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> Ethereum may attempt to move to proof of stake. [...] I believe this risk is manageable because there would be extensive testing beforehand.

This is a really big cop-out. I follow Ethereum pretty closely and I believe that the biggest threat to Ethereum's future is an attempt to move to proof-of-stake.

If you spend a bit of time in the ethereum community you'll find that everyone is very excited to reap the benefits for getting-in-early on ethereum, and they're very excited for the eventual switch to proof-of-stake so that they can collect money. Everyone who is invested in Ethereum is doing so in order to stake. This is terrible for the community, because who is ever going to get excited to invest in meme-powered internet money that they already missed the boat on?

What kind of testing is able to account for that kind of social effect? (Or maybe I'm just a stupid mathless Austrian.) Anyhow, that's just to talk about the social effects, and I think there are many technical problems with proof-of-stake beyond that... Let's not forget that there hasn't been a single successful PoS cryptosystem yet.

I also think that there are big problems looming within the EVM, and to give the article credit, that's mentioned and represented fairly in the article. (forward search for 'Bit-thereum' in OP)

I'm prepared to be wrong about Ethereum, even excited at the prospect. but if I was invested in a cryptocurrency it would be Bitcoin. I think that there are currency wars looming and I think Bitcoin stands to gain a lot from that. Bitcoin's big problems are overstated and will be solved in due time. It just needs to live past the death of Moore's law.
I am not an expert, but: This approach creates powerful embeddings for images. It can convert an image into embedding space and vice-versa, generate images back from embeddings. It is built to function like a perception and imagination module. The embeddings are much lower dimensional and the latent variables are disentangled. There is a component for "has glasses" which you can flip and get the same image + glasses, for example. It is obvious this would be very useful in building all sorts of classifiers, image generators and agents (because agents need to compute reward over state and action space and disentangled representations of the state space are good for this task).
Thanks! These are just outbound calls. I get the data from their billing system through their IT department, and I don't think they get charged for incoming.

I submitted two requests earlier to get that info and hopefully more. "Unduly burdensome" is a lame, so it has to be done in piecemeal. We'll see.
Little by little the argument that "taxation is theft" will come to sound like:

"But it's not fair to demand that the hard working robot owners pay more in taxes to help the people too lazy to own their own robots."
The book "Tales From Development Hell" has backstories on some interesting movies that never got made. It was fascinating to read about some of the complications that you'd never think about.
Get behind the $15 minimum wage.

Better yet, get behind eliminating minimum wage altogether. It's an unnecessary and immoral restriction on free and voluntary trade. If I want to offer up my time for $6.00 an hour, I have that right damnit. Especially if the alternative is doing nothing and netting $0.00 an hour.
> He first began buying the homes — two two-story houses and two single-story homes — in December 2012 after learning of a developer's plan to build a large house next door that would have a view of Zuckerberg's master bedroom.

> Trulia reported that Santa Clara County property records showed that one homeowner sold to Zuckerberg for $14 million. The home is just 2,600 square feet — half the size of Zuckerberg's residence — and valued at the time at $3.171 million.

Well... I now have a new startup idea.
Do we have code residencies like the artist residencies?
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I would love to see the dynamism that would spring from decoupling health insurance plans and employment.
Unfortunately it's not a Universal Basic Income at all.

UBI and related proposals like Negative Income Tax minimize economic distortion. As you make more money, there's a smooth transition from receiving money from the gov't to paying net money as your taxes increase.

When you're on disability, you are generally not allowed to work. Any "substantial gainful activity" beyond roughly $1k / month ends your benefits [1].

So you might have a choice between $13k/year working 0 hours a week, or he could make $15k/year working 40 hours a week doing something menial and unpleasant.

If you tried to design a system to incentivize the working poor to drop out and accept a lifetime of poverty and gov't dependence, it's hard to see how you could do more. The fact that the program also incentivizes states to convert welfare recipients into disability is just icing.

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I think America needs sweeping entitlement reform. Not "entitlement reform" in the euphemistic Republican sense of cutting benefits, but reform done with empathy for the poor and guided by competent economists. IMO the goals should be to simplify and combine the many ways we have of giving money to poor people, and to reduce the perverse incentives that those programs create.
I largely agree with your points. I was making the point that "polite intelligent society" does not.

On debt, you really should read Keen. He has the only predictive economic model I've seen that actually works, and debt is the crucial factor.
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try to go on the #redis freenode channel and ask antirez about it.
Etherium is not this

That claim needs backing up. From what I can tell Ethereum also uses game theory and cryptography to ensure that no one entity can control the network.
"Taxation is theft" is true regardless of whether robots are employed or not. The fundamental issue is, simply, that it involves the use of force (or threat of use of force). As long as men with guns will come and arrest you if you don't "pay your taxes" then it is theft. No rhetorical flourishes or byzantine logic can alter that.
I've always said, hosting Git repos will turn into a commodity product and I think that's what we are seeing. The logical evolution will be to provide services/features that compliments Git hosting, which cannot be easily replicated.
Who the fuck cares?
i never defined journalism as something i agree with. not here or anywhere else.
I've read Gordon and am planning a review (I've published a "first impressions" at https://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius). Some (brief?) thoughts:

1. His history of change 1870 - 2015 is good. Some weaknesses, but solid, and he makes his case for dramatic changes. A mention of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs would improve the discussion, but his point even without stating that is of drastic changes (and improvements) to basic food, shelter, clothing, and security needs.

2. He misses some infrastructure with his focus on consumer impacts. Less so with early work than in his discussion of information and communications infrastructure, in which I think there might be some weaknesses to his argument (and a possible out for the optimists).

3. You'll find the meat of his theory in the third section of the book. Chapters 15-17 IIRC. Focus your critical eye there.

I've got many quibbles with his economics arguments, though most of the errors actually bolster his overall argument -- I feel actual recent trends are worse than Gordon states.

Steinbeck's Grapes is a true classic. Reading that as a story of an epic animal migration (as Steinbeck begins it) is humbling.
>How many Americans could really cover a cross country move out of their own savings in search of work?

I've done this, twice. But only because I really needed a job. Now that we're settled, it won't happen again so easily. One time I did it with a job already locked-in. Second time for my wife with no job locked in but it did work out well.

Once we're settled in our locale, it will take a great deal to get us to move again. Someone would have to be offered a lot of money and the other person have some sort of opportunity available. Eg. my wife is a teacher, we'd need it to be a state where they had reciprocity.

The fact that we need to move like cattle and have such lax labor laws to be let go with no cause are not really conducive to each other. Like what happened to your friend. Hard to imagine they truly couldn't find her some other job to do within the company when they "shifted priorities".

I say this as someone who is never a victim of circumstance, we are those who within reason, move or do whatever it takes to get ahead. So we moved but we've both also given up all our friends, family and the comfort those bring. But it remains that American work culture and labor laws are completely upside down and they need to change.
I nave ben wanting exactly this for years. Allow me to push my daughter's pics to her grandma's always on epaper frame and I'm ordering one right now.
I have been wanting exactly this for years. Allow me to push my daughter's pics to her grandma's always on epaper frame and I'm ordering one right now.
Sort of. It's a way to emulate a simple subset of pattern matching in languages that lack it.
GUID and UUID refer to different things in general.
Also, depending on the context, they can be longer than 128-bits.
Oracle Coherence API defines 256-bit UUIDs for example (which is clearly not RFC 4122 or Microsoft GUID, but it still is an identifying number which can statistically be called unique, which a UUID is).

As long as it meets the statistical properties for collision, I don't see any problems with making a 50-bytes GUID. The essential thing is the statistical property, not the number of bits.
I agree but you wouldn't get that far to see. You'd just hear absolute brain-piercing screams about 'socialism' until that plan was stopped.
I've not yet used any of these, but I think InfluxDB stores discrete events. In fact, your description sounds very similar to this comparison of Prometheus and InfluxDB[0]:

> InfluxDB is better geared towards the following use cases: Storing all individual events, not just time series of values. E.g. storing every HTTP request with full metadata vs. storing the cumulative count of HTTP requests for certain dimensions.

[0] https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/#promethe...
You do not have an option to host anything larger then 6TB on RDS. I guess what we are trying to figure out is if there is a need for service for people who have needs beyond those RDS is addressing.
> If you can't even 2x your income by moving somewhere, then there isn't much point.

why is that? wouldn't seeing another part of the country/world be nice?
Thanx for this reply! On the contrary I will not discount your take on the issue of course, it's the most valuable one here.

You paint a grim and convincing picture.

But what do you think is the best way forward? As it is here people are talking about Russia like the people are Putin, it's unbelievably stupid. The Boycotts punish the people more than the leadership and I feel they only cause an even bigger rift in the Russia/Western relation. That should not be our goal! What, in your opinion, should the west do to prevent war, enable free trade and the exchange of ideas and ideologies?
I am considering moving to Canada from Silicon Valley, any suggestions?
2011: http://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/

There's probably newer research out there too.
i mean, there is indeed a trend in the news industry today to exploit tragedies for ad money. im not ok with that either. but obviously gawker took exploitation to an entirely other level which is the source of my outrage.
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What do you mean by "uncanny valley language?" Is it too close to natural language, but not close enough or what?
This was my first reaction. Why does a contract language need to be Turing Complete? Trustless contracts + Turing tarpits seems like a big turn off to me.
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It's amazing that Docker has not been cited in the comments so far. LXC, jails, zones, etc were around for some time. What changed things imo was the incredible simplicity of the Dockerfile and the tooling around it. Re-watch the first public demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9CAH9nSLs
This seems too creepy to be true.
So in summary, there are two layers. Top has white and magenta, bottom has cyan and yellow.

The magenta particles let light through, the others do not.

The top layer can put white on top to make white.

The top layer can pull all the particles to the side to be completely clear. This allows yellow/cyan/green depending on the state of the bottom layer.

The top layer can put magenta on top and white on bottom to make magenta.

The top layer can put magenta on top and pull white to the side to be clear magenta. This allows red/blue/black respectively, when the bottom layer is yellow/cyan/green.

Edit: But the initial article specifically says "The display utilizes a single layer of electrophoretic fluid" so it sounds like it's using a different tech.
I thought this article would be about the true MySQL NoSQL system: MySQL Cluster (or NDB). It scales to 200m transactional reads per second - per second!
http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/5/18/how-mysql-is-able-...
We have got 16m read/sec on our commodity rack with MySQl Cluster, so it's not a fantasy result.
Thanks for the info, and hope it results in the full record being put out, although even going through the process and being able to document its failures is a big win for the civic sphere. And it seems Mayor Emanuel (from an outsider's perspective) is at a relatively high point of punch-bagginess after the alleged coverup of the Laquan McDonald shooting.

I was curious to see if your request (or anything to do with phone calls) was in the published FOIA log [0] by the mayor's office...maybe it is/isn't (I don't know who you are)...but it seems that they've been slow to update the log, with no new records since August 2015. Other FOIA logs, such as the 311 requests [1] (though not the police), seem to still be updated.

[0] https://data.cityofchicago.org/FOIA/FOIA-Request-Log-Office-...

[1] https://data.cityofchicago.org/FOIA/FOIA-Request-Log-311/j2p...
Nothing about the merkle tree that blockchains are built on prevents you from truncating the chain in certain circumstances. The truncated piece can still be verified against an un-truncated chain for auditing purposes. So it would be possible for a smaller section of the network to keep the full chain while a larger segment of the network can keep truncated chains of a smaller size.

You can configure the allowable size as well so any particular node on the network can decide how much of the chain they prefer to keep around.
My explanation that doesn't cover all the use cases:
How do you authorize/prove ownership in a digital domain: Public-key Cryptography.
How do you order entries in a public, permissionless database: By forcing computers to expend an unforgeable amount of work to timestamps entries.
And the institution of private property doesn't use force or the threat of force? Property allows you to exclude, by force, others from use of a resource. Some organization grants a monopoly to some other organization or individual, and uses force, propaganda and intimidation to keep things that way. Whether it's "intellectual property" or owning huge swaths of land or whatever.

Every system uses force or the threat of force, to enforce the rules. A co-op or mall charging rent is not much different than a city or state charging taxes. "Men with guns" will come evict you if you don't pay your rent. But in the majority of cases what usually happens is that your taxes get withheld by the employer from your wages and no guns are involved.
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Agreed. This article projects no actual Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, so it's not FUD.
That is what rkt with kvm is essentially doing as well, correct?

https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/running-lkvm-stage1.html
But at some point Chinese probably was.
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Wow! —that was vacuous!
This[1] was mentioned in its other thread. Not related to programming but the amount of thought process went into it is just amazing.

[1] "SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated)" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
I'm going to add a few more that I use:

- Compass - for compass and the ultra-cool switching between normal and "in-flight HUD" display depending on your wrist orientation.

- GPS Bookmark - lets you bookmark the location you're standing in right now, and later display the direction and the distance to that location. It uses the compass on your watch and your phone's GPS. It works on GPS coordinates, so it doesn't require you to have any Internet connection. I found it extremely useful when I was in Shenzhen, China - I bookmarked my hotel and work, and used the third bookmark slot (you have one slot per button) to record temporary locations like the metro station I just got off from. It was really invaluable for finding my way back from wherever I ended up going.

- PebbleTasker - like the name suggests, it lets you call Tasker tasks to Pebble. I.e. you can make Pebble buttons do pretty much anything on your phone, without having to write an app yourself. You can bind some to each button, and then also use a list menu for more. The bindings can also be dynamically configurable from within Tasker, if you feel like making e.g. location-aware actions on your watch, or something.

- AutoPebble from AutoApps plugins for Tasker - something similar to PebbleTasker, but more advanced - you can dynamically configure the contents and behaviour of the watchapp from Tasker. A bit more difficult to set up, but also much more powerful. It's probably the best option if you want to have whatever the data you want on your watch, and in the way you want it.
Latency will be higher. We are considering if we do go forward:
a) Partnerships with smaller providers where there is an option to colocate equipment
b) Colocating as close to as possible to targeted providers.

The main thing we are trying to figure out - if there is a need for service that has significantly higher tears then what Azure, AWS offers.
I agree, but I don't think that is a good reason not to share that information.
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Seems like his goal is regenerating the training set (with lossy recall) rather than predicting never before seen frames. When I hear old songs I haven't listened to in years I can still remember the next line, just based on the previous line. That's a lot of data that's being encoded somehow in my brain.
I think the only Blekko team member stupid enough to still be interested in building a search engine is me, building search for the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. And we have a business plan, we're a charity! :-)
My recollection is that it was included, but then traded to the relevant industries for their acceptance of the plan we have now. Whether it was always intended as a chip or was a serious part of the plan is open for debate I suppose, but the best chips are ones that are serious, so I'm not sure there's much difference in practice.
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Is this essentially just the book [1], by way of two reformattings [2][3], with some links added?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Programming

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/19981202010115/http://misspiggy.g...

[3] http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
But what if we could lift 100's of millions more if the american upper class contributed more. It's not that the task isn't worth doing but if that is the point, we should all be choosing to do it together.
Elon said (at the MIT lecture) that reducing launch costs by 99% was what was needed to colonize Mars with humans, so that's the goal. I have no idea what you think their goal is, but it doesn't appear to be the same.
Funny, I recall that I had a Game Genie [1] code which had exactly the same effect!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie
That this website exists probably says enough. I've never heard anyone ask questions about smileys like MSN or Skype had/have, just those "emoji"s are often ambiguous and usually too small to see properly from a distance.
There are 2 legal systems in Europe (and the world).

1) "US-style" English Common Law, applies in Great Britain (and former British Empire worldwide, like Australia, Canada, Kenia, ...). Biggest distinguishing features : right to a jury trial, precendents carry legal weight (judges have to follow earlier judgements when possible), opposing experts, ...

2) "French (Revolution) Law", sometimes named after Napoleon, applies essentially everywhere else. No right to jury trials (some courts have jury trials, most don't), precendents can be cited but carry no legal weight, experts are chosen by the court, ...

There are of course important legal differences outside of these high level differences.
Also a pragmatist, as although I tend to bash on C on every occasion and would rather not use it, if a customer does require it, I will use it.

For me a kind of escape path from C, back when I was into Turbo Pascal, was to move to Turbo C++. I only got to use Turbo C around one year before getting to learn about this new cool language called C++.

It allowed me to keep some of the Turbo Pascal safety around.

What are your approaches when using plain C, coming from "so I do have a fondness for the Pascal family of languages. I also love type-safety" ?

My solutions were:

- Use translation units as TP units, only exposing functions and struct accessors (macros if function calls were too expensive)

- Always make use of debug functions to validate pointers in debug builds (e.g. _malloc_dbg, _CrtIsValidPointer on Windows)

- make use of const as much as possible

- write my own wrappers around strncpy and friends

- compile warnings as errors

- if given the option, just use C++ instead and prefer library types to inherited C ones (string, array, references, RAII).
> and monoamine transporters for stimulants like MDMA and cocaine and so on, as well as a few others.

A very useful monoamine drug is available at most aquarium stores.

I wonder if they will try to outlaw 'getting high with restaurant supplies' [1].

[1] http://www.howdoigethigh.com
>a feminized culture allergic to most forms of violence

Since when is Hillary Clinton allergic to most forms of violence? She supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003 for example. Angela Merkel in Germany leads a party that wants the German military to wage more wars overseas. And the leaders of the right-wing parties AfD (Germany) and Front National (France) are Frauke Petry and Marine LePen, respectively. Two women.

>no one talks about the “Bernie sisters,”

Which doesn't mean they don't exist.

>What percentage of men are brutes anyway? Let’s hope we don’t find out.

I disagree. I want to find out, because facts are always better than prejudices.

Also what's with the gender essentialism ("feminized culture")?
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Or we could simply make it easier for people to actually prosper, by clawing back the world and it's economy from the one percent, and men wouldn't have nearly as much going wrong in their lives, and they wouldn't miss the 'good old days'.

Their reaction is to the state of their whole world, not just some mild social disenfranchisement. Given, there are many people who don't actually realize this.