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Believers in the Dollar Milkshake Theory are lacing up their shoes for some victory laps.

GitHub! It's all open source. EIPs are Ethereum Improvement Proposals. You can view them all here: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues

Ethereum Foundation blog is a good read on technical detail with no price discussion: https://blog.ethereum.org/

I don't know why this is #1 on HN right now, but i just came here to say I was a sophomore at ISU in 2000. Go Cyclones.

Ha! Same :)

Big +1 for this. Or maybe some sort of integration with RescueTime (not sure how, but why not)

Wow. As irony would have it, during a procrastinatory fit today, I wandered onto HN for the first time in weeks. Saw this, and it seems like it's exactly what I've been looking for lately! I've been intensely struggling with staying productive at my new startup - to the point where I'm looking to hire someone to basically look over my shoulder (via video) to keep me on task. Seriously, I'm interviewing someone tomorrow for this. The fact that there's a company devoted to this is astounding (it's not just me!). Can't wait until my invite is accepted so I can try this out!

It may have 0 environmental impact, but at least it's a step in the right direction for reversing our 'disposable society'. Really, though, if you're that concerned about the environment and you JUST HAVE TO HAVE STARBUCKS... bring your own re-usable mug. That's a thing, too.

Also, the paper straw claim is pretty dubious. The nearest pizza place to my office has been using paper straws for months. Never had one "collapse" mid drink, even after an hour or more. The author is resorting the the pseudo-journalistic "people are saying" technique to make a BS argument. I'm a person, and I'm saying paper straws are just fine! Why not "quote" me in the article?!?

I would argue that double-entry accounting is a technology that obviates the need for trust between humans (by delegating it to books and arithmetic), and therefore erodes civilization.

I've been having a good experience with duolingo so far. The lessons are short enough to not impose, and the difficulty curve is very low, so I don't dread getting everything wrong. I've been at it for two months, and have never missed more than one day at a time. I doubt I'll ever achieve fluency with the app alone, but I'd feel comfortable as a tourist.

This is somewhat surprising to me, as I've tried (and failed) to build a daily habit of journaling and mindful meditation, but they never stuck for more than a couple weeks, despite only being 10 minutes a day.

Vagrant is for development, not production, silly goose!

Didn't Yahoo do this more than 10 years ago? I remember playing a lot of checkers as a lab monitor in college.

Meteor is still pretty great. It's an all-in-one (including database) framework that uses JavaScript for both back and front ends. It's build tool also saves you from having to configure things like Babel, Webpack, SASS, etc...

The documentation for beginners is top notch as well: https://www.meteor.com/tutorials https://guide.meteor.com/

There's plenty of options, too. You can throw together a few files and have a simple app going in a very short time (an hour or two), or build highly modular apps with a React or Angular front-end.

Unfortunately mainstream consumers still love credit cards, and think "Bitcoin" is some sort of criminal activity.

If all you are doing is coding, torrenting, and watching movies, what about a 'osx like' linux desktop? https://elementary.io/ comes to mind. I think there are others, as well. The amount of fiddling and maintenance required with a hackintosh is no different that running a linux box. In fact, your hardware options will be greater with linux (e.g. AMD cpus/gfx cards, wifi adapters).

This was my experience exactly. Seemed like a great idea at the time, but always required some sort of maintenance at various times that required researching solutions, posting on message boards, and trial-and-error. Basically, it's the same amount of effort required to run a linux based desktop.

This does occur in some states. Some students get loans repaid if they contract to work in rural areas for 5 years. I think this is still a symptom of too few graduates. The acceptance rate of US medical schools fluctuates around 20%, so there is no shortage of applicants. There is a shortage of available slots (both in school, and residency positions). According to an old NIH study, a student's tuition only covers about 60% of the cost of a four year med-school education. Universities are also required to pay a portion of the salaries for residents in affiliate hospitals. So lots of money going out of schools, but not much coming in.

This may be partially true, but my anecdotal evidence points elsewhere. I live in a very poor city in the US, and most of the private hospitals here run a surplus. The problem (like in tech) is finding adequate talent. Doctors and nurse practitioners (the people that are licensed to actually provide medical care) are in extremely short supply. The money problem is at the University level. Medical programs are so rigorous and expensive, that schools cannot expand and graduate enough students to meet the demand. Hospitals and clinics are expanding, but medical schools are not. So the students that do graduate and move on to residency are overworked due to lack of adequate staff for the facility (rather than lack of money). Residents are extremely cheap compared to boarded physicians and nurse practitioners. I know personally if the hospitals I work for could hire more residents, they would in a snap, but the local University won't fund the programs.

The only solutions are to either get more money into schools to graduate more practitioners, or hope that new technology and innovation can somehow alleviate the burden of work on the existing care providers.

Side note...

The tech/startup world has realized relatively quickly that 100 hour workweeks are detrimental to productivity, retention, and overall success. Seems like articles such as this come out on a weekly basis, along with other articles on 'progressive' practices such as unlimited vacation, flex working hours, mandatory time off, half-day Fridays, etc... and it's only taken a dozen or so years.

The medical profession, on the other hand, has struggled with this for almost a hundred years. The norm was for residents to work 100+ hour weeks, for 3-5 years. Non-stop. Only recently have they given themselves a pat on the back for achieving a '[mandatory 80 hour workweek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_resident_work_hours#To....

Seems odd that people building apps and games have figured out that working insane hours is bad, but the people responsible for treating the sick and wounded are still chugging along, bleary eyed and overworked.

yes, risk is risk. Anyone in the cryptocurrency space is well aware of the fact that tomorrow we could all wake up with a 0 balance. As for the legal aspect, the creators and curators have been assailed on all sides by critics and naysayers from the beginning, and yet they move forward. They either understand the risks, and deem it worthy, or are just plain stupid. Given the credentials of the individuals involved, I doubt it's the latter.

I can't speak for the individual creators, but the 'tyranny of the majority' has been discussed at length and is the basis for the 51% attack mitigation. DAO and Ethereum enthusiasts also seem to enjoy discussing 'delegative democracy' (or 'liquid democracy') at length.

Discussion around the issues outlined in the report have already begun (before the report was published) in the DAO forums. It's not unexpected that there will be problems. This has never been done before. But the fact that this report exists, the problems are being discussed, and there are already talks of proposals for resolving some of the issues is a good sign that the DAO is working as intended... The community discovers problems, the community fixes problems.

Compare this to a traditional investment fund where you hand over your money to a private organization with opaque investment strategies, business operations, and technology. If I invest in a Vanguard or Fidelity fund, they only report back what is required of them by regulators. They take little to no input from investors, and may be running their business on decades old technology filled with flaws and bugs.

I view the DAO as an open source investment fund in the same spirit as "The Cathedral and The Bazaar". It's not perfect, it's messy, some people are more influential than others, there's a lot of noise, and it could collapse on itself at any time. But everyone gets to participate (for better or worse). Lots of eyeballs are constantly watching, and plenty of concerns will be voiced.

I know the HN crowd is a skeptical one, but try to keep an open mind. This could grow into something great. And if it doesn't... hey, it's not your money, so don't sweat it.

Tokens created on Ethereum can have very niche use cases. Digix has tokens that are pegged to a gram of gold sitting in a warehouse. Augur uses tokens to track user reputation. Free My Vunk uses tokens as currency to buy and sell items in video games.

The developers can focus entirely on their business use case for the currency (and the marketing) without the need to create an entirely new cryptocurrency.

There's this: https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/03/how-to-build-your-own-c...

Yes. I'm replacing a legacy PHP app with Meteor right now. However, instead of building a huge, monolithic app, I'm replacing sections of it piecemeal with small Meteor apps that use npm modules (or meteor packages) for shared functionality. So if one app doesn't work out, then yes, it'll be more work to replace it with some new fancy future thing, but hopefully it'll have paid for itself by then.

Database access from the browser is not baked in. This is a misunderstanding. Meteor has a browser cache that mimics a subset of Mongo commands, and auto-syncs with the back-end based on security rules you define.

Then Meteor does not meet your use case. Some people actually like opinionated, monolithic frameworks because it reduces decision fatigue and boilerplate coding. For small teams with outsized requirements, it's a perfect fit. I've built a couple (internal) apps with Meteor and got a tremendous amount done in a short time.

Maybe someday I will need to replace 'x' with 'y' and have a hard time (or maybe not), but the time savings earned now are worth the technical debt that I might face in the future.

Cash and debit cards are pretty funny, too. Anyone who grabs your cash, or gets away with a purchase on your debit card is laughing pretty hard at your expense. Maybe, if you're lucky, your bank will get around to reversing the fraudulent debit card charges, but the thief still gets away. There is nothing secure about any money system.

Librarian

Well, Hotz did state that, “The truth is that work as we know it in its modern form has not been around that long, and I kind of want to use AI to abolish it. I want to take everyone’s jobs. Most people would be happy with that, especially the ones who don’t like their jobs. Let’s free them of mental tedium and push that to machines. In the next 10 years, you’ll see a big segment of the human labor force fall away. In 25 years, AI will be able to do almost everything a human can do. The last people with jobs will be AI programmers.”

Which hot new JS framework, and what part?