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> Once the exchange is done, you have no rights to the fiat currency.

This is incorrect. Facebook's tokens given users the right to exchange their tokens back for the backing assets.
I don't know though; I think it has to be done with a LOT of trust by the creator and the public. CD Projekt currently has that trust with the fan base; however Elder Scrolls 6 [1] last year was not a welcomed with a cinematic trailer based on how Bethesda has behaved in the past.

I think another view is how the FF7 remake has been treated for years since its initial announcement. There was hype, skepticism, and finally support.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkFdqqyI8y4
We took "Show HN" off the title because requiring an invite makes it more like a sign-up page than something people are able to try out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The main issue is that sometimes the entire team would stop to produce a demo for E3 or other shows which in retrospect would delay the game from actually coming out. Some would spend so much time making sure their demo looked good, it became an engine show-off and they knew the game wouldn't ship complete like that.
The important parts here are (1) that they remained metrics driven and (2) that they focused on repeatability.

1. Both TypeScript and Flow are gradual type systems. They both explicitly allow escaping the safety and coverage of a type system, either to allow easier interop with existing JavaScript packages or to allow existing JavaScript codebases to incrementally adopt types. So there are always holes in which errors are reported, regardless of whether they had to silence some explicitly or not. By measuring the extent, they have a yardstick against which they can drive further type adoption.

2. Repeatability is the only way to do large code migrations. Write the steps in a script, run it, find the bugs in the script, fix the script, and repeat. With 300k lines of code no doubt they have dozens or hundreds of people committing daily. So a script is the only way to sneak in during off-hours, get something in that doesn’t race to conflict with someone else, and land the change. A long running, manually crafter branch here would not work—it would effectively operate as a fork of the codebase for the entire duration of the migration, with all the downsides that a fork entails.

Kudos to the team; this is a very impressive feat!
I live in a single-family detached condo, one of several on a very small lot. Each unit has a very small (400 sqft) attached yard, and each unit is about 10 feet from it's neighbor. It's a type of urban infill development. A long time ago the whole lot was occupied by a gas station. It does a great job of providing us the "single family" feel while also achieving higher density.
These people are (justifiably) concerned that any evidence contrary to the "sky is falling" story will promote denial, inaction, and eventual disaster.

Doesn't make it right. But worth keeping in mind.
Define Crypto.

If you're talking Cryptography, there's quite a few buffs of it here.

If you're talking cryptocurrency on the other hand...

My objections to it tend to be based around the mechanics of it. Particularly anything based on Proof-of-work. Computation isn't free, and anything that predicates being a store of value based on computational work being done misses the point. We burn resources in order to facilitate that currency exchange. When compared to say, printing off monopoly moneu, and getting a bunch of buy in from other people to respect it (the basis of fiat currency), your fiat currency wins out in that cash doesn't require anything but people's faith they can trade it to be valuable.

Other than that, and the tendency for the technology to lead to pump and dump schemes, I just find the tendency to think that making digital financial transactions easier/more pervasive repugnant.

Digital payments may enable expansion into previously untappable markets, but it hasn't in the years I've worked in the field, done much but create more middlemen to extract fees without creating anything more than a negligible convenience value for being in a position to process the transaction.
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You seem to think it's a very sinister practice but imagine making a video of what the product you're working on now will look like in two years.

Can you do that with what you have now? Will you get it right? We as software engineers aren't great at predicting what we'll have in two weeks.

If the community doesn't want to see target renders, good. They derail development anyway
At least a couple:

* https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca

* https://github.com/wende/elchemy
It’s a great project, but I doubt it’ll ever reach the maturity and functionality of Reagent, Om, Rum. Fulcro, Datascript, re-frame and Hoplon.
"Tailspin" by Stephen Brill is a relevant read in this context. If you measure the correlation between which percentile of income one's parents lie in a generation and which percentile of income one lies in a generation, it might be very high in most modern societies. This itself might indicate that there are problems with social mobility when it comes to meritocratic societies.
Please don't repeat comments in multiple threads. Repetition destroys curiosity and is therefore off topic here.
Well, zucchain is one of the world’s most inefficient and expensive database ever created, of course it deserve a nice white paper.

</sarc>
If that post is accurate… holy moly those cars are expensive. It doesn't even seem to make sense in rush hour according to those numbers?

He nicely has the exact per-car figure for the newer Caltrain cars ($5.7M / car…); he puts a $2.5M car at ~$162k/yr in depreciation, and $100k/yr in maintenance. If we double the depreciation to account for CalTrain's apparently expensive purchase, that's $325k + $100k / yr per car, or $2.55M/yr for a six-car train. (But: I don't get these depreciation numbers? This figure adds up to ~$13M over the life of the train assuming the 40 yr life in the article, which seems appropriate given that the gallery equipment is nearly 50 IIRC; why would depreciation be more than 100% of the vehicle cost, or is this a "it depreciates faster in earlier years but becomes more cost effective later"? This could greatly make most of the numbers I'm getting here make no sense.)

The passengers, meanwhile, assuming they pay the same price as I do for a Zone 3 pass (and Zone 3 is fairly popular, though some people will travel further to SJ which will cost more…) we get ~$1.6M/yr assuming 100% capacity (570 passengers, n.b. this is less than the current 722 per 6-car gallery, and IDK what Bombadiers have; also I kinda doubt that 100% load will happen in rush, that is, it'll still be >100%) and that they don't raise prices (I also doubt this.) Still, that's a huge funding gap, but should the passengers pay 100% of the required fees, or is some of it expected to come from taxpayers? (There's still a gap of ~$0.9M/yr … per train)
If there is no mining, how does proof of work occur to create coins? I only have an understanding of how blockchain works, but proof of work seems like a necessary ingredient in any cryptocurrency system.
> What if your smart tv, only ever plugged into HDMI, was connecting to your neighbor's xfinitywifi without you knowing it?

If this is the sort of thing I’m ever willing to wring my hands over and give more than 1/2 second of thought to, then I will thank God for how easy and cushy my life has become.
Probably never. If times are desperate enough that you'd seriously consider eradicating significant parts of the population, the ecosystems are already fucked beyond repair.
If gig work is acceptable, this list might help:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JfNAbUX_lN9K3MCNHO15...
Would help to have the demo on the homepage. Or a video.
Some background on how and why I started this.

I was going through a very difficult time in my life. My father in law passed away suddenly two days before my son and first child were born. Things were very emotional and stressful. I couldn't find any clarity. I didn't have any time for myself to figure it all out.

One day, while sitting alone in my friends startup office I heard the song Naked Life by Oko Ebombo. I am not sure why it was this song or if it could have been another song. Maybe I was depressed enough. But this song made me want to make music. I messaged some friends with a link to the track and asked, "how do you make this?" Most of them responded with things like, take singing lessons, get guitar lessons and so on. None of this was an option for me. I had to be back in my apartment to help my wife in an hour.

So I downloaded GarageBand for iOS, made a track and uploaded it to SoundCloud. Once that happened, I started to feel better. Prior to that moment I had never made any music in my life. The next day I did the same thing and I just didn't stop.

I wrote about this process on Twitter in a thread titled, "What I learned making some kind of music for 365 consecutive days:"

https://twitter.com/internetVin/status/1019033516028280832

I am following the same process now to teach myself how to code. I never want to stop doing this.
People who are liabilities are liabilities. It's sad when naive people don't recognize them and/or don't defend sensible personal boundaries against crazy/unreasonable intrusions.
> The government has the power to unilaterally block any transaction in any domain, so long as they deem the transaction to have occurred in or whose parties are under their jurisdiction.

The government cannot block cash or barter transactions. Instead, they can declare certain kinds of transaction illegal and then use the courts to punish anyone who engaged in an illegal transaction.

It’s a subtle but important distinction— to do anything against you, the government needs to present some sort of a case to judge and jury, and you have an opportunity to argue your side.
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And then I honk about the "boycott call of duty" group, movement whatever game.where,oh surprise,almost everyone played call of duty.

The internet might rage,and might call your bluff. Butbas long as it doesn't show in my wallet. Why should I care as a company?
I will give everyone who signs up a chance to try it out to hold up on the promise. I'll do this within 5 days of them signing up. Everything about this is just trying to be useful to people
In iOS 11+ you can disable this behavior.
My experience has been yes to all three of those. I’ve lived for decades in both Orange County (suburbs) and Los Angeles (city).
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Green Grow the Rashes
Thanks. I will do a post on Streams at some point.
Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>the Fed has shown no concern for those who save by keeping interest rates so dangerously low

There is no such thing as a dangerously low interest rate. The atmosphere won't suddenly catch on fire if you don't get a certain percent of risk free money. Additionally, "those who save" is not part of their mandate. They target unemployment and inflation.

>The Fed is also here to make money for huge banks and corporations by making credit so cheap.

Cheap credit isn't good banks anymore than it's good for individuals. Low interest means low mortgages, etc. If it's good for businesses, it's good for people for the same reason.

>In the long run this may not be the best for employment.

There hasn't been evidence otherwise so far. There has been plenty of evidence of money shortages causing lots of unemployment (see all busts of the early 1900s).

>Even if it is, it won't be for wages and wealth disparity.

High interest is absolutely terrible for wealth disparity. It's literally free money for people with money.
Facebook is creating a securitized token representing a supply of Us treasuries and other assets that according to the white paper is to provide intrinsic value.They do not seem to understand what gives Cypto intrinsic value. In theory this is a security and should only be available only to accredited investors and they would need to file for an IPO to make it available to everyone in the US. There is no innovation just another tether.
It's the only cryptocurrency that anyone outside of the crypto world has heard of/takes any interest in/would consider letting you buy their stuff with
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219170.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks, added that to my gist.
What Unit Tests Tells about Human Nature
This comment breaks the site guidelines in a bunch of ways. This is particularly awful:

> Actually, she doesn't give a shit about the people

Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended?
Those covers were obvious cover art. That's completely different from showing things that you could reasonably expect, as if they were actually included.
Issues with epub/mobi: pandoc gives me error which I didn't put much effort to get it resolved. I tried a sample book generation using rstudio and the resulting epub was bland compared to pdf (no syntax highlighting for code, spacing isn't pleasing between code and text, etc) - I searched a bit and found that I'd need to know learn a lot about CSS to get better results. A book from another author on leanpub (the platform allows you to generate all types from single source) was remarkably poor to read on my desktop epub reader compared to pdf (again no syntax highlighting, spacing issues, etc). Do try to compare same book in pdf vs epub/mobi if you get the chance.

No experience with ML. Have read a bit of content for Python+Math, but only as pdf.
Reminds me of the underground structures Colin Furze has conjured up:

- an underground multi-level beach hut: https://youtu.be/AojTrc_UMaM

- apocalypse bunker under his shed: https://youtu.be/KO25JYAaJC0
Please don't start trolling HN with this topic again, or we will end up having to ban not only this account but your main account as well.
why are people inclined to believe in conspiracies also happen to be hoarders?
I banged my head on this several times until I came up with basically the same conclusion.

PhotoStructure stores both the raw EXIF value, a nullable timezone that tries to adopt sibling's timezones (normally only inferable when you have GPS tags, including GPS acquisition time, which is always in UTC). It also stores the source of the inference, so other heuristics know how much it can "trust" that value.

I open-sourced the GPS location and offset inference code: https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js
That is true, but its effectiveness here depends on how much of a person's behavior is nature vs nurture. Political beliefs are influenced by genetics [0], why should environmentalism be an exception?

0: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/
The problem with Visa and Mastercard in the developing countries I've experienced is the banking system.

In Cambodia, you can only get a credit card from a Cambodian bank if you have a deposit with them that matches your credit limit (i.e. to get a card with a $5K limit, you need to maintain a balance of $5K in your account).

Most people cannot get credit/debit cards because the banks won't issue them, because they don't trust anyone and won't take the risk involved in issuing cards

I can see how Libra will solve a lot of frustrations for Visa/Mastercard working in poorer countries
Thus the article in the NYT, by a Pulitzer prize winner no less, attempting to reconcile trust issues, ends up as a pile of randomly copy-pasted data.
I'd say this communication has started on a wrong foot. If a reporter of a huge newspaper can't be arsed to get it right, what kind of trust can we have in underpaid, anonymous government clerks, responsible for both scientific evaluation and logistic execution of vaccination?
Please don't take HN on generic flamewar tangents. Nothing good comes of them, and in the end it amounts to trolling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: rewritten without snark

I was interviewed on this in 2004 for Yahoo! although the hostname in question was different.
I agree wholeheartedly. This is important and will provide balance. That said, often people have some sort of passion, their job might be a manifestation of that passion, and they want to connect with peers.
This era is called as Blockchain era.
> STRIKING PARALLELS between the telephones envisioned by
Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell are evident in their respective sketches of the instruments.

Didn't Bell have a friend at the patent office that allowed him to see the Gray patent and retrospectively alter his (Bells) patent application. This to increase the quality of evidence as to who had prior claim on the invention.
The issue is that it is presented as if it is actual, current gameplay.

I don't think anyone would have an issue if there was a giant watermark that said "CONCEPT" across ones that are no where near being represented in the final product yet, but it obvious that these companies are being intentionally deceitful.
I scolded that commenter upthread.

Those were crap comments, rightly downvoted and flagged, but another comment being crap doesn't entitle you to break the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Libra is a well known brand for sanitary products. I wonder if that's going to be problematic for either entity.
Great fan, student, and user of, cryptography.

Not a fan at all of resource wasting speculation schemes for no good reason whatsoever, that I wish would stop being called 'crypto'...
Changing gameplay between the E3 demo and the final release isn’t the problem, it’s when the difference between the preview gameplay is vastly better quality than the final. In the 12-24 intervening months one would expect a project to improve in quality and focus, not to devolve.

It’s the curated experience intended to oversell the state of the the current offering (i.e. pre-release) that raises gamers’ ire.
Copious can mean abundant in either supply or quantity.
Guice, Guice and more Guice.

Some teams switch to Go because they are fed up of writing Google Java instead of real Java.
Why was this flagged?

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dfeojm-zlib 34 minutes ago [flagged] [dead] [-]

More corporatist propaganda FUD desperately trying to undercut democratically-elected governments.
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Also here are links to profiles if that helps retain the "Show HN" status so people here can play with elements of this. I've worked really hard to get to a point where I have a working tool that people can use. It required teaching myself how to code to realize it. On Jan 01 2019, I had never written a line of code. I'm a huge fan of Hacker News and would appreciate the Show HN categorization.

https://hfo.futureland.tv/internetvin

https://hfo.futureland.tv/saph

https://hfo.futureland.tv/ruaa

https://hfo.futureland.tv/gabrieloc

https://hfo.futureland.tv/katherine
It's not at all "clear that this was organized". That's how it seemed to you; that is not evidence.

Would you please review and follow the site guidelines so we don't have to ban you? We have to warn you numerous times already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Interesting! I posted Erjang (JVM based Erlang VM)[0] a few days ago, I guess I missed this one. I have a fascination with both Erlang and Lisp. I love Erlang because it is definitely a back-end language. I also love it's resiliency. I like how expressive Lisp languages can be. So maybe we'll just run Clojerl on top of Erjang, which is on the JVM, and Clojerl is based on a JVM language, talk about an onion.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174830
A repl.it repo with a python example of a simple database app (an address book) that stores and queries data from Macrometa's serverless geo-distributed database running in California, Virgina, Germany and India.
Recently made a song called "Good for the world != good for Facebook". Might be of interest to peeps in this thread...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJSmiimxoQ
What risk is there in issuing debit cards? Other than the obvious fraud potential, but that usually doesn’t originate with the card holder.
This is especially annoying when it hops onto a 1 bar xfinity WiFi that barely works at all, or one that I just passed by at 60 mph, instead of just using 4G. I could never get my S6 to stop connecting to them, even after doing "forget this network". Thankfully I've replaced it.

I understand what they're going for, but I'd rather have some kind of app manage it in such a way that it requires a certain strength and for me to be in the vicinity for more than a microsecond.
I own one of these as well because I started my career in journalism for a couple years before becoming a developer. Additionally, my first computer ever was a TRS-80 CoCo, so it seemed like a perfect nostalgia item to own.

Fun fact: The Model 100 has a year 2000 bug - the dates in the main menu are hard coded to 19XX.
Yeah I’m 1000% not buying that places don’t care about dishware.

The ones that truly don’t care buy it in bulk for cheap as hell. The ones that do care, selectively chose their dishware. Saying “well actually everyone will be happy to use our dishes” is a bit funny.
> I would like to know more about the simulation's provenance ... I also wonder if there is any evidence of other simulations of flights that end up in the open ocean.

I'll second this. What little info we have seen can sound damning, at least as it's usually presented, but by all acounts there were over a hundred (hundreds?) of routes from the simultor, let's see them all and maybe the idea that one went into the southern indian ocean isn't actually so wild when you see a hundred plus of routes going everwhere from malaysia.
"rate of boiling off of young Amish each generation might act like truncation selection in favor being Amish, whatever that might be"

https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/inferring-an-aq/

https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/draft-of-paper-abo...

“[T]he difference in mean AQ [‘amishness’] between young Amish men and their non-Amish neighbors is about 2.8 standard deviations. In the IQ world this would correspond to a group different of 42 points. In the stature world this would correspond to a height difference of about 8 inches.”
It's a bit strange that you're bothering to debate people here if you're so certain that someone pointing out the truth won't have any effect.
> San Diego is the paragon of lovely weather in California, not the Bay Area.

And it shows in the steep cost of real estate there, too.
There's Purerl for PureScript that compiles to Erlang. There's a maintained package set for Spago for the Purerl community.
That’s a whole lot of not gonna happen.

Why in the world would you drive dishes around town, and keep a double set on hand, or possibly a triple set on backup for when the service goes down
Dozens: From an Idea to the Digital Financial Institution in 9 Months