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People like Professor Kosbie drive me up the wall. Let me show you why. Here are the notes I took on my tablet PC for a week-long Tandberg TCTE+TMS certification class:

https://shared.irtnog.org/Tandberg-TCTA-TCTE-TMS.pdf

Admittedly, it's a big PDF because I didn't bother converting my handwriting to text, but it's still a pretty useful reference when it comes to video conferencing stuff, even though I don't do that kind of work any more.

Now here are my notes that I was forced to take on paper for a week-long ITIL V3 Foundation class, because the instructor thought he knew better than I did on how to learn:

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Oh that's right, they were on paper, so I can't easily back them up, digitize, and share them. In fact, over the course of several moves, I've managed to misplace both the notebook and the PDF scans. I live and breathe enterprise IT operations management and support. It'd be nice to have more than my memory as a reference, especially since I think ITIL had some useful models for conceptualizing this stuff. None of the official ITIL materials are public, so instead of my curated notes, I have to make do with what I can scrounge off the web. In my mind this wastes the time and money I spent taking the class.

I realize that I am paying for my instructors' knowledge, experience, and insight---that sometimes I won't agree with them but need to trust them regardless. Conversely, as an engaged student I need them to stop actively interfering with the tools and methods that I've developed over my academic and professional career to teach myself and to retain what I've learned.
The founders are probably getting out. Or at least the founding team / seed / etc.
Well, Blue Origin is in a certain dimension re-writing rules. They are using a new more efficient engine design. SpaceX has been pretty conservative with engines if I'm not mistaken.
Compound interest. Saving in your 20s is enormously more powerful than saving in your 30s. Losing the same amount of cash due to a poor startup is worse in your 20s than in your 30s.
I think it would be helpful in a different way. To put it simple, it would give people in suffering, more time to talk.

I don’t think it can replace the human relationship, but it could act as helper, a listener, or something between the patient and the therapist. It could listen for hours very cheap, provide feedback, replay things previously said by the patient helping in auto reflection, create a report for the therapist, etc.

Yes, we do need the therapeutic relationship, but for most that is too expensive. Take for example someone that can only afford 2 therapies a month. That’s simply not enough in times of crisis, when the thoughts in your head can be compared with a bull stampede.
This should let early employees and any investors who want to get out to get liquid. Otherwise they might have trouble unloading their equity without some other mechanism being made available by Uber's board.
So $1bn of newly issued shares and presumably liquidation preference at $69bn valuation and some amount of existing shares at a 30% discount presumably due to lower preference?
If the owners don't have a say in management, it should be a divideng-paying joint-stock corporation, not a co-op. The only reason to form a co-op is to share control, or for management to create an illusion of ownership (as in grocery store co-ops)
On the contrary, I found that mathematics was the one subject where attending lectures was actually helpful. Seeing the lecturer work through problems made it a lot easier to understand than trying to read the lecture notes.

Watching recorded lectures would do the same though, but they weren't recorded. They had the capability, but the maths department decided that they didn't want to, which I think was silly at best, and discriminatory at worst (e.g. people with mental health issues might be unable to attend lectures, thus being put at an unfair disadvantage).
I'm pretty slow and I have tons of carbs but I'm not losing any weight. /s
Unless the iMac Pro (unlike the current MacBookPro) has a generally addressable ARM core, it's not news that they're using ARM for the purpose of overall ARM dominance.

It's like when people were all excited they were testing LiquidMetal in their SIM ejection tool (not sure if that was apocryphal).
Being "too busy with feature work" is exactly the mindset that forces us to spend months and months of developer time every couple of years to upgrade Rails and an ever growing list of other gem dependencies.
You might be the right person to ask:

When I tried shadowsocks and enabled "proxy dns" in Firefox, every website became painfully slow. Is this simply because no DNS cache had been built?
Apple used to make rack mountable Macs. They stopped in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve
No, but it is unlikely. Hence the "average" part. Also, if we're talking about trading hours we're effectively talking about working rather than investing. Of course you can make more than a market return if you spend your free time consulting on the side, for example, but that's not really comparable to spending 5 minutes buying bitcoin or Tesla stock in 2011.
I’d guess liquidation preference for the newly issued shares.
There are basically three options for how to do disk encryption unlocking:

* The way that e.g. macOS FileVault works, where you enter your password in EFI, before the machine boots and before the OS is loaded.

* The way that e.g. iOS works, where there is an unencrypted partition containing the OS (mounted read-only), and an encrypted partition containing the data. The OS boots off the unencrypted partition, then you have to enter your password to unlock the data partition.

* The mode you're describing, where the unlocking happens automatically if and only if nothing has been tampered with (the encrypted hard drive hasn't been swapped into another machine, etc). With this mode you're relying on the fact that when the OS boots it won't let you do anything without entering a password, even though the disk is already unlocked. Assuming there are no bugs in the login screen, no way to physically read the contents of RAM (where the encryption keys are), and no way to access the contents of the TPM, this approach is just as secure.
I was thinking more in-terms of attacks requiring zero user interaction. But you are right that NAT has no interaction with unwitting-user-type drive-by downloads
Pretending real hard this isn’t a down round?
Is it a pyramid though? The money doesn't all flow to one place. Content creators 'earn' Props and can convert to traditional currency. The platform loses traditional currency in this case.
Jeri Ellsworth encountered active discouragement back when she was racing dirt track cars.
Pretty interesting idea. I could see it applying to an RPG like Skyrim or Witcher ... when your character drinks too much ale, the minimap and other UI features lie to you.
Maybe they figure early institutional investors with Series A, B, C, ... realize their shares will lose out in a liquidity event to preferential treatment for those with later shares, and so will be willing to sell their early shares for less.
> Others of us are well adapted to dairy

No one is properly adapted, that why milk consumption is associated with shorter lifespan and some diseases.

> And, aside from meat, milk is one of the few single foods that you can largely sustain yourself on (I think of it as mother nature’s Soylent).

What? Do yo mean to only drink milk (or eat meat)? In that case you lack fiber, big time. I've mentioned, and provided you with a video revealing how damaging milk is to the human body.

It will sustain your medical bill, until you die. :)

> It adds a wonderful dimension to so many recipes.

That's an opinion, and I must say I also really like the taste of some milk products.
I've long wondered if it would make sense to have a separate agree/disagree vote for each comment separate from the comment's normal upvote/downvote count. The totals for agree and disagree would be shown on the comment, but would not otherwise be used. I'd probably go one step further and allow users to simultaneously agree and disagree with a comment.

So you get something like:

[upvote] [downvote] [agree] [disagree]

2 points 7 agree 4 disagree (2 both agree and disagree)

The idea is to separate comment quality from agreement/disagreement.

I'm not sure this would be a good fit for HN since we can't generally see comment scores anyway, but it might work for other sites like Reddit.
I'm so confused. Are you saying that a libertarian society would permit people to arbitrarily tax others? Because they gained the right to do so somehow?

Do you actually understand anything about libertarianism at all?
I suppose the level of influence depends on the institution and the degree of corporate support. I’ve been involved in research where PIs were fiercely emphatic about their unwillingness to share findings to funders prior to publication.

That said, this isn’t classic research / journal pub work, and so presumably Google could decide they didn’t like the direction and yank funding or threaten to yank funding.
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> Also, why can't I sign a paper saying I accept the risk of investing?

You can! All you have to do is lie on your affadavit of accredition, granting you the two things you want: (1) investment in the venture, to (2) no ability to file criminal charges on the venture management if you get fleeced. You do want both of those, right?
They do that on ArsTechnica. It doesn't really seem to have mitigated the issue much.

What I do, if I see a greyish comment on HN, and it's obvious that the opinion/idea expressed is being downvoted by groupthink, I upvote it. Even if I don't agree with the comment. Mostly because I don't believe ignoring/burying those whom you disagree with as solving anything. My choice of doing this is more of a means than an end. It's odd how narrow-minded and self-reinforcing a group of out-of-the-box free thinkers can be, especially out here. I can't impose open-mindedness on the masses, but I can try to at least help the voices of the dissenters remain visible.
That sounds like not everyone needed to be in that meeting.

My old work banned screens in meetings (except for the note taker), it made it painfully obvious to me which meetings I didn't need to be in. Sometimes I'd sit there for half an hour with my eyes glazed over.

On the plus side, eventually I started being more assertive when questioning whether my attendance was necessary at certain meetings, or asking to leave once the relevant part of the meeting was over. There was no point in me sitting there while the iOS team discussed some specific issue that I couldn't give any input to.
> The RBOCs promised they would roll out fiber, FCC and PUCs promised they would enforce

There was never a quid pro quo: deregulation in return for fiber. We deregulated for the same reason everyone else in the western world did: to attract private investment. And we got that in spades—about $1.5 trillion since the 1996 Act. The Internet—the wires and fiber and switches—as we know it was built almost entirely with private money since 1996.

Saying we “gave” ISPs money because we stopped controlling the prices they could charge is extremely disingenuous.
On an unrelated note, there is a great Ceaucescu-related song in the movie Lachto Drom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS-_W-dOYeo
This clarifies exactly... thanks for the link!
> I also had a lot of the blame, because I simply took too much that night

How much did you take?
Pardon my ignorance, but do DNS leaks impact Tor anonymity or are we strictly talking VPNs?
The new ones are presumably the most senior class, and would likely come with rights such as liquidation preferences that would make them have a higher expected value (in the eyes of Softback).
Well, sure, okay. But there are millions of -- for example -- soccer fans who love watching charismatic & talented people play the game, but never find the time to take a ball out into a field themselves.

Video games are very much a spectator sport.
No Strava is still very inaccurate even with a HRM. Check their support forums and you'll find numerous complaints.
Keep in mind though, you're putting away $5K/mo towards retirement. You're _saving_ 60K every year, which is no small number.
AKA an expensive way of running telnet or xwindows sessions - when a basic leveano or dell would be cheaper and run full fat office and not the cut down mac versions
It's annoying enough that Tesla has to be public. I don't want to read the 1000th "Is it time to short SpaceX" comment here on elsewhere.
> I don't see a libertarian argument for net neutrality.

Do you see a libertarian argument against legislation?

If so, then that's all you need to see, because that's all there is to see.
"...at a price that would value the ride-hailing company at 30 percent less than its most recent $69 billion valuation".

This is not true, it has no effect on the current valuation at all. Softbank are looking to buy shares at this lower valuation since they are a different class of share to what they would get otherwise; these are common stock (employees will be a major source of stock for the sale) and therefore don't have the same benefits of preferred stock, of course they expect a better price. Where they are receiving preferred shares (the $1B investment) they are using the $69B valuation from Uber's last round (presumably this $1B is being added as a late-comer to that round).

I can't believe that a Bloomberg reporter would get this wrong, so this sounds a lot like jumping on the media band wagon. Suggesting Uber has lost 30% of its value is blatantly false.

Edit: It's fair to say there might be some impact on the notional valuation between rounds, which is hazy at the best of times. However it's not a 30% cut.
Not sure if you read this essay, but Sam advocates for startups to be significantly more generous on employee equity: https://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity

(at least compared to other VCs, you may still disagree with his absolute numbers)
On top of earning fees, if PoS includes penalties for not being honest, you will lose money by not doing the right thing.
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Interesting, this idea seems antithetical to my personal experiences (not that that has any impact on objective truth). I also find this odd given that when LSD was legal and used in conjunction with talk therapy (to arguably great effect) patients were given doses of about 25 ug (1/4th of an average lowish dose).
I think that asking paywalled sites to support Bitcoin is a good way to stop them from posting provocative articles and could calm down the crazy speculative market.

I'd like Bitcoin to find its niche in payments for intellectual property.
Paul Graham seems to think downvoting as disagreement is fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Price stability is a requisite for a currency that you intend to actually use as money, but in this case it seems you have to buy some other crypto token first in order to buy yours. That just adds to the transaction cost.
Just as a side note, that's such a weird thing to compare against... What intuition does the average reader have about the price of container ships? If anything, I learnt that container ships are less costly than I would have guessed...
This is how all Internet2 meetings get run. For example, here are the notes from the 2015 Advanced CAMP meetings:

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/ACAMP2015/ACAMP+2015+Ho...
So the solution is removing the monopolist power, not implementing more government regulations of the internet.
This seems like a case where you have downgraded the meaning of "AI" to match its current commercial connotations. A relationship with an AGI >= a relationship with a human, at least in intellectual terms.

The big hope, that AFAIK we have not abandoned, is that AGIs will be able to walk into a messy human situation, diagnose exactly what the dynamics are, and recommend the optimal thing to do to fix things. This could happen via an ELIZA-like interface or through a broader perceptual engagement. The point, though, as the GP suggested, is that AGI could quickly learn to far exceed the perceptiveness and skill of a human therapist, and do so on an inconceivable scale.

It's the idea of developing an "ecology of mind", as Gregory Bateson put it. To be able to diagnose quickly and accurately disorders (individual and collective) that currently require lucky individual insights and experience to identify.
Yeah, I think you're right about most of this - I watched most of the races this season. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in most races in the middle of the pack too, like "will force india do well, or will they crash into each other" or just watching fernando alonso drive the wheels off of his mclaren, despite it lacking top-end speed.

That said, I also noticed that a lot of cars had to hold back quite a bit: the current aerodynamics of the cars means the choppy air seems to run about 1.5 seconds off of the back of the lead car, so if you're staying in clearer air, you're out of DRS. Meaning: people even trying to get into overtaking of the lead car are drastically lowering the lifetime of their tires if nothing else. Combine that with the wider car and there's not a lot of actual overtaking going on in race-leadership positions. It happens, but not a lot - more often I think there's the under/overcut calculations about when a pit stop happens, and the pass happens virtually with time lost in the pit lane.

This is all exacerbated by mercedes's dominance in the qualifying rounds. In a season where so many races were won from the front row if the leaders get out of the first lap clean without a crash, this is all huge. It adds up to: Hamilton totally dominated the second half of the season, easily winning the championship and Mercedes taking the constructor's championship even earlier. In terms of leadership swaps and contention for first, it's a boring season. Still: can't discount Hamilton here, he is an amazing driver and clearly the best on the circuit.

Overall? I had to start watching the red bulls and force india scrapping over the midfield, because the front of the pack was indeed boring. And I'm not sure that really appeals to average viewers.
There doesn't have to be any justification. Maybe they're hoping enough early investors want to lock-in their paper profits that they'll accept the offer.
the pornography (much like on twitter) was definitely one of the major selling points of tumblr. It was a rare social media site that allowed NSFW materials.
Yes, but an Xserve would not fit under your desk; nor would its power requirements be compatible with the output of a 110V outlet; nor would it be bearable in sound or heat output to sit near one when it's running. And, on the other hand, an Xserve takes up 2U for a complete computer (a rack is for a cluster), whereas in the hypothetical system I'm talking about, one computer takes the whole ~10U by spreading its parts out over all those bays.

I'm talking, here, about the consumer electronics-ization of the concept of rackmount servers (or, more specifically, of blade-server chassis-es.) Even if Apple still had the folks who created the Xserve on staff, there really wouldn't be much in common with the resulting architectures. Totally different needs.
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Yes, but I left that life behind. You had the same username there?
If we imagine an Einstein of the 23rd century, whose great discoveries will enable humanity to cross the universe in a moment while expending the energies of many stars, and then we imagine that person educated in a USA public school in 2017, can we imagine her making those same discoveries? Of course not, which is most of what TFA is saying here. Perhaps "general AI" will increase the rate of improvement, but even the most gifted AI will be limited by the context in which it operates.
Not really an old saying, unless I guess you are really really young, the first part, often misattributed to Franklin first turned up in the popular literature in the 90's, the last sentence was tacked on later BT someone else
I think if my son was considering suicide, I would want to be given a warning or indicator to at least attempt to intercede.

At the same time, I absolutely wouldn't want a bunch of companies to target him with suggestive messages exploiting his mental state.
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Why do you have to bring gender into this. If you really want to talk about females, I'll tell you where it really matters - there are many female engineers and mechanics in every team already contributing to the sport.
One justification is that spending on new shares gives them a higher return than spending on old.

When you spend on old, someone with no further interest in Uber has money in their pocket.

When you create new ones, you've just injected money into Uber, which increases its likelihood of survival.

If they are buying enough to get control, they can now choose to spend that $1 billion in ways that channel money back into other companies that they own. Thereby further reducing the cost to them of providing that money. (Presumably, though, the money channeled back will be for products that help Uber. This looks like a shell game but isn't.)
It was the profit from the sale of Auto Trader magazine.
Let's run through the likelihood of seeing multiple flips on the same piece of data.

Google's research [1] finds a DRAM error rate of "25,000 to 70,000 errors per billion device hours per Mbit" on hardware in "modern compute clusters." If there are 100 million Dropbox clients out there, Dropbox clients should encounter 2,500 to 7,000 errors per Mbit per hour, though factoring in the "low-end or old hardware" that many Dropbox clients are running on, the error rate is probably somewhat higher. For the sake of making the math simple, call it 10k errors per Mbit per hour, or 1 error per 100 bit-hours. So a given bit should flip on some user's machine on the order of once a week. That seems pretty firmly in the range of "sometimes we see these weird errors that we don't really understand," especially if you multiply by the same error potentially coming from different parts of the program (so "the same piece of data" is really "a few pieces of data that get collapsed together for purposes of analysis).

Your intuition that a "typical threading bug" is much more likely than a random bit flip is spot on, but that actually works in favor of the "random bit flip" thesis. On the Dropbox scale, a threading bug/race condition would typically show up as a significant, persistent issue, several orders of magnitude more common than the random oddball errors described in the article.

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Exercise has so many physical and mental health benefits. But even just looking at weight management alone, exercise tends to ramp up your metabolism for hours after each exercise session. Something that doesn't get captured by your tracker app or wearable gadget.

I was a part time fitness instructor for over a decade, but when people asked about losing weight, I would minimize the importance of exercise for weight loss - to the surprise of many.

Sure I ate like crap and maintained my weight, but between teaching 10 hours a week, training for runs and occasional weight lifting, I was easily burning an extra 1000+ calories a day. Most people aren't in the type of shape to burn that much in a reasonable amount of time.

Since I was being paid to workout, I was very consistent. How many people will consistently work out an average of two hours a day no matter what?

When I stopped teaching and started doing the minimum amount of exercise, I had to be much more careful about what I ate and I'm still 10-15 pounds heavier than I was at my prime.

I'm not trying to dismiss the other benefits of exercise, but weight loss isn't high on the list of benefits for most people - especially not walking or low impact exercise.