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Right. The main use of Bitcoin is now getting money out of China. That's why the Bitcoin exchanges in China do so much volume. The PBOC cracked down on this once, and Bitcoin fell from over $1000 to $250. Now, as of November 2015, it's apparently possible to do yuan transfers within China to at least one Bitcoin exchange, which is pushing the price back up. There was a brief spike to $500 when that suddenly became possible, but the price dropped rapidly back to $320 or so. Unclear why the PBOC hasn't plugged that hole yet, but they probably will.

Bitcoin mining is also a way to get yuan out of China and into another currency. Bitcoin mining doesn't violate China's capital controls; it's considered manufacturing and exporting. That's encouraged in China.
As a musician, I would tentatively suggest that it is unbelievably difficult to build genuine connections with large numbers of fans.

Call it the data deluge or whatever, the sheer volume of attention seeking content out there just swamps timid voices.

Perhaps this is nothing new, however.
I think we killed it :(
At least I don't get any data plotted anymore when loading the site.

I agree it's neat, but I dislike that the plot legend has the text at an angle with poor contrast and in the "wrong" order compared to the plot colors. I'd also like a better color scheme with more distinct colors. I'm also not s fan of fading out the colors with time.
A program is so syntactically nested that the compiler blows an 8 megabyte stack (default on x86 Linux, easily extended with ulimit) is a silly program. There is no need to support such a thing in a language implementation.

Note that if the language supports macros, you can't eliminate recursion from compile time; macro expanders can express recursion. (The same remark applies though: if user-defined macros blow a generous stack that is many megabytes long, oh well!)
Concentration solar... It melts salt that still provides energy for a few hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS10_solar_power_plant
I'm curious, do you have any examples to point to?
Ask HN: How far away is “chicken meat without slaughter?”
> I'll probably seek some out now

Join your local mycology group in spring. Every city has one, and you can either Google for yours or look them up on the NAMA website. A lot of their websites look like the group may be defunct, but they are mostly still active -- it's just that the average age in these groups is going to be like 60, so the sites just don't get updated often. (Though most of the younger folks in these groups tend to be software developers, go figure.)

Anyway they'll have at least one walk every weekend, and if you go on half of them then you'll know how to safely identify and cook with most of the basic edibles by fall. You'll probably learn a bunch of edible plants as well, especially during the slow season between when the morels finish and when the summer mushrooms start coming up.

There definitely are a lot of things that aren't commercially viable. But probably even more that just haven't been commercialized. E.g. there are tons of foods that are eaten in Asia, Africa, and South America that aren't commonly consumed in the U.S., and sometimes that has to be with growing conditions, but more often than not it's just a marketing thing.

Regardless, what I'd say is that you're not a real foodie unless you own a couple dozen field guides, because at least for the foreseeable future that's the only way you're ever going to get to try a lot of the best foods available in your area.
Ditto in Cambridge, MA. Very frustrating for a number of my friends trying to buy a house.
Is it because we suck? Cal grad here. :P

They were both Oregon alums. :)
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Maybe, but at what level does the disincentive effect become significant for high-income workers? It seems like at the highest levels of income, spending money is just a way of signalling and keeping score.

Also, there are some taxes where the disincentive effect is beneficial. Basic income funded by a carbon tax seems like a good combination.
100 years from now is a long time for medical advancements. Would you imagine having an MRI or CT scan 100 years ago? Or that they'd induce hypothermia in an emergency room to stave off damage from cardiac arrest [1]?

[1] http://www.popsci.com/node/205352
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I find it so awesome that some days 50% of the electricity comes from wind... Just great. A good example.
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For example the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode of some appliances.
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I have yet to put my hands on a better input instrument. I'm considering the purchase of a second one.
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I have yet to put my hand on a better writing instrument. I'm considering the purchase of a second one.
If human-generated programs compete head-to-head with robot-generated programs for blowing up the implementation, that human has a worse bug than the robot.
Yup.

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My iPhone has Hey Siri on all the time and lasts for 2-3 days between charges.
They don't mention how they get the fetal bovine serum used to grow the meat.
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Ask HN: Cloudflare for web applications?
Cloudflare et al. only work properly with static web sites (esp. Always Online).

Is there a service that connects to my code repo, DBs', etc. and is able to serve as a fallback system?
Interesting cultural insight about Chinese money preferring SF while Russian money prefers LA.
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Schedules for when and how long to turn a light on, artificially intelligent schedule or scene recommendations based on data from the motion detection sensor (recos first because poltergeist lights are more irritating than your thermostat occasionally thinking you're not home when you are), integration between our led light ring and security products, scenes for different moods triggered via phone or via AppleTV or an alarm clock / schedule, integration with Amazon Echo to control lights, rooms, and scenes via voice; geo-fencing of mobile phone to control lights or scenes based on whether you're coming home or leaving, etc...
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And I thought I was a pretty voracious reader, now I feel like I just left kindergarten. Thanks Patrick for giving me several years worth of reading (I'll probably need even stronger reading glasses after a fraction of this list).
It's a complex issue. But it's something that needs to be made explicit in any discussion, not swept under the rug. I'm not saying I'm able to resolve this issue myself, but I think that basic income advocates need to be challenged whenever they use misleading argumentation, even if they are ultimately correct.

At any income level you can make arguments why their work output would be more/less sensitive to taxation. We are talking about a difference in a difference (how much one group changes their work in response to tax, vs another) and not absolutes, which complicates matters. E.g. poor people need the money more, so maybe they are less responsive to marginal tax rates.

Also, there are some taxes where the disincentive effect is beneficial. Basic income funded by a carbon tax seems like a good combination.

Pollution taxes are a good idea for their own sake, but they will only cover a tiny percentage of basic income or welfare.
Pork or pig is actually one of the few animals that are specifically mentioned in the bible as "unclean" and should not be consumed.

While most observant Jews don't have issues with eating say Turkey Bacon or any other substitute some Jewish communities don't eat those either due to a different commandment (actually the one that today is interpreted as not mixing dairy and meat, but it has more to do with accepting customs of other cultures than that).

BTW there are probably more "Leviticans" in the US than Muslims, and for sure more than observant Jews so you don't even have to go that far to find new markets for cultured pork.
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Are there any interesting approaches you've seen to help reduce overfitting with these class imbalance issues?
You don't eat vegetables at all?

I'm not vegetarian but I don't eat 100% meat all the time. A former boss of mine ate only meat no vegetables at all, literally no vegetables no tomato on a burger not the little cup of coleslaw, nothing!

I find it strange how these days many people, not saying you are, eat mainly meat and very little vegetables. And then people who eat only vegetables and some )vegan) are even more extreme.

My mother in her 70s said when she was young her family ate vegetables all week and had a roast on Sunday which was common these days they'd be nearly vegetarians. Nearly every member of her family now has diabetes so I guess diet wasn't the cause.

It seems like society is evolving into two extremes which to me raises a lot of red flags. Meanwhile I eat a variety of vegetables and eat meat a few times per week mainly turkey or chicken very little red meat.
Which question was that a 'no' to? (there were two questions in the post you're replying to)
Thank you for the encouragement. I went ahead and checked it out and you are right. Not bad at all. Boiled down to: do keyboards have bacteria? Answer: Yes. The whole-keyboard agar was an interesting approach.
If you are doing some kind of abstraction interpretation or static analysis, you may have many many implementation stack frames for each logical stack frame.

Then add in very deep inlining.

And as I say I've seen it for real, in a real compiler, with a real program, while doing a real job. I could send the author an email and tell him his program is silly, but I'd rather be able to compile it.
Disclosure: I wrote the linked piece.

When discussing the potential risks of data-oriented models, it's necessary to recognize that all data isn't created equal.

Facebook, Google and others are obviously trying to accumulate personal information in an effort to advertise more efficiently, but there are other models that involve no actual personal or company data. Operational telemetry, for example.

I might not want to share the data from a MySQL database, for example, but its operational characteristics: size, query length, query speed etc are substantially less concerning.

A company like New Relic, for example, could provide a service like the now discontinued App Speed Index because it has visibility into a large number of running application instances. This data, particularly in an aggregate form, poses little or no risk to customers that share it, but can be valuable to businesses that see its potential.
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I have a friend who is on a condo board on the Peninsula who has been claiming that tighter outflow controls have been affecting purchases since around April. I've been curious about whether this is just his perception or reflective of a broader trend.
I don't think that the seatbelt example is overfitting. It's a consequence of their not being the "correct" available label. In many ways I guess the seatbelt would be the best option.
True (plus no more mixed content warning) but not exactly 100% of the picture, warrants a footnote here. Unless you actually know which source you expect to get from, you can't tell if https://evil.com/evil.js is intended over https://legit.com/legit.js. In the end, they are over https, and authenticated.

From a user point of view, I am not sure how we can actually defend that, but as an author of a page, you can try to enforce expectation with various HTTP headers (CSP, suborigin integrity).

Authentication is one thing, but determining the integrity is another.
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That's an incredibly dehumanising way of viewing the world. A view I guess is shared by the ones who conducts your tortures and carries out your murders. Shame on you.
Is it really true that Chinese money prefers SF? Chinese money definitely loves LA, perhaps its impact is just more pronounced on a smaller city like SF?
My knowledge on this is purely anecdotal, I'd love to see some data.
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same for germany here: https://www.energy-charts.de/power_de.htm
Ask HN: Can someone explain the tech bubble?
Everybody says we're in the middle of a tech bubble. Can someone explain in simple terms why we're in a bubble and the adverse effects we're going to have if the bubble bursts?

Specifically, I don't understand why a lot of startups being heavily funded will cause a bubble. When the bubble bursts what I imagine happening is that investors will probably stop funding starups. So are startups who are looking for more money the only ones affected?

How will the bubble burst impact employees who are in a well funded startup?
I actually bought this map a few months ago seeing it on a reddit post. It's a beautiful map and you can tell care was taken into producing it. It's about $45 USD, but I'm sure that barely pays for the amount of research they put into it. The labeling itself is meticulous.

Be warned. It ships from Germany so shipping is about 2-3 weeks.
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Many museums are privately owned and funded - the luckier ones have endowments. While some items are donated by patrons, when items show up on the market museums do purchase them. This isn't really a government funding problem, most museums in the US get most of their funding from private donations. (While ancient manuscript fragments are purchased by museums, the larger collections are held by academic libraries, and while those do need public funding, they typically do have the ability to purchase items relevant to their collections.)

The reasons things got complex here was that the private party was selling an antiquity through an odd venue (a lot of antiquities are sold on eBay, but it's mostly common items of less historic interest). These sort of things would usually be sold through Sothebys, or Christie's, or some other auction house where they'd catalog the item, and make sure researchers and interested parties would be aware. This one slipped under the radar until the researcher at UT spotted it because of the fact that it was on eBay. This item turned out to be a highly historically significant find discovered by researchers too late for an institutional purchase (which is a slow process), and sold in a way that doesn't fit typical institutional purchase models.

There's also tension between academic researchers and antiquities collectors that this helped exacerbate. Antiquities collectors are seen by researchers as encouraging looting of archaeological sites and of buying historically significant items and harming the public at large by preventing the possibility of research. Many antiquities collectors, and especially dealers have their own low opinions of academics as well.
* Alright, sorry Kubernetes is in Go I must've gotten it confused with some other project.

* Well, alright, but they market it as a general purpose project. I'm just saying that to us it's strange that none of these frameworks out there deal with persistent storage, as the author of the article also observed.

* Ok.

* Well the problem is that it'd be much nicer if we could just use Kubernetes. Obviously having a homegrown orchestrator is not very nice. There's bounds to be lots of edgecases that our ops will run into that'll continuously cause us to perform maintenance on it, and maintaining an orchestration framework is not our core business.

Anyway, this is not necessarily a critique of Kubernetes, it's great software. It's just an affirmation of the point the article is making, that it's curious that there's no interest in stateful containers from the maintainers of these frameworks.
This is binary thinking. On the margin, a small basic income (not enough to live on) would still have a lot of small effects. For example, a couple might find it more affordable to get by without both people working, if they could almost afford it before. Or, people might be more willing to take a lower income job like teaching. It also makes rural areas with a lower cost of living somewhat more desirable, if you can find a job.
One funny example of this is that the US Government both funds and works to defeat Tor simultaneously.
It's not exactly overfitting. It's more that the model is seeing an image that is out of sample, but our approach _forces_ it to say something, so it will do its best but usually fail.

One simple low-hanging-fruit approach would be to include a large repository of additional data (e.g. all of ImageNet) and label it all as a "garbage" class. This way the model could at least learn to distinguish the kinds of images in its training data from the universe of images, and this could be used as one proxy of confidence.

Another simple proxy is to look at the probability of the generated sample, since usually the model tends to assign more diffuse probabilities in more uncertain cases. But this is also not a very clean approach for various reasons.

Another, and probably most appealing, approach would be something along the lines of Bayesian Neural Networks, ensembles, or approximations with dropout, where the disagreement between the predictions of all submodels can be used.
There was also a fascinating description by Assaf Nativ in PoC||GTFO 0x03, Section 7, of how to hack Nokia feature phones and make "kosher phones", for which there is apparently a sizable market.
Is your opinion that more data will solve this?

If so, I'm guessing Google, maybe Facebook too, has plenty of data. What else is holding them back?
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Well... the whole idea behind cryonics is that the people preserved with current technology can be revived/reconstructed with future technology. Asking for a full preservation & resuscitation today is demanding evidence that wouldn't exist even in the case that cryonics works.

That said, there is evidence available today. 21st Century Medicine is a company that does research on cryoprotectants. Their chief science officer is Greg Fahy, who co-invented the first method for cryopreserving embryos[1].

21st Century Medicine's primary goal is to research new ways of cryopreserving tissues. This is already useful for research and some tissue banking (embryos, corneas, etc). If improvements continue, it could allow for organ banking. But the brain is an organ, and cryopreservation technologies work quite well on it. For example, 21st Century Medicine can take a slice of a rat's hippocampus, cryopreserve it, and thaw it. Afterwards, it's still viable tissue.[2] This is very important, as the hippocampus is not only crucial for memory consolidation, but it's the part of the brain most vulnerable to ischemic damage (especially the CA1 region).

21st Century Medicine has also experimented with whole organs. They've taken a kidney from a rabbit, cryopreserved it, thawed it, and transplanted it back into the rabbit. Then, after removing the remaining kidney, the vitrified-and-thawed kidney kept the rabbit alive indefinitely. Alcor uses the same cryoprotectants as this experiment.

If cryonics works, this is exactly the sort of evidence you'd expect to see today. Granted, it probably won't work, but the expected value is positive.

1. Ice-free cryopreservation of mouse embryos at −196 °C by vitrification (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v313/n6003/abs/313573a0...)

2. Cryopreservation of rat hippocampal slices by vitrification (http://www.21cm.com/pdfs/hippo_published.pdf)

3. Physical and biological aspects of renal vitrification (http://www.21cm.com/pdfs/12FahyORG5-3%5B1%5D.pdf)
But what about the actual shape of the cut of meat? I doubt if I buy a cultured thigh of chicken I'd get it with the skin and bones, for some reason, although my biotechnical knowledge is lacking. These things are essential for cooking so a future where all out meat is literally just large slabs of flesh would be unenjoyable.
It will never be halal as it's not butchered so it cannot be guaranteed Halal.
As far as Kosher goes it's not that far but there are quite a few loopholes that could be used to classify this as not-meat, or find some way to make it Kosher.
Kosher unlike Halal has different "levels" based on which organization actually gave it the certification usually, as far as I know Kosher most Kosher meat in the US are not butchered exactly according to Jewish tradition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shechita so there might be already a precedence to allow it.
You probably won't see the hardcore-est Orthodox Jewry eating eat, but It will be quite viable for most observant Jews.
I keep thinking that Bloomberg is trying to scare the readers with big numbers. 1.2 Trillion Yuan is about $188 billion. China's population is about 1.35 billion, China GDP is about $9.25 trillion.

So non-performing loans are $188b/9240b = 0.0203 or 2% of GDP. This isn't anything the Central Banks can't deal with.

The article is drivel.
Maybe a TPP side-deal with one of the places the money is being moved to?
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Sure. But you are not lowering one risk on account of the other, so what's that got to do with anything? You will still have the same chance of HDD error, but now you also add a (admittedly small) chance of id collision. As for simplicity... You need some unique device identifiers in any distributed system, so why not just use these?

I know MongoDB is not popular around here, but their ObjectIds are (imho) a much better approach than yours. Much more robust and less prone to errors when planets align just right. That said, I have seen worse solutions than yours and made my share of bad decisions too, so I don't judge you. This is just a technical opinion, given that this particular problem wouldn't even exist if you avoided randomness.
I've come to the same conclusion: the call to abolish copyright is just a bullet point on the cost-saving wish list of content aggregators and content mills, and the people who support it are hopelessly naive ideologues who have not thought through the likely outcome of the position they are advocating.

When was copyright invented? Why? What were things like before then? What would prevent that from still working today?

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Independent OSS ecosystems would cease to exist as no-one would dare release open source code... it would just be appropriated without even giving credit to the original author, let alone any form of compensation.

Which is why SQLite doesn't exist. [ http://sqlite.org/copyright.html ]

This also assumes there's no distinction made between copying and attribution.

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That being said: abolishing it without replacing it would simply abolish writing, music, art, journalism, etc. as primary disciplines or careers. Without copyright the only way to make money in these fields would be to turn all of your work into advertisement

For music at least, I seem to recall hearing that most bands already get the bulk of their money from live shows?
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'Personalization' and 'collaborative' are, at least in my mind, quite a bit different. The first filters based on your preferences, the second filters based on everyone elses preferences. Even grouping you with 'like-minded' people would have to yield different results from a system trained on your personal preferences. True personalization, done right, would also make it significantly more difficult for advertisers and those hawking spam and using clickbait tactics to game the system. Why should a million sock puppet accounts or the masses clicking on 'You won't believe number 7!' get such content presented to me?
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That's a narrow view of cooking and ejoyable.