognito window.
Just because Microsoft is desparate to unshackle themselves from a loss-leader doesnt mean its about to happen anytime soon, albeit an announcement like this will certainly goose the stock. The only person angrier about missing the app-store cloud-based moneytrain is likely Larry Ellison whos already furiously trying to saw off the Oracle Database boat anchor.

You're going to need to convince your channel partners this is a thing that has to happen, and you're going to expect a revolt because so many tertiary industries are contingent upon Windows and its licenses. The tear-down for everything from the Windows app-store to the ballmer-era brick and mortar "windows store" is going to be significant. There are also laboratories, power plants, hospitals, and prisons that all rely heavily on Windows, so expect to be on the hook from state level government for quite a while...the "end" of windows also confirms the wastefully squandered effort to get Germany to obsolete its massive and very functional Linux deployment.

You'll also need to have a substantive marketshare in, say, cloud in order to start deprecating Windows. Outside of Redmonds own inflated reporting, Azure isnt exactly a competitor. Most devs would rather walk off a cliff than learn a new API --one that only Microsoft uses-- for cloud that is not EC2 compatible in any way. Conversely there are more than 40 providers of cloud services that all managed an EC2 api for objects.
It is never that easy. Frameworks are kind of force multipliers until you want to do something new, then you are stuck.

Demand for programmers is high even at high salaries (depending on experience of course). The average google programmer pulls in around $1 million in revenue, which covers their overhead well enough.
UEFI history: https://www.linux.com/learn/how-install-linux-windows-machin...
If you rent it out you are a hotel. Or, possibly, a landlord (which comes with different but quite burdensome regulations in most countries).

What a lot of these startups do is expose areas of markets that may be too rigidly regulated. Perhaps the reasonable level of regulation for Airbnb renting is just working smoke detectors, a basic escape plan map and good insurance? Perhaps most of the remaining hotel regulations could be lifted? It’s very likely that the advent of “not quite hotels” and “not quite taxi” calls for new regulation. But what the established players “war” against is newcomers completely dodging regulation on account of being “not a hotel”, “not a landlord” or “not a taxi”.
I think the Pacers are just pursuing a contrarian strategy that works for them. All things being equal, threes are more efficient than midrange shots, which is why teams like Houston almost never take midrange shots. But wide-open midrange shots are more valuable than contested threes, and as more and more NBA defenses give up the open midrange shot in exchange for taking away threes and layups, it makes more and more sense to take those shots, only shooting enough threes to keep the defense honest.
Every market has its own peculiarities, and housing much like anything benefits enormously from behaving like a free one.

The two single most important factors that make housing not behave efficiently as a market are zoning and taxation.

Zoning because it puts limits on what can be built, which means the process to expand is now bureaucratic. The original article talks about how in tokyo zoning hasnt been a problem for the market as the championing difference.

Taxation is the second one. No matter how much you build, the people and the space require considerable resources to manage: sewage, garbage, public transportation, local courts ,etc. If you tax income, the more people you cram, and the more the expenditure of the government is, the more oppressive becomes rent. That is because as a dweller, you pay taxes that go to services that increase your rent. This great injustice is described in the book "Poverty and Progress" by henry george in the 1900's in california, where the concept of Land Value Tax was created and then validated by economists on the left (Krugman) and the right (Milton Friedman).

You would not see any problems with local neighbors in San Francisco if instead of state income taxes and sales taxes they moved that to land value taxes, and suddenly the guy with the picturesque 1920 house for himself will find that his taxes look like a monthly rent.

The biggest problems of housing, much like the biggest problems on almost any market, come from the government, not for the peculiarities of the market itself.
I would love for Microsoft to launch it's own Android-compatible ecosystem, starting from the open source base of Android and building alternatives to Google's proprietary technology (location & mapping, email, browsing, app store etc.). They are one of the few companies who have the capacity to do that and already have products in place to cover 80% of what is required.

While I'm not exactly a fan of Microsoft, there is nothing I dread more than a closed platform controlled by a single company, and Google is moving more and more aggressively in that direction. There is now a whole industry dedicated to installing hacked Google products on devices Google does not approve of.
I try to get along with Feedbro but its just not the same. [0]

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/
It's only that high because they take good shots. If Indiana starts jacking 3's I guarantee their percentage drops way below Houston's.
I used it for a while a few years ago at work. My impression was that 90-95% of it works well but there remains this persistent and very stubborn 5% load of edge case bugs.

The problem is that when you hit one of these issues it's infuriating and often costs a lot of time. It also has a way of happening when you really don't want it to, since when you're traveling or in a hurry you're more likely to be doing "different" things with your machine and thus are more likely to hit a problem. Linux desktops are like a car that runs great for your daily commute but blows up on road trips.

IMHO the reason for this is that the remaining 5-10% of the polish that's required to reach excellence in software often takes >50% of the time and is by far the least fun part of programming. As a result people generally have to be paid to do it. Free software rarely does unless it's heavily sponsored or incubated in-house by someone with resources.

This is why I still like Mac. I think Apple as a company is a little past its prime but Mac still offers by far the most reliable and consistently productive desktop experience. Windows has improved but they've decided to encrust it with advertising. Ads in a paid app or OS are a total deal breaker. Windows also still has more edge case issues than Mac, mostly due to driver issues.
> It's also notable that tariffs are one of the few policies that economists are almost in universal agreement about [3].

Does anyone know of a good nuanced article or discussion on tariffs? The standard argument that I've seen is to invoke comparative advantage and call it a day. I've never really bought into that argument, so I'd love to see a less theoretical review of the effects that tariffs can have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/world/europe/trump-russia...

> Trump and Western Allies Expel Scores of Russians in Sweeping Rebuke Over U.K. Poisoning

> WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russians from the United States on Monday, adding to a growing cascade of similar actions taken by western allies in response to Russia’s alleged poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain.

> [...]

> On March 15, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on a series of Russian organizations and individuals for interference in the 2016 presidential election and other “malicious cyberattacks,” its most significant action against Moscow until Monday.

> [...]

> Mr. Trump has said that, despite its denials, Russia was likely behind it. “It looks like it,” he told reporters in the Oval Office on March 15, adding that he had spoken with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain.

You have to wonder how far Trump has to go before something he does is considered hostile to Russia. Does he have to nuke Saint Petersburg?
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Yes, but the market was super fragmented with each and every platform trying to lock in their customers as much as possible. The PC changed all that by virtue of the clones, which offered compatible systems and components from a large variety of vendors. Compaq arguably was the biggest force in establishing the clone market and even though as a brand they are gone today (though some of their legacy lives on in HP's server line) the computing world would not look even close to the same without the effort of those clone manufacturers.

The economies of scale engendered by the standardization of the PC platform really made things move.
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Some un-banked people use sneakers (eg. Air Jordans) as 'stores of value'

Source: I've watched all the sneaker documentaries on Amazon prime.