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According to Pew Research: "National data doesn’t identify how many children are removed from their homes because of a parent’s substance abuse. And there’s no one standard for how states report substance abuse and child neglect."

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stat...

It was never intended to solve that. As described by the bitcoin paper, it solves the problem of decentralized cryptocurrency which is minting and preventing double-spending without a central authority.

From these comments it looks like HN is now behind the times. HN crowd seems totally ignorant of crypto space, economics, and where it's going

I forgot it's perfectly fine to objectify men but not women.

That's great. In my experience, most TDD has looked like "We're going to need a function or class to do this, so let's write a test that calls all those methods first." Which is absolutely ridiculous when we could just be using languages that have concise semantics to describe what they actually do.

For example, the last HTTP API I wrote in Haskell has no tests. The proper request/response is ensured by the types alone. I've had multiple jobs where I spent weeks writing tests to do the equivalent thing with a nodejs API (the body should contain this, the headers should look like that, etc.)

TDD: For people who've never used a decent type system.

Writing a Solidity test to add two integers today really drove home the point.

You can't get $10k to start a hot dog stand but you can get billions of dollars with literally no plan for profit if you're already rich or seeking VC. But want to start a normal business? No capital for you! And your taxes will pay for the banks and VCs when they screw up.

Why is this allowed on HN? It's not tech, startups or anything in between.

Is there a website like HN that's actually focused/moderated and doesn't mix Cosmo type clickbait with actual news?

No initial ICO. Only way NMR is earned is competing.

Numerai doesn't have the model, just predictions. The users don't have the real data to be able to trade their own predictions.

Because they can't mint and award it to users. NMR is only earned by performing well.

Wow turns if you give me a billion dollars and I burn it that's considered business and entrepreneurship in 2017 America.

Threads are a bad idea for the same reason manual handling of memory space is a bad idea. Languages should provide primitives that only allow for safe construction of expressions that are run concurrently by the runtime.

In the short term, not much because there is a lot of inertia behind organizational programming knowledge, and the target runtime influences language choice (why JavaScript has become popular).

In the long term, I think expressive type systems will dominate programming. Simply because they allow programmers to provably generate correct programs without bugs. If the industry always used languages with a type system expressive enough to fit their needs, horrible errors like WannaCry would be eliminated (a classic buffer over-read due to programming with inadequate types). Of course, pure functional languages are at the forefront of type systems, though they aren't mutually exclusive (Rust for example).

I signed up for the mailing list a year ago, and I don't think they've ever offered me access to their alpha. They've been around for 2+ years and don't seem to have a product that's accessible yet.

EDIT: looks like they do now: https://blog.colony.io/colony-beta-product-summary-2121a357d...

But the stock price could have fallen. She should be credited with negotiating the deal and selling the company for 4.5B, and when she resigns the market cap isn't going to drop. She's not responsible for the market cap at all.

How is it naive, exactly?

If Marissa Meyer orders everyone to work from home, then that can be attributed to her. She can take credit for that. It was her action. But if the stock price goes up $5 today, there's no way to show it was a result of ordering everyone to work from home. If you want to make the argument that Meyers actions led to 33b in market cap growth then make that argument. What did Meyer personally do that caused the growth in market cap, and how?

Market cap not something attributable to the CEO, anymore than it's attributable to the Janitor. Nowhere in that equation is the CEO actions. They don't determine share price or number of shares. Share price isn't correlated with CEO actions.

Janitors at Yahoo also presided over a 33B growth in capitalization.

Why is the CEO credited with market capitalization? They don't have anything to do with it.

Both. That's what the CEO and others get. Take a fat salary and options.

VCs don't like ICOs because they expose how irrational raising money is. They hamper the whole narrative of VCs being "experts" when the truth is it's all a casino financed by the Fed. VCs are used to controlling the narrative of WHY a company deserves money.

Not a single ICO has delivered its promised product or service. The only returns have been from new investors or speculation.

I think it's still early to completely write them off as just pump and dumps

Elephant in the room is that the vast majority of real-world privilege escalation and RCE is through buffer over-reads. Type errors are costing billions in damage.

Hacks like WannaCry don't exist because of the NSA, or consumers failing to update, they exist because programmers use languages that freely compile buffer over-reads in the first place.

The ugly truth is WannaCry and 90% of RCE is the fault of the programming industry for taking zero responsibility for their processes. Programmers choose to use extremely unsafe languages and it's costing the world billions in damage.

The only way we've gotten away with this is the public is largely ignorant to how culpable programmers actually are. They think hackers are demi-gods when it's really just the same damn buffer exploit over and over again.

According to Operation Paperclip [1] part of the motivation for the US investigating weaponized LSD was the fear the Nazis were investigating it. But I'm not sure Nazi use was documented to the extent it was in the US, with the CIA's MK-ULTRA program experimenting on unknowing citizens by dosing them with LSD [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Prog... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#Drugs

The article never establishes what is wrong with rural America in the first place. Why does it need rescuing? Why are businesses with large market share a problem for rural America? The premise that monopolies are bad is never explained.

The author never establishes any of this. How did this make it to the front page?

Hot, cooked food that is mostly unhealthy for you. If you want to eat fresh meat and vegetables that taste good... it's hard to get find that from different restaurants 3 times a day.

Granting number of shares instead of percentages gaurantees that employees will get screwed by dilution. Vesting shares over 4 years means most employees won't get much, since employees often last only one or two years. Options mean most employees lose their equity before a liquidity event, or otherwise pay thousands of dollars for a lottery ticket. In general, employee equity is a joke.

Here's a "Good Way":

- Lock-in percentages instead of number of shares. Real dilution protection - not handwavy vague reassurances.

- Vest shares over quarters not years.

- ISOs that convert to NSOs after employee leaves OR RSU's with the company paying the tax bill.

- Termination protection

Anything less is scraps of a lottery ticket.

The goals for this new OS are quite vague and uninteresting. It seems set to repeat most of the problems with existing OSes.

Let's take the package manager for example. Wouldn't it be great if instead of yet another package manager that is a glorified system of install scripts... we had a declarative functional system ala NixOS? That's just scratching the surface.

Everyone does have the right to live in SF. Anyone is free to earn the money required to afford a place here.

The people who earn 100k+ didn't win some sort of lottery... they choose to work in industries that pay well. They get up everyday and go to work like everyone else. Yes, some people are born into families with better support than others - but everyone has the opportunity to go to college and study STEM. Any student with decent grades and lack of capital qualifies for financial aid and scholarships.

Why do you think you're homeless?