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I agree with mostly everything he said, to be honest. I've stuck with Bitcoin now for the last 3+ years and interestingly, that was only -because- Bitcoin made it so hard to do anything useful. I would need to learn how all kinds of niche areas of cryptography worked and the fun of hopelessly trying to outsmart Bitcoin's god-awful restrictions is what kept things fresh to me.

Sure, it did teach me a lot of obscure things about crypto + game theory, and some of those things actually turned out to be quite useful. But I also can't deny how much longer it takes to do the most basic things in Bitcoin and I think that now we're progressing towards using blockchains to solve problems outside of Bitcoin -- Ethereum seems more up to the task than Bitcoin.

That's not to put Bitcoin down though. There has definitely been some tremendous innovations there recently: segregated witnesses and sidechains are pretty cool. But I've also seen the community change significantly since I first got involved and I'd argue most of those changes have been bad. For example: /r/Bitcoin seems to have become a toxic echo chamber for irrational hatred against former high contributing core members and almost any kind of counter-views are censored which is honestly quite disturbing. Most of Bitcoin's current media is also controlled by only a handful of individuals so its very easy to manipulate the crowd into "consensus" but I won't even go there.

I'll personally always love Bitcoin but I can't see that these problems can be fixed at this point. The Bitcoin project was largely hijacked as far as I can tell and since the crowd has been won there's no going back now.
The idea is to integrate LXD into OpenStack as a "lightweight VM". So, LXD runs a system with a full init system and executes them inside of a Linux Container. Another term for this is a "system container".

Kubernetes is designed for running Application Container images (e.g. docker, oci, appc) and in this case those containers are running not as Linux containers on a shared Kernel but inside of a VM with Xen/Hypernetes. Another implementation of this "app container in a VM" concept is Clear Containers which is available in rkt[1] and can, like Hyper, run the application container image formats (docker/appc).

This is all a bit confusing so let me know if this helps :)

[1] https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-0.8-with-new-vm-support/
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Provisionals for All: Seattle's Next Light Rail Project Must Plan for the Future
Nice fear mongering from ex-CEO. We all know that robots will be here regardless of what the minimum wage is.
From disrupter to disrupted: Why Apple could be next
...the access to more and better medicines...

Not that I think white Americans deserve some extra-consideration but the recent decline in the life expectancy of white Americans [1], coupled with indeed further medical discoveries, seems like a demonstration that the effective decline in wages is able to outpace even these better medicines.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/health/life-expectancy-dec...
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Do good engineers take their salary entirely in equity? In both cases, despite high payoffs, there is extreme variability in outcome. Running a serious lawsuit is very expensive.
Because it has the most cores. If you look at individual CPU cores you can see the 6700K is faster on a per-core basis. ("Single Thread Rating: 2329" vs. "Single Thread Rating: 1986".)

Whether a 5960X or 6700K is the fastest CPU for a given workload will depend on the workload.
Are there any exchanges right now that allow purchasing of Ethereum?
Read Seth Godin's "The Dip".

It recommends you to quit often, and focus on those things that you are dedicated to. The rest is just a distraction. Your project sounds like his description of a cul de sac, or a dead end. It's taking away your time and mental capacity to work on other stuff that you care about.
True, yet as someone who went from the Steel to the Time Steel (and had his Steel stolen), the display readability was a big downgrade;the old Steel was simply far easier to read.

The new Time 2 fixes this, from what I can see, in addition to making the display bigger (two sides of the same coin, but still worth the distinction).

Adding the HRM feature, and the fact that I love everything else about my Time Steel (the readability being the exception), I buddied up for a 2x order.

It's worth mentioning that the Pebble team have been doing some fantastic work on the OS on the past few months; the continuous updates are great.

Also I still get 9+ days from each charge with my always on display; nothing else in the smart watch market comes close.
Do you suppose it matters when someone unapologetically extends their unbidden shill-like opinion favoring a more current employer?

Running closed source code clearly involves a level of trust that permits abiding ignorance. Nothing more to say then.
Do you think this 'simple' explanation would be adequate for someone without a CS related background strong enough to understand hashing or the difficulty of reversing crypto hashing? What about explaining why people can't fake transactions?
I bought a Chromebook instead of a mac too.
Because "Remind me again tomorrow"
How about go fuck yourself. I own this machine I'll choose when the goddamned printer drivers need to be updated.

Seriously, that was the last straw. I've been an Apple fanboy since I was twelve. I've literally never bought a windows computer. I've fought tooth and nail for Apple products in college and then in four jobs thereafter. I based my professional life on knowing Macs and and loving what Apple does.

And this month I quit. I bought a chromebook, hacked ubuntu onto it and I'm transitioning my work machine to it.

Because when they forced me to click <nag me again later> they betrayed my trust in the deepest way imaginable. Fuck you Apple, seriously. Fuck. You.
This is one of the advantages to my employer's cloud product - you can architect your servers and networks entirely outside of the US. Choose only European datacenters, and your data stays in Europe. By the exact same token, if you have a requirement to keep your data in the USA, you can easily design your networks and services to comply.
Let me know when I can 'wallpaper' my house with it. I hate painting rooms just to change the colour.
With a well-designed graphical UI, options and menus are (or at least should be) easily discoverable. But for text-based UIs, I'm forced to resort to scrolling through "man tmux" or "java -help", or etc. to find the option that I want.
I sincerely hope that AMD doesn't have microarchitectural goofs that slow everything down like the cache coloring thing last time.

They would do well to revisit some old design errors, too. Grep a recent Linux kernel for "SYSRET_SS_ATTRS" for a silly one that adds quite a few cycles to many context switches for no particularly good reason.
Anyone know how much memory these parts will be able to address? 128GB would be interesting.
Aha, the chancellor(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivpCKEiQOQ) will feel great to see that finaly he can eliminate IaaS/vms and use docker in production env.
He also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44 (Also really impressive, I think this guy is a genius.)
gemini,
coinbase exchange (gdax),
kraken,
poloniex,
etc

First 3 allow direct purschas with USD
Home prices in the Dallas burbs have doubled in the last 15 years. Wages haven't. That alone locks many people out of the market at current rates.
Awesome guys, that helps a lot. Thanks for the info and links.
I love that I couldn't even tell the far left panel was e-ink until it changed later in the video.
Others have pointed out, but I will emphasize, that this runs smack into the local politics of suburbia. Most people don't want to live next to a multi-unit house, and so:
1) the value of homes around a multi-unit house will decrease, causing enmity and dislike between neighbors, and
2) neighbors will respond by forming HOAs that restrict the number of units allowed in a house. My own HOA, for example, completely bans renting out my entire house, much less subdivided portions thereof.
A+ reference. Also I would 100% download an emoji alethiometer app.
The new american dream: forget working, are your parents in real estate or not?
I agree that it's a country-wide phenomenon. But everything else in your post is almost comically out of touch, which is to say that there are obviously other factors.
What a coincidence, I just bought ETH today with BTC from my Coinbase account.

Does this mean I can hold ETH in a Coinbase wallet soon?
Things will be faster soon, once the robots arrive: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/mcdonalds-ex-ceo-15h...
Robots Kill 60,000 Jobs at Just One Factory as 40% of Labor Faces Extinction
This. The entire point of the establishment convincing people to hand over large chunks of their labour for fiat currency is because they are giving you peanuts. You can't cash it in! All these houses "worth" $1MM - who is going to buy them? Demographics are shifting as the boomers die off.
Agree 100%. My PTS gets 9 days+ between each charge and the display is always on, whilst doing steps and sleep tracking and integrating with my S6 Edge.

I love the fact that the Pebble is such a focused device; I'd never trade it for an "screen on demand when shaking it around" iWatch, even if they threw an iPhone in for free.
'To understand' something can mean all kinds of different things. You don't really need to understand how smtp/pop work to use email or how https works to be [reasonably] sure your credit card number you're sending over the wire to an online vendor won't be stolen in flight.

Same with Bitcoin. You acquire it, you use a piece of software called 'the wallet' to store it and you either share your 'Bitcoin address' with someone to send Bitcoin your way or they give you their address for you to send the btc to.

That's really it in a nutshell :)
Zuckerberg to raze 4 adjacent homes in Palo Alto
There's a difference between unvested shares and options.

For unvested shares, you buy the shares and pay for them immediately, but the company has the right to buy them back at cost if you leave before a certain duration of employment (which is when you "vest").

For options "you aren't holding any", you don't own any shares until you exercise your options.

Clearly this is an area in which an attorney would be helpful. IANAL.
Could this question get more Hacker News?

The service called El Packete is what you'd expect, and it carries every-day stuff: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a1...

If people want Stack Overflow they'll ask for it. They're not without internet access, it's just that their ping times are really, really high.
Oh, puhleeze, this is just straight up bullshit. A client-facing banker may need to wear a suit, but no one gives a shit if it's a Saville Row bespoke version. If it's so important for your job that you need an iPhone because an Android is somehow for the unwashed masses, you can afford it.
"Build an organization where everyone is out for themselves and you’ll build what Schopenhauer called a culture of individuals “fencing in the mirror.” When we are caught up in our own agendas and circumstances, we forget to live up to our obligations and commitments to each other. This is where dysfunction foments; this is how startups die and missions never get completed."

So true
Interesting. Even before that, you could run IOS XR with a Linux-based emulator called EnXR. It's useful for testing because you don't need to load the image onto a real router.
Ask HN: What Is the Best Way to Tune Hyper Parameters for a Deep Neural Network?
I found this quite tricky. Paper Practical Recommendations for Gradient-Based Training of Deep Architectures http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.5533v2.pdf is a good source. What else?
My estimation of him just dropped to a new low. How cruel.
Are you referring to the high hashrate? that isn't a requirement for the "2 transactions per second". It is basically unrelated.

It would work if everyone turned off their computers and the hashrate dropped to one

except then I would turn on my computers and earn all the bitcoin instead, which nobody else wants to happen when they can be earning more bitcoin than I

I think it is pretty clever and the network works very well. Your criticism is about its future scalability?

Transferring bitcoin right now, has worked just as well as it worked back in 2012. You send it from one address, to another address, and it gets there in the same time period.

You could ignore all the drama for the last four years and your transaction would still work. Just as much as you ignore all the board meetings that VISA has, that SWIFT has, that the engineers at FEDwire have.

The scaling issue is a fun thought experiment, but it really doesn't matter for you actually using bitcoin. Which promise are you criticising? How bitcoin is supposed to compete against the US dollar?

I've got the cast and crew of the Panama Papers over in cryptocurrency now, and it works really well, while people are still questioning what bitcoin even does. 2012 is over, shit still works.
The price would be comparable to AWS appropriate tear
eg 6TB storage for a bit less (10-15%) then amazon's 6TB RDS option but with much better performance. I totally get your reluctance to rely on 3rd party, but the question is more for people who already do rely on 3rd party such as AWS or Azure.
Microchip acquires Atmel [pdf]
And another different side of HyperContainer is that it follows OCI spec, check the runv project here: https://github.com/hyperhq/runv/, so technically speaking, it's a hypervisor version of OCI, just like docker is a linux container version of OCI. Seems rkt/clear linux or LXD does not.
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48-volt mild hybrids: A possible cure for diesel emissions cheats?
Taking large cases on contingency is exactly the business model of many law firms. They don't charge the client directly, and take about 50% of the payout, plus legal fees if the court awards it. The firms take on multiple cases at once so they can afford to lose some.

Accepting funding from an outside party reduces the risk of making nothing, but eliminates the big payoff. Most serious law firms wouldn't take that deal.

Was the firm in this case very small? That's the only way this rumor would make sense. Even then, why wouldn't Thiel just point the Hulkster to a big law firm that could handle the case without help?
Lego is likely one of the few companies with sufficient clout and experience to actually work with Disney on videogames. Not only does Lego possess a valuable product that other companies can use as promotion material, but they also possess the experience of developing videogames which use other companies' IP (or at least, the experience to mediate between whatever company they contract to develop the game and the company possessing the IP).
The problem with the argument that uneconomic factors have improved is not just that these are hard to measure but that a lot of folks have an interest in fudging the measurements.

Inflation adjusted wages have been quite stagnant while measures of inflation are rather dubious to say the least.
My old car is indeed a bit more reliable than my previous old car but both were reliable - I can't see that compensating for more or less everything costing more relative my relatively fixed income.
Free email productivity extension for Gmail
As a fairly classic liberal who would prefer more gun control (though not outright banning) but doesn't think alcohol should be banned, here's my rationale: I'm interested in outcomes more than principles. Like TheCoelacanth said, banning alcohol worked out terribly in practice. But based on the example posed by Europe, stricter gun control could have a positive effect on America.
Kindles where you can read comics, this is something I've wanted for a while.
> This is another one of those situations you can excuse away through specific context (Valleywag did plenty of crappy things)

No, that is the broader context. Gawker being allowed to flagrantly abuse their first amendment rights to invade privacy for clicks is the broader context. They're the ones setting the precedent. If you truly care about the free exchange of ideas then you know that Gawker is the enemy. Someone had to stop them. The longer the system let them run amok violating every journalistic standard that ever existed, the worse the correction was going to be in the end. Precedent-wise, it could have been far, far worse.
Thanks for sharing that project. I've implemented similar things, and I have to say, this seems to be very thoughtfully implemented.
Is this going to be the fate of every worker protection law?

Isn't this what the "gig" economy is leading us to? Uber is very similar: you aren't an employee, so no Social Security, no workman's comp, none of the hard-fought labor gains of the 20th century.
A combination of any of these 1500

https://patents.google.com/?assignee=E-Ink+Corporation&sort=new

This is the first one that comes up mentioning "color":

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160116816A1
You can hold ETH in a Coinbase exchange account today. Support in their consumer wallet is coming in the next few months.
It's more like "Flappy Mario", but I guess inputting the appropriate pixels for the bird sprite would take long... the pipes, however, are perfect.

Still, it's amazing. Ridiculously impractical like those who build ship models in bottles, but awesome nonetheless. Hopefully it'll also be inspirational starting-off point for those wanting to learn more about how computers work. I know many who started down the road to CS with this sort of "game hacking".

Relatedly, I also know of an instructor who does something somewhat similar for the first class of his "intro to computing" course: he takes out a little 8-bit computer mounted on a breadboard with a few LEDs and pushbuttons, and enters a few dozen machine instructions bit-by-bit, writing a short program that causes the LEDs to flash in various patterns selected by the buttons. As part of that demo, he also writes and runs a "Hello World" binary in Windows Notepad --- entering each byte as ASCII characters. He says it's these sorts of "unusual" demos that can most effectively get students' attention, and I agree.
Japan does have a labor surplus. That's why they have so many public sector make-work jobs doing things that could be automated or performed with fewer people.
So instead of hacking a bank in Bangladesh, he makes Flappy Bird on SNES
It looks like it's not compromising functionality by the optimisations though. I really like how the swimming physics and animations are used to replicate the Bird's movements and mechanics.
They wanted to charge GST last time in Australia too, if you chose expedited shipping, even though the individual unit cost was well under our $1k limit. Reason was that the bulk of the lot was shipped to Australia, leaving it to Australia Post to organise delivery to individual backers.

It was a bit of a farce, they should just have shipped directly from HK or wherever; I sorted myself out by reverting to standard postage.
He obviously has a personal vendetta against gawker. And hey, fair enough. They weren't exactly nice to him.

But then, tabloids aren't very nice to Hollywood celebrities either. Yet celebrities in Hollywood tolerate their detractors far more than Thiel even has to tolerate his.
100M? Of course you'd scale an RDBMS for that, especially if you want searchability and analytics. It's way easier than a Hadoop -> Elasticsearch pipeline (or pick your flavor).

NoSQL databases are for BIG data. As in, billions of rows big.
Actually yes, a single key-value database could handle all of their load with better functionality. Make that 2 nodes and you have HA and redundancy.

Problem solved.
totally agree with that. 100M rows doesn't make any sense.
The OCI Runtime spec is still a work in progress. Docker and HyperV are implementing parts of the current pre-release versions of the OCI Runtime spec.

You can use OCI Runtime bundles with rkt if you use the oci2aci[1] tool and rkt will be a full OCI runtime once the OCI Runtime and Image spec mature. We can use help to get these OCI projects[2][3] to v1.0 if you can spare cycles!

[1] https://github.com/huawei-openlab/oci2aci

[2] https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec

[3] https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec
Yep, that's it. Different platforms need slightly different assembly and, although I wouldn't choose Perl for it, it's not fundamentally that different from any other text-to-text transform.

Handwritten asm still outperforms compiler output by enough to warrant its use in hot functions like AES-GCM.

(NaCl also uses a text-to-text transform system to output asm, although it's written in C and does register allocation too. The important aspect of NaCl is djb & friend's attention to quality.)
Automation can automate manual labor jobs the easiest. Maintaining cities, crafting medicine, colonizing space -- these are important jobs that humanity has.

I think the bigger issue is that most people don't have resources to pursue training to tackle this kind of work.

There are so many problems left to solve in the world it's a joke to say "there isn't work to be done"
> That boolean expression is not a proposition about the program -- that is correct -- but the distinction may be artificial.

A Java `boolean` expression isn't a proposition about anything. A proposition might be, say, the assertion that the expression always evaluates to `true`, but this is inexpressible in Java itself.

> You may be used to languages where there's a clear distinction between program properties and program code, but if you think about it, that distinction is artificial.

The distinction I made wasn't between program properties and program code, and in certain programming languages (say, Agda), propositions themselves can be normal code. But Java doesn't have propositions at all, so if you need to express propositions, you'll have to use an external logic.

> For me, a proposition about code is a set of TMs with a property (in particular, safety properties are a closed set of TMs, and liveness properties are dense etc. etc.).

This is just wrong, and it has nothing to do with types. Even a set theorist would disagree with you. A proposition is not a set in any conceivable setting.

> Its truth value is whether your program is in this set or not. To be more precise, a proposition to me is a sentence in any logic denoting that set.

The denotation of a proposition is always a truth value.

> Does the proposition "the program returns a list containing exactly the same elements in its input, each appearing the same number of times, only in sorted order" has a runtime computational relevance or not?

It does not. It's simply a fact about your program. Your program can't branch on it.

> TLA+ is not an external program logic, but a complete logic

It's external because it's not a part of Java or whatever other language you're using to write your actual program. And nothing prevents an external logic from being “complete” or whatever other desirable property you want - in fact, the very reason for using external program logics is to avoid the limitations of the language your program is written in!
its always refreshing to see incremental improvements in technology unfolding before me.
If it's like the video linked above (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2V9iuTW3sA) it doesn't go straight from Y to C; the "pixel" has to cycle through all the other colours in between.
Hey, now hold on a minute. Are you people telling me that there are languages people actually use other than C !?
Have details on this? My understanding is that Japan's unemployment rate is between 3.3 and 3.5 percent.
Western Australia's Rocket Woman
Yes, a single instance would more than handle all of their load. 2 for HA/redundancy and they're all set. Setup some more pairs elsewhere else with active/active replication.

This is basically them failing to do enough research into existing solutions that would work far better.