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Isn't Satoshi probably a billionaire?

Now THAT is an interesting story. The guy must go through the struggle of fighting against cashing in every single day. Fun to ponder.
PDF is literally the worst possible format for document exchange because it has the most unnecessary complexity of all document formats, which makes it the hardest to access. But popularity and merit are two totally different things.
2,000 BTC would be $5.1M
Math guy explains bitcoin: https://youtu.be/bBC-nXj3Ng4
Oh! We just call that "passing on the right", and it's frowned upon here as well; some municipalities even have it on the books as a moving violation, but everyone does it anyway.
I would definitely recommend looking at Clojure. It's one of the more widely used functional languages in the industry. There are lots of large companies such as Amazon, Walmart, and Boeing using it for mission critical stuff now.

The fact that it runs on the JVM and makes it easy to interop with existing Java code makes it practical to integrate in many organizations already using this stack.
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Janestreet, in particular. There seems to be a surplus of information for quants but not as much on the development side. Thanks!
Tldr: bought bitcoin in 2010 and got lucky sitting on it

I find these story of stories silly but also indicative of the market. We are in a crytpocurrency mania and these read like the "Meet the 25 year old dot com millionaire who bought stock in valinux/webvan/pets.com/etc!" from 1998 that dragged even more nontechnical people into the manic runup then.

All I know is people that I'd never expect to know what bitcoin is are suddenly talking about it. What's that tell you?
You might be interested in reading this state of the ecosystem for 2015: http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015 I wouldn't expect things to look any worse since then (an interesting characteristic of Lisp is that unlike say JS materials which are a few years old are often obsolete, there are lots of excellent multi-decade-old Lisp references and code you can still use).
Well, eventually any machine learning system needs to integrate with some other piece of software that is not, itself, a machine learning model.

For instance, in AV, is the practice to train ANNs end-to-end, so that they learn to drive a car from scratch, without any interaction with other components at any time? My intuition is that rather than that, the ANN is trained to recognise objects in images and then some hand-crafted logic decides what to do with specific types of objects etc. I think some of the examples in your article say that this is the done thing in some companies.

If this sort of integration is possible, is there any reason why integrating rule-based reasoning with machine-learned models is not?
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Yes, but thanks to the "feature" of a wallet if he ever lost his computer without a backup that money is effectively gone.
Had you left off the final paragraph, I think the comment simply would have been upvoted, and nothing more would have been said.
"What's that tell you?"

It's about to go mainstream.
And that's often one of the biggest considerations you should make when switching jobs. Your current coworkers will be by far your best job connections in he future, so do them well by leaving gracefully.
I'm pretty sure that Valve rushed it, botched it and now it's waiting to have something substantial before giving it another go. They have been putting a lot of work on improving Linux as a gaming platform, so I'm fairly confident it isn't just something to keep MS at bay.
Disclaimer: I can't stand the Windows hegemony, period, much less their dominance of PC gaming (and I'm sure Gabe felt similarly).

Valve will need to dump a lot of money into driver optimization for 3D hardware in order to make this work. Windows 3D driver optimization, like it or not, is top-notch. I believe early demos of games on SteamOS were running at something like half the framerate (or less) vs. exact same game running on Windows on the same hardware.

There is also the matter of "is it a PC, or is it a console?" since the inertia of people's brains doesn't really have a defined space to put something in-between into.
ai, ml, a bit of robotics (micro controllers, sensors, actuators, how to interface and program it, control theory).
functional programming such as elixir, genetic algorithms etc... and just as interesting would be to pursue nanotech. or you can always go the web dev path and be totally unoriginal.
How do condos fit into your model of what "we" want?
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Taste clouds the mind. It introduces preconceptions, encourages judgement, and makes it harder to see the true value in something. Thankfully, many hackers were not dismissed due to their lack of "taste".

Just take the Lenovo laptop for example. I don't know which model it is, but some models are incredibly practical. They have very long battery life, beautiful keyboards, and are built like a tank. But no, let's focus on the stickers.
I sold a domain back in 2011 where the buyer offered to pay via Bitcoin. It was a decent sized transaction. I don't remember the exact exchange rate but it would have likely been upwards of 1,000 BTC.

I took cash instead.

I still look back on that and think "what if?"
Fortunately many audio providers now have been fighting back against this. For instance YouTube will punish video uploads that are louder than -13 LUFS by attenuating the level. This will provide a somewhat level playing field and encourage people to upload with a reasonable dynamic range.
Yeah, that's a good one.:)
I'm talking about India. 55% of the workforce turns into hundreds of millions of people.
My upstair neighbour stopped banging on the floor when I started using reclock's dynamic audio compressor in MPC-HC.

It sometimes end up slightly unnatural, but it beats having to constantly change the volume throughout a movie - something I didn't do too well anyway, evidently.

I still prefer the media to have better dynamics and have control over how much compression I want to apply.
I have never worked at a place that acted like it didn't care about me as an individual. Of course, I've always worked at smaller orgs too. I've never worked somewhere over 200 people or so.
um, not true. Most cars are an odd assortment of metric and imperial. All construction is imperial, and most consumer foods are imperial as well.
I don't understand how you view Developer Advocates like HR. Developer Advocates work with external developers using and building on your platforms. Wholly different skill set, nothing to do with employee management.
I'd call it the "built-in repl" rather than the standard one, since I don't think it's actually standard for people to use it directly.
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They are, but what you are buying is a HT cpu core on aws.
His original mining wallets have already been identified so if he moved the coins at all, it would be big news. Supposedly he hasn't touched any, yet...
Google RSS Reader was my defacto, for exactly this purpose. Some were direct feeds from NYT, TechCrunch, etc but many were simply, the topic searches and RSS feed obtained from those. I miss those days.

Google News does allow you some personalization. But, I am big fan of river of news concept (Dave Winer). There are many solutions still, but I am limiting my media consumption and hacker news and couple of other sites faily satisfy the need.
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You don't know how close you are...
48-Year-Old Multics operating system resurrected
How is this significantly different than any other publicly extremely wealthy person?

... I guess liquidity?
FWIW, I reached for CL to do some scripting and found using UIOP for filesystem tasks (as recommended here) intensely painful.
There are a million ways you can hide information securely (like a private key), and it's far easier than hiding gold. And only an idiot would keep a cryptocoin wallet on 1 computer with no backup.

You put your money in a bank and it's no longer your money. Trust me, I had my main bank account locked up for an entire month due merely to (groundless) suspicion (basically, I made too much legitimate money too quickly (!!)). And then, Simple.com closed my account without warning, apparently due to violating TOS by not using it for "personal use only", which was total bullshit (messing up payments in transit AND not getting back to me for DAYS about where the hell they put my money: https://twitter.com/pmarreck/status/739994477339758592)!! Don't think for ONE SECOND that your bank money and your credit will always be accessible to you (not to mention fraud, identity theft, and other things that are not possible with cryptocurrencies). There're plenty of cases of some government dipping into accounts and helping themselves. If you think your money is safer in a bank than in a properly-secured private key, you're pretty naïve.
Some new developments of the framework in the last two years:

- packaging via OPAM to separate framework code and system code

- support for specifying and proving liveness properties

- support for proving Abadi/Lamport style refinement mappings between systems

The following workshop paper gives an overview of current and upcoming work:
http://conf.researchr.org/event/CoqPL-2017/main-verification...
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The sizing is also dependent on intent. Floor underlayment is not the exact same size as furniture grade plywood. And MDF is actually 49"x97" to give you some extra room if you are laminating a veneer on it. It is true that various plywoods come in metric thickness though. Especially those made in China.
That’s unfair. It’s terrible from a technical perspective (due to cruft, mostly) but nothing comes close from a deliverable standpoint.

It’s simply the most reliable print-ready format. It is a Portable Document Format in every way that matters to the end user

There’s a reason one of the main uses of LaTeX is outputting to PDF
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Everything on the Mac has Print to PDF natively and it’s so nice

It’s one of the things I miss most when using an other OS.
I'm not one hundred percent certain, but I'm not aware of any Sony phones using Broadcom chipsets? Every Sony phone I'm aware of uses Qualcomm or the like.
In as much as taste = preference, I'm not sure that is an accurate statement. Preferences do not necessarily cloud your mind, nor are hackers devoid of them.
Devil's advocate. If SF actually wanted to meet the demand for housing it would be a concrete jungle. No value judgment, there are just a ton of people that want to move there. But since we know that SF isn't going to do that to preserve the character of the city the amount of available housing is basically arbitrary. So you could build more housing, but since no matter what prices are still going to be high and most people are still going to be left out the only reason to really do it is if it benefits the city and/or current residents.
There are a couple of videos of either Diego Ongaro or John Ousterhout, his faculty advisor talking about Raft. The most recent one I saw was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYp4LYbnnW8

Ben Johnson also made a cool visualization:

http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
One of the interesting variables in calculating ML training costs is developer time. The cost of a Data Scientist (or similar role) on an hourly basis will far outweigh the most expensive compute resource by several orders of magnitude. When you factor in time, the GPU immediately becomes more attractive. Other industries with heavy/time consuming computational workloads like CGI rendering have understood this for decades. It's difficult to attach a dollar sign to the value of speeding something up because it's not only about simply saving time itself but also about the way we work: Waiting around for results limits our ability to work iteratively, scheduling jobs becomes a project of its own, the process becomes less predictable etc.

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Part of the problem is that pro-transit usually is synonymous with "pro-transit subsidy". That's not a sustainable system. With expensive prices on systems like the BART, even this subsidy is going disproportionately to certain tax brackets and not others. There are certainly for profit public transit operators with higher uptime, higher QOS, better safety record, and dramatically lower prices, one wonders what the hell is wrong with BART.
I guess my opinion is that we should all be working less and earning a living wage. I feel that's the trend that must happen with all the automation taking place. And welcome UBI.
Probably during the Intel iMacs which came out in 2006ish, thus the reason he discusses the switchover from PowerPC to Intel.

The move to Intel in 2006ish really was a genius move and game-changer just before iPhone launched. At agencies and game studios suddenly Apple was it for both designers and developers wanting a pretty *nix. Just in time for the new gaming/app platform 1-2 years later once the SDK launched.
> expect the world will convert to them in the next century.

> Edit: Not sarcasm.

Heh. I think you'd be disappointed. I haven't heard of of any modern country seriously considering moving from metric to imperial units.

> They're sane and easily divisible into eighths and more with a single significant digit of the next smaller

Divisible maybe. But definitely not sane.

Let's take a look at lengths and weights for example:

How many inches in a foot? 12. Ok. Then it must be 12 feet in a yard. Nope. It's 3. How many yards in a mile? Guessing 1000 or 1200. Nope. Apparently 1760.

Let's try weights. Going up from ounces. Since we already did imperial lengths and saw there are 12 inches in a foot, guessing there should be 12 ounces in a pound. Wrong again. It's 16. Ok, so then 1 US ton should be 1600 pounds right? Nope, wrong again. Apparently it is 2000!

I grew up with metric then came to US and lived here for more than a decade. Apart from knowing how many inches in a foot I had to look up all the other ones because they are non-intuitive and don't follow any pattern to me. I can estimate how much is a yard, an ounce, a pound, an inch, and a foot. But again I could intuitively estimate things even better when it came to meters, kilometers and kilograms.
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Obviously the more you work the you produce. From his graph the best productivity is less than 40 hours but he thinks 40 is a good trade off between production and productivity. I disagree. In my ideal world we would be working less and still earning a good wage. I hope to see that in my lifetime but probably unlikely.
Is the complaining investor new or old? I would think obviously old but your description makes it seem like it's one of the new ones.
How accessible is anycast for most people? AFAIK, if you're ok with a third party seeing all your traffic, you can get behind Cloudflare's anycast or Google cloud load balancer (which does seem to offer TCP, so you don't have to let Google decrypt content); but I haven't seen this from many other providers.

It's not really something you can do yourself either, unless you have assigned IP space and BGP in multiple locations.
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Yeah that's the problem. Potential solution is universal basic income.
It's worse than just liquidity, if he can unlock his wallet on his phone to verify it and its balance on the spot.... not only is it liquid but he's effectively carrying it on himself in cash at all times.

At least it's only $2.5 million or so remaining, since the rest is now likely in assets that require more effort than merely access to this person+phone (and attempts to rob a person of assets in a bank are usually more traceable than stealing bitcoin). Still seems a bit crazy though.
Having been compelled to program Multics, I am appalled that anyone would want to resurrect it. One of the happiest days of my life was when my employer got rid of it. I think they gave it to Iran. : )
The metric system was based on one great (mostly) idea, and one stupid idea.

The great idea was having larger and smaller units for a given thing related to the base unit by powers of 10. That's a lot easier to work with than 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile.

The stupid idea was basing the meter on the distance between the North Pole and the Equator.

What they should have done is based it on existing systems of units. The meter should have been equal to 3 feet. The definition of the foot at the time, in both England and on the continent I believe, was a bit fuzzy, but they all had such a unit and it was reasonably consistent everywhere. Then they could have worked at making the definition of the foot/meter more precise and reproducible, keeping it within the range of existing practice.

That would have given us the benefits of a metric system, but with the conversion between metric and prior units easier. Converting feet to meters would have then been a simple division by 3. An inch would be exactly 25 mm. (25 is easy to multiple by in your head: just divide by 4 and shift the decimal point two to the right. Similarly it is easy to divide by in you head if you do it as a multiply by 4 and then shift the decimal two to the left).

Similarly for all other metric base units except for temperature.

For temperature, as far as I can tell, there was NO good reason to switch to Celsius. Unlike with distance, we don't make bigger or smaller units out of multiples of the base unit. We just state the numeric value, in decimal, possibly with modifiers like kilo or micro, and the base unit. In other words, with temperature we were kind of already doing metric, in the sense of using powers of 10 and writing things in decimal.

So the only thing switching from the older, widely in use Fahrenheit scale to Celsius actually made better was changing the anchor points for the scale. Fahrenheit based his scale on a 0 point of the coldest temperature he could make in his lab, and his 100 point at what he thought was human body temperature.

Celsius based his on water freezing at 100 and boiling at 0, but the whole universe thought having lower numbers mean hotter was stupid, so it was quickly flipped to freezing at 0 and boiling at 100.

Now those anchor points are better than the ones Fahrenheit picked, because they are easier to reproduce and more consistent. (They still suck...but they suck a lot less). Fahrenheit's degree size was better, though, especially for the range of temperatures that most people live in. Celsius' degree is too coarse.

The right approach would have been to make Fahrenheit the scale for metric temperature, but anchor at it better points. Instead of 0 as coldest Fahrenheit could make in his lab and 100 human body temperature, use the same anchors Celsius did: freezing and boiling of water. Define freezing as 32 Fahrenheit and boiling as 212 Fahrenheit.

This would have made as much sense as adopting Celsius, and no one would need a new thermometer.
My goal in life is to automate myself so I can spend more time at the beach.
Thank you. This is a point that usually gets missed on HN: car culture creates massive amounts of housing supply. It's hard enough to build at pace with urbanization. The contention for urban housing would be truly hopeless without the suburbs. Restricting a city's housing supply to what bicycles and buses could reasonably serve is equivalent to killing several hundred residential skyscrapers.

Nevertheless, this isn't the middle ages, it's not that important to own land. Condos in high-rises work too.

The current policy of low height limits is a lucrative handout to landlords: it keeps their competition small, just like restricting transportation does.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and launched Preemptible VMs).

Thanks for the write-up, Max! I want to clarify something though: how do you handle and account for preemption? As we document online we've oscillated between 5 and 15% preemption rates (on average, varying from zone to zone and day to day) but those are also going to be higher for the largest instances (like highcpu-64). But if you need training longer than our 24-hour limit, or you're getting preempted too much, that's a real drawback (Note: I'm all for using preemptible for development and/or all batch-ey things but only if you're ready for the trade-off).

While we don't support preemptible with GPUs yet, it's mostly because the team wanted to see some usage history. We didn't launch Preemptible until about 18 months after GCE itself went GA, and even then it involved a lot of handwringing over cannibalization and economics. We've looked at it on and off, but the first priority for the team is to get K80s to General Availability.

Again, Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and love when people love preemptible).
you've never fully implemented raft or paxos. it is well known that such distributed consensus libraries can be extremely easy (a couple of days coding) to start with, but it can take ages to get it polished to the extent to be production ready. a few things to ask yourself -

1. do you support membership change, checkpoint/snapshot streaming, automated consistency check, leadership transfer, witeness, etc?

2. what are the design decisions made to tolerate large latency, i.e. running your raft/paxos in geographically distributed data centres?

3. have you tried to let your "implementation" to pass any 3rd party test suite? what is that test suite? how complete it is? maybe start with the ETCD raft test suite?

4. ever tried to test your "implementation" with Japsen or at least some monkey tests? can your "implementation" survive after very high churn rate?

5. how about hardware errors? will that lead to data corruption? show me your tests please.

once you feel comfortable with the answers above, think about another quick question - how can you support tens of thousands of raft/paxos groups on a 3 nodes setup? what changes are required to make it efficient? extra testing required? when further scaling to many nodes, how to manage the distribution of those large number of groups?

your "class projects" is nothing else than a slightly more advanced "hello world" program - it proves one thing and one thing only - you are capable of reading a simplified paper written in English.

now compare it to coding interview again, is it still "an order of magnitude less difficult"?
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Shouldn't it be called quietness compensation, then? :P
One of the things you're paying rent for is the vast amount of nature sites within a few hours' driving. Living in SF and never using a car is a huge waste, though if you go infrequently enough it can make more sense to rent as needed.
In my measurement of the 30 highest velocity open source projects [0], Microsoft has VS Code, .NET and Office Developer.

[0] https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/06/05/30-highest-velocity-open...
I'm not a developer, but I've worked remotely for a long time as a freelancer and full-time, remote employee.

Here's my two cents (I edited your email):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15sEbo_WKI1q1z3aZ-lELZ0lA...
That is almost definitely related to the center channel being either too low, not existing, or some element of the sound setup mixing the center into the left and right.

I have the same problem and I have not fixed it yet because I have yet to purchase a sound system with a center channel.