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Decentralization does not mean owned by everybody, it means owned by nobody.

For instance imagine we had a mine that was effectively infinitely large (for the sake of the analogy). If we allowed absolutely anybody with a pickaxe to to come in and mine it, we might call it decentralized. Nobody would own the mine. That one group sent a million miners to go mine it would not suddenly make them owners, even if they happened to receive the largest benefit from the it. By contrast centralization would be when one individual or group forcefully stops, generally with government support, any other individual from mining in "their" mine. In this case they would indeed own the mine. In the case of Bitcoin there is absolutely and literally nothing stopping from somebody from starting up a mass mining farm becoming the new plurality beneficiary.
The disdain in this article is surprising and disappointing. A more thorough analysis of why and how such a rule came to be and an investigation of its detrimental effects vs. positive aspects beyond "inefficient land use" would have been more interesting. They also completely missed the comparison to the "towers in a park" architectural fad in the West.
Perhaps publicly, but people tell me that management is acutely aware how hard the problem is; this stems in part from the experience developing the various assistance systems, which was neither cheap nor easy.
> It surprises to me no end that a company with $100B in funds and ability to suck up virtually all talent is struggling so badly at a technology that is over 100 years old while Tesla with its shoestring budgets leap frogged all established player. Goes on to show that leader at the top makes all the difference in the world.

Look at who's at leadership positions at VW, look at the hierarchies of these old German companies. You're just looking at the money. These companies are too big to fail for the German government.

They're so comfy sitting in those chairs. They know something is wrong, but they don't really feel the heat. In the back of their minds they're just waiting for retirement and want to change as little as possible from the status quo. If they do and something goes wrong, they catch the blame. If they don't and things go wrong, their predecessor is to blame.

That won't stop them from talking about innovation and change all day long though.

In the end I won't tell you trust me, I know, I spent two years in such a place, but I can tell you that once you start changing your perspective the entire madness starts making sense.
That sounds tough, happy to hear you made it through.

I’ve seen quite a few families where one parent doesn’t do any childcare... that looks super tough, which is why I can forgive those parents sometimes zoning out and playing with their phone...
Incidentally, I am in Europe. Apple was laughably bad a couple years ago, but it's getting better. Although still not as good as Google. But now Apple conservative routing sometimes is better than Google's too opportunistic one.

Another problem is Google still can't get house numbering correctly. They just don't care and get be off by 0.5km in some developments. What is worst, they don't tell they don't know exact location. They pretend to guesstimate it and sometimes it goes really wrong.

Sometimes their guesstimation messes up the address itself too. For example, recently I was looking for XYZ square #123. They routed me to XYZ street #123 instead. Which was in a different neighbourhood.

All in all, neither Google nor Apple beats old good Garmin and local mapping with UI brought straight from early 00s.

Both Apple and Google and care about smaller markets or less visited locations. If 90% of their customers are happy 90% of time, I guess that's enough for them :/
With his latest "fake news" attack he's starting to sound more and more like Trump:

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/23/technology/elon-musk-media/i...

He liked being the media's golden boy when they were fawning over him for a decade, now things get tough because him and his company exaggerate and he wants to take his ball and go home.
That is one thing I like better in Python than in Perl. In Perl, I was having difficulty with nested data structures and then realized this was something I did in Python daily without even knowing it was a thing on a conscious level. Who hasn't made some weird dictionary with its values being lists or tuples or something like that?
That is probably true with regard to its adoption, but, as a Perl fan and user, I have to say that in addition, the limitations of Perl 5's syntax begin to show once you get in to collections of collections, and passing them to functions. If you are doing this sort of thing every day, it becomes second nature, but as a casual, ad-hoc user, it is no longer in my working memory.

Maybe Perl 6 fixes these things, but learning it is too far down on my to-do list, where it sits just below Ruby.

If I have a problem that can be solved by looping through the lines of a text file and applying some combination of regular expression matching and substitution, the split and join functions, simple arrays and hash tables, I reach for Perl 5.
What rot. Google have a 7 year head start on Apple in terms of mapping. To expect Apple to offer a service at a similar standard immediately is preposterous! Besides, Apple can pinpoint my address, Google cant, despite being repeatedly told.

Siri is nowhere near as bad as you suggest. You are exaggerating to make a point.
I suspect the ability to count things other than words was added later.
Random Chinese restaurants in Connecticut are probably hosting malware, botnets and pirated torrents on Fedora Core 2.
notquiteallactualcryptojobs: https://www.iacr.org/jobs/
I find awk so beautiful. I written many scripts in awk. It is so good at data transformation. I used it write a script to delete old and unused records from tables. The book is so beautifully written with amazing clarity of thought.
That birthdays are stupid. I love celebrating life and try my best to do so in every moment, but this forced celebration is a total turn off.
I’ve felt this so many times and kinda feeling it right now as I’m nearing launch of a side project. I think at least for me a big part of the feeling is fear - fear of the project falling flat on its face even though I validated the idea before I even started and got a lot of interest and positive feedback. As they say, money talks. If nobody is buying my stuff then all that praise and interest was bullshit - just people trying not to hurt your feelings. This is the stage where I’m about to find the truth - I either built something in demand or it was all for nothing. Also, now that I think about it, even if the project is a mild success, there comes a whole set of other boring things I’ll have to worry about like support and constant growth. There is a lack of excitement when all I’ll be doing is making modifications to something that was fun to build at first.
Nearly 70% of gold is actually used as jewelry and in industrial applications (based on a diagram linked from an HN comment). So after 10,000+ years of trust building, the portion of gold used as a store of value is perhaps still less than $3 trillion. (Also, $20,000 Bitcoin was a tiny blip. The value was not sustained.)

Gold is also quite unique and "best" or close-to-best in its collection of properties. Bitcoin is not really rare and many other recent variants are "better" in a number of ways. Would the network effect be sufficient for its valuation to come close to physical gold? Warren Buffett, Robert Shiller, a well-known Nobel prize winner in economics, and several other respected economists say unlikely [1] [2] [3]. Basic logic says the same.

[1] ""It has no value at all unless there is some common consensus that it has value. Other things like gold would at least have some value if people didn't see it as an investment," Shiller told CNBC in an interview ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will be speaking next week."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/19/bitcoin-likely-to-totally-co...

[2] https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/cryptocurrencie...

[3] https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/cryptocurrencie...
> Even if the article did not state anything about the actual effects of these differences.

Yes it did.

> We linked the structural brain differences to scores on two cognitive tests taken at the time of the imaging visit: verbal-numerical reasoning and reaction time (see Method). Descriptive statistics for the cognitive tests are shown in Table 1. Note that we coded both tests (reflecting the reaction time variable) so that higher scores indicated better performance. The test scores correlated positively, but weakly (r = .12). Males had a slightly higher mean score than females on verbal-numerical reasoning (d = −0.18) and slightly faster mean reaction time (d = −0.22); there was no significant variance difference for verbal-numerical reasoning (VR = 0.97, P = .45), though males had marginally more variance in reaction time (VR = 0.92, P = .03).

I don't know why they didn't include any graphs for those results.
Your analysis isn't really a good one, since Proof of Work consensus through mining, isn't really used anymore by the new coins.

It seems you're too focused on a specific decentralized consensus solution, while there are already much better ones out there, e.g. Iota with a tangle, skycoin with a web of trust or Elastos that are immune to 51% attacks.
That is an excuse. Wish we could put it to rest. Here is the privacy agreement for Apple in the US.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Apple has the ability to collect all the same data as Google but actually more. Apple actually forces you to agree to them collecting data on people you interact with.

I quote from the agreement.

"When you share your content with family and friends using Apple products, send gift certificates and products, or invite others to participate in Apple services or forums, Apple may collect the information you provide about those people such as name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. "

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

I get Apple is great at marketing but lets work in reality.

My issue is NOT that the Apple services are sub par but rather when did it become acceptable at Apple to have second rate user experiences?

Why are they given a pass?
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To me, that sounds like gatekeeping - as in "it's only programming when it's insanely difficult".

Somebody playing football in a Sunday pub league is still playing football, and still loves playing football, even if they're not at the same standard of Lionel Messi.

For me at least, I feel the same about programming. I love understanding somebody's problem, and building a solution for them that solves that problem. I normally use PHP (and sometimes Python or Ruby or JavaScript) because they make it easier for me to focus on the problem, rather than language details. I can't always solve the problem because it's too difficult, and perhaps some of my solutions are not 'optimal'. But I feel hurt by the idea that because I don't have a strong understanding of how Python works at a really deep level, I'm not a real programmer.

I also think that's a great way to piss people off who are just getting into the industry, and may one day become great programmers - even Linus Torvalds was a junior once. I'd encourage them to keep going, keep learning, and keep helping people solve their problems (and getting paid good money for doing that).
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Ask HN: For native fast cross platform Qt or wxWidgets or other?
Need to choose

Which native cross platform framework to work with

i have a lot of experience with Java and C++ as such java is not option

When i say native i mean C++ cross platform . no electron here thanks ..

The app need to be :

1. Memory consumption should be as efficient as it can

2. Fast

3. access to OS api's

4. Mac , Linux , WIN

5. No OpenGL or such , it is heavy data driving app. with interfacing to external HTTPS / WebSockets / FTP / TCP

6. Currently it planned to be open source but it can be closed in some time in the future

Please from your experience Pros/Cons

Thanks!
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I think it was an indyhackers story I’ve read where someone said “just get it out there ASAP”. Don’t let imperfections keep you from learning the hard truth about your baby.
We'd be interested to see how that'd look. Will contact you via email.

Re jQuery: this is an emphasis in our copy for this post to Hacker News only. We've found that it helps technical people (many of our customers are technical) understand what we're doing.
That’s fine and understandable, but Apple should not be forcing their maps product down the throats of iOS users by crippling competitors’ products for no good reason (same goes for Apple crippling Spotify to promote Apple Music, etc.)
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I find r/askhistorians extremely infuriating and useless because of the extra strict moderation.

I understand that by definition /r/askhistorians should have good moderation but it's insane.

My last straw was where I posted a link to a primary source in an relevant question thread 5 subthreads deep.

Moderation removed it because I should have provided more context. It should have been obvious what the context was from the thread itself and my answer was not at the first nesting level but 5th.

Mod agreed with me but did not restore my answer. So there went my time finding the source.

Okay, so if posting on /r/askhistorians is useless, then maybe the answers are well researched?

There lies the second problem. Answers are not that well researched.

I remember a certain question concerning Soviet economy in the 1980s.

The single approved answer appeared wrong to me and cited rather limited number of sources(ie chiefly official 1980s ones). Other alternative answers were deleted.
My personal anecdata were screaming at me that the top answer was ridiculously wrong, but I had to spend hours of sifting through more up to date research to prove it. (cue https://xkcd.com/386/)

So why should I trust /r/askhistorians answer about something happening 300 years ago if they can't get it right about something happening 30 years ago?

Third: The low hanging fruit ie popular answers have been answered.

Literally hundreds of quality questions go unanswered on r/askhistorians for each quality answer. So it is pretty much pointless to ask a question there for some specific questions.
Yes a combination of what you mentioned, plus the possibility that it'll all fail (which happens 90% of the time), which wasn't really something you thought about when you were still building.
“Apple tried to partner with someone who can do manufacturing while they do design. BMW, Mercedes, Nissan - all rejected that offer.“

Rejected rightly so. That’s pretty smug of Apple. Seems they are forgetting about “design for manufacture”. I can see some hooty tooty Apple “designer” interacting with a group of grouchy, old automotive engineers.

“Initially Apple planned self-driving vehicle where 4 seats face each other, sunroof material that gives less hit, electrically tinted windows and holographic windshields.
- Project was abandoned because they realized "designing and building fundamental parts of a new car was not simple".“

This is the attitude of Silicon Valley. Ignoring the “fluff” for some grandeous bullshit. They’d have a holographic windshield that crashed and rebooted constantly. Tesla is learning this the hard way, as they can’t even get their body panels to fit correctly. And I’m supposed to trust them with self driving?
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Has there been other approaches at solving the double spend problem? I know ByteCoin (which is from scratch and uses 'CryptoNote' (or CryptoNight?) and respectively it's forks which includes Monero are designed a little different and I think they boast having solved the double spend problem too but I am not sure if they just do the same decisions as Bitcoin concerning updating the Blockchain?

Anyone care to weigh in on this?
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It is a fable, that certain kind of work changes the world for better. The reality is changing the world is a slow process, it takes a sequence of events which eventually makes things better.

You do not have to work for a large famous company to start making things better.
I absolutely believe that if you want to make a big impact in the world, you need to start small - with something closer and around you.

Consider a few things ... (use your imagination)
At social level, start small, if you want to make a change to world:
1. Help a Child

2. Teach someone something, may be online.

At personal level:

1. Work on a hobby project, have your own vision for the world.

2. Learn something you would really like to do.

To take things off your current negativity, take a break, may be a vacation, do something you enjoy, Hiking, Music, Books ..whatever is your thing.
What's the point of ab-using SSL, if you make it equivalent to HTTP? "It's SSL, magic security dust [mumble mumble we disable all the security measures but whatever]!"
Sounds like you might want to actually read the Apple privacy agreement. Here is a copy for you.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Think you might be surprised of what data Apple is able to collect. The one that most bothers me is quoted here.

"When you share your content with family and friends using Apple products, send gift certificates and products, or invite others to participate in Apple services or forums, Apple may collect the information you provide about those people such as name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. "

Apple is great at marketing but was hoping we could have a discussion on reality.
Apple does not compete in commodity biz. so outside of "Spend some on moon shots" which they actually do just mostly not publicly they prob don't see were to put that much $ outside of stock buybacks.
All I know is that I've repeatedly run into situations where Google maps will take me to the entrance of something like a rec center, park or school while Apple maps takes me to a spot a quarter mile away on the other side of the block in the middle of a stretch of road with no entrance. Multiple times my wife and I will use her iPhone to get close and then switch to google maps on my note5 to actually get to the entrance.
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Not sure of capabilities of the app in question, but with HTTPS used nearly everywhere, there is not much value from the traffic other than some domain name or usage timing patterns.
Spend more time with Nature (easier said than done)
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wc shares an environment with grep, awk, sed and vi; wc is NOT oddly named.
Entertainment can also have negative value. That's what the parent meant: your entertainment is provided by someone exploiting your gambling-addicted (and gambling may cause an actual addiction afaik, no less so than opioid addiction although based on different biochemistry) dopamine circuitry in order to extract actual (social) value.
Trying to use Google Maps in Japan was useless, using the buses in Kyoto it wouldn't tell me what stop I'm at, etc. Apple maps could tell me exactly what stop I was at whereas Google Maps was lacking in information.

Also, with regards to the blog link, why would you care about how detailed the buildings on the map are for daily use? And Google will tell me if something will be closed by the time I get there. But it's usually wrong for me.
Mootools is dead: https://mootools.net/blog/2016/01/14/mootools-1-6-0-release

Last release was more than two years ago. It's time to move on.
Tesla started by partnering with Lotus who is a well established small automobile constructor. Those guys have made production car as well as racing cars for year. Apple on the other hand went directly to a well established luxury automotive European brand and told them to transfer the technology. Of course the car manufacturer would refuse. The brand impact is too big if Apple is to fail.

The investment for manufacturing a modern car are huge, and you need someone like Musk no Cook to take on the challenge of starting from scratch, and the supplier market for car part is entangled into cartel like behaviour, which will be very hard to break by an outsider.
Are there any good accessible spots to watch lava flow - especially entering the ocean? Looks like Kona airport is still open!
So now mootools, prototype.js and similar libs that extend native objects are basically a new IE6...
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> It surprises to me no end that a company with $100B in funds, vast experience in supply chain and ability to suck up virtually all talent is struggling so badly at a technology that is over 100 years old

Their supply chain experience is for completely different parts. The suppliers for computer and phone parts are not the same suppliers as those for engine parts, wheel parts, etc.

Apple wouldn't just need to hire the right people - they'd need to build out the factories and supplier relationships and dealer networks and everything else from scratch. Recall that Tesla was founded in 2003, and what you look at now is the product of fifteen years of corporate development - and they're still not on the level of Detroit's Big Three.

Really, Apple would need to acquire a car manufacturer, but when you look at the market caps of various car companies - GM's is $53B, Ford's is $44B, Chrysler's is $34B, BMW's is $56B, and so on - buying a controlling stake in any one of them is doable, but constitutes using quite a lot of Apple's cash reserves. It goes to reason that there'll be opposition within Apple to using that much of the cash reserves on any one bet.
> The sub-contracting relationship exists for a reason

Yes, and that reason is to evade liability and bad PR by providing a disposable company to point fingers at. This is not a good thing.

Also note that Foxconn owns the factories, while in this case Tesla owns the unsafe factory.
Again though they don't have dividends yet are worth less than Apple which is a younger company that hands out dividends. BH's overhead is not direct costs but relatively poor asset allocation due to it's vast size making the overhead of smaller investments unwieldy and lacks focus to maximize gains on any component.
Find a partner. Often I found that where the fun stops for you, it begins for someone else. I personally like creating PoC or solving complex problems. The whole story that comes afterwards, it being sales, marketing, polishing or any other stage is killing me inside, but it is often the start of someone else's challenge.
Well again Apple has enough on hand to pay 3x the current market cap and I don't really remember situations were someone payed 3X premium in a take over of large public company. To have a controlling stake they have enough to pay 6x the current share price it would be really hard to argue that 500% premium would not be enough.
The person who wrote it was probably serious, but it is not correct.
check uuid_to_bin:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/miscellaneous-functi...
> CPAN became a clusterfuck

This gave me flashbacks to installing some perl module and watching it download half of CPAN.
When I’m bored, I’m apt to decide to upgrade something in my lab environment and break everything.
you can use uuid_to_bin for this, check the docs:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/miscellaneous-functi...