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Seems like The DAO bailout prove that the blockchain is most certainly mutable...
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I am with you on that one, the ESP32 is my favorite tiny machine.

Just like you said we did wonders back in the Atari, Amiga, MS-DOS days.

Thanks for the video.
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Ignoring the huge cost of R&D (the sunk cost you refer to) is disingenuous. It isn't even free to produce the copy of the software. There is marketing, bandwidth, upkeep. Maintaing backend servers and so on.
I agree, for the most part the price of the software doesn't have a lot to do with the cost to develope it, but you cant ignore the R&D costs.
Is there a video of this statement?
Not surprised at all. Facebook is not going to change.
Version 4 UUIDs are preferred not because random is as good, indeed for some usecases it is worse, but typically because leaking information about time of creation and MAC address of the creator is undesirable
reliable Republican megadonors

All of the telecommunications giants contributed more to Democrats than Republicans in the 2016 election cycle.
Maybe someone can help: is it possible to build an SBC can boot Linux and has just a CPU, gig ethernet and gobs of RAM (at least 8gb)?

Don't need display port, GPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPIO pins, etc - just a CPU + lots of RAM + an ethernet port to get stuff in/out.
I’m open to hearing about what special situations she has that has made it impossible to pursue the obvious options. Those things should’ve been included in the article, but they were not.

In the absence of such details, the article is basically just vaguely pulling at heartstrings.
Yes, fly there, pump more CO2 into the air thereby increasing ocean acidification to escalate coral bleaching.
By correctly you mean "in present state"?
You're right about her probably having options, but I think the important part here is the risk.

For homeless people living in the middle of a city, there's a higher density of essential services. In her case, that would be things like the microwaves or the bathrooms that she absolutely needs without an even greater inconvenience to her lifestyle. These are unreliable. They can fail from overuse or they can get taken away or locked behind paywalls because store owners don't like the fact that they attract homeless people. In a city, the density of these services makes it so that she probably knows where the next nearest one is if one of them is unavailable. It's risky, sure, but to her, it's a known risk she's adapted to live with.

She could move to somewhere cheaper, but "somewhere cheaper" is inevitably somewhere with either a lower density of people and money (and therefore fewer microwaves/bathrooms/whatever else she needs... I'm just going to refer to these as microwaves/bathrooms from here on), has less opportunity for work (not as much of a factor in her case, as you pointed out), or has some social/political aspect that makes it undesirable (like a higher rate of crime, which translates into less money or a much lower quality of life). Plus, you have to factor in the immediate cost of buying the microwaves or affording the apartment with a bathroom which she was avoiding previously. She could try and save or otherwise micromanage her money to cover the cost somehow, but when you're living paycheck to paycheck (as is usually the case), this means a few months, or even years of a worse quality of life for a life that isn't necessarily or apparently much better in the long run.

Then you have to consider intangibles like the support network, the knowledge of the area, or the environment. All of these can have a positive effect on a person's mental state, and if it's not the reason for staying in the area itself, giving it up for the unknown can easily be a reason not to leave.

The cost vs benefit is a total mystery and varies per person, and it's even harder to figure out when you're dealing with stress from your living condition.
Did the (2015-17) net neutrality regulations even apply to mobile providers?
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What's a good middle ground?

A "chaotic system" that is (a) real (b) a system and (c) condition data is a crossable hurdle. Ideas?
It's a bit ironic in a special paradoxical math like way (like [0]) that if someone discovers it and posts it online it'll instantly (ca. HTTPS vs. HTTP, other encryption, whether or not someone sees the page, etc.) be wrong by definition. It's like figuring what do you call an UFO that has been identified.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
> What would you give young people to start getting them literate in the machines?

Erector set[1]. It's a toy, but not super obvious how the parts are supposed to work together. (unless now they give advanced instructions for constructing things..)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set
Residency not required, I’ve heard.
This is what I don’t understand about homelessness: why do people insist that they have to live in a very high cost city?

Probably because people are not inert sacks of potatoes, and they have reasons for living where they do, some rational, some not as rational, yet still valid.

This is why I also support strong renter protection laws -- rental housing is not like any other investment, it's someone's home. (note that I'm a landlord myself and still support strong tenant protection laws).
No, just that's where they are. The law says a US citizen who happens to be in Berlin (maybe on vacation) is subject to German law. Fine says GDPR, I'm EU law, so I apply to that US citizen too.
I'm still waiting for 10x-100x drop in their prices - I believe that's going to enable a lot of new startups.
There are some zipcar spots on streets in Philly
Would she have made that choice if she had more money or housing was cheaper? If she is making the best of a bad situation, maybe that's a failing on our part not on hers.
The "not an exploit", I think, means something like "this is not, from Facebook's perspective, a malicious or unauthorized use of their platform and services".

In other words, it's not taking advantage of some accidental bug Facebook never intended to have; it's Facebook's system working as Facebook designed it to work.

Now, from the perspective of an individual person whose personal information was collected and distributed in this fashion, it certainly is unexpected and likely unwanted. But calling it a "breach" or "exploit" of Facebook implicitly covers for Facebook by implying that Facebook is a victim of some type of attack here. Facebook was not a victim of an attack.
I think that Linus Torvalds is a master of operating system development, even though he's done all his work in C. And I'm pretty sure that he doesn't care about ever being a master in web development (just as most web developers are probably not interested in becoming kernel developers).
Are you from India? I checked out your LinkedIn (HN profile > Website > LinkedIn)

Apparently there are others who have asked the same https://www.quora.com/Why-do-many-Indians-not-use-spaces-pro...

For the link, I don't use WP myself but if I ever do I'll find this post again.
Neat!
This analysis is consistent (and more accurate) than the OP; he assumed that the bitstring is random; therefore he arrives to the lower bound. If, somehow we account for the bias in the sequence, we may find a larger n.
They gave it a solid try and only gave up after the inevitable famine, forced labour camps, poverty and imprisonment of political opposition. A solid display of Marxist government.

Then they worked out they could still have most of that without the widespread poverty with fascism!
If the method stands up and considered fine, that means the shortest string is increasing at a rate of ~1 bit every 3 years.

That implies that if the Internet does not grow any more, we should be confident of a > 50% chance of a UUID not being universally unique in about 150 years.

Is this the next Y2K/2038 problem? :)
Interesting, I noticed as well that Alex Stamos has a record of data breaches that he leaves behind. What's his next gig? Does anyone know? Will be curious to follow.
Data collection for security and intelligence purposes by governments is exempt from GDPR rules, I think.
no, but these things probably aren't the only things that go into 'public relations'
Ergodicity becomes a problem here. The nonlinear systems typically studied by complexity and chaos theorists have strong fixed rules that do not change in time. Markets have systematic and structural changes which can make prior observations completely irrelevant.
I agree, however I don't think it's "just" the 9-5 job. If you had a big safety net and could move into your moms big house when sh*t hits the fan, even then having a 9-5 job you would still not follow some rules. But when you are so poor (like most people) that you really require not to lose your job, then is when you really have to do things you don't like just so your manager doesn't get pissed about you.
What type of optimization you specifically refer to, and which benchmarks? Changes to the ARM CPUs across producers are minor, and the packages are also practically the same (the distributions are few).

> without complete Upstream Kernel support and Open Sourcing of all necessary drivers, none of these Boards is really useful.

it's not clear if you refer to SBCs in general, or Pi alternatives. nonetheless, essentially all of them have Linux support (at least, Armbian support); of course, having upstream support would make them more usable, but this is different from "useful".
You make an excellent point, but I’d say the bigger problem with Gmail from a privacy stand-point is that your contacts and email contents are surrendered to an ad-surveillance company, and deliberately stored in plain-text, for any international government that fancies a look.

Even if you accept that that’s a price worth paying for the service, you’re “snitching” on all your friends you exchange numbers/emails with. If you avoid Gmail, they still have all your email, just from the other end.
I agree that it's inhumane to force people to either drop their social safety net or to sleep on the streets.

I think I might have phrased it as "it's impractical to force people to drop their social safety nets", or maybe "it's unrealistic to force..."

People need help. Not all the time, but at least sometimes for sure. If you can't afford to buy help then you either suffer or else lean on someone else. Asking people (who can't afford assistance) to move away from their friends and family isn't a realistic ask.

It's like they said in that episode of Firefly - "When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl - when you can't do that... You find someone to carry you."
> The install was a breeze because you practically installed a self contained black box.

Yes. Exactly what I wanted.

> What if you wanted to use Apache instead of nginx or a custom compiled Python interpreter or PyPy?

Then I would have read through the Docker config and figured out how to change it.
> Getting counterfeit merchandise from the factory to your doorstep faster than ever before.

Yep. I get bite at least once a year with that one.
I haven't read it yet (will soon), but I've heard nothing but good things about the Ron Chernow biography. I'm reading his biography of Hamilton right now, and I'm really impressed. I think he strikes just the right balance between academic rigor and narrative storytelling.
And EU isn't totally ok with this either. No wonder Ireland got hickups when UK voted to leave EU.
IMO main the problems are poverty and old traditions (e.g. animal products) and general confusion of priorities.

The bad media sells the latest news or problem as the most important news or problem.

People elect or at least accept the politicians.
People pay for or at least accept the bad greedy business practices of small and big companies in the name of holy competition and individual struggle for life.

Too many people have faith that god (notably in the USA) and the traditional conservative political parties do what should be done.

There is a lack of motivation and desire for life changing real science and technology as national priority to end poverty, to bring wealth to all, to prolong life (anti-aging) and to protect nature including coral reefs.
Science and technology would allow people to eat all they want and do no sports and still look like models and be perfectly healthy.

Cutting and austerity is not a strategy and not a replacement of urgent progress of science and technology.

Cutting and austerity is an unfortunate tactic because of lack of science and technology.
I really hope they add some sort of "highlighted" or "closed by" comment feature as well. I've occasionally had to lock closed issues to stop a flood of "+1" comments from crowding out the comment that fully addressed the originally reported problem. Manually hiding or deleting all new "+1" comments would be a lot of work in these cases
No it's bloody not.
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Heh, several EU countries already have FOI laws in place. Together with the GDPR regulation one has a handy and effective combination of tools to reign in governmental abuse. Oh, I’d never imagine I would ever use the word “synergy”! :D
It will be nice to have this but for data deserialization, which is the case in the example, I would still use drf serializers or marshmallow schemas.
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BTW what do you think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLuO1qDkoNg
> Fedex deliveries blocking the road for a short time are generally considered preferable to removing a whack of on-street parking from every block in order to have an excess of loading zones, or not being able to have deliveries at all.

You mean the way that the minor inconvenience of having
a few scooters laying around is considered acceptable in return for having a cheap, efficient, green solution for last mile transportation?
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This article is really confusing. Basically the point is that under the current terms of service they tell you that if you are outside of the US then you are doing business with their Ireland office. Since the Ireland office is in the EU, it is subject to the GDPR. So that means that everybody outside of the US will be covered by the GDPR (because they are doing business with an EU company).

They are changing their terms of agreement to now say that people outside of the US are doing business with the US company. This means that only people in the EU will be covered by the GDPR. Probably that's what they should have been doing all along, but there were probably massive tax advantages to running their international company in Ireland.

For what it's worth, I'm a huge proponent of GDPR and I would probably do the same thing -- at least initially. They have a lot of users and GDPR is really tricky to implement when dealing with any manual processes. Limiting your exposure is common sense.

I'm looking forward to seeing what actually happens to Facebook when GDPR comes into force. You know people are going to exercise their rights and I just can't imagine they are prepared. As I've been going through this stuff in my job I can't see any easy ways to sweep this under the carpet -- you not only need to inform the user about what's going on, you actually need to record the lawful basis that you've told them you are using. If you just say, "Oh I have consent" then the user can withdraw consent. If you actually needed that information (like the user's name!) then you are absolutely screwed.

I fully expect some thoughtful users to nail them to the wall. And when that happens, I expect them to implement everything world wide because it will be a lot easier/cheaper than maintaining different processes all over the place.
So no PRISM ? And analytics and google font don't collect my data when I'm not on a google site ? And no scanning of my gmail messages ? And I can install updates for my Android apps easily without linking my personal email to my phone ( and risking cloud contact/photo sync if I didn't do this right) ? And ads don't get personalized to my profile according to all those data ?
If the government has facebook data plus any other single piece of data then they have more than facebook.
Show me the rental listings and I'll believe you.

Secondly, it does not cost $500 to move into a $500 a month apartment. You need the deposit, you need good credit, you need last month's rent, etc.
Why isn't the writer helping her mother? Maybe give room and board? Maybe she doesn't have much to give but combining assets can help both?
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Is this news? Facebook had already stated that it wasn’t applying GDPR to non-Europeans.

Also, the headline is misleading: it makes it sound like FB is trying to get around laws. Really, all it’s doing is applying laws in the required jurisdictions, which is how things always work. Where’s the controversy?
I doubt many would pick JavaScript if given the option on the browser side.

Regarding node it has two things going for it, the frontend devs that only know JavaScript and try to do server side as well.

The fact that thanks to its world class JITs (V8 and ChakraCore) it easily beats Python and Ruby interpreters in performance, which are the most common deployed variant.
“How Capital Letters Became Internet Code for Yelling”

https://newrepublic.com/article/117390/netiquette-capitaliza...

There's a difference between emphasizing something and yelling it.

You can use * (asterisk) or _ (underscore) surrounding a word or words for emphasis. Like this (asterisk) or _this_. As you can see, asterisks get interpreted by HN into italics. So maybe you can think of underscores as _bold_?
Last year I visited Armenia where they also import a lot of second hand Japanese cars. I found this suprising as they drive on the right, and due to their proximity to Europe, I assumed importing cars from there would be a lot cheaper.

Does anyone know why this is the case?
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Depends on how cheap, the Minnowboard starts at $150

https://minnowboard.org
Yup, they are called flip-flop hubs, quite common and a bunch of bikes come with them installed so you can always choose between singlespeed or fixed gear.
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While this is certainly possible, I would have to see a (legal dictionary?) to change my mind.

Any links?
> Some websites are simply useless unless your browser loads third-party JS

These sites are definitely making the problem much bigger, typically not even caring.

The developer a site actually gives instead of a user an access to the user's data to any other entity from which the developer "just references the scripts or fonts or whatever" to shorten his development time.

A huge problem. The article that we comment to shows very specific examples.
Are you asking if it's possible, or asking for advice on a practical way to get it done?
Now imagine web sites written 100% in WASM, just like they were 100% in Flash.

What did you won with Flash being replaced?
On my 5 years old cubieboard server I experienced NAND corruption more often then not when power outage occurs. Never had this kind of problems since I switched to SD cards.

In my experience SD cards are much slower but more reliable and easier to manage (backups and such).
Can confirm. I read them both last summer. Amazing people, fantastic writing.
But here it was used as an argument - I am right because it is simpler explanation. Doing that is a fallacy and doing that after you personally phrased both theories so that the right one is simple is manipulation combined with fallacy.

The "Now use Occam's Razor." demand is wrong use of Occam's Razor. It is dishonest rhetoric that uses Occam's Razor as math theorem rather then rule of thumb.
>"the mistaken belief that the world will simply play ball and be dictated to by the EU, rather than the rest of the world simply taking their ball and going home"

And leave millions and millions in profit on the table for everyone else?

That the same argument used against changing the tax codes so companies would actually have to pay taxes in the countries in which they do business, by closing the loopholes.

They're not going to throw away profitable markets just like that. And if they do, good riddance.
> In private data centers, it's difficult to get above 30% average efficiency.

What exactly does that mean?
> He is a friendly person

Having read many of his internal rants at Google that’s not the epithet I would use. He certainly is a solid engineer though.
I wouldn't say second class citizen (just yet) but the docs and Googlers have been gently nudging people to the flex environment. It can do everything the standard one does and more, so there's really very little reason to stick around on standard.
What devices support Oreo right now?
> You're entitled to know how much they make from Prime

Do you? I don’t think they disclose that.
You are mistaken. In a small company you usually have the power to choose technology and make architecture decisions. Small company where you have many hats and work closely with stakeholder will teach so much more.

In the big enterprise, you will code on the locked windows7 machine and deploy to RedHat 5 box with the assistance of Ops team. You will use antiquated technology and all important architecture decision will be made by a clueless architect in the mothership.

My rule of thumb:

Junior - require handholding often a negative contribution
Midd - work independently, add value but require oversight
Senior - can contribute multiple times more, can mentor or architect

Most people never reach senior but they feel entitled by having years of experience.
I met a couple of a guys at a bar a few months ago. They both had on Amazon gear and, when prompted, would excitedly talk about their job at a fulfillment center and what it's like to "work for Amazon". They had worked their jobs for 1 and 2 years respectively.

Remind yourself that the warehouse employees are in areas where their choice of work would normally be Walmart or a coal mine. Working for a big name company like Amazon has as much prestige for them as it does for us "tech scene folks".
If the traffic doesn't go up significanly, the shortest string increase will drop exponentially. Even with only the last 5 years, you can observe it's slowing down, and that's with an hefty amount of traffic increase to back it up. 128 bits is super safe for a long long time !
I've lived in America most of my life, but I've only ever heard (or assumed?) the latter usage, which I assumed related to the phrase "is on the table". I wonder what the origin of the former is.

edit: I suppose it comes from how optimistically/pessimistically you view someone saying that a decision is on the table, I guess. Funny.
This reply[1] to your initial comment asked if the person would still be receiving $1300/month if she moved. To which the replies were "to commute". And so we're replying to those.

Would she still be making $1300/month in disability if she moved to Olympia? Or would it drop to near $1000? That extra $10 per day is a lot.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16873680
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/558979/BrainFix-the-lan...
Apple is going to stop app developers from harassing you
Have an EspressoBin sitting in my box of misc electronics parts. I wanted to run pfSense on it but last time I checked the Marvell CPU in it isn’t the same as the one in the Netgate SG-3100 that pfSense is exclusively compatible with ( https://store.netgate.com/Search.aspx?m ). Ended up getting a Ubiquiti UniFi switch + gateway to compliment the AC Pro AP that I already had and it works great — one management interface for all my home networking gear, VPN just works, wireless roaming + backups + 802.1x + rsyslog + emails of events + comprehensive monitoring and DPI make it a pretty nice home setup, especially with pi-hole running DNS.