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> So, he's actually saying those things (AI skepticism, or that some general AI would happen in 20 years) just to attract cheaper and younger AI people in his companies?

Possibly. He certainly benefits from the talent in operation at OpenAI. Whether people come over directly like Karpathy, or via networking, or through knowledge transfer.

> he put so much money in OpenAI that he could have invested in Tesla to make all those researchers work on his self driving

It could be cheaper to go through OpenAI. Other people invested in that company -- not just Musk. Also, a lot of machine learning tech and knowledge is transferrable across domains.

> Seems to me like he just actually believes in those things

He may well. I'm just saying it can also benefit his businesses to believe that AGI and fully self driving cars are coming soon.
Poloniex let's you do something very close: short BTC/USDT. USDT is a digital currency called Tether[1], one unit of which is approximately equal to $1.

Why not allow deposits of USD instead of the USDT workaround, you may ask? My theory is so that the exchange is not subject to the same level of oversight as it would if it accepted dollars - look at the BTC-e situation for example. What's amazing about Poloniex is that they're one of the most popular Bitcoin/altcoin exchanges, and almost nothing is known about those running it (it's US based).

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/tether/
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Wait a decade and spaceX will have the following line item:

100% of all interplanetary travel, shipping and trade.
I haven't seen any contemporary anti-Iran/Afghanistan, anti-Russian, or anti-Chinese propaganda use the language or culture against them... except perhaps the mass-media "comedy" industry making offensive Russian accents while insinuating things. I doubt most people could identify Farsi readily enough to understand the propaganda. I don't think all that many people could tell you if they're looking at Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text; Two of these languages' countries are basically universally beloved in the U.S, so it'd be hard to make visual (or even audible) propaganda out of it. I guess Russian might be the easiest of the three to use in propaganda. :- P
>arrange accreditation

This will turn out to be harder than it appears. The accreditation process is complex, expensive, and bureaucratic - possibly by design.

PhDs accreditation would be particularly complicated. PhDs are partly a form of academic hazing and lineage development and very much not just about the research/content.

Unfortunately education is more of a political problem than an information redistribution problem.
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Interesting how some people find the sound of German natural. I find German sounds extremely difficult to pronounce with all these consonants next to each other.

English is not the easiest to pronounce either but it seems easier than German. Dutch sounds like a clearer version of German but with a funny 'g' sound.

Italian is so clean and simple, even if you don't speak it, you can probably tell each word apart.

French is pretty clear and easy to pronounce, I rarely ever ask people to repeat themselves in French. It uses a broad sound spectrum with lots of open-mouth sounds (lots of vowels and vowel combinations which produce new sounds).

It's very easy to start muttering in English because you barely need to open your mouth to speak it.
Do you have experience with it? How hard is it to use TLA+ to solve every-day problems? Are there any other model checkers that worth looking at? Or TLA+ is the most sutable for concurrency problems?
>catch up to Rust
This proposal has nothing whatsoever to do about any Rust feature. It's about compile-time metaprogramming on steroids.
The problem is more political than technical.

There have been operating systems written in mostly safe systems programming languages since the 60s, 10 years before C was born.

Burroughs created ESPOL and NEWP, IBM did their RISC research with PL/8, Xerox had Mesa/Cedar, UK Royal Navy Algol-68RS, and many many others with Midori's System C# being the latest example.

If there isn't political will, there isn't the motivation to overcome any technical hurdles that might appear.

Now even with Microsoft adopting a Linux compatibility layer we are reaching the age of UNIX mono-culture, and its dependency to C for kernel development.

So the question is who will have the political will to break this reality, and drive the technical adoption regardless of the hurdles that might appear along the way.
> Germany is today a country where foreign journalists are chased through the street by communist activists

Source?
I recently moved from Scotland to Finland, and kept my (paid off) property to rent. The biggest annoyance was that the property management company I picked couldn't be trusted.

Despite having positive reviews, even from friends, they were just terrible at dealing with any problems. I expect that all properties would have leaking roof, a failing appliance, or similar, over a long enough time. But each time something broke the company handled it in a terrible fashion.

From promising, but not delivering, pictures of damage, to getting estimates for repairs that were almost 100% bogus. The list goes on and on.

Of course changing management company once you've already got tenants in, and you're abroad is a pain in the ass.

Beyond that though I found that since I was abroad I was suddenly classified as a "non-resident landlord" which meant my income was taxed pretty harshly. I should have expected that, but it was just another surprise.

Largely to cut down on tax and currency-conversion woes I put the property on the market, and now I'm waiting for the sale to complete. Good news? The property was sold for a pile of cash. Again though taxes will be a pain, and I'll have to pay capital gains tax for the first time in my life. God help me if the brexit fiasco causes the pound to drop again, because that'll wipe out a lot of money.
I can't remember who but we have something similar in poetry around here. Probably some old Danish or Norwegian poet:

Latin for writing

French for the women

German for the dog

and Danish for the servant
> otherwise we would have a lot fewer vulnerabilities in C++ codebases.

Are you sure you're not referring to _C_ codebases?
> Print() is valid in Python2.

print("a", end=" ") is not, neither is class Foo(metaclass=Bar)
Isn't inequality a measure of efficiency, though?

A day or two ago, the caffeteria workers were complaining about living in a garage and not being able to bring their children to work. So? The engineers are the ones the provide value to the company. The support staff is there to do just that: support.

The kitchen staff live in the garage, the engineers live in main house, and the president is a multi-billionaire. I don't see what the problem is.

Do we want a pauper in the White House? Programmers in the garage? And the gardener in the 4 bedroom, 3 bath, two story with a view? Seems a little topsy turvy to me.

Once upon a time, those ‘Coffin Cubicles’ would be seen as a sign of effiency, not squalor. I don't see want, I see abundance. Television, pills, cell phones and comraderie. Not everyone can live in a house with a yard. I certainly don't. We simply do not have enough room. We have to make the best of it. If you chose to live in Hong Kong, you make the best of what you've got. I'm sure the benefits outweigh the downsides. The article says they eat out more often than they cook for themselves. Must be nice. I had to make pancakes this morning (took like 20 minutes), but they just roll out of of bed, head downstairs, and pick up some noodles on the way to work? That's the effiency I'm talking about. It doesn't look like much, but they have everything they need, all in one place, ready to go. Minimalism. Simplicity. Efficiency. I'm kind of jealous.
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Nope, nobody's forcing people to use Coinbase. If they want their BCC, they should just withdraw into their own wallets. And why should Coinbase dedicate effort to support a new untested altcoin?
Glad to see C++ become more and more D
It's great to see so many programming language community surveys these days. I'm running a survey for the Nim programming language and I'd love to hear your responses: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2017/06/23/community-survey-2017.h...
Here are more links to other discussions:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219399

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/hardware/processors-me...

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/25/1295
Bit of a late reply but almost all companies use something called a digipass, you insert your card and input a challenge code and your pin.
https://i.imgur.com/10OChcv.jpg
Yes. All the popular browsers are mostly C++ for example.
> I think there really needs to be a "Safe STL" in addition to "Performant STL" that performs range checks.

SaferCPlusPlus[1] provides compatible, memory-safe versions of the most commonly used STL containers. (The compiler switches mentioned by others add range checking, but do not, for example, catch use-after-free bugs.)

> > It's not simple to write memory safe code in C++, otherwise we would have a lot fewer vulnerabilities in C++ codebases.

Using SaferCPlusPlus, it now is simple to write memory-safe code in C++. And it's not much different from writing traditional (unsafe) C++ code.

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus
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Not to be "that guy", but citation needed?

The absolute risk from accidental liquid contamination or aerosol intuitively seems unavoidable to me...
Surely they scan the SKU on every item at some point anyway?
I'm not an official member of the IRCv3 project, and can't speak for them - I only engage in discussions in the IRCv3 WG which affect the client I am working on.

That said, Matrix is a great concept, but, as mentioned, the currently implemented clients and protocol (with HTTP polling with JSON) are very inefficient.

With Quarternion as client, and a raw socket or websocket based protocol using Protobuf or Flatbuffers for serialization Matrix could actually become the fastest and most efficient open chat system.

You have to realize that I'm seeing this as someone who uses clients on 7 year old devices on throttled 2G in daily use, to ensure that they work well enough under any conditions. (And while some IRC clients do work there, any Matrix client is completely unusable under those conditions).
Please don't!
They end up putting RGB LEDS on the CPU die!
As a German, the consonant distribution feels pretty balanced compared to for example Czech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strč_prst_skrz_krk
Well, i know another company (G) with just 2 or 3 good products. Most others don't have even one.
That is true in the first order, but in the long term, don't they run a huge risk of customer dissatisfaction shipping lots of counterfeit goods?
You're going to sue because you forgot your password and as a result can't withdraw in time?
How'd you get into enterprise C#/WPF land?
I noticed a similar problem when I wanted elm-format's indentation set with 2 spaces instead of the un-configurable 4.
What all these tutorials omit is the tradeoffs JavaScript and node incur in order to be simple and friendly.

- In JavaScript: no type annotations, numbers are floating point numbers, garbage collected, no multi-threading in the language spec. There are some ways to workaround these limitations, but they're not a part of the language.

- The concurrency model of node, based on libuv event loop. This dictates what node is good for and what is not good for. Short lived tasks = good. Long lived tasks = bad (service degradation + cascading failures bad)
> It's not jealousy, it is resenting somebody for their fortune.

I think in the Christian tradition, this would be called envy, in Dutch it would be Afgunst, the German version of the Dutch Wikipedia page for Afgunst is Missgunst. Of course, die Missgunst ist nicht ganz der Neid.
> On Windows you might have C#, but WPF and UWP lower layers are actually written in C++ and based on COM.

Well, this doesn't really influence the language programmers have to use to build applications, considering you can use C++, C#, VB.NET, or JavaScript to your heart's content.

Windows GDI is a C API, but not every application using it is written in C.
It probably depends on which your mother tongue is. I'm Italian and I find German easier to pronounce than English. Plus it has precisely defined and easy pronunciation rules, so when you know them you're able to correctly pronounce every german word. The same doesn't hold true for English.
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Turkey arrests 'threaten everyone,' says activist's partner
> Pointers and virtual classes have runtime overhead.

Most popular languages don't allow putting objects on the stack and thus have at least comparable overhead anyway.
Yeah. It's speculatory, for sure.

> he might be more of the 'fame and glory' type, wanting to leave a larger mark than a big digit in some future Wikipedia bio

Saying things like going to Mars could still benefit him business-wise, whether he actually takes on that mission or not. It attracts people who believe he is at the cutting edge.

> for many of us the things that sets him apart from the "money-focused" crowd are his goals and how outspoken he is about them

I don't know if Musk plans to be outspoken or not. It seems to be an effective business strategy in itself.

So, I take it all with a grain of salt.
I'm the same, I use some cheap ESP8266 devices which have a temperature/humidity sensor attached. They submit their measurements every minute to a central MQ installation:

https://steve.fi/Hardware/d1-temperature-humidity/

While I don't have any particular reason for collecting the data it can be fun to look at. For example you can easily spot when somebody has a shower because the humidity spikes in the bathroom:

https://twitter.com/Stolen_Souls/status/848444075296641025

Naively I expected to track the weather, because I figure on a hot day the temperature of my living-room/etc would spike. Turns out this house is pretty well insulated so the internal temperature has essentially no relationship to the external one. I guess that makes sense in a country where you might have -25'C in the winters.
I don't think the majority of people who own Bitcoin use Coinbase, maybe those who have identification but there's other exchanges like Gemini and Kraken. And this isn't included outside the U.S. or unregulated exchanges either.
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You can use a bluetooth keyboard with an ipad. (the stock aluminium mac keyboard is the most obvious choice but I guess every bluetooth keyboard will work).
Funny you mention humidity & showers. This is what I see when I take one:

https://twitter.com/Stolen_Souls/status/848444075296641025
In what way does it "say it all"?

Do you feel there's a lot someone could learn about you that isn't immediately clear from your comment above? Or does it "say it all" about you?
I don't think that is a fair comparison, Uber has revolutionized the transport industry. It has direct impact on you and me right now. Space X does not have such a direct impact for the rest of us.
I thought amazon was also a bubble of some kind, relying on aggressive growth to swallow the market and then change it's policies because it's unsustainable ?

Musk seems a little more down to earth (sic) here.
Germans also flee to Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, UK, US and just about any other interesting country. I live here in Germany and last year was living in London for a year so I've seen these arguments before.

Please allow me to say that this isn't a perfect land and that "hate speech" is indeed abused to silence the masses (especially regarding fake refugees). However can guarantee you that it is no police state, especially when compared to the UK where everything is controlled and monitored heavily (nanny state).

As for conquering Europe, in the end its all about business. You're blaming other countries when they understand the game and score well on it.
Say what you will about these folks, but they were there to report on the G20 protests. A member of the mass media was directing Antifa to find and do something to these foreign journalists, and people were reporting their whereabouts to the people following them. It's a matter of record.

https://youtu.be/Io3VpyL4RoE
Coulee Corridor, Lake Lenore, etc. There's plenty out that way to attract us right out of Seattle, past the mountains and away from the coast, to some really remarkable desert scenery. Have been out that way probably 4-5 times so far this year. Not to mention all the Columbia River stuff.
I've waited for this game for a long, long time. AoE was one of the first PC games I played. I've lost hundreds of hours on it.

I attribute all my love of history to Ensemble Studios.
Envy/Neid to me means that there is something you want that the other person has, which isn't required for Missgunst. (and envy doesn't have to be as negative)
I'm not sure you can compare the complexity of using the majority of Python3 to modern C++. Besides, the switch to python 3 happened once in ten years. The complexity of the change is I think lower than the introduction of c++11 or 14.
BTW I like C++ but its complexity is daunting.
What subpart is relatively simple to use ? How would you start now ?
>you forgot your phone

Who forgets their phone these days? And even then, you can memorize the 4 digit code.

We have these things and they work great.
Because I use `pass` my passwords are easily stored under revision control with git.

I wrote a simple script to show me the age of various passwords. When I realized I'd not changed some passwords for over two years I was surprised.

With your "brain" do you remember to update passwords every few years? And remember the new one easily?
It seems fine to me. And sbt has made cross compiling so easy. A library author can easily support many scala versions.
Please tell me which of these bodies is superior to the others: http://mymodernmet.com/howard-schatz-beverly-ornstein-athlet...
Attacking encrypted USB keys the hard(ware) way
Slashdot for sure. Along with sites that became abandoned over time such as Freshmeat.net, Kur05hin.org, and even such gems as advogato.org which seem to be on the decline.
But Mormons are very well represented in the tech labor market, so it probably isn't that hard to attract talent in Utah county, it's just not the same mix of people who are working in SLC.
I'm excited by this feature, along with all the other compile-time programming stuff (reflection, concepts). The downside I see is having to remember how a metatype works.. e.g., the default access type for member variables of struct, class, interface, value, .. and on and on. But if we keep the number of metatypes low, this may manageable.
Absurd in the orbital mechanics portion but not the rest. It seems that spacex has chosen the waffle cone, ice cream scoop and add sprinkles later approach whereas BO has focused solely on the sprinkles.
I think Goethe, Brecht, Schiller and the rest of the German poets would disagree ;)
I have the same i7-920 (overclocked at 3GHz) with 12Gb RAM. I have it since 2008 and I'm not planning to replace it anytime soon.
Still the issue stands, from my experience Rust isn't yet at the same productivity level as C++, C#, VB.NET, or JavaScript for writing Windows GUI based applications, both for Win32 and UWP set of APIs.

Yeah it will eventually get there, but it is a disservice to Rust to promote the language as it if was already possible today to do it, when most toolkits are still WIP and lifetimes aren't that friendly for the usual GUI coding patterns.

This will only lead to disillusion and shy away contributors that might otherwise enjoy using the language, if they understood the current state before diving in.
On Windows we have WPF.

Compared to the web stack, it packs much more free things relevant to desktop development. The examples of such things are animations, composition, data binding, pixel shader effects, and vector graphics.

Also WPF renderer is based on Direct3D, I would expect better performance.
What I meant was that more interactions per relationship on a smaller number of relationships is better that fewer interactions per relationships across a larger number of relationships.

Basically with globalization, social media etc... The number of relationships have gone up but the quality and depth of each relationship has gone down. This makes it harder for the rational copycat personality type who relies on empirical evidence to build trust.
> Please allow me to say that this isn't a perfect land and that "hate speech" is indeed abused to silence the masses (especially regarding fake refugees). However can guarantee you that it is no police state, especially when compared to the UK where everything is controlled and monitored heavily (nanny state).

Also agree with this, they really need to get back the better parts of their tradition. They had Mill, and now they hardly go a year without somebody suggesting universal key escrow or something worse. That said, becoming more continental is not going to help with their nanny state problem.

It's lovely that Germany is not a police state yet.

> As for conquering Europe, in the end its all about business. You're blaming other countries when they understand the game and score well on it.

I agree, which is why I don't think it's in Britons' best interest to give the German establishment what they want.

I wouldn't live in the UK for exactly the reasons you describe, I just don't think more continentalism is going to help alleviate the problems they do have.
It's tenacious to paraphrase the comment thread above you like that. I disagree with your characterization of the argument.

But maybe you're making the subtle point that "it matters if HN comments abuse quotation marks."
They really improved performance drastically last year. It's totally playable on a Mac mini even.
My old university email that was linked to microsoft when I signed up for visual studio i think? Not sure if this will still work, was a few years ago.

https://login.live.com/login.srf?lw=1
https://rocket.rs/ is basically this, but in rust instead.
There are plenty of nice school districts outside of Seattle. Bellevue, Shoreline, Northshore....

Coming from LA, I'm looking forward to cheaper housing prices when I move there next month.
That only helps for building the actual UI, which IME is not where the spaghetti comes from. The spaghetti comes from "if this data disable this control" type of stuff.
We have that in Europe for years. It works great for me. There is no communication struggle with anyone nor planning involved and its cheaper. You'll get phone message and mail that there is package to take and from that moment you have 48 hours to pick it up. If you don't do it within time limit, package gets back into warehouse so you can go there or request home delivery for few euros.
Could you give an example of soft-speaking romantic german language? Like a video or something.
Good, I hope they do leave, and it's 9 months of rain, not 6 :). Will the last person to leave Seattle please turn out the lights?
I'm not familiar with Amazon internals enough, but I doubt they keep SKU for every individual item, maybe for categories or types, so i.e. all the headphones of the same model has the same SKU. Then it's enough to scan a single code on crate/bin/pallet which makes things far easier, but it's not sufficient to track down individual counterfeits.