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In my opinion, a lot of this rhetoric is being repeated. But the points raised by the original memo require a bit of perhaps subtle mathematics to understand.

This is an attempt at curating a list of relevant math and rationality articles, so that we can at least speak the same language when talking about this.

Start here: I personally view it as the base model of all beliefs that we can hold. It talks about some kinds of things that we can know and how much we should have confidence in what we know.

Bayes theorem: http://arbital.com/p/bayes_rule_guide
why are you still there?
No deposit or withdrawal fees for GDAX, and it's instant to move funds to/from Coinbase wallets.
We can call it "The B Ark".
I guess you're right[1]. The thought of the substitution wasn't really stopping me from eating calamari, it's more about how do I not get ripped off by unscrupulous merchants?

[1]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/imitation-calamari-...
just stripe, nothin fancy :]
Given that every OS, even OpenBSD is frequently vulnerable to privilege escalation exploits, it always makes me nervous to run someone else's code.
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A bit incorrect.
This has always been my assumption. If Watson did anything close to how it's advertised, IBM would have a big competitive advantage by actually using it.
I agree. In fact, i like it when new products/services offer the option to self-host for free (because code is open source), as well as the option where I can pay them to host it for me (along with a little included support). In my mind, companies that don't offer both, sort of get lumped in with the googles, microsofts, apples, facebooks, snapchats, etc. of the world. Much like other commentaries, I'm not assuming automatic nefarious behavior, but providing options like i noted above, sure goes a long way in building confidence and happy customer relations.
One guy had pancreatic cancer and another guy had leukemia, if I googled the right people.

Doesn’t sound like cigarettes?
I typically use wikipedia for this purpose.

On a similar note: One thing I've found interesting about VISA lists and passport usefulness rankings is that it has no bearing on the experience you'll have coming into a country.

For example, the German passport is supposedly soooo much better than the US passport, but diving into it you see that a few countries have slightly different status designations for the two. Where the status designation for the German one being a slightly better one.

But when you get to the airport in those countries, the US passport has the easier route with the automated immigration. While the supposedly better passport with better status still busses you through the line with the hoard of the newly minted Chinese middle-class with the humans slowly evaluating everyone.

I think the country-specific nuances between status designations are hard to rank, if it is functionally similar in all capacities once you get in the country. And the experience/treatment getting into the country isn't listed at all.
Claude Shannon's wife Betty doesn't even get a mention. If you have so much detail about how he behaved when he was thinking, there's no reason to minimize her role. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/betty-shannon-un...
Autonomous cars may dramatically expand the set of people that can drive cars, which will accordingly increase the amount of cars on the road.

Right now the set of potential drivers are limited to 16 to around 80 (though many seniors may be forced to stop earlier). When skill and attention and licensing are no longer requirements for driving, then children and seniors that would have been forced to bicycle, walk or take transit will be able to call an autonomous car.
"Last year’s record heat resulted from the combined influence of long-term global warming and a strong El Niño early in the year."

"One of the strongest El Niño events since at least 1950"
> They are not ready to be widely deployed but are close, which is why we're talking about them. It's an exciting technology with great potential impact on the future and a lot of that impact is positive.

If you've ever implemented anything in your life, you should know that completely new solutions often come with unexpected failure modes. Very well thought out solutions often address all of these, but more often than not we have to address failure modes through iteration. Unfortunately, physical infrastructure isn't like software: iteration isn't nearly as cheap or fast.

> As far as public transit: autonomous cars will improve it. By my calculations, autonomous car will be cheaper, unsubsidized, than a $2.50 bus ride subsidized by the city from our taxes (SF has ~$1 billion budget to fund money-loosing bart, buses etc.).

And how will that scale? When SF's streets are filled grid-to-grid with vehicles that can only fit 5 people at once (and will probably only accept 4 due to customer sentiment), what will we do then? Also, care to share your calculations?

> And that's cars. Things will be even cheaper if we get buses to be autonomous. At which point it's likely bus service will be cheaper and provided by a commercial company (the only reason public transport is government owned is because it looses money, so it wouldn't exist as private company).

A bus driver is far from the main cost of a bus service. Many buses in SF/Berkeley are already electric or hybrid, so it's not even fuel anymore. Buses are expensive because they are large vehicles and because maintaining them is expensive. Autonomous driving tech won't make a bus cheaper to purchase or maintain.
More details about the situation in the arctic: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
I'm dismayed that the very environment we all share somehow got politicized to death. I wonder what would have happened to the Ozone Hole if it too got politicized at the time, or the link between smoking and cancer if it got politicized. We trust our doctors; we trust our tech leaders; why don't we trust our scientists and climatologists? (Is this, sort of, Gore's fault, combined with a highly-polarizing media? I have to wonder.)

At this point I have almost no faith that until things get dire enough to cause even the most ignorant layperson to realize there's a serious problem going on, that anything impactful will be done to stop it, and by then it may be too late due to runaway multiplicative effects (such as the thawing of permafrost methane in the Arctic, or the absence of snow cover resulting in less planet-surface reflectivity)
So this is basically a landing page to lure investors. Can someone comment on the feasibility and technical novelty?
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The kind of things oil companies have to do to please the eco-terrorists.

People who have to pay for oil and everything it helps us create/transport (basically everything) are forced to pay for this, thanks to eco-terrorists, while tried and tested nuclear power will last us thousands of years.

Unlike nuclear and coal, this will harm the aquatic life and birds more... but those things only matter when you are speaking against their narrative.
Congrats! Any big learnings from being in YC so far?
Now combine this with mircosofts off-shore under-water data-centers: https://news.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-research-proje...
They added 1 million users in just 1 month (June), so the volume of inquiries went off the chart. They weren't prepared for that, and I can't say I blame them.
It is a serverless issue because if you were using your own server, a mistake like this wouldn't have cost money, it would have just degraded your service (or possibly brought it offline).

So I guess the question is, with a mistake like this, is it better to be charged hundreds or thousands of dollars, or to have your service degrade or go offline until you can fix it?
NuCypher (YC S16) is hiring a Python dev to build an encryption layer for dApps
Is there even a difference between a traditional distributed database and a blockchain once you remove proof-of-work? Without proof-of-work, the Bitcoin P2P network would just be a distributed database storing a linked list of blocks (each block pointing to the hash of a previous block), plus some business logic.
Another Bayes theorem. This is IMO the most important idea so I am including this alternate text as well.

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes/
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When you say the ranking was quantitative, what sort of quantities did you measure? Did you ever evaluate the quality of your metrics, and how predictive they were for future success?

IIRC, Google did the same thing and concluded their hiring metrics had very little predictive value beyond setting a certain bar. Once you rose to that level, most discriminatory power of the metric evaporated.

If that was the case where you were, then is probably very little predictive value between "top scores" and "median scores".
can you provide a link instead of hearsay, please
The Alpha AXP: Bit 15. Ugh. Bit 15
even if every line was already jammed with the millions of new customers? Humans only scale so far.

I think coinbase can do a better job with support, but expecting the same quality of support as a heavily regulated and $T industry from a startup is foolish.
And even better than that: having your regulator run a few of the private miner nodes in your reportable business logic blockchain.

Who cares about proving how physically access-restricted your server room is, any funny business will be noticed right away.
It's "serverless" in the sense that if the developer had provisioned a "server" then the max incursion of cost would equal the cost of that server, no more no less.

So yeah, let's blame the developer, but let's not play like mistakes don't happen and they're not costly in the "serverless" world.
Next year: "International report confirms 2017 was fourth consecutive year of record global warmth"

Not exactly shocking news :)
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I saw that too. Comment on that PDF here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14982419
You could try a bottle of some fancy drink, alcoholic or otherwise (and it could be easier to find something good in the latter category).
System monitoring dashboard for the terminal
Or you bankrupt them by not having them shut off. Its a CoS - Cost of Service attack
Dwm-inpsired tiling pane management for tmux
That's wonderful that you are open to feedback from geeks with fringe interests.

If I were in charge of this project, I would strive for simplicity and for appeal to the widest audience, and not indulge the geeks, students, professionals, and hypochondriacs who might want this feature.

The casual user should get fuzzy names for probability values, as you already do. I wouldn't even let them see the numeric values - that seems like bad psychology and an invitation to ascribe the wrong meaning.

Maybe there is a way to make everyone happy though? Is there already a "debug mode" for developers? Making it possible (not easy, but possible) for users to activate debug mode might be a way to expose functionality which would provide the kind of information.

> Is there a certain minimum probability you'd want to see before seeing a condition (e.g., if something is 1% matching vs 10% vs 70%)?

For people like me, I'd like to be able to dynamically set the value myself.

For the general public - the way you do it now seems good.
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Giant Eagle has such a service. Kroger is testing one. Amazon/Whole Foods are also testing.
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The PHP portion segfaults on other CPUs because it's not related to the real problem.
". . . in 137 years of recordkeeping."
If I set up a server to run a script each time a file gets updated in a folder, then the costs arn't going to increase.

Its not a "problem" with server/serverless of course, but no-scaling-by-default vs unlimited-scaling-by-default (which is imo the better way to split the server/serverless topic), one is going to cost more when things get thrown for a loop
It's an excerpt from the same book by the same two authors, who are promoting it in another publication with another focus. It's missing in this article, which is focussing on the theory, not on his life, but it's in the books big picture. Maybe they had it in there and pitched an exclusive piece to different magazines? Who knows.

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.
Some think that Coinbase's failure to give their customers the Bitcoin Cash they were entitled to after the fork demonstrated their insolvency.
>(Damore's firing was unavoidable under current US law.)

If he wasn't lying when he said he'd filed a claim with the National Labor Relations Board, his firing was illegal under current US law.
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The only difference between your library and a closed office plan is that the library was cheaper to build.

And all it takes is two chatty hires to ruin it (as a chatty person, I'm fine unless someone encourages me). If they kept a lot of private meeting rooms when they changed the floor plan, you have a good chance of convincing the chatty people to fuck off to a room if they want to talk, but most places don't do that. They use open floor plans to reduce costs, and then there are shortages of meeting space, kitchens, ventilation, and bathrooms.

The sales pitch of sitting in a group is that you can ask people questions and get an answer, but it's based on bad information about recovery periods after task switching. And as a lead I've been crippled by the inability to get candid answers from junior and midlevel engineers, and being unable to negotiate agreements with senior engineers by hashing out our disagreements in private where I can steer the conversation toward addressing their personal concerns instead of general ones. We should be concentrating on finding a compromise or promising more functionality so they're happy, so that it's two or three advocating for an idea when it's time to discuss it as a team. Instead it just gets shit on while I'm stream-of-consciousing it in the middle of a bunch of myopic people, leading to more confirmation bias and reaffirmation of the status quo.

[Edit] And good luck healing a rift between QA and dev if the QA folk have to wander into the lion's den to talk about an issue. I have only been a lead once in an open office plan (working on #2), because half of my skill is in knowing more about what's going on by liaising across functional or personality boundaries. Half of the rest is in fixing unidentified pain points, which often requires hearing from people who don't like to be a bother. Open plans don't encourage candor, they crush it like a bug.

Steve Job's line, as reported by Jonny Ive IIRC, about ideas being fragile and needing space to grow really hit home when I figured out I'm doomed to be in open offices until the pendulum swings back.
Could you expand on "critical shortages up the chain?"

It seems like if slightly less-preferable alternatives are already being used, this would be enough to induce demand when the price drops a bit. Many car trips are optional; consider shopping and the ability to combine trips or order online, if you're motivated to do so. Also, there are many alternatives for entertainment, whether by going somewhere else or staying home. And people do take traffic into account when choosing when and where to drive.
> What if there just isn't enough bitcoin in circulation to cover the loss (there is a 21 million cap on BTC).

It's being defacto established that when a cryptobank gets robbed, the funds are repaid to customers using local currency, not BTC, priced at the time of the loss.

So, from the underwriter's perspective, it's just insuring whatever total USD value Coinbase currently holds, with consideration given to Coinbase's ability to prevent theft. Not any different from a bank insuring itself against loss due to cybertheft.
> Autonomous cars will not significantly change this.

Autonomous cars (if used exclusively) over time should decrease safe separation, increasing capacity, but there's a limit to the gains from that.

Some additional gains if they are networked at routing is optimized to utilize all available roads rather than just the usually-best route.
I didn't say it was the minimum. Just a nice lunch.
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> But when starting a new project and following some basic guidelines, C++ has become somewhat pleasant to work with

I can agree with this, with the caveat that old libraries, still in popular use, are all over the place. For one thing, a lot of OS interop relies upon these libraries, although C++17 is aiming to standardize a lot of what used to be OS level functionality.
The Coinbase Shift card does this. It's not a bank account, but just a debit card that exchanges USD<->BTC in real time to settle transactions.
No, it is a project by Statoil, one of the biggest oil companies in the world.
"the only place where a non-programmer would treat the idea that programmers should have offices with incredulity would be a place that doesn't value software as its core business"

But this is also not true, see e.g. Facebook, Google.
You both remind me of Lucille Bluth. $20 is PLENTY for a "decent" lunch, even in SF... you can be much more than "pretty sure" that you can have dinner for less than $150, too.
here's the source for those who are curious: https://github.com/gadogado/istrumphappy
I've been here for about a year and I just now noticed the search at the bottom of the page.
If you have two equally qualified candidates but 90% of the time the male candidate is hired over the female candidate, and then you change your hiring practices to reduce that ratio to 50%, are you now discriminating against the male candidate? What if you literally reduce it to a coinflip?
Cryptocurrency app, CoinHub, nets 20,000 signups in 2 hours
Fair point.

I'm the command-line and use-vim-keybindings-for-all-the-things type person, which often clashes with all the reasons why I'm an Apple fan (slightly abashed these days) and fascinated with UX.

I actually often find myself discovering interesting, hidden OSX 'solutions' to things even now, as a power user, and after using it for more than five years. I never discovered them before because my 'default' would be to go to iTerm2 for a quicker approach.

For example, I find myself switching between Finder and iTerm2(+zsh) quite regularly when my need is to navigate folders/directories and/or quickly CRUD files. And yet, I was also fully aware of the OSX Finder keyboard shortcut 'SHIFT-CMD-G' to jump to a directory from within Finder. I never really used it.

Just last week I decided to use the Finder keyboard shortcut more regularly, and I feel the end result is a boost in productivity, however tiny and ultimately insignificant it may be. There's a certain friction between using the command-line and OSX' GUI that just disappeared for many of my common use cases (CRUD files and directories with sublime text or vim).

Exploring iTerm's extra features (toolbelt, profiles), but also discovering tmux and how iTerm integrates with it, are similar 'tucked away' things that 'fuse' power-user and normal-user interfaces, and that I only discovered in the past months.

I'm not sure why I apparently feel drawn to making a strict dichotomy between CLI and OSX usage that causes me to be blind to these in-between cases, but thanks for reminding me. I'd never have thought to use the 'recent files' lists in the dock. Just a cursory glance makes me suspect I'll be using it quite a bit going forward!
Anything humanizing james is being flagged heavily.
Could you just do serverless where it starts to rate limit one you reach a certain cost? It seems like this is an issue that could be fixed somehow
I'm sort of in the same boat. I've tried Terminator and tiling window managers and finally realized that tmux is what I wanted all along(on tiling window managers it turns out I really only want to tile terminals).
For the recipes that I cook multiple times I have figured out optimal pan/bowl management, including reusing dirty bowls or pans if it doesn't hurt. For example for rice pudding I whip the egg whites in the bowl that will be used to store the final pudding, saving 1 bowl. IMO recipes should include a bowl/pan strategy, as well as a time management strategy to interleave steps (e.g. whip the egg whites while the rice is boiling).
"using a newly created account means you aren't."

This is wrong. Using a newly created account does not mean the communicator is approaching this in bad faith. That's a complete non sequitor.

"lack of subsequent engagement suggests otherwise."

Not at all. There are numerous reason they might not engage further within this time frame - or ever.
> the combined influence of long-term global warming and a strong El Niño early in the year

I'm curious how strong this El Nino was vs others in recent years? Was it particularly bad this time?
I'm really disappointed we're even having this conversation on Hacker News. A graph with no source, no methodology, no context is useless. We're computer programmers, we should know enough about data to recognize this and dismiss it until we have those things.
I do, and I've interviewed at several others. Nowhere have I seen private offices.
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Ok, that makes sense. It just seemed odd to have so much information from his girlfriend and then not a word about his wife.
"Magic is fueled by belief and willpower"
"Magic that works whether or not you believe in it"

What is belief and what is reality. An existential notion of truth that I subscribe to.

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth/
The developer should be writing unit tests for their code so they can avoid small mistakes like this.
Speaking to someone there: they were planning to remodel the whole campus. However they stopped after a few conversions due to feedback. Converted buildings are staying open, but other buildings are reportedly staying as individual offices.

This is second hand, could be wrong.
"Absolutely reject" seems a bit much. The same people can be enthusiasts for driverless cars and also take public transit and/or biking.

Also, it's easy to see how driverless cars could be used along with public transit or biking for different parts of a trip.