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One of the best thinkers on bubbles I've come across is Jeremy Grantham https://qz.com/111094/this-fund-tracks-36-bubbles-and-33-hav...

He's ambivalent at the moment - thinks it'll go up more but probably fall in the future. http://www.cityam.com/278218/jeremy-grantham-predicted-last-...
> though, I'm not sure a blockchain is needed here

Its funny how this applies to almost all blockchain applications.
Its $4k minimum here on the outer fringes of the greater Seattle area to get your head gasket done if you go to a stealership (eg: using a dealership in Kent). In town you'd be up at $5k, though an independent shop will do it for $3500. Most of the latter category I outlined will never set foot in an independent shop though, due to their own shitty preconceptions.

Additionally, the oil consumption and leakage seems to start a bit after 70k miles. I don't know anyone who made it to 100k before needing the head gasket done, my aunt generally parts with Subarus right before they hit 65k due to this. Its an expensive addiction if your a skier.

Comparatively, a serpentine belt (rated to 100k, can easily do 120k) on a Lexus engine will run you $1200, and is one of the few things you'd need to change besides oil as you get up there in mileage.
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Those things in (computer) games which, when opened, offer up a random item or items.
Took me ages to find this...

In Google Admin

Apps > G Suite > Settings for Gmail > Advanced settings

...and then scroll down to :

New Gmail Early Adopter Program
The accusation that you're irrational – truth or manipulative power play?
It's a UNIXy system, that actually works with the hardware. Closing the lid mostly. In 20 years I haven't seen a single Win/Linux laptop that worked (on decently specced HW).

Oh sure, tons of "I have a perfectly working linux on x" but drilling down it always boils down to fiddling, updating, manually correcting some value somewhere, tweaking.. etc.

I switched to a mac some 8 years ago on the desktop and 6 years ago as my daily driver laptop. I would love to break out of the apple ecosystem for something more free but I just have not been convinced it exists yet.

With all the complaints about macos, rightfully so, quality seems to be degrading somehwat, the HW/SW combination is still unbeaten in my book. I run Fusion on it, with a Windows Server VM and Linux VM w shared homedir so I can run whatever tools best fit for the job. Only real gripe is memory limit of 16GB. Oh and the touchbar. Fuck the touchbar. Could have been nice as an addition above the Fn key row.

Now let's hope my keyboard holds out ;)
No 92 octane gas? Very odd, must not be many higher end cars in that part of Iowa.
But salaries are stalled at 60-70K, right?

EDIT: I mean for experienced engineers.
I eagerly expect the converse product: Blockchain enabled sanitation systems, that would allow one to relieve themselves on the Blockchain.

That's a billion dollar ICO right there.
Am I reading the announcement correctly, that only registered users on the site can exploit this specific vulnerability?

The seriously scary part about the previous vulnerabilities like Drupalgeddon was that anyone could exploit them without having an account on the site.
“It’s very rare that I see positive comments about the touchbar”

My wife likes hers.

However, people are always more vocal about things they don’t like. We expect things to work right, and when they do, it is not supposed to be a remarkable event. It’s supposed to be normal.

Crap not working right is infuriating and we let everyone know about that stuff.

That said, you can learn a lot from negative comments by seeing if the things that people complain about would bother you or not.

Negative commentary by itself doesn’t matter if what people complain about is irrelevant to you. On the contrary, if all people can find to complain about is stuff that doesn’t matter to you, you are golden.

Touchbar complaints that matter to me are primary escape key related. Otherwise it’s just meh to me. On my work keyboard the escape key is awkward so I mostly use ctrl-[. And I think my iPad “smart” keyboard doesn’t even have escape so that has reinforced it for me. I don’t really notice much anymore.

So the escape key isn’t a deal breaker for me. I mostly just don’t care about the touch bar. Don’t have one on my computer though.

However, the thin mbpr keyboards sound like thunder and that drives me nuts. The key breakage/stop working deal would suck but I can’t gauge how common that really is.

They all make abnoxious noise though. I won’t upgrade until that is fixed. I’d give up my establishment in the macOS ecosystem and go Linux with a thinkpad maybe.
I have the same issue. I'm managing a team, but at the same time I'm expected to actively participate toward the sprint goals. Because I keep getting pulled away for meetings, or to help the other developers, I can't get any focus time and my velocity is incredibly low. To the non-developers in my team, it seems like I'm a really slow developer and it's really hard to explain to them that it's really hard to write code ad-hoc.
If I'm not mistaken it's in game "boxes" that you can buy. These boxes contains items that may help your progression in the game. The trick is that you don't know what's in the box when you buy it. I didn't read the judgement though. I think it's the progfression thing that is the problem. There are games where you can buy loot boxes but they don't influence your progression, that's just a "surprise", like "Kinder's eggs". Im' fine with that

I think it's a good thing because loot boxes are bought by children and they don't realize that it's a game of luck.

But at the same time, there are things such as "Panini figures", stickers that you collect that work the same. When you buy a pack of stickers, you don't know what you'll get. And since the aim of the stickers is to fill a stickers' book, well, that's comparable to me... Dunno... Not sure...
This refers to in-app purchased loot boxes: you pay $x and have a chance to win an epic mount/weapon/bonus/whatever
Isn't this mostly about targeting in-app purchases that offer random awards?
That's a great push from YC. Good luck
So you ask me to provide a counter-example to your position, by mentioning a startup which broke the law "where nearly everyone is in agreement that their law-breaking has no negative social effect", yet when I provide one, it doesn't count because "there's a broad consensus where they are operating that it's OK to break those rules"?

This isn't even a No True Scotsman, it's literally contradictory.
Add Beijing to the list. However the success of cycling in those cities comes down entirely to geography. Cycling has been popular in those places for a very long time. They also prove that cycling adoption doesn’t come down to infrastructure spending, a city is either geographically suited to it (very flat with minimal sprawl), or it isn’t, no matter how much money you pour down the drain to build cycle ways.
Usually when we're talking about housing affordability, it's not just a shift from interest to principal. It's the total (principal + interest) cost skyrocketing.

Higher interest rates might depress prices for cash buyers, but it seems doubtful that normal people getting mortgages would be any better off.
I can see where this might be good for some sort of accreditation, although there are other ways of achieving this. But this allows walmart to say "our product comes from XYZ" and independent parties can verify that.
Yes, Barcelona is even worse - I see senior devs are paid 35-45K.
The 2015 MacBook Pro sucks least <https://marco.org/2017/11/14/best-laptop-ever>
There are lots of roles where 'collaboration' improves the outcome. I would cite HR and sales as examples of this.

Overall, engineers think they are Chefs but we all know that this view isn't shared by senior management in many organisations. So to get an exception for developers to share offices while everyone works in open plan would need special evidence. I don't think the evidence for productivity problems for developers is decisive. None of the tech behemoths made it into a big issue - so there's no PR sale of "do it like Google". It doesn't feel like you could tell a CEO that it's _obvious_ that offices are better - it would just sound like special pleading.

You're right that offices are very expensive: the cost savings can be pretty significant. Even industries where it's traditional to have offices (legal) are moving away from it.
I have a very simple web app that is, when being used (rarely) is fairly computationally demanding (in a relative sense). That kind of load suits the T2 instance really well in my experience.
Housing supply also plays into it. We know how to build lots of cheap housing, but instead we create restrictions to ensure it is never built, then wonder why there is a housing crisis.
That was such a useful summery of what I've arrived upon less clearly. CBT and Stoic really gave me a lot.
Original submittal: 330+ comments, 580+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15937448
By converting to uppercase you lose information. There's no magic way to avoid this, unless you store the original. Greek also has this problem with stress accents. For example, both "γέρος" (old man) and "γερός" (strong) become "ΓΕΡΟΣ" in upper case. Case round-tripping isn't available in all languages.
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Me too! Another favorite just below that is this:

> You feel insecure, a bit of a weakling. You’re a Belieber at a Meshuggah show and what you could really use is some street cred.
They're still good for:
- non production dev servers

- executing recurring scheduled events with known estimate for cpu usage (cron jobs)

- potentially for non-overly busy build servers

I wouldn't use them for anything that needs production reliability though.
In Italy, 15-20k
€60k/year is generally speaking a significantly above average salary for Berlin.
Looks cool and interesting!!
German rents go up in most places. There was an influx of 1-2 million migrants and refugees, all of which need living space. Additionaly, it's very expensive to build living space because of very high special requirements for insulation and energy efficiency. It's not worth it / possible for investors to build profitable cheap living spaces, so mostly luxury apartments are build. There are also high ancillary cost (10-15% of price) - i.e. taxes, notary etc.
According to your definition Heroku is serverless.

Serverless widely understood as:

1. not having to deal with instances/dynos/droplets/etc.

2. Pay-per-use, no upfront payment for unused capacity

Some calling AWS DynamoDB - serverless, but having to pay for reserved capacity for each table and index, make it a bad fit for the rest of serverless stack like AWS lambda or API Gateway or even S3.
> it's all about the heap!

This. If you only use local (i.e., stack) variables, you should be able to directly transform your code into FP using a state monad. Hence I do not think there is a large difference between the two paradigms here.

Plus: Functional Code is easier to reason about. At least for the person that does the formalization. You simply need fewer constructs (and less complicated ones). The same argument holds for parallel code, btw.
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So guilty until proven innocent?
Everyone is claiming this could be done with a database but no one knows all the details because the article is literally three sentences long.

The article states this initiative "helps reduce waste, better manage contamination cases and improve transparency"

This is how I envision this system working. I think the fact this is produce and not normal inventory is key.

Produce is produced by farmers, transported by shipping companies, stored in warehouses, and eventually ends up on a shelf after a long chain of custody.

Reducing waste and contamination sounds like a tracking system. So every food item gets an ID and as it moves through the system it gets logged with time, location, and so on. Pretty standard, and yes, totally doable with a database.

But this project also helps to improve transparency. Transparency to who?

The previous actors in our example. The farmer, the shipper, storage, maybe inspectors.

They have no inherit reason to trust each other. The last shipping company will blame the warehouse for the moldy food. The warehouse will blame the farmer. The inspectors said they approved of it but obviously its gone bad.

Maybe the 6 days to track this produce before wasn't really in tracking it, but dealing with the human element of the chain of custody. Two minutes to pull up a verified log of events.
People restricting houses already have housing. Seems these days a lot of soecial interests against density.
I'm simply pointing out it's not a moral imperative, and the sexism I inferred (correctly or not) should be offset at least by the knowledge of what you're getting out of it.

That is, the lambasting is purely about paying more attention to the transactional nature of these things, instead of viewing them as a matter of someone gives, and someone takes.

The "doesn't necessarily mean stop doing it (society runs on this)" portion is mainly about societal transactions in general. If you stop, you'll be ostracized unless you have enough capital of one form or another that it doesn't matter.
5 black women were told to golf faster.  Then the club called the police.
Amsterdam is specially bad right now as well.

Same problem, salaries are around 55-70k for a decent engineer and rent is at least 1.5k month for a tiny place.

To me it's close to insane.
There's also a new system of rent control which probably makes it even more unattractive to invest.
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>its a bit of hurtful truth bArray there.

I can say from personal experience that it's never easier to hear either. Starting with good intentions is not the same as delivering a good product.

Out of interest, how far along is this project now in respect to hardware and software? Is it ready to ship once you have enough orders?

>We did already pull back a bit on most of our SW promises and packed them inside a "beta-mode" as we realised after testing a personal driver phone is no experimenting ground.

Don't get me wrong, your SW looks awesome. Actually, I would really love a version of this phone I could run Linux (proper Linux, not Android) on.

>This post just beat us before we finished relaunching our website with a simpler communication strategy and a def. a better website.

That's unfortunate. You should "relaunch" your PR push and get across some kind of "we listened" to cheaply get yourself back into public eye on good terms.
> why did noone sue him?

perhaps because not a single person was dumb enough to fall for it?

How about this- for 4 years people have been talking about this, not once has he simply replied "I never tried to raise money to build a quantum bitcoin miner"
Very far above average.
It didn't say it was using "the Blockchain." The article clearly states its using the "International Business Machines Corp.’s blockchain platform."
Yes, it's the draft release notes.
Well, it's possible, but only if you know where did the word come from.
Renting in some place for a long time doesn't give you any leverage against another potential renters. If I want to move to Berlin and am willing to pay more than existing renters, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to do so.

> Lustig pays $300 a month from her $800 disability check for the 570-square-foot apartment, located in a newly fashionable district only a mile from Tiergarten, a leafy city park that's one of Berlin's most popular.

$300 per month for even a small apartment in a good district is incredibly cheap. Why on Earth would you expect to be able to afford such a place on a disability check?
https://www.fs.blog/2014/05/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/
1-2 million refugees are a tiny blip on German population and most of them came nowhere near Berlin. Poor people can't raise rents, the exploding tech sector and Berlin as a place for high-paid techies to move to has probably more to do with it.
Sounds good to me. Let me input multiple questions but only send one at a time after a response is given. (Maybe hinted to me later, not automatically sent)
Thanks, this is pretty good advice.
I assume that's after taxes? But even then, eastern europe is paying more...
Cambridge Analytica vulnerable to Drupalgeddon
Isn't then a blockchain an implementation of your ledger with distributed access?
The entire mobile app store economy needs major regulation. The platform operators have shown they are willing to allow hugely profitable apps whose business models prey on gambling tendencies in children and they will look the other way, while bragging about their curation of their stores in some cases. It's shameful hypocrisy.

The entire industry knows this is going on. Parents have complained for years, but nothing's changed.
That's irrelevant.

Like "the old man the boat," the combination makes it hard to parse. The cue is that you get to "the boat" and realize you misinterpreted it. The point was not that it was impossible to understand.
Yep, can confirm. Living in Barcelona at the moment and just working Remotely back to Canada.

Devs are paid terribly here. Yet I've seen HR jobs for tech firms offering over 50k. Messed up.
> Status, envy, screen size - this is all bullshit. You have never been a good dev.

And in one line you've summarised WHY general office workers often think tech people are blinkered and entitled with poor social skills. The personal attack wasn't warranted when someone was trying to explain another perspectives.
Poor people can raise rents when they're getting government subsidies.
Computer Science. Always choose CS over a specialisation when it comes to degrees.

The reason is that nobody expects you to really learn the tricks of the trade at university, those are learnt on your own time and on the job. Universities are for education, not technical skill.
> It didn't say it was using "the Blockchain."

Did you not read the title of the post, or the title of the linked article, or the article itself?
Japan solved the problem of sharing crowded streets by putting liability on the vehicle every time.

If you are riding a bicycle on the footpath and hit a pedestrian, it is your fault and you are going to be on the hook for a large amount of money. It's the same if cars hit a cyclist or pedestrian.

It's arbitrary but it also makes it safe to cycle because cars are vigilant to not hit pedestrians (contrast with western countries, my experience is in NZ where car drivers bully cyclists)
I don't want to get involved in this, but none of his 'victims' have ever reported it to any authorities. It's basically a social media smear campaign. They even registered a website under his name with fanfic stories.
My struggle is with interesting but low value vs boring but high value.

The energy cost or effort cost of a task is inversely related to how much interest the task holds for me.
Your story sounds incredibly familiar. I'm a snowboarder too and I just like the feeling. I also think this is why I tend to mall grab, since that's how I tend to carry my snowboard.
Someone should fork that cloud-to-butt extension.
Risk is an aggregate of damage and likelihood. Pedestrians are moving much more erratic than cars. This makes them more dangerous, unless you live in a community so violent that drivers actively harass cyclists.
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Ah yes, because all important details of a story are in the title.
I use this https://justgetflux.com/ everywhere and helps lot to sleep even if you get exposed to screens. I am not sure about Kindle before sleep. It has some bright light however it is better than reading book in lamp light. Candles are good but should not be used for long as smoke starts to build up. I would like to know other views.
Yeah, the article claims that everything backfires but it seems to me the issue is that they are not using the strategies in tandem. Look at the Netherlands: residential areas are designed so that it is not possible for through traffic to have a shorter route (or a route at all) through them. You may be 100 meters from your school if you walk your kids there, but 3 km if you drive. Then they make a plethora of bike and bus lanes to entice people to drive less and reward people who do not. These strategies work: neighbourhoods are safe, the roads are congested (they always will be) but people have viable alternatives.
Stallman has been my man for more than twenty years (the first time I heard him). I still 100% agree with his core values. But a while ago, he explained that mobile phones were closed/proprietary/spying and, in the very same talk, explained that if he had to give a call, then he'd use someone else's phone. That sounded wrong to me. I told it to him but the answer was not clear... So to me, he's mostly perfect, but that makes him a bit more of a human being, which I like too :-)
I offer free hosting and administration for a non-profit's Drupal site. It has been a wild month. A few weeks after the March RCE issue, Drupal security team announced that the bug was being actively exploited in the wild. For the RCE announced yesterday, they sent a heads-up on Monday about upcoming critical security release. I was on stand-by and applied the patch within minutes of it being released yesterday. And sure enough - it was still rated "Critical" when I applied the patch, but within only a few hours the ongoing exploits had been adapted to take advantage of this new RCE and the bug was re-assessed as "Highly critical".

Kudos to the Drupal security team for their work. I bet it's not the easiest codebase to work with, but at least the security team are doing their job well.
It's happening all over Germany. They are getting the apartments paid by the state, so high rents are being paid for them. 1-2 million is a huge number of people if you're lacking living space. Where to put them?
It is a strong culture of "I've got mine, you can pound sand/die on the street" here in the US.

Its quite interesting how most people subscribe to religions that tell them to help and care for their neighbors, community, and those who have fallen on hard times, yet in their own daily lives they actively work to bootstomp the poor. Those beliefs and actions do not reconcile :P
I’ve never heard about loot boxes before. But I wonder: how is this any different from “Kinder Surprise” (a chocolate egg with a small surprise toy inside that you can buy in supermarkets)?