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> Like many new technologies, it can be used for both good and bad. Harnessing nuclear reactions can be used to generate massive amounts of electricity, or to level cities. What's important is that it's regulated, not that it's banned.

I worry that, as we already see with NSA, GHCQ and friends, governments won't be quick to regulate a huge source of information that they can tap, and a source of technology that they can use for themselves. Recent history would seem to indicate that governments see the potential for state use of these techniques, but overlook the much wider scope for criminal uses of them. (E.g: Reliable facial recognition and pervasive tracking seems like it would make undercover police work much harder.)

Having a stockpile of nuclear weapons feels like an innately dangerous thing, whereas having a computer system tracking everyone for auguries of pre-crime is light-hearted enough that it's the central plot premise of a major TV show. Many politicians are who are rightly wary of the destructive power of nuclear technology may not see the same dangers in computer vision or pervasive surveillance.
> For many this can be better than e.g. Stripe because AirBnB supports payouts to far more countries

This is a bit OT, but I looked up the Airbnb page to see what they accept: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/126/what-methods-of-paym...

I had thought that the general solution for handling worldwide payments was to use Paypal. How does Airbnb facilitate the handling of all these different kind of payment services? Is it a homegrown solution? Or is it not really a major technical problem for services to implement this on their own?
I don't do that much react, but I have found the following two kinds of logs very useful:

Question-Approach-Answer log: This is essentially my lab notebook as I am working through problems and solving them. I find the structure of writing out my questions explicitly and how I'm tackling them makes it easier to stay on-track and easier to know when I should stop solo debugging and email someone else on my team asking for help.

Feedback & Accomplishments: At the end of the day, write down any feedback you've given or received and anything you accomplished. This means that when Annual Review rolls around, it is much less excruciatingly painful to write peer reviews and your own self-evaluation.
If you have Pandoc and w3m:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tldr-pages/tldr/master/pages/common/$1.md | pandoc --from=markdown --to=html | w3m -T text/html
Absolutely this. We were actually taught basic finances, cooking, cleaning etc when I was in elementary school. They called it "hemkunskap" which literally translated to "home knowledge". I used to think it was useless then, except maybe for the cooking classes – I enjoyed those – but I can trace back A LOT of my deeply rooted knowledge for personal finances and other home skills to those classes. For instance, I moved away from home at age 15 to attend high school in a different town, and all of a sudden I had to deal with a bunch of things I never had to care about before, like weekly budgets and what not. Right then it dawned on me just how useful those classes actually were, and they really did help me out a lot.

I wish this had been a staple class throughout my entire stay in school. A lot of the stuff will be repetitive, but that's what it means running a home and a life – a lot of chores that you keep doing over and over, some maybe you'll optimize like hiring a cleaner (after working out it fits your budget!) or investing in technology that just makes things easier.

As you grow older, the classes would obviously need to become more advanced, but I think this would go a long way to make kids much more capable to deal with real world problems, and there's a lot of cross over with other subjects as well. I don't know if schools still do this, but when I went to elementary school we had wood working and/or sewing class. I enjoyed those, but we had those for way longer than we had home skills class, and it seems to me these three could be successfully combined.
Just wait until you learn about gait recognition using 3D convolutions and how this identifies you better than facial recognition; and there is no way to mask yourself (beside putting random rocks to your shoes to make you walk funny).

I was recently approached to be a head of a self-driving car project; when I learned it was for military vehicle, I left the conversation. Maybe it would have been used for peaceful purposes occasionally (natural disasters), but I don't want to have my creation drive on its own somewhere in Middle-East and kill everyone around. It is an international project as well with the approval of leading governmental institutions to make it more fun and to give you some food for thought...
At the same time European movies had to cut down on the showing of breasts to suit the US market. We think that's kind of amusing. Imagine kids seeing breasts! The horror!
Markdown is a must. I used it on dynamic blog and on my static site, but I paid less attention to my writing when posts were not "live".

I believe that Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle concept of minimising the time between having an idea and seeing a change universally applies to every user kind of interface.
I fail to see your point: Paypal, eBay and Amazon are also under the obligation to adequately monitor and prevent money-laundering.
All I was able to find fast was this:

https://github.com/nvanbenschoten/motion a bit outdated, not sure if it will work

https://github.com/material-motion/material-motion-android a bit fresher, but development stopped halfway through

> I'd also have to do extensive testing with any third party library for parallax cause it's so vital they release sensors properly and without fail when they are no longer needed to conserve battery.

Looking at what's available I'm not sure if it wouldn't be better to re-implement a lib for that. You could pass on extensive testing IF you find a lib that's already used in another project.

Consider introducing new features like Sleep for Android does (a popup with a change list displayed on 1st run after an update). With this you could try moving users to the "Experimental" settings section. Note that having solid issue reporting from the app would immensely help then.

Another approach would be to set up a beta program for experimental stuff. Not sure which one would be more cost-effective, needs more investigation.
Here the shippers are drug cartels and spoofers are police force. A very likely scenario.
Oh? And how else would society figure out that providing things to every warm body that claims to need them, is wasteful?

(Oh, wait, we're still socialistic in exactly that manner. So I'd say we need many more people like me. But that will have to wait 'till genetic engineering exits the drawing board...)
To be fair, Amazon issues shares to give to employees. The dilution is not huge but it’s real and helps to keep cash-flows positive and make the company look more profitable than it is.
Yes, but consider also that FaceID can be used in conjunction with a license. So the government could issue a license for one FaceID per gun-owner.

Problems this would solve e.g.:

- Children using their parents' gun at schools

- People using multiple guns (e.g. Las Vegas shooting)
> High representation efficiency

Capsules do require much fewer parameters, they generalize 10-20% better to new viewpoints, they are much more robust to adversarial examples and can better recognize overlapping objects; but, on the other hand, capsules currently require much more training data to achieve the same performance, even though in theory (if they would actually learn inverse graphics) they should require less data, and they add a lot of expensive additional structure (roughly 10X). I am rather pessimistic about whether the approach will lead us anywhere; it seems sub-optimal to model all possible child-parent configurations explicitly. That has a quadratic nature to it and my hunch is that can be done sub-linearily.
Of course, in reality we had French special forces committing acts of terrorism against environmentalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
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As the older generation doesn't get why you would buy a bitcoin and where you would keep it, the newer generation doesn't get why you would buy a shiny piece of metal as in gold bullion and where you would safely keep it.

Bitcoin market is still minuscule comparative to gold, and while most will point out that it doesn't work amazing as a currency, if it gets to like 50% of the current gold market, it is going to be worth a lot.
Most professors are experts at delegating the menial tasks to others :)
I think you're right. Everybody knowns parmaham, but much less serranoham. While similar, the first is from Italy and the second from Spain.
And does the average consumer need more than 20MBS and more to the point be willing to pay for it.

Some of the more extreme claims that we all need GB speed links don't make sense its like saying every house/flat needs a 56Kv 3 phase power supply.
There is also concern that Bitcoin could be vulnerable to hackers. Mr Ahmad said that recently it lost almost 20% in value on fears it was being hacked.

Am I missing something or is the hacking part nonsense?
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Didn't guardian pedfle the same lie as other publications about Trump feeding fish? (and later update surreptitiously?)
To clarify, I too was before the time of laptops and recording technology being available. MiniDiscs had just come on the scene then and the notes are worth nothing without what appears on the OHP and the contextual timing of them. Video recording was impossible.

Really every lecture should be recorded and links handed out to students.

A big killer is that the lecturer has been doing the same lecture for 20 odd years and is complacent or prefers to defer feedback to the end. Everyone is lost then. Same with meetings. Questions at the end? Context gone!
The list wasn't 50, my mistake. It's a few hundreds.

I saw mute.life, thanks for that.

Yes, don't want to use the API. We can set up a small script as part of our workflow, that updates the latest blocklist, and then people can download it and import it.

The blacklist service would be interesting, although I think Twitter would 'crack down' on it if it becomes too successful.
Question for hackernews: where did everyone else learn about this stuff?

Going through the material, I found I already knew 50-75% of it, but from bits and pieces of information I learned over the years, not one consolidated place. Is it the same for others?
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I had an engineering mathematics lecture where the lecturer was so bad attending was a net negative, as in, not only did he add nothing to the notes, but his frequent mistakes and side tangents led us down so many useless avenues we'd end up more confused.
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I'm sick to death of old school instructors making me put my tablet PC away on the assumption that I lack self-control or won't pay attention or can't take good notes. The whole point of a device capable of drawing stuff is the synthesis of digital recording and writing/drawing. Dunno about anyone else but OneNote has made me a way better student as a result, plus it makes my logs and notes available (and shareable) in ways that no paper lab notebook can replicate. By all means let's encourage students to not simply take dictation during lectures, but let's also not simply throw away a great tool in the process.
I don't think it's complicated, but it is very much anti-dogmatic. I've written it above, but I'll repeat it. My position is that design is a matter of aesthetics (completely subjective) and pragmatics (also subjective, but can be measured empirically) -- not theory -- and aesthetics and pragmatics are the sources of value -- again, not theory.
I think he confused with ETH, he also mentions south korea banning ICOs, which has nothing to do with bitcoin.
I read Time around the turn of the millenium (got it as part of some promotion for college students). It definitely had that geriatric feel. '60 Minutes' on print is pretty much how I felt about it.
i don't read so well apparently
I wonder why openvpn comes up so often, and e.g. tinc and zerotier, much less often.
So you could own several guns, but only use one of them? I can't see anybody voting for that.

Children using their parents guns is pretty neatly tackled here in my country by mandatory gun safes.
With a single 4K you can put 3 1280 images across, which IMHO would be good for web, code, email. You also have the option of stretching vertically - sometimes portrait orientation is better. If you don't like arranging windows in a sandbox, you may want to either have a login script to open your common stuff and place it, or try a tiling window manager.
I don't want a video. I want the material written down in a formal tutorial style that can be reviewed and updated and consumed at a suitable pace. That pace can be faster for the bits I understand and slower for the bits I don't.
Go into it with a grain of salt, but https://reddit.com/r/personalfinance is a good resource. The sidebar and recurring themes in posts are really useful. Additionally https://bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page is a good starting place for putting together an investment portfolio.
I think often underrated is the value of knowing what you need to learn, which lectures certainly help with imho.
I was just thinking about this, since my girlfriend bought a 50" 4k TV for under $250 on black friday. That's about the same size and resolution as my current array of 27" monitors, without having to use four outlets and every available video-out on my desktop.
My point is they call AirBnB out specifically when they're not the only ones that have this issue and that could be used to do this. They even state in the article that AirBnB is just being used as an example and many services could be seeing this kind of usage. If that's the case, why call out AirBnB specifically? That company gets so much flack for the way its users act. I'm not sure what it's expected to do in many of these cases.
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Actually laptops in a meetings can be useful as they can replace a lot of paper.
They aren't talking about hackers breaking the blockchain but rather about hackers gaining access to the wallets. Short of moving the bitcoin across an air gap there is always a risk of hackers finding and pilfering the bitcoin.
I read a bunch of books on personal finance (of mixed quality) in high school and college, and I also took actual finance classes in college, which help with concepts like compound interest, present / future value, etc.
Err.. that's the exact definition of .. hype.
Ball motion detectors (or shake/tilt switches) work as you describe. They typically have several metal rods on which the ball will rest on two at any given time. The impossible combinations (too far away to span with the ball) are often bridged together for simplicity. Detection is done by monitoring for changes in the connectivity between 3 or more contacts.
agreed that having it repeated (with more advanced topics) would be more useful. learning about this stuff at age 9... doesn't hurt, but as you starting handling money (odd jobs, after school work, etc) a whole new set of issues comes up that most people aren't prepared for.

we had 'home economics' in middle school, but only for one year, IIRC. We learned a bit of cooking, kitchen safety, and some sewing. But, AFAICR, no personal/home finance stuff (but it's been > 30 years - perhaps it was there and I missed the 8 minute lecture?)
Here's an interesting idea, a game environment for testing/building one's personal finance skills:

https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/financial-empowerm...
There is a big confusion where all cryptocoins are read as bitcoin for many.
Facebook has become something I absolutely can't stand. I have an account, but I very rarely even log in anymore. With ads, 'features stories', etc., the signal-to-noise ratio is just too low. Just perusing the news feed has become a chore, not to mention the privacy concerns.

I'd be willing to pay a small subscription fee for a social network that respects my privacy, doesn't track everything I do, and doesn't constantly bombard me with crap. Problem is, I'm in the minority. People everywhere claim to care about privacy but they actually don't :)
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> I found lectures to be a complete waste of time at University, with or without a laptop. You could just download the lecturer's slides and speaker notes outside of class and learn the material ahead of exams/coursework.

This was very much my experience too. My first foray to university was the traditional full time format. I really didn't get on well with the lectures - it felt too slow in some cases, too fleeting in others and beyond a few particular classes, not very illuminating at all. For what it's worth this was at Imperial so I guess a "top" uni.

In later life, I did a degree with the Open University which has no lectures at all (well almost, there's a few online and night schools but they are more like practicals than lectures). Instead it's all self-study from guidebooks and notes with regularly graded coursework which for many of the courses is a pre-requisite to pass the examinations. I greatly preferred the latter option and felt I had a much better understanding of the material.

It's been mentioned elsewhere on this thread, but audio/video recordings are a different ballgame all together for me. I actually really like lectures in that way. I guess it all boils down to the idea of tailored, self-service. I can review/pause/skip and repeat at my leisure.
I have a colleague who makes mind-map style notes, either on paper or via software. He doesn't try to capture everything that's said. Rather, he notes key ideas, and identifies/imposes structure to the conversation.

It can actually be informative to look over his shoulder as a meeting progresses, to see what loose ends are still dangling, and where people focus the most attention.

For myself, I've moved to markdown-style in my handwritten notes. It isn't as fluid as mind maps, but the bullet points and headings still bring out structure, and the number of sub-bullets under any given item can hint to me if I haven't understood how things are going at a fine enough or coarse enough level.
>>> Does anyone here know why these modems even care about TCP/IP or ICMP or any other protocol higher than the network and physical layers?

IP is the network layer. Can't route packets without it.
Nobody actually uses bitcoin for payment.

There is more or less the same places where to spend it as there was 4, 5 years ago. And they all have about the same traffic, which is nearly zero.

Most people only use it for speculation. This can't end well.
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You have heard negative things because of enormous FUD against it on each forum. Even smart people can be affected by FUD. (The only reason I did not fall for it is that I found a pattern that if something is very heavily FUD-ed, it can be undervalued just because of it. So I researched the project deeply, on a source code level.)

EOS uses DPos (delegated proof of stake). This means that token holders vote for block producers: 21 block producers are voted in to produce blocks in a round-robbin manner. In the future these block producers will be huge computer clusters in data centers. The whole network has only 21x redundancy in it, and there is no proof of work. Ethereum currently has Nx redundancy, where N is the number of nodes, and nodes are supposed to be as small as laptops. This way currently EOS is the only blockchain that can reach VISA level transactions/second. There are tons of things I am excited about in EOS (like contracts are written in WebAssembly instead of Solidity.)

They have working software on Github, people are running their own testnets. There will be a public testnet in December. But what is more important is that the CTO is the creator of already working high-performance DPos blockchains: BitShares and Steemit. The Steemit blockchain has the highest traffic currently among all blockchains.

The only technical critisism against EOS I heard is that some people say that DPos easily becomes centralized. I think proof of work can become much more easily centralized because in the end if one entity can get the electricity even slightly cheaper than others, it will be the only entity that can be able to mine profitably. This is explained by EOS CTO in more detail here:

https://steemit.com/eos/@dan/in-defense-of-consortium-blockc...
Hard course (electrical engineering, laplace fun!), shit lecturer (complacent, dismissive of questions), skipped lecture (never although I probably should have just stuck my face in the course books).
I instantly thought of this when reading the headline:

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

I remember reading about this around 20 years ago in James Bamford's excellent NSA book Body of Secrets.
Does members having a tracker free access ? Because it seems fair that if you pay you are not in the "if it's free you're the product" anymore.

It's important to move to this model.
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Thanks in advance.
Yeah I stopped taking notes after I realized I never looked at them. Even when studying for an exam, I'd always make new notes from scratch rather than rewrite or read old ones.

It doesn't work for all classes, but I found that listening closely to the lecture and maybe writing down some main points and then reviewing or studying later worked for me.
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I think most people buy Bitcoin for its speculative value but never use it as a currency to actually buy or sell stuff.
Funny, I was just pondering this yesterday: whether to "upgrade" to the LG, Phillips or Dell 40+" IPS monitors, or whether to stay with my Samsung 40" TVs (UN40JU6400, 2015 models--later models have annoying misfeatures), which I have in all 3 home offices.

These Samsung TVs, once configured properly (Source > HDMI 1 > Tools, select device type as PC, turn off HDMI UHD Color (which blurs), turn on Dynamic Color as well), are excellent, and at the 28" viewing distance I use, are absolutely crisp (no pixels visible) in Retina mode under macOS.

And I'm using it over HDMI 30Hz with absolutely no flicker, and no (discernible) mouse lag.

The 2015 models don't lose their mind when the Mac goes to sleep, unlike the later models, which require re-configuring each time (the TV "forgets" the HDMI port).

Can't recommend them more, especially since you can get these older models refurbished for $400.
Great. More fuel for the conspiracy theorists to claim that every single tragedy from 9/11 to Sandy Hook was a false flag operation. Not that they couldn’t possibly be, but a 60 year old document that the government once considered a false flag operation doesn’t indicate in any way that the Vegas shooting was a secret CIA operation, but it’ll be used by nutters as “proof” of such.