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"mainstream science maintains that we're neither individuals nor have free will"
lol. You haven't even bothered trying to give a definition of what free will is... The definition of which is something for philosophers to debate.

What I think you mean to say is, at the level of human perception, mainstream science maintains the universe is deterministic (as opposed to non deterministic (which quantum mechanics might be (or "super deterministic)).

A deterministic universe is in no way incompatible with the notion of "liberty". You might think of each "choice" you make as a transition in a finite state machine. If you have more potential transitions from any given state, you have more liberty. You do choose what transitions to take, your issue is just that at some level the universe caused you to choose one of those transitions... well what would "free will" look like? A ghost ("soul") outside of the universe controlling your actions instead? How is that any better? Why does the ghost make it's choices?

Not sure what you even mean by science maintains we aren't individuals?
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I would hope it would be nice to read since one could argue Rust was designed for the purpose of building Servo. So, if you can't implement Servo nicely in Rust, it'd be a pretty bad design.
Is there a way to fix no one being able to short these things? The counter party risk and irrational exuberance outlasting ones solvency should be solvable somehow?
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Maybe, but assuming Shermer has correctly conveyed the contents of this part of the book, Sapolsky's got a lot of nerve asserting so confidently in this book that there is such a definitively deterministic core to humans behavior at the macro level while acknowledging irreducible complexity irrespective of scale as he did so clearly in one of his Stanford lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_njf8jwEGRo&index=21&list=PL.... I really like the guy as an educator, and I'm sure he's earned his scientific chops, but that doesn't qualify him to be even an amateur ethicist.
I'm not familiar with that term. What is a "corridor session"?
I know Amazon gets a generally bad rap around HN, but my organization at least pays for all SDEs to attend one conference a year. While not everybody takes advantage of it, those that have typically provide several brown bag sessions to disseminate their learnings to the team.

I've found it very useful both to attend and to learn from those that attended, particularly when I can get the highlights (and potentially new ideas!) of a conference I'd never attend personally.
>massive shift in the chip industry

I would argue that there has been, specifically that Moore's law isn't working as it once did, so the competition is catching up. It's becoming a commodity space now that smaller process sizes are hard, and gains from that are paltry.
Your employees could quit when they get other offers from businesses that care about professional development. You will have higher turnover and institutional knowledge will constantly be leaving and having to be relearned. Onboarding new employees more often has a direct, measurable cost but is obviously different for every business and position.

Your employees could learn advantageous and/or competitive information from talking with people at the conference. They will bring this back to you and ask for a raise when it turns out it's a bonus for everyone, but that's what we want, right? Maybe it's important enough that you get to pitch the new thing to the CEO and you get a raise as well. Everybody wins.
Just wondering how those of you who have known about Ethereum for a while but didn't buy it feel about missing out on >3000% returns this year. I didn't buy any and dislike knowing I could've been rich.
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>I've been trying to figure out how to live while minimizing the extent of my personal fabricated narrative.

sounds interesting. Do you know of any suggested reading on the topic?
Just wondering if there is any backstory to the name 'solve'? Congrats on the launch
It's when you talk to people in the hallway in between or instead of talks; also known as "the hallway track."
> There already exists a common currency through which we can trade. It's called ether, and we can use it no matter which token pairs we want to trade...

Exactly. For every ICO that pops up, ask does this use case require a special token? Often ether would be sufficient or even preferable because of greater liquidity.

Exchange between digital assets can be easily facilitated with something simple like Prism: https://info.shapeshift.io/blog/2017/05/21/introducing-prism...
Along with these complaints, I wish there was a greater sense of urgency among publishers to reduce page bloat. Some news sites require megabytes of javascript, video, and god-knows-what to display a couple kilobytes of text. It's crazy out there.
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if you cut through the hype, Prism is an ethereum hosted CFD (contract for difference) platform.

They claim that they will be taking the other side of customer bets on portfolios initially, and hedging by buying the underlying. later, they envision other market participants will short coin portfolios.

With CFD's upside and downside is capped. so neither party is investing, just betting.
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The underlying problem here is that the ICO model as most-frequently implemented is pretty broken.

It's kind of a like a hybrid between an IPO and a Kickstarter, but:

1. With kickstarter, the reward has roughly constant value with respect to the total funds raised;

2. With an IPO, the supply is predetermined. While the cost per share may be astronomical by the time you get around to buying in, it's clear what fraction of the offering you're purchasing.

ICOs tokens typically have:

1. value inversely proportional to the total funds raised; and

2. (since supply is not determined until the end of the ICO in many cases) no clarity around what fraction of the offering an investment actually purchases until the offering is complete.

This leads to some pretty crazy situations, Bancor being the most recent and most notable example, but in general, it just doesn't really lead to very sane practices.

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This is precisely why IPOs are conducted the way they are, with investment banks pre-purchasing a predetermined number of shares just shy of what they expect to be a fair market value, handing that money to the company, and then selling those shares on the open market.
It's all about definition here I guess. I would say choice is the illusion itself.

I chose the words I did, but the "how" is all an answer of essentially very complicated physics, chemistry, biology, and everything I've experienced in my life.

>"If you have no free will, you can't express yourself... nothing you do will be the product of your desires."

This is absolutely false. My desires are still a part of what drives me. I express myself every day in countless ways. The distinction is that I didn't have free will - it was always going to happen, in the way it happened. My consciousness does not understand how it came to that though, so it sees it as choices I made. It's just a bunch of molecules reacting to each other. That doesn't say anything of what the reactions mean or make what I do or feel any less important.
You can pass in Go, so there is no such thing.

But there are many simple examples from chess, especially in the end game. The king-rook checkmate, for example, relies on the fact that the player must move (inevitably, into opposition).
I got in as soon as I realized what it was capable of, my only wish is it had been sooner.
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And they load so slowly that you start to read and then the text shift and now you've lost where you were.
It's no different than missing out on AAPL or AMZN. You can't see the future and it makes no sense to judge yourself against an expectation of seeing the future. (Cryptocurrency price movements aren't based on fundamentals, so no amount of research can accurately predict them.)

Also, Bitcoin had a roughly three-year lull; it's entirely possible that another such lull could happen after you buy.
This really doesn't have anything to do with what the person you replied to said. He merely asked for some sort of cost/benefit deal, rather than handwaving away the analysis.
Would you rather have lived in HK or China post-WWII?
the only way to short these ICO's is to not buy them.
shorting anything requires borrowing the asset, usually paying interest (as an incentive to the lender), selling them and later buying them back.

the other option is a betting platform where people just take side bets, but counter party risk is substantial and your short is limited by the trade collateral and vice versa for your counterparty taking the opposite bet.
1. Ethereum will always have more consensus failures than bitcoin. It has a larger attack surface, and competing implementations.
2. Ethereum will always be more risky because they abuse the "default option" power over apathetic nodes. Thus any regulator can just have them make aml/kyc/sec reg a requirement and bye bye efficiency.
3. Ethereum was always have more down time than bitcoin, check out 2017 for instance. (see point 1.)
4. Ethereum has 3x less reddit users, a couple x less twitter mentions, a few x less wallets, a few x less press, a few x less years of testing, less hardware wallets, less adoption in nearly every way.
5. Ethereum tricks devs into loser far more money with "smart" contracts that have bugs, than bitcoin does with accidentally sending change to the miner instead of to a new address.
6. Smart contracts will always be dumb as long as you have to trust a signal from the real, non digital world (oracle problem.) If you have to trust anyway, then just let the oracle do it all.
7. There's nearly no demand for the gas you're supposed to buy with ETH to make ETH valuable at all, unless you like it's speculative platform utility. Gambling on gambling.
8. Their blockchain is bloated grows faster than many users can download it. It's transactions per a second is maybe 3x bitcoins. It's very likely sharding and other solutions will not "work" if you care about immutability/trustlessness.
9. Ethereum is more centralized, more risky, down more often, and always will be.
The course's homepage (not the YouTube video playlist) has been posted previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13381591
Wow, 144M. As a crypto n00b, can someone clarify if this is "real" money? Just wondering since I have never heard of Bancor before and this amount of funding is incredible.
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The only advantage there is when you can read the whole article before their javascript paywall or anti-adblock script actually loads.
Sure. But you're still talking about the analog portion of the circuit. If the analog output of a digital recording - supposedly the input was a near-perfect square wave - is different from the analog output of an analog recording, and neither looks like the input signal, then it is a) certainly possible to make an analog output stage that produces a more precise output that better matches the input, and b) possible to make an output that better matches the analog output. Remember, the input was supposedly a perfect square wave, and contained inaudible components. The recording/playback component had nothing to do with the fact that you can't hear the entire spectrum.

All the limitations are in the analog phase. As you point out, it depends on the design tradeoffs in the DAC, amplifiers, etc, and that's an important lesson to learn in the class that was being taught. Nevertheless, the point I was replying to is the claim that the digital representation could not represent a square wave. That's certainly not true, and no Fourier transforms are necessary to demonstrate it. A PCM recording is just a series of impulses, not a series of sine waves.
It does! I tend to use Bitcoin directly when its value is high but I use USD when the value is low, I know it might seem counter-intuitive but that way I get to save on Bitcoin whose value has been increasing. For Bitoin to USD I use online banks like Neteller or AdvCash.
I haven't come across any so far. I convert BTC to USD and use that.
Yeah I mean I think this is the crux of the matter here. That and the fact that most conferences are an exercise in circle-jerking about how smart you are.
I'm on an iPhone 5 and can't adblock without side-loading an app, so I just keep javascript disabled in Safari instead. Keeps these bars from appearing on Medium and everywhere else.

They still shouldn't be there in the first place though.
What's your add-on? It took me almost 12 months of working on mine (probably 500-600 hours) before it started to make money.
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I probably shouldn't be replying to people who end sentences with "lol". But ok, I'll bite.

>You haven't even bothered trying to give a definition of what free will is

I assume you read the article and we're using that as context in our discussion as people do when they're discussing articles on HN.

>The definition of which is something for philosophers to debate.

Not really, there are three accepted mainstream philosophical views on free will: libertarian, determinism, and compatabilism.

>What I think you mean to say is, at the level of human perception, mainstream science maintains the universe is deterministic (as opposed to non deterministic (which quantum mechanics might be (or "super deterministic)).

Not sure what this exactly means, but the "universe is deterministic" is part of what mainstream science claims.

>You might think of each "choice" you make as a transition in a finite state machine. If you have more potential transitions from any given state, you have more liberty.

You're pushing a homunculus theory of free-will here. The idea that there is a "you" that is making a choice for you. That's libertarian point of view.

>well what would "free will" look like? A ghost ("soul") outside of the universe controlling your actions instead? How is that any better? Why does the ghost make it's choices?

Actually based on your previous sentence you seem to believe that -- not me.

>Not sure what you even mean by science maintains we aren't individuals?

The break-down of the "individual self" as a theory. Look into studies done on patients with severed brain hemispheres. It shows you that there is more than one competing selves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx53Zj7EKQE
I'm gonna go with, yeah, it's planned. Here's why...

We all know by now we can't "win" a war in Afghanistan. President Washington spelled out why in his Farewell Address (and proved it prior to that as a General) and warned us against partaking in this kind of stupidity.

Being there in Afghanistan for 16 years now is pretty rock solid proof that for us citizens paying for weapons of war was, and is now, a longterm plan that's already been hugely successful for those who sell them.

The excuse "We must fight the terrorists over there" sounds great on TV but makes no sense to anyone that has any. Especially when the nation your warring on is landlocked half way around the planet, has no air force or navy, and is one of the poorest nations in the world.

But people all around me are scared of them and I live way out in the boonies in the middle of the strongest nation on earth. Don't matter, they're still scared.

So, yeah, I have to say it's planned and it's working good.
I tried attending the IEEE IMS conference in Hawaii this year; my company said not to even ask.
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its in ETH, not dollars, so it would be quite difficult to convert without slippage because the markets are quite illiquid.

Basically, people trading their ETH paper gains as a diverisification play.
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I doubt you'd even find a counterparty to bet against
America has taken local power to an extreme. There is just no pre-emption or exception to that local power which includes numerous fiefdoms within the county, the city, the utilities, a massive complex of competing federal, state, and city regulations. And then unions. To this day, if you do a trade show in Javits and take a computer power cord and plug it into a power strip, let alone BRING YOUR OWN power strip, you will get chewed out. A worker who sees it will chew you out, tell his buddy who will chew you out, tell his boss, and he his boss, and in sequence you will have a minimum of an hour of swearing, vitriol over how you're intentionally trying to fuck them over, cost them money, take their jobs, on and on. It is one of the worst union cities I've ever experienced.

Instead of protecting a right to work concept, they protect specific tasks. So even if that task becomes obsolete, you still have to pay that union guy with that specialty to stand around doing nothing.

If it weren't for all the people you'd disenfranchise from such a process, what you'd want is a business, neighborhood, city, state delegation to create a federal law that totally preempts all state and local laws, for each major project, to cut through the red tape. shrug

Oh and middle men. There's a middle man for everything. Especially in Manhattan, it's almost not hyperbole to say the doorman has an accountant, a lawyer, and a therapist. And anybody making more money than a doorman, has two or more of each of those.

Great city. And a shit hole.

EDIT: Also, I think the 2nd Ave project is a big fat classist waste of money. The Lexington Ave/Park Ave line is not that far away, Manhattan has already a very dense subway service compared to Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn.
Apparently it's "fremdscham" in German.
The argument the paper makes does not rest on whether memory encryption is implemented solely in microcode. All the problems with SGX lie with its management part not with the encryption part. I'm referring to side-channel attacks and lack of secure counters.

If you read the paper carefully, there are many other arguments one can make against it. However, it is an interesting paper and its message is worth considering.

Peer-review is not a perfect process. I think the research community is better off with publishing such a paper.
This is truly peak HN. No matter how philosophical or universal the topic of conversation, someone is still so mind-killed that their reaction is "how will this affect advertising".
and by replacing minimum wages it means work with a positive, but low, value per hour can still be offered that would otherwise be forbidden.

So your utopian ideal for ending poverty is UBI plus slave wages for the 99 percent. I fail to see how this is in any way better than minimum wage jobs. At best, it is a new variation of minimum wage, only you don't make minimum wage by getting a minimum wage, you get it by having a UBI plus below minimum wage pay.

That proposition only makes me feel even more opposed to a UBI.
rqlite has the same limitations as SQLite in this regard.
I think a lot of money going to these ICOs are people that got into bitcoin/ethereum early trying to diversify their gains with more crypto tokens. Like, the BAT token consisted of 4 whales
Heh, paying. I'd be pretty happy if I didn't have to use PTO to attend conferences.

Or at least I'd attend way more of them.
The Loopt deal seemed sketchy from the get go. And was one of the first concrete tangible things that made me start to think YC isn't much different than the rest of Silicon Valley in not being a meritocracy, the opposite frequently.

Loopt was effectively dead in the water when it got bought. It was a geo location app. But it got bought by Green Dot. A frequently despised (look at their reviews) finance/prepaid card company. Loopt and Green Dot happen to share connections like Sequoia. Once Loopt is acquired, nothing is done with it. Or its tech. I highly doubt they would want to spend $40M+ to acquihire however many people came over, and not even the founder. Unless Sam did?

I hate turning this into a rant, but YC's treatment of Maciej [Cegłowski]/Pinboard and the way they took back their word..eh I could say harsher things, but I'll regret it. But their handling of the community supposedly choosing a few people for F3 last year was not cool. YC seemed just like the rest of SV. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633270 is an example of the incident.

That makes me think even more firmly that the Loopt deal was done by connected people exchanging hand shakes and favors.
Makes me wonder if they didn't have any other way to disable logging in to the account. Which is worrying in a whole other way.
I used to go to these Wednesday night Bitcoin meetups at "Bitcoin Decentral" in Toronto.

Half the people who attended these were idiots looking to make easy money for no work. A quarter were guys who had gotten into bitcoins when they were cheap and had decided that they were geniuses, and not simply fortunate. The first half loved listening to these guys.

The last quarter were actually interesting people, into crypto and crypto-currencies, doing cool stuff. And some of them were into this thing called ethereum. Sometimes there were talks with that Vitalik guy.

And I did not buy even a single coin.

It was a bad investment. It was some random guy at that weird house on Spadina Ave who said he was making a better Bitcoin. Sane people do not give money to schemes like that. Those crazy idiots who wanted to get rich for no effort, let them throw their money at this ethereum thing, just like they'll throw money at every pyramid scheme and the Toronto housing market.
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I've got 5x edisons that sit at pretty high CPU util and give me no trouble, the Ci20 is the biggest piece of trash I've used; imagination deserve to go out of business (they'll beat intel to it).

Raspberry Pi, can't really knock it. I wish the Edison form factor took off.
The new Microsoft has made amazing strides in transforming themselves .
People with the work ethic you describe are very very shortly found in tents on sleeping bags on the side of the road with signs that say "anything helps".

While there is certainly a small minority of such folks around half a percent of the US population in fact the threadmill between not bothering to come to work and homelessness is so short that not many people are en route at any given time. On the other hand around 14% live in poverty in contrast. Looking at the houeshold income anyone in the bottom quarter is barely scraping by given the cost of health insurance and house costs.

Your perception is an elaborate fiction informed by no actual data. Most of the people in poverty are working hard to stay in one place.
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this is yet another reason why people use adblockers and things like noscript
Its inflammatory and untrue. Its an emotional appeal to the just world fallacy that frankly detracts from actually useful conversation.
I would very much like the industry to settle on at most 2 of:

- Scripting language (python, ruby...)
- Fast language (c++, java.... )
- Functional language (elixir, haskell...)

and we concentrate on them to get tooling really good.

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2016/07/27/TheChurn.htm...