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> Musk and Thiel are just old enough to remember and era when technology was making seemingly huge advances: 'men on the moon', 'breaking the sound barrier' etc.. They want to see 'that level' of innovation. I think it's narrow minded and arrogant:

I think there is something semantic in our way.

Are you familiar with Thiel's concept of representing progress using a Cartesian plane? Technology goes on the Y axis, Globalization on the X axis.

Then it becomes possible to represent 4 possible states of play.

This is a model of course. There could be different aspects in different states.

However it illuminates an important possibility, which is that you could have broad progress in globalization without necessarily having much in technology.

Globalization is of course, the spreading of Technology, so it is a kind of derivative.

I hope it is clear then what I mean by 'Technological Stagnation'. I am deselecting Globalization and looking at what is left.

> Over the 'long haul' - the standard of living has improved as much since the 1970's as it has been on average for the last 200 years - roughly. The 1940s-1970s was a little bit of a bubble due to the war and the resulting economic effects.

Sure but we agree with all of that. With the caveat some of that growth was not real (in the finance sector). That is of course true of other eras too, I just mention it because it plays an outsize role when the bubbles come up.

We are talking about different things. The standard of living improving is globalization. The improvements in airplanes you mentioned, are improvements, but again, they are a form of globalization.

We see that, it is good. But it is not enough if we are to keep going.

> This idea of 'wage stagnation' is an unfair economic characterization of what is going on, and it's used by the populist left to fight their ideological battle.

I am on the right. The furthest to the right imaginable. The same is true of many if not most people who talk about technological stagnation.

The populist left is not wrong about something being not right, just the solutions they tend to throw up.

> Though it's true that a disproportionate amount of returns is going to the 1% - it's not really at the cost of the 99%. The 99% are living a very high standard of living - so long as they have jobs. Employment issues I think are more important than the false canary of 'stagnant wages'

I would say to you that those 'returns' are almost all fake.

The top 1% of 1% is not making real money because their stock portfolios and property valuations are increasing, it is the mother of all bubbles caused by monetary manipulation.

I live myself in a house that is worth at most 1/8 of the valuation the market gives it.
I agree, if you ignore classes, prototypes and 'this', js makes for an excellent functional language.
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I assume you also looked into the entire code base for Chromium (you are using Chromium, aren't you? Using Chrome - with its abundance of closed source gimmickery - would not make sense given your statement) before deciding it was worth your trust?

While I understand why you'd want to look at extension code before installing it I do not understand the trust in Chrome. Given the size of the code base it is more or less impossible for a single person to decide its trustworthiness by 'looking at the code', given that a single intentional 'mistake' can make the difference between trust and thrash.
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Ha, I did not know this. I'm on a puny, 5-year old MacBook Air and h264 helps.

The new Raspberry PI desktop (PIXEL) includes Chromium with h264ify for hardware-accelerated playback! (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-pixel/)
> Switzerland and Lichtenstein really hate that.

On economic terms, moral terms or legal terms?
I saw quite a few asking for PC builds for both. Might not be too common, but is also not something that happens only once a year.
This is certainly an interesting idea, but is there a body of research behind it? (How does one prove that anxiety is caused by "existential suffering" anyway?) What is the amount and quality of that research? Even if CBT is flawed it has an established track record of clinical success so I still think it should be regarded as a "tool in the box."
the mechanism is there, people are not choosing to use it.

That is because security is hard.

This doesn't mitigate MitM attacks, as upstream DNS records can still be spoofed

WE go from a fast, decentralised, resilient and low overhead system, to a centralised chatty and fragile behemoth.

It still doesn't give end to end encryption, its just a slow encrypted proxy.
Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...

Something like Tree Style Tab but TO shows a single tree for your entire browsing session instead of just the current window. Its cloud backup allows me to sync my tree hierarchy across my devices.
But that is of course true for all algorithms without uniform performance, another famous example being sorting with quicksort which on average takes O(n x log(n)) time but can become O(n²) in the worst case. Or zip bombs making you decompress a few kilobytes of data into gigabytes. If a user can control a relevant fraction or important piece of the data you are processing, then you always have to be careful not to expose yourselves to algorithmic complexity attacks.
- Markdown Here - Lets me write emails in markdown (http://markdown-here.com/)

- HTTPS Everywhere - by EFF, works alongside the HSTS preload list to improve HTTPS coverage (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere)

- Privacy Badger - By EFF again. Blocks scripts. (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger)

- Send to kindle - Sends articles directly to my kindle (https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/chrome)

- iReader - Quick and easy readability extension that lets you read badly formatted extensions. (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ireader/ppelffpjgk...)
Here's the link to the original source in English: http://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/thousands-of-private-communica...
I'm not completely sure, but I think SKAT (the Danish tax authorities) handle everything, outside the courts, when dealing with tax avoidance situations.
Code size increases in Θ(n^(0.5))

I agree that the title is somewhat misleading - it is (to me) as much a 'computation of prime numbers' as a lookup table would be.
Its leaf-spring, personally I find them a bit unresponsive compared to the micro-switch models.
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So a bank has an extraction team. Looks like a cyberpunk novel. I suppose extraction team come from a "security/mercenary" company. I'm curious of the legal implication.
I hope this is a useful resource for all those app developers out there. It was a lot of fun to record with Paul. Cheers.
Decoding is good but hw encoding usually has very bad quality/size ratio compared to best software encoders.
Yea, it's a great resource for all those mobile and app developers out there.

:)
There's also Scala.js, which takes it even further than GWT.

And of course Dart.
I can't say I feel any particular confidence in a company that would call these "ssh commands".
Do you also have a problem with illegal wire tapping if as a result a terrorist attack is prevented? Or paying money to an informant (possibly an insider) to uncover drug traffickers?
uBlock Origin, TabAttack and The Great Suspender.

Another is one I wrote and use to read articles without seeing paywalls. It got pulled off the chrome web store as it started to pick up users, but you can still install and run it in developer mode: https://github.com/cezary/bypass
In some cases, it's just far better. I have a beard, and the modern multi-blade razors are terrible for shaving around it. The thick heads with multiple blades are hard to position right to get a nice clean edge to the beard, and the multiple blades clog really easily.

By comparison, a Safety Razor is much better. It has one blade so the line is exactly where you place the blade, and it doesn't clog. They are also cheap as chips, so I can buy a brand new blade every day and still come out better than buying cartridges, meaning I never use a dull blade.

For others, it might be just a slightly better shave or cheaper, but if you have a beard I'd say there is literally no reason not to use one.

I've cut myself precisely once with mine after a couple of years, less than with a modern multi-blade razor (although, admittedly, that's not a fair comparison as my first shaves were with that type of razor). In general, you cut yourself because the blades are too dull so you press too hard, with the blades so cheap I use a new one every day so it's always sharp. Maybe different people with different skin or hair types might have more benefit from them, I guess.
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They already offer spot p2 instances, although I think the main spot pricing history widget isn't up to date yet. The current minimum spot price seems to be 0.09 USD/hour for a p2.2xlarge, and there have already been steep price fluctuations for p2.16xlarges in the past hour.
Wouldn't a bit of js to create them on the fly stop that? It would still be a kind of lookup table though.
> Engineers irrationally avoid hash tables because of the worst-case O(n) search time.

Not sure about other people here but I haven't heard any developers I work with avoid hash tables for reasons like this. I find most coders treat hash tables as black boxes that offer instant lookups.

Also, I found from giving interviews most developers can't explain at a basic level how a hash table works as well as other fundamental data structures like linked lists.
Am I the only one who got the impression that this is strange!?

Why do the journalists don't share the data with the governments for free? Establishing trust that the government is serious and real should be possible for them.

Could the anonymous source just be a journalist who wants to profit of the data?

I'm all for fighting tax avoidance but considering that most of the EU member states have an interest in the data this could be quite a sum of cash that is someone obtaining from an illegal hack. It's also not clear who benefits here. It's pretty shady isn't it? Even it's legal.
Does this stronger "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine of the US does apply for all those three letter agencies in your opinion? Or just for the RSI?
When you constantly dig into content on the net, occasionally you strike gold!

Bookmarked for future reference!
yes, I use Chromium, but mainly because Fedora doesn't have Chrome in their pkg repos. yes, I've looked into the Chromium src & have run away screaming, mainly because I'm not a big C++ fan.

I'm fine w/ Google products. I don't trust a random extension from a random Vasya ThE HacKeR, especially w/ "read & change all your data" permissions.
Hi,

I'm new here :)

Each time I see something like that, I think it looks great, but I'm having a hard time understanding the meaning of the vocabulary used…

Is there any good (free?) resources out there to learn Monoids, Monads, traits, category theory, in short, anything used in functional languages?

This is something that clearly stops me from using functional languages more.
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In most jurisdictions (and I know this is true in Belgium), you cannot use illegally / stolen data as evidence in a trial. So there would be no point purchasing this data, because it would be thrown out in court. Maybe it could be used to pressure someone into taking some sort of settlement?
What tracker patch are you referring to? They changed it several times and I hardly doubt there was any massive exodus due to any of them. The loud minority on reddit is not representative of the game's community in large.

When the game experienced the most instability it hadn't even been launched in most countries.
I have a safety razor and 5 years later I'm still on my second $20 box of blades.

I was traveling recently so I thought "oh I'll give that Harry's company a try" and wow was it painful! It was like being clawed in the face by a cat. Not even marketing saying that your still disposable razor products can seperate you from the fact that you are a disposable razor product.

So I will keep my safety razor and just check the bag at the airport.
Well you don't have much choice for frontend for one. Typescript offers much stronger typing than Ruby, Python, Clojure and PHP as well.
This wouldn't be possible in Belgium, AFAIK. A judge would throw this evidence out.
What resources would you recommend? And in what order of consumption?
Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm in plain English?
Oh, sure, I probably pulled that thing apart several times over its life-span, but I loathed the clicking and lack of reliability of the micro-switch based sticks.
I don't think non-viable to viable is exactly what's going on however, at least in most cases. I think the costs are not being fully understood, the impact to the mindshare of the team, the quality of service and redundancy, the additional headcounts and quirky management code that someone's going to be toiling away on when a cloud provider can handle it at a much lower cost.

Yes, you still have to open tickets, and yes, they still have problems that suck up a lot of time, however they spend the brunt of the time burning folks out fixing those issues, not you. If you talk to folks working with physical systems, that consumes their mindshare to the point that they're not focusing on their core product anymore.
Is there any image compression that uses Eigenfaces?
Using the fact your face may look similar to someone else face.

What if you use uniqueness and eigenface look up table for compression?
If this makes bidding that easy to happen, as of now 6 bidders at $800+, why don't they do this for fund raising for each release? Maybe they have to sell 100 to make much of a difference but still better than nothing and gives you a warm feeling that they have generous followers as well.
Absolutely, there's a whole spectrum of options. "Building a datacenter" doesn't have to mean finding an empty field next to a river. Get a dedicated or shared cage, rent servers, do what fits your needs.

It makes sense that each layer of abstraction costs dramatically more, because these services aren't vertically integrated -- they operate as value adds on top of other services. Heroku runs on AWS who buys server hardware and network hardware from vendors and puts it in racks that sit in buildings operated by datacenter providers who supply power from the electric company.

So when you run something at the abstraction layer of a Heroku dyno, you're contributing to the profit margins of at least:

1. The actual service you use (Heroku, and Salesforce)
2. Their instance provider (Amazon)
3a. (maybe) Their server hardware manufacturer (HP / Dell / Supermicro)
3b. (maybe) Their network hardware manufacturer (Cisco / Juniper / Arista)
4a. Their server ODM (Quanta / et. al.)
5a. Their server components manufacturer (Intel / Hynix / Samsung / HGST / Mellanox / Adaptec / Avago / etc.)
5b. Their network ODM or ASIC designer (Avago)
6. (maybe) Their hosting provider (Peer1 or someone)
7. (maybe) Their retail datacenter provider (Equinix / CoreSite / etc.)
8. Their wholesale datacenter provider (DuPont Fabros / Digital Realty / etc.)
9. Their suppliers and contractors (electrical contractors / Square D / security guards /
10. The electricity and the taxes paid to the municipality

Each of these companies intends to make a profit on the services they provide to the company up the food chain, and that all gets bundled into what you pay.

Sure there are economies of scale here that you can't get, and smart companies are trying to eliminate some of these layers -- but that doesn't necessarily mean you are paying less.

The margins increase as you go up the stack. Electric companies make peanuts for margins (8-10%) compared to a company like Mellanox that makes $1200 network cards (20+%).

But who cares about selling you a $1200 network card when you can charge people $100/mo to use a dyno?
The demographic overlap between "gamer" and "machine learning researcher" is likely very high.
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What motivated your choice of body mass? Feel free to adjust my remarks to, second, "if your definition was motivated honestly"; and first, "otherwise". You're not winning any points by saying "ah, but my motivation of trying to show you up is, unlike 'defending the concept of a living fossil', a useful scientific purpose'.

As I have already pointed out twice below my first comment, the point of the dilemma is to illustrate that no definition of evolutionary change from which it is possible to extract useful information can support the concept of "living fossils". Which particular motivation you want to use, other than learning something useful, doesn't really matter.

From a more formal philosophical perspective, I see no real need to have my description of the dilemma be so careful as to explicitly mention a motivation that can't exist in the absence of my presentation of the dilemma. I am satisfied to have accurately described the world as it exists in the absence of my description of it.

You'll note that you did in fact observe one of the two things I predicted.
Am I the only one who couldn't get rid of the pop-ups in the bottom third of the article? Every time I scrolled the same pop-up that I had just dismissed popped up again.

It was a very interesting article that made numerous valid points but I came away thinking a lot less of a VC that couldn't successfully configure a blog. Someone there proof read the articles?
- uBlock (of course)

- Vimium

- YouTube Ratings Preview

- Remove Google Redirection

- TrackMeNot (sends random queries to search engines)

- uMatrix

- HTTP Headers

- Vanilla Cookie Manager

- Project Naphta (on the fly OCR for images)
> I don't think quantum computing will have any sort of impact on drug discovery.

I also was very surprised by that. I think it's probably 98% hype and 2% truth. There might be cases where the better understanding of physics brought by QC will impact a better understanding of biology. But I'd be very surprised if that made a big impact.

> I've always found the missing thing in life saving pharmaceuticals is sick people to test compounds on.

I don't think that's the case either. I think people who have a life-threatening illness are pretty willing to take part in trials.
What I'd rather think is that likely the most important thing is to apply stricter scientific standards. Pharma companies have been complaining that they can't replicate the vast majority of pre-clinical cancer studies. The pharma companies themselves are also guilty of skewing research by hiding results and not sharing data.
That's the thing that's holding up research. There's too much crappy science that wastes resources.
This! If they just repeat the marketing blurb from s/Mongo's/<hip new tech>/ website, then they generally don''t have a clue what they are doing.
Thanks @abhas9! yeah, that is possible indeed, in fact I played around to generate them as the html background but I didn't like the result and I stuck with the dark solid color.
Cheers
And this is the reason why fingerprints should not be used as a password. If the password that you are using (string, pin, fingerprint, iris) can not be change then this could be use as username not password. It is very convenient to use things like fingerprints to lock your devices but if your credentials will get compromised once then you can not ever secure it again. Plus we leave finger prints everywhere all the time, it's just a matter of time when databases with fingerprints matching fb profiles will show up on the internet. Think about it as rainbow tables for unlocking stolen devices.
> Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users.

And they lost to Wordpress, who did exactly that.
video, just have a light turned on a control board in the station or an email/text sent anytime the door/lock is accessed
This is a big issue because multiple DCNN optimizations in CuDNN are only applicable to the newer generations. You could be looking at an order of magnitude worse performance than expected.
He mentioned his own home grown hash with the bit shifts. How does it compare to common ones that use an AES instruction if the crypto chip is available?
> https://www.versatel.de/business/kompetenz/glasfaser/ausbau/

At only 7200€/month for a 100Gbps line, the network won’t be an issue in case of a DDoS for you anymore.

DDoS’es over 100Gbps will be irrelevant anyway for you, because at that point your ISP will already getting issues.
A whole post about hash tables and he doesn't mention the real reason trees are better than hash tables: lower variance!

> Hash tables become full, and bad things happen

The bad thing is not a crazy long probe or even rehashing to enlarge the table—it's that some random individual insert is stuck eating the entire cost of rebuilding the table. For many applications, I'm happy with a slightly higher cost per operation in return for predictable performance.

> Hash functions are slow

Great, another unmentioned footgun - hash functions are hard. For example, the hash function he provides doesn't use a prime number of buckets. Oops, non-uniform input data in combination with unlucky bucket counts can generate high numbers of collisions.

Writing a comparison function to put your data in a tree is pretty stupidproof!
They're not legislated as the Official Search Engine of the EU. Microsoft too once had 98% market share. As did IBM.

And then what exactly happened? Did competitors beat them on their own market because of superior performance or better regards for the interests of users? Nope. They discovered new markets and solved new problems which made the old markets less relevant. It's not clear to me that this is a process that you can trust will work in the future.

* Personally, I'd rather not have an organization possibly run by Donald Trump know too much about me.*

You mean like Trump Ventures which owns stock of Google, Apple, AT&T, and Tesla (among many others)?

"Until facebook decides to shut down this api - which is at their sole discretion."

Unlikely, given that API is the only reason anyone pays them money.

That argument makes no sense. I as a user don't benefit at all if some analytics company has a contract with Facebook that allows them to access my data.
If users should realistically be able to migrate to another service, they need free and automatic access to their data - which Facebook is in no way forced to provide.
I don't think it is as easy.
By the way, I own a 1080 since two weeks and I can't overstate how powerful this thing is. Even if you are not into gaming, getting a 1080 is still a considerable option if you want to experiment with deep learning.
There is already an integrated search. Google. Seriously, SO would be foolish to try and do what Google already does better.
He covered himself by using the word "almost". :)

I agree with you, I'd choose to rephrase the quote to:

> most uncertainly an iPhone is a secure place to store your data
This seems like Data Structures 101
Identity should never be used as a password.

Identity cannot be changed if compromised.

As a second form of authentication it is fine, but as a single form alone it is a bad idea.

Ideally you would always have two of these:

* Something you know (i.e. password)

* Something you have (i.e. yubikey or a token generator on your phone)

* Something you are (i.e. fingerprint)

But if you must have only one of these then the weakest one is something you are as, if compromised, it can never be changed.
It usually requires some reflection or precompiled step.
I think using JavaScript would move the concept even further away from "computing primes with CSS".

It would just do some things on the fly that the author did with python.