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I think the reality is that you don't know how big of a market it really is (do you have any numbers you're basing your strong statements on?) and you're projecting your disbelief rather than trying to dig to get to the truth.

If you really want to know the answer, you have to do the work to get to it.

I'm not going to engage with emotional arguments filled with rhetoric like "all the single yuppies who feel bad leaving their dog locked in their $1m/yr closet apartment". It's just not a good use of my time, I'm sorry.

If you want to have a reasonable argument with rough numbers, calculation and analysis of customer behavior, then I'm game. If you just want to specifically convince yourself that walking dogs isn't worth the money that was invested, then it seems you've done a good job of it already and you're not really interested in having a balanced debate.

How big of a market do you think staying in a stranger's spare room is? Your answer a few years ago likely wouldn't have been more than $1 billion globally. AirBnB is a $30B company on the verge of going public.

The internet is not yet done transforming how we live and work. The world you live in 10 years from now will look very different. Economic priorities will look different. The way people behave will be different. And it will all happen faster than at any other point in history.
I'd suggest just being a little less heavy-handed in the wording. As written, I think your introduction will make many people think they have an absolute right to have their data removed, even if it's legitimately being collected and processed on a basis other than consent. It seems clear that you understand this is not really the case, as you do cover that in your FAQ, but perhaps the introduction could be altered to be less confrontational in style?

For the email, I'd suggest fine-tuning a few things. Numerical dates in European countries are typically given in D/M/Y order rather than the US-style M/D/Y, but the ambiguity could be avoided entirely by writing the month out in full, for example. Also, I wouldn't invite contact by methods where you haven't provided the necessary details, but IIRC your email template mentioned calling but without giving a phone number. If nothing else, these sorts of mistakes make such an email look less credible, which surely isn't going to encourage a positive response.
How about this? A single block boot loader that understands the ext2 filesystem, so can load the kernel without having to "update-grub":

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/boot

Bonus: it tries to read tracks at a time to make booting off of floppies faster (I wrote it in the 90s..)
Despite being the Sage fanboy in the thread, I have to admit that all the use I've seen of Sage has been academic or experimental; I haven't heard of anyone using Sage for statistics in any context, and not for quants or actuarial science or anything of the sort.

I'd suggest that Sage is likely less good for those uses since Sage is good at the kinds of things you're likely to find academics use Sage for (e.g. tons of discrete math and most things cryptography). Secondly, since there's very little pressure for high-end uses of commercial packages to worry about the licensing cost of a mathematics package like JMP or Mathematica.
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Just want to say thanks. Sage is the best thing that exists when it comes to creating a proof of concept in a cryptographic attack. I’ve used your thing for years and pretty much everyone in the cryptanalysis field use it. Good job.
15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses (2016)
I use Sage on a daily basis rather than Mathematica as an undergrad. Love it and plan on contributing in the future!
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So, the correct way to approach this in WebAuthn, which you'll see in popular implementations of its predecessor U2F and in for-real WebAuthn deployments is that users are allowed to have any plausible number of tokens, in GitHub this feels especially natural because it's managed the same way as your SSH keys, you can add or remove them, give them labels that help you remember what they are, and then you use any of them to prove your identity.

So I have a cheap FIDO token on my keychain that I take everywhere, and then I have one permanently plugged into the big desktop PC in my home and one in a desk drawer. You can buy ones that work nicely with a phone (unless you have an iPhone, can't help Apple) and Microsoft intends to effectively build one into Windows installs.

If you see a WebAuthn deployment that does 1:1 users to FIDO tokens, those people don't know what they're doing and need re-educating just like when people go "Oh, MD5(password) seems pretty secure".
I'll advance a more American/Individualist comment for perspective.

Government should be limited in what it can control. Let the people and social norms make the decisions. The problems with government are worse than those of the free market in the long run, because they create friction and power imbalance between what people want and what another entity tells them is OK.

If your core value is the Government is too strong a force to be allowed to do much anything, then this makes sense. (Personally, it makes some sense to me -- limit the power of the gov't then the worst thing a Trump administration can do is deadlock. Imagine if he had more power?)
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I really never understood the hate, I had the first version and it was amazing, the UI looked a lot better and futuristic than iPod’s (at least for my taste), it fell solid and well done, it had video output which replaced my dvd at the time.
From my experience B2C has lower margins. Basically you have to give all for free to get consumer users on board. No one is buying software as a consumer, consumers buy services mostly. Like ordering pizza, and Takeaway.com is going big in Europe. They don't sell app, probably they hire some shop for app development.

Anything in enterprise level costs loads of money. From developer perspective think about all consulting companies which do body leasing. How much companies pay for having hands to work is alone insane. Price for custom B2B development goes really high. Then you have to pay high price or your business is going to loose money in the future. Where consumers don't care, I am not going to loose money because I don't have someones app.
Obviously certificates do expire. The idea is that it is difficult to keep a key secret so the period of time you can use it is limited. After that period you have to get a new certificate, and you should use a new key for that.
Are farmers not able to use financial instruments to hedge their costs? Simply borrowing money with no hedge seems VERY scary to me. I guess that's just the game?
According to which soviet defectors?

US and our allies outnumbered the soviet union nearly 10 to 1. The US and allied GDP had even a greater advantage in terms of wealth/GDP.

The soviet union was much poorer and weaker than the US alone. Throw in western europe and the soviets were ridiculously outmatched.

Nevermind that the soviet union had nearly lost an entire generation a few years prior (ww2), in what conceivable way would the soviet union be able to invade west germany?
It's unclear if Satoshi has made any money off Bitcoin, ever. (He definitely did, however, spend at a minimum thousands of dollars just in hosting and mining costs, never mind the actual work of making Bitcoin.)

In any case, he couldn't make any money off it between ~2006 - Bitcoin Pizza Day 2010, because it either didn't exist or it did but bitcoins were worthless and he couldn't give them away.

The minute possibility of being a billionaire in a decade does not pay any bills in the present, any more than it does for regular startups, who need VCs or other forms of investment.
I am a pure mathematician (number theorist) and the vast majority of the 600+ Sage developers over the years come from research mathematics. We generally view the numerical python ecosystem (numpy, scipy, pandas, etc.) as the place where development on engineering code happens for Python. So Sage itself isn't directly better for engineering, but I think the Python ecosystem has overall improved during the last six years...
Sacred usually means something that is above questioning. If that's the common definition, there's not a lot of value in that assignment.
I personally blog about things I've found while working that have been a pain or a "oh hey, cool!" that I've not seen documented anywhere easily, so I write about them under the term "blogumentation" (blogging as a form of self-documenting) https://www.jvt.me/posts/tags/blogumentation/, reasoning found in https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/

I've found it useful for myself and colleagues, but also it's really awesome seeing hits from Google and other mediums where people are obviously finding it organically and sharing around through various means. Helping others find new / better ways to do things is really awesome
Yes and no. Some some farming is naturally profitable. But much is subsidized.
these aren't "farmers" these are big agricultural 4000 acres mega-farms. they took out huge loans and make ridiculous purchases ($400k tractors) and relied on pie in the sky subsidizes, some are to actually not to farm. if you have an oxygen machine and your power company threatens to turn it off, you can get a doctor's note to prevent this. They specifically go through this with you during collection and refer you to the program, which is a federal grant and state program. I helped my neighbor do this who is on an oxygen machine. She even got solar installed "just in case the rid went down"
Do you have a recommendation if I just want to play MP3s through my car aux? Don't really care about size as long as it's at least 2 GB.

Every time I look for something, it seems like there's only $20 junk and $100+ players to choose from. I've gone through 3 Sansa Clips that just keep dying. I bought a Fiio x1 and had the wheel die on me in the first year, and using the warranty was way too much hassle.
What are the other more straightforward tools?
Would you please stop creating accounts for every couple comments you post? That's explicitly against the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do it.

HN can't be a community without members. Disembodied comments are not community members. No one is required to use their real name here, but users need to have some consistent identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we might as well have no usernames and no community at all.

A disembodied-comment forum would be a different kind of site—perhaps an interesting one, but not Hacker News. You're free to find one or create one, but not to turn this one into that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You get to choose whether it gets to ‘slurp’ your address book or location. You can just say no.
Because they pay.
Only once people stop trying to install it onto toasters.
Moviepass was deeply innovative at separating shareholders from their money. Not since the height of the dot-com bubble has a company innovated such large sums of investments out of such a terrible business model.
It's because the application developer isn't expecting, or is naive to the difficulty, of maintaining complex infrastructure for an extended period of time.
That's a great idea, when I get to that point, I'll do that. I've always wondered as a member of the working class on how I could make the world a better place (other than deeply devoting myself to my family), and I believe I've found it. We need more worker owned co-ops and less capitalist enterprises. The wonderful thing about it is that it can be done immediately, today, does not require waiting 50 or 100+ years for some major catastrophe like the Great Depression to enact positive change. Doesn't require a great leader to pass legislation granting equality. I hate that method of progress, and often I see it as laziness, corporate hand-waving. "Someday we'll have a fair and just system, but not today!" And once people see what economic democracy looks like, they'll demand it out of their governments.

They'll go so far as to feign "diversity" efforts (in quotes because the only diversity corporations are interested in is diversity of wages).

It'll be a lot of work as there are many details to work out but I've bookmarked your comment to let you know when the day comes.
Not this time, we'll be renting so I was more thinking about network equipment and configuration, but we're planning to buy/build soon so I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
From the article conclusion:

The architecture’s resource requirements scale linearly with
the number of supported sessions to over 115,000 given
today’s 20 nm devices.
Indeed. Sage was written by and for academics in academia doing research in pure mathematics. There's also been a fair amount of work to make it usable for undergrad math courses (started originally by some undergrads I hired actually). The only significant overlap with industry in terms of dev support is probably crypto research... But the Python ecosystem overall is pretty strong in industry, and Sage is part of that ecosystem...
Nice, but I have to complain about bitbucket.. it's so annoying that your html documents do not show up when browsing the bitbucket website. Github has them beat on this one- just rename the htmls to md and it will mostly work.

I wrote similar things in the past, but for 6809. My equivalent these days is whenever I have to deal with a new microcontroller, I port my personal CLI + task queue schedular to it. Once I have a UART, timer, and CLI with history running, then the actual application is usually a breeze.
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Ah, indeed. :)
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I think it's likely, having just harnessed the power of the atom after growing up w/o electricity, Teller assumed the problem of fallout was a simpler one to solve than what he'd just worked on. We see the standstill, where radiation was unresolvable... but wouldn't he see it as a smaller hill after he just climbed a mountain?
I never understood the love for the iPod, it was pretty mediocre. It did have iTunes integration which had the ability to purchase music and sync, but it had and still has a shitty interface.

Edit: I get that we have to worship Steve jobs, but the iPod wasn't revolutionary. Others before and after did it better.
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I will hazard a guess that expressJS in the Node ecosystem, and Flask in the python ecosystem, would be two tools the OP would agree are significantly more straightforward (at least for initial application development) then rails.
As someone who trains devs on rails I find that’s not true.

In my experience if you have a developer of any experience level go through the full Rails tutorial they come out on the other side highly productive. I usually have people on my team do this on their own time and they usually finish within the first two weeks of work.

What I will say is that the implicit, convention over configuration approach of rails means you really do have to RTFM. I find that the more experienced a developer is the more resistant they tend to be to this. But in general they all get over it after they read the manual.
This is the truth.

They're predominately right out of school and don't
understand systems engineering. If single schizophrenic man can create a complete 64-bit real-time multitasking operating system that can be distributed completely in a 2MB distribution, one of the highest valued tech companies in the world can make a glorified version of their website fit in under 20MB.

Think how many lifetimes are wasted each day waiting for Facebook to load or update.

I just uninstalled it about a year ago because I was so disgusted with it. Now, I get ads begging me to come back.
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Unless you are able and willing to risk the entire US silver reserve (see the Manhattan project), you aren’t actually funding moonshots.
> How can you be neutral on the topic of efficiency? Efficiency is better full stop.

Efficiency in doing what, exactly?

Efficiency might measure output of X as a function of input Y. Is having more X actually helpful or harmful?

How will the overall system respond if it suddenly becomes possible to more efficiently transform Y into X? (This can lead to higher rate of consumption of Y)

Does a strategy for increasing X / Y happen to damage some other valuable things A, B, C that aren't captured in the definition of the subsystem of X and Y we're trying to optimise?
I disagree. I learned it as a pretty inexperienced developer. You just need to know Ruby and how a web application works. Sure, that rules out most bootcamp students, but honestly bootcamp grads shouldn't be writing production code.
The languages themselves. To evaluate most simple integrals in mathematica you just put them in and all the corner cases are assumed away for you. For sage and the axiom binding you need to make those assumptions explicit. Pretty much everything in mathematica assumes you're working on the real numbers, pretty much nothing in sage does: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/tutorial/tour_rings.html

Most math quants use is at the undergrad level, the finance industry in general is pretty backwards. A very large chunk of it is run on spreadsheets that are passed around in emails. I've worked in it and having seem what it takes to run some of the clients spreadsheets still gives me nightmares.

Again, the difference between osx and linux.

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To clarify what I mean by undergrad level: Something that is taught to some undergrads in some degree.

Someone who specialized in pure symbolic mathematics is likely to see integrals in their last year that other people will not see until they start doing postdoc work.
So is Singapore and Hong Kong. Taiwan doesn't represent China. Republic of Macedonia recently changed their name because Greeks didn't want them to use Republic of Macedonia. If Taiwan wants to be Taiwan, they should change their name to Republic of Taiwan, just because Canada is majority English or German ethnicity doesn't mean its Republic of England. Also they should renounce their claim to the mainland, thats my biggest concern.
Zune 80/120 or Zune HD. You can usually find people practically giving them away on Craigslist, Offerup, etc. Zune 120 has a disk drive in it if you're concerned about that. Zune HD comes in 16GB, 32GB, and a rare 64GB and includes HD radio.
Hidden in the parent's comment is the additional condition that f(a,b) have an expected value of zero. It's still pretty easy to prove, though.
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Node doesn't have it natively like Python does, but it exists:

https://github.com/node-ffi/node-ffi
WIMPs vs MACHOs is fucking hilarious.

Although, sadly, I think both have been exhausted as options for the dark matter search. Then again, there has been like 140 dark matter/energy papers this year, and I haven't read them all.
You definitely ended up on the right side of history on that one
There are many reasons to learn Go but even the author didn't emphasise on performance because it is not. There are many dynamic compilers which produce faster binaries than go. I think the best reasoning in the blog was A-Grade standard lib. That is something not all available new languages enjoy. But Go from the early days had good standard lib support. Go comes with batteries but then so does Chicken scheme.
Well, if this is Philosophy 201, then clearly everything is abstract, and something something Plato's cave. However, the default position is that (surprise!) objective reality exists. Things that are observable and measurable are not abstract. Those things around you that you can perceive with your senses are not abstract. For a more in-depth perspective, you could take a look at the Wikipedia pages for: empiricism, epistemology, philosophy of science. Also, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy should have a reasonably topical article about Rationalism vs. Empiricism.
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You don’t see it as addicting kids. Its creating a fun experience for “free” that is paid by advertising or data gathering. Don’t the games, hate the cheap parents.

Besides, all games are designed to be addictive. That’s what games are. They provide a fast feedback loop of small successes
We don't do Client Certs because the problem is now you're asserting an identity. So what's the identity?

Maybe I'm happy for Hacker News and GitHub to know me as Nick Lamb, but I'd prefer that Grindr thinks of me as Steve Farmer, so that's now an additional certificate and then some sort of choice mechanic so I pick the right one. And if I screw up, or an advertising network is able to tie these identities together I can't undo that.

WebAuthn create a scenario where you can prove to a site that _you_ still have the same FIDO token as when _you_ signed up. But they don't get anything else, you have to mount an _active attack_ to even find out whether the token Alice shows you when she logs in is really the same token that Bob shows when he logs in, or to find out whether the credentials you've stolen from Facebook for alice@example.com are for the same token that Bob is using on GitHub. Passive attacks can't find any of that out, and remember each active attack attempt causes a physical human interaction, you can't just write a Javascript to try it a billion times until it succeeds.
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Can I do the following workflow on iPhone:

1. navigate to a download link in browser, download the file

2. change file extension to zip, and unpack it to a folder

3. open one of the extracted .docx files and open in Word

4. save it as a PDF file

5. go to Mail app and attach the PDF file

Is the $1000 phone with the 'fastest processor of the market' capable to do this?
How helpful do you think full implementation of email authentication: SPF, DKIM, and DKMARC (p=reject)?

I know it does not help against close mispellings, but it at least prevents spoofing the actual domain name. Is email authentication an important part of mitigating phishing?
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I used Matlab in undergrad and Python a lot in industry. I got a Mathematica license recently being impressed with the documentation and the sheer breadth of stuff built into the language in a consistent manner. I ran into an issue when I found out that my license could only have 4 kernels activated at a time. I was able to close out the old sessions with the task manager, but I almost (exaggeration) punched my computer when the message popped up about licensing. Wtf? How much did I pay for this? Maybe I'll just stick with Python & Julia for what I need. I just traded one frustration for another.
Probably because even Google isn't able to get searching in some EU languages right. People in Europe also have less money than people in the USA, most people still frown upon spending that money on Netflix or Spotify to this day.
I've done both extremes, and you're absolutely right, but the point still stands no matter how many cases we can find that might hint at the opposite :)