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>The time scales are completely different: that HN feature that is schedule a week of dev time is incomparable to that probe feature that is scheduled years of dev time even if the amount of code involved is the same.

You missed the point though. Whether it takes you five minutes to code the feature or fifty years, you're still doing math. The so-called "engineering" principles might change, with regards to division of labor and so on, but the underlying science/math you're dealing with doesn't significantly.
What's the problem that you have with the content? I thought that it was a pretty cool dive into elliptic curve mathematics.
> He's giving a series of 3 things that he's asserting are viable given known physics, so the second two are alternatives to the first.

To be clear, the meaning of the construction used is that, given known physics, the only alternatives are the list elements (chemical rockets, nukes, or a space elevator). This is completely conventional American English.
These seem like edge cases. How many CRUD web apps have gaping holes that would be corrected had the developers only been less white? And are the consequences of failed facial recognition so severe? The racial issue was fixed years before I got a camera that could leverage it, and how many people critically depended on it in that window? In fact, I can't think of a single other issue of tech that works better for white people, much less one that is actually important. And even if you were concerned about this, it's not justification to hire in proportion to broader demographics. None of this is to attack diversity, just these particularly weak arguments. We should absolutely maximize opportunity for everyone, because it's the right thing to do; not because it might help to avoid the once-in-a-blue-moon racial faux pas.
https://medium.com/auctus/smart-contracts-ideal-uses-cases-9...
I don't know that much about McCarthyism but I think it's safe to guess that you know less. It was considered a witch hunt because nobody cared about facts or evidence, the spectacle was the point. Victims we're persecuted because they were juicy, suceptible targets, not because of anything they did or didn't do.

The situation we're discussing here is pretty different.
> Who invests:
- Some of the hundreds of thousands of people who have made big $ in crypto - especially ether

> How do ICOs reach these people:
- There are numerous forums/chatrooms/reddits/twitter posters etc etc. One of the common tricks is for ICOs to reward 2-3% of tokens in "bounty programs" which basically rewards participants for facebook/forum/blog/youtube posts/spam. Very large ICOs like bancor have done this

> Legal status of ICO's
- Unclear, but they are global and switzerland - where many of them are based out of seem to have liberal laws. For the SEC they seem to have indicated that you are likely to get in trouble if ICO's are more equity based, whereas "token" based network payment stuff is less clear.

The high early liquidity of ICO's basically mean that if an ICO has capped investment and has any sort of credibility, the ICO will reach its cap rapidly and when it opens on the exchanges it'll be up 3-10x and you can dump it and make a fortune, regardless of whether it is actually vaporware or a ponzi. This does not really happen in the past 3 months as the high demand ICO's generally take as much money as possible and don't cap it.

I think its sad that this business is going the way of the venture capital biz where well connected people get early/cheap dibs and average joes only get in once all the potential gains have been sucked out. Compare this to the ethereum ICO where everyone really got a fair short. I also think that if these have ponzi elements, being a preferred/connected/private investor in a ponzi makes you complicit in the ponzi scheme, whereas being an average joe just means you're playing the game.
Doctors are required to have extensive knowledge of chemistry, physics, and biology before even beginning medical school. Those are all highly scientific fields with centuries of practice behind them, not to mention medicine itself which is nearly as old as people are.
The Bitcoin blockchain will explode
Army tells troops to stop using DJI drones immediately
Sorry for being dumb. If someone wants to encash it to USD. Who's going to pay them? My knowledge in this subject is very minimal hence it sounds like the scene of Housing crisis.
Idleness is dead. We're constantly picking up novel stimuli and concepts, getting triggered by emotional politics/entertainment, and following infinite trends... as soon as our minds are idle, we immediately jump back to the things we've been absorbing, or feel that obsessive itch to scan for new stimuli.

What happened to being bored? To doing things, not because they were "cool" or even "fun", but simply because there was time that had to be killed? Going out because there was nothing inside, and meeting other bored people, connecting on anything because it was better than nothing?

Technology is raising the "minimum acceptable interest level" for activities - killing our mental slack, the slack where offline novelty could slip in.

I've been thinking about it for a while, but this thread has made my decision. Next time I'm off-call, 3pm tomorrow, I'm going to cut the cord. Unplug the modem and tell my friends I'm only answering phone calls (disable data) - no internet outside of work.

I want to feel bored again. Not brief moments of boredom, the hours of boredom I felt as a kid, the boredom that drove me to do new things... instead of today's boredom, that merely leads me to learn new things.
Python also became easy to extend, you even had great tools like Swig

Ironically SWIG originated on Tcl, IIRC
Yes, you're entirely correct. But you also seem to be the only person in this thread who can pull that distinction out of this discussion, everyone else is ranting about how The Market is the only real spec or whatever.
Ask HN: Is IBM Watson speech to text API so bad
I am have a requirement for converting speech to text using a prerecorded audio file. I am planning to use IBM Watson API (I have license for unlimited api request) but results are very bad and is hardly accurate. Whereas the same file if I use google speech to text gets me almost accurate.

So I feel not using IBM Watson API.

Below is a test for Speech to Text using IBM watson
https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net/

Google Speech to Text
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

Any suggestions or experience around it??
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Thanks for responding. Not sure why you got downvoted.

I don't equate work with a job. By "work", I mean that you have to put effort into the marriage. A marriage is not the same as a romance, and should also not be conflated with love.

That you and your wife are honest with each other and make an effort at not going to bed angry with each other is aligned with what I was expressing.

On the brutal honesty thing: it sounds like it works well for you and your wife, and that is great. It doesn't work so well with my wife and I becuase we suck at crucial conversations and we are now just learning how to have them. One key thing about the teachings in crucial conversations is to recognizing the false dichotomy of speaking truth and having a good relationship. It is possible to do both. It sounds like you and your wife are already doing both.
I didn't panic, but I thought it was worthwhile to exit when BTC was at about $12. It paid for the down payment on my car. I kept some (and I'm still holding a fairly substantial amount) because I do believe that it will revolutionize a lot of things and will be worth a lot more in the long-term. It wasn't about "having the guts" or "panicking" as much as it was about "I have an opportunity here".
The difference is that software development interacts with life, and that's where most problems lie: specifications from people who don't actually know what they need; interaction with ill-defined data and systems; unforseen cases; and everything changes over time, beyond the scope of the project.

I suppose that life is irregular.
in·fe·ri·or·i·ty com·plex
noun
an unrealistic feeling of general inadequacy caused by actual or supposed inferiority in one sphere, sometimes marked by aggressive behavior in compensation.

su·pe·ri·or·i·ty com·plex
noun
an attitude of superiority that conceals actual feelings of inferiority and failure.

I can't decide which one you are.
Location: Orange County, CA
Remote: Would be great
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Embedded firmware (ARM, PIC, Bluetooth, USB, Apple MFi). Embedded Linux (including GStreamer). macOS (Cocoa and Carbon) app development, also Qt.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanshanks
Email: Linked from the bottom of http://bslabs.net
The mistake that you make is assuming Amazon is a "low margin retail business" like how Tesla just "sells cars". The valuation is based on the belief that companies like Amazon will continue to expand based on more foundational and fundamental principles. Amazon's thing is becoming the platform and de facto distributor of everything. Keep in mind, Bezos started Amazon by selling books online. Look at where it is now, and think about it what might be in ten years.

I make no judgement either way, but there are legitimate and sound reasons for why these valuations can be justified. Try to think bigger.
Ai yai yai, you took this thread way into the red. Could you please resist the temptation to do that in the future?

The whole idea of HN is to have thoughtful discussion (not to tell one another to fuck off!) That means tolerating a certain amount of provocation when you feel provoked; it's almost always unintentional, and in the rare cases when it isn't, you owe the community better than to respond in kind.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14929745 and marked it off-topic.
> Your job as an investor/speculator

You missed the part where he wrote that he was into this "as a developer, not as a speculator."
Apologies, can't edit anymore so here you go.

https://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_government_inves...
Why not just go to local gigs to socialise? I've been going to gigs in Melbourne for 11 months now and its how I've met all of my friends here. At first I felt out of place that I didn't listen to Misfits growing up like many people here did but you will find there is always a band you can talk to someone about.

A few years ago I took your approach with music, I'd listen to every new major label hip-hop/rap album on the day of release and guess what? No one I knew could talk about any of the albums in the detail I knew because they listen to whats on the radio or in the club - not saying that its a bad thing, but I think you are over-rating how much people care about "pop culture"
What the OP is saying is that marketing makes the impression that "IF I HAD {X} THEN I'D BE {NOT LONELY, HAPPY, LIKED, BEAUTIFUL, ETC}" where {x }is the set of items that you're actively feeling marketing pressure to buy.
Bitcoin was "launched" in January 2009. There were no exchanges until mid-2010.
Well said. Where most funds have the same problem 'chollida1 describes here[1], Rentec (and other similar firms) moved past that by establishing the right culture and investing in the right technology from the outset.

They need smart people, but hiring the smartest people and having the most sophisticated models won't do you any good if you can't acquire high signal data, can't clean that data properly and can't rapidly backtest. And if you can't do any of that, adding more data is just going to add more noise.

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1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139638#13140352
> using AirBNB to skirt regulations.

i'd like to hear what sort of regulations that are being skirted. I keep hearing about things like fire safety laws, and escape hatches etc. Why does being used as a hotel force an apartment to be more stringent than it originally was? Shouldn't the safety regulations be the same no matter what?

As for zoning laws - those are arbituary lines drawn by the city planners. As a property owner, you have to make the best use of the property, and if airbnb brings in more money, you _have_ to do it, otherwise, you'd be losing value. City planners cannot forsee this, and so zoning laws will be broken no matter what.
The Google memo author did reference similar material. The fucking Gizmodo leak stripped out all author's hyperlinks. The hyperlinks were how he cited his sources. This fact keeps getting lost on people: the document was not only well-written, but also well-supported!
> In Italy they are literally called "bed and breakfast", in English, because they are not a local invention: they were borrowed from the impoverished and benighted country known as the UK.

I think they refer to these as "bed & breakfast" (in English) these days across EU countries, but back in 2005 when I traveled in Italy, that was not the term they used. They referred to them as "affittacamere", which translated literally means, "rooms for rent".

I never said that agriturismi (or B&Bs) were invented to keep tourists out.

I simply reflected on how it was an enjoyable mode of travel for local Italians visiting different parts of their own country, and also affordable. I remember how my own Italian family told me they never stayed in hotels when traveling through the country -- mainly due to cost, but also because it just didn't feel authentic to them.

As for the agriturismi themselves, they have their roots in state law in Italy; it's a special designation that, as you rightly point out, was meant to provide farm owners a new revenue stream. However, you may be surprised to learn that Italians themselves are often the customers. Usually cherished more for the opportunity to experience family style meals cooked from local ingredients than for the countryside views, but it's all part of the experience.
At some point you have enough money that it doesn't really matter. If you had $20k in Bitcoin you may be tempted just to keep holding. If you had $3mm, who really cares? Sell half or two thirds to diversify if you still believe it has room to grow or just drop it all into more traditional investments and take your interest and dividends for the rest of your life.
I would beat anyone at this game
> not to mention by default out of the box

sure. Disable it by default, but leave it compiled in, so an admin can re-enable it by changing a config setting instead of recompiling half a distro.

> and thus putting yourself at risk too

I'm not at risk if some big restaurant chain orders their supplies over TLS 1.1 instead of TLS 1.2. I'm not at risk if their email server sends us support tickets over TLS 1.1 instead of 1.2.

However, my business is at risk if they can't order their supplies and if I then can't receive the support email telling me so.

> patch in garbage like null cipher support into ssh

there's a huge difference there: null-ciphers are completely pointless and no known client out there only supports null-ciphers.

But about 30% of the internet doesn't support TLS 1.2.
why prevent professionals from doing anything? Professionals are professional because they do it better than an amateur.

Scalping is a different issue - the ticket price is priced too low. Scalping is a sign of market inefficiency (and scalpers are there to take advantage of it). If the tickets are priced correctly (e.g., via an auction system), then there won't be any scalpers.
How we really tamed the dog – building new tame species in 60 years
Ousterhout's response is awesome. More interesting and accurately predictive, I think, than RMS' (partly because he makes fewer predictions and merely suggests trusting developers to pick what they like).

I like RMS for what he's done for Free Software, but I rarely find myself agreeing with him wholeheartedly on technical questions.
> I've often wondered who are the people who have the ability and power to change the city? Is it a matter of the right people not caring, or is it beyond saving at this point?

Those who have the ability and power to change the city are its citizens. Always stand up for what you believe in and contribute wherever you can. Engage with or become a civil servant. Vote. Democratic progress is slow but inevitable if we stay focused.

Perhaps the city in its current form is beyond saving. At the very least it may serve as a giant remediation laboratory should technology to reverse humanity's assault on nature and all its inhabitants be developed. Ironically, the solution will likely come from nature.
> I don't think evolution would necessarily favor specialization between the sexes.

Why wouldn't it? Other primate species are very sexually dimorphic, both physically and behaviorally. Why should humans be so fine-tuned that there are no sex differences at all in behavior?
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or rants to HN? We're shooting for a higher quality of discussion here.
The quality of the audio narration is really surprising!! Foley and music!
Its unfortunate that this situation causes you problems, but there is literally no other way that some people will ever upgrade their shit, you could wait 10 years and they will still be using tls1.1.

Its important to at least make it harder than flip some switch and forget about it forever, or nothing is going to change.
"This is stupid. Yeah probably, but for its very specific use case it's not terribly bad."

Don't put your work down like this. You created something useful for yourself, and likely useful for others. I'd be surprised if someone called it stupid.
Humans attention span is now less than goldfish, give this a look: http://time.com/3858309/attention-spans-goldfish/
Agreed. A friend of mine's got married recently. That was the wedding gift I sent them.
As time goes by – FPGA'er comics strip
It matters because it will influence how we think about the world, what our premises are. Claiming there is red "out there" vs saying red is a construct in our brain leads to two very different understandings of the world. Its unimportant in many cases but important in some very important ones like how does our brain work and what is reality.
Most board games can be great educational tools. Eg Guess Who teaches logical thinking skills since kids have to think of a strategy to use and a question that will support that strategy. Clue is similar but possibly a higher age range.

Same goes for puzzle games - Sudoku, or even those little golf tee + peg board games you see at like cracker barrel. Simple but educational and they exercise the brain.

As others have said, Legos and similar toys teach spatial reasoning and similar skills as well.

If you are looking for toys that teach a specific skill (eg algebra) that is likely trickier to find.
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This makes me anxious, but I'm not sure if my anxiety is valid. I didn't know it was okay to disable TLS 1.0/1.1 this early. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this will affect all HTTPS web requests and web serving, as well as mail delivery and receipt from Debian sid. I'm not sure I want to only be able to surf ~90% of the encrypted web[1] and I'm not sure I'm ready to drop support for Android 4.3[2] or stock Windows 7/IE (which has TLS 1.2 switched off in Internet Options.) Not to mention all the mail servers out there running outdated crypto. I have mail in my inbox (from eg. Amazon Pay) received over TLS 1.0. As far as I understand, supporting outdated protocols like TLS 1.0 is only a problem if there is a downgrade attack that can force a server and client that speak TLS 1.2 to communicate over TLS 1.0. Otherwise, it should be fine to support TLS 1.0 to speak to older clients, while giving newer clients the option to speak over TLS 1.2.

Hopefully this announcement is correct in the assumption that support for TLS 1.2 will be high enough when Buster is released.

[1]: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/
[2]: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/clients.html
There are many Bitcoin exchanges and "banks" where you can buy USD for Bitcoin from someone looking to buy Bitcoin. Currently, about $70 million per day - $billions per month - is exchanged for Bitcoin, so it's easy to get in or out of it.

> hence it sounds like the scene of Housing crisis.

If everyone wanted to sell BTC and no-one wanted to buy, it would crash just like anything else.
Shouldn't recompiling OpenSSL be enough? It's usually dynamically linked, isn't it?
i dont think doctors fail as often as software projects. and they only fail on the fringes of medicine - like treating cancer, or rare diseases. You don't often see doctors failing to treat the cold or a broken angle badly that they kill their patients!

But in the software world, it seems the equivalent of the cold is a CRUD app, but still fails so often that it's newsworthily talked about when such a software project succeed!
Brave statement. Can you talk about what you mean by STATUS? If I project my own early 20s beliefs into OP's description, it means that I pictured myself being much wealthier than I am now, maybe arriving to work in helicopter, super successful, beautiful people dying to talk to me, and all those horrible people from highschool eating their hearts out. In my 30s I see all this is nonsense and wouldn't make me any happier. But that's not the focus of the question. OP what do you mean by STATUS?
Don't tell that to the global enterprise whose blockchain projects I'm working on.
Practically speaking, the probability that 6 billion other people are all at fault and you have 0% of the blame is pretty small. Without knowing you it's hard to say what you're doing wrong, but as the parent hinted, professional help is available. It could just be that you're doing something to weird people away, or it could be deeper seated issues with how you perceive the world.
Add in the Switzerland and Norway figures and things look less clear. But here is a large dataset with some nice infographics.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-ho...
FWIW, while in Tcl "everything is a string", that doesn't actually mean using things like numbers is slow. AIUI Tcl implementations actually use other datatypes behind the scenes as well, it just matches the semantics of "everything is a string". So if you take the string "1" and treat it as a number, Tcl will basically turn it into a number behind the scenes so it doesn't have to re-parse that number every time it's used.
Boy, you really show your true colors when you put the Black Panther Party in with the KKK and Westboro. It's pretty disgustingly racist, in fact, but that's par for the course around here.
> The best response given when I asked one why they still worked, "Why would I spend time at home? Have you met my wife and kids?"

I am not sure whether I should fear sorry for the kids or for the father. Having father that jokes about not liking you must sux.
Know all about it, was a data lackey B* at a HF (not Rentec) when I first graduated from school.

By the way for anyone reading this, Rentec is hiring, need to know C/C++ and a "basic knowledge of statistics" is preferred but not required.
> But this guy might lose his job. His career. All for voicing his opinion.

Perhaps you aren't employed in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

If you are in fact aware of this concept, then I really don't understand your hyperbole.
At some point this becomes indistinguishable from trolling and in my opinion you hit that point. Please don't post like this.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14938471 and marked it off-topic.
Why don't colonize the Moon as practice before trying to go to Mars? (2015)
but those books this new method finds might not be books that customers are likely to buy, even with the new information. perhaps they are just bad books but are still referenced in such a way.