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There are actually, interestingly enough, historical examples of the opposite. I agree that it is counterintuitive.

"In 18th-century America, colonial society and Native American society sat side by side. The former was buddingly commercial; the latter was communal and tribal. As time went by, the settlers from Europe noticed something: No Indians were defecting to join colonial society, but many whites were defecting to live in the Native American one.

This struck them as strange. Colonial society was richer and more advanced. And yet people were voting with their feet the other way.

The colonials occasionally tried to welcome Native American children into their midst, but they couldn’t persuade them to stay. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/the-great-affluen...
The construction seems bad, but FIPS isn't anywhere close to being as good as NACL, and scrypt isn't the enemy. Bad constructions, lack of nuance and faith in certifications are the enemies.
The patent clause applies to all patents, not just software patents.
You might be interested to also look at how computational group theory software tackles the problem. AFAICT, it can't search for minimal solution, but it find solutions quite quickly. I think group theory captures more (all?) of the structure of the problem than SAT.

https://www.gap-system.org/Doc/Examples/rubik.html
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While you are correct, reality nearly always differs.
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Agreed. I'm in no position to give up my lifestyle and the conveniences and predilections that accompany it, but reading this article about an American anthropologist who was betrothed to a Yamomami women while doing field work in the Amazon, had children, and tried to assimilate his wife and family into modern Western society (in New Jersey!) made me really reconsider some of my assumptions and priorities:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23758087

This passage in particular really touched me:

But life in New Jersey was not working out for Yarima. It wasn't the weather, food or modern technology but the absence of close human relations. The Yanomami day begins and ends in the shapono, open to relatives, friends, neighbours and enemies. But Yarima's day in the US began and ended in a closed box, cut off from society.
Totally agree with you wrt to the taxi industry, but it's the individual stories that are heartbreaking :(

"While the auction has drawn attention to the precipitous fall of the once-mighty taxi industry, it does not reflect the hardship — and heartbreak — of individual owners like Mr. Isac. It is their stories that often get lost in the larger debate over new technology and commutes, and tell of the human cost of the city’s rapidly evolving transportation landscape."
Modern living could lead to the catastrophic event that makes us all die:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation

It seems unlikely that humans will be able to colonize other planets any time soon which would help preserve the human race after an extinction level event -- it will take some impending catastrophe to make that happen, and it's not clear that even then world governments could work together to make it happen.

If Europeans hadn't settled North America, is there reason to think the American Indians would be extinct today?
I don't see the mention of BTC anywhere in the app that is released or in the announcements from that twitter log. They talk about using "blockchain technology", which I assume means a new coin.
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> the chances of law firms breaking the law over paralegal compensation is basically nil. Paralegal salaries make up an itty bitty fraction of the money that moves around these firms.

I understand the theory, but the reality IME is much different. Plenty of doctors drink too much, take drugs, and otherwise don't care for their own health, and plenty of lawyers are reckless with the law in managing their own businesses. (Plenty of people on HN probably use crappy passwords.)
In my experience, your description applies to a fraction of lucky people today; for the rest, the OP's description applies, and some (many?) people manage to Stockholm-syndrome themselves into feeling it the way you described.
> silk road got shut down and BTC's price didn't drop at all

Yes it did: (though I assume you mean over the longer term, but I don't think that's how most would read that comment)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/bitcoin-p...
White men were 38.52% of the civilian noninstitutional population, 43.14% of the employed work force. 88.6% of lawyers are white.

2014, US, https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-ethnicity/archive/...
Some government actions drive it up (like what happened in Cyprus for instance). It seems market participants have got rather attached to this whole ICO thing as a way to make a quick buck and have lost sight of the original vision. The wall street-ization of the blockchain.
Not to mention going over a speed bump unevenly can put uneven loads on ball joints and other suspension components other than just the shock absorbers.

Tie rod ends, bushings, etc can all wear out from uneven suspension load.
Funny thing. We in India pay regularly close to $1000 (oh the irony there) for a regular iPhone 7 - and they sell a lot here.
> Do I need TDD and Code Reviews? Will it pay back all the extra time, much of it wasted? I would argue not. One size does not fit all.

Agree with this for the same reason I wouldn't advocate formal verification for every project. You have to weight up the benefit-cost ratio. For example, if it's the kind of project where you really can keep most of the behaviour in your head, you're not expecting to make many changes to it later or the chance + impact of production bugs is low, TDD is probably going to cost you. TDD for a MVP probably isn't worth it for instance when you're not really sure what you're designing yet and it might be short lived.
> There's only 3 mining pools

There's well more than 3 mining pools.

https://blockchain.info/pools
I don't think India will be affected at all. Because of the 2 things. Most of the households in middle class only one person works. Otherwise, the 60 to 70 percent of the population is in farming. +Govt kind of already provides minimum wage to live. There are 5 Rs break fast, 108 days of worth govt provided job(Actually no job only money gets distributed about 100 Rs a day), 20 kg rice for 20 Rs, Free bus pass for school kids, laptop, tv, fan etc free for kids,
The author concludes an SMS code is two-step auth, not two-factor, because the code could be transmitted over Messenger. This allowed the author to authenticate without physical access to the device.

I fail to see how pushing a button makes a significant difference. Instead of sending a code, I'll just ask my friend over Messenger to push the button. Authenticated without any more physical access than with the code system.
Mid range cars can also drive pretty much like top of the range cars, they share most features yet people like high end cars.
To switch to another financial system, the alternative has to be significantly better (eg. 10x). Curious what advantages you'd point out?
> And that "we haven't built it yet", sans additional explanation, is pretty shoddy evidence for the non-existence of something.

It's not claimed sans explanation. Hypercomputation would break a lot of physics. Others have mentioned the Bekenstein Bound, but just consider just basic concepts like signal to noise ratios. You'd need infinitely precise detectors for hypercomputation, detectors capable of distinguishing literally any signal, not matter how small, among any amount of noise, no matter how overwhelming.

These properties simply stretch credulity, to say the least.
Android security updates are the only reason to update my Nexus 5. A decent midrange phone, with an open bootloader, would probably do me for many years.
If u ever been to a warehouse there are plenty of jobs nobody here on HN wants, they are mindless and joyless labor and often time temporary. Should we really mourn over the jobs that consume people and treat them like drones? The survived workers are indeed better off doing something that suits their long term interests.
It did not. I was there, and I watched specifically for this. These articles always get published in response to what people want to believe. If you look at the data, there was a temporary drop followed by an immediate recovery.

The article even says this:

On Wednesday afternoon the price of one Bitcoin (BTC) was $145.70 on Mt Gox, one of the largest exchanges for the currency.

After the news that Ross Ulbricht had been arrested and the Silk Road site seized, the exchange rate plummeted to a low of $109.76, before recovering to $124.00 late on Thursday.

Translation: "BTC went from $145 to $124 and then continued to go up."
Nobody looks at a top of the line PC with the best graphics card(s) and say it's crossing a threshold. Everybody understands it's for a certain demographic.

According to rumors, they're still going to have various models and price points.

Also, iPhones are extremely economical because no other phones receive OS updates for as long. My iPhone 6, which cost $749 at the time, is coming up to 3 years old. It's still flawless, no speed issues or any issues. The only thing bad is that the battery isn't as good as before, but I still get through the day just fine.

I might upgrade this year just because "new & shiny", but I'll probably pass the iPhone 6 to family. And because it's still very good and receive updates, that means if I get 4 years of life out of it, its cost is actually only $375 when compared to other phones that stop getting updates 2 years in. That's really good!
I can understand this if you're traveling all the time and you have to pay for your own phone bill, but beyond that the pricing seems a little steep especially considering Google can probably use this to wring even more marketing data out of you. Most sim only plans in Australia are about $20-30 cheaper per month than this.
As I've learned more about this topic I am increasingly baffled. At first I thought "preponderance of evidence" standard (< 50%) was just rhetoric, but then I read more and realized, that's exactly what's happening.

Then you learn about the attorneys as house plants - who came up with that? Then you learn about how it all started with the "Dear Colleague Letter"?

I actually think Ruth nailed it on this one. So I went to her twitter and found out more about her.
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Yes, also under Princeton. It's just that it's rather useless to have a set of lists selected by subject if you then randomly exclude items from that list. It's Princeton's only textbook listed for electronics, for instance. That's hardly a small university.

And the lists by University aren't great either. I'm pretty sure Caltech has electronics courses, but it's not even a category there!.
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Forcing users to Subscribe or Sign In to read the content while allowing the search engine crawlers without any barriers should be considered as malpractice.
This was exactly the kind of stuff Quora was doing but at least they had the decency of doing this on users coming from internal links.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Seems like a nice point to debate about.
Happy to get feedback.
1. Please stop calling two-factor-authentications 'two factor authentications'.

2. Here's no information at all about what to do instead.

3. Here's a list of things I complained about in paragraph 1 but are actually 2Fa products after all
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The state machine approach can't handle perl-compatible backreferences (since true regular expressions can't use them), which apparently some people want. That's feedback you can defend yourself from to some degree.

When I implemented a regex parser for Triplebyte, the time limit was much longer than three hours, and I did use state machines. The feedback I got was "we thought you wrote a great, full-featured regex parser, but we need someone who comes off better in interviews".
Googling more, the same vaguely sourced "IBM System Sciences" figure seems to be passed on from one poorly researched web post to another. The trail went cold but it seems to date back to the mainframe IBM of the 1970's or 1980's. Certainly it's from a different software engineering culture than today's continuous delivery processes.

A promising looking current review of the question is here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-016-9469-x
(PDF link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04886.pdf)

They conclude: "We checked for traces of this effect in 171 projects from the period 2006–2014. That
data held no trace of the delayed issue effect. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is
the largest study of this effect yet performed." ... "Our results beg the question: why does the delayed issue effect persist as a truism in software engineering literature? No doubt the original evidence was compelling at the time, but
much has changed in the realm of software development in the subsequent 40 years."
Nobody is denying this.
The real problem actually is the other way around. If Facebook infringes on your IP, you still can't do anything about it..at the risk of losing patent cover.

Im really not sure how it can be worded to let legitimate lawsuits through. But that is the problem. Tomorrow if you build a new AI algorithm on caffe2, FB can pretty much use the whole code and you would be bound by the patent clauses.
When I talked to some Brazilians about the American enthusiasm for buying the rainforest in order to protect it from deforestation, they were pretty concerned about how well the property rights in the purchased land could be protected. They pointed out that there is a whole lot of poaching going on in the Amazon and even in Brazilian parks.

The Rainforest Trust that you mentioned sounds like they're donating the land to national parks, which seems like a great solution because there will be forest rangers and so on, yet my Brazilian friends were concerned about how effectively they can deter poaching, especially in remote areas.

I don't have a clear sense of this but I wonder if it might provide a greater marginal benefit at present to pay for more protection of existing "protected" areas, compared to purchasing additional land.
The article doesn't answer the question they pose. If the Women could get paid more at a different firm, presumably they would switch. Presumably, if a $300k Woman provides as much value as a $1M man, a different greedy firm will offer a price between $300k and $1M, and pocket the savings.

Are they suggesting there is collusion between firms to drive Womens salaries down?

If the women do as good of a job at 1/3 the price, why don't they setup a cut-rate shop that does the work for 2/3 the price, doubling their compensation and providing customers a discount?
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Andy Warhol: "What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."
I've found TDD to be useful when you're implementing an interface outside your control, so the interface you test against is fixed and so are its semantics. This basically means that the only thing in flux is the internal implementation, and it's easy coming up with a fairly complete set of tests beforehand.

In other cases I pretty much write my tests more or less randomly before, at the same time, or after the implementation.
Seriously, I actually consider iPhones to be some of the most cost-effective purchases I make. My mom is still happily using my old iPhone 5, and my iPhone 4 functions as a pretty nice media controller.
It says all the loans were unsafe - that the housing price dropped so much making a distinction between prime and subprime loans was semantic. Your thesis might still be true if the market wouldn't have collapsed without subprime loans driving it higher, but that's not the mood I remember. We would have overshot anyway I believe.
If for the same amount and quality of work the law firms has to pay 40% more for men, shouldn't they hire women exclusively?
An iPhone is a Veblen good [1]. The purpose of buying an iPhone is to advertise your economic resources.

Like a Gucci handbag or a Rolex watch. With a smaller markup.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
The GP's point is, to put it in your terms, whether the people are more useful for their friends, families and humankind or if they are more useful for governments to retain (and grow) their power. The activists today who are fighting their governments and government agencies are of the former kind, and there is a natural conflict between them and the governments in many areas (not saying all areas).

Unless one sees all governments as benevolent agencies that are truly "of the people, by the people, and for the people", this is a distinction to be wary of.
Great thing about America is that no matter how rich or poor you are, you drink the same coke - Andy Warhol.
reminds me of scene in Mr. Robot where E-Corp exec is proposing a deal to a govt official: "With eCoin we control the ledger… and the mining servers. We are the authority! I will make sure you have visibility into every single wallet that’s open, every loan, every transaction…"
They do, an iPhone 6s is cheaper now than when it was released.
It also depends on who you happen to be competing with for the position at the time.

To "fail" an interview might just mean you were their second choice, out of current applicants.
I was there as well. People were freaking out on r/bitcoin and elsewhere. There was an immediate response. The price recovered, but a drop from $145 to $110 (a 25% drop) shouldn't be hand waved away.
Because Silicon Valley, of which Hacker News and its commentariat are a subset, really tries to avoid thinking about the fact that “disruption” usually just means “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”. Posts which bring this to the surface cause cognitive dissonance and so have to be greyed so they can be ignored.
> You could even implement a linear bounded Turing machine as an FSM it would just take an ungodly number of states.

To be clear, these things have formal definitions, and this statement is not correct.

1. A linear bounded automaton[0] is a Turing machine that can only overwrite symbols presented on its input tape as input. However, the definition of the automaton is still required to be finite, but it is required to operate on unboundedly large input tapes.

2. A finite state machine[1] is a model of computation where the sequence of input symbols are observed once and the machine is at all times in one of a finite number of states. It is equivalent to a TM that can only move right (and consequently cannot read anything it writes to the tape).

They are different, formally[2]. There are languages that a LBA can accept that a FSM cannot accept (famously, the strings of balanced parentheses cannot be recognized by a FSM).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_bounded_automaton

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_lemma_for_regular_lang...
What's wrong with simply accepting a cap (either de facto or directly enforced) on populations of cities?

Perhaps we should start thinking of living in certain popular cities as being a luxury good. Not everyone can live in Rome or Sydney or San Francisco, so let's leave it for those who either already own property there or can do what it takes to buy their way in.

For everyone else there's no shortage of other places.
Yep, Australia too.

iPhone 7 32 GB

Australian price: AU$1,079 ... US Price: $649
Or why don't the women band together and setup their own firm? They can charge 20% less and still earn double.

Discrimination exists, but markets are usually pretty good at squeezing it out and punishing it.
There are two factors that go into "innocent until proven guilty". One is basic reasoning: if you only know that a crime was committed, anyone is just as likely to have done it, so you need evidence to find the perpetrator. The other is the idea that it's worse to punish someone innocent than to let the guilty go unpunished.

The second part is quite interesting, because it would be suboptimal for rational agents. If humans were rational decision makers, the reaction to a crime should be chosen to balance out the damage, so that nobody can derive a benefit from criminal behavior. Then failure to punish would be equally severe as unjust punishment, and everyone should be treated according to their probability of guilt.

However, humans react much more strongly to losing something they already have than to not gaining it in the first place. So if you have a fine of $10,000 to distribute among 100 people with 1% probability of guilt, they will complain much more about the $100 they have to pay than when nobody pays anything, which means that one of them gets away with whatever crime deserved the $10,000 in the first place.

If the situation is different, e.g. when you are just deciding whether to write an article about some as yet unproven allegation, the same considerations don't necessarily apply. That doesn't make the general principle completely irrelevant, but it does mean that your standard of proof doesn't have to be quite as strict.
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Having recently relocated back home from the States, I needed to call US companies and friends but I didn't want to spend a fortune making those calls.

So, I threw together a way to appear to be in the States (VPN) and use Google Hangouts to call US numbers for free. I then added adblocking and compression for good measure to save expensive foreign mobile data. OpenVPN uses encryption out of the box so my web traffic is secured (at least) until it exits the VPN server.

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From the so far leaked rumors I don’t see anything to justify the price. If anything there is a regression with the absence of TouchID. But I guess we will have to wait and see in two days.
It's not easy to fire employees.

Firing employees can scare and stress other employees, create bad blood and criticism on job boards which will make it even harder to hire good employees. Firing might mean you have to still pay the employee for a few months. It might be hard to determine if an employee is a complete failure, which means you might have to give the employee a few months to maybe even a year if you want to accurately determine if they're not performing. It's not cheap at all.
> The post also mentions a "non-approved KDF" elsewhere, but doesn't say what it is.

Reading the source code, it appears to be a continuation of the theme of complaints against scrypt.

Z1, Z2 = scrypt(S, password) # split 256-bit output into two halves

Honestly what's wrong here is not that the assertions are debatable, but the way it goes on the attack, calling people who apparently knew what they were doing "rookies" and such.
> In other cases I pretty much write my tests more or less randomly before, at the same time, or after the implementation.

Similar most of the time. Once I know the interfaces have settled down and the problem you're solving is now well understood it feels like a better time to write tests. Once you have a feel for which parts are most error-prone as well you can concentrate on tests which have the most benefit.