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Of course, but in the very next sentence the doctor says the system stays out of date for quite a while. That's probably because they need an engineer to find all the old information and remove it, then input all the new information in whatever standard Watson requires.
You could have some inflatable cushions that can only be controlled by the cloud.
I think the comparison to gold does make more sense than to Fiat. Fiat has inherent value in that you can buy all kinds of goods with it. Crypto so far has hardly another use than to trade against Fiat, which atm. is similar to gold (which does have industrial applications but its price would also collapse if all the reserves got dumped). This may change in the future, albeit probably not with BTC given its tech stack and the strange philosophy of the core devs.
The note mentions a receiver, which means the company is being liquidated by a court, which implies that it's effectively (though not technically) bankrupt.
Not only it's slow, but transaction fees are ridiculously high. $4.3 currently.

I go to shop and pay $0.5 for 2kg of potatoes (or a bottle of beer), and pay $4.3 fee, and wait 1 hour for confirmations?
The pattern I've seen: IBM sells things that underdeliver, the solution is always to buy more IBM to fix the inadequacies of whatever it is you've bought already. The go-to line is "Oh that's a know problem with X 3.4, if you upgrade to X 4.5 with Y 2.7 that will fix that problem". This process never stops.
And there is even a term for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
"Crypto currencies will be useless in this case, losing all of their value."

Pedantic nitpick - there are crytpocurrencies which are not distributed proof-of-work blockchains, and would not necessarily lose all of their value.
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The fundamental value of $1 is the full faith and credit of the United States Government and the economy of America.

The fundamental value of cryptocurrencies is a shared agreement of value amongst investors.

I imagine some snotty 14-year old would argue that there is no fundamental distinction between the two but that's not being economically serious.
China’s example is massive.

China’s success has proven that countries can succeed without adopting western liberal freedoms. In fact, success adopting only a small subset of economic and personal freedoms, and none of the political freedoms. The economy is good, the state is stable..

Proof of concept for non-liberal systems.

This means freedoms need to be argued for on their own merits. Free speech for its own sake. No censorship for its own sake. etc.

Much harder. Much more prone to compromise and erosion.
Anarchy as a political philosophy has nothing to do with disorder and rather more with "self-organising".

It's more akin to American libertarianism, but approached from a leftist perspective.
Search for areas of opportunity where you can make an impact with your current skill and grow from there. There are gonna be pockets of opportunity your org can't attack just because there is too much to do.

For example, I was a finance guy who switched to tech. Was the worst student in my programming bootcamp. Got a job and found a niche in testing. It met the company's needs and my skillset at the time. 3 years later I'm still not as skilled as other geniuses miles ahead of me but I'm doing great, work is great and my salary is top of market for a lead engineer.
You can be a new grad and have experience. I made a point to do work in college that was appropriate for my work field when I graduated. Appropriate summer and part time jobs helped quite a bit as well. Having a bunch of appropriate jobs and projects under your belt (especially a few apps in app stores and code up on github) goes a very long way.
The EU commission is also indirectly elected by the people in a (maybe tenuous) way. Member state populations elect their national governments, those governments put forward commissioners.
They're not that much different to civil servants in national government really.
> Now after the very same dream, has allowed for the life-standard growth of most of its citizens to disappear - they are in for a rude wake up with extremists devouring the corpse.

What are you even talking about? We just had an Australian guest, who drove freely through Europe using one currency. These states previously fought two world wars against each other.
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So you're saying that since your culture does not belong to mankind, that it belongs to you and your neighbors?Certainly you can't be forced to teach others this phrase, but neither can you stop someone else from using it. Other countries often appropriate English words and phrases, and yet it's not considered offensive.
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> It is just the summation of the history of transactions to and from an address?

It is. Imagine the blockchain as a democratic ledger. As long as most people agree a certain transaction is valid it then is valid. This allows for tricks like creating bitcoins out of thin air as long as everyone agrees you "deserve" those bitcoins. For example if you confirm enough of other peoples transactions (which you can do because the ledger is public) most everyone will agree that a transaction from nowhere to an address of your choosing is valid.

The amount of bitcoins in your possession is just the amount of bitcoins ever transfered to addresses to which you own the private key, minus the transactions out of those adresses.

You shouldn't think of bitcoin as a virtual coin. That's a fairly bad metaphor. It's not some actual thing, It's more like the balance in a ledger.
The sticking point is not so much free market - mutualists are considered anarchists by other anarchists - but other, major, aspects of capitalism, mainly private ownership of the means of production and the use of waged labour, where owners hire others to work on or with their property - those are outright incompatible with anarchism, outwith the anarchocapitalists whose 'anarcho' credentials are disputed.
Not really. I'm female and hate most of the "chivalry" stuff, because it treats me like I can't do things like open doors or pull out my own freaking chair.

Reaching high boxes or opening jars is different. I'd do the same for a short old man as a woman, and I assume most men would do the same. It is no longer about sex, but about differences in people's strength and height. Gender doesn't matter as much, just ability.

Just like I'll hold the door for someone going through right after me instead of allowing it to slam in their face, or hold it longer for someone who's hands are full. I don't wait for elderly folks, though, since most folks are capable of opening doors.
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Did you miss this bit?

"The transmission of culture between peoples should be based on a mutual interest in sharing and learning, not some sense of global entitlement."
It's not a question of "somewhat interesting" - it's a question of what would be their revenue source.
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"four times better"

I have two objections, which the article doesn't seem to fully address.

First, do we know that the server the students designed actually met the spec handed to IBM? Often times a lot of the complexity of a project comes from the interaction of a few features. It's quite possible that the version the students provided didn't actually do the hard stuff. We know from the article that they specifically didn't address any security/privacy ramifications of sitting running in the cloud.

We also don't know how many similar projects were attempted and failed. Sometimes things just come together, way quicker and cheaper than should have been expected.
There is powerful opposition in our line of work to this type of thing, particularly the standardized tests. I don't fully understand it because I think that certification exams, etc. have clear, if limited value.

I think it stems from an intrinsic starting point among many developers that programming is a true meritocracy and that all hiring questions can be settled with a judicious study of what the person is truly capable of (eg. the fabled personal github account filled with side projects). And that anything other than "hacking on the code" is a waste of time.

Of course this isn't how the real world works. In fact almost no one has the time, energy, or inclination to do impressive side projects. Gauging skills on the basis on resumes and very short interviews is quite hard and time-consuming. Hiring decisions are made on the basis of essentially social interactions and personal references.

I do think there is room for an informal credentialing process in principle, but there are longstanding mental blocks that will need to be skirted. There will need to be leadership from the top to make this happen, ie. the best, most-respected programmers will need to take it seriously first.
Wah, good job for making something. Ini utk org luar nak bercakap malay ke?
Runlevels still kinda-sorta exist in systemd.

Old way:

# Change default runlevel
sed -i -e 's/^id:.*/id:4:initdefault:/' /etc/inittab
# Shut down
telinit 0

New way:

# Change default runlevel
ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
# Shut down
systemctl list-unit-files
systemctl isolate runlevel0.target
Fair point, but consider that software engineering is a MUCH younger profession than, say, accounting. Consider that "double entry book-keeping" dates back to around 1340, and accounting in general is even older than that.

We've had about 60 years to figure this stuff out, and arguably the ground is always moving beneath our feat as the nature and scope of the systems we build keeps changing.

I'm exhausted and frustrated with the field as it exists just now.

Likewise, but I'm not sure what choice we have, except to hope Ray Kurzweil is right about some of this life extension ideas. If we can survive another 300-400 years, maybe things will be better.
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Literally nothing you're saying makes any sense on any level. This looks more like markov-chain generated text.
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You'd probably see similar delays in banking if all banks had to record all their transactions in a central database. It's simply not a scalable system.
The dollar is tied to the American government and the American economy. It is not created for profit, but rather for stability. I see this as a sharp contrast to Bitcoin, which is created for profit (by miners) and only supported by speculation and the online drug trade. It is incredibly deflationary while the dollar is incredibly stable. While the dollar doesn't have a tangible 1:1 backing, it is backed by 330 million people (+many others who do business with the US) participating in the largest world economy.
I think it's easier to unseat Bitcoin than Facebook. With a cyrpto currency, it seems like all you would have to do is make mining more profitable on your currency than on Bitcoins.
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Did you install it on hardware or in a VM?

And damn, I've always wanted to give Plan9 a shot too, mainly just because I really like the "Everything is a file" approach^^

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Nothing, and it's actually easy to make the argument that that was the intent, in the open source, freedom of choice, no centralization, heck the powers kind of environments Bitcoin became popular through.
There are plenty of coins already that are technically better than Bitcoin. It's just that Bitcoin has the network effect.

So perhaps one day a new coin will overtake Bitcoin, but my guess is that the coin will need a very distinct advanatge to gain traction.
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I think fundamental is the wrong word. Dollars have a fundamental value. There only purpose is to transfer debts. You can argue that if the government(s) fell that the value is diminished or reduced to zero, but that doesn't remove that fact that it has fundamental value.

I think that the same argument could be held for digital currencies, they were created for a similar purpose and then would also have fundamental value. The value that digital currencies has is far more tenuous than fiat currencies or gold.

But don't get me started on the value of gold. Gold has the same issues as fiat, it's just more likely to be stable after the complete breakdown of society.
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Not to mention that Proudhon predated Marx, so if there is an imitation (and there isn't), it goes the other way.
> Nor was this really related to being inclusive or whatever, it was just about being nicer.

In what wicked world do you live where the word "bad" is considered as a "not-nice" word should not be said in order not to risk offending people ? What's next ? Replacing "error" by "potential incorrectness" ? This is 1984-like. No one should have to be afraid of words.
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This could easily lead to a race to the bottom. Maybe adoption will be the determining factor? What could determine a successful adoption rate for a cryptocurrency: governments, citizens, corporations? Amazon accepting a specific cryptocurrency and thus making it useful for the general public?
You're right that I simplified heterogeneity, but my point wasn't so much that the preservation or destruction of culture should be left to a population of certain ownership--it's that these things should not be left to mercenaries hired by outsiders with a sense of global "human" entitlement.

Ownership and responsibility are really complex topics. The notion that you shouldn't rent a bunch of goons to steal books from your co-worker's house just because you think he's not taking care of them properly is not complex.
Critical part is actually "going to school". Typical stats on accidents do not say where you were going, but at most where you actually were.
My suspicion is that most vehicular accidents happen during play or free roaming, especially in an unsupervised kid group, not when actually going somewhere on their own.
One reason why GA hasn't caught fire in graphics is the complexity: for many tasks it is slower that the old way. AFAIK.
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Well it's pretty proven, it's just also likely overkill for what you need. Use it in your personal hobby projects so that you know the costs, and benefits. That way you don't blindly apply it where it doesn't fit (which admittedly will be most places).
doctors

Because the healthcare job market is such a success! Remember those accusations against tech companies for colluding to depress wages? Now imagine the same, but with State immunity!

The anti-trust class-action lawsuit Jung v. AAMC alleged collusion to prevent American trainee doctors from negotiating for better working conditions. The working conditions of medical residents often involved 80- to 100-hour workweeks. The suit had some early success, but failed when the U.S. Congress enacted a statute exempting matching programs from federal anti-trust laws.
Do you realize Bitcoin is accepted in orders of magnitude more places (as in physical stores) than gold as a direct method of payment?

And then Bitcoin is accepted in tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of online stores.

Also only something like 10% of gold is used industrially, the rest is regular hoarding.

And Bitcoin has other uses as well.

But even if you ignore all that, you still can't answer what the fundamental value of 1kg of gold is - it's value is determined by the supply/demand, and has a lower limit, which is it's mining cost, which also changes all the time due to depletion, fuel costs, technological advanvements, land costs, etc.
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I've been working on something very similar to that. It allows you to connect a SQL database, S3 bucket, etc. then write a query for the data that you want to train the model on. It takes a couple minutes and then it'll expose the trained model over a REST endpoint.

It also has feedback loops to fine tune the model on real-time data and has an option to store all the predictions made by model into Redshift or S3 to be visualized on a tool like Tableau.

The tool itself is not open-source but it can be installed on the user's AWS, Azure, or GCP account to keep their models and data private.

It's still in alpha testing (bunch of pilots) and I'll probably do a "Show HN" post when it is ready for a public beta
I guess burnout means different things to all of us, and is probably caused by different things, too. What I'm about to describe probably wasn't the start of burnout, but I ended up there all the same.

I'm currently looking to get out of programming after 17 years because I'm tired of politics and bureaucracy. But anyway, on to your question...

I can't tell if these were signs of an on-coming burnout, or if I was already gone by then and just didn't realise what it was. But for me, I started to get angry and frustrated, quicker and easier. Sprint meetings annoyed me, daily stand-ups seemed pointless, interruptions always came at the wrong moment. I started to believe my own hype and went days without doing any work what-so-ever because I knew I could still do more work than my colleagues if I wanted to. I used to moan about my employer all the time and would often find myself saying things like "this fucking company...".

All of those symptoms probably have nothing to do with burnout per-se, and were almost certainly a result of a complicated relationship with a co-worker and a lack of credit and respect by my employer. Nevertheless, I believe that period changed something fundamental in regards to my thinking about programming, the industry, and perhaps life in general, which has led me to want to get out (of the industry, not life) as soon as I can.

I think what I'm trying to say - and having some trouble conveying - is burnout can come as a result of some other thing that starts you on the road of questioning if this industry is really what it's cracked up to be. So perhaps instead of looking out for potential signs of burnout, look instead for changes in your attitude. If your attitude is becoming more negative, you need to change something quickly or you’ll probably end up “burned out”.

Or maybe I’m just rambling about something that most people wouldn’t describe as burnout…
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Yep. This has been my problem with it since the beginning. A dollar isn't just a dollar. It's a monetary unit that is intrinsically tied into the power and faith of hundreds of millions of people in the idea of a country.

If people stopped believing in America, the dollar would go. How little would have to fail for Bitcoin to have the same problem. I've heard that if the person who owns the large stake in Bitcoin were to transact even one of their coins, all hell would break loose. That doesn't spell stability to me. Neither does "forking" the currency.
> Did you install it in hardware or in a VM?

>> (most recently in a virtual machine about a year ago)
The commissioners have to be nominated by member-state governments. The head of the commission doesn't really have much practical power to block them, although he gave give them more or less powerful portfolios.
But Bitcoin only has a few hundred thousand transactions every day. What database can't handle that small number of transactions?
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Laxation-as-a-service.
The whole Commission has to be approved by the European Parliament, not just their President. The European Parliament has forced the European Council to remove candidates before approving the Commission multiple time in the past. In that sense the Commission is more directly elected by the people than e.g. German ministers (who can be chosen at will by the Chancellor).

And of course the national governments are elected (indirectly) by the people as well which makes everyone who they elect also indirectly elected (albeit through more indirection).
I got a job once as a producer for a video game publisher and had pretty much no experience. That first couple of months was basically an intense crash course on video editing (Adobe Premiere and After Effects, had never used them before), localization, qa outsourcing, certification, working with external dev teams, figuring out how dev kit machines worked, evaluating pitches and game demos to see if we should pursue publishing them, etc.

Before that I hadn't done much more than develop and self-publish several Flash games, sometimes collaborating with an artist.

They chose me probably because they were tiny, could tell I was passionate about games, and they expected I would do more game design than I ended up doing (my title was Lead Game Designer... I did some of that, but I was mostly a producer).

And since I thought it was mainly a design role, I didn't hardly anything to prepare. Once I got there, it was like someone volunteered me for the Ice Bucket challenge and didn't tell me before dumping the water on me. Had a lot of fun, though.

Only reason why I'm not doing it now was because I felt like my coding skills were atrophying the whole time I worked there and that thought made me feel pretty uncomfortable. I'd probably be more successful now though if I stuck with it, though.
Too philosophical for HN...
Are you an immigrant by chance?

Some cultures have a greater degree of bluntness. This society makes great use of lies to smooth over social transactions and it's something that can seem alien depending on where you came from. Social lies and soft lies can be difficult to work with early on in life because lies will make you question your assessment of reality and the severity of situations that could affect you adversely. The fact that everyone peddles the same sorts of lies in this culture doesn't make things any easier.

In this society, I think the correct approach is to trust the judgment nature put in you instinctively to sort out the truth from fiction. Moreover, if lies are a sort of social currency, then there's no reason you can't be a fiction monger yourself -- especially if you think the consequences of such lies will be a wash in the grand scheme of things. (In particular, you have to balance soft lies with your sense of what you consider ethical behavior.) In particular, I think you have to be more selective about who you actually owe the truth to rather than commit to framing yourself as a liar.
> I did a port scan on the System Control Unit

Is that still white hat? Did they also check to see if the cockpit door is locked?
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The fundamental value of $1 is $1, since it allows you to pay off $1 of your tax liability to the U.S. government.
TV has the same if not better benefit - it's probably just less frequently utilized. I'm sure I watch more TV than the average American (which is saying a lot) with a screen in all of the major rooms in my apartment. But 50-75% of the time that I'm watching, I'm cleaning, preparing meals, etc.
Why is this flagged? HN is pro censorship?
Very true. I guess a better question would be, why is Bitcoin able to maintain its market share, popularity, and lead now? Will it be able to maintain it moving forward?
Can you go into more detail?
Working for hedge fund here: nope, I don't feel like I am improving society in any way.