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No, Bitcoin has always been mineable at the same cost for everyone willing to mine while also enforcing a slow supply release. Premines offer free supply capture only for the central party that sells the premine, and oftentimes provides infinite liquidity allowing any wealthy party to capture the entire supply in a short timeframe.

Satoshi understood the importance of fair distribution, while all ICOs compromised their security in their futile greedy attempts to create "a better Bitcoin." You can't expect to improve a system for which you don't even understand the design rationale.
Because providing debit cards to the poor costs money, and may not even help if they're getting paid in cash.

Whereas this approach keeps the cost of handling cash on the restaurants.
“We have an enormous ecological disaster created by badly-designed social media now being used by people to control and exploit human beings in all sorts of ways.

“That’s the consequence of social media structures which encourage people to share using centralized databases, and everything they share is held by someone who is no friend of theirs who also runs the servers and collects the logs which contain all the information about who accesses what, the consequences of which is that we are creating systems of comprehensive surveillance in which a billion people are involved and those people’s lives are being lived under a kind of scrutiny which no secret police service is the 20th century could ever have aspired to achieve. And all of that data is being collected and sold by people whose goal it is to make a profit selling the ability to control human beings by knowing more about themselves than they know.”

— Eben Moglen

https://web.archive.org/web/20120414150710/http://www.betabe...
Putting bags on a second seat is something that people of all genders do. Manspreading is something that is almost exclusively done by men. What's more, generally everybody recognizes that taking up a second seat with a bag is rather rude if there aren't enough seats for everyone, but most men don't even recognize that manspreading is a problem, much less make any effort to stop doing it.
I think his point was that the initial expectation was that improved access to knowledge via the internet would unleash the potential for a higher average level of education. The correlation appears to the OP instead to be moving in the opposite direction.
The only thing I'd caution (particularly about #1) is that being able to parrot facts — even ones you know cold — on-demand in a high-intensity interview setting can be very different from using those same facts day-to-day. If someone can't describe the difference between abstract classes and interfaces, how confident are you it's because they don't understand it and not just because they're horrible at being put on the spot in an interview-style environment?
Amazon isn't good at open sourcing stuff, I am 100% with you.

But there is more to this as well. AWS is a huge ecosystem by itself, a lot their services intertwined with each other, simply open source DynamoDB isn't enough without open sourcing the networking/storage functionality that is probably provided by other services.
I think some of that comes down to relative wealth. I know friends from developing countries who are very comfortable with little personal space. That's what happens when you have large families (and even bigger extended families) and little space.
Blight.
Ocaml vs. Maybe Not
XP was a gnawing (but likely necessary) step back from Windows 2000 in many ways, mostly on the UI side of things, at least in its early days

Brushing all the checkboxes and menus it could under the rug in favor of those stupid "Wizards" gives me a headache even just reminiscing about it

"Internet Connection Wizard"

"Help Wizard"

"Accessibility Wizard"
The more "sophisticated" a textual analysis tool is, the less interpretable it is, and the more difficult it will be to get people to believe the output.

And yes, I think the people involved in this will take that risk.
This is a valid criticism; however, they did not specify I had to turn it in the next day, I could have kept it over the weekend and not taken a day off of work. Several people kept it over a weekend with no penalty. I also could have worked on it at night after work. I definitely preferred this option as opposed to having to take a full day off for an in person interview and another for the follow up. I only took an hour off for the first interview as it was at 5 and I just ran home and threw on a suit jacket and a couple hours for the final interview as it was close to the same time.

If I had already worked in the js stack they asked me to use the entire project build would have been 5 or 6 hours and that's only because I really wanted to impress, I could have knocked it out once my kids went to sleep.

But as in everything it depends on the person and their life circumstances, we all have different things going on.
An advantage the Gaming Industry holds is that it is completely global.

The salaries for game artists and programmers in Eastern Europe are actually quite high, by local standards. And when you consider the very low cost of living in those countries, they are even appealing at a global level.

Working for a games studio in those countries, particularly if key management are Westerners or the local studio is a branch of a Western company, also gives a professional and modern work environment, whereas many older (non-Gaming) companies in Eastern Europe still have old-fashioned work styles (managers holding less respect for workers, for example) which are somewhat a legacy of the Communist era.

Los Angeles is 147% more expensive to live in than Wroclaw (4th biggest city in Poland) for example. https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/wroclaw...

Typical Unity Developer salaries in these mid-sized Polish cities are about $35,000 annually, which enables an excellent upper-middle-class lifestyle. Plus, because the cost base in Eastern Europe is so low, if the game your company makes is very successful, you stand to receive a very large bonus.
Keep nationalistic swipes off HN, please.
Broad at first but nothing but time prevents them from going deep
Initially I thought this was some metaphor, like trying to string too many components together, or something, heh.
I think also retooling build systems to work with XCode took a while to do, or at least be worthwhile to do - especially if you're shipping a multi-platform beast like anything from Adobe. If I remember, the only real way to ship a Cocoa app was with Xcode.
Some of us are immoral, or at the very least amoral. Not everything has to be based on morals.
Sounds like Dirty Jobs' don't do what you love, love what you do https://youtube.com/watch?v=NT1i26RbrhM&t=8s

I've heard that arranged marriages end up as loving relationships. If choosen as compatible and with no choice but to make it work... plausible. Or it could be that people put up with damaging situations.
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> I suspect this whole thread is made up by some Russian propaganda campaign.

This breaks the site guidelines, which ask you not to insinuate astroturfing without evidence. That's one of the internet poisons we're trying to do without here.

If you'd read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it.
The ideal process is having one that actually exists.

Most startups basically try to wing this without any definition of how they want the interview process to work. IMHO this is about 50% of the problem. On the flip side, large companies appear to be overburdened by process (anecdote example - I've heard from several people that getting into Google takes 6 months on average, along with the notorious b-tree whiteboard process).

That being said, I think Aline Lerner[0] and Triplebyte[1] have some good ideas on the topic:

[0] - http://blog.interviewing.io/

[1] - https://triplebyte.com/blog

I don't think implementing either one of their services is a silver bullet, but are likely n% better than what most companies are doing.
Yeah, that argument can be made, I see what you mean. Kind of like the traveling just to post a bunch of flashy pictures on Instagram thing. Even when that is the case, I think a lot of those people who do outdoorsy stuff partially for the pictures, geek stuff, etc. do receive some pleasure from the hobby or activity itself and so it's not all just for "approval-seeking" or showing off on social media.

On the other hand, can't materialism and approval-seeking be positive in some aspects? For example, materialism and keeping up with the Joneses' incentivizes people to continue working harder and getting better jobs, thus helping them stay the course to prosperity and keeping high-paying jobs, or motivating them to get better jobs.

I know the same argument can be made that materialism causes people to be over-spenders and end up in a whirlwind of debt, but for myself, I think I might have had more goals and been more motivated when I cared about those things.
- Clear timelines on the interviewing process. Some companies show no respect for your time. Telling me to pop by the office to "chat" at a specific time and then telling me your agenda for a 4 round technical interview on the spot is not going to inspire any sort of trust.

- Ask me questions that actually apply to the job. If I'm building an iPhone app, please don't ask me to run through a gauntlet of white-boarding/coding challenges that don't apply to the job. Have me walk through something I've built or talk about how I would build a theoretical iPhone app. Most of us aren't building software for self driving cars so please quit acting like we are.

- If I'm writing code or solving problems, give me an ideal scenario to do my best. Let me use my own computer (not one that you just handed me setup to your preferences.) Potentially let me do it at home (where I am comfortable and not in an unfamiliar place.)

- Gauge confidence on the technical stack

- Don't say we'll be in touch shortly and then ghost. You can say goodbye to someone without false promises. I'm likely to tell fellow developers about how the process went.

- Have people with decent social skills interview

- If I ask questions like, "What should I be prepared for?" please give me a basic agenda or guidance. It'll go much better for both of us.
Haiku is just so cool (although it probably can be made even better, UI included, e.g. I really love the modern Win7/macOS/KDE5/Unity desktops idea od using one icon for both launching and minimizing/restoring/switching an app). I wish it could get more popular and developed more actively. I'd also love to have Haiku-like window management (and widgets toolkit skin if possible, but this is less important of course) on Linux (in KDE preferably).
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That's great. It's only a shame that instead of driving by people don't walk or bicycle by, because that would allow for easier stopping and deeper interactions. Perhaps there are changes to the street design which would facilitate that, while preserving the car movement.
The German cartel office also investigates general abuse of dominant market positions, including monopolies (where one could say that the market doesn't exist anymore).

This double-role of the cartel office makes sense, because the whole point of a cartel is for a group of companies to be able to interact with the market like when they would hold a dominant market position.

There's also the step in between, which are official fusions or buyouts of big companies, which's only difference compared to a cartel is that they're officially talking to one another, not inofficially, but which would lead to one single company holding the dominant market position, at which point you would normally not count that to "cartels" at all anymore.
Talking about "the right to do so" is either a legal or a moral judgement, and the parent said this in the context of both a legal and a non-legal (and therefore moral) perspective.
How does Vietnamese manage to eliminate that much redundancy? What parts of language have they done away with?
I am quite on fence about this topic. I think the best way for Amazon to do is to make contributions to the OSS organizations that helps them making so much money, if they choose not to give their source code back to the community.
I’m sorry but I fundamentally disagree. GP said vacuum is a perfect insulator. Comment was in response to that demonstrating that it is not.
It does seem wrong. I wonder if they could double crawl and penalize sites that throw up a paywal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575111
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It defines Component.prototype.isReactComponent. There isn't really a better way to do it in JS.
Climate change: Where we are in seven charts
I'm really quite surprised how much time is spent worrying about Babel.

I always thought that you could just write valid JavaScript and it's completely Babel's responsibility not to screw that up.

Edit: not sure what's wrong with my comment so let me clarify:

I wouldn't have thought that library developers had to think about what other tools might do with their library. I always thought that so long as your code is valid JavaScript, Babel would faithfully transpile it down to another valid target using polyfills and whatnot.
Instagram is just porn, steroids, and protein supplements.
> but instead to companies like Riot and Blizzard.

But both Riot and Blizzard is like 10 times larger than Valve. And has games and franchise that is sustainable business if the worst happens in the next 10 years. Does having CS:Go and DOTA only enough to feed them? I mean even DOTA 2 is like 5 years ago already. And Artifact doesn't seems like a hit at all.
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These measures only make sense to consider assuming the distribution was fair. Otherwise, the system is unrecoverably compromised from day one as there is no trust-minimised way of telling whether the founders abused their disproportionate privilege to capture enough supply to manipulate the incentives that keep the miners honest and the network secure.

If the security of your network is fundamentally based on trust that one central party was honest, then you can't have decentralisation regardless of how many addresses you have, how many miners you have, how many nodes you have, or how many clients you have.
"I'm biased. You're biased. The data is biased."

The scientific method is currently the best tool humans have to combat bias. Humans generally suck at applying it, even when they try really hard. Can we build an AI that out-performs humans at applying it and have that AI analyze other AI systems before we act on their results?
No. One could argue for a right while accepting that there isn't an inherent moral value attached to it.
trying to see how this is the Trader Joe's model.

i thought what Trader Joe's did was find food makers that sell products at other retailers (e.g. Naked Juice, sold for example at at Whole Foods) and then negotiate a deal with that same food maker to supply that same product to TJ's under the store label and at a lower price.

if I'm not mistaken, TJ's also develops its own product concepts (e.g. Thai Chili Cashew Nuts or their Winter blend coffee) in conjunction with some outside food makers and sells those in its TJ's stores too.

but, I'd be interested in finding some examples of where TJ's basically ripped off one of their own supplier's ideas and had it made by someone else for their store label. interesting stuff!
CPI-U is an average rate of inflation across a basket of products. It's possible that the price of some products has gone up higher than CPI-U and that other products haven't gone up as high.
Imagine if two non-overlapping patches on the sphere could overlap once they get projected. Now consider some single point in the overlapped region. It came from two distinct places on the original sphere, so this projection is not 1-to-1 but many-to-1.

In principle there is nothing wrong with a many-to-1 projection. But in this particular case, I hope it's pretty intuitive that the projection from the sphere to the containing cylinder is indeed one-to-one except at the poles (where it is actually 1-to-many).
Fortnite 6.31 New Game Addiction Pushing Kids to Gamer Rehab
Intro to NFC Payment Relay Attacks
This is great. I wish more companies did something like this.
Well the good news is the 1/r2 rule applies to people too (just go to the beach -- the huge mass of people is close to the entrance, and density drops off in a lovely bell curve). Hunters (in the California at least) are rarely far from their truck, especially in winter (for most species of game). The rock stackers are more likely to be in a national park presumably because they are accessible and have that vital wifi access.

There's lots of true wilderness (e.g. BLM land in the US, far northern Canada, etc) which are the opposite of "tightly controlled", mostly inaccessable to motor vehicles where you can travel for weeks without seeing another human.
Solving multi user inherently results in building isolation which translates well to security.
I've read at least two dozen explanations of prototypes that didn't offer 10% of the clarity of this post. And another brilliantly told story of how React does its work. Bravo.
How much to make the buildings float? One by one floats could be added to the buildings and cross connected to prevent individual building tipping.

It will take time and money, but they are already talking about spending big bucks anyway.
While the intention of the design may not be what you describe, one of the consequences often is.
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Digital Chargeback Frauds
Recently, there have been many emerging cases where the users deny having consented to have their information used for the purpose of availing any services from the providers.

Generally, asking for consent entails clicking a checkbox or hitting the ‘I Agree’ button written after a statement consisting of all the points for which consent is required.

There have been users claiming that they were not the ones who gave consent for their data use and processing. However, they were, indeed, the ones to avail the service.

In numerous other cases, it was also reported that the actual users neither consented to the use of their information nor were they the ones to use the service offered by the business providers.

With this argument in place, there were a huge number of requests for their money back, incurring financial losses to businesses and time consumption for companies and banks alike.

In fact, the hike in chargeback frauds can be seen from this article as well: https://shuftipro.com/blogs/fraud-protection-for-online-retail-businesses/

What are your thoughts about this issue?
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Show HN: We made Slack emulator to demo our chat bot (desktop only)
If I recall correctly, this rule is why googling for an article and then clicking on it from Google frequently works.

The rule is something like "a user clicking from Google can't see something (meaningfully) different than what the Googlebot sees". So you can paywall direct traffic or links from Reddit or internal links, but that first one from Google is supposed to work.
Can't make your own tech sector? Steal from the FAANG!
I don't think I can answer that without knowing how this has been bound by the caller.
Worldwide, most people report that they'd like to have 2 or more children, and that money is the main reason they don't: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2016/08/25/wanted.

This strongly suggests that economic factors- e.g. flat real wages, unaffordable housing, astronomical medical costs- and not sinister Communist plots are behind shrinking families.
Abramov's a class act all the way.
FWIW, the /r/travel rules explicitly ban "clickbait, spam, memes, ads, brochures, surveys, vlogs, blogs or other self-promotion". So I can't post a link to my travel blog, even if it happens to have in-depth content that I think others would find interesting, but I can post visually arresting photos.
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In a spirit of rough-quantitative reasoning...

Because pi is 3, modulo a 5% error we'll so easily ignore, we all know the volume and area of a ball are 1/2 those of the box it came in. And the area and perimeter of a circle are 3/4 those of its bounding square. So a unit-wide ball in a box has an area of 3, and its shadow on the bottom of the box has an area of 3/4. QED.

How often does education leave students struggling with half-remembered "was it 4/3 pi r^3... or was it 4 pi r hmm...", and bereft of any clue that the ball's simply half its box. It's like education never uses it to engage with the physical world, so there's no selection pressure for being able to apply it as other than a math tidbit.
It gets attention because it is rude and annoying and subway riders would like it to stop, and, despite your experience, very common, and indeed almost exclusive to men.

I see one or two men "spread" every day on the subway in Boston. Some even do it while someone is seated next to them, forcing their neighbor to sit sideways or be squished. The subway seats are narrower than they ought to be, and many people simply don't fit, but spreading is an act apart.

Never have I seen a woman sit like that on the subway. Granted, it's possible the reason women do not do this is merely one of propriety or upbringing and not conscientiousness. Likewise it's possible the reason men do this is merely obliviousness and not inconsiderateness, posturing, or entitlement. But it is absolutely a predominantly male behavior.
Your point about more frequent feedback loop makes sense. I think I would otherwise tend toward just a few per week. That’s probably too much sinking and not enough swimming.
Have you considered that the desire to feel fully accepted by all might be detrimental your well-being?
As a customer of Network Solutions, I can answer this: without persistent legal threats and follow-through, it's impossible to transfer a domain out to a cheaper provider. The transfer form doesn't work. Emailing doesn't work. Calling doesn't work. Ultimately, it's just not worth it to bother.
> Point number is painfully true

Which point? 1?
uhm. i tried it.

the example app you get out of the box. it didn't run the dummy tests successfully on either ios or android side (forgot which one).

upgraded to the latest version other issues on the example app.

for me this was already a big no-no. if the tests are failing on the example app.
They're about as different as taking a horse-drawn wagon to the next town over versus riding there yourself on a racing motorbike.
> They’d be group photos, vacation pictures, captured moments from a birthday or wedding. I can’t imagine how we would react to a friend pulling out a photo album that contained the stuff many popular Instagram accounts post. They would seem psychotically narcissistic.

Well, the sad truth is that the world is lot lonelier than it used to be before. As someone who doesn't care much about being social, I personally like the fact that I no longer need to depend on others to take pictures that I find to be interesting.
Me too. Except instagram I started using afterward, and my engagement with it was much different. I just put some riding photos up from time to time and I only have good friends on there. No spam and my friends are rad so I don't get the social showboating or preaching. I reduced phone usage in general, and I would only open the app once every couple of days and that's normally to post a picture.

My main change about how I use my phone is that I only touch it when I have a task to achieve, and that is frankly very infrequent. It also doesn't go everywhere with me. If I can do something on my PC later I prefer that to using the phone.

Convenience is not a substitute for substance and I have found myself happier when I delay things to be done thoughtfully later rather than getting them done now.
Still no good terminal calendar program that can sync with o365.