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I don't know that I'd say there's no reason at all.

For one thing, if you have a contiguous file and you update some (but not all) bytes, putting them back in the original location allows the file to stay contiguous.

Also, if you write the data back into the original location, you don't have to update metadata such as inodes. Now, you may say that's less data, but on a spinning disc, there is some threshold below which the amount of data written doesn't matter much at all and it's the number of seeks that matters more. That is, if it's a choice between a single 50k continuous write or two separate 1k writes in different locations, the single write is probably quicker. (But this falls apart eventually of course.)

Whether these reasons are enough to prefer updating in place is another question, of course. But it's not like there isn't any benefit at all.
So, I recently hit the 50+ age bracket, and got laid off by VMware back in November. I got a BSCS in 1989, and my first job after graduation was for the Defense Communications Agency in the basement of the Pentagon. I've worked for AOL (years before Gene Kim got there), and I've consulted for Apple, Raytheon, AT&T, and a wide variety of other companies. I was literally doing DevOps many years before that term was coined.

Since the layoff, I've been able to scrape together a few phone interviews, but I find that it is damn hard to get a second interview -- anywhere.

It's not just hard to get into this line of work at this age, it's also hard to get another job in this line of work when you have already been working in this industry for over 25 years.

The last time I was interviewing, one recruiter said to me that they were looking for someone who was just exactly like me -- but just five to ten years younger -- and asked me if I knew of anyone who was looking. I don't see how you can have as much experience as I did at this time, if you didn't start playing with computers back in 1982.
Most of the above features dont need constant monitoring, so adding a plugin for that purpose won't add any large overhead. And many plugins do similar tasks in Atom/VSCode with minimal overhead. Even for continuous monitoring of filesystem, node.js is very fast(there are many native plugins).

Disclaimer: I am developing an IDE using electron for a visual programming language. I have worked on JRE based IDE toolkits before (SWT/Swing). Both the runtime performance and developer experience appear better to me. You can of course get better performance if you directly write in the platforms native stack, but my point is that JRE is only as good as a properly architected Electron stack.
You might want to check out "Lists" link at the bottom of the page; there's a bunch of things there.
It's become a sport, with all that that implies. Training and supporting an olympic sprinter is a multi-million dollar investment. But olympic sprinters haven't been the fastest mode of travel in centuries. If all you want to do is go fast, you buy a really fast car or an aircraft and you go fast. But simply going fast isn't what the sport is about. It's about pushing humans to their limits and seeing what humans can do. It's a race. And chess has become the same. If you just want to win at chess, you ask a computer. But if you want to play a game of chess, or watch a game of chess, it's all about the humans.
Educational transcripts, patent filings, farmland ownership transactions, small-supply-chain records, lab reports, government transparency reports... Pretty much any records where the total amount of data is fairly small, but you want to share it publicly in a place that's long-lived and extremely tamper-resistant, so others will trust it. Smart contracts (computer programs) can do more, of course.
Ok, so Michael Redmond just came on along with this other girl. He said AlphaGo made a few weird moves, but didn't give an opinion of which way the game is tending (though I felt from his tone that he thought Ke Jie might have a chance). The girl said she was following some Chinese players' group and the talk there was that the game was even.
What Virginia Tech learned about how and why we crash our motorcycles
Sounds kind of like a surfactant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant)
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The most impactful technology that will ever exist is "engineering human beings". This becomes possible as we identify genes for things like intelligence and with CRISPR.

Intelligence is of course huge. Trustworthiness is huge. Probably 20% of GDP is related to trust whether it's paying for security, police, the military, $100s of billions of excess health care spending from over-billing and over-testing.

I think engineered human super-intelligence will have inestimably more impact than AI...but it enables AI because in a world of a few billion Leonardos, everyone will have figured out ways to solve repetitive work.
Thank you for arguing your point.

Very often people advocating that we need to flee from social media don't get the chance to argue or at least practice arguments against someone with such a clear and obvious stance as you.

In the end, people who hold a similar position as you, must of their own volition leave the site for a general uptick in privacy.

And the only way to do that is to show someone something they want.
In theory, voice processing could be done locally, and then you'd only have to upload coordinates and/or place name, just as every non-voice weather app.
This is nonsense. Genes don't work by some sort of "total weight" principle like pebbles on a balance.

And intelligence has noting to do with "right" vs "left". That sort of political framing language is an excellent smell test for bad scientific information.
T420, sorry for the delayed response, I had to get home to check.
Laziness is competitive advantage. There are costs to it though - in this case, we pay for it with our data. Small bits of our souls, if you will.
Not without making calls to c-bound processes that plug into the event loop or two independent JS run-times talking to each other which is also possible on the web through iframes or in Node via spawning child processes.

Single-threaded is desired behavior in the case of web ui and of Node, which is multi-process c/++ under the hood and JS responding to message queues.

It's pretty simple. Functions block. The messaging queue that triggers function calls in event-driven, setTimeout, XHR, talking to another JS runtime cases doesn't. So yes, you have to be careful to not lock up your entire server by processing images with JS function calls in the same runtime.

But the huge benefit you get out of this tradeoff is that you don't ever have to worry about two things trying to change something at the same time. Everybody is locked until your functions are finished and with async that doesn't typically take very long.

The synchronous lib calls in Node are mostly for convenience. I use them all the time when doing simple file I/O stuff where I just want to read something from a file, do something to it and stick it in a var or a new file. In a server or more complex application, however, you always want to use async callbacks.
However, the use of hyperbole transforms the claim into an extraordinary one.

That is, unless you consider hyperbole to now be standard, in which case we have to likewise transform the original material being quoted.

Otherwise we're comparing apples to super duper hyper bestest-ever oranges.
According to this study[0] - and if experts are to be believed - it's not zero (in the case of B-W differences).

"Around 90% of experts believed that genes had at least some influence on cross-national differences in cognitive ability."

[0]http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00...
It gives you so much out of the box. Easy choice for the backend. Second choice node/express for games.

Front end would depend on the project. JQuery for simple things, Vue for website components or single page apps and react for games.
Hoe do you become one of the humans behind this engine? I am looking to earn some $$ after my day job.
Even if they aren't building affordable housing, the luxury apartments relieve demand pressure on existing housing stock. How is it that almost everyone who writes on this topic omits this fact.

Luxury units may not be as good as apartments at different price points but it's strictly better than not building any housing at all.
Thanks for explanation.

I haven't studied AlphaGo games against Lee Sedol. I wonder if Ke Jie played that way because he saw AlphaGo playing a good counter to the more usual moves (an approach on the right side).
> Can a pro + alphaGo beat AlphaGo consistently? if so, it means humans still have something of an identity.

Seems like a hard bet. The human professionals weren't trained to pair with machines to beat other machines. I don't think a human-only skill can even exist due to the nature of the game. Ultimately, each state of the board has a value and this value is estimable using reinforcement learning. Games where a state doesn't have a quantifiable value is where humans could shine. Such games however are not objectively decidable, such as fine arts like painting.
When using a classical C compiler, the code is transpiled to Assembly, which is then finally converted to binary via the Assembler.

This is why this "word" doesn't make any sense.
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Setup is easy I think. And I do sign all my commits. But none of my team members.
The more people get off, the less useful facebook is - and the more currency alternative means have.

I suspect, the people you feel happy enough to call, will be people who you would be happy enough to keep in touch with no matter what the medium.
The vanilla "secure pastebin" is simply an insecure pastebin served over HTTPS.

Better, actually-trying-to-be-secure pastebin implementations will encrypt the data with JS before sending it to the server, and later decrypt it with a key that's embedded in the link's URL fragment (which the server never sees).

The security evolution here is that both the ciphertext and the code for the webpage to decrypt it are stored on IPFS, which is a content-addressed filesystem.

Thus, so long as you access pastes through a trusted (ie, local) IPFS note, the hardbin server operator can't insert code on the webpage after-the-fact to exfiltrate the key or plaintext back to them.
Not only do SDCs offer that benefit, they also have the potential of making the city center more accessible from the suburbs. Imagine living in sonoma county and being able to summon an Uber pod that will whisk you to the city at high speeds while you do your own thing in comfort such as read or watch your favorite show.
5.4? I'm loving dusk.
No, we have a republic. Fundamentally different animal.

In a democracy, the public could vote to do something that would be considered wrong such as stripping voting rights from everyone who likes country music. And with majority rule, that would pass and become law of the land.

In a republic like ours, the constitution governs what can and cannot be enacted by the majority. Since such an act would take away guaranteed minority rights, the constitution prevents the majority from doing something like that.
So classical C compilers are also transpilers and we should refer to them in this way, as they do source-to-source conversion from C text code into Assembly text code.
Sexual selection contains much of that randomness.
Looks like you can sign up here [https://www.remotasks.com/] to be a contractor for Scale API
Federal judges are part of the local legal community, just like the law firms that survive by creating Delaware corporations. Social cues and environment affect all of us more than we imagine.
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*not guaranteed
Well it's only a "religious argument" if you also assume that the fossil fuels our economy currently relies upon are somehow never going to run out. Renewable energy is the only long term solution to a number of energy problems, the climate change issue just makes the need for it that much more important.
don't know who to respond to, but i really enjoy the way he thinks. he tends to take over the commentary a little bit, and i'd love to hear her opinion, but the commentary is very respectable. kudos to them,happy to hear he's well respected.
>And thats why the pair go in this series is actually most interesting to me.

Is the pair game really going to test this though? Both sides are human + AlphaGo. Also, I have not read specifically what they are planning for this match, but when I hear "pair go", I think of teammates alternating moves without coordinating. If AlphaGo makes a "weird" move, the human teammate would have a chance to mess up in the follow up.
I agree with this point, but to me its a degradation of the game. It degrades into a sport.

Go has something amazing about how we study pattenrs that are 100's of years old. Many current and active training materiels have up to 400 years old!

Go is something were each generation looks at the previous one and builds on that, and its been a very old and iterative process. If go becomes an exercise by how little we lose to machines for, its a major degradation of the purpose of continuing that history.

As a pro, you are just working towards the inevitable goal of solving the game, and then we are all free to never play that damn game ever again :)
No, it's a republic because it has a constitution that sets out the rules for what the government is and is not allowed to do. Democracies give the people absolute rule, whereas the constitution denies a majority from enacting certain laws that violate the constitution.
As someone who works at a finance related company: yes. No USB storage is allowed, all cloud hosting sites are blocked (not SO, thankfully, they're more worried about us stealing SSNs and other PII than code), and all printers are logged and have drivers that detect if you're printing PII and censor it by default (or so I've been told, I don't really feel the need to test that).

A friend works at an investment firm, and has similar restrictions as the above commenter mentioned (no SO, no USB, no printing, etc), as well as pulling his phone out while at his desk or around any other computer being an immediate fireable offense.
Northern District of California I believe.
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You need an oracle for prediction markets to function. Voting on the truth doesn't work, you will be sybil attacked into oblivion. Is there an oracle present in these contracts? If there is, why wouldn't basic multi-sig work just as well?
UPDATE: Redmond just did an early count and AlphaGo is slightly ahead.
Ease of use for both encrypters and decrypters?
That might be why you would choose to play as a professional. Clearly, those who continue to play chess as a profession do so for other reasons.

That said, humans still contribute heavily. Computers may calculate a position as advantageous to one side or another, but it takes a human to explain why in heuristic terms that others can use to evaluate similar positions.
So how do you do that for the server side of things? Only accept a certain number of connections before you have to completely shut down and restart the server? How do you do the restart without the infinite loop somewhere?
Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?
Additionally, the project is on a new tech stack (for me). I would like to be productive as soon as possible and help the team move faster while adding quality and better engineering practices.

Any tips, help, books? Thanks.
I hope its my variation, and not a mockery of the game by alternating moves.
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Geographic effects on athleticism: most people get out of breath speed-walking in Tibet because the air is thinner. It's hard to run in Antarctica because of all the clothes you have to wear to stay alive in extreme cold. Most people can only do a few push-ups before drowning when placed on the floor of the continental shelf off Cape Cod.
Would you mind giving a source as well? I've been doing some googling and every paper that references this seems to describe correlations to IQ scores rather than variance of IQ scores. For example Bouchard & McGue (1981) reported a correlation of twin's IQ of 0.86 if living together and 0.71 if living apart. That particular paper doesn't fill me with confidence (it seems to have a sample size of 111 and it's a meta-study), but it appears to be the most cited paper I've seen.

I haven't seen anything that discusses a variance of IQ score, nor do I really understand what that means (what's the standard deviation of correlated multivariate distributions?) It would be interesting to see the analysis.
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The purpose of the constitution is to protect the public from the tyranny of the government. And within the public, to protect the minorities from the majority.
-- Typed on a machine only possible because a lot of very smart people came before me.

I wish you luck in your future hunter-gatherer career.
It's the name for the smallest unit of ETH value.
Patent filings / Farmland ownership transactions: There is a reason these aren't already bearer assets.

Educational transcript / lab reports / gov transp.: How is it an efficiency for this to be on a blockchain. Do we now not trust archive.org?
>Seems like a hard bet. The human professionals weren't trained to pair with machines to beat other machines. I don't think a human-only skill can even exist due to the nature of the game

The point is to find that out !

Also, Go has an intricate relationship between strength and beauty. Strong go tends to be beautiful. Does our capacity to perceive beauty give us a leg up on AlphaGo?
Well the thing is, if they had alot more knowledge about this stuff, they'd probably make way more money "going straight", though I'm sure there are some exceptions to this.
Add -shit and stir: The intensifying affixal -shit (2014)
Typical Sony... neat execution but engineered to be built cheaply.

720P video in 2017?

3GB RAM?

Not room-bright, but you have to dim the lights to use it?

Fixing all the above is technically possible but would cost more.
Yep, I consider the use of hyperbole to be a standard colloquialism in this case, not a claim that they did an in-depth experimental study of pastebins and have compiled a report for peer review.
Yes, it is feasible to sell $1 million in BTC (444 BTC at present) in one day. Assuming you're in the U.S., my recommendation is to signup for a Gemini account and read about their daily auctions. They do more than enough volume to fetch you a good price. They're also a highly trusted and very professionally run exchange. I can't recommend them highly enough.

If that doesn't work for you for whatever reason, Bitstamp and Coinbase are both good options. Both have the daily volume to give you a good price on your 444 BTC. Coinbase has pretty strict daily withdrawal limits ($10k per day by default) whereas Bitstamp does not, so I'd try Bitstamp before Coinbase. However, Coinbase can increase those limits if you ask nicely.

Whatever you do, stay away from Bitfinex. They're currently not letting anyone withdraw money.
finally, i can combine the security of the browser with the convenience of seeding torrents!
Maybe he blew $5 million on GPU miners before ASICs came out
Not the person you asked, but Miele is worth a look.

I've got a C3, which I mainly bought to keep the pet hair and allergens under control. My only regret is that I don't vacuum nearly often enough.
How is this post not higher on HN? It's got 500 points at 14 hours.
Thabk you for your offer!

What is going through Lee Sedol's mind, watching this? Does he wish he was the guy getting the later crack at the more advanced version we see today, or has he come to terms with his single victory against AlphaGo a year ago?

If these questions seem nonsensical it all, please feel free to reformulate them to something that has a more interesting answer.
IP protection. In a prior life I saw someone fired for mailing a model to a home account. Pasting code to a public website would violate similar protocols.
One Thing per Page should probably be mandated by law for mobile forms! So much easier & faster to manage.
It's not just that they are associated with people that can't code. Though that is definitely part of it.

It's mostly that they are associated with a style of building systems that is considered antiquated, expensive and closed minded.

This stems from a few things but I imagine the VC* (VMWare) and CISSP are probably the 2 that have contributed most to this mindset. CCN* (Cisco) could also be considered a problem but less so.
This is a really, really important point to consider. AlphaGo does not care if it wins by a half point or twenty points. Increasing your margin of victory past your margin of error is one way of achieving victory, but simply reducing your margin of error below your current margin of victory can be just as effective an approach in many situations.

If AlphaGo is highly confident in its ability to reach an effective draw in other areas of the board, it will happily enter a line in the current area of play that only nets it a stone or two, rather than going for more material at the cost of uncertainty in the remaining areas in play.
If what you're trying to achieve is to pump out some
HTML, Go has built-in safe HTML templating. The template syntax isn't glamorous (in fact it can be very unpleasant at times), but with it you can catch type errors at parse time, and the ability to bind custom functions on your templates comes in handy.

Usefully, too, any type that implements the Stringer interface can be dropped into a template and will come out of it as a string without any additional fussing. If your app implements a number of custom types, it's actually possible to get Go templates to look relatively sane.
> As a response to the podcast the Vox piece is slipshod

Vox is one of my least favorite outlets; not because they're more inaccurate or dishonest than others, but because they intentionally (and somewhat successfully) foster a reputation of facts-first journalism and then use that as a fig leaf for a lot of the same low-quality crap you see everywhere else too.
According to his comment history he bought them back in 2011 when they were super cheap and did partial cash outs.
Frankly, this is probably what most of humanity will be like in the not-too-distant future.
I used to somewhat dismiss IQ for this reason, but the thing is, though the concept of "General intelligence" as a concept is, perhaps loaded, it's really an average of a number of independent measurements, each more well defined than general intelligence, and each easier to measure... there's a few different systems but WAIS breaks it up into 4 indices, divided between verbal and performance IQ[1]... much of the population seems to have all 4 of these indices closely correlated with each other, though I became interested in this partly when I discovered I was an exception... I have dramatically higher verbal comprehension index than I do processing speed, if I recall correctly, with, I think, the former perhaps two standard deviations above average and the latter perhaps a full standard deviation below average. I don't know what the correlation means for most people, or what my deviation means for me, but the test is at least capable of seeing differences, so the fact that it doesn't typically see them probably means something, though I don't know what.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Adult_Intelligence_Sc...
I don't know where you are, but if they're available, I highly recommend a Karcher vacuum (I have the WD5).

(As long as you don't have small carpets, it's so powerful it'll actually lift them up)
> Chuck Palahniuk wrote much of "Fight Club" while sitting in useless meetings.

I doubt that's actually true. The only reference to it is in the trivia section on imdb.com.