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True for everyone whose parents are still alive, and aren't horrible people from whom the child should keep their distance!

But that's all really beside the point. Someone was comparing HN to their parents, to imply that HN is full of old farts, whereas I used the same shitty associative logic to say that anybody who compares things to their parents probably still lives with them. Fun stuff!
Nice, good explanation. And one way to look at the State Monad is when you always want the 'latest version' of an immutable 'value' that keeps getting new versions. :)
One thing I've never understood is how IPFS would serve dynamic content. Like imagine building amazon.com on IPFS how would that work? Every single page served would have Different hash, because the content is always changing.
Calling Uber a financial success at this stage is a bit of a stretch they certainly are a success in terms of traction and volume.
Bitcoin Unlimited is successfully testing 1GB blocks: https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-unlimited-reveals-gigablock...

As I already wrote what matters is propagation between miners which is already very fast, even according your own link, which examins propagation throughout the network as a whole not between miners specifically.
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Thanks for that. What are the key points, in your mind, against Meyers Briggs?
By default every node acts as DHT server. If you have easily reachable node this is fairly typical load. You may opt-out from serving DHT requests by adding --routing=dhtclient parameter to the daemon.
they were talking about that one girl as an unlikely manager, but she had an mba from stanford
I will also directly address this comment as an Uber engineer without any deep vested commitment to Uber i.e. not an early employee who can't leave for the FANGs of the world for the same incentives.

Your viewpoint is incredibly naive and dangerous I am sorry. There are a few nuances worth understanding:

1. A lot of Uber's rotten culture stems from top-down, from Travis, who while not intending malice, operated from a viewpoint of fear and paranoia. That very top-down set up has now been replaced all the way up from the CEO. Why would someone not want to be part of that especially when you're able to see the change first-hand. Past skeletons still need to be cleared out but what happens once the company starts afresh?. You owe it to yourself to keep an open mind and not prophesize the very one-sides narrative that sells a lot better in the media circles.

2. While I can sympathize with #1, I am not sure how you can make the claim that Uber is in the business of screwing people over. It's outsized impact to consumers – both riders and drivers – is the favorite aspect of working at Uber. Most of us would otherwise be busy forcing people to click on spammy ads. Uber for me has helped blur the line between digital and human impact and I have first-hand noticed the impact from my work. Think about how fewer riders need to drink and drive because of Uber. In most of our cities, drivers who initially would have no source of part-time income, are now able to make money for all sorts of needs (help kids pay for college, side-gig while recovering from an injury are ones I have heard first-hand recently). Hearing these stories is inspiring. It compels you to get rid of the bad parts and be part of the change. In addressing your direct comment, I am proud to tell my kids the opportunities I have helped create for people across the world.

Now if only we figured out to sell our story better and win people over such as yourself. Give us some time :)
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Plenty of VCs invest their own capital. Do not confuse private equity, funds with limited partners that contribute the bulk of the money in the fund and classical venture capital where the bulk of the fund is raised from the managing partners.
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it's quite beautiful ... and feathered, definitely feathered :-)
I'm not so sure that there are no physical limitations to technological growth, which is ultimately a function of investment in to technology.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
https://local.theonion.com/ceo-worked-way-up-from-son-of-ceo...

Yeah, we wouldn't want people being wealthy beyond belief without deserving it. I can tell that you don't know the first thing about socialism.
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> Why what?

why does increasing propagation delay lead to centralization?
Actually, the comment it was replying to was made by someone who apparently works for Uber. That a person working for Uber uses Uber seems to be rather less than informative.
That did it, thank you! For now that's more manageable to start learning about it.
An interstellar fungal communication/transportation network is also a ongoing plot element in the current season of "Star Trek: Discovery".
The DSL market was doomed to failure not because it was classified as a telecommunication service, but because it is technically inferior to cable. DSL's limited range and bandwidth causes it to have spotty coverage and generally slower speeds than cable. Slower speed by itself might not have been fatal, but it also caused even more spotty availability of TV service over DSL. The inability to offer "triple play" service made DSL unattractive compared to cable even for people who didn't care too much about the speed of their internet service.
Just don't take it overly seriously and try more than one type of test. Do not let this dictate anything to you. If it gives you an epiphany, awesome. If not, no big.

We all struggle to see ourselves accurately. Think of these tests like a mirror helping you get an idea of what you look like, while recognizing that you can never actually see your own face, merely reflections or images of it.
>There is no thought independent of the language we use to represent the world

This is debatable[0]. Presumably, people without language can still think, and even if you believe that they invent an internal language to think with you are placing language into a tool-role, where it can be created and destroyed in service of a higher goal (thought). However, that still leaves the problems with correspondence unexplained: but hopefully I can convince you that they are not too bad.

I'll sketch it for you:

Coordinate systems are all equally good by the measure of how well their predictions work. They're obviously constructions - but that doesn't itself imply that the models that use them are constructions, any more than the wrappers burgers come in makes their meat paper. (I mean, the models might be constructions too, but it's not the use of arbitrary coordinate systems that makes them so.)

Specific expressions of models are all equally good by the "correspondence" measure as well: anyone with even a grade-school math education should be able to recognize A=BCD and I=JK,K=QP as distinct in the literal sense but identical in some higher one. So, once again, it's obvious that we are looking at different ways of expressing the same thing; a thing which hasn't yet been proven not to exist, even though no way of expressing it can by itself be more than just "a different way."

So, one step above algebra and two steps above specific calculations, there's the concepts. From a scientific perspective unless you think the brain is supernatural it's really to be expected that ideas are no more than symbols. BUT: for the same reasons as the two cases above, it has yet to be shown that the concepts are not themselves dancing around a still higher truth, each (effectively true) idea differing only in the baggage of being human; that silly but fun phrase referring to how we like symbols but are presumably using them to mean something.

[0]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/#ObjLOT
Can you point to something said in the video that isn't true or that you disagree with? If people believe passionately in something, is that grounds enough to discredit their belief?
This video: https://youtu.be/GtKhYx2Vlb4 helps explain and address the thought process you're going through now. Bitcoin scaling issues are analogous to many internet technologies such as Ethernet. With Ethernet people initially thought there was no way it could scale to support the whole world because the tech just couldnt support anything more than 1mbps, yet people found a way. They built new technology on top of it, they changed packet routing algorithms and they even changed the underlying physical hardware used. The only thing that remains is the name and the brand, Bitcoin will probably go through a similar development process.

In upcoming Bitcoin technology, the lightning network is really exciting. It's a layer that runs on top of Bitcoin which allows thousands or possibly millions of transactions per second, performed instantly, with almost zero fees. It may have bottlenecks of its own, but I'm sure we can overcome them.
Fascinating! (Also [2016])
Democratization of work doesn't mean zero hierarchy. It means the workers get to choose how their labor value is used. It is perfectly acceptable for a majority of a company to decide to elect a CEO and form a capitalist-style company, but it is important that it is their choice to do so! And of course, they would still retain their right to revoke such a hierarchy.
Article is from 2016
"Prior app" is a different thing from "back". (And in android you can double tap the app switcher button for that.)
If you did some courses on programming and data structure and can reasonably solve programming problems. Then getting into a software development job with a non CSE degree is not that difficult also a lot of companies will consider ECE as related stream to computer science, I did my undergrad in electronics engineering (similar to electrical in US) and my first job interviewers did not give any mind to my degree and asked some basic algorithm and data structure questions, everything else I learnt on my job. It is not unusual to feel inadequate to feel like you dont know anything when interacting with some of your peers at times,but often times I later realise I know more than what I thought initially about computer science.
I don't know what you're talking about.

The nursing-home director was preventing people from reaching aid. He was just a robot following orders, and in extreme circumstances sometimes you gotta break machines to save people.

Ass-beatings are not often justified, but when they are, boy they are.
I don't think you know what socialism is.
Repeated incidents of rape? Firstly, no Uber employee was actually involved in the rape. This case was about a rogue Uber driver. When Uber starts operating at the scale it currently does, all sorts of bad actors end up as Uber drivers. Of course this doesn't justify Uber's investigation into the rape, but please stop spreading misinformation and paranoia.
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Are any of their products even new anymore? It looks like the MacBook Air hasn't changed in four years!
The 16-bit generation is the inverse. The Sega Genesis has an AMAZING homebrew community thanks to a C-language dev kit that makes writing games remarkably easy. The SNES has almost nothing, save for a wiki and secondary board on Nesdev.
Unlike human behavior, laypeople don't typically have default/traditional views about physics that they'll act out unless convinced otherwise. Extreme skepticism is adaptive when you are pursuing truth. Extreme skepticism only of the ideas you're not already acting out is less adaptive when making operational decisions.
Wouldn't a single-page-app connected to a remote datastore work?
This news article doesn’t tell me anything other than if you have a few state of the art computers geographically close all connected to a state of the art internet connection they will maybe be capable of mining 1gb blocks.

If that’s your idea of research, best of luck to bcash.
Only problem you might have is you might have to start from the bottom of the ladder, Just because you have a Phd doesnt mean the companies will pay senior dev salary (that could depend on your employer and city you are in)
I wonder if we can get some DNA from it.
A technical manager can certainly be a developer. I'm not talking about business people setting technical standards, I'm talking about tech leads/lead developers.
Yes, BTC has weaknesses. No, it cannot scale up to "7 billion people using it for every tiny financial transaction" likely even with Lightning. It doesn't need to and you should please ignore the people who say it will.

I love BTC, I think it's great. I think other cryptocoins innovate where BTC can't. But the BTC zealots who act like BTC will displace general purpose banking (or zanier still, the entire financial industry) make this conversation so frustrating.

BTC can be a success without this all-or-nothing campaign. In fact, it is a success because it will continue to exist/store value, and operate as a medium of exchange. It will have hiccups and scaling challenges and we will entertain proposals like segwit and LN which don't radically alter the coin's design.

Unfortunately they alter enough of the design to disturb the economics/incentives for the different roles. Those different roles have had well-aligned incentives for a long time and hopefully they don't continue to drift apart. This is the greatest risk facing Bitcoin IMO. For a long time I was worried about a weakness in the signature hash. But the bounty for that has been so enormous for so long that I'm doubtful one will ever be discovered. So Bitcoin is truly a robust coin, and it can continue to serve us well. If the 15000USD value is based on "7 billion people using it for every tiny financial transaction" then people should probably start shorting BTC (maybe tomorrow evening w/CBOE/Gemini).
no Uber employee

UK courts have ruled that Uber drivers are employees. So that dodge won't work anymore.
I'm assuming he's referring to regression to the mean.
He gave an interview on Nightline, I believe, back in the late 90s or early 00s where he was contrasting biotech and digital tech. He concluded that digital would lead almost entirely to good things and biotech would lead exclusively to bad things. It's been a long time, but I distinctly remember how glib and categorical he was. I lost all respect for him.
Last time that I printed a program to work on it was probably 25 years ago..
I don't really think that it makes any sense at all as of today.
And if you are really indenting so much that you can't understand the indentation then it's a clear sign of something wrong in your code.
Oh, I enjoy every minute of writing software! I can easily forget to eat for hours while working on an interesting problem or finding a strange bug. It's just that I am not sure if I can compete with others who have more experience than I do...

I did some competitive programming during my undergrad and my team placed well at a regional level in the Middle East, so I know my way around common algorithms and DS problems. I need to do a lot of practice though, since it's been quite some time.

Regarding summer internships, I have been applying to quite a few and the response rate has been quite low. I did interview with Google last week but wasn't able to get through the first round unfortunately. I think I need some more interview practice.

Yes, I plan on taking a leave of absence instead of fully withdrawing. But again, I want to be sure I can make it before committing.
“Bitcoin cash” is a name chosen to confuse newcomers and attempt to steal the bitcoin brand. The CEO of bcash refers to Bitcoin as “SegwitCoin” and their official /r/btc subreddit regularly claims to be the real bitcoin.

Bcash is an appropriate name for the altcoin to eliminate confusion.
I have to respectfully disagree. I thought the author offered a thoughtful take on how sexuality and privilege is presented in the Odyssey. I can see where you could possibly criticize her for interpreting these themes through a modern/liberal lens but at least she backs up her analysis with Homer’s original Greek text. I hardly find this article click-baity.
>Best way to learn and stay plastic

Yeah!

That's why I read Nassim Taleb's twitter feed, even though he can be very obnoxious.
Fine, then your omission can be considered aiding and abetting. My point is that of you want to follow a rule like 'never talk to the police' dogmatically, with no context, that in and of itself can put you in a worse position than before. 99% of the time, it's best to just request a lawyer, but not 100%.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiding_and_abetting
> I wonder if we can get some DNA from it.

From the article: “McKellar said that soft tissue and decayed blood from the tail were found in the amber but no genetic material was preserved.”
Depending on the definition of "it", someone has: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
Yes, because a socialist enterprise can exist in a system where the ultra-wealthy capitalist can

1. Buy out the company and outsource everything
2. Buy out the politicians and make laws against them
3. Use their extreme wealth to sabotage their business.
4. In the case of other nations, embargo them and assassinate their leaders, stoke pro-capitalist revolutions.

Examples: See Cuba, USSR, entirety of South America, Vietnam, etc.
"but the economic realities mean it's very likely that for any particular token to be treated seriously as a currency it would need central bank support"

I keep hearing this, but I'm not convinced. I think currently, BTC is digital gold instead of digital money more because of technical issues rather than because it isn't backed by a central bank. What would be the missing piece that a central bank would bring? Price stability?
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I wonder if those were literal or figurative words... It could certainly been handled better.

But if your residents are "knee deep in sewage" that's pretty gross.
Is there any data available on how long BCH blocks take to propagate? It's testing big blocks out in the real world so we can see how much delay that introduces and whether that leads to a significant increase in centralisation.
I can upvote you only once sadly..
Yes, but my original point is biggest holders of btc are talking about it as a digital replacement for gold, not as a general use currency
I haven't used Lean, but looking at its documentation, it supports universe polymorphism, very much like Agda. This means that there are countably many named universe levels, with each numbered universe containing the universe below it.

All of these numbered universes live inside of a top-most universe which contains all the types and universes. You can't quantify over the topmost universe, for exactly the same reason you can't form the set of all sets in ordinary set theory.

If you do pencil-and-paper mathematics particularly pedantically, when you define something like id, you will say you are working in Tarski-Grothendieck set theory, and then be careful to call it a "definition schema", rather than a "definition", because you are "really" giving a family of definitions, once for each Grothendieck universe. Distinguishing schemas and definitions is a little inconvenient on a computer -- the naive implementation forces you to implement everything twice -- and so one extra top universe is introduced as a home for all of the smaller universes. (Though Mizar apparently chooses to support universe-generic definitions, and to explain them to users as schemas.)

IME, these issues are generally ignorable, both on paper and on computers. Harper and Pollack gave an algorithm for inferring universe levels in the early 90s, and apparently it worked so well that they were worried their implementation was wrong (ie, would always say OK). So they carefully coded up various set-theoretic paradoxes in type theory and were relieved to discover their implementation rejected them.
Maybe the problem is in the selection method. Would any intelligent and mentally sane person apply for Mensa membership?
On the page that asked me to star specific works, it only asked a few standard ones, and didn't include works from most of the composers that I had starred on the previous page.
I think you are in the bubble. How much of the world do you think gets paid fairly for their labor? The First-World conditions of America and Europe are buoyed by the dystopic conditions of labor in the Third-World. And these conditions are very visibly creeping into middle class America as well.
I think omission of information makes it aiding and abetting or accessory or something. Not a lawyer either, but a lawyer once told me that this was a notable exception to the rule in this video.
This is a really good read on the concept of "keeping it simple". I think a lot of programmers now a days assume a complex problem requires a complex solution. Instead we need to think in terms of how we can decompose a complex problem into one or more very simple solutions.
No, what he did had legal authority. Use of force against threats to life (and that is what it was deemed by officials both during and after the fact) is one of the natural rights the U.S. is officially constituted to protect.

Cowardice is not a civic duty, nor a virtue. Use of force by civilians in perceived service of the law is often justified. Going out looking for a fight is one thing, serving the public is another.

Ideally, the law can be upheld without force; when force is required to uphold the law, we could ideally rely on peace officers to be ready, willing, and able to take on that burden; but in the end, it is the responsibility of society as a whole to uphold the law and prevent suffering.

When force is necessary, and when peace officers aren't around, a person who uses the necessary degree of force to rescue old people from a drone who would rather watch them wade naked in their own faeces until they go hypothermic or fall ill, than violate a workplace policy is not a vigilante, but an upstanding citizen.

It's natural to scrutinize and question the motivations of somebody who has used force, but it is a disservice to us all to hold common people to a higher standard of conduct than the police.
The article also says the guy who administered the beating ended up with a black eye, and that at one point he drew a gun. So it appears to be literal.

But when the police showed up shortly afterwards, it was the nursing home director they detained.
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Are you working as a contractor for an unspecified time at each company? One possible change could be to either engage with them on a set timeline (so you know to start looking for something new N months before the end), the other option is to continuously look for something, so that you can jump ship when you want to (for example be ready after a year).
Ideally consumers care about access to information enough to produce a negative impact on sales for DB engines which don't allow benchmarking, making regulation unnecessary

Ideally, ofc
> the iPhone 5 will never run iOS 11

That's still five years between introduction and iOS 11, or four years between discontinuation and iOS 11.

Google promises something like 2.5 and 1.5 years for their phones, and that's pretty much top of the pack.
> her twelve hanged maids

Yes, Penelope's maids come to a bad end. I think a lot of critics misread this as misogyny on Homer's part. However, it is meant to be balanced with the death of the suitors and also Odysseus' shipmates, leaving only the marriage at the end.