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Read the studies, do You think they pick some random kids dying of hunger? Many of those tested are middle-class african students that have access to all those things.

An average African student has an average IQ of 85, which is one SD from the average. This is in line with whites where the average student is about 110-115 which is one SD from the average
Based on the comments in this thread GCE charges you for masters on clusters with 6 or more nodes, while MS AKS will only charge you for the nodes.

As with anything cloud related, though: it's all about relevant cost calculations for the specific solution...
No, it's not. You're going to find it very hard to get Jamón Ibérico de Bellota outside Spain - from what I saw, they mostly export the jamón serrano. I'm pretty sure you can make the difference between the two - though, to be completely honest, it's not THAT big and I'm not sure it's worth the price difference.
> $5,860,200,000 USD

This value is influenced by free decisions of people, like you, who decide to invest in it. If those people (just like you) would decide that the developers are getting an unfair share and therefore, the currency is not valuable for them, Etherium wouldn't have such valuation.

But for some strange reason, people don't care about how much do developers get and how "fair" their compensation is, as long as they get their value out of it.

(I'm sorry for the rant, but I always feel really irritated when people bring the word "fair" into a situation which is controlled by a free market with a lot of small individual agents who are free to act in any manner they like and are not dealing with something they need for the basic survival.)
Isn't just about any functional language based on term rewriting? E.g. beta reductions, combinators, etc.
That approach only really works if you have sufficient adoption in enterprise/commercial.

Doesn't really work if you target the hobbyist market, which will simply not bother with the commercial license.
I'm the opposite, I prefer multi monitor. I like that separation between the things I'm doing, e.g. code and documentation, games and chat.
Quantum computers are good/super-efficient at optimization problems.

That means they can optimize a solution for something with less data. Right now our AI is only good at solving problems for which we have millions and millions of data points. But we don't have that much data for every problem in the world. Quantum computers could potentially help us create an AI that can work with fewer data points.
You're right about the infinite supply being dodgy. But I'm so sick of hearing how it's not fair that the early crypto adopters are doing well for themselves. Wah wah wah.
One of the re:Invent talk descriptions referenced something called "Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)". Make of that what you will.
Whether for better or worse, the current trend of smartphone and social media usage implies that this is more likely than not.
What is so special about earth aliens might be interested in it in the first place? You could argue sentient life - or even any life - is even rarer than any other kind of matter.

Several science fiction pieces have been written and filmed about alien cultures only finding value in other species' history, stories etc for their entertainment.
and Stilton, and a Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and a Gregg's sausage roll.
From watching a couple of Scott Aaronson videos, I was under the understanding that Grover's algorithm shows that you don't get an exponential speedup over classical Turing machines from quantum computation in general, but only for specific problems that exhibit structure such as integer factorization à la Shor's algorithm. Here's a quotation from Lecture 10 of his Quantum Computing series [1]:

"So the bottom line is that, for "generic" or "unstructured" search problems, quantum computers can give some speedup over classical computers -- specifically, a quadratic speedup -- but nothing like the exponential speedup of Shor's factoring algorithm."

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec10.html
> a) I don't need to know about the project my distant friend is working on, or the food anyone is making or eating* .

It's worse than that though - the evidence is that seeing things like that will actually make you depressed. People only post the good stuff on facebook, so it makes everyones life look better than yours is. It's very clear that social media makes people depressed.
True, however BTC isn't that different from a credit card in terms of liquidity. Plastic is accepted at more merchants, BTC can be digitally cashed in anytime with only a short delay.
Hello, I'm the author of stacks-cli,and yes just like you said, stacks-cli just another tool based on wappalyzer this npm module and was a side project of mine built in my spare time, but I think the most important core value of stacks-cli is that you can still have another options when choosing tools. I mean you can choose to install browser extension or just installing stacks-cli. For my situation, there's two reasons, the first one is that I don't wanna too many redundant extensions in my browser especially Chrome already ate too many RAM of my laptop. The other one is I'm a CLI lover, just that simple.
The answer to all of these questions are the same uncomfortable truths that people don't wish to admit:

* Classism

* Racism

* Sexism

* <other>-ism

The problems for the under-represented isn't just the end of the tunnel where people are quick to claim "But <insert minority> is not applying!"... it's the entire tunnel.

It's really hard to be a <insert non-cis white male> in tech. Because at every step there is an obstacle.

Those obstacles may be in your face (racism when you move to an area that is predominantly something else), or subtle things like you not being able to afford to live in SF because your minority doesn't have the implicit network strength of being the average white male and it's hard for you to find a place to live.

The average developer that you may have seen from a minority background has already overcome more obstacles than their peers. But importantly, the vast majority never made it so far. The obstacles reduced their numbers long before.

I look around at those who have made it, and the majority are white males from stable middle-class backgrounds. This stability and security, this confidence that a supportive family gives, this safety that a low-crime area brings, access to materials and space in which to learn, this reinforcement at every step that you are surrounded by "people like you" and that you deserve to be there... is such a huge thing that is taken for granted. If you're a white male in tech, consider whether you could have made it to where you are without all of that. Of course there are lots of individual exceptions (I spent 2.5 years sleeping rough and come from a background of poverty and abuse)... but by and large, this is your privilege and it is also why the numbers for <minority> aren't there.

For those that do make it... support them and help them. They've had it hard and deserve not just what they've achieved but more too.
Indeed :) Me too... I'm just assuming, given they have a captive audience, the hardware chops to deliver electronic devices at scale and a huge pile of cash, they would be foolish not to be working on it, while Google Glass was a headline failure, the Hololens most certainly is not, it's just received it's safety rating for on site use, the applications I've seen in use in industrial design show that this technology is not going away.

hang on...
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"Amazon working on first wearables to interact with Alexa
Company’s ‘smart glasses’ would come with in-home virtual assistant embedded" Sept 20, 2017
oh, look, https://www.ft.com/content/d7862042-9d9a-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf...
I believe in this context it means Home Owners Association[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association
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In cryptocurrencies this coin was essentially a pre-mine which is done specifically to enrich the creators without any expense to themselves. Say what you want about bitcoin, but Satoshi Nakamoto earned his coins fairly (even though he may never access them) and created a fair and level playing field for everyone who started mining alongside him.

Further the vague wording about the supply size means it is unlikely that it would hit bitcoins level of value because there is no scarcity.
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Japan hadn't declared war.
> For something that is supposed to be such a great employment, it sure has it's downsides

Look, I agree with the sentiment. But it's easy to have this sentiment after you've lived it ("the grass is always greener", etc) and even if you didn't like it, you still enjoyed a level of financial stability in those years (nevermind the prestige that will help you land jobs elsewhere) that many people would envy. Maybe folks who are in the currently underrepresented groups will soon have the same loathing but the difference is that right now -- as the OP argues, evidently -- these folks don't get that choice.

And we don't need to see diversity in tech as being just a way of restorative justice (as if that was SV's job). The argument for diversity in the workforce is that SV's userbase is diverse. And people from different backgrounds (not just racial, of course, but racial diversity is currently deficient) allows a SV company to be more innovative and successful to the bottom-line.

In other words, a coder's benefits to a company's bottom line is not solely based on coding skill or achievement. Was Mark Zuckerberg really the best PHP programmer of his generation?
Because Ether is actually usable (even without smart contracts) as a form of money since the transaction fees are really low compared to Bitcoin. When you pay somebody using Bitcoin, you currently pay $5 to $8 as transaction fee and it needs about 1 1/2 hours for the money to arrive. When you use Ether, you only pay $0.25 (or even lower) as a fee and the system needs less than 20 seconds to confirm your transaction.

The Bitcoin model is simply unsustainable if the exchange price continues to explode.
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Compared to what other countries?
The article is good, but "The dangers of cross-validation" section is wrong.

Cross-validation means you split your data into folds and run multiple experiments, getting better data efficiency as compared to a single split. Splits don't have to be random.

scikit-learn provides GroupKFold and TimeSeriesSplit objects to use with cross-validation which address exactly the problems described in the article.

Cross-validation is not a panacea, in real world there are many other issues - e.g. it is common to have a training dataset which doesn't represent production data distribution, often because such dataset turns out to be much cheaper to get.

Andrew Ng's http://www.mlyearning.org/ is a great resource on this; it discusses real-world problems with train/test/validation splits and gives practical advice, can't recommend it highly enough.
I've got two credit cards, a Visa and a MasterCard, both of them backed by my Bitcoin wallet. Where's the problem? I can pay with Bitcoin anywhere I could've paid with Visa/Mastercard .. this isn't about BtC vs. Visa/Mastercard.

Its about BtC vs. US$, &etc.
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Funnily enough, my grandparents were telling me about how they were suspicious of debit/credit cards when they first started. Now of course, they feel very comfortable using them. Not directly comparable with bitcoin, but interesting in the sense that it was a significant paradigm shift in the way money was spent - initially met with skepticism, but eventually it caught on.
It's only a matter of time before you start seeing ham cured in the same fashion but produced in other countries. US is now starting to have local production in Virginia and Texas (it takes between 2 and 3 years for a good leg of jamón to cure properly) and China is doing the same.

Spain might try to protect the trademark of "jamón ibérico" the same way that France protects Champagne but in the end, you'll be able to buy good jamón produced elsewhere the same way you can buy a good bottle of sparkling wine from Italy, Spain or California. There are a lot of acorn fields in the US, China and Korea so plenty of room for pigs to eat.
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Mind is just one of the many sheaths of consciousness. Mind is a very negligible entity with respect to the vast concept of consciousness.
I provided a link from the NYTimes with the scientists from the original 1983 Nuclear Winter paper retracting their original prediction as well.

Well done, HN.
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> But if this would take off and get a strong foothold at the prices that we're seeing now (bitcoin almost 10K in dollars), then didn't some subset of techies print a lot more money than there is?

Over the course of history, people crated money out of many physical objects that had the "money" properties. Money is a tool to represent value of exchange. As long as we all agree on it's value.

In the fiat world, the value of money is artificially fixed by the central banks and backed by the military power of its governments. it has effectively an unlimited supply. Quantitative easing is one of the techniques used to quickly increase the supply as it fits the central banks. You, me and all fiat money users have no say in it.

Bitcoin, is a limited amount of money supply that will ever exist. It is backed by math and cryptography and an open source ecosystem. It was decided so by us the people and not central banks. We didn't ask for their permission the same way as they don't ask for ours when they decide to print more.

Many of us believers in Bitcoin do not agree with the way central banks handle the most important tool of our civilization (Money) and do not agree with the current mainstream economic theory. So we decided to exit that system and try our own.

> To me it seems there might be a chance that we're devaluing real currencies by quite a bit over the course of the next couple of years. Of course, the bigger chance is that this is a bubble and it will pop, but what if it isn't?

If fiat currencies get devalued, and they will if the Bitcoin experiment works, then it would just mean fiat money is a weaker money than bitcoin (see Gresham Law[1]). In that case, is it the fault of the inventors if they invented a better system ?

As of the "speculative" nature of bitcoin, yes it is. What drives speculation is greed. Bitcoin at the protocol level is just a communication system. If you couple greed and Metacalfe's Law[2], you obtain a very powerful incentive for the system to grow.

I think of this incentive as a the trojan horse to the current financial system. People will come through greed and stay once they discover and learn about this new system, since it's not likely the central banks will "objectively" assess the value of Bitcoin.

The biggest part of humanity does not benefit from our current central bank system, so it has to get disrupted and replaced with a better one.

Either this, or we're stuck with the current unhuman, exploiting system. As an optimist, I'm betting on the former.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
What kind of causes do you think they could fix at this level?
>but SV has shown that huge success can be made from folks who didn't go through formal college

From all industries I know of, SV is probably the poorest example of that, close to medicine for needing a degree to get anywhere in fancy SV companies.

Commerce, the hospitality, the restaurant business, and tons of others are way ahead in that regard...

Besides, shouldn't we demand more engineering and computer science, and less ad-hoc crap and reinvention of the wheel from self-taught programmers?

More Xerox Park and Bell Labs, and DEC, and SUN, and SGI, and so on, that is, and less "dropout that builds some social BS app"?
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Specifically, give one group of people a 4+ year head start in the field in addition to engaging in activities that will build confidence for the person when engaging in those activities (e.g., participating in and/or winning programming competitions in high school), is it really a surprise that the less-experienced group is grossly underrepresented in hiring?

I think the assumption that to qualify for employment in SV you need to hack full products in your garage, participate in coding/science school competitions and have a MIT/Stanford degree, doesn't hold under scrutiny
At the hiring level?

If two candidates have equal technical skills, color shouldn't matter at all, and "cultural fit" BS should not play a role.
I'm black myself(although just African not American). Science and technology are my ethos. With that out of the way, I think that a major contributor is the prejudice and stereotypes deriving from both the black & white communities.
But why? You already can search through man pages with / key in your $PAGER (more/less/most/vimpager), and across pages with `man -k`/`man -K`, and I wouldn't really call proportional fonts as "orders of magnitude" better.
Just put the TV further away, it has a similar effect to increasing the DPI, but also it reduces the amount of optical accommodation your eyes need to do (ie eye muscles stretching your lens flatter), which reduces eye strain and must surely reduce progression of myopia. 14 hour days with no eye cramp. I think 4k is starting to approach the upper useful limit of detail you would want on a rectangular monitor that you look at without moving your head, it's a nice bump over 1080p. 1080p upscaled to 4k also looks better than 'raw' 1080p.
I don't want to paint an entire profession as a dodge any more than I already have... Still going to take anything they "replicate" with a grain of salt.
I found the discussion on DMT:
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/adsl_technology.htm
particularly enlightening.
The comments on Bitcoin in here are almost all made by people who don't understand what they're talking about, spewing lies and half truths. Zero understanding, zero facts, 100% angry. It's hilarious.
> On the other hand, if that web actually turns out to have long dependencies, it could rapidly deteriorate, which is what concerns me.

I agree, but certain types of dependencies are much riskier than others.

> I suppose that it's true about the large numbers of trucks, but wouldn't those only be reallocated to the detriment of providing other goods?

Yes, but what's the detriment of emergency-increasing local shipping? Probably at least as bad.

> And what happens to all our excess flexibility if severe oil shortages come to pass?

Local shipping takes more oil in many cases.

> Looking closer to the origin,the centralized model leaves us more susceptible to local droughts and floods (because everyone's produce comes from Salinas and watsonville), infectious diseases in livestock herds

Instead of a major shortage leading to deaths in one area, while everyone else is fine, it turns into a slight supply reduction over the entire country.

> fungus that can cripple the entire crop of a particular fruit (because we've reduced the number of varieties by nine tenths or ninety nine hundredths.)

That is definitely a major problem, but is also unrelated to how far you ship. Megafarms could plant 50 kinds of tomato efficiently, if they wanted to.
Yes, and as I wrote I'm trying hard to avoid it. So far so good.
This has been my experience as well. I'm also am afraid that these researchers will succumb to a similar replication crisis that devastated the social sciences [0]. If you can't necessarily explain why something works, it's probably difficult to explain trying it again in the future didn't work

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Touche.

I must have been thinking of those glass things that came before transistors and filled a similar purpose then
Totally fair points, and vendor lock-in is something to be highly vigilant of.

For some context, though: the ingress functionality is rather recent in Kubernetes and is still fleshing out in terms of demands in the market and across cloud providers. Another year or two will do a lot for equality and saner networking solutions for small-scale and bespoke K8s deployments.

I got a little shock that I had to set up an ingress controller on each of my nodes (on our VMWare cluster), but going through the nuts and bolts of it I can see why it's hanging a bit behind the rest of the product. I think the devs are being smart letting the ecosystem mature a little instead of pushing out something half-baked and prematurely limiting.
Currency "refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange".

Definitely is money in a relatively new form, that millions of people are using to facilitate exchanges. Why wouldn't BTC be considered currency?
I suspect a lot of that success for Italy comes from exporting Italians - and then re-exporting Italian food via New York and Chicago, the homes of pizza.

For whatever reason there don't seem to have been nearly so many Iberian-Spanish immigrants, possibly they went to South America instead. Which has also been quite successful at exporting Spanish-language food..
In France, there are some associative ISP working with volunteers in almost every region, although they are quite small.
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A "private VPN server" is meaningless, could be IPsec or PPTP or OpenVPN or SSH or ...

If you're already using SSH you can use it to forward ports. You can SSH into that SSH server (with Mosh you'd achieve low latency) and craft a SSH config (at ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/config), make a bunch of shell scripts (including ProxyCommand if needed). You could even run your SSH server over Tor, or as I briefly suggested above you could go with a SSH server as VPN. One disadvantage that has, is that on Android it will not work with without root. Tor also won't work with Mosh (uses UDP), so you'd have higher latency.

See also this recent HN post "SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling" [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15773466