JonasJSchreiber

This is an awesome debate and one of the reasons I love HN

Why the marketing line "this is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"? I don't mean to be rude, but it's kind of an aphorism, and a morbid one at that. But I see people whom I respect making this observation. I'm sincerely wondering why pointing out the obvious is important

Maybe the cost of improvement is failure in this case. For Tesla to fix the issue of a crossing tractor trailer not being positively detected there had to be an instance of a Tesla hitting a crossing tractor trailer. Maybe for road work barriers that change position as the road work progresses to be avoided there needs to be an impetus for Tesla engineers to build in detection of these cases.

This is all a way of saying that I reject the notion that autonomous vehicles are more unsafe as compared to manually driven vehicles. This isn't an impulsive reaction either; data compiled by the NHTSA has proven this out.

Have you seen this guy on TV? He is not a polished speaker

That was such a well written article and an empassioned plea.

I had assumed this to be because their earnings were so small. For example Tesla has an undefined P/E ratio since it's a divide by zero. I had also assumed this to occur when a company sacrificed short term profitability for higher adoption.

EDIT: not sure why the downvotes, but maybe because I'd incorrectly assumed earnings to a non-negative number. Still TSLA's P/E is N/A according to the few sites I've checked:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla

https://stocktwits.com/symbol/TSLA

I want to downvote the person you replied to and upvote your comment. HN apparently doesn't work like that so I'll stick with a single upvote :)

I couldn't agree more. If there are more accounts than people in a region, you know you have robots registering. They need to employ better captcha and verification for registering new accounts.

I wouldn't go as far as to require government ID, (some folks have issues getting government IDs for voting purposes) and many undeveloped nations have large portions of their populations that have no birth certificates.

I would however require that a human be present to create a new account and that it be tied to a phone number for 2FA or something along these lines that makes mass registration cost prohibitive.

Anyone else think it's odd that a Moscow based cyber security company which has been associated with oligarchs is now investigating yacht vulnerabilities? I mean who investigated the vulnerabilities of yachts??

Timing couldn't be more perfect, I see what you did there.

Dude. This is awesome stuff! Great design, topic, demeanor, problem statement, solution. I also like the way you visually offset deep(er) dive subtopics. Thanks!

I happen to think this is freaking awesome

This looks really really good! Thanks!

As someone who has a couple rigs mining 24/7 I would say he’s looking at the profitability of mining wrong. Personally I don't reinvest my mining profits in more mining equipment. There's a hard cap on how much amperage can be delivered to my house, and I have no interest in interfering with my daily appliances.

As far as when does it becomes profitable to play games with consensus? Never. Most miners mine using pools like suprnova, ethermine, and nanopool. I don't have control over whether we are appropriately confirming transactions or not, but it would be pretty unwise for my pool to start violating consensus.

I appreciate the planning fallacy. I usually do this implicitly but I just changed an expected timeline on a JIRA epic from 80 hours to 160 days after reading this.

Awesome! Always get bored by the first movement, that one is so much better!

Sweet! They should do the third movement!

That was so disheartening. Folks really need to jump off that sinking ship - emigrate - or Maduro needs to be ousted.

Using it wrong...would you not try using it exactly as described with $28,000 depending on it? He raised extremely valid points about labeling this 'user error' but the 'correct' use case seems pretty kludge to me and highlights the crypto's shortfalls.

Great post, I was wondering why transactions were disabled to binance...appreciate the info. And the warnings.

>> $65 for a pair of headphones isn't exactly cheap

For a headphone geek such as myself it is ;)

They listed cities by square mile, why don't they do the same for states. It's a glaring omission. When we hear that Alaska has released the most toxins of any state and Rhode Island has released the least, it's reasonable to conclude that's because of the area of the two states.

WSJ did a really good job with this too. I opened the News app on my iPad after work today and found this story at the top of my feed. Their stories are usually paywalled, so I was surprised they featured anywhere near the top, and I tapped, curious.

The argument did seem pretty fair and balanced. It presented both sides (or seemed to). On reflection (and I wouldn't have reflected if not for The Intercept's story) the article basically echoed Ajit Pai's argument saying anyone who gets up in arms about regulating ISPs is overreacting.

And it almost made me believe I was naive for thinking the repeal was a grave moment in Internet history.

I don't know how they got the story so highly ranked on Apple News, but the pessimist in me wants to say money changed hands.

Fantastic! Conveys complex problems in a simple, easy to consume manner. Well done!

I saw the same thing. It was insane

This is what I thought as well but haven't been able to articulate yet! It was actually on the opposite side -- a flash rise. I watched this happen and the order book on the sell side was getting extremely thin. The price rose thousands in minutes. I managed an 18k limit sell and bought back in at 16.5k

I disagree with the premise of this article. Just because miners are based in China is not proof of collusion. I agree there is some fishy stuff going on with Bitmain and Antpool and others, but isn't it in their best interest not to break faith?

Wouldn't exchanges (who are holding all the money and are not (explicitly NOT) based in China still have the cash to fund withdrawals? Wouldn't the rest of the world STILL be free to fork the chain to a good faith ecosystem? Isn't Bitcoin Core largely made up of non-Chinese?

Passive behavioral trait. Shyness, unwillingness to engage in confrontation, I can empathize.

I'm not sure why the negative reaction to this post. I found it completely plausible and have no reason to doubt the author. It sucks that there are crappy people like this but unfortunately that's the real world. People will exploit you if you allow them to.

That said, threatening to sell exploits on the black market is a terrible way to fight back. Everything up to that point suggested the author had a case he could argue in court. If he does indeed proceed down that path he would likely find himself on the wrong side of the law.

I have to respectfully disagree with many points in this post. I think many points of contention boil down to the norms of startups. Yes, they may seem cliquey, but you quickly become part of the clique when there's just a few people there.

I agree that degrees shouldn't be mandatory at a startup, but I've never seen one that requires them.

Miscommunications: I'm not sure how one gets into an interview where one of the requirements is 5+ years with Java, and that person has only JS.

Dodging questions: startups often are making the rules as they go, and might not have a concrete answer for you. Drill down and find out what direction they might take.

Dropping the ball on follow ups: they probably don't want to give you a hard "no". Just move on and keep (or try to have) a positive attitude.

They need someone more experienced: take a job requiring no experience, and then you'll have more experience.