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This article is super interesting. It says that in production you won't need a GPU but from what I understood DeepMind uses 2 TPUs to run their AlphaGo Zero program and Tesla has a Nvidia Drive PX2. Is that correct or do they only use the CPU to run their programs?
Yes!

This is a great example of how costly regulation actually is. I am horrified at the SEC, not at ICO's. Figure how all that moeny could be going, for example, to YC startups, for a fraction of what they give investors.
Exactly, that's why I mentioned that Bitcoin is coasting on its reputation. IMO a technology cannot survive with name recognition alone. Myspace vs Facebook comes to mind. Everyone knew Myspace, but they made no improvement and at the end, Facebook (via superior features) stole its lunch.

I chose this example because both financial markets and Web 2.0 depends on network of scale to be efficient. At the same time, just because most people use your product today, doesn't mean they will remain to do so tomorrow. Constant improvement is the key, and Bitcoin is actually regressing in its utility.
Absolutely not. HIPAA regulates the medical and insurance industries, which Facebook is certainly not. If you broadcast medical data to the public or put it in a newspaper HIPAA does not apply, much like this case.

Best case scenario, and this is still a stretch, is that Facebook could be guilty of slander if they describe you has suicidal and that description becomes known to a third party without your consent.
I'd take this one step further. I love cooking, but not for every meal. Some way of automating the entire calorie delivery process with the correct amount of macro/micronutrients. Similar to Soylent - except tailored for me personally.

I'd still cook a few meals a week and I'd still go out to dinner, but it would be a rare occasion.
You can use the (excellent) case as a PC case, you can buy kits that allow you to fit a standard ATX motherboard in it.
> I've seen lots of essays (not this one) claim that morality will "inherently" emerge from intelligence, which I think is absurd. Shit, my moral views aren't an 'inherent' product of anything except my evolution-shaped brain that feels empathy.

You're evolution-shaped brain is what an AI will become too. It won't start out super-human smart; it will evolve to an equal level. Then keep going. Morals are basically lower-level approximations which are beneficial for survival and AI's will certainly evolve those too.
Your post reminded me of this situation with .IO. that was on HN recently... https://getstream.io/blog/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-pro...

And then there was the security researcher who took control of 4 of the 7 authoritative name servers... http://www.securityweek.com/researcher-takes-over-io-domains...

Not sure what to do in this situation though.
I'd automate cleaning.

Dishes, laundry, cars, floors, walls, furniture, windows, lawns, roofs, pets, any of it and all of it. We have tools for making these tasks easier, but even with the latest technology the amount of human labor hours spent cleaning one individual and their environment is staggering.

The benefits include not only a reduction in labor, but health and wellness benefits as well. In addition, cleaning automation has a history of being widely adopted. Almost everyone in the US uses dish washers and laundry machines. Roombas and automatic car washes are also widely distributed.
I never understood this argument. Europe also managed it somehow. Even thought there is also plenty 'nothing' in between.

IMO it's lobbying and nothing else. There are only benefits as far as I can tell.
"Some" - Most, surely.
Litecoin is really the future. It is almost the exact same as Bitcoin (different hashing algorithm, more in supply, faster transactions) but the most important thing is it has crystal clear guidance on SegWit/POS/POW and how it is developed. It has probably one of the most influential people in all of crypto behind it (Charlie Lee) AND it is a fair coin, it was not premined. It has actually been used as a "testbed" for some of the SegWit Bitcoin testing if that gives you any indication of its stability.
it doesn't look like it right now, there are dozens of cryptocurrencies with better technology than bitcoin (including proof-of-stake), but lower public awareness and therefore lower market size.
A potential Zombie Apocalypse is not a bad thing to plan for. Sure, a disease outbreak might not turn people into the exact kind of zombie planned (there are as many zombie "rulesets" in movies as there are time travel "rulesets"), but it's an exercise which probably doesn't veer far from an actual worst-case scenario of disease outbreak. Remember that the Spanish Flu outbreak killed 3%-5% of the world population in 3 years[1].

It's not even a bad thing for the CDC to plan for[2]. I have a conservative cousin who is in the Marine reserves and is an FBI special agent. He complained to no end that the CDC was "wasting" our taxpayer dollars on the zombie outbreak preparedness marketing campaign. But he also failed to see that as a marketing campaign, it went viral because of unassuming hosts like him (very meta) and, ironically, it was an extremely efficient use of taxpayer dollars.

A false flag attack which attacks US or allied property is just a justification to lie to the American voter and to co-opt American tax dollars. If anything, the author who suggested it for such a purpose is part of the Pentagon "swamp" (in Trump terminology) and is part of the reason the US is currently waning in power (soft, hard, economic, etc).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/why-did...
The last non-intel and non-x86 on desktop in wide use. I miss days of heterogenous computing at home. One could argue mobile brought that back in, but meh. Not the same.
+1000

This is right on the mark. Remove accredited investor requirements, and all that money will go to better options, like for example, YC startups. Nothing could do more damage to the investor monopolies of the world than opening this funding venue.
It's "no win" right? Whomever the news source is financially dependent on they at the mercy of that funding source's interest in neutrality. And since journalism costs money it will always be financially dependent on someone/thing. While a business may be wary about weighing in on a politically charged issue just to attempt to foster supporters good will (for exactly the reasons you discuss) the calculus is different when that issue directly affects their business. I'm not concerned about advertisers biasing news about unrelated hot button political issues. I'm worried about advertisers biasing news in favor of their business interests: corporate tax rates, trade agreements, consumer and environmental safety concerns - etc. Things that could be good for making the business money, but not good for people. I don't have those same concerns about individuals, but I'd have the (similar) concerns you bring up. The question then is what bias are you more comfortable with?
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Yes, and this would be fine if the senate did not exist. But the senate can kill anything that the house proposes. So Wyoming has undue influence over what the (correctly balanced) house tries to make law.
http://www.silentpcreview.com has been a great resource in my pursuit of quieter computing (sadly not updated as often as it used to be). I think I currently have 7 or 8 fans, all high-quality and large, and all spinning as slowly as possible. I can't hear anything, and it's wonderful.
I've been posting here for years and this is the first I've heard of it. It doesn't seem like a very important part of the site's culture. Or maybe I'm just oblivious, it's possible.

The difference between answering the title and writing a tl;dr is that the former doesn't use the character sequence "tl;dr." Apparently this is important. From your first link:

> PeterWhittaker's comment is fine without the "tl;dr". The concern is the symbol—symbols matter.

I'm a bit confused as to what happened in the second link. Going up the comment chain, apparently the original title spelled out what happened but was editorialized, so it got changed, and "There's a downside to spelling things out completely" was part of the explanation of why it was OK to switch to a less editorialized title with much less information in it. Yet the title of the post is the one they said they changed. Did they change it back later?
Speculate and day trade, just like 1999! Only it's people talking about their cryptocoins instead of their AOL.
I think even The Economist can be one-sided. They don’t seem to be able to write about the leader of the Labour Party here without comparing him to Hugo Chavez. Not that I count myself pro-Corbyn, or even party-political. But it does seem one-sided in that respect at least.
Yeah, most of my crypto is in ETH because I think it has value beyond the hype. BTC has the name recognition and thus has the 'dumb' money buying in like crazy. My thesis though is that long term crypto is useful and will be worth something. How much is hard to quantify right now.
When you ask, "Why is this an issue?", what do you mean by "issue"? Because by "issue", I don't mean anything more concrete than people are bothered (to various degrees). Why exactly? I can't answer for them but people often have different reactions to actions initiated by individuals vs groups.

I provided one example where Thiel being an individual has affected the Hogan v. Gawker legal proceedings. Gawker was able to convince the court that Thiel's relationship to Charles Harder, Hogan's lawyer, was worth investigating, and Thiel/Harder fought hard to block that. Is this something that happens to groups like the ACLU? Maybe, again, IANAL.
Reset line for an embedded device coupling onto another line, error caused by noise on line was detected and handled in the debounce time for the reset line. Caused reset reason to report as an error even during normal resets.
I agree that crypto has tons of obvious fundamentals. In 2017, I would agree that ETH, LTC, XMR, XRP, NEO, POWR etc have utility, but BTC has name recognition.
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Counter counterpoint : When the panic comes and everyone runs for the door, crypto hits a bottleneck of conversion to fiat. Gold is easily exchanged for any kind of goods, service or fiat money (WE BUY GOLD!).
Robert Reich's "Saving Capitalism" documentary on Netflix does a pretty good job to answer this question.

TLDR; Wall Street is part of an industrial/political system that extols "free market" capitalism, publicly, when in fact, "free markets" and "free market meritocracy" is a myth, and they know it. Privately, these same people hire lobbyists and otherwise influence the political system to craft regulation & policy around property, monopoly, contracts, bankruptcy, and enforcement. These regulations protect and enhance the benefit of the few.
When I was young I wrote a system that had an error message that was "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" for a small local business (back in the 90's).

6mths after it was in production I got an email saying "The system won't work and it keeps calling me Dave!, I'm not called Dave, my name is Chris!".

Lesson learnt right there, never put funny error messages in with the intention of replacing them later and never swear in error messages.
We wrote about our use of parameter store extensively. We have been very happy with it:

https://segment.com/blog/the-right-way-to-manage-secrets/

I really think it's just an AWS account with credstash under the hood, that some Amazon engineers work on full time. Seems like a no-brainer to use imo, since it's very polished.
A human trader can also cause the entire market to crash because of one mistake. See Waddell trading 75k e-minis or PVM trading 7 million barrels of brent while drunk.
> Co-ops disintegrate when the people involved can't agree on the way to spend the money.

That's because currently most co-ops are either run by hippies, or else exist only as tax dodges. But there's no reason they can't be run as dictatorships, the only real requirement is that the majority of the wealth generated gets captured by the people creating it. As the tools for running co-ops get better, we'll see more examples of ones that are better run.
I thought Let's Encrypt with ACME did this. What's the 20% you talk about. I'm interested.
Yes, of course. The irony is not lost; no matter what, you can't really erase yourself from existence.

Facebook will, at least, maintain the shrine.

Perhaps this is its true purpose - to remember dead people?

I think it will become that. I wonder if there is an event horizon where all of the initial Facebook users expire, and only a new set live on - I imagine it'd be way into the future - 3 or 4 generations?

Soon enough, Facebook is gonna be the grave, itself.
I believe that was the goal, but like any large endeavor it took a while to get going.
Well it's obvious Bitcoin is a bubble. It's basically unusable as a currency or payment processor and the only markets that use it are very small. It's not even a good choice for those use cases.
What do the people accepting the money in Argentina do with it?

How do they get Bitcoin to begin with?

Is value moving out of Argentina in a way that has little to do with Bitcoin?
Every ICO page looks the same. Every ICO promises the same stuff. Support staff even promise future gains in their intercom driven chats.

This will not end well.
Time sheets.
Meetings.
I'd argue you're getting richer, not wealthier. A very key distinction.

I do have money in cryptocurrency, just to be clear. Only because I expect to be able to sell it for a higher value to a greater fool down the line (and have no misconceptions about what it is and the risks involved).
Anyone could speculate and day trade before just as long as there was enough information available for retail investors to do so safely. That is, on the public markets.

Private markets introduce much higher degrees of information asymmetry. Maybe you'll get rich, but your odds of losing your money are also much higher. The basic theory of accredited investors is, "Unsophisticated players aren't allowed to gamble unless they can afford to lose."

I'm fine with that. I don't want to pay for the retirement of somebody who got talked into sinking their retirement funds into something that was fucked from the start. If we want to give people a cut of the proceeds of innovation, let them put their money in funds that in turn invest a reasonable proportion of the money in high-risk areas like VC. There the asymmetries are drastically reduced.
You could probably fire up a YouTube channel of your experience and strategies and tradeoffs and garner a reasonable following maybe possibly growing to a sizable subscribership and possibly making some side cash. I'd watch some videos detailing these sorts of things.
But no where near single threaded performance.
If you talk about it outside a privileged context, you're implicitly waiving the privacy protections.

For example, if you run into your physician in public, and say, "Hi Doc. Have you gotten my test results back yet?" you're the one pointing out that she's your doctor, not her. If she, unprompted, said something about your test results to you, she'd have violated HIPAA.

It's your privacy to waive as you please.
We'll see. It will take a lot of discipline, with $$$ sitting in the bank, to stay small and keep iterating until the product takes off. I suspect ICO investors will apply at least as much pressure to spend the money faster in order to grow as VCs do.
Part of the issue of "echo chambers" is that they tend to be big fans of playing the fallacy of composition -- that is, they tend to take the "loudest extremists" on the other side, and over-promote them to marginalize the entire lot. Sure, radical progressives exist with narrow, dogmatic viewpoints... but these folks do not represent the entire spectrum of liberals / Democrats. The same goes for similarly narrow, dogmatic radical alt-righters or fundamentalists... these are not representative of all conservatives / Republicans. However, within echo chamber media, it is very common to see lots of unflattering reports on "radicals" of the "other side". These type of articles are actually pretty good warnings of what you are going to get.

As far as /r/politics/ and others of similar ilk goes, it seems to me that as a general rule, social media seems to be pretty good at carving out these "echo chambers" way more explicitly. It's probably because the promotional tools are crude (binary systems of likes / thumbs up / thumbs down / etc.)... and outrage-inducing headlines is much better at selling clicks. I personally don't think The Guardian is the greatest example of sober reporting in the world, but at this point I'd take them far and beyond any Reddit political sub I've seen so far, or in fact any mass political board on the Internet anywhere.
Bitcoin is going mainstream just now, at $9800/btc it's STILL early stage. At this point it will just continue growing because of finite amount and mainstream adoption.

I wouldn't be surprised to see BTC reach $50,000 by December next year.
An investment? It's in the middle of a huge bubble. As soon as people realize how worthless it is, BTC is going to come crashing down.
I think the idea of accredited investors is that those investments are very risky, and it limits them to people who can "afford" the risk. An accredited investor may be able to bear the brunt of 9 investments being a total loss, to get to the 10th that hits it out of the park, while a non-accredited investor may have her/his life savings (or a substantial enough part of it) wiped out on the first 1 or 2 deals. I'm not saying it's perfect - there's certainly an element of "the rich get/stay richer" too - but just that there's some kind of rationale for the rules (as I understand it anyway).
What do you consider addiction to be then? How rationally impaired do you have to be before society throws up their hands and stops you from being taken advantage of?
When is an investment not speculation?
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Finally, a chance to have a desktop CPU without a black-box coprocessor like Intel ME? (A quick web search did not find anything definitive about its presence / absence in Cavium.)
For one thing, people can't just print more bitcoin and devalue your bitcoin.
Try http://coconut-lang.org

Not pure, not perfect, but still great!
General acceptance is inherent to the definition of currency. Unless we're going to move back to a pure barter system, all forms of currency are created out of "thin air" as the very definition of value is wholly dependent on perception. The more universally shared the perception of value is, the stronger the currency.
Strictly legal? What about semi legal (legal but not everywhere) or shaming purchases (sex dolls) or discounted purchases
A finance quant created a strategy with amazing results. He discovered the theory, tested it, refined it, and set up a presentation to the portfolio manager to start running it. problem was that he inverted PnL, and had spent the previous couple weeks figuring out how to maximize losses.

INBF "do the opposite." Markets don't work that way.
Probably.. any disclosure could potentially be regulated. This is a company creating a health care profile of you (possibly without your consent) and potentially sharing that information of you (without your consent or release) to other entities.. so maybe? I bet there will be several lawsuits to clarify things.
Well, I would have to look at pc86's app first.
I'm sorry, but rigorous logical argument seemed out of place in any discussion of the NOTW. I thought condensing their sad sad criminal behavior into one sound bite was absolutely in keeping with their style.

Wikipedia has a primer on the News of the world, Milly Dowler and Andy Coulson. I suspect a formal discussion over why the paper actually closed (popularly to save the criminal investigation from going upwards to the owners) could fill a very sad book.
> His code in ' When Cheryl Met Eve: A Birthday Story' is the most beautifully constructed stuff in the world.

Where is this published? I couldn't look it up.
You assume there would be no capital flight if there would be a superior finance place in the world?
It's a little more than a stretch to refer to a current iPad with Bluetooth keyboard as a laptop. But sure, it shows how Apple is inching in that direction.
Once there is an active storage market, it’s no longer a security, you’re paying for a service.
Crypto Market Cap Clocks 300B
I don't see how me simply stopping being a customer in itself would help them treat their employees better.

They wouldn't know why I stopped being a customer, unless I tell them.

Perhaps a better course of action would be to write a letter directly to Jeff.
> 3. As a "merchant", receiving payment in Bitcoin means that I don't need to worry about "chargebacks", "reversals" or any other way that the money could be taken back after it's been sent.

This is why I wouldn't use BTC to buy anything. Banking and consumer protection regulations did not just come out of thin air. They came out pain that occurred at some point. BTC will never replace the bulk of traditional transactions until remediation can happen.
It really seems like one of those jobs that ought to become a human being for "social stuff", largely assisted by, or even taking directions from, a machine learning system. Well, that, or an electorate of the company's workers. After all, in established firms, there often isn't a really clear relationship between executive compensation, executive hiring, and firm performance. Every position needs to pay for itself, these days, so if executives can't point to the revenue they've created...
It's pretty common where I work to bring laptops to meetings. If the meeting is engaging they close, and sometimes in deep meetings they are asked to be closed. In other meetings it helps to have many hands on keyboards updating the sprint board in jira and entering new tasks, or the meeting is rolling attention and people are there and do work until they are needed by the meeting. This is often what happens in all hands on deck situations or launches.

People who are holding meetings where I work realize when they're wasting time and generally dismiss people if they're not needed and everyone is generally free to just leave if the meeting isn't of use to them.
"There is no luck in life (unless you win the lottery), the rest is a lot of hard work... e.g. the more you work, the luckier you’ll get"

- SirLJ
The irony in your comment is awesome
Yeah, but you have to set "socks_remote_dns" to "True" in about:config, which is not the default.
Facebook and Twitter hit the exact same addictive pleasure center of the brain as that one-armed bandit
>"Instead of creating a "DroneFlying" channel on Youtube.com and attempt to monetize there, you create a url www.DroneFlying.com with AWS Media Services to serve the videos. I would expect some folks to come up with spreadsheets to compare the two strategies."

One major factor to consider is what the value of Youtube becomes here. In this case it is free HD video hosting and a built-in social network and platform for getting organic and paid exposure to your brand. Simply creating droneflying.com and posting some videos there won't get you any eyeballs.
I had one of the Xeon Mac Pros and got way more use out of it than I expected after putting in an SSD. It felt like a brand new computer.

It was an "Early 2008" model and I finally replaced it in 2015.