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The rule that allows class actions has been in place since 1966, but has taken different meanings (due to both changes in the law and court interpretations) since that time.

In the case of a misleading material statement (which this type of case would fall under) legal remedies go back to the Securities Act of 1933, which prohibit such statements. [0]

I agree, it's not the most comforting, and worse, it would be a long, protracted battle that could easily last the better part of a decade. My gut feel is that such an event would be brutal on management and the stock price for years, so any rational manager would do everything they could to avoid that situation.

[0] - IANAL, but I do work as a licensed practitioner in the securities industry.
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Augur is launching its finished distributed prediction markets product today. We'll see if anyone uses it, but that's an ICO with a product.
Finally an answer to the domination of Alpine as base for Docker images. I like the small footprint of Alpine but Ubuntu and apt/dkpg will always be more familiar to me.
The Internet was useful for a lot more things than messaging (without belittling its immense importance) and putting up "personal" websites. It allowed for efficient file transfer and retrieval of information across all distances, facilitating all sort of research and collaboration in the process. It nearly instantly provided a lever to all science and technology.

Online shopping was not a "promise" on which the Internet and its predecessors were built, it was merely one of an uncountable amount of use cases on top of an already useful thing.

In the early days, there were always way more users that wanted to get on the Internet at more times than possible. The scale of the Internet was never capped by interest or potential applications, but by available funding and technology. To me, that sounds like the opposite of cryptocurrency.
Didn't even notice Dawn was running this. Well okay then.
I think I only have my passions in life because I don't have to spend all day doing them in an environment that isn't conducive. I really enjoy coding but I have had jobs that make it a chore and not fun.

I also really love learning Chinese!
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Hello everyone, I'd like to get 1 karma point so that I would have 2 karma points in total, so that I can prove my HackerNews account into my Keybase account.
Thanks in advance.
Proper code blocks, record types, typed variables, auto-indenting editor, blazingly fast interpreter, built-in commands for OS and hardware features, functions and subroutines, an actual compiler if you wanted it... It was far beyond what any other BASIC could offer, and made the jump to Turbo Pascal relatively easy.
It'd be interesting to compare this against traildb.

http://traildb.io/
> Or maybe a piece of good advice on how to deal with that personally. I also considered if I was the problem - by somehow misjudging the situation or something - but i think like myself, so don't spare the criticism.

Before anything else, I really like and respect your attitude. As a developer, I would like to work with more people like you.

Further, as a developer, seeing an application take 20 seconds to render makes me physically ill. I would feel exactly the same way you do, and ask the same questions.

The 20 second rendering time needs to be fixed. But, in a situation like this, there are always two options. It should be the first priority, or other things are higher priority.

Sometimes, I think it's good for developers to look at a business as a predator. It doesn't particularly care about anything other than staying alive. It has to take in as many or more calories than it expends or it will die. And, in order to catch that many calories, it has to be ruthless.

Businesses are like that. If a business consistently spends more than it makes, it will eventually die. It has to maintain positive cash flow over a certain period, no matter what. (That isn't completely true all the time as tax planning can come into it, but just accept this as a helpful half truth.) This means that when it comes to fixing problems, it's not about fixing the bullshit, it's about fixing the most expensive bullshit first.

A 20 second render time is fucking atrocious, but maybe, at worst that will cost $5,000 a month. Whereas, maybe there is a feature that will bring in $8,000 a month. In that case, the new feature wins, technical debt be damned.

All isn't lost though because again, you have a good attitude and I'd bet that other people notice that too. If you are prepared to lose graciously, you can bring up your concerns to management.

However, it's important to speak their language. They likely can grasp that a site will fail under load, but they might not care. They might not care because either something else is more valuable to work on, or because they don't know how costly your problem is. If you want to win this argument, put together some numbers and go at it. But, always remember that a starving lion isn't going to pass up a sick gazelle because gazelle meat gives it gas...:)
To clarify on my OP, I want to say that there is a distinction between a legal and ethical obligation.

In engineering only a PE really has the legal obligation. Their on the hook if something goes wrong. But at the same time everyone involved has an ethical obligation to ensure that best practices are being followed and nothing is being done that would result in harm. This is even if they wouldn't get in any legal trouble.

Or that a doctor has both legal and ethical obligations. Their ethical obligations can many times supersede their legal ones.

I am not arguing that we who write software need to be held legally accountable, but that we need to think about any potential ethical concerns with what we write. And if you are saying "well yeah" then we're in agreement. And I think this should be pervasive. I think we should frequently talk about it.

But we are in high demand right now. Many of us have the leverage to say "I don't agree with this" and go work somewhere else. If you personally have that ability I think it should be used as well. But I understand not everyone has that leverage.
> They only need to be seen doing the "right" thing.

If it's really is just a handful of factories, the cost of doing the right thing isn't particularly high. It might just be easier than working hard to fake it :)

My point is that there is room for hope here.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552, since that one was posted by the author. We'll put it in the second-chance queue so it'll get an extra shot at the front page. (This is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there.)
I read recently about children getting cancer from sports fields made from recycled car tyres.
> For example, I used to be skeptical about accredited investor requirments. Turns out, they're super necessary!

This is one area I keep going back and forth on in my head. On one hand, obviously scams are bad, and the fact that people are throwing their life savings into some of these companies is awful.

That said, I am not sure it should be up to Governments to decide who can and can’t invest in early stage startups and how people should be allowed to spend their money. Much of the reason that crowdfunding (Kickstarter, Indiegogo, ICOs) has become popular is because of the lower barrier to entry for contributing to projects/startups. There are a number of companies I would love to invest in, but can’t because I am not a millionaire. I do not really find that fair.

Creating an open market around funding will teach people a lot of hard lessons about money. VCs know that 90% of startups are going to fail. I don’t think it is that crazy to believe that regular people can learn that as well. All it takes is one really bad investment to learn the lesson.
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Superb website with loads of content.

This https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3 is also worth your time twofolds.
Lol, depending on the typo in the URL, I would probably think the service is just down, and it's not part of test.
I’ve been wondering the same thing, for my project idea #517 of porting Emacs to WASM.

If you find any more info, it’d be awesome if you commented again.
Oh, I'm not doubting that the method exists. I'm doubting that it is as efficient as portrayed in the article, a good solution for using plastic, and as widely used.
I may not be fully understanding this, but isn't this process just going to make the Ocean plastic pollution a lot worse?

i.e.

Indian Monsoon Rains wear away the plastic from the road over few months, years....

The plastic particles drain and make it to the rivers.... eventually to the indian ocean...

... few years later, we now have large scale plastic particle pollution in the indian ocean thanks to this ingenious technique of mixing plastic with bitumen.
Bitcoin is a solution to unstable currencies in the same way that gasoline is a fire extinguisher. People in Venezuela that want to actually eat are using USD.
YC started with software companies, but a substantial fraction of current companies are building hardware. See https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-winter-2018-stats/ and the links to company descriptions.

Waterfall means different things to different people. I think the key to success is getting several iterations in front of the customer, and being able to make major changes based on their feedback. That does usually mean some duplication of effort, but that's better than building something complete that nobody actually wants.

Also, there's a new funding deal for biotech companies that provides more money: https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio/.
You as another market participant (HFT or otherwise) , have no idea if I have access to the new information or not.

In fact, the vast majority of the new information that HFT participants are getting is the order itself. My order goes in and that itself is the information that causes reactions.

And thats the crux of the reason 'smart' money hates it. They want to take advantage of liquidity without it being priced correctly. Meanwhile liquidity providers (HFT) want to price it based on that order information. But note, the built in information asymmetry actually works against the HFT in that case. By the time the smart money order hits the HFT, the smart money already gotten their desires in at least part of the market.

For me as 'dumb' money its largely all upside. I can get execution right now for as cheap as its ever been if that is important to me, or I can set the price I actually want to pay without being impacted by this at all.

[edited for clarity]
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Perhaps it's a weird term, but please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar territory. The last thing we need is bitter disputes about who suffered more.

Also, please edit swipes like "probably deliberately" out of your comments here. With that you broke at least two guidelines: the one against flamebait and the one that asks you to assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's not what it being argued here. Not by me and I do not believe by the parent to your comment.
Unfortunately they don't support shelling out or running static binaries, which makes Cloudflare worthless if you want to run other programming languages like Crystal, Ruby or Python, or do OpenCV stuff, which you can readily do (with some difficulty) in Google Cloud Functions and in Lambda. You are stuck in pure js land with Cloudflare workers, though they are still awesome for this speed increase.

disclaimer: I have 27 Google Cloud Functions doing native stuff atm, about 70% in Crystal, 15% in Ruby, and 15% in Python.
Beyond the obvious geography bias (in general, business networks are strongly connected within specific geographies) the crypto investments are notorious by crossing boundaries in a way not seen by the usual VCs. I mentioned one example before and I have more that will be disclosed to the public in the coming months.

Again, I am not negating the bias towards proximity but seeing there is a new distinguishable phenomenon happening. This phenomenon favors global entrepreneurs in a new way.
@brailsafe, would you mind to explain a bit more why Vancouver is like this?
Any estimates on when you will have sagefy web application relatively ready. I signed up, but not much is usable...
Dawn is serious. I am super intrigued as to what she might be running to achieve her stated goals (I'd be super curious if she's got a new ZK algo up her sleeve :D).
I’m curious about this and would love to explore it, but since I rarely use OpenStreetMap I couldn’t figure out what an OSM relation id is and how I retrieve one. Can anyone provide more explanation on this?
> That's a figure you've pulled out of your behind.

Oh, and your "multi-billion" budget is real? You know what that gets you in terms of aviation? A handful of planes for less than a year. What part of fucking expensive don't you understand? Running a commercial jet is so expensive you'd be hard pressed to flush stacks of $100 bills down the toilet as fast as a typical jet consumes an equivalent amount in fuel. These planes cost in excess of $25,000 USD per hour to keep in the air.

Airlines are notoriously cheap and always push for maximum efficiency. They installed winglets to save 5% in fuel costs. They install seats an inch closer to fit another row of seats in.

Now you're telling me they're willingly lugging around millions of tons of this chemtrail stuff just because?

You've pulled this entire nonsense out of your ass. Chemtrails have zero plausibility due to how massive an undertaking it would be to make that happen.

The closest "conspiracy" to this was the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. That was exposed within years of the first spraying. It was thoroughly documented. It was too big an undertaking to hide.

Now you want me to believe that this is a worldwide phenomenon and nobody, absolutely nobody, has ever found any hard evidence?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Come back when you have some.

Stop doing lines of YouTube videos and visit the real world once in a while.
> End financial services users repeatedly choose convenience and risk guarantees over self-management. This isn't something which can be papered over with a saucy UI, particularly when the tangible benefit is difficult to describe. ("Decentralization" isn't a benefit, it's an attribute.)

Totally agree. In a hypothetical crypto dominated world, most people would still use centralized services to store their money. But they'd have the ability to opt out if and when they choose.
If you wire the neural net randomly, it still has preconceptions about how to play - you just don't know what they are. You're just closing your eyes to the initial wiring, but that doesn't make the initial wiring non-existent (in the same way that the room did not become empty when Minsky closed his eyes).
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I don't merely disagree with Trump. I think he's a xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic demagogue. He's a terrible human being that isn't worthy of respect. He wants power for the sake of power but is utterly incompetent at wielding it.

(On a completely unrelated note, are you a PDXLAN attendee? If you are, I've met you and we were on the same Overwatch team a year ago, I think. If not, nevermind, just someone else that uses a "dragontamer" alias)
I agree with the poster you're replying to - the naming is not intuitive or approachable without that previous body of knowledge. It's enough that I would call it bad - I would flag the crap out of it in a code review.

I'm glad you linked to the style guide - i've often wondered where certain names come from.

It's not all bad. K for key, V for value, i for index... no disagreement. But the seeming aversion to any variable name longer than 2-3 characters might be great in mathematics, but makes for a nightmare of code which is focused more on writing. It doesn't need to go the extreme of UIMutableUserNotificationAction; but at least use words.

AI is already clever enough; it doesn't need to be made more cryptic with poor naming conventions. I get that for people in the industry it may be fine - but for it to break out into general use it'll need to be more social; which means simpler & clearer verbage.
It's done regularly in Europe

https://www.automationworld.com/beer-brewing-and-carbon-diox...

https://books.google.nl/books?id=0os_gIvG_ccC&pg=PA349&lpg=P...

https://foodandbeverage.pentair.com/en/products/haffmans-co2...
I get what you're saying about it feeling quite tiny; however, look at it this way: that's like one active website for every 15 people on the planet!
That assumes that you can accelerate a wormhole mouth...
>Slightly. Ultimately, the high-level culture is set by the execs.

Depends on the size and the structure under which the institution operates. If there's autonomy within an institution execs might attempt to set a culture, but they can obviously not control it and the result will be a mix of organic bottom-up developments that diverge from section to section, and top-down guidelines.

At a company the size of Intel, with over 100k employees, it is almost impossible to have an iron grip on the entire workforce.
No you didn't, you spoke of "responsibility", and being around to "take care of them", which implies an unfulfilled or unending paternalism
One of the things I've done, added a skills list page with my resume. 3 columns, top down with expert, intermediate, novice sections. Then added a bunch of skills in each category.

Then it helps avoid the back and forth to ask if I have a skill set and my level. Also has a nice benefit of updating the automatic readers with a skillset list.

Worked for me.
In many cases it is "you can over rule once", because that's all you're going to get. So no, it doesn't happen often, but the engineer legally has that power.
That's true, but the degrees of freedom are different. The node processing your transaction cannot steal your money in crypto. It can only choose not to broadcast your transaction, and they are also in perfect competition with all the other nodes. Which means that if one node chooses not to process your tx, another will soon.
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Some fuel ethanol breweries collect and sale their CO2 byproducts. The article mentions them (but notes they are not a significant source). IIRC the small fuel ethanol plants in the US collect and sell their CO2, but the large ones do not - this is a factor of age, the small plants came first, but they time anyone was building big plants the CO2 market in the US didn't have room/need for any more suppliers.
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Right now the redistribution seems to be going from average people to snake oil salesmen.
How does that imply time travel? Yes, you get there before the photons, but so what?
"blockchains are useful now, just like the internet was"

Where is blockchain 'useful' for any common practice?
Was it a fizzle? Didn't they get an "inconclusive" result, rather than a negative one?

(No criticism intended -- I really want to know.) :)
I came here to say something similar, what we’ve done with factory farming is probably a glimpse into the future of what we plan on doing to each other. Why would it be any different ?
> In a hypothetical crypto dominated world, most people would still use centralized services to store their money. But they'd have the ability to opt out if and when they choose

The problem with this vision is those people using centralized services see no benefit. They are better off sticking with the status quo.

Cryptocurrencies make sense for people who wish, for philosophically reasons, to control their own money. That vision doesn't require a "crypto dominated world." It does, however, require shrinking the vision from "re-imaginging the financial system" to "solving a need for a small group of devoted people." That's okay, and if that's how crypto were marketed it would (a) be more honest but (b) come with a lower value.
> This means that a photon, which travels at the speed of light, actually experiences no time at all.

Yep. If a photon could talk, it might say "What is this 'time' thing you speak of?"

And since time has no meaning, neither does 'traveling'. A photon is always 'everywhere it's ever been or ever will be' so it might also say "What is this 'space' thing you speak of?"
I don't know about the marketability aspect, so perhaps this doesn't answer the question. I went to a top tier CS school and enjoyed the curriculum. I never really worried about my GPA, I just took the hard, interesting classes. It was a good experience if you can fit it in. Mostly, I just know little tricks that I never use for problems I never have, like using parser generators for parsing context-free languages and how dynamic programming neatly solves some problems that look really hard arbitrarily close to the perfect solution, map-reduce as a useful programming paradigm to scale things that parallelize easily. Oh, and perfect uniform hashing. One of these days, I'm sure it'll come in handy.
It seems to be a very popular meme these days to declare that college is not vocational education, but that seems to me to be historically ignorant or revisionist, because of how many universities originated as land-grant colleges (e.g. Cornell) or teacher's colleges (e.g. SUNY Albany). Aren't the universities that didn't originate as vocational education more the exception than the rule?

It's as though people want to write out of history the whole political movement to make education relevant to the masses during the industrial revolution.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grant_university
and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts
I think this is poorly written in the article... Likely the Co2 gas is used to power bolt-guns which are in turn used to stun larger animals like cows before slaughter.
> The early internet did not have such lofty hopes, so its growth was more organic.

People forget that in the early days of the Internet and its predecessors, most computers were still bigger than a washing machine, mostly available only to universities and big or specialized corporations, and data lines were limited to bandwidths many orders of magnitudes narrower than today.

The Internet had an inherent hard limit on scale and availability simply by the technology that was available at the time. Not only did the Internet then grow with the available technology, filling it out, its very nature provided a great lever to all research and development, leading to the exponential advancement of information technology that we live in today.

There is no comparison, at all.