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This keeps popping on HN now and then.

>So it would've been a very self-aware performance, aimed at an audience that was attuned enouh to pick up on the humor.

Except they didn't. Up until today, there are people - equivalent of American lizardmen believers going around preaching around that the story was true.

>Calling it a hoax may be more of a western misinterpretation, one that reveals a bias in believing the Russian public was unsophisticated and easily fooled.

And the Western commentators were 100% correct in that. There was and still is a class of public in Russia that will believe anything coming from a "reputably looking official in a suite." This was the extend of Soviet three letter services brainwashing powers. They learned a lot from herr Goebbels.

Now look, these former three letter services servicemen are doing the exact thing in US. Russian propaganda in US does not target any much normally politically active population, no they target the kind of people believing in bizarre stuff, and with a remarkable success. The still raging, so called, "pizzagate" is a proof.
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As I recall the time on the clock allowed for only 1 running play or 1 quick pass play plus a running play. They made the best choice given the information they had.
The "wait and see" approach as you call it, means that "Generics" (a.k.a. parametric polymorphism) have had to be retro-fitted to languages like Java. This means they are more complex than they need to be and have some ugly edge cases.
Focus on Riskiest Assumption Tests and forget about MVPs (2016)
What makes you say we're doing a good job of relying on government stewardship to operate society?

Is a popularity contest the best way to select the person who has the last call on charitable management? How's that going?
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It's been a while since I've built a PC; when did graphics cards physically start looking like they were designed by a five year old?
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This is worth paying attention to though, the CFTC has traditionally had a lackadaisical approach to approving financial products, where other agencies are typically risk averse and out in much more rigor

This has led to Congress itself banning futures products

There are two futures contracts explicitly banned in the US, and another could easily ride into the tax reform bill
Yeah, I can see how having features added to your favorite language while remaining fully compatible with the code you write today would warrant such a reaction. I mean, just having them in your language, even if you don’t have to use them is just so horrible.
No, while the country is certainly more divided than ever, you can't say that he played no part in it. His tactics were successful but they were definitionally opposed to cooperation. Calling your opponents antiamerican or unpatriotic or "demonic" to keep a fringe base frothing at the mouth worked for him and later reps in the house who redistricted themselves into safe districts. Now they are completely at the mercy of the extreme voters in those custom districts.
I think the real strength of Australians is our cheerful cynicism and laconic humour; these allow for honest appraisal. We are optimistic ("she'll be right"), but it is a different species from American optimism ("I'm going to build the impossible").

I work in NYC and my office has, at any time, between 5 and 10 Australians working there, out of ~100. It is a tremendous comfort to have that common sense of humour at hand. If I had my way we'd have a few more.
And the last major stable release for Ubuntu broke egl completely.
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There's a great deal of variance among Japanese banks regarding their policies on issuing credit cards to gaijin, all of which are (of course!) undocumented. A random list of cards that are supposedly easier to get:

http://wandertokyo.com/japanese-credit-cards/
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That's been the case for at least the last few years, and it's been quite common the last 5 years.

It's part of the 'gamer aesthetic'. If I could speculate, I'd suggest they might intentionally do this to push businesses away from consumer-level stuff.
Came here looking for this

I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be seeing

That super marketable “mobile-last” development
I made a living doing airborne telemetry and instrumentation for almost a decade. Those words, in my professional context, meant that I was an engineer who designed and operationally supported systems to gather data of all kinds (avionics buses, physical transducer readings), record that data, and transmit a crucial subset of that data to the ground for real-time monitoring by engineers.

But "telemetry" and "instrumentation" have meanings in the tech world, and it's sad that one of the meanings carried in the "telemetry" suitcase is "privacy invasion".
Then let's ban baby food?
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Presumably if a real money system (like dollars for most of the 19th century) were deflationary, people could still use those dollars, and whoa. They did use those dollars.
> GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack.

Sounds like a PhD thesis run amok.

This just isn't going to happen. Who are they kidding? Even the transition to IPv6 is proving agonisingly slow.

GNU really need to pick their battles more wisely.
Pretty honest, no whitepaper. I like this.

But at the same time, it's stupid to have a coin just so people will use it in gambles. The entire purpose of ETH was to be that coin, the coin used in smart contract transactions. Gambling is one of the simple things a "pure" smart contract can implement -- and you're going to do everything backwards.
In a democratic country like U.S., they will not jail you for your tweets that try to sabotage the government, besides closing your account.

You can say anything in a democratic country, except when you are forced to shut up.
Why is the US Patent Office not liable for these obviously bad patent grants?

I think this patent mess ends when the Patent Office isn't self funded and thus doesn't have the perverse incentive to grant as many patents as possible.
I must be honest, the red is hardcore on my eyes. Can you maybe make it a little less "intense" :)
I think you are basically correct to say that the scalability of AGI is a speculative assumption. The argument is that if it were feasible, it might pose an existential threat, so we should consider it.

If one accepts the plausibility of AGI, then AGI that is bigger and faster than humans does not seem to be much of a stretch, but I certainly cannot imagine what capabilities a qualitatively more powerful intelligence would have, let alone how much effort would be required to get there.

Chollet claims that more powerful intelligence is, in fact, impossible, but as Scott Aaronson pointed out [1], his argument from the No Free Lunch theorem does not have any bearing on the question. As Yudkowsky points out in the article, Chollet's other arguments could just as well be used to claim that nothing beyond the level of intelligence of chimpanzees is possible.

But maybe just a bigger, faster, human-like intelligence might present a risk - people have been outsmarting one another for millennia.

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3553
Pretty much, yeah. Though I'm still curious if getting your computers "Built by Researchers" has some novel advantages over "Built by Lawyers" or "Built by the guys at the local computer shop"

Perhaps the presence of smart Researchers while the computer is being born will make the machine better at learning, improving tensorflow performance?
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I think it would be naive to believe that adding generics to Go would have no effect on the stdlib, third party packages, and ultimately how you write Go code.
Rumors of a near-future switch to proof of stake would discourage me from spending large amounts of money on Ethereum mining.
Sounds like your employer is pretty shitty (and to be fair, Japan has more than its fair share of shitty employers), but that's an attribute of your company, not Japan itself. And if you're coming over on a startup visa, it's your company and you set the rules.

All that said, it's hard to people with no connection to Japan opting to start up in Japan -- as patio11 notes, doing so without fluent Japanese is playing life in hard mode.
This boils down to how much one values static types and code reuse. If you do not have Generics (a.k.a. parametric polymorphism) then you are forced to make a choice between type safety and code reuse. You cannot have them both.
They may be liveable, but the work on offer is really nothing like the US market.

I tell folk that the NYC technology scene is larger than every Australian technology scene combined. The Bay Area's tech scene is large than every Australian scene multiplied. It is a stark difference.

In Darwin, I could get a job but not, as my father said, a career. In Perth I could get a career, but it would be in moving from backoffice to backoffice, with a lot of pleading for the job in-between. "Why yes, I have 152 years experience in .NET 72.8.1"

Having lived and worked in NYC for a few years, I am pestered by recruiters. Every week I will get one or two emails pitching startups and giants. There is fierce competition for talent -- it's the same position tradies were in during the height of the mining boom.

And I like it here. I am not a beach person, I can buy wine, it's a cultural capital and so on and so forth. I love Darwin, I miss it, but it was never going to be a big enough canvas. I miss my family in Perth but again, not enough of a canvas.

If NYC isn't enough, you are rapidly running out of places to go.
This is cool, but why is there a huge blank disk in the scene ? Couldn't it be made transparent?
Because services still aren't free. They have support from big companies, yes, doesn't mean you shouldn't donate.

Definatly for something that makes your life easier ( it does mine)
Paywall.

fORGET IT.
> Who cares? In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter that this bubble pops?

Well, I, for one, am not touching it until it crashed because I believe (!) it is currently overvalued. (Tho not sure I'd go with BTC as it stands.) What I also don't like is the impact of cryptocurrency on Co2.

What use is a currency when you can't use it? The most stable currencies in the world are able to be used world-wide.

Betting everything you got on one horse is inherently ignorant btw. Spreading makes sense unless you're sure you're making the right bet (which you can't be). Heck, spreading is the m.i. for VC, including YC. If you burn yourself because you don't spread enough then I don't feel sorry for you.

> The underlying ideas in blockchain are brilliant, genius even.

Yeah, totally genius. All these people using only hot wallets, exchanges getting hacked, 101 ICOs being ponzi schemes, all these people using Bitcoin wallet on their desktop machine which also runs Mirai and what, or un(der)patched Android phone. Its a recipe for disaster. There's a reason why the general population runs their router behind a firewall or NAT, there's a reason why the general population uses experts such as banks to protect their money. Its because they lack the expertise to do it themselves. My argument is that Joe Sixpack doesn't have the expertise to run his own Bitcoin wallet. Even though it might seem very "American way" that he would, does that mean he should?
These 2 comments looked like they contradict each other:

1) ">It's one step short of holding your holiday party at a strip club."

2) ">I'm not suggesting it's [...] nearly as egregious a violation as taking employees to a strip club."

The "one step" looks like "nearly" to me which is why I tried to clarify the nature of the interactions.

If any _hint_ of "strip club" is even mentioned in the replies to my anecdote about the software conference party, that's my fault for describing it poorly.

See my other comment about this.[1] Are female guests at Disney describing Gaston as "one step" removed from a "male strip club"? I don't think so and that's the type of platonic vibe I was trying to portray in my conference anecdote. Nevertheless, people still get the wrong impression that the party models were there to act as a sexual tease. (The "fake friends" models mentioned in the Bloomberg article may be instructed to act in a more sexually provocative manner but my anecdote wasn't about them.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877739
Yes, this was in the mainstream news. No need to re-post it here.
AMD's reference designs still don't look too weird at least.

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2016/06/amd-radeon...
In his defense, just because you don't write generics yourself doesn't mean you don't encounter them.
USPTO acts as the gate. If a patent is overturned, in theory the USPTO should be the institution paying for their diligence failure.

Up until the patent is issued, all costs are on the applicant. Why should the costs of an error by a regulator also be on the requestor?
Can you expand on that second paragraph?
One of my favorite space simulators was Netwars by Novell (3D, multiplayer, from 1993):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a30Fwd-gisI
Why? Like, I might have weird taste, because I really liked generics and even Java-style checked exceptions :-) And to me, generics always sounded like the most practical way to do safe code-reuse across various types.
I know they are planning wildcard already (as per article), I'm just keeping my fingers crossed we will see code signing and others before too long...

I understand though, code signing will be much harder to automate and maybe not so fit for purpose...
Tab Mix Plus was an add on that Firefox Quantum no longer supports. :-(

It could be customized to open a new tab when clicking a link, clicking a bookmark, performing a search from the URL bar and more.

Now in Quantum I have to right click then choose open new tab vs. just one normal left click. Frustrating and a UX killer for me. It's why I never stopped using FF, but am going to have to now.
Absurdly low by Valley standards: 6 million yen a year (~$53k) is normal, senior folks might pull in 10m (~$88k).
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I like this framework, but two thoughts:

1. In some situations, conversation can be interesting and illuminating if you're open to it. I've had some interesting interactions with Uber drivers in particular.

2. In any case above except the chatty Uber driver (where it'd be awkward), podcasts and audiobooks are a great way to make use of the time.
And the SATA/SAS controller of your Mainboard is invincible? Or the Mainboard itself? Or the CPU? What's your backup solution if they are faulty?
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Large companies employ many people without degrees, it's really front line managers that handle those requirements. Further, while self taught programmers are often very good they tend to be weaker at working with other developers on large scale projects. So, many managers have examples of both and still prefer people with degrees for most projects.
I love this graphic from the NY Times with travel times for commuter rail in the greater NYC area:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/03/17/nyregion/nyregi...
I don't see how using infinity in a pacemaker config would be outside typical usage
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> ...it's not a given that eventually successful incarnation of those better fundamentals will be Bitcoin.

I agree. I did say that :)
That's the light source, I suppose.
Use another language then. What is the point of different languages if they are supposed to have the same feature set? If you want native code type safety and generics use Rust instead. If that is too complicated use a more friendly type safety focused language like Swift.

Really you are spoiled for choice and there is no need to insist every language should follow your particular language philosophy.
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What do you mean "environments"? Do you mean "containers"? The ones called "personal", "shopping", etc?

I've done a quick search for environments in case there's something I missed, and found nothing, so maybe it's a translation issue?

If you DO mean containers, then yes, it's a wonderful idea and I use them extensively[0], but has nothing to do with Tab Groups. If you boil it down, Tab Groups was just an UI extension, all it gave us was another view of all the opened tabs and, if you ask me, that idea matches perfectly with containers; just make each group a container.

My only issue with containers are that you can't move one tab from one container to another. I understand why and the complexities (and maybe even dangers) of doing so, but strictly from an user perspective it feels... wrong. It feels like an arbitrary limitation. Of course, you can copy the url, open a new tab in the container and paste it there, but then you lose all the history (and might need to log in again).

[0] With Tree Tabs I've made every root tab a different container and every time I open a new tab from that root, I made it from the same container.
Just saying 'doesn't mean you shouldn't donate' doesn't give ANY reason why you should donate. Those companies want everybody to have https for free right? Then offer it for free and don't start begging for money afterwards? The 2.6 million running costs is change for a party like google, and they pay it with money MADE by raping privacy of the same group of users... you are already paying... why donate?

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oh your lovely votes forbid me to take the discussion further...

You say makes life easier, but you don't explain how it makes your life easier? Everybody should be capable of running a single openssl command and update configurations of a webserver or other service? (you still need to run LE command, so saves you one handling?)

There are 60+ LE client implementations... because people apparently cant run a single openssl command and update a configuration? Isn't that overkill? In my opinion, for what it 'solves' or how it makes your life easier, it certainly is overkill. And don't forget all the clients need to be maintained, etc etc.

And you certainly underestimate the information that is generated by running LE, the information leaked, (OCSP requests etc) They can monetise it easily (or do shadier things like leak this information to their partners, google Akamai etc), so again, why donate.
> hell no, if generics get into go I'll have to find another favorite language.

Well, I hope go get generics fast then. Seriously, what is this community that rejects any possible enhancement to a language? Even C gets new features albeit slowly. A language that doesn't evolve is a dead one.

There is nothing complicated with generics, they are just incomplete types, that's all. Generics =/= C++ templates.

Ada has a great implementation of generic programming which forces the developer to complete generic types before using them. In fact Ada got a lot of things that go got wrong despite being way older, especially when it comes to concurrency and types.

Package based generics make them completely compile time and runtime safe, no type erasure. The'd be the equivalent of reflect.MakeFunc or reflect.MakeStruct at compile time, so without any performance penality or ugly reflection, which go has right now.
Well, I sometimes wonder about this. I have a Master's Degree in Computer Science from RIT, and I despise working at BigCos. I spent a decade doing "cog development" and I learned I hated it. It was boring, stifling, draining, and unfulfilling. Perhaps the 2 most exciting times in my career were when I was working for 2 startups, when we were building news systems, putting in our own processes, and solving interesting problems.

I will admit I could do more on the side in terms of blogging, working on open source projects, and learning new skills, but I do have a family I need to raise and house to repair and improve. It's something I am working on.
This enviromnentalism as religion attitude is hugely counterproductive. It might help motivate the believers, but it also contributes to the culture war that sees conservatives denying climate science.

Everyone pollutes; when we breathe, when we shit, let alone when we drive or fly, so there is no hard boundary between normal and "sinful" activities. The rest of your comment is simply wrong; Pigovian taxes and auctions are dynamic, so can adjust to any change in price levels, and in any case money supply is governed by central banks, not by polluters.
For the record I'm not trying to argue generics are not important, on the contrary having worked with them for years go seems to be too limiting in this matter for my practical use.

But I agree they can be tricky to get right (compare e.g. declaration-site vs use-site variance [0]) or "accidentaly Turing-complete" TypeScript [1].

[0]: https://schneide.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/declaration-site-a...

[1]: https://gist.github.com/hediet/63f4844acf5ac330804801084f87a...
> There's something special about documentaries -- you can convince the audience of practically anything if you're a good enough director.

The reception of Adam Curtis films speaks to this.
Science is about how things are, not how they should be. Does the sun revolve around the Earth?
Ah, sorry - I usually use the beta versions, they seem to have had it earlier then.
I think that disc-ish object is the light source, which I suppose is rendered to make it clear why one side of a polygon is dark while the other is bright etc.
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I’d flip this around and ask when did we start expecting kit to be so drab? This thing doesn’t hit the level of having, say, an SGI Onyx beside my desk, but did make me smile. I’ll remember that next time I need GPUs.
Except adding tools for doing some kind of macros is much simpler in Go than C because the language is easier to parse. What stops you from using a preprocessor in Go? It is not really part of the compiler in C either.
No. What's that supposed to do?
I usually advise hackers to work in a BigCo at least once. I think it's really important from the perspective of learning how to manage your manager an how to interact with people who aren't as excited by technology as you are.
There you go: https://uazu.net/notes/binding.html
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The (beta) nginx certbot-auto module works flawlessly for me.
Hence the question mark. What did Debian have for v1 then?
For computers, we had chess and go as milestones. I wonder what the milestones for this are.
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> maybe it's a translation issue?

It is :-) German Firefoxes translate the containers as "environments" which is somewhat logical, at least. I just can't really manage to integrate them into most of my workflows since they basically void my cookies.
I'm in exactly the same boat and I've done the same.
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The tax is reported as two times income. To me, a 99% charge might be a tax, but a 200% charge ought to be a Fifth Amendment taking.
Yeah, that's what I did, though it was more like 6 semesters including the summers.

You graduate with an MSc or MASc, whereas for the non-research masters, you graduate with an MEng (for the engineering programs).
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