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> You want to talk about philosophy ? Meaning of life?

No, since I just stated there is none.

I disagree this goes beyond the topic - If you want to disregard things as "meaningless", anything can ultimately be disregarded. Even basics (food shelter etc) serve no purpose that to preserve life - and what is the meaning in that? All human pursuit is meaningless, as such, all things are for their own sake. So, what are your assumptions about what does, and does not have worth?

> Amount of ignorance in this comment is staggering

ok. I don't care what he meant, because the fact he said it is meaningless. Why not argue for yourself than appealing to authority?
If I "don't get it", it's because you decided to communicate with a vague quote.

> Where I wrote "no-one"? I didn't

"no one to buy this things from you when everyone will automate everything, then most people would have no job" --
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14769844

Which is what I originally responded to - that no one will have jobs/money.

Don't respond to threads if you lack the context.

> scalability problems on our planet

and technology improves, so what limits still apply in the future? You don't know.

> How many kings with real power you see now

I still see power, so who cares what they are called? Modern elites are far more powerful.

> you should read some history books

since I said I didn't care for historical analysis, I don't agree.

> This only proves your ignorance.

Nothing is proven but your arrogance. You claim I'm ignorant, then provide nothing more.

Read the last paragraph of section 7 here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#ScieKnowHistPred

Historicism has is generally not seen as valuable or valid anymore; if you disagree the burden is on you to demonstrate otherwise.
Send me an e-mail (in HN profile), I may have some ideas.
But... I'm not on Facebook!!!
I've heard of people who refuse to ever be alone with anyone of the opposite gender. IIRC they were megachurch pastors who had legitimate reason to fear that even a hint of an accusation would be a career-ending event.
> I have fights with people on Nextdoor everyday

What a time to be alive.
http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/research/2012/05/we-have-...
Oh most people in California are very pro-train, they just don't want them close to their homes. We like the convenience, environmental friendliness and you might even say Europeanness of trains, but no one wants to put up with the noise and lower property values that go along with having them run through your back yard.

Tell the truth...when you were in Chicago, did you want to live next to the "L"?

with the caveat that the SF-LA HSR project seems to be a boondoggle that will cost the state billions more than it probably should.
Can you name one example in history where a government printed its way out of debt without causing inflicting massive harm on the general public?
what if none of the things you enumerated are important to a person? what metrics are acceptable for them to use to measure their quality of life?
What's the mature way to handle startups ruining opportunities for people who actually want to earn a real living, instead of hiding behind VCs like cowards?

Sorry if my ranting comes off as immature, you're probably not wrong haha but I'm perfectly happy to discuss about how ridiculous Silicon Valley is, founders aren't special, they're not visionaries, just con artists.

I'm not saying life is supposed to be fair, startups are designed to keep people like me from competing, it's just a huge joke to me.
> Regulators do not yet allow issuances via blockchain only, so we had to test it in parallel with the conventional issuance process.
Me and my lady are starting up a business and we're still learning, getting some experience, and haven't had a client yet, but we're working with a real estate agent and have gotten a few business cards from others who are interested.

Basically, we are taking 360 photos of inside the house and an aerial views outside the house in hopes to help real estate agents sell. Our basic package includes just the 360 video, while our deluxe package offers the whole deal including aerial views of the house and the roof and the entire neighborhood.
I am not sure what to say with your comment on this, but how do you expect any companies going public with a loss on a balance sheet ?
Hyper is pretty darn good and I haven't seen issues with it not being mature.
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What he's saying is that drugs are marked up more in the US than other countries that regulate their prices. That necessarily implies that Americans paying for the drug are contributing more to pharma revenues than those in countries that are regulating prescription drug prices.
This is proof of concept. This changes everything. The article talks about the company not being ready to use Blockchain to issue all it's bonds due to regulatory questions that still need to be answered but , i suspect, it's only going to be years not decades when this will happen. This spells out big problems to the staff employees associated with Finance.

Anyone in the Financial Industry should start getting ready for the big Finance disruption that's coming in the near future.
I use "not a hotdog" app whenever in need of a hotdog. It's amazingly accurate.
The UK could easily be more efficient/effective on how they spend their R&D dollars (like for healthcare).

And R&D is very hard to compare due to different incentives to categorize R&D depending upon taxation laws and charity institutions.
It's not about COBOL; it's about the operating system and hardware on which they were written. Manipulation would have been via JCL (if from a mainframe) rather than from within a program. It was typical to have a multi-file header with volume information (e.g. a unique tape ID, encoding details such as BPI and number of tracks), file details (name, creating program, record size and block size if fixed, etc.)

In the mainframe example, JCL tweaks could let you bypass any automatic label processing and get directly to the files if they are intact.

[EDIT]: I didn't see the part about "severe mould" initially; I think that would make recovery a non-starter.
I didn't run into a paywall, perhaps because it's on the blogs subdomain. But if anyone needs it, here is the paywall bypass code for all WSJ articles:

http://salzeko.com/wsj
> Thats why people commute far from outside sf into it for the lower housing prices.

That's kind of what I'm saying, though - won't those people just move into SF when the prices drop low enough, and therefore bring the price right back up to where it was? I'm modeling this as if the supply of "people who want to move to San Francisco" is effectively infinite?

Is San Francisco with 3 million people going to have higher, lower, or the same median inflation-adjusted rent compared to now?
This is the main application for Bitcoin IMO: custody and trade settlement in securities. I have wanted to do this exact thing, issue bonds on a blockchain for some industry or government, since I found out about Bitcoin. Unfortunately, I do not have the kinds of connections necessary to be in the same room as major corporate bond sellers.

Between this news and the DTCC using blockchain for CDS it seems to me that Bitcoin is going to get left behind by the old world companies it sought to replace. Blockstream seems too happy to sit on their hands while the speculative value of Bitcoin increases, not realizing that the chance to actually matter in the world of finance is slipping through their fingers.

Bad news for Bitcoin: http://m.nasdaq.com/article/dtcc-to-launch-blockchain-credit...
Rauch talks as if he invented the one-command deploy, Heroku did this shit yearsssss ago, not to mention dozens of other platforms and tools. All they're doing is making a really crappy version of Heroku with 1/20 the features, poor performance characteristics, and putting a free price tag on it to keep people like me from competing.
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Well, to be fair, neighborhoods don't typically go down hill when white families move in ...
Probably because they don't want to deal with the overhead of maintaining patches to RHEL source.
You're talking about allocating some set portion of your savings as bonds or cash, and occasional rebalancing away from your higher returning investments to maintain the proportion?
"It's complicated. It screwed me now and then, but that's not a real basis for a relationship."
Dialing up and hacking into a poorly protected university computer mid eighties and getting access to universities and libraries around the world..

In fact you could randomly dial the 'telephone number range' of "large institutions" to find their modems then from there it was relatively easy to work out how to log in, and get access to other externally connected "institutions".
Wow, that's a terrible thing to have to go through. I'm so glad for you and your wife that things were figured out in time.
Your first source is to a wiki site (albeit a large one with a known good reputation), but still a wiki site (it says at the top of that very page anyone can add any information to it). And your second source is the Washington Post so I don't know how unbiased either of these links truly are.
I fail to see why listing out a larger legal document should be 30-45% premium.

That is like saying

"Because I wrote this code in Java instead of Go, it cost about 40% more (I had to generate all the getters and setters, added up to 40% more lines of code)"

Legal documents are the highest level copy and paste from previous legal documents. In the same way many code is glue some libraries together, but worse (i.e. more reuse).
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Damn good point. Seems like the ideals don't match up.
Right and the other part is how do you know when the footage needs to be reviewed?

Just add two buttons to the app "minor cleanliness issue" and "major cleanliness issue". Then someone remotely checks the footage. If it is confirmed then the previous passenger gets charged a cleaning fee. Majors cost more or could result in ban. Cleaning can be done by carwashes.

Eventually you develop some clever covers and devices/stations that enable rapid cleaning.
Reminds me of the joke "what do you call the guy who got LAST PLACE in medical school"

Doctor

If you set a standard, the last place guy is just as much a part of it as the first place guy. Now it might not look so good on resumes, but he is legal.
The answer is no. There have always been existential issues for humans. One that comes to mind right away is the Black Death in 14th century Europe. I don't see why climate change makes a difference now. Unfortunately, for them, it will be our grandkids that will have to figure out how to move forward.
Isn't Postgres worth coupling to? SQLite is a close favorite, for different reasons.
Echo Dot is killing it with a $39 price point and doing all the intelligence in the cloud. And no hardware upgrades necessary.
This is an honest question: who's jobs do we think are going to be replaced by issuing bonds on the blockchain? The people drafting the bond agreements?
I think you're asking about writing "direct to the metal" software on the Pi, which I hope someone will address here. To answer your question indirectly, there are ways to bend Linux to do realtime like rt-preempt [0] but it doesn't go as far as RTLinux [1], which virtualizes the entire OS to run under a hypervisor that is essentially just a service routine for a hardware nonmaskable interrupt. Linux isn't even aware it's being preempted in this model. It's a beautiful approach, but RTLinux was proprietary and hard to write code for (because, interrupt handler), so it never achieved much traction.

[0] https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RT_PREEMPT_HOWTO

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux
Calling tone mapping HDR is like calling masturbation sex.
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Is js via gpu (WebGL i assume) already efficient enough to make the concept of "computation time instead of banners" finally viable?
Why wouldn't they use Ethereum?
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Well some people are paranoid, but that is not the point I was making :)

When I used to be a professor I would refuse to have "closed door" meetings with any student (male or female) on my own because the risk of a false accusation was just too high - I saw too many careers ruined by crazy students [1].

If a student wanted a private meeting with me over some issue (99.9% of the time it was about their marks) I would drag in a colleague.

1. If you think I am joking I managed to avoid getting caught up into two legals cases brought by disgruntled students. In one of the cases I was the only academic staff member in the whole department that was not accused.

If I was a VC I would be very concerned about having a private meeting with any founder I didn’t know well.
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I have a foot in the engineering research, the educational research, and the business research camps.

The level to which I trust the findings in business research is basically this order:

1) Educational Research

2) Engineering Research

3) A guy on the corner saying 'trust me'

4) Business Research

The issue is simply down to the level of trust they seem to place in their data. The data is treated as invariant and highly positivist, and their trust in experts self-reports (because they are self-reports) is staggering. You should be really cautious at an epistemic level of taking anything business researchers tell you about how people make decisions.
> It's worth noting that antirez has, as is usual for him, dealt with this issue wonderfully by making a call without downplaying the importance of the problem.

He was doing okay until he wrote that everyone is a slave because having to follow "politically correct rules" is itself a form of slavery.
They've started kicking those people out again (around 7%). They check performance on your daily problems, how much you contribute to the peer projects, and a hard cut at a midterm exam where they record your screen and make sure you're not just copying solutions. They also weed people out on behavioural teamwork issues.

Some of the people who got kicked out just dropped back to the next cohort though, which is severely disappointing, because on top of paying the full tuition they are likely to fail again. I checked and there's no way those people can catch up based on their code, they're the kind of people Jeff Atwood talks about. https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
An application being cache-unfriendly doesn't imply that it will be bandwidth-bound. If the application reads single words from random locations it will be cache-unfriendly and latency-bound. If it reads 1K contiguous bytes from random locations it will be cache-unfriendly and possibly bandwidth-bound. If it scans the entire memory space sufficiently quickly it may be both cache-friendly and still bandwidth-bound.

I can't speak for the server market, but I'm certain that the high-end desktop market is composed primarily of people who do run top-of-the-line specs just for fun.
The "jobs" this technology replaces were computerized in the 1960s and 1970s. The application of the blockchain only speeds up settlement because there is a single ledger between multiple parties.
1. Demographics are not controlled for

2. Temperature variations are not accounted for.

3. "The cost to exercise" (e.g. cost to live in walkable areas, average cost of gyms, etc.) is not accounted for.

Furthermore, the website (haven't read the paper yet) implies walkability is always good. Walking around during the summer time in a hot climate like Texas will get you killed [1]

The analysis is obviously good, however it basically says what's already obvious, rich people exercise more (in the case of United States). Is there something inherent in the areas that make people more or less likely to exercise or is it the demographics? Most of the evidence points to the latter. This raises the question: since you inherently can't change your demographic, what difference does it make?

[1] This happened just a couple weeks ago:

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/06/23/texas-boy-scout-die...
Hi Leo,

I am guessing you are using iOS 11 Beta. We are currently working on support for iOS 11 beta, and will shortly be updating the app. Stay tuned!

Anirudh from Seeing AI team
The link cited is to a wiki site, meaning anybody can add information to it. Although specifically that site, Everipedia.com, has a pretty good reputation for being unbiased similar to Wikipedia, I'm just trying to point out that it's still a wiki site. Anyone, including you or me, could edit that page and for sensitive topics such as racism, we should probably take things coming from places like Everipedia, Wikipedia etc with a grain of salt.
Sure, but still more than qualifies them for inclusion with the companies listed in the article.
Well, you would pay for the full hour regardless of how long the machines were up. GCP would give you too the minute pricing however.
But your right, even a full hour is really cheap
For sufficiently large values of small. An 8 core CPU @ 3 GHz runs 24 Billion clocks/sec. In any of which a CPU can execute multiple instructions.

Two channel memory systems assuming DDR4@2400 can do about 40GB/sec. Thread ripper is about double that (of the skylake-x, but NOT the kabylake-x). The new skylake xeons are 6 channel (about 120GB/sec) and the new AMD Epyc is 8 channel (about 160GB/sec).

Assuming a perfectly sequential access pattern and something simple like a=b+c (which reads 16 bytes and writes 8 bytes) you can run 1.6 billion of those a second.

So to not be memory bound you need to run an extra 15 times more instructions... without adding any cache misses, just to execute one instruction per cycle (a fraction of the possible). If it's less you are memory bound.

Now imagine it's not perfectly sequential, and instead you have to retrieve something from memory before you know where to go next. Like say a database index, binary tree, or linked list. Instead of getting 8 bytes @ 2400 Mhz you get 8 bytes per 70 ns. Keep in mind that's 8 bytes per 1/2.4 ns vs 70 or 168 times worse.

Suddenly instead of needing 15 times more instructions you need
2500 instructions per memory load, all without a extra cache miss.

So as you can see it can be quite easy to be memory limited. Sure some things do an amazing amount of calculations on very little data. But many things are data intensive, which justifies the large ram and large memory bandwidth machines that make up pretty much all servers shipped today. Memory bandwidth is expensive (CPU package, pins, sockets, motherboard traces, additional motherboard layers, power, etc), but well justified in many cases.
I think Pence does this - refuses to have private meetings with women because of the risks.
This article makes me uncomfortable
Sonja Trauss, who is essentially the first Bay Area YIMBY, is running for San Francisco's city council.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/barf-density-loving-sonja-trauss-r...
We obviously haven't seen the last of them when the US has a network of prisons that holds almost 2.5 million people, many of them concentrated for rather obvious racial reasons. Just because they are built of brick and steel does not change their basic tenet. Nor does the use of prisons for such purposes or the fact that there are actual criminals in prisons in addition to the concentrated populations.
While I do believe that an awful lots of PC's will be replaced by Android machines with keyboards and 24 inch monitors in corporate America my feeling is that he's overstating things to make his case.
That site is a wiki site, similar to Wikipedia, meaning anyone can propose an edit. Although Everipedia has a pretty good reputation for being really reliable, I'd still analyze information about things like racism/sexual harassment etc with a critical eye.
Agreed, I look at about 10 business paper a week and quality of statistical analysis is frequently missing.
What I liked about this one is that they are pretty transparent on the methodology so you can see the surveyed VCs biases. They also cross check the sources with other data..
The blockchain also ups the level of auditability.
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My favorite teacher ever was my high school latin teacher. I took latin for 3 years, each class was packed as everyone loved being there. In a public US high school at that. Today I doubt there is a single public high school in the US teaching latin.
Fair enough; he got some of the Nest specifics wrong. But some of his Nest points were accurate. I have a Nest thermostat--which is fortunately much less life-critical than a smoke alarm--and I finally disconnected it from my wifi router because I got tired of the constant firmware updates that added no value while changing the UI, causing well-publicized failures, and taking away features that I liked (e.g. the ability to manually set Away mode). I don't mess with my thermostat often, but when I do I don't want to have to spend five minutes rediscovering its UI. I will never buy another Nest product because of that nonsense, and that's entirely on you and your team.

On the plus side it still works as a dumb disconnected thermostat, so thank you for that (seriously).
What a superficial article, doesn't even bring up the way having children affects climate change and the environment.
I did the same. It wasn't ZX Spectrum though, it was an MSX. Same deal. This was actually before I even knew you could copy files using the computer itself.

Analog copies are lossy, so you can only copy so many times before it becomes unreadable. Higher quality tapes (even better, chrome based) would allow for more copies.
I mean look at it this way... If no one had kids, then we would wipe out the human race, which itself is unethical. So if having kids was unethical, then it would also be ethical. A philosophical paradox. Having kids can never be considered unethical in a macro point of view.
... no. If your single family lot gets rezoned for a high rise tower you are likely now much wealthier.
Namespacing by reverse domain name is no panacea. Your company might change it's name, might be bought, or might buy another company.

On the open source side, how much stuff was org.sourceforge that then had to move when SourceForge turned into a scummy operation?

Microsoft's CLR guidelines are a little less verbose but still run into the same problem with corporate name being permanently unique.
Hi Anirudh,

It's a really commendable effort from MS. An immense benefit for people who have vision challenges.

Are you guys hiring? If yes then what are the skills you are looking for?
It's more likely they would use their own private blockchain. (Something ethereumish, like JP Morgan's Quorum, or Hyperledger Fabric).
Expat American here now living in Thailand for many years and have been treated numerous time to the outstanding medical care at both private and public hospitals here.

Question: As far as you know, do the private hospitals here in Thailand receive any government money? Because it sure seems like a real market here with private hospitals competing on services and prices. And they advertise those services and prices in the media regularly.

I plan to never return to my home country and one of the main reasons is the health care debacle in the U.S. It's so much better and affordable here.
I guess you also live stream using Periscope and not any other service.
One can argue about who is best, but amongst first world countries, it's sadly not hard to figure out the worst.