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"China has a billion people and a lot of really smart ones."

So does India. So does Africa.

1) "But functioning prototypes do exist and have fired missiles." I agree, but what do those prototypes actually do? Is the real question.

2)
" they are world class at designing weapons and their operational ability." - how many real targets have they hit i the last decade? I'm sure they are smart. But not even the Chinese know how their gear will work in the field.

3) "China has drops live munitions on regular occasion. They do it during training and during weapons development. Just because the US and Russia are dropping bombs in Syria doesn't mean they are getting good practice out of it. "

Uhh, yes - it does. And when I'm referring to 'dropping munitions' - I'm referring to the massive machine of operations support and tech that underlie 'the dropping of those bombs'.

Do they have the forward air controllers? Are they good? If not - Air Force is severely hampered. Do they have the AWACS capabilities - or will their entire AF be rendered useless in the blink of an eye by e-warfare. The list goes on and on.
How can I download this slide?
Splitting UK/France off from other parts of western Europe doesn't make that much sense, though, considering how in the past decades R&D has been distributed over the continent, as has manufacturing.
So instead of paying cash, I'm paying through my electricity bill and my children's future (since all power where I live is fossil)? No thanks. I'd rather just give them money
> American biker gangs ... originated post-WWII as associations of disaffected veterans

Based on what I've read, in any country demobilized soldiers are a challenge; they are trained in violence, and are often traumatized, have trouble fitting in with civilians, and lack valuable civilian skills. In some places they become violent insurgents (a recent example is Iraq), in some the government finds a war for them (I've read that that was a motivation for the Crusades), and in the U.S. post-WWII it appears that some became biker gangs, a sort of vigilante for a peaceful society.
Or you don't have millions of annotated examples to learn from, and no similar problem to transfer from...
I’m an applied mathematician that eventually became a macroeconomist by way of game theory.

The answer to your question depends very sensibly on what you mean by the terms you use. Certainly various kind of game theoretic solutions to problems are used daily everywhere, from auctions on eBay, to what kind of policies to adopt in government, to how HFT hedge funds choose their positions, to what captains of industry choose to do in their boardrooms.

Since this is a technical environment, I’ll suggest you take a look at Game Theory for Wireless Engineers which applies Game Theory to the environment of self-interested nodes competing to get the best signal they can on a network that is a commons.

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00014ED1V01Y2...
Important is also that their contracts are usually term-limited, and that they will need to have been employed at several different institutions at entirely different locations in order to have a shot later in their careers. That doesn't help, and software developers definitely do not have this problem.
The problem is that not many companies mention REMOTE even if they would consider it... This is the case for your company as well - not a single word mentioning that you're open to remote candidates.
And yet those fees continue to be paid...
Here: https://www.digitgaming.com/careers/job-listings/
Reminds me of dplyr. How well does this work with pandas?
Unfortunately pseudonymity is practically impossible: http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2017/10/31/the-fractu...
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What is the best book on our current central bank currency paradigm you would recommend?
The driver of inflation is the government printing money in excess of the wealth in the economy. The dollar is subject to the forces of supply & demand just like everything else.
It might be good to know that some languages have one word ("scientist") for everyone working in science, the humanities and social scientists. Thus, and given the context of the article, it's safe to assume that people mean academics when they say scientists.
A bit extreme, but yes, saying that robotics is driven my ML is ... weird.
>so why aren't the IoT hardware companies investigated or fined?

By whom?

Where do you imagine these devices are made / manufactured?
> Not everyone will suddenly start a billion-dollar endeavor, but they'd have more time for recreation, learning, political engagement, and yes, maybe even economic entrepreneurship - in other words, being their best selves, even if for some individuals that still isn't all that impressive.

Or they'd have more time for Call of Duty and Netflix. Seriously, not everyone aspires to be their "best" self per the definition here of overachiever in multiple endeavors. It might seem inconceivable, but there are many people who have no interest in being the best any of those things.

Interestingly absent from these laundry lists of things to be best at: parent, friend, spouse.
Give us your undivided attention.

Does everything to distract us.
If someone determines my identity through textual stylometics, finds me, manages to get me to reveal how to get my bitcoin, and then kills me I won’t even be mad. Just impressed.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093517 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11391931 , and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417059 before having this discussion yet again.
Why is this comment being downvoted? If you disagree, please say why.
This crosses out of intellectual curiosity, which we want here, and into nationalistic agendas, which we don't, so please don't take HN threads in such directions.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919819 and marked it off-topic.
> I guess they're now based on Centos 7

If the quoted package versions are anything to go by, that is not the case.
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Am I missing something because D-Wave has 1024 qubit machines available now and 2000 qubit ones soon.
Dividends, especially qualified dividends are taxed way below regular income though, to reflect this.
Interesting! Those data are indeed specific to the US and I expected the numbers would vary by nation, but not radically so. I enjoy learning more about economics and the fact there is a nation where even the poor have substantial savings is quite bemusing to me! Do you have any sources available?
My point is that, since the two are completely separate legal parties, shouldn't such contracts explicitely define what happens if a condition is not met? IANAL, but the way I see contracts, they can never really force people to do anything, instead it's a way to define opportunity costs as clearly as possible so there aren't any uncertainties on the table. It's like SLAs. Well, sure, you can guarantee me 5 nines or whatever - but if it's not defined what you owe me in case you don't make it, that guarantee is worthless to me because then all I can do is suing you and let a judge decide what's to happen after tons of legal expenses.

That's what I meant with my assumption that there should be some clear consequences already defined in the contract.
china has famously hacked many of the major manufacturers and supply chain partners of american military aviation over the last decade. i don't think it's a stretch that they may have learned some advanced information about stealth.
Some things are more easily measured than others, e.g. how much fuel has been used vs how much street lighting has been used. Some public spending is more aligned with usage than others, e.g. road wear aligns well with distance traveled vs water piping wear does not align with use. It is a very nice situation when spending depends on usage which is easily measured - tax burden can be concentrated on actual users and not distributed to wide population.

This is the point of the debate. Prior to electric vehicles, we have been more or less in a situation where we could concentrate tax burden of road maintenance on vehicle users/owners. Electric vehicle use is much harder to measure apart from coarse odometer readings taken during inspection.
Those things are easy scapegoats but they aren't the biggest cause of tuition increases. States simply aren't spending the money on colleges like they did in the past. [1] This is likely because of all the guaranteed loan money available so the states don't feel the same pressure to fund universities.

For the specific case you linked above, $25m for athletic upgrades is really not that expensive for a school the size of UCF with over 64,000 students and an annual budget of $1.5b. [2] If you abandoned building the facilities and distributed the money evenly among all students you could cut costs for a single year by 2% for in state students and 1% for out of state students. [3] That isn't nothing and you can certainly debate whether athletic facilities are a smart use of $25m, but it is a drop in the bucket compared with the actual rise in costs.

[1] - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...

[2]- https://www.ucf.edu/about-ucf/facts/

[3]- https://admissions.ucf.edu/cost/
Sorry, I meant that in the sense of the origin of the term. But yes, DS is mostly just another word for statistics. About as pointless as the term AI has become.
... a central authority is required to protect the value of currency. ...

I don't really see the need for a central authority and you'd have to make a really good case to convince me. I believe most currencies originated in a decentralised way. I think the central authorities have failed in a big way during the euro-crisis and I welcome a future where the value of money cannot be manipulated by some central authority in order to push some economic and politic agendas. It's clear to me that decentralised currencies provide many needs that cannot be met by centralised currencies.
That is entirely my issue with it too. They said that creators would start getting almost all of the pledged money instead of just a share of it; what they "forgot" to mention is that this is purely because they redefined what a pledge means. They silently redefined it from "the amount of money I pay per month" to "the amount of money I pay per month minus fees".

Creators would get more money of course, but purely because all patreons would start paying more money. They didn't mention that either.
Basically, yes. There is barely any market pressure on the publishers, so they can keep asking ridiculous fees. More on why it doesn't change at [1], and how it got this way at [2].

[1] https://medium.com/flockademic/the-vicious-cycle-of-scholarl...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...
as an AWS noob, why would anyone use this over Centos or Ubuntu?
This. 1000x. The beautiful thing is if you approach the conversation as one about a merkle tree built on a consensus algorithm, while avoiding the term 'blockchain', it's still possible to get folks excited about the tech.
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We run a single product web store in India that has modest monthly transaction volume and care about the user experience a lot.

All processors are required to do 3D Secure verification. Local processors have integration for NetBanking. International ones are card only but may have better developer experience. Apple Pay uses 3D Secure too but bypasses two-factor verfication by tokenization.

Reliability/sucess rate is no longer as big of a deal with most competent processors. We've found the need to build custom tooling and abuse data more important for the Indian ecosystem.
Yes, but there are strong reasons to believe that the amount of money they are currently charging is in no way proportionate to the amount they need to sustain (+reasonable profits): https://medium.com/flockademic/the-future-of-open-access-sho...
Ask HN: What are the books to learn the hacker culture?
What are the books to learn the hacker culture? What is the best for you?

I know there is "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation" by Jon Erickson but the last edition was in 2008.
That comment is talking about tax avoidance. They are going out of their way to not pay these taxes, but they'd give away the same money or more if nobody tried to "make them"? I wouldn't hold my breath.

> I don't expect more from the wealthy than I do of myself.

When you're not wealthy, you have strong needs for that extra money. So I definitely do expect more from the wealthy, in terms of dollar amount. In terms of impact on their life I'm asking for very little.
I don't know a book to recommend. basic scheme is explained in any money & banking textbook. if you know what a bank run is, why it occurs and how it is being prevented then you will see why bitcoin's decentralization makes no sense. only part that is probably not on textbook is this blind faith that volume guarantees stability. it does not.
Well yes, but Unity is still a real company with a real business model, same as Crytek could be while only developing an engine.
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Edit: And theoj doesn't really appear to be maintained anymore either...
This a 100 times.

The crypto currency hype only (or at least mainly) redistributes wealth, in my eyes to (tech savvy) people-with-means-already.

Yes there might be empowering stories of "smart single moms" making serious money by betting on Bitcoin, but as a whole it only enlarges income equality between people, arguably one of the issues of our time.
Wait, you're trying to tell me you knew people who were paper (ledger?) billionaires and were willing to disclose that? Nuts
You're right about the history and every country will have their own strengths and weaknesses, but there's a difference between Russia being one step ahead of several countries and China being several steps behind several countries. Russia is singularly good at something, while China is singularly bad. The top student in a class typically doesn't laugh when everyone is worse than them, but the entire class often laughs at the one student that still can't grasp what everyone else understands, and has for a while. In this case the class is the countries with a permanent seat on the UN security council.

China didn't realize how far behind they were at metallurgy until they tried making jet engines. Jet engines are complex, so we weren't surprised the first time a domestic Chinese engine sucked. Not surprised about the second engine sucking either. But it's kind of funny now seeing as they still haven't gotten the hang of it.
Just use the download button under the gear icon. /s

Unfortunately it doesn't work I guess.

Oh, and he says he is watching you... Maybe he really means this? Maybe that's why he disabled downloads?
> don't seem to understand the consequences of bitcoin & cryptocurrency

Everyone keep saying that but these words are empty. What are consequences of regular stock market? And what difference does it make for someone who bought bitcoin for $15,000 and sold for $50,000 ?

I fail to understand how frightening people helps? Its been acknowledged so many times yes its a bubble. Yes, a major correction is in works, but shorting or selling now is "catching falling knives" (term I learnt trading stocks in 80s). But when the bubble burst EVENTUALLY, you won't be able to buy bitcoin for 1 cent, as it will never go back to basics again. We need deep correction so that we can test major mining holders how much they withstand so 80% correction would be healthy for Bitcoin, if we want to (should!) look at it at any other trading stock.

The truth is - unless something else comes along, there is almost infinite number of dollars waiting to be convert to bitcoins. these traders will be passing a baton to each other for a very long time to come.
We are using Amazon Linux in my company, because it is part of the RPM based distributions that are "security approved" (we needed a recent officially built kernel). I always felt it was a weird monster, that works really well for containers, or applications that don't rely on lots of system libraries. You could quickly end up pulling some packages from both EPEL 6 and 7 (if you want clang for example)

I hope we can use the entire EPEL7 with this new version.
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blockchain without cryptography is like writing a data structure without any motivation for its existence

Note that you said asymmetric cryptography and your parent said that asymmetric cryptography is not the basis of the block chain. And they would be right, at its core, the blockchain consists of blocks of transactions in a Merkle tree. The Merkle tree typically uses a cryptographically strong hash, otherwise it would be possible to modify the Merkle tree without anyone noticing. But a hash is not asymmetric cryptography.

In many applications of the blockchain, asymmetric cryptography is used to sign transactions. But that is largely orthogonal to the blockchain as a data structure. The blockchain as a data structure has useful applications without transaction signing, etc.

What makes the discussion clouded is that some people define 'block chain' as transaction blocks in a Merkle tree, while others also consider distributed consensus, etc. to be part of the block chain.
This is why people are less excited by D-Wave’s approach:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/28/13057414/quantum-computer...
D-Wave isn't a real quantum computer in the way that most people use the term, so that isn't an apples to apples comparison.
I'm going to repost from a year ago:

D-Wave isn't trying to build a general purpose quantum computer. As it stands, they've been trying to optimize a computer that executes a particular algorithm (and as it stands, it's not faster than optimized classical algorithms). It is an open research question if D-Wave's architecture actually utilizes any quantum effects to give it an advantage over classical architectures. D-Wave hopes that it does, and that there will be enough problems that their machine is good at that their approach will be justified.

D-Wave markets themselves as having hundreds or thousands of qubits, but these qubits aren't easily controllable or measurable in ways that would allow Shor's Algorithm to be executed on them (for example), so at the least, it seems like dishonest marketing. In order to build a general quantum computer, you need to be able to apply gates to arbitrary collections of qubits.
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Ask HN: Should you check in your dependencies in source control?
Almost every piece of documentation I can find recommends not checking in your dependencies in your repository. This is the way I'm used to doing it myself too. I haven't really reflected on why.

I can see some benefits to checking in your dependencies, for non shared private projects. You will be 100% free from external dependencies in your build process. Builds will be faster, easier and more robust. There is a guarantee that the project will be buildable in the future.

Imagine that you have a small service/application that is running internally on a company infrastructure. You don’t touch it for years, it just keeps running. Five years after the application was built the server breaks and you need to redeploy the application to a new server. There is a risk that some dependencies have changed. Maybe someone raged and removed a GitHub repository, maybe GitHub made some changes or doesn't exist anymore or is just down. There are a bunch of things that could become issues. Checking in your dependencies solves all that.

The negative effect is that your git repository grows in size. You can have separate commits for the updated dependencies but it will still be in the history.

Is that not a small price to pay to be free from external dependencies though?

Thoughts?
yeah, but some guy is building a wall ... getting rid of green cards too
I both make most of my money from time series data and use deep learning and work with data with no labels. Here's a recent presentation I did on some of this work and a companion presentation I encourage people to read on how to use this effectively in production.

While you are right that some feature engineering is needed, there's no reason DL can't be a part of your workflow.

https://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/anomaly-detection-and-...

https://www.slideshare.net/pacoid/humanintheloop-a-design-pa...

For more of the basics, my book on deep learning might help as well (minimal math vs the standard text book):

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920035343.do
Although its not a book, Eric Raymond's essay "How To Become a Hacker" is my favorite read on the subject: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
In theory, since the kernel is specifically tuned towards running on EC2 virtual machines (by the people who know EC2 virtual machines better than anyone) as opposed to 'generic' hardware, performance might be slightly better.

Also, and for many more importantly, it's probably easier to get support from Amazon if you're using their official Linux as opposed to a third party distribution.
i'm not sure what you mean by euro crisis but if you are asking why euro failed, it shows exactly why bitcoin will not work. euro is an attempt to use single currency for different economies. euro failed because it ignores simple fact that different economies need different currency value to stabilize their economy. reason why portugal ireland greece spain are suffering worse than it should be is because those countries lost their power to control currency to european bank.
I assure you that the upper classes will have their taxes increase by more than the UBI amount.
Really thanks for this.
I've recently dived into ML & DL and have slowly but surely realized the importance of feature engineering(FE).
Though I've taken a few MOOCs, I haven't found one that truly focuses on FE and still looking.
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The core innovation in the original paper by Satoshi Nakamoto is Proof of Work: A system where people secure the scarcity of a decentralized digital quantity by spending compute power in order to be rewarded units of the same digital quantity.

Proof of Work is ultimately a set of well-balanced design decisions employing well-known technology. Maybe that's why people have a hard time seeing the novelty in it: they just see a bag of individual technologies and miss the delicacy of the design.
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You mean public work perhaps? I imagine they are doing a lot with vision, gait learning, object manipulation, task planning, autonomy, multi-robot coordination, etc. all of which can be enabled by or at least helped along by machine learning, no? Your request for links is valid, I just am surprised anyone would doubt that they are doing ML research unless you are thinking of a strangely narrow definition of ML.
Thank you for this reference.
while bitcoin makes all the news and contributes to the gold rush insanity of averages Joes, Ethereum is seating quite, but it can make even bigger news, like the most recent one about a Swiss bank to build the EU regulation platform based on the Etherium smart contract implementation. I am thinking about contributing all my crypto money to ETH.
I would urge everyone to open up a Liberapay account on the side. In the long run Patreon only has one direction to go to, thanks to moral policing and other shenanigans.
Saying “here is an example of a currency that is also volatile” does not make bitcoin any less volatile.
I wonder how GDPR would change this attitude? If Natwest were to lose some data after May 18 and it was possible to show that they were warned about the problem by a reputable professional, then they are more likely to get fined, one would presume. Maybe this legal liability is what $bigcorp needs