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Microsoft has been very promiscuous with partnerships in the recent years. It doesn't really signify much in terms of promise of individual projects.
How can we fairly evaluate TPU engines vs. CPU engines?
Content quality decreases as popularity increases. HN is about to go full Tumblr / Digg / reddit.
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Yep they rolled their own crypto and are broadcasting it as a feature vs a con.
> users wanting Google product only have to change the URL in their browser.

For most customers, that's about as "doesn't work" as it gets.
Byteball exists and doing well just missing marketing (there wan no ICO! so no big funds). Also has witnesses system but 3rd party witnesses already exist and promises to allow more decentralized once ripens
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I see this argument against premining all the time, and while I’m not bullish on IOTA, I think it’s worth at least calling out... just because it’s premined doesn’t mean it’s a scam. Most of the time I see this argument from crypto purists that think the only valid currency is evenly distributed. Using XRP as an example (because I’m most familiar with it), Ripple has been nothing about transparent about the supply of XRP and what it’s being used for. They have made it clear that they own the majority at the current time, and their holdings will be used to further their partnerships. Everything Ripple has done has been completely upfront and transparent. Their mission is well stated, and they have a clear plan. Whether or not they will achieve their goals is a different story, but there is nothing they’ve done that seems remotely like a scam to me.

You may not agree with premining for other reasons, but please don’t call something a scam just because someone is trying to be a capitalist.

In the context of deceiving users and leading them to believe there is a more even distribution than there is in reality – premining could be a scam. The examples you gave, however, don’t fit the bill.
Thanks to the author for transcribing the video! He made an important point and I likely wouldn't have read the article if I had to watch a video for that.
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Can rand() generate 10 consecutive zeroes?
It would be interesting in one way though:
Magnus says he hates playing against computers, because "it's like being beaten by an idiot". Modern chess engines still make moves that are somewhat strategically weak, but they make up for it with amazing tactics.

It would be interesting to hear if Magnus thought AlphaZero played less like an idiot.
Less than three months have passed since the Las Vegas massacre, and it's already forgotten? Nevada has very lax gun laws.
> We all remember [...] people giving thousands of btc for them to buy pizzas.

I've heard a story of one individual on a forum ordering someone two Papa John's online in return for another forum member sending them 10,000 bitcoin (or something like that) but I've never heard of people sending thousands of bitcoins to "occupy wall street" (who, exactly?) so they could buy pizzas. Where do you remember hearing that?
Even faster is DuckDuckGo. "!rfc 1000" directly sends you to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1000 without a SERP.

Also, some distributions ship RFCs in a package (e.g. on Arch Linux: `pacman -S rfc`), which works without internet access.
Where there is a bottle tax poor people collecting and returning the bottles soon emerge. As long as you leave it somewhere accessible, someone will come and return it, especially for $5.
So just like the most popular ARM computer on the planet then…

This is the norm for ARM, as much as we don’t like it and it will be the same when Apple eventually ships an arm laptop.
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This has long being the case for Opera browser in Presto age (before they switched to Chromium), but when Firefox' market share started to shrink considerably Google started giving them the same Opera treatment.

It's especially annoying for desktop versions of Google web offerings. When asked about it Google cite "low market share" as a reason for lack of support, but if one excludes mobile browsers FF still has a very respectable userbase on desktops.

And yes, just as in Opera days a User Agent switch magically lets you in and everything continues to work.

I honestly don't get why they continue with these practices. Chrome quickly approaches a monopoly position in browser space, and there are precedents what happens after. Besides, Mozilla and Google often align their interests in various standards groups and together push a common agenda for Web technology progress. I don't see why Google treats Mozilla as an enemy.
But how much was that burger (the next day)?
All three cases (and more) happen -- and anybody that believes it ain't so, or that "being cozy" (which can make or break careers worth of millions) is of less concern than direct bribe, probably also believes in the tooth fairy.

Among countless cases, some uncovered, some unknown: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/washington/09cuba.html

It's no new either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

And not just in news either:
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/hollywood-and-the-pentagon/
On DuckDuckGo, enter "!rfc 1234" to get redirected to the correct page on tools.ietf.org directly.
Discussion at the Computer Chess Club (CCC) forum:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=thre...

and

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=thre...
In terms of consumer products perhaps apps have won although the web definitely is far from dead in that area as well. Most apps also draw upon web resources / services / APIs in one way or another. So, it's no clear-cut either-or distinction.

Regarding business software mobile apps for the most part have a supporting function. The vast majority of B2B software products is web-based.
Those are absolutely flawed comparisons, because a criminal, by definition, is someone who doesn't care about the law. You cannot make that assumption about smokers or drivers.
Perhaps there are use cases where this would make sense (mobile?), but for a server-side application, wouldn't encrypting the filesystem be better?

I'm just imagining an operator trying to debug the system only to find out that he can't read any of the files from the terminal and will have to build custom programs using this library to operate with the data.

And it seems like there are API abstraction issues too... Imagine you use a library that writes some state to the file system using the standard lib. None of that data would end up encrypted because it didn't go through this library.

Whereas using the operating system's filesystem allows transparent compression and encryption without having to change your code at all.
TIL that Bram Moolenaar has more than one project.
The grandparent cites the UK, where we have two orders of magnitude fewer firearm deaths per capita[1] with complete prohibition of private handgun ownership. (People can still join a shooting club, which keeps them in a locked cabinet).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm...
I suspect it’s more about people doing nothing _outside_. In other cities and climates, there’s plenty of people doing nothing at home, in front of their TV or computer.
Simplicity of deployment perhaps? Dropping a binary onto a server and having it just work is a huge benefit. Also, memories of Tomcat. shudder.
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Unfortunately, that reply reflects many of the problems I highlighted in my comment. You have missed the point.

I'm aware that Acrylic controls are XAML only. I'm referring, though, to the UI support itself: glass, blending, the small amount of noise added, etc. In Windows 10, glass is not supported any more - except it is, because it is used in Acrylic. How? Well, using the same APIs as glass in Win7, but with small tweaks that are undocumented. Some people including myself have attempted to reverse engineer some of the new flags that are required. It looks likely that Acrylica can be completed done in a plain old WinAPI app using glass and a Direct2D canvas - except that some of that is undocumented.

If I'm wrong here, and you can point me at non-.Net API documentation, please do.

> Complaining that you need WinRT to access modern UI effects seems a bit like complaining you need DirectX to access modern GPUs

That's not what I said.

You do not need WinRT to access modern UI effects, but Microsoft seem to be requiring to you to use WinRT to access modern UI effects. That is, requiring you to use their libraries, their development tools, and so forth. It is not open, and it is anti-competitive.
The BTC about 500k USD worth, of which 200k got taken as VAT, was used to develop the technology for the first 2 years. Only in the last month have the IOTA foundation been able to legally access the money donated to them by the community.

As opposed to say, tezos which has 232mil to develop their self-governing token. Additionally, "the founders get 8.5% of the fiat proceeds in cash in addition to 10% of the tokens"\

Iota has bigger problems,

Can't attest to this. But if you are interested in discussing the tangle I suggest joining the slack. Specifically check out #tanglemath
On the topic of clear writing, a longer work to follow on from this article is The Complete Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers. I heartily recommend it, and find its recommendations on reducing officialese quite useful for increasing clarity in technical documentation.
To tie this back on topic, opiates are really rather safe drugs, in terms of oral therapeutic usage, that have been made deadly solely due to prohibition. It's driven injection abuse through the roof as people try to get the most bang for their buck at any cost, and with the introduction of fentalogues into the heroin supply, we get a trumped-up (no pun intended) public health crisis that has a working solution in place.

The expansion of maintenance access, both to suboxone and methadone clinics, safe injection sites, needle exchanges and other hard decisions are going to need to be made more quickly than usual to stem the tide.

Harm reduction works, prohibition doesn't.
Governments heavily tax tobacco with the hope of lowering the associated health costs (and tax money is always juicy). But almost all the time it backfires and these happen: -People just keep smoking -It creates an economical burden in house holds with smokers because of the prices and difficulty of quitting -Smuggling or bad quality tobacco consumption increases.

So, like most things government does, intervention with good intentions creates more problems. IMO, government should not interfere with it, and smokers should not get cheap health insurance (or none from government).
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Recent study:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/10/19/states-wi...

The Australia and British laws and results are evidence that is plain in front of you. Those are humans on a different piece of land on our planet that on a whole have less gun violence occurring because there are less guns.

You can talk about culture, how it wouldn't work, etc. but that is the exact point the parent comment is making.

It would be nice if the US would let the CDC do in-depth studies of this nature, but gun lobbyists have blocked this from happening.
The thing that surprises me is that he has some knowledge of the game. How could he expect to achieve this goal?

The more you study the game, the more you realize just how phenomenal is the ability of any grandmaster ranked player.

A more reasonable but still impressive goal might be to enter a real tournament after a month of study and win one game from other unranked club level players just starting out in tournament play.
> The thing is you can make it illegal to sell without being illegal to consume.

If they make it illegal to sell, then the state must sell it. Otherwise it just doesn't work. Why should people acting legally need to buy from criminals?
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Before an entire bikeshed discussion arises over the misused term "zero-knowledge", know that the author is sensitive to this issue and will likely correct it soon [1].

[1] https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox/issues/4
Japan seems to have an interesting relationship with waste though. Getting rid of waste while wandering the cities is really hard since there are no bins. Convenience stores have bins, but from the behaviour of my Japanese frieds you cannot just put your waste there unless you bought it at that store.

Contrast to Europe, where bins are ubiquitous and their use is encouraged. Maybe the difference is that Europeans will start littering more if not given the opportunity not to.
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I want to start a small educational institute in india. What are legal requirements? Should I register it as Private Limited or LLC? Need advice.
I recently learned that James Holmes, who committed the Aurora cinema mass shooting, drove an additional distance to get to the only theater in the area where customers weren't allowed to have firearms, the only place where law-abiding citizens weren't allowed to defend themselves.
Seems to me the bigger issue is calling it a file system. As far as I can tell it is nothing of the sort.
So its functionally the same as an ICO with a 40% premine? Of which 20% of the tokens go directly to the founders because they figured out how to write a paper.
> ...wrapper to the YouTube web page rather than accessing the videos directly, I expect Google will enable access again.

Probably they won't. WebViews don't return device ids amd don't let you set persistent cookies which are basically what's needed to get ad targeting correct on mobile.
The interesting thing is that although the relative success with decriminalization of drugs in The Netherlands was one of the examples that inspired many other countries to liberalize their policies, The Netherlands itself did not make any progress at all in the last thirty years and even reversed some policies.

Marijuana is still officially illegal, coffeeshops cannot run a 100% legal business and small growers have been systematically persecuted. Only big, criminally run enterprises remain with the typical organized crime problems as a result.

It's no longer legal to amphetamines-related drugs at electronic parties and related drug-related deaths because of too strong or impure XTC are on a rise. Magic mushrooms are banned from sale because some tourists in Amsterdam had bad trips. And there was this story about a man slaughtering his dog that was awfully similar to those Marijuana stories in the 20's: https://www.expatica.com/nl/news/country-news/Man-kills-dog-..., amongst other "sudden" mushroom scare stories in the press.

Although because of lack of actual knowledge about these kind of substances allowed the sale of magic truffels to continue everywhere where before the mushrooms were sold, the magic mushroom scare stories in the media suddenly stopped.

It really saddens me that even more successful and better regulated policies from other countries are not followed in The Netherlands.
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Patents have a funny feature, in that they (are supposed to) apply to a specific implementation. So "equivalent effect" is not enough for patent violation in the general case.
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An excellent entry point and no doubt also a way to rekindle your thinking.
>> Not to an average HPC shop like ours...

And there lies the problem. HPC used to be a tiny market with huge budgets where expensive hardware was the norm. It's just not that big a deal any more. It's commodity hardware now with lots of cores and GPUs running OSS. They won't make it trying to charge a premium just because it's Power9.
Hi again, maybe the book is worth it, I honestly don't know, but to back test trading strategies, you only need data and python... Also I don't live in the UK, so I have not researched this and I would strongly recommend talking to a good accountant to avoid costly mistakes...
Great project, I applaud the effort! Some curious questions:

- Where exactly does "zero-knowledge" play a role here? Does this provide steganography? Or, what is meant?

- Why do they use libsodium (excellent choice, but C) instead of a native Rust crypto library?

- Does this only work with Rust applications?
> And the only use they've found so far is to gamble it on altcoins like they have in the past with penny stocks!

Which is really all cryptocurrencies are good for at the moment. Nobody in their right mind would use anything so volatile to buy/sell goods and services.
While I agree that RISC and CISC is not much of a distinction in 2017 it's worth noting that that Cortex A15 is very far from the state of the art for ARM chips. The Cortex A75 would be about twice as fast, and Apple makes an ARM architecture that beats Intel's best (per MHz) in certain other single thread artificial benchmarks.
Because books are a more or less mature art (we've been writing for millennia).

Movies, on the other hand, can date because of technological changes (silent vs spoken vs color etc), ways of acting (we don't expect modern actors to act in the theatrical way of those in early cinema), different editing techniques (a 70s series like Kojak looks unbearably slow compared to a modern police series), and even what they were allowed to say (movies being more heavily censored than books can look way more quaint the older you go).

An overuse of special effects and fast editing since the 80s has also done much to alter the tolerance of modern audiences for subtler movies.
In what sense is the EU a foreign actor? The EU is a union of nations of which the United Kingdom is a member, and (up until it started to chop its own dick off) one of the most powerful members at that.
Well, it is using the Ubuntu font!
https://pgexercises.com/css/site.css
I suspect (entirely without proof) they spend all their BTC on Silkroad.

We're building a great movie script here, one post at a time.
Good point. All the people lose.
Another one is Edward Bernay's Propaganda, published in 1928. A chilling read about how to manipulate the public, I think most of the PR strategies used today can be traced to this book alone...
This raises an interesting concept. If you cannot reproduce an experiment because of lack of resources, can you believe it? Or is this the equivalent of 'photoshopping your results'?

A similar problem exists in cosmology. Can you verify the multiverse model if you only have one universe to experiment in?

As data storage requirements in RAM and TPU power requirements increase to run certain models/algorithms, machine learning is becoming more obscure. Not only can we not understand how an AI is reaching its conclusions (inscrutability), we cannot even probe it (by tweaking parameters, etc) to find weak points (inaccesibility). This is actually a good thing. Where humans cannot tread, there can be no evil?
Short emails make you sound like a dick. I wish there was a solution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-pol...

When the Supreme court rules that the police do not have a constitutional requirement to protect, that resides in the last mile - us. We legally cannot count on others to do this for us. And that includes even a court issued protective order .

As for a trespasser/thief, if they have no compunction of breaking the law to break and steal, how do we know they aren't armed? So you end up with Castle Doctrine - given how prevalent guns are, it's safe to assume a bad actor who has broken in has one.

The last problem with the whole gun rights, which usually makes me not comment about it, is that the US is the only country in the world that enshrines gun rights in the founding documents. (Badly written, and SCOTUS has ruled on both sides of the main interpretations). That isn't changing until the US, well, isn't.
This doesn't make sense, I really don't understand this at all.

JavaScript makes the web powerful so more content can be distributed via the Web. Without JavaScript we'd be having much more native apps, not less.

The web runs on any platform with a web browser (for the most part), native apps only run from one platform. Crippling the Web leads to more silos.
> (And Kindle devices are an Amazon fork of Android, thus benefiting from Google's work.)

You can't call something open source and get all the benefits of that, while also allowing statements like this. Forking is fair play in open source, and if you don't like it, don't make your thing open source.
"A Man For All Markets" by Edward O. Thorp

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.

http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/

This is the best book published in 2017 bar none and a great inspiration to booth...
> The Tangle is an idea that has no theoretical solution yet.

Not talking about IOTA specifically but DAG oriented blockchains, there is a good foundation in the SPECTRE paper which was done by recognized researchers in the field. In the following document we made a summary of emerging new research in blockchain technologies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8hehbnZWzcIUMQcxMiGbjz8...
I actually have no idea how to recover Authy/2FA if my phone is taken away..
So do you want the anti-rootkit safety measures to not exist, or do you have something simpler in mind than pressing two keys?
It's still an entry barrier. I can develop the software that'll run on the NVidia box on my $2000 Xeon workstation and have a reasonable expectation the $125K box will behave as expected.

While I trust POWER9 to be very fast, I have had odd performance differences (both positive - meaning I overspent in hardware and had some explaining to do - and negative - meaning I was too optimistic and had some explaining to do) when moving from x86 to SPARC, Itanium and POWER (and MIPS - I'm that old).

The Talon are good entry level POWER9 systems for reasonable prices, but I'd love to see parts trickling down to Xeon E5 prices.

If the barrier of entry is too high, only what already runs on POWER8 will move to POWER9. Xeons have good cost/performance and are a safer bet.
So with the hard limit there's a set amount of transactions that fit into a block? And whoever wants to get their transaction validated faster can bid a higher fee?
I see a need for a government to facilitate access to clean good quality drugs, taxing them, and providing the support mechanisms to enable people to come off those drugs.

Portugal is the proving ground for this approach http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/portugal-drug-l...
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I think 20% is more likely than 80% for raw compute tasks - ARMs are competitive with intel in performance/watt, but are not much better at it (and definitely are not competitive yet in absolute performance). People are going to buy it for the 20-hour battery, and then run the CPU at 100% to run emulation which will eat the battery in 3 hours.

However, most people run a small selection of programs most of the time (web browser, word, excel, outlook), which will likely have an ARM native version sooner than later, and the long tail of programs they must have are often not compute intensive, and spend 85% of their time in the OS doing graphics/io which are native. So overall, even if the CPU emulation is 20% speed, the overall feel is likely going to be 80% or better for most people.

Gamers shouldn't hold their breath though.
> Zilog 80 baggage

8080, please. The 8086 was designed to be assembly-level source compatible with 8080's so porting software (here's to you, Gary) from CP/M would be easy.