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> With centralization we're delegating the act and responsibility of filtering to third parties.

Assuming that third parties have better information than the average person, that's not a bug, but rather a feature. The issue is that information asymmetry makes it difficult for average consumers to know which third parties actually do have better information and which ones are just gatekeepers collecting tolls.

In general, I'm inclined to believe that centralized third-parties are better at keeping out shysters and low quality content than a free-for-all. People always like to claim that 5-star scales driven by normal consumers are adequate filters, but the fact is that these are easily gamed by sockpuppets or the end-user's ignorance of what they're rating (i.e., you can go to one dentist with many 5-star ratings who was a good bedside manner, then go to a better dentist who has to undo all the fuck-ups that the first dentist made, and which you, as a non-specialist, were ignorant of). Crowdsourcing doesn't triumph over the groupthink, pluralistic ignorance, and other failings of collective intelligence.
Can the title be updated to say 'cryptocurrency' rather than 'crypto'?

http://cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com
What if the manufacturer didn’t do this to make everyone’s ECU better, but specifically to discourage users from buying third party parts?

I’m asking hypothetically of course...
Well, you are correct - there's a lot of reasons - but I still think art is one of the primary ones. If you'll allow me to drop into a specific example: during Riven's development, Cyan hired a guy named Richard Vander Wende, who had previously worked on Aladdin at Disney. Much like Aladdin, he made color grading a focus of Riven - most images tend to be unusually warm or cool, dark or light, etc. in ways that communicate a mood or something about the world you are interacting with (even if it's not something you yet know about the world you are interacting with). Stuff like this is, IMHO, unusually effective in a game like Riven - the player is often too busy looking for a switch or button or whatever to consciously absorb little details like that, but there's a way that I feel like that communicates the mood of a location in a way that's very emotional and brilliant. The effect may work better on me than other people, but it's one of the reasons why Riven is the highlight of the series for me.

There's other examples (I think losing Robyn Miller's musical talents change things a bit as well, even though the music in Uru is great), but that's the sort of thing that I'm on about. And, for that matter, I may be over-crediting Vander Wende for this, I just think it's an oddly notable similarity between Aladdin and Riven.

(also, as a bit of a Cyan nerd, I do sort of want to be pedantic and point out that GameTap was actually the third place Uru Live was hosted - there was a test-ish server around 2003/2004 when the single player game first came out, and community-hosted versions in the 2006ish timeframe before GameTap's version launched in late 2006/early 2007. Myst 5 actually came out in 2005, before GameTap's Uru launched)
It's amazing that I find myself thinking that Microsoft of the 90's and early 2000's as actually being a more open and accommodating company and windows being a more open and accommodating environment than Apple and iOS today.

Whether Microsoft had no choice and would have been worse if they could in this respect, the fact they they weren't and I think Apple is, and Microsoft was widely lambasted as money driven (e.g. M$) and evil at the time, and Apple largely gets a pass now, is interesting. That could be because Apple is better at managing image, or because people's perceptions and what they expect has shifted, or because there's a lot more bad (and worse) actors out there now that make Apple look better in comparison. It's hard to tell exactly why it's looked upon more favorably now, but I do believe my thoughts on Apple to be accurate, and I'm not sure how to feel about that.
I see these kinds of articles come along from time to time, and it always makes me wonder: Why this pressing need to maximize productivity? Why not just do things you enjoy, at a pace that you enjoy? Is it for more money/prestige? What's the use if you've been stressing and pressuring yourself for it all your life?

I feel like the odd person out because I work on something while I enjoy it, stop working on it when I don't, and pick it up again when I want to. Work is obviously a bit different, but I don't need to pressure myself to improve, I don't need a raise. I work as much as necessary and do other things the rest of the time. Some people are naturally more productive than me, and that's fine, I'm exactly as productive as I'm happy being.
Tesla has restrictions that are similar. Many parts are "restricted" at Tesla will not sell them unless you're a Tesla owner, or certified body shop. I'm not even sure they have any certified general repair shops.
I found a “blender” magazine on cd rom and decided to see if it was still usable recently.

While the menus don’t work on my intel Mac, the video files are readable but so small and very pixelated. It really was pretty full, but the web has really replaced this kind of thing. The disk was surprisingly full though at 600 mb of content.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(magazine)
Yeah, I just want to echo this. As a periodic insomniac, I cannot imagine having your struggles with it. My own are bad enough. I've done the whole "month with out sleeping" thing. It was hell. Being in that state where nothing feels like it helps is terrifying and frustrating. I cannot imagine having that my whole life and never being able to break out of it. I feel very, very lucky that meditation, sleep hygiene, and melatonin now help me keep mine reasonably in check.

I'm sorry you got dealt that hand, it sounds like you're dealing with it far better than the vast majority of people would - including me.
Since the commenter said "full-stack website with JS" I would assume that the commenter intended "full-stack" to mean both backend and frontend. If he meant "full-stack" to mean entirely Javascript there would be no reason to tack on "with JS".
The answers aren't entirely separable. Hardware capable of any kind of video wasn't accessible to the larger community and it sure as hell wasn't affordable.

When Xiph.Org started (1994), even audio required high-end hardware. Yes, sound cards were available for PCs, but big enough hard disks were not.

When only the elites have access, the standards are made by elites.
As I said, I think mining will be replaced with new, yet to be developed technologies.

Random example of what will change: Autonomous companies. Remember the DAO? That was a first glimpse of the future. As an investor, you put money in via a crypto transaction and then you have voting power over the actions of the company.
It’s a routine thing. Once you’re out of “waking up to feed” phase (which is typically is <10months), it is better to have a rigid sleep schedule for the kid and it forces you to adopt one as well.
Not in my experience. Most comments I've seen laud it for providing protections for user privacy.
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Licensing is generally complicated but it's often for some fixed period of time. I expect part of the problem is in the incentives. I get the credit if I can negotiate a lower licensing cost today. If the license expires in 10 years rather than 50, that's probably not my problem.
Do you sincerely think that we are totally unable to predict when--or if ever--we might create general intelligence, something which stupid evolution has done through trial and error, but humans can attempt with striking brilliance and worldwide motivated research efforts? You can't make any rough prediction on whether we will be able to reach that point, or when it will happen?
In my experience with off shore development I found the people I worked with to be extremely hard working and eager to learn. The programming was never the problem, the problem was the lack of understanding the business use cases of what we were building. Because they had no proximity to the business problem we were attempting to solve, they had a hard time making the right decision on their own. Specs had to be very, very detailed.
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Fingerprints are also not that reliable. Some gun safes that use fingerprints are notorious for opening too easily with wrong fingerprints. On the other end of the spectrum, India is struggling with their fingerprint authentication system, as the system fails to recognize the fingerprints on file. [1]

[1] https://scroll.in/article/857274/now-even-the-fingerprints-o...
> Fitting keyboards with NFC devices could make it even better.

As long as the user must do something on the device to approve it, otherwise you can have proximity scanning attacks as with RFID.
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I replaced my iPhone screen (at a Staples office supply store) and the new screen was polarized such that it was dark when viewed (in portrait orientation) through my polarized sunglasses. Very frustrating that I had to either look over my sunglasses or rotate the phone to use it. Apple's screens appear to have some slight polarization but it is cleverly at a diagonal to both portrait and landscape orientation. Details matter.
What a pain in the ass.

If you own the song, seems like you'd want to avoid leaving money on the table. I wonder how common relicensing is vs. editing.
Basically this - a lot of the time the options just aren't there for the rest of the world.

I think stuff like Netflix, Spotify, Steam, etc have proven that when content is priced right and delivered in a convenient manner folks are more than happy to pay.

News media is one of the worst for not figuring out how to adapt. I'd love to read some newspapers, watch a couple news networks, etc - but i'm not willing to plop down $100 a month and deal with a bunch of different apps to do this so I stick with online.
This is too strict: smtp tries A/AAAA/CNAME records if there is no MX.
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It's very confusing honestly. If I wanted to apply for a job right now I've got 1 year professional iOS development experience and 2 years Android... So I don't really feel like a senior Android developer at all but junior positions are incredibly scarce.

Most places I've seen are asking for a lot more experience or just saying senior with "deep knowledge of Android framework"... Whatever that is supposed to mean.

Like are you asking me to know the exact implementation of the stock ArrayAdapter for ListView so that I can tell you why we'd need a custom one or are you looking for someone to debug Dalvik/kernal issues?

Like I can architecture good clean code (and have done so for personal projects as well as professional) but I still feel junior because it feels like junior should until be 4+ years of experience.
Your computer monitor works within the sRGB (or comparable) color space, so it physically cannot render colors outside of that color space. When you look at that diagram you're seeing a representation, not the real deal.

Pigments could theoretically do a better job than pixels. But those would have to be some very good pigment$. I'm not sure if there is a printer that can produce this in practice. Your cheap inkjet printer definitely won't. The most expensive printers haven't been designed to cover the full human visual spectrum either, out of technical limitations, or cost limitations. And even when you have the pigments on print, the light $ource would have to contain the entire visible spectrum at high intensity (basically you'd need a very bright white light, as bright as the sun). And then the surface cannot have any glare. etc. So not very practical to achieve.
Or once all the AVC patents expire, what additional tools, like new encoding and tools from Open Sources like Daala we could add to, to form a new baseline codec for the web, that is truly Patents free.

The current AV1 is only royalty free.

When will all AAC patents expire? It is over 20 years since AAC introduction.
> This would be like your older NVidia graphics card never working again because of the latest Windows 10 update.

Sounds like the early 1990's.
I appreciate a lot of what you're saying about engaging but the success of trolling often lies in taking up your attention at the expense of other things

> By defeating the argument instead of the person.

When literally every thread in HN about GDPR/FB has a top-3 comment asking "What about Obama?" how does continuing to defeat that point actually discourage or defeat trolling? The question has been asked and answered, but that doesn't stop people, troll and genuine, from continuing to ask it ad nauseam.

At what point does 'defeat the argument' mean we have to entertain conversations about global warming potentially being a hoax, or Obama's birth certificate being fake, or any other number of obviously political and mostly bad-faith because 1 out of 100 commenters have 'genuine' interest in 'conversation' about it?
For Mark to really feel sorry, being not on Facebook needs to be way more cooler. It needs famous people like Kylie Jenner [0] to act.

[0] http://fortune.com/2018/02/22/kylie-jenner-snapchat-snap-val...
How much of those million Euros went to the actual employees ? I agree with you that the pay was split unfairly by the “hierarchy”.

Big Indian IT firms makes a killing when it comes to billing clients. Not much of that money trickles down to the employees who actually do the job. The employees are plagued with "performance appraisals", "yearly evaluations" to fight for meager raises.
What a frustrating game. haha
Yea I’ll admit I’m skeptical of dockless bikes as well. We have docks and since there’s basically always one within half a mile or (usually much) less, it works perfectly fine imo.

Maybe dockless would be nice on a beach with a boardwalk, but in a city? Where are they going to go? And I have a hard time imagining anywhere with a typical not NYC or main downtown area population density will keep them moving enough. I’m happy to be proven wrong though.
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How would the manufacturer know you were using a non-OEM part, though? As far as they're concerned their parts support so-and-so protocol, so they should be able to use it.
Given the conversation is regarding the US, the difference is obvious.

Users choose to use Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft or whichever "Big Web" services they want.

However, many people in US have absolutely zero choice regarding their ISP, because ISPs have monopolies in the regions they serve, there's no competition. It's inherently not a free market.
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>Perhaps an OSS system that spins up encrypted vm's with FB/Twitter/Email like functionality all paid for via cryptocurrency is a future I would really like to see

The problem is that very few people want to pay for this functionality, and even fewer actually care if a database somewhere has a record of them being one of 107 million people that clicked "like" on Coke's Facebook page. To be sure, there is a small but vocal contingent of people that do care (many of them on HN), and those people will delete their Facebook accounts and perhaps try to create decentralized solutions. But the #DeleteFacebook campaign mostly went nowhere, as did the campaign to get advertisers to drop Facebook.

Those that do try to create new platforms as you suggest should be aware that they will not experience any significant uptake from Facebook users without improving on Facebook's core functionality. Enhanced privacy cannot be your primary selling point. For the most part, people don't spend $100K+ on a Tesla because it is an electric car - they spend it because Teslas are awesome cars with awesome features. You would need to build the Tesla of social networks to get anyone to switch.
Indian engineers in India are like animals in a zoo. Indian engineers outside India are like animals in a forest. They thrive and shine because they are free. It's all in the environment. The only way to add "offshore" teams safely is to find people who refuse to accept a code review comment because that's not the right thing to do, no matter which part of the world they are in.
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The origins of WebAuthn go back to http://www.czeskis.com/research/pubs/czeskis-phoneauth-ccs12...
I'd say that, especially in a large corporation, if you're a company veteran, with X years of knowledge of the internals, systems, business cases, managers etc., then you're really worth a lot more than a random guy from the street, even he matches your CV in terms of generic experience. A smart company would be more than happy to take you back after your sabbatical.

In other words, in large organizations, organizational complexity can be the main challenge, while tech challenges are really secondary. I see that in a large bank every day.
Does the new buyer pay the tax on appreciation in all the previous years? If not teachers are getting screwed twice.

If a house is appraised at $10,000.00 in 2000 and doesn’t sell for 10 years it pays $2000.00 in taxes. Since teachers are paid out of this tax their salaries increases are capped at $2,000.00. If wages (and housing prices) in general went up at even 3% per year then teachers have to compete against other buyers with double the cash.

The only way teachers aren’t getting screwed here is if every house sells every year.

Again, I’m not an economist and these numbers are obviously a gross oversimplification.
Thank you, I didn't expect to find a modern game with that gameplay style.
While you're being downvoted, I wouldn't necessarily disagree.

On the stock market (which we consider a more legitimate investment), share price is entirely driven by perception and the amount of buyers vs sellers. This resembles cryptocurrencies as well.

The difference, however, is that there is an underlying company you're betting on with a stock, and buyers often believe that a company will have more buyers in the future due to the company's performance and its actual returns.

Cryptocurrencies are a much more volatile, short-term investment with virtually no regulations, and there's very rarely an underlying bet aside from "this sounds good and will sound good to other people too."
This seems like a really nice way to query json without dumping it into a DB
I imagine if you're hiring offshore workers you aren't working at a large tech company, and there might be a more standard work day which is expected to be adhered to.

For example, I doubt most of the time the IT or programmers working for a bank can expect to roll in at 10 or 11. Different jobs have different expectations.
This statement screams failure - "We would have one week to recruit developers from our company's off-shoring pool and then two weeks to coach the team."

Basically, they were forced by their corporate entity to hire people that did not have the right experience and then train them in two weeks? <sarcasm> Sounds like a recipe for success! </sarcasm>

I've been in the position before where I had to work with a staffing firm and the majority of the resumes they provided were not a fit in any shape or form. Management did the smart thing and we found somebody else who could give us a better pool of candidates.
But with that rationale, so is our current factory farming process.

Animals don't naturally graze, they are fed all the food they need.
They don't naturally die. They are killed.
They aren't naturally conceived, they are inseminated.

Where does the "natural" absolutism end?
Perfect reflection of my views. I may not be high throughput, but I produce good/excellent work and have a really good work/life balance.
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I kinda blame the dotcom boom for this. Everyone lamented the bad habits developers learned but from my perspective it was the managers who picked up the worst tricks. As a manager you can make any lie work for about 18 months. After that the devs know if you’re full of shit and by the two year mark you have to find a new group of developers to feed your lines to.

You aren’t building a product. You’re building a team that knows how to build that product. If you don’t then version 3 won’t ever happen. If you do it poorly enough version 2 will not happen.

And once you’ve taken that risk of making a new product, why wouldn’t you want a version 2 or 3? Isn’t that where all the money is?
The article mentions $15k in AWS credits, but Atlas currently only shows $5k in credits.
> Facebook engineers are quitting or trying to transfer to Instagram or WhatsApp

I find trying to transfer into another product hilarious: it seems to me that they just don't want to have the stigma of working for "Facebook, the product", without really solving the issues working for "Facebook, the company".
That's a really interesting point. If ISPs reinvested some of their revenue into networking research (or even more applied /R&D work), it would go a long way towards both advancing our field and improving their general reputations.

Networking is not my area of expertise, so it's possible that some do this already. I guess I always assumed that ISPs had research departments whose members would be involved in drafting network-related RFCs and publishing papers, but maybe that's left to Cisco et al.
The whole "secret question" thing seemed to me to a completely stupid idea from the start. "Hey, give us password. If you forget your password, give us a much, much less secure way to access your account."

I've always given false info to those, when I bother to fill them out at all. If necessary, I just store this false info along with the password in the encrypted file I keep my passwords in. The security questions they use are often easily guessable (although it seems now they are using somewhat better questions). Nevertheless, my attitude is that I'll just make sure to retain the password.

I get the possible security risk of answering quizzes on places like Facebook, but I've done it a few times because it's fun. It all boils down to passwords being a hassle. Almost anything you do to make dealing with passwords easier makes them less secure, but there's nothing better. The only improvements over passwords come from additional authentication factors, like having to grab a code messaged to your cell-phone, or using one of those little security token devices (or the software equivalent). I don't think anything is going to be replacing passwords any time soon.