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Can you explain what you see as the benefit here?

It looks like the tokens basically give some level of editorial control; therefore, wealthy individuals/organizations would be able to assert control over what gets published. And because of the anonymity, it wouldn't even be clear who is asserting this control.
Agreed, but any writing is better than none, if new writers have good examples to follow.

Do you think this is specific to Medium? Why didn't it happen with Wordpress?
Yes, because almost nobody knows. But when you see it it's super trivial. Knuth would be ashamed.
Even after reading the previous comments in this thread? I'm really not seeing any benefit, just a shifting of company shares and maybe the benefit of all transactions publicly available on the blockchain, but some anonymity would make that seemingly useless.
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Stanford Prison Experiment.
> "The vast majority of cold-call approaches are really badly written"

I think he means, "poorly written".
> They replied that they do not have any data on me.

How could they transmit that info? They at least have stored your mail address.
There are certainly people with channels that cater to camping or living out of a Jeep / Van. IAmJake for example on YouTube. [0] As evidenced by that I don't think a brand personality has to be luxury but it does have to have a point of view people can take interest in.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjw-VrJCUb8PTGoiDI2UMw
While not completely brain-dead, a blockchain still is not necessary to solve this use case.
This is sort of what the report of the week ('reviewbrah' [0]) is doing, no? Reviewing fast food in a quirky manner. Million+ subscribers on youtube, really interesting to have followed this for 5+ years when he had a few hundred subscribers.

Doing the exact same thing with very small refinements, over and over. It's not that glamorous, but I reckon at 1M+ subscribers he is doing quite a lot better than many obscure luxurious lifestyle personalities.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheReportOfTheWeek
This "guide to OSS" doesn't tell you anywhere, but talks about creating a JavaScript library, resulting in advices like "your OSS project needs to have valid package.json", which reads very strangely. Could use some "for example"s here and there.
Why would belters send you goods?
Unrelated side benefits include content archival and anti-censorship. I don't think they had those in mind though.
BudgetDuo is a joy to use and that's the key. Sure, you can make Facebook clone on google sheets, but no one will use it. It's not convenient fiction at all, it's much much easier to swipe and tap on a mobile app than to do work on a spreadsheet - who want's to do that?
> Supposedly epcaiation is excavation

I buy it, spelling in that area at that time wasn't exactly top knotch. I know that is stereotypical, but come on.
I never use an alarm clock and rarely sleep more than six hours. I've been trying to sleep eight for as long as I can remember and it never seems to happen
This seems like a promising project, but right now it still is lacking some features that are very nice to have in my opinion:

* Colored nick-names

* Theme-ability, even if only through user-provided CSS overrides

* Nickname autocompletion when hitting tab, preferably with some logic such as "you talked to this user recently"

* A locked down mode in which only authorised users can connect

That said, I really like the fact that you can search the history right from the client. Since I am not using this in production, maybe someone with more experience can tell me about how well it scales?

Also I feel that the separation of channels and DMs with users is very sensible.

I personally use The Lounge (https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge) for my web IRC needs, which solves my main issues outlined above, but doesn't have searchable history nor separated users and channels (there might be a setting for this that I haven't found yet).
This model is pretty interesting and might make GDPR compliance easier, if I'm understanding it correctly
I second this. A cursory glance of the faculty research pages of your local university's biology / physics / chemistry / etc departments will show you just how many half-engineered research software tools are in need of a dedicated engineer.
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Another name for the sport in Spanish is "balompié", which comes from "balón" (ball) and "pie" (foot), but it's rarely used.
If you compare a Lego toy with a molded one you'll see that the Lego toy easily breaks apart, isn't as polished and depends many parts.

This is all things we don't like in the software world.
> if I'm going to spend the next 20-30 years of my life doing this and filling it with hobbies that also don't have meaningful impact, why even bother.

I understand those thoughts and feelings because I have them myself. That being said, why do you feel like your hobbies also have to be meaningless or have no impact? Volunteering can be a hobby. So can doing something like coaching a kids’ sports team (if you like kids) or mentoring someone or something else along those lines. For me, my job is a way to help my family and other people who are way less fortunate than I am.

Also, and I know this is a “typical” response around here: Have you considered the idea that you may be suffering from depression? Most of the time when the, “why does this shit even matter” feelings hit me it’s because I’m hitting the depression stage of manic depression/bipolar.
Bazel is exactly this (and amazingly good at it), a cache of your entire build tree and all its dependencies. But it is a full blown build system that you need to buy into. You can’t bolt it on to whatever you are using like ccache.
Batteries have definitely gotten way cheaper over the years, making them usable despite their marginal energy density in things like cars.
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> Yes but that doesn't necessarily you will find your work will be meaningful.

I agree with this sentiment. I work at Microsoft, in a customer-facing position, and finding meaning is a daily struggle.

Ultimately, it depends on what you make of your days in the broader sense of things, not the actual work you perform.
Wouldn't this limit your study to only musicians that influenced current trends?

I've definitely discovered a lot of music from digging into the influences of groups I like, but this seems like a kind of survivorship bias to only focus on the ones that have direct lineage to what's popular at the moment you're engaging in study.
The stats cited in the article fell short of my definition inundation.
Not the greatest source.
The introduction of the article says:

> James Bridle’s essay on disturbing YouTube content aimed at children went viral last year.

The first paragraph includes a link to an article from that time.

The point of the article is “has Google done anything about it since last year?”.
True, but if you start with an artist I like today, and work backwards through some of her influencers, I'm likely to find I like some of those. Then repeat. I may find myself liking, or at least appreciaing, one after another.

I enjoy blues. I started with curiosity about current sound tracks on popular movies and TV shows. Then I followed it back to it's roots in rudemantry instruments played by African Americans in the Deep South. That, in turn, can be traced back to the music of Africa mixed with American Folk.

I feel like I have a stronger appreciation when I learn it in reverse.

Of course, I am not learning it in order to get a full knowledge of it, rather, I am enjoying it in reverse.
I don't want to infantilize users either, but I do want to give them the right tool for the job. Some people are core users and want powerful tools. Some are ring[1] users and want simple tools to quickly and easily do simple things without having to develop a core competency.

[1] Ring User is a Jared Spool term for non-core users--they are in a ring around the core. The Core/Ring more useful model than Expert/Novice, because expert conflates expertise in the tool with expertise in the domain area. https://articles.uie.com/multiple_personalities/
Unless I'm misinterpreting the chart (which starts at 5 miles btw) it does not even support the claim made in the title. There are plenty of players who run more and indeed contributed more goals+assists per 90 minutes.

Messi is obviously one of the best players ever, but his stats are inflated by playing in one of the dominant club teams. His stats for the national team while still very good are not that much better.
By definition the answer you think best is the answer that all of your skills and all of your experiences guide you to. I’m saying you have an obligation to fight for what you know is the right answer. There is nothing ethical about allowing people to make decisions that you believe will be catastrophic. You are being paid for your expertise — don’t accept money if you are not willing to do what you can to ensure a good outcome.

This has nothing to do with having a debate in a meeting, indeed, often the best strategy is to avoid the meeting altogether.
> Yes people suck, but sucky people will be everywhere. Learning to cope with difficult people is a skill that everybody absolutely needs to learn at some point in their lives.

I agree with that. And on the point of managers: I’ve had my fair share of shitty/toxic managers. So I guess I spent a decent amount of time being treated that way and eventually it wears thin and you start trying to look for a more humane workplace rather than chasing money or “impact”.
Or just more garbage. The trait might not really be adaptive - the cost might be worse memory for example.
Exactly. It seems like this author got really into Sam Smith, did a deep Wikipedia dive, then somehow extrapolated that into
a wide-sweeping theory of pedagogy, with bold assertions like "That’s how we learn about music: backwards, always backwards."

There are so many counter-examples. I am instantly reminded of a childhood friend who was really into classical music. I don't think he arrived there working all the way back from present. I started listening to The Who because my dad had a CD of theirs in his car, which led to other classic rock. It had nothing to do with a backward time travel from whatever contemporary music I was hearing at the time. I think a lot of music learning happens more serendipitously like that, through friends, random encounters, etc. The historical research is definitely a part of it but this article way overstates it.
more simply, start by teaching things that people are currently interested in, and work back from them. if you like something, you are curious about where it came from
Title aside that’s a fair point. One wrong click can lead to months of nightmares for a young child.
These companies are obsessed with fragmenting the market for the sake of owning content from production to delivery. I have bad news for them: you're going to lose. People don't want to go back to paying $100/month for a dozen streaming "channels" with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other "channels" have.

We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. Just the other day I had the urge to watch ghost in the shell. Not available on any of the major streaming sites (Netflix, Hulu, Prime) but available on stars via prime. So I have to pay an addition $7/month to watch a single show? No thanks. Off to a torrent site or asking around to see if someone has rips or a box set. I have better things to do with $7 like buy dinner.
I haven't looked at the details of this in particular but on the surface it Sounds more like a so called "governance" token not an ownership token. To avoid running afoul of securities laws that is the way many new coins have been structuring themselves.
I love how data analysis and visualization are coming into football commentary, mainly via blogs like this. It makes a huge difference to how I've viewed the game over the years.

Unfortunately, the pundits they choose as TV analysts are typically not well versed in stats and probability, and often all you get from them is the experience of having played.

There was a thing about expected goals recently, where the TV expert dismissed it. I think it's a sensible thing to look at.
Agreed. I'm about to release a fairly large JavaScript service as open-source (the Sidekiq to Kue's Resque, as it is), and I got a lot out of it.
Whilst I agree that American football bears a greater resemblance to Rugby football; Rugby football, like Association football ("soccer") is another style of football game.

Soccer isn't called that because of American football, the name "soccer" arose in UK where lots of towns have their own style of football game. It obviously caught on as a name in USA because they also have a naming conflict.

I too hate the name soccer, because of what I had inculcated in to me as a child.
Brings to mind the famous bone club -> space station transition from the 2001 film.
Who is to say interesting technical problems are meaningful? All of the amazing technology developed at google ultimately is meant to show people ads. Where is the meaning in that?

The meaning of a thing is derived from its use. Most software projects can be meaningful when a real effort is made to maximize the benefit to the user.

Maybe what you’re looking for is not meaningful work but interesting work?
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this has been my experience when shipping musical equipment that i have sold on eBay and such at multiple UPS stores in two different states. although, i have not done it through the online system. it’s going to be pretty frustrating if it’s differently enforced there. and also confusing.

have you ever had to get an insurance payment on a damaged shipment? when shipping this musical equipment, damage can be catastrophic if the insurance coverage is rejected after the fact once a UPS person comes into the picture.
Hahaha, oh wait you are serious, let me laugh harder.
I always prefer web based applications over native. Native means I have far less trust in the application.

Really? Web applications can essentially change at the whim of the owner or server(s) hosting them, every time you refresh the page. You have far more control and "transparency" over when a native application changes.

Is it even using tls for network requests? So many things we can’t see in a native app.

You're just not looking hard enough. ;-)

As all the vulnerabilities discovered and exploited in closed-source software shows, along with those in open-source which have been there for many years without being discovered, whether the source is open or closed is nearly irrelevant.

To quote the mentality of those who see beyond that debate,
"Source code? We don't need no stinkin' source code!"
There is zero risk and they get money.
> "The ineffable truth of this case is that the Mercedes is a naval vessel of Spain and that the wreck of this naval vessel, the vessel's cargo, and any human remains are the natural and legal patrimony of Spain."

Legal opinion seems to be fairly solid on this point. Perhaps the lesson instead should be to not pillage national warships.
I think it is fair to say it is completely brain dead.
Big discussion in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6087935

Smaller one in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320310

Helpful explanation of its origins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6088168
I think the fear is exaggerated, automation has been happening throughout the history of mankind.

Should we not have vehicles because it put the horse/buggy drivers out of a job? Have cars made by hand and not by more efficient, safer automation because it puts people out of work?

I completely understand & respect that viewpoint that this does not all happen in a vacuum so the people working manual labor likely did not get or have access to the same opportunities as those "who learned to code".

Who is to say that the automation opens room for better-paying jobs or leads to innovations in health-care that make universal health care more affordable to tax-payers so it can get passed into legislation?

There's negative consequences of slowing automation as well.
> The perpetrator would expect buyers of the pamphlet to try reproduce the decoding of the second ciphertext, so presumably there were versions of the declaration that correctly formed the key.

The version of the DoI that was used to decode ciphertext #2 was included with the pamphlet. It does not produce an error-free decoding.

> I would like to see a python (or other) script with the most important observations reproduced (such as the alphabet like sequence)

The link in the post to which you are replying contains, at the bottom, all three ciphertexts, the key text, and a C++ program that performs the decoding.
Lionsgate Starz isn’t a big company with a lot of products so paying extra to watch things for that channel will be a challenge no matter what. On the other hand, HBO seems to be doing well enough with their not so cheap stand alone offering.

Disney with Fox’s media would be a pretty big streaming provider and many people would likely get onto it. Good chance of it becoming a standard streaming service. So I don’t see how that specific merger is a bad idea in a battle against Netflix.
The air pollution event that the article refers to was for a very short duration & was an episodic event due to a meteorological phenomenon.

The dust storm in the western region started on 13 June around 18:00 hrs and ended on 16 June around 05:00 hrs. The data from the official monitors in one of the western regions of Delhi NCR can be seen here:
http://bit.ly/CPCB_Haryana_1Jun-16June2018

The headline in the above article is over-dramatic & is lacking a proper understanding of the actual ground-level monitored situation of those two days. What is more harmful is sustained levels of 500 ug/m3 of PM2.5 pollutants rather than a couple of spikes (each lasting less than a few hours) of 999 ug/m3.
Only to Americans and some Englishmen. As an Eastern European, German sounds fine to me. Perhaps you are the weird ones :)
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> 2.They are Tourist. worldwide.

To be more clear: are they on Facebook, Twitter, searching Google, watching YouTube videos? What are they doing on those sites?

How close are they to making a purchase? Where does your service fall in this journey?

When you answer these questions you'll be getting closer to a marketing/advertising strategy.
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Indeed. He has two other (earlier) videos of him building gardens, one with cassava, which he says is a very high-output food source. He also notes "A person could potentially be nearly self-sufficient from a small plot of sweet potatoes." Presumably it should scale for a small group, since they could share the work.

https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/plantin...

https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/sweet-p...
"The only personal data we have been able to identify related to you is the ID you just sent us. Have a good day."
If i understand correctly, you would like to go from being the person who assembles the magical widgets for the customer, to being the person who makes the magical widgets in the first place. So, perhaps you could look at the magical widgets you use, decide which ones you admire the most, and look into the companies that make them, and their competitors and disruptors.

This isn't guaranteed to succeed. Lots of the widgets come from Amazon, which is a famously hellish place to work. Redis is great, but you might need to move to Israel to hack on it. PostgreSQL is amazing, but there isn't a company behind it, and 2ndQuadrant will probably only hire you to work on it if you're already a contributor! But there are many other magical widgets out there ...
What do you mean separated users and channels?
It's also here for safekeeping: http://archive.is/SNn1i.
I was watching videos from the last CppCon and kept getting Peppa Pig recommendations as the next thing to watch. There is definitely something weird going on and YouTube must be complicit.
Cranky Brits _think_ that "soccer" is a USA-ism, and so they hate it by analogy with parts of British-English that are eroded by constant exposure to USA media/culture.

Someone in /r/BritishProblems called a zebra crossing a "crosswalk" the other day and as an en-gb native I couldn't help but be scandalised! ;o)
See my post below. Even using the supposedly-correct key, the decoding produces near-gibberish. It would certainly not pass a test that requires the decoded plaintext to consist of dictionary words.
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My mother will be very pleased to hear that she needs to buy terabytes of disks every year instead of using her credit card. Very user friendly.

You missed the point about gambling. Please re-read what I said about the odds. You need to trust the service anyways to input the correct result.

Voting requires anonymity. By giving out unique votes, you jeopardized this.

Storing content elsewhere doesn't require a blockchain because it doesn't guarantee that it will still be there. Thus it's not censorship resistant.
I'm guessing most people realize it's ridiculous to even send such requests when they have 2k followers.
Monks -> Bach -> Mozart -> Beethoven -> Tchaikovsky -> Stravinsky -> Black Sabbath -> Gangnam Style
By the same token, people fall ill, grow old, and eventually die. The ethical company that covers all those expense for an indefinite duration for it's employees will go bankrupt in the face of competitors that do not.

If the government does not intervene to force all companies to shoulder the cost on behalf of the society and distribute the costs to everyone else through prices, then it's hard to say it's unethical for a company not to offer free health care, retirement, disability, life and funeral insurance to each and every current or former employee.
Author here, thanks for posting this :)

Would be happy to answer any question.
While the final implementation of the copy protection and code that cracked it are not particularly useful in the general sense
I would assume those developers on both sides learned a lot in the process. It was a stupid waste of time outside of a valuable coding exercise. If I was on either side of that battle it would be on my resume.
Doesn't Article IV, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution (the "full faith and credit clause") pretty much require Iowa to accept a Montana wedding certificate at face value?
Sounds to me like this is a big opportunity for an intermediary to connect useful social media influencers with various brands.
> You will have signed an Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement for anything like you mention to be enforceable

Yes, and signing this agreement is a condition of employment.
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How about fighting climate change? We are currently transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables. The problem now isn't the technology, but the scaling. How do we go from <5% renewables to >90%? Solving that scaling problem involves a ton of software, and we need all the smart software engineers we can get.

Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127154

Also, here's my favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily it's too late!"
Is not an age when adult supervision is harmful as a violation of child's rights for privacy lower than age when such content is harmful?
The chance of you actually working on something that impacts society in a large way is pretty nil. Even billionaires are lucky if they can have that kind of impact.

For me, thinking smaller and looking at how I can have an impact on my family, friends, and local community is what I have found to be most fulfilling.