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> I do not believe investment creates jobs, I believe increased consumption and protective economic policy create jobs.

You are entitled to your beliefs, but factually you are completely wrong. Without investment, you have no goods to consume. A bicycle consists of many parts. You can’t buy a bicycle without someone willing to mine the metals necessary to make those parts. You can’t mine metals without money to hire people and buy equipment to extract and process those ores. Since people don’t work on contingency, it requires an investment in order to pay people and buy stuff to extract the ores and then someone has to buy the resulting metal and create the tooling to create bicycle parts — which requires capital.

Let’s say government can do all of that — where does government get the money? Taxes. Where do taxes come from? They come from taking a share of people’s production. If people aren’t producing anything, they have nothing to tax.

I suppose investment doesn’t create jobs if you have a society of pure slavery.

Protective economic policy doesn’t create jobs — it stifles them. North Korea isn’t known for its booming economy (or full employment) because they don’t have much outside investment.

Investment absolutely creates jobs because there is one human truth that can’t be escaped — people need to eat and thus they need to be paid. Getting by paid comes from capital and capital comes from investment.

Almost the entirety of Silicon Valley was built on investment. And that creates millions of jobs around the world. Apple alone employs hundreds of thousands in China — jobs that would not exist without investment. Don’t believe me? Have a look at the Chinese poverty and unemployment rates in 1970 long before they began opening up to outside investment.

I get it that’s many people seem to dream of a socialist utopia — however that is a fantasy. It doesn’t exist and it never has because people are fundamentally driven by their need to eat.
It is impossible for an algorithm to "illegally" discriminate, as it's a machine devoid of the human concept of "intent"; It doesn't know what "race" even means.

So this narrows to these basic outcomes if we assume any given algorithm isn't purpose built to always have a discriminatory output:

1. The input data is junk data, so the output is junk data.

2. The input data is fine and humans don't like the output for human reasons.

The problem I'm hitting on here is that if we assume any sort of "discrimination" based on a data set is "bad", then we don't really care what the outcome of a given algo is, and we're just trying to massage data sets into an "acceptable" output. Seems like the opposite of good science to just throw away results that we don't like, because reasons.
I really wanted to like this article, because I came accross the term MCMC quite a bit, but never knew what it was exactly.

I'm slightly disappointed, though. Almost all of it is dedicated to introducing prerequisite terminology (prior, posterior, likelihood, markov chains) which probably a lot of readers will already be familiar with, and then the actual explanation of MCMC is just this:

> To begin, MCMC methods pick a random parameter value to consider. The simulation will continue to generate random values (this is the Monte Carlo part), but subject to some rule for determining what makes a good parameter value. The trick is that, for a pair of parameter values, it is possible to compute which is a better parameter value, by computing how likely each value is to explain the data, given our prior beliefs. If a randomly generated parameter value is better than the last one, it is added to the chain of parameter values with a certain probability determined by how much better it is (this is the Markov chain part).

"subject to some rule", "it is possible to"... I feel like this is really glossing over the actual explanation of how this works. Actually, I still have no idea why there is a Markov chain. What is the structure of the chain? Where does it come from and why can't we just sample the parameter without using a chain?

Anyway, I appreciated most of the article and it started out really promising. It would be great if the author could try to expand on that still-baffling part ;)
$20,000 btc can make mining on gpu's potentially profitable again, more so as the price goes up. If the price holds the 6 months or a year it takes to mine one is another matter entirely :)
Headline is heavily editorialized. Original is "Bitcoin Tumbles Through $13,000 as Sharks Start to Circle"
That thing inside Elon, that thing that whispered in his ear and pulled at his heart that drove him to build Tesla, SpaceX; those same exact neurons, or that karmic energy, or spirit, or demon; that insatiable lust and yearning, the ego and hubris to believe it could all even be possible; the fuck-all attitude which gave him the courage to try...

[The Greeks called it “Ate” (pronounced ay-tee) ~ the point between Hubris and Nemesis.]

The swirling vortex which is Elon had no choice but to strap his black cherry red Roadster onto the biggest rocket we’ve seen in a generation, and on its inaugural flight, send it to fucking Mars.

God speed Elon.
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Bitcoin might be exactly like second life . Without second life we wouldn’t have World of Warcraft , Eve online and every other MMO. I can’t wait until blockchain becomes corporate !
On the flip side here, though, once you have that ability it generalizes very well. My original educational background might be in biology, but I know how to read a technical computer science paper and where to find them. It means that I may not have knowledge intuitively, but I know where to find and learn it.
Your critique of the civil rights bill is that the person who passed it was a politician?
Nobody said it living in a democracy makes your life better, the comment only mentioned it because it means that laws are not iron-clad and can change on a dime - which means the news that offering full bitcoin regulation could easily change tomorrow.
They could potentially claim damages for the difference in price between the GeForce and the equivalent Tesla, using the argument that using the GeForce in a DC has cost them that amount in lost revenue.

Of course, a counterclaim for existing owners would be that the product they purchased was licensed for DC usage at time the contract was entered into, and so the original rights cannot be unilaterally revoked without consent.
Probably the most serious route to serious cyber-security training is via a military rating. At the state level the stakes and threats are highest.
I think you have a good point in that if you are going to use usernames as an identifier, there is an argument that having an email also be an identifier is sort of redundant.

One problem with that is that when users are given the option of an arbitrary username, they tend to be much more likely to forget that username than they are the email address they use daily. So, you need some way of resetting their password and letting the user recover their username. In some cases, you could pair that with other identifiers, like their name, phone, social security number, etc. However, then you are just trading the email as an identifier for something else, which you would also need to check during registration.

For this reason, I've found that moving away from a username and just relying on an email for a login makes managing multi-user sites a great deal easier from an admin side.
I am sure there is no evidence, but is literally the most basic and first assumed thing. The man who brought you reusable rockets didn't forget to think about the most basic thing first.
It's silly to say something like "Far too many people think equations are what mathematics is solely about". What you really mean is that far too many people think series of statements containing numbers and variables are what mathematics is solely about, and comments like this perpetuate that stereotype (ie. all math statements containing numbers and variables are equations)

And that's why arguing about word meanings is not a good idea. I think referring to written math as just math is reasonable, and referring to it as equations also is.

Edit: grammar
If you are thinking the difference is negligible, you are thinking only about things you can buy right now. Imagine you want to buy:

Rockets (Bezos, Musk)

Curing aging (Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Pineapple Fund)

Curing malaria (Gates)

Or something on a lesser scale:

Seed funding to startups (Graham)

App to display wind for kitesurfing (Lukacovic)

Remember the last frustration you had with software, hardware or your hobby? Imagine you can solve it for yourself and others just by throwing money on the problem. There is a saying, that the rich are just frustrated mariners, all they want is a larger boat. If you are in that category, then yes, your lifestyle difference won't be large with a $100m and $1b
What other coins are also promising in your opinion? I'm talking of scalable, fast and decentralized coins like raiblock seems to be.
It has fallen over 10% in the time since this article went live, but these articles are no more newsworthy than the ones proclaiming new watermarks on the uptrend either.
This might be implicitly covered under "In the first 10 years of Desktop linux there was no doubt that Microsoft was working hard to try to nip any sign of Desktop Linux gaining any kind of foothold or momentum," but I think the biggest answer is path dependence: https://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/paths.html and network effects. Once most people used MS DOS and then Windows, it was easiest for most other people to do so too. Activation energy in switching is hard, and a strong ecosystem begets a stronger ecosystem.

In many domains, there's an early period of fermentation and experimentation. Famously, there were hundreds of American car companies around the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Today there are three and prior to Tesla the the last successful one was founded decades ago. And it remains to be seen if Tesla is in it for the long term.

In phones, we have Apple and Android and that's likely it. Path dependence.

Lots of people are excited about AR/VR because those fields seem relatively open. But if they turn out to be important, they too are likely to have two big players.
Yeah after enough projects and jobs, I think the morale and productivity cost of having people with whom are difficult to work is too high. Jerks breed resentment and destroy the motivation of others. Companies are about large organized groups of people accomplishing a goal larger than any given individual could accomplish by themself. Individuals who can’t cooperate with others are literally destroying a core aspect of any company.
> You had a problem with ATI's closed-source driver 14 years ago. AMD's open-source driver now is a COMPLETELY different story.

Indeed. In 2003 no-one would have based their expectations on what happened in 1989. 14 years is an eternity in this field.
> Bitcoin is no more real life than Second Life is

Not a big fan of bitcoin here, but there is a difference which I don't think it's captured by that "lack of centralized control". And it is that bitcoins exist as some sort of mathematical object, that is guaranteed in its working and will exist forever as long as there are people mining the blockchain.

They remind me a bit of the ever expanding, mathematically deterministic Autoverse in Egan's Permutation City, for those who have read the novel.
This is nonsense.

It's quite possible for an algorithm that doesn't know what race is to be biased despite ignoring race if the real world is full of racism, and that racism manifests in dependent variables that the algorithm bases its decision on.

This concept isn't even a little novel. Google the phrase "previous servitude" for an example of just such a dependent variable in action.
If only they weren’t the world’s most popular place for phishing gangs to hide out and exploit cloud services with stolen credit cards.
Sites like Bloomberg often run A/B tests on headlines before choosing the winner. You can see the original title (another variation) in the URL.
The problem is that algorithms are like a 5y old child. They know no such thing as politeness, political correctness or politically charged environment unless that is implemented with additional code. So they will do the equivalent of a 5y old child saying "you smell bad" to the old aunt, which might be true nevertheless. The question then becomes should we write politically correct code or bias data so that it doesn't offend our sensitivity? Or on the other hand should we not anthropomorphize a mere algorithm and not interpret as racist what is the mechanical reflection of our own problems (in the article example, poor neighborhoods in the US don't order much on amazon, poor neighborhoods tend to be non white, non white neighborhoods end up being less served by amazon's algorithms).
I may not be reading the documentation correctly, but I don't think this is a push queue; it uses the term "push", I think, to describe delivering messages to a queue and not as it is traditionally used to describe handing messages to consumers.

In answer to your question generally: push-based models, while more complex, tend to be higher performance (by dint of improving throughput: the broker can push messages to a consumer while it's working on other things rather than waiting for a "gimmie" request; the broker can also coordinate when and how it delivers messages to which consumers for maximum performance, which can lead to significant speedups in high throughput situations).

A very powerful pattern that gives a reasonable amount of control in a push-based situation is combining a push based model with client acknowledgements, and a client "window" of a number of messages that the client may or may not have noticed yet, especially if messages can be taken back from that window programmatically in the event of slow or dead consumers. This is what RabbitMQ/AMQP calls "Qos".

In my experience, push-based messaging models should typically not be adopted up front, unless throughput requirements are known to require such a model. The added complexity (mental and in code) of managing a push-based queue model is very rarely worth investing in at the beginning of development.

Furthermore, it's possible to have extremely high performance in a simpler pull-based model, provided you make some tradeoffs. This is what Kafka does.

I would recommend switching from pull to push only when it becomes necessary (though this can be a non-trivial amount of effort depending on how tightly integrated your code is with your messaging system). RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ/Redis/Resque as brokers will shine here, since they all support both pull models ("get" in AMQP) and push models.
Potentially did when he built it. Wasn't this the very first fully assembled one ever built?
Ah yes, the Linux folks. That famous group of people.
Better sell now as long as there are enough fools willing to 'invest'.
Try searching for your username on https://namechk.com/ https://www.namecheckr.com/ http://checkusernames.com/ or https://pipl.com. I am sure these name checkers can't be built if they have to spam the sign up forms just to check availability (at least not for free if they have to pay for manual recaptchas).

The privacy is worth it.
Terrible UX.
It's still below that on the page I use to check values, after hitting $19700 earlier in the week. That's over a third drop...
When I posted the comment, the hackernews submission was titled something along the lines of "Bitcoin recovering from 13k drop"; it has since been changed.
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Government does many things well.

Protecting citizens freedoms, roads, airports and ports, education for all, social safety net (medicaid and social security), supplying fuel, CDC, protecting the environment, 911, policing, science and research funding.
Also, just like a 5 year old child, the bias of the parents is coded into the algorithm. So the 'bad smell' of the old aunt may not be bad to many people's standard of smell but the algorithm still identified it as bad.
Physical objects are sold. Software (GPU drivers) is subject of copyright law — it's licensed.
Nothing stops the except the law. What they are doing in your scenario is fractional reserve banking. They could create more "money" in this case up to whatever leverage limit they would be allowed by law. So at some point your gold hits a max value and your economy can't grow beyond that point. This causes deflation. As far as I understand it deflation means that something that cost $5 now costs $2.5 in real terms. However, producing that thing may still cost $3 so unless you've made productivity and efficiency gains you are losing money. More importantly there is no incentive to spend money today because your money will buy more tomorrow. So then you only buy what you absolutely must.
the emperor wears no clothes.....now people are seeing that bitcoin is useless for anything except gambling. it is not dollar. it is not gold. it is not visa. it is not bank.
Of course the NYT would find a way to make a disaster caused by bad public governance all about evil “deep-pocketed” companies. The American Society of Civil Engineers rates our water infrastructure a “D.” That’s due to chronic underfunding, which in turn is caused by municipal governments setting water and sewer rates far too low to maintain and improve the existing infrastructure. Water infrastructure is a case study in how poor political discipline can result in disastrous utility regulation, with disasterous results.
>Machine learning is like money laundering for bias

A potent analogy.

The cycle is truly terrifying:

1. deep institutional racism compromises training data

2. data classified through that lens

3. ML insights and patterns inform institutional policy

4. goto 1
Nissan Finance Canada hacked, 1.13M customers may have been exposed
Erm, MMOs predated Second Life by many years. Even discounting MUDs and so forth, Ultima Online was around about 5 or 6 years before Second Life.
I think it's a bit early to call it much more than a flutter, given Bitcoin's history.
The simple solution is to have some simple software that processes a blockchain in some low priority way in order to easily bring you back into a licensed state.
Concur, which is why I flagged the original submission. Seems like they tweaked it even though they're still not on the Bloomberg headline.
Hehe maybe you’re right but it’s not self-aware to think that calling yourself a dick makes it okay. Instead he should just not be a dick.
At least Americans can vote against Trump on the next elections.
It's a tough time for desktops generally. If the question had been "when will be the year of mass market GUI linux?" then it would have happened already with Android.

The author lists all the reasons traditional desktop linux failed and keeps failing, but the short form of the argument can be summed up like this:

Linus Torvalds, who knows a bit about Linux, also makes his own desktop app (perhaps not as famous as the kernel and git), a scuba log app. He would like to release the damn thing built for Mac, Windows and Linux. But can he? Of course not. He releases it compiled for Windows and Mac, and then as source for Linux.

Linux on the desktop might succeed when Linux has a desktop. As in, at the OS level, a developer can make assumptions about how the clipboard, resolution scaling, sound, notifications, application install/uninstall etc works. Until then, no.
Yes, design sucks a bit right now.

Major improvement is on the way as we've worked with game artists to make up colorful worlds and agents specificaly for Byte Arena.

It's gonna look like this: [1] (actual rendering of the visualization)

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/jerome.schneider.officiel/videos/19...
I see it dropping back down to $300-600 level over the next 6 months. It rose too fast to be stable.
Huh? Intel drivers have been fine for at least the past decade, when I was much younger I remember toting around a laptop with an A4 APU running the libre drivers just fine too.
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People liquidate assets during December Holidays for buying presents, vacationing, and so forth.

In other news, water is wet.
Cool project. As noticed by somebody I think visualization side would need some polishing too. Maybe pair with Airmash[1] creator - merged together would be the killer app! ;)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892066
Let’s be real, nobody wants to use Homebrew. It just fills a niche for a tool that’s missing on MacOS. People use homebrew because they search “apt-get yum for Mac” and it’s the first thing that pops up.

In other words, the day that Apple bundles a native CLI package manager with macOS, nobody is going to stick with Homebrew for its amazing UI/UX.

I don’t think we should be praising this guy for being a usability mastermind. I think homebrew is successful because he was someone willing to do the grunt work of building an apt-get clone on Mac. Paradoxically this actually reflects poorly on him because a talented developer prefers to spend time on more intellectually stimulating projects, not grunt work.
Really ? People sell stock to buy presents and go vacations ?
EverQuest, Ultima Online? You have your history backwards
As expected from a technical point of view. Meanwhile I have transactions stuck with over 40 euro's of fees. Pretty crazy and annoying. It's not my money and I warned for this still, I wish there was an easy way to up the fees or cancel transactions in this moment of collective panic. Or hey, perhaps I'm lucky and it gets back up in the mean time ;) I think there is money to be made helping people speed up their transactions for a fee.
A random suggestion from the internet:

Read Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Some math. All the fundamentals of computer science.
It is not sufficient. That article is talking about manufacturing being the most dominant share in terms of sector. I am not disagreeing with that whatsoever. People complain about that because there are less jobs in manufacturing then there has ever been before.(Processes get more efficient, do not need as many people. This is a fact and not necessarily a bad thing.)

That marketwatch article is somewhat skewed because it only talks about the US domestically versus how it does relative to the world.

How about you take a stab at looking through this.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42135.pdf page 5

>Congressional Research Service: U.S. Manufacturing in
International Perspective

>The United States’ share of global manufacturing activity declined from 28% in 2002, following the end of the 2001 U.S. recession, to 16.5% in 2011. Since then,the U.S. share has risen to 18.6%, the largest share since 2009. These estimates are based on the value of each country’s manufacturing in U.S. dollars; part of the decline in the U.S. share was due to a 23% decline in the value of the dollar between 2002 and 2011, and part of the rise since 2011 is attributable to a stronger dollar

>The U.S. share of global manufacturing value added has declined over time, from 29% in the early 1980s to 18.6% in 2015 (see Figure 2). Similarly, Japan’s share of global manufacturing value added has contracted from a peak of 21.5% in 1995 to around 7% now, and Germany’s has fallen from 10.4% (in 1992, just after the incorporation of the former German Democratic Republic into the Federal Republic of Germany) to 5.9%.
I haven't downvoted, but "How good are you guys at programming? My feeling is that most people in the infosec are average at best and only the elites are good at it." sounds trollish to me. Designed to elicit emotional response from people as they will try to defend security people.
I'm going to leave this here: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/