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> ...you might as well be trying to convince...

The bar is much lower right now. People aren't even treating each other with due respect in a political context.

I consider it a first step to productive cultural dialog when I can come across as a decent person with reasonably derived opinions, even if they are honestly mistaken ones from many perspectives.

When we withdraw politics and other subjects from polite dialog, we are saying there is no hope for productive civil disagreement, which doesn't bode well for progress or lasting peace.
That's funny. The artists impression looks like it is based on a burried rock sticking out of the dirt.
So, we have enough of everything? It sounds like good news for the pensioners.
The paper clarifies that this means being unable to reach a solution, as in, you can't figure it out. You've hit a brick wall. Perhaps your intellect is insufficient or maybe there is no solution, but you're definitely not smart enough to know the difference. That's what's instilling unhappiness.
> I was offered low 6 figures base salary plus 3% equity for a CTO role at a startup.

That's not an unreasonable offer. You should try to negotiate it up to around $150k.

> However, I wish to be compensated for the rights to the prototype upon joining as it is about 50k lines of code.

I'd suggest you mostly give up on that idea. It's naive thinking. The market value of this code is close to 0—it's very unlikely anyone else would want to buy it from you. At best, it's just an additional reason to hire you (instead of someone else).
> or an Atheist to become a Buddhist monk

I know an atheist who became a Buddhist monk. He's still an atheist, as Buddhism doesn't require anybody to believe in God (or a god).
> there are hash cryptographers who think SHA-2 may never be broken.

It is a dangerous assertion, especially if it makes people build things that aren't future-proof enough to support more than one hash type.

Otherwise, KangarooTwelve is faster than SHA-2[0], which may be an incentive. Although it is very late compared to BLAKE2, and as a result, it is present in much fewer libraries.

[0]: https://twitter.com/KeccakTeam/status/834789451708628995
> In a statement to the Guardian, Tesla confirmed the company had fired Vandermeyden, saying it had thoroughly investigated the employee’s allegations with the help of a “a neutral, third-party expert” and concluded her complaints were unmerited.

> “Despite repeatedly receiving special treatment at the expense of others, Ms Vandermeyden nonetheless chose to pursue a miscarriage of justice by suing Tesla and falsely attacking our company in the press,” a Tesla spokesperson said. “After we carefully considered the facts on multiple occasions and were absolutely convinced that Ms Vandermeyden’s claims were illegitimate, we had no choice but to end her employment at Tesla.”

She tried to bully people utilising identity politics, the company got fed up and fired here. Too bad Tesla didn't also sue her back, it's a real shame that criminals like herself can get away with it, just because they are women. This encourages women to start weaponizing sexual harassment claims, they can gain a lot by bullying a company, yet they have nothing to lose.
Government and private pensions have the same problem, because even the stock market is "pay as you go" in the sense that somebody has to buy stocks in the future at a high price to support future price appreciation.

Either private or government investment could, in principle, lead to economic growth that could expand the physical size of the economy. If people saved more money, I see the price of stocks going up, but I don't know how that translates to real growth in the economy, more jobs, better jobs, etc. Look at how Apple and so many other companies pile up cash, how telecoms refuse to invest in better broadband, the EU can't put together a realistic plan for Greece, and how economic investment is channeled through a series of "bubbles"; just yesterday I heard an acquaintance just bought a GM Suburban, than I heard on the radio that Banco Santander was not happy with their subprime auto loan portfolio in U.S. and then that GM is closing a factory.

Yes, American consumers didn't wait one minute after the price of gas dropped to get big, expensive vehicles because they assume the low prices are permanent. Ray Diallo had a bad year because he assumed high oil prices are permanent. It is completely predictable that oil prices are volatile on a five-year horizon because producers and consumers will change their behavior a LOT on account of a 5x change the price of crude, but people get blindsided every time.

The lesson of history us that people don't learn from history. Add up another 30 years of economic mismanagement in large and small ways and 2050 is not looking so bright.
Max 10% tax being not-theft is just as arbitrary as "the rich aren't paying their fair share!"
I don't think this is that landlords have too much money.

Commercial leases are typically quite long; 10 years is quoted in the article.

Landlords don't want to be locked into a price for 10 years that could be a momentary downturn.

When you look at it at these time horizons, being vacant for 1 year and renting for your asking price is as good as giving someone a 10% discount to start a lease today.

I do think there should be a blight tax though to encourage real estate developers to find a short term use for the space.
A bit of a plug but this is my "flagship" open source project and I have worked on the codebase since late 2015 (a lot of time) so hopefully it should be a good example to take a look at.

Also would like to hear feedback if you spot something which doesn't seem pretty/idiomatic in my code.

https://github.com/RichardKnop/machinery
I came here to say "bwahahahaha" but this is so much better. Thanks.
From seeing the "Status of the Gilectomy" talk at PyCon it sounded more like the big blocker is not breaking the C API too bad. Now if somebody suggested a Python 4 with a totally backwards incompatible but thread-safe C API now that I could see him having a cow over (even though I like that idea)
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Also worth knowing: Charles Schwab has reduced the minimum investment to $1 for 10 different index funds, many of which have expense ratios of 0.06% or lower. Their S&P 500 fund, for instance, has an expense ratio of 0.03% for any investment amount. Vanguard by comparison charges 0.15%, 0.04% for investments greater than $10k, and 0.03% for $3+ million.
I've used this textbook, and frankly, it's good only for people who already know the material and want a fresh look at it. The chapters on group theory and complex analysis are good. Most of the rest are not.
Here's an example.

The parent post was at +5 and now it's in the grey. The downvoters don't bother responding, they just downvote, because differing opinions aren't welcomed.
People from other domains call this "extrapolation", and it's generally quite
well known thing with plenty of algorithms. I'm not sure if there is much to
gain from AI. Probably another example of AI research looking for a problem.
Bit pricey at $180 retail, but I can recommend Anki's Cozmo learning robot. Seeing a robot "grow" is the kind of magic that can unlock a lifetime interest in AI. App is intuitive, and with the right supervision even the Python SDK can be grokked by tech loving 13-year-olds!

https://anki.com/en-us/cozmo
That's strange because that's not how British universities work at all. Our education system from age approximately 14 onwards is concentrated on specialisation.
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What's wrong with refined oil?
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Oh you learn that "you just don't say things like that". Interviewing is a lot like sales, where you are the product. So it stands to reason that the "truth" is a movable entity. You build the truth your "client" is looking for, you enhance what would be pluses for them, and keep your real reasons for yourself. After all, they are your reasons and no one else's.

As you mention, I do care and put effort. I don't have things coming back to haunt me. I have quite a bit of experience. And I do things fast if I need to. I just don't do them fast just for the sake of it, so I try to be seen as "meeting the targets" as well as "meeting expectations". Because if you are exceeding expectations you are really being underpaid. Well that's my view and my opinion after quite a bit of decades.
Its a perception problem. I think the simple perception of the GIL as making multithreading untennable in Python has given Go a big boost and has hurt Python considerably.
The gap is large enough it's really just math. TLDR; Some people get 70+% more per dollar put into the system.

Further, there is no income cap on social security, you simply get deferred payments, but at 70 earnings stop counting. AKA if you take it at 62 and make enough money to get 1/2 as much from SS at 70 it's recalculated and you get more money than if you had started at 62.

Anyway try some numbers: https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/quickcalc/index.html Date of birth: 6/15/1950 Current earnings: $40,000.00 Retirement month: 6/2020 = $1,564.00/month.

Double earnings to 80k and keep other number the same and you get: $2,510.00 which is much less than 3,128 or 2x $1,564.00/month. Drop that to 20k and it's still $1,090.00.per month which 73.7% better ROI than someone making 80k per year.

Now yes lifespan is critical, but not enough to make up the 73+% gap. Marriage on the other hand can provide more than a 50% benefit on it's own which shifts things even more dramatically.
> Dumb question: why don't they launch rockets from the tops of mountains?

Not a dumb question at all. It would actually give you some non-trivial advantage - but altitude matters considerably less than speed when trying to achieve orbit.

Starting a mile higher would allow you to avoid the densest parts of atmosphere, giving you less air resistance and helping with the Max Q, or maximum dynamic pressure (rockets sometimes need to reduce their engine output until they have cleared the denser atmospheric layers, or they would break up due to air resistance stresses).

This does unfortunately not outweigh the cost and complication of moving your launch site on top of a mountain. If you're really after every scrap of advantage, moving your launch site closer to the equator is way better than moving it up (until you already have it at the equator, that is).
I changed the thing I have (and want to have) control over, the sedentary lifestyle.

The time I spend not being sedentary is also the time I don't spend in front of screens.
You are correct for the most part, but I think you are drawing the wrong implications.

Yes, they are resistant to swings based on mood changes in the population. However, this does not hold for changes of mind or strategy by elected people themselves. They might promise something at some point and then not do it. US history is full of broken promises.

A counterpoint is that Trump and Obama are elected directly and specially on foreign relations they have a huge power to do whatever they like. Obama promised some stuff, Trump retracted it.

> In contrast, a dictatorship is unreliable, because all decisions are made by one person, whose mood swings can result in lots of unpredictability.

That is true in theory but in practice many dictatorships are remarkably stable. A dictator has to please his cronies, he can't do whatever he likes. He can do what he likes as long as it does not touch the interest of the cronies.

Check "Selectorate theory" in political science. Or this nice little video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Actually, according to the extended Church-Turing thesis, all Turing complete systems can emulate each other with at most polynomial overhead, so no exponential blow-ups.

The only possible exception we know of is quantum computers.
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Actually no.

Long answer:
Yes, the outgoing transaction from a ledger to another one is done using crypto that can be broken by quantum computers.
But a ledger that has never been used to send money is only visible by it's hash value. So it's security is based on sha256 which is quantum secure (There is Grover's algorithm, but it should be OK for a while). BC would just need to change the signing algorithm. So unless quantum computers pop up just over night everything should be fine.

There are many threats to Bitcoin, IMO QC is one of the smallest.
why VOO and not SPY?

I have always said do 60% SPY and 40% QQQ.
I read somewhere on HN another article about how time management kills productivity, and conclusion was that the best companies integrate idle time in their schedule. The idea is that time is used for processing interrupts.
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Not really - detecting ad blockers is pretty straightforward, try to insert a DOM node that triggers their ad pattern matching then check if it's been blocked.

Not to mention spoofing your user agent is very easy! It's built into the devtools of most desktop browsers (including Edge), or can be modified by a proxy like Fiddler.

I wouldn't ever want to rely on useragent to identify a browser if the idea was to completely block that software from accessing your site.
The latter, BGP is simply a path metric. Your question reminded me though that Internap used to sell an appliance called FCP Flow Control Platform that would take the top 10% of destination ASNs from your edge(via Netflow)and run ping probes to them and allow you set the preference via iBGP to prefer routes with the lowest latency. It was nice in that you could route around network "brown outs" upstream. It has since turned into their Miro platform. There was also a similar appliance called Route Science. I was always surprised that there wasn't ever an open source version of something similar. Although you don't hear a lot about these appliances today. I think maybe because of the proliferation of CDN edge networks.

http://www.internap.com/network-services/miro-controller/
Kind of goes in the direction of what Thoughtspot (https://www.thoughtspot.com/) is doing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-y_EjFsDuk)
Haha no. There's too much wrong with your understanding for me to help. Good luck but you're on your own.
Not really. It's still too hard to do from both a regulatory and technical standpoint. There is enough liquidity and infrastructure around BTC to be feasible, but the regulators squashed that idea.

Also ETFs are great, but they are not a panacea for every asset class. Sometimes there are fundamental reasons why they don't work, but the idea is so buzzy that you can make a buck off selling garbage and calling it an ETF. Reminds me of something...
Nice to see that your second solution doesn't require passwords to conform to a format to work.
This is totally stupid. All this will do is screen out intelligent, funny people, leaving only the deadly dull to get visas. After all, governments are not known for their ability to detect and appreciate sarcasm, irony and droll humor.

It's just another way to tighten everything down in the War on Surprises.
But then it's not free. It's just that somebody else is paying for it. And that quickly becomes hard, when your readership grows. Especially if you are just starting out. Even Wikipedia was at first sponsored by a private, for-profit organisation.
A bunch of people will learn a very good lesson on gambling. One thing I do enjoy about bitcoin is that it's complicated/technological enough that traditional media doesn't have good language to speak about it. With stocks, there's this huge vocabulary which is used to obscur the fact that most people have no clue why it's moving, they just throw out some jargon. Seeing that stripped bare for altcoins is really refreshing.
My observation from other communities with downvote buttons is that they encourage more groupthink, not less.

With no downvote button, it's at least possible for a subcommunity to get a thread near the top for a while. Downvotes let the majority suppress these.
We should definitely rename it, because until yesterday I didn't know that "SHA-512/256" was an actual thing. I thought it was just shorthand referring to both SHA-512 and SHA-256.

Edit: this comment got 7 upvotes before the editing timeout, so I'm not the only one either.
>as long as the transaction has a reasonable fee attached to it, you can proceed immediately (this is called a 0-conf transaction)

Not true. A 0-conf transaction is a transaction which has not been confirmed at all, which is orthogonal to its fee.

A transaction with a reasonable fee may not even be confirmed at all, as it only takes a few days to fall out of every mempool and average fees are currently unreasonable, so it is not safe to trust 0-conf transactions currently as they may never make it on-chain.
Says who? Ridiculous title. Visualizing data is as essential as computing data.
Please explain how society is completely disjoint from government, such that a zero-sum assertion is possible.
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People do a morally equivalent thing in Javascript, on occasion. You can use Object.assign() to build an object's functionality from multiple unrelated objects. For example, see the section on concatenative inheritance here: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/master-the-javascript-in...
>Look, there's no dispute that Facebook is an assault on the 'open web' because it's a walled garden where the data only flows in.

I dispute that. I don't feel like my 'open' WordPress blogs are being attacked by Facebook.

Does Facebook's lack of full-blown openness constitute an attack on anything? I don't think it does.

It seems open web advocates resent that FB successfully competes against their offering. I have a fondness for the open web. I'd rather see us learn from FB, and compete, rather than whine about losing market share.
If someone made a new social network like that, I'd sign up today

Lots of people have. There was for example Ello a couple of years ago. Me and many of my Facebook friends created accounts, used it for a couple of weeks and slowly kind of ended up back on facebook. Apparently no one else stuck around either since Ello seems to have turned itself into something else.
I've been using it for a while, too. I'm guessing it's been available in Enterprise/g suite, but is now rolling out to all users.
Yet in the dozens that I've taken in the last year, I've had exactly zero. I don't think either statistic reflects reality.
Personally I prefer the ad blockers that don't serve ads and the privacy protectors that don't invade my privacy. But to each his own I guess.
How is SHA-512/256 not vulnerable to length extension attacks? I've implemented the SHA family of hash functions before and the only real difference between the two is block size and truncation of output, but I don't see how that stops length extensions.
Well charts is a good addon but just wanted to understand how they are able to do this ... i mean Machine Learning part , for example if somebody asks "Show me sales of X product in last year" , from machine learning perspective how this gets interpreted in actual SQL query ..
I think the whole "fill up a digital wallet with cryptocurrency" thing is what Brave is (was?) attempting but without much success. I do think it's the future, they just took the wrong approach (Replacing others' ads with your own IS going to create bad blood no matter how you spin it) and were too early for it.
> "Hacker News doesn't need to cover politics for the same reason your average sports, celebrity gossip, fashion or gaming forum doesn't need to cover politics"

Indeed. And when sports forums (e.g. ESPN) start getting involved in politics, then invariably end up alienating half their audience. This has happened with ESPN, which has contributed to its downfall.

I don't want that to happen to HackerNews.

I come here for love of the software craft, not for subjective, divisive political stories.
Apologies in advance for the long post, but it's been a lazy Friday and I've nothing better to do.

I'm in Ireland, in Trinity College Dublin. The way the course (Theoretical Physics) as a whole is taught is rather odd compared to other universities. For various historical reasons, the theorists are staff of the mathematics department rather than the physics department. For other historical reasons, the Theoretical Physics (TP) course is separate to the Physics course and its teaching is split evenly between the Mathematics and Physics department.

Due to the way the TP course is structured, we take a lot of rigorous and proof based maths in the first two years. Single- and Multi-variable Real Analysis, Calculus on Manifolds, Complex Analysis, Group Theory, and of course Linear Algebra are all covered rigorously. Fourier Analysis and ODEs are covered also, but less rigorously and more focused on applications. All of these modules are shared with the pure mathematics students.

The Physics students on the other hand, are required to take another subject during their first two years. Most choose chemistry. Because of the additional subject they only take non-rigorous equivalents of some the above. Multivariable/Vector Calculus instead of Analysis, no Calculus on Manifolds at all, I'm not sure about complex analysis, no group theory, mostly computation based linear algebra. Their Fourier Analysis and ODE course are much the same as ours.

So over the course of the first two years, the mathematical maturities of the TP students and physics students diverge significantly simply due to the topics that are studied.

This, and the fact that theorists are in the maths department, has resulted in a lot of modules that would traditionally be the realm of the Physics department alone, being duplicated. The physics department teaches the physics students a certain topic, while the maths department teaches the TP (and pure maths) students the same topic, usually more in depth as there is less need to delve into the mathematical machinery behind it when the students are often already familiar with it.

For example, next year the modules I'll be taking in the maths department are "Classical Field Theory", "Electrodynamics", "Quantum Mechanics" I & II, and "Statistical Physics" I & II. The Mechanics modules I mentioned earlier were also taken in the maths department.

In 4th year, the gap widens further, as there is no way at all for physics students to take GR or QFT (as far as I can recall). These are only taught by the maths department, which also offers to TP students, depending on the year, modules on Algebraic Geometry, Group Representations, Lie Groups & Algebras, Differential Geometry (a prerequisite to GR here) and others.