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> made it easier than ever for entrepreneurs to raise large sums of money without dealing with the hassles of regulators, investor protections or accountants.

Umm no easier than raising funds for any other venture, in fact probably more difficult and I would think a lot of that money is coming from people who were already made rich by other coin like bitcoin. Easy come, easy go, but enjoy the gravy train while you are riding it.
I'm sorry but this is so absurd. They are doing the equivalent of printing their own monopoly money in the garage and then selling it for real currency... dollars.
I agree. I've been fine myself.
But if people feel the need to turn it off. ;)
For practical purposes, "non-technological" == pre-19th century.

Rationale: technological societies have mechanisms, most especially transport and communications, which obviate the reliance on social structures for establishing trust.

Put another way, the ability to micro-manage and surveil workers, citizens, residents, etc., reduces the need to rely on their innate behaviour. The thought's occurred to me that this is itself a swapping of information for trust.

My 19th century boundary is early (most of the technologies and adoption post-date 1800, many considerably), but sufficient to clearly demark a before/after point. Following 1800, you'll see an increasingly significant set of cultures which don't have to rely on cultural and religious protocols and regulation.

My request then translates to: show me a massive (continent-scale, or at least wide-ranging) culture, prior to 1800, which didn't have a significant religious component to its culture.
I found nothing unfortunately. Studies in both languages seem to be focused on Ramadan rather than long term intermittent fasting.
Well, it's also highly physical. Cooking and cleaning take up a large chunk of the time and labor, even if you aren't technically required to do so.
Hashi Vault isn't that difficult to setup, especially for smaller setups, it's basically just a binary you run, with the file backend. You still get the auditing goodness, etc. Otherwise I agree with what else you said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergrounding has a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages.
I like that list but am sorry that they didn't include the 7400. A far more influential part than Transmeta (which I sy despite having many friends who were at Transmeta).
You haven't.
Norwegian is privately owned.
There are programs that generate the tokens for you, templates for promotional websites, companies that specialize in shilling, pump groups that help for a cut. You don't have to do much but invent a name and write a nonsense "white paper" (pet supplies on the blockchain). Best of all, you can remain anonymous.
Do they do the same for internet providers?
Jobs at major airlines are high paying because of the high cost of time, effort, and dollars necessary to procure the skills necessary for the job. A new pilot can expect to spend at least $150,000-200,000 at a 4 year program largely due to the expense needed to gain those hours you mention that make him or her safer. Once that's done you'll spend at least a couple thousand hours working to get experience in low paying jobs like those explained in the article you linked. All of this experience is necessary to get those high paying jobs ($200,000+ within a few years) at a major carrier to make the pay off worth it.

The major airlines are paying high wages to attract the best, most experienced pilots in the world. There is definitely no rent-seeking in this employment market.
Even if you do something like assume a bimodal distribution with small variance, the mere presence of protests doesn't tell you much.

It's not even particularly clear to me that protests have gotten more frequent. When I was in school 15 years ago there were enough protests; I just ignored them...
Amen. Not heavily investing in tech while being in the industry is just another form of diversification.
Wait, I thought Microsoft already took over the US economy, creating a toll-road by dominating the Internet?

http://i.imgur.com/CfaOAxF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZEMkiPk.jpg

Oh right, this isn't 1997, Amazon is the new new fear monster click-bait machine. Bezos is the new new world's richest (soon to be). And Amazon is going to rule everything!

You know, or, it turns out the US economy is so massive that it takes so long to conquer any given big corner of it, that long before that happens the all-critical founder retires or dies, and whatever big conglomerate one happens to be speaking of at that time (whether Sears or Walmart or Alcoa or IBM or American Tobacco or GM) then goes into erosion or stagnation as competitors/government/technology change attacks it.
Yes, CS50 is quite lively but in terms of quality, 61A beats CS50 hands down.
>in fact probably more difficult and I would think a lot of that money is coming from people who were already made rich by other coin like bitcoin.

That's why it is easier. You have a bunch of gamblers who have gotten lucky on one bet thinking they are now master investors. They have seen a few ICOs pop so they are willing to take a punt on any that come through pretty much even if it makes no sense.
Can you link to such programs, templates, companies? I'm interested to research and have a good chuckle.
I don't think it's just conservatism. When buying a guitar, most buyers are primarily concerned with three things: does it sound good, is it easy to play, and does it look good.

Graphite and carbon fiber has superior properties in some respect, but substituting carbon fiber for wood doesn't necessarily make the guitar sound or look better or improve playability. Compared to acoustic instruments, electric guitars are low maintenance and durable. People in very humid or very dry environments might prefer carbon fiber to wood, but for most of us, wood is fine.

Robotuners similarly don't solve a significant problem that most players have, and they're complex and probably costly to make and introduce a battery to a guitar that didn't need one before. The convenience of automatic tuners probably aren't worth the costs.

Headless guitars similarly don't solve a particular problem, as far as I can tell. I expect to be able to rest a guitar on leg and not have it tip one way or the other while I'm playing. Most guitars balance fine with a proper headstock. I haven't tried a Steinberger, maybe they're really great guitars, but there's no particular reason for me to expect that I would enjoy playing a headless guitar more than a "normal" guitar. (Note: I have built headless cigar box guitars [1], and I kind of like the design, but that's a bit different than a full-size electric.)

True Temperament is more interesting because that actually is addressing a real problem, sort of. Electric guitars are pretty bad when it comes to tuning, but the problem isn't so much intonation, the bigger problem is that 12-tone equal temperament is a compromise -- you can sound okay in every key (12-TET) or you can sound really good in one particular key (just intonation), but you can't have both. (The latter alternative leads you to some interesting looking fingerboards [2].)

I would be more interested in the TT guitars if they were focusing on temperament rather than intonation errors. (I suspect they may actually be doing that, but their marketing material says they're correcting intonation. I'm skeptical that any normal guitars would need such extreme corrections just to play in exact 12-TET unless the action is set unreasonably high.)

TT also has the problem that normal frets can be repaired or replaced by any competent luthier using ordinary guitar tools, but I wouldn't even know you would do a fret dress on TT guitar. Maybe you'd need a special crowning file that goes around corners or something?

I think there are some ways that the electric guitar could be improved, but to some degree, I think unscientific emotional hand-wavy reasons can be a better guide to making an instrument people want than to approach the problem by using science to optimize specific criteria based on some untested assumption that optimizing that criteria will make the guitar better.

[1] http://jsnow.bootlegether.net/cbg/neck2.jpg

[2] http://jsnow.bootlegether.net/jik/CAM00441.jpg
Judging by the headline alone I can tell this isn't about the Canadian market...
Diving into the world of hash tables
Some ORM patterns are great, others suck. For instance, the activerecord lifecycle callbacks can be very difficult to maintain and reason about, particularly after_commit hooks and transactions that create associations.
There's a lot of rose-tinted nostalgia about Radio Shack. And they were a handy place to pick up cables and other components that weren't always easy to get elsewhere--especially when you weren't sure what you needed. That said, their stereo products were as you say mediocre at best. Pretty much overpriced crap pitched to mainstream consumers who didn't know about or were intimidated by both big stereo gear stores and specialists.
Why is this image https://d1g3mdmxf8zbo9.cloudfront.net/images/linux/lpc-trie-... jumbled in Firefox beta?
"A fool and his money are soon parted"

Sounds fitting, huh?
these things are strike me as greater-fool schemes. everyone hops on thinking they are probably ahead of the curve, and most of them are suckers. what a funny game- the skill is knowing how many other people will go for it.
These are still in production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark

They're essentially a 486 core with some Pentium instructions added.
I have absolutely no doubt that there are white supremacist police officers.

For the previous point, read Scalia in Castle Rock v. Gonzales:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-278.ZO.html

Note how the weird particulars of how Colorado police were not required to enforce this person's restraining order in effect define where there are requirements, in particular, from anything intrinsically stemming from the Constitution.
Does anyone think these cryptocoins will hold value during, in, and through the next recession?
Okay so the ultimate cause is apparently "because Microsoft was legally compelled to publicly document poorly-designed internal functions as part of the DOJ anti-trust suit".

Go figure why Raymond Chen decided to do a blog post on this though, since apparently that is a verboten topic which leads to a weirdly sparse article that doesn't answer its title question, and a censored comment thread.

It's annoying, but given that it's nearly a decade old it's probably not worth getting upset over it.
ALB: Lithium would be better, it just had a stock drop. But the numbers are good. They did grow 15% or more this year. Recently dropped from 116 to 105 or so. The future would bring a Lithium shortage, so I'm waiting till then :p bought at 92

AMD: it had a year to profit from their release. The bet just recently paid off. Still HLD though. Bought at 11,xx

For some stocks I have notifications when they drop 5%. Mostly when I think they are too high right now
I can see why that's something they wouldn't want to talk about.
The irony is I don't hear much anymore about the unstoppable Walmart juggernaut destroying the retail businesses of America.
FB, They have access to great consumer information that will continue to make them a valuable advertising company for a long time AND they've continued to expand into other markets (VR) while making smart defensive acquisitions to protect their core.
> Find a router that uses pairing instead of passwords.

Can you elaborate on that? I've never seen a router that doesn't use passwords. Does this mean to use WPA2-PSK vs WPA2?
20 conversations; 5~8 coffee dates; 2~4 proposals; 1 gig.

Many developers believe that conversations "just happen" for some elite breed of networked/famous/etc developer that excludes them. Sales conversations generally don't "just happen", for anyone. You write some pitches and make some calls.
> I don't think that a very good indicator. There is a difference between the tech industry and financial services. Financial services depend on markets that have a well known and established opening and closing time. In the US the markets are very much tied to 9:30AM to 4:00PM in the Eastern time zone.

That hasn't really been the case for quite some time. A majority of option and equity trading now happens directly rather than on open exchanges and is thus immune to "market hours". Forex is 24 hour. And London is still the finance powerhouse despite not being in the largest economy (and not being in the Euro, but manages the vast majority of Euro bond trading) and in fact being in a country the rest of whose economy is a basket case.

But physical propinquity still matters, it seems, for the human intangibles.
These problems have existed for years - I once tracked down a dead cell in core memory on a system I worked on in the Air Force. Because of the chance alignment, it caused incoming messages to never "end". Which was fun for the operators.

http://www.1882nd.com/images/DSTE.jpg
The centrally-planned rational economy of the future is emerging from a few blocks in downtown Seattle.
You've been breaking the guidelines all over the place in this thread. Please don't do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, give in a few million years and I am sure we will be optimized for packaged donuts.
Depends on the recession type.
>So, to maximize freedom, we need to limit concentrations of wealth/power. Yes that makes some less free, but it makes the greatest freedom for all.

Like I said, it's like trying to boil away the ocean. It's futile, given the scale and complexity of the economy, and given that you can't touch foreign sources of capital. In the attempt to control the entirety of the economy, you're giving governing authorities enormous powers of surveillance and interjection, which I strongly suggest will end up exacerbating income inequality even if that is the opposite of the original intent.

I oppose campaign finance laws, because I believe it's another case of trying to boil away the ocean: in this case, control how much people spend on political advertisements. And once again you're giving enormous powers to governing authorities to dictate private actions, and this power can and will easily be exploited by special interests to further entrench the power.

I'm glad you agree on the Athenian democracy model or something like it. Something like jury duty is exactly what I advocate.
NVDA was a GREAT bet on AI/deep learning, but it's gotten very expensive now.
It's not just at little companies that might be ephemeral. I work for a large media enterprise and have built a platform over more than half a year for them to repeatedly waffle on whether or not they will use it each production round before moving against it at the last second. They requested I build it in the first place, and continue to bring up the issue to draw me back to development hours with new issues or feature requests. It hasn't been used in production end-to-end once. Madness.

It ends up making me look terribly unproductive and ineffectual. Thankfully I have had good bosses who understand and back me up regardless.
I don't know if they were ahead of their time, or woefulily, even negligently, unaware of their market. I remember going to "the mall" as a kid with my Mom and spending (what seemed like) hours staring, coveting, and sometimes purchasing the blue blister pack ICs; all while she waited patiently to do her shopping. I didn't have the income they were looking for, and was far from their target demographic.
Some time in 1979 my dad paid the local RS a visit with an intent to purchase a computer for the family. After spending an hour in an effort to get some answers from the salesman who, according to my father, was more interested in selling battery memberships, he walked out.
I now recognize and appreciate that, at the time, a $2.5k purchase might have been seen as the exceedingly unlikely result of questions from "just another lookie loo". But if R.S. took even a moment to see the potential of their customer base, I likely wouldn't have awoken Christmas 1979 to an Apple ][+.
I'm not sure actual economic events will have anything to do with a cryptocurrency crash. The price of bitcoin, ether really has nothing to do with overall economic prosperity.

Also, I believe of lot of crypto currency is purchased in China as protection for them, and a truthfully a get rich scheme.
Cool. Zero comments. This is a bigger problem in tech than a lot of other industries. Welcome to the meritocracy!
These crypto coin bubbles can't pop soon enough.
>(that would cost money to maintain, best to have you use your own paper and toner at home).

Or... you can board with your phone :)
Transporting electrons is extremely difficult. Even with HVDC lines (usually more efficient than AC lines over long distances) you get around 3.5% loss per 1000km. If you tried to run a submarine cable the distance that LNG tankers travel, you'd end up losing a quarter to a half of your power just during transmission. Not to mention the cost of actually building & maintaining that infrastructure.
Isn't half of that 400 million a kind of retainer to keep ULA available? I thought they're still paying that, so it's not much cheaper yet. And they might still need to pay it to someone.
Obviously I agree about Itanium vs AMD64. That's a one punch knockout. It was freaking brilliant of AMD.

However the Mill doesn't extract ILP. Compilers do that. And given a code base there's only so much available. Yes, compiler technology is much better now and still there's only so much ILP available.

Lastly, VLIW has been tried with JITs at least twice: Transmeta Crusoe and IBM Latte. VLIW code generation is hard and it's harder if you have very little time which is the nature of JIT.

Ivan, if you're reading, think embedded.
I pronounce "mnemonic" without any "u" sound, and I've almost never heard otherwise, so this particular misspelling is a little puzzling --- unless the original author was thinking of "pneumonic". I wonder if it is a UK vs. US difference.
I don't understand -- how would vesting have helped? If you can't fire the other person, vesting doesn't help when you have dead weight in the cap table. It sounds like the only remedy is your friend should have had hard conversations earlier when the other partner had less leverage...
Again, that's what I said, it's subjective. To me infected mushroom and splonge (or however it's spelled) is nice sounding gym music, very little complexity or depth. It sounds like 1000 other trance or rave songs and little else than overlying the same synth patterns over and over. Honestly first time I played with a synth and turned on the arpeggiator I suddenly lost a bit of respect to most dance music out there. Nice production, little art. Autechre for example if a completely different thing, people who have created a completely unique and risky musical vocabulary and have been defiantly experimental all their careers.

But this is just like, my opinion :)
Note that I actually think Itanium is somewhat architecturally interesting and that VLIW is both simultaneously over and under estimated/appreciated. I wanted to just highlight the example of a chip that definitely shook the world, and it didn't even have to succeed to do it!

Regarding the Mill: I still haven't heard a (good) answer for the perennial question: Where's the ILP?

Every time I ask this question, I'm pointed to the "phasing" talk. The issue is:

1) It's quite similar to a skewed pipeline (which Denver already has) in which you "statically schedule across branches" and delay the start until it's inputs are ready. Now, Denver did quite well indeed, but it's hardly a replacement for OoO.

2) Even from the examples that they show, it's clear that this is no where near 3x the ILP, at best, even from their own example, it provides 2x.

I hope the Mill can do well in embedded because they have quite a few good ideas (albeit many of which have already been done which they claim is their own, such as XOR-ing addresses, done by Samhita), and because the computer architecture industry is currently starved for innovation.
The Holy Wars of procrastination
>Yet this entire discussion is based on your initial assertion that Uber should be free to break the law in order to create 'great consumer benefits'.

I'm saying we should get rid of those laws that infringe upon the right to engage in voluntary interactions, and stop enforcing those laws until they are officially repealed.

We should absolutely maintain the core of the legal system, which prohibits involuntary interactions.
Not sure if sarcasm or not. This study would imply anything but meritocracy.
Show HN: A note to collect structured data
Time for some heavy stick and penalties, laws exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination#Lega...

Challenge is to prove it.
I think there are at least some people (e.g., money launderers) who will use a cryptocurrency even in the face of losing money, therefore it's not entirely a pyramid scheme.
You may want to take a look at this http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-changes-firefox-apis-de...
"Make your resume more about stories you can tell and less about tools you can use."

This is great advice, but I've never been able to describe it so succinctly.
About 20yrs ago, I had a very different experience. While trying to leave Israel my traveling companion and I were detained and repeatedly questioned for 24 hours. The crossing by bus from Jordan into Israel was uneventful, however.

While detained, my journal was photocopied (including the contact information of a friend in Egypt who had only recently been released from prison (he was sent to prison because of his poetry), my 35mm camera was destroyed and the film exposed (but I didn't get it back to find this out until nearly a year later), some of our belongings were never returned, and they did not release our luggage to our next destination (Italy)-- we spent days in the airport in Rome before we finally found out that Israeli security had held our bags. When we finally got our backpacks, the Israelis had poured all the liquids-- shampoo, contact lens solution, etc. over everything inside).

I spoke with a Palestinian businessman while being detained who told me this treatment is the norm for him when he travels, "They are trying to humiliate you. Don't let them see that it is bothering you. It will only make it worse." (they were metal detecting my underwear at the time of this conversation).

The thing the Israelis obsessed the most about during the interrogations (so, I assume it was what made us suspicious after the initial cursory search of our things) was that we had US passports, but our guidebooks for the Middle East and North Africa were all in French (we left on this trip from Paris).

The rest of the middle east was truly amazing! Beautiful people!
Since it is not legal for employers to require you to give your age as part of an application, doesn't this simply encourage candidates to lie about their age? One way that age is given away on resumes is to look at work history or date of college graduation. In lieu of the current situation, is it not advisable to simply not give the date of graduation and only provide the previous 5-10 years of work experience on resume?

It isn't a perfect approach, but it makes it more difficult to discriminate since by the time you have a face-to-face interview with the employer you are already well along in the interview process.
This. People fail to understand the Itanium wasn't necessarily the only representative for VLIW.

Better compiler tech in the past few years (you mentioned JIT for example, which Denver has adapted to do quite well) has made VLIW a strong technical contender in several markets. Alas, the overhead cost of OoO is no longer the issue in modern computer architecture.