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Sprint’s Chairman Has Engaged Warren Buffett About Investment
I was surprised that this article doesn't mention that California is one of the few states that allow graduates of unaccredited law schools to sit for the bar exam. My understanding is that the bar passage rate for graduates of these programs was much lower than that of ABA-accredited institutions.

Edit: I found an article with some numbers: http://abovethelaw.com/2016/11/californias-bar-exam-passage-...

The breakout chart (towards the end) shows that ABA-accredited school graduates passed with a rate of about 60% on the first try, which seems alright, compared to a dismal 30% or less for unaccredited schools.

Edit 2: For comparison, the NY bar passed 67% of first timers, which is a little easier than California, but not dramatically so. Source: https://www.nybarexam.org/ExamStats/2016_NY_Bar_Exam_PassRat...
But licenses for the old Creative Suite were an eyewatering $2500 USD for the full suite. Sure, you'll get there in four years with a full-on CC subscription, but for the large number of users who only want Photoshop, the ~ $10 USD / mo. plans are pretty appealing (and Adobe now makes money off of them, since it's easier than pirating it to pay for it).
> The cost of an MD5 cycle is basically zero. Zero times a thousand is still zero. Zero times a million is zero.

I don't think you have any clue what you're talking about. Do a million sequential rounds of MD5 on your CPU and measure how long it takes. I guarantee you, it's not zero. Not even close.
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An interesting read, a bit more inflammatory than I find informative but the points are pretty solid. Realizing a new device, especially a safety critical device, is something to be done with care (he rants about the Nest smoke detector). And it is "easy" to get irrationally exuberant about adding a computer to things that don't really need them. But I'd diverge a bit on claiming the practice flawed rather than simply the application of it in this case.
Globalization is a baby in the grand scope of things, we are in period 1 of 1000. I've got friends around the world, I do business with people around the world. That is not going to change.
OK, browsing through their code, I see they use Hyper.
Can this get deleted somehow, it used to be relevant, but all the surrounded comments got deleted.
This is a beautiful response, but would seem to indicate that truth is not worth pursuing, and that social reality is all that matters. Disregarding whether this particular conspiracy theory is true, do you not think (hope?) that knowledge of what is actually true can at least help to inform effective strategies for change? That a model that stays tight to reality can lead one to a better place than a black box that makes decent predictions and provides steady paycheck?
mypy is getting good (from haskell's perspective that would be 'barely passable', still a great improvement from what it used to be), been using it actively for the last year and advocating it for 6 months and seeing nice ROI even considering it's warts.
Are you saying Blizzard doesn't provide a service for the $15/month that it takes to play WoW?
The "Flintstone House", a/k/a 45 Berryessa Way, Hillsborough, CA, would be another example. Bay Area residents may recall sighting this from Interstate 280, whilst crossing the Crystal Springs Canyon bridge.

http://www.flintstonehouse280.com

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstone_House

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/flintstone-house-hillsbor...
Another way to do a similar thing is HAM on Amiga, I only recently got to reading about how it works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify
because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772630
People have become comfortable with casual colloquialisms in places where they were not previously appropriate. I've noticed lately that many reporters and contributors on news programs have been saying "so", "you know" and "sort of". The reporter on Bloomberg TV just said "meh". The use of "sort of" irks me the most. At best, it is filler. At worst, it is a tell that the reporter is not completely confident in what they are saying.
I think wyldfire was referring to the part about generating a new key on launch. Of course, Rails might do that too, for all I know.
Running one process per neuron is going to be extremely slow.
My degree required a class like this. It was the most useless class I took.

The theory heavy classes (automata, algorithms etc...) covered material that changes very slowly.

But, as a previous poster said "we don't yet understand software engineering." Because of this software engineering best practices change with the wind. As a result, the software engineering class was a hopelessly outdated survey of how software was built in the early 90s when our professor last worked in industry.
Perhaps, though steamed or fried it'd probably fit on a single plate... and then you'd get the fiber, too.
The previous challenges were too time consuming. That's why we switched to this approach.

We intentionally left the prompt ambiguous in terms of what a meaningful contribution is. A meaningful contribution can be anything that the candidate justifies as meaningful. A single, really well thought out method contributed to a library that the candidate uses often can be all it takes.

When we assess the candidate we take into account the full package. Senior engineers with an extensive portfolio and multiple open source contributions aren't help to the same volume as someone who's fresh out of school with little experience.
You said the incentive to do so, not an incentive to do so. If, as it turns out, there are many different competing incentives, the easiest way to find out what affect switching to subscriptions has on the addition of features to software is to look at software that has switched to subscription. If you do look at it, your concern has little to no practical impact; subscription software gets new features all the time.
> In historical preservation, you have to choose your battles.

Though you sometimes get fun surprises. An old Lisp Machine (hmm, or ITS PDP-10?) backup tape contained an unintentional screen dump. Freezing a moment in time. Editor session in progress. And an animated bug hack crawling across the screen. An virtual insect preserved in magnetic amber.
Costs are really low by matching best provider to dispatch an SMS based on receiver's number. Plan is to keep it free until
cannot afford it. If it gets out of control, will implement nominal pricing for very high usage audience.
Etymological origins suggests this is faithful:

ground (n.): Old English grund "bottom; foundation; surface of the earth," also "abyss, Hell," and "bottom of the sea" (a sense preserved in run aground), from Proto-Germanic *grundus, which seems to have meant "deep place" (source also of Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Danish, Swedish grund, Dutch grond, Old High German grunt, German Grund "ground, soil, bottom;" Old Norse grunn "a shallow place," grund "field, plain," grunnr "bottom"). No known cognates outside Germanic.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=ground
Here's one thing that has bugged me for a while. Why is it said that the great red spot is around 500 years old? How do we know that it hasn't been around for much longer?

Do we have before/after evidence that at one point it didn't exist, and then around 500 years ago it existed?
that was too long - tl;dr?
>The impact of automation will be far worse for the individual in society than the impact of globalization.

I have found this sentiment very common but I haven't heard a good enough argument to support it.

If we banned all sorts of artificial energy sources like fossil fuels, solar, nuclear etc. no automation would be possible and even the ones we have would be gone. This would mean that everyone would have unlimited "jobs" (because everything currently done by machines would have to be done by hand if possible) while the standards of living would for everyone would drop significantly.

So, lets say we started from that position and gradually started allowing limited amount of fuel and automation that amount of fuel would be able to do. While this would mean that some people would have to lose jobs and switch to something else, the standard of living overall would be increased.

At what point would you say that there is "too much automation"?
I seem to recall that most states require you not only to pass their bar exam, but also to have graduated from a recognized law school. California, by contrast, only requires you to pass the exam, but it's much harder than most, since they can't rely on the law school for a certain amount of sanity checking.
"The Transparent Column"
Déjà vu: Fast efficient probabilistic deduplication
Sounds interesting. By contrast Timothy Snyder in _Black_Earth_ argues that concentration camps were created as institutions that were deliberately outside of the state to facilitate slaughter: http://www.npr.org/2015/09/09/438943243/black-earth-explores...
Isn't that why many places declare only one of the variants to be legally binding and the others only for convenience?
The greatest and least heinous of all intersections.
Especially nice is the Rustler tooling for building a NIF.
> The move follows a sometimes furious debate in California legal circles over whether the state’s passing score, or “cut score” — 144 — was unrealistic.

If the passing score were unrealistic, there would be no lawyers in CA. Since there are lawyers in CA, the passing score is both realistic and achievable.

I'm not an attorney in CA, but I imagine the score measures both intelligence and knowledge in the field. Why shouldn't a prospective attorney be required to score 100% on knowledge? That seems reasonable to me, at least for the area of law they will practice.
Coming from a lawyer who passed Illinois in 2004 and took California's bar in 2014, I can say that for my CA test, the passage rate for attorneys barred in other states was around 20% (if I recall). California has differences in its laws that make it naturally harder than the "collective norm." Further, part of that low passage rate is because of two factors: 1) most attorneys already barred work full time, thus study time constraints; 2) what you're asked on the bar exam has very little connection to the actual practice of law. Lots of theory and hand-wringing, but neither law school nor the bar exam truly prepare you for HOW to be a lawyer.

Glad I passed both on the first try. Won't ever do it again.
Where is that said?
Isn't Erlang good for concurrency but bad at math performance?
There's still lots of IRC activity today, but I couldn't find a 1500000000 celebration.
No need to be so hyperbolic.
Bob half implements his module so quickly that it fuels the business. Business hires Fred to help keep it running. Fred likes to criticize other people's code that happens to pay his salary. We get blog post.
BetterWorks and CEO sued by ex-employee for alleged sexually suggestive assault
In future project I might be interested in the use of Redis for queuing jobs, this comes very handy to now early the main issues I could get when developing.
> has always led to increasing generalized prosperity in the past

Because people always had something else to do. But what will happen when machines can do pretty much everything? That never happened in history before.
Each node in a NN can be represented as an Erlang actor / process. They communicate via messages.
Another clever use was "Kathys Song" by Apoptygma Berzerk, which was named for the Mac "Kathy" speech synthesizer voice used to sing the chorus. Great song too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oBYrZNZSbf4
Hmm, maybe. How many people take the bar exam from non-accredited institutions? My understanding it was a much lower percentage, and if that's the case then it wouldn't weigh very much on the overall passage rate.
"I did notice this weird tendency of blaming Trump for everything"

This isn't weird in American politics. Did you see the "Thanks Obama" meme? And oh boy, did people blame Bush 43. People always blame the president for things congress passes, the way the world changes, etc. I don't have any hard numbers, but I think HN skews pretty liberal. Basically half the country is always saying how bad things are. It just depends which half.

"I'm waiting for someone to connect the growth of JavaScript and web bloat with the current US President"

I tried google trends, but it said there were 0 searches for angularjs, javascript web framework, etc. It must be weighted.
This was my contribution: https://github.com/mljs/matrix/pull/50

I previously contributed to the mljs libraries and used the opportunity to add a new feature and demonstrate that I knew how to unit test etc.
Great, so all you need is a high-earning job starting at 20, that you got without going into student loan debt ($50/week is the payment on like $15,000 of student loans which is practically nothing, so you are essentially suggesting not going to college or getting your parents to pay for most of it or being extremely brilliant and managing to get some really great scholarships or getting into one of the few extremely exclusive schools that cover most of the cost for people from families of modest means) and a spouse that also managed to accomplish all of that who you managed to meet and form a relationship with without doing any of the most common social activities that people do to enable them to meet people and form relationships. And then either choose to not have children or have an income high enough to cover both your outrageous SF daycare costs and your $800k mortgage at the same time. And of course, hope that the condo is still only $1 million ten years from now. All of that sounds eminently achievable for a typical person and like a sustainable to run a society /s.

I'm not complaining out of personal bitterness. I live somewhere somewhat less expensive than SF and have been relatively lucky on most of those points and have lived frugally and so am fairly well on track to be able to buy something by my early thirties. However, this is not a sustainable way to run a society. When even people who are among the luckiest and most privileged 20% of people have to scrimp and save to get something basic like a 1000 sq ft condo and the other 80% has no hope at all of ever getting that, something is seriously wrong.
OpenGov Got Seat at White House Roundtable and Is Part-Owned by Kushner Family
Those wars are bad, but badness needs to be measured relative to something.

For example, the Afghanistan war from 2001 to the present has killed somewhere between 25,000 and 40,000 people. This makes it very small by the standards of 20th century wars.

In the 1990s alone, there were at least eight wars an order of magnitude bigger than that (Congo, Sierra Leone, Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Algeria, Burundi, Rawanda).

And yes, we can add up Syria and Iraq too, and that is a much bigger number, but I can likewise keep adding up 1990s wars. It turns out that was a more violent decade in terms of actual battle deaths.

> though I could argue the actual starting point is Pakistan or maybe even Indonesia

You could argue that, but you would be hampered by the fact that casualty numbers in those countries are minuscule by the standards of actual wars.

> not to mention terror in Europe.

Terror is Europe is up a bit but still far from the highs it was hitting in the 1970s.

http://www.datagraver.com/case/people-killed-by-terrorism-pe...

The panicky "things are worse than ever and deteriorating" position is just not supported by hard evidence. It's stoked by an eager media ecosystem that profits from fear, and an aging generation that wants to externalize it's own perceptions of decline.

Many of the people saying "the west is declining" are in fact just baby boomers who are declining who can't accept that they are not equal to "the west".
I really hope this is sarcasm but honestly I can't tell knowing Hacker News.
I think this is called hustle, is it not?

Is this not proof the media is losing touch with reality...
I wrote a long response to this arguing that I thought Erlang was a terrible choice for neural net training, and ended up coming to the conclusion that if you architect intelligently (i.e. you're not passing data around between Erlang processes with any frequency because that's disgustingly expensive, you're optimizing your process count to your compute architecture, you're doing i/o as infrequently as possible, etc.), Erlang is probably a pretty good choice. I'm not sure if you avoid more foot-guns than you create, but I don't know, I can see it.

At the end of the day, anything that lets you bang away uninterruptedly on a processor (no context switches, no cache shenanigans) seems like a suitable implementation.

And of course you get to write in a fun language that is amazing for other use-cases.
Bullish or bearish? I hope everyone freaks out to drop the price so I can swoop up some more. Local gains/losses don't bother me; this stuff is the wave of the future in my opinion.

From what @tbking said, I hope alts pump if BTC dumps.
Bar passage rates are falling because law schools have become increasingly theoretical. Many law professors have never had actual clients who pay them for legal work, or have worked as lawyers in the real world for less than five years. These profs are producing interesting academic scholarship but they are increasingly isolated from the legal profession. Law school classes, perhaps as result, tend not to teach what bar exams test: the elements of crimes and torts, how many witnesses are required for a will to be valid, the elements of a valid contact, and so on. These are exactly the things that Californians need their lawyers to know. If too many people are failing the bar exam, the problem isn't the exam, but the prep.
RabbitMQ is not strictly an AP system. Its clustering functionality supports several different modes for handling partitions (all of which allow for data loss) and is CP. Federation, which you should use if your network between nodes isn't super reliable, is AP.[0]

What I'd like to see is clustering with support for merging data between nodes. You'd probably end up with duplicates, which I'm OK with, but you'd avoid the data loss that happens with other modes like Pause Minority, where messages get dropped on rejoining a cluster.

[0]: https://www.rabbitmq.com/distributed.html
Total votes would qualify and then perhaps a combination of views and comments that occur at least one month or more later. The goal is to track posts that have an extended relevancy beyond the current month. Ideally, beyond the current 3 months. Posts that are more than 3 years old but still get high votes when submitted should also be given special attention.
Of course they've changed throughout history, but not always at the breakneck pace we're seeing today. And tbh people don't want to be retrained, people want stable jobs. We're looking at a future where some may need to be "reskilled" more than once and that's not politically feasible.

>There is no other way.

Yes, there is, a curtailing of globalization. In fact, I would say that our current way is just about the only way we can't continue. The article is about this exact feeling of inevitability. Globalization is not inevitable. A return to a time of nationalism and tarriffs is certainly possible. And unless those of us who are made relatively better-off by trade figure out a way to make the worse-off benefit too, there will be a political backlash which threatens the whole picture (see Brexit, Trump & the growth in socialist movements).
> It seems like GP is calculating 20 years worth of subscription cost.

Well, yes and no. GP is calculating the discounted value of receiving $N annually forever (assuming a fixed constant interest rate r):

N/(1+r) + N/(1+r)^2 + N/(1+r)^3 + ...
= N/r

Thus, receiving N$ forever, given rates are 5%, is worth 20N.

(You can derive it from (for |q| < 1),
1 + q + q^2 + q^3 + ... = 1/(1-q)
)

Note, by the way, that currently rates are very low (say 1%), and thus receiving a perpetual stream of $N per year is very valuable, namely 100N. That makes the switch to subscriptions even more valuable to these psycho firms.
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AFAIR eBay had an investment in Craigslist. Might be wrong.
I actually really love the restrictions on fairings. I'm working on a project right now that uses Node.js with Express, and there are all of these pieces of middleware that won't compose at all, and I often find myself ripping things out and putting them in new functions.

By having clear delineations between fairings, request guards, and data guards, I think you can really avoid making a lot of design mistakes. I'm going to try out Rust some more and definitely play around with this framework! The only thing that bothers me is that Rocket says it requires a nightly version of rust[0] - why is that necessary? I thought Rust was pretty stable by now.

[0] https://rocket.rs/guide/getting-started/#minimum-nightly
Erlang's inter-process messaging is ridiculously optimized. Processes are extremely low-weight, it costs approximately nothing to start and stop them. This is one of the core strength of Erlang.

Running one process per neuron would actually be a very efficient way to do it.
>At what point would you say that there is "too much automation"?

When billions of people are not needed and a minority can maintain a rich/upper middle class standard of living by itself + automation, and thus, if it weren't for causing chaos and riots, those redundant masses can be left to rot and die in slums without jobs and houses.
I'm confused by your terminology, what is a "20+% market drop" ? There is an index drop, where the stocks that make up a particular index, but it is rare[1] to have a drop of that size across an entire market.

You can always buy calls or puts on an ETF if you're worried about too much exposure there. So I'm wondering what "portfolio insurance" does relative to a financial adviser who can just tell you the risks. For 99% of the people out there buying into an S&P 500 exchange traded fund (SPX ETF) is pretty low risk. Sure you'll take a bath if world war III starts but even when the system gets hammered (like it did with the great Mortgage Meltdown of 2009) if you hold long the fundamentals will bring it back to where it "should" be. So I'm not sure I see a value proposition here.

[1] From a list of crashes for entire markets they are quite rare over time -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_market_crashes_a...