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I think it has to do with how easy it is to think about. I really believe there are a lot of people on the right whose implicit preference is to pay $10000/yr for healthcare to a private entity rather than $5000/yr to the government. When I get a tax bill the numbers are right there in black, this is how much was stolen from me. When I get any other sort of bill how much was 'stolen' is a portion but I have no idea how much so I basically write off the whole amount as necessary. It's probably the result of cold-war propaganda that seems to have never died off.
Many Americans are insulated from the actual cost of their healthcare via employer-provided insurance. I used to pay like $30/month when working for a major organization, but purchasing directly on the exchanges runs my family $2,000/month. The underlying costs are likely pretty similar, and the difference was likely factored into my salary, but it results in sticker shock that people often blame on "Obamacare".
If you just sell a call on BTC, you could lose a lot when BTC goes up. -(S-K)^+ becomes very negative as S goes up. That's selling a naked call.

However, if you hold BTC, and you sell a call, you just give up some of the upside. S-(S-K)^+ just becomes K as S goes up. That's selling a covered call.

As in so many areas of life, covered is safer than naked.
A lot of money is spent keeping American attitudes this way.
We must ensure police are continuously allocated to crime-ridden areas, with or without AI, fair or not.

If you are hinting at sending fewer police to black neighborhoods, you can bet that will never happen.
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Isnt this kind of thing against the bitcoin philosophy? I thought bitcoin was meant to be free of these sorts of issues.
> "I want to again make clear that nobody on the Nautilus staff commissioned any work that they knowingly thought wouldn’t be paid for..."

On one hand I feel for the guy. This is every dreamer's nightmare.

On the other hand he sounds naive, if not a liar. To commission work on a deal that was still 100% unfinalized isn't exactly playing fair.

Entrepreneurs are by definition optimistic. They see the opportunity as brighter and risk dim. That's great when things are going well. However, it's a dangerous trait when things go sideways.

Perhaps he should have been more transparent sooner? Ya think?
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The most common belief is that universal health care is a 'hand out' to others taken from their own pockets.
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> ask me questions for 20 minutes as if I were a criminal,

Immigration agents aren't the most polite people in the world but how does the immigration agent know you are not a criminal? It's his job to figure that out without holding up the line.

>the thought of a traffic stop by a bored cop "degenerating"

Did that happen to you or is that something you'd imagine happening to you? Most encounters with the police for traffic violations are professional and dare I say courteous.
PayPal and Stripe are 3rd party services as well ;)
> We can have social media platforms free from overt abuse without restricting the views being aired

In theory, yes.
In reality, even in these hallowed and supposedly rational halls of HN, certain views are immediately hammered with downvotes and flagging and ominous warnings from moderators, no matter how urbane the tone, and often irregardless whether said views have a decent empirical underpinning.
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What are you talking about? Most people in the world barely have access to buy stocks, especially US stocks, without not-so-minor annoyances.
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Try tyranny of socialism is far, far worse. Nothing is perfect and imagining it can be will get people killed (Russia, Venezuela, China, Cuba, etc.).

Individual rights are what makes the West successful compared to the rest of the world.
Thanks should also go out to the moral legions whose ad blockers are their swords and shields against the man. They showed him, didn't they? Their precious attention was not disturbed as they read the content that someone had to give attention to write and pay for. And so they live in harmony with the world. Since Nobel Peace prizes are now given to groups and movements, the community of ad blockers should nominate themselves, given how proud, adamant, and important they think they are.
American unions are different. People from Germany have come to visit me in Maryland and remarked on road construction sites and how many guys that are just standing around. Here, you'll have multiple guys just standing directing traffic. In Germany, they put up some cones and a signal light.
Did you know it's legal for anyone to sleep on your sidewalk in Portland? And where are they going to the bathroom? It's terrible. Don't move there. Go to Beaverton if you need to move to Oregon. But you'll be sorry. Stay away from Portland. They'll take all your stuff and the police won't help you. They are in cahoots with the street criminals. It's awful. Don't move to Portland.
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If you have any strategic advise or know sources for such kind of information, I'd gladly read more about it and add more to the article.
How does it work? It's not obvious how epoll could be built on top of IOCP.
« More people are unhappy with the NHS than satisfied for the first time in a poll of the public run by Britain’s doctors, and 70% say they think the health service is going in the wrong direction. »

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/26/uk-public-ar...
We do, but what are we gonna do about it? We don't really have any ability to effect these kinds of changes as a common man. Our opinions have literally 0 effect on the legislative process. Our country is bought and paid for by corporate interests. Multiple studies have shown that our opinions count for nothing, and that lobbyists control legislation and policy.

We have now descended into the hyper-atomization of the individual as a series of micro-collectives, for whom we must fight among ourselves against others with different series of collectives. We now care not for whether our lives are good, merely that we see the other having a bad time.

Mourn for us, and learn from us - do not follow in our footsteps.
That's an interesting question, with an interesting premise.

Will realism (graphics + physics simulation) take less compute than AI for sure?

If we look at the limit case, the reality I can see out my window has more atoms than are in my brain. So, in theory perhaps, human-equivalent AI will similarly require less compute than realistic graphics & physics simulation/animation.

OTOH, evolution took billions of years and presumably depends on all the animals and all the physics that has ever happened, so maybe inference will always be cheaper than graphics, and maybe AI training and evolution will always be more expensive?

I have no idea, but it's a fun thought experiment.

FWIW, I also worked for a Pixar competitor, and the renderfarm we had was indeed more compute than I had been exposed to before. That said, we didn't make a huge amount of effort to optimize the system, we only made sure really stupid things didn't cause overnight renders to take longer than required for dailies the next day. I'm absolutely certain that at least 1 order of magnitude is available to software render farms, if the primary focus shifts from production to optimization. I'm halfway sure that using today's and tomorrow's GPUs could get you at least another order of magnitude, but that comes with a second level of expensive engineering effort. In short, I think if you really really wanted it, and had the money & time to commit, you could probably have your three orders of magnitude right now.
None that I could see:

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?CIK=LTEA&owner=excl...
Here is a great talk from a doctor who has had success in reversing Alzheimer's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5aA_-3Ip8&list=WL&index=20
Fwiw there's some discussion of this in the book Everybody Lies. Look into that. Perhaps follow up with the author. His name escapes me atm.
> Respectfully, what drives people to post tulip and dot-com bubble comparisons on literally every cryptocurrency / blockchain post?

See the story above.

> And a few months ago. And in 2016, and 2014, and 2012.

Nothing changed other than paper gains increased.
> Individual rights are what makes the West successful compared to the rest of the world.

We're talking about Western-style democratic socialism, as found in Sweden, Norway, Germany, England, etc. here. Terrifying totalitarian hellholes they're not.
Indeed, and they travel more domestically than abroad [1]. There isn't enough difference between states to broad those horizons.

[1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-whose-citizens...
There are two major, obvious problems with that.

1) Toy Story was made a long time ago, 22 years ago in fact. As stated by tikhonj, Toy Story would be pure legacy code by now, as so much has changed technically in 22 years. Getting it to work in modern software that could render it in 8K would be very difficult, as it was already difficult enough to re-render it in 2010 as tbabb's comment explains.

2) There's no point in upscaling in 8K. Yes, it would be in a very high resolution, but a lot of the textures were made in the 90s and are obviously not made for 8K. I would imagine that you would have to remake essentially all of the textures, otherwise they would probably look terrible in 8K.

Besides, there's no point of re-releasing it in 8K, because it wouldn't all the detail that rendering in 8K normally come with.
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Calling EU collectivist is a stretch.
This really, really depends on where you live. If you live in New York, you can get amazing food everywhere. We have things like paid family leave, free college, universal pre-k, etc that most Americans don't have. Also if you're working at a high pressure finance job, of course you will work long hours. But those are the exception. Working from 10 - 6 is pretty common for most people I know.
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>universally loved by everyone

Maybe a little strong on my part.

Asked "would you scrap the NHS?" to randoms on the street i bet you would get a very strong no vote.
Similarly, yesterday I was at the barber's and 4 people were discussing Bitcoin. I texted a friend that we've reached peak hype, and it's time to sell.
When people trade their respective government legal tender for a cryptocurrency and engage in trade of some form with said cryptocurrency a bubble?

Is the current total outstanding global debt a bubble from where it was 20 years ago?

Are institutional purchase of negative yielding bonds a bubble?

Are global central bank purchases of global stocks a bubble?

From where I sit, the bickering over the price and how justifiable it is/isnt where, is ignoring the larger societal changes taking place. All I know that, in Indonesia, I can have a website with a monero miner on it, and use the proceeds to pay for electricity, food and shelter directly.

This wasn't happening 5 years ago. And this says nothing about tax enforcement, law, and even warfare that won't go untouched by this.

For the non marginal users of crytocurrency, typical speculation rules with financial instruments still apply, but for those who can do what they couldn't before… yeah, this is just the beginning.
As a non-local, I had to look it up, but presumably you're talking about the Mission District ("The Mission") and South of Market (SOMA) neighborhoods in San Francisco, correct?
Move to communist China
Ask HN: How to get good in Tensorflow?
Any HNers doing deep learning with TF?

I am currently learning Tensorflow, and seems the API is too big, learning curve is too steep compared to Theano, Pytorch and Chainer.

I can't get doing declarative programming in Python and Tensorflow. Lots of scoping with with (...) :

Even Theano is more intuitive (at least for me) and make more sense in its API, even though it also has lots of hacks and is define-then-run like TF.

How do you get good in using Tensorflow, create models, using tfdbg, how to step trace your code, using withs, etc. ?

Thanks.
>You're assuming the cycling is causing people to have less children. It would be nice to provide some statistically valid sources to explain why you think that's so.

No, I'm providing alternate explanations for an observation that the previous poster claims shows that cycling does not cause people to have less children. I don't need to prove it happens, just show it's possible. Of course the "burden of proof" will always be assumed to fall on me because I disagree with popular opinion.

I hope you enjoy the Netherlands. I never want to live in the Netherlands, and I'm sick and tired of people trying to turn the places I like into the Netherlands.

Biking sucks. I do not want to ride a bike. Take your self-righteous crap and fuck off.
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I never really agree with all the bubble talk, but this one I can relate to. Everyone is creating their own crypto, ICO, blockchain technology, etc. Even people who don't really understand it are suddenly experts.

But that doesn't mean that it will all be bubble. In the end, the potential of cryptocurrencies competing with central banks is still there. But if they will, and which one, and which one is now under- or over-valued, is anyone's (calculated) guess.
https://www.whatsapp.com/download. Is that not what you are looking for?
If static sites are now also Serverless, the word has lost all meaning.

IF I had chosen the Rails/Phoneix route, I'd need to worry about hosting imagemagick or the like somewhere.

Static sites have no option but to run that stuff ahead of time, but that doesn't mean that dynamic sites can't do the same. Asset Pipelines with precompilation are pretty common - both Rails and Phoenix have one.
Is the cost basis calculated by the US dollar value of each at the time of the exchange? Or based on the exchange rate of the two currencies?

Scenario:

1. I buy 1 ETH for 1 USD when rates are 1 ETH/USD, 2 ETH/BTC.

2. I trade 1 ETH for 1 BTC when rates are 2 ETH/USD, 1 ETH/BTC.

Option 1: I’ve incurred a loss, because the sale is reported as first a sale of ETH for USD, then a purchase of BTC at whatever the cost basis between BTC/USD.

Option 2: I’ve incurred a gain, because I traded directly from ETH to BTC, and the relative value between ETH and BTC has gone up.
Not for we pedants who distinguish between SQL and DML.
Except you don't have to buy into one exclusively for everything. Which approach is superior, which is to say, which approach is more efficient is a factual, empirical question that can be answered by science.
Considering the entire premise of the founding of the US was based on individual liberty, and throwing the yoke of power off from the centralized power of a monarchy across the ocean, I don't see why we need to be convinced.

Why does the whole world need to be homogeneous? Why can't some places on the earth (with ~7B people) value individualism and some value collectivism. Maybe neither one is superior, just different?
Well, I'll add my own use of serverless.

We use Lambda + API GW to manage the glue between our different data/service providers. So for instance we expose a "services" API (API GW) that takes a request, does some business logic (lambda code), calls the relevant provider(s) and returns the aggregate response.
That principle can (and probably will) be extended to hosting our own back-end / business logic.

We're trying to get to the point where a dev only needs to write a Swagger file, the lambda code and a bit of configuration, and the rest is taken care of by AWS and our CI framework.
They sell all those Rand books in Portland, at Powell's. Every one of them. It's no wonder that Portland is a hotbed for libertarian thought and free market propaganda. It's awful. Don't move there.
Your examples aren't analogous. An analogous examples is:

Can a Muslim person work with someone who believes the practice of religion should be outlawed and is working to make that happen?
My understanding after reading a bunch of articles (now I'm an expert!) is that what became 'Carbon' in OSX was based in part on work done for Copland. And that API maintained reasonable good classic compatibility (at the source / API level) while modernizing it a whole bunch. And it shipped quite quickly after the coup, so it must have been based on something existing prior to it.

But such was the politics of Apple under Jobs/Tevanian that the (quite esoteric by industry standards) Cocoa/Objective-C ecosystem was considered superior and Carbon was actively deprecated despite being quite successful with third party developers...
I have been in most capitals in Europe, and in quite a few cities of USA, and totally agree with the story. Of course there are some individual exceptions, but he is talking about the feeling from different cities, the state of public transportation or healthcare, which IMHO is fairly generalizable.
You lost me at "toxins".
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/15/creeping-pri...

> Department of Health (DH) figures show that the amount of its funding that has gone to “independent sector providers” more than doubled from £4.1bn in 2009-10, Labour’s last year in power, to £8.7bn in 2015-16.

> Slow-release privatisation has also seen the percentage of the DH budget finding its way into private hands rising from 4% in 2009-10 to 8% in the last financial year.

That "wrong direction" poll may well reflect concern over the slow privatization of the NHS described here.
Might've made the value increase wait until they actually did something more than only change their claimed mission, given, per the article: "Long Blockchain so far has little to show for its aspirations. It has no agreements with any blockchain firms, and says “there is no assurance that a definitive agreement with these, or any other entity, will be entered into or ultimately consummated.”"

Wait wait, you're right. I'm going to go get a dog puppet for my new business, Bitcoin Pets.
The socialism in Sweden has not killed anyone.
>Multiple studies have shown that our opinions count for nothing, and that lobbyists control legislation and policy.

And yet Donald Trump was basically memed into office.
This seems oversimplified to me. I think it's fairer to say the graph of quality of life vs. income in Europe has a lower slope than America. Meaning, quality of life in America can be much higher for the wealthy, somewhat higher for upper middle income, lower for middle income, and much worse for low income.
It's also possible that they were betting on net neutrality dying as well
They're underfunded for the level of management and expectations for reliable service.

As another comment noted, the MTA uses 120% of London's transportation budget to serve 20% more riders.

Superior management could improve the service without additional expenditures but it would probably involve breaking the gravy train for political factions like unions and politicians' friends.
A small programming language, lisp-inspired (no parens with python's offside rule) targeting js (and lua later). An example:

- input: https://p.sicp.me/gti5L.lisp

- output: https://p.sicp.me/bRaaf.js

It's written in lua (915 lines at the moment). I do that to help me with the building of a programmable voice assistant (https://github.com/slasheva).

BTW this topic is a great idea. 4chan has a daily programming thread like that.
> What are the ideas and morals that you think will be abandoned?

Well, for example, certainly authoritarianism has been on the rise. When it comes to democratic ideals like separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers there seems to be zero interest from younger people (see the Poland, Hungary, Austria and Czech situations). Also, when talking to Chinese, I notice that there is very little interest in making China democratic.

Freedom of speech has a very bad rap outside of America, mostly undeserved. Now I get that this is hard to see in the middle of the US, but 7.1 billion people don't have freedom of speech (roughly) and 300 million do. The thing is, those 7.1 billion mostly don't want it.

Even in America people don't uphold it very well imho. Obviously in the Bay Area high profile events have shown that private and, to some extent, government actions against free speech are tolerated.

So I think that freedom of speech and generally freedom will be abandoned to an extent. Why ? Simply because that has advantages.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1629261/000149315217...

Is this the withdrawal it talks about?

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Pursuant to Rule 477 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Long Island Iced Tea Corp. (the “Company”) hereby makes application to withdraw its Registration Statement on Form S-1, File Number 333-221737 (the “Form S-1 Registration Statement”), relating to the offering of the Company’s securities.

The Form S-1 Registration Statement was filed in connection with a proposed public offering of the Company’s common stock and warrants. The Company has determined that at this time it will not proceed with the registration and sale of the securities as contemplated in the Form S-1 Registration Statement. The Company has not offered or sold any securities under the Form S-1 Registration Statement.

Accordingly, we request that the Securities and Exchange Commission issue an order granting the withdrawal of the Form S-1 Registration Statement as soon as possible.

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Disclaimer: I don't particularly like mopeds, but I do care that (local) regulation is somewhat sane. This new regulation in Amsterdam is quite bad.

The argument about shared lanes doesn't really apply to traditional mopeds because for most part they are not allowed on bike paths anyhow. And soon the slower mopeds that are allowed on bike paths will be moved to the main road as well.

The weird thing about this new regulation is first of all that it applies to all of Amsterdam. So some north-south routes that go through Amsterdam will require insane detours.

The second weird thing is that 4-stroke engines on moped, don't get much worse over time. It is weird to ban them just because the engine is over a certain age. But the worst thing is that an older 4-stroke engine is way better than a new 2-stroke engine.

Getting rid of old 2-stroke engines is probably a good thing, but then banning all 2-stroke engines would make most sense.

The scheme only makes sense from a government point of view: automatic license plate scanners can figure out the age of a moped and automatically send a fine.

Pet peeve of mine: I find it completely bizar that city governments can arbitrarily ban vehicles. There should at least be national categories that could be banned. Not that every city comes up with completely arbitrary rules that from one day to another can have a significant impact on the owner of the vehicle.
Reminds me of this:

>What’s the most egregious thing the boomers have done in your opinion?

>I'll give you something abstract and something concrete. On an abstract level, I think the worst thing they’ve done is destroy a sense of social solidarity, a sense of commitment to fellow citizens. That ethos is gone and it’s been replaced by a cult of individualism. It’s hard to overstate how damaging this is.

https://www.vox.com/2017/12/20/16772670/baby-boomers-millenn...
And? Like 2/5 of the people that voted for him regret it because he isn't doing what they thought he would. He campaigned for the common man, and is now fucking him over hardcore.

I think this only provides evidence for my point.