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The top end of your range of computer science people is maxed out at, engineers without much science background?

The name Turing ring a bell? Just opinion, I consider him one of the greatest minds of his century. He worked on a lot of things but some would say he fits pretty well in cs. And there are more like him who just didn’t happen to become famous to the general public. I could give a dozen more examples of people’s contributions, profound insights, fundamentally important basic research results, that might make you extend, at least the top of your range a bit.
Open source maybe?
My experience at university was the reverse. Despite having very good slides and speaker notes, there were intuitions for how the material hung together which I just wouldn't have got without hearing how the lecturers spoke about it.

Meetings, on the other hand...
The situation is slightly better than social sciences though. Social science experiments, if any, can hardly be repeated. AI experiments can be easily redone if the source code and datasets are released into the public.
I wonder if the answer to meetings is making participation more meaningful? In some MBA programs, the purpose of the class is the discussion of some case that everyone has read. In this way, you get more out of participation by listening to other people’s thoughts and combining them with yours.

There is also a strong case to be made for the “radical transparency” that has made Bridgewater so successful [0]. This system has the capacity to accelerate learning if it were implemented more widely.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_dalio_how_to_build_a_company_w...
Well, how do you get tracker free if you are already logged in. Tracking user action on its own is not a sin as business should know what customers are interested in.
Selling the data to 3rd parties (and organizing the entire operation to support) is the dirty gray area.
That may be so, but none of these links are about bias in setting bail.
I use bitcoin for payment. I get paid in bitcoin and I pay in bitcoin wherever possible.
Tools that make me fast and productive
I use it as a currency to both buy and sell stuff.
Research on disfluency implies that you might be better off with longhand after all. Increasing the mental effort in taking the notes has a positive effect on how well people absorb material (subject to a few caveats).
Yes, AlpaGo Zero is mainly self taught. It means it learned to play through the game mechanics. There are no databases of moves or smart optimizations that are based on our understanding of go.
Yes, but bitcoin is not scarce in any meaningful sense in the long run. Using the same software alternative versions of the coin can be created. Or worse better versions ...

Gold will cease to be meaningfully scarce if we ever mine an asteroid or something like this, but the barriers to that are obviously somewhat higher.
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Along with the US's best ally targeting British and American civilians: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair

One wonders what the actual rate of successful false flags are. Was the USS Liberty a failed false flag of opportunity?
When I was in college I preferred laptops for this reason. I can type way faster than I can write by hand. So it was way easier to keep up and write everything down. I read my notes on some other day to learn, but during the lecture it was all about writing down enough to be able to recall the lecture from my notes on some later day.
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news report confirms another instance of the US planning fake attacks on its own citizens for political purposes and your response is to chastise conspiracy theorists? your frustration seems a little misdirected.

which is the bigger offense?
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Step 1: Buy Bitcoins in 2010.

Step 2: Try not to cry because you failed at Step 1.

T_T
I respectfully disagree with your assertion that "the fundamentals are all wrong".

I can't really think of many reasons why you would use crypto to pay for a coffee or a sandwhich if you live in the West (or frankly, even most developing nations).
On the other hand, I can definitely see the utility in a censorship-resistant digital medium to store wealth. To me, this latter use case has much, much more potential to serve the unbanked (as well as the banked).

Some use cases I can think off the top of my head:

(1) You are from Syria and need to flee war and escape into Europe – however bank transfers into Europe are almost impossible if you are a common Syrian. Bitcoin allows you to take your wealth with you, in your brain, as you escape across the border, by just memorising your twelve word private key.

(2) You are from Venezuela or Zimbabwe – The government has issued capital controls and is devaluing currency by the day. You transfer your wealth into Bitcoin in order to offset capital erosion due to hyper-inflation. When the situation stabilises, you transfer your Bitcoin back into fiat.

(3) You are Saudi billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal. The government freezes all your assets in a political coup. If you have a portion of your wealth in Bitcoin, you could protect them from government expropriation and anonymously transfer them to associates or family members abroad.

(4) You are whistleblower Julian Assance and have been cut off from the financial system as a way to censor your speech. Bitcoin allows you to have an unbreakable digital "Swiss bank account" that the authorities are not able to reach.

This reminds me of Peter Thiel's recent words about Bitcoin: "it's like a reserve form of money, it's like gold, and it's just a store of value. You don't need to use it to make payments."

Reference

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/bitcoin-underestimated-peter...
At least they promise an ad-free mobile experience. So there's a small chance they don't release the trackers on you.

https://membership.theguardian.com/eu/supporter?INTCMP=NGW_F...
Thanks to @indubitable for adding a comment and link to this article in the post about the Meredith and Time Magazine deal:

> Comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15785486

> HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15784544
There’s an Apple trackpad in the middle between the split keyboard.
I got the Samsung 49" 8500. Highly recommend for coding.
The talk by Lagarde [1] recently convinced me that we're ahead of a threshold where some blockchain technology will get some sort of mainstream backing and actually break through[2].

This could be some central bank for example.

Between ETH and BTC I think ETH has a better shot at being at the core of that, unless the Bus accident actually happens.

[1] https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2017/09/28/sp092917-cen...

[2] And break through means: I can realistically get rid of my Visa card and use blockchain tech for day to day transactions at many stores.
Momentum mainly I suspect: it has been around and stable for quite some time so a lot of people have good experience with it so it is their go-to when thinking about VPN options (at least F/OSS ones).

It has also been audited by third parties (example: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/openvpn_security_au...) which is reassuring as it has passed with minor issues which were fixed FDQ. I don't know if that is the case for the other options you've listed.
Why? Gold is used for speculation. So is land...
Everyone knows meetings are "stealth breaks"
Interesting how many people prefer videos, my experience is that some professors are bad but the others are good, you can skip writing notes and just listen and later xerox the notes from others or get the book from the library.
The advantages or the lectures is that you can ask questions, the professor gets feedback and provide more examples then needed, the professors will tell some interesting side story that you will remember it forever and it will help you remember the concepts.
I am wondering if the people that hate lectures are more likely to have paid for the university studies so maybe they resent the entire institution and prefer learning from internet.
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"Alternative" bitcoins aren't as good as real bitcoins in the same way that "Alternative" USDs aren't as good as real USDs.
is scarce, is like a social network, make another facebook, "better technically", no one will care, there is only one bitcoin, its value is in the code as much as facebook value is in react and php.
Given the hype about running games virtualized in AWS, no it is not unclear. Amazon wants a game engine native to their cloud, rather than a PC engine running on virtualized hardware, so people can start thinking really big about VR or games, rather than "one machine at a time" models.
This simply isn't true. If you pointed out that adoption and price aren't growing in a correlated manner I'd be inclined to agree, but steam, whole foods, and subway weren't accepting bitcoin 4 years ago.

At least three of those payment acceptors also make to US top 25 list for traffic (Microsoft's bing, reddit, wikipedia) so they aren't exactly zero traffic, either.

https://99bitcoins.com/who-accepts-bitcoins-payment-companie...

I don't even have a dog in this fight, as I don't own any, but this is blatant misinformation.
That's basically a textbook, and lectures are supposed to augment the book, not replace it. From personal experience, and anecdotal supporting evidence, lectures are the hardest when you haven't actually prepared for them (at the other end of the scale are the lectures you did prepare for, but enough others did, and the lecturer decides to indulge them by re-stating what's already covered in the book instead of, well, lecturing).
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Completely disagree. WaPo is doing incredible journalism and scanning their front page at any given time reveals normal headlines, definitely not what HuffPo does, and definitely not “hysteria”.
I disagree, I use it for booking flights and hotels everytime I travel (e.g. Expedia, Destinia; 9flats, CryptoCribs). Smooth experience, much better than paying with {credit|debit} cards.

I also get paid in bitcoin thanks to bitwage. It's easier to get good (figurative) raises this way instead of depending on your boss x-) If you're wondering how the hell I'm so crazy to "bet" my salary on this, check this shower thought: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/79zy2d/shower_thou...
Nobody really pays for anything with gold Krugerrands either.
No, the Vegas shooting is strange enough to feed things by itself. The only hotel witness disappears for a to bit then does a weird interview on Ellen? If you pitched this as a TV episode it'd be rejected as too implausible. But that's probably true for lots of real stories.
You can always layer these. Have a simple global ingress pointing to a service or daemon set of nginx/haproxy.
Okay? Do you have any insight as to whether you belong to the set of "most people"?
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I agree you're right, speaking from the perspective of someone who uninstalled the mobile app and checks Facebook every few days.

Nonetheless, I recently checked the 'recent/chronological' feed, as well as just profiles of individual friends and old friends that I cared about. In both cases I felt that the offering was better than the algorithmic and default news feed, and somehow a net positive to my life (I'll elaborate if necessary, but I really do believe this).

If I'd have to choose, I'd go for chronological feed of of friend updates. And if I could choose what 'categories' of friends to filter by, that'd be great, but that's basically Google+ with its circles.

Anyways, what surprised me most is that even though I only have a 'facebook browsing sesh' every few days (3+), the experience I've defaulted into, the regular feed, is nowhere close to the quality that of 'recent updates hose' or 'updates from specific friends, chronologically'. But at the same time good enough in a generic sense that I can see them optimizing for that. Not really all that far off from my experience with Reddit, by the way.

On the one hand I can commend the clever nature of Facebook to go for the current News Feed approach. On the other hand it strikes me as a prime example of the dangers of algorithms and optimizing for very specific things, and the growing anti-SV narrative (much as I've grown to hate these sorts of things).
You can buy drugs with it online. ...and also pay ransomware ransoms.
IOW: if you find yourself needing file-locking, you need to rearchitect.
Wrong. Bitcoin has a fixed supply of 21M bitcoins that will ever exist. I could also create software alternatives of Facebook & Wikipedia, but they would have no value. Network effects are what matter.
Since people seem to be lukewarm to the TV suggested by the OP, I did an Amazon search for 4K TVs under $600:

https://www.amazon.com/s/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse...

Anyone have any experience with the top TVs on this list? The top entry from TCL seems to be the leader, by far, in terms of average customer review, but the price point seems almost too good to be true: $379 for the 55' version, though that may have been a sale price, and the TV is currently out of stock.

https://www.amazon.com/TCL-49S405-49-Inch-Ultra-Smart/dp/B01...
Mac clones were a thing at that time. They were thought of as a way to battle against wintel. You started to see low cost and very high end macs made by other manufacturers.

It didn’t last more than a couple of years, and the deal ended pretty badly for those manufacturers. They were kind of let in the mud.
You are wrong, Bitcoin has a designed in limited number of 20999999.9769 BTC.
Furniture apps using ARKit work shockingly well for this already. I definitely expect to see Amazon support something similar for a lot of products soon, and I think it'd be genuinely useful.
The previous discussion with Bitcoin crossing $9,000 is still warm (posted 19hs ago) at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15782222

Do we have anything new to add at each 1K step announcement?
If the gp had said “no one uses it to...” your anecdotal sample of one response would have been sufficient to disprove the claim. However, it is at best anecdotal and at worst completely irrelevant to the actual claim made (i.e. that most BTC users are investing in the currency).
There is 0 reason not to experiment though. And Christianity is just one religion amongst 10 major other religions so there's no reason to think it has all the answers (especially considering the many mistakes it has done in the assessment of various scientific facts..)
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The physcology behind this is more political than business, the guardian is a lefty newspaper and is getting political support
Hmm. I’ve been using WindowSpace for years for snapping and centering, but it doesn’t support customization beyond sizing sides and corners. I will check out divvy.
> That company gets so much flack for the way its users act.

Gig economy companies blur the line between user and employee. If a hotel chain had a problem with its hotel managers laundering money, would you be saying this?

What you're saying here is tantamount to claiming that AirBnB isn't responsible for its employees' actions because they didn't bother to vet their employees. Companies aren't simply exempt from laws because their business model refers to their employees as "users".
I liked the idea. Does anybody here know about an implementation? I'd like to show it to my sons.

BTW, any idea to teach financial info to 11 years old children?
Money laundering is not always about stolen cards though. It is sometimes about turning dirty money into clean money and getting it legally into your hands.

So you can buy pre-paid VISA debit cards with cash though. Or you could open a fake bank account, put the "illegal" cash there under a false name.

Then "cycle" cash through AirBnB.

Clean cash on the other side in your name.
Not true. USD is backed up by a State entity; bitcoin doesn't need one. An alternative USD needs an alternative guarantee of its value, an alternative bitcoin is as safe as the original one.
I woke up at 4 am this morning. I had this terrible dream where I was in a war and was going to be evacuated and my children had to choose which toys they were going to take (because we couldn't carry them all). They could only take a few toy cars. It broke my heart and I couldn't get back to sleep. And this is nothing compared to what really happens in war.

I can't imagine how a human being could start a war and even provoke one like this. It is just terrible to know that people like this exist.
If you want tracker-free, just install the relevant blockers; you shouldn't have to pay to have those removed if you don't want them, and likewise / on the other hand, the Guardian will want to gather usage statistics from unsubscribed and subscribed parties both.

So if you care about trackers, enable do-not-track and set up your tracker blocker.
That doesn't even make sense to call money laundering, even under the ridiculous expansive views of the non-crime that people refer to as money laundering these days.
I don't mind, enjoy doing what you want. Is it worth posting on HN, I'm not sure, but let that be your decision too. Cheers.
Avi Wigderson's book "Mathematics and Computation" (links to free copy here https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/book) has a nice chapter on Quantum Computing and might be a good intro if you have basic appreciation of complexity classes. He keeps the proofs to a minimum.
Check out this site: http://bit.ly/2A9dEdT. I think you might find some job opportunity with relocation that fits well with your skills.
I've told you a million times not to exaggerate!
"Nutters" will find "proof" regardless of what they've been given.

What this _does_ prove is what the US is willing to even _consider_ doing to justify various things it wants to accomplish. So at some point you must at least consider that an event _could_ have been a false flag, don't you? Even if you come to the conclusion it wasn't, to write it off entirely without consideration is almost as irresponsible as claiming every major event is a false flag.
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I feel that bitcoin is unstoppable.

It offers massive, tangible benefits. Money that is not controlled by corrupt institutions completely changes the game.

There is an entire industry being built around it. Thousands of engineers are creating new businesses as we speak.

It has different properties to stocks. The more people that convert their money to bitcoin, the more use it has. This is a basic property of currency. While people will say you can't buy much with it now, the very fact that massive amounts of people are now acquiring bitcoin gives incentive to people to start accepting bitcoin as a form of payment.

Most governments can now no longer make it illegal. The horse has bolted. By the time it is made illegal, millions of people will have bitcoin and you will be committing political suicide. They will try to regulate it in a way that benefits large corporations though.

I believe the transfer of money away from questionable stocks like facebook, into something based on real value like bitcoin, will crash the share market.
You can't build an apartment complex on a bitcoin
I don't think taking notes is the most important part of learning from a lecture. For me, throughout the years, actively participating in lectures through asking questions or discussing the concept being talked about, either with the lecturer or the person I'm sitting beside. Compared to taking notes, this has lead to me gaining a deeper understanding than when writing or typing everything that is being said during the meeting or the lecture. Usually, the only things I write down in meetings and lectures are words or concepts I don't already understand so I can research those later, or specific tasks that I am going to do as a result of the meeting or lecture.
Do you have any particular books to recommend? I've read Money by Tony Robbins. Good book, even though the guy himself is a little too much for me
I have a 24" FullHD monitor next to a MBP 15". The picture on the former is so poor compared to the latter that I only use it for reading email and web browsing, and do all the code work on the 15" high-DPI screen.

Under Linux, situation is not as bad, since you can persuade xft to optimize font rasterization for readability. OSX makes the choice towards glyph shape fidelity, though, even at lower point sizes, which results in horrible anti-aliasing blur.
I know, means it is a bit of a gimmick, but was good fun to build!
The comment I responded to discussed how bail was set based on prior events. My comment showed how those prior events were substantially biased.

Therefore, by a simple and clear chain of logic, setting bail based on prior events is also biased.

An alternate answer would be: do you really think that there is bias everywhere ELSE in the system, but not in bail?

Of course not.

And, if you look, you find papers like this:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02885913

We found that judges take gender, but not race, into account in determining the amount of bail for certain types of cases; more specifically, Black females faced lower bail than Black males in less serious cases. In contrast, we found that both race and gender affected the likelihood of pretrial release. White defendants were more likely than black defendants to be released pending trial and females were more likely than males to be released prior to trial. In fact, white females, white males, and black females all were more likely than black males to be released.
I’ve been paying salaries for a while using bitcoin. My volumes aren’t entirely insignificant and using Bitcoin is far more convenient than wire transfers.

I just paid my 25k rent deposit using bitcoin too, it was much easier than dealing with a SWIFT wire. It took only minutes for the landlord to be confident that he’s got the money.

I’ve been living without personal bank accounts for multiple years now, and thanks to bitcoin it’s been pretty great.

And no, I won’t be crying if bitcoin drops back to $300.
Yes and no. The textbooks we were given were reference structured. Ergo the path through them was defined by the lectures and the course which was mostly undocumented. There needs to be a course guide that spans the entire material with independent guidance.

A good modern example of this is The Art of Electronics which is a textbook format. There is a companion book which is Learning the Art of Electronics which contains exactly the structure I want to see, which is your lectures, tutorials and labs in a structured format on paper. You can complete these with guidance, without guidance, with or without lectures and tutorials.

The lectures should be more interactive and be a result of the above. Build your knowledge on more than one pillar and some structure so to speak.

Some of the course ecosystems you see are very closed with respect to structure and you are carried through without being permitted to see the path.