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Restrictions on the export of cryptographic technology is definitely something that can be argued makes us less free. Fortunately many die hards have put massive effort into exporting cryptography and have effectively won at this point.
Unlike infection, depression is not curable in general. If you had an incurable infection, taking Tylenol and using band-aids might very well be a reasonable approach. Everything's a trade-off.

Everyone is different, but often after I sober up, I feel reasonably good for hours or days. Cured? No. As above, there is no cure.

A significant benefit of alcohol is that relief is more or less instant. That's good in itself. But it's also a useful lesson. Black moods suck, but they come and go, and the feeling that won't is just a feeling.

I don't care for analogies, but I'd liken booze to steroids. Harmful if taken in excess over long periods, but useful, even life-saving in some situations.
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I think the sentencing is incredibly harsh and unfair. To their credit, Microsoft stepped in and corrected the Government on the valuation of the media otherwise he might potentially be facing worse fines or time.

As I said elsewhere, he should have been given the option to destroy the media and eat the cost.

What I object to is that the WP has framed Lundgren as having not done anything wrong and everyone is cursing Microsoft who is in the right.

> "Copyright infringement" here implies "distributing software illegally". Licenses are not "works" and thus cannot be copyrighted. Trademarks cannot be copyrighted and trademark infringement is not copyright infringement.

That's incorrect. A logo can be both Trademarked and Copyrighted.

> The entire point is that his disks had "zero or near zero" value to the copyright holder since they did not contain any licenses, and thus his sentence is unfair.

You're stating as fact the testimony of a witness, Glenn Weadock, and his entire testimony was ultimately dismissed.

> The judge said he disregarded Weadock’s testimony.

You're also not providing context around that quote to misrepresent it. Weadock was asked "In your opinion, without a code, either product key or COA [Certificate of Authenticity], what is the value of these reinstallation disks?"

That doesn't answer the question of if the disks have value with a code, or if the license is valid for the hardware which they're being used.

> Is that sufficient legal basis for the sentence?

Perhaps. I was asking why he went to the extra effort of making the disk look like an official restore disk from Dell instead of just scribbling "Eric's super wiz bang restore disc on it"?
In 10-20 years, sure. So for those 10-20 years we should encourage it.
He was not violating a software license agreement.
It's certainly been my experience that there are a lot of JS developers who aren't like you, though I have met a few who are. But JS has traditionally been one of the most accessible languages. Before transpilers became common, view source allowed non-programmers to learn javascript by example. And because of it's use in the front-end/web, you saw a lot graphic designers and other non-programmers learn it to be able to put something online. Javascript also goes out of its way to be friendlier. While other languages complain when you try to add two different width integers, Javascript will happily add a number and a string together. It's something that drives those of us with a static typing background nuts, but makes the language more approachable overall.

It's certainly a tired narrative that a lot of the churn in the front-end javascript framework world comes from developers who aren't aware of well-recognized patterns and techniques from other languages. But stereotypes and tired critiques almost always have some basis in reality and it does seem like the JavaScript world is rediscovering a few lessons the hard way rather than learning from the experience of other language communities.
This article could have also been titled "Which Front End framework to choose for [insert any CMS or backend framework here]".
I suppose you could, but there are a lot of stocks to look at... but that's not the point, thanks for the insight.
Intuitively, I think "proof of stake" could violate Gödel's incompleteness theorems. These basically state that no complete system can proof its own correctness. And that's exactly what "proof of stake" tries to do: proof its correctness without external anchor of truth.

Of course, Vitalik Buterin knows that so he resorted to "weak subjectivity", basically saying that if you are not online often enough, you need to trust someone with providing you check points to decide which fork is the "true" one.
Put you resume on a google doc, and share the link here. You do not have to provide personal details, but at least provide more detail on your skills and a contact #. We hire for remote working contract positions from time to time. I would admit that I have second thoughts about this outreach, but there should be hope for everybody!

We do not have something available right now, but requirements do open up. I wish you luck!
If your company is trying to be environmentally-conscious and they don't allow telecommuting, then they are failing to do the one thing that would have the biggest impact on carbon emissions for most tech companies.
Funny that you mention the 19th century, because another example of a system that required an ever-increasing series of hacks to solve major flaws is the internal combustion engine. Whether the problem that Ethereum solves is anywhere near as valuable as the problems solved by ICE remains to be seen, but this just seems like the engineering process to me, especially for a young technology.
Possible. Progress will be made by sharpening that intuition into a mathematical proof or clean toy model exhibiting the failure, not by arguing from analogy.
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I don't like it. This is a false consistency. It looks like a switch but works totally differently (match is semantically more like an if-else chain). The proposal author gives a similar rejection of this syntax under the section "=> for leg bodies" in the proposal.
Even though he says the EEG was flat: I'm mostly horrified at the idea that the pig might still be conscious.

Pigs are self aware.
> An attacker who controls arbitrary IP addresses can get a DV cert issued without control of the DNS.

What? How? Did you read my comment at all? I was saying the CA needs to have a way to verify ownership with the domain registrar. Over HTTPS, obviously. An attacker can't forget a response, so the worst case is the cert doesn't get issued, which it very much shouldn't be if ownership cannot be verified.
I dunno. Proof of Stake is simply codifying an old rule of economics: The rich get richer. You prove your stake and get more Ether out of the deal. A "Dividend" if you will.

I don't think its very good for the cryptocoin community, but hey, I'm up to see the grand experiment unfold.
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To hell with profitability. I'm infinitely glad my son's right to live wasn't an option or a choice. Today he's an healthy 7 normal years old Canadian who had the top infant cardiac surgeons in the world for multiple surgeries.

So, yes, the government. It may not be monetarily profitable but money shouldn't matter to build a humane society.
I wasn’t aware of the 2000 hours a year estimate. TIL!
Dont know the bottle, but thats a bad designed bottle then.
Ah, it was introduced in System 7.5 which, perhaps coincidentally, was the first version of MacOS I had when I needed to connect it over TCP/IP.
Killcord is described as resilient and resistant. The resilience is undefined, and the resistance is defined as censorship resistance. I'll ignore the censorship resistance, as it doesn't seem to have any qualities different from any other Ethereum contract.

I don't see what this project is resilient against. In fact is seems unable to recover from issues such as the trusted third party publishing early.

How is key confidentiality preserved? The integrity of the keys? What if the keys are changed or deleted? How are DOSes protected against, so early disclosures don't get forced?

There are quite a few issues with the project. Unfortunately, killcord doesn't seem ready for release into prime-time as a key-management method. Killcord seems equivalent in intended operation to a non-blockchain HSM, but all the protections of an HSM, all the key management, all the security controls, they are all gone. This actually introduces security issues instead of solving for them.

What is the actual problem that killcord is attempting to solve? There are likely more robust designs, such as secret sharing, that will solve the target problem.
beware survivor bias on this thread.
Yes, you are correct - I hadn't read the story as being one of assault, but perhaps I wasn't thinking it through, and it could/should be seen as such. But discussions and decisions like that are exactly why the details matter.
Can confirm.

The keyboard on my touchbar Mac pro has a few sticky keys that make it super annoying to type. The butterfly key design is just not sturdy enough.

The laptop is out of warranty, so for now I am using an external keyboard.

For a $3K laptop, this is not acceptable.
Healthcare is a market all over the world, including across all of the developed world.

What do you think Sanofi is exactly? That's the giant French pharma corporation that sells drugs in a global healthcare market.

How about all the excellent German medtech device makers? They sell their products in a global healthcare market.

How about Switzerland, Germany, Japan? They all have regulated healthcare markets, and they're three of the best healthcare systems on earth.

If you're a radiologist in the EU, you're selling your skill in a market. If one country won't pay you what you want, you can try to go to another market and earn more.
Will this thing really be called "thenable"? Has nobody suggested a better name?
Well.. maybe not at all costs...
Hmmm...as far as I understood the FA, the point is exactly that 'go' is unlike PAR in important respects.

'go' is more like a goto, the new goroutine is spawned, without any scoping. PAR opens a scope where all the contained routines are executed in parallel, but all of these must have terminated before the statement after the PAR is executed.

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Babel has a lot of plugins, and hopefully people don't have to learn all of them. How many people use stage-0 plugins for bind operator or do expressions?

You're right that Babel (and TypeScript!) implement features earlier than they land in the spec, but at least TS does so only when it's almost for sure going to make it in (around stage 3) and people probably shouldn't be using stage 0-2 plugins for anything but experiments, IMO.
Like the article explains, Tokyo's rail system is privately owned and operated.
Internal combustions work, really well, today, and are not theoretically impossible. Not really the same.
I'll be real annoyed if they end Inbox, because I use inbox's Reminders heavily. I love having my todo items and emails in the same place, because that's what my inbox IS to me.
Sounds like you used a random laptop instead of researching which one is well supported hardware.
No wager necessary, feel free to point out my mistake, if I made one. It won't prove that you know what you are talking about in general (since, as we've seen, programs really can't "do anything" if they have UB anywhere in them), but I do like to know when I make mistakes, and I'll fully own up to it if I did.
I don't remember the author off hand (maybe John Varley?) but there is a science fiction novel where people are kept as heads with all of their nerves hooked up in such a way that ANY sensation could be perfectly created.

Needless to say, it was possible to go to some pretty dark places with this. Imagine, for example, feeling like you had to urinate but never being able to relieve yourself for all eternity. And that was one of the "lighter" abuses.

shiver
The biggest problem with this argument is that the output of the system as a whole is not improved by open offices. It has all of the same problems that apply to productivity of individuals, with virtually no advantages. It’s a myth that communication is hindered by private offices, as much as managers or PMs want us to believe otherwise.

If devs are burning through tickets yet building the wrong thing, it’s not the office layout that is the problem. So having an open office environment while changing nothing else in that example simply means they are going to build the wrong thing much more slowly.

You are correct that it’s hard to come back to open space after having an office, but it isn’t for the reasons you mention. The reason is simply because open offices suck.
I can argue this either way from a constitutionality standpoint, but I think given the court's current makeup it's very likely that this will happen, and that it's probably the "correct" decision for most viewpoints on jurisprudence and interpretation.

Of course, as in the Dred Scott case, the "correct" decision is morally awful, which is one reason I'm not a big fan of our Constitution, but it puts people in the odd position of having to either oppose a core part of the American system or passively accept that the system sometimes gives you results like this.
He probably also knew if he told her the citation, she'd just argue it... it would prolong the argument longer.
> The "with" example for benefits to not having a "go" statement seem rather bogus, especially seeing that such RAII constructs do not exist in Go (no destructors, remember?).

You've greatly underestimated how general this problem is.

First, Python's `with` statement has nothing to do with destructors. From the PEPM for `with`:

with VAR = EXPR:
BLOCK

which roughly translates into this:

VAR = EXPR
VAR.__enter__()
try:
BLOCK
finally:
VAR.__exit__()

`exit` is a method, not a destructor. As a result, Go could easily gain a `with`-like construct.

Moreso, the issue applies even if there's nothing like `with` in the language. If I'm reading a function definition, and that definition uses the "acquire, try, finally, release" pattern that is the desugaring of `with`, then it sure would be nice to know that nothing from BLOCK is running after the `finally` statement has run. `go` breaks that assumption.
> I think it does make sense. If they can't do it themselves then let them hire someone who'll do this for them.

Really? In your mental model is (or should be) every domain owner overflowing with money?
> It must be weird having thoughts without any sensory input whatsoever...it’s like a prison of sorts

I don't know. For an uninstantiated mind, perhaps. But if you know it's temporary and know it's safe, perhaps it would be therapeutic. Or beneficial in some other way. Maybe a detached brain sleeps better. Or maybe it instantly and irreversibly goes mad.
> Intellectual property is impossible.

It's obvious that intellectual property is a social and legal construct, because the things considered property are intangible, but all other forms of property are also social and legal constructs.

Property is not merely possession -- it is the recognition by society and by the law that you have a right to possess things, and that those rights include preventing people from taking the things you possess.

If you look at the history of property rights in land, which are among the oldest and most fundamental property rights, you'll see how incredibly complicated they became, and how much they have changed over time, and how much of what we think is "just the way things are" is relatively new and does not exist for the reasons we think it does. The legacy of feudal land tenure in modern legal systems is a good example.
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It is very unlikely that you would be granted a banking charter in the United States for a 'challenger' bank model. The FDIC (and other regulators) have started to approve some de novo (new) banks[1], but these are very much the run of the mill community banks that are not looking to disrupt.

The regulators in the U.S. will finally give in, but we're more likely to see a 'challenger' bank as a spin out of an existing bank over the next few years IMO.

N26 and other UK/European challenger banks are entering the U.S. market this summer, but they will not have a banking license.

[1] https://www.americanbanker.com/slideshow/rebirth-the-de-novo...
Yep. I've considered many times that Ethereum went down one path of evolution from Bitcoin, which is get more and more complicated. The problems with certain subsystems (the scripting language for example) have been discussed at length on HN, knowing how hard it is to modify complex systems that only get more complicated, I doubt they'll ever fix these issues, they'll be battling them indefinitely. That's a real problem considering you can never really trust Ethereum and the entire thing is predicated on trust.

And what does all this complexity buy? Cryptokitties. We sure this is a worthy tradeoff? Would they Eth guys even be able to recognize this considering what's invested personally and monetarily? There's plenty of suckers, so I'm sure the "next year" kicking the can down the road cycle can go on as long as it's needed, but I'm interested to see if we ever get something of value out of it.

The other evolutionary route interests me, but I'm too busy, lazy, ignorant, and disturbed by the entire space to test it out. Maybe some day.
Having some domain specific knowledge of the financial flow through the industry, I tend to favor a more federated administration model like you suggest. Skeptical of federal level ability and historical competency, I favor outsourcing the initial transition wrt implementation and administration to
Switzerland, Netherlands, Singapore, France, etc.
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Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16922476
You are mistaking long term with short term. Short term it is impossible to build/rebuild housing. Short term that street is no longer big enough. Short term you will discover unintended consequences that don't work out for you.

Long term we will (as always) re-create the entire city. Long term we will notice that the street is too busy and do something about it. Long term we might even be do something about it people not working close to their home. Long term will will figure out what the true consequences of our decisions are and make further decisions to mitigate them which in turn will result in a new set of unintended decisions.
For those of you in Sweden: This was mentioned in a documentary that is available on svtplay right now.

https://www.svtplay.se/vikingarnas-tid

Episode 1 has the Öland fortress.

It's a shame but they don't have english subs and since it's swedish public broadcasting it's most likely geo blocked.
Well, you haven't proven Ethereum's theoretical impossibility either. 'I think this might be a scam' is not a proof, no matter how many heuristics are on your side.
I live in a small city on the west coast of Sweden and we basically have only one bigger IT company which offers jobs which I find interesting from a engineering point of view.

Sadly they produce hard- and software which is used by China for deep package inspection which is one part of their great firewall.

I morally can't bring myself to apply for a job there. Therefor I had to fird a job in Gothenburg to where I have to commute for 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening every day.
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That's great news. I looked it up and it seems like it's almost been 2 years; not a very long time. I understand defaulting to re-captcha is a compromise and no better option exists for Cloudflare but you'll have to excuse me for not noticing the difference when I encounter "Your network is sending out automated queries" so often it's effectively a block.
'FAQ' seems like the wrong term. I doubt that "What are some trivial but flawed ways of solving the problem?" is frequently asked...
Sounds like a burden for the salespeople.
If you have contacts at Microsoft, please share this with them and ask them to overturn this terrible ruling.

Quote: Microsoft’s lawyer argued to the court that the sales of the disks “displaced Microsoft’s potential sales of genuine operating systems,” while ignoring the fact these disks were inoperable without an existing license paid for or granted by the company. An expert witness testified there was “zero or near zero” monetary value in any of the disks; they were useful mainly as a convenience to users or maintenance technicians.
Looking forward!
Interesting that this makes it illegal to download install media for a friend. So if someone locks themselves out of bitlocker, or the drive fails - they'd need to boot into a free operating system (say a live Linux distros that they could legally get from a friend) - and then download and make an install stick for Windows.

Because someone else lending them a ready-made windows USB key (from the free download ms offers) would be illegal distribution of copyrighted material.

So much for right to help with repair/fair use etc.
I'll go a step further and say the number of companies that will willingly hire someone with a felony sex offense involving minors is essentially 0. Especially when it happened 2 years ago in someone's late 20s/early 30s (guessing based on work experience).
My “3” key quite often repeats on mine. I really dislike the keyboard.

The up and down arrow keys are so small it makes it really difficult to touch type. Especially when coding and you’re navigating about using the keyboard.

It’s the stupid race to the bottom to get the worlds thinnest laptop at the expense of functionality.
The most important quote:

"What should you buy instead of all these bad computers? I have no earthly idea."

Does anybody here had experience with XPS 15 or anything of similar form factor of MacBook Pro 15?
Terrible examples. Any kind of repair gives you a quote before work starts. If you don't like it you can take it someplace else. Does the quote always match reality? No, but it give you an idea.

In most healthcare scenarios of consequence you have no such choice.
You're surprised polyamory isn't more widely accepted by a nation that until only very recently defined marriage as strictly between a man and a woman? And even when that changed, still only between two individuals?
I can't see how adding an additional person would solve the big stressors on failed marriages -- money, child-rearing, different values/desires. If anything those issues would be worse. Maybe it would reduce infidelity, or trouble accepting the same.
If a company is rejecting you based on policy, yes. If it's a personal decision based on prejudice against felons (he can't possibly be competent and non-violent), the result is not the same, you have the chance to disprove those prejudices and sell yourself. Since such prejudice is rampant, it may be your best overall chance.

I believe that, aside from specialized fields like bank tellers or people working with children, access to conviction history should be severely restricted - the only point of such info is to facilitate discrimination.

In theory, the debt to society is repaid when the individual exits the penitentiary. In practice, the punishment continues on an ad-hoc, deregulated fashion from private individuals against the most vulnerable segment of the ex-felonry: those with meager material means and education, limited family support and in most desperate need to secure lawful employment. This extended and unequal punishment is a clear violation of the equality before law all citizens should enjoy, that should punish similar acts to the same degree.
Damn you diffie hellman!
Perhaps relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition