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His regex golf seems kind of strange; he never mentions suffix trees. It seems like a fairly straightforward process to go through and mark the shortest distinguishing infix for each string in a generalized suffix tree.
I once worked tech support in a Fortune 500 enterprise software company where I got a support call that traced back to a syntax error causing a crash in the Perl install script of our flagship product.

Only “funny” because it's a phenomenally expensive product with on paper substantial QA/QC, and yet somehow it got into release with an install script that was guaranteed to fail.
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I respect your view, but I actually think that because ETH has proven to be difficult to secure, that it will continue to experience problems and as such, it is not a viable platform for future development.
I see this kind of sentiment a lot, and while I can kind of get where it is coming from can you cite some specific examples to back up your skepticism about the government as a regulator? Can you cite any examples where the government was doing a bad job of regulating and got out of the way and it improved? I'm honestly not sure what other options there are in many cases. Who else is going to do it? Just because government isn't working (I imagine it is working in a lot that we don't have to think about exactly because it is doing what it is supposed to do), doesn't mean that it can't work or it isn't the best tool we have.

Its nice to think "let the market handle it", and maybe in some cases that is true but there are pretty clear examples where that isn't true (like power generation and distribution). I could easily blame the government for the issues this causes in my state where the power company is far too powerful and lobbies to effectively, giving them too much sway over the government. Is that "the governments" fault or is it the fault of the people for not holding the government accountable for not looking out for the interest of the people enough?

I feel like those of us with cynical feelings about the government have a tendency to sit back and gripe but then not actually do anything to make it work better. I think that if we aren't actively trying to make the government better and work for us, we really don't have much room to complain (and I include myself in this because that has been me for quite a while, aside from voting and giving the bare minimum of thought to it I haven't really done anything useful).

If we sit back and let whoever wants to run things run things we can't be surprised when we don't like what we get. At the end of the day the government is what we want it to be and how badly we want it to be that. Garbage in garbage out.
Polo/Bitfinex are peer to peer lending, so the exchange isn't taking the risk. I'm not sure about Coinbase but I vaguely remember it was outside institutional money funding the margin.

Derivative markets like Bitmex use a form of socialized loss to remove the risk.
My options are Comcast, Century Link, satellite, and some kind of mobile tethering or just using my phone.

Comcast is going to be the source of all of my problems if NN crumbles, so let's look at Century Link. I could be same amount of money to them, but I'd get like a 1/10 the speed if I was super lucky. As far as I'm concerned it's not a practical alternative at all given how we use the internet in my house and our financial limitations.

So then there's satellite, which is not a practical solution either. I'd probably end up paying more and have worse internet speeds than I would with DSL. AND I'd completely have to give up any sort of online gaming that I do. A great way to finally kick that WoW habit, but not really a practical alternative to Comcast.

Okay so what about mobile tethering? I already pay as much as I currently pay for Comcast each month for my cell phone and I've got like 3GBs of data total to use. Last month, with Comcast, I used close to half a TB. I'm not going to do the math for what it would cost me to do that with my mobile carrier, but it's more than I spend on all my other utilities combined, I'm sure. And that's, of course, assuming a carrier available to me is able to provide decent speeds or even allows tethering at all. So that's not a practical alternative.

So sorry I do not buy it. It's like saying "you don't need a water supplier! You've got Coke, beer, and coffee available to 100% of everyone!". Yes, technically those are liquids that consist of some water, but the price is going to be ridiculous, you're going to have kidney stones, and you're going to be fat.
Ouch, I'm getting third-hand embarrassment just reading about it. What amateurs!
Really interesting from a journalist standpoint to see how the Post investigates a story. The original Moore piece was incredibly meticulous in how it presented the information they had obtained, and was transparent about the process in a way that lets the reader form an opinion on the truthfulness of the story. This piece has a similar meticulousness in how it’s laid out.
A fair number of people got out pretty far ahead. Occasionally you'll run across a local business in Silicon Valley that makes no economic sense (eg. a nightclub, or a meadery, or a rug merchant, or a restaurant that never seems to have customers) and then you find out the owner was an early Netscape employee or rented space to Paypal in exchange for equity.

The bill was largely footed by large numbers of people who knew nothing about the technology. I know one person who founded a router company in 1996, IPO'd in 2000, cashed out his shares for ~8 figures right before the market cratered, and is using that to fund his second startup. I know another person who invested in all sorts of dot-coms in 2000 and lost her entire inheritance & life savings in that (and a few real-estate purchases in 2007). I'd bet that the second group outnumbers the first by a large margin, but people in the first do exist.
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I am not against bitcoin but bitcoin is not like stocks and land. stocks in aggregate pay dividends, sometimes in the form of stock buybacks, something that Berkshire does do. Non-dividend paying stocks are priced today due to expected future dividends. In other words, they may not pay dividends now, but they generate expected future profits. Land is physically scarce. Bitcoin is software, so scarcity of software is not the same as physical scarcity.
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...huh?

AI will reach parity with humans before it exceeds them, agreed. But intelligence parity is not the same as "matching my evolution-shaped brain". Feeling empathy for other humans is not a requirement for intelligence; I routinely make supposedly-irrational choices to help humans in non-reciprocal settings because I feel empathy. There's no reason to think an AI that can write code as well as me will feel the same.

> Morals are basically lower-level approximations which are beneficial for survival and AI's will certainly evolve those too.

AI will evolve approximations which are beneficial for survival. We agree there. But why would a bunch of approximations that helped my ancestors survive in low-tech communal environments benefit a strong AI trained with high tech, minimal survival needs, and no "peer group"?

I fully expect strong AI will pursue some set of real-world goals which aren't justified except by the anthropic principle. But the assumption that those goals will match human goals seems to completely ignore the fact that the first strong AI will live in a vastly different environment than the first human.
ISPs should be regulated under Title II, as they are common carriers, not information services. I don't pay Comcast for information, I pay them for access. It's like a phone line, but in modern times. Imagine if phone carriers could do what ISPs are planning, where certain companies can pay for better, faster phone connections, and everyone else gets the crappy maybe it works, maybe it doesn't level of service. No one thinks that's ok. The internet isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. Any limits on my ability to use it in any legal manner I see fit is wrong.
Violence? Drag his body down the street? Attacking innocent people until everyone does what you say? Those groups get labelled terrorist.

That is the difference between a first world country and a second or third. Some people may hate trump but they also know in a few years people will have the option of voting for someone else.

When you change leaders by dragging them down a street you get the types of leaders who will drag you down the street if need be.
The guy behind this stunt, James O'Keefe, got his start with funding from Peter Thiel: https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/09/22/conservative-faceboo....
I don't think loss leader is the correct term either.

YouTube doesn't make money, nor intends to make money in the near future[1]. The key here is to get entrenched in the market, then assert their monopoly.

On surface this might seem okay, but it definitely is anti-competitive. We've just gotten used to it. Dumping isn't the proper term, but was the closest I could find. It comes under predatory pricing, but the problem is, this business practice is so different from what the current literature consists of, I don't think there even is a proper term.

[1]: http://fortune.com/2016/10/18/youtube-profits-ceo-susan-wojc...
I had the idea about a beachhead too but I think it would be different. What if you had an A10 to do all of the iPhone features that you would want on your laptop or desktop. Then use the Intel for the performance . You would increase battery life and both platforms would have feature parity (something I would like a bunch ).
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I was not. Thank you for that link.
>No.

Starting replies like this is getting to be a theme online. It adds nothing to the discussion except make people argue in extreme and entrenched ways.

>"stocks/bonds/land/etc" are not actual assets backed by anything OTHER than scarcity.

I specifically said they were backed by scarcity (land) and by economic activity (stocks and bonds).

>Stocks have value almost exclusively due to capital appreciation. You don't get anything for owning non-dividend-paying stocks. And owning dividend paying stocks just means money is not being reinvested (notice that Berkshire Hathaway has never paid dividends out).

I have no idea what you're trying to say. Stocks generate value out of an economic activity. That's the value that underlies them. If the company then has enough opportunities to continuously reinvest or if it just gives up and returns value through share buybacks or dividends is not really important to the point that what makes stocks valuable is that the company has some form of economic activity. If you find a stock that doesn't have an underlying economic activity and is just driving up price through scarcity that's not a company it's a Ponzi scheme like Enron used to run.

>Bitcoin is EXACTLY like land and stocks, except much, much, much more liquid and useful.

Bitcoin is digital gold. Useful yes, but wow, you really think its value dwarfs the asset classes responsible for representing the available physical area of the planet and the current economic activity of the planet?
I suspect they would also be locked into buying said supply.

Plus, this arrangement probably worked out really well for supermarkets in the past, this might be the first issue with supply that they've faced.
Zuckerberg's Switchblade: Make it look like a side-effect of trying to combat fake news.
I'm interested to see how this plays out - in some respects it's hard to come back at Project Veritas, they'll just say - hey nice work Washington Post you did your job.
100% serious question: how long before Project Veritas or others on the far right start accusing the WaPo of fabricating the bungled sting story in order to embarrass them?

edit: changed "right" to "far right"
The inherent deflationary is the same relation that we had with the gold standard.

The issue is that in a deflationary environment (such as recessions), the need for a central bank to prop up the currency for debtors is essential.

For an example: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...
It isn’t clear that headset VR will beat eventual direct brain connections or the singularity where programming is no longer a human activity.
Since it is terrible, and so many people end up self medicating; I would like to see certain drugs OTC.

The benzodiazepine with the long half life would be first on my list.

Second would be the opioid with the long half life, and yes put the antagonist in the pill.

Maybe a required consultation with the pharmacist, on the dangers of mixing drugs?

I purposely didn't mention the drugs. Why--because this isn't the forum, and I'm not an expert. And, most of you can easily look up these drugs.

That said, relying on Alochol, and Street drugs to alleviate the misery of a mental malady is just wrong!

(I know there's a bunch of you rolling your eyes. My hope is you never have a nervous breakdown--without good insurance. I don't want to debate today with someone who hasen't been there either. I'm appalled at the way mental illness is treated in America. It's embarrassing. It's been horrid forever. To those reading this in abject missery; hang in there. Time will cure most of you. I have no reason to lie. I've been there. I know the misery. Don't give up. Give it time, and try to work the system. If it's an emergency, call 911. I know it seems outlandish, but we are just victims of the System. Oh, how I would like to see the System change.)
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All AWS SDKs use the underlying REST(ey) API. The SDKs are literally machine generated. I can download the WSDLs or take these files https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/tree/master/models/apis and generate one myself.
Okay, that's a bit more reasonable. Even then, though, the token is not a share in the company. I suppose it is a signal that the company is not some fly-by-night operation.
They are using AI for natural language processing though. Heuristics would be if they just scanned a post for keywords or waiting for a suicide reporting. The article suggests they are using reporting as labeled training data, and eventually they'll be able to detect posts/videos that indicate suicide.

I agree that AI term gets thrown around a lot these days but don't think that's what is happening here.
I think he was taking some license.

Knowing your shit and having liquid cash is key to those opportunities. My play portfolio made a 10x return after the financial crisis because of knowing key sectors and having cash.

Likewise, I had a nice bitcoin hit that could have been a 1000x play, but to be honest I got out to buy a car, which in retrospect was a very dumb decision!
So for my masters in design, I explored healthcare software, particularly the type which deals with patient medical records.

Healthcare software is a paradox to me, because it's so important to our society, but it's just kinda .... shit. After doing interviews and surveys, I can safely say that doctors and medical professionals feel the same. The software my GP uses was literally first put in place when I was born, and it hasn't changed since then.

There are many factors why healthcare software is bad, but one thing is for sure - most health IT systems are huge, complicated, monoliths. Most medical practices have a single system which does literally everything. This makes it super hard to swap out parts of the system to make improvements - you can't just improve say, the appointment management system without touching anything else - you have to do it all at once.

This makes 'upgrading' your healthcare software, stupidly hard, and stupidly expensive. The reality is that a doctor with the worlds best software, and a doctor with the worst will probably see the same amount of patients in a week - it's hard to justify when the cost can literally be in the [billions](http://barnett.surge.sh/welcome/intro.html)

So what's the future? I think there's three options.

1. Nothing changes, we keeping doing as we have for the last 30 years or so.

2. We break up the complexity of these systems, allowing for faster, iterative improvement. This is where my design proposal aims to sit.

3. A leap frog technology comes along, which either has huge value, or is super easy to implement. Machine learning and modern AI could be this, but it's a long shot, and cultural challenge.

So yeah, this is my thesis, hope you find it as interesting as I did.
The people in power have to fear losing elections. The system was specifically designed so the masses can force change without violence.

Supporting terrorism to override that system is awful, regardless of how you feel about capitalism.
Curious:

Does that also apply to "democratic" processes?

Should only "accredited citizens" have the right to vote?
... and Time Warner wrote down AOL by $45B.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1043702683178461304
> Lectures and meetings are broken, not the notes.

For as long I can remember, I have had trouble staying awake in lectures, meetings and watching videos. It has nothing to do with the content, nothing to do with how 'engaging' it is. It has everything to do with passively sitting and attempting to consume data. Having a way to take notes and edit them in real-time increases my retention enormously. It's also incredibly useful to me as I can org-capture a TODO item to look up references (from which I learn very well) later. If I could have afforded access to a laptop in college and org-mode existed back then, I can't imagine how much more I would have retained, not to mention having greppable notes, as opposed to my paper notes that have vanished over the years.

ETA: Lectures/meetings seem really inefficient and ineffective to me. It's a data stream you can't rewind, and if you wait for everyone to "get it", you'll never make any progress, and you can't pack enough information in to justify everyone being in the same place at the same time. Just record a video and make it really good (ala TED) or release your very well refined overview paper/slides with copious references.
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Surely it's not the first time the Post (or any MSM outlet) has been pitched a bogus tip. Surprised it doesn't happen more often.
But then it didn't fail because the version that was implemented started off with oligarchs we have been slowly moving in the right direction
Evolve to what? The government isn't afraid, so why would they do anything for people?

People were literally bombed for wanting better worker's rights a century ago, apparently it's time for that again?
I've already pointed out you don't seem to understand how Bitcoin exchanges operate: https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/935016692270489600

Banks don't provide liquidity to Bitcoin exchanges. Exchanges don't borrow from banks. Exchanges don't trade with their money, or their users' money. Exchange users deposit money to exchanges, and exchanges dumbly execute orders specified by their users. That's it. For example BTC/USD bids on an exchange's order book are 100% backed up by dollars that have already been deposited by users on this exchange's bank account.
Why, because WaPo did what they were supposed to? Good on the Washington Post. Project Veritas served its function.
The Guardian responded to various such claims over the years in quite a bit of detail [1].

A choice quote:

> The Guardian's current position on tax is not immensely complicated, not least because it is not making any profits. When GMG makes taxable profits, it does of course pay full corporation tax. It is officially regarded by HMRC as "low risk".

> When we did our series on tax avoidance in 2008, we commissioned Richard Murphy, the scourge of tax dodgers the world over, to cast his eye over GMG's accounts.

> This is what he wrote:

> "Now let's be clear: what this shows is that on trading, the effective rate of tax was 46%. If goodwill were added back to profit the rate would be about 21%, a rate that is low largely because much of the profit came from the disposal of assets. If that were adjusted for then [year ended 30 March 2008], the rate would be above the statutory rate. There is nothing abnormal to comment on as a result.

> The low charge is on the exceptional part sale of the Auto Trader group. No complicated planning was needed to produce a low tax-charge: the government allows for tax to be deferred in this case if funds are reinvested.

> The Guardian did reinvest the funds. That's not artificial, offshore, or complex. Indeed, it is tax compliant: the company is doing what the government wants, and for which it provides a relief. So let's stop the nonsense about low tax rates now: it's just wrong."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2011/feb/22/...
not really.

More like Sun in those days (or maybe SGI or IBM rs6000, possibly HPUX though it was more for business) depending on whatever proprietary things you wanted to run.. but really Sun.

from there: linux PC's until OsX, then a mix of both.
The naive proposition that governments will accept Bitcoin's feature of regulatory arbitrage makes this article difficult to take seriously.

The federal government will have the capability to unmask those involved in the arbitrage.
[Citation needed]

Here's a competing citation that disagrees with you and suggests that people pay more attention in-person: https://www.maritzmotivation.com/~/media/Files/MaritzInstitu...
I have been on the Guardian support pages for at least a dozen times and I'd love to contribute but I don't find they make it easy.

There's a subscription for 14,99€/month (https://subscribe.theguardian.com/p/DBQ80F?edition=int) then there's the premium app which is also called subscription (https://www.theguardian.com/info/2013/aug/12/1) for 2,49 or so and then there's the Support thing (https://membership.theguardian.com/eu/supporter) for 4,99€/month. Some of these seem to include the other options...but I'm not sure. So I've just always given up. In addition Guardian Weekly doesn't seem to have a digital only version?

I've really tried. And I've also tried contacting their support but instead of answering my question they've canceled my subscription to Guardian Weekly. That was when I've just given up.
I think what the poster is trying to say is this:

Bitcoin has a finite supply. If demand remains at its current rate, inherently the value will also continue going up.
> Beats a TN panel any day.

Yes, TN is even worse. One must have an IPS panel! :-)

(I hear, though, that TN, and maybe VA, might be preferred by some for high-performance gaming situations, due to a lower latency.)
Weird, if "fully reproducible" and "groomed/minimal" environments were the goal of docker, I'd expect image tags to not be mutable, the "FROM" line in a Dockerfile to only take immutable hash references, and for the default `docker build` environment to have no network access.
At the very least, `docker build` should accept and produce a "lock" like file which specifies the source image it came from, and mark anything that does a network request (e.g. `apt-get update`) as tainted and unreproducible.

There are plenty of ways to create reproducible minimal images (such as using the nix package manager to create the rootfs), but the official docker images don't use those techniques and the docker tooling and ecosystem actively fight against it.

Docker is clearly focused on usability / first-user-experience at the expense of reproducibility and immutability. They encourage the use of the 'latest' tag, they encourage the use of procedural network-heavy build steps, and they have made not attempt to promote or create alternative tooling which tackles reproducibility correctly.
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