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I don't get basic income. Why would someone get resources just because they happen to be born as homo sapiens? It's not like they worked for it or developed themselves into a homo sapiens. Just dumb luck.

Another thing nobody is talking about:

Slavery of robots. Why is it okay to enslave robots, use and abuse them, buy/sell them and finally throw them into trash? But you can't do that with certain members of homo sapiens species. I don't get it.
So why can't it? The article does not answer that question...
Well, we could try to create infrastructure around bitcoin which would solve the problems related to human error, something like delegating sending/receiving to 3rd party which has nice UI and double checks everything. It could also store your private key. You might say that this 3rd party can be hacked -- true, but the same applies to traditional banking.
What is it though? The page does not say...
Thanks for the explanation! I haven't been following fab process news for some time so I've been very much out of the loop.
Which is one reason why the Northeast Corridor works even though it's only sorta high-speed rail. There are a few cities off the coast like Pittsburgh that miss out but you handle a lot of population with a single line.

The only caveat is that, because it's not really high-speed, it works better as north and south segments than as one single line. But because it's NYC in the middle, even that works pretty well.
A wise ex-trader once educated me about the FITH (Food in the hallway) index. One internal measure of a companies performance.

Seems like the FITH index is on a downward trend at Dropbox.
Bitcoin involves trust in the mining community: human beings whose identities you almost certainly don't know.

Unless you are also auditing all the code you use for software that objects with Bitcoin yourself, it also requires trust in either the software developers or other people who purport to be auditing the code.

The idea that Bitcoin eliminates the need for trust is a dangerous delusion.
Since we are able to reason by deduction and learning, there is an infinite number of things about which we are right.
Maybe a better way to put some Bitcoin proponents' criticism of the Fed would be that they don't like the monetary policy so far actually produced by politics, and would like to use a kind of money whose monetary policy is produced by something else.

I have never come to a particularly clear or detailed position on monetary policy and so I don't know how good or bad a job of it I think the Fed has been doing from my perspective, nor would I assume that Bitcoin or any altcoin is doing a better job. But it makes some sense to me that someone could say "I wish I could use money that wasn't subject to the Fed, because I so often disagree with the Fed".

I've seen some arguments about this that devolved into elaborate discussions about the institutional status and control of the Fed (as this thread might be in danger of doing...), but I've sometimes seen arguments that went in a different direction, where people suggested that it's important for the Fed to be able to set monetary policy for the money primarily used in the U.S., because monetary policy ought to be subject to political control, because it achieves important political objectives.

I tend to suspect that some form of that is ultimately the issue in play at the bottom of some of these discussions: how subject to politics should or must monetary policy be, and how legitimate or illegitimate is it for people to try to use, on a significant scale, money whose supply and interest rate aren't determined by the central bank of the country they live in?
The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
>It's easy to tell a pollster you're for high speed rail but how many will actually buy a ticket? Perhaps they should ask for them to prepay for a ticket?

I use the MBTA on a fairly frequent basis. I would use it every day if biking didn't half my commute time.

I've also used Megabus to visit New York City, for day trips even, Acela for an interview in New York once, and a short domestic air flight to visit a friend in Washington DC for a weekend. These costed ~$30, ~$200, and $500 for round trips, respectively.

Note that the bus takes almost five hours, the train takes four hours, and the airline flight took about two to three hours. The bus and train were crossing the same distance between the same two cities, and a comparable air trip would have cost $450 for a 1 hour, 15 minute flight.

Why is the transit system structured so that by taking "high-speed" public transit over slower private transit, I reduce my trip by 20% but pay 9x more? Why is it that if I actually want to travel quickly, I have to take a private transit agency (ie: JetBlue), and can quarter the time spent in transit by spending twice as much as the next-fastest option and 15x as much as the slowest option?

In particular, how can we talk about a so-called "high-speed" rail system in which the gap between driving and taking a train is only one hour but the cost gap is multiplication by nine?
FTA:

> and has been adapted to create other ring junctions around Britain:

That's a GIF recording of Cities: Skylines, not a roundabout in Britain. Purple pollution in the upper-right gives it away.
It gets really interesting with cars that have no crumble zone - like the Smart. They managed to build that little devil in a way, that the motor gets partially shoved beneath the floor of the car..
That comparison doesn't work.

As a tech manager, you're not using your personal funds, either, you're using your employer's money.

Further, if a doctor's prescription doesn't work, or is too expensive, the patients can get a second opinion, and the doctor can lose the person as a patient. An employer may not even have that option with a tech manager.
Towards a More Direct Democracy
> HackerNews should promote culture of science and critical thinking and shouldn't be accepting of the fad diets like lchf, paleo, keto and other scaremongering bs.

No, Hacker News should promote good conversation: civil discourse that respects people's right to differing views. This is a pluralistic place where everyone has a right to be wrong. Strident denunciations—even (or rather especially) in the name of correct scientific positions—are corrosive of the social contract here and should be eschewed regardless of how right you are, or believe you are.

Otherwise the endgame is a few absolutists yelling at each other, and everyone else leaving.
If you're curious:
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This essay reminds me of George Box's famous and often misused statement that "All models are wrong, but some are useful."

A spherical earth model is useful and a flat earth model is not. Also, as Asimov explains here, wrong is relative and a spherical model of the earth is much less wrong than a flat earth model.
Not so. The limit is per depositor, per bank, per ownership category:

https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/

Ownership category is just something like single, joint, retirement, etc. If you have more than $250,000 spread across multiple accounts but with the same account holder and ownership category, the excess is not covered.
Go is an interesting language but the fanboys on HN tend to down vote any criticism. Same goes for the other golden child, Rust.
Even that is misleading because one valid way to read that sentence is that they can get a warrant for any a computer on the sole basis that its location is unknown. That's not so. They've only eased the requirement that the warrant be issued by judges in the same circuit as the physical computer, in cases when the location of the computer cannot be ascertained.
Many regulations of this sort - particularly within the taxi space - are merely economic protectionism favoring one group over another. Suppose the "no black people" limit were merely designed for economic protectionism with no malicious intent. Would that make it acceptable?

You can add to it various pretexts as erroneous and ineffective justification, e.g. "black people are more likely to be dangerous criminals than non-blacks, we don't want passengers getting robbed", if that makes the question clearer.

I'm also confused by your last line. Why do you believe I'm "pretending" something? I'm simply pointing out what the core philosophical question is.

I know how I justify my moral positions - my opposition to protectionism (either pro-white or pro-medallion owner) is driven by my opposition to violence. But when you give up opposition to violence - which you must do if it's acceptable to protect medallion owners with violence - I don't know how to oppose pro-white protectionism. What makes non-whites deserving of protection from bad laws but non-medallion owners undeserving?
Years ago I thought the idea of regional high speed rail lines in the US was a great idea, but I think the time for that has come and gone. The future seems to be clearly moving towards autonomous cars (and buses one presumes). Why sink billions into high speed rail when on our current pace it will be only a couple decades before we have all electric cars powered by solar and other clean energy sources that are 90 something percent autonomous? I think most people would easily choose a 5 hr autonomous car ride from LA to SF with complete freedom of movement in both cities compared to a 2 hr train ride with possibly a couple hours in both cities dealing with connections getting you to your specific destinations.
Read "Database Design for Mere Mortals".

Its one of the few books I keep buying and giving away.
But DASH does, and Bitcoin could to if they got their act together.
> Trying to pull a fast one is risky, and that prevents most people from trying.

Well not these guys: $81M was stolen from the Bangladesh Bank via the SWIFT network in February https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Bangladesh_Bank_heist

> And second, there are humans in the loop

There sure are!

The IRS Seized $107,000 From Store owner for "structuring" http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/12/nc-store-owner-on...

MasterCard Cuts Off Wikileaks, Assange's Bank Account Frozen http://gawker.com/5707851/mastercard-cuts-off-wikileaks-assa...

DOJ's 'Operation Choke Point' May Be Root of Porn Star Bank Account Closings http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/28/doj-operation-chokepoint-a...
MIT announces campaign for a better world
Austin-ite and Texan here.

Uber sent a text to it's drivers the Friday before the vote that was a thinly veiled threat that they should vote or lose their pay check when Uber pulled out of Austin.

That sort of strong arming in our electoral process, yeah, never gonna go over well.

The proposition, if passed, would override regulations put in place by elected representatives. The proposition failed by popular vote in an election. Uber et al out spent their conpition several times over. The commercials they ran were so plainly attempting to confuse the issue that it was insulting. Also, the commercials were ran more frequently during the window for early voting. There were almost zero local voices speaking on behalf of both community and in favor of prop 1.

All arguments in favor of prop 1 where, imo, specious. If it causes on-boarding to become too slow, well then that is only a deal breaker if they were not yet at the critical mass to be profitable; not so. Fingerprinting is not prohibitively expensive. Uber and Lyft operate in other markets where this is a requirement. And at the end of the day, twice now, the electorate has expressed its position on the issue.

Living in Austin during this campaign, it felt like being in the middle of a proxy war.

Imho, Uber can't stand having terms dictated to them. Any terms beyond their terms are too restrictive. The citizens of Austin were simply pawns in their larger game of market domination.

With all due respect, from the city of Austin, from deep in the heart of Texas, Uber, if you don't want to work with us, you know where the door is.
Not a whole lot of content in the article... we all know GPUs are good for many data processing or machine learning tasks. Clearly gaming was the impetus to develop high performance GPUs initially, but I wonder if it still holds true that gamers "subsidize" big data significantly. Are most high-performance GPUs sold for gaming or for data processing?
It's just one line. Put this before the loop if the code logically shouldn't trigger this.

assert( B < B_TYPE_MAX - 4 );

Or use an if statement if it could trigger at runtime.

Also the code is clearer on intent.
I have a shocking number of burner phones driven by the need to register for stuff which requires phone-call validation of identity. Of course every one of those phones was purchased in cash while wearing a hoodie and sunglasses, after parking in a nearby neighborhood and walking to the store.

Note, I'm not a criminal, I just play one in my day job.
"...the Greek philosopher Eratosthenes noted that the sun cast a shadow of different lengths at different latitudes (all the shadows would be the same length if the earth's surface were flat)."

This is an interesting statement, because it means he had some idea of how far away the sun was from the Earth. If it was, say, a thousand miles up, you'd see huge differences in shadow length depending on where you were standing on a flat earth. Since it's tens of millions of miles away, the difference is negligible.
What are you talking about? I've lived on the southside for 10 years. It's called "understanding how to avoid gangbangers." How about when I go into a burger joint and the two teenage kids in front of me whip out a huge roll of cash to pay for it? Their saggy-ass jeans tell me they didn't get that from a high-paying software consulting job. I think you need a reality check.

Ninja edit: Screw you for criticizing me on my "judgement" of Uber drivers. Fuck you.
That's great in theory, but how many people would be prepared to pay even more on top of their existing internet charges to fund this?

I'm sure some would, but I also suspect most wouldn't.

There's also the question of "instead, it will automatically track their browsing activity...". That would be enough to put off a lot of people.
In fairness, a flat earth model is still useful for navigation within limited distances.
Its pretty much the same with any aspect of IT. I would like to spend more time making the code better and maintainable, but management just wants to see new features.
I think the commenter in your post is right but is forgetting about the outsourced complexity of the big autos.

Chassis assembly is only marginally simpler for an EV vs an ICE since the ICE relies on third party suppliers sending the highly complex parts to the line. The complexity of parts like the engine, transmission, exhaust system, fuel system, etc. is abstracted to the suppliers so that GM or whoever can just bolt it to the final car. Tesla has a big benefit here since if they were designing a brand new ICE, they'd be responsible for all those parts too.

It's not that they get the simplicity benefit from not installing an engine, it's that they don't have to wait for the most complex part of a car to be designed, engineered, constructed and delivered.
I've been on the one in Hemel on my bicycle. There's also one in Colchester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_%28Colchester...

In addition to magic roundabouts, Britain also has gyratory systems, which are like normal roundabouts, except much larger and possibly with buildings in the centre, reachable on foot via underpasses (which are called subways in England, just to confuse Glaswegians and New Yorkers). The most famous one is at Hanger Lane in London, which has a tube station in the middle.
Whats the difference between that and google?
Wow, you made my day. I love Mandelstam.

I also know of a (small but consistent) linguistic practice in which people deliberately speak in gerunds as a form of verbal indirection, and it works surprisingly well.
Thank you! It's hard to tell from the list if it covers coop models. It would be in Board/Ownership, starting on page 251.

One clue earlier might be if the workers can fire the CEO and decide CEO pay.
Many big-name vitals monitors seem to run Windows under the hood. They have a whole PC in there, connected to their hardware sensors. If you pay extra for network connectivity or a similar premium feature, I suspect it's the same software with some flag turned on.
This seems to be a common assumption in the JS world. Even many polymer elements seem to focus on providing stunts for JS procedural style programming rather than DOM first programming. Do you have any good resources on refactoring JS code to be more DOM centric? I'm thinking tools like d3.
India warns of $15M fine for maps it doesn’t like
> you'll only find out for sure if you'll lose when you try. if you don't try, you definitely lose.

If you're going to follow that philosophy, you're better off buying a lottery ticket. They're a lot cheaper.

> should we select movie stars, athletes, and professors at birth? via lottery?

I'll bite that bullet. Partial allocation by lottery would be a lot less cruel and wasteful than the current system of full allocation by sacrifice.
IMO, the key challenge to IT security is business justification. The costs are very explicit: it's a shit ton of work to enable SELinux, and 2factor auth isn't free. Meanwhile the benefits are fairly nebulous: 2 factor auth doesn't prevent shellcode injection into imagemagick.

The end result is you have a low probability of a huge impacts occurring, without enough data to suggest the distribution of low probabilities, or the nature or distribution of huge impacts. You're sort of selling tiger repellent rocks, and when the big event does happen, you now have to convince the executives the counterfactual that if you had the budget to implement X, Y and Z, the event would have been prevented. Meanwhile, the costs on team velocity are silently ignored.

The best case scenarios here probably revolve around insurance. Compliance auditors can impose non-compliance fees, and giving security teams a direct financial consequence avoided to point to would help their budget justifications.
Fair enough, but let's not pretend we're in Unix-land anymore.
Doesn't say anything about why they "simply cannot operate" in Austin. Sounds like they just don't want to anymore. The voters made their decision and Uber/Lyft are taking their ball and going home, I don't see why the Council should be "backwards".
dang should be coming by to tell you that you are out of line any minute now.
Everything Is Awesome in China
Ukraine's corruption is far more pervasive. It's a robber culture.

Putin has been pragmatic in the sense of greasing some people and cracking down on others to at least try form a cohesive, functioning country.

What should really be stated is that corruption is among the most difficult of problems to eliminate. If you crack down too hard, you get massive capital flight, or they fight back. Too little, and the country doesn't function.
The Bangladesh bank heist is perfectly consistent with the GP. You can expect small amounts of large theft (which likely affects users indirectly) or a large amount of small theft targeted directly at users.
I feel safer when my wife can text me the name of the taxi company and car number in case anything happens. It's following a chain of custody...dick.
Perhaps the taxi operators could make people put down a monetary deposit in order to be a taxi customer, which they forfeit if the next customer finds the previous customer has done something bad to the interior of the taxi. (That might be a challenge for taxi riders' anonymity, though -- which has already been a problem with services like Uber and Lyft.)
Netflix has a HTML5 player now, afaik. Works alright on Safari. Agreed RE streaming sites though!
CAN YOU DO IT? Man Proposes to His Girlfriend at a Junction, Inside Traffic
I find this type of assertion with respect to Uber, Lyft, and startups in general uninteresting because it avoids taking a position on the wisdom of the regulations.

I realize that there is room for reasonable people to debate as to whether Uber, for example, has played by the existing rules but that is a categorically different discussion as to the value and wisdom of those rules.

So there seems to be four positions:

1) the rules are proper and should be followed (status quo)
2) the rules are proper and should not be followed (self contradictory)
3) the rules are improper and should be followed until changed (rule of law)
4) the rules are improper and should be actively resisted (civil disobedience)

Arguing in favor of adhering to the rules without taking a position on the propriety of those rules (failing to choose between 1 and 3) is what I find uninteresting. Pick a side and make your case.

Even more confusing and destructive to reasonable discussion is asserting that the rules must be followed as a response to someone arguing that the rules should be changed. That is a category error and adds nothing to the discussion.
> How is it you "go hoarse having the same conversations?" Do you not have to meet FDA compliance criteria? Are you in the US?

You have to deal with FDA pretty much regardless where you're based, if you want any kind of market for your medical device. A lot of countries define compliance as whatever is good enough for FDA.

FDA rules for software... what FDA wants is a paper trail.
Good idea of just trimming to the end if the end value is greater than the video duration, I'll add that next week.

As a quick hack since the youtube video duration is 7.383s, and you want to trim to the end just omit the end property.
> As a tech manager, you're not using your personal funds, either, you're using your employer's money.

Right, but I am spending the money of my company. They control my salary and advancement, and I also have a fixed pool to draw from.

Doctors are spending money for insurance companies.
From an accounting standpoint, all of that preorder cash is likely restricted and won't be available to fund general operations.
"The most powerful GPU currently available is the NVIDIA Tesla K80 Accelerator, with up to 8.74 teraflops of compute performance and nearly 500 GB/sec of memory bandwidth."

Wow, I've been reading, on Nvidia's site and elsewhere, about cuda programming on gpus and a lot of the advice involves avoiding a lot of transfers between main memory and the gpu. However, at the transfer rate quoted above, it seems like you have a device that can read all of main memory in a few seconds.

This is great ... however, does this mean all the advice about avoiding memory transfers and the programming style went with that, goes out the window?

Edit: as a beginner, I'm probably butchering the standard advice for c++/cuda programming. However, could someone summarize how things change as you get to more capable processors. A lot of the Nvidia blog posts are geared to stuff valid for all cuda version but since I'm starting fresh with a compute-intense program targeting cuda, I'd like to target the best things cuda can do.

Edit2: While the article is fascinating for the possibilities it's talking about, it's mostly a puff-piece for some (apparently) closed-source software. Anyone know an open source equivalent or some more detailed sample code for doing stuff similar to what MapD claims to do?
How do you make playlist auto play in Overcast? It plays one podcast and stops. I'm asking it here because the author doesn't reply either in email or twitter and don't know where else can I post?
That's a false choice I most cases, and msft generally had private offices anyway.
This is identical to how's it done in Sweden