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The question is, is it feasible to build enough supply for this to happen?

I mean, if SF ever hit "affordable" on a median family income, the population would probably be tens of millions.

Keep in mind that tearing down old housing and building new is not very cost efficient: you are paying for land, and the old structure (which you are tearing down), and the demo of the old structure. I live in LA, and my structure, which was built in the 70s, is still valued at more than the land it's built on.
There's an interesting calculus potentially at play: there can be a sincere intent that the offer be accepted, but the offer might have never been made were it not for the positive side-effects that mitigate the downside.
what country do you live in? I'm your same height and I don't really have these issues.
True. But probably hard to determine.
I mean, you could always point them to RFC 4180.
I think this is kind of a big question, isn't it? You're in effect asking why people would write LL parsers versus LR.

The short answer might be that LL is simpler, and that handwritten recursive descent might be faster (especially if lexing and later stages are directly integrated into the parser) than tooled LALR parsers. LR is more expressive and can directly handle more grammars?
This bug about plugins capturing keys has been alive for more than 15 years now

Please, let's have some consideration for the hard working folks there. They're barely scraping by. They only have a paltry $300 million or so per year to spend, and that just doesn't go very far these days.

http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almos...

http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/mozilla-takes-300m-gamb...

I'm omitting the /s tag at end. It's really a crying shame that nobody at Mozilla cares all that much, despite literally spending several billion dollars developing Firefox.
I think the best thing users could probably do is some sort of social media campaign to boycott firefox until this is fixed, or for someone to fork firefox with this fixed and to get users to swap over to that for a while.
Regularly changed salts?

If the reason for holding IPs is to be able to, say, mitigate network abuse, then a salt or other addition which is only available for a brief period would prevent being able to test a long-term datastore for a given IP.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11950730 and marked it off-topic.

Edit: Since people objected and it seems like a bad idea to argue about this, I've put it back.
My point is that in the world of quants, it's more like there is 10,000 paid experts who are not about to share anything and 100 amateurs.
I just don't understand who is going to not give at least the appropriate amount of notice unless something adverse happened. Why are you assuming the worst of the people you work with? What does that say about you?
I feel like the public has already implicitly chosen convenience over privacy and freedom.

IMO it is up to us techies to come up with a private and open system that offers the same conveniences without the privacy problems.

The perfect system to me would support:

- distributed (p2p) to avoid isolated silos and censorship

- Tor-style privacy

- encryption

- multi-user database support to allow dynamic sites (ie users have access to store their own posts/data on a site), not just static pages

- distributed torrent-style downloading and streaming of large files

- some kind of bitcoin payment system for people mirroring sites?

Zeronet combined with Tor is very interesting to me, although currently it doesn't support large file chunking or payment-for-storage.

IPFS is good but doesn't have the privacy or multi-user database support.
Do the regulations really work anyway, in this world of Walmart and Alibaba?
I just hope these companies are not locked into Slack, but rather, embracing text interfaces more broadly. It's great to implement new UIs for your product if it means better engagement or conversion. Some of these integrations might actually see some heavy use.

I do hope the Slack terms of service are not onerous.
But where does Amazon's primary revenue stream actually come from? That's right, it's AWS.

Looking at Amazon's Q1 2016 Financial Results [0], page 8, we see that net sales of non-AWS amounts to ~$26B, and AWS is ~$2.5B. From the Segment Highlights section (same page), AWS sales is 9% of total sales.

AWS beats non-AWS income only because there were losses in international; ignoring international, it's a $16m difference.

Looking at page 14, Media sales in North America and International sum to $5.6B. Media sales alone is double AWS's sales of $2.5B (page 13). Profit margins are way higher for AWS, so there's still a lot of room for a larger income difference between the two segments.

Based on this, someone doing media streaming as their primary business needs to be aware of who they are in bed with infrastructure-wise, but I agree that it doesn't mean that AWS isn't worth using just because Amazon is in the same market/area. Media sales are a big portion of Amazon's non-AWS sales, and being digital are most likely fewer headaches than physical goods; but not so big of a portion that one needs to worry about Amazon being the 800lb gorilla that would need to be contended with. It's more likely that Amazon is a threat to Netflix on licensing deals and content offerings (IMO, Netflix is slightly stronger, but neither are great, in content offering).

Is Amazon going to pull the rug out from under Netflix? Not if they want anti-trust attention. Is Amazon going to disallow the Netflix app to run on their devices? I suspect no, since they seem to want to create a platform rather than a walled garden when it comes to devices and media. Is Amazon going to undermine the trust in AWS by using AWS customer's data, or metadata about their customers, for their own gain? Probably not. If I'm going to put money on who's going to do "the right thing", for businesses and tech as a whole, it's going to be on the likes of Amazon rather than, say, Oracle.

Looking closer at (just) this (document), the growth numbers are such that it could go either way as to which revenue stream will eventually be the major contributor to Amazon revenue streams. That's a significant reduction in losses (-60%) over Q1 2015, so International turning around over the next year or so could keep AWS and non-AWS income neck and neck.

[0] http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9N...
Good news for frackers.
To provide a counterexample, P/NP was doing quantitative trading before RenTech. I will say that I wouldn't comment on implementation details in this industry unless I've worked at the company in question.
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I deliberately tried not to come off as pessimistic. I'd just seen a pop science article on this paper that went along the lines of "OMG, 10^-24? That's so small! Aliens are basically guaranteed!" It was totally exploiting people's lack of intution about numbers. I just felt the need to point out that 10^-24 is much more run-of-the-mill than it seems. The crazy thing is that probabilistic things are multiplicative, so it's all exponential. The difference between 10^-3 and 10^-4 is a single extra flip of a 10-sided die. The odds of life on a habitable planet might be 10^-10, it might be 10^-100, but you can be damned sure our uncertainty spans many orders of magnitude above and below 10^-24.

(edit: I just looked up the pop article I was complaining about. It was in the new york times and the title was literally "Yes, There Have Been Aliens." Hence my crankiness.)
They stand to lose a lot for relatively little gain. Hedge fund non-competes are very, very carefully enforced. Making money trading on the side would get you sued.
So it was sort of OK "nuclear war on ourselves"?
There's an interesting discussion near the end about Kodak eventually getting secret access to the plans of upcoming atomic tests, so that they could plan around them to avoid damage to X-ray film.
Of course I'm not sure; certainty isn't possible with so little information.

The information I do have suggests that Animats was most likely commenting in good faith and that you are most likely trolling. Please don't do that here.
My biggest constant annoyance with FF is how it removes the back button in the (right-click) context meny if anything is selected.

There is a bug about it but nobody cared since this was supposed to be a feature..!

(Possibly one of the main reasons why I don't blindly accept as fact some of the things ux designers say.)

Edit: huge FF fan, I find that for me all the other browsers are still worse for any serious work/research. I guess it is mostly because the superior tab handling.
How can this be a real problem with exponential signal loss over distance? Sure, two devices in close proximity may interfere with each other. But that is in no way a "noise floor issue which will render certain frequencies unusable."
unsurprisingly, he uses Gentoo :D very cool in my eyes
I saw this on a google search page a little while ago.
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> Pacific Gas and Electric Company said in a statement that the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant's generating capacity will be replaced by "a cost-effective, greenhouse gas free portfolio of energy efficiency, renewables and energy storage."

Good news for Tesla Energy and their new Solar City division.

EDIT:

Exelon is shutting two nuclear plants in Illinois over the next two years, Clinton and Quad Cities, and Fort Calhoun in Nebraska is set to close by the end of the year.

Slowly but surely, we will retire every coal, natural gas, and (woefully aged) nuclear generator in the country.
The US would have a falling population without immigration so we'd be facing the Japanese situation of deflation and an eventual population crash (presumably). A lot of systems (pensions, social security, 401k, the stock market, most city governments and state budgets, et al).

There would also be the economic slump as you remove consumers from the spending pool and labor from the labor pool.

The massive gestapo/SS-like state apparatus required to round up so many people and deport them would take billions upon billions of dollars. It would also require shredding (what is left of) various constitutional rights and turn the US into a "papers please!" dystopia. This massive deportation police force would need to setup checkpoints on all major roads, in various public places, etc to even make a dent. Probably need to force all employers, even individuals hiring a contractor, to verify legal status. Outlaw cash to prevent paying people under the table too.

The impact to US citizen children would be devastating; millions who were born in the US and are US citizens would be forced to leave and go live in a foreign country they've never been to (and in some cases barely even speak the language of). It would permanently alter their economic and development potential as they wouldn't have access to US culture, education, etc. You may not think they are citizens but you're simply wrong. Since the founding of the USA (and via common law) citizenship has been jus soli, confirmed by SCOTUS precedents too.

If you're thinking of stripping their citizenship... trying to ex-post-facto do that on the basis of actions not taken by them and before they were born would require a constitutional amendment (besides being an immoral and shitty thing to do... We don't punish children for the actions of their parents; it's even in the constitution: No attainder or corruption of blood!).

Oh and the fact that unless you're Native American you're a descendant of immigrants so it makes you a massive hypocrite and an arsehole?
> if solar is so great, why isn't my utility doing it,

SolarCity doesn't do utility-scale solar, it does house-scale solar, and those are entirely different models. Also, business model of SolarCity is closely tied to the price structure of utilities, at least in California. These prices are structured - the lowest tier is relatively cheap, but it won't be enough, especially if you use AC or heating. Second tier is more expensive, next one yet more, and the fourth one is about twice as expensive as the first. SolarCity's pioneering idea - PPA - makes you put their solar panel on your property, and pay them for electricity instead of utility. In exchange of which you pay for all the electricity according to tier 1. Which is substantially cheaper. This model has little to do with generation on utility scale.
BTW, never seen them in Home Depot around here. They must be using some other tactics in these areas, or maybe just haven't made friends with local HD.
If an employer is that way to everyone, then I generally will make an effort to brush it aside. However, embarrass me in front of the team and all bets are off. It does not mean I will not give notice. It just means I'm likely making a mental note of it because I generally just want to give people what they want even if they didn't know they wanted it.
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The interesting factor here is strategy sizing. The 100 experts need to manage portfolios of a certain size. The amateurs don't. There are people who can carve out a living of a strategy that has sustainable alpha but would not be attractive to hedge funds due to the capacity of the strategy.
I agree. But, so far we have come closest to destroying the world when nation states are stockpiling weapons of war, threatening mutually assured destruction, with their arsenals kept on a hair trigger. To me, that seems likely to keep being the main danger scenario in the future.

It would still be a "mistake", but not the "oops what does this button do" sort of mistake, but rather the "I could have sworn they fired first" sort of mistake.

That is why I think the main goal of AI safety should be how to defend against intentionally malicious AI. We should be thinking about drone swarms and hacker-AIs rather than paper clips.
This must be awesome for training and university settings, to have such low cost options for learning the craft. Is it used much by startups / is it bringing down the barrier to entry that much?
Signal strength does not decay exponentially, rather as distance^-3 for a dipole[1]. Most noise sources are probably well approximated by a dipole antenna[2]. Some fancy modern modulation scheme with extremely dense encoding of information might suffer stronger decay, but the article is about simple sources of noise, not about modern modulation schemes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole#Vector_form
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna#Hertzian_dipole
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Microsoft's business shifted too. Long gone are the days they were a software vendor for end user. Nowadays they produce services and hardware products for enterprise customer. And end user are the product, their new subscription based Office and Win10 collects a lot of private data like key presses (keylogger), audio from microphone, scans documents and uploads unspecified tracking data in many encrypted TLS (phone home). And Microsoft is known to suddently compete with you. There is a rule, never compete with Microsoft, they have more money than you, they will make their competiting product/service/hardware available for less money than you could offer.
By now anybody who'd otherwise be interested in fixing this one has seen the writing on the wall for NPAPI.

On the bright side, it will therefore be fixed pretty soon.
Is there anything written on why this is a valid choice for improving op-sec versus going with a commercial offering?

Open source made from parts seems like it would be very much under your own control. But it is also... bespoke. Which raises a different threat model, doesn't it?
Why I used them: I was a little punch-drunk waking up, and the DAO stuff the last couple days has been a great representation of the worst basic instincts we share. I was surprised to see an informal snarky response stay positively scored. I was even more surprised to see that the emoji weren't stripped.

As for the question you actually asked, how did I? Emoji keyboard from iOS 10b1 on an iPhone 6s Plus in Safari.
> How long has your team been working on this project? It seems like it is 2-3 years too late to market.

That reads like a dismissive swipe. Please guard against that here, especially when responding to new work. It may be the default human tendency, but it's destructive of thoughtful conversation. Not all new work is good, but most things that do turn out to be good start small, and all invite a litany of obvious objections while embryonic.

A better way to bring this up would be to provide more detail about your comment's context (example: products X, Y, Z came out 2 years ago) and then expressing your point as a sincere question (example: how is your product different from X, Y, Z and isn't there a risk that the market is already mature).
You seem to be under an impression that utility companies are super-efficient, extremely innovative and unusually - for companies of their size - willing to try unproven business models (the whole solar-on-premise thing is pretty new). It is not exactly the case I think.

> he reality is that on-premises solar is still a gamble

It is. But that doesn't mean it is bad. It just means SolarCity will try it - and maybe become very rich doing it, or maybe will go bust - and if it works, in 20 years or so utilities will catch up. By that time it will be so regulated and red-taped that it would be hard for a small company to make it work anymore, so the utilities would fit right in.
I believe that the regulatory environment for solar is becoming rather un-cooperative. I also think that the solution to the uncooperative (Utilities don't want to pay for solar electricity) situation is a Tesla product, batteries! It makes sense to me. It also reeks of backroom planning.
I found Superintelligence very readable. Very little jargon. I suspect he is wrong and that superintelligence is the Y2K of the 21st century. I suspect that super-machine-brains will dominate us as much as power plants sneer at our puny energy output. The most alarming scenarios assume anything, like practical nanotech, could be created by bootstrapping from a powerful brain in a box. And once you make that assumption, kaboom.

Just don't enhance the chimps. That would be bad.
Forgive me if I've misunderstood, but isn't your proposed problem akin to Zeno's paradox of infinite distance, where we never reach anywhere because first we need to go 1/2 the distance, then 1/2 of that, etc.?

Which, of course, is resolved in math by limits, and in the real world by discrete units (i.e. atoms).
Shouldn't you have detached at the parent of that one? The other person accused him of something, and he responded pointing out that that person was being untruthful. Detaching his response leaves the accusations made against him and removes his response which proves the accusations are false. Presumably you as mod did not intend to do so because if it was intentional it is certainly an egregious abuse of mod powers and totally unethical, as I'm sure you agree fully.
Maybe you're not aware of this, but communication signals decay at the same rate as RF noise, so the overall effect is a push.
Well they took a bunch of VC money so they could have a nice office in the middle of San Francisco and presumably so the founder could cash in a little bit. You can't blame him for his choice to take VC money, but this was inevitable.

EDIT: It's actually worse if you read their wiki [1]. They were profitable enough early on to have 10 employees AND move to San Francisco, going as far to win a "best bootstrapped start-up award". THEN they took 40 million in funding.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imgur
Chrome does the same. It's a bona fide standard!
Well if you have $50k capital then 20% gains = $10k is about fair. Luckily for numerai they have $1mil capital so the rewards are a bit higher...
That's an exaggeration. These "most dangerous" designations are pretty meaningless, anyway. Neighborhoods can be dangerous for many reasons, in many different ways, and for different people, at different times of day, dependent on context.

All but the most careful comparisons are suspect.
From the article: In fact, from a pure Darwinian perspective of fitter organisms producing more offspring, the opposite is happening with modern Homo sapiens. Impoverished, less healthy, and thus typically shorter families tend to have more children than prosperous families.

Everybody knows it, but it's pretty crazy when you think about it. However with a generally increasing standard of living that factor should still get smaller and smaller and the people thus taller and taller.
> The question is, would you have had higher returns investing in a large-scale solar project?

If you are lucky. If you are not, you've just invested in Solyndra (yes, I know they are manufacturer and not producer, doesn't matter). Local solar is much less risky.
I don't understand low-carb/keto diets, outside of treating an actual disease. A person can eat 5-10 lbs. of "wet" (i.e. not grains and starches) fruits and vegetables a day and stay well below 2,000 calories, rounding it off with some fish, nuts, etc. for protein and oils. It's physically difficult to eat 1,000 calories of salad at 100-200 calories/pound. The problem is it also costs about 5 times as much as a classic junk food diet (but not much if any more than a beef and bacon and cheese diet).
Where are your [citations]?
I think the key here is batteries. The utilities will fight (lobby) to give themselves the upper hand when it comes to buying solar power from consumers. Tesla plans to make lots of batteries. Batteries also happen to be good solution to these legislative issues.

A match made in... the backroom?

It's not about brand at this point, it's about economies of scale and production?
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What an awesome UI, I love it.
Thanks for making something so cool.
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> In conclusion, our analysis provides direct confirmation that internal Earth system mechanisms rather than orbital forcing have controlled climate dynamics over the Pleistocene cycles. Moreover, they demonstrate the existence and importance of a feedback effect of temperature variability on GHGs in driving the dynamics (Fig. 1b). This confirms the existence of a positive feedback operating in climate change whereby warming itself may amplify a rise in GHG concentrations. As CCM infers causality directly from the time series, the consistency of our results with elaborate mechanistic analysis represents remarkable empirical confirmation and, moreover, provides a clock for the response times involved. We suggest that this new and powerful approach may also help to assess causality behind the numerous other time series we have for the Earth system.
That's fair. It was not my intention to provide a comprehensive review of the firm's approach, but rather a quick summary that glosses over a great many details.

To address your second point, I wouldn't comment on implementation details in a company for whom I had worked.

P/NP is Princeton Newport Partners. I have a passing familiarity with that story ;)
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Fundraisers can't be Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

Also, it's against the rules to solicit votes and comments here.
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> Isn't "the way computers actually work" at a fundamental level about electrical engineering, or at least about machine instructions?

I agree, which is why sometimes I think perhaps a toy assembly language might be a neat experiment from a pedagogical point of view.
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