skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I was objecting to was the idea that the government should dictate what you do with your own "property" based on what the majority of your neighbors want.

Zoning laws and city planning is not exactly the same as what is being implied by the comment I specifically responded to.

I also was not intending to conflate religious persecution, only provide an example of where the opinion of the majority breaks down. In reference to the Federalist Papers, I meant to imply that it was my belief that these mob rule tendencies was why the Constitution specifically doesn't structure the U.S. as a Direct Democracy. And discussions on how to combat these tendencies via education and related points are particularly insightful.

There is a fine line to walk with government regulation protecting greater social good (pollution laws, etc.) and the government restricting property rights as proxy for the desires of the many. If you buy a condo, I have not been convinced that you should not be able to rent it out short or long term. But I am definitely opposed to the idea that you be restricted from doing so because your neighbors don't want you to.
No. If your encryption is not busted then the entropy under /any/ model tends to perfect. If a model is able to predict with /any/ success then your crypto is probably broken.

So yes, it is random, and 100 X's could appear in a row. But if your model can effectively compress that, then the model has to be wasting space for all the other sequences.

Let's just imagine that you are doing some like basic run length coding (gif! Or jif if you're wrong :) )

So 100 x's turns into (100, x). So you've compressed that part of the stream. Unfortunately everything else is likely (1,a), etc so every other symbol/byte increases in size. If we look at the stream probabilities we get something like P(nX)=(P(X)^n) -- very rough I haven't been at uni for a long time :). You can do a bunch of reasonably simple math do verify it but you eventually end up with something that your average symbol size is sum{x in X}-log(P(x))/|X|.
Where X is your set of possible symbols (n,x:X).

For a given stream that is not encrypted you may save some space representing the input bytes, but each symbol (n,X) has at /least/ 1 extra bit of information. Overall you can save space.

But let's look at the encrypted data. Each input symbol is independent so your probability of any sequence in the input is equal. You will typically have a run length of 1 (P=0.5), 2 (P=0.5), ...

So 50% of your output symbols will have at least one extra bit of information /added/. This means your output by necessity is bigger than the input.

I used RLE as an example here, but it's true for all compression schemes. This is a necessary property for compression to work: for any data that compresses by n% under a given model there must be some input that increases in size by n% (or some such, again, long time since uni). I believe Wikipedia has an article on the pigeon hole problem or some such that probably explains this better than I can.
>Denver is currently trying to raise property taxes to subsidize builders and ease purchase pain of new homeowners who currently cannot afford to buy for example

Sadly there is nothing new in politicians coming to take away more of your money & rights
One problem is that it requires about 33% more glucose to match the sweetness of sucrose and 126% more glucose to match the sweetness of fructose. Glucose has a much higher effect on insulin levels and glycemic load which makes it a harder problem for diabetics.

Fructose, on the other hand, has all the issues described in the Dr. Lustig video linked in another reply.

I just avoid anything with a lot of any type of sugar (more than a few grams per serving) as much as I can.
It's working for me: MacBook with 10.11.5 and Safari 9.1.1.
I competed with Adora when I was running Exec. Under Adora, Homejoy had impressive execution on the early stage: they were very good at customer acquisition, hiring talented employees, and raising capital. All things that are important in the early stage startups.

Homejoy had missteps after that initial period. But sometimes you learn as much or more from failure as you do from success.
You aren't performing your test properly. Encryption doesn't output random text, it outputs bytes of data (0-255). It should be obvious that compressing text is possible.

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test bs=1k count=10

$ cat test | gzip -9 > test.gz

$ cat test | bzip2 -9 > test.bz2

$ ls -al test*

-rw-r--r-- 1 r1ch r1ch 10240 Jun 28 16:30 test

-rw-r--r-- 1 r1ch r1ch 10739 Jun 28 16:31 test.bz2

-rw-r--r-- 1 r1ch r1ch 10263 Jun 28 16:31 test.gz

Random data is not compressible.

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1k count=10

$ openssl enc -in test -aes-256-ctr -out test.encrypted

$ cat test.encrypted | gzip -9 > test.encrypted.gz

$ cat test.encrypted | bzip2 -9 > test.encrypted.bz2

$ ls -al test*

-rw-r--r-- 1 r1ch r1ch 10240 Jun 28 16:32 test

-rw-r--r-- 1 r1ch r1ch 10256 Jun 28 16:33
test.encrypted

-rw-r--r-- 1 r1ch r1ch 10737 Jun 28 16:34
test.encrypted.bz2

-rw-r--r-- 1 r1ch r1ch 10279 Jun 28 16:33
test.encrypted.gz

Encrypted zeroes are not compressible.
I picked up on the reference to Stockfighter, but does anyone know if the walking machine learning game mentioned at the end of the article exists? Sounds like a fun game.
Building a big health tech company
Holy crap.

This article made me realize that I don't remember hardly anything of the time I spent working at one of my startup jobs. Bits and pieces of specific events stand out, but not a lot. The last six months I was working there I worked at least 60 hours a week, and it crept up to 80 hours a few times. The hours let up after I was hospitalized for a day because of all the stress. I didn't do much else besides sleep and go to work. Maybe that's why, it just blended together.

And I have a crappy memory in general, so I don't know how much of it is because of that. Anything more than a few years ago is kind of hazy.

But still, it's almost like that year and some change might as well have not existed, other than to put a few lines on my resume. But there are much easier ways to do that.
The internet is rampant with people who casually mention the DK effect in comments and posts and articles while not understanding fully what it is about.

Sort of a meta-DK effect with regard to people's understanding of how DK really works, as it were.
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I think that most political issues (as well as personal ones) are matters of opinion anyway, not lending themselves well to mathematical quantification.
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That's a good point about not carrying cruft forward. I've often seen on projects where there's crazy methods like sendEmailOn3rdBirthdayAfterFullMoon as someone somewhere needed it for a single project but who knows if it is still in use.
Don't be so nosy.
Are there other businesses providing something similar? We have several customers looking to solve their data distribution problems in a similar way.
Why not teach your kids to use technology responsibly and discuss with them instead? I don't think monitoring everything they do fosters a healthy environment.

Worked great for my parents and it works great for me.
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There are DOS and Trojan attacks against decompression libraries. You definitely want to verify a signature before extracting the archive, but even a 2 pass verification process can leave you with a payload that expands to a terabyte. If your hash algorithm is running at 50MB/s that can take a while.
I think that any prosperous city will end up with some level of sprawl as people who prefer more space or businesses that need more space move to the area. Part of the goal will be to make sure that doesn't force the city center into becoming like every other with poor walking access.
They simply cannot afford a $350 computer each year if they cannot afford a $1,200 computer after {3 + n} years. Period. Full stop. There is no way they can spend more money but be incapable of spending less money if they're able to spend that money at all. That isn't how money works. If you don't have enough to spend less - you simply cannot afford to spend more than that. If they can (barely) afford a $350 machine each year, they aren't the level of poor you're trying to talk about. You're talking about people who can't even afford the $350 machine.

We aren't talking about how someone with more money initially has the privilege of spending less money over time (eg: the "better boots" scenario)

Getting a better job did speed things up a year but wasn't necessary. Which doesn't go back to your original point, at all. I had no problem with waiting five years for a decent computer if that had to be the case.
Once upon a time I was at a talk given by a visiting professor (associated, I think, with the Horus project[1]; I'm reasonably sure some of you would recognize the name if I could remember it) on designing network protocols using plug-n-play software components. The illustrations he showed used Lego bricks.

His big example was a Lego brick labelled "Compression" and another brick labelled "Encryption", and how you could arbitrarily compose them to achieve different protocols.

Meanwhile, I was sitting at the back of the room wearing my "I'm not a security guy, but this is garbage" look.

[1] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/projects/horus/main.html
In the 'new system', the government gives basic income to labor, which pays taxes back to the government. It's probably likely that more goes out via basic income than comes in via income taxes, so one has to wonder: do income taxes really make sense in this model?
Also, saturated fat and cholesterol are no longer risk factors for CVD and fatty liver disease, so he will free you to eat an egg based diet!
If you're a .NET programmer, we've been doing that kind of stuff with LINQ for years; it's all over the place.

The only patterns that I still like to keep as old-style loops are constructs that ReSharper transforms into hairy-looking Aggregate() expressions
Why don't more people rail against rent control like they do airbnb?

How many people live in rent controlled units in SF?
If brexit is halted the leave camp will not take it lying down - and those with brains and money and means aren't going to stick around to see if it all pans out OK. Young brits, particularly Londoners, are very mobile, and generally willing to emigrate.

Additionally, even if they call the whole thing off, the already present uncertainty has dented the next decade or more for the UK economically, diminishing the prospects of the young and/or bright.

I feel for many of the leave voters, as they voted for an illusion they either lacked the faculties or tools to see past. Many are hateful, but many were duped - but nobody likes to admit that they were duped, so they'll either duck and hide, or become hateful in response to the unambiguous hate coming from the very betrayed feeling remainers.

It's an awful bind, and it's one that's played out before, very poorly.
While you're there:

"fatal flaw which would plauge" -> plague

Great article!
Even this is outdated and backwards. By the time it would ever become a reality the "Government" portion of this system will have already been replaced with "Tech". We are already at a place where software could successfully manage many of the functions of government. We simply haven't found a nation to prototype it, yet.

But I think the test case would be less the UK and more Venezuela
fantastic post!
once again this is ideology over reality. Yes, at one level there definitely is factual that the top hunters can supply the rest of the tribe with all necessary resources. The problem is one of motivation... Why should they?

It is the most basic of driving forces behind trade at the conceptual level, and society itself at its most fundamental and basic. IF your world view cannot handle this most basic of questions, it is just ideology and not even a sensible one at that.
> It would kill entire cities in many places of the world. For example, Wolfsburg, the VW headquarter city has a population of ~100 000, the factory alone employs 57,000 people, ignoring administration and managment for VW in Wolfsburg.

Shutting down a company doesn't mean you destroy all of its assets. Factories or entire divisions could continue to run under new ownership. Just treat it as a Chapter 7 bankruptcy where the company owes the government more than the total of its assets.

> The shareholders would still be richer and don't have to fear punishment

Shareholders would lose out to the maximum extent allowed without piercing the corporate veil since their ownership stake in VW would become worthless.

> Also, what you are ignoring is that the US can't just come along and close a transnational or foreign company.

No, but they could close down the US subsidiary (Volkswagen Group of America) and take all assets that are in the US.

> Also, what about subsidaries? Does condé nast get closed if reddit violates the law? Does GM get closed if Opel cheats?

Easy, just sell them for whatever you can get for them.
Yikes! Maybe it's time I switch to using fresh tomatoes when making red sauce. It's not that hard to skin tomatoes anyways so maybe it makes sense to go in that direction, especially when they're adding that much sugar.
This is great. Just what I need. My non technical co founder and I are starting a company and I want to make it a real company before we start meeting 3 days a week.
Yes, I have experienced this several times before.

You can check my comments on this recent thread for a somewhat more detailed account of my observations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984673
> A encrypted file can very well have something like 100 X's in a row

Any decent encryption algorithm has output indistinguishable from random noise; the odds of 100 Xes in a row in random data is 1:2^800; there are only 10^80 particles in the universe (2^266), which is 534 base-2 orders of magnitude smaller than 2^800. Yes, every particle in the universe could be a universe of fundamental particles and you'd still never see 100 Xs in a row in a decently-encrypted message.
It sounds like they might prefer F# over C#. Also, if they're not willing to pull in the JVM, it seems unlikely they'd be happy about pulling in the CLR.
True, they did not lose the will to win as they were simply defeated by an organized force. I believe the Germans were involved in more than just fighting underground resistance in multiple countries. Such resistance alone did not defeat the Germans, but did assist with the final outcome.
Stratechery has many insightful posts but I don't think this one is accurate.

The author writes that the new order will be made up of government, tech and individuals. "Corporations" are intentionally absent from the new order. But people will still need to form organisations to achieve collective goals, which will need legal documents stating their purpose and governance, i.e. "corporations". Corporations will still have to be funded by either selling goods and services, donations, or state funding, ie be for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental.

I don't think the gig economy is a replacement. Unless AI gets much, much better than the state-of-the-art, I don't see skilled professionals or managers being replaced any time soon. All this automation/AI/DAO hype assumes that AI is much more capable than it really is and that most jobs are much simpler than they really are. For a concrete example, visit a large and busy McDonalds and notice how much work the shift managers have to do to deal with surprise situations and blockages (there's a rulebook they follow, but it's nontrivial to apply to reality). That's just one job which couldn't be handled by a deep learning algo. And McDonalds is a well-oiled machine, most businesses are much more error-prone and inefficient.
Here it is encrypted with AES256 - Pass is wasteoftime

http://pasted.co/wasteoftime.txt 4,732 bytes

http://pasted.co/wasteoftime.rar 3,753 bytes

Also, if there is issues with using the 'wrong' encryption, I feel thats kind of a straw man argument. Please feel free to upload a file over 5MB which cant be reduced in size through any of the various compression tools.

Also, keep in mind that I never said it would be a huge benefit at all- I only said that SOME compression was possible SOME of the time.
What values are we talking about, though? "Immigration" isn't an unalienable right, though might be a core value of the U.S. (being a nation of immigrants, after all).

But at the end of the day, the President's job is to protect the American people first and foremost.* Visitors and immigrants get protection under law, but, not at the expense of the American people. Safety, economic prosperity, and job security might fall into that category. On that reasonable minds can debate.

I think there's a lot of nationalism vs. pluralism going on right now. Brexit is one example; U.S. immigration and foreign policy is another.

(* It's actually not. It's to "defend and uphold the Constitution". Which does speak to citizens vs. non-citizens. But President Obama and others say things like, "I have no greater responsibility than protecting the American people." So anyway: nuance.)
Suburban Walmarts are typically cheap buildings on cheap pieces of land. Simple [though quality] standardized construction, large open spaces, minimal finishes and specialty contractors keep construction costs low. The ability to create a destination on land of its choosing keeps land costs low: a Walmart is desirable to real-estate developers because it creates value in the surrounding parcels and Walmart is in a strong negotiating position because there is little demand for the parcels that it can utilize. Not to mention, scale lets Walmart employ a lot of professional expertise.

The primary market for abandoned Walmart sites is Walmart', a company like Walmart seeking to compete with it directly. Walmart improves its short and long term prospect by preventing Walmart' from acquiring its former sites cheaply. That's the way real-estate works. Control of a site is a localized but complete monopoly.
> Any search engine will return enough results for you to decide whether you should trust Telegram or not.

I think this is a fallacy: if you live your life by "nothing but the safest option" rule you are missing out in a number of ways.

I do not use chat programs for anything that is likely to cause me serious trouble, only for sharing photos with my family, chat with my wife etc.

Telegram is more open source than Whatsapp, isn't owned by Facebook, delivers features faster, has a better desktop client, has a an api and encourages useful bots.

I do use serious crypto when I need it. Where I live I luckily don't need it for photos shared with my family.
They do, because successful individuals in this future have very high incomes.
Despite the apparent lack of popularity, Groovy with the Grails framework is certainly better suited for web development than many (I would dare to say, most) of the programming languages listed above.
Of course, it also matters what kind of web development we are talking about. Is it web services or web applications? I think the requirements are quite different between the two.
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No, the rule is: never compress something secret together with something potentially attacker-influenced, at least if the length of the compressed data leaks.
As a practicing physicist, I found it illuminating and non-trivially useful to know this when it was first introduced to me years ago. This is true even though I will never use in a paper, and even if I only rarely write it in my notes. In my head, 2\pi is a single character, to the point that I often write \frac{1}{2} 2\pi.
If my company won't be making money or revenue for quite some time, what does that mean for me in terms of the IRS? Will we get penalized for NOT having revenue?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_decay
Can I assume this was meant to show my own location?

If so, I can assure you I'm not in India, Pakistan or Oman (or the middle of the Indian Ocean) as it suggested.
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"Supranational corporations have neatly sidestepped taxes, so UBI is unaffordable"

That's not necessarily true and depends of your conception of money. States with their own currency are not the consumers of money but the source of money.

I know that it's a strange idea but it's how it really works. The reason we don't heard a lot about that, it's because then, the things that you are describing become possible and people could start asking for them.

http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2014/06/24/modern-money-t...
There's lots of smart leave voters though. Leavers defy pigeon holing, my best effort counts 4 distinct leaver types and there's probably more.

It's a disservice to lump them all in the pitiful camp.
HN has a global audience. Might be worth noting that this advice is aimed at Americans. This could be very bad advice for non-Americans.

I'm a lawyer who deals with startups in Toronto. Quite a few people ask about how to set up a Delaware corporation because they've seen online that that's how you create a startup.
> I can't think of any code I've personally written in, say, the past five years which used tests or runtime type checks to try to catch type-related bugs.

All bugs are type-related, with a sufficiently advanced type system.
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The fructose-to-glucose ratio of a ripe tomato is about 1.25.

A few years ago, some studies came out finding that any fructose consumption may be harmful.
The area I'm in saw a big movement of young people into the downtown area. For the last decade the paper would have the occasional story about how the suburbs are done and millennials were moving to the city and were going to stay. Companies began moving to the city or close to public transport to be convenient to reach from the city, so they could attract employees. But guess what has happened in the last 3 years. Growth in the city has slowed and growth in suburbs has grown again. The first wave of the influx to the city have begun having kids and moving back to suburbs. So maybe the first group of planners isn't so wrong.
I would love If anyone extend this information for foreigners (in my case EU) wanting to open a US based company.
There is a terrible sci-fi film called Stealth that explores some of that.
Probably because it is basically an ad for a diet book...
Eggs don't kill humans, but they kill an ungodly amount of chickens: 8
Billion of them per year, roughly. http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/PoulSlauSu/Poul...
Was Go phased out leaving Elixir/Ruby, or was that at a different company?
I wonder if Putin looked up to Stalin
You're assuming I mean everyone gets the same amount of food, in other words forced equality of the results of a minority, and that's nothing but slavery under a different guise.

No, the idea is that everyone gets a livable wage as a base. You're guaranteed enough money to have a place to live, food to eat, and whatever else the given society thinks is required to "live." To get more than that, you're expected to contribute. The upper economic workers I mentioned would have the same lifestyle they have now, we'd still have the rich as well because they have earned it, even if all they did to earn it was being born in the right family, it's still theirs.

What I'm arguing for is not tearing down high earners, it's simply using our resources to uplift those who aren't high earners to a degree where they aren't starving in the street. People starving in the street are very expensive as it is, keeping them in a basic home with running water and food is far cheaper than having them continuously in and out of the ER's which they can't pay for, all for the weird and hand wavy idea of "motivating" people to not end up like them (which is surprisingly easy to do, by the way.)