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We are currently living in an exciting time for quantum computing. Most leading companies like Google and IBM have 20 qubit devices. IBM has a 50 qubit prototype [0].

Google has plans to show quantum supremacy in the next couple of months: where a quantum computer will perform a task that cannot be simulated on a classical computer [1]. These near-term (5-10 year) quantum computers will likely be used for simulating quantum chemistry and solving optimization problems [2].

[0]: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609451/ibm-raises-the-bar...

[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609035/google-reveals-blu...

[2]: https://www.nature.com/news/commercialize-quantum-technologi...
Related, https://twitter.com/Vueron/status/935995302049472520
There's lots of great advice here- especially regarding the importance of being connected to other people and taking care of yourself physically (sleep, exercise, diet). Those are the most basic things to tend to when you're feeling off.
I'm a psychologist who works with founders (zenfounder.com) and I can assure you that you are not alone in feeling off your game, even when the business is going well.
Sometimes the answer to the question "why am I feeling this way?" is really hard to come by. It might take some time to sort it out. I'm really glad you're talking about it here. That's an important first step.
It may be a good idea to see your physician and check your thyroid and testosterone levels. Both can wreck havoc on motivation and can affected by sleep-wake cycles (ie. why you feel so low in the morning). A psychologist or therapist can also help you sort out whether you may be experiencing depression or burnout (low motivation is part of both).
Being successful and having a great life don't also protect us from physical problems or from depression. Its a good idea to see a professional to check out a variety of possible causes.
If you have a clean bill of health, then it might be time to ask some existential questions: Are you bored? Is your work meaningful to you? Are you as connected as you want to be to other people? A therapist, coach, priest, or good friend may be able to talk you through some of these questions.
Feel free to reach out to me directly if you'd like more ideas or resources.
It's cool seeing an Elixir company have such explosive growth.
What does a vendor care if your BTC might be worth less later? He's hungry NOW.
These go way back, the Thinking Machines Corporation was doing stuff like this back in the early 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine

It didn't pan out that time either, not even on machines with 64k processors.
> binding arbitration should be made illegal

Why do you want to interfere and limit my right to execute a contract?
Update on Intel's Nervana Neural Network Processor
>"it's not 1950 anymore; the PR blow-black has the potential to be truly brutal."

For that particular party, there definitely wasn't blowback because the next morning, everybody talked about how amazing it was. I think it caught everyone off guard because it was unexpected and it gave attendees happy memories. (Yes, maybe the attendees should have been morally outraged but I can only report how they actually responded and at that time, they thought it was a huge hit.)

It's been 17 years so maybe that company doesn't hire party models anymore.

>"This is horridly objectifying and super awkward."

That's a valid opinion but just to paint the picture better, the women were not dressed up as "Playboy bunnies". They were wearing regular shorts and a themed tshirt showing no cleavage. The interactions with the models would be similar to a kid interacting with Mickey Mouse at Disney. Also, there probably were male models on roller skates as well but I don't remember them for obvious reasons.
Looking Forward to 2018
A good, recent, and comprehensive primer on intelligence explosion and its theoretical implication: "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by MIT physicist Max Tegmark.
What's so wrong with enjoying the company of women with better genetics than most?
Insomnia REST Client
I absolutely agree with your distinction. I was using them as analogies for pioneer technologies.

I have faith in the overall Bitcoin architecture. Its greatest threat is a malicious actor taking over enough processing power to alter the blockchain.

I doubt that Bitcoin itself will be the dominant cryptocurrency due to the reasons I mentioned in my original post. These are two different issues and I appreciate your pointing that out.
Scaling is by design, seems it was not designed to scale (serverless architecture and db)
Cambridge (MA) is like this, but housing prices are still pretty unreasonable. You definitely need taller buildings.
Another example: I can't watch purchased YouTube videos at full resolution on in my Web browser. It tells me that I need to buy a spyware-infested device that doesn't give me full control over the operating system.
https://www.rareseeds.com/art-combe-s-ancient-watermelon/
It's both inevitable AND requires a ton of hard work. But it's not one company or guy that is doing it. There are plenty of other efforts besides Open AI.

It's just one of those processes that are complex but still have a trajectory and are predictable in some regard. Sort of like the Transcontinental Railroad in a way.
Edge cases are edge cases. I once made a semi-retired 5 year-old server crush a brand new one on a specific workload just because I noticed the working dataset did fit entirely in its L2 cache.

Will I ever do it again? I have no idea. At the time, I got a very nice bottle of wine for my bet.
This is still fairly common in B2B and enterprise sales relationship management from what I see and have been told.

Know your customer and their representative(s) tastes.
Eliminating state and local taxes was a long time coming. Why should the no-tax states subsidize the bloated bureaucracy of CA/NY? It would be quite amazing if CA got rid of state income taxes though.
Please don’t take offense, but there is no info on your site but you want my phone number and name. I’m not inclined to give it to you without more info about your service.
Do you guys have an ability to provide advice about what startups at early stages need to do for book keeping, filings, etc? You seem to be more affordable than competitors for early stages, so you would also deal with less experienced founders who are graduating from TurboTax into something that handles an ever-increasing load, done with dubious thoroughness at start. My biggest challenge is getting proper advice about everything needs to be done and making sure I don't miss something. Provide resources on that, maybe via SEO (YC for bookkeeping and compliance for early stage founders) and you'd have a never ending stream of leads.
(just read the title, couldn't get past the bylines)

I just saved this article so I can laugh at Tim in the future.

First off. This-is-a-bubble. I'm not saying it's not. But, bitcoin IS solving major problems and it WILL fix the problems it has. Will it still be worth ~$20K/BTC? Maybe not, but maybe it'll be more. Hard to say.

I can not imagine how Tim could think that cryptocurrencies, and more specifically blockchain technology, "doesn't solve anything." This is such a stupid statement to make.

How exactly does a way to do trustless computing around the world equal "doesn't solve anything?" Brain dead opinion.
Republicans have stated they will be cutting Medicare and Social Security benefits after the tax cuts have passed “as they’re no longer affordable.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/...
> Not sure what the health qualms are with lack of Vitamin D

Rickets and Osteomalacia are the big ones, I think. Both are a form of softening of the bones. Vitamin D apparently helps regulate the absorption and use of calcium, magnesium, and phosphate in the body.
Writing bindings for Qt is still a major undertaking compared to writing bindings for Gtk. There are okish gtk bindings for lots of languages, but Qt bindings are only available for massively popular languages.
Don't employees usually bring a +1 to these events anyway?
Actually, I'm happy to go on record and say I'm 100% sure Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc will never collapse completely (i.e. obtain a value of $0)
To go on a bit of a tangent, one of the things that gives me pause about my otherwise enthusiastic support of capitalism is the horrible waste of talent.

How many mathematicians and physicists are going into finance to produce marginal improvements in liquidity, instead of contributing to the advancement of human knowledge?

How many brilliant software engineers are working on mindless CRUD and API-piping tasks at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, et al.?

How many great doctors go into high-paying, no-research, largely menial positions instead of working on medical breakthroughs?

Capitalism probably does a better job at allocating talent than any other economic system we know of, but the results are still depressing.
As far as security goes, a problem with "airlocks" is similar to a problem with attached garages: It's easier to get into them than directly into the house, and once you are in them, they can provide cover for a more concerted effort to get into the house. An Amazon-Key-like system may mitigate the risk, of course, assuming that the users of the app are properly vetted and that attackers are deterred by cameras.
The NYT hardly "found" Esalen. The thing is around since the early 60s. And has been home to people like Timothy Leary, Buckminster Fuller, B.F.Skinner, Virginia Satir, Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez...

It's a rather well-known home of counter culture. Silly Valley simply hopes something rubs off on them. Because the realization is starting to set in that you, after all, really cannot take your toys with you.

But really, "finding" is a pretty strong word for writing about one of the major touch stones of 60s culture.
"If we don't do it, the other guys will first."

Sure, if you could coordinate all human activity on the planet you could prevent further AI research from happening. Assuming you can't coordinate all activity, getting out in front of the problem is probably the best you can hope to do.
Try www.jointoken.com.
The reason you described above is exactly why we created token - so you'd have an option to use a unique card for every business you work with.
Enjoy token and please feel free to share your feedback.
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Co-founder of token
> "It's not true. The road had a planned expansion to go to 4 lanes in each direction in 1977..."

Doesn't matter that it was planned a long time ago and blocked. Regardless of how or when it was initially built, the cost to build it has to be compensated somehow.
It appears they only sell the handle-less variety at the moment. https://www.rareseeds.com/art-combe-s-ancient-watermelon/
Large brains are just tools. Great apes used sticks and rocks as tools to extend the use of their hands, and evolved larger/more powerful brains to extend their decision making and problem solving abilities. There isn't any real difference in the global impact of humans relative to that of great apes, because humans just have a more well developed versions of this particular tool.

Then again, the descendants of the apes that didn't develop the particular "tool" of generalizable problem solving are extinct or endangered, while the descendants of the ones that did are busy working to create AI
The AMT calculation is hard to use.

It also doesn't include the Senate's AMT change at all.

It doesn't seem to include PEP or Pease.
Okay, but do you need general AI for that? Why not narrow AI?

On the defensive side I think there's a lot that can be done with narrow AI. Consider using really good penetration testers and bug finders to fix Internet security.

For any given task, build a tool that just does that. It's like the least privilege principle in computer security.
Thanks! I'll wait for the linux version
How is that a splashy headline? Are you referring to "sneaking"?

> “The companies don’t want their staff to be talking to someone and think, Oh, this person was hired to socialize with me,” says Kermaani, who’s sending models to seven tech parties in the same weekend.

It's just accurate.

And where in the article is there any implication that this is an entirely new thing?

> say a record number of tech companies are quietly paying [..] it’s part of an older trend. Tech companies have long used models to run their booths at trade shows such as CES in Las Vegas, hype up crowds at product launches, and direct foot traffic at conferences. That said, this year’s record-setting requests for the minglers, known as “ambiance and atmosphere models,” are a step beyond what the industry has seen before, says Chris Hanna, who’s run TSM Agency since 2004 and counts among his clients “one of the largest search engines in the world.”

The agencies themselves seem to say it's reaching a new level in both number and now becoming about a generic fun-ness, rather than more specific tasks, like sit in this booth and be pretty. But other than that, the article outright says it's not new.

The record numbers are not up for debate anyway I guess, but as for the "type" of engagement, if you imply this has always been so generic and fake, what's your source for making that claim?

> that perfectly dove tails with current events about sexual harassment or lack of company diversity.

So you are you saying it doesn't? Can you eloborate on how sexism has nothing to do with it, then?
My logical brain goes:

I bet these women are getting paid a pretty penny to go to some stupid party and mingle with the patrons. Probably get drinks and food on the house too. Lucky bastards!
There are no specific requirements for the C# version, the library was written in v7.
Go# compiles to three targets: .NET Standard 1.2, .NET Standard 2.0, and the full .NET Framework 4.5.2+. The same three are available in the NuGet package published to nuget.org.

There are not so many allocations in the library where Span would help still it's already quite performant at the moment.
If you have any production feature requests please don't hesitate to file an issue on GitHub or send a pull request.
I don't believe SV has the kind of culture to do that. It's clear to me that liberty, equality, and fraternity in this place died a long time ago in pursuit of power and money. You can try to reform them, but the system at its heart encourages these kinds of behaviors, behaviors that are at its root symptomatic of inequality.
I only allow people I trust to enter my house when I'm not home.
Some. I actually cancelled my subscription with them because of the horrendously large Google Home ads on all the paid crosswords. When I asked them about it I got about four non-answers — it's ridiculous that even if you pay they still serve you ads.
The problem is what happens if that growth stops? What happens if bitcoin tanks right after you hired 300 new customer service reps and tripled your server hardware?

It's a gamble no matter what, but moving too quickly or moving too slowly results in the company going under.

In that case, I think straddling the line of "overwhelmed when there is a big spike" is a good spot to be in all things consitered.
I've in a similar situation in the past. For me, the problem was ultimately boredom and lack of fulfillment. It was the prospect of doing the same thing all day every day with no end in sight, with no purpose other than paying bills.

Consider how much of that $10k/mo it would take to hire 1-2 other people and make yourself unnecessary in the business. Turn it into a passive income as much as possible. If you succeeded in this, you can reclaim your time and do anything with it which is a freeing experience.
The idea this generated for me is a "SaaS Generator" site. Rather than a random idea, user would select industry and service and business model, etc. and then click "generate my application". Generated app would have a polished placeholder responsive web site with multi-tentant IdP and drip email marketing and GA analytics Stripe and QuickBooks accounting, and ... - all the stuff you'd do for a SaaS business. Then add some copy and pricing and see if it sticks. Not not much Minimal Viable Product and "Minimal Viable Pitch". Generate a dozen businesses and then see which gets the most traffic. I think such a SaaS Generator site would be super helpful.
Intersting idea...I had an Amazon package stolen off my porch this week, the thief opened it and saw it was the novel Watership Down, then threw it back on my porch. Stolen packages are a way of life in my neighborhood.
Agreed. Trying to compare generals from ~10 different centuries without taking into account the specifics of each campaign, and context of those campaigns renders the results useless.

I wouldn't trust this model to compare Montgomery to Patton during the Sicily invasion, let alone compare Caesar to Napoleon.
Maybe, but the word 'bubble' comes up quite regularly in the media when discussing Bitcoin. Surely it's somewhere at the back of people's minds.
Binding arbitration does not preclude criminal prosecution. I mean, that’s what I tend to think of when I hear “really wrong.” I’m not a huge fan of arbitration clauses generally but they are not unilaterally evil. Have you ever been involved in a lawsuit? It can take over your life for years and leave you broke.
Which is also another bet people should start making.

Most of the time, my laptop is doing workloads that would leave an Atom bored to death, but when I need it, I sure love those i7 cores.

I would gladly sacrifice one i7 core for 4 Atom ones, provided the OS knew what to do with them.
I'll add the calculator I built: https://www.republicantaxcalculator.com. It takes into account state and property tax deductions as well as some of the other major changes. Github here: https://github.com/BrendanAndrade/taxplan
I was considering Patreon for some stuff I planned to publish in somewhat distant future, but now this makes me suspicious. On such a platform I'd rather want to have numerous people that give me $1 monthly rather that a bunch that pays some three-figure sum, should I want to live off those pledges. If a $1 pledger decided to not support me anymore, I wouldn't have lost a big part of my income, but if instead someone who paid $100 or $200 decided to stop paying, that'd be a big change. I'd actually prefer to not allow people pay me more than $10 or 20 to not allow that kind of thing happen, and to not allow myself to have the illusion thereof.

As far as I understand, this new scheme will punish the kind of pledger that I said above I'd prefer: who pledges a couple $ or so. If I want to pledge $10 monthly, I'd better give it to a single creator than to 5-10 creators. In this case as a potential creator I'd be happier with a bigger cut from what I receive in expense of free payments on the patron's side.
I meant "normal" in the sense that it contains the animal form of vitamin K (K2 MK-4) rather than bacterial (K2 MK-7) or plant (K1) vitamin K.

Foie gras is nauseating for a completely different reason than natto. As actual food goes, I'd rather eat the pastured eggs and butter, even though they are also rare and expensive in US supermarkets.

It doesn't help that the supplement industry is loaded to the rafters with hucksters and scammers, but you can get a year's supply of pills labeled as 5 mg MK-4 for $90. It'd be hard to tell whether that's really what's in them without engaging a testing lab at additional expense.
> But to play devil's advocate, aren't they hiring more women, but instead of employees, they're hiring contractors? They just happen to be hiring women whose gifts are more physical and social than technical.

The issue is the gender disparity in _software_engineering_, which is actually made worse by this, because hiring someone because they look pretty (they're not asking agencies for, like, conversationalists with master's degree, and if they were, they'd still have to be attractive) is straight-up objectification, which is bad for women everywhere - and men.
I love Aaronson's book but it's not "gentle-for-newbies". Not because it's not gentle! It just explicitly skips over a lot of the material. You're expected to already know about quantum computing since he doesn't feel he can add to existing authors on the subject. Instead, it's really a survey of quantum complexity theory, with some sampling of background material where the author felt he had something new to say.
i was wondering whether coinbase itself actually buys or sells bitcoin, or if they just pass along orders to exchanges or market makers that execute the trade, and then keep a record of the transactions that are executed.

if coinbase fills orders by buying and selling bitcoin on its own account, then that is a very different business model from what i assumed they did
Oh? They use Elixir?

I see https://blog.discordapp.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b and https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-handles-push-request... ... Interesting.
I could see some people swaying back and forth, not me though. I had a Firebird Formula in the 90s, 2800RPM stall converter, Keith Black forged pistons, LT1 hotcam kit (or LT4 don't recall at this point), etc, I know what that stuff is all about, been there. I've really had it with low(er) quality vehicles going into the shop. I'm willing to pay more for a less feature-filled, basic car that has a higher probability of not seeing the shop. I'm done.

The one exception is the Tesla stuff, and that's because they're paving the way forward and I want to support it. If I made enough money, I'd stretch my budget and already have a Model S (anyone hiring?). I fully expect them to be slightly problematic. I don't use the most stable software on my computer at all times either. :) Rebooting the computer and dragging the car into the shop are two different levels of inconvenience. Being domestic does help Tesla in my book. We'll be happy with our Subaru alongside. And never ruling out Honda Civics, while I hate modded ones, a nice base 40MPG+ Civic always got my engine pumpin. I get a kick out of efficiency as much as I do horsepower.

Anyway, I'm certainly an example of crossing "lines" in the auto industry. From Pontiac domestic powerhouse to Honda gas sipper to Tesla electric. GM screwed me over multiple times, financially, broken promises from them. That corporation has no use for me to even stay alive, won't get another cent from me. And if I'm not buying GM, why bother with Ford/Chrysler which are also inferior quality to the Korean/Japanese stuff. But crossing mental buying-boundaries, I don't care, I mostly just don't want to wrench or have my car wrenched on frequently.
Well that sucks. Thanks a lot for the info.
That's certainly true of the software in my 2017 Prius Prime (which was mostly written by Denso for Toyota - and it does at least display a proper GPL notice, so there's that to say for it, but not much else) However Toyota does finally seem to be making some progress on the software front with the AGL rollout[1] which will also at last bring Android Auto and Carplay support (just not to all of us sad owners of older models).

1: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/31/toyota-automotive-grade-...
It’s kind of sexist too. I would like pretty male models to look at please.
The answer seems pretty obvious... live a simpler life that doesn't depend on these services.
The exchange opens Sunday evening.
But you're presupposing a problem. It's possible that women don't enter CS due to personal preference. Not because CS is hostile to women but because the subject matter isn't interesting to them.

I heard somewhere that there are just as many women in undergrad math as men, but the ratio dramatically decreases in graduate math because so many women leave... to teach.