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You seem to be confusing legalisation with decriminalisation. In the latter case the state stops incarcerating the offenders but doesn't stop discouraging drug use.
"Mining the cryptocurrency requires a staggering amount of energy—contributing to global warming and providing little public benefit."

Completely misses the entire point of why bitcoin was created.
I find this article very confusing. According to the second diagram, they get 60 fps, but it's still off by 2, which is not good, and rasterization takes almost a full frame, which I find hard to believe. In the next paragraph they say that rasterization only takes 10-20% of a frame. They say it was a data-driven decision, but I don't see any data supporting it. Even the graphs in the "Benchmarks" section use relative percentages, which tells me very little.

They should have used only ms/ns for every timing/graph, not FPS or relative percentages of whatever that was.
> Whether we like it or not, people will seek out chemicals to make their day better, be it chocolate, coffee, wine, or heroine.

Its excuse.
It is well important to see, where we came from. I think it was in the beginning of the 20th century, where many drugs where legal and addicted people where thought of like alcoholics: People with a serious problem or ill people, not criminals.

Than, came in politics and the "war on drugs" that really was a war against the consumers. First of Chinese people, than on colored people and than ...

If you really want to fight a "war on drugs", fight the reasons, that let people start taking those things .... but that might cost some money on social projects ... and will give no big corporations money for building prisons.
I've heard that they didn't just roll their own crypto, but that it was in fact unsurprisingly found to be broken and the devs then claimed that this was intentional to stop anyone setting up a clone without the central closed-source coordinator.
> As someone who isn't a C++ programmer, is there anything better than looking at annotated asm

put a debug breakpoint in the move constructor and run your tests :p
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The two major retailers in Switzerland started to charge ~ 5 cents for those small, crappy plastic baggies.

Usage went back by ~ 80%.
It's nuanced, but proof-of-work is instrumental in achieving consensus... right now. Truly, the key element is the consensus itself which can be achieved (theoretically) in a number of other ways.
100% agree that support is a major problem. I had to figure it all out for myself, through trial and error.
Are there any rights that do not have a moral component?

The right to not be a slave is a moral right. That's literally the definition of a right. First entry from Google's dictionary:

> morally good, justified, or acceptable.
> I've heard they rolled their own crypto. Yes, let that sink. Haven't verified this myself though.

They decided it's a good idea to use ternary logic instead of binary logic so they had to write their own cryptographic primitives based on ternary. Here's a good analysis about the security issues: https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io...
> Fewer guns does not equal fewer deaths in the developed world

I didn't argue against cherry picking (which I'm also against) I was arguing against the parent opposing something entirely different than the post he was responding to. I divided the implication into two.

The guns-to-deaths implication isn't clear cut either, but less so than the laws-to-guns one.

My argument is that this is mostly cultural, which is why it's so hard to measure. The reason being that gun culture both creates a cliate of many guns, but also the other way around (many guns means people are more likely to use/buy guns). Comparable societies (such as US vs rest of western world).

By "more guns" I include not just more guns sold/owned but "more guns in circulation" i.e. number of guns on streets, in cars, in bedside tables, as opposed to in gun safes.

A lot of countries with lots of guns have mostly locked up rifles and very few handguns. That blurs these statistics.
I hate/refuse to cast tabs, it's buggy/ugly and I don't like it personally. If I can't pass the stream to chromecast, I just don't do it. I prefer to do all my streaming from my phone not laptop too, using one of the webcast apps that can cast any web page's videos to chromecast.
> Ethereum had a master node too.

Ethereum never depended on a centralized master node.
> The key element of the blockchain is proof-of-work as a way to establish consensus

It's not "a way to establish consensus". It's just to slow everybody down to
comparable level, while keeping verification fast. Consensus is a totally
different problem blockchain doesn't even touch.
Especially in politics where keeping ones opinions is perceived as a sign of virtue, no matter how wrong these opinions are.
Intel chips are more RISC-like on the “inside” after the instructions are decoded, and in that sense RISC is successful. ARM is RISC and very successful. But most RISC and CISC vendors alike are failures by comparison to Intel and ARM, and the IBM Power processors are just not that performant per watt. You don’t even have to wait 2 years, they’re already not as good.

Part of this may be due to Intel’s lead in manufacturing technology, and have nothing to do with architecture.

(Historically, RISC was much more competitive. Talking about current state of affairs.)
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To be honest, I didn't think this had been a "secret" for quite a while now ...
Consider that at the time Eich made his controversial donation, it was the majority opinion - Prop 8 passed. That didn't age well, and ended up costing him dearly.
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Your implication fails in the real world in the same way that banning, demonizing, and siphoning drugs out of the country has failed. Yes, stricter laws, a buy-back policy and a generational shift will most definitely lower the current amount of guns in circulation in a given society. But just like with drugs, and sadly with a lot of gun-strict cities in the US, it has no bearing on the subsequent widening of the illegal gun pipeline. Not to mention the ever-present lack of a generational shift among current and potential illegal gun owners.

It's interesting to me that a lot progressive, popular armchair analysis of the issue advocates for strict gun laws, and at the same time advocates for loose drug laws. What are the inherent differences between both problems that most people use to reconcile the cognitive dissonance?
But all company need right to do business, and for that they accept many regulatory burdens, like taxes, employment laws, PII laws which are different at country state and industry and company size level. So not unprecedented to have laws for web companies.
Except the article precisely says that the change cannot be attributed to this single policy:

> Portugal’s remarkable recovery, and the fact that it has held steady through several changes in government – including conservative leaders who would have preferred to return to the US-style war on drugs – could not have happened without an enormous cultural shift, and a change in how the country viewed drugs, addiction – and itself. In many ways, the law was merely a reflection of transformations that were already happening in clinics, in pharmacies and around kitchen tables across the country.

Intellectual dishonesty seems to be on your side, this time.
Ah the "they are weak" argument. Humans are fallible. Don't judge individuals by your god like ability to only survive on mineral water and lettuce.
So from 80, to 500, in a population of almost 9 million?

That's not to mention that we need to look at numbers in a long term trend, looking at 1 or 2 years of data doesn't show the full story.
The point is that real problem domains are not neatly partitioned and labeled.

I don't know what kind of input the NN itself gets, but computer vision is enough to translate a photo of a chessboard to a usable symbolic representation. But it would be nice to already have a black box-ish computer program that figures out what's the game at hand and how to play it.

The next variation is have the adversary start playing a chess variant and have the machine recognize it (assuming honesty) and play it to significant skill. Then "real life Pong" where the size and aerodynamics of the ball are unknown to it. This is the gist of human intelligence: answering questions is significantly easier than figuring out what the question is.
Sorry for the late reply. I have found it very good. The first build or two rebooted a couple of times a day but the recent builds are rock solid. I've stopped updating it now regularly but when I do the builds just work. I normally stop by the fairphone forums before I stick a new build on just to see if there's any chatter.

I much prefer lineage to any other android experience I've ever had fwiw. Everything just works (except I haven't figured out how to nor really care to spend much time investigating snapchat with lineage).
can't amazon create a play store bridge where if amazon needs to use a play service it opens the bridge and does it through the other app? Wouldn't work on kindle devices without google play, etc... but fuck those, I just need it to work on my Moto v4. Don't know why Amazon has to control the app store anyways, I much prefer Play and won't buy any amazon devices till they have native support of ALL google apps via google play.
Yes :) all current browser engines have their roots in the Nineties (webkit is also based on KHTML). This is what WebRender (part of Servo) to be added to Firefox Quantum / Gecko will change.
I wonder how Amazon calculates decisions like not selling competitors hardware. Suppose a company that produced dish washers asked Amazon to stop selling their competitor's stuff. Surely Amazon would demand a lot of money for that. Likely more then it is worth to the dish washer company, since otherwise such deals would already have been made. But then how can it be a good decision for Amazon to refuse to sell it's own competitor's stuff? The loss in reputation is the same whether a customer doesn't find something from an Amazon competitor or something from a company that doesn't compete with Amazon.
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> a) Is breaking plugins just for the good of change.

Nobody will take you seriously if you think that the biggest browser re-write since Microsoft introduced Edge is "just for the good of change".
Break em up. Both. Make the pieces really small.
I am data scientist at ParallelDots , the company that has launched this Excel plugin. We realised that a lot of people want to use Machine Learning solutions like keyword extraction, sentiment, emotion etc. on Excel itself where they collect data. Here we have made such facilities accessible as Excel formulae where you need zero programming skills to use them.
We have provided a free tier where you can try it out. I am happy to answer any questions about the functionality.
I used to think like you, but I had to change my mind many years ago. There are opinions you don't agree with - and those shouldn't be downvoted - and there are blatant lies or idiocies at the "the World is flat" level, often put forward by trolls.

Arguing with those is a total waste of time, and one reason why HN is so good is that they get downvoted to oblivion in no time.
> Disney have a fundamental, core company value of “No Gambling”

> For a concrete example: Every cruise line has an onboard casino – except for Disney cruise ships.

Wow that puts some teeth behind this debacle. I was under the impression this would be a lot of noise and battlefront 3 would sell a billion copies.
A law to ban guns will lead to less guns... but only in the hands of people who care about laws.
Ha, funny, just this Monday I had to recover wallet.dat from a slightly corrupted HDD drive. What I needed is just the private key bytes (32), unfortunately the disk was unreadable. What helped was RAW access to data on disk coupled with this little tool that scans for private key signatures: https://www.makomk.com/gitweb/?p=bitcoin-wallet-recover.git;...

Then of course the bytes had to be converted to addresses to check which one had the money (and if I found it) and then to WIF to import in Electrum. After half a day of stress I did numerous copies now.
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Technocracy implies the people in power are experts. That has never and likely will never happen. People gain power by being good at politics and or inheriting it. Neither of those measures technical skill.

At most you can look at countries who listen to relevant experts, which very much includes the United States. Though again on a sliding scale and always secondary to maintaining power for the in groups.

Really if you look at the worst leaders of all time none of them are Technocrats. Joseph Stalin pure politician>Revolutionary , Hitler - Artist>Soldier>Politician. Pol pot failed out, built roads in Croatia then became a revolutionary. Mao Zedong > Politician/Revolutionary. Augusto Pinochet > Military. Leopold II of Belgium > Prince > King.

Karl Marx for example may have qualified and is tied to Socialism, but never gained power.
Amazon's hardware is shit anyways.
> waste for no real reason

That's because Japanese want to be extra nice to customers. /s
That didn't seem to be the point at all. The point was, practically all energy produced turns to heat on Earth. Assuming growing energy production/consumption on the planet, the sheer wattage of waste heat will eventually be greater than the planet can radiate into space, whatever the method used to produce that energy.
You can't short real estate easily because it's a physical thing. Subprime was bonds that were secured by mortgage loans on real estate. You can short bonds but it's not easy because you have to find some to borrow. But then someone invented credit default swaps for subprime bonds. CDS are derivatives insuring bonds from default. They are similar to futures by being a 2 sided contract where cash flows between the two parties and the winner pays the loser the difference. One side is long and the other short. In subprime they took it a step further and made packages of these CDS contracts so you could go short a ton of subprime all at once. These instruments coming out coincided with the top of the real estate market in 2005 and their peak popularity was at the peak of the subprime boom in 2007.
Of all the things to grind an axe about "European nations", this is a pretty strange one, considering European countries have absolutely always led the way on this issue, providing limited rights to same-sex couples in the 1970s, same-sex civil unions in the 1980s, and full same-sex marriages half a generation before the US Supreme Court finally got around to removing bans in the USA a mere two years ago. What was that about a grotesque travesty?

> the majority of European nations don't allow gay marriage

The majority of American nations don't either.
There hasn't been a serious "war on drugs" for over 30 years in the UK. Most drugs are de-facto legal since the laws are simply not enforced. To say "prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure" is a straw-man, because there is no enforcement. The laws would probably have been dropped many years ago were it not for international treaty obligations.
That's a really interesting idea about backing it with a workflow engine. I can't recall something that did that before - though there are obviously plenty of workflow engines for python and other languages. Definitely interesting to look at. Good luck!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2232163
Most companies don't care about the EV, aka the GREEN BAR.

For example, Paypal and Apple care but not Google, Amazon or Microsoft. So, its not a matter of costs but its usability that its practically NIL. Even Ycombinator is not using it.

As a developer, i am found that practically all customers don't care about the URL, in fact, most customer don't see the url at all.
Since the 1960s, conceptual art has been an uncontroversial thing. An idea _can_ be art. A gesture that leaves no perceptible trace can be art. "A great artist can make art by simply casting a glance." – Robert Smithson.

The reality of the trendy art world (high-profile artists and gallery) is that good PR is the one thing an artist absolutely can't do without. Everything else is optional. Anything can be art. No physical manifestation is required.

I'm sure the artists you mention are serious and professional. There's a distinction that's sometimes drawn between the kind of conceptual/trendy work and supposedly more honest, commercial or traditional art production. It's almost always the more conservative, conventional people who make that distinction -- it's a way of dismissing more conceptual work as pretentious or elitist.
I think newer builds have an auto-sync feature. I got mine recently from f-droid.
It's on the cusp of Sunk Cost, Fallacy of Inertia, and Fallacy of Relative Privation.

The last one is probably closest but it doesn't matter because there are starving children to feed and you're here worrying about names of fallacies, you animal. /s
"deeply flawed"? Maybe legalizing distribution returns other benefits, but this article (and other from past years) and reality seem to indicate that the benefit of decriminalizing drug consumption (ownership of small quantities) is higher than criminalizing it.
A sociologist has helpfully been visualizing the data on assault deaths for a few years now; here's the latest:

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2017/10/02/assault-dea...

The comparison always makes one thing unmistakably clear: the U.S. is an exceptionally violent country among OECD peers.
Next up: Google's Deepmind AI learns to perform arithmetic tabula rasa.

More seriously, it seems Deepmind and the AI community in general is having a Streetlight effect problem, i.e. looking for AI in what works now, rather than coming to terms with the hard challenges. This explains why there are so many papers on GANs. People are just doubling down on what works (where the streetlight is), rather than acknowledging that where we need to look for AI is dark. Since it's become such a cut-throat race to be the next one to say "we made a breakthrough!", it makes much more economic sense to solve simple problems and advertise them as huge challenges.
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AI can help us here. This is an example of automated trash sorting (optical sorting) from 4 years ago. I expect today we can sort trash even more efficienty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIVKmwzWSuc

Another idea would be an army of cleaning bots that can be let loose in a forest, on a beach or on roadside to methodically collect all trash. Even underwater drones could be used to clean up beaches. I think cleaning bots is the way forward.
Coursera - Andrew NG's course
=> Classic starting point, very thorough and digestable introduction to Neural Networks. I found he covered the 'how the heck do I use this?' rather well.. :)

From there, Coursera has a paid(?) DL course by Andrew NG or there's Fast.ai which looks good.

Good luck!
Ah, the French 75 - my favourite sparkling wine based cocktail. A good choice for new years eve. Its strong though!
Great - wonder how do you guys hold sway amidst tough competition from Amazon and Google for text analysis solutions?
It's a tough world out there for startups in this space.
Dollars require infrastructure too. Thousands of banks and other institutions are required to operate it. They have offices (that take energy) and employees (that take energy and also have households that take energy). Most of that energy comes from fossil fuel. I'm pretty sure operation of dollar costs much more than operation of Bitcoin. Let's ban dollar.

High price of bitcoin resulted in surge of "bitcoin is a fraud" kind of articles to HN. Who wants to play bears on Bitcoin market that much?
I know the names of the general concepts, I was wondering if someone has concrete recommendations on where to start and which books/frameworks are sort of beginner-friendly.
It is not just Amazon and Google, Google search had inferior/old UI in Firefox for Android. Similar for Windows phone google had none of the apps, and had actively blocked third party apps. OSx support for Android phone is mediocre.
As a user we cherish vertical integration but as consumers in long run, it is a losing proposition.
Obviously it would, however phones run on battery power and having the microphone always-on would drain the battery fast, which users would most certainly notice and also care about (more recharging, phone becomes unusable due to empty battery a lot faster).

Keeping the recent and current state of technology and where it is heading in mind, I think it's fair to say that consumers care a lot more about being able to use their phone than they care about that phone or the apps on the phone to collect data about them.
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The school shootings are irrelevant statistically. They make the news because they're upsetting, but you're more likely to be beaten to death by someone's fists than shot with a long gun in the US.

The vast majority of gun crime is done with handguns, and much of it is already illegal - i.e. felons in possession of guns or people carrying when or where they're not legally allowed to do so.
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>  the IOTA developers had written their own hash function, _Curl_

Did...did they intentionally name it curl, so that when you search for "Is curl secure?" you will find articles saying that curl - the widely used library - is secure, in the hope that people will confuse the two?

I know that you shouldn't assume malice when it can be explained with incompetence, but combined with some of the other points here, I can't help but feel that this was intentional.
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I don't think _selling_ is a must, but the end user should have an ability _to get_ the drug. Marijuana should be sold and profited off (though regulated) to serve as a barrier so people won't have to switch to hard drugs. But hard drugs should be controlled more tightly. It can be a special block at hospitals or something like that, where a person can come and get the dose, maybe even free. But that place should also provide help and ways to overcome the addiction - opportunities for rehabilitation courses, education prospects, psychologist and previous addicts who got clean etc. It should be an outpost for fighting hard drugs addiction. Yes, that will required money, but it can come from all the savings from 'War on Drugs'. And if user will have an ability to get drugs there, criminals will still lose profits, and yes, I agree that removing profits from the criminals is one of the main points of "legalization".
The community is smaller, the barrier to finding the place are higher.

There are several factors that ensure better Signal to Noise ratios in communities.

Protective Moats, specific technical subject matter, for example.

Essentially it boils down to difficulty to engage, or non trivial effort required to engage.

The factors you mentioned have little impact on the behavior of the sub, which is mostly influenced by the people and norms of behavior, over the UI.