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In the absence of legal requirements
to the contrary, money is money --
it doesn't typically carry along
requirements to physically segregate
it by owner

Right - for companies that aren't routinely transferring client money. Here in the UK, the way Mt Gox was run would be extremely irregular - clients' money would usually be stored in a client money account.

To use an analogy, consider if I courier you a parcel. When I hand it over to the couriers they have custody of it - but they don't own it. If the courier company goes bankrupt while my parcel is in transit, they don't get to open all the parcels and auction them off.

Likewise, companies like conveyancers and insurance intermediaries act as 'money couriers' - and they're expected to keep the money in separate accounts so, if the company goes bust, it's clear who is the owner of the money and who just has custody of it.

Obviously, not every financial service is a 'money courier' - but generally getting licenses that let you lose client money is more work than getting the licenses where you can't lose client money.

Of course, I'm not an expert on Japanese financial law, so it's possible financial conduct standards in Japan are different.
I disagree. Homejoy solved the annoying issues of waiting for quotes, not being able to reach your cleaner, having to sort through reviews, ect.
Thanks to gruez for the archive link.

While the approach chosen by Microsoft is not necessarily the "cleanest" I still dont fully agree with the article.

She complains about the EU not already hoisting pitchforks for this rather minor issue but at the same time completely ignores that Microsoft already got pitchforked enough by the EU for things Google got easily away with.

But her disclaimer that she was consulting Google might explain that complaint ;).
Fortunately, there are still operating systems [1] that respect your freedom - both free as in Free Software, and as in freedom to choose the stack, packages and software you want.

[1] - https://www.gentoo.org/
I don't particularly mind - I'm on a powerful fibre link anyway.

It does seem rather evil to make this opt-out rather than opt-in. Much in the same way that I'm cool with people using my stuff - just have the decency to ask first.
I had the exact same thought. R is a pretty high-profile language; they could even couch a name change in positive terms. They'd probably get more publicity if they weren't competing with a popular package.
That's because the benefits are expensive, from a capitalistic point of view - six weeks maternity leave? That's six weeks of lost productivity!

I think it's important that everyone keeps defending the liberties and rights that we (in Europe) have right now - and that the people in the US that just accept their shitty working environments because it's considered normal fight it, and demand what I think is getting basic human rights like caring for your newborn without losing your job or getting into financial trouble over it.
The text on the site is too small and too wide to read comfortably on a screen.

The lines are over 120 characters long at 16px. On a 1080p screen this is just to small and wide to follow properly.

This sort of thing is bearable here on HN when skimming comments but for reading over '30,000 words' it's just too off putting to even start reading.
Well, there are builtin functions that do this safely for signed integers.

Of course that means you need to be aware which calculations are potentially dangerous, you need to know about signed integer overflow problems in the first place, etc. ..
> I don't think the net's changed that much. You can still find places to be pro racism and the like. Check out r/coontown for example.

Yeah that's wholly disinteresting to me. Firstly, because that is a trolling subreddit. If it was a serious racism subreddit it would be more interesting, because I could debate with people who actually feel that way and hear their arguments, instead of angsty 15 year olds posting unfunny images.

I guess I shouldn't be arguing that fringe opinions are not available on the internet-- they are. What I should be arguing is that fringe opinions are much easier to ignore on the internet now. We've created a lot of information and ways to filter it, and now we can effectively ignore them. I think downvoting and upvoting and hiveminds are what really has killed meaningful discourse. That's why I like the 4chan model so much-- every post gets to take up space and can't be ignored.

For an extra dose of tin-foil-hat, I think reddit could be doing some vote manipulation in the larger subreddits. No one has really challenged the fact that they stopped including upvotes and downvotes in their JSON as of a few years ago. Without them it's really difficult to collect information and do analysis on certain users and keywords that anything is happening.

(That's a fun idea, reddit should stream metadata about what's going on in the site to interested people.)
What I recall is that the US used to have strong unions too - although my view of that may be skewed by TV and such.

Nowadays though people can get fired if they join a union, which is why shit companies like McD's and Wal-mart get to continue to exploit their employees. I mean "associates".
She works almost seven days a week and blames the US for that? Never in my life have I worked seven days in a week, and I own my own business! (Granted, I did when we started up for a few months.)

And then she claims her $30,000 salary, at seven days a week, turns out to be the equivalent of minimum wage? On which planet? At $7.25 an hour, times 56 hours (7 days at 8 hours per day) times 52 weeks (though she got 10 days off) equals $21,112.

This article is of ill repute.
http://www.dhp.com/account.html
No matter if you use signed or unsigned types, be sure you handle both underflow and overflow. From my experience, signed integers main usage is integer arithmetic (e.g. accounting things that can be negative or positive), pointer arithmetic, error codes, or multiplexing on same variable two different kind of elements (so if negative has one meaning and if positive, a different one). Unsigned, for handling countable elements, with 0 as minimum. The good point of using unsigned integers is that you have twice the available codes, because the extra bit.

Example for counting backwards using unsigned types (underflow check, -1 is 111...111 binary in 2's complement representation, so -1 is equivalent to the biggest unsigned number):

size_t i = ss - 1, j = sso;
for (; i != (size_t)-1; i--) {
switch (s[i]) {
case '"': j -= 6; s_memcpy6(o + j, "&quot;"); continue;
case '&': j -= 5; s_memcpy5(o + j, "&amp;"); continue;
case '\'': j -= 6; s_memcpy6(o + j, "&apos;"); continue;
case '<': j -= 4; s_memcpy4(o + j, "&lt;"); continue;
case '>': j -= 4; s_memcpy4(o + j, "&gt;"); continue;
default: o[--j] = s[i]; continue;
}
}

Example for compute percentage on unsigned integers (same idea can be applied for signed) without losing precision nor requiring bigger data container (overflow checks):

size_t s_size_t_pct(const size_t q, const size_t pct)
{
return q > 10000 ? (q / 100) * pct :
(q * pct) / 100;
}

Also, for cases where overflow could happen, you can handle it doing something like this:

sbool_t s_size_t_overflow(const size_t off, const size_t inc)
{
return inc > (S_SIZET_MAX - off) ? S_TRUE : S_FALSE;
}

size_t s_size_t_add(size_t a, size_t b, size_t val_if_saturated)
{
return s_size_t_overflow(a, b) ? val_if_saturated : a + b;
}

size_t s_size_t_mul(size_t a, size_t b, size_t val_if_saturated)
{
RETURN_IF(b == 0, 0);
return a > SIZE_MAX / b ? val_if_saturated : a * b;
}

P.S. examples taken from:

https://github.com/faragon/libsrt/blob/master/src/senc.c (underflow example)

https://github.com/faragon/libsrt/blob/master/src/scommon.h (overflow examples)
The obstacles are almost comical. Okay, they're completely comical. Only one computer in the house is compatible with Windows 10 anyway, and my 12 year old son is ecstatic about it -- I think just because it's new and he's curious. Also, I was optimistic about it until I read all of the recent stuff. He would never forgive me for switching that computer to Linux. My plan is to do the Windows upgrade, let him play with it until he gets bored, then install Linux.

My only misgiving is that I love the touch screen, so I have to look into what kind of touch screen functionality I can get under Linux.
Self-driving cars are the solution to nothing. We need much less cars and much more efficient transport in the cities.

if you look at the list, it just shows how much more REAL progress is needed. Most on that list is fake progress.
The tools that are produced make SV innovative. Sometimes the tools are used for internet marketing (like Google) other times for energy saving (like Nest) --- or gambling (bitcoin blockchain-based betting). Now whether or not these tools could be used for good or bad, small problems or big problems, really depends on the person/team. Nonetheless, I disagree that there's an emphasis on "get-rich-quick pyramid schemes." More than anything, market forces (return on capital, profitability, etc.) play a strong role in determining the direction a concept will go.
Why the hell is the U.S. Presidential campaigns about which clown did the fewest embarrassing gaffes, rather than who can actually stand up and promise to do something, like "If I'm elected, 3 weeks paid holiday will be the new minimum"?

Are business interests too strong? Is everyone afraid to be labelled "socialist" and thereby disqualified if suggesting something worker-friendly?
Good technical explanation, but why on earth not use a 3D rendition rather than this incredibly flat 2D rendition ?
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Do you know lispm? Can we not "I feel you, bro" each other around here?
Site looks terribly defunct. No announcements since 2012?
What happened to WrapBootstrap?
Does anyone know what happened to WrapBootstrap? https://wrapbootstrap.com

They seem to have completely stopped posting, their CEOs twitter is not active, anyone know whats going on? This was one of my most favorite places to buy new templates, I believe I was introduced to it from HN.
Probably the same reason why people stay in North-Korea - they don't know any better, or they keep believing in the nationalist propaganda that the US is the best country EVAr.

Thanks for linking that, Roger Moore may be controversial, but he does a good job of pointing out why the reality of the US just doesn't match up to its propaganda.
Are tax rates really that much higher though? In my state, middle class pays 25% Federal income tax plus 9% state income tax plus 6.2% SSI tax plus 2.9% Medicare tax plus 0.5% transit tax. That's 43.6%.
And it would have been impossible to #ifdef out the supernode code in the mobile apps?
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Nobody believes that law [...] is a legal construct?
what about https://neocities.org/ ?
That seems like a false sense of safety: when doing arithmetic, your program is most likely not going to be handling overflows correctly anyway. Also, when using unsigned ints, any code involving subtractions can lead to subtle bugs that only occur when one value is larger than another. I'd recommend sticking with signed ints for all arithmetic code.
turns out stallman was right.
Really cool post... though it seems like DigitalOcean, Linode or others might be a better idea if you use the instances more than a few hours a month.

I'm not connection constrained, but my workflow for linux is to mount a drive/directory to a linux instance (virtual or physical) edit with a gui editor locally, and run via an ssh connected cli. Which works pretty well for me.

Anyone familiar with something that can mount a virtual drive in windows or osx to a linux machine over ssh?
Lesotho and San Marino are the only other two, I think.
I'd agree that Switzerland would probably be considered an outlier and difficult to reproduce. However, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Austria? I would put Germany in there, too.
Default setting is disabled for metered connections. One can also set it up to p2p updates locally but not on internet.

Don't know why ms didn't play it safe and put internet resharing as an opt in...

Oh and I don't remeber but I think you can't set a wired connection as metered.
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Transportation network companies have immediate origin and destination data for so many users that they will be able to create far more efficient "public" transportation systems than have ever existed. UberPool and Lyft Line are baby steps in that direction.
> With Spotify, the aim was low latency. If you click on a song, it should start playing immediately.

That was not their aim at all. Their aim was lowering bandwidth costs by shifting the content delivery costs over to the end users. This was made clear by the fact that when you played a song, it started downloading the song from AWS S3 immediately to minimize latency, then once the P2P sessions fired up, shifted over to that stream instead of their costly S3 one.
Best way, is to actually put yourself in a situation where you have to live the skills you're trying to get better at. i.e. I'd suggest you work a short (part-time) side stint in Sales or Customer support or Recruiting, especially under a seasoned manager and sincerely carry a quota. The pressure of actually closing that deal will improve you at a rate nothing else will.

Books and everything else will definitely help, but I'd treat them as supplemental resources. You don't get good at soccer by reading about it. You got to play it. You don't get good at coding by reading about coding; you have to actually write code.

Not saying you meant that you only want to read in order to get better and nothing else, but just trying to draw attention that getting better at soft skills is also about actual practice, like anything else.

[Me: http://InterviewKickstart.com. We practice for tech interviews, and we get better at those too]
I don't think so either. Sure we have problems, but we did also accept a much larger stream of refugees than most other countries. Friction isn't unexpected. A lot of xenophobia is between different migrant groups.

If anything, I'm surprised how tolerant this society is.
I had always assumed that the P2P was to help mitigate the cost of data so that the Spotify team could better use their limited (at the time) funds to secure more music contracts. Were operational costs not as drastic as I might be assuming?
Kind of working for specific app if wacom, hellish path of sorrow if n-trig (depending on hw version)
That triggered me as well.

Please... "I feel you, person"
> Self-driving cars are the solution to nothing.

For better or worse, they are the solution to the continued employment of drivers of various kinds.
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I worry about Joyent as a company. They have very interesting talent, but end up doing some sketchy things.

For years, they successfully positioned themselves as a "competitor" to AWS in the press. But at the time, they were a simple hosting provider with no API and no self-provisioning. Of course, the press didn't know any better and kept printing that they were a competitor. But even today, Gartner doesn't even consider them a competitor to AWS.

http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-2IH2LGI&c...

Triton seems to be a _very_ limited port of "Docker" to their custom version of Solaris. For example, it supports only one "--volumes-from" argument per container. And I'd be worried running on an OS supported by basically one company.

https://www.joyent.com/developers/triton-faq

It's also important to note that their S3 knock-off has had an embarrassing 8-day outage. Oops. They literally didn't have any backups, because they didn't think they needed them with ZFS!

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/21/joyen...
>He got demoted, as written in the blog post, did you read it with attention or you just went through looking for bits you could use?

It certainly seems like he had been leading the ffmpeg project until his resignation.

As for looking for bits I could use, I am quite specifically responding to your question about how the article comes across as biased. I was not looking for parts that seemed unbiased, because you were looking for the biased parts.

>We did not took the domain, the owner of the trademark is not Michael Niedermayer

Your own blog post says " the trademark FFmpeg had been given by the owner of it Fabrice Bellard to the former FFmpeg leader Michael Niedermayer"

Which is it? You say in your post he was given the trademark.

>You claim to know nothing yet you cut quite interesting judgement and you cherry pick in a quite interesting way.

You're defensive. You asked a question about how your article was biased. As an outsider, these are the parts that looked biased.

If you ask a question, you can reasonably expect an answer. If you don't want an answer, don't ask the question.

>"insults" is a quite loaded term btw.

Uh. Thanks for informing me, I guess? I'm not sure how you can in other places say "clean up monkey" is horribly offensive, but "rabid fan" is not an insult at all.

I doubt HN is a bastion of ffmpeg supremacists, and there's no organized movement to suppress your voice, so the reaction your getting should probably be taken as an indication that you should undergo some self introspection. Open source projects depend on community support to exist. Libav may be the best thing since sliced bread, but if you drive away potential users and supporters, you are harming the chances of the project's success.
>>It really depends.
>>I know several companies offering 6 weeks of paid leave, plus holidays, in my area.
>>On the other hand, that's certainly not the norm. There are many people working jobs which provide no paid holidays or vacation.

Yeah, so on average, the parent's point is correct: on average, the standard of living and work-life balance in the US are abysmal compared to those in most Northern European nations.
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They're not soft skill. They're really fucking hard skills: https://vimeo.com/134601419
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Don't give up - I heard of one in Boulder last year, and looking at their site, I see it's still listed.
I do as well, but I have no certainty that it will always be tech-related. I think the idea of doing something totally different at some point has a lot of appeal.
Again, easy for you to say when you're in your early 20s, single, no kids and few friends.
You realize you can shrink your browser window width and increase the text size to make the layout how you want?

For some reason there's always some highly-rated complaint on HN comments about the website layout, and I do not understand why. They are honestly the most boring comments to read.
Solar City is one of several companies doing a leasing program for rooftop solar, that's hardly innovation. Worse, there doing rooftop solar which is far worse than grid connected solar which is worse than wind. Still, there likely making money and it sounds good.

Tesla is also something of a tossup, right now there cars are terrible for the environment, but that might change long term.

Nest is something of an odd duck. There worse than several other thermostats when it comes to saving energy, but adoption has been really poor in this area so it's probably a small net win.

I don't really see the benefit to Uber as they increase traffic relative to hailing a cab. There might be a net benefit to surge pricing though.

In the end Startups tend to be poor places to do real environmental impact simply because most issues are really large scale. Bumping a coal power plants efficiency by 1/10 a percent has a massive impact which is hard to reach on the small scale.
There's at least one piece of Germany inside of Switzerland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein

There are a few others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enclaves_and_exclaves
> "One can't make a self-driving car by edict, ..."

An edict can put a man on the moon.

http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html
Here's one problem self-driving cars can help with:

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...
This is what I liked about my upbringing; my parents weren't rich either, but at the same time my quality of life was decent. Thanks to government funding, I was able to get a decent education (bachelor's degree, I could go for a master's but I couldn't be arsed) and as a result a very good job (I've got the best job of anyone I know besides my colleagues). Upward mobility is very good here, unlike in the US where as far as I know you either need to have your parents save up half a house worth of college funding, or some magic college fund that only kids in movies get by playing in bands or being good at sports, or however that thing works. It's an equal opportunities system.

Which unfortunately has been cut / downsized thanks to the economic crisis and probably capitalist goals, so the generation after me has less opportunities and can't, for example, do a master's after they do a bachelor's without working alongside it or taking out a big loan.
It sounds like you wouldn't have to bring much to the table, if the main competition was Karpeles.
If you cannot set wired as metered then it's bullshit.
Funnily enough the bash crash in the comment still crashes bash on OSX 10.10.4:

($((-2**63/-1)))
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I skimmed the comments here, and never saw the real answer (to what I understand the question to be). Even though it was public knowledge, I had some extra insight from working for a large Usenet provider.

The New York Attorney General started a campaign against child porn groups on Usenet. In the end, his office identified a small number of groups they said were used for child porn -- I think it was less than 100 groups. Many ISP's jumped on the opportunity to stop paying for Usenet service.

In the 90's it was just assumed that an ISP service would include Usenet. With the growth of binaries groups, the quality of service declined. I remember retention would be a day or two, with about 50% completion. So, for most ISP's, the service was unusable, and only a small number of subscribers knew or cared about it. The others paid quite a bit for service from a third party, like my employer. I don't know why they didn't shut down service earlier, but once the NYAG campaign started, they could cancel Usenet, saving themselves money, and getting good press for fighting child porn.
"The solution suggested by Stevens... The problem with this is..."

I see no problem with it. But perhaps I am missing something.

"... an application is expected to tune the backlog..."

Two simple applications I use everday called tcpserver/sslserver and tcpclient meet this expectation.

See "-b" and "-c" switches.

Has the author looked at Stevens' own example?

http://www.icir.org/christian/sock.html
There's also a Value Added Tax (VAT), which probably makes comparing the Swiss and US systems difficult: https://www.ch.ch/en/vat-rates-switzerland/
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works in a similar way than most services
SV's emphasis is about bootstrapping on the cheap.

Much of the startup culture is not about researching new involved technical solutions, or crafting something complex and intricate, but getting a simple social idea backed by stock tech out the door quickly & cheaply to effectively pull the slot machine lever.

It is stupid and self-defeating beyond the immediate short term. But you can see where they come from, and they knowingly take the risk of patching up later once they have some success.
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