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I don't disagree, but on the other hand, there's the question of what makes a "Good Engineer". There's plenty of fields where engineers (and other technical folk like architects or even, say, doctors) are certified by professional organizations. Those orgs can keep you from practicing your profession without their approval, and if you do something unethical they can pull your license to operate. The organizations also provide their membership with strong support to stand up to management against bad practices.

On the one hand, this certainly makes a lot of sense, especially these days with so many stories about terrible engineering (either just bad or as a result of unethical behavior) causing real harm.

On the other hand, it's precisely organizations like this (effectively guilds or unions) that tech "leaders" try to disrupt. They tend to be pretty conservative.
Oh man - just read Matt Levine's stuff: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-22/index-fun...

Good question - this is an on-going topic in the market actually. The correct answer, like a lot of financial economic theory goes, is that no one actually really knows.
Come on, you can't take legends from circa 1500 AD to be evidence of anything that happened somewhere between 11,000 and 20,000 years earlier, especially without writing. It's far more likely that primitive cannibal tribes were made up wholesale than that societies carried the memory of them for more than 10,000 years.
Banning exploration in my infovis class
It might motivate Europe to improve relations with the region
Speaking as a Christian, people will jump through all kinds of hoops to exempt Christians from the horrible bits of the Bible while insisting that all Muslims are bound by the horrible bits of the Koran.
Hi, I also noticed it says, "Set your routines with Audrey, such as like getting a Uber every morning." I think, "Set your routines with Audrey, like getting an Uber every morning." is a little clearer! App looks very cool though!
Go has the same interop issues as any other language. Indeed, what's the difference between a Go binary and an AOT compiled .NET/JVM program? Besides Go making that scenario the default?

Go and Rust aren't in the same class. Rust can call and be called from C with no overhead or issues (OK, panic across FFI isn't allowed). It's drop-in compatible with C libs, in addition to being a far better language.
I think that particular subreddit is being generous about the issue because they overwhelmingly support the Antminer manufacturer on a completely separate issue (increased block sizes). That issue is more-or-less the big schism at the moment between /r/btc and /r/bitcoin.

If that's confusing, as a hypothetical example: You just linked to an /r/conservative thread about Trump's alleged Russian ties.

The opposing subreddit (i.e. the /r/politics thread) is much less forgiving about it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/67qwqv/antbleed_ex...
There are a non trivial number of people who believe the earth is flat.

And these aren't Indians from a rural indian village.
> And the next logical step would be a virtual dressing room

Another logical step might be skin-cancer screening (surprised that, in 300-ish comments, no one seems to have thought of this), assuming the camera's resolution and/or back-end image-processing software could be made good enough to pick out moles, etc. After all, the camera could take full-body pictures of front, back and sides very easily. Then, if anything odd shows up, you could perhaps ask the user to do a close-up shot of the affected area for further examination and/or just be told to go see a dermatologist.

While fully-naked shots would be best for this -- with all the attendant privacy/HIPPA/etc. issues -- I'd expect even doing this while in underwear/bathing suit/etc. would still be a net-win since you'd be able to examine around 90% of the body and you could do it regularly. How often, after all, do people normally get any kind of dermatological exam?

(Mind you, a dedicated device for skin-scanning might be best, but, as they say, the best camera is the one you have with you -- if this sort of device becomes popular, then it might be good to make it work for this vs. letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, as they say.)
> If you are reading this, for your own finacial future I beg of you, please take your money to Vanguard instead and buy some index funds.

Yup, even Warren Buffet tells his rich friends to do so too:

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2016ltr.pdf

Over the years, I’ve often been asked for investment advice, and in the process of answering I’ve learned a good deal about human behavior. My regular recommendation has been a low-cost S&P 500 index fund. To their credit, my friends who possess only modest means have usually followed my suggestion.

I believe, however, that none of the mega-rich individuals, institutions or pension funds has followed that same advice when I’ve given it to them. Instead, these investors politely thank me for my thoughts and depart to listen to the siren song of a high-fee manager or, in the case of many institutions, to seek out another breed of hyper-helper called a consultant.

That professional, however, faces a problem. Can you imagine an investment consultant telling clients, year after year, to keep adding to an index fund replicating the S&P 500? That would be career suicide. Large fees flow to these hyper-helpers, however, if they recommend small managerial shifts every year or so. That advice is often delivered in esoteric gibberish that explains why fashionable investment “styles” or current economic trends make the shift appropriate.

The wealthy are accustomed to feeling that it is their lot in life to get the best food, schooling, entertainment, housing, plastic surgery, sports ticket, you name it. Their money, they feel, should buy them something superior compared to what the masses receive.
That's actually a great name for it or something along the lines of killswitch. Maybe AntKill or MinerRaid.
Google search friendly title.
is anyone using Buku more like a read-later system instead bookmark manager?
>Lastly - my understanding of bitcoin is a little fuzzy, but I believe with 50% of the computing power, you can rewrite transactions as you please, capturing as many bitcoin as you want.

Close. My understanding is rusty too, but I'll give it a go. Someone more versed in the technicalities of bitcoin, please correct me.

"51% attacks" threaten the integrity of the money supply because the network works by consensus. A transaction is considered valid once miners authenticate it by including it in blocks (blocks are issued ~6 times per hour). The network awards new bitcoin with each block.

If you control most of the hash power, you can attack the network by including illegitimate transactions in the blocks, effectively creating a new version of the ledger.

If you own coin ID A and send it to address B, that transaction gets included in a block and becomes official. You can't spend that coin again because the next miner won't include it in a block, since the previous block said it's already been spent. But if you control most of the hash power, you can teach your miner to skip the spent check for coin ID A and include it in every block that gets computed. This is called a double-spend attack because it lets you respend that coin more than once.

This is why bitcoin payment confirmations can take a while. Anyone can submit any transaction they want, but you have to wait for a block to be issued to issued to ensure it matches the ledger's accepted state. To be really careful, you need to wait for more than one block, since a rogue miner may have been able to get a bad block accepted. This is why btc payment processors would wait 3 blocks before an immediate transaction would be confirmed (~30 minutes).

The upside of this is that the community can decide to change its mind, and if you get the miners calculating according to the proposal, it becomes the standard. This is why a lot of people consider bitcoin a "consensus protocol".

It would be easy to track and untangle double-spends, however, because everyone could see when the invalid blocks started getting included and cut the chain there. The hard part would be moving everyone over to the new version of the blockchain that didn't include the double-spends.
> and if the agent promises you that nothing will happen to you if you tell the truth

I thought law enforcement is allowed to lie to you. Could they lie about this? IANAL.
I know. I'm skeptical that this policy will be enforced consistently. I think they'll enforce it in a few high profile cases for PR purposes, then the LE agencies will get a little more clever, and surveillance will continue.
Good ideas, I'll add them to the to-do list!
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Fair enough. But this year is the perfect recipe. Trump, China, EU etc....

Read Antifragile book
> Even if you are a professional trader you'll take a bath on margin over the long run.

Id say not. Say your borrowing at 7%, markets tend to average around 10-14% return a year. So if you were doing some passive investing on margin you'd be likely to increase earning. The issue is it heightens risk and the speed of losses for those that invest badly, but being margin it should largely avoid losses greater than the principle invested which is better than other speculative investments so not all that bad.
Thanks! We've updated it!
Whether it would be faster seems unwarranted to me. But that's beyond the point. Why does faster mean more intelligent?

Bubble sort in a fast computer vs quick sort ? Moving bath water with tea spoon very very fast vs using water buckets ?
Yup me! And thanks!
That's a 3% per DIMM per year chance of at least one error. Most memory faults are persistent and cause errors until the DIMM is replaced. Also, the error rate was only that low for the smallest DDR2 DIMMs.
You cannot rewrite or otherwise change transactions with a 51% attack, nor can you capture any bitcoin.

You can, however, deny certain (or all) transactions from being mined into a block. And you can exclude past transactions if you can overtake the current longest chain.
But rewriting history to exclude past transactions would require more than 51% of the hashing power. The further back you go, the more power it will require to overtake the longest chain.
This looks interesting, but I really need to see their Privacy Policy first.
As nature itself has shown, it's not necessary to understand it to create it. That's part of what makes it scary: It will probably happen and we can't predict the outcome.
simplicity. used for web browsing, terminal and listen to music. light. I tried installing Debian. Half an hour later the install crashed :)
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For a moment I thought the original Audrey assistant was reborn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Com_Audrey
Or a single car bomb?
I've often wondered this myself. Perhaps the right answer would be to benchmark and/or use the profiler.

On the other handy, I have never really had a situation where I had to pass a strict that was really big (more then 1MB).

Most of the time, big data structures are actually just slices, which use pointers to point to the memory address of the underlying array (as far as I understand).

So having sich big struct is rather unusual. Maybe it is possible to do with strings, though it would depend on how are strings implemented in go (I would guess they are just slices as well).

Furthermore, having big strings 1<x<50 MB) is rather unusual unless the strings can also become really big (1GB in which case you should not probably pass-by-reference or even better, buffer the string because arbitrary length strings can easily cause ram problems).
The algebra does seem more transparent when you use an infix lerp operator: a [t] b meaning (1-t) a + t b. I also tweaked the notation further with (a..b) to mean (b-a) but thought of as "the vector from a to b". Then, for example, a quadratic spline:

d/dt ((a [t] b) [t] (b [t] c)) = 2 (a..b) [t] (b..c)

(there are some convenient laws to keep the intermediate steps visualizable.) From this it's clear that the tangents to the start and the end of the curve (at a and c) intersect at b: at t=0 it goes through a with derivative 2(a..b), and at t=1 it goes through c with derivative 2(b..c). Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Quadratic_B.... in the usual notation.
> . I'm not sure the local optimum of invisible tax is a global optimum,

It's not invisible.

For example, here's an item from a menu in Australia:

$1.95, includes 10% GST.

You get the total final cost, as well as the tax breakdown.
Hi, we're sorry about it. We will update the site as soon as possible with the privacy policy. Thank you for your patient.
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As others have pointed out and demonstrated, you can just as easily draw the opposite conclusions about HN. Such perceptions are in the eye of the beholder.

People's assessments of the community's ideological bias are wildly contradictory, so they can't all be right and—since HN is the same for everybody—they don't vary with HN. What do they vary with? This is easy to answer once you know to look for it: they vary with the the ideological preference of the observer. Moreover the correlation is in two dimensions: 1) direction: left-leaning users think HN is right-leaning, and vice versa; 2) intensity: the stronger one's ideological commitment, the more strongly it feels like HN is opposing it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14205096 and marked it off-topic.
> you can attack the network by including illegitimate transactions in the blocks

This part is incorrect. Any block with an invalid transaction will be rejected by the rest of the network.
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I don't use white noise, but brown noise, which does not have as much high-frequency content, which gets tiring.
We had been told that a several time and we immediately check if we infringed anything. Turns out, we are clear :) Good ol times.
Exactly my thoughts.

When I saw that it was missing from the website I considered for a second that companies are just foregoing the Privacy Policy with the assumption that everyone just knows they soak up everything about you and keep it forever.
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I don't know how "direct" this is, but I generally see my taxes as going to making the strangers I see on the street happier and nicer to be around, because they have fewer problems to deal with.

Maybe this is because my city's main "export" is tourism, so large amounts of everyone's taxes here get spent on parks and cleaning up litter/graffiti and etc., rather than on things that the locals would prioritize. I don't see that as a bad thing: there are a lot of tourists here, and when they're unhappy, they can be awful people. If my city government spends my money to make them happy, then that's a bunch of potential assholes that are instead nice, friendly people! (I can only imagine how much more I would care about this if I worked in hospitality.)
I'm not American so I was wondering: do Target and Frys sell higher quality products than Amazon? Where I live (Australia) those large stores sell absolute crap, and I have to rely on online sources for quality items (example: it's almost impossible to find a good mechanical keyboard at a physical, big-chain store).
I'm not saying it's better, I'm saying it's reality. Too many people are delusional and don't recognize that the problems they're seeing aren't isolated incidents, they're symptoms of a much larger underlying problem. Trying to treat the symptoms is futile without doing anything about the problem.
Maybe not relevant, but I grew up in Greenville, SC, which is somewhat close to the border with NC. Once, I went on a Boy Scout camping trip near a Civil War battlefield in the mountains along the border. After visiting the history center on the site, our scout leader told us to hike back to camp, with an older boy in the lead (while the scout leader drove back). Because the hike in had been quite long and seemed roundabout, a small subset of us decided to take a "shortcut" that our friend Finley insisted would get us back to camp sooner (which I guess was important because we had vital "set things on fire" projects to get back to).

We set off from the main group, and away from the well-defined trail; I don't remember if the boy in charge objected to our innovative approach to returning to camp, or just couldn't be bothered with it, but they went on ahead without our small adventure crew. The main group made it back to camp, as expected, about two hours later.

Our group, on the other hand, was still wandering through the woods as dusk approached about four hours later. Before panic set in, we luckily heard a truck off in the distance...so, we headed for it, and found a road. We assumed it was the road where the campground was located, and figured we'd be back to camp in no time (surely we were really close, given how long we'd been walking). An hour later, we saw a sign..."Welcome to South Carolina". We'd walked from South Carolina into North Carolina, and were many miles from camp.

The scout leader found us a few hours after dark; we were on the wrong road, going the wrong way, and had likely crossed back and forth from NC to SC a couple of times in our hike. We got back to camp around 11:30PM. Henceforth, getting lost was called a "Finley Shortcut".

This story doesn't have any real point, but I'd guess the border that we crossed a couple of times during that hike has since changed.
What are the odds of memory errors causing hard disk corruption / boot failure?
>Polynesian navigators employed a whole range of techniques including use of the stars, the movement of ocean currents and wave patterns, the air and sea interference patterns caused by islands and atolls, the flight of birds, the winds and the weather.

The novel "The Navigator" by Morris West talks about this, some. In fact, the whole theme of the book is about a voyage that a motley group of people take, from Hawaii, to find a lost Polynesian island, that is talked about by the old Polynesian navigators, and where they go to die. There are lots of other sub-plots in the story, like about human relationships, power, etc., so the whole book is not about the navigation stuff, but overall, the book was very good reading, IMO.

Also, IIRC, the National Geographic Society had done a study of these navigation techniques many years ago. They had sent a team - scientists, sailors, photographers, etc. - to various Polynesian islands, and interviewed some of the still-living navigators, took boat rides between islands during which the navigators used their ancient techniques, etc. It describes many of the kinds of things that you say they used - stars, currents, wave patterns, air and sea patterns, birds, winds, etc. They published an article or series about it in NatGeo magazine. I was lucky to read it as a kid. Very interesting article.
Increasing speed won't be the thing that makes them intelligent. But it will be the thing that will make human-level AI short lived after it's achieved, shortly progressing to another level.
Oh man, I don't think I have much/any use for this today, but my first internet experience was on Gopher. They had it set up on what I'm assuming were some kind of *nix machines at the local library. I would search for comic book related material and generally "surf" around when my mother would drive me down there. Fortunately the Internet went public in '97, my jr high school had several networked computers, eventually all on the Internet blah blah netscape.
> The officer can write down whatever notes he/she wants, however inaccurate, whether intentionally inaccurate or otherwise, then go testify in court later, under oath, that this is what you admitted to.

In a day and age when every is carrying around an audio recorder, this can be mitigated to some extent, in the case where there may be an exigency which motivated you not to want to wait to get a lawyer involved, by asking the officer to permit you to record the interview.

(Police body cams may also mitigate it in principle, but even in departments which use them they seem to have been conveniently switched off when people are most interested in what they contain.)

If the officer refuses, well, that's probably a pretty strong signal that despite the apparent exigency, you need to involve a lawyer.
You can do things with the excess power that otherwise would be un-economical to do during a cloudy day. Things like smelting aluminum, desalinating water, etc take massive amounts of power.
Why would you network them? Just add more ram.
"Request accesss". How do I know you're just not running some sort of marketing study/proof of demand?
I think we're not that far off but you seem to generalize a bit.

It's not about being weak or relying on your partner to think or act for you.

There's a huge distance between "being dependent, passive, unable to fix my own problems" and "being on the brink of suicide" however. For me a loving partner should be able to detect that you're struggling. If not, either you are extremely good in hiding your problems (and horribly misguided for doing so), or your spouse lacked perception (or care) for you.
I'm not sure I completely get what you're doing, and I'm sitting here wondering "You're a video product and you don't have a video demonstrating your product??" or did I miss it?
I am surprised the article doesn't cite how his son Chris was murdered outside the San Francisco Zen Center in the '80s. I assume that single event changed Robert's life forever, and certainly inspired a lot of what went into Lila.
When two FBI came looking for me, they went to my mother's old employer that she had left 6 years prior. Someone at the school called her and she called me.

I called the agents and they asked if I could meet them at their office. I agreed.

I had invested in a project with an out of state person. He was referred to me by a close friend. When I stopped sending money, the person disappeared. This person had a reputable background, a family and lived in an expensive house. But he'd call me crying begging for money, claiming other investors were closing soon.

I being young and foolish, contacted his partners and my friend. I could had handled it better but I knew I hadn't broken any laws. I did tell him I'd tell everyone he knew that he was a con-artist.

The FBI agents were comically dense. One was dressed in tactical gear. They claimed they had an email I sent where I threatened the investor's young children. I strongly denied this and then asked to see it.

They refused to show me and responded, "We are the Federal Bureau of Investigation not the Federal Bureau of Information". Then they asked me if I was a member of a foreign intelligence service but mispronounced the name.

They told me not to contact the person and I should consider a lawsuit.

Before I met with them, I did ask a US based intel person what he thought. He said FBI agents are sometimes employed by private interests and that I should ask for identification and verify it with the local branch. I'm not sure if this is actually true but it certainly wasn't in my case.
Because the market.