Wow, the contrast in sentiment between SpaceX vs ULA and Jabil vs Makerbot's Brooklyn factory (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11574215) is striking. With SpaceX undercutting the incumbent, people are cheering free…
You might think the technology sucked, but all the competition sucked worse, much worse. Nobody else could be bothered maintaining so much backward compatibility. Apple kept changing their CPU architecture and resetting…
Let's not lose sight of the fact that their cold wallet was untouched and all they lost was on the order of a hour's worth of turnover. That's more than can be said for a lot of the other bitcoin hacks.
This surprises me about America. Other countries have national criminal record databases. Is it that America hasn't spent the money to build one, or that counties/states/police stations don't want to share information,…
I'd say it's fair for candidates to break promises. If voters keep voting for them and their party despite seeing that happen, then it means voters don't mind broken promises. This is what's nice about democracy - you…
If it wasn't the US, it would be classified as a human rights violation. This is worse than imprisoning or torturing political prisoners because of the scale of it. At least political prisoners knew they were breaking…
Nor do eyewitness stories. Nor does recognizing someone from a single photo instead of a proper lineup. These are cases where there's already no reliable evidence in the first place. Really, they should go to court and…
Why not let it download fully and run the virus scanner on it? You won't get a virus just downloading a file in up-to-date Chrome.
No middleman and no competition? No business is really altruistic, despite their public image of being the good guys.
Excellent, except it's half missing as the article mentioned. This turned out to be a dramatic demonstration of how difficult it is to preserve data even when you're trying and you're as big as the BBC. "You may…
Some protectionism helps poorly developed industries grow locally until they're competitive enough to compete globally (eg postwar Japan). However, other protectionism maintains inefficient industries at the expense of…
Could find a way or should find a way? I don't think anybody has found such a way. We might not be able to.
Physical property rights aren't natural either. We depend on the government to prevent theft. Without that, anybody strong enough could just break into our house and take what they wanted. What may be natural, is the…
I disagree with the date comment "it’s easier to expose a raw date than a properly formatted date for the user’s locale". I'm constantly fighting software that tries to localize dates. Paypal thinks I live in country A…
Although this is a lot of data on each person. Each individual field doesn't seem too sensitive on its own. Electoral enrollment status and place you live is usually public information. It should be to prevent vote…
How can they glorify war so much without making a clear distinction of which side is right and which side is wrong? If you're on the wrong side of a war, then stealing a horse, invading someone else's territory or…
Warning, another early stage trail drug! Phase I <-- They are here Phase II 18% proceed to phase III [1] Phase III 50% succeed. 25% for first-in-class agents, which it sounds like this one is. [2] So if this phage…
That's not obvious at all. Their share price has now recovered half way to where it was, so you should call that a 20% drop when comparing to what people remember today (not the few days after news broke). Not only…
What baffles me about OOP is that massive aspects of how to use it have changed, and that change happened after it gained popularity as a good technique. How could it have become popular when people were doing it wrong?…
The general public isn't worried about these problems. The general public is the people who voted for giving those agencies their powers and letting them keep them. Anyone who voted for Bush or Obama is someone who…
There's a lot of negative reaction here. What's wrong with the police searching DNA data to find a suspect? Is it: A) They might do something statistically invalid like charging whoever matches, even if somebody is…
In which direction? Is it because the veteran is a murderer while the beggar is harmless or because the veteran's suffering is more severe than the beggar's?
Be careful, industry subsidies can violate WTO rules and get export markets closed off. America has treaties with lots of countries promising not to do that. Those other countries also promise not to do that. If America…
This makes no sense from a global perspective. Why was Andy keen to reduce job growth in Asia and also reduce technology growth in the whole world? Did he think Americans were more deserving than Asians? That should…
Recently a large national retail chain in Australia (Dick Smith's) went into receivership and left its owners (shareholders) out of pocket. They were no doubt paying Fred $200/hr even though he was only creating $100/hr…
Wow, the contrast in sentiment between SpaceX vs ULA and Jabil vs Makerbot's Brooklyn factory (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11574215) is striking. With SpaceX undercutting the incumbent, people are cheering free…
You might think the technology sucked, but all the competition sucked worse, much worse. Nobody else could be bothered maintaining so much backward compatibility. Apple kept changing their CPU architecture and resetting…
Let's not lose sight of the fact that their cold wallet was untouched and all they lost was on the order of a hour's worth of turnover. That's more than can be said for a lot of the other bitcoin hacks.
This surprises me about America. Other countries have national criminal record databases. Is it that America hasn't spent the money to build one, or that counties/states/police stations don't want to share information,…
I'd say it's fair for candidates to break promises. If voters keep voting for them and their party despite seeing that happen, then it means voters don't mind broken promises. This is what's nice about democracy - you…
If it wasn't the US, it would be classified as a human rights violation. This is worse than imprisoning or torturing political prisoners because of the scale of it. At least political prisoners knew they were breaking…
Nor do eyewitness stories. Nor does recognizing someone from a single photo instead of a proper lineup. These are cases where there's already no reliable evidence in the first place. Really, they should go to court and…
Why not let it download fully and run the virus scanner on it? You won't get a virus just downloading a file in up-to-date Chrome.
No middleman and no competition? No business is really altruistic, despite their public image of being the good guys.
Excellent, except it's half missing as the article mentioned. This turned out to be a dramatic demonstration of how difficult it is to preserve data even when you're trying and you're as big as the BBC. "You may…
Some protectionism helps poorly developed industries grow locally until they're competitive enough to compete globally (eg postwar Japan). However, other protectionism maintains inefficient industries at the expense of…
Could find a way or should find a way? I don't think anybody has found such a way. We might not be able to.
Physical property rights aren't natural either. We depend on the government to prevent theft. Without that, anybody strong enough could just break into our house and take what they wanted. What may be natural, is the…
I disagree with the date comment "it’s easier to expose a raw date than a properly formatted date for the user’s locale". I'm constantly fighting software that tries to localize dates. Paypal thinks I live in country A…
Although this is a lot of data on each person. Each individual field doesn't seem too sensitive on its own. Electoral enrollment status and place you live is usually public information. It should be to prevent vote…
How can they glorify war so much without making a clear distinction of which side is right and which side is wrong? If you're on the wrong side of a war, then stealing a horse, invading someone else's territory or…
Warning, another early stage trail drug! Phase I <-- They are here Phase II 18% proceed to phase III [1] Phase III 50% succeed. 25% for first-in-class agents, which it sounds like this one is. [2] So if this phage…
That's not obvious at all. Their share price has now recovered half way to where it was, so you should call that a 20% drop when comparing to what people remember today (not the few days after news broke). Not only…
What baffles me about OOP is that massive aspects of how to use it have changed, and that change happened after it gained popularity as a good technique. How could it have become popular when people were doing it wrong?…
The general public isn't worried about these problems. The general public is the people who voted for giving those agencies their powers and letting them keep them. Anyone who voted for Bush or Obama is someone who…
There's a lot of negative reaction here. What's wrong with the police searching DNA data to find a suspect? Is it: A) They might do something statistically invalid like charging whoever matches, even if somebody is…
In which direction? Is it because the veteran is a murderer while the beggar is harmless or because the veteran's suffering is more severe than the beggar's?
Be careful, industry subsidies can violate WTO rules and get export markets closed off. America has treaties with lots of countries promising not to do that. Those other countries also promise not to do that. If America…
This makes no sense from a global perspective. Why was Andy keen to reduce job growth in Asia and also reduce technology growth in the whole world? Did he think Americans were more deserving than Asians? That should…
Recently a large national retail chain in Australia (Dick Smith's) went into receivership and left its owners (shareholders) out of pocket. They were no doubt paying Fred $200/hr even though he was only creating $100/hr…