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> Non-amaricans often think that the US has just one dominant political ideology. Sure, it comes in two flavors, red and blue, but both are neo-liberal capitalist market ideologies.

I suppose that from 1992 until (but not including) 2016, looking from the outside only at major party Presidential nominees, it would be easy to miss the substantial dissent from the neoliberal consensus in the US (even within both major parties, and even in the segment of those parties in government.)

OTOH, since we elected an authoritarian populist whose economic approach blends mercantilist protectionism with corporatism, the idea that the only economic philosophy with any currency in US politics is neoliberalism isn't even something that relatively disengaged foreign observers can be excused.for.buying into.
> I am likewise perplexed why "cryptographic hash functions are unnecessary in the absence of an attacker" is such a difficult concept for you to grasp.

Because you can't seem to tell the difference between "unnecessary" and "shouldn't be done".

If I build a shed then using larger screws on the door might be unnecessary but it only costs me .2% more and I know it won't fall over.

Using a recent SHA function might be overkill in a non-crypto context but it's high-quality and fast. And there's existing libraries for whatever language you want. Why the hell would anyone use CRC128? I've never even heard of it before.

It's a good hash choice, no matter how unnecessary.
The importance of "GOFAI" techniques was one of the themes in my talk at All Things Open last year. I wanted to cover the "state of the art" in open source machine learning tools, but realized that that just promoted FDD - Fad Driven Development, so I spent a modest amount of time during the talk going over some of the older ideas and pointing out how they still had relevance, and suggesting that the Next Big Thing might involve some hybridization of GOFAI techniques and probabilistic / machine learning ideas (including deep learning). So I guess I'd basically agree with the author here. The only thing I wish he/she would have done, is add some links to papers or whatever, highlighting what they consider to be some of the important new results in AI.

There's definitely still plenty of work ongoing that falls under the "AI" rubric, see the cs.AI category on Arxiv.org for evidence of that. Of course some things get cross-posted with the ML category as well, so it's not all "GOFAI".

http://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent
Little bits in CLI interface https://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/06/happened-git-2-0-full-go...
Meaningless, oh look our overclocked cpu beat an non-overclocked one that could have been overclocked.
So how do you turn a 10x engineer into a 10x multiplier?
Yes. We are made to be active (non-passive), so most people will choose to do _anything_ anyway. Might as well something that furthers our objectives.
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That was an isolated incident and not by any means the norm. The US government will find ways to 'f' your company over if they so desire, but it will not usually be so crudely executed.
(I'm not a fan of US incorporation by the way)
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The Art of Asking for an Intro
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"All the features" is why perl is considered a write-only language. It's great for personal projects but I have yet to see any big successful perl projects because the onboarding time of learning a given perl project's chosen features is so cumbersome.
Cake or biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes excite philosophers
Specifically that’s true for US law. Under UK law memorised passwords can be demanded with prison sentences for failing to produce them. It also doesn’t count at the Us border.
I was a #1-ranked stock analyst. And I indeed outperformed the market on my and my parents' accounts. I also know a small hedge fund manager who I believe could consistently outperform the market. But in each case the strategy was to know a small portfolio of underfollowed stocks very very well. It's not something that could scale. He eventually just dumped his clients and managed his own money. I stopped investing in anything except index funds after I stopped being a stock analyst.

I.e., I agree with Buffett's general premise, and have since the 1980s.
I have money and I'm in good health. I don't have a job, though, and I don't really have any motivation to do anything.
he's just another self-important code monkey who has deluded himself into thinking he's a an under-appreciated genius, if only these idiots he's surrounded by would recognize him for his true greatness.

yeah, sure he is. it's more likely he will end up like most unreasonably arrogant mediocre people, too afraid and self-deluded to do anything of consequence his entire career.

wait until he realizes how much mundane, trivial shit is required with taking a 'leadership position'.

funny nobody (yet) in this thread has mentioned "discipline", everyone is so focused on "motivation". as the saying goes, motivation lasts for a day, discipline lasts for a lifetime.
I'm in agreement with Linus, but it also highlights problems with code-bases this complex. We depend on code being readable to spot malicious activity. Generating a SHA1 collision to jam in a very subtle bug is highly improbable, and might even be unfeasible if the diff is small enough.

There's certainly a concern if your code is more opaque, as is the case in this bug. If you're taking in raw asm.js code, for example, from various sources...
Wikipedia bots often undo each other’s edits, engage in years-long editing wars
Agreed. People always mention the GIL like it's the achilles heel of Python, yet when discussing NodeJS the single threaded nature is almost described as a feature.

Anyone reading hackernews knows that Node doesn't have an issue with popularity (and AFAIK Python doesn't either).
> and lack of the rule of Law. and lack of a culture where the rule of law is respected.

Culture has nothing to do with it, it's only inequalities. Look at the list of the 50 more dangerous cities in the world [0]. How come the US is the only developed country in the list with St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit and New Orleans. All of those have a higher murder rate then Sao Paolo.

People might be scared of the SWAT, and brutal police, and incredibly long jail sentences. But when they lives in extreme misery, they feel it's worth the risk.

It's not very different from poor populations working dangerous jobs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
Hi. Thanks for your reply. We already thought of that, and we concluded that it would be a great idea to make it configurable whether the current repository (the `pwd`) should be used for issue storage or another git repository. So one can have one repo for code and another for issues, giving them the possibility to transfer issues from the issue-repo to the code repo, if desired.
That means it wasn't in the list.
I think that $2 is purchasing-power-parity adjusted (they talk about "international-$"), which is even less in real dollars.

For an anecote on PPP vs real dollars, I remember that in the eighties in soviet-ruled Poland, an average monthly salary amounted to about $20. At the same time, the average standard of living was not that bad: most families had flats with central heating (no air-con though), education up to university level and healthcare were free, most families didn't have cars but public transport was cheap.
Hi. Due to the nature of git, this is not possible after the issue is distributed to the network, hence there is no possibility to implement such a thing.
As a form of foreign aid giving money directly probably works well. But idea that developing countries need basic income because of automation is just absurd.

If anything they need to get to work developing their country; those shacks are not going to be built by robots.

Fully developed countries on the other hand may face the situation where their country is so well run and have such a high level of automation and specialisation that there is too little work left for the population to be fully employed.

And thus they may lower their pension age, experiment with 30 hour work weeks, sabbaticals, maternity leaves, basic income and so on.

The countries that are closest to this are probably the Scandinavian countries. However at the moment they are all moving towards lower social transfers and higher pension age.
I use pocket. It even adds a "save to pocket" button to hacker news!
I think this is a bit too simplistic for HPC. Yes, you can go really low cost if all you care is theoretical performance / $. In practice, the cost efficiency of the system should be seen as 1 / (time to solution for typical applications) / (cost of ownership per year).

Even 20% higher memory bandwidth or computational performance per socket matters for the time to solution, since a higher number of nodes is uncertain to replace that due to the communication overhead. As does the performance per watt (costs of cooling).

Furthermore, the biggest news for me regarding Ryzen is what they're doing with APUs. Affordable APUs with unified memory supporting HBM (stacked memory) could be a game changer. HBM means an order of magnitude higher memory bandwidth than what we're used to from CPUs, matching what the high end Nvidia Pascal cards are currently offering. By coupling this to a capable multicore X86 CPU with fat cores (as opposed to Knights landing with a higher number of slow cores), could mean tremendous speedups without any programming work for bandwidth bound applications - which includes pretty much any stencil application, e.g. atmospheric models, ocean models, earthquake prediction etc. By 'tremendous' I mean 5-10x per Socket, which is a big deal in these fields.
How could a site make an article behind a paywall that's available for free somewhere else, especially if it's not their article...
getting money from others work seems a little bit odd.
Since some are saying "this is just one incidence" recall that there was a second blown red light around the same time in SF, and all this just on the first day of the program. There are also potentially other incidents that did not, by chance, have a bystander recording. Their autonomous driving has many years left in the development. I just hope they aren't pushing it on us now because they are pacing 3 billion in losses/ year.
Oh snap, I didn't expect this headline sentence to end this way. It was so lauded in the media for a while. Good PR.

(File under sama's warning about founders falling in love with personal press? http://blog.samaltman.com/the-post-yc-slump)
The real difference between Apple and Google
This works for me:

- Vitamin D... 4000 IU per day
- 8 hours sleep
- Lift weights 5 days a week. Yoga for 20 mins everyday
- low carb/sugar diet
- Decided on ambitious purpose in life

Saying you have no motivation is making it worse. I started saying something like "I'm imoroving my motivation..."
At that, between LSD and meditation, I've had much stronger and longer lasting effects from LSD.

While I strongly recommend meditation for absolutely everyone, and would not make such an unconditional statement for LSD, but it is an absolute mistake to disregard how powerful of a positive force LSD can be in a person's life.
I can't precisely articulate why, but this sounds a bit to me like what people said about Amazon when they started: An online bookstore? The whole point of the information superhighway is that there's endless information available. People are going to stop buying books altogether!
We can, using todays technology, use much of the electromagnetic spectrum [1] for data transmissions. Light, Radio and Microwaves.

I would assume EM regulations differ depending on the waters the boat is currently in. i.e. Internal waters or Territorial waters etc. (different RF regulations for example)

To maximise throughput we would want to consume as much of the spectrum as possible. Think broadcasting in everything; 5G bands, wifi bands, FM, AM, light, microwave links.

As you want to use todays technology; we would need to break the spectrums into chunks which we can use existing solutions on. Different parts of the spectrum will have different properties. e.g transmission distances, bandwidths, etc.

Because of the different types of broadcasts and the volume of data we would probably want a number of relay stations bridging section of the EM spectrum to a fiber optic line. Some of these stations could be very far from the boat, thousands of miles in the case of long wave RF [2].

Compression would likely play an important role also. As we don't care about latency we can take the time to send well compressed data.

I am not sure this is the kind of answer you are looking for, but the kind of wealth Larry Ellison can throw at a problem is obscene.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwave#Long_distance_recepti...
Core count seems also to be partially fall into the classic chickenegg problem. Intel has shown no interest in increasing core count below enthusiast grade segment. Most people buy max quad cores because that's what Intel offers, games keep whatever they can split into more cores below 4
Uber's statement is effectively true, if you hideously twist the meaning of words.

"Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"
"Everyone here seems dumb and working on a few useless things."

You can start by working on your attitude.
Most commits are not just text, they are source code. If you had a feasible way to enumerate all the byte sequences that collapse into a given hash value, you might find the subset that is syntactically correct code to be very low. Except if it's Perl, of course.

And the likelihood of all the characters aligning in a way a compiler might find acceptable gets lower with every increase in length of your collisions, so it would be extremely unlikely that the shortest nontrivial match (for both the hash and for code sanity) would not be the right one. The code constraint certainly would not make it easier to find the collision in the first place, but it would give you great confidence in the result of you did.
If you don't trust the hardware, adding tardigrades doesn't really help.
Hi. As angrow has written, yes, patches/patchmails would be an option. We did this explicitly leaving out the access-control problem, which is a hard problem by itself.

Currently we would think of emails as first step, which clearly would make it harder for newbies, true. We also thought about other possible workflows but in the end a project needs some people accepting issues. This could be automated with git-dit of course - something like `git dit fetch-issues --from repo@repohost` which then asks the maintainer for each new issues to review and accept or reject it with a single keystroke. Either way, we currently see no way around that problem.
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Also covered in Chapter 3 of We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age by Bob Johnstone http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2135359.We_Were_Burning .
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Hi. Awesome you want to contribute! Well, take part in discussions in the github issues (which should be transferable at some point and therefor also show up in git-dit), would be the first step. We now have to sort out what our next steps are...
The trip from LSD lasts many hours. The peace of mind lasts for days. That calm can let a person relax when they elsewise would not be able to. The obvious analogy (though it isnt perfect) is that a vacation helps you even once you are back at work: even once the LSD has worn off the fresh memory of being at peace with yourself can help marvelously.
>Don't want so many people? Mandate reversible sterilization at birth.

So... they tried a little something like that back in the 30s and a lot of people didn't like it.
I wonder how many of those tweets that were ever retweeted. Retweeted tweets are replicated and will never go away. I know you shouldn't expect things published publicly on the internet to ever go away, but I think that this one of the cons of Twitter.
I guarantee you there are at least some processed chicken options at a local shop. Even an upscale one might have something like Boar's Head maple glazed.

http://boarshead.com/products/chicken
yeah, no clue. after seeing this article behind a paywall I simply googled "nasty gal" and the results returned this article first and a LA Times version of the story second. no paywall on the LAT for me. whether or not the story was the same quality, I have no idea.
They can fight each other for control of the robots.
Carl Bildt: The truth about refugees in Sweden
Go take a sugar pill and 50ug of LSD and tell me which one is a placebo.
50% of the DNA is soy doesn't mean 50% of the mass of food is soy or 50% of the volume is soy. It could be that the DNA is the major part of the soy that's included while the chicken has all sorts of non-DNA components like the rest of the cells and fat.

This story is quite inconclusive and that result could mean anything.
Revenue is vanity. Profit is reality.

Selling $85MM in 2014 is nifty, but fashion industry is hard. Average EBITA is maybe 10%: http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/the-s... to realize how brutal it is.

Let's piece this together...

She had 280 FTE at 2013 and got into a lease for 500k sqft warehouse: http://www.inc.com/30under30/donna-fenn/nasty-gal-sophia-amo...

At ~$60k/yr avg and we'll pretend a killer deal on the space at ~$30/sqft, half off the avg ask that year in KY http://www.loopnet.com/Louisville_Kentucky_Market-Trends, her bill was probably $31.8MM.

She also got into manufacturing. And with how much she was willing to spend, I would imagine she threw maybe $1MM here and $1MM there for that. Probably another few millions on the two B&M.

Boom, that's $40MM gone, just like that.

Smart VCs don't invest in ecommerce. The investors bought into Sophia Amoruso's narrative. The second she took the money she had to spend the money so can't blame her for that.

That warehouse must have been albatross around the neck. She thought they could repeat the $85MM high score but clearly that didn't happen; they never mentioned revenue numbers ever again.

Next year she asked for another $24MM, prob to cover for the lease and half the head count. But again, another bad year.

All the while she got distracted writing her vanity book, going on her vanity tour, rationalizing what's good for her must be good for the brand.

So 3 years in they lost $64MM just like that chasing after the dragon.

Crazy ride.

Who's got next?
Find a great mentor in your job who is eager to teach juniors. That's my number 1 advice.
Debit cards are accepted "everywhere" in major cities. But of course you can't pay Uber with that (in Brazil at least). You would need a Credit Card.
Thankfully an entire generation of users has helped answer the question of whether or not LSD is safe.
Seven engineers? Isn't that a million dollar a year project?
> you'd have to see the ( freely available, SFAIK ) film.

For the curious: "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
You can try to do your job 10x faster, this will get you recognised and promoted in no time.
Bloomberg (the company) became the de facto standard in the financial industry decades before Mike Bloomberg became a politician.

Mike Bloomberg started the company because while working at Merrill Lynch (in the 80ies) he thought the computer terminals banks used at the time to see stock and bond prices where ridiculous. He got funded by Merrill Lynch and disrupted the industry, overtaking rivals like Reuters (which well into the 90ies was usually considered the most trustworthy source for stock data)

You needed their special hardware only until the late nineties (the "Bloomberg box" - consider that up until around 96 or 97, only few employees would have internet access on their desktop, even inside "bulge bracket" investment banks): nowadays, you can get Blooomberg terminal on their workstation or on your own hardware. Likewise, you can run in on a dedicated connection, or on your normal internet line.

The key element of Bloomberg terminal is reliability: it feeds data you can usually trust and price feeds you can almost certainly trust. When you are checking prices changing several times a second across exchanges in different part of the world that's no easy feat). That's crucial when millions of dollars are at stake.

Second is the ability to access 80% of the data and information you would ever want to check wihout leaving the terminal.

Third ingredient is ease of use.

Fourth is incredible customer service.

Fifth is innovation: they continuously innovate, improve old features, add new features, introduce access to new data/information.

Once you remove the cost of the underlying live price feeds (from stock exchanges), The Bloomberg terminal is not that expensive for what it does. Bear in mind its customers are people that spend their day optimizing their financial decisions: if there was something cheaper working as well, they would go for it. If there was something working even better, they would go for it, probably even at a higher price point (because that's how the economics in the banking and investing world work).

Fun read:
https://www.fastcompany.com/3051883/behind-the-brand/the-blo...
According to the NHS page if I eat 2 apples, 2 oranges and 1 pear I get 5/5. If I prepare two smoothies from exactly same ingredients, I only get 1/5.

The only explanation I can think of would be that the blending process somehow alters to structure to be less favourable. NHS page mentioned the sugars getting released (but does not provide citation). Previous comment mentioned the fibres getting smashed (which I found a bit suspicious). Would like to know if there's some research behind this.
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Ask HN: The story behind Windows sending the abc in ping ICMP packets
Hey,
By default when you ping on Windows the ICMP echo request packet payload will be 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwabcdefghi' - 32 bytes of the abc, but only up to the letter W.
I think there's a story behind this, but couldn't find anything on the Internet. Does anyone know why they chose so?
I also wonder why the default size is 32 bytes - I thought it's used to make the Ethernet frame bigger than 64 bytes so that no padding is needed (Ethernet minimum size is 64 bytes) - but a frame containing the default ICMP is 74 bytes.
Thanks :)
This is what you get when you have a "show us you installed our app and we'll give you a T-shirt/coffee/whatnot" tent
These are google engineers so wouldn't be surprised if the burdened annual cost per engineer is $300k so upwards of $2M+
US billionaire helped to back Brexit
Map of mathematics
To anyone with a moderate driving experience, this should be obvious

This seems to be a decision on par with "depend on left-pad". reliability wise
Tool to be close with my users – admin page on ELM with Firebase
I'd advise you do some more charity work outside your normal job. That met give you lots of fulfillment. Spent your time outside work wisely. Like go to the gym, excercise, sport, eat healthily and hang out with people. That'll give you more fulfilment.

We can't get everything in life. Your idea of the "perfect job" is unrealistic.
One of the things that enticed me about programming was that I didn't know anyone who really understood it. When I took an introduction to programming in first year university, it was like Harry visiting Hogwarts for the first time and learning magic.

With that being said, my mother and father were both engineers. I hedged my bets by studying EE before going pure software. Role models contributed to me signing up for engineering, even if they had different specialities.
There's a banned user that posted the right answer to this comment - lol. Where to even begin?
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