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Nothing better than receiving your salary in a token with huge minute-to-minute volatility.
Looking forward to seeing a repeat here in NL.
They'd lose out on a huge market where there are already competitor apps to both Lyft and Uber.
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Most strip clubs do something like "Sully's Steakhouse" .

edit....or so I'm told :)
These days it's pretty trivial to have a cloud managed component e.g. Redis that is maintained, upgraded and supported.

And then you have a component that is designed for the job instead of trying to use a database as a poor man's queue.
Exactly my experience. I finally bit the bullet and switched to the Apple side. There are things I miss from android but I trust Apple not to self sabotage much more than I trust Google these days. Which is weird, and exactly the opposite of the feeling I had 5 years ago.
What if you have a device that iCloud isn’t available on? What if you want to check passwords on someone else’s computer? Or on a public one?
I'm not trying to belittle the contributions of individual contributors (indeed, I'm an IC-level engineer who has worked out the details on many products that have been patented). The detail work is totally necessary to get a working product into the market.

But that doesn't mean that the detail work is always what is claimed in the patent. Sure, sometimes it's a smaller detail-level aspect of a product that is patented; but other times it's the higher-level system architecture that is new--so that's what gets patented. It all comes down to what is novel about the new product, and what is valuable enough that a company wants to pay for IP protections.

In my experience, engineering managers are almost always engineers themselves, and tend to still enjoy contributing to some engineering work when given the chance. Also, sometimes someone is given a "manager" or "director" title as a promotion simply because they don't have a well-developed technical track for advancement. "Principal" or "fellow" engineer may be a more fitting title for their role, but it's not what you'll see on their LinkedIn page. The point is, just because someone has a title that suggests they're only spending their day managing people, some can definitely contribute to patentable ideas enough that they should be listed as an inventor. As mentioned in another comment, the patent could potentially be invalidated if their contributions rose to the level of an inventor but they weren't listed on the patent.
I think most people just use the pinky shelf, or some other method of reaching the top of the screen. Iphones have that gesture to shrink the screen instead or something
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Yes, but this is only 8 out of 10 cats.
Markets with long time between investment and realization have some funny dynamics.

The article claims a 5% difference between production and sales. That small difference means entire players will fail, and every one will suffer. A 5% difference on the other direction means incredibly large profits, but electrical automobiles priced outside of the capacity of most people to pay.

With time it will stabilize, but you can expect many more of those headlines.
The technicality of making the payment by cash or cc is beside the point, the point was that there is not 400 of savings available to immediately pay down the CC
This was discredited:

https://twitter.com/matiasojedam/status/1194665625278468096

It was a controlled descent... it landed right next to the owner in the crowd.

Which is amusing because it went viral on Reddit using 'police drone' in the title when it was a protestors drone. There was also a thousand comments speculating how the lasers 'brought it down' because of it blinded the cameras or CPUs or due to 'heat'.
Ironic that the story is on a website called Vice.
Many of these examples seem dangerous, like a place for water inclusion and freezing/melting and rot. The examples where the buildings tie together well aren't so bad. But the ones where the windows don't even line up?! Throw that builder in the sea.
Most things in a language are explicit design decisions. Doesn't automatically make them good decisions.

Actually Python is one of my favorite programming languages, probably the language with the closest mapping to how I naturally think about a problem. I really like it. But I'm also willing to admit it has some warts, as does any language.
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Check out OpenWorm. They're trying to reverse engineer the simplest organism with a nervous system, a nematode with 302 neurons. They're making progress, but not very fast. That approach is going to be a long haul.
"I, Claudius" was one of the most amusing and interesting books I've read.
DeX still remains and you can continue using Android apps though.

Linux on Dex was never particularly useful.
But you rarely need to see a hundred square km all at once. You almost always end up folding the map to some area of interest after you've located where that is (which can take some time, with the crappy lettering on most maps and the lack of a good index, which if it is there tends to get out of date fairly rapidly). I really don't miss maps. Though for backup purposes they are probably still quite useful.
Serious questions:

> because 98% of us are completely clueless

Do universities/bootcamps teach OWASP-style classes of programming vulnerabilities these days? Some developers are curious enough to learn them on their own, but many are oblivious.

I suspect there could be a startup idea here somewhere.

> absolutely not thinking about this stuff as we're trying to clear a sprint board

Does anyone have a decent tool/process for remembering all of the detailed tasks for every type of software deliverable? I find myself in a state of cognitive coma after sprint planning when I need to divide tasks into subtasks.
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Simply not true.

Faith in cryptography will not help anyone with fraud, theft, and trust.

Naive neo-liberal libertarians and anarchocapitalists attempt to claim deregulation will just work because they've never encountered abuse, fraud, negligence, or read any history.

One important point: if we actually include all 7 billion
people on the earth, most of whom have zero BTC or
Ethereum, the Gini coefficient is essentially 0.99+. And
if we just include all balances, we include many dust
balances which would again put the Gini coefficient at
0.99+. Thus, we need some kind of threshold here. The
imperfect threshold we picked was the Gini coefficient
among accounts with ≥185 BTC per address, and ≥2477 ETH
per address. So this is the distribution of ownership
among the Bitcoin and Ethereum rich with $500k as of July
2017.

In what kind of situation would a thresholded metric like
this be interesting? Perhaps in a scenario similar to the
ongoing IRS Coinbase issue, where the IRS is seeking
information on all holders with balances >$20,000.
Conceptualized in terms of an attack, a high Gini
coefficient would mean that a government would only need
to round up a few large holders in order to acquire a
large percentage of outstanding cryptocurrency — and with
it the ability to tank the price.

With that said, two points. First, while one would not
want a Gini coefficient of exactly 1.0 for BTC or ETH (as
then only one person would have all of the digital
currency, and no one would have an incentive to help boost
the network), in practice it appears that a very high
level of wealth centralization is still compatible with
the operation of a decentralized protocol. Second, as we
show below, we think the Nakamoto coefficient is a better
metric than the Gini coefficient for measuring holder
concentration in particular as it obviates the issue of
arbitrarily choosing a threshold.

...However, the maximum Gini coefficient has one obvious
issue: while a high value tracks with our intuitive notion
of a “more centralized” system, the fact that each Gini
coefficient is restricted to a 0–1 scale means that it
does not directly measure the number of individuals or
entities required to compromise a system.

Specifically, for a given blockchain suppose you have a
subsystem of exchanges with 1000 actors with a Gini
coefficient of 0.8, and another subsystem of 10 miners
with a Gini coefficient of 0.7. It may turn out that
compromising only 3 miners rather than 57 exchanges may be
sufficient to compromise this system, which would mean the
maximum Gini coefficient would have pointed to exchanges
rather than miners as the decentralization bottleneck.

Conversely, if one considers “number of distinct countries
with substantial mining capacity” an essential subsystem,
then the minimum Nakamoto coefficient for Bitcoin would
again be 1, as the compromise of China (in the sense of a
Chinese government crackdown on mining) would result in
>51% of mining being compromised.

- Balaji S. Srinivasan (the CTO of Coinbase)

https://news.earn.com/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c...
> The new flow I suggest is: BTC -> Coinbase -> PayPal

The flow still can be censored. As a matter of fact, you now have two opportunities for your payment to get nixed.
"The land of the free"
>I had a buddy who nearly did a chargeback against a club that put "E 11 EVN" on his bill... name is Eleven Club.

Are you sure the name isn't "Club E11Even"? Because there is a rather famous strip club in Miami named E11Even (pronounced Eleven).
Yes, you’re absolutely correct. I was mistaken.
I think the devolution of dilouge has gone far enough. It is time to find things in common with other humans now.
I think calling things drugs causes stigma between generations. I think the tytle should be.more about the topic at hand is all
Some places aren't mapped for political/military reasons. The idea being that a public map would be helpful to an invading force so they are prohibited by law.

In other places the maps are purposely incorrect to be of less use to an invading force.

Making life hell for locals is considered an acceptable side effect for national security.
First time I've heard this, although I've heard similar things about Afghanistan. If this is true, what have been the beneficial lithium-based financial outcomes of the intervention Afghanistan?
There's a good sized market, but IIRC porn payments have an outsized portion of problems, like lots of chargebacks.
I'll use my phone or paper maps depending on the situation.

- Backpacking for one night: Probably just phone (I use an app called Offline Topo Maps, works great).

- Backpacking for an extended amount of time: Paper

- Backpacking in winter/snow: Paper and Phone. (Only use the phone for when I'm not quite sure where I am)

- Motorcycle tour: Phone.

- Multiday rafting: Paper.

- Bicycle Tour: Phone and Paper.

- General Travel to a new place: Phone.

I feel as if one isn't necessarily better than the other, they both have their pros & cons for different activities.
> A chilling effect on free speech. Real alternatives to paypal and credit cards need to enter the market.

This would have been a huge problem in 2012, Now there are realistic solutions to avoid this. Just pay by cryptocurrencies on to a Coinbase Card and you can withdraw the cash and pay anonymously.

Job done.
> "The land of the free"

To be filed in the same drawer as "don't be evil".

As in: who still believes in stuff likes this in 2019?
Funny thing is, I can't think of a bigger bunch of useless jerkoffs than the anti-porn crusaders.
Sure but now your "100th percentile" would be nothing but the timeout.

Quantifying things like service latency isn't a one-size fits all thing. Every service has its nuances and use cases that make it more meaningful to measure 99%, 99.9%, 99.99% or something else.

.... just don't measure average like I've seen naive junior devs do. Average latency is the worst of all metrics to use as it will include all the outliers at the very tippy top of the spectrum and basically render the metric meaningless.
The same reason there is still a ton of legacy PHP 5.6 code.

Migration in interpreted languages that implement major breaking changes is really tedious.
Whoa. Smell was more important than sight for brain evolution? Is there somewhere I can read more about this?
This is the best title.
You can buy Office just fine. They push 365, but that's just a licensing model, you can buy regular licenses just as easily.
Well Redditors are notoriously gullible.
TL;DR: kids and work. One would assume the solution is encouraging your kids to be more independent and pursuing work-life balance over increases in pay.
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Genuine question, MindGeek[1] is a private Canadian company, why are they subject to U.S. law if they build payment network outside of US?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGeek
Way to go AMD!
One of the benefits of competition between the duopoly. AMD has cornered Intel these last couple of years and I don’t see this trend changing soon, not with all these vulnerabilities that chipzilla is having ;-)

One thing I’d like to note, is that with all this computing power being available to users at a relatively affordable price, software developers (games - commercial software) won’t optimize their code. I’ve seen it happening where a loop/scanning/sorting algorithm won’t be optimized since the user will anyhow have a few cores and GHz to spare.
> Key feature, must not look suspicious on credit card bill

That's called a hotel room.
Dude, MS has had activation for their products for like a decade and a half if not more.
I’ve mentioned this before, but the firearms industry has a similar issue, caused by the same clauses. Local gun stores often pay very high fees for credit card processing relative to other retail stores - and unlike gambling and pornography, this doesn’t seem to be supported by a higher chargeback rate as best I can tell. They’ve just been “lumped in” because of the regulated nature of some of their products.

I say “some of”, because things like magazines and accessories are usually included in the “prohibited goods and services” clauses, even though they are typical subject to no specific regulation at either the state or federal level. It’s honestly kind of weird to me.
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Official name, yes, but in their advertising, they usually put Eleven...
> Which is also why I don't get why so many Dems are supporting this so enthusiastically.

Because they are trying to limit the damage to their country. Which is substantial already, to put it mildly. Give Trump some more times and you may find yourself in an unrecoverable situation. This Ukraine mess is likely just the tip of the iceberg.
The simple reason is that there was no compelling feature to reward you for upgrading. You'd spend a tremendous amount of effort for dubious return and (until recently) a smaller ecosystem.

1. Unicode support was actually an anti-feature for most existing code. If you're writing a simple script you prefer 'garbage-in, garbage-out' unicode rather than scattering casts everywhere to watch it randomly explode when an invalid byte sneaks in. If you did have a big user-facing application that cared about unicode, then the conversion was incredibly painful for you because you were a real user of the old style.

2. Minor nice-to-haves like print-function, float division, and lazy ranges just hide landmines in the conversion while providing minimal benefit.

In the latest py3 versions we've finally gotten some sugar to tempt people over: asyncio, f-strings, dataclasses, and type annotations. Still not exactly compelling, but at least something to encourage the average Joe to put in all the effort.
Amen to treating symptoms!

I feel like I've wasted years and a lot of money with psychotherapists who insist on bullshit root causes.

Treating symptoms allows you to break the problem into smaller issues, monitor progress, change course and so on.

There is no treating "root cause" -- the root cause happened dacades ago; it allows lousy psychotherapists to continue to be lousy psychotherapists.

There is no way to objectively quantify the root cause and to train psychotherapists to "treat the root cause".

The "treat the root cause" psychoterapies, starting with psychoanalisis are just bullshit psychotherapies, no better than the "detoxifying" and "holistic" diets.
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The point is to spend out of btc via means of PayPal though. The shift card died because Switzer land couldn't hold it up.
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Those were juggernaut companies which seemed unstoppable at the time; that they would vanish was unthinkable.

Keep that in mind when considering Facebook, Google, and others we can’t imagine will ever disappear.
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So essentially the answer I'm hearing is that there is a fear of what other people will do with the information. Mostly around discrimination and shame.
Well shiver me timbers, they've been out for weeks!
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My wife hates her unfresh breath so much that she won't eat before brushing.

I don't really get it since my mouth tastes like mint for 30 minutes after brushing, which makes food taste gross.
AFAIK Pornhub is Canadian. However your objection still stands; I would imagine that there are similar laws in Canada against sex trafficking.
It depends on a type of USB-C dongle I think - Samsung obviously recommends theirs, but it worked for me on my MacBook USB-C "dock" dongles with HDMI+ethernet+USB+power. IIRC you need the one that supplies power or you just get screen mirroring.

There's also a setting to switch between modes under Settings -> Connections -> More connection settings -> HDMI mode.
@shishircc wish you good luck on this, but your conception as to what's stopping innovation in tech is not correct. I'd advise you to hang out with teachers, administrators, and parents to get a better feel for it.

The successes with education tend to sidestep the whole thing and offer an alternative, instead of working with the system, for a reason.
Yes, it was an evolutionary drift. Cockroaches do not live enough for any other interpretation of the GP's comment to make sense.
More like 'Hot Coffee at Hotel XXX'.

But in all seriousness, imagine using the Apple card for this, and then it comes up with a logo which says exactly what it is, heh :)

The best way to tackle that is to own a media company, and have PornHub as one of its' holdings, and then the bill would appear to be a neutral 'Decent Looking Media Inc.' or something like that.
Sounds like what I always considered "crazy talk" but you're right. Don't always assume and trust. Thanks
My LG Stylo has this super annoying wake feature that works when you either shake the phone, or touch the screen a lot. It keeps turning on in my pocket just because of movement and sometime certain textiles allow my leg to even swipe the lock screen and press random stuff. Having a hardware button is better, but not perfect as depending on where it is, you could be accidentally pressing it when it's tumbling around in a backpack etc. Really the best solution to unintentionally waking your phone (at least for me) would be a flip phone.
I don't believe this to be a bad thing. It adds a random shuffle to your inlet that is fair and unpredictable.
Great for those of us who don't already have enough stress in our lives yet.
This is like a non-programmer telling programmers they need to comment their code better. In a sense, it's probably true most of the time. But it's also sort of hard to take very seriously, because the non-programmer doesn't have any real understanding of the day-to-day challenges and trade-offs faced by people who write code for a living.
R-tree will easily outperform that approach.
I have three Wyze cams, which pretty much fit the bill of "cheap WiFi security cams which phone home to Chinese IPs". Though you can flash them with other firmware, if you want to control that. Personally, being in the US, I am less worried about Chinese companies sharing my data with US corps or government agencies (that doesn't seem too likely, somehow) but I would certainly be more nervous if I lived in the PRC. I suppose there's still the possibility they could be compromised to try attack other machines on my network, but those aren't wide open.
Sounds like Vice Ventures ought to fund a payment startup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21538235
If I'm not mistaken, this is basically template metaprogramming, and you're going to get your answers at compile-time (which means your inputs are also locked-in at compile-time). For applications that, for example, get the countries and/or colors from a user or database at runtime, wouldn't it be better to use a constraint solver library instead?
Sure beats not receiving a salary at all.
The can't get ice cream one is a bit far fetched eh? I'm sure that no matter if they knew my health history they would still sell me some ice cream :)
rocket ships have a habit of running out of fuel. hopefully, with the right planning, that's just about the time they land or arrive in orbit.
Not until it's near as stable as the dollar it won't.
> They delivered value to the business.

Sure, but could there have been ways to deliver that value with lower maintenance costs and shorter lead times?

If all you care about is gross revenue and never focus on margins and cost of goods sold then you can justify any project as "adding value to the business".
I now work on a python 3.6 codebase. Something like 100k lines of code. in practice 80% of the code was written for 3.5.

However, barring speed improvements, there isn't much to offer, apart from unicode, f strings and annotations.

If python 3 had proper multithreading, that might have been worth breaking backwards compatibility for.
Have they set the MCC to Restaurant too? I have to imagine that triggers bonus categories for dining on credit cards, like the 4X on the Amex Gold and 3X on Sapphire Reserve. That's a heck of a bonus category haha.
I have once already: https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Pr...

I liked it, but I'm not going to be paying for this sort of thing often. I think a lot would hinge on having content that was high quality, and being able to persuade me that it would be high quality before I paid for it might be challenging.
> These days it's pretty trivial to have a cloud managed component e.g. Redis that is maintained, upgraded and supported.

It's still another moving part. Thing should be as simple as they can be, but no simpler.

> trying to use a database as a poor man's queue.

Of course, it's not really a "poor man's" queue-- it's got some superior capabilities. It just loses on top-end performance. (Of course, using those capabilities is dangerous, because it creates some degree of lock-in, so go into it open-eyed).

For as much as you accuse others of looking down their nose / not willing to seriously consider other technologies... you seem to be inclined that way yourself.

Redis is great. But if you have Postgres already, and modest to moderate queuing requirements, why add another piece to your stack? Postgres-by-default is not a bad technology sourcing strategy.
One insider suggested to me that Oculus' development and
launch of the Quest -- a greatly reduced (if relatively
popular) vision of virtual reality -- might have been a
touch too demoralizing for his aspirations

So pretty much "The Audacity of Zero" but for tech-hype.

https://barrymorisse.com/blog/the-audacity-of-zero
There's a certain value to striving to be free from sex trafficking.
Absolutely! I think a huge part of the problem is that we're saddled with all sorts of baggage from the structures of the past that constrain the ways we think and approach problems.

We have very rigid notions of the ways that laws should work, or property ownership.